After the Battle of Tenchikyō, Sasori decided that it would be best if he simply got away from being so close to the Fire Country for awhile. It was Sakura's old home after all, thus it was possible that Konoha nin might see her or news would get around of her location while out on mission. Not that he was scared of the Leaf nins or anything, since he had taken out a whole country before. Yet, as learned through his fight with Sakura and reading over the information Sakura and written before her conversion into human puppet, they were not to be underestimated. So with this in mind, the red hair Kugutsu master headed over to the Land of Honey.
A few days later, Sasori was within a village inside the Land of Honey, having Sakura pose on street corner trying to attract anyone attention so she could lead them towards him and where he would then drill them for information about whatever bounty he was currently hunting. Bounty Hunting currently was best way he knew how to make money without causing that much of a scene that simply raiding this stupid little village would cause. He really did not like making Sakura degrade herself by making her look like hooker or some teenager trying to sell herself on street corner. Which was rather ironic, since converting her into human puppet and then using her as his own property could be consider ten time worse then her actually being a hooker or selling her body for cash.
The Red Sand was starting to get bored and was about to head over to a different corner when he noticed someone that he must add to his collection and any cost mission or not. This person was someone that he could not pass up in adding to his collection. The unfortunate person to catch the attention of the S-class missing nin happened to be Fubuki Kakuyoku, a Snow kunoichi, which probably caught Sasori's attention because of her appearance. Just like Sakura, she had pink hair, green eyes, and while she did not have a large forehead, there was two circles there on slightly large then normal one. The former servant of Doto Kazahana alongside her comrade Nadare Roga and Mizore Fuyukuma were all defeated by Team Seven when they came to the Snow Country as bodyguard for the actress Yukie Fujikaze, who was the true ruler of Snow Country.
Fubuki was defeated by Sasuke who sent her flying on a collision course with her partner, Mizore Fuyukuma, to which their chakra armor reacted in the form of an explosion. It was at the point that they were both considered to die in the explosion of their armors. While this may have been true for Mizore, who did in fact perish in the explosion, Fubuki however managed to survive because got out of her armor in time so that she did not take the full force of the blast which killed Mizore. In recent times, she had once again teamed up with some other kunoichi that were in the same boat as her, that being those that were defeated by Team Seven.
'To think they managed to defeat all of us; but in the end, it was not a force for the outside that managed to defeat them but from within,' Fubuki thought with a laugh as she heard how blond brat and annoying kid that almost killed her had tried to kill each other before the black hair one simply left his village for some reason.
The Snow kunoichi then felt someone tapping on her shoulder and turned to see that the pink hair brat was standing there dressed like a one of the locals. Though that was not what she was worried about as Sakura was may have tapped her shoulder with one hand but her other fist drove into her gut, instant knocking her out from the sheer force on the blow.
As Fubuki collapsed to the ground, Sakura was confronted with another person from her past. One of her partners who was Karenbana, a wandering ninja who was hired by Moon Country former minister the late Shabadaba and defeated by Sakura two and half years ago, saw what she did to her partner and threw a what appeared to be a custom smoke bomb on the ground. This smoke bomb was really more potent version of the odorless neurological airborne mist which she used confused the senses of her enemies. Ignorant to the fact Sakura was now a human puppet, she tried to use an improved version of her signature justu but sadly the result was exactly the same as their last battle.
Sakura was made to slam her fist directly into the same spot she had two and half years ago sending the short twenty five year old through a nearby wall rather then simply making a crater like last time. Upon falling to the ground, Sakura was made to look at the finally member of trio of kunoichi that beaten by Team Seven, Kujaku. Though Kujaku was really beaten by group of Suna and Kohona nins, Naruto and Sakura were among them. The Wind-element ninja from the Takumi Village with blue green hair and yellow bangs did not happen to see Sakura actually fight, so she was in shock at just how strong she was. This turned out to be her downfall because she was quickly knocked out by the pink hair puppet.
Hearing people coming to investigate the noise that Sakura's beating of three of her former adversaries caused, Sakura was made to take the trio of fallen kunoichi, one under each arm and the third being held by her tail, away.
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Two weeks later…
Sasori was looking at the three newest additions to his collection, which were Karenbana, Fubuki, and Kujaku. Though he only took his time creating Fubuki because of her resemblance to Sakura, the conversion process took much longer then normal; since because he did not have a workshop here in the Land of Honey, he needed to gather the materials while the three kunoichi wrote down all their abilities under the influence of his free will stealing seal.
Karebana, who was originally a short hair brunette, now permanently had long white hair as the wig she wore was glued to her wooden head. Also, because Sasori had no idea that she was really twenty five year olds, in what would have been the ultimate insult to her, she would be grouped as one of his child human puppet, despite the fact she was twice the age of some kids were at the time of their conversion.
