A/N: UNF! You have NO idea how long I've been waiting to do this chapter. It's strongly inspired by the song "Next Contestant" by Nickleback.

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Dressed in tight dark jeans and a black midriff with a red cherry in the middle, Sakura examined herself in the mirror by herself in the mirror. She reached up and brushed her fingers over the lightening shaped scar that over lapped with her Anbu tattoo. Her pink hair fell just to her shoulders and her jade eyes were lined with dark eyeliner and Mascara. She sighed.

"Haven't had to wear this in a while." She muttered. She was going undercover as a waitress at the Tavern they were investigating. As a Kunoichi, she had taken on mission like this before, and as much as she knew it was degrading, she was good at it. Acting was one of her specialties. It was surprising how much information a girl showing skin could get without lifting a finger.

Stronger arms snuck around her bare waist from behind. "You ready?" Sasuke asked. He was dressed in dark baggy jeans and a light blue unbuttoned shirt. And well, he didn't need anything else. He's Sasuke.

Sakura turned around in his arms. "Yeah."

Sasuke smirked and pecked her lips. "Now let's go before one of the girls come in and I get in trouble for being in here."

They quickly walked out and down the stairs together. Naruto was waiting on the couch in the common room, wearing regular jeans, a white muscle shirt and a black leather jacket. "Let's do this." He grinned.

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Sakura stood behind the bar, fixing some drinks for the man at the counter. When no one was looking, she slipped some stronger alcohol into their drinks. Drunken men talk more. She poured it into a few glasses and handed them out to the men.

"Here you go." She said.

One of the men snickered, nudged the man next to him and whispered something to him. Both men started to snicker a bit louder. The man, with a gouty and ski cap, who started it knocked his wallet off the table. "Oh darn it! Excuse me missy, but would you mind getting' that for me? 'fraid my back's broken from work." He said with a heavy British accent.

Sakura smiled. "No problem." She walked around the bar counter and bent down to grab the wallet off the floor. While she was down, the men shot dirty stares at her posterior.

Sasuke sat in a booth on the opposite wall and had a perfect view of the bar. It took all his strength not to go over there and punch those perverts' light out. The only thing that kept him sane was the fact that he could do that and more once they got their information. He looked over at Naruto, who was in the corner, avoiding being seen by the drunks. It was all part of the plan.

Sakura stood up and handed the man his wallet. "Here you go sir." She said, as she walked back behind the bar to serve more drinks.

"So, did you here about You know who?" One of the men whispered to his friends.

"Yeah, heard he survived that whooping those kids and Potter gave him a few years ago. Now he's supposedly back, and teamed with some other dark power from those kids' home." The man who 'dropped his wallet' answered.

"Sounds like a whole lot'a hype if you ask me. I was out in town that day and I could see the explosion on the mountain from here. There's no way even he could survive."

"This aint a regular wizard, Greg."

"So for arguments sake, let's say that he is alive. I know I guy who was on the inside during his army. Just got out of Azkaban. If anyone knows what's going on, he does." The grizzly man looked at his watch. "And he'll be here in about 10 minutes."

"So we'll ask him a question or two when he does arrive. In the mean time I say we entertain ourselves." The older man next to him said in a low voice. He glanced over at Sakura, who was cleaning a glass.

She remained oblivious as she walked out from behind the counter with a tray and food in her hands. The grizzly man stood up and 'accidently' bumped into Sakura, causing her to trip and spill her try. "Oh! My apologies. Let me help you beautiful." He said, kneeling down next to her. Once they had everything cleaned up, they stood up.

"You know, a pretty girl like you shouldn't be working in a run down place like this." He smirked, brushing her cheek.

Sakura simply nodded and turned around to walk away. But before she could get far, he grabbed her arm and twirled her back around. This his arms around her back, he pulled her in a little too close for comfort and lowered his hands. "Where you goin? I thought we could have a bit of…fun." He said with a dirty grin.

Sakura was just about to push him away when, from the corner of her eye, she saw someone come in. She couldn't make out who it was, but as soon as he walked in, her scar started to burn, causing her to wince and clutch it.

Sasuke couldn't take it anymore. In a flash he was right next to them, shoot daggers through his stare at the drunk. "That's my girlfriend, you bastard." He growled before he ripped him off her. Just by the way he was looking at him, made the man run out, taking his buddies with him.

