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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Suigetsu asked Sasuke once more as they walked away from the base.

Sasuke had decided to go to the nearest village behind travel supplies.

When he informed the rest of the team, except Juugo who was still unconscious, that they would leave leaving Sakura behind Karin almost realeased fireworks while Suigetsu seemed more careful.

Sasuke looked at Suigetsu out of the corner of his eye, annoyed at his teammate's insistence.

"Stay focused and leave your self-interests to yourself, if you don't agree you may as well leave the group and stay with her." Sasuke said dryly, glancing back at the path they followed.

Suigetsu raised one eyebrow in surprise at the hard way Sasuke had reacted.

"You're not really suggesting I have feelings for Pinky, are you?" He chucled as Sasuke jumped at the top of the trees. "I have no interest in leaving the mission now, maybe I'll enjoy her a bit before we leave..." He let the phrase die, wanting to give a second meaning.

If he wasn't paying attention, Suigetsu wouldn't have seen Sasuke wrinkle his brow before turning back to his expression of indifference.

A provocative smile crept over Suigetsu's lips as he mentally jotted down the subject so he could later tease the Uchiha a little more.

"You think it was a good idea to leave her with Karin? The redhead hates her, quite capable of trying to kill her while we're not around." Suigetsu commented after some time in silence.

Few things displeased him in Sasuke, and his silence was one of those things. For Suigetsu the Uchiha was too serious, too dense, there was hardly any moment of relaxation.

But each one with it's own problems.

"Sakura can handle it." Sasuke said simply, without adding anything else.

Suigetsu looked at Sasuke curiously. Even with those few words, Sasuke recognized Sakura's strength.

The two arrived at the village not long after the conversation ended. As they thought, the village wasn't very big and the trade was the main road that cut the village in the middle, tried not to draw much attention but it didn't help, both of them called too much attetion.

They were buying sake, at the insistence of Suigetsu who declared that he needed or would end up committing suicide by having to endure the presence of Karin, when Sasuke recognized a certain pale ninja in the tent opposite which they were.

Letting Suigetsu deal alone with the seller, Sasuke silently approached the ninja when he finished making his purchase.

"Oh, Uchiha." Sai exclaimed with a surprise too forced for Sasuke to really believe.

Beyond the feigned emotions, something in Sai irritated Sasuke. Maybe it was because his appearance was so similar to his, or the fact that they had placed him as his replacement, it was shameful to Sasuke to think that that inferior ninja could be his replacement.

"You'll be glad to know that Naruto isn't with me."

"Tsc." He exclaimed, dismissing the former teammate. "And the other?"

He didn't want to tell him straight away that he was with kunoichi, Sasuke wanted to see if He could get the information that he couldn't get with Sakura.

Sai dropped his head to the side, that false smile on his face.

"Who?"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes. After all those days of captivity, he thought that Konoha was desperate looking for Sakura.

"Sakura Haruno." Her name escaped his lips easily.

The forced expression gave way to seriousness and Sai straightened his body, adopting a hostile posture at the name of the girl.

"She..." he swallowed dryly, his gaze lingering for a moment before he faced Sasuke again. "Sakura's been missing for months."

The Uchiha narrowed his eyes, confused.

Missing? So she wasn't on a Konoha mission?

"What?" He asked confused and curious, he needed to know more.

"I shouldn't tell you, because I know you don't care."Sai chuckled harder than usual, making his point of criticism clear to Sasuke. "No one knows for sure what happened, it was an easy mission, she just had to give medical support to an allied village, but Sakura never made it to the village."

Sasuke's eyebrows knotted and he was even more confused.

"Naruto, obviously, went crazy, he immeadiately set up a search team." Sai sighed, looking away. "At first we thought they would ask for ransom, to use her as a bargaining chip to get Naruto, but no, it was as like, she'd vanished into thin air."

Sasuke could imagine the desperation of Naruto, the two could have all that history, but it was Sakura the treasure of Naruto. It was the girl of the team and, even after all her advance, he knew that Naruto still felt obliged to protect her and it wasn't only for the crush he felt for girl but a more intimate bond of confidence that Sasuke could see if formed after he left the village.

