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Chapter FOUR
"The Root Diagram is said to be a super computer that extracts information from all sources within the country in order to produce a series of coded data, which is then analysed by the Core and turned into predictions." Sakura said. "Simply put, the Root Diagram is made of two parts, the main body which relays the information, and the brain, which does the calculations. In this case, the body would be the computer system and the brain is the Core."
"The computer system and the Core are different things?" Kakuzu asked.
Sakura nodded. "It might be easier if I say that the Root Diagram is a blank computer while the Core is the actual memory and data stored within."
"How does the whole Core thing work?" Deidara asked. "The Core takes in a flood of information that comes in twenty four seven nonstop, right?"
"Against an entire country worth of data, an average computer would simply burn out." Itachi said. "Being able to analyse that amount of data is not possible."
"For an average computer." Sakura agreed. "There is a reason the Root Diagram is called a Supercomputer."
"So you want us to believe that you can do calculations that no other system in the world can keep up with." Kisame stated.
"Yes."
"You uh...do it in your head?" Deidara asked.
"Yes."
"Okay." Yahiko waved his arms. "Lets come back to this later." He pointed at Gaara. "If Sakura-san here is the Core, what are you?"
"I am Gaara, the Sabaku Defensive System, tasked in protecting the Core from outside harm." Gaara said.
"And uh...if she can do impossible calculations in her head, what can you do?"
"While I am connected to a security program, I become its conscience." Gaara said, as though he were simply describing the weather.
Yahiko chuckled nervously. "And that means?"
"I become one with the system. You could say I become the system." Gaara paused. "I could see the through the cameras connected to the same system. I could activate the alarm through thought. I could control any electronic technology such as automatic doors and elevators. I can make it impenetrable."
There was a moment of silence before Hidan burst out laughing. "How fucking lovely. We brought home a bitch who thinks she's a genius and a brat who thinks he is bullet proof."
"I am." Gaara said.
"Huh?" Hidan blinked.
"Bullet proof." Gaara spread his arms. "Why don't you try?"
Nagato stood up. "Gaara-san-"
"Sakura once told me that seeing is believing." Gaara said. "Shoot me."
Hidan smirked. "I like how you think, brat." His piercing purple eyes seemed to glow even in the room light. "Don't regret it!" Before anyone could protest, he had whipped out his handgun and fired.
Time seemed to slow.
Gaara's eyes zoned in on the bullet as it came for his head.
A blink later, the redhead had a hand in front of his head, the bullet nowhere to be seen.
Something clattered onto the floor. The bullet began to roll towards Gaara's bare foot. Gaara raised the hand that had deflected it and inspected it before he casually raised his foot and brought it down on the bullet. There was a crack sound and the redhead moved his foot to reveal the bullet crushed beyond recognition.
A shocked silence settled over the members of the Akatsuki. Gaara leaned down and hovered his hand over the bullet remains. When he raised it, there was not a single mark left. Gaara turned his hand and held it out to Sakura, who glanced around the room and pointed at the rubbish bin sitting by Nagato's chair.
Hidan finally shifted out of his shocked state. "The fuck-"
Another gunshot echoed throughout the room. Hidan's gun released a puff of smoke, the head this time turned at Sakura. In the blink of an eye Gaara had appeared in front of the pinkette, the bullet falling to the ground with another echoing sound.
"Hidan!" It was Kisame who moved to stop the man from firing a third time.
Hidan turned to him, eyes blazing. "You saw that shit! I shot him! I didn't miss! Why the fuck is he still standing?"
"I exist to protect the Core from bar...bar-ba-ri-ans like you." Gaara said, eyes narrowed. "The least I could do is block a bullet."
"Barbarian." Sakura said. Her tone was as blank and as empty as ever, as though she didn't know or didn't care that someone had shot at her.
"You are a part of a police organization." Nagato snapped. "You don't shoot people just because they tell you to."
Hidan opened his mouth but was roughly cut off when a sudden force smashed his head into the ground. Gaara stood over him, hand on the back of the silverette's head. He placed a foot on the back of one of Hidan's knees, keeping him on the ground and he tightened his grip on silver locks.
"I should kill you this instant." Gaara said.
Hands flew to guns and the Akatsuki watched the redhead with narrowed eyes.
"But I will not." Gaara continued. "Because Sakura says we need you as much as you need us."
"We don't fucking need you, kid." Hidan snarled. "We-
"Gaara."
