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P.S. These stories aren't related to each other unless it says so in the title.
I've changed the title to; Sakura in the Akatsuki: Ninja series, because I might make a high school version of this after I finish this and my Powerpuff story Blue Flame.
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P.S. There are no special Christmas themes, I wrote this like a week before and I kinda forgot to add something Christmassy in.
+Part Four+
Alert – (Featuring Itachi with a mention of Sakura)
Itachi always thought of himself as an alert kind of person. He noticed things normal people wouldn't, and he couldn't sleep deeply, no matter what he tried.
He noticed the big things most people would notice, he noticed the small things that hardly anyone would notice and he noticed everything in-between.
But he found himself not noticing the things happening around him when Sakura was around. It was like she subconsciously drew his attention to her whenever she was in the room.
Fortunately he was able to block her siren call when they were on missions.
Better – (Featuring Sakura, Deidara, Hidan and mentions of other Akatsuki members.)
Sakura, like most medic-nin, liked to make people feel better. It was almost like instinct in some cases.
Unfortunately, being a medic was a busy job. So when she wasn't eating, hanging out at the training grounds, or training at the training grounds, she was in the medical bay.
It was amazing how many people injured themselves on a daily basis, though they could probably afford to now. Their last medic-nin hadn't been too good; apparently he only knew how to do the basic stuff, and he had let Kakuzu do the stitching! I mean, Kakuzu's stitching was crude at best, and he was completely unsanitary. Deidara could barely use his arms! Thankfully, she had gotten to him in time to reverse the damage.
Anyway, the injured nin usually came in hordes just a few hours after lunch. Deidara and Hidan joked once that it was like Rush Hour at the Akatsuki Base. Sakura, in turn, jokingly said that if they kept that up they would be added to the long line of patients waiting to be treated.
Yeah, they usually shut up after that particular threat was made.
Arrogant – (Sakura with a mention of Pein, Deidara and Hidan)
The most arrogant man alive lived in the Akatsuki base. No, it wasn't Deidara-kun or Hidan-kun (though they came in pretty close). It was their leader: Pein-sama. Although he had admirable ideals - world peace and all that - he still proclaimed himself a God. Now if that ain't arrogant, I don't know what is.
On top of that, he was able to silence most members with just one look – only Hidan wasn't affected by this because he was immortal and couldn't die.
Well, on top of being the leader of the Akatsuki (which meant he was the most powerful as well because you can't have someone in an evil organisation who is stronger than the leader), he was also surprisingly good at Battleship. In fact, he ruled at it.
Sakura and some of the others had an inkling he was cheating somehow, but no one could prove it. They were forced to leave it alone.
(A/N: If no one got that and you don't mind people telling you spoilers, ask me about it and I'll tell you.)
Calm – (Mentions of Sakura, Kakuzu, Pein and Konan)
Sakura and Kakuzu were kind of alike in the worst way possible. They both had incredibly short fuses and bad tempers - a very bad combination.
The main difference between Sakura and Kakuzu, in that aspect, is that while Sakura punched someone into next week for pissing her off, Kakuzu tried to kill them (and usually suceeded if it was someone outside the organisation).
The only people actually be able to stand up to him fully were the leader and Hidan, the latter because he couldn't die and the former because, well, he was the leader.
The only people able to calm him down were Konan, and surprisingly, Sakura. No one knew why Sakura could calm him down, but all she had to do was bat those pretty eyelashes at him and bam! He was calm.
Curved – (Featuring Itachi with mentions of Sakura)
Itachi could have sighed. It was Sakura again. She kept distracting him with the most ridiculous thing. It was her smile. Her mischievous, curved smile. Her full, kissable lips. He shook the thoughts out of his head.
'That's not good,' he thought, red eyes narrowing. 'She's getting harder to push out of my head.'
Gigantic – (Featuring Deidara and Sakura)
"Oh my gosh un! It's huge un!" Deidara shouted out.
"No! It's gigantic!" Sakura yelled out louder, waving her arms around widely to emphasise her point.
Deidara looked at her and his visable blue eye narrowed playfully at her, "Why do you always try and out-do me at everything un?"
She grinned at him, "Cause it's fun!" She said, giving him a thumbs up. He scowled, which she found to be utterly adorable. She started to giggle and he blushed lightly at the noise.
She quietened down. "It sure is beautiful though," she said, turning to stare at the waterfall from the back of the hovering clay bird.
"Not as beautiful as you un," he said lowly, looking at her instead of the waterfall.
She turned to face him, a confused, innocent expression on her face. "Pardon Deidara-kun?"
"Umm... nothing Sakura-chan un!" he replied quickly, blushing heavily and looking away.
She shrugged and quickly got behind him and hugged him around the waist.
He blushed harder. "What's this for un?" he asked, trying to rein in the electricity running through his veins at her close proximity.
"For being a good friend," she murmured into his back.
He smiled lightly.
Harsh –~Sister Story to Boiling~ (Featuring Itachi, Kisame and Sakura)
The desert winds were very sandy, blowing their hair all over the place and covering them in - you guessed it- sand.
"Why are we in Wind Country again?" Sakura grumbled, trying to push back her pink hair for the 55th time.
"Well at least we aren't hot," Kisame said, shrugging.
"Yes! Thank Kami-sama for your jutsu!" Sakura exclaimed, hugging Kisame around the waist and lifting him into the air, tears of happiness in her eyes.
Itachi narrowed his eyes at them from the background, kind of jealous that he wasn't the one being hugged.
Once he couldn't take any more of Sakura hugging someone other than him, he said a quick, harsh, "Come."
Sakura and Kisame paused and turned their heads, and tilted them in confusion. "The mission objective won't wait for us," he said, before turning on his heel and walking off.
