Notes:
Hi everyone, hi new followers and favorites how are you, guys? You had a good weekend?
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Thymoondragon: can you imagine someone calling Sasuke "baby uchiha"? hahaha unfortunately I'm not better than you, I'm going through a really bad time but I'm recovering.
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Sakura was alone in her cell, meditating. A habit that she picked up from Itachi, at the beginning, she found extremely tedious, but as time passed by Itachi she learned to give due value.
She sighed, opening her eyes, focusing her gaze on the door of the cell, she thought on the older Uchiha.
After all those days, she didn't hear from any of them and it worried her, but at the same time she knew it was a good thing. If they hadn't got behind her it was because they didn't need her urgently.
And now that Sasuke was going to free her, she wouldn't have to worry about a possible confrontation between them.
She never thought of one day being in that situation, at least not so soon. What was her chance to bump into him? It was too ironic fate to have spent so much time behind Sasuke and at the moment that she wanted more distance from him, Sasuke was the one to find her.
Her reverie was interrupted when she heard a loud explosion. She got up quickly, on full alert.
She knew that Sasuke and Suigetsu were out and could only feel a faint trace of Juugo's chakra, which led her to understand that he was still unconscious, she could no longer feel Karin's chakra.
She leaned her ear against the wall and felt her eyes widen as she recognized the voice, throwing herself as far as she could. A second later the wall she was leaning against exploded.
"What..." She had a fit of coughing with the smoke that the explosion brought.
"Did you miss us?"
She looked where a wall existed but now there was nothing but a lot of smoke from the debris that slowly dissipated and revealed two men, a blonde and a redhead, both wearing the famous black coats with red clouds.
The redhead entered the room and approached her, offering her hand to help her up. Sakura accepted.
"You could be a little less fussy." Sakura grumbled, running her hand through her clothes, trying to get some of the dirt out. "Thanks." She thanked Sasori as he removed a handkerchief from the cover and offered it to her.
Sasori wasn't a man ofwords, but always had a certain care with her, always helping her and ensuring that nothing was lacking for her, getting bizarrely annoyed when she hurt herself.
Kizame suspected that it was related to his hobby jutso with the dolls and advised Sakura not to spend much time near him. She didn't really believe that much, but she also didn't spend much time near him since most of the time she was with Kizame and Itachi.
"We've taken care of their tracker, so I guess we have some time." Deidara made sure as the three of them left for the open field.
So Karin was a tracker? Sakura thought of putting the pieces together, it made sense since with her it would be much easier for Sasuke to locate Itachi.
"When you say 'take care'..."
"Relax, we knew you'd be a pain in the ass if we did something really bad with her, so we just knock her out." Deidara explained predicting the sermon that Sakura would begin.
"Did she ever see any of you?" Sakura asked worriedly.
She didn't want Sasuke to know about Akatsuki's involvement in her escape that shouldn't even happen if things had followed her plan, Sasuke would leave and she would be left behind.
He always left her, Sakura was already used to it and this time she would take advantage of it.
"No, Sasori-sama sent one of his dolls in our place."
Sakura smiled at the redhead with a small smile back. Deidara began to execute his jutso forming a giant bird.
"How's he doing?" Sakura asked in a low voice.
She can see Deidara halting for a moment before continuing her art. The three of them knew who Sakura was referring to, someone Deidara hated, but ever since the girl appeared he did his best to put up with it.
"He's the same." Deidara replied without looking at her, his words showing disgust and irritation. "You could at least ask for us first, you know? We came to rescue you."
"I didn't need any ransom, you came because you wanted, I was doing good by myself." Sakura said firmly, causing the two men to stare, they knew that Deidara had touched on a delicate spot for the pink.
"We don't..." Sakura raised her hand, interrupting what Sasori was going to say.
She approached the bird, climbing over the clay animal Deidara had made.
"We're wasting time, Sasuke shouldn't take long to get back." She said without looking at the two, the coldness in Kunoichi's voice showed that she was no longer willing to continue the conversation with the two of them.
Sasori looked at Deidara, blaming him with his eyes.
The two of them climbed into the bird keeping a respectful distance from the girl.
