AN: I guess I'm just gna put updates on separate pages that way you won't have to look for them in the future. Much love!

DISCLAIMER: they're not my characters xc

I felt bad for the distance I've been giving between Naruto and myself but I know with this mission they'll dig deep and hurt them and possibly Minato and Kushina as well as Mikoto and Fugaku. I wouldn't want them involved. Regardless I have to ask Jiraiya about what's been going with Akatsuki so far and might as well find a way to contact my solo uncle. This was going to take a while.

"Neh Sakura, you okay?"

I looked at the obsidian orbs that was Sasuke Uchiha. I nodded then went back into pre-mission mode. Just what did I need to do again? I needed to get the copy of the mission request from Shishou, then ask Ero-Sennin and Uncle if they've heard news. FInd out where the Elders are located and make a game plan from there.

"Sakura!"

I flinched at the contact I felt on my wrist and looked at the three worried faces before me. And man did I already have a bad feeling about this mission.

"Sakura are you okay?"

I nodded as I stared at the page Asuma had given us a few moments ago; I heard Asuma talk to Shikamaru about his family friends (the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio) and how they were holding up and Shikamaru responded with his usual statement and went on to grumbling about how troublesome the class was.

"Sakura, you don't have to put up a front with us, we know you got called and the Dobe is crazy about you right now so-"

"Chill Uchi-chan;" there I went again, putting distance with my best friends. "You have nothing to worry about."

He stared at me just a little longer before continuing on with Asuma's worksheet. I saw the questions, knew the answers but just couldn't write them down. Something was going on but the only people here happened to be our seniors. No one from Sands was here except Temari, Gaara's older sister whom I have yet to ask why she is here.

Neh Tema-chan, you're Gaara's sister right?

I heard her phone vibrate but she didn't bother checking who it came from. Her brown eyes calculating and curious; but no action towards her phone was made.

'I'll just leave it at that for now and at break I'll make a beeline for Ero-sennin's room. It's a Day One today so there's no way they'd be going there today.'

So with the plan made up in my head the group of boys and I made our way to Gym class with Gai as exuberant as ever. However, turns out something went wrong in my scheduling.

"Hey Forehead, you forgetting something?" Damn council.

I turned around and there were the Yamanaka sisters in their ridiculously tight gym uniforms consisting of a grey tank top and green spandex shorts and white runners. The blonde held up an iPod while Karin glared at me in her attempt to intimidate me.

'The dance off, shit. How could I completely forget that!'

'Easy, it's really stupid and a waste of our time considering we have this new mission to take care of.'

'True, but ugh, whatever.'

"Let's just get this over with," and just like that, Gai lost control of his gym class.

The dance off was simple. The class basically surrounded us in a circle with the fangirls and whatever insane fan base they had on their half while me and the guys and Sakura-chan's fan boys gathered on our half. Music came from the speakers they brought while Sakura had Kiba operating her songs.

To taunt them, Sakura bowed and gave them the floor first and I laughed with the rest of the guys. Sure Ino and Karin's team came out first at Hype Fest a few months ago but turns out... They weren't the strong captains everyone made them out to be. They strutted towards Sakura as if to push her away to create more space and grinded on each other as Rihanna's Rude Boy bounced off the walls. They twerked and as impressive as it was, they couldn't last long and then they swung their arms like cheerleaders and posed as sexy as they could for the end of their turn.

I smirked at how Sakura was taking this. Her face was just as competitive but in her eyes, Anybody could tell she was laughing at how stupid it looked. She nodded to Kiba and on it was some guy talk and she used this to sweep the dirt off her shoes. I don't think she was suppose to use this song because she was a tad confused before she sauntered towards the girls to create her own space.

The song turned out to be a cover of Best I Ever Had where she rocked from side to side and moved her arms and body to the beat and at some point she was in front of them and dusted the dirt off her shoulder onto them. She saw the embarrassment on their faces and retreated to her spot in front of us.

Anyway, they had their song back on and it was Teach me how to dougie, and man, was it a laughing stock. I heard her laugh louder than the others because she was just imitating them while moving to the centre and boo-ed them outta there. Her dougie and cat daddy looked effortless and down right sexy. She ended it with some front flips and air flares and a b-boy pose with her legs in a four.

The class chanted her name and it wasn't soon enough that the bell rang after that. The council was upset but Sakura just kept on smiling. Maybe I didn't have to worry so much.

"Kyu-kun!" She jumped on my back and have me a huge hug. "You saw their faces right! Damn priceless!"

"I'm glad you won Saki-chan!"

She laughed a little before looking around us and she came to my side and whispered, "Because of all their grinding i was going to take you and Sasuke to grind on just to make them mad but it turned out that my ipod was on shuffle and I forgot to put it back to my original song."

I sweatdropped and cursed her red ipod. But hey, she's still my date to the last dance this year. "Let's go Saki-chan! It's break." She nodded and didn't push me away when I placed an arm on her shoulders.

