Finders Keepers

"Both of you leave." Sakura said as her angry tone turned to a more apathetic tone, both men were caught off guard at Sakura sudden cold approach.

"Now." She continued allowing a shard of anger to slip past her mask.

Immediately the eldest in the room left landing on a tree branch across from the balcony, the henge coming undone as they looked over into the bedroom, revealing an orange swirled mask man.

The lone single eye watched in amusement as the two young shinobi argued a bit, the pink haired girl loosing her cool as she spoke to the young Uchiha. Words were spoken, bodies were pushed, and wrists were grabbed, intent stares and discreet watching's. The girl Sakura broke down crying after the boy was gone, her body falling to the ground too emotionally tired to make it to the bed.

A smirk formed beneath the mask at the sight.

Something was going on, Haruno Sakura was okay with the proximity between herself and 'Itachi', and she was calm even when he slammed the door. Sasuke held some sort of feelings towards the girl as well, he was protective of her to the point that he didn't trust his own brother with her.

This could be both problematic and unproblematic.

'Time will only tell where her position with them stands.'

'The base is coming up.' Sasuke's voice rand through Sakuras ears as they continued their run through the thick forest.

With all her might she bit on her tongue keeping her words in her mind, it was all she could do. Besides it wasn't as if none of them knew how close the base was now. So as she jumped down to the floor with her fellow teammates she watched as Sasuke and his men went forward towards the base.

She sighed quietly to herself, there could be traps and he was going in blind, all because he underestimated Kabuto. Shaking her head watched as a toad bounced in front of her, it was small and yellow with an orange tummy which was heavy and round, with a dreamy smile adorning its face.

Naruto had learned so much from Jiraiya, he may have not realized, and she may have never told him out loud, but she was proud of him, and very impressed. He may not be as intelligent as Sasuke and herself, but he was smart in his own way, and he was very good at saving money as well, better than her and Sasuke that was for sure.

While Sasuke spent his money on whatever he spent it on, she wasted her money on all the alcohol she'd bought during her training with Tsunade and all the materials she needed for herself, and then there was all her clothes. Naruto saved, and he saved, and he just saved more, there was no doubt in her mind that all the money he had at the moment was going to a house for him and Hinata for when they married.

Another sigh escaped her as she heard Naruto speak through the ear piece. 'Clear.'

'I knew that dobe.' Sasuke said over the pieces.

'Don't start you two.' Kakashi voice rang through.

She could hear Itachi and Shisui and the other two drop to the floor and walk behind them and Sakura kept her mask on as she walked closer to the steps of the base's entrance. As soon as they entered they took off their masks and cloaks.

"We need to split up." Kakashi said.

"I don't see the reason too; if there are any clues here it will be in the areas that were consistently frequented by Kabuto." Sakura replied.

"That's a good point." Itachi said.

Sasuke was the one to speak up. " … Naruto, you said the last time you saw Kabuto he looked somewhat like Orochimaru right?" Sasuke asked as he moved away from the group.

"Yeah … he didn't look right, unlike Orochimaru though there were scales on him." Naruto replied as he followed Sasuke as they walked down the hall.

Sakura watched as the rest of the group followed him and she knew that if she followed she was going to get stuck with something horrible.

Hesitantly though she followed knowing she that if she didn't she would only begin to arouse more suspicion; not that she was guilty of anything, merely she didn't want too fight with everyone. So as she walked down the hall she decided that her previous words were going to be her last till the mission was over, talking was beginning to get her into trouble or just to be plain out ignored as seen now as they were once again following Sasuke.

Not her.

…. Just goes to show that men will always want the woman only for the bed and not on the front lines, it probably must have been an ego thing.

Walking down the hall she found that it was actually rather moist, and the smell of smoothing decaying was beginning to enter her nose, it smelt horrible.

"Sakura." A voice called through the darkness and focused on Kakashi who was waiting for her at a door.

"I think this is in your field of expertise." He said as he tilted his head into the room.

The smell of decay was strong in the air and she knew that whatever was in the room was what he wanted her too look at. Taking in a deep breath of stale moist air she walked closer towards the door and looked into the room to see the others inside and examining everything surrounding the great white snake with a pointed head of black hair.

Putting two and two together was too easy.

