Me: Hello! I know it has been a while since I updated and I'm sorry for that. This chapter took longer cuz I got stuck on some parts

Eddie: Yoi no Chi does not own Naruto or the world bubblegum®.

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Recap

'No. You are going to pay for cheating death.'

"Pein, are you coming?" sounded Sakura's voice. Pein blinked and nodded. He tried briefly to remember where it was they were going but quickly stopped when he saw the rosette climb into the closet. He sighed, this was insane.

Chapter Eight

A Funeral for the Sun, Part Four

No Point of View

(With Pein)

It was black, everything was consumed with darkness. Only the small flicker of the lights behind them was to be seen. The walls pushed against Pein; all parts of his body screamed at him to move but there was nowhere to go to. He was already uncomfortably squashed with his back alongside the door (that somehow locked) and his front side touching Sakura.

Pein smirked, nothing like rattling her up a little. "Is this why you wanted be to go in the closet with you? To feel me up?"

Sakura glanced back, her face not showing embarrassment but instead smugness. "If I wanted to "feel you up" I would have done it already."

Pein raised an eyebrow. "Then of course how do I know that you are not trying to rape me?"

Sakura stared at him. "Well," she started with a shrug, "you can't but if I were trying to rape you I wouldn't do it in some weird ass closet."

Pein nodded mutely, she did have a point there. He could not help but think of Sakura's petite body against his. Oh how fantastic it felt, to feel it. No, the last thing he needed right now was to think about that.

He just met her several days ago, these feelings were unnatural; they were not welcomed in his mind. Sakura, Sakura was like a poison, if he even had a little taste of it he would want more and more then eventually it would devour him until nothing but darkness was his soul.

He had seen it before, the power of these feelings taking over someone that was why Yahiko was dead. He died not because he was weak but because of worry. He was too worried about Konan that he was not paying attention to his enemy and now he is forever lost in the sea of the dead, the abyss.

Pein was not an idiot by any means, he had notice the way Konan has been "waddling" in a sense. The auburn-haired man knew for a fact that his long time friend was pregnant, him finding the positive pregnancy test in the bathroom proved his theory.

The teen, always being the leader, confronted Konan about her "issue" and pleaded her not to go to the meeting with ROOT but Konan, always being the stubborn one, decided to go anyway. It would seem that Yahiko somehow figured out that she was pregnant during the time Pein talked to her and when they left.

These feelings were nothing but nonsense, nonsense that gets you killed. He cannot have them; he was going to be the sovereign of the new world. His plans did not have fall-in-love-with-a-girl-I-just-met in it.

Reality reared its head when Sakura's elbow accidently hit him in the stomach. Pein coughed, she had a hard elbow.

Quickly, Sakura turned her head to apologize only to have Pein's face right where hers was headed. Before either of them knew what was happening, their lips smacked into each other making a slapping sound.

Every part of Pein's body was frozen. He felt like he was made of stone, just standing there for eternity. Time seemed to slow as the two teens stared at each other with a mixture of shock and fear. Hope was somewhere in the mix but it was too embedded in it that you would never find it.

Pein searched Sakura's eyes for a moment before regaining himself and moving his mouth away from her. He uttered an apology.

Sakura nodded, her eyes going back to their usual indifferent gaze. "There's no reason to apologize, it was my fault." Her voice held a small amount of guilt in them.

Pein briefly wondered if she regretted the kiss. It made him somewhat gloomy to think of that hypothesis.

"Aha."

The teen glanced at the petite woman in front of him. She found a latch at the back of the closet and shoved it opened.

(With Sakura)

Sakura couldn't think straight, the accidental kiss replaying over and over again in her mind. Stop, she needed to stop thinking about it. 'It's not like I have never kissed someone before!' she thought irritably to herself.

She was furious with herself; why should she be hung up on something that was never going to happen? It did not make any sense!

The rosette led Pein into the hole in the back of the closet. A burst of cool air pushed past her. 'How eerie…'

She stepped down, seeing that there was a two foot drop. "Follow me," she commanded quietly, her voice showing nothing of the disturbance she felt when she first opened the secret door.

Something was not right about this place. It was like what she felt when she went into her sister's room that one time, that same tingling feeling at the pit of her stomach was back and she did not welcome it.

Something crunched under her foot. She glanced down, her emerald eyes hardening as she did so. "How sad," she whispered almost mockingly. She lifted her foot off the decayed rat and continued walking. Pein gazed at the rat for moment before following after her.

