SakuraxSasori One-shots and drabbles

Masquerade Through Space

Captain Akasuna sat in his high backed chair, his crew placed around him in the half circle of the control room of his ship, The Masquerade. He ordered for the jet thrusters to be put to half power and for an assistant to bring him a coffee. Black, no sugar.

"How long until we reach the planet." He asked his navigator. The pink haired girl paused only for a moment before answering.

"Going at our current speed and considering that there is no outside interference we should reach the planet in two, three hours."

"Give me an exact number Navigator Haruno."

"Ah, um... two hours and... thirty-two minutes... sir"

He nodded. Haruno Sakura was his new navigator. The old one died in an attack on his last mission. He was glad to lose the old navigator but this new girl command gave him. She concerned him.

The girl went back to work, her fingers moving from screen to screen, mapping out their course to archive utmost proficiency in time. She worked fast and hard, her eyes never leaving the five screens floating around her.

Captain Akasuna knew she was good at what she did. Best of her class. Recommended to him by his commanding officer. But she had no real mission experience. He prayed they encountered no trouble.

"Captain." His ship technician called out, swiveling in his small chair to face him. "I'm seeing abnormalities in the ships hull."

"Explain Uchiha."

The technician brushed a lock of black hair behind his eyes and pulled up a screen for the captain to look at. "It seems as if the hull was struck by some small object, not picked up by radar, and it caused some sort of domino affect. I can't tell from the scanner readings what is happening exactly but it happened almost instantaneous."

"Damn." Captain Akasuna cursed under his breath. To his crew he ordered. "Halt all engines and come to complete stop. Uchiha Itachi, you and five others of your pick, go out and fix the hull. Find out what happened and report it back here- Navigator."

"Yes, sir." The girl sat up in her seat quickly, shaking from nerves.

"Watch the radar and try to find a new course to make up time. I don't want to keep command waiting."

The control center whipped into action as Itachi jumped from his seat and ran through two sliding doors. The inner ship monitor personel flipped their screens to cheek all other ship functions and some worked to get the space suits activated for the repair team.

Sakura felt her stomach flip when the Captain spoke to her. She dared not to glance back at him, seating his his chair, a scowl on his face but she couldn't help herself.

"Do you need something Navigator Haruno." Captain Akasuna caught her gaze.

"N-no sir." Said Sakura quickly.

"Then look at your screens and not me."

She blushed and turned away from him. Her eyes looked from the radar to the interstellar map projected onto a screen by her hand. She felt flush with embarrassment. She liked the Captain. It was really the only reason why she chose to become this ships new navigator.

The academy she studied at specialized in planet based navigation but she worked hard so she could navigate for a ship. His ship.

A red dot slid across the radars edge. Sakura's eyes caught it just as it vanished out of range. It happened so fast that she hardly believed it was there. It was her mind playing tricks on her. Her nerves making her see things.

She looked back at the map and debated over two possible courses that could get them to home planet faster.

The radar bleeped.

Sakura heard the bleep but did not see a red dot on screen. Looking hard at the screen for several seconds she dismissed it as her nerves acting up again. Suddenly, red dots, all around the edge of the screen, suddenly came into range. Stunned she watched as the dots came closer, the radar bleeping like mad.

"E-enemy space craft!" She shouted, standing up. "Enemy space craft surrounding us on all sides!"

The sound of glass shattering broke Sakura's nerves. Captain Akasuna had smashed the small class case on the arm of his chair,the alarm signal. Sirens buzzed and red lights flashed. The control room grew dark, lit up by only the screen monitors.

Then, one moment of silence and the next the control room was filled with shouts and orders from the Captain. Two fighter ships were ordered to be armed and sent out. A repair ship to rescue the repairmen out on the hull and lastly, for Sakrua to navigate the ship through gun fie.

Sakura mechanically pressed the buttons on the screen, and a a glowing blue glass disk rose up from the floor, stopping just above her lap. She pressed both hands flat on it.

Gears shifted and clicked into place as the floor ejected from its dock and rotated around. Sakura moved from the farthest to the right to the center edge of the room. Captain Akasuna in his captains chair just behind her.

