im sorry about the long update, but i was busy with exams and whatnot.


The odd, attractive pair walked through the gates of Sagakure at three that afternoon. One could notice that although they were beautiful, the pink haired girl had an angry-at-the-world look upon her face and the raven haired man had a glorious black-and-purple bruise upon his right cheek.

They'd had a rather awkward morning that day.

Flashback

Sakura awoke to find their bodies entangled. Their legs were intertwined and Sasuke's torso was halfway on top of hers. She might have blushed at their position, but...

...But DAMN she had to PEE.

Not wanting to wake him, she tried to wriggle out of the bedroll without disturbing him. This proved to be an impossible task and after five minutes of getting nowhere, she tried plan B.

"Sasuke"

"Sasuke"

"Sasuke!!!"

But onward Sasuke slept, oblivious to his bedmate's angry whispers (and now colorful language)

Now Sakura was desperate, and she resorted to plan C. Steeling herself, she pulled back as much as she could and punched him in the face - HARD (hence the wonderful bruise).

After that she sprinted as fast as she could to the nearest private bush and took an extra-long pee.

End Flashback

"So what now that were here?" Sasuke asked his companion.

"Go and find us a place to stay...mutter mumble ..and I'll go find a brothel" even uttering those last words flared out a murderous intent so fierce people stared, and even Sasuke sorta-kinda edged away from it.

And thus they split, each going to face their worst nightmare. (A/N : DUN DUN DUN!)

Sakura's POV

'Why the hell does it have to be this mission?!' I thought angrily to myself. 'As if all my body can do is provide pleasure for some greedy, greasy, fat man!!!' And then I consoled myself'Once this mission is complete I'll show them what I can really do! I'll catastrate them all,andthen I'll bake their heads in a pie, and let neighborhood strays eat their intestines!' By the time I reached the right brothel, I had conjured 46 ways to satisfyingly kill any man who dared to so much as glance at me in the wrong way.

The "Uber Lovers" brothel looked, well, just like every other brothel I'd seen. Putting aside my ideas of righteous justice, I took care to straighten my posture and clothes, before smoothing my expression and putting on an expressionless "mask".

I walked up to the traditional sliding door and knocked.

Sasuke's POV

The first hotel was certainly NOT where we were going to stay. Stepping inside, I heard strange sounds coming from all sides. Creaking, rustling, moaning, etc. I asked the host how old it was, but he said new. Catching what sparked my enquiry, the old man grinned and informed me that was the noise of the customers "getting happy". I was out the door pretty quickly.

The second hotel, a little ways down the street from the first one, wouldn't do either. I stepped in and was suddenly surrounded by newly-made-fangirls. I stepped out and hid myself among the crowd.

The next couple inns didn't fit my standards of "a place to stay" either. My hope was dwindling and by the time I reached the last hotel, I was desperate. I decided this would have to be the place. I wasn't going to share a bedroll with Sakura if she was going to punch me in the face first thing in the morning.

However, I didn't expect to see an old acquaintance inside.

She spotted me before I could "disappear".

"Sasuke!"

It was Karin.


thought i'd throw in that last part to connect to the recent arc.

now review, please.