Me: Well here you have it! Chapter four! –cries- I'm so proud!

Eddie: Wimp

Me: -Ignores Eddie- I'd like to thank maxsunnyAK 47 for reviewing all those times!

Eddie: Yoi no Chi does not own Naruto

Me: B-but you told me I did! –Cries in a corner-

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Chapter Four

Holding On To Me

No point of view

(With Sakura)

After the meeting was over, Sakura and Pein left together since they had the same class, gym. Pein had told her that Gai (the teacher) was crazy and should be avoided at all cost for the sake of her sanity. It confused her but she nodded anyway, she would have to see for herself.

When they got there she saw a guy who matched Lee from head to toe. Maybe he was Lee's father? No when she looked closer she could tell that he was not.

She felt a stare on her and she turned to it and what she saw surprised her. The man who looked like Lee was standing in front of her with his jaw hanging. She opened her mouth to speak but the man cut her off.

"You are so YOUTHFUL!" The rosette raised an eyebrow, "thank you?" She punched him when he went to hug her. Pein tapped the rosette shoulder lightly and whispered in her ear, "You know he's the teacher, right?"

Sakura stared at Pein, unblinking. He couldn't have told her before she punched him? Though luckily Gai didn't seem mad, he just got up and cried about how youthful she was. If she were someone else she would have ran away and killed herself so he would not be able to find her.

But she was not so she told him that a guy on the other side of the school was being unyouthful. Gai nodded and galloped away, shouting, "I'm coming to save you from Kakashi's evil ways!"

The rosette shot Pein a confused look, what did this person, Kakashi, have to do with it? Her friend just shrugged, much to her annoyance.

She still has not forgotten how weird Pein was acting. He still seemed to be off. Sakura had noticed that he would keep glancing at her with worry. Maybe he was wondering if she could fight against Danzo and his henchmen.

If that was the case then he has nothing to worry about. She took on Orochimaru's henchmen, roughly four hundred and came out victorious. That was the up side about being trained at such a young age; she could take on an entire army and win.

She and Naruto still trained brutally so that if Sayomi or someone else tried to kill them, they could defend themselves.

Nonetheless she was not cocky like her sister. Hopefully no one would find out about Sakura's and Naruto's past then everything will go upside down. Only a few knew about it and she would be damned if someone found out without her knowledge.

It seemed as though Pein has a secret past as well for it is unnatural for a man of his age, sixteen to have such fighting abilities like his. It appeared as though the rest of the Akatsuki knew his past; there was a deep connection that flew throughout all of them making them bonded as one.

She believes that they must have known each other since childhood for them to have a bond like that, to recognize what the others were going to do before it happens.

That is very handy in battle. That was one of the many reasons that showed her that they were going to win this battle. Though she still could not get that uneasiness out of her gut, what if someone died? What would happen then?

She was driven out of her thoughts when the bell rung. It had surprised her that Gai was not back yet. Suddenly there was a low buzzing sound and some enraged mumbling.

After several seconds a voice was heard, "May Ishikawa Sakura please report to the Principal's office." The rosette looked at the speaker in mild surprise, she was sure she had not done anything wrong… well that they could prove was her at least.

She nodded to no one and stroll to the Principal's office, it was no big deal for now anyway.

(With Pein)

Pein watch in amusement as Sakura punched Gai in the face making him fall backwards. Maybe it was time to tell her. "You know he's the teacher, right?"

He sort of felt bad for not telling her earlier but it was not every day you got to see Gai get punched…. Okay fine, maybe it was every day but still. Sakura blinked at him, she seemed emotionless but he could tell on the inside she was killing him slowly and painfully.

He guessed he deserved it. Pein wondered what Sakura would do now to get out of this situation. He was not surprised when she told Gai that someone on the other side of school was being unyouthful.

Telling Gai that was a common thing amongst the students, it would insure them that he'll be gone for the rest of class.

'You'd think Gai would figure it out by now,' the teen thought as the green-wearing teacher ran past him, yelling the same thing he always does.

Out of the corner of his eyes, Pein could see Sakura give him a puzzled look. The apricot-haired man inwardly smirked; she looks cute when she's confused. Though he only shrugged outwardly. Seeing Sakura go into her own little world, he decided to catch up on his Zs.

He trekked over to the back of the bleachers and leaned against one of the many poles. Closing his eyes, Pein fell into a light sleep one where he could still sense everything around him. A few minutes of relaxing and the bell rang much too soon for his liking.

He sighed and got up. A quiet buzzing noise was heard along with some grumbling. Principal Tsunade's aggravated voice sounded through the speakers, "may Ishikawa Sakura please report to the principal's office."

'That's weird, normally Shizune would do that not Tsunade.' This was very suspicious indeed. "I better follow her," he mumbled, following Sakura at a distance.

