I was panting heavily. I was so close to Suna I could taste it. I left hours after the team did. Nobody is aware as far as I'm concerned. It's been pretty much 3 days. I've pushed myself and filled myself full of soldier pills. I'm surprised I didn't catch up to them myself. But I did notice odd chakras around. The sand was blowing harshly, my eyes hurt fiercely, I'm so thankful for my bandanna. I kept running and running. Just waiting wouldn't settle with me. I'm going to get in the deepest shit for this. I sighed, I could see the walls coming up, I couldn't explain the feelings that were flowing through every atom in my body. Faster, harder, I pushed past my limit, I've been running for almost a whole day straight now.

Temari was at the gates. In a tower. She saw me coming, she pulled out her fan and jumped down to confront me.

"Stop!"

"Temari it's me! Kawako! Please where is Naruto?"

"Kawako? I thought you were forbidden to leave the village for this mission?"

I was breathing heavily, hands on my knees. Shit. Kakashi must have said something.

"Tsunade was worried and sent me anyways as back up."

"She sent one person for back up?"

"There's two teams out here. She doesn't have many people to spare."

The lies just seemed to flow through my mouth except the last part. I'm sure if I got killed during this Tsunade would be more then happy.

"Please where are they!"

"The took off to the west. Pakkun lead them to the Akatsuki hideout."

I took off with a wave, I searched for a chakra trail which was more then easy to find because Naruto seemed to be leaking it out. He had no control over himself right now. I got worried and sped up.

SASORIS POV

Intense flames came out of my hands fuelled by the scrolls attached to my back. The girl managed to destroy the Third Kazekage. I was forced to use myself as a weapon. It was thrilling. It's been so long since I used myself to fight. A whole new feeling was rushing through me. The girl jumped out and threw a kunai toward me, it melted before it even got close.

"DIE HAG!"

They were jumping around because the rocks they hid behind were melting. The flames caught her but she used a substitution. She randomly appeared sending the Third Kazekage head at me.

"So weak."

The head was incinerated in an instant.

"Like I thought. You attached chakra strings during that fight. But the same trick won't work on me twice. Too bad for you."

Once again flames shot out at the two. The first scroll ran out. I used the water scroll and began to shoot a large stream of water at them now. The rocks began to crack, I twisted my hands forcing the water to use more force. It shot through the rocks themselves.

"Take that!"

I whipped the water around the annoying women. The water scroll ran out.

"How long do you plan on running around?"

My face had a mask of sinister on it.

"Fine, if that's how you want it.."

I shot a large bullet tipped wire out of my stomach, it hit the girl right through the side. It hit the ground and I pulled myself toward them.

"Are you okay Sakura?"

"DIE!"

The blades attached to my hips began to spin as I flew toward Grandma. The girl began to pull on the cord. There was hundreds of feet of wire wrapped inside of me.

"It's futile."

I flew toward the old hag still. I was inches away from her when the girl managed to actually reach the end, I froze in mid air. Glaring at the girl with annoyance.

"TAKE THAT!"

She whipped me around the cave forcing me to fly toward her at a alarming rate, she pulled back her fist. My heart flew out and my body split into all separate pieces. My heart beat, my body began to hover and piece itself back together. Stupid girl. Just a little punch can't defeat him. The horrific look on their faces were priceless.

"Who did you say you beat?"

"I see..."

The hag reattached her wooden right arm.

"..The real fight starts now."

She pulled out a scroll. I knew exactly what she was planning now.

"I thought I'll never have to use it again. But it seems like I have no choice. We'll finish it with this."

The scroll unravelled and the signs began to float off with purple chakra. 10 puppets in white cloaks formed.

"It is said that a puppeteer's strength can be decided by the number of puppets she can control at once. As expected of you."

"So many..Ten puppets!"

Tsh. Idiot.

"One for each of your fingers. I've heard the rumours. Those are the puppets that brought down a castle by themselves... The castle destroyers... The finest puppets ever made. The founding generation of all puppeteers... The Ten Puppets of Monzaimon. Quite the opponents. However..."

I pulled out another scroll from my back. The scroll unravelled in the air and I opened the compartment on the right side of my chest. It glowed with chakra and the puppets shot out of the scroll. the glowing chakra formed into strings and attached to a puppet.

"I brought down a whole country with these!"

It was magnificent, all these works of art, being controlled by me. Such beauty. The looks on there faces. It was extraordinary! It's been so long since I felt a rush like this!