As they walked through the passageway, Sakura could tell that it was getting wider. A whisper of a voice could be heard several yards in front of her.

She turned to Pein, placing a finger over her lips, telling him to be silent. Pein dipped his head, a flash of curiosity flickered in his gray eyes.

A lone whistle escaped the lips of the unnamed enemy behind the corner. Sakura motioned for Pein to stay close as she slowly stepped forward. Her foot made no noise as it hit the ground. The rosette drawled her gun, holding it upwards, against her chest.

Pein followed Sakura's lead, pulling out his pistol. They walked carefully across the ill-stricken floor. Sakura turned the corner, her nose twitching as she did so.

The smell of rotten corpses filled her nostrils. Her eyes narrowed at the sight. The room was at one time a surgery room. But now, it was overflowing with the dead. Piles and piles of dismembered bodies were spread across the room.

In the middle of the appalling mess that was the unmoving, a woman stood with her back turned towards the duo. She was whistling a song that Sakura recognized as the song she had hummed not too long ago to Konan.

(With Pein)

Pein stood, frozen as the ice that clenched his heart. Long dark chocolate curls flew behind the woman before him. This could not be happening!

"Hello, Serafina, I see you brought Pietro, how wonderful," the woman spoke, her voice the same sickly sweet as two years ago.

Pein felt light-headed. Fear struck into his core, flowing into his veins. Out of the corner of his eye, the apricot-haired teen saw Sakura give Gina a pointed stare. She did not seem to be frightened by the devilish woman like he was.

"It's so nice to actually see you this time," Sakura declared, sarcasm whipped on her tongue. Pein raised an eyebrow when the former Akatsuki member giggled. "It's a good thing you can see again, Serafina, it would be no fun if you couldn't."

Gina finished whatever she was doing and turned around. Her rather big breast bounced as she did so. She had grown old within the past two years. No longer was she a girl with a skateboard but now a woman with blood-soaked hands and the intent to kill.

The Italian's royal blue eyes widen when they landed on Pein. He had also change. A goofy grin fell upon her lips. "My, oh my, Pietro," her eyes seized up and down his body, "you have such beautiful skin. I can't tell you how much I would love to cut it, amore."

She glanced at their pistols uninterested. "Put those things down, there is no reason for them here." Sakura snorted at this. "Like hell that is going to happen." Gina gave the rosette an award-winning smile, "Serafina, oh, Serafina, you will put them down if you want to hear a story."

(With Sakura)

Emerald orbs narrowed. First her sister and now Gina? What was with people and telling stories? Her eyes widened as a theory popped into her head like a rush of water hitting dry land. What if Gina and her sister were working together?

That would explain why she was uneasy. She could always tell where her sister had been by the tingling sensation in her stomach. It all made sense besides for that fact as to why Tayuya would team up with someone she just met.

A shudder ran up and down her spine as she thought of the monsters they would create. Creatures of hate breed only more hate. Hate is how they grow, they cannot thrive without it. They rise in the hour of chaos and in chaos they will parish.

But what did this have to do with Sayomi? From what she could tell, Sayomi had nothing to do with this. Were Temari's sources wrong? Or was something too far out of her reach of mind conspiring? Sakura inwardly groaned, why was this so confusing?

She saw Gina staring at her. "What?" The woman in front of her sighed. "Are you going to lower your weapons and listen to my story or am I going to have to kill you?" the Italian asked with a tap of her foot.

The rosette had no idea how powerful this teen was but from the story Pein told, she was sure she was someone she could not take lightly. Her brain went into overdrive as she tried desperately to find a way out. Normally, this would not be a problem for Sakura but she had someone other than herself to look after and that was killing her.

With a glance at Pein, Sakura knew he would not be any help. Even though he did not look like it, he was made of stone right now, stuck in the memories of his past. She knew Gina knew that factor and would use that to her advantage.

It would take too long to get Pein out of the abyss and if she were to try to wake him, she would have to take her attention off of Gina and that was something she could not do. 'This is why I like to work alone,' she thought, running a pale hand through her rosy, black locks.

Her keen emerald eyes saw Gina smirk; she knew that she had won. Reluctantly, Sakura lowered her gun, putting it in the back pocket of her pants just in case.

Gina dipped her head in approval. "Very good, Serafina, now would you like some tea?" the teen asked with a tilt of her head. It made her look innocent and what bullshit that was. Sakura could tell that this woman was as sadist and merciless as she was if not more.

