Chapter three is up! I am really really sorry for not updating ASAP! Ahaha my reasons are: one there was a power shut down in our village means no electricity and water supply for freaking 4 days! And my last reason I got sick…(how lame) also for 4 freaking days. At least im back now! Hahaha! good as new. Thank you guys! I am so happy! That you guys liked my story it was touching… hehehe yey! Im back!

"talk"

'thought'

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tell me im dreaming

this could not be happening

you should have died

and yet you're here

standing in front of me

telling me things I should have known

I hate you

Cause your here with me…

Chapter 3: Pink tears

slowly the figure behind tsunade emerged, and the shock look of the kunoichi was priceless, a small smirk tugging from his lips "then let me tell you everything"

the person in front of them was wearing a black shirt and a black baggy pants (a/n: sorry I know I suck at describing things oh well just imagine sasori was wearing like those of itachi's) his robe was missing, it was taken along with his ring and weapons. He was standing there with all his glory, his hair was red like the one with the kazekage a bit messier than gaara's, he was as tall as naruto (a/n: that im not sure) and his face void of emotion.

"you—I how? You should have died!" she was speechless at first but after a matter of seconds she was already angry, she could not believe that he was still alive, 'if he was alive then—chiyo-sama was? No no no!' "you! what did you do to chiyo-sama?" her voice was filled with hatred, she hated this man for making her feel useless, he was just like him making her feel weak. She would kill him, she would volunteer to execute this freaking red head. 'shannaro! Chop his head! yeah!' inner sakura said throwing some punches in the air.

The smirk never leaving his face, he was enjoying the hatred and anger that he could see through her eyes, she was hating him for what? Killing the old hag. She still didn't know, he would be glad to tell her everything. "you wanted to know the truth?" his voice monotone.

"hey hey! Who are you anyway? And what do you want with sakura-chan" naruto was getting impatient so he decided to interfere with the conversation, at first he saw sakura's shocked face as if she had seen a dead person and then she went to aggressive mood, what the hell is going on?

"hn, its none of your business" came sasori's smooth reply. He turned his head to the blonde's direction the smirk never leaving his angelic face.

"why you! im gonna ki—" that arrogant smirk of that red head he wanted to wipe that of off his face, how dare that bastard talk to him like that he would surely kick his ass. And now is the time.

Naruto was charging straight at him, his hand in a ball of fist aim square at his face. 'hah lets see who's the boss now bastard!' sasori did not move an inch he was staring at naruto's face. The smirk still there, he wanted to feel pain, this would be the first time he would feel it, pain. Does it really hurt that much? He never felt that before, he was puppet back then and now he was no longer that same old untouchable puppet. 'human, this is what they called emotions?' he doesn't know why but he was excited to feel the blonde's punch, he cannot wait to feel his punch.

"naruto!" sakura who was lost in her thought saw what was happening, snapped back to reality 'you stupid moron! He's an akatsuki and for God's sake can't you see he's a puppet!' her inner mind was rampaging a dummy, she was imagining it was sasori's face she was crushing (a/n: if anyone of you is wondering about the dummy…its imagination hehe) 'wait how come he…smooth skin, his face looks so soft? Hey I thought his arm has ah—'

'SMACK'

instead of a flying sasori, naruto was the one sent flying, "naruto! You do not have the right to do that to our guest, call him all the names you want but no fighting without my permission! Understand!" tsunade had enough, she was watching the scene while naruto was already getting pissed, she was also getting piss, are these two forgot who was in front of them? How dare them she would make them pay later.

"tsunade baa-chan! He was insulting me! I should have knocked his head off you know! He deserved that!" he was hit square on his face by tsunade, he was sent 3 foot backward due to the impact of the punch.

While naruto was complaining on why did tsunade hit him sakura was busy glaring at the red head and sasori who saw sakura glaring stared back. Keeping eye contact with her. 'this girl, one time she was scared and next she was glaring daggers at me, how interesting it was worth it after all' sasori thought intension forgotten. They never break their eye contact it was as if they were having a competition. First one to break lose.

'if you wanted to know if your theory is right touch him for freaking sake! His not gonna bite you! you know!' inner sakura suggested. 'after all he looks pretty handsome in his human form rather than that…big creepy puppet of his! Come on just a poke on his musc—'

"sakura, if your still interested in knowing about what happen to chiyo I would tell you" the caring voice of the hokage caught the attention of the pink haired kunoichi. Her gaze fell to her teacher she gave her a nod of approval. Inner sakura forgotten. Sasori who also heard the hokage turned his gaze to the older woman.

Sakura wanted to know what happened, she was worried about the old woman, is she alive? Why is it sasori was with them. A lot of questions forming inside her head, she just wanted to know the truth, if chiyo was alive that's the most important thing.

