Kisame entered the unlit room, he and his partner were supposed to stay in, if not the sudden change in their plans.

"So, what's the hurry?" Swordsman casually asked his partner while pulling on his clothes, not bothering in the least to close the door behind himself.

"Leader-sama has set up a meeting, an hour from now. Everyone is to attend it."

Raising his brow, shark man glanced at the Uchiha who gracefully stepped out of the shadows, calmly closing the door.

Kisame tried not to look too interested, but his eagerness for juicy information was far too obvious as he cocked an eyebrow at the stoic Uchiha.

"Must be somethin' important then."

Kisame muttered under his breath as he pulled on his pants, stealing a questioning glance at his partner, who obviously knew something.

"Hn." Was the only clue he was getting.

Swordsman let out a throaty chuckle at his stoic, spoilsport partner.

Speaking of sport, shark man couldn't help but let his thoughts wander back to the female he had drank sake with, just before he had to return to his room.

Now she was a good sport, especially since all of the women avoided him like a plague due to his unique appearance.

That he could not say about his handsome partner who many women surely swooned over. Sighing loudly, Kisame bent over and reached for Samehada.

"You were drinking." Said the Uchiha who calmly stood behind the swordsman's back, disapproval lacing his voice.

"Indeed I was." Replied the swordsman with a what seemed to be a cheeky grin, on his mildly drunken face.

Itachi suppressed the urge to roll eyes at his partner.

He himself disliked alcohol of any kind, simply because it clouded one's judgement, but his partner on the other hand..

Mentally sighing to himself, sharingan user softly shut his crimson eyes.

"I'm ready to go whenever you are." Informed the swordsman as he smugly stood in the doorway, his whole posture screaming I've been with a woman, ha!

"Hn." Tiredly nodded the Uchiha, finally opening his now black eyes as he joined his tall partner, slowly walking out of the room.

Sakura quickly slipped into her new travelling clothes as she packed up all of her belongings all the while removing seals from the windows and doors in her current room.

She was hoping that the two Akatsuki members would spend the night at the Inn, giving her a good opportunity to sneak out and away from there, unharmed.

Just in case they recognized her and decided to harvest the whichever bounty she had over her head, even as unlikely as it sounded,

she didn't want to find out what would happen to her if she happened to bump into them.

Grabbing toothbrush and paste from the bathroom, shoving it into her backpack, Sakura let out a tired sigh.

As much as she loved travelling at night, she had still hoped to have a chance to simply relax at the hot springs, at least for the night.

Too bad life had other plans for the disappointed pinkette.

'Lets get the hell out of here already outer.'

'Roger that, inner.'

Pinning up the long and unevenly cut hair on top of her head, Sakura pulled on her black hood, effectively masking her attention-attracting hair colour.

Pulling on the worn knee high black leather boots and fingerless gloves, the medic-nin grabbed her travelling backpack, easily slinging it over her shoulders.

"And off we go." She scowled, leaving trough the open window in a very Kakashi-like manner.

"Oi, bastard. Are you even listening to me?" Asked the bored Jashinist, turning to glare at his partner, who simply kept ignoring him for the last half an hour.

"Shut your trap Hidan." Kakuzu finally snapped, as he mentally strangled his partner with his black threads, smashing his skull and then-

"For Jashin's sake Kakuzu, where the fuck are we even going to? The shitty ass mission is over, cant we just fucking settle down and relax for a while?"

The stitched man only rolled his eyes at the Jashinist,starting to scan trough the pages of the old bingo book in hopes of finding a distraction from the anger that was directed towards his annoying, whining, idiotic partner.

Why the distraction? Because he did not feel like sewing his partner back together after ripping his limbs off. That's why.

"We will rest in half an hour at the meeting. Now shut up." The zombie man coldly spat, hearing Hidan groan out in annoyance.

Kakuzu somewhat smiled under his mask. A part of him absolutely loved it when his partner was pissed off instead of just being a whiny bitch.

It tended to be quite amusing as long as the foul mouthed idiot didn't start swinging around his scythe.

Turning another page, the apple green, pupilless eyes landed on the list of Fire country's shinobi as their owner noticed an empty spot on one of the pages.

'How interesting.' Thought Kakuzu to himself as he wondered about who the mystery shinobi was going to be.

Mostly there were plenty of pictures and information about the wanted people such as himself.

