What if...?

"Okay Kaka-Sensei! WHERE THE HELL ARE THE ROOKIES!" Naruto shouted aloud in anger. He hated to be kept waiting, and if the two new members were trying to make a new impression it sure as hell wasn't working.

"Rookies Naruto? Come now you know they're the same Jonin rank as you..." Kakashi states while reading his book.

"Whatever...they'd better get here soon or I'm taking off..."

"Impatient as ever Naruto..." A sudden poof in the middle of the training field catches the Sensei and the Kyuubi's attention.

"Naruto, meet your new teammates. Haru Haruka-" She gestures toward a pale boy with pale skin, and bright golden eyes. His spiky hair was a brown sandy color. He wore dark brown pants, with white bandages around the thighs and had on a black jacket with multiple belts and buckles, his fishnet undershirt was brown and his Shinobi shoes were black. Naruto noted that his headband covered his right eye and that his gloves were spiked.

"And your other teammate... Mao Watashi." Tsunade finished.

Mao has pitch black hair that matched her eyes that were a blood red. Her skin is tanned due to being out in the sun for so long. She has on a gold skirt with red chains. Her shirt is red and long-sleeved, with gold dot patterns all over it. Her hair is up in a high ponytail.

She bowed to her new Sensei causing her eyes to wander to her black Shinobi boots.

"I hope you will lead them in a skillful way, Kakashi If you'll excuse me I have work to do. Naruto, you behave now you hear?" Tsunade commanded.

"Yeah, yeah whatever..."

"Of course Hokage-Sama..." Kakashi says respectfully. With that Tsunade gives a final nod towards Kakashi and a final glare at Naruto. She then leaves with Shizune to her quarters.

"Well now that we're all together...how 'bout we introduce ourselves..." Kakashi asks.

"I am Mao Watashi... I like to read, draw, write and I hate training yet I do it to improve my skills, I dislike ramen very much..." She states. Naruto twitches at the Ramen part.

"I am Haru Haruka, I like onigiri and watermelon. I love to train and watch the sky... I love being lazy and I hate dogs..." Kakashi twitches at that fact.

"I am Kakashi Hatake, Nice to meet you two... I like Icha, Icha and taking long walks, I love being lazy too, that's pretty much it..." He states.

"Naruto Uzumaki, I LOVE ramen and i'm going to be Hokage, DATTEBAYO! My BEST friends are Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sai. I plan on accomplishing my first goal, which is to bring my friends back and then hopefully let Sakura find a cure to wake my friend Sai up who is currently in a coma. I love to train and I love frogs! I'm going to be the next Toad Sannin/ Sage as well! Pervvy sage is my mentor he's the best." Naruto states. Kakashi coughs.

"SO is Kaka-Sensei!" Mao giggles at their new sensei's jealousy.

"Ummm... Kakashi-Sensei? When do we get our first mission?" Mao asks.

"Right now actually...meet back here in one hour. Have your weapons and what you think you will need on this mission; packed and ready to go..." The team nods and takes off.


Outside of the base is a dark figure, who is smiling evilly while showing his long snake tongue. "It is time..."

Sasuke is lying on his back after a training session with his team, which consisted of Juugo and Suigetsu. There's a knock on the door, causing Sasuke to reluctantly get off of his bed and answer it. He soon sees a happy looking Ritsu. "What the hell do you want...?"

"Time to go Sasuke! It's time, Orochimaru wants to do the transfer now..."

"Hn."

Soon Sasuke is being led down multiple corridor's by Ritsu into Orochimaru's quarter's. As the two enter, Sasuke sees Orochimaru laying in his bed. His eyes travel to his arms that were brown due to the lack of blood, he's grinning at Sasuke.

"Ssssasuke... It'sssss time..." Orochimaru hissed out.

"Hn." Orochimaru's snakes come out of nowhere and slither across the ground, they slowly wrap around Sasuke's ankles. Ritsu stands in the doorway watching amusingly.

"Die." Sasuke simply states.

A full body Chidori engulfs Sasuke; the snake's get incinerated immediately, he unsheathes his katana, and stabs it right through Orochimaru, but Orochimaru just grins. "I knew you would do thisss to me Sssssasuke..."

A huge white snake comes out of Orochimaru's mouth causing Sasuke to turn into his second curse mark stage.

"Orochimaru-Sempai!" Ritsu shouts out concerned. Ritsu is about to unleash his poison bats, when Sasuke's full body Chidori attacks Ritsu from behind, stabbing him right through the heart. Ritsu's eyes widen and his body immediately drops to the floor, dead.

"Damn you..." Orochimaru curses. He takes his katana and stabs it through the snake's eye. Orochimaru's screa,s and blindly attacks. Sasuke smirks evilly and uses his chidori to deliver the final blow.

Orochimaru is easily defeated with one swipe of his wings, which lopped his head clean off. Sasuke slowly turns back into his regular form. Where Orochimaru's head lay, a huge puddle of purple blood formed.

"Pathetic." Sasuke states.

With that Sasuke leaves his office and goes to the basement, he sees the chains are broken off of the door. Sasuke's eyes widen and he immediately rushes down the stairs in a flash. He sees his shrine is destroyed and where a beautiful pink Kunoichi's body was supposed to be there is nothing.

Whoever did this, I will kill them...Sakura-Chan! Where are you? Inner Sasuke shouts aloud.

"I sealed this place up good; who could have broken in... I don't sense a chakra presence..."

"SHARIGAN!" Sasuke's beautiful Onyx eyes are replaced by that of the Sharigan.

"What's this..?" He questions aloud. He sees a black fabric hanging on the side of the shrine; it probably ripped off the culprit when he was taking Sakura.