(With Sakura)

Sakura walked into the office. The assistant waved her past without looking up from her notes. When she went inside she saw Naruto tied up to a chair along with a big-breast woman with blonde hair. The rosette turned to run but a gun was shoved in her face.

(With Pein)

Pein creped around the corner Sakura just went behind. "Oi, what are you doing?" a voice loudly asked next to his ear. The Akatsuki leader jumped a little and turned to punch the person but stop when he saw Yahiko.

He glared and crossed his arms over his chest, "I could ask you the same thing." Yahiko sheepishly rubbed his neck. "Well, Konan and I were you know," he wiggled his ginger-colored eyebrows.

"And we saw you following Sakura so we decided to follow you then the rest of the gang join in too." Yahiko jabbed his thumb behind him where the rest of the Akatsuki was.

Pein nodded and twisted back around to continue to pursue Sakura on her quest to the principal's office. After several minutes of creeping to the office, they finally made it.

Pein noticed Shizune was knocked out on the floor. He feared the worst when an almost unheard gunshot rung throughout the air.

Without thinking he kicked the office door open with more force the needed. Blood seemed to be everywhere. What he saw next shocked him the most.

(With Sakura)

"Nice to meet you I'm Takeshi, your future killer," the man announced. He was roughly six foot two with jade hair and gold eyes. He had a scar running down the right side of his face. He was wearing plain black clothes.

Sakura grunted, "Nice to meet you too. I'm Sakura, your future executioner." She was entirely calm even though a gun was heaved against her neck. She knew what to do in this condition, the poor man had no chance.

The emerald-eyed teen didn't recognize him so that means he freshly got out of training. And by the scar, he was most likely not very good and won't be able to keep up with her.

She elbowed his gut and grabbed his revolver as he went down. Swiftly, she shot a bullet into his head. The bullet exited his skull and ceased when it hit the wall, splattering crimson liquid onto it, turning the wall scarlet instead of its milk-white.

She was lucky that there was a silencer on the gun. If there was not then it would attract attention. 'Sayomi underestimated us,' the rosette thought, looking at the dead body of her attacker. 'Next time we won't be so lucky.'

There was a muffled scream of horror from the principal. Sakura turned to her, "will you shut the fuck up?" Hesitantly, the lady nodded. "Good." The rosette untied her brother then Tsunade.

Just as she was done, the office door was kicked open, revealing Pein behind it. She watched as he gazed around the room, his eyes widening slightly as he saw the corpse.

He glanced from Naruto to her. "I think it's time you told us everything." Pein motioned behind him where the rest of the Akatsuki was staring wide-eyed at the siblings.

Naruto didn't say anything just gazed at the floor, a frown clearly visible on his face. Sakura peeked at the blonde from the corner of her eye and sighed, "Fine but not here."

Pein nodded, agreeing to her request. They were heading out the door when Kisame asked, "What about the body?" He held up Takeshi's head by his hair. Pein opened his mouth to respond but Sakura beat him, "Leave it, I'll have a friend take care of it."

Kisame nodded then looked at Tsunade, "what about her?" "She won't talk and if she does that will be the last thing she ever says," proclaimed the rosette, giving the principal a look that assured her that she wasn't kidding.

The blonde gulped and jiggled her head hardly. Sakura smirked and turned heel. "I guess that means we are leaving," Pein mumbled, following her. No one talked as they walked down the hall towards the front door.

The silence was comfortable for Sakura but she could see that it was eating several people away with its giant teeth. When they came outside, the teen decided to finally speak, "Follow me." She put on her helmet and waited on her bike until everyone was in Pein's van.

She sped off, flying through the streets like an eagle, swiping past vehicle after vehicle. Naruto was closely beside her with Pein on their tail.

(With Pein)

Sakura led them down an abandon street. Pein could see why it was abandon; the name of it was called Gateway to Hell. People around here were people of god even if they didn't act like it.

The teen wondered what their house looked like since they didn't seem to be rich. But maybe he was wrong, their bikes were in fact new.

Sakura steered into the driveway of a one story house with one broken window on it. The house looked like it could fall down any second. Even one breath could send it tumbling over in a great smash.

"So they have nice bikes but they live in a dump un?" Deidara muttered to himself as they followed the siblings inside.

The inside was different than Pein thought it was going to be, charcoal paint covered the walls, giving off an eerie glow. Paintings of black roses hung throughout the home. A vase of dried up roses sat on a coffee table next to an ebony couch.

Naruto turned to face his friends and grinned at their expressions, "Sakura likes painting roses." "More like dead roses," Zetsu murmured, staring at a painting of a petal less flower on top of a gravestone with dark petals on the grave.

