The rinnegan user had finally found the kunoichi who could possibly have a knowledge to where his men were, and now that he had a way to get her too come out of her hiding place he wasn't going too hold back. He chuckled as he walked through the locked down village all the civilians had evacuated somewhere, while all their men prepared for an attack, his men were going too be working as well but not for the same reason. No his men were gonna corner the girl, he and his men were going to get to the bottom of this odd situation.
"Pein-sama." A calm, gentle male voice said from behind him. Stopping his his tracks he turned too find Sasori and Hidan, due too the disappearance of Deidara the red head had too be paired up with a new partner which had him tearing up his teams in order too balance everyone out.
"What is it?" He asked
"One of the soldiers has informed us that nothing has happened within the Konoha settlement." Sasori reported in that calm, stoic, voice of his.
"Is that so I'm positive that Konoha has already found out about the Daimyos brother ....I wonder what they are up too?" Pein said
"I'm unsure although I think were going too have too make the first move I have a feeling that they wont." Sasori said
Pein nodded his head, it was true right now Konoha was the smarter of the two villages and they being the smarter of the two were most likely going too have their enemies move first. Although now that they were there, their knowledge on the battle field is on even level, if not a higher level.
"Wait an hour if there still is no movement inform me first." Pein said Sasori nodded.
"Oi what the hell do we do when there is movement?" Hidan asked
"Wait for Haruno Sakura to come out and play with us of course." Pein said with a smirk before he turned away.
Sasori shook his head, if anyone was going to get to play with Sakura it was him, well at least mentally she looked like the type that could break down when she was being mentally hit.
"Hidan do not forget you are not permitted to use the kunoichi as a sacrifice." Sasori said as he to turned away
"Why the fuck not!" Hidan yelled as he followed his new partner.
Itachi stared at the box of breath mask that was sitting before him on the long rectangular table.
"No." Ehime said
Sakura sighed. "Hokage-sama put me in charge so you have no say." Sakura said
"I will not allow my men to participate in this stupid suicide mission." He replied
Sakura lifted a brow. "Yet just a couple of days ago you were willing to take the chance of getting them killed by having them go out to the bungalows?"
"Their my men, I tell them what to do, not a little girl with pink hair." Ehime replied
That was it Sakura shot out of her chair across the long rectangular table and tackled the green haired captain onto the floor, barrading him with punches to the face. It wasn't that she had anger problems, no she merely couldn't stand the man, he was one of the people that nearly broke her & Naruto apart just because the blonde had the Kyubi in him. People like him made her sick, made her want too cry for Naruto, made her want to kill for him. And she had.
"Why (punch) don't (punch) you (punch) just (punch) fall (punch) off (punch) a (punch) cliff (punch) and (punch) die!" Sakura said before she banged his head against the hard wood flooring.
Letting go of his head Sakura slapped him across the face, she especially hated misogynist, they all deserved to rote in hell. She watched as Ehime propped himself onto his shoulders and wiped the blood of his quiet handsome face.
She slapped him across the face with a chakra enhance hand.
He his head hit the wood flooring in seconds, him already unconscious.
"Well it serves you right." Yugao said as she walked up to them. Sakura stood back up and dusted herself off while turning to face his lackeys. "Taicho-Kasai, Taicho-Tamura if you have any objections then you'll be joining Taicho-Ehime in the cell room." Sakura said bordly.
The purple haired man & the orange haired man merely shook their heads, not wanting to end up in the same situation as the green haired captain that was being dragged down the room by one of the soldiers.
"Very well then continue on." Neji said
Sakura reached into her back pocket and pulled out a small scroll the size of her pointer finger. She added chakra into it and they watched as the small scroll grew in size. until it was nearly as big as the table. She unrolled it.
"Now may of you may not be able to recognize what this is but just for your information this scroll is a map of Kemuri." Shisui said
"You were able to get a spy into the village under the radar?" Itachi asked
"Not under the radar but he's in and hopefully he comes out." Shisui said unconsciously, mostly to himself.