"You've done this before right?" The Captain asked her as a tall screen popped up in a circle around her. Giving her a 360 degree view of space around them.

"In simulators, yes."

Captain Akasuna frowned. "There's a difference between simulators and reality."

"I am thankful for this chance to learn." Said Sakura stiffly, sounding rude when it was her intention to sound calm.

Captain huffed. "With an attitude like that you better not get a single scrape on his ship."

"Yes, sir."

Sakura knew the controls, and the ship used in the simulator was very similar to this one. She pushed her left hand half an inch forward on the glowing glass disk. The ship moaned as it turned into a shallow left turn. She pushed both hands forward and the ship's nose tipped down. Pulled her hands back and the nose lifted up.

The bleeps on the radar grew steadily closer together, the enemy honing in on them. Captain Akasuna said they were space pirates.

Just as she was done fine tuning the controls the technician Itachi ran in, panting. "All people sent out to fix the hull are safely inside sir." He saluted the captain.

"What was the cause." The Captain asked.

"We still aren't sure, alien technology by Kakuzu's guess."

Captain Akasuna nodded and pressed several buttons on the arm rest of his chair. Two screens flipped up into the air. The two screens showing the fighter ship pilots. "Fighter Deidara and Hidan. Are you ready?"

The blond fighter Deidara smirked, showing up his hand palm first. A symbol of a open mouth, it's tongue sticking out was clearly visible. "I'm marked Master Sasori." He smiled. "I'm always ready for action.

The purple haired man was shown praying on his screen. A orange and red beaded rosary in his hand. "May jashin-sama smite all who get in the way of his followers and send them all to hell." He said, more in prayer than anything.

"Attack the moment the enemy boogies are in range." Ordered Captain Akasuna. "We're counting on you Navigator Haruno."

"I'm starting." Sakrua said. As habit from working in the simulators. No one laughed at her unnecessary outburst. From all directions on the Sakura's circle screen, sleek maroon ships darted in and out of each other in tight loops and weaves. They circled in on them and started firing.

Sakura pushed back hard and the ship turned upward by the nose until it was almost vertical. Pressing hard on the glass disk the ship speed up. The enemy boogie ships matched her. Her confidence boosted when their maroon hulls would suddenly burst in light and fire.

Their two fighter ships attacking from below. Sakura pressed down hard with her left hand and eased up on her right, pushing it forward. The ship suddenly pivoted on its side into a hard turn. She centered her hands on the disk and pressed down.

The enemy's ships rocketed past them and before they could turn around to catch up Deidara and Hidan picked off over half before the enemy concentrated fire on them forced them into retreat.

Deidara's screen popped up to her right.

"Nice flying there ace." He smiled at her. She nodded her head but kept her eyes pinned on the screen.

The remaining ships lined up, one behind the other into two rows. Weaving in and out of each row they proved almost impossible to hit for the two fighter ships. Sakura waited until they caught up before sliding both hands down. The nose tipped up and the enemy, remembering this maneuver before went a step ahead and rose before her.

Sakura cut back on speed and turned hard to the left and banked the ship around them and up. Bringing her close to them but out of they way of their lasers. She turned again, forcing her ship between theirs and split their ranks.

The enemy, unorganized and panicked, were easy targets for Deidara and Hidan as they shot down an entire row before the remaining five ships split up, all flying in separate ways. They fired upon Sakura from all directions. Nimbly avoiding Deidara and Hidan's shots.

"Theses bitches are getting on my nerves." Hidan remarked from his screen as it popped up next to Captain Akasuna.

"Take us down Sakura and fast." Ordered the Captain. "Hidan follow us down. Deidara distract them.

Sakura did as she was ordered and Deidara's screen vanished from beside her, then appeared next to the Captain.

"You're not going to use 'it' are you Master Sasori, un?"

"Yes." Answered the Captain nonchalantly.

Deidara's eyes widened but he followed his orders.

Just as Sakura started to wonder what 'it' was a laser hit her engine. With on on full power and the other gone the ship turned violently to the left and, unprepared, Sakura was thrown from her seat with everyone else.

Captain Akasuna managed to stay in his seat but barely. "Get back in control!" He yelled at her.

Sakura scrambled back to her seat.

