A/N: I am SOO sorry guys! I forgot about my fanfiction account for a while but now Im back! It's Summer, I don't have school, and I'll finally be able to write again. My other stories will be on pause for a little while because I am really going to focus on this story, considering it is my main one. Now, I would like to apologize about how horrible my writing was these past few chapters. My writing style has changed and progressed greatly. The chapters will be longer, better written, and more, how shall I put it, more action packed, suspenseful, and of course, funny! If anyone wants to come up with quotes you would like to see either leave it in a review or PM me. I'll give you credit! Without further ado, here comes chapter 14!

I in no way own Naruto. Nope, not possible.

QUOTE:Hmm, what was that? Did you say I was, was, gay? Well I most certainly am! (Deidara, love ya but couldn't resist that! I also have nothing against gays,bi's, or lesbians if any of you are one!)

RECAP: 'Hmmmm, Sakura-chan seems in deep thought, maybe she saw something I di-'Madara didn't get to finish his sentence before almost bashing his head into a low hanging tree branch. He almost bashed into the branch but quickly used a technique similar to Shisui's therefor not hitting said low hanging branch.

Having developed his own mind jutsu Madara knew how to block his thoughts off. That still didn't stop his curiosity though. Madara decided to ask Sakura about what she saw and 'Inner Sakura' later on.

Madara was broken from his inner musings by someone calling out "TOBI!" he looked towards the sound. It was Sakura telling him they were about five minutes away from base. When they got back they were in for a huge surprise...

CHAPTER 14

As the trio was getting closer to base they began to hear cries of battle and the clashing of weapons. Sakura was the first of the three to get past the tree-line that was blocking the view of what they were missing. Standing on a branch the rose petal haired girl saw the remaining six members battling of legions of Sound nin. One thing imeadiately came to her mind, 'Sasuke and his little posse!' Something else did not cross her mind though. Madara could read her thoughts.

' Another thing to ask about later,' Madara thought as he and Itachi broke the tree-line to stand with Sakura on her tree branch.

Sharing a quick glance they knew what they had to do. About a second later, simultaneously jumping of the branch, they headed into the frays of battle.

Sakura was the first one to spot her targets. It was a group of 6 seemingly rookie ninja, shying away from the battle, hoping they won't be found. 'Shouldn't just stand there, the idiots. They are getting absolutely no mercy. Anyone from the sound village gets no sympathy. Also, because they had the gall to stand there, watch their teammates die, and attack my home!' and with that thought Sakura jumped into the air and used one of her power chakra laced punches right into the middle of the circle they created.

"Watch out RI-" was all the 'leader' of the group managed out before being blown back by the force of the punch into jagged rock, killing him.

Before the others had time to get ready Sakura was already on them, having four dead already, leader included.

' Two to go!' 'Give 'em hell!' Inner Sakura encouraged, fueling Sakura to quickly execute the last two of the group with some shurikin and a few kunai. She wondered how the others were fairing.

Madara was quickly killing of ninja by using his transportation technique. 'These little bastards keep coming! They're easy to kill off but the amount is not decreasing no matter how many we kill!' He looked around to see how the others were fairing. Pein and Deidara were starting to look like symptoms of chakra exhaustion while Konan was currently taking on a group of four. The two immortals were just fine, not surprisingly. Hidan was slashing with his scythe while Kakuzu was impaling people with his tentacles. Sakura just wiped out a group of six and was looking fine while Itachi was showing a hint of pain due to his eyes. Kisame kept getting ganged up upon himself. Zetsu was no where to be found, he was probably out on a recon mission. Madara looked at Pein and shook his head, signaling that they were too outnumbered and it was time to flee.

Pein jumped into the air and used a sign that all the Akatsuki would recognize. The howling of the five wolves. One by one the Akatsuki jumped up an used their own method of transportation to get to the universal meeting area in case this every happened. Madara and Sakura were the last two left in the practical war zone. Madara grabbed a hold of her bridal style and used his space time jutsu to get to the area.

Once everyone was there and accounted for Pein called for a brief meeting.

"We have to travel a bit to cover our tracks so those little bastards don't find us. How they found us this time is still a mystery to me but once I find out, whoever it is is going to pay, and not just leisurely..."

Brief glances were spared and they flitted off into the dense undergrowth in front of them.

*About three hours later*

"We will settle here for the time being. Everyone pick a partner to be with over the course of the next few days. Deidara pick which pair you would like to be with," Pein said in an authorial tone.

"I'll take, definitely not you," To Tobi and Sakura. The only reason being Tobi annoyed the hell out of him and pissed him off horribly.

"Nope, not you two," Deidara said to Hidan/Kakuzu and Pein/Konan.

"That leaves you two," said Deidara to Itachi and Kisame.

"Okay then, you will be staying with Itachi and Kisame until Zetsu gets back. Final order of the day, find an area for you and your partner to stay in until we get to the other hideout," Pein said, finally sorting everything out.

"Hai!" Every member said/yelled.

"Sakura, Tobi, and Itachi, meet me at Konan and I's area. I'll explain what you missed," Pein said, already leaving the clearing towards Konan.

After finding what area they wanted the three gathered to where their 'leader' told them.

Briefly explaining that they had been ambushed by sound nin and saw four standing on a ledge, staying away from the battle, watching, Pein told them the hair colors of them, red, orange, a blue white, and raven black. The one was thought to be Itachi's younger brother, Sasuke.