Sasuke turned back around to Sakura, who had had walked behind the counter and ducked down so no one would see her healing her scar. He walked around and knelt beside her. "You okay?" He asked.

Sakura took in a deep breath and smiled lightly. "Yeah, I'll be fine." She said.

"Okay." Sasuke pecked her on the lips before getting up. "Be careful."

Sakura followed suit and stood up as well. "I'm almost done."

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It had been about three hours since they had started gathering information, and so far, they had only confirmed their suspicions. Sakura glanced over to the man who now sat in the place of the drunken perverts. He had a hood on and it was too dark to see his face. He didn't do much, just sat there, like he was waiting. That's when she noticed the ring on his finger. It was the symbol of the Azkaban prison.

This must be the guy She thought before she walked over too him.

"So, I hear you've served under the dark lord she said in a low, hushed voice.

The man only nodded. "I also hear he's planning something. Care to tell a girl?" She asked, only to receive a shaking head.

Sakura pouted, then walked seductively toward the dark corner of the bar. As she suspected, he got up and followed. Once they had a bit more privacy, she turned back to him. "So are you going to tell me or what?" She asked, batting her eyes.

The man looked up, the hood sliding down as he did. Shaggy black hair and blue eyes, Sakura recognized it immediately. She took a step back, but only felt raped by the wall behind her. "Mortel…. What are you doing here?" She hissed.

Mortel quickly shoved something into Sakura's hands, almost like he was forcing himself to do so, like it was out of his nature. He then looked at Sakura with pleading eyes. She was taken aback from the look on his face, expecting it to have been the golden glare she received every time they met. But no, it was pleading, sad, and almost… scared?

"Help me." He whispered, before collapsing into her arms.

Sakura didn't know what to do at first, she was in shock. She sighed, noting that she would probably regret this, but she had to get him away. She let go of him with one arm and knocked on the wall. Three simply beats then two slower one. To the untrained ear, it would have blended in with the background noise of the bar, but of course, to the Shinobi, it was clear as a bell.

Naruto, from his own corner on the opposite side, calmly walked out of the shadows and towards his right, where Sasuke got up from his booth. They bumped into each other hard when they crossed paths.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" Naruto yelled loudly.

"Don't tell me what to do, idiot!" Sasuke yelled, just as loudly.

"Jerk! How about we take this outside!"

"I'm fine with settling it here!" Sasuke took a wild swing at Naruto, who didn't bother to dodge or black it. Naruto then grabbed Sasuke's shirt and threw him on the table he was just at. Sasuke took Naruto down with him. They both scrambled back up and started an all out brawl, throwing haymaker punches and swinging each other all over the bar. Using the commotion as a distraction, Sakura slipped out the back door. Taking Mortel's unconscious body with her.

An officer came in between the two fighting teens and pushed them away from each other. "Alright enough! You want to fight, take it somewhere else. Not in my sight. Now get out!" he shouted.

Naruto and Sasuke grunted, then walked briskly outside, pushing and shoving each other one the way. Once they were out, they both started laughing.

"Oh man, that was a riot!" Naruto laughed.

"Yeah, I got to admit it was." Sasuke smirked

"You also gotta admit that I would'a won." Naruto grinned at his friend.

"Ch, in your dreams dobe."

"You wanna finish what we started in there?" Naruto asked, taking a fake swing at Sasuke, who was now free to dodge it.

"Alright boys, enough." Sakura said, as she came around the corner of the Tavern, carrying Mortel on her back.

"What's he doing here?!" Naruto asked.

Sakura ignored Naruto and set him on the snow covered ground. "I don't know, but the last thing he said before he passed out was "Help me". He gave me this." Sakura explained as she took out the package from her pocket.

"I'm not sure about this. There could be some Pheldolfrous, or poison in there." Sasuke said.

"If it was Pheldolfrous, it would have started to work by now," They both glanced at Naruto, who was scratching his head innocently, "And if it's poison hidden in it, then it will only work if we have direct contact with it. We just can't physically touch it." Sakura explained. She untied the string around it, and then ripped two pieces of cloth from Mortel's sweater. She used them to cover her hands as she grabbed what seemed to be a letter inside and slowly opened it……

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-Laughs maniacally- HAHAHA! I just LOVE doing that!!!