Though what Sasori saw from the beating he made Sakura give them was that they were a group, and thus he converted them to act as unit within his collection. Stripping puppets four, five, and eight of the Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu of the needed components to perform the Three Buddhist Treasures Vacuum Destruction technique, he placed them within the trio of human puppet standing before him. Since they were charka using puppets, he was sure that the overheating problem that plagued the original user of this technique would not affect his trio of human puppets as much.
Though, since Fubuki has the same hair and eye color as Sakura he took his time converting her into a human puppet and though she could work with her comrade to perform the full force Three Buddhist Treasures Vacuum Destruction technique, he made her special in the fact that she could perform a low power and weaker version of it alone. Everything between her chest and hip were hollow which allowed her form the vacuum.
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Though Sasori tried to go back to bounty hunting once again, he saw another person that would be perfect for his collection. This time it was a medical nin that he managed to find while he was looking for a target and abandoned the chase to capture and convert the medical ninja in order to make her his auto repairer, since Sakura could only repair herself.
However, the three hundred and four addition to his collection was not able to use continue using her medical jutsu as puppets to repair themselves (like Sakura) or other puppets like he desired. However, the human puppet was not a complete waste of his time and efforts. Unlike Sakura, whose charka now worked similar to the universal antidote she used in their battle, this medical nin had a prototype version of his poison that turned ordinary protein into deadly poison, which it could be injected directly into an opponent by using the Mystical Palm Technique as a weapon.
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While Sasori may have abandoned his bounty to convert a medical nin into his three hundred fourth creation, things were not all that bad. While testing out the four newest additions to his collection, he got wind of another interesting bounty that was located in Fang Country which was for him with his puppet body just a two day trip from his current location.
Sasori, using his normal method, had Sakura take someone's clothes and made her enter the night club where his target was located. Through the club was crowded, Sasori was able to make his way in and spot where he or the charka strings controlling Sakura's movement would be easily be seen. Wearing a tube top and short shorts which would normally was something he wouldn't do because Sakura's obvious puppet joints would be visible for all to see. However that currently was a problem as he was having her use the same genjustu that her master uses to appear as though she in her thirties.
Being made to saucily walking over to the target which was which just happened to be Suzumebachi Kamizuru. Naruto and Team 8 minus Kurenai ran into the leader of the Kamizuru clan while looking for the Bikochu beetle. She was thought to have been killed by Naruto's Rasengan after she and her two Kamizuru clan member had been beaten by Hinata's Protection of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms technique. Well, she was not as right before she actually died. She was saved by a Kabuto who just happened to be passing by. As a way of repaying him for saving her life, she raided villages in the Land of Stone and sent a portion of what she took back to the Sound Village until just recently. Now she was notorious as leader of group bandits and thieves that she had rounding up for unknown reason. It also became known that she was bisexual, having found herself attracted to both guys and girls.
That was where Sakura current appearance came into play; she was being used to attract her attention.
Suzumebachi, never having met Sakura before thus having no idea who she was, noticed the advance that she was sending towards her. Although Sakura never talked anymore (most because she could not as she was not like Sasori after all) Sasori made her express herself and what she wanted from others with her body language. Rather quickly, Suzumebachi respond to her advance and some the two were on the dance floor dancing. After couple of dances, Sakura was made to pull Suzumebachi close to her during a slow dance and it was clear that the bisexual kunoichi was interested in Sakura. Sakura then was made to kiss the woman, thus making her first kiss which she had yet to get be with another woman. Shocked at first, the Kamizuru clan leader eventually relaxed and the two began making out there on the dance floor.
She was making out with the pink hair puppet like there was no tomorrow. The saying of doing something like there is no tomorrow proved all too true for Suzumebachi since, there was in fact, no tomorrow for her. What she did not know was that Sakura's tail which invisible because genjustu which was giving her the appearance of normal fifteen year old age was snaking it way up her body and stabbed her through the heart. Dying almost instantly brunette did not fall nor did her body go limp as Sakura was supporting. Also soon after she removed her tail from the brunette's chest, a seal was place on both sides to prevent blood from stain her clothes which were seals Sasori used to stop a person from dying of blood loss during the human puppet making process and just like Sakura's tail, they were invisible to everyone there. Though this seal had the extra uses of preventing dead people's charka network from stopping even after they were dead.
So Suzumebachi was dead, but to everyone in the club she was simply making out with the girl. When Sakura was finally made to stop kissing her, she tapped her forehead and ran off which to the people in the club it look that this was just a kiss and run. The real deal with what happen was that Sakura tap had placed another seal on her forehead which would now act as the will for the dead woman and instructions given to her brain were to head to one of the Akatsuki hideout in the Fang Country.