"Tell me I'm dreaming." Sakura said as she walked further into the room and closer too the creature that was Orochimaru.

"How is this even possible un?" Deidara asked.

Bending down Sakura touched the floor with her hand and felt the chakra pulsing in the room that could only belong to Orochimaru.

As she looked around the room she found Naruto reaching towards the scale like snakes that mad up the entire body. "Stop!" She yelled at him.

He froze in mid place and sighed in relief. "Nobody touch the body …. His chakra is still alive." She said.

"Sakura that's physically impossible." Sasuke said.

"Turn on your Sharingan and look at the floor then tell me it's impossible." Sakura bit back, she hadn't wanted to talk but obviously that wasn't going to be her case.

"I can't do anything without touching him." Sakura replied.

"You have permission." Sasuke said.

Sakura sighed obviously he hadn't realized how Orochimarus jutsu worked. "I'm not worried about permission, the fact is, is that if I touch him his chakra will latch on to mine and I unlike Kabuto haven't been training and preparing my body to fight back."

"So we need to kill the chakra?" Kisame asked.

"Basically yes, if I am to examine his body I will obviously need to push my chakra into him, but with his chakra still alive and looking for a compliant host I can't do anything."

Kisame turned Itachi and they began to speak to each other in whispered voices, Itachi pulled Shisui into the conversation as well. Sakura couldn't help but notice how Shisui and Itachi played opposite roles with one another.

Despite Shisui being the older of the two he acted like he was the younger, while Itachi acted like he was the older one and they treated each other as such. She wanted to laugh but instead waited for them too finish their discussion.

Shisui turned to them and was the one who spoke next. "Kisame here would like to help."

"Isn't that why he's here?" Sasuke asked with a little bit of attitude in his voice.

"While Kisame is taking care of the chakra, all of us should go and look for anything that could help us." Shisui said.

"I don't trust him alone." Sasuke said again. Sakura let yet another sigh escape her as she began to walk away from the others to go in search of something she knew she wasn't going to find. She stopped when she realized she had no idea where she was going and decided to ask for instructions.

"Sasuke." She called out.

"What!" Sasuke said angrily, she'd realized that as she predicted her former teammate was in another argument with his brother and cousin.

"How do I get to Kabuto's lab? I'm sure he has one somewhere."

"Go back all the way down the hall and take a right; it'll be the first door you see." Sasuke said quickly.

"Thank you." Sakura said as she turned on her heels and left the scene.

'Kabuto.'

Gold snake like eyes opened wide at the sound of the familiar voice, sitting quickly up and letting his silver locks fall over his face as looked around the dark room.

'Kabuto.'

The voice hissed again and that scratchy voice he knew all too well. He breathed deeply as his sight began to blur before straightening again.

'It's only a matter of time.'

Kabuto grabbed at his head while he watched his scaled arm begin to pale considerably. He screamed in pain as he watched it loose its color. …. Then it stopped and it began to go back to its gray color and he gripped at his hair harder. The voice never returned, but he knew that if it didn't it would be the last time he'd ever see the world again.

Orochimaru was trying to take back control and he was growing stronger with each passing day. He needed to find a way to stop him before it was too late, but he couldn't do it on his own, and there was no other medic Nin that was as strong as him, or was willing enough to help him.

…. Then again he could always trick them, but eventually they would found out and the manipulation would end up becoming murder.

There was always bribery.

He'd never been one for bribing someone, though it sounded good, but to find someone who needed something he had. Something that he could hold against them for a very long time.

Then there was finding someone qualified, within the group of needy.

He needed to head to Konoha; there was no doubt in his mind that the medic he was looking for was going to come from there. Konoha had the best medics in the world and right now with the wars going on he was sure there was someone who was in need of something that couldn't be acquired legally.

Throwing the thin blanket off of halfway nude body Kabuto stood up and moved to the door intent on his journey.

As Sakura stared upon the large chair in the middle of the room she scrunched her nose up in envy as she moved further into the empty room.

"I want a throne." She mumbled quietly as she walked over to the chair with her chakra scanning every inch before her as she walked closer to the chair.

There was nothing harmful coming up so she reached out to the chair and gently glided her finger down the stone.

