They'd come to a stop right in the middle of the forest, right before they came up to the borders of Fire and Rice. It was already night fall, and they were all tired from the vast amount of running they'd been doing all day to hurry and get to the country and look for clues to find Kabuto.
Sakura plopped down on another rock as she took in the scenery around them. It was chilly and the only thing keeping her warm was her cloak. The night was dark and the air was becoming more stale and thick as they got closer to the Rice Country.
She removed her mask and slid off her hood as she watched a house appeared before her, standing up she moved into the house and walked up to the stairs. Taking a seat on the steps she watched as the men of the group began to walk in, Sai taking a seat right next to her.
"Were not going to find him there are we?" He asked quietly.
"Not at all." Sakura replied just as quietly as she phased the others conversation out.
"Who do you think he'll go to now that Orochimaru is dead?" Said asked.
" … Can't say, Kabuto is unreadable, always has been." Sakura replied.
She sucked in a breath as she stood up and walked up the stairs, it was an open space, but it gave enough room to fit enough people, and the bottom as well. Undoing her hair she pulled out the scroll and opened it onto the floor, biting her thumb she added chakra to the Kanji for fresh and picked her bag up throwing it onto her shoulders she walked back down the stairs.
"Where you going Sakura?" Kakashi asked.
"I'm sweaty … There's a lake not to far from her so I'll be there." Sakura said.
"You should take someone." Yamato said.
"I'll be fine." Sakura replied before she walked out of the house.
Sasuke watched as Sakura left the grounds and disappeared into the lavish green surroundings quickly.
"We need a plan for tomorrow, we can't just barge in." Shisui said to them all.
"I propose we send Sasuke's team first, this way it'll look as though he's trying to obtain Orochimarus belongings." Kakashi said.
"That is a good idea, though what if Kabuto ordered them to attack Sasuke on sight?" Yamato asked.
"Sasuke what do you think?" Shisui asked him.
Sasuke turned to his cousin and observed him. "Does it seem weird to you that Sakura knows so much about Kabuto?" He asked carefully.
"She's studied his profile, probably asked about his fighting and mannerisms, or remembered them from the chunnin exams, any good shinobi would be able to tell you what you're dealing with is basic knowledge that should be gained before any missions are taken. With you and Naruto-kun constantly attracting attention from Akatsuki and Orochimaru she's decided to study all she could on all those she could find. She probably knows much about everything." Sai answered.
Sasuke glared. "It seems a bit odd that right when we're about head into Rice country she decides to go bathe alone." He said.
Sai shrugged his shoulders and Sasuke really wanted to beat the pale man then and there. It seemed the ex-ROOT member had a soft spot for Sakura and was making it clear that he couldn't call Sakura out.
"She's a female who's been giving orders and not at the front lines …. As much as she'd like to be. Being as this is and how sweet she'd smelt, she was wearing perfumed products, and giving the fact that we were only given thirty minutes it's obvious that she didn't have enough time to get ride of the smell. Probably what she's doing now before we go in tomorrow." Yamato said.
"She did smell good." Naruto said with a nod of his head as he crossed his arms against his chest.
"I think it better for someone to go and make sure she's where she said she was going." Sasuke said.
"She's not a spy Teme." Naruto said with a glare.
"You never know. … Nobody would have ever pinned Kabuto as a spy either, but what do you know he was." Sasuke said.
There was a sigh from behind him and he knew it had come from Itachi. "If it'll make you be quite then I'll go after her." He said.
Sasuke spun around and glared at his older brother. "I don't think so. I think you've spent enough time chasing her." He said.
Itachi merely lifted a brow and smirked down at him as he replied in a small haughty whisper. "But I'm very good at catching her."
Sasuke's eyes bleed into he Sharingan and he took in a deep breath before he closed his eyes and pushed passed his older brother.
"Where are you going?" Naruto asked.
"To make sure Sakura's at the lake." Sasuke called back as he walked out the door.
He didn't waste time as he ran back to where he remembered the lake they'd pass.
It wasn't that he didn't trust Sakura; he just didn't enjoy the fact that she was keeping herself locked away in that head of hers again. Of course he wasn't making the situation any better by picking on her the way he was, but it was hard, his mind was so used to acting like a jerk around her, and treating her like he would a fan girl. This was because he wasn't ready to except the new Sakura just yet, he didn't want her to be the way she was, distant and cool, strong and independent. He needed to protect her, that's what him, Naruto and Kakashi did, they protected her against everything, and she would be there for them, no matter what.
No matter how much they pushed she'd always pushed just as hard to get through to them, grabbing them from the deepest and darkest places in their minds that they'd dropped into.
This Sakura that he saw was, lost, her beautiful green eyes that attracted people had been so innocent and warm, and now they were these hard glass like green pools of someone who'd seen too much at too young an age.
Now she was the one that was in a dark place and needed to be pulled out.
But how to do that when you're in that same place and don't know how to pull yourself out either.
The smell of fresh water and wet flowers caught his attention and he blinked himself out of his musings. The area was surrounded by bushes, tall trees, flowers, all other pieces formed by Mother Nature. And in the middle of the area, beneath the moonlight was a creature of true beauty.
Sakura glowed in the darkness like a creature of the night, her creamy porcelain peach colored skin took a bright light radiant blue, her pink flower locks took a purple color, and her deep green eyes were more blue than anything. Her back was facing him, and he watched as she poured water down her back, cleansing her skin and her tattoos looked like fresh ink.
She'd reached at her leaf tattoo on her back left shoulder and he watched as she pressed her chakra into it, and began pulling a senbon from it. Immediately he prepared for the worst only to watch her grab her long drenched curls and put them up using the senbon as a hair stick.
This was why he hated himself, why he hated Orochimaru, why he hated that damn disease. Sakura was gorgeous in every way, even the tattoos and the brand markings on her couldn't take away her beauty, on any other woman they'd most likely make them look to manly but Sakura, it fit her body, and it went with her perfectly. Yet no matter what went with her, he wouldn't be able to voice it as he couldn't have her. That disease got her and ruined her, she would've been perfect, they could've had beautiful children, and they could've been an amazing pair.
'But that damned disease.' Sasuke hissed in his head.
"How long are you going to stand there?"
Sasuke stiffened at the voice and looked at Sakura's back wondering if he was hearing things or if it was real.
"I'm waiting." The voice said more impatiently.
