Chapter 6

Rinnengan

Sakura rubbed her bright jade eyes as sunlight greeted her through the window. It was a nice clear sunny day, a good day to train or spar with someone. She leaped off her bed and went to go look at her wardrobe. Sakura slid on a dark purple short skirt with her weapon pouch, strapped to her left leg and her slashed hitai-ate around her waist. She wore a tight black shirt with red clouds on the back. (Pein had given this to her along with the cloak.) Her hair was up in a messy bun with her bangs hanging down loosely. She walked out her room to meet Itachi also heading down for breakfast.

"Good morning, blossom." He said and kissed her forehead. Sakura's jaw dropped in surprise. Itachi smirked and walked to the living room leaving a shocked pink haired girl in the hallway. He noticed that breakfast was not cooked so he made a cup of tea, sat down, and slowly sipped the hot drink. Sakura slowly trudged out the hallway and noticed that breakfast was, AGAIN, not made. She spotted Itachi and a light blush crept onto her face. She walked into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Thoughts raced through her mind as she flipped the eggs for the boys. Why did Itachi kiss her? Did it mean anything? She doubted that, she bet it was just a friendly good morning gesture or something or TO TEASE HER! Yes, that was it. Sakura felt much better after figuring out the mess. "Sakura! It's burning! SAKURA?" someone yelled. Sakura snapped back to reality and faced a small fire, burning the eggs and her hand next. Sakura screamed and stepped back. She quickly poured water over it as it sizzled angrily and died down. There laid the poor burnt shriveled egg pieces. Sakura mentally face-palmed herself for being so stupid and zoning out while cooking! Itachi's hand landed on her shoulder,

"You okay?" he asked. At the small contact, a small current of electricity ran through her. A her face turned red and Itachi panicked,

"Sakura, are you okay? You're burning up!"

"U-uh, o-of course! It's just the heat, you know." She laughed. "Sorry about breakfast."

"It's okay, Sasori will go out to buy some," Itachi said as he pointed to the entering puppet.

"Oh hell no! I went to go get breakfast last time! It's Hidan's turn!" Sasori argued.

"Yah, the last time you didn't bring back food, you brought back oil." Itachi said in a monotone voice.

"Well, my parts were feeling rusty!" he yelled and stormed out the kitchen. Sakura raised an eyebrow, were these really S-class criminals? They seemed more like a bunch of delusional boys that were incredibly childish, well except for Itachi and Pein.

'Ok then, I'll go out to buy breakfast, be back in ten." He said as he vanished into black feathers. Sakura looked down at the tile floor at the pile of black feathers and grumbled. She snatched a broom and slowly cleaned up the mess.

Pein's Office

What is it? Is it possible? Pein thought after going through a restless night, trying to figure out Sakura's kekkei genkai. He had come to one conclusion but he needed Sakura to confirm his answer. He called the pink wild cat in and she rushed into his office, smelling a little…burnt? He waved the weird scent away and talked to Sakura,

"Change, show me"

" 'Scuse me? Sakura asked, confused.

"I heard about your unique eye ability on the mission. Show it to me, I want to confirm something." Sakura nodded and closed her eyes. Pein waited in anticipation as she slowly opened her eyes. It was true, her pupil had become purple and the green darkened. He was correct, this was the early stage of a Rinnengan.

"You have the Rinnengan, how?" he asked. Sakura flinched, how did she have the incredible Rinnengan?

"I don't know. How is that possible, I'm not related to you am I?" she wondered. Pein pondered on the idea.

"You probably have crossed blood traits to get the Rinnengan so I guess we are somehow related." He concluded. Sakura sat there, trying to soak in the new surprising information. Psh, she is related to the all mighty and powerful Akatsuki leader? How was that even remotely possible? But she just realized how strong her eyes could become.

"Leader-sama-"

"Call me Pein." He interrupted.

"um, ok? Pein, can you like ummm, teach me how to achieve and perfect the Rinnengan?" she pleaded hopefully. She looked down, ready for the rejection but she wasn't prepared for Pein ruffling her hair and chuckling. Sakura raised her head in confusion.

"Of course, I'm happy to know that you are excited to learn new techniques." He said.

"You laughed!" she giggled.

"Hn, I guess. I feel more comfortable around you. You are like a daughter to me." He admitted. Sakura gaped, she didn't know if she could take more surprises today; after the kiss, the fire, and then this.

"Aww, thanks, DAD!" she laughed.

"Please don't call me that, that will totally ruin my reputation." He fake-somberly said. He smiled when he heard the blossom's tinkling laughter.

