The red haired puppet master looked around as he climbed his way out of a canyon that was know as the Devil's Ravine, a canyon filled with poisonous gas of unknown origin which served as natural barrier for the residents of the Land of Bears. However this barrier was no match for someone like Sasori who did not need to breath since only one part of his body was still human and it was not his lungs.

The immortal puppet master then changed his clothes and burned them then had one of his human puppets for the Hidden Mist spray him with water to wash away what poison might still been on him. He did not have worry about his collection being affected by the poison. He had made sure they were safely stored away within his wooden body to prevent the poisonous gases from seeping into his puppet scrolls like it had into his clothes.

As for why he was here, it was simply because this was his newest set of orders. Rather then continue to be paired up with Deidara; the Leader decided to pair the missing Earth nin with this new guy named Tobi. His new job was to helping in speeding up part one of the Akatsuki's master plan which was gathering a large amount of money. A former wandering ninja turned bandit had been terrorizing the towns with this country and had collected quite the bounty over the last two years that was enough to attract the attention of Sasori's superior as bounty worth taking. Though no other team would have been able to enter the country since the entrances to the country were all closely guard and everyone had to go in and out the same way making much harder for anyone other then Sasori to get in without being spotted (since his puppet body would allow him travel through the canyon), thus using their own natural defense to his advantage.
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Upon making it to town, he overheard that the town had been terrorized by the bandits a lot recently, Sasori decided that in order to gather information on his target, he needed to lure one of the bandits to him and make him reveal the location of their hideout and his boss. He was about to grab one of the usual puppets that he used at times like this when he got an idea.

'While not actually combat, it would be a good time to see if I could use her as one of my spy puppets,' Sasori thought to himself as he reach for Sakura's scroll and summoned his three hundred creation.

Appearing in puff of smoke, the pink hair human puppet stood there awaiting Sasori to use her in whatever way he desired, since she had no way of resisting him anymore.

"You are about to have your first official use," Sasori said to her, despite the fact that she was unable to hear anything he said.

Before he could have her go out and find a bandit, she would need a change of clothes; and that meant "borrowing" them from someone within this village to make it easier for her to blend in. It took awhile of searching since this town did not have many teenagers traveling alone that seemed to wear the same size clothes as Sakura.

Sasori managed to find one after awhile of searching around black hair fifteen years old, who seemed to be trying to hide for someone.

Since the teenager was too busy looking out for whoever she was hiding from, she never saw Sakura being directed behind her.

"Hey what are..." The girl started to say when she noticed Sakura placing a finger on her forehead and plucking it. With this simple pluck Sakura destroyed the entire forehead area of the girl's skull thus killing her almost instantly since it was charka enhanced. The now dead girl did not go flying out the alley they were in thanks to Sakura's tail and Iron Sand rooting the teen to her spot. Sakura was then directed to take the girl's clothes and then dump her body in a dumpster.

Now wearing the clothes of the girl she was just made to kill, Sakura look like she was normal person again as the clothing covered most of her puppet joints and with the exception of her hands, which were easily fixed by giving her a pair of gloves. Her face did not need covering since she did not have normal puppet mouth but realistic one that all the spy puppets had.

Sakura was then made to stand on a corner and pose in ways she would have never done so a month ago. It took awhile but she finally managed to lure one bandit in, lead him to spot Sasori decided on, and slammed the bandit against the wall with Sakura keeping him pinned to it.

"Now then, where is your hideout," Sasori asked not wasting any time in getting straight to what he wanted to know

"Like I ever reveal the location of our hideout!" the bandit told him, kicking something at Sasori with his leg. Though that would mostly the last time he would ever use that leg since there was loud crushing sound followed by the bandit muffled scream as Sakura was made to hold his mouth shut with her free hand.

"I would refrain for doing that again unless you want the bones in your other leg to shatter like the one is your right one," Sasori told him as Sakura kicked his right leg with her half her strength.

Five minute later the bandit was on the ground with all four limbs lying useless on the ground, having been crushed by Sakura when he refused to cooperate. Once he had finally told Sasori the information he wanted, the guy was left to die as small bone fragments for his four crushed limbs cut up his insides. 00000000000000000000000000000000000000

The hideout where the bandits were staying was a place that would have been hard to find if one did not know what they were looking for. It's location deep in the forest within cave seemed to have one entrance, but thanks to information he made that his bandit give up, he learned of second less used entrance that was more of an escape route then a entrance.

"Man, guard duty here is so boring! It's not like anyone is going to ever be coming this way," the bandit on duty sighed. He been assigned here as form of punishment, even though, those that made it as far as the front entrance to their hideout did not make it much further then that before the guards took them out or they got lost in the maze caverns that this cave held.

He then noticed a pink girl walking through the entrance and coming straight towards him.

"Hey, you there! By coming here you just signed your own death warrant," the guard said because he was informed to kill anyone that came this way if they were a ninja.

Unfortunately, since the Sakura puppet was not wearing anything that give off the idea that she was anything more then common town person, the guard rushed her. The fight between Sakura and the guard was over soon after it started. Sakura was made to side step his first attack and Sasori had her followed up with quick back slap that sent the guard flying in the wall, creating a crater about five inches deep as he did so before falling to the ground dead.

The maze like cavern defense did not slow down Sasori as he ran into two bandits on the way here and had Sakura "persuade" one of them to give him more information about the cave.

Arriving at the main hideout, people seem to immediately know who Sasori was and started attacking him, which was bad idea since he had Sakura kill every single one of them using all the abilities she had been given. Bandits were blow up, crushed by Iron Sand, and had impressions of her fists, head, and feet five inches deep in their corpses, and many were lying in two separate pieces as they cut clean in half by one of Sakura's huge swords.

The leader of the bandit who happened to Nagare, the same Nagare that was presumed incarcerated by Kakashi, stood looking for a way out while he could hear the screams and curses of his men as they were being killed left and right. Soon the force that was taking down the group he spent two years building kicked down his door and entered the room.

At this point Sakura was covered in blood as the clothes she had stolen were dye red and in tatters from various swords, spears, bows, and kunai she was made to either defend against or just destroy flat out. Her swords were also cover with the blood of the bandits she been made to kill and the blood from her last few kills still dripped down from the tips of the two blades.

Nagare slowly backed away from her. If this girl alone could take out his entire band of bandits on her own, then what hope did he stand? He began to panic when he noticed who came in shortly after her and immediately guessed just what Sakura was from simply seeing Sasori.

"I wonder how is it that you know who I am," Sasori asked, since while his name was well known through most of the world, outside of Akatsuki there were only two that knew what he truly looked like. One of them was dead and the other was his three hundred creation.

Nagare did not respond however as he just kept staring at him not moving an inch.

Using Sakura's tail to grab his unresponsive body, Sasori simply left the now empty hideout, using her to carrying Nagare's body, not caring about the reason behind his target's currently unresponsive state. Sasori would later figure out that the former wandering ninja was dead, and the reason behind Nagare's death was that his knowledge of Sasori and his background was enough to literally scare the man to death.

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I would like to thank:

RANMACAT for review my story

King Hawke for reviewing and beta reading Chapter 01 and 02