Here's chapter 7. Sorry for making you wait but i had a lot of school work!

I seriously don't know if you'll like this chapter or not. I honestly didn't spend much thought writing it, so it's not that good

Anyway, that's up to you. Please read and tell me what you think. I appreciate feedbacks

Btw, before you start reading, i have another story on my mind. It is also about Naruto. Akatsuki and Konoha, but there will be a brand new character and the focus will be her. I believe it's a much better story than this one. If you want me to start writing it while am doing this one i dont mind, just tell me in a review or a pm.

Enjoy... and if it was that bad please tell me =)

Konoha

Regular POV

'Sakura-chan, where are you? What happened to you? How did you disappear so suddenly? I will never forgive myself if anything happens to you. Never.' All these thoughts kept wandering in Naruto's head. He couldn't stop them nor he wanted to.

"Naruto, we can't find her anywhere. And the ANBU didn't find any traces of her either. We have been looking for a whole day now. We should head back to the village and report to Hokage-sama." Ino said, sweat all over hear face. She was extremely tired, so were the others. All the nine rookies decided to go along with Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai. Kakashi decided to stay in case Sakura comes back. They did not take many rests this whole day and it was already pitch black in the forest. Naruto wouldn't let them stop for more than ten minutes.

Naruto was furious, but he couldn't hide the fact that he was tired as well. Neither Sasuke, Sai nor Naruto wanted to stop. But they've searched the whole forest and they have to go back and take new orders from the Hokage.

"Naruto, we have no choice. We don't want to stop but we have to. Maybe Hokage-sama has a plan to find Sakura." Shikamaru stated getting nods from the other rookies.

"Well, I guess we have no choice. We'll look for the hag later. She is strong she can manage on her own a while longer." Sai said putting his fake smile back on.

Naruto bit his lip, growled then nodded. Naruto, Sasuke and Sai remained silent on the way back. Each of them spacing out thinking about the worst that could happen to their teammate. The other rookies exchanged conversations of what might've happened and where she could be.

They got to Konoha by dawn. The cold breeze of the morning made Naruto think more and more about Sakura and what she would do now in this cold; making him angrier every time the breeze hit his face. How could he let this happen? He was supposed to protect her. They finally got Sasuke back and thought that team 7 will be back together just to lose another member. And it had to be Sakura!

Naruto went straight to the Hokage's tower; he opened the door and rushed inside, just to see Tsunade-sama sitting behind her desk with a worried look on her face. He noticed that she hadn't slept at all. She had dark eye bags. They were huge he would've made fun of her if the situation was different.

She looked at him with saddened wet eyes waiting him to give her the results of his search, hoping he'd say they found Sakura and she is fine. But he just looked at her with a sad, disappointed and angry eyes, not even able to give her the news. But she knew, she felt it the second he rushed in.

She had to be stronger and not show her worry, she kept thinking to herself. But she couldn't hide her emotions. It was her lovely apprentice; the one she considered her own daughter who is missing. Worse than that, she got reports of Akatsuki sightings in the forest the day Sakura disappeared. What if they kidnapped her? What if they hurt her? She wouldn't be able to forgive herself. She knew what the Akatsuki would want from her apprentice. Either heal them because she is the second best medic, or be a bait for Naruto. Tsunade-sama would never allow either of those choices. She knew she had to do something. But she can't take action before making sure that Sakura was with them. But how?

Naruto just stood there staring at her for few minutes. She seemed too into her thoughts to be disturbed. He waited and waited. Knowing how she feels, exactly like him. They couldn't help but feel guilty.

After few more minutes, Kakashi walked in. He immediately read their faces and understood what was going on. He leaned to the wall next to Tsunade-sama's desk and seemed to space out in thought too.

Tsunade thinking of a plan, Kakashi trying to figure out what happened, and Naruto drowning in his feeling of guilt.

Sasuke and Sai decided to go search Sakura's home for clues. After they were done they headed to the Hokage's tower and joined the other's silence.

Meanwhile with the Akatsuki

Regular POV

"Cherry Blossom-chan! Wake uppp! Tobi is getting bored by himself!"

"uhhmmm… Tobi lemme sleep few more minutes!" Sakura said head under the bed covers trying to block Tobi's sound.

"But TOBI IS A GOOD BOY!" Tobi kept jumping up and down next to Sakura's bed trying his best to wake her up.

"STOP IT NOW OR I'LL PUNCH THE LIFE OUT OF YOU! YOU LOLLIPOP FACE!" Sakura was losing her temper. One thing she hated very much was nagging.

