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CHAPTER 9: MEETING WITH THE KAZEKAGE 2

After Kisame finally clawed his way out of the bathroom, with a little kick of the door from Itachi, they all were joined together in the neighbour's kitchen to enjoy cereal,toast and bacon. Sakura was chowing down happily as Deidara and Hidan fixed their gaze upon her in amusement. Itachi's gaze was one of mild disgust.

"Stop eating like a pig." Itachi declared, wiping his hands on his napkin.

"Stop ordering me around. We may be teammates but I'll have you know that I can eat however I want! I like to eat! Is that such a crime?" Sakura asked him through her slurps of cereal.

"It is if you're making others around you throw up due to the fact that-" Kisame added.

"Just back off,yeah." Deidara muttered to Itachi and Kisame.

"Hn." Was all Itachi stated as he focused on wiping his hands clean of crumbs.

"So you guys have your cloaks with you,right?" Kisame asked, starting a new topic.

"Yup."

"Hn."

"Of course I fucking have my cloak."

"Wait a second! Cloaks!?" Sakura screeched,standing up as she gazed at each of the males before her.

"What about it?" Kisame raised an eyebrow, clearly surprised at her outburst.

"You can't wear your cloaks around Suna! People will get scared!" Sakura reasoned while rolling her eyes, as if they were complete idiots for not knowing.

"Oh cry me a river, Bitch! Leader-sama asked us to after we left." Hidan huffed, crossing his arms over his chest.

"You're communicating with him? During this mission?" Sakura asked the four men. Kisame shrugged.

"No, not at the moment."

"But you have been?"

"Well, You see-"

"Hand it over." Sakura demanded, holding out her hand for whatever device they were using to communicate with.

"It's not a device,yeah. It's our rings." Deidara explained before covering his mouth with his hand. Each of his teammates glared at him.

"Then hand over a ring." Sakura demanded with her arm still outstretched.

Deidara hid his arm, shaking his head as he focused his attention on the puke-colored walls. Itachi got up from his seat and started to make more bacon, seeing as how Sakura had eaten a lot of the pieces already. Kisame grinned nervously, peering down and studying a piece of his soggy toast. Hidan chuckled under his breath, still crossing his arms.

"Pwease." Sakura asked Deidara with puppy dog eyes. He tried to ignore her so she looked over at Itachi who was making some more bacon.

"Ita-kun." Sakura pleaded to Itachi. He stared at her and huffed, continuing his task at hand. Suddenly, he slipped off his ring and and chucked it at her.

"Merely due to the reasoning that if I do not give this to you now, which you will give back to me, you will not refrain from asking for it the entire way back." Itachi explained with a small grimace.

Kisame,Hidan and Deidaras eyes were wide with shock at Itachi's semi-kind gesture, until a glare made them all turn around.

Sakura smirked and put on the ring. Her eyes went wide when she heard voices in her head.

"You have to pick a line, yeah. You can't listen in on other peoples conversations." Deidara explained.

"Well you can. Who gives a shit, if they don't want anyone to hear they can put that shit on private." Hidan huffed. Sakura rolled her eyes, listening in.

'How's the mission?'

'It's coming along.'

Wait a second...Was that Pein? and...who was that also? ...

'Do your teammates suspect you?'

Suspect? What?

'No. Not yet'

'That's good. Do you have any information on the subject I asked about?'

'You mean the Haruno's?'

Sakura kept quiet but her eyes widened. Itachi looked at her in question but she held a finger to her lips to kept herself from thinking or saying anything. If he talked,and she thought about it,with her mind of course,she would be discovered.

'Yes.'

'I know that Sakura Haruno of Team Four is not the last remaining Haruno in her clan.'

'Yes.I am aware of that.'

Sakura tried to keep quiet but her thoughts were straying. She WASN'T the last?

'And her family?'

'Her parents were killed by our organization none the less.'

'Hm.I was aware of that too. Tsunade informed me.'

'Tsunade knows about me? About my clan?My family? My parents?'Sakura pondered, being careful not to reply to the conversation.

'Also I was going to tell you about her.'

'Proceed.'

'She is afraid of fire, although I'm sure she already is aware of this. Her parents gave her up for adoption before we had killed them. She also has a little brother..But he's blind. And a cousin and an uncle.'

What?!