"Ok Pein, thanks for agreeing to help me train. I think Itachi came back, let's go eat breakfast!" she cried happily as she dragged the leader to the living room. She helped Itachi set up the table for breakfast as the other member started crowding the living room and sitting down. Half the food was dango and the rest were breakfast things. She was never letting him shop for food anymore. As everyone settled in, Sakura got up to make coffee,

"Pein, would you like to drink some coffee, too?" Sakura asked. Suddenly, the noisy party silenced and everyone looked alarmingly at the gutsy girl. She stared in confusion when Deidara abruptly flashed in front of Sakura.

"Don't kill her, leader-sama, un! She's the only member I actually am starting to like, yeah." Deidara pleaded.

"Why would I kill her?" Pein asked. Hidan laughed and threw his head back.

"So, it's okay if we called you, Pein?" he said, emphasizing on the leader's name. Pein twitched an eyebrow in annoyance.

"Almighty Push!" he said as Hidan flew back with much force into the wall behind him and started to bleed. "No one but Sakura can call me that, GOT THAT?" Everybody nodded their head in fear that their leader would slaughter them.

"So no coffee?" Sakura asked hesitantly.

At Konoha

"How come Sakura-chan isn't back yet, granny-chan?" the kyuubi whined. Tsunade bit her lip in fret.

"I told you it was a long-term mission already Naruto." She yelled. Sasuke could sense the lie a mile away but he decided not to interrupt. Naruto slumped out of the room with Sasuke following.

"Hey teme, do you think Sakura-chan is okay?" Naruto asked.

"Hn," the emo grunted.

"You are no fun to talk to!" Naruto pouted. Sasuke was personally thinking where the weak blossom he used to know was. If she didn't return in two weeks, she was probably dead. That weakling couldn't survive that long out there by herself, he thought. What he didn't know was that he was very very wrong.

Training grounds of Akatsuki

Sakura lowered to a fight stance and faced her sparring partner. The money loving, 5 lived freak glared at her. He hadn't fought in a long time and had wanted a good fight to warm up on, though he doubted it was even going to be a fight. It wouldn't even last a second. Pein went over the rules about no deaths and fatal injuries and all the other unimportant things. When he yelled, Start, Kakuzu was right, it didn't even last a second. He had sensed loose change that had been dropped outside the hideout and broke the window, on manic mode, and laughed crazily to find the money. Sakura stood there along with the other members staring at their loony teammate.

"So much for a good fight," Sakura grumbled.

"I'll fight you sexy!" Deidara shouted as jumped from the stands onto the battleground. Sakura rolled her eyes at Deidara's flirting behavior.

BEGIN!

Sakura vanished using her new justu Itachi had taught her and masked her chakra. Deidara got pissed and cried out,

"Even though I can't see you, I'm still going to blow you into small beautiful pieces, un!" His hand chewed up the clay and spit out two snakes. The snakes went around, sniffing around for the blood blossom. Before the snakes could do anything, Sakura appeared behind Deidara and held a kunai to his throat.

"You are dead." She said.

"KATSU!" he yelled as the nearing snakes exploded. When the smoke cleared, Sakura laid there on the floor, bleeding and unconscious.

"Woah, she was an easy one, un." Deidara walked over to her and bent down, "Not so tough now huh, yah!" He touched her blood and his hand started to burn.

"Holy Shit! What the hell is happening, un?!" he yelled, trying to soothe the pain but the fire crept up his arm, sizzling his veins from the inside. "Make it stop, yah!" he screamed in agony.

"Surrender?" a mysterious and deadly voice asked.

"Yah, yeah!" he shrieked. Another Sakura appeared out of no where and but her hand on his arm.

"Kai!" she yelled and the burning stopped. Deidara plopped down on the floor in surrender. He pointed at the dead Sakura on the floor in confusion.

"Hn, I guess my puppet didn't do too bad, still needs a few tweaks though." She shrugged and picked up the broken puppet. "Thanks for teaching me, Sasori-kun!" she yelled to the crowd. He nodded and Itachi felt a pang of jealously. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to put that stupid puppet inside his Tsukuyomi.

"Itachi, want to go outside right now?" she asked. Itachi nodded and followed her out the door.

Outside, they laid down in the grass and looked around their selves. They talked about Konoha and how arrogant Itachi's little brother was. Through out their little talk, Itachi let out a few rare chuckles but what they didn't sense someone else watching them through the trees,

"Hm, Sasuke will be surprised." The figure cackled.

A/N—Hey guys! So glad it's the weekends are coming so I can update faster!

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-Darkblossom19