For some reason she had a feeling that the Akatsuki leader Pein had one as well, she was sure of it. He was arrogant and overly confident of his self, much like Orochimaru was … is? … Was? This was why she had to find the scroll with the information she needed, so she could understand how it was even possible for chakra too still be alive after the user them selves had died. She'd been going through every scroll she could find for the past two hours and nothing had come up that was what she was looking for, thus the reason she was in the throne room.

Past Hokages and Tsunade herself kept and keeps things hidden in the Hokages throne room, to find them was easy if one really wanted too look for them in there.

If Orochimaru kept one the scroll on his throne he'd have to keep it somewhere he could easily get too it if he had to get out quickly. Somewhere nobody would bother to look, somewhere a person would overlook even. There wouldn't be any hidden compartment that would be too easy and too predictable for someone to think and it would waste much time in getting to it. Sitting down in the throne she looked over the chair from her spot, the arms of the throne had snakes carved into them, a symbol of Orochimaru himself.

…. Orochimaru.

A memory hit her as she remembered a conversation with a drunken Tsunade.

She held Tsunades' hair gently away from her youthful face as she watched the older woman begin another round of vomiting. The stench was horrid and Sakura held her breath as she listened to the sounds coming from her teacher.

A sigh escaped Tsunade and Sakura watched as she wiped at her mouth with the back of her hand, Sakura grimaced at the action, she said nothing though as she reached for a hair stick on the bathroom counter. Quickly she pulled at Tsunades' hair and put it in a tight and secured bun, she watched as the woman let her head sink her head to the seat of the toilet, allowing her head to rest there as she relaxed.

Straightening up she walked over to the counter opening the drawer doors and reached for a clean cloth, turning on the faucet she placed the towel under the steamy running water and drenched it, she turned the tap off and squeezed the excess water out of the towel before turning to the curvaceous blonde.

Grabbing Tsunade head carefully she wiped at the woman's face and watched as Tsunades' eyes fluttered open before shutting again with a soft sigh. Sakura said nothing at the stale smell of vomit that escaped at the movement.

"You're such a sweet girl." Tsunade said as Sakura wiped her hands.

Sakura said nothing and continued cleaning the woman up, Tsunade continued talking as well. "So much like him, but nothing at the same time."

Sakura looked up at Tsunade at this finally finding something not to be mean about. "Who?" She asked quietly and softly.

Tsunade frowned as she replied. "He was so cute when we were younger, I thought him even cuter when he would blush, and he was so shy back then that it was adorable."

Sakura realized then that Tsunade wasn't going to reply so she just listened to the ramblings.

"I'd always had a crush on him, he knew it even when we got older … but he did nothing, and I was tired of waiting for him. Then Dan came and everything was perfect and imperfect at the same time."

Tsunades' eyes had glazed over by now and Sakura tried her best to put the puzzle pieces together but said didn't have a clue so she continued to listen.

"I blamed him for Nawakis' death, and he took all of my cruelty without a blink and without a fight, he just took it all. … And even though I blamed and trued him harshly, he was the one that was there when Dan died and I fought his help with everything I had, but he never gave up. .. We were the same, alone in a horrible world that was covered in blood. He took it better than I and he took care of me when I surrendered myself and lost my will to fight. I remember falling back in love with him, and for a small second in time I thought he'd finally began to feel something for me as well, something more than what he used to for me. …. I don't know when or how it had happened but I think I was the last thing that had driven him to the edge. I knew that despite his sadistic nature, and his aloofness, the little boy that I had loved was in there, that little boy that was smart and cute, kind and shy, I could remember seeing those parts of him when we were alone." Tsunade had gone quiet and she reminisced about a life far away from where she was now.

Sakura huddled back into her mind and tried to put more pieces to the puzzle, but still despite it all it was not enough for her to figure out who it really was that had got her teacher to talk about, she never even talked about Dan. Dan was supposedly the love of her life, yet here she was telling her how untrue that actually was.

"Sometimes I think that it was the Sōzō Saisei that killed the baby; maybe instead of taking my life span the first time I used it that it took the babies instead. ..."