Now he was positive it was real, and he walked out from behind the bushed and over to the lake. "Just came to make sure you were where you said you were." He replied. She hadn't turned to look at him yet as he walked onto the water and waited for her to face him.
"I'm sure." Sakura replied
There was a silence between them and finally Sakura began to speak up again. " … Either close your eyes, or go and get my towel." She said.
Sasuke wanted to chuckle softly as he spun around and walked over to where her belongings were. Opening her bag he found her white fluffy towel at the very top of her neatly folded effects. Walking back over to her he handed it to her, and she stared up at him before she frowned again. "Can you turn around?" She asked
It was weird they'd never been in situations like this when they were younger, usually when they had a mission they either stayed at the clients house or an Inn. Now though Kakashi obviously had taught Sakura and Naruto the proper ways of traveling on missions. Sasuke thought as he turned away from Sakura.
He could hear her as she got out of the water, he could feel her warm chakra next to him. She always had a nice chakra, it was warm, and it always had made him feel fuzzy and peaceful.
"Now don't look, just keep your head straight." Sakura said to him and he could feel her push him back towards where her bag was. He'd let her.
As they got off the water he realized then that she was making sure he didn't see her in a towel.
"You know it's not as if I haven't seen you in a towel." He said.
"Yes, well I was desperate to become your girlfriend back then, I'm not anymore, and I don't need you too see more than you have." Sakura replied.
" … True." Sasuke said with a tilt of his head.
"Oh how a cycles of moons and suns can change people." Sakura said in a sigh.
"Every other person minus Naruto." Sasuke said with a smirk growing on his face.
"Oh so true, now he's just strong annoying and a bottle filled with energy and sunshine." Sakura replied.
Sasuke turned around and found Sakura slipping into her cloak, her hair had been put back in a long French braid.
She was one of the people that had changed. "What about you Sakura have you changed?" Sasuke asked trying his best to get her to open up to him, like she used to in the old days.
" … I'm already gone." Sakura replied with a sad smile on her place before she walked passed him her shoulder gently brushing against his.
Her words made no sense to him, and he feared that the true meaning behind them was something he would like either.
Naruto watched as Kakashi and Shisui began talking with each other over patrolling teams. He didn't pay attention, his thoughts swirling around his two best friends, Sakura and Sasuke.
They'd been gone for an hour, and he was hoping that they were making up with each other, and not trying to kill each other.
He didn't blame either of them though, Sasuke had been acting like a jerk through the entire mission so far, and Sakura hadn't been the best person to Sasuke since he returned. Both were in the wrong no matter what how much he believed they each had a right act the way they were to each other.
Sasuke was still trying to adjust to the rules and regulations of being back in Konoha while being in prison, as well as trying to prepare himself for fatherhood. On top of that he was furthermore trying to fix all the problems he'd caused within team seven and his family, and Sakura wasn't helping any by sleeping with Itachi.
Sakura was also still trying to avoid her grandfather at all cost, while trying to find a cure for her grandmother's illness. Also dealing with the elders searching for her in order to eliminate her for revealing them and Danzo, and being sent to a war-zone, to disappear till they think her dead, thus the cause of most of her frustration since she couldn't be on a real mission in fear of being found. Then she finds out Sasuke's back and is going to be a father. It was obviously hard for her to put her feelings away for him. Sasuke not making any of it easy by picking on her.
The two were obviously attracted, but Sasuke messed up any chances by impregnating Karin.
He'd been hoping that when they'd come back they'd celebrate the reunion of Team Seven, then they'd get into their old routine and go out on insane missions. Him and Hinata would get married, and during the ceremony Sasuke and Sakura would realize their feelings for one another and get together. Then Sakura and Sasuke would start dating, and after a while they'd marry as well.
Oh how the red-head messed it all up.
He sighed as he reached into his pack and pulled out two ramens. Everything had been planned to the dot in his head, and then the red-head had jumped into their lives and screwed it all up.
'Damn girl.' Naruto thought as he searched for the lighter in his bag, him and Jiraiya had never been fire elementals causing him to by a lighter during their time away from Konoha.
Finally finding it he popped it open and placed it under the stove station he'd made. The silver bowl that he'd placed the water in was nothing more than a silver bowl that was blackened from the many times he'd used it for missions. It had two holes on the top of each circle side, where the stick would go through and hold it, secured by sticks at the bottom. Placing his hand beneath bowl, he lit the match and watched as the water slowly began to heat.
Looking over too the two Uchihas in the building Naruto watched as Shisui talked to his younger cousin enthusiastically, while Itachi rested against the wall with his eyes closed seeming as if he wasn't listening at all.
Naruto knew better though, it was a trait that Sasuke picked up and despite the apathetic attitude and appearance Itachi was paying very close attention to every little thing that was going on around him.
The two Uchiha siblings were very much alike in so many ways that it was intimidating sometimes. The only difference was that Sasuke was more of an intuitionist while Itachi was a mentalist. One listened to his heart while the other listened to his mind.
Itachi and Sasuke were also similar in looks, though Itachi had more feminine attributes than Sasuke, obviously by the softer looking facial structure and the exceedingly long eyelashes. Physically Itachi was everything on Sakura's list.
Tall but not abnormally tall, long hair she could play with a pretty face but not prettier than hers yet extremely handsome at the same time. Properly proportioned and highly developed muscles; in other words he was in tremendously well shape, and when he said tremendous, he meant the guy was ripped.
Mentally, that was something he couldn't determine just yet. If him and Sasuke were as much alike as they seemed then Itachi was probably nearly close to filling every detail on Sakura's list which made Sakura's perfect man.
It was sad, but even Sakura was looking for her soul mate … and the search was becoming a manhunt it seemed.
Turning his blue eyes back to the boiling water Naruto found that it was about to overrun and quickly switched off the lighter, careful as to not burn himself he picked up the metal bowl and began to pour the water into the cup of noodles.
Now all there was to do was wait for it to cook.
With all these thoughts and conversations around, none felt the eerie red eyes, or the sinister chakra that watched and surrounded them.
'Interesting'
Kakashi straightened up as he watched Sakura and Sasuke come back in, obvious that she'd found out by the way they'd came back together.
Sakura face was contorted into its usual face that made up tired looking green eyes, and a grim pout, while Sasuke looked at her worriedly.
