A/N: It feels like forever since I last updated. Sorry for the wait, the battle scene was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, and I'm still not quite sure if I like this chapter or not, but it's important to the plot and stuff. So anyways, I hope you guys enjoy the next chapter of It Was You.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the song This is War by 30 Seconds to Mars
Chapter 12: This is War
Raw anger built up inside of Sasori as his chocolate eyes focused on his old partner from the Akatsuki. Everything about him was exactly the same. The long black hair, chalk white skin, snake like golden eyes, and the creepy serpentine tongue that flickered out of his mouth from time to time. He sickened Sasori just by standing there looking smug while observing the puppeteer like he was his prey. Too bad Sasori was not someone who was intimidated easily.
The sannin was standing directly behind Kabuto who gasped in surprise and quickly leapt back out of harm's way. The silver haired ninja landed beside Sasori while forming a chakra scalpel that coated his lower arm with icy blue chakra. It was making a strange humming noise that would have easily annoyed Sasori, but luckily the red head's attention was absorbed in more important matters at the moment.
"What are you doing here, Orochimaru?" Sasori asked calmly. His initial surprise at the sannin's sudden appearance had faded, and he was once again looking as emotionless and in control as before.
The sannin smirked. "I'm just here to oversee some unfinished business." His slitted eyes shifted over to the silver haired ninja beside him. "And I was curious as to why Kabuto decided to run off on me in the middle of the night."
"So you followed him all the way to Tenchi bridge." Sasori concluded, his eyes narrowing in anger.
"Precisely," Orochimaru agreed with a smirk. "Actually, I have been wanting to thank you for quite some time now. You're the one who sent Kabuto to me, and he's been very handy to have around."
Sasori didn't respond, instead he pushed himself away from the rail and noticed how Kabuto tensed slightly at his sudden movement. It wasn't very strange that Kabuto was wary of him since he was one of the most powerful ninja in the world, but the way he did it reminded him of a guilty animal. Not to mention the fact that his eyes shifted nervously towards him every now and again. Something was definitely up.
Thinking back on their recent conversation, Sasori thought it was strange that Kabuto hadn't been aware of the sannin following him. Especially since Kabuto was his best spy, and could've easily thrown Orochimaru off his trail. Sasori stilled as the realization of the matter dawned on him. Kabuto was going to betray him!
"Lord Sasori, please cover me while I draw Lord Orochimaru away." Kabuto requested as he lifted his chakra scalpel arm out in front of him.
After many years of being an S-ranked criminal, Sasori could sense his spy's bad intentions towards him before he'd even began to move. In less than a second, Sasori had gathered chakra to his feet and had back flipped out of reach just as Kabuto swung his arm around to meet empty air where Sasori had been standing only a moment ago.
Sasori chuckled at the bewildered look over the silver haired ninja's face. "How sad, I do believe you've underestimated me, Kabuto."
"How did you-?" Kabuto began only to stop mid-sentence. "What gave me away, Lord Sasori?"
"It's simple really." Sasori's eyes flashed angrily at Kabuto, causing him to flinch out of habit. "My best spy wouldn't allow himself to be so easily followed. You could have easily managed to escape from Orochimaru's pursuit despite the fact that he is a sannin. Plus you've been acting more pathetic than usual."
The wind stopped, and everything settled into a tension filled silence once more. Kabuto righted himself and stepped back to stand next to Orochimaru, giving a look of new found respect towards the red head who glared at the two a reasonable distance away.
Sasori didn't care so much over the fact that Kabuto had betrayed him than the fact that Orochimaru had beaten him again. In fact, he'd been expecting something like this to happen anyways. However, Orochimaru had taken his spy, and that was something that didn't settle well with the furious puppeteer. Before the day was over, he wanted both of them dead at his feet, and he would do anything to see it happen.
"Why, Kabuto?" Sasori asked, not really caring, but he was curious as to why he'd betrayed him nonetheless.
"I empathize with Lord Orochimaru's ideals." Kabuto answered truthfully, glancing at the sannin who still was watching Sasori with an interested gleam in his predator like eyes.
There was another moment of silence before Orochimaru stepped forward, making Sasori tense up. He'd seen firsthand what Orochimaru was capable of, and after being his partner for many years, he knew that out of the two of them, Orochimaru was the more powerful and experienced, as much as he hated to admit it.
