It had been about two months since Sasori started getting his money and the newest addition to his collection from various Shinobi Fight Clubs. The first two rules really worked to his advantage. He just got the drop on one of the targets for his collection while they were returning home through the use of back alley. Missing person reports were later made, but they were never found because the authority would be looking in all the wrong places. Even when one managed to see someone from the reports walking under his control, they were unable to report since that would be violating the first two rules of Shinobi Fight Club and the consequences of that were not pretty; he managed to see them for himself one time.

The latest fight club he had been scamming for a long time solely because of two reasons. One was the amount of gullible patriots that seem to be so well off they did not seem to care that they mysteriously had lesser money on them when they left then when they had arrived. The second was the fighters and spectators that attended here were all too good to pass up for being added to his collection.

As the immortal Kugutsu master walked into the club, he had Sakura hanging on his left arm with her head on his shoulder as he made her walk next to him with his right thumb. As his favorite, he also controlled like this because he valued her more then other puppets that he had in his collection. She dressed in short sleeved dark maroon t-shirt with large sleeveless maroon shirt that extended to her hips over that. Also on her the back of her shirt, rather then the white torus that he guessed was her family crest or something, it was the red and white crest of Sasori's own creation which signified that she belonged to him.

Following a few paces behind Sasori and her was Fubuki Kakuyoku. His three hundred third creation was one that he consider his second favorite on the sole fact that her appearance was similar to Sakura. Usually he did not come in at the same time as his puppet would, yet for this fight club, he simply felt like it because there were too many people that came onto Sakura in this club and it was pissing him off; Sakura belonged to him and him alone. Thus what he was doing now was to show this fact to everyone here and he did not feel like killing off everyone here that tried to laid claim to his cherry blossom solely because they there were too many good cash cows and potential puppets here at this club. Maybe when he was done milking this place of all it was worth he would do that and make those that tried to come onto his Sakura die painful death.

"You are in the way. Move," Sasori said bluntly as well dressed man stood in his way.

Ignoring Sasori the man turned his attention towards Sakura

"So you abandoned your village to become a fighter for this guy, huh?" the man said to Sakura.

Sakura for her part did not respond or even look in his direction because she could not move or act on her own anymore being a human puppet and all. Though the man talking to her had no idea that she was no longer human but simple a puppet under a genjustu that made her look human so he took offense to this.

"Hey, wrench, I am talking to….yyyyoooooouuuuuu!" the man said as he attempted to slap her but Sasori made her hand shoot out grabbing his and lightly crushing it in what appeared to be a simple hold.

"I see that you gotten stronger in the last three years, but you're not the only one that has gotten stronger," a man that was thought to be dead said as he made his presence known to her. Though he did notice how Sakura grabbed his boss's hand and moved her head an inch.

"Aoi Rokusho, so you survived the beating you were given by my cherry blossom old team and still working for the former head Wagarashi family. What happened after climbing up that cliff? He was only one that could give you work?" Sasori asked as he remembered reading about this in the scroll he made Sakura write before converting her.

"That none of your busi…." Wagarashi Kyuuroku managed to say while still nursing his injured hand but interrupted by Aoi.

"So, she's your 'cherry blossom' now, huh? Is that why she's hanging on you like that?" Aoi laughed at the name he called her as in brief moment of anger overcame the red hair puppet master that almost made him to have Sakura kill him where he stood.

"This worthless girl had to depend on her teammate to beat me and my team, and despite whatever training she might had in the last three years, she is probably no match for me and my repaired Sword of the Thunder God" Aoi boasted, ignorant to how close to death he was putting himself by talking like this.

"What was that? Would you like to see just how wrong you are about her?" Sasori demanded. He got angry that this scum was insulting Sakura's skill like this.

"Of course, the two of us had been itching to get some revenge on her team and might as well start with the weakest member then we move on the weak Uchiha teammate of hers before finally get to that blond brat," the black hair former Rain nin said.

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Within the ring the two fighters stood ten feet away from each other. Aoi staring with vengeful glare at Sakura while the pink hair girl simple stood there in her usually fighting stance with same blank expression on her face that she always had.

A referee (a retired ninja) then appeared between the two in puff of smoke.

"In our first fight for the night, we have the new coming rising star of the Shinobi Fight Club circuit, the fighter that is as beautiful as a finely created sculpture and with personality as cold as harsh as winter in the Snow Country. She's as strong as she is calculating, also managing to find the right spot to knock her opponents out cold. The one, the only, Demon Fist Sakura!" the referee said as crowd behind them cheered her own.

