Upon acquiring his target, Sasori made contact with Leader and was now awaiting Zestu to appear and take the body to the bounty officer that Kakuzu usually went to since he never revealed the identify of the bounty hunter that visit him. Unlike the bounty officer before him who had big mouth and ended up in his collection as result.
As he waited for his plant like comrade to appear, Sasori took a look over to where Sakura was standing with Nagare's body on her shoulder.
The puppet girl was still covered in blood that had long since dried and her swords, which once covered in blood as well, were now drying. Sakura had used her Iron Sand to clean the blades to keep them from growing dull and rusted.
Bored of simply waiting for Zetsu, Sasori took one hand and created charka strings that connected to his latest creation and made her set the body down.
He then pulled out large scroll and directed her to hold it. The scroll Sakura was holding in her hands was no other then one of the scroll that contain everything she knew how to do. Since he had some free time until Zetsu showed up, Sasori thought it would be good to see just how Sakura had managed to find an antidote to his poison. Something that was beyond even the ability of his late grandmother and possible this girl's teacher, the Slug Sannin.
"I see that you complete your mission. That was rather fast though, for someone with a bounty that large," Zetsu said he appeared while he was in the middle of road over the scroll and having Sakura unroll it for him.
"It was all too easy with my newest creation," the puppet master respond motion to Sakura who hands dropped to her sides as there were no charka strings holding them up.
"This girl was the apprentice to the current Hokage and teammate to the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki," Zestu's black side said.
"Yeah, this chick might prove useful in getting the Kyuubi brat," Zetsu's white side replied.
"Maybe, but I'm still testing her out. She did well for her first initial test run in real combat, but the leader proved to be no challenge since he died simply of being scared," he told his partner.
"Really, this idiot was literally scared to death. I guess the reason he had such a high bounty on his head was because this country's ninja and army are so weak that they need to depend on bounty hunters to do their jobs for them. Oh well, it's not like they'll ever know this chicken's bounty was over priced," Zestu's white side said laughing at Nagare before picking him up and leaving.
With that job completed, Sasori went back and Sakura had roll up the scroll. Now that he was no longer waiting for retrieve part of his mission, he could finally start cleaning up Sakura though the blood caked on her face and hands even though it did not take anything from her already amazing appearance. In fact, this only magnify it to some extend because it showed that she was completely and utterly his and only his since he was sure that she would not never done something like massacre a whole group of bandits, judging from what he saw of her while she was still human.
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Later in an Akatsuki hideout that was set up by one of the spies that managed to set before being discovered and then was ordered to commit suicide in order to prevent their connection to the Akatsuki from being uncovered, Sasori had started the work of getting Sakura cleaned up.
Sasori had her discarded of the tattered clothes she had been wearing up until this point thus leaving her to standing in front of Sasori butt naked again. The pink hair puppet was then made to move in various ways to give her owner a good view of her body. He was not only taking in beauty; as with the way she was now her appearance and skills would be preserved forever. He was also looking her over to see if she had taken damage from the bandit massacre (since it was too unevenly match to even qualify as a fight).
For the most part, there was nothing that could be classified as major damage with just a few cuts and scratches that were located on various parts of her body. The biggest cut was on her ankle where a guy he was sure was dead managed to slash her there, thinking this would give them the advantage. Sasori could not help as small snicker came from his mouth at the reaction of the shocked man. His kunai made connect with Sakura's ankle but instead of it bleeding like the bandit expected the kunai got stuck in her ankle as he could see how she was not human. His life was promptly taken when some iron sand returned the bandit's kunai, stabbing him in the forehead.
Sakura was then made to sit down and set her damaged leg on her lap twisted in a way that would have been impossible or at least incredibly painful if she still had a human body. It was then that Sasori went over how to use charka for healing rather then simply for charka strings and attack. Once done, he took control of Sakura's arm and guided her in the step that he used and went over to see if she could repair the gash on her ankle. Sure enough as Sakura's wooden hands glowed with green charka over her damaged ankle it was quickly repaired and looked as if the gash was never there.
'Amazing! this is going to save me a ton of time in have to make repairs,' Sasori thought as he might go out and get some more combat medical ninja; this time, some older ones as this would also prove useful in battle and time he could make it to one his workshop to make repairs.
All the ideas he was thinking of were ruined when he learned that Sakura could only repair herself and no one else. In fact, what was healing charka for her was somewhat of a universal antidote to everything else as it seem her antidote (which had all been used on her during their battle) had been purified of what poison had be present within.
Asking Sakura at this point was impossible thanks to her current state and she did not write anything about this in the scrolls he ordered her to write while she was still human. Thus making this current situation as something unforeseen or a possible a side effect of his human puppet process and the antidote she created.
Whatever the reason, it was not important as Sakura being able to repair herself and learning it simply was possible for a puppet to repair itself was good enough for him. Also it was not like she the only medical nin in the world. He simply needed to find some more medical nin, discover the secret that allow them to repair themselves and others, then make a medical nin human puppet that would act as his automatic repairer.
Yet adding his three hundred and first human puppet to his collection would have to wait. He needed to head over to Heaven and Earth Bridge in the Grass Country. He had rescheduled a meeting with a spy he had place with his Orochimaru's ranks that was originally cancelled because he had been spending that time converting Sakura into what she was now.
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I would like to thank:
RANMACATS for review my story
King Hawke for beta reading Chapter 03
