Chapter 7

About an hour later they arrived at Konoha, while they headed for the Hokage's tower, they snuck past Ichiraku Raman where Ino and Sakura over heard two male voices.

"WHY DON'T YOU WANT HELP, IT'S BEEN 2 ½ YEARS SINCE SHE'S LEFT?"

"WHY DO YOU CARE? SHE RAN OUT ON US."

"SO DID YOU, AND YET WE STILL TRIED TO GET YOU BACK. JEEZ AND YOU CALL ME STUPID."

Ino and Sakura knew those voices anywhere, they stopped to listen to the rest of the conversation, Temari notice that the two kunoichi's had stopped.

"Sakura-Danna, Ino-pig come on we don't have much time"

"Hang on Temari" Ino said before being shushed by Sakura. Temari, Itachi, Deidara and Sasori came back to see what the two girls were up to.

"Come on, the soon as we finish this I can go back to gathering more puppets"

"Oh do shut up pervert-baka" Sakura hissed back at Sasori as she and Ino leaned in.

"But why do you want to go looking for her, it's been 2 ½ years"

"For the same reason why I went after you, you're my friend and so is Sakura. I care for you guys."

"You care for a useless, annoying weakling; she's probably dead, she was useless at fighting."

"Ouch." Deidara whispered, he then noticed Temari and Ino struggling to hold a fuming Sakura back.

"Just let me at him, please I just want to do some permanent damage. Ya think that the punch before would do some damage, but I will make sure he won't ever walk again or maybe even never have children. Yeah, that sounds good. He should have learnt about calling me weak the first bloody time." Sakura hissed venom dripping from her voice trying to get out of the hold of Temari and Ino.

"Help them." Itachi ordered as Sakura began to break loose of her friends. "Quickly or she will blow our cover." He added when neither one of his teammates moved. Deidara and Sasori quickly helped restrain Sakura.

"SAKURA IS NOT ANY OF THOSE THINGS, AND SHE'S NOT DEAD. SHE WAS TRAINED BY THE GODAIME, WHO SHE SURPASSED. DUDE SHE FUCKING PUNCHED YOU THROUGH 8 BLOODY TREES AND YOU STILL THINK SHE'S WEAK!"



Itachi had trouble stifling a laugh that fought to break through, while Sakura still tried to kill Sasuke.

"..."

"Come on, obaa-chan wants to see us, she has a mission for us" Naruto glared at Sasuke before he left the raman store, Sasuke looked at his bandaged arm before getting up cursing as he did so, that last mission had re-opened the wound he had received when he was hurled through those trees. It still hurt and had a tendency to re-open even after all these years; Tsunade thought maybe Sakura had done damage to the cells around the wound never allowing it to fully heal even with Tsunade's help.

"That bitch, she was just lucky, if she's still alive she'll be on my death list alongside Itachi" sadly for Ino, Temari, Deidara, Sasori and possibly Sasuke, Sakura got out of their grip pulling out her katana. She was about to go straight for Sasuke but Sasori grabbed hold of Sakura around her waist, sent chakra strings to attach to a nearby tree and held on for dear life.

"SHE WAS JUST FUCKING LUCKY! HEY! Wait up baka!" he called out to Naruto, who was now far ahead of him. When Sasuke and Naruto had disappeared from view and hearing range Sakura calmed down, looking at Sasori she spoke.

"You can let me go now pervy-danna." Sasori looked at Sakura with a non noticeable blush forming looking to Itach, who nodded, Sasori let go of the girl and yet strangely he didn't want to. 'What is this feeling?'

'OMG SHE'S SO CUTE WHEN SHE'S ANGRY. AFTER THIS MISSION WE SHOULD...'

'KILLER HER AND MAKE HER INTO ONE OF OUR PUPPETS, DON'T LISTENT TO THE CHIBBI WHO STRANGELY GOT OUT OF THE CAGE WE PUT HIM IN ALL THOSE YEARS AGO.' A young teenage version of Sasori walked out of the dark pushing chibbi Sasori to the ground.

'Oh great not you two again, how about you leave me alone' with that Sasori tuned out the two voices in his head.

"How the hell am I going to keep hidden from them if I just want to jump out and kill him?" Sakura confessed to her teammates, if you could call them that. Itachi walked up to Sakura.

"Did you really punch him through 8 trees?" he asked quietly as they made their way to the Hokage tower to listen in on the mission details. Sakura looked at the older Uchiha, shrugging her shoulders she answered in a bored tone.

"Yeah, nearly 9 actually, only that one was larger than the rest so it stopped him." Itachi chuckled at this information. 'I'll remember that so next time when I encounter him I will tease him about it. God he sucks, getting punched through 8 trees and by a girl none the less.' Sakura eyed the Uchiha beside her.



"What the hell? You chuckled." Itachi stiffened. 'Shit! That came out?'

"No I didn't." Sakura folded her arms.

"Bull. You chuckled and you know it." Itachi sighed in defeat. The others chuckled and giggled at the scene on front of them. 'I can't wait to get back and tell Kisame. He'll flip he missed Itachi chuckling.' Deidara squealed within his mind.

(A.N: I need some help, I've got nothing so a little help at what you might want to happen to the group please, i really hate writer's block ,lol.)