"And her opponent tonight, already well known to many other clubs within the Fight Club circuit as Thunder God for his use of the famous sword of the Second Hokage and his own powerful lightning based attack, is the former Rain ninja Aoi Rokusho!" the ref announced as the cheers he got were not as much as Sakura, mostly because where Sasori had made a name for her, he was the one controlling her after all.

"You both know the rules so on the count of three you may begin fighting. 1...2...3...FIGHT!!!" the referee yelled then disappeared in buff of smoke to safer location to over see the fight.

"What the matter, little girl? Are you just going to stand there and not come at me? I want to see you use this so called Demon Fist of yours!" Aoi laughed as mistook Sakura stillness as her unwillingness to start the fight.

"Fine if you will not come to me, than I'll come to yo….." the black hair ninja said as activated the Sword of the Thunder God only to see that Sakura had vanished and reappeared right under him.

Aoi moved his sword to block her striking, thinking there is no way her fist alone could be enough to break his sword since took two A-rank jutsu to do it the last time. What he did not know was that Sakura's strength could equal that of A-rank jutsu and possible S-rank jutsu when Sasori made her use her charka enhanced strength and Iron Sand to its fullest extent.

Sakura's punch not only broke the blade but the kept going until it hit Aoi's chin and he was send flying through the roof as Sakura was made to fully extend her arm almost turning the punch into uppercut. Sasori then had Sakura bring out her sword and hold it out beside her. For awhile the audience was in shock since they did not understand the meaning behind this act. It was soon made clear when the force of gravity finally caught up with Aoi and he was send plummeting back down to the ground; what interrupted his body from hitting the ground was that it landed on Sakura's sword with the blood the gusted from his body splattering all over Sakura's face and clothes.

Not finished with the dying if not dead already Aoi, Sakura was made to remove him from her sword and then shove her right hand down his throat as far as it could it could go before release one of her bomb in there. She then stood there as Aoi's body exploded and it possible to see Sakura's hand through the hole that the bomb made. Being made to remove her hand, Sakura then was made to crush what bone hadn't already been crushed in Aoi's head.

"…………" was the pretty much on the mind of everyone watching as they knew that they were in something similar to this but it been awhile since they had seen Sakura totally destroy her opponent without at least giving them a show first.

"………..Your winner, Demon Fist Sakura" Referee said but he did not appear in the ring because they did not want to get in the way of Sakura while she was like this.

Sasori on the other hand looked over the sign before with grin on his face as this was that bastard deserved for not only insulting his cherry blossom skill but the nickname he called her by.

With phase one of his plan complete, Sasori looked over to where Aoi's employer looked on in shock at just how fast and easy that his hired muscle was killed. Little did his know that the two women he had hanging all over him were two of his civilian human puppets.

One, as it turned out, had been used by an Akatsuki member before. Emi was her name while she was human though no longer as now she was just human puppet two hundred seventy. Emi had been an attractive citizen of the Fire Country because of a Genjutsu spell by Itachi to lure Jiraiya away from Naruto's side three years ago. Then three years later, she caught the attention of another Akatsuki member who unfortunately for her happened to be Sasori, thus Emi became a permanently a tool of the Akatsuki. As a civilian human puppet of Sasori, she was being used in similar way that Itachi made her come to Jiraiya. Only now she was being made to steal money and kill when it called for it.

The second disguised human puppet hanging on Kyuuroku was once known as Tsubaki. She was at one point a Genin from Naruto's class that viewed Naruto as the demon fox itself, and looked down upon his existence. She left Konoha for Claw Country sometime after the Sound/Sand invasion, disgusted that people were forgetting who Naruto was. With her child already being KIA, she no longer had reason to stay here so she moved. The move turned out to be a bad choice as the group she was with was attacked and killed by Sasori who was looking for new puppets to add to his collection at the time. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending who point of view you look from, Tsubaki was taken and became Sasori two hundred eighty ninth human puppet.

However, unknown to Sasori, both he and the fight that had just ended were being watched by the bounty hunter Sazanami who had formed a partnership with old acquaintance of his that was looking for Sasori to make up for a mistake that they had made.

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I would like to thank:

King Hawke and RANMACAT for review my story

SPK for reviewing Chapter 01

King Hawke for beta reading Chapter 07