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Chapter 10;
Surprise, surprise.
Recap...
I could feel the tension in the room. And I knew it, I knew. Something bad was – or going to happen.
With a deep breath, Pein continued. "Orochimaru is going against Rain -"
Yes, I felt my muscles tighten at his name, and I could tell Sasori looked irritated. But I just knew that this isn't the worst bit...
"- And Rain is forming allies with Konoha."
End of recap...
"Nii-san." I sighed. "I know joking isn't your thing, but don't you think that you're trying so hard?"
I could practically HEAR the room tense... I'm guessing no one has ever questioned their Leader's joking skills.
His heated glare made no effects on me. Sure – I was quite crept out... But we're siblings...
"Sakura," Pein replied, his voice full of authority. "I'm not... joking... Orochimaru has gathered dead people and turned them into somewhat alive yet dead."
Sasori stiffened next to me when his ex partner was mentioned.
"B-b-but! How?" I demanded.
"It started out like this ..."
Flashback...! [Normal POV]
"Tsunade-sama! Tsunade-sama!" Shizune's frantic cries echoed through the Hokage Tower, yet again...
"What is it now, Shizune? If it's more bad news, I'm not going to listen." The drunken Godaime growled, gulping more sake than usual... And trust me, that's a lot.
"No, Hokage-sama, this is important!" Shizune pleaded.
Tsunade felt like choking on her Sake. Shizune doesn't call her 'Hokage-sama' unless it's a proper emergency.
"W...What?"
"Akatsuki Nagato is outside the gate! All Rookie 9 and most ANBU's are there! If he's coming for an attack..."
"We're doomed." Tsunade finished, her Sake forgotten. "What does he want?"
This time, the dark haired assistant gulped loudly. "He wants... To speak to you."
"Well? What are you waiting for? Bring him in!"
Shizune's eyes were as wide as saucers, staring at the blonde Sanin in utter shock. "B-but, Tsunade-sama h-"
"I don't care! Just bring him here!" Tsunade snapped, her palms slapped her desk, causing it to break.
"H-hai, Lady Tsunade."
A few minutes later, a man, about 5'11 walked in the room. His red hair reaching to his neck and piercings struck all over his face. But the scariest thing about the man? His cold, dark eyes. He wore his Akatsuki robe with pride; that was obvious.
A large group of ANBU's, Jounin's and all alike were crowding around the victim.
"Leave us." Tsunade ordered coldly.
"But -" One protested.
"Leave."
All the shinobi's left the office in fear of the wrath of their Hokage.
After minutes passed by, the silence was too much to bare for the half drunken Tsunade. "Yes? And what was so important that you had to come HERE?" She sneered.
"I have a proposal for you." Nagato replied in a monotone, making the pig-tailed Godaime narrow her eyes at his calm state.
"And what... proposal do you have in mind?" Tsunade barked, flushing in anger.
Nagato though, remained unfazed by her temper, seeing as he was used to his little sister loose composure easily every day.
"I want Konoha to become allies with Ame." He stated simply.
Tsunade just gaped at him with shock. She was really speechless. Okay, maybe speechless was an understatement... She was stunned into silence.
When the amber-eyed Godaime finally regained her voice and growled. "So what? You can easily get Naruto?"
"Maybe we can have a compromise."
"...Like what?" Tsunade asked, her anger slowly ebbing away.
"We will not go after the Kyuubi container for four years and we will protect Konoha with our life. This promise will stop in that four years."
"And how am I supposed to believe that?"
Nagato stood emotionless, raising an eyebrow. "You have my word."
" 'Your word'...?" Tsunade said blankly. "YOUR WORD? SINCE WHEN DID S-RANKED CRIMINALS KEPT TO THEIR PROMISE?" She roared.
"I always keep to my promise." Nagato stated coldly. "I will make the Shinobi Oath."
Tsunade blinked, disbelieving... "Fine."
