I don't own Naruto.

It's a small chapter - yes, but I've had 1 page finished of this so I wrote something and got out this. I know people want to kill me because I didn't continue and blah blah. I can say I have a life too and problems blah blah but thats not an excuse and I know so I wont use it. I don't know when I will update. It might take a month, a year, forever. So I honestly do not know.

Oh, and for the flamers (that I haven't updated) I don't really care, okay? I'm not miss perfect and my life isn't perfect, I'm a sixteen year old female with problems a lot of people my age have.

It's unbeta'd but it's here. So look past the grammar thingies and ... well, enjoy?


Team Gai was on the move, they arrived at the place Itachi had taken Sakura with him, having some difficulty finding the place, it was good hidden. They were glad some people who had seen that Akatsuki took the kunoichi with him had informed them, telling them they went southwards.

Kakashi was first to set off, his student might have needed his help if she was still there. But the chance that she was, was close to zero.

Arriving they saw Kakashi just walking out the building, his face blank, but his surroundings felt sad. "Traces of her Chakra. Nothing more." Was all he said as he looked stoic.

They found nothing.

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Sasuke jumped from branch to branch, he found a chakra lingering in that small village, very familiar, too familiar. It was Sakura's. When he walked past the huge white house, he picked up something, her chakra. He'd searched the whole house for more information, and when he came to the white huge room, he not only found the chakra of his ex-teammate.

He also found the chakra of the person he'd been searching for this whole time. The question raised, what was Sakura doing with him?! It couldn't be that she would have 'walked' up to him or anything close to that. Sasuke felt something stir inside of him but he ignored it. His emotions had died, he had buried them deep down in his heart. Locked, build walls around it. It wasn't reachable anymore.

If this meant, that he would kill Haruno Sakura, to reach his goal. He'd do it, without questions, without remorse, a quick stab in her heart would do enough.

After all these years, he still thought the same of Haruno Sakura. Weak. Pathetic. Useless. Not worth to bear his children. Glancing around the room one more time he turned around and left the house again. When stepping outside the wind blew softly in his hair, his ebony locks falling in his eye field. His sharingan eyes scanned the area around him, searching for any small bits of information that could lead him to Itachi.

Blinking slowly, he walked over to a tree, was it just him, or was there blood on it? Tracing his fingers over it, he smirked.

Haruno Sakura would come in handy.

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She was running. Darkness surrounded her, a light far away from her. Her legs fell heavy, but no matter what, she continued to run, to run to the light. As if it would bring her peace, calm, Sasuke..

"Sasuke" she murmured and panted for air. The light would bring her to Sasuke, she was sure of it.

Trying to fasten her pace she reached the light after what seemed like hours and hours. Tilting her arm she tried to touch the light, and when her fingers touched it, the light filled the whole room, taking all the darkness away.

What...

Blinking a couple of times she looked up against a white ceiling, it felt so real... Turning her head slightly she realized she was alone in the bed. A sigh escaped her lips and she closed her eyes again. "About time you would wake up." A cheerful voice said. Sakura's eyes opened wide and quickly sat up, seeing Suro lean against the wall with his arms crossed over his torso, a bright smile on his face.

"I'm not even going to ask." Sakura mumbled as she saw food prepared for her on the table in the middle of the room. "You can leave now." Sakura said, her voice firm. No reply came from Suro, and when she glanced his way she found the situation awkward, the bright smile he always had was gone, his eyes were firm placed upon her and his mouth was set in a thin line.

It gave her shivers all over her spine. The sphere in the room changed, she was more afraid of Suro right now than of being afraid of Kisame. Suddenly his mood changed, and the large broad smile came back on his lips. "If you're ready, head down. We'll be moving again." with that he turned around, opened the door and walked out.

Looking down at her food she gave a small sigh and decided to eat it.

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Twenty minutes later the kunoichi came downstairs, walking straight towards the kitchen when she realised Kisame was standing in front of the door. "Ah, Sakura-san!" Suro said, smiling when Sakura entered. Her eyes scanned the room, finding it odd that Itachi wasn't there.

"Don't worry about Itachi-san," Deidara spoke up, a smile on his face. She found it odd. But everything was odd related to Akatsuki, or better yet, Itachi.

"Itachi-san already went to our next destination, so you're stuck with me and Deidara there." She gave a small nod, not really caring or Itachi would be there or not.