Tsunade was quiet for a moment before she began to talk again in that tired voice of hers. "We'd never told anyone about our relationship, but we knew that most knew. So when I became pregnant we decided to surprise everyone. …. We never got to telling people though. … I think that was when he'd begun to distance himself from us, he began his search again. Family was something neither of us had; we'd only had each other. I always used to think that if I hadn't lost our baby that he would've stayed and never gone back to his research. We used to talk about everything, from nonsense to things like family, the things we never talked about with others. I remember how hard it had been to crack him open and let me in, and when I finally did I found out so much that it made me fall so much deeper. His clan symbol was the white snake, the reason he was so fond of snakes and why he had similar traits…. "

By then Tsunade had began to mumble incoherent things and it wasn't hard to put the pieces together. She never said anything for the rest of the night, never brought it up either. She was more worried about Tsunade and keeping her awake than about the subtle relationship between her and Orochimaru.

As Sakura traced the carving of the snake she thought hard on him it was the best hiding place or not. Coming to the conclusion that it would be the fastest place she placed both of her hands on each of the arms and pushed a little bit of chakra into the carvings.

The left side had chakra covering it. Doing the proper seal movements Sakura added more chakra into the snake, watching as it disappeared with a puff of smoke to reveal a topless low depth compartment. Inside was a scroll grabbing it Sakura got off of the chair and unrolled it onto the floor.

The parchment was long and filled with many kanji's and symbols, but the best part was that there were many notes to the side of everything. It was most likely the original scroll and undoubtedly the only scroll ever made by the snake Sannin.

"Sakura-chan what cha got there?" Naruto's voice rang through the room as he walked in. Sakura looked up and acknowledged him with a small smile as she spoke.

"This is the scroll to Orochimaru's Fushi Tensei … the only scroll he ever made of it."

"The original?" Naruto asked as he examined the aged parchment.

"You know it." Sakura replied as she placed the top of the scroll on the floor.

"I don't understand any of this." Naruto replied as he looked back up to her.

Sakura said nothing though as she continued to read the note, it would seem that when Orochimaru created the jutsu, despite leaving notes along the way, he had the habit of writing something completely off topic.

Or perhaps it was on topic but for a different part of the jutsu.

"This is amazing." Sakura said in awe as she looked about the work of the passed madman.

"Sakura I don't understand a damn thing about it."

Sakura shook her head as she continued to read through it, stopping when she saw Kakashi enter the room.

"Sakura you can go examine the body now, Hoshigake has gotten rid of the chakra."

Sakura nodded her head in acknowledgment before she rolled the scroll back up. Taking a deep breath she walked out of the room with the scroll in hand.

"Kisame and Deidara will take training room, Naruto you and Yamato will take Kabuto's bedroom, and Jugo and Suigetsu will take posts outside. Sai and I will take post outside Orochimarus room. Sasuke, Shisui and Itachi will watch over Orochimaru's chambers as well as overlook the autopsy." Kakashi said as he called out the orders.

"Why do we have to take Kabuto's bedroom?" Naruto asked.

"Kisame and Deidara have a similar specialty which is destroying, not careful searching and sorting." Shisui said.

"I can destroy a room." Naruto mumbled.

"That's not the point." Kakashi said.

"Where's Sakura?" Sasuke asked.

"Preparing for the autopsy probably, I've given orders not to start until you've arrived." Kakashi replied.

"Sasuke, you are to write a report on how you defeated Orochimaru so we can compare with the autopsy report." Shisui said and Sasuke nodded.

"Everyone's dismissed to their duties." Kakashi said as he waved a hand at them while he pulled out a book belonging to his favorite series as he walked out of the throne room with Sai strolling aside him.

Shisui, Sasuke and Itachi followed behind, Sasuke before the other two.

Naruto sighed as he followed Yamato, hoping the next mission they got had no searching in it and all fighting.

Sakura unrolled her scroll onto the messy bed completely and bit down onto her wrist watching as the blood dropped onto the kanji symbol for healing. Pressing her hand onto the kanji she summoned her chakra and pressed it into the kanji then sending her chakra to her wrist and watching as it glowed green and healed while her bag of medical equipment appeared.

She reached into the bag and searched for her medical rob and gloves, finding them and placing them onto the bed as she also pulled out sanitizers for later and a face mask as well.

She heard the door open and she turned as she pulled her rob on and watched as the three Uchihas walked into the room.

