Wohoow guys! Early update *-*
Deidara: You're just feeling guilty, un.
Me: *cries* You're right D: I'm sorry for the other late update!
Sasuke: ...*glares at me*
Me: What's up with him now?
Sakura: you're trying to hook us up in another story again, right?
Me: that's right! CHECK OUT MY OTHER STORY CALLED LOVE THEME!
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Sasori: gathered that much.
Me: *runs into an corner and cries*
Sakura felt Deidara's gentle hand resting on the small of her back as he guided her towards one of the tents.
"Try to get some sleep."
With an encouraging smile he pushed her into the tent.
Inside the medic nin fell onto an already readied sleeping bag. On her right side she found a backpack filled up with weapons, medical herbs and other utensils and clothes she had left at the Akatsuki hideouts before she left with…never mind.
Thankful in every way, she got a pair of black shorts out and a tank top in red to change into.
Wanting nothing more than rest, the pinkette was sure to soon fall asleep.
She watched as the blades of the two puppets that were Saso-chan's parents pierced his "heart". She remembered helping him with developing it further. She remembered telling him he had to protect it better. She remembered him not listening.
It hurt.
Badly.
Her one hand flew to her mouth to muffle the scream, the other one covering her eyes from the immense pain that occurred there.
Saso-chan…was gone.
Her hair swept gently in the wind as she watched with horror that Dei-chan had ripped off his shirt and was showing his fourth mouth. The one in the region of his heart.
No, no!
"Stop it…please", she whispered as an unfamiliar moisture ran down her face. She didn't remember crying since…he left.
She knew what would happen to Dei-chan.
It was his final art.
She forced a smile to her lips, protecting herself with a shield of her purple chakra.
"At least you die the way you wished to. Saso-chan's proud, I'm sure."
Her last words were swept away by the loud explosion.
Her body doubled over in pain as she screamed and held her eyes.
4th stage.
Her heart nearly stopped as she watched the Amaterasu flames devour the place where Sasuke and Itachi where fighting.
She couldn't get there yet, she was still with her team.
Her heart contorted painfully, because she knew what would come.
Her body fell on the cold ground as she cuddled herself to his lifeless body.
"Onii-sama…Ita-nii-sama…Don't leave me, please DON'T LEAVE ME!", she screamed at the top of her lungs. She felt a wetness running down her cheek but knew they weren't tears. The almost unbearable pain in her eyes told her.
Having reached up to touch the moisture she inspected her finger tips, as the blood from her face ran down them.
Fifth stage.
Madara let her watch the fight between Danzo-tou-sama and Sasuke.
It hurt when Sasuke almost lost but it hurt even more when she saw the paintings on her father's body.
She couldn't take it and averted her eyes, but screamed nonetheless when she heard the explosion.
She knew how Konoha killed their traitors.
It wasn't a pleasant way to die by no means.
She was flowting in the room where she saw Sasuke bound to a chair.
Her Sasuke-kun…
Then she saw a person clad in a black robe covering his face stepping forward with a sword in his hand.
Poison dripped of it.
She screamed every time the sword was stabbed into her fiancé.
Hearing herself scream, Sakura awoke in cold sweat.
Tears streaked down her cheeks as she hurriedly stumbled out of her tent towards the forest.
Supporting herself on a tree she emptied her stomach.
Tears still blinded her view.
As she tried to calm herself she heard a nearby streaming of water.
Needing a bath anyway she got some clean things and a fluffy towel out of her tent and let her feet drag her body towards the small stream.
Folding her dirty clothes neatly and readying her towel she got into the water.
Diving down a few times she washed and rinsed her body.
After 5 more minutes in the cold water, Sakura towelled herself and got dressed.
Letting her mind find some comfort in an every day routine she washed her dirty clothes in the stream.
When she got back she saw Deidara already making breakfast.
What's up with him and cooking lately?
After she had stuffed her things into her tent, she made herself comfortable next to him.
"Up so early already, pinky, un?"
"Couldn't sleep."
"Gathered that much, un", he grinned at her while patting her head.
A slight pout was visible on her face while she caught his wrist.
"So…Saso-chan's back too?"
A broad smirk plastered itself onto the blond's face.
"Danna's back, un! Even though he still thinks that his art's the best. After dying he should know that mine's the best! Art's a blast! His death was just plain boring and mine was art, un! It was like katsu, katsu and then I was…"
Sakura smiled as she listened only half to Deidara's rumbling.
She had missed that baka.
That moment strong arms got around her and pushed her onto someone's lap.
She giggled. Itachi wasn't one to show affection, but well…she was special.
"Ohayo, onii-sama", she greeted him, still not as cheerful as before being affected by her nightmare's but happy to see him nonetheless.
"Aa…", he mumbled into her ear still half asleep. Normally he would sleep until noon but they were supposed to head out today to get to one of Kabuto's hideouts.
When Kabuto, too, emerged from the tent and pressed a small vile in her hands, one she remembered from yesterday, she drank it without question, missing Deidara's sad and Itachi's hateful glare towards the snake man.
"Good morning, Sakura-chan."
Said girl yawned, feeling better after taking the medicine and smiled at him.
She barely remembered her nightmare now.
"Morning, Kabuto-kun."
"I want you three to travel to one of our hideouts in Earth country. I have some business in Takigakure I'll join you later today. In the hideout, you'll meet a few other Akatsuki members.
Oh and Team Taka's there waiting for you."
Sakura nodded. Team Taka…she smiled at her memories of them but was reminded of an all too familiar raven haired team leader of theirs.
Her body stiffened at the memory.
Itachi, still having her protectively in his arms, tried to comfort her by stroking her arms soothingly.
Sasuke waited stiffly at the gates.
He had his things all packed up after 10 minutes and was at the gates only 15 after they had been dismissed from the Hokage tower.
