Yo there! And welcome to the seventh chapter of Akatsuki's Kunoichi! :) I hope you all have enjoyed the story so far! Someone requested more itasaku, so here you are! Oh, and thanks to Black Fire Blossom (anon.) for the helpful review! :)

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xXxXxXx Recap xXxXxXx

"Understood." Sasuke said. "But who are the three others?"

"Nara Shikamaru, Uzimaki Naruto, and Hyuga Neji."

"When do we depart?"

"Today at sunrise."

"Alright," Sasuke said, and he left the room. He sighed as the door closed. Why, Sakura?

xXxXxXx Chapter 7: Meetings xXxXxXx

xXxXxXx Normal POV, Hokage's office xXxXxXx

Tsunade sighed as she picked out four black dots jumping through the forest. The council was not happy with her decision to send Sasuke on the mission to retrieve the girls. After all, he had been an S-class missing-nin for three, almost four, years now.

But there hadn't been very many ANBU in the village, just enough to go on patrols and watch the three other missing-nins; after all, Juugo needed extra attention. The three jounin were the most powerful of the shinobi in the village, and she knew the boys would demand to go on the mission, so sending Sasuke too would be a good idea. Plus, Sakura might be convinced to come back to the village if she saw Sasuke. Although it might just make her more convinced that leaving was the right choice…Tsunade bit her lip. Why the hell does the brat want this job so bad? It's just a pain in the- Tsunade's thoughts were interrupted when Shizune burst through the door.

"Tsunade-sama!" She shouted. "There's a big problem! Inuzuka Kiba was following the retrieval squad! And Juugo is attempting to kill the ANBU in charge of him!"

"Well than, send people after Kiba and knock Juugo out!"

"We can't send anyone else out, or it'll be too big of a party, and more people are likely to be killed! And everyone who is good enough to knock Juugo out is either on a mission or gone!"

"Damn!" Tsunade sighed as she sat down. "Try to at least restrain Juugo, please."

Shizune sighed. "But what about Kiba?"

"Just leave him. It's fine."

"But-"

"It's fine! We'll punish him when he gets back. And even if he was trying to leave, I'm sure he would be no match for the others."

Shizune sighed. "Understood." She walked out of the room. Tsunade sighed as soon as the door shut. This is gonna mean a whole lot of paperwork…

xXxXxXx Sakura's POV, Akatsuki Base xXxXxXx

"This place is HUGE!" Ino exclaimed, happily looking around. I silently agreed while staring at the inside of the Akatsuki's huge castle-like building. Deidara was smiling at the awe displayed on our faces. Sasori had stopped talking to Tenten and was watching Ino with amusement, and I couldn't really tell was Tobi was doing. The girls and I were busy looking around the large room.

"This room is mostly empty, because no one really uses it, yeah." Deidara said. "It's also the biggest room, un."

"Can we move in here?" Ino asked, still slightly awe-struck. Deidara laughed.

"If you don't mind everyone having to come into your room to get into the base, sure, un!" Tenten and I laughed while Ino turned red and Hinata just smiled. We walked into a new room, where two other men were sitting, one with blue skin and a huge sword wrapped in bandages, and the other man had dark eyes and long dark hair. I let out a small gasp in surprise. It was, after all, Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha. They turned to look at us. Ino's eyes were wide, and Hinata looked like she was about to faint. Tenten was…where was Tenten?

"AWESOME SWORD!" I heard Tenten scream as she stood over the S-class missing-nin. I sighed as Hinata put her hands in her head and Ino shook her head. "Where did you get it?"

"This?" he said, as he turned to face her. "This was a prize I took from one of my defeated enemies."

"AWESOME! Could I-" but Tenten didn't get the chance to finish her sentence, because at that moment, a blond man walked into the room screaming, "WHAT THE FUCK'S ALL THIS NOISE ABOUT?! COULD YOU JUST FU-" The man was abruptly cut off when Itachi slapped him upside the head.

"Please stop being so vulgar. We have guests, idiot," he said. I looked at Ino, and when I caught her eye, I could tell we were both thinking the same thing: He's so HOT! But he looks so much like Sasuke-kun…

I was snapped out of my thoughts when the same blond man from before started to yell again. "Who the fuck are our guests?"

Itachi sighed. "Hidan, what did I just say?"

"You want me to shut the fuck up." the blond man said. He snorted and rolled his eyes, "It's not like I have to fucking listen to you anyways." I chuckled a little as I watched them. The blond man sort of reminded me of Sai, except instead of talking about body parts, he swore a lot. Maybe I should tell Sai there's another one of him out there before I remembered. It wouldn't matter. I was never going back to Konoha again, after all…

I guess my face must have looked sad, because Ino-chan turned to me and said softly, "What's wrong?"

"It's just that I'll never be able to return to Konoha. I think I'm going to miss Tsunade-shishou a lot. And even though they were so bad to me, I miss my team."