It was every fan-girls dream, being in a room with all three gorgeous Uchihas.

It was a curse for her.

Sliding the gloves on she proceeded to walk over to the large snake and crouched carefully over while applying the face mask.

Her hand glowed green and she pressed it to the left half of the snake body, all the while wanting to vomit at the sight; how a person could do such mutilation to themselves was her guess, she'd never even thought it possible. Gulping she took into the detail of the wounds done onto him by Sasuke.

She didn't know why, but every time she thought of Orochimaru it brought her back to the moment when he'd first acquainted himself with them. That was the same day he gave Sasuke the curse mark, but that day she could remember so clearly, and no matter how many times she tried to understand what she'd seen, she found absolutely nothing but her paranoia. … At least that's what she told herself, the look he'd given her may have only been in her mind, but it never sat right with her. It wasn't that thought that she didn't understand, it was the way he acted around her that she didn't understand. Out of everyone he'd always found ways to avoid her, even save her from Sasuke that time when they'd finally tracked him down. Hell she could understand it with Kabuto being as he was usually moderately a nice person when not annoyed or threatened, but Orochimaru was known to be a twisted man, he was infamous when it came to torture. She studied Orochimaru's profile day and night after she became Tsunade's protégé and she knew the profile like she knew that back of her hand, there was nothing in there that would give her any idea on what that look might have meant. It hadn't been sexual or anything involving any sort of attraction and it wasn't exactly on the verge of curious like it had been with Sasuke and Naruto.

She didn't know what it was but she knew that it meant something... She just couldn't figure out what.

"So Sakura what's the verdict?" Shisui asked as he leaned over her and looked at the fallen Sannin, well what was left of him at least.

"Obviously as you can see there had been a blade involved, and as you can tell it was a clean slice across, there are also fragments of chakra in his head, or if you'd like me to be more specific near the optic nerves." Sakura began.

"Obviously genjutsu then this would correspond with Sasuke's story about when Orochimaru tried to take over his body." Shisui said with a nod.

"There's also seems to be chakra nature manipulation fragments as well." Sakura said with a frown as she concentrated on the stomach area.

Something was blocking her. "What's wrong?" Shisui asked.

"I my chakra had been spread throughout the entire carcass but for some reason the entire stomach as been surrounded but not overtaken by me."

"Your chakra is being blocked?" Shisui asked.

"It would seem so."

It was possible that the body's left over chakra had purposely been sent to the stomach in order to protect the contents, but why he would protect his stomach contents was her guess. If he was hiding something then the stomach would be a horrible place for it to be hidden, the acids would have completely destroyed any alien objects that passed through it. Then there was the fact that most shinobi when having died and hidden something usually place their remaining chakra into their fingers in order for certain people to be able to release or unseal the hidden object.

Orochimaru was at one time a genius though, so whatever moves he would make probably wouldn't be moved like any other shinobi.

"I need a blade." Sakura said as she moved to the upped part of the half and reached inside of the body.

The clotted blood was warm and thin and the inside of the body was thick and tight. Groaning in disgusting she frowned as she reached the stomach and pressed a finger to it. The chakra immediately began to swarm around her arm and hand obviously on orders to protect the stomach. She pulled her hand back out just as Shisui handed her a katana.

"He's defiantly hiding something." Sakura said as she gripped the handle and quickly sliced through the skin, effectively bringing her self closer to the stomach.

Handing the katana back to Shisui she used her medical chakra and began to slice open the stomach. Immediately regretting so as the contents fell out as did the stench.

"Books … He hid books in his stomach." Shisui said as he picked up a book.

"Obviously." Sasuke said as he finally walked over to them as did Itachi too.

Shisui was quiet and Sakura tuned her attention to him not used to having him be silenced by anything other than a threat to his groins. His eyes were wide as he looked over the writings of the book and Sakura pulled it away and looked over the neat calligraphy.

It was a journal. … A journal of his life.

"Stop! Do not touch any of these books." Sakura ordered as she began to pick up the rest of the books from the floor.

"Why not?" Sasuke asked.

"These are his journals' that's why." Sakura said as she began to throw the books onto the bed.

"These could hold important information to them!" Sasuke said.