It was hard to tell what had been said between the two. At one time Sakura and Sasuke had confided in each other on everything, there had never been secrets between the two. Now however, it was as if an entire universe was separating them from one another, when all it was really was a fetus, and a clan. Naruto could even feel it and the two hadn't even been reunited for a week yet.
Naruto's mood had become so much more enthusiastic with the knowledge of having all his family back, Sasuke was falling back into his old position of staying silent and protecting everyone in his own way. While Sakura was becoming further from them with each passing minute, as if something was pulling her away from them. He knew what it really was; she was the only one he hadn't personally taken the time to really train, to teach something to. Not that he hadn't wanted to he hadn't found anything to teach her like he had with Sasuke and Naruto. Sakura was pushing away because she was finding that she was falling into her old spot, watching them and envying them.
She knew how much power she held, and she knew she should be doing more than watching.
Sakura had always been envious of the other two; she had her abilities sealed away by the Hokage due to the fear of what she could become. Then he'd placed her in a team with the Kyubi container and the Head Uchihas youngest son, could it have been possible that the third had wanted to drive his granddaughter insane?
.... Probably not.
Interestingly enough to add to the Sandaime Hokages oddities, he'd never found the missing link to Sakura that put her onto his team.
It was all simple really went it came to the connections of Team Seven. Naruto was the orphaned child of the Yondaime Hokage, who trained he himself Hatake Kakashi who held in his right eye his former teammates eye that was the Sharingan, a kekki genkai that was passed through the Uchiha Clan only, which is where Sasuke is from.
Sakura was nowhere in there though.
Yamato even had a connection. He had the Shodaime Hokage's DNA running through his veins, who trained the Sandaime, who trained Jiraiya who trained the Yondaime, who trained he himself, who had trained Naruto and Sasuke.
Still no connection to Sakura.
Sakura wasn't even the Sandaimes biological granddaughter. Sakura's mother had been an orphaned infant that the Sandaime had found in Moon Country while he'd been doing political business, and there had been nothing special about her either that he had heard of, other than her pink hair of course.
Then there was Sakura's father and his family, the Haruno clan was old, but they weren't generations old, age old, generations no, Sakura was only the fifth generation of her clan, her grandfather was only of the third generation, though that may have been only the head family.
The other families were already older than them, that he remembered being in school with a kunoichi that had married into the Haruno clan, her husband of the seventh generation of his family. The family couldn't even be traced back to a specific country either, nor to how they had gotten to Konoha, or who any specific family members were like many other clans.
Even his family could be traced to somewhere.
None the less, no matter how hard he looked, he could never find the missing link.
"What's with the face Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.
Blinking back to reality Kakashi swept his gaze over the group, Kisame and Deidara were outside doing their patrol shift, Shisui and Itachi were sitting against the walls, Yamato and Sai were already sleeping preparing for the next shift. Jugo and Suigestu were somewhere outside as well. Sasuke was sitting on the stairs, Naruto on the floor eating another ramen across from Sakura who had just pulled out her life scroll.
While he was leaning on the wall.
Rubbing his neck and being caught out of his usual lethargic character, he replied sheepishly. "I was just thinking about how connected we are to one another that's all."
He could feel the others turn to him, and Naruto tilted his head in confusion, Sakura being the one to clarify to him. "He means Team Seven."
"Oh." Naruto said as he got the meaning.
Kakashi had thought he'd understood until Naruto spoke his next words. " …. Wait, how are we connected to one another?" He asked in a confused tone.
Sasuke sighed as he was the one to explained this time. "It's obvious dobe. You're the son of the Yondaime, who trained Kakashi. Kakashi carries the Sharingan that comes from the Uchiha Clan."
It seemed as though Naruto could absorb the information quiet satisfactorily.
"Wait what about Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
What about Sakura indeed. Perhaps now was the time too see if she knew something he didn't?
"Aint it obvious Sakura-chan is the Sandaime Hokages granddaughter." Suigestu said.
"Not by blood." Kakashi said.
" … That is true. Oi Sakura how are you linked to the rest of us." Naruto said.
Kakashi watched as something began to calculate beneath Sakura's eyes, either she was trying to figure it out, or she was trying to come up with something.
Then she shrugged and said. "No idea …Maybe I've got a demon inside me like Naruto."
Kakashi sighed as he shrugged his shoulders.
"That would make you have ten tails, which is impossible." Suigestu said.
"She was being sarcastic baka." Naruto said to Suigetsu.
"Did you just call me a baka, baka?" Suigestu asked as he pointed Zabuza's sword at the blonde.
"Yes I did baka." Naruto replied with a nod of the head as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Why you blonde-
-Hey Naruto want some chocolate?" Sakura asked as she dangled the wrapped chocolate bar before the blonde shinobi.
Kakashi watched as Naruto's full attention went to the candy bar being swung before his large blue eyes, his gaze becoming spellbound as he stared at the wrapped candy bar.
Sakura smirked at the loss of voice the blonde had, before dropping it into his lap before she pulled a chocolate bar of her own out of the large pack before her folded legs. He watched as she put the wrapped bar in her mouth, holding it with her teeth as she sealed the rest of her candy sack back into the scroll before unsealing a different one, this filled with water bottles.
He shook his head at how good Sakura had gotten at sealing objects away, and making traveling lighter.
Everything that a shinobi really needed was sealed into the scroll. Everything minus money and the necessary sleeping objects; that being a tent and sleeping bag. She knew though that with Yamato either a rundown hotel or a house was to be put up, there was never any sleeping on the ground with the wood user on the team.
"Everyone get some rest, we need to be out before the suns peaks, tomorrow we head into the Rice Country." Shisui said.
"I'll sleep when I know that water boy isn't going to try to jump Sakura when we're all sleeping." Naruto said as he glared at the white haired shinobi who returned his glare with a smirk to go with it.
"Sasuke he's your guy." Kakashi said.
Sasuke nodded his head in understanding as he turned his attention to his teammate. "Suigestu, it'll be safer for the rest of us if someone is watching over us, take watch outside in one of the trees above us."
"Come on boss, are you really going to listen to the blonde dimwit?" Suigestu asked.
"Watch it waterboy, or I'll make sure you really become our waterboy." Naruto threatened with a heated glare still intact.
"Suigestu, go." Sasuke ordered with a glare.
Sunrise couldn't come faster, and before any knew it they were on the hunt again. Sakura surveyed her surroundings as she landed on another branch.