She stood up and grabbed a empty piece of paper. As Nagato walked to her desk, Tsunade quickly took out a kunai. She quickly sliced Nagato's wrist, causing the blood to drip onto the white paper.
Tsunade carefully did the same to herself, the process repeating as the blood mixed with Nagato's.
Doing handseals, the Fifth Hokage touched the paper making it form into small dust and sprinkle around the room.
"There. The Oath is done. Remember Nagato – fail to comply to the promise will result in your death." Tsunade reminded.
"Hai. We will arrive in Konoha in three days. And may I request a place to stay?" Nagato asked politely, though his 'cold' aura didn't change.
Tsunade scowled in reply.
Nagato knew his answer, smirked inwardly, then disappeared in a swirl of red leaves...
End of flashback!
"SO WE'RE GOING TO KONOHA, NOW?" I yelled, making everyone in the room jump a bit.
"Yes, Saku. We are." Nagato answered calmly.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN US BEFORE?" Was my great retort.
"Because I felt like you didn't need to know."
"Man, they're so alike, aren't they, yeah?" I heard a certain sarcastic blond whisper.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" I shouted towards Deidara.
"N-nothing, yeah..." He said, putting his hands on either side of him. "She's so scary..." He muttered the last part.
Giving him my deepest, darkest, glare (that might have caused him to pee in his pants, might I add), I turned my attention back to my brother.
"So... We're leaving, like, as in, now?" I asked.
"Yes."
"So why are we still here and not getting ready?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
I groaned and so did many others. Rising from my seat, I walked to my room slowly, not wanting to face those backstabbers again...
XxXxXxX
"FINALLY, WE'RE HERE! THANK YOUUU JASHIN-SAMA!" Hidan's voice echoed through the closed gate of Konoha.
"Why's the gate closed, yeah?" Deidara asked.
"They probably think that we're going to ambush them or something." I replied, my voice void of emotion.
Basically everyone stared at me, wondering what the hell just happened to my bubbly, carefree attitude.
Nagato coughed to get our attention. "Put your hats on." He commanded, before walking over to the gate and … knocked?
Yes, he knocked on the huge gate, causing the echoes to bounce.
I could faintly hear mumblings and applied chakra to my ear...
"...-suki's here. Inform Lady Tsunade." Izumo said.
"I don't know why she's doing this... I don't trust them!" Kotetsu growled.
"I know, but Tsuande-sama does, so we'll have to. Open the gates."
The tall gates swung open, revealing the guards and about ten ANBU's. None of them recognizable.
"Akatsuki – we are escorting you to the Hokage. If there are any signs of threat, we will not hesitate to kill you." A tall ANBU said. Even with his cloak on, I could tell he was sort of burly.
"Psh, as if you can." Hidan grinned cockily whilst Deidara nodded and smirked in agreement.
I saw some ANBU's twitch but did nothing. They turned and walked away, one (who might have been the Captain) said, "Follow us and heed our warning."
I heard a scoff – most likely Deidara, but with the Akatsuki, you'll never know.
As we trailed to the Hokage's tower, I could feel the glares I received. I could hear the 'whispers' as we passed the citizens.
"I hear she tried to kill Karin-chan." One old lady whispered.
'Karin-chan?'
'Bleh, she must have sucked up... AGAIN!'
"Really? I heard that she was kicked out because of her forehead!"
'WHAT DID THEY SAY?'
As soon as Inner began ranting, I heard Kisame grin and nudged Itachi, who just scoffed at him.
Sasori raised an eyebrow, whilst Deidara and Hidan just laughed their asses off like there was no tomorrow.
Kakuzu was grumbling something about money (big shocker there), Konan frowned and Nagato scoffed, whispering to Konan, "You should have seen it when she was a child."
Zetsu, on the other hand, was completely oblivious to the gossips and was drooling in front of little kids... Uhm... I didn't know whether the kids were scared or interested...