She didn't disagree on that but the fact was that if anyone of the Uchihas in the room found out about Tsunades' relationship before Orochimaru's disbandment then they would have something on the Senju clan and she couldn't allow that. Not when they were nowhere near close to finding a weakness in the Uchiha Clan.

They did need the information though, but it was too risky.

A thought came to her and inwardly she smiled brightly in her mind. She could make sure they read nothing about before his defect of the village, and the best part they couldn't fight on her with that. There was no reason to look into his life before his betrayal everyone already knew what had happened in the last moments of his time in Konoha.

"Fine, but his life before his defect is off limits. Do not forget that he was part of Konoha at one time and a close friend to both Jiraiya and Tsunade-hime … I'm positive they wouldn't want you analyzing his every movement before hand when not needed." Sakura said.

They grumbled and Sakura took the time to open the book again and look at its contents.

'Jiraiya finally figured out how to do the Kuchiyose no Jutsu properly and without calling upon the wrong sized frog.'

Sakura stared at the words and knew that this must have been when they were still only children probably around the age of eight at the most, if what she remembered from the stories Jiraiya had told her and Naruto about training with her grandfather.

She could remember clearly how Jiraiya had barred his teeth angrily when he reminisced about how Orochimaru would call the toads frogs whenever the summoning were brought up as children.

Closing the book shut she grabbed a book and opened it from the beginning.

'I was envious of a child. He held so much strength and power in his small body that it drew me in like a moth to a flame. I'd been afraid that the little child would end up killing himself when I walked in on his test but I was cut short though as I watched him completely destroy the test. It had been a striking show on his prowess, but then as I turned away to find out this mysterious child's information I stopped abruptly as I watched Uchiha Fugaku come into the slim hall followed by one of the Uchiha Clan elders. It was then at that moment did I remember that the Chief Uchihas eldest son was a said to be considered a genius amongst his clansmen and that at the age of ten he was already a chunnin. He was the child that had so delightfully caught my eye.

Uchiha Itachi I had decided was going to become my ultimate vessel, there's no doubt in my mind I'd never need another again if I got a hold of his body.'

Sakura swallowed the lump in her throat that was caused by the writings. Orochimaru had already turned by then he would have been thirty-four years old if her calculations were correct, Itachi would have been just eleven at the time.

Eleven and already taking the ANBU exams, she turned her head to the side and looked at the older shinobi. He graduated and seven from the academy, passed the chunnin exams at ten and then was an ANBU Captain at thirteen. It was sad to think that Sasuke wanted such a life when he was younger, she pitied Itachi, he had no actual life, not really. He'd been forced out of having a childhood at an age quiet young, any psychologist would tell them that Itachi would have extreme issues due to this, she would most probably agree not completely but she was sure that Itachi did have some sort of issues do to his loss of childhood.

Perhaps this was why Orochimaru was so screwed up as well, he was only a year younger than Itachi when he graduated, so was Jiraiya and Tsunade but they were different they still had their parents at the time.

A sigh escaped her as she slammed the book shut and tossed it onto the bed, picking up another one she once again began to read over the words, closing before handing it over to Shisui. She continued this process making sure that all of the books that were before Orochimarus defection had been separated from his time after his defection. She was sure that by then Orochimaru would have forgotten about his time spent with Tsunade and their relationship, but she could always be wrong and then Tsunade would get into deep trouble and then so would she.

They shouldn't have been looking through Orochimarus things, but it wasn't her orders that actually mattered. It was educational though, but she knew that they wouldn't find anything good on Kabuto, unlike what most people would think, she knew immediately that Kabuto and Orochimaru were not in any way sexual intimate with each other. It would completely disrupt the flow between the two genius shinobi and Kabuto and Orochimaru wouldn't want any sort of distraction, especially if it involved sex, such distractions could become disastrous in their cases.

As she looked around the room she'd come to find that everyone minus Jugo and Suigetsu had come into the room and had began to read through the journals. She looked back to Orochimarus mutilated corpse, studying it and memorizing it so she could document it properly. The stomach area that was still dripping acids caught her eye again and she moved closer, finding that something small was sticking out, it looked like the corner of a book, and as she got closer she found that it was. Pulling out the book she realized that it was different from the others she could feel the chakra buzzing all around it, covering it lightly. She tried to open the book only to frown as it wouldn't budge, obviously the chakra was a lock and she needed to figure out how to unlock it.