"let me begin with what kakashi told me, when you were out cold, neji found you far from chiyo's body, in my point of view chiyo was the one who knocked you out, at first I didn't know why but as soon as I found this boy, sasori. It all make sense, im sorry but chiyo, she used a forbidden jutsu. She turned sasori into a human—"

"what! Why would chiyo-sama do that?" sakura could not believe what she was hearing. Sasori human? Chiyo turned sasori into a real human. She used a forbidden jutsu. 'my guess was right…he really look like a human now, softer skin? But why? Chiyo-sama what were you thinking?' sakura's guess was right after all her training with tsunade had taught her a lot of things about the human body.

"sakura let me finish first, she turned him into a human, but the jutsu she made was forbidden. That jutsu when used to someone it brings the dead person back to life, but in exchange of the user's life. She was glad that she met you and her grandson also naruto that was all I could explain to you. about gaara he was alive and safe.

"then it means…but why would she do that? I should have stop her tsunade-shishou, if chiyo-sama offered her life to sasori, then does she have any motives on why she did it. And sasori, his human now?" it was frustrating, sakura was angry at herself if she had woken up earlier maybe she could have stopped her, why did chiyo had to do it, sasori human means he's capable of feeling things 'maybe our punch would affect him now!' inner sakura said she was right if he is a human he would already feel pain, maybe that was the reason why chiyo turned him human.

"im sorry sakura but the reason behind that is for you to know. If your feeling alright now you may go home but don't hesitate to stay if your not well yet. Sasori and I will go now, I would take him to his new home. Take care sakura!" tsunade said. She was about to go out when sakura call out.

"thank you shishou" then again she saw sasori staring at her, his face stoic as always, which remind her of a certain uchiha. She hated that face. How could they be so cold, emotionless, it annoyed her to a certain point. And then the door closed. She took one last glace at the boy and sigh.

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it was already 8:45 pm when sakura decided to go home, she was tired but still she pushed herself to go, while walking back to her house she was still thinking about what tsunade told her. She saw naruto walking towards his favorite ramen stand and he asked her if she wanted him to walk her home but she refused. She wanted to be alone for a while, thinking why chiyo took her life in exchange for sasori's she still felt sad on why she wasn't there to stop her, she was always the weak one on her team, always been the one to be protected, she had swore that this time, she would be the one to protect them, but why? Why do they have to show that she's always useless, weak, pathetic. She had failed to keep her promise, again. Another step back. She was lost in her own thought that she wasn't able to notice that it started to rain.

She stop, the cold drop of the water gently pouring down her small frame, it was raining. It was like the rain was crying for her, she looked up and saw the sky, small drops of water fall upon her face, this time all she could see was the night, the endless dark night. She felt like she wanted to cry to pour out all her anger.

'I promised myself I would never cry again. A shinobi must not show any emotion. Naruto, sasuke im sorry I failed you guys…this was all my fault and I call myself an apprentice of the hokage…pathetic' she didn't know why but she was grinning at the fact that she was the hokage's apprentice, she looked up again at the sky, droplets of water fall upon her face , her mind was screaming her heart was raging, she wanted to scream, to stab her heart, to cry so hard but all she does was stare, stare at the dark bottomless sky. Silently she thanked the rain, staring into nothing she let all her emotion pour out. She cried. No one saw, no one knows because the rain hid it all.

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last night was her worst night, she never wanted to recall what she did, she just stare into nothing and started to cry not caring if she would caught colds or fever.

"achuu!" nice now she really hated what she did 'great im sick' her mind was not functioning well maybe she's just a little bit hungry or tired. 'how about a little trip at ichiraku?' sakura decided that she would go and eat at the ramen stand. She dress up and started to go to the direction of the ramen stand.

"sakura-chan!" the noisy blonde greeted, he was there, already eating his 4th bowl of ramen, it was only 10:00 in the morning and yet he was already eating his lunch and dinner? But the sight of her blonde teammate eating and calling her name makes her heart warm, he was truly a gift from above.

"naruto! You know its bad for your health to eat too much ramen! That would be your last bowl of ramen ok! Five ramens a day only" her tone was playful, she was teasing him and he actually fall for that.

"ow sakura-chan that's unfair" his voice pleading.

"I was just kidding nauto" she gave him one of her genuine smile, when she was with him , she could easily forget all her problems, he was kind and sweet, she was always wondering why she didn't fell for this blonde instead she fell in love with the cold hearted bastard uchiha, but she doesn't blame sasuke for leaving them, maybe it was fate. Someday she believe that team 7 would be reunited again. 'naruto I promise I would protect you this time, and sasuke I would bring him back to us.'

They were having fun eating their favorite ramen when an anbu puff beside them, the duo looked at the anbu and gave him a questioning look.

"haruno, sakura hokage-sama would like you to go to her office, now" the anbu gave a nod and with a puff of smoke he was gone.

"naruto I should go now, tsunade-shishou is waiting for me, maybe I'll be back if tsunade will be dismissing me early. Bye!" she wave back and bid goodbye.

"bye sakura-chan!" with that the was a poof and she was gone.

"naruto your friend forgot to pay her order, you will have to pay for her or else—" the owner of the ichiraku said, his eyes was blazing with fire while his left finger was tapping the table.

