Chapter 10
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A few days later:
"Sakura-chan, I need to blindfold you, yeah," Deidara said.
"Why?"
"So you don't find out where this headquarters is located," Itachi stated in monotone, like it was obvious.
"I don't see why it's necessary since I don't know where we are from our psycho trail everywhere," Sakura said, annoyed at the sudden change in attitude towards her. "But Deidara gets to lead me."
"Fine, yeah," Deidara said with a smile. Deidara and Sakura had grown closer the past days after she had told him of her parents' death. Sakura had been sleeping in Deidara's tent since the night she sneaked out of Itachi's tent.
Deidara put the black cloth around Sakura's eyes and grabbed both of her shoulders. He nodded to Sasori and the four Akatsuki with their blindfolded captive walked forward towards a lake they knew was in the next clearing.
The lake was a beautiful green-blue color with different aquatic birds swimming over its surface. In the center of the lake there was an island. This island was different than most because on top of it you could see a decoration made from precious stones. The stones were placed in the shape of an unusual design that made the Akatsuki think that it was important.
When they were in front of the lake, Itachi made a series of seals so fast that the others could not follow his hands. When Itachi finished the last seal, the lake divided. The group walked down the newly created path and entered the cave that appeared in the side of the island.
"We're here, yeah," Deidara whispered in Sakura's ear.
"I can't wait to see what it's like," Sakura whispered back.
Deidara led Sakura to his room before taking off her blindfold. He had a large smile on his face.
"This is my room, yeah," Deidara said excitedly.
"Wow," Sakura said. She looked around the large room. It had a dark wooden floor, but the walls were a light sandy color, like his clay. Everywhere, on shelves, on the floor, on the desk, there were clay statues. Mostly there were birds, but there were some other creatures, but no humans. The bed was large with black bedding. There was one window that had black curtains on both sides. The desk was made from a dark wood like the floor. Also there were two different doors besides the one that she had just entered from. One she decided was the bathroom, the other she thought might be a closet.
"You can stay in here, yeah," Deidara offered. "I could set up a sleeping bag and you can have the bed."
"Thanks, Dei-kun," Sakura said with a large smile. "I'd like that, but first… can I meet your leader?"
"I don't know, why do you want to meet him? He's not that nice," Deidara's smile had been replaced with a small frown.
"I want to know why I'm here. You guys still haven't told me," Sakura had a thoughtful expression on. "I also want to talk to Sasori-san about some things."
Deidara nodded before saying, "Stay here and I'll go get Sasori-danna first."
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"We lost their trail," Kakashi said. "We'll have to go back to Konoha for a while…"
"No!" Kakashi was cut off by Naruto, "We can stay here for a day looking for a trail before we go back. I won't give up, not now!"
"Akamaru and I will sniff around here and see if we can find anything," Kiba said, obviously in favor of Naruto's idea.
"I agree with Naruto-kun," Hinata said timidly. "We owe it to Sakura to look around a little more before giving up.
Kakashi sighed and with reluctance agreed with the three. "Fine, but if we find nothing, we set up camp and leave tomorrow." With that the group dispersed and searched the surrounding area.
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"You wish to speak with me Haruno-san?" Sasori asked when he walked into Deidara's room.
"Yes, but first, you have to swear you not repeat anything said in this room to anyone else," Sakura said with a strict expression that left no room to be argued with. "I need to speak with you about the Tri-Haashi."
This caught Sasori's attention. He still didn't have much information on it, since it was so rare. "You have my attention and my word that I will not repeat anything said in this room," Sasori said. Sakura searched his face for any lies, but his face was an unemotional mask.
"Well, I remembered something the night you talked to me," Sakura started cautiously, still unsure if she should trust him, but she felt she needed to. She couldn't quite place the feeling, but she decided to go with her feeling. "My mother used to tell me things about my clan's founders. Not many people remember them. They were really strong and their clan name was Haruno. Apparently they had developed a very strong jutsu…"
"Haruno-san," Sasori interrupted, "where are you going with this?"
"Well if you stayed quiet you would find out," Sakura snapped at him. "And if you must know, you need this information to understand what I'm going to tell you."
Sasori nodded his head showing that he would listen without interrupting.