It was rare to find someone who had hidden their identity so well while continuing to slaughter their opponents.

The stitched man was intrigued. Not only it would be interesting to find out who the mystery shinobi turned out to be,

but also thrilling since he already knew that the bounty will surely be higher than the ones given to the more ordinary shinobi.

And he sure as hell was going to collect that bounty.

Sakura wildly panted from running non-stop for the past two hours as she plopped down onto the warm sand.

Reaching into her backpack she pulled out a bottle of water, unscrewing the lid.

"Mmmh water." Pinkette happily mumbled after gulping down half of the liquid in a single swig.

'So, where are we heading now that we are out of the danger zone?'

'If my calculations are correct, we had crossed the border of the Wind country 30 minutes ago.'

Looking around the sand dunes, Sakura pumped tiny bit of chakra into her nostrils.

'I can smell the rain from the left side, it means we will be nearing the border of the Rain village in a day, at most.'

Inner Sakura only nodded,gesturing for the outer self to continue.

'We will go trough Amegakure and Kusagakure to reach Takigakure. There we will find the rare plants to make new poisons.'

Slipping the water bottle back into her backpack,Sakura took a deep breath, for a brief moment closing her tired eyes.

'Do you think we are now officially listed in the bingo book?'

'Probably, if they let out the new edition.'

'I wonder how big is the bounty we got on our head now.'

Pinkette inwardly rolled her eyes at the mental disease before replying to it.

'Its not like I've ever wanted to have a bounty over my head inner, it only means more trouble.'

'Yeah, you're no fun outer.' snorted the inner Sakura

'I still wonder which picture of us they decided to use..' she added with a dreamy look on her face.

'Cut the crap inner, the rest is over.'

Pinkette stood up from her spot on the sand, dusting off her baggy, black pants.

"There best not be any bounty hunters in my way." Was the last thing she said, before sprinting forward, heading straight for the Rain village.

Kisame couldn't help but grin as he looked down at the picture he was given by Itachi after the Akatsuki meeting.

On the picture was a young female with beautiful and determined bright green eyes that anyone could simply get lost in.

The said female was wearing a black mask that effectively covered her most likely pretty face from the rest of the world and black hood, that covered her head.

Not much to look at, one would think. But those eyes. He had seen them somewhere before. Where exactly? He could not remember.

A cough brought the swordsman out of his thoughts, forcing him tear his gaze away from the picture, switching his attention to the sharingan user instead.

"Two of us should be more than enough for that girl.." Suggested Kisame as glanced over at his graceful partner who gently fixed his conical straw hat.

"That is where you are wrong." Dryly replied the Uchiha once he was done fixing his appearance, half-blindly staring ahead of himself.

Swordsman raised both of his brows, clearly wanting for his partner to continue talking.

"That girl caught the interest of our Leader and if he decided to send all four of us after her, it must mean that he considers her to be of a high threat."

Kisame sheepishly scratched the back of his head before, thinking of something intelligent to say without provoking his tired partner.

"Heh, I guess you are right."

Was the final reply the shark man managed to think of, simply deciding to once again accept the usual silence instead of keeping up a boring conversation.

"Hn." Hummed the Uchiha, not in the least planning to reveal more information about his little brother's ex team mate.

There was no need for it, after all they would be meeting her very soon. He simply knew it.

Kakuzu tried really hard to ignore his complaining partner as he eagerly flipped trough the pages of the new bingo book.

The same new bingo book he had taken from one of the men he had casually killed just an hour ago.

"Because of your fucking bounty hunting I didn't get to rest! We even missed the fucking meeting you greedy bastard!"

Went on the Hidan, not in the least noticing the way his partner had stopped walking, rooted to the spot.

"Once I get to rest my ass, I will chop off your stitched head, you hear me you fucking prick?"

"A kunoichi with such bounty? Unbelievable." The stitched man loudly said more to himself than to anyone else.

Hidan noticed that though, immediately shutting his foul mouth and quickly walking over to Kakuzu, intently glancing down at the book only to stare in disbelief.

"What the fuck, seriously." Even the foul mouthed Jashinist was surprised, that a woman had managed to get a bounty higher than Kakuzu.

Hell, one day her bounty could probably even rival the one of Kisame's. If she somehow managed to survive till then, that is.

Even more surprising was the fact that she was the only woman to ever get such a high bounty in the bingo book.