After a slightly scared feminine ANBU ordered Zetsu to 'move on', we continued our pace until the Hokage's Tower came into full view. So basically, we were standing in the front entrance.
We were forcefully lead in – walking up the stairs until we were face-to-face with the brown, wooden door that I could break with a single poke.
"Come in." I heard my ex-mentor call.
I composed my face, making sure that I didn't reveal a single emotion in my eyes. Not that you could see my expression though... Our hats were still on.
I stepped onto the big office.
'Oh great, what a big surprise.'
'Tell me about it!'
I was infuriated. The whole Rookie 12, Sai and Karin was also in the office, looking uncomfortable and slightly agitated. Good.
"Akatsuki," Tsunade began, sitting behind her desk. Her hands linked and tucked under her chin. "Let me give you some rules.
DO NOT go in the Hokage's Tower without permission, attack any of Konoha's citizens/shinobi during the four years reign, betray Konoha, steal/take advantage of the citizens or blackmail the people. Do you agree to this?"
At the end, I could hear Hidan's yawn and the shuffling from the Konoha nins.
'This is going to be fun.'
"Yes, we do." Nagato spoke smoothly, on behalf of the other Akatsuki members.
"Good. Now reveal yourselves." Tsunade ordered.
I could feel Nagato-nii's glance at everyone, so one by one, each person slowly slid off their straw hats to receive hateful glares sent along their ways.
I sighed and took off my hat; seeing my 'friends' expressions made me want to laugh.
Naruto's POV:
The moment I saw Sakura-chan's stoic face, I knew that we did this to her.
I would blame Karin, but it wasn't just her that caused this.
Anger raged in me and I could feel Kyuubi acting up; this wasn't good. I needed to control my emotion or this will end up bad.
I felt a warm hand on my shoulder. Hinata. She gave me a small, beautiful smile before turning her attention to Akatsuki.
''Come on kit. Let me out. I'll give you your revenge... I'll shed their blood, hear their screams...'
'NO! I WILL NOT TURN INTO SASUKE!'
Speaking of Sasuke, I looked over to his direction, noticing (A/N: Haha, for once!) his tense posture. He was glaring forcefully to his brother that can make any normal person peeing themselves.
Karin was trying to get Sasuke's attention – but failing miserably. She frowned and sent a weak glower at my ex-team mate. Sakura noticed this and gave her The most scariest glare back. Sasuke's glare doesn't even match it!
Sigh. 'Sakura-chan... What happened to you?'
Sakura's POV:
Karin's whimper made me want to turn my straight face into a sadistic grin – but I managed to conceal it.
Just because we're now alliances, doesn't mean I can't treat them like enemies, right?
"Hokage-sama," I intervened, ignoring the frowns and grimaces at the new title. "Where are we staying?"
"I'm going to split you up -"
"No. We'd like to stay together," I interrupted, growling at the thought of 'splitting up'. Akatsuki was my family, no way was I going to let them go!
Tsunade frowned at my words, her eyebrows knitting together. "Oh? Fine. You will get a house. Here are the keys." And with that, she handed Nagato a palm size yellow key.
"How the hell are we supposed to get there, when we don't know where to go, bitch?" Hidan demanded.
I giggled, whilst Deidara laughed. Kakuzu sighed and everyone else remained stoic and irritated.
I saw Tsunade's fingers twitch at Hidan's new name for her.
'PUNCH HIM, PUNCH HIM, PUNCH HIM!' I chanted.
'Heh, whatever happened to 'Akatsuki was my family, no way was I going to let them go'?'
'Uhh...'
"Anyway..." Tsunade took a deep breath, composing herself before she literally punched Hidan into a bloody pulp. "Rookie 12 will escort you there. I assure you know where you're going?" She asked Rookie 12.
They nodded hesitantly, half of them looked very uncomfortable.
"Good. Dismissed."
'Oh great, we're stuck with ungreatful bas-'
"SHIKAMARU!"
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