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The mission entailed finding a missing nin with an unknown location and name. There wasn't anything specific about the person except what they had done.
'Hmph. Of course Shishou gives me a mission like this.' Sakura had been antsy ever since she had been given the mission. She so wanted to get back out on the field and start fighting again. It had been way too long for her liking.
Unfortunately though, recently a lot of nearby villages have had been sending very severely injured people to the hidden leaf, claiming that they did not have the resources to heal their sick and injured. Sakura had not had much free time to do anything. Tsunade had seen how wearied her apprentice had been getting with little sleep and lack of good nutrition and gave her this break.
Packing the rest of her small bag, Sakura left her small apartment and headed towards the Konoha gates, waving to Izumo and Kotetsu, ignoring their surprised faces. They had not seen her go out of town in quite some time.
"Where are you going?" Izumo asked.
"After a missing nin. The Godaime finally gave in and let me take on an assignment."
"Tell us how it was when you come back."
Sakura waved goodbye and smiled at the two as she walked the rest of the way out of Konoha. She loved being on missions and had forgotten how much she missed them. The last sighting on the nin she was after had been about a day's run away from the gates of Konoha. With her speed she could make it in about a half of a day.
She had set a good steady pace and had no trouble the first half of her journey, but a couple of cracks behind her made her stumble. She stopped and listened for a good while, but did not hear any other noises and continued on. After another several minutes, she heard it again. She cloaked her chakra and hid, perfectly content to wait until whomever was following her showed themselves. She could not find a single chakra signature anywhere.
'I wonder if my missing nin has come to find me. . .' she wondered.
"Are you just going to hide there, or are you going to come and fight me?" A voice behind her said.
Sakura spun around, furious and bewildered that someone could sneak behind her without her having any idea. No one was there. She searched all around her, but she couldn't find any evidence that anyone was there or had ever been there.
"I'm over here." She turned to the voice, a snarl on her face. "Oh don't look so mad." The person talking was a clone, but not only a clone, it was an Akatsuki member.
Sakura never expected this in a million lifetimes. She immediately threw an array of kunai at the figure, too stunned to form jutsu. The clone didn't even react, just let the kunai hit it and poofed, another clone replacing it.
"Chakra scapel!" She shouted, aiming for the clones heart.
"Come now, dear Sakura, why waste precious chakra on a clone." It finally clicked in her mind just whose voice this was. The voice of Uchiha Itachi.
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