"WHY IS CHERRY-CHAN YELLING AT TOBI! TOBI IS A GOOD BOY! GOOOOOODDDD BOOOOOOOYYYY!" Tobi started crying waking the whole base up.

"STOP CALLING ME RANDOM NAMES! AND NO TOBI IS A BAAAAADDDDD BOOOYYY!"

"NO! TOBI IS A GOOO-" Tobi was cut off by a very annoyed Kakuzu who grabbed him and left the room leaving Sakura by herself to wash her face, do her hair and get ready for her usual day.

After a while, all the Akatsuki members woke up. They went to the living room and kitchen, except Pein who stays in his office all day. They sat a discussed their usual, art, food, money, religion, missions and such. After a while, they all started complaining about being hungry. Kisame volunteered to make breakfast. Bad idea. Few minutes after he entered the kitchen, an explosion was heard. Sakura rushed there to see what happened and saw Kisame with a pan, eggs in his hands and his face lost his blue color and turned black.

Everyone was laughing except Itachi, Sasori and Kakuzu who just muttered idiot and went back to their business. Sakura, didn't laugh at all, instead she rushed to Kisame and started helping him. She run a check-up on him, cleaned up and prepared breakfast. Like lost puppies, all the Akatsuki were on the table as soon as food was ready.

They all exchanged conversations on the table, except Sakura who just sat their silently. Something seemed on her mind, but none of the Akatsuki noticed. She rose from her seat, took a plate, filled it with food and left the kitchen. They all wondered where she was going and finally seemed to notice that something was wrong with her.

Sakura took the plate and headed to Pein's office. He skipped breakfast today so she took it to him afraid he was too busy to leave his work. She knocked on the door. A calm "Come in" was heard. Sakura opened the door and walked over to his desk. As she expected, he was too busy to come have his breakfast.

She set the plate on the empty side of the desk away from all the papers not to ruin them and looked at Pein. "Would you like anything else with your breakfast Leader-sama?" Sakura said faintly with a sad look on her face, which Pein noticed.

"Sakura, you know you don't have to cook for the Akatsuki." He said scanning her face then moved down to her body. She looked so skinny but she had all the perfect curves, and her face was one of an angle's.

"Yes I know Leader-sama. But if I don't they're gonna destroy the whole base."

Sakura was silent for a few seconds then said,

"Leader-sama, you didn't answer my question. Did you want anything else with your breakfast?"

"No thank you. I'll tell you if anything comes up. You can go now spend more time with the other members to get used to them."

"Hai." Sakura then headed back to the door feeling that he was watching her body, but she wasn't in the mood to do anything about it. Plus, he is the Leader.

Sakura went back to the kitchen and found that Zetsu, Kakuzu, Itachi and Sasori left. To where, she doesn't know and couldn't care less.

"Hey pinky, come here." She heard the shark-like guy call her. She hesitated for a moment then went to him.

"What do you want? Tuna can?" Sakura put a small smirk on her lips, which to Kisame looked cute.

"Nothing, we just haven't had the chance to talk to each other since you came." Kisame said putting a bigger smirk.

"What do you wanna talk about fishy?" Sakura said starting to cheer up a little.

"hmmm.. I don't know! But I had a question ever since you got here. Why is your hair pink, pinky?" Kisame asked getting a grin on his face showing his sharp teeth.

"Why are you blue, Jellyfish?" Sakura asked mocking Kisame.

"Hahaha, I like you pinky." Kisame winked at Sakura, she blushed a little then let it go.

"You're not bad yourself fishy." Sakura said winking back.

Meanwhile, Hidan was staring at Sakura from the sofa farthest from Kisame's. He was pissed, it was written all over his face. First, he didn't insult anyone yet, and second he didn't even say a word since he woke up.

Deidara was trying to relax on another sofa but Tobi kept bugging him about what happened this morning with Sakura. Finally, Deidara have had it and said, "Why are you telling me this Tobi? Got tell HER! un."

"But TOBI IS A GOOD BOY! Go tell Cherry-chan TOBI IS A GOOD BOOOY!" Tobi was whining making it even harder for Deidara to relax.

Deidara decided to end this. So he grabbed Tobi's hand and walked over to Kisame and Sakura who were calling each other names and laughing. Tobi was hiding behind Deidara afraid that Sakura would yell at him again.

"Sakura-chan, Tobi want to tell you something. un." Deidara looked at Tobi eye twitching and continued, "Go ahead Tobi. un."

"Cherry-chan, Tobi is A GOOD BOY. TOBI DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE CHERRY-CHAN ANGRY." Tobi's tears broke out and he started crying.