"You know, I've been wondering what those two chakra signatures were over there," he pointed to the spot where Deidara and Sakura were currently hiding in the bushes. "Their chakra feels familiar, but if they're friends of yours, Sasori, you should invite them over to join in on the fun."
Cursing under his breath, Sasori formed a tiger sign behind his back and waited for his companions that appeared on both sides of him, looking anxious about the situation they were in.
"As much as I would like to fight the friend of the nine-tails and Deidara of the Akatsuki, I think that this fight should be just between us. Don't you agree, Sasori?" Orochimaru asked with a sly grin on his face as he vanished from where he was once standing. His chakra signature was heading off in the opposite direction from where they'd come from.
Without wasting any more time, Sasori set off after his old partner, leaving Sakura and Deidara behind on the bridge with Kabuto.
Flashback
It had taken weeks to recover after the using the forbidden jutsu on himself. Even though he couldn't feel physical pain anymore, Sasori was still exhausted mentally and his chakra had been all used up, which formed a new problem as soon as he felt the need to move and found that he couldn't in his new body. He would have to use chakra threads from now on to move his wooden limbs.
He'd practiced endlessly until he'd gotten a feel for it. Then one afternoon he knew instinctively that it was time for him to go. It was time to leave this retched village behind once and for all.
Looking at himself in the mirror in his room, he found empty, chocolate eyes staring back at him, and wooden limbs that resembled arms and legs. Then at last his eyes came to rest on his container that replaced his heart, the one human organ that he couldn't rid himself of. It frustrated him that it would be a huge weakness during a fight, but there was really nothing he could do about it.
Later that night, the fifteen year old Sasori stood on top of the Kazekage tower with Crow, Black Ant, and Salamander at the ready. The third Kazekage was already there with a grim expression on his face which told Sasori that he'd read the letter he'd sent to him earlier that day. His legendary iron sand crackled and swished back and forth the air above him a word they fought, but in the end Sasori had come out of the fight victorious. However, he'd just barely made it out of the village before his chakra had run out. Then he spent the next two days fighting off Anbu level shinobi until he'd escaped from Wind country.
It annoyed him that he'd left his favorite puppets behind when he'd fled for his life, but he wasn't puppetless for much longer when he turned the Kazekage into one of his first human puppets. It'd taken lots of time and effort, but it'd been worth it. The third quickly became his favorite puppet, and no one stood a chance against the puppeteer whenever someone had the audacity to challenge him. The end results for his opponents were always the same, and the most challenging ones were soon turned into human puppets that were added to his growing collection.
Many came to know of his name, and soon the Akatsuki heard of his growing popularity and decided to recruit the puppeteer. Sasori had been pleased at this and quickly agreed to join.
Sasori was soon paired up with Orochimaru, and for the most part they ignored each other. Yet as time passed and Sasori learned more about the sannin, he began to look up to him. Orochimaru and him shared numerous interests, and the most important one was their obsession with immortality.
For Sasori, it had been easy to get along with Orochimaru, and he enjoyed having him as his partner since the guy did almost nothing that annoyed him. Yet it all ended after Orochimaru tried to take Itachi's body, and fled from the Akatsuki, leaving Sasori without a partner and alone once again.
The loneliness inside of him flared once more, burning him from the inside out without any mercy.
Emerald orbs followed the red head as he ran off after the sannin. There was a sick feeling in Sakura's gut that was beginning to increase her anxiety as the seconds ticked by. She knew that something bad was going to happen, and she wanted nothing more than to prevent it.
"Hey Pinky," Deidara said in a quiet voice that caught the bubblegum haired girl's attention. "This weirdo is only here to hold us up. As soon as you find an opening, go find Sasori and back him up. I'll take care of the spy, yeah."
Sakura nodded and for the first time looked up and stilled at the sight of Kabuto. The creepy medic ninja was smirking at the obvious shock that flashed across her face.
"Hey there, Sakura. I haven't seen you in a long time."
"I'm kind of thankful for that too, traitor!" She snapped, her emerald eyes blazing with pure hatred. "You're going to be nothing more than a pile of dust by the time I'm done with you!"
Deidara sighed. "Ah, Pinky, you're not suppose to-" The pink haired girl shot forward, ignoring the blond who let out another sigh and prepared a handful of clay spiders. So much for the plan...