"Looks like you need to find the right chakra to open it." A soft voice said from behind her.

Turning quickly she found Itachi leaning over her, his face only inches away from hers, she'd been so lost in thought that she'd completely forgotten about everyone else there.

"And you know this how?" She asked carefully.

Itachi smirked softly at her as he tapped near his eyes, it wasn't hard to put together and she rolled her eyes as she replied.

"Of course the Sharingan."

It wasn't her fault that the mock tumbled out as well, it was just who she was.

He turned away obviously still mad at her for kicking him out of her room, she didn't care though, she'd been tired and angry and she didn't want to deal with any more drama.

"Hey Sakura you might want to come check this out." Shisui said.

Standing up with the book in her hands she walked over to where Shisui was standing, he handed the opened book towards her and found a picture of her self on one side.

"Why does Orochimaru have a picture of me?" She asked shocked at the fact that he'd obtained her academy picture.

Shisui replied to her in a calm matter. "He's got a lot of peoples pictures …. From what it looks like they're all profiles though, nothing harmful of course."

The book was taken out of her grasp by Sasuke as he began to read aloud.

"Haruno Sakura …. Superb chakra control, slight anger problem, lacks in taijutsu, kinjutsu, ninjutsu, speed and strength. Despite these downsides she shows surprising skills in genjutsu. Kekki Genki has been sealed away by Sarutobi … Shows a close relationship with Kyubi Container and Uchiha Sasuke … Tsunade took on as an apprentice, shows remarkably fast learning skills, still needs work on speed, hasn't been taught any kinjutsu, ninjutsu lacking still. … Dependant on chakra. .. Kekki Genkai has shown it's strength as it power is seeping out little by little. I estimate that by twenty-five the Haruno Kekki Genkai will be completely unsealed … Haruno Sakura shows enormous amounts of potential."

"Potential for what?" Naruto asked.

" … It doesn't say …. But I doubt Orochimaru would have wanted her body as a vessel. He would have mentioned it somewhere... this is just a basic profile." Sasuke replied.

Turning back to the journal Sakura's mind whirled as she tried to figure out what Orochimaru was up to.

"Is there anything on me?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, but it's everything everyone already knows." Shisui said with a teasing smirk.

"There's nothing here on Kabuto is there?" Kakashi asked.

"Nope."

Turning away from them she walked over to the messy bed and began to seal away the journals into her scroll. They couldn't find out about Orochimaru and Tsunade, it was just something they couldn't know about.

The Last book that lay on the bed was the one she couldn't open, but with what was going on in her mind, she was sure she could, she just couldn't allow the others to know about it yet.

Sliding the book into her box of medical equipment she closed the lid and sealed it back into the scroll.

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Panthers of darkness16

ANBU Allysa - You have to see it like this, He's trying to get back into the good graces of Konoha so he's going by the rule book, he went by basic protocol and did what he had to despite the fact that he didn't like the thought of it.

angel897 - I don't think anyone trusts Sasuke.

Azura Soul Reaver

nightwish635

Takila - Sasuke doesn't care for Sakura in a romantic way anymore, it's more like he see's her as his family, a sister I guess you can say, so he just wants to protect her from everything, even his own mysterious brother.

Hao'sAnjul - They act this way because they don't want anyone else to get caught up in their mess, so they're trying to clean it up themselves, so they keep it secret from everyone in order to do this without any unnecessary deaths.

Lady Recondite

lloo161 - I actually didn't know what I was going to have him say so that's why I just ended it that why, and Madara isn't romantically interested in Sakura, I hope that cleared it up for you, he merely wishes to see if she'll be a problem for his plans of if he could use her to execute his plans.

minniemousemom - We all know that Sakura wouldn't kill a child whether or not it was born or had yet to be born, but Sasuke doesn't know what Sakura is capable of anymore being as he's been gone for a while.

Akatsuki Sakura Uchiha - I hope to write some Ita/Saku moments in the next chapter, this chapter is just some of a clarity to some things in the previous chapter, as well as a bit of a filler.

Thank You For Reading

.Lady Crux.