The pink-haired 6 year old awoke, her eye lids drooped sleepily over bright Emerald eyes, while she arose from her bed and stretched her arms in the air,
"Good morning Sakura" Sakura heard a voice above her who she recognized as her cousin, he was standing over while looking down at her with his brown eyes, he then knelt down to her level,
"Here's some clothes from your bag, go change in the bathroom then we'll go eat breakfeast" Sasori said as he handed Sakura some clothes, Sakura then stood from the bed and walked to the bathroom with the clothes in her hands.
A few minutes later, Sakura walked out the bathroom wearing sky blue shorts that went down to her knees and a turquoise colored top that was decorated with a pink cherry blossom flower design,
Sasori walked up to his cousin, he ruffled her pink hair which was tied back with a red ribbon, Sakura slightly blushed at her cousin's action, then Sasori grabbed her hand,
"Let's go to the kitchen" Sasori said as his cousin nodded.
The Akatsuki was eating breakfeast; pancakes, eggs, and bacon which was made by Konan,
they then saw the puppet master walk in with his cousin who was holding his hand, the Akatsuki members sat in their chairs while staring at the sight, mostly because THE Sasori of the red sand was holding hands with a pink haired girl, and the Sasori they knew would most likely never do that, then again this little girl was his cousin,
the two cousins sat down in chairs that were next to each other, the white plates in front of them were clean and empty, then Konan came over to each of the cousins and put some pancakes, bacon, and eggs on each of their plates,
"Good morning Sakura-chan, Sasori" Konan said as she smiled
"Morning Konan!" Sakura said cheerfully while Sasori nodded instead.
The Akatsuki and Sakura ate their breakfeast that included Konan's delicious cooking, Hidan's half cussing [since Konan and Sasori shut him up], Kakuzu lecture's on saving money, and Sasori explaining his opinion on his 'art',
flashback
"You know, i can't bealive pinky here is related to puppet boy!" Kisame said as he ate another peice of his pancake,
"Of course i am, Sasori-nii is the best!" Sakura said then continued
"And so is his art, art is eternal beauty!" Sakura said as the other members except Sasori choked their food,
"Ok we must have heard her wrong, maybye we still have some water in our ears from the pool" Kisame said as the others nodded,
"Yeah, there is no way that she said that" Hidan said
"Why not?, she did ask me about it" Sasori said
"When?!" the members yelled
"Yesterday evening" Sasori awnsered
"Great!, just what we need, another Sasori!" Hidan said as Sasori glared at the jashinist,
"What's wrong with Sasori-nii?" Sakura asked as she tilted her head cutely to the side,
"Let's see, his 'art' theory, his stupid obsession over his dolls-" Hidan said to be cut off,
"They are not dolls" Sasori gritted through his teeth,
"Fine!...but they are stupid" Hidan stated, Sasori was about to speak out but his cousin got the better of him,
"His puppets aren't stupid!, they are amazing!" Sakura yelled, everyone in the room except Sasori dropped their forks on their plates then looked at Sasori,
"Sasori, what the hell have you done to her!" Kisame said
end flashback
After breakfeast, Sasori showed Sakura to his puppet workshop which was down the hall from his room, he told Sakura to sit down while he opened his closet and pulled out a "training puppet", Sasori then sat on his bed next to the eager-to-learn pink haired cousin,
"This is a training puppet, it dosen't have any weapons in it and its purpose it to practice controling puppets with chakra strings" Sasori stated as he raised one hand and attached chakra strings to the puppet, Sasori moved his pointer finger, ring finger and middle finger,
the puppet arose from the ground and spun around twice, Sakura looked in we at her cousin and his puppet master skills, then Sasori looked back at Sakura as he released the puppet and the puppet colasped to the ground,
"Sakura, have you learned anything on chakra?" the puppeteer asked, Sakura nodded and awnsered
"Mother taught me about chakra and medical ninjustu the day she died", then a sad look apeared on Sakura's face as she remembered her mother and father, but this didn't go unnoticed by her cousin, Sasori put his hand on her shoulder and said
"I know it must be hard on you to lose your parents, it was on me too, they were my aunt and uncle after all...and i also lost my parents when i was about your age", Sakura looked up at her cousin, pricks of tears were at the corners of her eyes but she restraint them from falling and then said
"Um, let's just get back to training", Sasori nodded as he continued the lesson.
