Itachi looked at his watch as he waited for the rest of them to catch up. Sasori's plan was simple and ingenious he had to admit, no wonder he had never been able to assassinate the man.
Sasori smiled as he shook his head. The Uchiha was indeed impressive, no wonder all the assassins he had sent after the man had failed and died by his hand.
It had only taken 10 minutes, Shisui grinned as he made his way to his Jeep. Ten minutes, and the two fucking geniuses had come up with a fucking fool proof plan.
"We should have made this alliance years ago." Shisui told Fugaku as they climbed into their vehicle.
"I was all for it back then but well, you know Madara." Fugaku smiled as he checked his phone.
"With Madara gone, who is going to lead the family, I assume it will be you." Shisui tried to be conversational about it, he wasn't fooling the older man.
"I think we both know I'm not cut out for the position, Itachi, it has always been Itach who would replace Madara, but you knew that already Shisui. Do us both a favor, it's going to be a long night as it is, don't bother me with useless conversation hum?" Fugaku cuffed the younger man on the chin in jest.
Shisui ducked his head and grinned wider,"You got it old man."
Sasori had left first as planned, Itachi second. They would trip and dismantle the alarms, the two Suna teams would search and eliminate the defense teams and the two teams that had arrived from Konoha at Itachi's belated request would sweep and secure the area after the initial attack upon arrival.
Sasori and Itachi would take out Orochimaru and Kabuto together, after the box was secured. Itachi and Sasori had agreed the box would most likely be with either Kabuto or Orochimaru, and that both of their skills were needed to get it back.
Itachi scaled the wall of the tower to the East gate of the compound where Orochimaru's lab was supposed to be. Sasori dropped down through a window to the storage rooms of the compound. At this point, it was anyone's guess where the box could be.
The radio buzzed in Itachi's ear, the gates had been secured, the perimeter was under the control of the Suna teams, Konoha had just arrived and was starting the sweep.
"Push them West if you are able" Itachi said into his radio.
"Yes Sir." A voice in his ear chirped.
"North west." Sasori added.
"Yes Sir." The voice confirmed they had heard the new direction.
"Moving to your location Sasori." Itachi told him.
"Got it." Sasori confirmed he had heard Itachi.
Kabuto ran into the main lab where Orochimaru stood with the opened box, the parts of the device laid out on towels as the man gently unscrewed another piece and set it aside.
"Orochimaru sama, Akasuna has breached the outer walls of the compound and...the Uchiha are with him!" Kabuto said breathlessly to the pale skinned man.
"Really." Orochimaru didn't pause in his work as he replied.
Orochimaru pulled the small vial from the inside of the device and held it up to the light. "Finally."
"Is that, is that the virus Orochimaru sama?" Kabuto came up beside the man and stared at the vial in both wonder and maybe a little fright.
"It is." The man's yellow eyes glowed brightly for a moment as he tucked the vial into his shirt pocket and closed the box.
"Sasori underestimated me. I retrieved the vial without any trouble at all." He hissed his pleasure at his accomplishment.
"Did I?" Sasori spoke from the shadows.
"Ah Sasori, I was wondering when you would show yourself." Orochimaru turned to face the red haired man, he didn't seem at all shocked to hear Sasori's voice so close at hand.
"I'm afraid you're too late. Your incredibly dangerous virus is in my possession and I have dismantled the trap you so cleverly placed it in." Orochimaru hummed in amusement.
"You're arrogance is your downfall, it is as I predicted all those years ago when we were in the Akatsuki together Orochimaru...you are a fool." Sasori smiled then, a slight smile.
The smile was not lost on Orochimaru who did in fact know Sasori a little.
"What did you do?" Orochimaru's voice rose and Kabuto made a quick glance between the two men.
"Don't you feel it? It was in the oil, not the vial." Sasori took a step forward into the light. His amber eyes flashed with malice, and his teeth shown white and sharp as he grinned a toothy grin.
"The oil." Kabuto whispered.
"Yes." Sasori didn't take his eyes from Orochimaru, whose face drained of what little color it had.
"You, you...you poisoned the oil." Orochimaru laughed hysterically, madly.