"I'm activating the emergency engine and sending half the power from the remaining thruster to it." Said Itachi, his fingers franticly moving from screen to screen as he worked through the ship commands. Sakura thanked him and jumped back onto her controls.

The enemy ships were on their tail. Kept at bay by Deidara but not for long. Sakura saw Hidan's ship flying along side them, matching his pace to theirs. She couldn't see his face through the tinted glass of the cockpit.

Sasori ordered for Deidara to retreat and the blonds ship speed of to the right. Sasori gave the command for 'it' to be used and Hidan's ship hung motionless in zero gravity for half a second before spinning in place and face up to the enemies ships. A charged ball of blue energy shot out from his laser cannon and, to Sakura, missed the enemies ships behind them.

But before she could wonder if 'it' worked or not she was distracted by something more pressing. "Asteroid approaching the nose!" She had missed the new bleeps of the radar. A green mass showing two hundred yards from their current location. The Asteroid was on the screen and approaching fast, and twice the size of their ship.

"There's no way we could miss that." Sasori hissed, slamming his fist on his chair. Sakura heard him but she didn't believe him.

"Uchiha-san!" She shouted, her brain calculating her plan. "Put half force into the remaining thruster then on my command send it to the left side-axle thrusters."

"Y-es" Came Itachi's hesitant reply. He looked to Captain Akasuna and his Captain nodded. He started work on the truster.

Sakura turned the ship to the left.

"We can't clear it by turning." Captain Akasuna said slowly.

"We're not going to clear it." Sakura responded.

When the asteroid was almost on them, and the ship almost parallel to it Sakura gave the signal to Itachi. The side thrusters burst into life and the ship rolled on to it's side.

The asteroid collided with them. Pushing the ship through the remainder of its turn and speed past. The ship spun out of control for one, intense minute until Itachi, somehow, miraculously activated the right side-axle thrusters and the ship balanced out.

They hung their in space, everyone dizzy or nauseous. Sakura was nauseous. She slid out of her seat and vomited onto the floor, coughing and hacking bile. She felt sick to her stomach but she knew one thing. She had saved them from the pirates, and the collision. She had done the impossible.

Then everyone was clapping. She looked up and saw everyone group around her, patting her on the back and shouting praises to her. Only Captain Akasuna and technician Itachi were excluded from this group. Standing silently in one corner of the control room.

Her eyes met her Captains and for the first time he smiled at her.

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Tally Mai's thoughts: This one-shot was really fun to write. I've never written sci-fi before and at first I was hesitant but eventually, as I found my voice and started a flow it came out very naturally. I think this story is a fun way to start off this drabble, one-shot collection.

Has anyone ever written a SakuraxSasori sci-fi fanfic before? I know I havn't seen any. Maybe I'm the first, but I doubt that, haha.

Coffee Shop of Romance.

Sakura had his order ready before he even said it. One black coffee, no sugar and one apple danish with caramel cream on top, and one dab of whip cream.

"Here you are sir." She smiled warmly as she handed him his order.

"Good service." He said blandly, but she knew she had his approval.

He was a very difficult person after all. Almost impossible to read or understand unless you knew him for a long time.

"Do you get off work soon?" He asked.

"In ten minutes. I know you don't like to wait so you can leave if you want."

He nodded and turned so the next customer could come up and order. He only stayed when she was already on her break or her break was just about to start. If he had to wait he would leave. She had learned very quickly that he was not a person to be kept waiting, but, on the flip side, he did not want to keep others waiting on him.

To her surprise he sat down at their table and pulled out a newspaper from his bag.

She worked quickly after that, asking her manager if she could start her break early. He said she could and she pulled her tan smock off and took her seat across from him.

"It's been two years." He said as she sat down.

Sakura thought back, surprised it had really been that long. "So it has." She said almost dreamily.

"My art has been selling. More and more people have been enlighten to it." He smiled. "I've been able to do more work with all the money coming in. I finally moved out of that horrible apartment and into something more appropriate to my tastes."

"My manager is talking about giving me a promotion to manager at another store." She informed him. They always talked about their jobs. Nothing else.

"I think you'll do fine." He told her, finishing his coffee and picked up a fork to eat his danish. "You have very good memory."

