I Do Not Own Naruto

Chapter 28

"It's not Sakura, the chakra is wrong and according to the pelvis those remains are male. My guess is if you found Sasori this would be his partner, also there's this contraption," Ino said calmly as she handed Naruto an odd metal contraption, one they all knew Deidara wore for his battles. Naruto didn't know how to feel about this now. Sakura had gone and taken out two Akatsuki members with the aid of an Uchiha. It just didn't make sense to him.

"Kakashi, we found evidence of the chidori and there's only one other who wields it," Naruto informed his sensei and leader and friend. Kakashi paled slightly if that was possible. Sai frowned as he walked over to Ino and the others blanched. It was understandable for the implications…they were bad. Rogue ninja bad.

"That doesn't mean anything, Naruto, Ugly could have been escaping," Sai defended and Naruto nodded numbly because he so desperately wanted to believe what Sai was proposing. But it was impossible, what he had seen there in that canyon spoke of teamwork. And strangely expierence.

"Forehead always has a trick or two up her sleeve, I doubt she's in league with an Uchiha. Besides, she's too proud to help an Akatsuki member, no matter what, she loves you too much Naruto. You're the annoying brother she never got," Ino said firmly. He looked at Sakura's best friend and for some reason the conviction in the silvery blonde's words were soothing to him in a way. There was a possibility that Ino was right because after all Ino knew Sakura the best out of all of them. Those two were practically sisters from their rivalry to their protectiveness of one another, they both were good friends with Hinata too.

"We just need to find her, Gaara have your sent out scouts?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes," the redhead replied.

"Call them back, I'll track her," Kakashi said firmly.


Kakashi stood outside on the roof of the Kazekage's office staring out at the desert. Of all his students he hadn't ever paid much attention to Sakura, she was just independent and did not need the attention like Sai or Naruto did. Honestly though he had cared about the determined, stubborn, secretive pinkette the most out of all his students, she was rather like a daughter to him and a daughter he had never and would never have. Sakura reminded him a great deal of Rin too but that was a different matter. What concerned him was that his sweet, yet terrifying, medic-nin student might be mixed up with the Akatsuki. It was not a pleasant thought because Sakura was such a…do-gooder. Yep, she was a do-gooder and any member of the Akatsuki was not.

But in his mind there was a special place in Hell reserved for the Uchiha brothers.

Uchiha Itatchi, childhood prodigy and a pride of the Uchiha clan and the Leaf. Itachi was a quiet, even tempered young man who had been polite and very protective of his little brother. So it had shocked the Leaf when the Uchiha massacre happened at Itachi's hand. It was very unsettling but Kakashi knew there was something else the Uchihas hadn't revealed, they were a secretive set of people by nature. They liked to play everything close to the vest in that sense. But there was something different about Uchiha Itachi, there was something a little more dangerous about the elder of the brothers that Kakashi couldn't put his finger on.

But Uchiha Sasuke, there was a real threat if he had ever encountered one. The first time he had ever come across the boy since he had disappeared at the tender age of five, a few months after the massacre, he was thirteen. And he had been far more dangerous than any other Uchiha Kakashi had ever heard about. Even Sasuke's ancestor Uchiha Madara did not have the prowess or the raw ability the boy had. To Kakashi the younger of the Uchiha brothers was definitely the most ruthless and merciless and lethal of the brothers because he had a feeling no injury could stop the Uchiha and no jutsu could stop him.

Yes both brothers were dangerous, and where you found one the other was usually close by. It was known that Sasuke was an Akatsuki enforcer, a dangerous one too, and was Itachi's right hand, trusted, man. Though this was all speculation honestly, no one could confirm nor deny what the Uchihas were but it was a reasonable assumption with how close the brothers had been. They had been inseperable when they had been children, he remembered seeing a young Sasuke grinning as he was carried piggyback style by his older brother.

With a memory like that in his mind it was difficult to see how they became the Akatsuki.

But now there was a problem. Haruno Sakura. Though Kakashi had long since suspected the girl of keeping secrets he could now understand what she was hiding. Whenever they ran into Uchiha Sasuke she always tried to get him away from the group. Oddly enough he remembered the raven haired Uchiha following his apprentice often enough and Sakura returning with some bruises. But she was the best evader he had ever seen, she even passed Tsunade in her evasion skills, so he hadn't thought anything about it. Still a few things were coming to light for him and were now making sense about his apprentice. But at the same time nothing about this made sense.

Just what was Sakura up too? What was she into? Was the Uchiha blackmailing her or coercing her? It was no secret she was protective of Team 7 and he had no doubt an Uchiha, in a rage, could pick them apart so was that it? Was the Uchiha threatening their Team? Or was she an aid of the Akatsuki sent to infiltrate the village and kidnap Naruto?

He immediately dismissed the last thought because Haruno Sakura could never be a spy, all her emotions were expressed. However this didn't mean she couldn't keep a secret.

Kakashi sighed as he stared out at the desert.

Just what the hell was Sakura doing working with Uchiha Sasuke!?


Alright, it occurred to me that while the people who read my Inuyasha stuff know this my Naruto readers might not. The reason the chapters are short is because I carve thirty minutes out of my day to type up a 1000 words or there abouts for a chapter. I don't have time for much more because I have to hunt for this time to write but I try to at least write one fanfic a day, some days I can carve out an hour and others I have a few hours to kill. But when I have a few hours to kill I usually work on my original works so it rarely happens that I sit down and dedicate a day to fanfics, I'll do that for my originals. I just thought you all should know, this my seem long but If I have time I'll mesh chapters together and it won't seem as long, it's the word count that matters not the amount of chapters. But that's all I have to say on the matter.

Anyways... off to eat then go to work!

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Healing Pain! =)