"The antidote?" Orochimaru's eyes were slitted, like snakes.
"Since when do I make antidotes to my poisons…" Sasori drawled as if he were already bored of the conversation.
Orochimaru's hands began to shake as he stumbled forward onto the table. His hands spread along the surface slipping in the oil over the towels and little parts that he had pulled from the device.
"The device…" Orochimaru gasped as his breathing became choked.
"A decoy of course." Sasori strolled into the room , eyes bland and impersonal as he looked at the dying man.
"The vial." Orochimaru asked pulling the small vial from his shirt.
"Is real." Sasori plucked the vial from the man's hands before he could drop it with a tissue and wrapped it before tucking it into his own shirt.
Orochimaru fell to the ground at Sasori's feet gasping for air.
"You lungs are failing, you are suffocation. Goodbye Orochimaru." Sasori looked down at the man annoyed he was taking so long to die.
Kabuto made his way slowly to the door while Sasori was distracted by the dying Orochimaru.
Itachi jumped down from the window he had been hiding in and stabbed Kabuto under the rib, through his lung.
"You may join your master." Itachi let the man drop to the floor gasping for breath.
Sasori turned to Itachi, "Shall we strip it?"
"Hn." Itachi nodded and they set to work.
30 minutes later Sasori took his phone from Baki and called Sakura.
5 hours later they entered the Uchiha compound and he hugged Sakura.
One day later they woke together in Sakura's apartment in one another's arms.
"I never thought, it just,"Sakura paused,"It seemed like a lifetime ago we were last here, you and I in my bed. So much has happened." She laughed a little shakily.
Sasori tucked her head under his chin and kissed her ear as she lay on his chest.
"I told you I would come back to you." He stroked her bare back with his hands.
She shivered at his touch,"I know, but it just seems so unreal."
"I'm sorry you worried, it's over now though." He assured her.
"Are you okay with this, with how things turned out?" She asked him looking up at him.
"I never wanted that life, it was my father's dream , not mine." He told her and kissed her nose.
She dropped her head back to his chest and snuggled in closer to him breathing his scent in through her nose.
"Are you ready?" He asked her, wrapping his arms around her stilling his strokes.
"Ready for what?" She asked him not looking up at him.
"For the rest of our lives?" He smiled and she giggled.
"Yes." She smiled.
What Sasori told Sakura was true, he had never wanted the life his father had forced him into. He didn't mind the torture and the scientific aspects that had come with his job but he could do without it, for her.
The alliance between the Akasuna and the Uchiha was a simple one. Sasori and Itachi would both run their operations separately, coming to one another's aide when called upon. Both ceased the distribution and development of illegal drugs and human organ trafficking after selling off the remaining stores.
After dividing the profits from the remaining sale they opened a hospital between Suna and Konoha that Sakura ran once she had graduated from med school with the help of her best friend's Ino Yamanaka and Sasuke Uchiha.
Although Sasori still ran illegal arms and other weapons of mass destruction he created, his life had dulled down considerably. He and Sakura got married two years later, it was the talk of nations near and far.
Itachi never married much to Sasori's annoyance and Sakura's surprise. Shisui settled for a minor Uchiha cousin that looked suspiciously like Sakura with black hair and Sasuke announced he was gay a year later and married a nice Suna boy soon after.
Sakura never found out Sasori had been responsible for Sasuke's infedelity but with him being gay now it didn't seem to matter.
Madara was buried quietly in the old district of the compound, a granite headstone marked his place among the many other Uchiha clan heads of their time. Sakura was the only one to vist, laying flowers annualy on the day of his murder. She felt it was her duty and obligation. That is where Sasori found her one rainy day three years after their marriage.
"Sakura, you'll get ill, come dear, Mikoto has dinner waiting for us, and it isn't good for the baby." He wrapped an arm around her as much as he could in her advanced pregnancy.
Sakura sniffed a little, "I'm sorry, I just. I don't regret it, but I can't forget." She turned to her husband and let him hug her wrapping a blanket around her that he had brought out with him.
"Then remember." He said softly into her ear, kissed her and led her away, back to the main house for dinner.
End.