"He's a civilian, he wanted onto the council so he could have a say and help out the civilians that live in Konoha, he heard about the war that had been going on and wanted to help out, he volunteered for the position to help him out we erased all his files of his family to make it look like he was alone when he lived here to ensure that they wouldn't think he was helping us, we put a couple of harassment charges on him all made by shinobi to make it seem as though he was prejudice against us, put him on the suspect list for some of the assassinations with our men, too ensure that it looked like he hates shinobi and so far he hasn't been found out." Sakura mumbled.
Itachi nodded his head. "Now of course we need to get into the village without a trace, obviously there watching us, thus the reason why I said too make a Kagebushin of yourself and use the underground tunnel that lead to this lovely meeting room. We need to make sure that our men don't know about this meeting, for fear that they'll be on guard letting them know we know." Sakura said
"So how do we get in unnoticed?" Sai asked.
"Well that's the part I haven't figured out yet as you can see the smoke that circles around Kemuri is poisonous not too mention that fact that there are motion detectors all over the ground ...... obviously we'd have too use the breath masks to separate the poisonous smoke from the air, but we still need to figure out what to do about the motion detectors." Shisui replied
"We were actually hoping that Tokushima-san would be able to make enough of those clay birds to get a good two squads into the village by air, but at the moment with Akatsuki being so quiet about their whereabouts we can't use him at all." Sakura said
"How deep are the motion detectors?" Itachi asked as he spinned the map towards his view and studied it.
"Not very deep a foot and a half into the ground." Shisui answered.
"That's not deep at all, if we dig ourselves a tunnel beneath them at least a good eight maybe even six feet beneath the motion detectors we'll be able to make it into the village without any disturbances, if I'm correct about the motion detectors they'll only be able to sense what going on ontop of the soil, so if we put a good five feet of earth between out digging it should be enough to not disturb the soil on top & giveaway our status." Itachi said
"A tunnel to the village could take a week though." Temari said
"Not only a week Uchiha it could also take a lot of man power." Yugao said
Itachi looked up at the rest of the people in the room & smirked, the women in the room dropped dead for a minute while Sakura merely rolled her eyes. "Ladies there's no time to swoon at the moment." She said off offhandedly.
They straightened back up quickly.
"As I was saying A tunnel into the village could take a lot of man power." Yugao said.
"No we'll only need about three men at the most actually, I need them all to be earth elements as well." Itachi replied.
"Actually that's an excellent idea." Sai said
"Yes of course we shouldn't expect nothing less from a genius." Sakura whispered.
"What was that?" Shisui asked
"Nothing. ............ We'll still need to wear the breath masks, we have no idea just how strong this smoke is & how far into the soil it's actually gotten." Sakura said quickly.
"So whose going to be the leader?" Shisui asked.
"I am." Sakura & Itachi said at the same time.
Sakura glared at the older shinobi, Shisui looked back & forth between the two. "Uh oh." He gulped.
"Haruno-Taicho there is no need for you to go, your place is here when they find out that we're in the village this place will be the target, meaning we need the best medics on call." Itachi said
Sakura tilted her head cutely. "I agree completely Uchiha-Taicho & there will be, Ino will be left in charge while I go."
"Taicho no offense but you are in no condition to go off and lead a squad into battle, you are a medic nin not a-
- I am also a fighter & a leader Uchiha, & I am in perfect condition to be able to lead such a squadron-
-Just because Hokage-sama gave you orders to lift those pretty manicured fingers doesn't mean that you can run off & do whatever you wan-
-Actually Uchiha it means just that, I am your superior & you'll do as I sa-
-you may have been here longer than me but I have been in this game longer than you can dream Harun-
-How about we draw straws on this?" Shisui cut in. As amusing as it was too see the two bicker it did get annoying fast.
"Shortest one gets to lead the squads." Neji said
Sakura & Itachi both nodded their heads in recognition and agreement. Sai reached into his robe and pulled out a paint brush snapping it apart. "Now closer your eyes." Sai said as he placed the two broken pieces of wood behind his back and rolled them around.
"Now spin around." Temari said with a smirk.
Sakura & Itachi lifted their left brows. Shisui smirked. "If you don't spin then I'll pick who gets too going to lead the mission." He said with a smirk.
'The things they do for powerful positions.' he thought as he shook his head.
Kisame & Deidara stood behind the two & spun them twice. "Again." Neji said with a smirk.
And they did.