She'd felt a chakra surge last night, it had been so powerful that it had awoken her from her deep slumber, and it had been so late into the night that it had already been morning already. On instincts purely her body refused to go back to sleep resulting in her doing rounds and eating an abundant amount of energy bars and protein drinks.
The end results were a very jittery and hyper active pink haired shinobi, herself.
She was a bottle of energy at the moment and her senses were on high alert since the mysterious chakra surge. It hadn't been anybody in the team she was sure of that, positive actually, the chakra she'd felt had been just as powerful as the Kyubis just as sinister as well, and most importantly it had been suffocating her literally for the first ten minutes when it first had woken her up.
Then it just suddenly disappeared, it hadn't faded with distance it hadn't died down due to chakra drainage, it hadn't even ruptured from a suicidal jutsu.
It was just gone.
Like a balloon pooped with a single touch of a needle.
Pop
Just like that.
She'd never seen anything like it before, hadn't even heard of anything like it, not even read about such a thing.
It was scaring her too, but she couldn't allow the others too know that, they had obviously not felt it seeing as they all seemed to be to ignorant about anything other than the mission so far.
She'd searched for that chakra for the past couple of hours and she was beginning to tire from searching for it and also concealing her chakra at the same time to hide it from the person or thing that had caused the chakra surge.
She may have been a bottle of energy in her mind, but her body couldn't take it no more.
She could feel herself swaying dangerously as she landed on another branch. Jumping onto the next one all she could feel was the quiver of her legs, it had been only eight hours since they'd headed out for Rice Country, and it was going to be midday soon.
Another branch and this time her swaying body couldn't take it any longer, she could feel herself slipping, and for a moment she felt like she could fly.
That was until she blinked back to reality and felt herself falling farther away from the tree tops.
Her mind shut down and then it all just went black.
He'd noticed her listless ways as it got later into the day, he'd seen the way her mind and body were far from each other, Sakura had begun to get further behind them with each jump she took.
Itachi hadn't thought he was going to have to catch the pink haired kunoichi for a second time since he returned.
As her body literally dropped into his arms for a second time since they knew each other, he realized that the others hadn't been paying much attention to their female teammate.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled as he swooped down onto the ground in a quick movement.
The pale haired boy Sai had landed silently next to him, quickly pulling out a basic medical jutsu to figure out what was wrong.
"What happened?" Kakashi asked as he dropped to the ground as well.
"She just fainted." Shisui said.
"This isn't good yeah; she's the only medic yeah." Deidara said.
"Sai what's wrong with her?" Naruto asked in a desperate tone.
Sai's eyebrows had scrunched up into concentration and then confusion as his medical chakra had went over Sakuras body.
"Has Sakura used her chakra in any way?" Sai asked carefully as he continued his ministrations.
"She hasn't other than the obvious little things." Sasuke said.
Sai finally looked up at them with a stony face as he spoke. "She fainted from chakra exhaustion."
"How is that possible if she hasn't been using?" Naruto asked.
"Are you sure it wasn't something else?" Yamato asked.
"Her chakra didn't even put up a fight with mine like it should when coming in contact with other chakra signatures familiar or foreign. Then there's the part where it's at a minimum at the moment." Sai explained.
"We can't continue the mission without a medic-nin." Kakashi said.
" … She just needs rest right?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, rest should be fine until her chakra reserves have increased; it could possibly take the entire day maybe more with how low she is on chakra." Sai said.
" … We need to go through Post Town." Naruto said as he stood up.
"Why Post Town?" Shisui asked.
"Because it's the fastest way too Fuuma Alley." Itachi replied softly.
"And if we give them the best begging act we can muster Hanzaki just might board us for the time meaning." Naruto mumbled.
"You do realize that I'm not the most liked person amongst the members of the Fūma Clan right?" Sasuke asked.
"You killed Orochimaru; I don't think they truly care."Naruto replied as Itachi handed Sakura over to Sai.
Well at least they had a back up plan, for now.
They were already at the border of Post Town, and it wasn't hard to get back to the entrance, and with the members that made up the team it was impossible for the Fūma Clan to actually want to pick a fight with them now.
As they entered the Post Town though, Itachi began to see how Orochimaru defeated the village so easily as the people from the shadows began to swarm them, surrounding them.
They were every where, and everyone of them was underestimating every shinobi on the team.
"I thought you said they'd board us?" Suigestu whispered.
"I said if we were good at begging they might, so get to begging." Naruto whispered back as he pushed the young water user in front of them as a piece offering.
"We aren't here to cause any trouble we're just here to see your leader." Kakashi said in a lazy tone.
"What's it to you?" A female voice said.
Itachi spun behind him and found a woman around his age staring back at them with a playful smirk on her face. She was tall and in shape, her long black hair was put back in a ponytail, her charcoal colored eyes scanning each of them, her kimono was opened and it looked as though she'd just had been rolling between the sheets with a lover or client.
Her eyes widened though as they landed somewhere behind them. "Uzumaki Naruto?" She asked in an awed voice.
The blonde had bounced up to them and looked the woman over, his perverse eyes lingering on the woman's large bosoms.
"Kotohime-san!" Naruto said excitedly as he jumped the woman, crushing her into a large hug as he did so. Relaxing Itachi watched as Naruto and the girl named Kotohime began to converse as if old friends.
"It's good to see you as well Naruto-kun, is Jiraiya and Sakura-san with you too?" Kotohime asked as she signaled her men to stand down.
"Crap Sakura-chan!" Naruto said as he pulled at his hair while searching for the one that was carrying her.
"Kotohime-san you gotta help us, Sakura-chan fainted and she needs rests an-
-Okay Naruto-kun, calm down and follow me." She said as she smiled softly at the blonde.
"Thank you." Kakashi said as he walked over to the woman that was walking them out of the area.
"Let's hope that Sesame-chan can help you there Naruto-kun." Kotohime said.
" ….. Sesame-chan is still here?" Naruto asked in a curious tone.
"I know we were all hoping she'd leave, and then she up and changed her mind a day after she'd left this place." Kotohime said softly.
"Will Hanzaki be okay with you helping?" Naruto asked in a soft tone.
The woman stiffened a bit at the name and Itachi watched carefully as she turned to Naruto and spoke in a quiet tone.
"Hanzaki died, during the rebellion of Uchiha Sasuke."