'This is not the path I wanted him to take,' Itachi thought with a slight bit of anger.

Other than that everything was fine. Pein was going to send someone to get Zetsu when he found the wreckage and got to the meeting area and that was that.

"Thanks Pein-sama!" Tobi exclaimed, already knowing some of this.

"Hn, okay," Spoke one of the remaining Uchiha

"Thanks brother!" Sakura yelled already halfway gone to her and Tobi's area. "I'm going for a walk first though! See you guys later!" and with that she was off into the woods.

' I really need to clear my head. All this is starting to get to me I think...'

' No, it's not. You are just over stressed and that little act Madara pulled ay the tree shook you up a bit. You're fine.I know it and I think you do too since I am basically you,'Inner Sakura encouraged her outer half.

'Thanks, I always know I can rely on you Inner,'Sakura thought to herself, sensing that her inner left the room in her mind.

She continued walking until a presence was found following behind her. Speeding up Sakura got far enough ahead and hid in the bushes.

' It's only me, come out of the bushes,' Madara sent a mental message to Sakura.

Coming out of her hiding spot in the bushed Sakura saw Madara in front of her, mask pushed back behind his head. 'There goes clearing my head,' thought the pink haired beauty.

"Hey! I can hear you ya know! I came to help you and ask you about some stuff!" Madara said, feigning a hurt sounding voice with a grin.

" Before you start your questions, assuming you have more than one, I have one to ask, who gave you permission to follow me?" inquired Sakura, having already formed an idea and how it was executed.

"Fine, after Itachi left I asked Pein if I could follow after you saying you weren't yourself lately. Also, it would give me some time alone with you for some questions," Madara answered in all honesty, ending in a sigh. Sakura noticed the sigh and knew she was in for a questioning.

With a sigh of her own she replied with, "Okay, ask away. I'll answer in complete honesty."

"First off, when we were leaving the camp when we went out on our mission your mind seemed troubled. What was going on there?" There was the first question.

"I saw Sasuke and the three others Pein and the organization saw at the hideout during the ambush," Sakura answered swiftly and truthfully.

"Now that that's out of the way her comes question two, did you see some reaction out of Itachi that I didn't?" Question two, easy.

"Itachi showed some emotion in his eyes that you would have missed if you blinked. Does that answer your question, Madara?"

"Yep! Question three coming at you. This is the last one. What is this 'Inner Sakura' I heard when you first discovered my jutsu leaving the missions area?" Last question, here we come.

"It might not make sense at first but I think it should make sense to you if your smart enough Madara," Sakura said with a wink.

Madara looked at her and sent her a playful scowl. "Throw it at me, I'll make sense of it," Madara said, still keeping the scowl on, but was beginning to grin.

"Okay, here goes nothing... Inner Sakura is as I guess you can say, another half of my personality. She is an inner me if you couldn't guess by her name. Inner was created when I was a child. I didn't have many friends as a child and was bullied often. Inner helped me through it and went dormant for a while when I went into my teen years. She only came when I desperately needed her, or when I was tremendously alone. When I became a member of Akatsuki she was reawakened becuase most likely of the drastic change of lifestyle and is deciding to stay for a while now. She is the tougher half of me. If you ever read into our thoughts you would have heard her, encouraging me in the battle with the six Sound ninja. I have no other way of explaining it besides that so make as much sense of it as you can. I hope it answers your questions," the pinkette finally finished, out of breath.

"That helped alot, thank you. It makes sense. For your information I don't read into your thoughts unless I know something is up or if we are mentally talking," Madara calmly stated.

"Okay, thanks Mada-kun, it also feels good to get this stuff off my chest too," Sakura said leaning into Madara's side.

Like that the two walked into their area. Madara put his mask back over his face and got ready for his act if anyone came.

*15 Minutes Later*

Tobi and Sakura were back at their camp. Tobi sat down in front of a tree and closed his eyes. Just as he was about to doze off Sakura crept up on him and sat directly on his lap. When she landed Tobi let out an 'oof' and relaxed again.

After they both calmed down 'Tobi' began to torture Sakura with her worst weakness that no one knew about besides Pein. Sakura was horribly ticklish. He began tickling he and she spazzed out on him. She was laughing hystericaly. This was thought to be a sound of alarm so the other members came running to the sound.

Once they got there they were amazed to see what was going on. Tobi and Sakura continued this for five minutes while the other members were watching. Finally, unable to take it anymore, everyone broke out laughing.

Sakura and Tobi turned their heads in shock to see everyone standing there.

"Wh-whats going on?" Sakura asked, slightly embarrassed. "Nothing to see here, run along!" She said, giving them a glare that would scare even an Uchiha.

They all left, but not without chuckling.

"Baka!" Sakura yelled at Madara.

"Sorrry! Just couldn't help it Madara said, being himself again.

"Ah, don't worry about it. It's fine." Sakura said with a yawn forming.

"Okay, see ya in the morning Sakura-hime..."Madara said, noticing she was already half-asleep in his arms.

'Have a good nights sleep little one...'

A/N: NEW CHAPTER. COMPLETED. Let me know what you guys think and just no flames please. I'm a little rusty at fanfiction but I hope to get back into it. I already started an outline for the next chapter in my notebook so be expecting it in the next two weeks. Until next time, Ja Ne!