She smiled. "Yeah but that's all I really have going for me. The supervisor doesn't think I'm good for the job because I lack communication skills."

"It's a very important skill to have these days." He said absentmindedly.

"Makes me wish I was an artist. But I lack that creative muse... and talent" She laughed, thinking about her best artwork. A stick figure. She'd shown him her art, once before when he didn't believe she had no artistic talent. He never doubted anything she said after that.

"It's not that easy." He said. He took his last bite of his danish and whipped his mouth. "Goodbye then." He said and left.

The next day, Sakura wasn't there to give him his coffee and danish.

Sasori tried not to worry that she was gone from the coffee shop the next day. Another girl, one with long midnight hair and pale lilac eyes filled out his order but she stuttered whenever she spoke and her hands shook a lot, spilling coffee from the mug as she handed it to him.

He asked the manager what happened to her.

"She was fired." The manager told him. "She took money from the register, lied about it and was caught with the money."

Sasori thanked the manager and left. He went to his gallery where his art would be auctioned off but today it irritated him. He lost all patience with his clients questions and eventually locked himself inside his studio. Making his assistant Deidara deal with the clients.

In his studio he opened the window and jumped down to the second floor patio that stretched out over the road. From their he walked around to the side of the building and slid down the steel water drain. Then ran down the backstreets until he was five or so blocks away.

He figured he had two or three hours until Deidara notices his absence and called for the police. It wouldn't have been the first time he had done this.

Sasori walked through the downtown area mindlessly. He did not worry about being attacked. If anything he worried the person that dared to attack him. He rounded a corner when he suddenly stepped back.

Sakura walked past him and across the street, her head hung. There was a dark shadow across her cheek and when he looked closely he saw that it wasn't a shadow at all.

On a whim he followed her. She walked fast, darting past shady alleys and not making eye contact with anyone. When she walked inside an old worn down apartment building he followed her in.

He nearly swore when he almost crashed into her at the front door, and thanked whatever thing distracted her mind from noticing him. She bee-lined to a thin stair case and walked up it slowly, her steps heavy. He waited several moments before carefully following. After the second floor the stairs circled around, a door on each new floor leading off to a hallway.

After going up five floors she walked through the door and he waited several moments before following. The hall split two ways, going off to the left and right and he saw her at the far end of the right hall. Paused before a white door.

He boldly approached her now. Something telling him she already knew he was there.

Then she started crying.

He walked up beside her and put his hand on her shoulder. She jumped up and circled her arms around his neck, burring her face into his shoulder. He patted her soothingly on the back.

"I know you didn't take that money." He told her.

She sniffed, wiping her nose on the back on her hand and stepped back. "I did take that money Sasori." She whimpered. The ugly bruise that marred her face more prominent than ever. "I took that money. And I lied about taking it. I've been doing it for two years. But yesterday, someone saw me. And ratted me out." Her eye puffed out, red and miserable as she started to bawl again. "You hate me don't you? I've done nothing but lie to you!"

He stared grimly down at her. "A lie huh?" He frowned. "So your dreams of wanting to be a nurse. All that was a lie too?"

"That wasn't a lie!" Sakura shouted desperately. "I didn't lie about that! I really do want to be a nurse. Please... believe me." She reached out to touch his arm but he pulled away.

"Is that a lie too? Are you just going to keep on lieing to me?"

His words hurt her deep in her heart.

"I'll never... earn your trust again... will I..." she sniffed, falling to the floor. "I'm a horrible person. Lieing... to the one friend I ever had. Yes I lied to you but I had no choice! If I told you the truth then-"

"Then I was never your friend." He glared at her, his brown eyes angry.

"I... I..."

She closed her eyes and curled up into a ball. Laying motionless on the ground. She wallowed in her own self pity until she was sure he had left her. And she knew he was never coming back.

She sat up and when she opened her eyes she saw him there. With her.

"Now tell me." He said slowly, his voice calm and gentle. "Tell me the truth."

She felt horrible for deceiving him but she what she also felt now made all that vanish. He forgave her, her who was never forgiven for anything.

She felt Love.