Thinking he had a long wait at the gates before him, he was surprised to see Neji and Hinata already at the gates, the latter shifting nervously from one foot to the other.
Neji nodded at him in recognition and the shy girl greeted him with a small smile.
"Aa…", was all they got from him, but they weren't angry. They knew it was even harder for him than for them.
After ten more minutes even Kakashi arrived and the team was ready to go.
The silver haired man looked around.
"Since everybody's already there, I guess we can head out", after he had finished half of his sentence Naruto and Sasuke were already off into the trees.
Travelling was hard. Sasuke was constantly trying to push them faster and at some point Kakashi even had to stop him.
"Sasuke, we all know that you want to get to Sakura as fast as possible and have her safe. We all feel the same way. But if you keep that speed up we'll all arrive tired in Oto and won't be able to get information and would have to start tomorrow, but if you slow down, maybe we'll even find something today."
After slowing down Sasuke was glaring holes into Kakashi's back the whole time making everybody back away from him, not wanting to be the one that Sasuke would let his anger out on.
When they did arrive in Oto the slightly exhausted nins let out a heavy sigh but hurried on towards their inn after Sasuke sent them his death glare.
Yes, Hyuuga Neji snatched his girlfriend's hand and made a dash for it, trying to save his ass from the Uchiha.
And yes, people stared.
A lot of people.
The owner of the place they would stay at was a small elderly woman smiling at them the whole time.
Kakashi kept Sasuke purposely in the back so that his unforgiving wrath wouldn't fall onto the nice keeper.
"My, my, what an energetic bunch of young people, we have here! Can I help you in anyway?"
"We need rooms for in total 9 persons, do you have any?"
"Well, let me see…hm…I have only 5 double rooms. Then you would have a bed too much! Oh, what could I do? Shall give you 50% off for that room, hun?", she asked Kakashi with a smile.
"What? No, no. We'll pay for it no problem!"
"Really? Then thank you very much!", she then smiled that sweet smile only old people can and turned towards Shizune as she gave them the keys, "take good care of your husband, he's such a nice and handsome man. But I don't think you have to worry much! You are very beautiful yourself!"
Everyone (except Neji and Sasuke) laughed while Shizune turned beet red.
Arriving at their floor Kakashi stood there with the keys looking a bit troubled.
Excited Ino grasped Sai's hand.
"We'll share a room", she stated after grabbing a key and then hurriedly making her way to a room.
Neji smirked at Tenten while she got a key herself and they went to their room.
"Well, since we're married I think we should share a room, shouldn't we, Shizune?"
Again her head was tomato-read but nodded anyway.
Looking at the remaining three, Kakashi wanted to say something but Sasuke stopped him.
"Single", was the only word he said, then grabbed a key and went into his room, leaving a near fainting Hinata and a stunned Naruto.
"So, I guess we share a room, too, Hinata-chan!", he said while grinning broadly.
Seconds later he had to catch the limb body of the raven-haired girl.
That was one too much for the poor woman.
Their journey towards the hideout was one filled with laughter and constant "hn"s, "Aa"s and "un"s.
Sakura now realized how much she had really missed them.
And when they arrived Sasori and Hidan (who was dug out from a reanimated Kakuzu) already waited outside the lair for them.
Upon seeing them, the pinkette pushed herself from the branch she was on jumping directly into their arms.
"Hida-kun, Saso-chan!", she squealed excited.
"Saks! Fuckin' missed ya!"
A small smile spread onto Sasori's lips.
"Welcome home, Sakura-chan."
"Do you have any information about Akatsuki?", Sasuke's voice was deadly calm, but his Sharingan span wildly because of his rage.
He was in a former base of Orochimaru deep hidden in the earth. He knew that some sound nin were still there, waiting for their master to return and of course still held respect for his student.
"I only know that Kabuto-sama has resurrected most Akatsuki members and f-found Hidan-sama", the man whimpered under Sasuke's hard stare.
Suddenly he was crashed into a wall, the Uchiha's face too near for comfort.
"Hideouts", he hissed.
"O-o-one in earth country and one somewhere near or on Nagi i-island…Another shinobi knows the exact position…he's down this corridor the third door on the left."
The raging raven let go of the poor man and stormed down the hall way.
After brutally kicking in the door, he found himself in a bedroom, a shocked man stopping dead in his tracks.
"Akatsuki hideouts. Now."
Later that day, Sakura found herself sitting on a couch in Akatsuki's main hideout.
Next to her sat Juugo watching her somewhat worriedly.
On the other side were Suigetsu and Karin cuddling.
"So, Sakura-chan, how's life?", Suigetsu asked, trying small talk.
He and Karin didn't get wind of the news yet.
Juugo, whose eyes widened in horror, instead knew already.
Sakura froze, as her eyes started watering.
Strong arms wrapped around her again and pulled her near him.
Itachi had been following her today like a shadow always taking care of her.
"Sheesh, Saku-chan. Everything's fine, right? I'm there", he smiled at her.
Team Taka still kinda freaked when they saw the older Uchiha smile.
That was the exact moment when Kabuto puffed into the room.
Karin shrieked and Sakura hid behind Itachi's arm.
Kabuto's eyes fell on the pinkette.
"You should rest, now Sakura. We will only stay for a few days and then head out again."
Sakura nodded and Itachi brought her to her room.
"Did you get something, teme?", Naruto greeted him after he left the lair and met with his team.
"Aa. Most likely in Earth country. Three days travel. Another one on Nagi Island. Longer."
Kakashi nodded.
"We'll head out tomorrow then towards Earth country."
The group nodded in agreement.
Yeah...as you all now I'm too lazy to proof read...but when this story is over I think I'll go over it again and change it at some point:D (you know mistakes and such)
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