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A/N - Loong time, no see. Bah, I totally forgot about this :[

The word had seemed to get around of the comment left in blood on the wall. It was already decided that the Akatsuki had taken Lina, no one from sound could have the ability to disappear with a child with out a trace, not only that, but left absolutly no trail that not even the fox boy could sniff out.

It seemed annoying really.

The sun had long risen by then. Far beyond the horizon thin clouds hovered above the ground in the distance. The light had touched everything it saw fit to touch. There was no wind, no rain. The heat was not intense, it was just a calm morning. Like the calm before the storm.

She was a preistess, didn't that count for anything? The battle was suppose to take place and Kamika was to crush the Akatsuki, a simple task indeed...but was it worth the life of a little girl?

Was anything truly worth the life of a child? Did the Akatsuki believe that by some chance, taking Lina's eyes would allow them to see her beloved village?

They where the fools in this game, and would be destroyed. No one takes a Kamikian child hostage for their own selfish gain. No one. And with the powers of the small army that had graciously followed their preistess to Konoha, the organization of currupted misfit criminals would be annihilated.

Sakura had left the safety of her room, despite the arguments of her fellow shinobi. Sasuke seemed to have disappeared from when Kakashi wished to speak with him after he asked her a few questions, but maybe it was better she was alone. She needed this time.

Her feet shuffled on the roof of the building as she stood tall on, green eyes glassed with the lack of understanding as to why the Akatsuki took her little girl. But this was not the only thing on her mind, of course, the thought of Koji had made her uneasy. Why where they fighting so much as of late? Could she have prevented all of this?

She felt like she was dreaming, yearning to wake from herself. None of this could be what it seemed, could it? This had to be a dream. A nightmare.

Sasuke was her only salvation since she returned. He had been so loving towards her, so caring it almost seemed unbelieveable, but she knew it was true what he felt. The saying 'You don't know what you have until its gone' seemed to be burned within his mind.

Her face scrunched, her eyes catching something swaying from a far off tree. There was no wind, so why did it move? She stepped forward, lightly, her breathing quickening. What was it?

She lifted her hand about her eyes to block the orange-yellow sun blazing its pure light upong her. 'I can't see.' she thought.

Mind racing, she took another step on the roof and jumped as high as she could forward, trying to cover more ground in one leap. She was going to find out what was hanging from the tree's branch.

Maybe it was a clue to finding Lina? So she ran.

"You know nothing of love, Boy!" Tsunade growled.

"You maybe the Hokage of this village, but you are not my leader, do not assume you know me or my feelings for that matter!" Koji retorted.

"Well I do know that respect is not in your vocabulary you little snow beast!"

"I will never respect you like your weak village respects you. They practicly kiss the pavement you walk across! And you do nothing but grin knowing you have control over such pethetic people!"

The blonde haired women seemed to be utterly shocked by his words as he continued.

"You call yourself Hokage? That is a title given to only those who are worthy of it! You do not know the meaning of being Hokage." He finshed, venon gracing every word.

Her honey eyes narrowed with pure hatred, "Koji...you dissapoint me. I thought Sakura, the girl you claim to love, would teach you far better then to speak then the way you do. I am more dissappointed in how she even interacts with scum like you." Her glare intensified, "You must learn your place Koji and learn the meaning of love. Sakura will not return your feelings when she has someone who cares for her as much as Sasuke does. Learn boy, learn to sacrifice what you want most to gain what you truly need. Accept that fact your anger towards me will not change the fact my student will leave you and the child Lina is most likey dead."

"I refuse to believe Lina is dead." his eyes lowered, "I refuse."

"Then refuse, but the odds of that girl being alive after the most feared group of criminals coul have taken her are more then slim, especially if they wanted something from her."

Sakura's heart seemed to beat so fast, she thought it would erupt. She was getting closer and closer to whatever was hanging.

She was just feet way from the hanging 'thing'. It was a sack, a materal sack, hanging lazily from the tree. 'Surely the Konoha shinobi couldn't of missed this, but what is in it?'

Her feet moved toward it, cautiously examining its outter.

It moved. Almost as if 'Someone is inside of it...?'

Sparkling eyes widened, "Lina?! Lina are you in there? Lina!"

It didn't respond.

"Lina!" Sakura yelled once more.

This time it muffed back and Sakura would not be more shocked, "I'll get you out Lina, just hold on!"

She used her chalka to jump up to the branch only to be slammed head first into the ground, dark speckles beginning to cloud her vision.

A blue blur invaded her, picking her up by her hair, "Looks like we just caught ourselves a preistess. That was way to easy, I hope the rest of them put up a better fight."

Well dang. 07-30-07 it's been THAT long since I updated. WOW. I suprise myself how lazy and forgetful I can be sometimes. Well I'm planning on finishing this. Soon. I wanna at least finish one story. I'm so lazy, it must be genetic.