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Tally Mai's thoughts: I got the idea for this one while writing the first one-shot. (don't' ask me how, it just happens.) I got different ideas for it but none of them happened, haha. The story unfolded it's self as it was created. I had the idea that Sakura took the blame for a friend that had taken the money and another idea that I had was that Sakura was fired for some reason and started work at Sasori's new apartment.

This one is a bit more serious than the last, and I'll definitely have a few dark drabbles or one-shots somewhere in here. But I'll try to do a little of those cute ones too. For balance and such.

I meet you in my Daymares. Now I see you in my Nightdreams.

Sakura ran through darkness, her path lit by the glow of a red moon. He was chasing her. She saw him only for a moment but she knew who he was. She was helpless. She was weak. She couldn't fight him and she couldn't run away.

The path stretched endlessly before her and he was catching up to her. His steps faster and more powerful than hers.

The path ended and she was in that place. The place where her nightmare started. She tripped on a rock and fell, her hands catching her fall. The ground oozed blood from its cracks and soaked her in red. She started to cry and he was behind her. The moon casting his shadow over her.

She watched in horror has his arm raised. A wide, long carving knife clutched in his hands.

She screamed and sat up, her warm pink comforter suddenly too warm. She kicked her blanket off, rolling out of her bed and on to the floor.

She wandered into the bathroom, splashing cold water into her face. She looked up into her mirror. Looking for the blood that soaked her in her dreams. She saw nothing but pale skin and dull green eyes with ugly purple bags under them.

She opened the medicine cabinet and found her painkiller. It was for night time pain and had sleep agents in it. All thought of safely left her. There was only a need to escape the puppet man that haunted her dreams. She swallowed half of the pills in the small bottle and curled up in her bathtub.

She grabbed a kunai from underneath the sink and held it close to her body. The steel would do nothing to the puppet man but it made her feel safer.

If only a little bit.

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Tally Mai's thoughts: Wanted to do a horror type thing here. Wanted something dark and scary. I think I need to work on my horror writing. It would probably help if I had a tolerance for the horror genre. An okay drabble in my opinion.

May I read your palm?

Sasori sat in the plump cushion, the excessive, soft fabric, fluffed up around him. He raised an eyebrow to the the girl that herded him into her gaudy colored tent, gold beads and clear crystals strung all around its outside.

He was glad that the inside was not as much of an eyesore as the out. Only a low table, covered by a small blanket with a mandala print on. A large crystal ball siting on top of it.

The girl pulled off her purple head cloth, her long pink hair tangled and messed. She smiled at him and sat down, her hands ghosting over her crystal ball.

"I sensed a strong presence from you." Her eyes dimmed, her hands and fingers moving like liquid over her crystal ball. "Such a... force... is not common for normal people."

He rolled his eyes at her.

She sent a look to him that seemed to suggest that he should listen.

"Fortune Telling is... a rare art. Not everyone can do it and those that can, do not have the... power required to bring it out to its full potential.

"You're telling me this... why?"Sasori resisted the urge to roll his eyes again. He wanted to get out of here but this girl just had to read his fortune. She kept insisting and insisting until he gave in, just to get her to shut up about fate and knowledge.

"I am a real Fortune Teller." She said. "One with the true power of insight. I will now read your fortune. But not with my crystal ball." She added, smiling she looked to his hand. He pulled his hand under the table, his eyes shifting. "I'm going to read your palm." She explained.

"I don't have time for this." He stood up, and kicked the cushion out of his way, and started to walk out.

"Wait!" The pink haired Fortune Teller followed him out into the Fair street. Sasori looked for the ferris wheel where he was to meet up with someone.

The girl ran up beside him. "Since you have powers too then my fortune would be 100 percent accurate!"

"I don't care." He waved her aside, picking his way through the crowds.

"You're going to die!"

He stopped. She ran into him and staggered back. He grabbed her wrist and squeezed it. She cried out in pain and he pulled her aside, away from the crowds and back behind the tents.

"Tell me everything, woman." He growled, letting her wrist go.

"I have a name and its Sakura." She huffed, patting down her long red skirt. "My clothes are sacred, they can't get dirty or stained."

"You said I'll die. Tell my why and how." He said irritably to her.

"Give me your palm them."