Sakura stared blankly not believing he is an Akatsuki then decided to forgive him. "It's alright Tobi. I know you are a good boy, just don't do it again."

Tobi jumped up and down few times then hugged Sakura so tight she could feel every muscle in his body.

After a while, Sakura decided to go on a tour around the base. She kept walking a lot the hallways thinking about something that kept her mind busy. She got a door and she saw bright light and bird voices coming from within. She opened it and walked in, for a few seconds she was blinded by the bright light. When her eyes adjusted to the light, she noticed a huge opened balcony. She walked to it and looked outside. She could see trees, birds, flowers and a river. She could still smell the wet ground from the rain that didn't stop too long ago. She smiled a genuine cute smile when the wind brushed through her hair. She missed nature and the sun. The Akatsuki base was so dim lit and closed from everywhere. Having a balcony like this made Sakura so happy she decided to come here whenever she could.

Sakura was enjoying the view and the wind breeze, looking at the flowers and trees waving with the wind. Sakura was too into the view she didn't notice someone get close to her. Her locks kept swinging with the wind they started blocking her view. When she reached to remove them from her eyes, another hand reached for them before hers.

She turned around to see who it was. It was a muscular mad, almost a foot taller than her. She raised her emerald eyes from his chest and looked at his face, breath stealing violet eyes, perfect lips calling her for a kiss.

"H-Hidan? What are you doing here?" Sakura said, blushing and looking confused.

"Surprised, I just followed you to see if something was wrong."

"Why would anything be wrong?" She looked even more confused. Hidan stared at her for a few seconds; he seemed to stare directly at her cherry lips. When he realized where he was staring, he snapped out of it, blushed a little and answered her,

"Nothin, you just seemed upset today." Hidan felt a loss of words, cursing words to be precise. He didn't know what stopped him from cursing, he just didn't.

"Well thank you for caring." Sakura gave him a sweet smile, he looked at her for a second then turned his head to look at the trees.

"Hidan, about… yesterday,…. umm, what…. happened" Sakura had a hard time letting the words out, she was blushing like hell and she couldn't hide it.

Hidan stared at Sakura for almost a minute, not knowing what to say. He felt under pressure and he didn't like it.

"What are you talking about bitch?" He sounded like he didn't care. He did care, he just didn't like being under pressure so he just lost his temper at her again.

"NOTHING! FORGET ABOUT IT YOU JERK!" Sakura felt angry, sad, confused, stupid, all the emotions at once. Tears in her eyes, she left him standing there and rushed out of the balcony. She ran to her room, went inside, locked the door and jumped on her bed. She lied there and started crying. For what reason exactly, she didn't know. She just knew that she was stressed and upset and wanted nothing but to cry and stay by herself.

Hidan stood there processing what just happened. Not wanting to believe that he just made her cry. How could he be so stupid? He decided to follow her and apologize. And so he did, he followed her to her room. Stood in front of the door, ready to knock he heard sobs coming from inside. He hesitated for a second but he brushed it off and knocked.

"Sakura, let me in. I wanna talk to you." Hidan rested his forehead on her door, listening to her sobs and feeling guilty. He never felt guilt over anything, what did she do to him? why does he care so much? She is just another girl! No she's not, she is Sakura. Hidan seemed more confused than ever, he didn't know why he was doing this. He just felt that he needed to apologize and make her smile.

She didn't answer him.

"Sakura, I know you're in there. Let me in. Please." Hidan started pleading, which he never did. The foul mouthed Jashinist seemed to lose his mind.

Again, no answer.

"Sakura I said let me fucking come in!" He was losing his temper again, but he reminded himself of her smiling to stay in control. His voice went soft again,

"Sakura, I am sorry. Now please let me in. I wanna talk to you. Please. I won't leave until you talk to me."

"You know, maybe you should leave her alone for a while." Kakuzu appeared from behind the corner, looking bored as ever.

"What do you fucking have to do with this fucker?" Hidan snapped back.

"I am worried about her not you. Now leave her alone and try again later."

Hidan growled but then calmed down remembering it's his fault.

"Fine, fucker," Turning his head back to Sakura's door, "Sakura, I'll be back once you feel better. I'm sorry."

With that, Hidan and Kakuzu left the hallway leaving Sakura with her tears.

Sakura's POV

Hidan kept knocking on my door; I didn't want him to see me weak so I just ignored him. He stayed there for a while but then suddenly he left. I don't even know why I got pissed this much. 'Maybe I have feelings for him? But that's betraying my village. I am staying here for their sake. I'm enduring all of this for them. I can't get too attached to the Akatsuki. That's wrong; I can't betray my village and friends.'