"Reverse the spins." Yugao said with a sheepish grin.
They did.
"Repea-
-I honestly don't see the point in this ... either way you'll have too deal with us when this is over & done with & I know for a fact that you will regret this." Sakura said viciously.
Kisame let go of the small girl.
"Your so mean Sakura." Shisui said with a pout.
"Can we finish this?" Itachi asked.
"Ah yes now take one step forward." Shisui said glumly. He activated his sharingan.
"Now no cheating I'll see if you use any chakra." He said.
Sakuras lips tilted, it wouldn't matter even Faguku himself wouldn't be able to see this. Sai walked up to the two of them handing each of them a piece of the snapped stick. Sakura & Itachi both closed their hands.
'Lets see if you'll catch this?' Sakura thought.
Adding the smallest amount of chakra she pointed lead it too her right ring finger too her nail, making it grow an inch more. putting pressure onto the wood she waited till she heard the small chipping of wood before she dug her nail into her skin causing it too stab herself & chipped it off.
'I'll have too file that soon.'
"Now open your eyes & lets see who's are oh mighty leader." Yugao said sarcastically.
both opened their eyes and held up their sticks against each others, Sakura smirked as she hid the remainder beneath her other three closed fingers. Her stick was the shortest.
"Looks like you'll be watching from the back lines Uchiha." She said cockily
"You cheated." Itachi said
"She didn't I was watching both of you the entire time." Shisui said
"Yeah besides you would have felt the chakra flare." Sakura said innocently
"Your a master at chakra control concealing your chakra is like breathing for you." Itachi replied
"Don't tell me your a sore lose I-ta-chi, be a man & except your loss." Sakura teased.
He wanted to punch & she knew it, good he'll let off all that steam in a little bit when they have too fight. Sakura thought. although it was sad too see him not except defeat, even though he was right & she did cheat.
"It doesn't matter anymore Uchiha I won you can either stay here & wallow in your losses or you can prepare yourself & your men." Sakura said as she turned away from him. She wanted too smirk & brag that she got Uchiha Itachi & didn't allow him too finish. Neither did she but that was her little secret.
Spinning the map in her direction she studied it for a moment. "From the looks of all these notes, the training grounds next to the cemetery are never used, and never watched .... it's surrounded by tons of large trees and it's usually dark because of them, if we make a tunnel directed in that location then we should be able to get in undetected perfectly." She said.
"Who's squads will be going?" Ino asked
"only captains & vices will go ..-
"Oi Sakura if Kisame & Deidara can't go then why is Itachi allowed to go?" Sai asked
Sakura lifted a brow. He had a good point just because he was a pro at this stuff didn't really guarantee them that he would be found out by one of Akatsukis spies. This wasn't good, Itachis squads was one of the best squads right now & everyone knew it.
"Kuso." She whispered.
"Sai I'm going too kill you very soon. now were just plain screwed." Sakura said
"Oi little hana don't worry about how were going to go unnoticed, that's simple for us." Kisame said.
"Very simple." Itachi whispered,
Sakura nodded her head. "Someone see you then you'll be wishing you were dead for I will make you regret not dying out there." She threatened.
Kisame gulped she was exactly like her Shisui in so many ways.
"Now everyone get ready we'll meet at the-
"Sakura who will be your partner if Ino will be staying here?" Sai asked
Now she was in the spotlight, she was hoping no one would catch that. She looked around the room. All vices were taken, and she couldn't just bring someone who was in experienced with this stuff. Her eyes scanned the room and she watched as Deidara grinned cheekily thinking she wasn't going to get out of this & was going to have to forfeit her title to the Uchiha.
Oh no he wasn't going to get away with a cheeky grin like that. "Deidara will be my partner." Sakura said and she watched as his grin turned into a frown.
"What why me un?!" He cried.
"Simple your the only available person with such experiences." Sakura said
"Why did I even come to this damn meeting yeah?" He mumbled
"I would ask the same question but my guess is that Hoshigaki dragged you along." Sakura replied.
Shisui clapped his hands. "Everyone we'll meet back here in twenty, be ready." He said before he disappeared in a flash of brown & white.