"You could tell my death without it."

"That was just with my own power and even then it took me a while to see. If you give me your hand then I would be able to see more clearly."

His hand shot out and he shook it impatiently. She grabbed his hand gently, turning it palm up. Her thumb tracing all its minute lines and crevasses. The motion almost felt good. He had to remind himself of his mission.

"You will die at the hands of two woman." Sakura said, her eyes glazed over. He almost pulled his hand away from her. Her voice had changed. It was rougher and and deeper but there was something powerful behind it. Something mystical. "One, a person you used to know very well. Someone who was almost a mother but never was.

"The other, a hit girl, a weapons master. She has deadly aim. Never missed a target her entire life. The two together will bring you down"

"How do I prevent this."

"Don't go on your mission."

"Can't do that" He said, thinking of his mission. Both of them.

"Then you will die."

"The very words I want to hear right now." He spat.

"Would you want me to lie?"

He thought for a moment. "Yes... yes I would."

She turned away from him, her arms hanging loosely at her sides. She said nothing then suddenly ran off. He didn't chase after her. He didn't have time to waste on her. He ran to the ferris wheel and meet up with Deidara and Kakuzu. Their target was going to pass through here in two hours.

And in two hours, was also his death date.

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Tally Mai's thoughts: Another AU story idea I had. Nothing special but it's a new idea that I don't think anyone has done before. Not as fun to write as I had wanted. I kinda rushed it a bit but I sorta like it.

Her Song

She walked on stage, lit up with lights. A spot of light as white and rounds as the moon, hanging in velvet darkness. Her pink hair pulled back and gold wrapped around her neck. Her dress fanned out around her, as she sat down on her chair. She looked out into the darkness. The light blinding out the crowds faces.

She knew no one but everyone knew her. She was the singer of Rommel's Tavern and always will be.

In the orchestra pit before her, deep down in their hole, the bass strum up its notes. Beats that drummed the air. The violins warmed up to him, building up, speed and power. The winds joined in, floating under the strings sad melody and then it was her turn.

She opened her mouth, and sang a long mellow note, her voice welding with the others until they backed off.

"The moon is bright tonight" She sung.

"The moon is bright tonight.

On this night I sing to you

to you who killed my heart."

The violins plucked their notes, haunting and eerie they played for her and she started to sing again.

"My soul died that night

My soul died that night!

I sang my song for you alone

and you tore apart my heart."

The bass player plucked his notes, his fingers sliding up the finger board and back down. The new low melody grooving, the violins sad, counter melody strung along.

"I gave my all to you

and you killed that too

why did I ever stay with you

I should have seen through you

The moon was bright that night

the moon is bright tonight!

I sing my song every night

to appease that one...

who couldn't leave me

and killed to keep me close

you said you loved me...

Oh the moon is bright tonight"

The winds airy song floated in the air, filling up the space the violins and bass had left behind. She hummed the rest when they dropped out and the lights, dimmed out on her.

And in the crowd, far in the back. He sat and listened, her voice stuck in his head. He decided she would be the next one. He'll preserve her beauty forever. A slave to these pigs, abused and forced to sing each night he'll intervene.

And preserve her beauty forever.

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Tally Mai's thoughts: I wanted to do a drabble that had a poetic feel to it and this is what that idea turned into. I like it. It was fun writing the poem. Like in most of the one-shots and drabbles I have written o far, I leave things unsolved or unexplained to make the reader think. I think of everything this story leaves behind to the readers imagination and it makes it even more interesting.

Well I think I'll stop here for now.

I'm writing all these drabbles and one-shots not just for me but for everyone else too. If you're trying to write a story and can't think of any good ideas then you can take any of these here and write full blown stories for them. Just send me a message or signed review saying you would like to use one of the idea's and I'll get back in contact with you. I just want to make sure you give me credit for the idea, haha.

I'm going to try to update this on a regular basis and I might use some of these idea's my self for future stories.

Also if you have your idea that you would like to see and my own mind can't think of anything then I just might write a drabble or one-shot for the idea you gave me.

So this story is win-win for us all! See you next chapter. Oh by the way. Please tell me your favorite one-shot/drabble! Thank you! And review!!

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