Hey there everyone! So here's chapter 5 for you.

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Chapter 5

Konoha

„You did WHAT?!" Tsunade yelled. Naruto, having lifted his hands to cover his ears, tried to explain what had happened.

"Well, ya know it may sound a bit strange at first but you have to understand-"

"You traded my student to our enemy! Sakura is captured by Uchiha Itachi only because you wanted to have your stupid friend back! What else do I have to understand!?"

Tsunade continued to yell.

The beautiful blond woman had received the news of the deal between Itachi and Naruto only moments ago and was totally hysterical.

Naruto, still standing in front of her desk lifted his right hand again and wiped with his orange sleeve, covering the back of his hand, over his face -every time the Hokage was exited about something she had a very wet articulation.

And right now she was definitely exited.

She had thrown her chair out of the newly repaired window; the wall held several more holes due to her powerful punches and secret files were randomly distributed all around her office.

"Tsunade-sama please let me explain why-"

"Just shut it Naruto!" The Hokage snapped up. "Leave my office! Immediately!"

"But-"

"Don't you dare to object! I said immediately!" The desperate woman commanded with her voice raised.

The fair boy slowly turned around and shuffled towards the big wooden door. His shoulders slouched he left the office without looking back at the broken woman currently crying about her lost student and adoptive-daughter.

As soon as Naruto closed the door he was promptly hugged by Hinata. The timid girl had confessed to Naruto several months ago and he, openhearted like always, had started an affectionately relationship with her.

He quickly hugged her back, happy to have someone by his side and they stayed like that for several minutes.

After a long time of silence she finally asked: "How did Tsunade-sama react? I could hear quite loud sounds coming out of her office."

Naruto, breaking the hug cautiously, answered with a throaty voice: "She was totally appalled by what I have done to Sakura. I wasn't able to tell her about the other part of the deal I made with Itachi."

"Don't worry Naruto. You did it all for her. As soon as Hokage-sama will be informed about it, your name will be exculpated from the accusation of betrayal. And Neji and Sai will look after Sakura as good as you would have done." Hinata assured him

"Yeah" he answered while he looked at her lovingly. "I just wished I would be able to experience her return but I soon have to leave-I still have to fulfil my part of the deal and you know I will most likely not be able to return to you two." While he said the last words he cautiously stroked Hinata's belly.

"Yeah. I know that." Hinata answered and hugged him again, crying silently.

Akatsuki Base

"Sai!" hissed Sakura as quiet as possible. "Can you sense Neji's chakra in the room over there, too?

"Yeah. What do you think? I'm not stupid or anything like that, Ugly." Sai answered grimly.

Sakura sighed: "Ya damn well know that I didn't mean it like that. We can argue about things such as those later, okay?"

Sai just snorted so she continued. "We have to be careful. Like expected Itachi's room is directly next to Neji's so we have to be super-quiet. Understood?"

The artist just gave her a look which clearly told her that he wasn't amused about the way she treated him right now.

"All right. I will assess that as a yes. So here's the plan. You will stay here and watch for some way to escape while I sneak into Neji's cell and rescue him. As soon as you can see me coming out of this room you will start to move towards the exit and I will follow you. We have to leave this building as fast and as quiet as possible. Okay?" she whispered into his ear. Fortunately they were crouched together in a corner so she didn't have to tiptoe to reach his head. That would have totally destroyed her look of authority.

Sai slowly nodded so she started to get up and sneaked towards Neji's cell. She silently cursed her lack of chakra. It all would have been so much easier with a few genjutsus to use to lessen the sounds they made or just to vanish inside of one of these dark walls.

Shaking her head to free herself from such unhelpful thoughts she quickly reached the

black-painted wooden door.

She cautiously searched for the newly gained keys inside of her weapon-pouch and promptly scratched herself on one of the rusty nails

Cursing silently she lifted her right index finger towards her mouth, sucked the blood which was already pouring down her skin away and continued her search.

Having been successful she examined the lock and then the three keys dangling from the metal ring.