Sakura's bottom lip trembled as she processed this. Deidara was also looking at her concerned but she held a finger to her lip once more to keep them silent.

'Interesting.I will have a chat with her when she comes back from her mission.'

'Also...'

'What?'

'I know who killed her parents.'

Sakura held a hand to her mouth as she listened to the next piece of information.

'Who was it?'

'More like who were they.'

'Proceed.'

'It was-'

Static silence followed. Sakura was almost jumping in anticipation.

'Well?'

'Sorry Pein.I am needed. One of my teammates who looks like Deidara is here.'

'The girl?'

'Yeah. Ino I think it is...And that Kiba guy.'

'Understood. Report back to this line when you're alone.'

'Tonight at 7:00pm.I'll be in a hotel.I'll contact you.'

'Agreed.'

'Over and out Pein.'

Then only Pein remained.

'Talk to you soon...Madara.'

Then silence.

Sakura shakily took off Itachi's ring and flung it back at Itachi who caught it with ease, giving her a questioning glance. So did Deidara. Now that she was seeing straight,She realized they were all looking at her.

"Um...I'll go get dressed." Sakura stated as she flew out of the neighbour's room.

"Wonder what that was all about." Kisame asked,taking a bite out of his toast.

Deidara's gaze was locked onto the seat where she was recently. Itachi was gazing at his ring. He put it on and realized it was on line one. Pein's line.

'What could Pein have said?'

What in the hell was that?!

Sakura paced her room,running her fingers through her hair. She glanced at the clock and saw that it was only 9:30AM so she continued pacing then flopped down suddenly onto the bed.

Sakura knew some things that she was certain of.

Peins line was line one. That much she was certain of. Itachi had probably programmed it to that for her, seeing as how she was so obsessed with the idea of talking to their Leader via ring.

The second thing was that Pein was talking to a man named Madara.

Third, This 'Madara' is on Ino and Kiba's team.

Fourth, 'Madara' knows alot about her clan and her parents.

Fifth, 'Madara' will be talking to Pein again tonight.

but the only Madara she knew of was Madara Uchiha.

And to top it all off...He was supposed to be dead.

"This is so frustrating!" Sakura stood up suddenly, having the urge to punch the wall. Instead, she decided to get dressed, hoping she could de-stress herself by focusing her mind on something else.

She wore her signature red tank top and black stretchy shorts that went mid-thigh. She had bandages wrapped around her left upper thigh for decoration and she put her hair up into a messy bun,holding it with chopsticks. She pulled on her black heeled ninja boots and picked up her weapon pouch. She fastened it on and pulled on her black gloves. She made her way into the neighbour's room,where a lovely couple were looking at Itachi with a look of disbelief and anger. She stopped at the door,peeking around it.

"Why are you using our kitchen?" The man asked in surprise.

"We don't have one in our room." Itachi simply said. Sakura rolled her eyes.

"That doesn't mean you can use ours! And without asking nonetheless! This is trespassing!" The woman declared. Sakura decided it was about time she stepped in. She used a henge jutsu to look like a little girl.

"Ma'am." Sakura stated,shuffling her foot. The woman looked at her.

"What can I do for you,sweetie?" The woman asked, uncertainly but not able to resist the face of a cute little girl.

"Um,We're sorry to um,use your kitchen but we were hungry and we haven't eaten in days..." Sakura mumbled to the woman who smiled brightly at her, tears forming in her eyes.

"OH! NONONONONO! It's okay! Really! What,you couldn't be more than 6 years old right? So cute!" The woman gushed.

Sakura twitched but kept her cool. Clearly, this woman was a softy.

"You see, My dad didn't want me so 'Tachi-ni and Deidei-ni and Kisa-ni and Hida-ni took me in." Sakura blushed for show and winked at the four surprised males.

"Oh My goodness! And instead of going around and getting drunk and having sex you wanted to take in a little girl? So sweet! You are idea brothers!" the woman smiled with pride at the four smirking males.

"You boys did good." The husband of the wife stated,slapping his hand down on Deidara's back who jumped at the contact.

"I love my brothers!" Sakura jumped over to Hidan and hugged Hidan who was surprised for a minute, grumbled but patted her head.

"Oh My Goodness! BOB! GET THE CAMERA!" the woman told the guy who rushed off to grab the camera. He came back and snapped a photo of mini Sakura hugging Hidan.