…Some Hours Later…
Sakura groaned as she awoke from the eternal abyss of nothingness; her unconscious state. Her Body was heavy, every limbs and every muscle hurt, so soar that she feared she might black out again and return to the wastelands of oblivion. Another groan escaped her mouth as she found her body fighting with her mind as her legs twitched and tried to move from there position.
She was laying down on a soft mattress. Mechanically her body jolted from her laying position, and she cried in pain as the movement caused more pain to come to her, making her fall back to the foreign bed.
She could hear running and opened her eyes and watched from her position as a pair of barefoot feet, female by the small size and soft contours walked over to her.
"Sakura-san are you alright?" The soft voice asked as they got onto their knees to check her from her spot on the floor.
Sakura sat up again groaning in pain as she did so. "Sakura-san you shouldn't push your self." The voice said as they helped her up carefully. Looking up at the girl Sakura came face to face with large hazel eyes. Backing away from the woman's face she found the familiar features of Sesame.
The girl her, Naruto and Jiraiya had helped when they had first went out to get Sasuke.
"Sesame-san?" Sakura asked as she looked around the room.
There was a small soaking tub diagonal from the bed and screen doors separating the room from whatever was out there. Above her bed was a long thin window, there was nothing more and she couldn't even comprehend where exactly she was, knowing for a fact that the last time she'd seen Sesame the Fūma Clan had been living in rundown buildings in an Alley.
This bedroom was positively charming.
"Naruto-san will be so happy that you're awake." Sesame began as she stood up from her sitting position.
"Naruto? …. Where exactly are we?" Sakura asked as she messaged her arms trying to rid herself of the soreness.
"Your in Ta no Kuni."
"I figured that much, we were already passing Post Town when I fainted, what I meant was where exactly are we?" Sakura asked as she rubbed her temples.
Her chakra wasn't coming out properly, it was hard to even get a good hold on it.
It was as if something was stopping her chakra flow.
Sakuras eyes widened as she quickly threw the sheets of her body revealing her scarcely clad body, searching for any marking she knew hadn't been there before.
Feeling around her neck her hand came across a bump on her back.
She knew exactly what it was too, and she could feel the alien chakra blocking her own. Her breathing came in labored as she heaved through her temperamental state. Before Sesame could even blink Sakura was walking out of the bedroom, as Sakura walked out she found that she'd walked out of the bedroom out to the balcony.
She growled as she spun around and continued her way out of the room. As she walked out of the bedroom and into the hall she stormed angrily through the traditionally styled house, not caring if any heard her and paying specific attention to the noise around her. She could hear the anxious footsteps from a room ahead of her and knew immediately that it was Naruto.
As she slid the doors open she found the rest of her teammates in a traditional family room.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto said as he quickly accessed his situation. Feeling her angry aura she could care less how they were looking at her as she walked into the room in only her intimates. Her body heaved as she looked at them all before her eyes landed furiously on the large blue haired figure.
He hadn't even turned to look at her and she knew he was purposely trying to annoy her.
"How dare you." She said as she narrowed her eyes at his eyes, hoping it would begin to melt then and there.
Kisame straightened up and turned to her trying to pull off an innocent look. "Oh were you talking to me?" He asked as he ogled her with his beady eyes.
"Sakura calm down." Naruto said as he walked up to her his hands up and palms wide open.
"Take this damn thing off of me now." Sakura hissed as she walked further into the room, ignoring Naruto altogether.
"Sorry can't do that I'm under orders not too." Kisame replied as he crossed his arms against his chest.
Sakura ran at him her fist made and ready to break something on the man, only to be grabbed around the waist and thrown to the floor just as quickly.
A groan escaped her as she tried to get up failing miserably as she fell back onto her stomach, another groan escaped her.
"Sorry Sakura, we had too." The familiar voice of her past sensei.
"What protocol number exactly did I break in order to have my chakra sealed away?" Sakura asked as she rolled onto her back and stared up at the silver haired Jounin.
"No procedures were broken, we sealed you under the grounds of suspicion." A silky voice said as she heard the person's footsteps come closer to her.
"Uchiha, you're in no condition to be giving orders." Sakura said as she turned her head to look at Itachi.
"I didn't give the order." Itachi said as he crouched down and helped her up.
Always the gentlemen.
"I gave the orders." The youngest Uchiha said as he stared over at her.
"Exactly what am I under suspicion for?" Sakura asked.
"Betrayal." Sasuke said simply.
Sakura hesitated for a bit but her response came out in her cynical tone she'd adapted over time. " ….. Great, just great."
"Now that your up we can begin the interrogation." Sasuke said.
"No." Sakura said as she struggled to stand.
"There is no yes or no, you have no right of objection." Sasuke said.
"Yes."
"Sakura it's in your best interest to not anger your examiner." Itachi said.
"There's no reason for interrogation … all you have to do is ask me why I was using my chakra and concealing its use from you." Sakura said as she made her way to the table, stumbling as she did.
Plopping down next to Sai she watched as Sesame walked into the room. Now that she had time to actually look she found that the Sound native had actually changed over time.
Her ginger hair was long, her bangs were brushed and to the side now, her face had matured a bit, her body had developed, her breast large like Tsunades, her hips and thighs similar to the slug princess.
"Sakura-san … I brought you your equipment." She said as she handed Sakura her objects.
Placing everything on the table she found that her scroll was missing she turned to Sasuke and glared at him as she extended her arm towards him with her palm open.
"Give me my scroll." She said.
"You're in no condition to give orders Sakura." Sasuke said.
Sakura slammed her fists angrily as she spoke. "Dammit Sasuke give me my scroll now!"
"Sakura, I don't like it when people think they have the authority to boss me around." Sasuke said.
Sakura grabbed Sasukes collar and pulled him closer to her as she whispered into his ear. "Listen to me Uchiha, if you don't give me that scroll, that unborn child of your will never make it out alive."
"You wouldn't dare try to kill the chief Uchihas grandchild." Sasuke replied.
"Your father disowned the child … besides I think it would bring the Uchihas' and Haruno's closer with the knowledge that we're willing to do things others wouldn't for them."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Dare me." Sakura challenged. Like her Sasuke was weak with children it was just how they were, and when a child was threatened they so easy to control.
Sasuke pushed away and reached into his pockets as he pulled out the scroll that Sakura was demanding for. He tossed it to her and watched as she happily unrolled it only to frown down upon the kanjis.
She looked back up at him. "Will you hand me a kunai?" She asked.
"No." Sasuke replied.