On the fabric- it is fully black with little red clouds; Sasuke instantly recognizes the design and takes off immediately not even bothering to prepare.

Akatsuki…. Inner Sasuke states.


A certain blue man is carrying a pink haired Kunoichi, he has her in a bridal position, with a huge sword on his back; he wears the Akatsuki's robes.

"Itachi-Sama... How long do you think it will take for Sasuke to find us?" Kisame asks.

"Knowing my foolish brother a little more than a month... we have too many bases... there's no way he can find the exact one we are in..." Itachi states.

"True. Well we should put pinky here in the medical wing, ya?"

"You do it, I have things to do." Itachi states flatly. With those words Itachi disappears in a whirlwind of ravens, Kisame shrugs and heads to the medical wing with Sakura in his arms.


"Kakashi-Sensei! We are ready!"

"Good follow me." With that they teleport to the Hokage's quarters.

"Come in!" Kakashi walks through the door with Naruto, Mao, and Haru following closely behind.

"GRANNY! When do we get our mission! Kaka-Sensei said we got one an hour ago, but he has yet to reveal it!" Naruto says quite frustrated.

"Right, as you all know your retrieval missions have failed so far, so I'm giving you a break on them-" Tsunade begins.

"WHAT!" Naruto shouts out.

"Let me finish. There are new leads to the Akatsuki's locations, the Anbu I have sent out have gathered that data... your mission is to go to the outskirts of Kirigakure village."

"Go there and have the Anbu take you to their possible location, if it's a false lead, proceed back to me... if it's positive, engage, but be careful especially you Naruto. We cannot risk the Akatsuki taking that Jinjuriki out of you. They will be almost impossible to beat no matter how many nations we link together to help fend them off..." Tsunade states. Kakashi, Mao, and Haru bow respectfully, Naruto stands there dumbfounded, his blood boiling. Finally he snaps.

"YOU'RE TELLING ME TO PUT MY RETRIEVAL MISSIONS ON HOLD JUST FOR THE AKATSUKI?! HELL NO! I WILL BRING SAKURA-CHAN AND TEME BACK! I WILL NOT DO THIS NO MATTER WHAT!"

Tsunade has annoyed anime veins popping out of her forehead; she sighs out in frustration and Calmly replies. "Don't you think I want them back to Naruto? Calm down I only meant on hold just until this mission is completely done, then you can go on however many retrieval missions you want to go on when you get back..." Naruto raises an eyebrow, but doesn't interrupt.

She gestures towards the door, indicating for them to leave and begin their new mission. Naruto hesitates before following his team through the door; they travel to the front of Konoha's gates.

"Team. We start, Operation...Locate Akatsuki NOW!" Kakashi shouts out. With that they become blurs as they head back to the familiar village of Kirigakure.


Kisame had handed Sakura over to Konan, who was currently in charge of the medical wing. She had switched Sakura out of her old Kimono, into a bandaged look. The only thing that covered her were medical bandages, as if she were wounded.

Sakura is lying straight in the hospital bed. A tube is in her mouth feeding her and giving her liquids. She has an IV attached to her wrist, while white sheets cover her. Konan restrained her hands and legs with shikigami straps.

"Whatever poison this is… It's powerful not even I can heal her, she must wake up on her own..." Konan flatly states.

"Well that just sucks ass..." Kisame states pissed off.

"Not my problem...take that up with Pein or Itachi..."

"Tch... whatever Konan..."

"You should go... I shall watch over her from now on...leave and don't come back unless you're dying..."

"Bitch..." With that he turns into a puddle of water and moves across the floor to his room.

Konan stares at Sakura, she had removed every piece of her clothing, but couldn't bring herself to remove the silver band around her finger, because she once wished she could get married and have a family one day with her past love, Alas it was not to be...

Sakura's heart monitor beats at a normal rate, all you hear throughout the room, is the heart monitor and the small drops of liquid that splash in the clear bag.


"Hn, foolish brother... you will never find her..." Were Itachi's last thoughts before he transformed into a flock of black ravens.

Sasuke was just staring forward while sprinting to find a trace of any of the Akatsuki member's, but no such luck yet, until at that moment he sees the tree shudder a bit, and a flock of raven's come out and fly north. Sasuke recognizes the ravens and moves with inhuman speed. He follows the raven's hoping they can lead him to his destination.


Just hold on Sakura-Chan! I'm coming! ,I swear my brother better not have done anything with you. That will make his suffering even worse... Inner Sasuke states angrily.

"Mark my words Itachi Uchiha. You will get the most painful death man has ever known..."


Nel: Hey guys it's me Nel! Sorry I know I'm kind of late on updating and all sorry again school and stuff But hey at least I updated! :P Sorry again please review! Gaara has a stomach ache so he cannot do the closing so in his place will be!...

(Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke appear in a triangular formation. In the front is Sakura who holds a glitter cannon, Naruto holds the banner in e back while Sasuke blows on a little party favor. Confetti and glitter fall from the ceiling, there's a big burst and smoke and the smoke clears to reveal... KAKASHI SENSEI!).

Kakashi: Yo! Since Gaara-San isn't able to make this closing I shall be doing it. Ehem... Nel-Chan does not own Naruto nor does she wish to, she respects the producer very much, but hates the fact he hasn't put Sakura and Sasuke together... She wishes to own Sasuke-Kun and Sakura-Chan! –Saying this while reading Icha, Icha and squatting-

(Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, and Nel sweat drop).

Nel: Arigatou... Kakashi-Sempai...

Kakashi: Hai, hai...

(Nel sweat drops again :3).

Nel: Well I hope you liked this chapter please read and review! Thanks again! Ja Ne!

Sasuke/Sakura/Naruto/Kakashi: JA NE!