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"Do you think the boss got captured and spent all this time escaping? It would be a valid reason. We have been able to get in touch with her for the last three days" a bandit asked not unknowing the truth about what happened to Suzumebachi.
"How should I know? All she said in the note was for all of us to meet her because she had something that she wanted us to do," a second bandit said.
Just then Suzumebachi appeared walking towards them they the notice that something was different about her. She was not wearing her normal clothes but a black cloak with brown fur collar and was behind a pink hair girl with similar clothes only with extra long sleeves and a different collar.
"Hey, boss, what's the deal with the new….what the hell!" the first bandit yelled as Suzumebachi lifted up her cloak and swarms of summon bees came flying out at them, stinging both the bandits repeatedly.
Before they could recover from the initial attack of their leader, the one next to her killed them with swift chop to the neck. Then Sakura and Sasori's three hundred fifth addition to his collection, Suzumebachi, was made to kill every member of her group thus allowing Sasori to collect the bounty on the group that was worth 100 million ryo. Sakura used her charka-enhanced strength, tail, and Iron Sand to slaughter anyone that got in her way while Suzumebachi was using her bees and the tenth puppet of Chikamatsu's collection's long extending cords. Just like the tenth puppet, big holes were in Suzumebachi's skull where the cords were stored and came out from. Though unlike the original holder of this weapon, Suzumebachi was not bald and still had her hair, making hidden weapon less obvious then before.
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After collecting the bounty for his latest outing, Sasori was sitting down on a chair in the Akatsuki's hideouts within the Fang Country. Sakura was sitting naked inside of tub, covered in blood from head to toe. Even her pink hair had been dye red with the blood of bandits Sasori had made her and Suzumebachi kill to collect the group's hundred million ryo bounty.
While Sasori, with one hand, made Sakura go about washing off the blood with the other puppet, he remained busy reading through the scroll of Sakura had made for him over two months ago before her transformation into his favorite and strongest puppet ever. The information she had stored within her brain was more then just her combat and medical knowledge since she was the Fifth Hokage's apprentice; she had information on almost every clan in Konoha and her knowledge of their Justus as well. In this sense, Sakura (thanks the seal that removed her free will) had been forced to betray her home, but luckily, Sasori had yet to hand over the scroll to his superiors yet. He was interested in adding some of her friends to his collection when he felt the time was right to go about acquiring them.
Sakura herself would have been ashamed of what she had been doing over the last two months. The blood of hundreds of innocent lives with those numbers, including the bounties she had been made to kill, was on her hands. Her first kiss was something she had not even had yet, though she was looking was eagerly looking forward to it when it finally happened it was with Suzumebachi Kamizuru. Thus making so that, like Sasuke and Naruto, her first kiss was with someone of the same gender.
As Sasori was having Sakura clean herself of the blood of from her last use, he made her stop and turn to face him. She was then directed to pose in various ways since Sasori still could not get enough of seeing her body in all it glory and the knowledge that she would never grow old, never decrease in power or skill, and most importantly, that she was his own personal puppet was something he never got tired of.
Sasori then had Sakura poke her chest and while she might not have the large bust like other woman her age, he really did not care. Sakura's bust size was just perfect for her and fit in nicely with all her other features. Then there was her forehead, which he thought was not a flaw but actually one of her best features, along with her lovely pink hair which was rarity in the world. There were few people with natural pink hair wandering around and he owned two of them (the other being Fubuki Kakuyoku). This also lead to some of the nicknames of she had acquired amongst the bounties through numerous amount of country. Names that included: Pink Devil, Pink Death, or the Pink Hair Grim Reaper. Though this could prove to be dangerous to him, since her pink hair was such a rare thing with this world, it could lead her former comrades to where she might be or simply making it so that using her as his puppet had turned her into a missing nin. No one outside the Akatsuki other then Itachi's little brother, Orochimaru, and Kabuto knew that she simply a human puppet moving as he directed her so it would probably be the second one if anything.
Pleased for now, Sasori had Sakura go back to cleaning herself up, starting with washing that blood out of her hair, so it could regain it original pink color. Once finished, Sasori had Sakura dry herself off and then dress herself in the cloak that signified her as his three hundred creation.
"Bounty hunting is starting getting annoying" Sasori sighed to himself. It was too much trouble going about, searching for the target, using Sakura as way of luring people to him, than using her to kill whoever got in her way when he directed her to the bounty. What really annoyed him was that he couldn't keep the bounties he killed. He had run into so many bounties that would be perfect for his collection but he could not because to collect the bounty he had to hand over the body. Suzumebachi was the only exception; he simply kept her and converted her into one of his human puppets.
Just then, something on the floor under the table where Suzumebachi was sitting had caught his eye and he made the brown haired puppet pick it up and bring it over to him.
'Interesting, this might be better then gain money from bounty hunting,' Sasori thought as he read what was on the paper.
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