The humming noise from the chakra scalpel flew past Sakura's left ear as she darted to the right and attempted to land a nasty punch into Kabuto's side. He quickly dodged to his right, though, and out of her range, landing a few feet away, only to leap into the air to dodge a dozen clay spiders that had been thrown at him.
Sakura anticipated that Kabuto would do this, however, and was already in front of him, ready to deliver to him a painful punch to the face. Her arm snapped forward just as he shifted his position in the air, so instead she hit him with a solid blow to his stomach. He let out a painful gasp as the air was forcefully knocked out of his lungs, and retaliated by throwing a bunch of kunai with paper bombs tied onto the ends which embedded themselves into the bridge a few feet from where Sakura was currently landing.
Her eyes widened in surprise, and she willed her muscles to move, knowing full well that she would die if she stayed in her spot for another second.
There was a loud bang as the paper bombs went off, and Sakura cried out as she was blown off the bridge from the force off the explosion. Now she was free-falling to what was presumably her death, but instead, she landed on something squishy that didn't feel like water or the sharp rocks below.
Opening her eyes, she found herself sprawled out over one of Deidara's clay birds that was taking her in the direction of where Orochimaru and Sasori had went. It must've been the one Deidara had used just this morning when he'd said he was going to run a few chores for Sasori. The bird flapped its wings powerfully, taking them up and over the bridge without difficulty, giving Sakura the perfect chance to yell back to Deidara. "I owe you!"
The bird jerked forward towards the forest, and she could have sworn she heard Deidara call back. "I'll remember that, un!"
The two weaved back and forth as they advanced farther into the forest in a deadly dance of life or death. Their movements were blurred as jutsu, weapons, and taijutsu were thrown back and forth in an attempt to bring the other down.
They finally came to a halt in the middle of a small clearing; however, it was eerily dark since the lengthy tree branches obscured most of the sunlight in the area. The entire area in which they were standing was filled with chakra that radiated off the two ninja's bodies. All the small forest creatures soon realized the danger and fled, scampering away from the two dangerous ninja.
"Well, this is quite amusing." Orochimaru said, while he grinned at the panting red head in front of him. "But even you should understand that what you're doing now won't be enough to defeat me. You haven't even shown me you're infamous puppets yet, or did you forget to bring them with you?"
"Shut up!" Sasori snapped at the sannin, smirking at the look of disbelief that flashed in his golden eyes. "Allow me to introduce you to my newest addition to my collection."
Pulling out the scroll he'd gotten from Deidara only an hour ago, Sasori rolled it open with ease, and summoned the valuable puppets from inside. There was a soft thud as they appeared in front of the puppeteer, and a light grey cloud of smoke masked their identity from the curious sannin. Then placing the scroll on the ground, Sasori straightened back up and lifted his arms, the familiar sky blue chakra threads forming at the tips of his fingers before attaching onto the puppets.
"Tell me, how much do you know about the puppet master jutsu?" The crimson haired ninja questioned the motionless form of his old partner.
Orochimaru chuckled humorlessly, and replied with. "After being partnered with you for a few years, I'd say I know a little about it. Why do you ask?"
Sasori smirked. "Because I just so happen to have the exact puppets that Monzaemon Chikamatsu crafted, the creator of the puppet master jutsu. They were in the possession of my grandmother for quite some time until just recently." The red head was pleased as his words sunk in and Orochimaru's eyes widened in pure shock. The puppets finally became visible to the sannin and puppeteer, and both of their gazes fell upon the puppets that each wore pure white cloaks with high collars. They were still a bit scratched up from Sasori's previous fight with his grandmother and the brat, but they still looked ready for battle.
Getting over the initial shock, Orochimaru chuckled to himself and formed a hand sign. "Excellent! Now let's finish this once and for all!"
Sasori's chocolate eyes narrowed hatefully, but he nodded his head in agreement. "... I can't wait to kill you."
The clay bird descended until it came to a rough stop on the ground which caused Sakura to fly off its back and land ungracefully on the grass covered ground below. Cursing her luck, she pushed herself up and steadied herself before racing in the direction of Sasori and Orochimaru's chakra signatures.
It didn't take long to locate the two, but a new problem came up as she realized that she couldn't even get into the deadly fight unfolding before her. The two S-ranked shinobi were evenly matched, but Sakura's skills were nowhere near their level. She could only stare in awe as the two exchanged one destructive blow after another. Giant serpents and ten white puppets darted across the huge crater the two S-ranked ninja had made from their advanced jutsu and gigantic animal summonings.
