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[Recap:]'We should visit Hiruko's grave while we still have time. It's been almost a year since we fought him.' I nodded and we continued on our journey.

As we hopped trees to Mt. Shumisen, I couldn't help but think about what happened in these few days. I mean, one day I was healing patients, next day, I become a missing nin. Life is cruel.

Anyway, as I headed toward Mt. Shumisen, I saw the sharp rocks that came together all over the land. There were clouds and little sunlight illuminating the place. As I kept hopping to the entracnce, memories of my first encounter flooded my mind and sent me on a road of rememberence.

Passing through the gates, I ended up in a forest with many broken trees. I remember how we left Team Gai to finish off the man who attacked us with demon-like snakes.

Finishing my journey of tree hopping, I ended up in a canyon where Team Kurenai had to finish off a busty woman who controlled two disgusting looking chimeras.

Near the end of my journey, I ended up in a coral cactus like area where Team Asuma had to tie down a chimera with Tenten's chains by lacing the chains with chakra.

Finally, the entrance. The bridge was broken and everything was all over the place. Debris littered the floor and dust covered everything. In the center of the madness, a deep hole was made from Naruto's Shuriken Rasengan.

As I walked near the hole, I saw a small grave. To be more precise, it was a mini dirt hill no more than half a foot with a kunai stuck in the center. It was Hiruko's grave.

I kneeled down and glided my hands over the dirt. Even though it was tough battling him, his intentions were not evil. He just wanted friends. Having thought to be neglected, he turned to power as his solution and this was how he ended up. In all honesty, he was not a bad person. Just misled.

It was an interesting battle indeed.

That's when my eyebrows skyrocketed up my face and I said "You know, it's rude to spy on people." As I said this, I heard a snort equivalent to that of a pig. Of course not even Ino sounded like that.

I turned around and to no surprise, I saw the bitch, Karin. This red headed bitch smirked, causing me to inwardly grimance. Was that really a smirk? She looked like a deformed bitch who failed a facelift.

In any case, the bitch said "Pft, if it isn't the stupid pink haired bitch I replaced. Why would YOU be here? You're too weak to even come here. Did you fuck -" I punched this red headed bitch in the face with no chakra and she took a few feet back from the impact. I was about to let Inner take over when I saw this bitch smirk again and she said "Pft, even I can punch harder then that. Tsunade taught me everything! She's so stupid. She didn't even realize that I was a spy for Orochimaru-sama! Haha."

Insulting me was one thing. But insulting Tsunade? This bitch is going down.

I narrowed my eyes to the point that they looked like slits. Lacing my hands with chakra, I punched the ground with my left fist. Spider web cracks destroyed what the earth had given us and sharp rocks pertruded out like spikes. I hopped to that bitches location and punched her with my fist.

Kami-sama, please grant me the strength to kill this faggot.

She survived. Go figure. Glaring at the bitch with the intensity of fire, I noticed that she had several fractures and punctured organs from my punch. Smiling with satisfaction, I continued to glare at her. Suddenly she rolled up her left sleeve to reveal bite marks all over her arm. As she bit into her arm, her fractures seemed to heal and her punctured organs restored. However her chakra was low and I decided to reach into my pouch on my backside and grab a senbon.

Running up to her, I exchanged blows with this bitch and looked for an opening. Finding so many, I couldn't figure out if she was taunting me or just sucked ass in general. Not taking any risk, I slit her carotid artery on her neck and the blood flew out of her neck like a water fountain.

Dropping down with a 'flop', I looked at her and thought 'She is dirtying Hiruko's grave.'

Inner nodded and said 'Nothing we can do now. Let's move on to Suna.'

END OF FLASHBACK.

When Sakura finished her story, an aura emitted itself from Itachi. It was so dark and sinister that it was beginning to feel really hard to breathe. Itachi was on the verge of killing his little brother right now. Deidara's eyes showed fire in them and his fists were clenched and shaking with knuckles as white as snow. Sasori had a glare so deadly, even Orochimaru would shit in his pants.

Sakura raised her eyebrow at this and shrugged. "And that's what happened." Sakura grabbed her book, stood up, and headed toward the training grounds.

Itachi and Sasori though about the flashback that they just heard about. Deidara had a look of annoyance mixed with a 'WTF, really?' look. Deidara looked toward his danna and they both nodded.

Sasori said in a polite yet apathetic tone "We're going to leave first, Itachi-san."

Itachi nodded and continued to think about the pink headed girl's past. 'She's been through alot.' Itachi got up from his couch and walked to his room.

Back at Pein's Office...

As Sasori and Deidara entered the leader of Akatsuki's office, they took a seat in front of the intimidating man and Sasori retold Sakura's past. Deidara sat quietly and waited for him to finish.

Taking a deep breath of precious air into his system, Sasori finished his storytelling and looked at Pein for a reaction.

Pein said "I see. So basically Sakura-san left after being replaced, killed the whor- one who replaced her, and ended up here. That would explain why her name was on the Memorial Stone..."

Sasori nodded and Deidara looked as if he was deep in thought thinking about Kami knows what.

"Alright, good job Sasori, Deidara. Both of you are dismissed." Sasori nodded and bowed with respect. Deidara just stood up and walked away slowly. Almost walking into a wall in the process.

Training Grounds...

'Saku-chan, what should we do now?'

'I don't know Inner. We have already joined the Akatsuki. I guess we have to wait and see what happens next.' Sakura sat against a tree and stared at the clouds that decorated the clear blue sky. No one knew what was about to happen to this pink haired kunoichi as a pair of green eyes peeked at her with eyes of slight envy and infifference.

Sakura continued to gaze at the clouds and decided to take a nap.

As the mysterious stranger, who was watching Sakura, noticed her drifting away, he came out of his hiding place to reveal a male with medium length hair that went up to his collar bone, a Sound nin uniform with a purple rope that was tied snugly around his waist, two red dots decorated his forehead, skin was as pale as Sakura herself, and his hair was as white as snow. Yes, my lovely readers, Kimimaro Kaguya was spying on dearest Sakura Haruno.

Being extremely cautious and gentle, the snow haired nin carried Sakura bridal style into his arms and proceded to his master's lair in Otogakure.

Otogakure...

As Kimimaro hopped trees back to the base, he couldn't help but think to himself 'What's so special about this pink haired kunoichi?' Kimimaro shrugged and continued to carry Sakura into an empty room.

As he somehow managed to open the door to the room, he walked in and put her gently on the unoccupied bed. Pulling her sandals off, he pulled the covers over her seemingly fragile form and walked out the door. Shutting it with a small click, he walked next door to his room and attempted to get a nap before his master bothers him with sugarcoated words to make poor Kimimaro go on another bullshitted mission.

Sakura's room...

Sakura opened her emerald green eyes to see that she had magically migrated into an unfamiliar room. Kami knows how she got there and honestly, she didn't give a flying shit.

'Kimimaro took us from the Akatsuki base. We're in Otogakure, Saku-chan.'

Sakura narrowed her eyes and started to scan her surroundings. There was a window on top of her bed, a small table stand with a lamp near the head of the bed, a bathroom, and the bed itself. Interestingly enough, the room looked pretty decent. For an evil pedophile's HQ anyway.

'Let's explore!' Inner said excitedly. Sakura smiled slightly and got up from her previous position. As she put on her sandals, a slight squeaky sound was heard from the door. A person with gray hair tied in a pony tail, glasses, and dull colored clothing stood at the entrance.