Yea, I'm his sister; what about it? So now Temari answers.

'Just confirming a fellow Sand student'

She didn't reply but no matter, I'll see her later and ask her myself in person. But still, why was she here? If she left, why isn't Kankuro here and Gaara? How was he? Was she sent on a mission revolving Akatsuki making us partners or was she sent before me to observe the patterns of Konoha before I got here to establish a base of information. This was getting really pathetic. Regardless, I made my way to Jiraiya's before Naruto and the others saw me.

I absolutely was regretting my plan to see Jiraiya alone at break today. Stupid pervert was looking up at his "research" and was giggling like a stupid schoolgirl with a huge crush on one of my boys. Regardless, seeing this grown man look at such filth openly in a high school made me want to vomit on sight.

cough "Ero-sennin," he stopped and looked to meet me in the eyes. "We need to talk."

"I see, sure thing Kokoro-san."

"Kuso, Jiraiya how'd you know that?" I hated my codename back in Sands. Heart. It was because in every covert mission, I was sweet, innocent and kind; but in the end I was a bloody mess and had a thing for playing with the hearts of my victims and some upperclassmen when they wanted to be more than classmates. Still, the name was too cute; and I blame my hair for this.

I sighed, "Anyway, I'm here because I have a mission-"

"I KNEW IT! What are you doing with the GAKI? YOU'RE WITH AKATSU-"

"SENSEI!" That woke him up considering I never respected him since I've heard of him and met him. "Sensei, I mean I was given a mission today and it involves some Sands going rove and apparently tying the Haruno elders, the Akatsuki and Sands into some sort of mess."

He stayed silent as he searched for any doubt in the situation at the moment. He walked over and closed the blinds of his room's door. He finally took a seat at his desk and opened up a file on his computer for me to see.

"Kokoro, I received word from Ishita yesterday of Akatsuki intel. Apparently they're all residing all over the Haruno Compound with very few protected by their walls. I can't say I know anything more, but thats beside the point. The fact that the Haruno's are particularly interested in hiding the few with information within their walls I have yet to think that they're probably up to something."

"Anything about the roves?"

He pulled out another file that had a list of all the roves within Konoha and the names with a star by their name all attended Green Leaf at one point before being moved or graduating. "I don't know what to think of these students having never really seen most of them during my time in the Sands, but neither has Tsunade. We noticed that they all had one class in common and it happened to be Orochimaru's AP History classes available for only graduating students. Once Tsunade and I found out, she and Sarutobi came in for a surprise visit but nothing seemed out of order. We've been keeping tabs but nothing has seemed overly strange besides this coincidence."

I scanned the names quickly on the screen. Some of them were known upperclassmen back in Sands but we all went our separate ways. Just what was going on.

"Jiraiya, did Ishita send you anything that I needed to know."

"Hai, here's the drive that he said was for your eyes and your eyes only."

I stared at it and stared at the old man beside me. He saw my doubted gaze and gave me room to take a look at it that moment. He took control of the cursor and we opened the files that were inside. There were at least five folders of straight up video revolving around Itachi's best friend Kisame, a few of Shisu, one or two of Ishita, several of Temari and luckily only one of Tsunade, Kakashi, Jiraiya and myself. The fact that Ishita was in the video himself tells me that he stole this. Cocky bastard, but regardless I was partly proud of my godfather.

"Jiraiya, who's that in the video with you?"

We paused and there he was. Standing. Immobile and looking to his right while being completely oblivious to his left. There was Hoshi-san. Hoshi, the corner of the screen but on the screen nonetheless. In his maroon Sand's sweater that cold evening. Paper in hand and in a hat as his disguise.

"A rove?"

"No," I whispered. "It's misunderstanding. This one slide is... it's too contradicting. If he is a rove; then why wear the insignia?"

But before Jiraiya could give further insight, that annoying bell rang and I knew that if I didn't show up for Kakashi's with everyone present, I'd be dead by Jiraiya's godson's hands.

"Gomen Ero-sennin," the smile on his face dropped. "I must leave for Kakashi-sensei's class. If I'm not present Naruto and the others might find out more than they should about me."

"Understood and Kokoro," I turned around with my gym bag in hand. "I'll be holding onto this and give you my findings at lunch. We should go over it and think of a plan on how to confront the people in these videos."

"Understood Toad," I smirked and left the pervert's domain. The walls were pretty full considering the bell rang a few moments ago, but I still hurried my pace to reach my locker before the boys got there from the courtyard.

When I got there, I was pretty much in the safe zone but sooner rather than later, I heard Naruto's loud deafening voice getting louder and louder till he screamed my name within centimeters of my ear as he grabbed me from the safety of my locker.

"Neh Saki-chan! Where were you?!"

I sighed and noticed that I got surrounded by my boys and before I got the chance to explain, RIIIING. I got saved by the bell.

Phew, anyways... I AM SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN UPDATING! BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!

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