One of them looked exactly like the one of the four she had stolen from this Tobi-guy, so it was most likely not adapted for this one.

The second one was painted golden, just like the lock so this was clearly a possible opener.

The third one, from a silver colour, was way too small to match into such a big lock so she decided that the second one was the fitting key.

Slowly sliding the small piece of metal into the lock she happily noticed that this was definitely the right one.

The door opened without causing any sound-obviously this one was oiled way better than the doors inside the basement- and she quickly stepped inside of the small room.

The walls were painted in a dark red colour and the only furniture decorating the cell were some small black chairs and one heavy-looking black couch. She could detect Neji's figure lying on the ground -their capturers obviously hadn't seen a reason to lay him on the comfortable looking sofa.

The pink-haired girl cautiously made her way towards the body of her friend while pausing nearly every second to eavesdrop for any sound caused by the habitant of the neighbouring room. Not able to hear anything she reached Neji and immediately started to check his wounds.

No one was especially big or especially dangerous so she started to lift his unconscious body over her right shoulder.

Huffing due to the enormous weight currently pressing on her dainty form she sneaked back towards the door.

Looking in her left and right direction she could detect Sai standing next to a small but open window. She clumsily made her way towards the dark-haired boy and as soon as she had reached him she shifted Neji's weight onto Sai's shoulder.

Not able to protest loudly the artist just gave her a very evil glance and then gestured towards their future exit.

Sakura, smiling sweetly at him, put her hands on the dark window frame and started to lift herself up and as soon as she had reached the top she silently jumped downwards. They were on the first floor so it wasn't an especially long way until her feet touched the ground again.

Sakura hurriedly inspected her surroundings in order to check if the owner of the enormous chakra trail was outside here but fortunately he seemed to be still at the other side of the building.

Now being able to see the place she had been held prisoner in she was quite surprised. It looked like a lovely country estate with its white coat of paint and pretty flowers blooming in several pots distributed all around the large garden.

Obviously their current location was somewhere inside of a forest because she could see trees everywhere. A small trail could be located a few metres away and she supposed that it would lead to the next village- even criminals needed something to eat after all.

"Hey!" she could hear Sai's voice hissing from above. "Mind giving me a hand?"

Sakura had to suppress a snort as soon as she detected Sai. He was dangling from the little window with Neji's yukata-like shirt between his one hand, barley able to hold his weight any longer with only his right hand clutching to the window frame.

"Sure." she whispered back and positioned herself so that she could catch Neji without any problems as soon as Sai would release his garment.

Due to the sudden added weight of her pale-eyed friend she landed on the ground with Neji lying on top of her.

Huffing slightly she tried to crawl away but stayed pinned down nonetheless

She tried again to get away but suddenly she could detect a sound coming from her unconscious friend. Obviously the downfall had finally awoken him.

"Neji." She hissed. She could hear a grumbling sound coming from above her. "Neji!" she tried again.

Said boy slowly opened his eyes and looked totally dumbfounded at the person currently lying under him.

"S-Sakura? What-?" he started but was immediately interrupted by Sai who had jumped down shortly after his fall.

"Barbie! Get up. You are crushing her."

Neji immediately jumped up and extended a hand to help Sakura.

The pink-haired girl gratefully accepted his help and was soon standing between the two boys.

Before Neji could start asking any questions Sakura had already started creeping towards the earlier detected trail.

The boys looked at each other, shrugged and started to follow her as quietly as possible.

As soon as they had reached the border of the forest they started running.

Little did they know that a shadow-like person followed them, smirking secretly to himself.

After several hours of non-stop racing through the forest, which was abundantly covered with vegetation they finally slowed down.

Totally exhausted all tree of them tumbled down like sacks of potatoes and stayed like that for a while, panting heavily.

"So" Neji started between taking in large breaths of the fresh air "would you mind telling me what happened while I was unconscious?"

"Well, Barbie while you were asleep we escaped out of our cells, gave this Deidara-guy a new hairstyle and rescued you out of a room directly next to Itachi's." Sai explained flatly

Neji, shooting the artist an evil glance said:"Sakura, mind explaining what really happened?"

