Sorry for the wait but I'm gonna put up 2 chapters so forgive me and review.


Sakura H.

My life feel like it's on repeat; one same day after another.

My father yells, my mother acts like he doesn't and I want to leave as soon as I can. I wish now, more than ever that Sasuke had taken me with him. Or that Sasori had killed me. Or that someone important would die so I could give them my life like Chiyo-baa-san had for Gaara.

'Come on you don't really mean that' Uchi Naru Sakura said sadly. Both sides of me knew that my father was getting the 'other' Sakura Haruno down. I felt weird because she was normally happy, and loud. Kinda' like Naruto.

I look around…Some how I had ended up at the gates, and it had brought me back to a familiar dream.

. .

'I lay wake, like always, staring out my bedroom window just as he came.

"Hey Sakura, un!" He happily stated while climbing though my window.

"You're supposed to be dead," I said frowning.

'Ya and you're supposed to be happy.' Uchi Naru Sakura said in the back of my mind.

"You can't kill me that easily, un! 'Sides I have something good to tell you, un." The blonde haired, blue eyed missing nin said with a grin.

"What would the Akatsuki want with me, a medic?" I said sarcastically.

"Who told you? I said I wanted to tell you 'cuz it was me who picked you, un." He said frowning. "I figured any girl who can heal, make craters in the ground and beat Sasori no Danna would make a good medic for the Akatsuki, and Leader-sama agrees, un. So you in or out, un?" He asked with a devilish smile.

"Okay I'll bite. What's the catch?"

"Hidan." He stated. "Prove your loyalty by gathering all the pieces of Hidan's body and -for lack of a better term- awaken him, un." He finished grinning away.

Kami something about that grin just drove me nuts… almost like Sasuke's smirk.

"I'm bringing someone with me." I stated thinking of some else who also wanted a way out just as much as I did.'

I smiled at the memory that was most likely just a pretty dream. 'As if the Akatsuki'd want a 'useless' girl like me!' I scoffed, and looked up at the gate. I could always just walk out and never come back.

'It would be fun. . .

' Uchi Naru Sakura commented

'What the. . .' I though squinting; I could see seven people coming to the village. Two acted like prisoners; one of them had bright red hair while the other had black. Three of the others seemed hurt. One of the hurt ones had fuchsia hair that could be seen even before genders could be distinguished.

I ran out to them, and I soon saw that two of the hurt ones were Sai and Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru, Sai, Ino!" I yelled. The three of them had been out for over a month on their mission.

"Sakura!" Ino yelled back running over to me. "You have to take a look at her! You know I'm not that great at healing and-" Ino was saying as the Fuchsia haired girl cut her off.

"Hey, pig I'm fine." She stressed the last word.

"I don't know… you still have a hard time breathing every now and then. I mean even the hilt of the Kunai was in you Ta-Nee-Chan." Said a copper haired girl. She looked so familiar I could have sworn I knew her if only I knew someone with copper hair.

Shikamaru sighed; it seem that this topic had been discussed too much for his liking over the past few days.

"What happened?" I asked as my hands moved to his leg; I had notice he was limping.

"Not much; the mission turned out to be a wild goose chase, and just as we were about to start heading home we ran into these two." He pointed to the fuchsia haired girl I knew to be a missing nin and the copper top.

"Tayuya and Yume Aburame," The copper-top proudly stated to her friend then herself.

"Ya I know 'No fucking why?' right?" Shikamaru said voicing my thoughts. "Turns out good old Sasuke here, his newest fan girl, and the two others who got way have been hunting the two girls for sometime. And the real kicker, Tayuya betrayed Orochimaru." He finished pleased with what he and his team had accomplished and forgetting to be lazy.

I looked at Sasuke and the red headed girl, both in shackles. "Well we should get them to Tsunada. Shikamaru, Sai, Tayuya go to the hospital. Ino, Yume and I will get some other nins the help us with these two."

"I don't hav-" Tayuya started but I cut her off.

"Tayuya that was an order, NOT a suggestion," I stated.

"Fine but look after my adopted sis, I don't like the look in that red head's eye." Tayuya said glaring at the other girl. I just nodded as Shikamaru, Sai and Tayuya split off from our group and we where joined by some other nin including an Anbu, Naruto, and Kiba.

"So you're looking for Shibi-san?" Naruto asked Yume.

"Yups; mum had said he could help. Tayuya and I promised we'd find my dad and brother. Apparently I have a twin brother who had to go with my dad because of Sasu-gay and lots of other men; mum never thought it was a good idea to activity look for Shibi." Yume said very matter-of-factly.

"Well I've never heard that name before." I said, as Naruto and an Anbu made sounds of agreement.

"Oh," Yume said, her face falling a little.

"Well I'll still help you find him! But you have to let me meet your family after you find them." Naruto remarked, sounding like a big brother giving his sister permission to date.

Kiba must have thought the same thing. "Hey Naruto you sound like big brother giving his sister permission to date!" Kiba laughed, and was soon joined by the Anbu, Yume and myself.

Ino, Yume, Sasuke and Karin went in to see Tsunada with two Anbu and I went off to find Shizune.