Hidan soon became interested in the girl, thinking of how wonderful it would be to sacrifice her to his beloved god of destruction, Jashin.

Kakuzu instantly noticed the sickeningly wicked smile on his partners face, already knowing what his nut job of a partner was thinking about.

"She is mine, Hidan." He growled at the Jashinist who in return started grinning like a madman.

"Fuck you Kakuzu."

"Now you've done it ..."

"Maybe I shouldn't have run so fast after all..." Groaned the Pinkette, laying half dead in the shade of a tree.

'OBVIOUSLY YOU DUMBASS!' Yelled her inner self, who was successfully being ignored.

The Rain village was only about a few more hours away, meaning Sakura had gotten much farther than anticipated, earning some extra time for resting.

She couldn't help but tiredly smirk, knowing that she could peacefully take a nap for an hour or two without worrying about making it trough the Amegakure border on time.

The fact that she hadn't met any bounty hunters or Konoha ANBU for the last two days also made her feel all the more happy.

Today might just be her lucky day, Sakura thought to herself, letting her tired lids fall shut as the sleep took over.

"Stupid fucking stitch faced greedy bastard!" someone suddenly yelled from above, bringing the pinkette out of her peaceful slumber.

Cracking one of her eyes open, she sleepily stared up at a young man with slicked back silver hair who was loudly swearing at someone in the distance.

When fully opening both of her eyes, Sakura glared at the man was currently sitting on top of her, his hand on her breast while his other hand held onto a red, triple bladed scythe.

"Oh no you didn't.." She groggily mumbled, raising her gloved fist.

"Eh..?" Said Hidan, glancing down at the female he was sitting on.

Female he was sitting on?

"What the fuck-" Was all that he had managed to say, before a gloved fist connected with his jaw, effectively sending him flying off in an unknown direction.

"PERVERT!" Sakura yelled as covered her chest with her backpack, blushing like a virgin.

Kakuzu only stared at his shocked partner who was suddenly sent flying like a sack of potatoes, landing in a pile of sand,cursing.

Directing his attention toward Hidan's attacker, Kakuzu's eyes visibly widened in surprise.

There, just about twenty good meters away, stood the same female from the bingo book, Haruno Sakura or whatever her name was.

What a good day this was going to be, thought the stitched man, gleefully smirking under his mask.

He didn't even need to waste time on finding her, she was right there in front of him, all alone.

'Oh how much she will be worth.'

Kakuzu inwardly mused, rubbing his hands together already imagining the generous amount of money he would be able to count after he had harvested her bounty.

"Oh fuck me.." Whispered Sakura once she noticed the two Akatsuki cloaks on the ground near the man named Kakuzu, who literally seemed to give her the rape eyes.

This was definitely not the situation she wanted to be in, not now nor ever.

Cursing her damned luck, the pinkette looked around herself, trying to form an escape plan in her head.

"Oi, the fuck you punched me for bitch!"

"YOU WERE TOUCHING MY BREAST YOU PERVERT!"

Sakura yelled back at the Jashinist, forgetting about escaping as soon as she got called a female dog.

"The hell bitch? Seriously, you don't even have much to touch there!"

"Thank you so much for pointing out the obvious, you old geezer!"

Jashinist looked as if someone had just crushed his family jewels, literally.

"YOU DID NOT JUST CALL ME AN OLD MAN!"

Kakuzu mentally groaned. Just why, oh why did his stupid partner always had to ruin everything?

"Oh, yes I did, gramps." Sakura teased, grinning evilly at the bastard who had insulted her chest size.

The so called gramps was becoming angrier by the each passing second. How could someone such as that female call him old? Unforgivable, if you ask him.

"I will sacrifice you bitch, just you fucking wait!" He threatened, walking over to his triple bladed scythe, roughly pulling it out of a pile of sand with a huff.

'Oh shit.'

'Well done girl, you just dug us our own grave.' Complimented Sakura's inner while mockingly clapping her hands together.

"Fuck.." Was the only word medic-nin had managed to say before ducking right on time,

avoiding being hit by the long black threads that had appeared from nowhere.

"Kakuzu why the fuck are you attacking that bitch!" Asked, no, demanded the angry Jashinist as he pointed the triple bladed scythe at his partner.