"Another!" the woman stated. She cleared off the table and placed Sakura on the table. She took the picture of four males huddled around Sakura as Sakura was smiling.

"Another!" the woman screeched and the camera snapped again.

"Um, We have to go soon..." Sakura tried to reason.

"Just three more photos!" the woman begged.

"Fine." Kisame sighed. Itachi grunted,crossing his arms.

The woman snapped a photo of mini Sakura on Deidara's back in a piggy back ride,A photo of mini Sakura on Kisame's shoulders and a photo of mini Sakura holding Itachi's hand,smiling up at him. The woman sighed happily and was about to put her camera away.

"Wait!" Sakura said.

"What is it,dear?"

"Will you take one more photo?"

"I thought you'd never ask!" The woman declared, looking at her husband to ready the camera.

"But instead of me, could you get a photo of my sister instead?" Sakura begged the woman.

"Oh of course! I didn't know you had a sister!" the woman stated in surprise before a smile graced her features once more.

"Neither did I." Kisame whispered to Hidan. Sakura stepped on his foot before she left to get her 'sister'.

The henge popped and out came the older version of Sakura. The woman immediately smiled.

"Oh my! You look exactly like the little girl who was in here."

"Yup. She's my sister. We look a lot alike." Sakura replied.

"Okay then,Before you go lets get a group photo!" the woman instructed,motioning for the guys to stand up. They didn't. the woman frowned and Sakura frowned. Then said through clenched teeth:

"It would be an awful shame if we were LATE to the meeting because of an accident...right boys?" Sakura said sweetly.

The frown turned into wide eyes as they stood up quickly.

Itachi crossed his arms and stood next to Kisame.

Kisame gave Itachi and Deidara both bunny ears.

Deidara was pouting and had one of his arms around Kisame's shoulder and Sakura's waist.

And Sakura was in a headlock performed by Hidan but she was smiling nonetheless.

"Say Cheese!" Bob said.

"I never understood that,yeah."

"That doesn't fucking surprise me."

"Does anything surprise you?"

"I still wanna know who stunk up the bathroom earlier today."

"It was Deidara."

"NO! IT WAS NOT,YEAH!"

"Yeah,It was you."

"What,yeah?"

"Actually,It was Hidan."

"You pink haired bitch!"

"I ratted you out because you're not being fair!"

"No fucking shit! Once again,LIFE ISN'T FAIR!"

"And once again,life doesn't have feelings."

"Motherfucking Uchiha!"

"PLEASE NO SWEARING!" The woman counselled suddenly, surprising everyone.

They looked over as Bob took the photo. He then took another and everyone sighed in relief and stretched their tense limbs.

"Okay dear! Tell your little sister that she was a dear! And I'll send these photos to your home when they get developed!"

"Thank you."

The four males exited the hotel room to go get ready for the meeting as Sakura told the lady her address in Konoha. She waved goodbye to the woman and shut the hotel room door. She made her way over to her hotel room and watched as Kisame and Deidara got ready for the meeting. Hidan was already ready and Itachi just finished.

"Wait a second! Are you fools wearing those cloaks?" Sakura asked them.

"We were going to." Kisame sighed.

"We shouldn't draw attention." Sakura warned.

"We'll transport to the Kazekage's office okay?" Kisame tried to reason.

"No." Sakura huffed.

"Look,just because we have an alliance with you guys doesn't mean that we stop being Akatsuki,yeah." Deidara said. Sakura stuck her tongue out at him.

"Fine. But you'll be sorry..." Sakura trailed while walking over to Itachi. She stood next to him as he was dressed in his cloak as well as Hidan.

"Why will we be sorry?" Hidan asked her.

"Just 'cause." Sakura answered,crossing her arms.

Hidan snorted.

"That's not a good fucking reason."

"Well,I don't explain myself to idiots."

"You bitch-"

"Time to go." Itachi stated as he pulled Sakura along behind him away from an angry Hidan. They also decided that it was check out time so they gathered up all their belongings.

With Itachi in the lead, they all made it to the front desk where the snotty receptionist from earlier eyes were wide with shock. Sakura smirked.

"Thanks for the room." She said,flinging the keys at the front receptionist. She fumbled with the thrown keys and ended up dropping them on the floor.

"Nice catch,yeah." Deidara laughed as they all made it outside the hotel and transported to the Kazekage's building.