"Fine then." Sakura replied as she reached into Sai's weapons holster and pulled out a kunai, the others' went on the defense.
Sakura looked up at them smiling as she put the kunai to her palm. "Oh look I'm slicing my palm wooow." She said with fake optimism laced in her voice as she quickly swiped at her palm, squeezing the blood onto the parchment.
Then she grabbed Sai's hand and pushed it onto the bloodied parchment using what little chakra she could snatch and mixed it with her pale friends. With the proper hand sign she pressed Sai's chakra into the seal.
A puff of smoke and she watched as her bag of goodies appeared on the table. She clasped her hands together as she dug into the large bag and pulled out all the things she needed.
"So as I was saying earlier, all you have to do is ask me and I'll tell you, to be truthfully honest I don't see why any would think I would even betray the village. It's not as if I'm about to have Naruto go chase me half way across the world to bring me back from some stupid quest for power." Sakura said as she opened a chocolate bar, moaning at the delight taste of the sweet goodness.
Pulling out another chocolate bar she offered it to Sai. "Chocolate bar?" She asked.
He nodded his head refusing to take the candy bar once again.
There was something seriously wrong with her teammate, she'd begin to notice a pattern to him, it wasn't just chocolate bars he declined but all chocolate made goodies.
That just wouldn't do, something would have to be done about it.
Reaching into the bag she pulled out bottle of purplish blue transparent liquid. Opening the cap she drank the liquid slowly.
"You can manipulate others chakra?" Kisame asked as he moved a bit further from her. The large shinobi was like her. All chakra use, if the chakra was take away from her, or manipulated by another they would feel violated.
She understood why he didn't want to be near her at the moment, but she could care less, if they didn't take the seal off of her any time soon, she would force the sake loving shinobi to undo it for her.
"Only when I need to." Sakura replied.
"Sakura why were you concealing the use of your chakra while we were on our way to Otogakure?" Sasuke asked halting all other questions and getting straight to the needed answers.
"I won't say a thing." Sakura said as she looked up at him with her wide eyes.
Sasuke was the one to slam his first down onto the table this time as he growled. "Sakura stop with all these games and tell us what we want to know now!"
"I'm not telling you a thing." Sakura replied.
"Sakura, I will use force if necessary." Sasuke said.
"I never refused to give information Sasuke, I just won't give you the information …. You really shouldn't have cut off my chakra supply, ain't payback a bitch." Sakura whispered the last part to the enraged Uchiha.
"The who will you tell Sakura?" Kakashi asked.
"I'll tell Shisui." Sakura replied as she pointed her chocolate bar at the eldest Uchiha in the room.
She wasn't stupid, she knew that by being interrogated by Shisui without her chakra would mean she was defenseless if he used his Sharingan on her, but for some reason deep down something told her to trust him. It had always been like that since that day she meet him at her first Captains meeting in Kemuri. There was something that told her to trust him, as if that little voice knew that he would trust her with all his knowledge, maybe even possibly sacrifice himself for her safety. Whatever it was, she'd never given it a second thought and because she never did, she found the best friend she always wanted within the older shinobi.
She sighed as she watched Sasuke's team and the male members of Team Kakashi leave the room, leaving her with Shisui and three ex-Akatsuki member.
Shisui walked forward smoothly and plopped down across from her as if old buddies, making it apparent that he wasn't going to be hard on her and try to scare the information out of her. She took another bite of her chocolate bar as she watched the others.
"Sakura what's up?" Shisui asked in that gentle tone of his.
"I'm beginning to wonder that myself." Sakura replied.
"You know I was against the seal as well as the interrogation right?" Shisui asked.
He was letting her know that she could trust him, he wasn't going to put any words in between her own and believe that she was hiding something that wasn't there like Sasuke was for some odd reason.
"Shisui the other night did you feel anything? Anything at all?" Sakura asked carefully. She was a chakra sensor, but it was possible that at least one of the Uchihas had felt it as well.
Shisui shook his head. "No …. Did you feel something Sakura?"
Taking a deep breath Sakura looked down at her scroll before looking back up at Shisui. "I felt a chakra spike last night."
"When?" Shisui asked his voice had become thick as he went on suspicious mode, not of her but of others, who she couldn't say because she had no clue.
"I don't know, it had been so strong that it woke me up."
"You were searching for the chakra signature, and concealed your own so they wouldn't find you right?" Shisui asked.
"Exactly, this chakra it was weird, but it …. It scared me." Sakura whispered quietly.
Shisui leaned forward with his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean it was weird?" He asked.
" …. Shisui one minute I'm sleeping the next I'm being smothered by this powerful chakra, and it was so dark and so evil and so brutal …. And then it just disappeared."
"The person just left." Shisui said in understanding.
Sakura shook her head. "No …. I don't know what happened but I know they didn't just leave just like that."
"Sakura we've been scouting from front to back since we left Konoha-"
"I know the difference between a fading chakra a chakra rupture, this chakra signature did neither, it just disappeared, vanished …. Poofed out of existence, I don't know what you would call it but they didn't just leave." Sakura said uneasily.
" ….. It just poofed?" Shisui asked.
"You think I'm crazy don't you?" Sakura asked as she sipped at her drink.
"Sakura I don't think you're crazy I've just never heard of a chakra signature just vanishing into thin air, I don't think it's possible even." Shisui said and Sakura could see that his brain was on overdrive from the information she was giving him. She understood if she was on the receiving end like him she wouldn't understand it either, hell she could barely make heads or tails of it either and she'd experienced it not to long ago.
"I've felt a chakra disappear." A soft voice said in the room.
Sakura and Shisui turned their attention to Itachi and watched as he stood there next to the screen doors.
"When Hatake-san tore Deidaras arm from his body, the chakra that was flowing threw that limb at the time simply disappeared to whatever place Hatake had sent it too." Itachi explained.
"It wasn't Kakashi, Kakashi is powerful but this chakra was like Kyubi strong." Sakura explained.
"Sakura a chakra that strong would have woken someone else up." Shisui explained.
"That's not true, perhaps it was just really, very greatly concealed and me being as sensitive as I am to chakras accidentally fell upon it." Sakura said.
"I really want to understand what your saying it's just hard to, we had barriers put up surveillance I doubt someone could've gotten past it all and-
-Shisui listen to me clearly, I was woken up by an evil chakra surge, and it just disappeared from where ever it was." Sakura said.
"Evil?" Shisui asked.