Gazing more intently at the puppets, Sakura easily recognized them as lady Chiyo's, and frowned in confusion. Why does Sasori have...? Oh, so that's what Deidara got this morning! He could have at least told me!
Leaping up into a tree, Sakura wrapped one arm securely around the trunk to steady herself as she continued to watch the fight. She still had yet to see Sasori which worried her, but she knew that he was okay since his puppets kept fighting the massive amount of snakes littering the area.
Then out of the corner of her eye, she saw Sasori darting out of nowhere with a sharp, pointed kunai, and in less than a second he was behind Orochimaru and he'd sliced through the material covering Orochimaru's pale arm. Small, crimson droplets of blood fell to the ground.
"Why you!" Orochimaru hissed in outrage.
Sakura tensed as he reached out to ensnare Sasori with some of his summoned snakes, only to end up catching nothing as Sasori fled from where he'd been previously standing a moment ago. "You'll have to do better than that if you want to catch me," Sasori told the enraged sannin, and with that he disappeared from his spot once more.
During the few seconds he'd been visible to her though, Sakura noticed that the insane look had crept back onto Sasori's face once more. Back in the Akatsuki hideout when Sasori had revealed what he'd done to his body in order to gain immortality, his normally tired looking eyes had opened fully, and his once relaxed mood had turned more violent and deadly. It hadn't been very clear at first, but now that she remembered, Sakura felt a sliver of fear pierce her heart as she observed the heated fight from her spot in the large tree.
This didn't look like a battle between two ninja anymore to her. It almost looked like a war between two rampaging demons from the way they attacked each other mercilessly, determined to bring the other to his knees. The amount of chakra they were both sending off was astounding, and Sakura wondered how she hadn't felt it before. It was almost smothering her out of existence it was that powerful. Was Sasori really this strong?
A giant python snapped forward at a group of gathered puppets suddenly, and without any warning the puppets flew forward and delivered over hundred fatal blows to the serpent with their weapons, causing it to collapse to the ground in Sakura's direction. Letting out a gasp, Sakura lunged to the side and let out a cry of pain as she fell awkwardly to the ground. The python had crushed the tree she'd been hiding in a second latter, and the sickening sounds of flesh ripping and tree bark crunching hit the pink haired kunoichi's ears. The ground shook as the tree and snake finally hit the ground with a thunderous boom that made Sakura flinch and let out a terrified whimper.
If she hadn't reacted when she had just a few seconds ago, she would have for sure been killed. The thought caused her to shiver as she got to her feet with her emerald eyes resting upon the dead, mutilated snake and huge scattered pieces of the once huge, towering tree. A disturbingly increasing pool of blood was already forming on the ground from the overgrown reptile.
If this was what was happening down in the massive crater, Sakura could only imagine what Sasori was doing at that very moment. From what she'd seen, he'd taken out this snake that was almost as big as Manda in less than two seconds, and there were several more still down there.
Forcing her trembling body to move, Sakura approached the edge of the crater, and tried to see what was going on. She had no clue as to who was winning, and she still didn't know where Sasori was. From what she could tell, Orochimaru was beginning to look a bit peeved about something - probably Sasori's unknown whereabouts - when out of nowhere he smirked in triumph and began laughing insanely.
Frowning in confusion, Sakura scanned the area below when a flash of crimson caught her attention. The puppeteer was weaving through a crowd of seven giant pythons like the one that had nearly crushed Sakura a moment ago. He was down to five puppets now, but the way he was using them looked a bit odd from how he was using them before. It was almost like he'd gone on the defensive. But why?
Then her confusion turned into a mix of fear and suspicion as Orochimaru called back all his snake summons. Several large clouds of smoke appeared and just like that all the snakes had vanished, leaving the area empty except for the two ninja and puppets.
"It's over Sasori!" Orochimaru called looking quite pleased with himself. He stepped forward towards the puppeteer who had stopped a large distance away. "In another twenty seconds you'll be completely paralyzed!"
Paralyzed?
Glancing at the red head in horror, Sakura gasped at the sight of Sasori clutching his right arm that had turned bloody due to the huge gash where one of the reptiles had gotten him. Sakura's heart beat frantically as she noticed his slight wavering as he fought to remain standing. His chakra strings disconnected to his remaining puppets as his fingers shook unsteadily, and in a last ditch effort he grabbed two kunai and tossed them at Orochimaru who dodged them coolly by leaning his head to the side to avoid them.