As they climbed the stairs,Sakura's stomach was doing flips. She couldn't get that conversation from the ring that morning out of her head. It frustrated her to no end. She had to know what it meant so she can get revenge for her family!

'Jesus.I sound like Sasuke.' Sakura thought bitterly.

Okay so Sakura won't kill the dudes from this hellish organization who murdered her parents. She'll just send them hate mail and give them dirty looks...Very very dirty looks. She grinned. 'Yeah right, they are so dead.'

They came to a stop in front of Gaaras door. Sakura knocked on it three times as Kankuro opened the door.

"Sis! I can't- Akatsuki!" Kankuro screamed. Suddenly, sand wrapped around his mouth before Kankuro could spout anything else. Sakura blew a sigh of relief.

"You fools feeling sorry yet?" Sakura grinned.

Gaara motioned them inside. Kisame and Deidara stood at the back,closest to the door and Hidan,Itachi and Sakura sat in the vacant chairs.

"How are you this fine and beautiful morning Kazekage-sama?" Sakura smiled brightly.

Gaara snorted.

"How's your condition?" he asked her. She could see the amusement in his eyes.

"Condition? Did you think I went into a coma after that or something?" Sakura asked him.

"Hm. Hard to tell with spunk like yours, though I'm pretty sure you could fight an incurable disease." Gaara said. Sakura smiled with pride.

"That's me,alright!" Sakura pointed to herself.

"Yes. Well as we were discussing yesterday,Before your clumsy error of course,I have come to the conclusion that our alliance can not be as it once was."

"Eh?" Sakura was shocked, tears starting to form in her eyes. 'If it was going to be a no, we wouldn't have had to have stayed at that shitty hotel!'

"Let me finish.I mean to say that we will become allies with you once again just not like we used to be,you know." Gaara tried to reason with the tearful Sakura. Itachi didn't seem to pleased with her condition. Neither did Deidara, although who knows if it was due to the headache of her whines or actual concern.

"S-So W-Were A-Allies?" Sakura sniffled,looking up at Gaara through her eyelashes.

"Yes. Until further notice." he sighed.

All that was heard was a squeal as Sakura jumped up and ran over to Gaara to squeeze him to death.

"Enough." Gaara tried to pry Sakura off of him.

"No! Loosen up Kazekage-sama!" Sakura laughed, hugging him tighter.

"Just go back home and eat three tubs of yogurt like you did last time you were here." Gaara told her, a slight smirk on his face.

"What?You mean to tell me that Pinky here ate three tubs of yogurt? Can somebody spell Fatty!"

Sakura growled and threw Gaara's stapler at Hidan. It smacked him in the head.

"Ouch! Bitch!"

"Enough." Itachi stated as the two calmed down. Gaara was amazed at how quickly Sasuke's brother could calm them down.

"Oi! I see who wears the pants in this fivesome." Kankuro joked. Sakura beat him upside the head and glared at him.

"So Kankuro...Explain to me about this wedding." Sakura demanded in a soft voice but Kankuro could tell that she sure meant business. He gulped.

"Um...You see Gaara here has-"

"Kankuro! Enough!" Gaara demanded his older brother. Kankuro looked between Sakura and Gaara but couldn't decide who was the scariest. Gaara was scary but Sakura was... Sakura. No farther definition needed. He took a deep breath and proceeded to spill the beans.

"Gaara has taken-"

Then the door slammed open and a woman looked up at her with a slight smile. She then turned her attention towards the Akatsuki and screamed, running away. Gaara cursed as he sent Kankuro after her. Sakura recognized her as the receptionist for Gaara downstairs.

"I would suggest you head back to Konoha. You have your bags and checked out of your hotel,correct?" Gaara told them,not looking Sakura in the eye.

'I wonder why?'Sakura pondered. Before she left she went up to Gaara and kissed his cheek making the four Akatsuki males turn around.

"Thank you Gaara-I mean Kazekage-sama." Sakura smiled then all proceeded out of the room and back home to Konoha.

Kankuro came back into the room holding an unconscious receptionist. He wiggled his eyebrows at Gaara.

"Just call me cupid." he smirked.

"OUT! NOW!" Gaara demanded,shutting his office door. Kankuro smirked knowingly and travelled down the hall.

Meanwhile in his office,Gaara was blushing up a storm.

"Geez." He sighed,sitting down at his desk to finish some paperwork of his.

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