"Shisui I was being smothered by it." Sakura said not surprised that Shisui couldn't believe it.
"Okay, Okay, so you were searching for the chakra signature and you masked your chakra so they wouldn't notice you." Shisui said.
"Yes."
"I think that's all there is to it Shisui." Itachi said.
"That's all it ever was." Sakura replied.
"Sakura …. I've never known you to admit that something was evil."Shisui said ignoring Itachis words.
"Because it was that evil, I think had it actually been in the open with me and not hidden, I might have died." Sakura said.
"It suffocated you right?" Shisui said and Sakura knew that Shisui was writing down mental notes of what she said.
"We've been through this Shisui!" Sakura replied.
"Sorry ….. Just trying to wrap my head around it, chakra signatures don't just disappear, it just doesn't happen. … Ever." Shisui said.
"Yes I know that Shisui, I would think I would know a thing or two about how the chakra system works ya know with me being a medic-nin and all."
" ….. Very well then Sakura, I believe you, I just can't comprehend the idea, but I believe you, you've never been one to lie to me." Shisui said as he stood back up.
"Does that mean I get the seal taken off?" Sakura asked as she watched him walk over to the screen doors. Shisui smiled at her as he slid them open.
"Sakura get some clothes on." He said before leaving the room.
"Does that mean I get my chakra back?" Sakura asked herself out loud as she looked down at her half eaten candy bar.
"Kisame take the seal off." Itachi said before he too left the room.
The Grayish-blue man was slow when walking over to her, preparing for her attack to come any minute and Sakura smirked at the fact that he was nervous with her. The newly felt knowledge felt good to her ego, she was nearly two feet shorter than the large man, and was weaponless, chakra-less, tiny, and nearly naked being as she was only in her sports bra and boy shorts. Yet he was still intimidated by her.
Oh how she loved Kisame now.
"Oh I wouldn't hurt the person that's about to give me back my precious and highly treasured chakra." Sakura said as she looked at the pile of her belongings next to her and began to separate them nicely on the floor.
Looking up at the dark sky Shisui watched as the stars began to dance upon the black blanket they'd been sprayed upon. He felt the familiar chakra before he heard the soft footsteps that other shinobi and civilians would have never heard. Closing his eyes he took in a deep breath preparing himself for the breakdown he had knew was coming, he'd been hoping it would be later rather than sooner, much later than how it was coming now.
The sound of material scraping against aged wood caught his attention and he turned to found Itachi leaning against the deck railings.
"You think he's finally decided to finish us off?" Shisui asked quietly, he didn't need anyone listening to their conversation.
" …. Madara doesn't threaten people." Itachi replied softly.
Shisui turned to look at his younger cousin. "His chakra suffocated her Itachi."
"His chakra suffocates many, I truly do believe that Sakura accidentally stumbled upon him."
"Itachi you and I both know that you don't just stumble upon Uchiha Madara, he knows I'm still alive and he wants to get rid of me."
"You don't know that." Itachi said.
"We tricked him, I was suppose to die in order for you to gain the Mangekyo."
"You did die." Itachi reminded him.
"For what a few minutes! Obviously I didn't stay dead, and I know the truth about Madara, we both know he's not just going to let me live."
"He let me."
"He took you on as an apprentice … and he needed another Uchiha, specifically from the main house for whatever he's planning."
"I know this."
"Then understand Itachi that he's coming after us for playing him like a fool."
"He needs us." Itachi reminded him.
"No, he needs a male from the main Uchiha household bloodline, you and I have already taken a side, and there's one maybe two more left that he can manipulate to his likings." Shisui said as he looked back up at the starry sky.
"Sasuke and the unborn." Itachi said quietly.
"Sasuke and the unborn." Shisui repeated with loathing.
"Perhaps we should let him in on the secret."
"Yes and then give him the knowledge that Uchiha Madara is alive and kicking and is so powerful that he can manipulate the space-time continuum, Sasuke's power hungry just like your father is and he'll do anything to surpass you in power, even if it means teaming with a man that wants to destroy the entire world, we might as well just hand him over to Madara now." Shisui said with fake optimism.
"Naruto-kun won't let that happen."
"Naruto will try his hardest to bring him back, but he can't stop Sasuke from doing anything, obviously or else he wouldn't have left and knocked up the red-head."
"We should have let him in on everything while he was still young and worshiped us." Itachi said.
"He was five, six years old at the time Itachi, he wouldn't have understood what was going on." Shisui said with a sigh.
"At that age children seem to remember important facts and details in their lives that stays with them even after adulthood." Itachi replied.
" … We should have made him sign a blood contract."
"Or we could have made the pack with him in on it, it would have been easier and we could have avoided the situation we're in right now, not only do we have to protect Sasuke, we also have to protect the unborn child that may be born male."
"There is no may be, the child will be male, there's never been a time in the main house bloodline that a female is born first, hell even before Uchiha Izuna and Madara the male had always been born first, this is actually only the fourth time in the lineage that it's happened, and it's not normal, or even a good sign."
"There's always the exception." Itachi said.
Shisui turned completely towards Itachi crossing his arms over his chest, Itachi always had a plan, the only thing was, it usually was a suicidal plan, it was highly impossible to be pulled off with just the two of them, and most of the times they were a bit out of there ideas.
Which was it this time?
"Before we were ordered to return, Pein and Madara wanted information on all the newest medical procedures Tsunade had came up with. … I came across an interesting one, but I never let them know about it." Itachi began.
" … And what is it?" Shisui pushed.
"The force of gender onto the fetus while it's still developing." Itachi said quietly.
As always, the proposal was the completely out of there kind. "Itachi I doubt that we could get away with something like that, not to mention it would be hard to do that, the girls already a few months pregnant by now."
"It's not as if Tsunade couldn't still do it, and besides Fugaku already disowned the child making it easier for us to go through with it on Tsunades approval."
" …. We can't without telling her everything." Shisui said.
"Then we tell her everything." Itachi replied nonchalantly.
"Again we can't tell her everything, once someone knows Madara will find out somehow about them and eliminate them."
" … We can tell Jiraiya."
"Telling Jiraiya is like telling Naruto."
It hit him then that maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to tell Naruto, the blonde was the one person someone like Madara wouldn't expect them to go too for help. As well as Naruto already had an idea on who Madara was, all Senju were passed the scrolls of the Shodaime Hokage it was part of their training regimen, him acting like he didn't like him was normal. On top of that Naruto was also someone they could count on, if he found them as precious people to him that needed help and needed protection in some form of manner despite their strengths he'd come when they needed it, if not he'd make sure that the person that harmed them would get punished for it.