The wild look had left Sasori's chocolate eyes, and with a cry of frustration he sank to his knees with his head bowed, hiding his growing anger and desperation that was as plain as day on his usually emotionless face. Orochimaru was only a short distance away from him when Sakura felt her shocked body lung forward. Her legs raced across the dirt covered ground as she ran faster than she ever had in her life until she skidded to a halt in front of the puppeteer, getting into a protective stance. "I.. won't... let you.. hurt him!" She screamed as she gasped for breath.
Her sudden appearance caused Orochimaru to hesitate before he let out a chilling laugh that sent another pang of fear through the bubblegum haired girl.
"... Sakura, get out of here," a quiet voice ordered from behind the trembling kunoichi.
Sakura froze at the defeated sound of Sasori's voice, but not only that. For the first time since they had been traveling together, he had actually said her name. A wave of fresh determination ran through her as those two facts registered in her head.
For some reason, it sounded like Sasori was willing to be a sacrifice in order to make sure she didn't get hurt.
Snatching a cold kunai off the ground in front of her, Sakura's grip tightened as she told the puppeteer, "I'm a kunoichi of the Leaf village. I may not be that great of a ninja, but I will never give up! My ninja way is to protect my comrades, and right now you're one of them Sasori." Sakura's blazing eyes glared hatefully at Orochimaru. "If you want to kill Sasori, you will have to go through me first!"
Sakura lifted the kunai threateningly in front of her before rushing towards the sannin. There was a brief second where Orochimaru's face twisted into a sinister sneer before he vanished from sight. Then without another moment's pause he'd grabbed onto the pink haired kunoichi's arm and swung her painfully to the ground. Sakura cried out in pain as she hit the ground at a bad angle on her left foot. Her raging thoughts came to an abrupt halt as her body registered the terrible pangs of harsh pain that originated from her newly injured ankle.
"How pitiful, even after all these years you're still the same little weak girl that I met in the forest of death." Orochimaru stated, taking pride in the flash of hurt that came across Sakura's face before she winced in pain.
The sannin walked forward and placed his foot on Sakura's injured ankle, allying pressure gradually which caused her to cry out in agony once more.
"Stop hurting her!" Sasori yelled trying to stand only to collapse on his side. The frustration and helplessness was obvious to the smirking sannin.
"And why should I?" Orochimaru questioned, looking amused at the current situation.
Glaring up at the sannin, Sasori snapped. "You only have five minutes to find your valuable medical ninja, and get him to make an antidote for you!"
"What are you talking ab-?"
"You should know better than anyone else, Orochimaru. I'm also known for my poison collection not just my puppets. There was poison on the kunai I cut you with earlier."
Alarmed, Orochimaru stepped back from Sakura who quivered from the pain of her ankle being moved once more. The pale ninja narrowed his snake like golden eyes at Sasori before glancing down at the injury on his arm, only to hiss angrily at the purple like liquid that surrounded the wound. "I'll make you pay for this!"
He stepped forward as if he was going to kill the defenseless pink haired kunoichi, but to Sasori's surprise, he hesitated. It looked like he had just come up with a more appealing idea, and he slowly stepped back from the girl with a mischievous grin on his face before he left in a hurry to find Kabuto.
Sasori glared at the retreating form before switching his gaze to the kunoichi in front of him. "Brat... are you okay?"
Sakura tried to speak, but she couldn't find the strength. The world around her was beginning to fade to black, and even though she wanted to stay awake, she knew it was going to be a hopeless struggle as Sasori's words started to become slurred to her ears. It came as a relief to her when her small frame finally relaxed against the fresh dirt as she drifted peacefully into unconsciousness.
Deidara scowled unhappily from his position in the air on top of his clay owl. The spy had done the cowardly act, and had fled a short time after Sakura had left. Disappointment rushed through him because he'd been looking forward to having a nice fight, but no, the jerk must have decided that he had more important things to do. How irritating!
Azure eyes were narrowed as the blond ranted on in his head for a bit until he remembered that he should be helping out Sasori and Pinky. He reached out with his senses, trying to locate their distinct chakra signatures, but was met with little results. It almost felt like they weren't even fighting anymore.
