Author's Note:

This is the last chapter in part 2...stick around for part 3.

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Sakura's P.O.V

I didn't speak, waiting for him to continue. I was afraid that if I opened my big mouth, urging him to speak, he wouldn't. So I kept it closed.

Finally, the raven haired man sighed slightly. "Hn. Well, where do you want me to start." He stated, rather than asked, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Umm..." I wondered aloud. Then, snapping my fingers, I spoke, "Back when you were fighting Itachi, you called him a traitor. Why?"

I saw Sasuke visibly tense, before relaxing again. "He... He's the one... Who... Killed them." It came out barely through gritted teeth in a whisper, but I heard it. Loud and clear.

I gasped. "W-What?"

"He slaughtered our parents! Mother... Father... He murdered them!" I was absolutely taken aback by this, that I didn't even remember my bloodied arms. My eyes fixated on Sasuke, I reminisced about the Itachi that I knew at the town. He seemed so calm and mild... Could he have really been this heartless?

"I grew up in the same town as you," He muttered and I mentally slapped myself for not realizing it sooner. Of course we were from the same town! It all fitted together! Sasuke continued, "I was sent to the town's hospital after that... Incident... I killed a man there, even though I was still a kid."

My eyes flashed open. Nawaki... It must've been. So... Sasuke is the one who killed him? Mother's little brother...

"It... It wasn't intentional... Itachi left me mentally unstable... All the blood..." His voice drifted off.

Why wasn't I angry that he murdered my uncle? I should be... Shouldn't I? But I wasn't.

"He..." I knew who Sasuke meant by 'he'. "He came by later that week... Told me to go with him... I was under arrest for murder... But I just walked away... And he... He let me go."

I felt my eyes widen slightly. Why hadn't I heard any of this? Had everyone hidden everything from me all this time?

"I left the town... Met Naruto sometime later. And we formed an alliance... And then a team." It sounded weird hearing Sasuke say 'team'. He always seemed like the more reserved, independent type.

Noticing that this was the end of it, I found myself lost for words. Had all bushrangers had such traumatic memories? Mother hadn't let me see blood until a few years ago... But most of Sasuke's memories were tainted with blood.

I suddenly acted without thinking. Wrapping my arms around Sasuke's masculine frame, I whispered to him, "I... I'm sorry... I know it sounds lame, but I'm sorry... I didn't know..."

I suddenly remembered the cuts on my wrist, feeling the liquid seep into Sasuke's raggedy shirt. Wincing, I felt the blood being drained from me. Fast. Withdrawing my arms from his body, I realized quickly that I was losing consciousness. Using Sasuke's back as a headrest, my eyes fluttered shut.

"Thank... You... For telling me... I can help you... You know I can... Just ask..." Was all I murmured before succumbing to the throbbing in my head and my urge to fall into darkness.


Normal P.O.V

Upon arriving at the Demon Bushrangers' hideout, the young Uchiha tended to the unconscious pinkette's wounds. He mentally thanked his mother for teaching him how to wrap up wounds. But of course it was nothing compared to what Sakura could do.

'If only Mother was here now...'

Coming to the abrupt reminder of the reason why she wasn't here, Sasuke balled his fists, prepared to punch whatever came into reach, when the door opened.

"HELP!" Something launched themselves at the shocked man. They collapsed on the floor and he managed to shove the person off him.

"KIBA! WHAT THE HELL!" Naruto yelled as he saw the brunette on top of his best friend.

"IT'S Not WHAT YOU THINK! Hey Pinky...Ow..." Kiba rolled off Sasuke and nursed the bruise that TenTen gave him.

"Troublesome." Stated Shikamaru as he rounded into the building, barely acknowledging anyone except for Temari.

"Who are you?" Gaara asked in a monotone voice that displayed no emotion what so ever.

"TENNY!" Ino ran to her old friend and dragged her towards the other girls including Sakura..where they all went to the corner of the building and started chatting like no tomorrow.

"ok...cutting a long story short...we are one the run." Kiba explained.

"That doesn't tell ussssss anything." Hissed Anko.

"You're too troublesome Kiba." Shikamaru took a step forward. "You see we were doing exactly as Sasuke, there, had asked us to do. We were spreading the word around the Sakura, here, was kidnapped by them and if they wanted them back they would have to pay up." He said while jabbing a finger at Sasuke and Sakura as he said their names.

