This is my third story. Unfortunately, Dragon and Goddess are very busy and could not make it today. I am standing in for them today, please enjoy my story to the fullest.


Chapter 1

A few metres away from the Akatsuki base, a spirit had been released from the scroll that was opened. Her name was unknown for the time being, that girl was a traveller and the person telling stories to people all around the Elemental Countries. She also had a story book that children could see the Akatsuki performing the stories grudgingly. This story starts in the Village of Hidden Leaves where the spirit had passed through to begin her story.

Due to the children wanting to listen to the first story, the spirit obliged happily and opened the story book to the first story, Rapunzel.

"Where am I?" Sakura wondered groggily, the last thing she remembered was Konan reading the scroll aloud and a bright light appeared.

She looked around and noticed things arranged differently, this wasn't the Akatsuki base either. There was a poof of smoke and a screen appeared in front of Sakura, "hi! I was the spirit you released in the scroll and I'm the one telling the story to people. Please do your best to go along with it okay?" the person on the screen cheered,

"Who are you?" Sakura asked,

"You can call me..." the girl's voice started to fade away and Sakura was left all alone or so she thought. "Um... Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair?!" someone from outside the window called,

"Coming!" Sakura called. She ran over to the window and felt for her hair, it was long again. Sakura looked out of the window to see... Konan?!

The main character, Rapunzel. She had finally met her mother after she had left to travel around the world.

Sakura stared in shock, "Let down your hair Sakura" the spirit said. The screen had appeared again and Sakura could see her reading the story aloud to the children. She did exactly as the spirit instructed and allowed her hair to flow down the window and Konan grabbing onto it. Sakura began pulling her up and managed to get her through the window. "Do you know what's going on?" Sakura asked,

"No, I'm just following instructions" Konan replied, "you're the main character, Sakura"

"This is very strange, I can't be the main character though" Sakura protested, the voice appeared again.

Rapunzel's mother began to console in Rapunzel about the things that she did when she was outside. Rapunzel had always wanted to go outside but her mother always insisted that the outside was a cruel world and that she should stay in the tower all the time. A few days before her birthday, Rapunzel decided that it was finally time to sneak out and find out about the real world until someone intruded her tower.

"Get him! He's getting away with the treasure" a guard yelled, the man running away with the treasure was one of the Akatsuki. It was Sasori, "why do I have to be the thief?" Sasori asked,

"Because you need to act it out for the children and save Rapunzel" the spirit replied. Sasori noticed a huge tower and noticed Konan in front of it, "Rapunzel, let down your hair!" He watched long pink hair cascade down the window of the tower. Konan then disappeared from the tower. Sasori had a slight suspicion that Rapunzel was Sakura, he began to run up the wall and come into the tower. Sasori was then greeted by a pan in his face.

"Oops, sorry Sasori. I didn't know that it was you" Sakura mumbled, removing the ropes around him.

"It's fine, now, I need to take you around the outside world now. Let's go, I don't like to be kept waiting" Sasori stated, jumping out the window. Sakura nodded and followed in suit. They all could use chakra, which was a pretty good thing.

Sakura looked around the place, it wasn't like she was really excited about going outside since she's been outside before but this is meant to be her debut and finish the story so she and her friends could leave the fairytale.

"We've made it" Sasori stated as they both arrived in the city. Sakura's hometown, that night, everyone danced and had fun. The two members bumped into Konan, Sakura's mum, which caused a huge riot and create a fight in the middle of the town.

"Spirit-san, why do I have to fight Sakura-chan?" Konan called out to the sky. There was no answer but little did the three members in this story know that the story was close to ending. Konan just sighed and took her attack stance along with Sasori and Sakura.

"You three stop!" The three of them could hear a voice call out to them. They turned their heads in the direction of the voice and saw the rest of the Akatsuki rush towards them. Pein was leading them towards the three people.

And so, Rapunzel, the thief and Rapunzel's mother were captured by these newcomers and Rapunzel finally learnt the truth about her hearitage. The thief joined their strange gang and they all lived happily ever after.

"Wow! That's such a cool story ma'am. Can you tell us another one?" the children exclaimed cheerfully,

"Perhaps next time" the sprit replied before turning to the book. The children all left and there was only the spirit left, "you all may call me Kirana" the spirit stated before closing the book and setting out of the village

"What's happening to us?!" Konan exclaimed in alarm, the Akatsuki members are slowly fading away from the story, could it be that they were going back home? No one knew what was happening but in a swirl of leaves, they all disappeared and reappeared in the Akatsuki base meeting room. "Put the scroll away" Pein ordered, Itachi stood up and rolled the scroll before he put it away in the closet of the Akatsuki base which was where no one went. There was no way that any of them would be touching that scroll again unless absolutely necessary.

Thank you everyone for reading this chapter and waited for the long update. I hoped you enjoyed it.