Sakura thought the offer over and nodded; she did not want to get on her bad side. Gina turned around, making a hand movement to show that she would be back in a moment.

The fact that Gina would easily turn her back to her just proved that she was either stupid or highly skilled and she doubted it was the first one. The emerald-eyed woman made a mental note to watch her back around her.

The first thought that emerged in the rosette's head after the woman left was to run but she was not an idiot. She had seen the explosives buried throughout the area. It would be unwise to escape now. She would have to wait and come up with a good plan as fast as possible.

Sakura gazed around the room; bloody handprints slid down the walls making the whiteness of them fade. The stench of decay and agony clawed its self into everything it could get to. It reminded the teen so much of her mother's old labs.

It was mighty clever to hide a lab in a hospital. No one would question the smell or the screams of the dying. It was perfect. With that doctor on Gina's side, no one would wonder why she would visit. Sakura bet that there was a secret entrance somewhere outside of the hospital for Gina to use.

Before she could ponder too hard on that detail, Gina returned with a steaming kettle and two cups. She placed the kettle on the metal table, pushing off some bones as she did so. She dragged out two chairs, putting them on either side of the table.

"I didn't think you would be here when I got back, Serafina. You must not be as dumb as you look," Gina mused whilst she sat down. Sakura shrugged, "the first rule we're taught is look underneath the underneath."

With a laugh, the other woman nodded. "Of course, I can't tell you how many times I have to tell my subordinates that! It's hard to find good help these days." She swiftly poured tea into the cups and handed one to Sakura. The rosette took it making a noise of thankfulness.

"Is that why you are working with my sister?" Sakura asked bluntly. To which she earned a cough. Gina shook her head with a snicker. "N-no way, I'm only with her 'cause I owe her something, amore."

Sakura raised a slim eyebrow. "This thing you owe her… would it possibly be a clone?" She did not care if she was being too straight forward with her questions. Gina seemed like the type of person that does not beat around the bush; much like her.

A cackle rumbled in the Italian's throat. "Would it be anything else, Serafina?"

It was true, her sister had achieved what many thought or still think is impossible. Creating a clone takes years and years of research and testing and even then, scientist cannot do it. It seems as though they never thought of using another human being. In truth, Sakura never thought of that either but after Tayuya reappeared, it all made sense.

The teen took a sip of her tea, finding it was not poisoned. She placed her elbow on her knee, staring up at other women with the eyes of a predator. "Now tell me, Gina, what is this story of yours?"

Gina smirked. "The best of stories are meant to be waited for."

(With the Rest of the Akatsuki)

Naruto glared at the door with an overwhelming hatred. "What is he doing to her?" he growled. Pein was in there far too long for his liking. It did not help that Naruto had seen the looks Pein had been giving Sakura.

Naruto was not a very trusting person to begin with but when you put some guy he just met in with his sister, you knew there was going to be hell to pay. It did not matter that that guy was the leader of the gang he just joined and fought side by side with against ROOT, he would still rip that fucker into pieces.

Dark thoughts bubbled in his head, making him more and more ready to draw his gun and kill Pein. His fingers twitched, holding onto the pistol in his pants. Someone nudged his shoulder. The blonde snapped his head towards the person, his eyes turning a nasty shade of red.

Konan's grey eyes widened at the sight of her best friend's brother's eyes. The expression in them was anything but pretty. "What?" She instantly gazed at the man as he hissed out that fatal word. She gulped, suddenly becoming nervous.

When she saw him about to open his mouth again, words rushed out of her mouth, "Pein is a good man, there's nothing to worry about. Besides if he ever tried to hurt Sakura, I'm sure, she would kill him before his hand even fell on her."

To her utter amazement, Naruto grinned, the look in his eyes breaking into gratefulness. "Yeah, you are right," he turned his head back to the door, "Sakura can take care of herself but she's the only thing I got left, I can't help but worry about her."

Konan was solemn, she knew the pain of losing someone and he did too. It made her somewhat sorry for the blonde; she has a lot of people who care for her and would die for her but Naruto, Naruto only has Sakura.

She could not imagine what it would be like if she never met the people she now calls family. She probably would have ended up getting adopted to some snotty rich people and never see Yahiko ever again. She was thankful Pein and Nagato stumbled into the orphanage that fateful day.

She placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder. He was probably the bravest man she had ever met.

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