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Its Going To Be A Long night

Chapter Seven

Test Day

Sakura walked outside and shielded her eyes from the sun. Sasori had actually talked to their leader, who she still wasn't allowed to see, and had returned saying that, the leader still wished to see how well she could fight and hold her own against the others, but basically she was unofficially in.

'SO I am technically a member of the Akatsuki now…I wonder what would happen if Tsunade and Naruto were to find out? But there is no chance of that. Information on the Akatsuki is very difficult to find as it is.' Sakura mused to herself while she walked to the testing grounds. She hadn't even realized that she had gotten there until Konan spoke to her.

"Are you ready, Sakura?" The blue haired Akatsuki member asked her. Sakura looked up at her and then gave a small nervous smile.

"As ready as I'll ever be." She said slowly.

"That's all we are asking for, Sakura. As of right now we have all agreed to let you in and be one of us. However, this is just a test so that we can determine what skills you have and what you will need to be improved on. It is no longer a death match, now it is fairly similar to a… chuunin exams…if you want to think of it that way. So the match will be over when either you or your opponent backs out from the match and calls it quits. But really anything goes." Konan tried to reassure the girl. Konan was idly twirling an origami pencil in her hands while she spoke.

"Okay so…who am I fighting?"

" Well, to start off you will probably fight someone we pick at random, or whoever volunteers…but ideally we would like to test your skills against all of us, but nothing is set in stone."

"So basically I am supposed to fight everyone, but I may not end up doing that? That's pretty casual."

"yes well as I have said earlier, we have already decided to let you in, so it's not as official or serious as it would normally be." Konan looked at her to ask her if she was ready. With Sakura's nod Konan looked up over at the guys who were all sitting on a rocky ledge high up above the two girls.

"All right! Which one of you will volunteer to fight Sakura first!" Konan all but yelled. Sakura smiled and half expected to hear a Temari style "You-maggots!" at the end. With that thought of old friends Sakura's smile quickly disappeared and she stared blankly at a rock in front of her.

"I will test Sakura-chan!" a cheery voice yelled. Sakura's eyes widened and then she was rammed into from behind, with a crushing hug from Tobi. The force of the attack left Sakura face planted into the ground with Tobi cheerfully sitting on top of her back.

"To…bi?"

"Yes, Sakura-chan?!" he asked earnestly.

"Can you get off me? I can't breath…"

Tobi instantly leapt off of Sakura, and hauled her into a sitting position by the cuff of her shirt and started swinging her in a circle.

"BREATHE, SAKURA-CHAN,BREATHE!!!" Tobi bellowed in a frantic voice. In mid swing Sakura disappeared and Tobi fell flat onto his butt.

Hidan leaned over to the akatsuki member beside him.

"Hey where did that bitch go…?" When he received no answer he looked over at the person and instantly paled in horror.

Sakura had appeared without anyones notice and was sitting amongst the on-looking akatsuki members. And she was also sitting right beside Hidan. She sat staring at him with her elbow propped on her knee and her chin resting in her hand. She was smiling a very suspiciously looking dangerous, and calm, smile with her eyes closed.

Then her eyebrow twitched.

"HOLY HELL-O!" Hidan jumped up and away from her with his arm up to protect himself.

"Hello to you too…" she opened her golden eyes and grinned wickedly.

Instantly everyone dived off the platform to stand on the ground with Konan.

No one had even felt her presence when she had appeared amongst them. She had caught all of them completely off guard.

She hopped down to their level and smiled sweetly.

"so who is my first test victim?"

"I believe you have just effectively passed the test against all of them, Sakura Haruno." The words came from a heart stopping, cold voice. Her eyes widened as cold fear grabbed her heart. She turned around to face the speaker and was face to face with their leader. He smiled very slightly at her guarded expression.

"I have that affect on people. My name is Pein, and I am the leader of the Akatsuki."

"So…you're saying that I just passed the test? But I didn't even fight anyone."

"there was no need to. After all you appeared amongst all of the other members and no one noticed you. That act alone tells me that you are more than capable, considering that you had more than enough time to have killed all of them in that time. Welcome into the Akatsuki."

"Thank you…"

"Haruno. I have seen and heard many things, both good and bad, about your powers. While you are strong, you still have many weaknesses and skills that need to be worked on and improved. Before you go on any missions I expect you to work and train with others. At this point you may be a liability to us."

"Yes, sir." Pein walked away and Sakura looked down. At the mention of her being a liability, she was instantly reminded why she had left Konoha. The memory of her friends and team always protecting her, how she wasn't even strong enough to stop the boy she had loved, and how no matter how hard she trained she had never really been strong on her own. She hadn't even "killed" Sasori on her own. As hard as she tried to hide the feelings of pain and regret on her face, there was one who noticed it. Sasori carefully watched her with cold eyes. Knowing full well what she was thinking. He turned and sollowed Pein back into the base.

"Pein wishes for you to rest up for the rest of the day." Konan spoke quietly to her, staying by her side.

Itachi watched her with calculating eyes from a distance, Zetsu briefly glanced at her Kisame huffed but didn't look at her, and Hidan was watching her in a way that made her angry. Deidara and Konan both stayed by her side in concern, and she couldn't see him, but she knew Kakuzu was standing protectively behind her. Tobi was bouncing obliviously ahead of them on the way inside.

Itachi, Zetsu, Kisame, and Hidan all went inside. When they were gone Deidara touched Sakura's arm with one finger in concern.

"Hey Sakura, are you alright?" She jerked up and slightly away from him, being brought back to earth.

"yeah I'm fine. Let's go inside. TOBI I'LL RACE YOU!" she bounded ahead of them to catch up to Tobi. Deidara chased after her, and Kakuzu simply calmly walked away from them and into the building.

Konan had noticed that ever since Pein had spoken to her that something was wrong and was upsetting Sakura.

'I'll have to ask her about that later.' Konan decided and walked into the building with them as well.

HEY GUYS!! Okay so I have a computer, but it unfortunately does not have Microsoft word on it…so I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY that it's been forever. I am in college now, and I do have time to update in the week, unless I am doing home work, but I will hopefully update every week or so from now on!

So review let me know what you think and I am just stage setting right now, but there are more hilarious moments to come in the near future!!

Chow!

~Tsuki Dream