I don't own Naruto – VZ
"This isn't outside Sharky." Sakura stated.
"Yeah well…."
"Well?" She prompted.
"Thing is, there's a real big chance that your gonna run away. So, this is the next best thing." Kisame said while gesturing to their surroundings.
"Wouldn't you try to escape? I doubt you'd want to be a prisoner."
"Like anybody could capture me, kid." The missing-nin guffawed.
Sakura rolled her green eyes.
"Hey, don't go rolling those pretty eyes of yours kid. You should be grateful for what I'm doing for you. Nobody besides Akatsuki has ever been in the training grounds before."
The pinkette colored slightly at his complement before nodding her head in thanks. In all honesty, the mist-nin was right. This was much better than sulking in her room. Turns out, their training facility was under several more floors of the Akatsuki' s underground base.
"So you want to train or what?"
The medic-nin smirked.
"Bring it fish face."
BOOM.
"What was that yeah?"
"How should I fucking know?" Hidan muttered angrily at the blonde.
THUMP
"Do you think there's an attack or something?" Deidara wondered aloud.
"What fucking idiot would come to our base?"
BOOM
"Maybe we should go check yeah."
"Like I give a damn. Unless there's some bastard heathen, I'm not interested."
Before Hidan and Deidara could continue their rather pointless conversation, Tobi had slipped in between their bodies. Shoving both men to the walls of concrete.
"The fuck?!"
"Oh! Tobi didn't see you there Hidan, Hello Deidara-sempai!"
"Hm? Oh yeah, hey Tobi." The blonde answered, his voice was missing the irritation he really felt towards Tobi. He was too busy pondering on anything that could've made such a ruckus.
"Where the hell are you fucking running off to, brat?" The silver haired nin obviously had no trouble expressing his anger towards him.
"To watch Sakura-chan train with Kisame of course!" Tobi's one visible eye crinkled, which meant that he was smiling underneath that orange mask.
"No fucking way, did you see the size of the kid? She won't even get damn close enough to land a hit."
Hidan scoffed.
Tobi looked confused for a moment, before laughing at the Jashinist's words.
"Tobi thinks Sakura could land a hit, maybe even more than a few."
"Right." Hidan said unbelievingly.
"Tobi knows she could!"
"Wanna make fucking bet on that?!"
"Sakura is sparring with Kisame?" Deidara said to no one in particular. Since when did they get so close? The bomber thought with unease.
"How much?"
To everyone's surprise and utter shock, Kakuzu appeared out of nowhere.
"The hell?"
"I asked how much are the wages, for the bet."
Deidara and Hidan almost face palmed. Of course Kakuzu would just randomly show up at any time or place, just for the sake of money.
"Tobi bets his next month's wages that Sakura-chan can get a hit on Kisame, maybe even more!"
"And you Hidan?" Kakuzu questioned his partner.
"Ha! I fucking double that you brat!"
"Deidara?"
"…..I don't want to lose any money, yeah." The blonde held his hands in a form of surrender. The last thing he wanted was to get stuck in a gambling pool.
BOOM THUMP
"Let's go yeah?"
And so Deidara, Hidan and Kakuzu made their way to the training grounds. Tobi on the other hand, was practically skipping with excitement.
Sakura was panting heavily, blood was dribbling to her chin from a scratch on her temple and her limbs were tired already. She would've been disgraced for looking so beat up after a couple hours of training. The only consolation was the mist-nin several yards away.
She smiled, happy he was just as worn out as her.
Panting like he had run a marathon, Kisame was drained. The several bruises and cuts he'd received from the pinkette' s fist and chakra scalpels didn't help his fatigued condition either.
"Do you give up yet sharky?" Sakura asked him.
The battered nin laughed like she had just said the funniest joke he'd ever heard.
"Are you kidding? No way am I quitting, Besides, I was just warming up kid."
A pink eyebrow rose in response.
"Right, that's probably why I almost knocked you out huh?"
"Don't let it get to your head, I was just giving you a free shot." He grinned, giving Sakura a pretty good view of his sharp teeth.
She merely snorted at his lame excuse.
"So, we gonna just stand here all day or are we-" Before he could finish his sentence, the medic-nin ran forward and gave a solid kick that sent him flying into a nearby wall.
