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"Sakura?" he asked again putting his hand on her shoulder.

"I meant what I said." she said brushing his hand off of her shoulder and went into another room.

'This really can't be Sakura can it?' Shikamaru wondered joining the others.


"Sakura?" Naruto asked as the black haired girl passed the group.

'Sakura' paid no attention to anything and none of them could read her face or eyes. All she did was curl up on a couch next to Itachi.

Sasuke clenched, and unclenched his fists watching 'Sakura' getting comfortable with his brother.

Itachi also paid no attention to the group and paid all of his attention to the girl beside his.

"Sakura?" Naruto asked louder taking a step forward closer to her.

"She no longer goes by that name." Kisame said coming out of another room.

"What does she go by?" Kiba asked.

"Akako." he replied with a straight face.

"Let's go train, yeah!" Deidara practically shouted running through the room going outside.

Akako was the first to follow the blonde; Itachi got up next but didn't go outside. Kisame and Hidan shortly followed.

As the old Rookie 9 stood in silence, aside from the crashes and screaming coming from outside, they were all thinking of her.

Next Morning

Kakashi was the first to wake up, finding himself in a midnight blue painted room. He didn't remember anything about going to a room. All that was remembered was having a drinking contest with Kisame. His turned over in 'his' bed and found a note on the side table.

'I WON!!!!! LOSER!!!!!'

Kisame

"Greeeeat. Lost a drinking contest already." he moaned smothering his face in a white pillow.

"Wake up!!!" yelled a voice from the other side of the door.

"Ouch." Kakashi mumbled from under the pillow. Sighing in defeat, the copy-nin got up from his bed noticing a change of clothes. He dressed quickly and discarded his normal clothes on his bed. He soon met up with Hinata in the hallway who gave him a small nod. They both made their way down the long hall.

"Give it back!!!!" a voice whined from the kitchen.

"Make me." a voice teased.

"What the?" Kakashi asked as he saw Kisame holding a piece of toast up above Deidara's head.

"They're drunk." Hidan said walking past them.

Kakashi nodded, but he still kept wondering 'Why toast?'

Akako soon walked in a plain black dress that came down to about mid-thigh and it was very low-cut, at the top.

Kisame and Deidara stopped teasing and whining and just stared at their female comrade.

"Hey Saku-chan!!!" Deidara yelled so drunk forgetting the 'yeah.'

'Sakura' walked past them and went outside to where Shikamaru and Shino were.

"I see our cherry blossom is getting a little too close." Suzaku said to Zetsu.

"Not close at all. She still hates being touched." Zetsu said watching her movements.

"Why do you say that?" Suzaku said.

"One of her old 'friends' touched her shoulder and she brushed him off." he replied.

"Aa. Our cherry blossom is still broken." he said smirking.

Outside

Sasuke found almost everyone outside by the time he woke up.

He saw 'Sakura' by Shikamaru and Shino, though she wasn't saying a thing. Actually she wasn't sitting that close to them

Itachi soon came out and sat about four feet away from her.

"Smile." he whispered.

She just stared emotionlessly at the Sharingan user in front of her.

This made his smirk.

'Sakura' got up leaving everyone behind her as she went back inside.

"You bastard." Sasuke hissed walking up to his old brother.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. My little brother should not use that type of language." Itachi teased.

This made Sasuke extremely pissed and so he activated his Sharingan.

Itachi, who was being entertained, went ahead and put on his gekei genki (sp?).

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled as a large ball of flames came hurdling toward Itachi.

"Suiton: Suigadan." Itachi muttered dodging Sasuke attack easily as a circle of water spikes were sent toward Sasuke.

This attack caused a loud crash as Sasuke went flying back making a nice sized crater in the ground. This caught everyone's attention.

"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled recovering from the last attack.

Itachi dispersed the many spheres of fire coming toward him, also knocking the shuriken hidden in the flames away.

Sasuke saw a flaw in his defense stance and came charging at him.

"Ranshinshō." Sasuke heard someone say as he was hit to the ground.

He tried to move his right leg to stand up but his left arm moved instead.

"Damnit." he muttered.

He scanned the area for the person that did that to him.

His eyes landed on Sakura standing a few yards away from him. Her face held no emotion.

"I thought only Tsuande could do that." Naruto muttered to Kakashi.

"It's called stealing." Kisame said laughing, hearing the blonde's statement.

"Now that the fun is over, go do your own business." Suzaku said watching everyone going back to their own thing.

Sasuke who still couldn't get up, stayed into same place.

Deidara and Kisame broke out in laughter watching the younger Uchia struggling with this.

"You try getting out of it." he hissed out of the two.

"She used that on us all the time." Kisame said still laughing.

"It's easy to get used to, yeah." Deidara said crying from laughing so hard.

Sakura who was still standing in that same place, avoided eye contact with anyone.

Kakashi stood behind her waiting for her to turn around.

Sakura felt his presence so she turned her head slightly so she could see his masked face.

"Do you ever talk?" Kakashi asked smirking under his mask.

Sakura turned back around and walked into the base, again.

The Next Day, Training field

Sakura was training with Itachi. Everyone was watching intently, except for the Akatsuki members.

Itachi sent a kick for Sakura's stomach; Sakura grabbed his shin while Itachi did a mid-air flip to get out of her grasp. Itachi came back with a kunai in hand trying to strike her left shoulder. Sakura let him strike her in order to send a chakra filled punch to his chest.

Itachi could hear something crack. He didn't let that slow him down though. Activating his Sharingan, he sent more kunai at her. Sakura dodged them easily, not noticing the exploding tags. She was engulfed in the flames.

"Sōfūshasan no Tachi!" Sakura yelled from within the flames.

Shuriken came out of the flames and smoke directly toward Itachi, instead of tying him to an object, Sakura made the weapons strike him.

Sasuke stood holding back a jaw drop as his ex-team mate used an attack only used for Sharingan users.

"Special isn't she." Kisame said standing by the younger Uchia.

Sasuke made no indication that he was listening. Instead, he watched his brother and old-teammate battle.

Itachi had a few cuts from that attack but did not let it affect him.

"Sakura Fubuki no Jutsu!" Sakura yelled as her own jutsu came into action.

Kunai surrounded Itachi, the kunai had explosive bags attached to them.

Sakura simply threw another kunai with an exploding tag at the middle of the others.

Itachi was soon lost in a large explosion.

"Match over. Winner, our very own cherry blossom." Hidan teased a beaten up Sakura.

Itachi came out of the smoke full of scratches and bruises, but was also smirking.

Sakura healed herself and then went over to Itachi.

Sasuke growled as Sakura touched Itachi's bare chest.

"Were they taking in seriously?" Kakashi asked Kakazu.

"If they were, there would no training grounds." he replied walking away from him.

"Sakura had gotten stronger." Kakashi said to himself.

Shikamaru watched as Sakura healed the other Uchia. Itachi was watching Sakura the whole time.

"Let's see how the newbie's do." Suzaku said watching their every action. "The first fight shall be between." he paused.

"Gaara and Kakashi." he said receiving all eyes on him, including Sakura.


Oh my god this chapter sucked. I don't no what to write/type anymore.

Next chapter will involve a lot of the fights with the 'newbie's'.

Should I continue with the Ita/Saku pairing or no?

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