Chapter 6 Meeting Old Enemies
"Gale just pick one so we can go to the art store so Blossom doesn't get angrier, she's scaring me now." Ino whined but not loud enough so Sakura could hear her, Temari looked at her then to Sakura who was looking at some chakra swords that were on display.
"All right Rose! Well I'm done here so we can go, even though that I would kill for a fan like that but knowing Blossom she'll say no. Come on we better go so Blossom can continue painting" Temari whispered to Ino who looked at Sakura, they walked up to Sakura who was still looking at the chakra swords. Seeing as she did not notice them, they dragged her out of the weapon store and headed for the art shop that was up the street.
"Now go and get your precious paint so we can go" Temari said as she pushed Sakura into shop, Sakura just poked her tongue back at her then turned to get the paints she needed. After about two hours Sakura came out of the shop a bag full of paint, full of every colour you can think of, Temari and Ino sweat dropped as she came out.
"How...Why...Um...that enough for you Blossom?" Temari said as they headed for their next destination, Sakura just smiled as they ran at top speed. Now since she has her paints nothing can stop her from being in a good mood, well maybe one thing could; Ino was lacking behind again, how Ino, a ninja, can be lacking behind like this is not what she expected when she agreed with the trip to the village.
"FOR GODS SAKES INO, CAN'T YOU HURRY UP? I LET YOU GO TO THE VILLAGE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME. GOD MAYBE I SHOULD JUST CUT YOUR GOD FOR SAKIN HAIR SINCE MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE THE RESON WHY YOUR SO SLOW EVEN IF IT IS SHORTER THAN BEFORE!" Sakura shouted at the blonde nin who again was lacking behind. At the mention of 'cut your god for sakin hair' she sped past the two girls shouting as she went past them.
"Sakura! Not again, Temari has defiantly brainwashed you!"
"I just can't get enough of that" Temari laughed as they chased Ino, Sakura could tell that they're close to the meeting point so she turned to Temari.
"We're close; let's hope that Ino doesn't run into-"
'Thump, Thud'
Sakura and Temari ran towards the clearing, where they saw Ino run into, when they entered the clearing they found Ino and another cloaked figure on the ground with a hat off to the side. They ran straight for Ino.
"Hey Ino are you ok?" Sakura asked helping Ino to her feet. Temari caught sight of blonde hair and a slim figure.
"Ino can't you watch where you're going? You ran into in this poor young lady." Sakura seeing who it was tried to stop Temari from finishing her sentence, she however didn't succeed.
"I AM NO GIRL! I AM FULL ON MAN UN! WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SHOW YOU UN!" the blonde 'transvestite' yelled.
"Oh no you don't Deidara; you want to scare the poor girls to death?" A second cloaked figure said.
"Humph." The cloaked figure named Deidara crossed his arms over his chest after getting to his feet. Sakura walked forward and started talking to Deidara.
"How are you Deidara? What have you blown up lately?" Deidara looked at the girl in front of him, 'who the hell? Wait is that pink hair? What is she doing here?'
"Haruno, Is that you un?" Deidara peered at the pink lined cloaked figure in front of him.
"The one and only." Sakura said cheerfully, she threw her hood off.
"What are you doing here un? Ah, you have come to capture and or kill us un, you being a Konoha ninja and everything."
"Actually I haven't been a Konoha ninja for 2 ½ years…" Sakura looked at her teammates, "Right?" Temari and Ino nodded. "God man, don't you read the bingo book?"
"Yeah, I do un." A second cloaked figure smirked at Deidara's comment.
"Yeah, only to see where you are in it." Deidara glared at the second man.
"Shut up Uchiha, at least I can read it on my own." Sakura looked at the man Deidara was insulting.
"Itachi?" Temari asked pointing at the man taking off his hat showing the face of Itachi, staying near Ino.
"Hn." Sakura's temple twitched.
"Don't use that word anywhere near me, ya hear." Sakura pointed a chakra filled fist at Itachi.
"Whatever." Itachi walked over to a tree and leaned against it. "So you and the two blondes over there are the team sent by Kurohasu?"
'Itachi must be the leader of the Akatsuki's team.' Sakura thought looking at Itachi.
"What? We have to work with chicken ass Uchiha's brother!" Temari yelled at Sakura.
"What you say about me and a chicken's ass?" Itachi yelled.
"Are you going deaf as well as blind?" An unknown third cloaked male said.
"No." Itachi grumbled. Ino, who was now paying attention to the conversation, saw Deidara's face.
"YOU BASTARD! YOU STOLE MY HAIRSTYLE!" Ino yelled.
"What the hell are you talking about, un?" Deidara looked at Ino; she pulled down her hood showing her hairstyle which was almost exactly like Deidara's. As the two hair crazy blondes began arguing over who had the hairstyle first, Temari pulled her hood down also. Sakura pulled her long hair out of her coat which came to her hips, while Temari's came to about the middle of her back.
"Going back to what we were talking about before, yes we are the Kurohasu team." Sakura said looking at a tree behind Itachi.
"How do we know for sure?" the second cloaked male had removed his hat to show a 20 year old male with redy brown hair and brown eyes. Sakura glared at the man standing close to Itachi.
"Why would we lie?"
"I don't know, maybe to save your pitiful lives." Deidara and Ino were still arguing in the background.
"Sasori, play nice. If they are Kurohasu they should have a certain tattoo, they show us it and they are telling the truth, if not then you can turn them into dolls if you like."
"THEY'RE NOT DOLLS, THEY'RE PUPPETS! THERE'S A DIFFERENCE." the one named Sasori yelled. Temari sighed, 'great, another puppet master.'