"Basically, the Akatsuki waited for us to come in to the village and do our daily cry to the people about the bounty and they managed to capture Kiba." TenTen interjected from the other side of the room.

"It wasn't as if I wanted to...I just was slightly distracted thanks to a..." Kiba's defense was cut short as he saw Sai staring at him. "What do you want! Stop looking at me!"

Sai just smiled. "You seem pretty pathetic, Dog boy..." Just as Kiba was contemplating the idea of sending his dog, he took with him from the store, at the socially awkward man, when Ino grabbed Sai and dragged him down the corridor.

"Beautiful, what are you doing...?"

"Shut up...stop giving people nicknames. People don't enjoy it."

"But ugly doesn't mind..."

Slap.

People winced as the sound of the two's conversation wafted down the hall.

"Anyway." Kakashi tried to get the conversation back on track.

"We ended up rescuing him and eventually made it back to our shops. We collected our essentials and made a break for it. After a while, we realised that we were being tailed so we sent them on a different track and now here we are. Telling you the minor detail would be such a drag." Shikamaru finished off the explanation and took out a cigarette, lighting it before inhaling.

"Do they know we are here?" Kankuro asked.

"They have always known but since you aren't in their territory they couldn't do anything 'till now. I suggest we split up and you Sasuke should take a few of you bushrangers with you, as well as Sakura, and go and see that man."

"Why?...I can't stand that man." Sasuke announced.

"It would be best for the survival of the bushrangers group you have going on here." Shikamaru said while eyeing Temari who was busy chatting to her brothers.

"Hn."

"Since you have a person from their village, they will not stop until they have Sakura back; that includes crossing territories and I bet the Akatsuki are planning something right now."


At the weapon and animal shop outside of the small town.


"WHY THE F*** DO THEY ALWAYS GIVE US THE F****** SLIP!" Hidan yelled, his voice

echoing throughout the shop scaring all the animals that were their cages.

"Shut up!" Sasori was rubbing his temples in an attempt to remove the oncoming headache the loudmouths of the group were giving.

"Don't bother." Konan said as she tippy-toed over to the counter, avoiding dead animals that they had shot.

"Where is Kisame? We need him for the meeting." Pein asked.

"Hn. He is teasing the cats over near the back wall." Itachi sighed as Kisame pulled faces at a tabby that was attempting to claw his face.

Pein was slightly irritated at his subordinates entertaining themselves instead of doing their job. Konan was the only who was vaguely doing something that he wanted done, checking records that were written from the transactions that the company had made. Itachi was studying weapons that were on display but he was respecting them by not touching them. Kisame, Deidara, and Tobi were playing with the animals, while Kakazu was counting the money in the cash register. Hidan was playing the blood of the animals while Zetzu was eating them, Sasori was having a glaring contest with a dingo cross.

"Orochimaru was Killed." Head's turned towards their leader.

"What...did I hear you correctly, yeah?" Deidara asked as he held a bird away from him in an attempt to stop its pecking.

"Finally. Good riddance." Konan said from her position, leaning on the bench.

"So what now? Tobi thinks that we should go and find the place they have gone to...Tobi knows where they are." Tobi flapped his arms as he exclaimed his find.

"Tobi. We know you are just pretending...if you are going to continue just stop the stupid arm actions."

Deidara sighed. Instantly Tobi stopped his flying attempts and the air surrounding him became more calm and calculating. His one eye turned to glare at Deidara who instantly put his hands up in a surrender position. Tobi cocked his head and then continued his previous rant to the horse that was in the barn attached to the building. Pein just shook his head as he ignored the more mentally unstable of the group and continued with his thoughts.

"Tobi is correct. We have been tracking them, thank you Zetzu."

"Your welcome."

"We are to follow them closely but not too close, we need evidence that Sakura is still with them since they have moved to increase their groups size."

"Let them F****** know we are after them...It's more f******* fun." Hidan commented as he sat up from his position on the ground, one leg tucked underneath the rest of his body.

"We shall not. Follow yes. I will decide when to make ourselves know to those bushrangers. We are leaving." Pein turned to the door and headed out with his subordinates on his tail.

As they left, Kisame grinned. 'This is only the beginning. You will be on the run a lot more in the future. Prepare yourselves bushrangers.'