Now Sasuke understood why it had been so long since he had seen the blonde running after him, Naruto was searching for Sakura and for irony of fate, Sasuke had been the one to find her.

"Any clue as to who might have taken her?" Sasuke asked wanting to know more before handing it over.

"Nothing too concrete, but the few clues we have lead to believing Akatsuki might be involved."

The Uchiha's body tensed when he heard the name of the organization and automatically dialed the brother's name.

Sakura had been kidnapped by Akatsuki? By your brother? Was that why she was at one of Orochimaru's bases? No one dared to go to them and that was precisely why Sasuke chose them to be shelter, did the Akatsuki had the same thought and kept the girl there?

Sasuke gathered the pieces together, giving them a disorganized way of putting them together to make sense, but he knew he had flaws.

Sakura never showed herself in fear or that she was being held there against her will, it always seemed that she could escape without any effort. Had she escaped from the Akatsuki and stayed there to hide and find Sasuke before leaving for Konoha?

"I gotta go." Sai said suddenly, interrupting Sasuke's thoughts and waking him up for the moment. "I can't say it was a pleasure to see you again, so I'll say good-bye here."

The two exchanged a nod and Konoha's ninja and Sasuke's replacement vanished from his views.

"We're leaving." Sasuke said grabbing Suigetsu by the elbow and dragging him back to base.

"Hey, hey, I know how to walk." He released himself from his grasp. "Why such a rush?"

Sasuke didn't stop running, but also, didn't use his abnormal speed so that Suigetsu could follow it.

Even with thousands of questions from Suigetsu, Sasuke kept quiet focused on returning as fast as they could to the base. He was in a hurry to confront the girl one more time and try to tear away as much information as he could about Akatsuki.

Sasuke stopped suddenly as he felt an enormous amount of chakra followed by a loud noise of explosion and a huge cloud of dust rose in the heavens.

"What the fuck ..." Suigetsu snapped at the sight of the same scene.

The two of them ran again when another explosion was heard. Now Suigetsu seemed focused, then Sasuke didn't mind using his abnormal speed to get there first.

Someone was attacking the base, Juugo was unconscious and the only ones that could defend were Sakura and Karin. That idea didn't really please Sasuke at all.

With the Sharingan already activated, he scoured the entire area finding Karin first several feet from the base. The redhead was disarranged face down near a small pond.

"Is she…" Suigetsu put the question up.

Sasuke crouched beside her, turning her up. The red hair was messy and with some branches stuck between the strands, but apart from a few scratches there was nothing serious about the girl. Sasuke concentrated a small amount of chakra in the palm of the hand, like the beginning of a chidori, he pressed on the girl's chest.

Karin trembled, pulling the air hard, her eyes widening on alert as she lifted her trunk, sitting up, looking sideways.

"They ... They ..." She swallowed, gasping, stunned, unable to form a concrete phrase.

Sasuke stood up.

"Stay with her, I'm going after Sakura." He said and left without waiting for the other's reply.

He didn't hear any more explosions, and that worried him. By logic, you only stop attacking when you win the battle.

The base had a huge blast on the side and the destruction Juugo had made the day before didn't look anything like it was now, but it seemed more concentrated in a certain part of the structure.

Sakura's cell was empty now.

Sasuke gritted his teeth with eyebrows in a look of hatred, his hand went automatically to his sword, his fingers closing tightly around the scabbard.

As Karin was still stunned, Sasuke would have to find kunoichi on his own, luckily he knew too well the signature of her chakra and it would help him. He concentrated his chakra in his eyes, intensifying the power of the Sharingan and focused on finding her, in less than seconds he was already running towards the girl.

He felt his heart beat frantically as he saw the girl standing by two Akatsuki members, Deidara and Sasori, confirming his suspicions about their involvement in her disappearance.

Sasuke launched the first attack, making a movement in the air with the sword combined with a small chakra chain in the direction of the blond who was the closest of the girl. He knew they would dodge easily, but he wanted to create a distraction.

"Look who's here." Deidara said with a grin on his side, Sasuke saw Sasori standing in front of Sakura entering between the blond and the girl. "The baby Uchiha."