"Fine. Temari, Ino come here." Sakura called, said ninjas joined her, a slight distance away from the guys. Ino and Temari looked at Sakura waiting for what she has to say, Sakura looked up to the two kunoichi before sighing.
"If they really want to see proof we are a part of Kurohasu then we have to show them the tatts."
"Well Ino's first cause she the one that cried through it. He he, plus you're the heir to Kurohasu so it's not right for us to just let you undress, just think of what leader-sama will say if she found out. She'd have our heads." Temari said as she looked at the three male ninjas, Deidara waved at them enthusiastically as she looked at them. Ino pulled her back.
"I agree but why me? Can't it be Temari, it's not my fault if I'm scared of needles is it?" Ino pleaded but Sakura and Temari just looked at her.
"Fine let's just get this over with. Sakura-sama, Temari, you owe me big time"
"No we don't, now just do it" Temari said pushing Ino to the men Sakura followed till they were in front of the three men, Sasori looked up at the three kunoichi with a smirk on his face.
"Well that took some time, it looks like that you don't have the tatts so that means you have the honour of becoming part of my collection"
"Shut up and go play with your dolls, we have the tatts. Ino." Temari said in an annoyed voice. Sasori twitch at the mention that his puppets were just dolls.
"THEY'RE PUPPETS NOT DOLLS THERE IS A GREATIER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO AND YOU DON'T HAVE THE TATTOOS BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE ANY!"
"Are you stupid or something, being in Kurohasu means to have a tattoo, but that tattoo has to be in a spot that people will not look. It would be stupid to show that we're part of an organisation that is wanted in the bingo books. Now seeing you're quiet we can move on, show them." With that Ino took off her coat showing her two sai that were strapped to her hips. She was wearing a purple short sleeved top with a short v cut and a long purple skirt hung off her hips. The split up the sides went nearly all the way up, nearly cutting it in half; there were silver snowflake motifs in the lower left corner. She had tight black pants underneath that turned into fishnet and wore knee high boots. (A/N: like the shoes that Sakura wears in shippuden) By now she had Deidara's undivided attention, his eyes were wide as a dinner plates. Itachi coughed 'slut', Sasori nodded in agreement. Ino pulled down the pit of cloth that covered her hip. There on her hip was a tattoo shaped as a black lotus with the dark red rose bud.
"Is that what you wanted, the Kurohasu tattoo or were you wanting something else." Ino joked, looking at Deidara. He had a nose bleed as he looked over the uncovered flesh; it was very tempting to be touched. Sasori came up with a cheeky comment of his own.
"Yeah, but getting one of you to show their tattoo doesn't mean you all have one. Prove that you are all part of the kuro-" Sasori was cut short as Sakura punched him through 3 trees.
"Pervert." looking at the man on the ground, "(sigh) I better heal him." Sakura made her way over to where Sasori had landed and ran her healing hands over his body, Temari and Ino just laughed while Sakura healed Sasori.
"Temari, show them yours so we can get this over with" Temari nodded and threw Ino both their cloaks, Sakura walked back to the two since she finished healing Sasori. Temari was wearing a black dress with very short sleeve and a slit that went up to mid thigh, leather bands around her wrists, like Ino she had knee high boots and a blood red obi tied around the middle. The bottom of her skirt had a little orange detailing, it looked like waves or rolling sand. Now it was Itachi's turned to stare. 'Wow gorgeous.' She turned around and pulled her shirt down and her hair aside a little to show her shoulder and a Black Lotus tattoo similar to Ino's; just it had a yellow fan.
"Happy. Now can we get to work" Temari said with a hint of anger and embarrassment in her voice.
"That's only you two, now Pinkie's turn." Sasori smirked.
"No she is not letting you have a peek. Sorry it's in the rules." Temari stood in front of Sakura.
"Then we will not help you guys stop Orochimaru, and without your help he will get the vessel. We are told that you were good friends with the vessel, how would you feel if you were the cause of Naruto dying by the hands of Orochimaru." Sasori said, Sakura cursed. 'The bastard, he is trying to make me feel guilty, and it is working'
"Fine. Bastard." Sakura handed her cloak to Ino before Temari could stop her. Sasori couldn't take his eyes off the body in front of him; Sakura was wearing a white chinese style shirt, it faded into pink at the bottom, it came to mid calf; and black shorts reached her knees. Silver bands held red fabric around her arms and around her waist was a red obi; attached to this, at her hip, was a black handled katana; she also had pink handled katana strapped to her back. Each sword had a tassel at the end of the handle; the one on her hip has a tassel of a cherry blossom while the one on her back has a lotus bloom. The sounds of two girls arguing brought him back down to earth.
"You can't! You have almost nothing underneath that! You can't show yours; you would have to remove everything." Temari yelled.
"Well they won't let us complete our mission if I don't." Sakura shot back.
"Huh? Almost nothing underneath?" Sasori mumbled going slightly pink in the cheeks, Deidara looked at his danna.
"Um Sasori no danna, are you ok un?" Sasori looked at his partner.
"I'm perfectly fine." Looking over to Sakura and Temari.
"Sure un." Sasori walked over to the arguing girls.
"Look, Pinkie doesn't have to show us her tattoo if it makes you guys feel uncomfortable." Everyone's jaw dropped.
"What are you talking about? First you say that she needs to show us, now she doesn't need to." Itachi questioned, Sasori looked right at Itachi.
"I can change my mind can't I? By the way their acting I say that she has one, just she not meant to show it." The girls put their cloaks back on once he was finished.
"We'll then let's go; we can't expect them to wait for us now can we?" Temari pulled the two kunoichi's into a death hug, Sakura got out easily but Ino was left to defend for herself.