Even while living with Akatsuki members, Sakura's gentle personality hadn't changed, at first she was still afraid of being around them, but as time passed and she could know a little better behind the story, she got closer of some of them.
After all, no matter how sad their story had been, they were still wanted assassins.
But from time to time, something in her changed suddenly and she isolated herselg, staying only in the presence of Itachi until suddenly, she was reunited with them. And Deidara hated that, hated how she sought the Uchiha for anything and made her preference for him explicit.
"No..." Deidara snorted. "We just don't understand why you didn't come back before." He said trying to explain what he had said before. "We thought the baby Uchiha might be hurting you."
Sakura looked at the blond from the corner of her eye.
"I didn't come back for the same reason that Itachi didn't come personally to me." She looked at the horizon again. "If I fled earlier, Sasuke would hunt me to the Akatsuki's hiding place and I knew he wouldn't hurt me if I stayed out of his way."
"We're worried." Sasori said in defense of the two.
Sakura sighed, closing her eyes for a moment.
"I know and thank you for that, but I'm not a princess that has to be rescued, I can deal with this alone."
Deidara sighed impatiently.
"Sakura, I..." He was interrupted by the girl, who passed by him like lightning watching intently for the base that had left not so long ago.
All their conversation vanished from her mind as she felt a well-known chakra approaching and the peaks in control of it, Sakura could be sure that his owner was furious.
"Sasuke ..." The name came out as a whisper from her mouth as she panicked.
He couldn't come back, not now!
Kunoichi turned to the two Akatsuki members who also stared at the base, also recognizing the powerful chakra behind them.
"You have to leave me." She asked and they both looked at her as if she had created two heads. "Go! He is looking for me, not for you!"
"Are you crazy ?! If he knows you're with us, he'll kill you!" Deidara said uncontrollably grabbing the girl's arm.
"I know how to take care of myself! Now go!" She pulled her arm out of Deidara's grip.
"Sakura, don't be inconsequential, don't act as if the friendship that one day you and he had will protect you from his fury." Sasori chided her angrily." Do you think this childish crush will protect you? Stop being an idiot, Sasuke will kill you!"
Any and all the emotion that Sakura could have drained from her face at the words of Sasori.
The discussion of the three was interrupted by a ninja attack they were discussing.
Deidara's bird whistled loudly as he tried to return to equilibrium.
"Look who's here." Sasori stepped forward from the girl, capping Sasuke's vision of her. "The baby Uchiha."
Sasuke's brows drew together, his expression pure hate.
Sakura trembled, she knew that expression well and knew that if she didn't do anything a bloody battle would happen between the three of them and she knew him so well that she was sure that Sasuke wouldn't stop until someone died.
Sasuke made another attack making the bird do a sudden turn to deflect from the attack almost throwing them away. Not content to just stay in it, he kept sending attacks in the air causing the bug to stir in the air and as he approached, his blows were more certain.
"Do as I say." Sakura whispered to Sasori, the redhead held her so the girl wouldn't be thrown to the ground.
Realizing that he wouldn't let her go, Sakura went up to Deidara, who in the confusion between keeping the bird in the air and defending himself from Sasuke's attacks, interpreted Sakura's approach as a threat and launched one of her own. explosive works in the direction of the kunoichi, hitting her in the chest.
A brief moment of respite arose between Sasuke and Deidara as they watched in shock as the girl's unconscious body plummeted from the bird in a free fall of more than 300 meters.
Sasuke's body went into motion abandoning the attacks and running to reach the body of the girl, but even with his speed he only managed to catch her when Sakura was already a few meters off the ground.
He steadied her body, holding her with both arms, holding her to his body until he landed safely on the ground.
Sasuke frowned seeing that the girl had a massive arm wound with burns scattered across the rest of her body. He turned his gaze away from the girl unconscious to the bird in which the two Akatsuki members were.
He knew he would have to leave her behind if he didn't want to lose sight of them, but...
Sasuke turned his gaze to Sakura assessing how bruised she was.
He sighed grinding him teeth and straightened the girl in his arms, turning his back on the two enemies and back to the base.
Other meetings between them would come, he was sure.
