NARUTO IS OWNED BY MASASHI KISHIMOTO! I JUST ENJOY MESSING AROUND WITH THEM!
THIS COULD BE AN ITA/SAKU OR A SAKU/SHISUI OR EVEN AN ITA/SAKU/SHISUI FIC! NOT SURE YET! VOTES ARE APPRECIATED!
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CHAPTER SEVEN: THIS MISSION BETTER BE WORTH IT!
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RATED FOR VIOLENCE AND POSSIBLE FUTURE LEMONS! DON'T LIKE, DON'T READ! R&R
Even Itachi couldn't deny that the hot spring was a blessing since Sakura had decided to blow up those men. Plus it was large enough that everyone could bathe without touching one another. Itachi watched his cousins chat with Sakura while Genma engaged Kakashi in conversation about the book he was reading apparently. With a silent sigh, he decided that it would be wise to observe the newest member of his team to see if it was indeed a wise choice to have her on the squad. "Why did you want to be a kunoichi when you could have done just as well as a merchant?" Shisui asked curiously.
Sakura sighed. "My parents wanted me to be a merchant. I was ok with that before my father traded me to pay his debts. Now I couldn't fathom being a merchant because I can't always function properly in society. I'd probably drive the business into the ground fairly quickly." She replied. Shisui grinned. "At least your customers would never think to cheat you with that famous temper of yours." He teased. Sakura laughed, catching Itachi's attention. "That is true but by the same token everyone would be afraid to come do business with me for the same reason." She agreed. Shisui shrugged. "It would be their loss would it not?" He asked. Sakura inclined her head. "It would be. But I am much more content being a kunoichi than a merchant." She replied softly.
Sakura was thankful that Gaara was such a workaholic because otherwise their arrival would be extremely awkward. "About time you got here." He sniffed. Sakura rolled her eyes. "Piss off. I didn't want to hear you pissing and moaning about me tracking dead people on your office floor." She replied with a sneer. Gaara tilted his head curiously. "We were...detained by bandits." Sakura explained. "Detained? The famous Team 7 detained by lowly bandits? Oh the horror." Gaara snorted. Sakura glared openly at the red head while Naruto laughed. "Yeah you should have seen it Gaara! They didn't stand a chance against Sakura-chan's vicious temper though!" The blond replied. Sakura sniffed disdainfully. "Tell me what happened then." Gaara said. "Well they surrounded us, demanded our stuff and made the mistake of calling Sakura a bitch. So she opened a can of whup-ass on them and that was that." Sai summarized lazily. Gaara sighed. "Here's the file we have on your target." He said tiredly. Sakura reached forward but Itachi quickly took the file before she could.
"Our next destination seems to be a small village outside of Hidden Waterfall." He murmured. Sakura clenched her jaw to keep quiet and Gaara smirked. "So Sakura do you want to rethink being my wife after all?" He teased. Sakura blinked. "Nope. I'm good. Suna couldn't handle the two of us together for that long." She replied cheekily. Naruto smirked as he noticed both Shisui and Itachi tense at the easy banter the two shared. "The guest rooms have been prepared for your stay as long as you have need of them. And remember Sakura if you get lonely you only have to call." Gaara couldn't resist a parting shot. Sakura scoffed and gave the Kazekage the finger. Gaara grinned in reply and called a Chunin to escort them to their rooms.
Sakura sighed as everyone piled into her and Kakashi's room to talk about the mission. "Ok so we're tracking a group of missing ninja that have left a bunch of destruction in their wake?" Naruto asked. "That's right. They started here but couldn't really do much because Gaara is here. So they moved toward Hidden Waterfall because that is a much smaller ninja village." Kakashi confirmed. "There are three villages that aren't close enough to any hidden village to gain protection that these missing ninjas might target. The two closest to Suna haven't been touched yet but the one outside of Waterfall sent a distress call to that village a day ago." Shisui piped up. Naruto looked at some of the pictures that were included in the file and paled. "Um Sakura-chan you might want to look at this." He said uneasily. The blond slid the photos over to the pinkette who looked at them stonily. Only someone that knew her as well as she knew herself could tell that she was furious.
"Rest up everyone. I intend to catch up to these murdering sons of bitches tomorrow. They are not going to get away with so much as breathing on another innocent person." Sakura said icily. The room emptied of extra shinobi and Sakura laid on her back staring at the ceiling. "We'll catch them Sakura. Don't worry." Kakashi assured her. "I know we will. And when we do, they will be shown no mercy." Sakura replied blankly. "What did you see? We never got through the whole file." Kakashi asked. "The corpses of children Kakashi. They're killing kids." Sakura replied quietly. Kakashi made an angry noise in his throat. "You're right Sakura. They won't be getting away from us." He said. The two shinobi fell into uneasy sleep, dreaming of their own worst fears and other nightmares.
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