At the voice, the redhead's arms visibly loosened and he stood up. Hidan kicked out at him but he casually dodged the attack and gracefully took his place beside Sakura, who had been the one to call his name.
"I don't see why we need them." Gaara said. "I am more than capable of taking care of you myself."
"They have the things we lack." Sakura said. She watched Hidan get to his feet and the rest of the Akatsuki casually moving to cover each other's backs. "While Danzo will not release our identity to the public in fears of having questions asked, his men will surely be looking for us. We cannot be caught now. We have been planning this for a very long time. We cannot make a mistake."
"But what do they have that we do not?" Gaara asked.
"They have influence and they have the power to wander wherever they wish." Sakura answered.
"I'd say you're pretty influential yourself." Kisame said. "I mean, you control the movement of the entire Kage no Kuni through a few words every morning."
"I merely give suggestions." Sakura said. "Deep down, it is the people who read my predictions and decide how to go about their day."
"So what now?" Yahiko asked. "You said you ran away and you can't be caught. What are you trying to do."
"We are not here to try and do anything." Sakura said. "We are here to do something. There is a difference."
"And what is that something?" Nagato asked. "You should know but depending on your answer, as a police authority organization, we will have to capture you and hand you over."
"To what extent do you know about Danzo and his ROOT organization?"
"The ROOT organization takes care of the shadow works with Kage no Kuni." Konan said. "Danzo is the leader."
"And did you happen to know that the name on Danzo's speed dial one is a certain man named Orochimaru?"
Shocked silence fell upon the room.
A few years ago, the number of people who had gone missing had started rising and five years later, had doubled the previous amount. The tracks left behind had been traced and had led to a man named Orochimaru, who was back then considered a possible candidate for the next ruler of the Kage no Kuni. Orochimaru was currently a wanted criminal guilty of human trafficking and experimentation who had escaped from the country a few back, before the police could gather enough evidence to convict him. While that had confirmed his involvement in the cases, he had managed to hide all traces and no one knew where he was.
"The very first Core was programmed to think of itself as the protector of the Kage no Kuni." Sakura said. "For eight generations, we have waited for the opportunity. I am the closest to the predictions of what we consider the closest to perfect we could achieve. The job of finally bringing down our creator falls onto me."
"Wait. Stop." Nagato ordered. "Generations? Creator?"
Sakura nodded. "The previous seven generations have gathered information on everything they could get their hands on. Everything they know is stored in here, in me, the eighth generation of the Core."
Sakura pointed at her head. "I have knowledge and memory on everything everyone has ever done within this country. I have records of the most darkest of trades. I have records of people being shackled down and cut open alive. I have records of all the poisons and solutions ever recorded and their effects on people." She paused and turned to look at the members of the Akatsuki. "I know of your very first art exhibition." She said. "I know of the very first rare plan you bought off the internet. I know of your first visit to Kage Mountain while accompanying your brother's kindergarten class."
Sakura stood up and stepped around Gaara so that she could directly look at them. "Orochimaru was careless. While he removed the order to protect the Kage no Kuni in the third update due to his own negative thoughts against the country, he never considered the fact that directly upgrading the Core would transfer the knowledge of the previous into the next. He never considered the fact that protecting the Kage no Kuni would involve removing our very creator from existence."
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- Sasori x Sakura, we think.
- High school AU
- They prank someone (Ino?). They knocked her unconscious and dump her in a bathtub full of dye, or something.
- Sakura says something about not really being friends with Ino and the others, and that they only want to be picked to go on an 'adventure', or something.
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NEW STORY:
Ivy: (Sakura x Sasuke/Sakura x Multi?)
Under orders, Uchiha Sasuke is sent to Orochimaru's side where he meets Sakura, an isolated girl willing to do anything for her father's recognition. Sasuke sees Orochimaru take advantage of his daughter's loyalty to make her do inhumane things and realizes that with her upbringing, she doesn't know any better. Deciding to dig deeper, he finds a lonely girl starved for affection.
And they swore beneath the Fire Lilies (Sakura x Neji sibling relationship / Sakura x Multi):
Hyuuga Neji thinks 'Chance' is a stupid word. Such a simple word shouldn't define the power to change one's life. Hyuuga Sakura's world revolved around one person. She knows that once, they've seen the light they could no longer see and heard the song they could no longer hear. The story of a pair of broken siblings unable to escape the fate that has pitted them against the world.
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