Hi! Sorry for taking so long to update…Well, I want to apologize again if my grammar and vocabulary is bad. I'll try to do my best.

I'm sorry…this is a very lame chapter. And as you will notice there really has not been a lot of romance so far, sorry. I made this chapter a little bit longer.

I don't own Naruto

A never ending promise ch.3 Adaptation

"Welcome to the Akatsuki", said the leader. "I'll send you your clothes tomorrow, we will have to make some changes in the clothes considering that you are our first female member" Inner Sakura was cursing at Sakura for accepting to be an Akatsuki. Sakura: "Yes, sir" The leader: "Sakura-san, would you mind if you have to stay in the same room as Deidara?" Inner Sakura: "Hell yes!" Sakura: "No, of course not sir" The leader: "Well then, we are all done" Sakura stood up and bowed; she turned around and left the room. Deidara was sitting in a corner waiting for Sakura. It took him a little while to notice that she was finally out.

Deidara: "Why did you take so long, un?" Sakura: "I apologize Deidara-san" Deidara: "It's alright, but why did you took so long, un?" Sakura was not sure if she was allowed to tell the other members that she joined the organization, and even if she was allowed it sounded stupid that a chonin joined the Akatsuki which consisted in S-rank criminals. Deidara stood up and started walking direction to his room, Sakura followed him. None of them talked. Deidara was wondering what exactly would happen to the girl, and Sakura was wondering if she should tell him that she had to stay in his room. "Deidara-san!" called a voice. "Sasori-danna, what's wrong, un?" Sasori looked at Sakura with a disgusting face and said to Deidara: "Is it true that she is our new member?" Deidara looked at Sakura with a "What the heck" expression. Sakura: "Uhmm, Sasori-sama, I um, yes" Sasori: "I was not talking to you!" Inner Sakura: "Man! You really have a bad temper! Grrr" Deidara: "Sakura-san is our new member! I never thought we would have a female member, un… Sasori: "So the rumors are true" Sakura (thinking): "I just came out of the leader's office, and there are already rumors that I have been accepted to the Akatsuki…" Deidara: "So, Sakura, do you know with whom are you going to be paired with, or in which room you are going to stay, un?" Sakura was not sure if she should tell Deidara that she was going to share rooms with him in front of Sasori. Sasori: "Whatever, I hope that you will be useful!" And with that Sasori walked away. Deidara: "I can't believe that our leader wanted you to be in the Akatsuki, un…" Sakura: "Yes, it was hard for me to believe it, too. I mean I'm just a chonin and let's say I'm not that good of a ninja". Deidara: "But I heard you were trained by Tsunade-sama, and that you are a medical-nin, un" Sakura: "Yes, that is true, but still…, uhmm Deidara-san?" Deidara: "Un?" Sakura: "I…umm, the leader said that I was allowed to stay in your room, but I want to ask you if it was alright with you" Deidara: "Well, I don't personally mind, and I have 2 futons anyways, so it doesn't really matter if we share my room, un"

They returned to their room. Deidara sat down over his futon and looked at the ceiling, while Sakura was looking at the pictures in his room. Sakura: "Deidara-san, did you draw all these pictures?" Deidara: "Yeah, un" Sakura: "They are really cool!" Sakura smiled at Deidara. Deidara blushed. Deidara: "I umm, you know, if we have time I can draw a picture of you, un…" Sakura: "Really! I would like that" Somebody knocked at the door. Deidara: "Come in, un!" Itachi entered. Itachi: "Sakura-san, the leader has called you to the main room, you have work to do" Sakura stood up and thought for a minute: "What type of work would he make me do? I hope the leader has not forgot about the deal" Sakura: "Yes, Itachi-san" They left the room. Deidara stayed in the room and slowly he felt asleep.

Meanwhile Sakura and Itachi were going to the main room. It was really far away, even more distant than the leader's office. None of them said a word. Sakura (thinking): "He should already know that I'm in the Akatasuki…he surely looks like Sasuke. His eyes, his hair, his expression…What are Sasuke and Naruto doing right now?" They kept on walking until they entered a giant room with some furniture. In one of the sofas Zetsu was sitting. Itachi: "He has been badly hurt after his mission, your objective is to cure him" Sakura nodded and went were the plant man was. Sakura stared at him for a moment; she has never seen somebody like that. She slowly sat down next to him and looked at his right arm that was bleeding, it was about to fall down. Sakura put her hands on his arm and started healing his arm with her chakra. It took her about an hour and a half to heal it completely. It took almost all her chakra to heal Zetsu. After she finished, Zetsu looked at his arm and said to Sakura: "You are our new member, right?" Sakura nodded. Zetsu: "What's your name?" Sakura: "Sakura, sir" Zetsu: "You are not that useless how they say you are…" Sakura: "May I return to my room?" Itachi: "No, you still have some other members who are injured" Sakura tried to recover her chakra fast so that she has enough for her other patients. She never thought that so many Akatsuki would be that badly injured, would she return the same way when she has to go out for missions?

She looked at her last patient who was Kisame, and retuned to her room. She opened the door and found Deidara sleeping. Sakura: "Sigh, it must be really late" She opened her futon and felt asleep.

The next morning Sakura waked up really late. Deidara was already awake and he was waiting for Sakura to wake up so that they can go to eat breakfast together. Deidara: "Until what time were you awake, un?" Sakura: "I don't remember but it was late" Deidara: "Well, let's hurry up to get breakfast, un". Sakura and Deidara left the room and went to the kitchen. They ate ramen with cold miso. All the Akatsuki members that were in the kitchen were staring at Sakura. Deidara tried to finish his breakfast really fast so that he could return to his room. Sakura was doing the same thing.

When they finished they returned to their room. Over one of the futons there were some clothes. Deidara: "That must be your new uniform, un. Why don't you try it on, un?" Sakura took the clothes and looked at them. They were not as the normal clothes that the Akatsuki's wore. The colors were the same, but it was not a cloak; it was a shirt with some shorts and a long opened skirt (something like Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2). She went to the bathroom and changed into her new clothes. When she came out Deidara was staring at her. Sakura: "What?" Deidara: "I…umm…you look really good, un" Sakura blushed by the comment.

Suddenly Kisame knocked at the door. Deidara: "Yeah, come in…" Kisame: "We have been assigned to a mission, we have to go now!" Deidara and Sakura looked at each other and nodded. They gathered their stuff as fast as they cold and left the room. Deidara: "So, Kisame-san, what is the mission about, un?" Kisame: "We have to go to Konoha, it is believed that Orochimaru is somewhere near" Sakura (thinking): "Konoha?"

In the front door of the building was Itachi waiting for Kisame and the others. Itachi: "Sakura-san, you will have to change your appearance when we arrive at Konoha, we don't want anybody to know that you have joined our organization, is that clear?" Sakura was relieved that she didn't have to show her "real" face to the Konoha residents, she did not want to anybody to find out that she was a traitor. She nodded, but did not transform. She didn't want to waste her chakra at that moment. Itachi understood what she was thinking and they started their mission.

To be continued…

In the next chapter of "A never ending promise" chapter 4 Traitor; during their mission they face up a little inconvenience, Sakura meets up with her former team. Who will win? Sakura or the rest of team 7? And what exactly did team 7 that upset so much Sakura?

I'm sorry if I changed to much the characters… Thanks for the reviews!