"I know how ya feel forehead. Even though they treated me like crap, I really miss them." Ino sighed. "It's hard, isn't it? This love business…" We sat in silence for several moments, just watching the others.

"Hey, Ino-chan! Me and the others are going to show you around, un!" Deidara said, breaking into our thoughts. Ino smiled and stood up.

"Okay!" she exclaimed. I smiled and stood up too.

"We're going in pairs, so we can get to know each other better, un! First it's me and Hinata-chan!" I giggled when I saw Hinata blush at the suffix the blond artist attached to her name. "Itachi and Sakura are another pair." 'So I'm with him, huh?' I thought as I looked at him. He was pretty hot. 'No. No falling in love with another Uchiha! Not after last time…' "Next pair is Hidan and Tenten!"

"Why the fuck am I with the little girl?" Hidan interrupted.

"What the- LITTLE GIRL?!" Tenten screamed.

"Oh no," I whispered to Hinata. "Ten's lost it."

"YES, YOU LITTLE GIRL!"

"WELL MAYBE YOU'RE JUST AN OLD FREAKAZOID!"

"WHA- YOU ARE A LITTLE ASSHOLE! JASHIN-SAMA WILL FUCKING PUSNISH YOU!"

"Who's Jashin?"

"MY FUCKING GOD! AND SAY HIS NAME WITH RESPECT, DAMN IT!"

"BOTH OF YOU JUST SHUT UP!"

We all looked surprised at the new man's outburst. "Jeez, Kakuzu. Don't get your panties in a twist," Deidara said. "But, now that we got the two of them to shut up, the final pair is Ino-chan and Sasori!"

"Um…maybe I could just go with Sakura-chan and Itachi-san?" Ino said nervously.

"What's wrong?" Deidara asked, tilting his head to the side. "Is Sasori scary or something, un?" My eyes widened as I realized why Ino wanted to come with me instead of Sasori.

A huge grin crossed my face as I said, "What's wrong Ino; I though you liked puppets?"

Her faced turned bright red as she stuttered out a, "S-shut up! That has nothing to do with this!"

As I continued to tease Ino, I saw Deidara and the rest of Akatsuki look confused as he asked Hinata what was going on. I cut in, "Back a year ago, Ino was dating-" She cut me off as she slammed her hand over my mouth.

Hinata eagerly cut in, "Ino and-" but was cut off as Ino slammed her other hand over Hinata's mouth.

"INO AND KANKURO WERE GOING OUT!" Tenten shouted. I smiled behind Ino's hand as said girl simply gaped at Tenten for a few seconds until-

"TENTEN!! YOU ARE SO DEAD!!" Ino screamed as she ran after Tenten. Tenten, Hinata, and I were all laughing as Ino chased Ten around the room. Deidara was grinning and Itachi looked amused. Kisame laughed also - "She and the face paint freak were going out?!"- and Hidan looked confused. Kakuzu had left the room, and Sasori was raising his eyebrows.

"What is this," he said, waving his hands at Ino and Tenten, "about?"

I laughed. "Back about a year ago, Ino was going out with Kankuro!" Ino's head snapped toward me. "Oh crap." Still laughing, it was my turn to be chased around the room by an angry pig with a kunai.

"And what was wrong with that?"

"It was black mail!"

"HINATA!" Ino screeched as she ran toward her. I sat down in the chair, laughing so hard my stomach hurt.

The Akatsuki turned back to me, still confused. I smiled and called out to Tenten, "Could you hold her back?" She nodded and grabbed Ino's arms. "So, about a year and a half ago, Ino was blackmailed into being Kankuro's girlfriend!"

"SAKURA!" I simply stuck my tongue out at her.

"He kissed her in front of Shikamaru once!" Tenten chimed in.

"SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!"

"Aw, Ino-chan, I thought you liked him!"

"HARUNO SAKURA! YOU ARE SO DEAD!"

After a while of Ino chasing me around the room in circles, we sat down on the chairs, tired. "Alright, so let's go!" Deidara called out. He quickly grabbed Hinata's hand and ran out, but not before I saw the huge blush on her face. Hidan and Tenten walked out another door.

"Fine, I'll go with Sasori," Ino said, although no one except Itachi, Sasori, and me were around to listen. She leaned in closer and whispered, "Besides, you need a boyfriend, and he is one amazing piece of-"

"Ino!" I shouted as I shoved her.

"Just saying!" she said as she ran out the room, Sasori close behind her. I sighed. 'That girl will never change,' I thought.

"Let's go," Itachi said as he began to walk out of the room. I nodded, although he wouldn't see, and I followed him out of the room.

xXxXxXx End Chapter xXxXxXx

So that's the end of the chapter. Sorry this took so long. I've been busy; I'm a baton twirler, and Regionals are coming up. About the story...Looking back on it, it wasn't that fully of Itasaku…. Ah well, there were hints of it, and the next chapter will have more romance…for ALL the girls. Thanks for reading and don't forget to R E V I E W.