Within one his many workshop located though out the elemental countries, the immortal Kugutsu master was sitting back and admiring his handiwork on the three kunoichi that were a part of his new 'collection' which far surpassed the inferior ones that he had created while he was with the Akatsuki.

As Sasori looked at the wooden forms of Sakura, Ino, and Kamira; all three of them completely nude as since Sasori did consider them his property, thus he could do with them what he wanted. If he wanted them to stand before him in their birthday suits, then that just what they were going to do. There was nothing they could do about it.

Scratching his chin, Sasori realized something as he looked over them while have them pose in various positions whenever he felt like it.

'There is something missing here,' Sasori thought as he looked at human puppets of Ino and Kamira.

'Let me see. I have a Yamanaka and an Akimichi but why does it feel like something is missing?' he thought.

Then it came to him like in a flash as the red hair human puppet realized what was missing from this picture.

"Of course! I am missing a Nara. How can I possibly have an Yamanaka and an Akimichi without also having a Nara as well? The three of them are a set! If you have one, you must have them all!" Sasori yelled as the realization hit him, causing him to release the three human puppet under his control and causing them to fall to the ground as they were no longer able to move without their 'master' guiding their motives.

"I am sorry, my dears. I'm just so excited about who would be joining you soon that the connection was cut," he said, making them pull away from the tangled mess they were in.

He then made his way over to Ino and Kamira where he then held their chins in his hands, making them look him in the eyes.

"Do not worry. The InoShikaCho will soon be complete again. I know the perfect Nara to stand along side you two in it and it would only be fair since my Cherry Blossom gets to be with her best friend. I couldn't possibly deny the same for my precious Butterfly, now can I?" he said to them.

Thus the next victim or 'addition' to Sasori's twisted collection of human puppets had been decided and there would be no stopping him until he had acquired his target.

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About two weeks later…..

"This so troublesome," Reiko Nara sighed as she looked over the latest victim in a sudden spike in serial killing that been showing up all over the place.

Reiko was part of the investigatory squad that she managed to get together. She knew there was some connection to these killings and the disappearances of Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka, and her best friend Kamira Akimichi.

To her, things all seemed to add up. The way in which these people were being found dead seemed strange to her. People that were not know to have any kind of suicidal tendencies suddenly showed up dead. People were killed in way that no normal person or even ninja could do with their bare hands. Then there were those that had drained of their fat reserves and calories. These strange killings with bare hands started soon after Sakura had gone MIA, and each new type started shortly after Ino and Kamira went MIA respectably. However, this might cause a person to place the blame solely on them or at least make them prime suspects, yet there was something that shouldn't be overlooked. Sakura was taken by Sasori, someone known for messing with people's mind as evidence from his spy he had in Suna and the dying testimony of Kakuzu, an Akatsuki member that was killed recently.

Reiko knew that this would be a lot easier if she had her cousin's help, but Shikamaru was still busy dealing with not only the lost of his teammate and thoughts that she might be connected somehow to rash spring of killing; but, in addition to that, his sensei had been killed recently as well. Though he had gotten his revenge on the man, that did it. These two wounds were still fresh and she did not want to go bother him with this at the moment. With Shikamaru unavailable, she had loss the only person in her family that she could count on.

Like her best friend Kamira Akimichi, Reiko Nara was also considered a black sheep amongst the Nara women who were normally as strict and somewhat overbearing as the mothers tend to be. However, in contrast to this, Reiko was everything one would expect from a male Nara such as her Uncle Shikaku or cousin Shikamaru. She was an unenthusiastic genius with IQ of 150 that thought everything was too troublesome and would rather watch clouds or playing thinking games like Shogi or Go. To most of the women in her clan, she was known as the female Shikamaru since she spent a lot of her time with him before meeting Kamira.

Thought, just like the disappearance of Ino and the death of his sensei seemed to strike a fire under Shikamaru getting him to become more motivated, the disappearance of her best friend had done the same for Reiko since they had a very close friendship with the both of them being consider black sheep of their families (Kamira more then Reiko).