"This has taken to long... I can't keep playing with a little girl and a senile old hag this long. And I even showed you my best puppets. The Hundred Puppets of Akahigi! I'll show you their power."

The girl ran back toward the hag.

"Sakura, the antidote has worn off, stay back."

"I'm sure you already know... my personality."

I cocked my head in amusement.

"Oh yes.. Your personality is just like Tsunade's as well. I'm going to attack now though. Are you prepared?"

"Yes!"

I began to laugh! what a thrill!

"Here they come!"

I sent my puppets after them. My puppets were getting beat quite a bit, but it was nothing to fret I was just getting started!

KAWAKOS POV

I got closer and closer I could feel chakra, my mind and body began to ache tremendously. I kept running toward it. The pain in my head hurt more the closer I got.

SASORIS POV

The hag took quite a few out with a technique using 3 of hers. I had a puppet after the back of the girl, the hag blocked it with another puppet. These two were really getting on my nerves.

"Sakura are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

"Don't let your guard down!"

"Yes!"

Haha stupid hag. I sent a puppet and with skill it sliced her arm. Poison.

"Elder Chiyo!"

"Damn it!"

"Are you alright Elder Chiyo?"

"Don't worry about me. You should try and get Sasori."

"Yes!"

They came charging at me. Yet again futile.

"Sakura! Use it!"

She grabbed something out of the one puppets mouth as I charged her, she dodged but I manged to get another one of Grandma's puppets. Another down. Another.

"Take this!"

She threw the item. It grew into a larger skull with spike teeth. The skull hit me and trapped me against the wall.

KAWAKOS POV

I collapsed, I was so close I could feel it. But the sudden pain hurt so bad my head was tearing itself apart. Flashes of memory were racing through my skull. Nothing was clear but memories of things I never knew were rushing by. Years of memories. Red hair, blonde, white, green eyes, red, blue skin.. Flashes and floods. It hurt so bad. I let out a howling scream. I slowly got to my feet. I stepped slowly toward it. Something in me forced me to move, this fear, this new feeling. It drove me to push, push more! I could see the cave now, I staggered my way to it.

SASORIS POV

I forced my heart out at the last second. It went to the middle of another puppet. I arose once again, a dark red cloak over my head and body. I charged at the hag once and for all. She had no idea. This was it. The girl was running toward us. It was to late. My sword made impact. Blood splattered. The girl made it in time. The sword went through her stomach. Blood slipped out of her mouth.

"Sakura!"

"Elder Chiyo! Are you alright? Can you still move?"

"Still worried about here, even with that wound?"

I pushed on the sword more, pushing it deeper.

"As a medical ninja, you should understand your situation."

"Shove it!"

Her eyes. They reminded me so much of her. The day she fought Deidara, the look in her eyes when I found her. The determination.

"You're a tough kid. But how long do you think you'll last?"

Further and further I pushed the blade. Green chakra seeped out of the wound. She's stopping the bleeding and healing the wound with the sword still stuck in her. She's very skilled.

"I'm okay.. Elder Chiyo.. You take the last of the antidote quickly."

"Sakura.."

"Looks like the poison is finally working its magic. This katana is poisoned as well obviously."

The hag put the antidote in the girl. Naive. When she dies, this girl will be easy to take care of. So thats the antidote, I watched the green liquid go into the girl.

"Why? Elder Chiyo..."

Everyone's choosing death in order to save someone else. How stupid. She held the sword inside her, she used the rest of her strength.

"I'm not letting go.."

I pulled and pulled. This girl.. she's so powerful!

"Elder Chiyo!"

There's no point in trying to over power her, huh? Alright then. I dislocated my arm to show a new hidden sword in the elbow. I jumped back and charged again.

"DIE!"

KAWAKOS POV

I was there, I could see what was happening, Sakura had a sword in her stomach, an old lady was on the ground pretty much dead. Sasori was charging. I could see his other body against the wall. He was really beaten. I could see so many puppets everywhere it was like a war zone. My heart stopped beating, my lungs stopped breathing. I couldn't move. The old lady moved, two puppets shot up with swords. They went straight through Sasori's heart. Purple splattered everywhere. I watched him so closely. He turned his head to see the two puppets. The one puppet had the same hair as him. It couldn't of been.. The two first puppets he ever made... His parents.

"You let your guard down at the very end... Sasori."

I wanted to run down, force Sakura to save him. Everything that has happened was running through my brain. I remembered it all. The kiss, the fights, the doll the bandanna. I could remember Deidara, Hidan, Kakuzu, Kisame, Itachi. Tears were rushing down my face, I pulled down my bandanna I couldn't breath. I was frozen while memories where still rushing through.