Sakura scoffed the idiot was being an idiot he shouldn't be using any chakra nobody should right now they were going to need it for later. Sakura hummed to herself. "Oi Blondie your coming with me." She said as she walked over to the end of the long rectangular table & moved the chair to the left side opening the hidden staircase Deidara scrambled to follow her down.
"Geez you & Itachi truly are mad when your in powerful positions yeah." Deidara said as he followed her down the underground tunnel.
"Oh stop your complaining ....honestly you make me wonder what Nami sees in you." Sakura said as she rolled her eyes.
Deidaras ears perked at the name. "She talks about me yeah?" He asked.
"Every letter since she meet you." Sakura said.
"Really un?"
"Really & it's beginning too get annoying."
"What does she say about me yeah?" Deidara asked curiously.
Sakura stopped in her tracks honestly it seriously was getting annoying first Nami wouldn't stop bugging her in all her letters about the odd blonde beside her and now he wouldn't shut up. Stopping her her tracks she quickly turned around and looked up at the goofy blonde.
"Listen she likes you, you like her, now drop it that's all you need to know." She said annoyed. His face went from happy to like he was a kicked puppy, she hated that look & too top it off he had pretty eyes, those were her weakness if a person male or female had pretty eyes & gave her the puppy dog look she wouldn't be able to resist.
She rubbed the back of her head & sighed. "It's the way you speak, it's different from the men were surrounded by, & it's the way that you don't care what others think of you." Sakura said gently.
Turning back around she continued her walk, already knowing that that goofy smile of his was back in it's place. "So what are we doing down here anyways yeah?"
"There's some equipment Tsunade hid down here, so I need to get them out." She replied
" ....... Can I ask you something un?"
"That was a question."
"Did you & Itachi really fuck un?"
"We did now shut it. ...... & not a word to Nami because I really don't need her crap when I go back."
Deidara nearly chocked on his own saliva. "Seriously you really did, I thought Shisui was just kidding when he said you & Itachi were fucking in the infirmary, damn that's just kinky a patient fucking a hot doctor on his bed yeah." Deidara ranted.
"Oh shut up, before I hit you." Sakura said as she rolled her eyes she stopped when she saw a gold glimmer in the darkness she sighed "Finally." Walking up to the wall where the gold glimmer was seen she swipped her hand across it making the earth fall from it. "Honestly what is it with men & sex around here?" Sakura asked herself.
"The saying is actually true 'if you don't use it you'll lose it.' un." Deidara said nonchalantly as he examined his nails in the dark tunnel. Sakura turned around to look at him with a lifted brow.
"That was a rhetorical question." She said.
He shrugged. "Then keep it in your head un." He said as he poked her in the head, causing Sakura to hit the wall of earth.
She slapped his hand away before she pushed away from the wall & turned back to it. "Urasai." She grumbled out through gritted teeth.
A few more swipes and Sakura revealed a medium sized black door with two gold knobs an ingravement of the Konoha symbol & the Suna symbol beneath it and a combination lock.
"Now all we have to do it find the key." Sakura said as she turned back around to look at the ground. "Why would this thing need a key un?! It already has those twisty turny knobs and the combination lock what else would it need un?!" Deidara asked hysterically.
"I don't know why they made it so complicated to get into alright ... just get on your hands & knees & help me find the damn key." Sakura said as she pushed Deidara down ploppeed onto her knees herself.
"What I'm I looking for yeah?"
"You'll know when you find it." Sakura said
"Oi Itachi-kun catch." A strong deep male voice said as they walked into the brooding captains bedroom.
Opening his dark blue eyes Itachi lifted his arms in time to catch a red cloth & red ribbon tied bundle. Lifting his brow he looked at his older cousin in question.
"It's the outfit you have to wear for the mission, every captain & vice has one, you came a in after everyone came so .......well you Kisame & Deidara are getting your now." Shisui continued.
Itachi nodded his head in recognition & turned on his back.
"Are you really going to be like Sasuke-chan & sulk all because you can't be in charge of this thing?" Shisui asked as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Itachi did & said nothing back. "Okay I understand that she cheated but the fact that no one caught it means that she got it her way oh well you need to get over it, there will be more great amazing missions you can lead, that she won't be able to." He continued.