The only problem was getting into his group of precious people. Naruto had a weird way of choosing his precious people, Sai and him had an odd relationship, Sasuke he'd always considered the brother he never had and his number one rival, Kakashi was more like his perverse uncle Tenzo was in a similar boat. Jiraiya was like a father to him while Sakura was his sister and Tsunade was his mother .. sort of.
Those were the people at the top though, and they were nowhere near the top even, they were just acquaintances'.
"There's always the part where we just go to him and tell him everything." Itachi said as if reading his mind.
They could but there was always the chance he'd see them as the enemy instead.
The screen door slid open from the bedroom they were all sharing, Itachi and himself turned to watch as said blonde decided to pop out.
"Oi there the two of you are!" He said as he walked out and slid the screen door open further.
"Did you need something Naruto-kun?" Itachi asked.
"Sasuke-teme and Kakashi-sempai need to see you Shisui." Naruto said as he watched them.
It was obvious that his ANBU training had been done well as seen by his wary behavior it was only too bad that he decided too pull out and become a Jounin.
Shisui looked back to Itachi muttering something under his breathe before he disappeared quickly. "We'll talk more another time."
Sakura had gone back to her room after the unsealing with Kisame, and after a few arguments over sleeping arrangements she finally got the room to herself. She sighed as she sunk further into the tub, it was warm and pulsing with chakra, comforting her muscles and reviving her body taking it back to what it had been like when they had first began the mission.
The knob on the door moved and before she could even react it opened, and as quickly as she could she grabbed the silk fringed kimono that lay on the floor next to her, her hand immediately going to the kunai she'd stolen from Sai in the water as she covered her body.
She watched as Itachi walked into the room with a calm exterior acting like she wasn't nearly naked as she got out of the tub.
"Have you ever heard of knocking Uchiha?" She asked quietly as she did the tie for the nearly transparent kimono.
"I came to check on you, see how you were doing." He said as he walked over to her.
She really didn't want to deal with him of all people at the moment when she was trying to restore her chakra.
"I'm fine, you can go now that you have my answer." Sakura replied as walked around him and over to the door she turned the knob and opened it some before having it slammed closed before her.
Another sigh escaped her as she turned to the Uchiha who had trapped her between his body and the door.
"You're angry." He said as he got closer to her.
"Yes I'm angry Uchiha, not only do I have to refrain from fighting at all, I had just been accused of treachery."
"That's not what your angry about though." Itachi said.
She was tired she didn't want to talk about her mood or why she was angry with anyone, she wanted to rest , restore her chakra and get the mission over with.
Leaning against the door she looked back up at the Uchiha heir as he stared down at her with those stunning blue eyes of his, she realized some time ago that his eyes looked black nearly like Sasukes' gray eyes nearly looked black, but were truly a brilliant gray, Uchihas had such pretty eyes. Itachis' were the most gorgeous she'd ever seen being as his pretty blue eyes were surrounded by the longest and darkest feathery looking lashes she'd ever seen in her existence.
"Itachi, please leave I need my rest or else this mission will have to be aborted due to a lack of medic-nin." Sakura replied as she mentally shook her head out of the stupor she'd been fleetingly in.
"Sakura-
-Please leave Itachi." Sakura said as she cut him off.
They once again stared at each other neither of them hearing the screen being slid open from the balcony.
A cleared throat stole their attention and Sakura and Itachi turned to find a narrow-eyed Sasuke staring at them.
"Sakura …. Itachi." Sasuke said.
Itachi didn't move from his spot as he spoke to his younger brother and Sakura wanted to disappear from there and be left alone and forgotten.
"Weren't you in a conversation with Kakashi-san & Shisui-san?" Itachi asked.
"Obviously it's over." Sasuke said as he walked towards them.
Before Sakura could comprehend anything Sasuke had grabbed her wrist and pulled her out from between Itachi and the door.
"Itachi I need to speak to Sakura alone, you need to leave." Sasuke said as he pulled Sakura behind him.
The pretty pink haired shinobi was beginning to feel like a rag doll.
"Whatever it is you can wait, we were speaking." Itachi said.
"She's not your plaything Itachi." Sasuke spit out.
Sakura turned to look at Sasuke discovering the anger behind the bored looking façade he'd take on seconds ago. She didn't want to be there, she really wanted to rest.
"I never gave the impression that she was." Itachi replied nonchalantly.
Sasuke pulled his swords from his back and Sakura widened her eyes as she watched as he pointed it at Itachi. "Leave Sakura alone." Sasuke threatened.
"Sasuke you came here for something." Sakura reminded him trying to get them both out of her room quickly.
"I came because I felt another chakra in here." Sasuke replied smoothly.
"Now you know who it was now leave, we were having a discussion." Itachi said.
"Both of you leave." Sakura said in an angry tone catching both off guard by the apathetic tone she'd taken on.
"Now." She continued allowing her anger to show.
There was no need for anyone to be in her room, she didn't want them in there, she didn't want them around her, all she wanted was for her chakra to come back to her and be done with the mission as quickly as possible.
"Get out now." She commanded her apathetic tone becoming more and more dominant, she didn't want them too see how angry she was.
Itachi was gone before she could even blink and Sasuke turned to her.
"Sakura." Sasuke called.
"I told you to leave." Sakura said as she turned away from her former teammate only to turn and bump into his chest.
"I wanted to talk to you about earlier." Sasuke said.
"There's nothing to talk about .. for heavens sake what's with you Uchihas and talking!" Sakura said angrily letting go of her anger and pushing at Sasuke.
"Your mad at me I know that, I'm sorry for accusing you of betrayal, but I had too all the signs pointed to betrayal so I went with protocol." Sasuke said as he grabbed Sakuras wrist and stared down at her, Sakura turned away from him.
"Leave me alone Sasuke, I want to rest, we leave tomorrow night." Sakura said.
Sasuke let go of her hands and she watched as he slowly walked towards the back screen. Turning to her before he left.
"Sakura." He called out.
"I said leave Sasuke." Sakura said as she refused to look at him and continued to stare at the corner of the ceiling.
The screen door shut and she finally allowed her tears to fall.
How could they believe she would ever betray them?
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