"Now you can't move. It makes sense. No matter how much of your body is a puppet, you still use chakra therefore, must have a living part somewhere. Your only weak point. And the only thing missing from that empty shell you left must have been that part. It must have been right before my technique took full effect. You transferred it to another puppet. Your puppet bodies are just that, puppets. Your true form is the part that houses your chakra, the living core in your chest!"

Sakura fell over, the sword still in her. I was getting more control over my body. I began to inch my way to them. The old lady pulled the sword out of her. Why is she not saving my Sasori! WHY! I inched closer and closer. They spoke, I couldn't understand them though, I was focusing to much on moving. The pain in his eyes. I could see it clearly. Sasori... Please... You promised me!

"Sasori..." I whispered, my heard throbbed just doing so.. Sakura got up and punched him in the face, the side of his face cracked. My blood boiled, I inched faster, rage pumping me faster.. That bitch! I froze I could hear him now.

"..I feel nothing in this body. If she died, my family, my blood, I would feel nothing. It's simpler this way."

"Don't you know what a life is? A family?"

"That isn't how a ninja should talk."

"Is that the only way you can look at the world!"

He was lying. He had to be. He was playing a game with them, to not show fear, to be the man he brought himself up to be. He knew it all. He told me, he showed me.. More tears fell down my face, my breathing was heavy. I blanked out of hearing for a moment but then refocused my hearing once more.

"What the hell are you?"

"If I had to choose, I'd say I'm a human who couldn't completely become a puppet I guess. I exist as a puppet but an incomplete one with a living core. Not a person but not a puppet either. I'll be dead soon."

I blanked out of hearing again as I made my way down the large crater. He fell to the ground.

"NOOOO!"

I ran now, crying tripping over boulders, bodies and weapons.

"No! No! No! Noo!" I fell to my knees by Sasori's head.

"Sasori! Noo!"

"Kawako?"

I ignored the pink haired girl. I heard the old lady shuffle.

"You promised me Sasori.. You said you couldn't die! Sasori!"

"Ka..wa...ko..."

He had the slightest amount of life in his heart. I pulled his head into my lap crying my heart out.

"You can't do this to me. You promised you would come back! You told me..."

"I..lo..ve...you..."

I felt him leave. I felt it fade. I felt my body die. I felt my heart crumple into a dark spike pit.

"I love you too. Sasori no Danna.."

I cried over his head. I couldn't believe it. I get my memories back in time to see him slowly die in front of me. That pink haired bitched killed him. She slaughtered him.

"Kawako.."

I heard the old lady talk. She had her arm stretched out. I looked over, eyes red, puffy, sniffling. It shined. It was his necklace. The blue scorpion. I got up setting him down lightly. I took it from her and dangled it in my hand. It shined brightly in the sun. Sakura was watching me.

"Kawako.. It's true?"

"No.. He saved me... I was going to die.. He saved me, many times. I kept running into him.. He.. He was a good guy. I loved him. He didn't tell me about his group, I didn't tell him about Konoha. We fell in love, he had to come here.. I was on my way home a long while back, Kabuto kidnapped me.. Sasuke almost killed me. Sasori.. He saved me... I spent the rest of the time with him.. Till.. He wiped my memories and sent me home..." I fell to my knees crying from all the memories, everything that happened. I couldn't believe I just told Sakura, who wasn't even my friend everything. I told her everything that could get me killed.

"Sakura..."

The old lady coughed..

"Sakura.. He really was a good boy. Please. Keep that story to yourself. Forever, no matter what."

I looked at the old lady, why.. Why was she helping me...

"Sakura.." They could barley hear me. "..Think if Sasuke was killed in front of you..."

He eyes widen and she looked down, staring at Sasori, then the pendant in my hand.

"We should go find Naruto and Kakashi.."

"They are chasing a blond guy aren't they?"

"Yes.. You know him too?"

"Yes. Deidara. But go.. Please Sakura... Don't say anything.. I'll follow you soon."

She nodded and helped the old lady up, they took off after Naruto. I sat there, looking at the puppet. I stroked his hair as he laid there more lifeless then usual. Long moments passed when I finally stand up.

"Sasori.. I love you. I will get you back..."

I pulled the swords out and the heart out of his body. I hid it in a spare scroll I keep in my arm pouch. I'm going to find a way to bring you back. I'm going to find somebody with Rinnegan.