Thinking that they had probably finished their fight disappointingly early, Deidara commanded his clay creation to move in their direction, trying to locate the familiar chakra signatures of Pinky and Sasori.
Groaning in annoyance, Sasori struggled to move his frozen limbs, but found no progress even after all the effort he put into it. He was now completely paralyzed like Orochimaru had said he would be.
Almost every part of his body ached terribly. He had run completely out of chakra, and had pushed his new human body to the point of exhaustion. Even if he hadn't been hit by the snake's poisonous fangs, he would have been defeated by Orochimaru after another minute of fighting. There was just no possible way of defeating the sannin at his current level.
Sighing, Sasori's chocolate eyes flickered over to where Sakura laid on the ground just out of his reach. It had surprised him that she'd come to his aid since they were still technically enemies. Did she accidentally forget about that important fact? Why did she always have to do such pointless things?
A shadow fell upon Sasori's limp form, and if he was able to move, Sasori would have tensed and turned to face the newest arrival. However, the one that approached sensed the red head's unease and let his chakra flare slightly in response.
"Holy crap, un! What in the hell just happened here!" Deidara exclaimed as he took in the damage around him. He had just navigated through the disgusting maze of dead snakes towards the familiar forms of his down companions, but to Sasori's annoyance he crouched down by his side and started to poke him.
"Hey Sasori, are you still alive? Please don't die; I don't want to be all alone! I'll get stuck with Tobi, and he's so annoying! Come on twitch or something, yeah!"
Sasori stared at the blond with a pissed off look in his narrowed eyes and wanted so badly to kill the blond when he wouldn't cease his torturous poking. The blond knew that he loathed human contact, so why was he doing it now out of all the other times where Sasori had the option of punishing the blond for such foolish behavior? Life just isn't fair, he thought gloomily, rolling his eyes at the situation he was in.
"Yes, you moved your eyes! But can you do something other than rolling your eyes at me Sasori?"
"..."
"Great, I think he's gone deaf, yeah." The blond sulked as he thought out loud, missing the enraged emotion in Sasori's eyes as he turned around to see how Sakura was doing.
Deidara's worried expression made Sasori wonder if everything was alright with Sakura, but the blond quickly reassured the red head. "... Don't worry; I think she will be fine, yeah. But her ankle is really swollen up which doesn't look good. I'm going to call Ryu over, and then find a safe place for us to regroup, alright?"
"..."
The blond raised an eyebrow expectantly, waiting for a response until realization dawned upon him. "Oh that's right you can't hear me, can you?"
Sasori glared daggers at the blond in front of him, sending hundreds of foul curses mentally to the blond who remained perfectly oblivious to them as he sat down and concentrated on contacting Ryu on the other side of the Tenchi bridge. There was complete silence for about fifteen seconds until a loud bellow alerted the two Akatsuki members of the clay beast who leaped into the crater and skidded to a stop right in front of the three ninja.
Grinning, Deidara rubbed the back of his neck while he confessed. "Heh, I didn't think that was going to work, un." He quickly turned around and scooped up Sakura's unconscious form, placing her on Ryu's back before jumping back down to help Sasori up, which had to have been one of the red head's most humiliating moments of his entire life. Deidara was also well aware of his partner's embarrassment, and had on an infuriating smirk that made Sasori's blood boil.
Chuckling at the waves of anger that pulsated of Sasori's limp form, Deidara carefully set him down and sat down in between the two, trying to get as comfortable as possible before he ordered the dragon to take off. Then letting out a short, content sigh, Deidara ordered the dragon to take flight not wanting to have to deal with the dragon's jerky movements on the ground while making sure his companions didn't fall off during the trip.
Ryu let out an excited roar of approval, and snapped open its massive wings, flapping them experimentally a few times. Then the dragon leaped up into the air, and beat its wings downward with powerful strokes until it was gliding peacefully in the cool afternoon air. They're next destination was Rock country, to regroup, and come up with a new strategy.
A/N: Reviews are appreciated, and make me really happy :)
So a lot of you voted for the angel story to be the next Sasori X Sakura story that I'm going to write, and only a few voted for the dragon story, so I'll get started on that as soon as possible and I'll start updating that after I'm finished with It Was You.
Also I just recently made a one-shot of Hidan kidnapping a school bus, so if you're interested feel free to go check it out if you want. It's called "The Bus Thief"