The two cousins trained for 2 hours, and in that time Sakura had learnt to use chakra strings and a few movements to the training puppet, Sasori was astonished at his cousin's progress but of course he had too much ride to admit that she done done better at puppetry than him when he was her age but he did complement her every now and then.
A few hours later it was lunch time, the Akatsuki plus Sakura had stir fry and then afterwards went back to doing to whatever they do, Sasori had to do a quick assassination mission and would be back later, so until then Sakura stayed with Konan and right now they were going to Sakura's new room which was a few doors down from Sasori's room and next to Konan's,
"Ok Sakura, this is it" Konan said as she opened the door of Sakura's new room to reveal a room with a cherry blossom design on the walls and ceiling, a bed that had white sheets with red clouds and next to the bed was a nighttable with a few paper flowers in a small vase [AN: to keep an eye on Sakura], a shelf that had academic books and childreen books, a closet full of clothes and a desk,
Sakura gasped at the sight of her new room, then a few seconds later Sakura wrapped her arms around the blue haired woman's waist as she chanted thank you,
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Sakura said
"Hahahah, your welcome Sakura" Konan said as they then closed the door to the room and headed to the living room.
The two entered the living room to see it unoccupied by the other members, Konan and Sakura sat down at the table as Konan pulled origami paper from her sleave and began to teach Sakura origami.
For a while the two had done some origami, Konan taught Skura to make a flower, frog, boat, plane and butterfly, Sakura put the origami she made in her room and went with Konan to the dining room for dinner, they had hibachi for dinner and later it was time for bed, Konan accompinied the pink haired girl to her new room, said good night and left,
Sakura took a shower for 20 minutes then changed into pajama's that was decoreated with butterflys, then Sakura went to bed.
Sakura's Dream
Sakura had a knife in her hand as she ran to her's family's clinic and killed her father, he pleaded for her not to kil him and didn't dare to raise or touch the kunai knife in his pouch but yet her body moved uncontrolibly and slit his throat,
next Sakura went to the house to see her mother cooking lunch, she turned around to see her daughter covered in blood but little did she know it was her husband's blood, Sakura's mother walked toward her daughter with wide eyes, Sakura didn't want to kil her mother but she heard a slithery voice in her head,
"Kill her!, kill her!, kill her!" the voice demanded, Sakura's body moved on her own and stabbed her mother in her stomach, more blood splattered on Sakura's clothes,
"S-Sakura, why?" her mother asked as she fell dead to the floor.
End dream
Sakura unconciously gave out a loud scream as if someone had attacked her, she then jolted up into a sitting position as she curled up against the headboard of her bed, the door to her room slammed open as Sasori came running inside and was immeaditly as his cousin's side, Sasori put a hand on his cousin's shoulder,
"Sakura, what happened?, are you alright?!" Sasori asked, Sakura looked up at the red head puppeteer with her eyes red and puffy and tears rolled down her cheeks, Sakura latched on to Sasori and hugged him tightly as her cry was muffled, Sasori sat against the headboard and put one arm around her as the other combed his fingers through Sakura's pink hair, trying to sooth her and told her comforting words,
Sasori thought for a few moments on what to do since he never really comforted anyone before, and sure, he lost his parents about her age but he only heard about it from Granny Chiyo, unlike Sakura who witnised the death of her parents, she didn't just want the comfort, she needed it so she wouldn't fall apart,
the two stayed like that for the rest of the night and fell asleep.,