"If you know she cheated then why let her get away with it?" Itachi asked
"I can't say that she cheated & that she didn't cheat .......she's an expert at chakra control, & seeing as she was Hatakes pupil I'm positive that he taught her how to get around the sharingan & how to hide her chakra from it. It's possible that she can do it, we will never be able to prove it, the woman barely needs to use chakra to activate her kekki genkai ...s. She good Itachi we know okay but just let her win this okay. It's no use to fight with her, she'll go to Tsunade & Tsunade will take it too Fugaku & well the Seju & we Uchiha will never be able to live in peace together."
"Has the clan gotten that bad?" Itachi asked
"They're upto something Itachi, & I don't know what it is the elders & Fugaku are having alot more secret meetings ......although they're not letting anyone else go but them, even the Mikoto-sama is getting suspicious."
"You think they're gonna try to overthrow Tsunade?"
"It's possible, although they can try to overthrow her but it wont work especially since Naruto-kun is going to be put on her new gaurd list, & we all know he wont let anything happen to any of his precious people."
"But what if it's not her that they will try to overthrow, what if when Naruto-kun becomes Hokage, & we all know he will, but what if they wish to try to over throw him?"
"With Sasuke in his emotional & very unstable state it's possible for Fugaku to convince him to join them in the silent civil war their planning, with Sasuke on their side Naruto-kun will have no chance he really loves him like a brother, that could really hurt him, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, Hinata, Jiraiya-sama, Tsunade-sama, Konohamaru-kun ...... They are his weakness. And Fugaku knows this." Shisui said
"Why do I have the feeling that me & you have been banned from these secret meeting?" Itachi asked
"Because we have, they probably found out that we were the ones that snitched them out the first time. So we have no idea hw to help Naruto-kun & Tsunade-sama bargain with them this time, & the only thing left to bargain is the title as Hokage."
"And if they get that title we might as well have Danzo lead Konoha." Itachi said.
"Well their one more bargain, but it is highley dangerous." Shisui said.
"No that is not allowed & you know it ...besides Haruno-sama, & Hyuga-sama & every other clan leader that has a kekki genkai will not allow it, the Uchiha clan is powerful enough with the sharingan alone, mixing other A-level kekki genkais is too dangerous." Itachi said from his spot on the bed.
"You know Tsunade-sama said that if Fugaku dies you become the leader of the Uchiha clan ........with you as the leader we can end this stupid war."
"No a revolt right not could be dangerous, have you informed Tsunade-sama about these meetings?"
"Not yet I need more proof that they truly are planning a coup d'etat ..... what of the Akatsuki?"
"It's unfortunate but all information is classified at the moment." Itachi replied
Shisui pouted. " .........Soo when Fugaku does pass away who will be the Uchiha Matron? will you have Toshiko take her supposeldy rightful place, or will you take a certain pink haired kunoichi as your beloved wife?" Shisui asked with a grin.
"I highly hope I die before I have to be the leader of the clan ..... honestly I don't know why he chose me, your obviously the bette choice."
"He chose you because you have the mangekyo sharingan, he's hoping that it's capable of being passed down to your children."
"Is there a medical jutsu that will allow us too switch bodies so I wont have to live my life?" Itachi asked
"I have no clue why don't you ask Pinky? ...... besides if there is ask someone else to switch with you because I actually like my life." Shisui said as he examined his clean buffed & polished nails.
"I really wish someone would switch with me." Itachi said.
"Oh I found it!" Sakura said as she quickly moved forward only to bump heads with Deidara,
"Ow that hurt." She said as she rubbed her head.
"You have a hard head un." Deidara said as he rubbed his head.
They moved to grab the shinning gold in the dirt & he quickly retreated when he saw Sakura enlonged nail.
"Ewwww un." Deidara screamed
"Oh yeah I should file that before anyone else sees it." Sakura said as she reached into her pocket & pulled out a nail file
"How long has it been since you filed that thing yeah! That's so disgusting un." Deidara said as he watched her file the nail.
"Well I was going to file it down the moment we came down here but I seem to have forgotten."
"......"
"Listen can you just forget you ever saw this?" Sakura asked.
"Don't worry un."
So there it is next chap is going to have some action scenes in it ...... well at least I plan for it to have some ...... any how thanks for reading don't forget to review.
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