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A few days later at campsite while they were on their way back to Konoha…

'This is so troublesome. Who would bother us at this time of night?' Reiko thought as went took a kunai and started making her way to the fellow investigatory squad members.

She was shocked to find that the one of her squad members were dead. Quickly looking over to the second, she saw Kamira holding the much taller person up in the air as she drained them until they were not more then husk that had looked over a few days ago.

"Okay, who are you? I know this is not Kamira, or at least, she not doing this of her own free will!" Reiko demanded.

"So how do you know that this is not her doing? She could be doing this of her own free will," Sasori said as he dropped his invisibility genjutsu.

"Simple. Charka strings are really had to see, but they are not invisible. You can find them if you know what looking for," Reiko said as she threw a small pebble that then bounced off what seemed like thin air but was really a charka string.

"Interesting, but then again, I wouldn't expect anything less from my Dear Fawn," Sasori said to her.

Before he could do anything else, Reiko threw a smoke bomb that she had kept in seal paper that she wore disguised a bracelet.

"I am up for a good chase. Come, my beautiful Butterfly. We are going to capture your best friend then the two of you can be together again like my precious Cherry Blossom and Truffle are. I will have a whole InoShikaCho set!" Sasori said as made the wooden Akimichi follow after him

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Through the trees of the forest that spread through all of the Fire Country, in the dead of night, Reiko was running at full speed despite being still somewhat tired after awakening to the attack on her team by none other then Sasori the Red Sand himself who was controlling Kamira with charka strings.

'I have to make back to the Capital and fast!' Reiko thought. There was no way that she could make back to Konoha any time soon. That was still another day or so journey away from where her camp currently was.

Thus her best bet was to try and make to the capital of the Fire Country where they had all been alerted of the danger of the Akatsuki and the knowledge of who its members were since they had killed two member the Twelve Guardian Ninja, a group who protected the Land of Fire's daimyo in the past before they broke up.

Reiko then noticed something was off about and then dropped from the trees. She ran through just in time to avoid a large wooden arm that swung across where she was; however, she was not prepared to dodge the other arm that grabbed her while she hanging from one of the lower branches.

"Seem like its Game…" Sasori said. The Reiko Kamira had captured turned into a log. "Interesting. I wonder when she had time to use the substitution jutsu," he said after having Kamira destroy the log.

While he was angry, he was almost somewhat pleased that the chase would not be ending so soon after all. This was exactly what he expected from his Dear Fawn. It was the reason he had chosen her out of all the Nara women he could have picked from to become a pair of his collection. Though a major part of it was that in his own sick way, this was keeping friends together. Since Ino was converted into one his human puppet based, not only on her abilities and beauty, but because her close friendship with Sakura; he could not possible give his Cherry Blossom the 'gift' of remaining in her prime form for all time and yet deny the same chance to her best friend.

And so the cat and mouse game between Reiko and Sasori continued. Each time he thought he had captured her, it turned out to be nothing more then a log or when Sasori got her personally, an exploding tag.

"No where to run," Sasori said as they were in rocky area with the moon shining down on both of them.

'I guess I have no choice. I am not sure if it is going to work, but it might slow him down at least,' she thought to herself. She was going to try what Shikamaru did during his Chunin Exam since Sasori was standing behind a wall and with range of her Shadow Imitation Jutsu.

When her shadow connected with Sasori, she immediately began to feel much weaker and soon passed out, causing the jutsu to dispel. Though before she could hit the ground, she was caught by Sasori when he appeared behind her.

The 'Sasori' in front of her had really been Kamira under the same genjustu that Sakura was using during the meeting at the Heaven and Earth Bridge in the Grass Country where Sasori killed the Snake Sanin and Kabuto in order to use them to their Justus and abilities for himself to use one various human puppet in his collection.

As for why Reiko passed out after connection her shadow to Kamira, it was because she had started absorbing her chakra through her shadow.

"That was a good game you played, but now it over. I win," Sasori told her. He recalled Kamira to her scroll before picking up the unconscious Nara who would soon become the three hundred and fourth human puppet to his collection and only the fourth to his newest collection of superior human puppets.

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