"sakura-chan! Noooo! Huhuhu how dare she—" naruto's face turned into a sadistic one and asked the old man "or else what huh? Old man" his voice dangerously low. Naruto thinks that the old man would only say that he would be washing the dish if he would not pay or ask someone to kick his butt. That doesn't scare him, so why not try eh?

"are you trying my patience kid? Or else…" the owner's face became twisted and his voice dangerously low (a/n: he copied naruto! Hehe) "you would no longer be allowed TO EAT HERE!" and the last part was shouted right into naruto's ear.

"noooooooo! My dear ramen! How—how could y-you alright i-I'll pay" he paid the old man and one last time he took a sip from his ramen and dashed out of the ramen stand. He was running like a mad man. ' my precious ramen! When will I taste you again?'

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poof, sakura arrived at the hokage tower, she was infront of the door, she knocked twice and waited patiently for the permission of the hokage.

"you may come in" she said her voice groggily

sakura slowly open the door, the first thing that she saw was the bottle of sake tsunade was holding. She was drinking again. Sakura sweat drop at the scene, her teacher called her and then she saw tsunade drinking sake maybe she would be ask to buy more sake.

"sakura! Im glad you're here, im—er going to ask you to do something important!" her face became serious.

"what is it shishou? If it is about sake, no!" how come she had a bad feeling that it is not about the sake bottle, but it would be better if she would tell her now that she would not go and fetch her some sake.

"ehehehe, how did you know? Nah! Just kidding. I would like you to check sasori weather he had blown himself up, hehe last night I put a seal on his left neck. The seal will eat all his charka whenever he tries to use them against us, it is a special sealing technique that I learned that's why he will not harm any of us. No charka no puppets right? Even a charka string he would not be able to use it." Tsunade said. Taking another sip from her sake.

"what do you mean by blow himself? And why does it have to be me?" sakura hated him why does she have to. Why not the other mednin or anbu, was she the only one available this time? 'arg! All I care is that I don't wanna see his FACE!' she does not care if he blows himself up, it would rather be a pleasing site to see if he die.

"the seal automatically explode if the host tries to remove it or if any other person tries to. except for me and you. we are the only person who can remove it."

"me? I don't even know that seal" sakura said she was confused. She don't know what kind of seal was that but her teacher told her that she could remove it?

"because you're my apprentice. Im sure when you saw the seal you would recognize it. oh… about the check up thing actually I was suppose to be the one to check him but—I trust you my dear sakura!" her tone pleading. The hokage's voice earned a sweat drop from sakura.

'twitch'

"that's it?"

"oh another reason is that the brat didn't cooperate last night, we tried to get some information out of him but he was persistent and guess what all he did was talk about stupid freaking art!" at first tsunade was calm and then at the last part she lost it, she almost break the bottle of sake she was holding.

'twitch twitch'

"in short you don't want see his face or else—'sigh' fine I'll do it but this would be the first and last time I'll check on him" her voice monotone.

Sakura was about to go out of the office to check sasori and the hokage called her. "the jounin outside will escort you there. Thanks! Have fun"

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sakura was being escorted by one of the jounin, they went to the basement there was a cell there were some of the criminals were imprisoned, only some who really needed to be watched. There were no guard at the basement maybe because of the seal that was placed at the door of each cell, Then they arrived at the last cell where sasori was located the place was not that welcoming it was cold and dark. There was a light but not bright enough to lighten the whole place, a real nice place for a nice criminal.

The jounin that escorted her peeled the seal off. And she was asked if he would still escort her. She refused and told him that just wait for her outside. He nodded his head and told her to be careful.

Sasori who heared the noise outside bolted up from his sleep, he was tired due to last night attempt to take the seal off, every time he touch the seal his charka was being sucked. He tried using his charka string but nothing came out. He was trapped again. Everything was really going according to his plan…right. He did not expect to receive a beautiful gift from the hokage how nice of her. And now someone was there to wake him up.

'now what?' he rolled his tired eyes and waited for the door to open.

'why do I feel so nervous?' sakura thought to herself. Her fingers touching the door knob and ever so slowly she twisted it.

'maybe because he was always staring at us! Yeah! He like us!' her inner self was again alive

'why is it every time im near him you always appear! What the hell is wrong with you! he is our enemy!' sakura countered. The final twist was done and the door slowly open. First she poked her head through the small opening.

"lovely" was all she said. There he was standing right in front of her, wearing only his black pants and nothing more. Muscular chest expose (a/n: I dunno! If he has 6 pack! Just imagine it! o.O)

"cherry blossom" a small smirk escape from his lips. they meet again.

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yeah! Im done at last! Im really sorry if it took too long before I updated. I went up a lot of trouble 'sigh' hey yakitori thanks! is yakitori means chicken bbq? sweet assassin your right im not smooth enough… hehe just kidding. hey Neji'sgirlfriend yep sasori is soo huggable now! And for the others thank you! i'll try my best to finish chapter 4 as soon as I can! And please review me! Thank you!

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