"Well" Sakura started while tipping her index finger against her chin "actually Sai said the truth but it was quite shortened. I will tell you the whole story somewhere along the way but right now I am way too exhausted."

Neji grumbled but stopped pushing for an explanation.

Sakura, slowly standing up again looked towards the sky. It was a beautiful orange-reddish colour. "I love sunsets." she simply stated but both boys were silently agreeing with her.

"I think it will be best if we rest here for today. We will continue running away from everyone tomorrow okay?" She half-jokingly said but wasn't rewarded by any laughter. She could only hear some small sounds, most likely signs of acceptance.

She laid down between her two boys again and soon fell asleep due to her exhaustion.

She was awoken by quiet snoring sounds produced by Sai who was laying at her left side with his face turned in her direction. Neji, laying at her right side, had most likely drifted towards the source of warmth he had felt and was currently laying quite close to her dainty form.

She laughed softly- she was used to sleeping next to Neji and Sai so she wasn't bothered by the closeness anymore. After all they had solved countless missions together.

Slowly getting up she noticed the first sunbeams of the new day starting to arise at the skyline.

Smiling again she started to stretch her aching muscles but soon had to wrinkle her nose.

She was stinking again. Glad that her boys hadn't awoken before her and noticed the quite disturbing odour she quickly made her way towards the small river they had passed by yesterday.

Reaching it she stripped down to her underwear and cautiously laid her black shirt, which had replaced her red one some time ago as well as her remaining beige skirt and black shorts on the hard soil.

Stepping inside of the cold river water she started to untie the bandage which covered her ample bosom and threw it in the direction of her other clothes.

Now, standing in the middle of the little river she started to wash away the sweat and dirt that had collected itself during her stay in the Akatsuki base.

Enjoying the wonderful feeling of cold water on her battered skin she let a sigh of pleasure slip through her lips.

Washing her middle-length curly hair she inspected her reflection in the quiet water.

She had grown up quite a lot. Fortunately her bust size wasn't as large as the one of her teacher-such a large bosom sure would be hindering during a fight.

Remembering Tsunade she quickly lost the happy look on her face. The wound inside of her which the betrayal of her home town had caused was still hurting.

Suddenly she could detect a sound coming from a few bushes to her left side.

Smirking slightly due to a strong feeling of deja-vu Sakura covered herself up and said loudly:"Neji, Sai you can come out now. I know that you are over there."

But after a few moments without an answer she could feel goose bumps forming on her ridge.

Cautiously stepping out of the water she hurriedly dressed again and then turned around to get back to their camp as soon as possible.

But she wasn't able to. In front of her stood Itachi Uchiha. Again.

Said man smirked. "Going somewhere?" he asked her nonchalantly.

Sakura, having recovered from the shock of him standing directly in front of her, hissed back:"Actually, yes!"

Lifting an eyebrow Itachi suddenly vanished. He reappeared behind her and pushed her against a huge tree.

Turning her around so that she would be able to face him, he secured both of her hands over her head and leaned forward.

Sakura, taken by surprise didn't struggle against his firm grip. But as soon as he had leaned forward she quickly turned her head away from him.

Don't look into his eyes, don't look into his eyes, don't – her trail of thought was soon interrupted by Itachi. He had lifted his remaining hand and turned her head around again.

"Sakura." he whispered "Why did you run away? I thought that we have made a deal?"

His quiet and even voice let shivers run down her spine.

"You didn't really believe that I would do what you told me to, right?" the pink-haired girl hissed with a voice full of venom.

Itachi chuckled "Yeah, you are right. That's why I was able to follow you immediately after you had left the base." While he said that he let one of his knees slip between her legs.

"So you knew from the beginning. Why didn't you stop us?" Sakura asked, nervously looking down at his leg.

"Oh come on. That's an easy question." he answered her while smirking again. "I am a predator, Sakura. I like to hunt."

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