"Ok, where was I…" Sakura thought for a moment before continuing. "Ok, so they are rumored to have created one of the strongest jutsus ever made. For years the clan grew and the jutsu was kept away from prying eyes. The Harunos became one of the largest and most important clans in the shinobi nations. Anyway somewhere along the line, a girl was born. She was said to have been a prodigy and that no one could surpass her, not even any of the Uchihas. Because of her abilities, she was put under pressure to do well and never fail. Well, one day she snapped and left. Just left. After she left, almost the entire clan was murdered. Only the prodigy and one man with his wife."
Sakura took a breath and looked at Sasori who was still looking at her with an indifferent expression. He nodded showing he wanted her to continue.
"The man took his wife into the land of fire and hid himself with his wife, hoping to never be found. He had no such luck. The girl, when she found out what had happened, had gone looking for any remaining members of her clan. Well, she found them and she stayed with them for a while because they were the only ones who hadn't pushed her. One day she left them, looking for more action because she didn't want to live in hiding only training and never using her skills. So she went to Konogakure(sp?). When she arrived there, she spoke with the Hokage, who agreed to let her stay and gave her a rank as a ninja. She stayed for a year doing A and S-ranked missions, many were solo missions. Well, after that year she met a man. They fell in love and had a child. That child was the third Haruno to receive the full powers of the Haruno clan's kekei-genkai. Her mother was the second and the first was the founder. The child was a girl and so was the founder. Women are born to the Haruno clan only through pure blood Haruno women. Also, the kekei-genkai only appears in strong Haruno women. It can appear as early as the eighth year, if the girl is told and as late as thirty if she has to discover it by herself."
"Wait," Sasori interrupted again. "How is this possible? A kekei-genkai that is passed to women. Not only that, but strong women only. That is highly unusual. No wonder it disappeared from the records…" Sasori trailed off, momentarily lost in thought. "Thank you Haruno-san for telling me all this."
"There is more…"
"Not now, I need time to look over everything you have told me," Sasori said before she could continue. His head was already hurting, and that was saying something.
'Haruno-san has told me many things. I shall keep my promise for now and not tell anyone.'
Sasori nodded to Sakura and left Deidara's room. Soon after Deidara came in with confusion showing on his face.
"What were you talking about with Sasori-danna?" Deidara asked. "I've never seen him so deep in thought and confused about anything ever, yeah!"
"Something I can't tell you quite yet," Sakura said, who was also deep in thought, wondering if she should have told Sasori and if he would keep his promise of not telling anyone.
"…Ok, I guess, yeah," Deidara said, slightly hurt that Sakura couldn't tell him something. "Well, anyway, your conversation with Sasori-danna took so long that it's dark out now, yeah. Why don't you go to sleep and you can talk with Leader-sama tomorrow, yeah."
"That sounds great Deidara-kun," Sakura said with a big smile. She walked over to the bed, gave Deidara one more smile before getting in the bed and pulling the covers up to her chin and falling asleep."
Deidara watched Sakura sleep with a small smile on his face before grabbing a chair, sketchbook and pencils and sitting down. He started to sketch Sakura sleeping.
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An hour later Deidara left his room. He walked down a few winding hallways before entering the kitchen and grabbing some instant ramen. He boiled water and poured the water into the cup. While he ate the ramen, he thought about Sakura and what she was doing with Sasori. He also thought about what he felt for Sakura.
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"Come in."
Sasori entered and bowed before the man known as Leader-sama.
"Leader-sama," Sasori started, "there are some things I would like to discuss with you about the recently captured Sakura Haruno."
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Note!: I'm sooooo sorry everyone. I've been totally dead because of school and super cool Christmas and New Years then more school… Anyway, I hope this was longer than usual and I also hope it was good enough to satisfy for a while. I'll try to update in a few days, but I have volleyball games popping up all over the place and they make it hard to be home before six or seven. Also I have a surprising amount of homework to do. I'll try to write a really long chapter for the next one. Also the design on the island will end up being important so don't forget it. Also, I would love fanart! But… yeah, I don't think my story's good enough for that so, eheh, you can all forget that :D Anyway, please, please, please review! I know you're all out there reading this, I'll give you cookies!
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