BOOM
"Thanks for yet another free shot Kisame!" She yelled, smiling with victory.
"Rematch, I want another round kid!" Kisame replied with viscious grin.
"Like you can take any more hits." The pinkette mumbled to herself with pride. She just beat Akatsuki' s member, Kisame Hoshigaki in a spar! Inside, Inner was celebrating with screams of joy.
She then walked to the breathless missing-nin. Maybe she shouldn't have put that much chakra into her attack. An attack that wouldn't even be possible if she still continued with her 'rebellion' against these criminals. It's a good thing Kisame convinced her to eat again.
And to repay him for giving her this awesome work out, Sakura was going to help him out.
"What are you doing kid?" Kisame questioned the little girl who knelt beside his crumpled form and laid her small hands across his chest.
"Sh…I'm trying to concentrate."
"….On what? Feeling me up?" He joked, showing her his sharp teeth in yet another frightening smile.
Blood rose to her cheeks.
"W-What? Of course not! I'm trying to heal you….besides, I'm only ten."
Sweat began dotting her slightly large forehead while she worked over the Akatsuki member.
Yes, she told herself she wouldn't be mending any broken bones or patching up any wounds of the criminal organization known as the Akatsuki. But, She'll make an exception for the mist-nin. He was being nice to her, even going as far to bring her into their training grounds. Which was apparently, off-limits to anyone else.
"That's a lie and we both know it." Kisame' s eyes drifted close. The kid's chakra was so soothing. It felt like each wave of chakra she sent into his system was rejuvenating him.
"Fine, I'm actually nineteen. I'll be turning twenty soon."
"No kidding, twenty huh? Nah, that's still pretty young if you ask me." He said with a grin.
"You only think that because you're old." Sakura poked his blue cheek, smirking at the furrow on his brow.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"…not that old…." He muttered.
She chuckled at his reaction.
"There, all done. You look brand new." The pinkette stood up and dusted herself off.
"I feel it too, damn. You're good at that healing thing, kid. I feel refreshed." Kisame also stood up and cleaned himself.
"I should be, I'm a medic-nin of Konoha after all." She said, her voice full of pride. But then she seemed to deflate, her lovely green eyes darkened all of a sudden.
"Hey, if you got a problem. Just say it. It won't do you any good, keeping your emotions bottled up like that."
The mist-nin ruffled her pink hair.
"…I …I just miss home." She barely whispered.
Shit. Kisame cursed mentally. Of course she'd be sad. Who wouldn't be? She's been shrunk, imprisoned then beat up, although, the last one was done willingly.
"Do you like sweets?"
Sakura looked up at the Akatsuki member with tear filled eyes.
"….Yeah, especially dango." She answered.
"Perfect, there's this stand that sells the best dango around here. I'll bring some to you later, if you eat your vegetables in your dinner."
"Yes, Dad." Green eyes lit up in humor.
That's more like it. He thought. Kisame didn't like seeing her all weepy and teary eyed. For one thing, it was simply depressing. Another was he preferred the loud and feisty girl who made staying at the underground base much more interesting. Not to mention preferable to his partner's constant silence.
"Whatever, I'm just looking out for you." A large blue hand patted the pinkette' s head.
"Why?"
"Someone has to."
And just like that, the tense atmosphere disappeared. Leaving a comfortable, companionable silence behind.
"She fucking did it…..Oh FUCK! I just lost two month's worth of cash! Damn! Damn it all to hell!"
"Don't feel too bad Hidan, yeah."
"Tobi thinks Deidara-sempai is right! Don't frown like that. Tobi thinks it makes you look mean and scary."
"I'll fucking show you mean and sc-"
"Enough. Hidan, stop sulking and harassing the poor boy."
"You can't order me around you bastard Kakuzu!"
"I just did."
"Like I give two fucks what you say-"
Suddenly, A thick grey tendril wrapped itself around the silver haired nin several times. Effectively keeping his dirty mouth shut for the time being.
"Ah, peace and quiet."
AN : Hey all, hope this chapter was too your liking. By the way, i just wanted all you guys to know that I didn't mean for Deidara to sound pedophiliac or anything like that. (even if i did make it sound like it...heehee...sorry) But don't worry, I have a plot line for this! Anyways, thanks for all this who reviewed. I hope you will continue to do so. :) - VZ
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