Sakura and Kisame shrugged, Sakura lowered him back to the ground and they let go of each other and followed after him. It wouldn't have been the first time Itachi had gotten seriously irritated over dry skin and taken it out on his poor, helpless team mates.
Fast – (Featuring Kisame, Sakura and mentions of Strawberry Cakes of Shortness!)
Kisame, despite his size, zipped through the trees. He was almost as fast as a bullet. Thankfully he hadn't taken Samehada, as it would have slowed him down. Thank goodness for Sakura suggesting Taijutsu and Ninjutsu.
A few metres behind him, loud crashes were heard. It was the sound of trees splintering; all the members had been acquainted with that sound one way or another.
Panicking, he forced himself to go faster.
"Slow down, you overgrown shark!" he heard the enraged pinkette yell from behind him.
"Have mercy!" he yelled back, refusing to slow down.
"Never! Cha!" she shouted.
He felt something approach him, small and fast. He ducked, just in time, to hear a shuriken whizz just over his head.
As he ran for his life, he knew he should never, EVER call her 'Strawberry Shortcake' again. EVER!
Juicy - ~Sister Story to Big~(Featuring Deidara and Sakura)
Sakura looked at the shiny red apple being presented to her.
"It's a 'sorry for making a peach blow up in your face' apple un," the blonde clay artist said, a cute 'please forgive me' expression on his face. Sakura peered at him.
'He looks sincere enough,' she finally decided, gently taking the apple from his outstretched hands.
She eyed it suspiciously. She looked up at him, a severe expression on her face.
"If this apple so much as twitches, I will destroy you," she said seriously, an evil aura surrounding her.
He gulped and nodded. He then took off running, her eyes narrowed in realization that she'd been duped once again, and then the apple exploded... right in her face.
As she glared after him, still in slight shock, the apple juices ran down her face.
She lessened the glare and sighed. "At least he picked a nice juicy one, it would have been a good apple," she admitted, before reapplying her glare at her retreating prey.
She smirked viciously. It was obvious he hadn't learnt his lesson from the last time.
Bumpy – (Featuring Zetsu and Sakura)
The emerald eyed pinkette cutely tilted her head in confusion as she ran her finger down the underside of a leaf. It was bumpy!
"Hey Zetsu, what plant is this?" she asked the nearby plant-man, putting her face up close to it.
"The bumpy kind," his dark side said cheekily as he continued to water the rest of the plants in his extensive green house.
Hey, Sasori had to get his poisons from something other than venomous creatures.
She turned her head to look at him in annoyance.
He merely smirked, though he knew she couldn't see it.
She really was an enigma.
Heavy – (Featuring Kisame and Itachi)
"How does this keep happening?" she asked in exhaustion, hefting a heavy-looking box from the stack of boxes in Kisame's old flooded room like it was nothing.
Sakura was once again helping Kisame move; it was like he was cursed or something. It would be fine for months and then, all of a sudden, he'd wake up in the middle of the night feeling like he'd ran all the way to Konoha and back, using all his chakra doing it, and his room would be flooded.
They'd checked his room twice, and there was no leak. Even if there was a leak, that wouldn't have explained the mysterious chakra loss.
"I honestly have no clue," he said, barely suppressing a yawn, as he too hefted a box over his shoulder.
"Have you considered, instead of sleep-walking, you use jutsu while you're asleep?" Itachi offered, picking up his own box - a rather small-looking one too. They both stared at his small box, then looked between each other at their large boxes.
It was official: Itachi had no upper body strength.
"That would explain the chakra-depletion once he wakes up," Sakura nodded, once she'd gotten over Itachi's puny box.
"And the fact that my room is soaked," Kisame grumbled.
"Do you think it's some kind of trauma, like you're defending yourself in a nightmare?" Sakura asked Kisame, but leaving the question open for Itachi. He was a genius after all - definitely more his forte.
"Maybe," Kisame said, starting to get uncomfortable with the conversation.
"It would make sense," Itachi added.
"Maybe you should see the bases' psychiatrist Kisame-kun?" Sakura said, a slightly worried expression on her face.
"They have one of those here?"
Sakura nodded at Kisame.
"How come I've never heard of there being one before then?"
Itachi looked slightly uncomfortable, and Sakura grinned.
"It's because Konan-chan is the psycho-ologist," Sakura said. "She does such a good job that anyone who goes there forgets that they went there in the first place."
"She uses hypnosis?" Kisame asked, sceptical.
"Sure does!" Sakura replied feeling hyper for some reason. "She cured Itachi's problem."
"Itachi had a problem?" Kisame asked, disbelieving.
Sakura nodded, ignoring Itachi's warning looks.
"He used to eat all the cookies in the middle of the night."
Kisame stared open-mouthed at Itachi.
"It was you!" he growled finally, pointing angrily at Itachi.
"Hn." was all he said before disappearing.
"He will suffer the consequences of eating all the cookies and not sharing!" Kisame cried dramatically before dropping his box and going off in search of Itachi.
Sakura sighed, picking up Kisame's box.
"At least Itachi had the decency to take his box with him," she grumbled.
-With Itachi and Kisame-
"Take one false step and he gets it," Itachi said in his usual monotone.
He held a stuffed shark in a typical hostage hold, a kunai pressed to its throat.
"You wouldn't dare!" Kisame hissed, though not moving just in case.
"Try me," he taunted.
'Damn,' Kisame thought, 'Why'd he have to take the box with my prized stuffed shark in it!'
(A/N I hope some of you got that. He he. As in he only took the box for that purpose, not to be gentlemanly like Sakura thinks.)
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