"Anyway," Sakura started, sitting on a wooden chair. "You guys want to know about our past, right?" There were nods in response. "How much do you want to know?" She seemed to not want to tell too much of her past.

Pein spoke calmly and smoothly, "as much as we need to know." Sakura dipped her head. "My brother and I were born on December tenth. Our mother was Ishikawa Kasumi, you might have heard of her."

Pein indeed knew about her, she was the leader of the feared gang, Phantom. She was known to take out entire cities with one blow. She killed her own parents when she was six because they wouldn't give her the head of her rival.

She could train children to be the best assassins by the time they were three. And She disappeared four years ago. Some people said she turned into a phantom and while others said she was in hiding. Personally, Pein thought it was the first one.

"We were trained to kill the moment we could walk and assassinated thousands. When we were twelve we killed her and ran." Naruto snorted at this. "Fine, I killed her. Anyway, she had an assistant called Sayomi. Sayomi is trying to get revenge on us and our sources tell us she is starting an army to kill us for what I did four years ago. That's basically it."

Everyone nodded, letting the informant sink in. After a while Hidan spoke well more like yelled, "so what's the fucking big deal then? You got us damn it! And I need some more fuckers to sacrifice anyway!"

Yahiko jumped up with his fists in the air and howled, "You got that right! We'll kick Sayomi's ass and her henchmen's' asses too!"

"But first we have to deal with Danzo," Kakuzu explain, bringing everyone back to the important issue that was going to take place that night.

Pein nodded and ordered, "Sakura, Naruto, we will pick you up around seven, bring your guns." With that said, Pein along with everyone else left.

(That night)

Pein drove into the lot of a deserted warehouse where ROOT was. The Akatsuki concealed their guns in their cloaks and kept their bigger guns locked away in the van, where Tobi was so he could drive in and give them their weapons if needed and they could risk Tobi killing everyone.

Deidara lay on another building with his L96A1 sniper rifle in his hands. The blonde positioned himself so he could see through one of the windows and kill Danzo when Pein gave the signal. Deidara was best at long-distances; he had an eye like a hawk.

Pein led his gang inside where there were greeted by Danzo himself. "Hello, Akatsuki." Danzo was sitting on a throne-like chair, surrounded by ROOT members.

"What do I honor for your appearance in my humble house?" the ROOT leader asked, tilting his head innocently. Pein growled; Danzo always knew how to get under his skin.

"What are you up too?" He demanded, glaring at the elderly man. Danzo cackled like something the teen said was funny. "I'm not up to anything."

"Our agreement stated that you can only have up to ten people in your gang," Pein looked around, "This is way more than ten."

"Oh but how am I going to kill you with only ten people?" asked Danzo, snapping his fingers and his gang pulled out their guns.

Pein waved his hand in the air and Deidara started shooting off some ROOT members. The apricot-haired man drawled his SD40 pistol and began discharging it. Blood spattered everywhere as people were going down.

So far the Akatsuki was winning as far as Pein could tell. He glanced around him, Sakura was fighting Danzo with Yahiko, Hidan was cutting out a man's heart, Kakuzu was guarding him, and everything seemed to be fine.

He smirked as he fired a bullet into a ROOT's head, smashing his skull with great force. Suddenly a scream spread through the warehouse. It took Pein only a second to realize it was Yahiko, shot down by Danzo.

Danzo stood above him, smirking as he pulled the trigger again. The shotgun shell hit Yahiko dead straight between the eyes and he was lifeless.

In a flash, Pein tackled Danzo and grabbed the man's gun, throwing it off somewhere. "You made a mistake," He hissed, slugging a shot into the elder's throat. The ROOT members, seeing their leader deceased, ran.

They didn't get every far before all of them were shot down by a very enraged Akatsuki.

(With Sakura)

Sakura watched in slow motion as Danzo shot Yahiko in the leg. He fell down with a shriek of rage. She tried to shoot Danzo but some of his henchmen got in front of her, surrounding her. The only way she was going to get past was by force.

She started shelling bullets into their chests. Abruptly she saw Danzo shoot Yahiko between the eyes. His head fell back and a peaceful expression come on his face, he was unmoving.

The rosette raced towards the elder but slowed when she saw Pein tackle him. Knowing he could and would take care of him, she headed towards the fleeing ROOT members with great energy thrusting throughout her veins.

It was pay make time and there was going to be a lot of it.

(Somewhere Unknown)

"So Takeshi has failed?" The spy nodded. "Well that just won't do. Tell Iwao to send a better assassin. Now!" The spy dipped her head and raced to Iwao's chamber.

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Me: Okay, you guys are probably saying, "what the fuck! That sucked!" I know it sucked! I'm not very good at fighting scenes so I'm sorry!

Eddie: You better be!

Me: Hope you guys still love this story and don't throw green beans at me!