'Relax. You are being too emotional today! Damn it girl, just go and have some fun! That Jashinist Hidan is really HOT! H.O.T!'

'Inner, do you think we should keep following Pein's last order? I mean, it's a bit weird and you saw what happened to me so far for following it.'

Flashback

After the last meeting, later that night Pein came to my bedroom, woke me up and sat at the end of my bed. He said he had something urgent to talk to me about so I listened. He explained his plan about me again. I listened carefully; too much I almost fell asleep. Whenever I seemed to doze off, he would snap his fingers to wake me up. When he was done, he told me that he got an idea right after the meeting.

"I want you to start practicing how to control Inner." He said calmly, full of confidence.

"Control her? How? She is a part of me." I said sounding confused, which I was.

"You know how your temper comes from Inner's personality? And the sweet Sakura we know is from your own personality." He didn't wait for the words to sink in and continued, "I want you to stop letting Inner slightly take over when you get angry and be natural. Be Sakura, not Inner Sakura. You understand?"

"umm, I think." I said still slightly confused, "But why?"

"If you can start controlling Inner even in a small thing like this, eventually you'll be able to fully control her, and my plan will work." He said gazing at me. Those eyes soft yet dead.

"Ok I got it. But it's gonna be hard."

"You can start tomorrow. Good night."

Pein left leaving me alone to my thoughts.

'Inner, make it easy please.'

'Hahaha, don't worry, I'll. You know I'll follow his orders until the plan is complete. After all it's for our own benefit.' Inner said getting an evil smirk on her lips.

'I hope you're right. Good night.'

'Night night.'

End of Flashback

I kept playing my conversation with Pein last night over and over. Not having a bit of Inner's personality makes me very emotional, which I don't like. But then again, this is for Naruto and Konoha.

I decided to spend the rest of the day in my bedroom, not wanting any of the other members to see how emotional I get without Inner. A few of them came knocking on my door wanting me to prepare lunch, dinner, or chat with them. I just ignored. I let a small amount of chakra out so that they'll know I'm still here and didn't escape. I don't want them smashing my door and bedroom.

Kisame came knocking five times. It was already around ten p.m. and he couldn't take it anymore. So he just stood by the door and started counting down to smash it.

5

4

3

"What do you want shrimp body?" I said annoyed trying to hide my tears and sad face.

"Now was that hard pinky? Why did you lock yourself? Come on, you can tell me." He winked at me with his grin waiting my answer.

"I just needed some time alone. Is that wrong?"

"No it's not." He gave me a sweet understanding smile then said, "I know the base could get a little too boring. Would you like me to take you outside tomorrow? Anywhere you want." He kept his smile on. He was so sweet tears started to flow out of my eyes.

"Hey hey hey, why are you crying? What did I do? Hey, stop it! I'm sorry, we won't go out if you want to just stop crying!" He sounded concerned. I appreciated that. He kept rocking me back and forth wanting me to stop crying. I stared at him for few seconds then hugged him. I didn't know why, I just knew I wanted to.

"I want you Inner." I said sobbing. I voiced my thoughts by mistake. He stiffened for a second until my words sank in.

"I can be anything if you want to." He winked and got his smirk back.

I giggled then said,

"I wasn't talking about you Jellyfish."

I raised my head to face him. My eyes still wet and my tears at the edges of them. He smiled whipping my tears.

"Then who is Inner, Pinky?"

"It's complicated. I'll tell you later." I smiled back holding his freakishly big hands to stop him from caressing my cheeks.

"Ok. Now, where do you want to go tomorrow, pinky?"

"Aren't you busy?"

"Busy? Naaa. Now that Leader-sama paused our plans for the jinchuuriki we have nothing to do. I don't know what's going on in his head! But anyway, where do you want to go?"

"Well, can you take me to either see my friends in Konoha, or to a nice quite place? Somewhere with flowers, trees, waterfalls and animals."

"hmm, if you really want to see your friends, I'll try to get permission from Leader-sama." He said making a thinking look.

"You'd do that for me, fishy?" I said a bit surprised. I would love to go see my friends. Haven't seen them in almost a week.

"Sure, Pinky." He winked, grinned then continued, "Now go to bed. Good night."

I hugged him tightly, not tight enough to break his unbreakable metal bones, then told him good night and hopped to my bed.

'Night Inner."

'Nighty.'

Hope it wasn't that bad!

Btw, i'll make a poll soon for the pairings with Sakura. I don't know when exactly, but i'll =)

Thanks for reading... ^^