"Sooo… Sakura-chan, that's your name, right?" Deidara spoke up. A quick glance his way told him enough. "Sit down, we- I won't bite. I don't know about Suro here" Hearing Suro snort she raised an eyebrow at this. "No thank you, I rather stand" right here she thought as she saw Deidara nod cheerily.

"So how does it feel to be .. captured by Akatsuki??" he asked. If Sakura didn't know any better, she'd think both Deidara and Suro were enjoying this a bit too much. "What do most people say you capture? 'oh it's quite alright, I guess, besides that I'm stuck with some weirdo psycho's, but besides that it's okay'" She watched as a full grin appeared on Deidara's face and in a matter of seconds he was laughing like his life depended on it. Even Suro had problems stifling his laugh. It irked Sakura. A lot.

"Yeah.." after five minutes of uncontrollable laughing Deidara looked up, his eye full of amusement.

"We have to get going." A voice from behind Sakura said.

"Fish-chan!" Deidara greeted, waving cheerily at him.

Sakura could not believe that this was Akatsuki. She honestly thought she would be wetting her pants, encountering one was bad enough – encountering Uchiha Itachi was frightening – encountering half of Akatsuki was 100 of not surviving.

But seeing this, a Akatsuki member, having fun. Maybe it was like some kind of torture. Asking your prisoners all these kinds of questions with that smug smile on his face you just wanted to rip off.

"Sasori and Itachi-san have found a place to stay, plus Akatsuki leader wants to speak with us. It's about her." Kisame continued, his gaze flickering once to the kunoichi before he ignored her again like she was some kind of annoying fly you wanted to hit, yet couldn't.

"Yeah, yeah.." Deidara stood up, yawning. "Come on Sakura-chan, it's a long trip." He spoke when he passed her, following Kisame outside.

Her eyes looked everywhere but Suro, she knew he was watching. Then why aren't you looking back?? You can handle him easy now Itachi isn't here anymore! Finally her gaze moved to his. Standing up, Suro spoke in a neutral voice "No thoughts of escaping, eh?" he said with a smirk before nodding to the door. "Come on."

Narrowing her eyes slightly she stubbornly turned around, ignoring him and walked towards Deidara who was waiting for them next to the exit.

Waving when Sakura came into his vision she made a sound in the back of her throat.

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Looking around, Itachi was content with the place. Another place to hide, close to a small town that wasn't placed on the map. A town that didn't fear Akatsuki. Perfect.

No windows too. A small smirk appeared on his full lips as he thought about the kunoichi.

The smirk left his face not two seconds after it.

He hoped the mission will end soon.

In fact, he couldn't wait.

Baby-sitting was not his thing. Especially not when that person did not listen and had a mind on her own, didn't care if she faced the most feared shinobi out there, and get un-punished out of it.

He absolutely did not like it.

A small sigh left his lips and he closed his eyes for a second. Orders were orders, they could not be ignored.

Turning around he saw Sasori waiting for him to say something, anything.

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"So Sakura-chan, thinking of ways to escape?"

She was absolutely annoyed with Deidara. She wanted to strangle him. "I think that's none of your business." She replied in a sugar-sweet voice. A chuckle from her right came, it was Suro.

Of course it wasn't Kisame, he was behind her. If she tried to slow down – which all three of them noted – Kisame would let her know he was still there, behind her.

"Get moving" he grunted as he smirked, he knew it terrified him – or disgusted her – he honestly didn't care when he showed his teeth.

"How long" she asked.

"Can't come up with any ideas Sakura-chan? Want me to help you??" Deidara asked cheerfully and she ignored him. She had to before she would kill him. "We're almost there." Suro spoke up. "If you're saying 'almost there' as in two miles then that's not 'almost there'" she said, ignoring Deidara's outburst.

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Twenty minutes later Deidara had become bored with Sakura and had slowed down until he was next to Kisame, eagerly talking about explosives and killing, and women and alcohol.

She secretly listened to their conversation, surprised, and yet not surprised since most men talked about women and alcohol.

A small sigh left her lips as she looked to her right, watching Suro's face. It seemed he was relaxed. If she knew him in another time and space she was sure they could have been friends.

Right. A small snort followed soon.

"Something wrong, Sakura-san?" Suro said, keeping his face straight forwards.

"No, not at all."