"I told you, she is mine.." Kakuzu calmly told Hidan while continuing to slowly observe Sakura's movements.

"..To kill." He finished, once again trying to attack the kunoichi who did not look impressed by all of the attention she was suddenly getting.

'Fuck shit fuck shit fuck..' Were the only words going trough Sakura's mind as she kept avoiding being hit by the god damn black tentacles Kakuzu man was using as his weapons.

Why her, why?

All she wanted to do was to take a nice nap and then make it to the border of the Rain village. It wasn't much to ask for, now was it?

But no, of course the luck wasn't on her side! And having both of the Akatsuki members as her opponents pretty much proved that.

Especially considering how much they both wanted to fight her, Sakura's chances to successfully escape vanished, leaving the only option available.

To fight.

'Fight back outer, we have no choice.'

Nodding in approval, Sakura threw off her backpack, pulling out a scroll and performing few hand seals, then reaching inside and pulling out two large kunai she had taken with her from Konoha.

What the pinkette hadn't noticed yet, was the fact that Hidan had sneaked up on her and was about to pierce her front with his scythe, which was extended right in front of them.

Ducking on a reflex, Sakura managed not to get cut by the blades, but had to loose the black hoodie she was wearing, once it was violently ripped off of her.

Hidan groaned in annoyance, no matter how hard he had tried, he just couldn't manage to get at least a tiny bit of blood from the hooded female.

...And having his partner mockingly watching from the side didn't help his cranky mood either.

That is when the Jashinist noticed a big piece of black cloth hanging off one of his scythe blades.

"Crap!"

Sakura gasped, instantly looking over at her ripped piece of clothing that was now hanging off the scythe the religious bastard was currently gripping onto.

Hidan's eyes narrowed along with Kakuzu's.

"Pink?" They questioned in unison, staring over at the long pink hair that now cascaded down Sakura's shoulders.

She inwardly kicked herself for being careless, cursing her inner self for not giving a warning of sorts.

Great, now the Zombie-combo was going to laugh her out because of her odd hair colour.

'This day just couldn't get any better!'

Setting down the large kunai and pulling down the mask from her face, Sakura took a deep breath, trying to calm her nerves.

From the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of the guy named Hidan, who started grinning.

"What are you grinning at, pervert?" The medic-nin carefully asked the crazy Jashinist, whose grin only widened, making him look like a total crack addict.

"You, bitch." Was his rude answer, not that she had really expected anything better coming out of that mouth of his.

"And why is that?"

"You're hot." He replied once again, smugly letting his fingers slide trough his slicked hair, acting as if he had just said the best pick-up line of all time.

Sakura stared in disbelief, did he just flirt with her? Scratch that. Did he actually think it was going to work?

'Oh my god..what the fuck?'

"Ugh.." Was the only thing she managed to say back. Wait, wasn't he just trying to sacrifice her a moment ago?

Kakuzu simply punched the back of Hidan's head, slapping one of his free hands onto his tanned forehead.

"THE HELL YOU GREEDY BASTARD!"

"Stay away from her, I told you that she is mine to kill, Hidan." Commanded Kakuzu, as he suspiciously eyed Sakura who simply scoffed at him.

"Fuck you stup-"

Religious freak was cut off by Sakura who simply pointed at him and his partner, saying:

"Look guys, I do not know what your problem is nor I really care about it, but please."

She rolled her eyes before continuing "Do figure out your problems already and stop wasting my precious time, thank you!"

Kakuzu was slightly taken aback by the way the female had spoken to them, not expecting anything good coming from the girl's mouth after she had sworn back at Hidan.

She had simply requested for them to stop talking with each other and instead finish off whatever they had planned with her.

"Yes, we shall do that."

Coldly replied Kakuzu as he openly glared at Hidan, who just as heatedly returned his glare. Neither of them were fast enough to notice the attack coming their way.

Sakura punched the ground beneath their feet, creating a deep crator the both of the men almost stumbled into.

"Fuck!" cursed the Jashinist as he bounced off the ground, just in time, avoiding another chakra laced fist that was directed towards his face.

'Do not let the freak cut you or else we are utterly screwed.'

Rolling away from the triple bladed scythe, pinkette grabbed onto her two large kunai as she successfully blocked Kakuzu's attack that was coming from above, bringing up her slender foot and connecting it with Hidan's stomach.

It was going to be a one hell of a long morning.