Sakura took pride in her composed state of mind in every-let us call it sticky- situation she found herself in. After all she had no other choice but to take the role of the cool and composed one since panicking display was something her inner seemed to favour in such...actually in every imaginable situation. But for some strange reason her inner wasn't present in that moment so, Sakura felt icy tendrils of fear, that rooted her to the spot, travelling down her spine and settling in her gut.

She willed her limbs to move and luckily for her, her 'fly of fight' instincts worked better then her brain, in the moment, so she took a quick cover behind the tapestry. In that exact moment she heard voices and the sound of bookshelf closing. 'Please don't find me' she pleaded, panicky, in her mind as her heart hammered in her chest. 'Ah of all times she had to rub of on me' she thought, calming herself by the second.

Sakura concentrated on the voices in the room. . There were two of them. She decided to listen in their conversation and figure out why were they in the archive.

'Hey, T-' one started to talk. Voice belonged to a woman. She was cut off by the other.

'Code names, Rin. Code names!' the other voice belonged to a man and it sounded as if he was hissing at the woman. 'Rin.' Sakura reminded herself.

'I'm not going to use them when no-one's around T-E-N-Z-O-U. Besides you just called me Rin.' she stated teasingly with wide grin.

'Ah crap...' to Sakura's ears he sounded both frustrated and defeated.

'Relax' Rin started 'it's not like anyone will hear us talking.'

'Rin you know as well as I do...' he scanned the room in paranoia and continued in hushed voice. 'the walls have ears...' She could only sigh. In her opinion he was way to paranoid but she knew it comes with a job so she could only say one thing to make him relax.

'Not in here, Tenzou. Not in here..'

'But what would sempai do if he found out...' he trailed off worry clear in his face. Rin stared blankly at him while holding the urge to roll on the floor with laughter. In the end she burst out, laughing so hard that tears started to form in the corners of her eyes and she had to hold on her sides because they started to hurt too much. When her laughing fit stopped, she stood straight, walked to the table and sat on top.

'You know there's a chair, in fact ten of them around the table?' she dismissed the idea with a wave and looked at him.

'Your sempai would have called you by your name, idiot. You of all people should remember that one time when he shouted your name in bright daylight while you were running around stark nak-mff' hand clamped over her mouth preventing her from saying another word. Rin pouted while he turned to glance around the room one more time.

'Don't even repeat it! I've spent a lot of time trying to suppress the memory. God, I believe I'm scared for life...oh no, it's all coming back to me now.' Tenzou looked broken for a few moments. When he came to his senses he realised he would be teased so he thought that the best course of action is to be teased about something else...but that event. He shuddered at brief remembrance. She was bound to know what was he trying to do but it was best chance he had. 'Rin, why are we here?'

When Sakura realised they were not going to talk about anything important her mind started to drift. She was curious about the event Rin spoke of, but at Tenzou's question they got all of her attention.

'Well well, would you look at that. Little Tenzou forgot what was he supposed to do which is very odd because order came from his beloved sempai.' Rin stated mockingly. She, as predicted, knew what was he trying to do but let it slide for she knew she will have a good laugh one way or another.

'Rin, just...stop it for now...please.'

'Right. As you certainly know Kizashi had a meeting with your sempai yesterday. He left one of his files that contains valuable information about the rogues.'

'Again...' she nodded in confirmation.

'I just don't understand what is he trying to achieve here. He has to know that Kizashi doesn't and won't be bothered by any info about them.'

'Kizashi got promoted recently. To a First Commanding Captain and you know what that means.'

'Still' Rin stressed. 'that doesn't give him right to neglect his duties as our beloved king does.-'

'Rin that is enough! Hold your tongue. You will not speak of the king in that manner. Especially not in the company of the higher ranking officer.' he hated to do this when he agreed with every word she said but he was still paranoid. He couldn't shake the feeling of being listened on to. And not to mention that this was the worst thing he had to do to her- playing on 'I'm higher rank in command chain' card-when he was sure that she held some kind of resentment towards him. Because he was first in the class he got promoted to a higher rank and that meant that he worked closely with the love of her life. As a plus he was younger than her. He made a grimace at that.

Rin watched him closely. She didn't know what was going on in that head of his but she knew that he had no ill intentions when scolded her. What got him to grimace was beyond her. After all he got his position with hard work and she had nothing against it. As for why she liked to tease him? Well let us just say that he was very fun to tease- as suggested by his sempai. Ahh yes, Hatake Kakashi always knew what to say to rile him up.

'Ok, put that aside. We only came for the file. It's right there on the corner of the table near the tapestry.' she pointed to the file on the table. He was surprised, he thought she would have had different kind of reaction. He looked her in the eyes and after what seemed to be coming to mutual agreement, he started to walk towards the table to take the file. When he got closer something in the corner of the tapestry caught his eye it was something...pink.

Sakura threw a glance to her right. Her eyes widened and she paled. Her hair was caught on the hook beside the tapestry. 'Stupid and careless. Hello vacation, in the Royal Dungeons.'

In that moment three things happened at the same time. Rin looked at the clock and yelped; Tenzou, who was approaching the tapestry turned to check if Rin was allright and Sakura pulled her hair off the hook.

'What happened?' he asked in concern.

'We have 5 to 6 minutes till shift change. Do you want to explain to the others what were you doing here when you shouldn't even know about this place?' Rin answered throwing a glance at him than back at the door.

Tenzou shook his head to get rid of that mental picture. 'Well no, I don't. Just wait a second so I can get the file.' he said and strode to the table to take the file. Since he was closer to the tapestry he brought his head up to check the corner. There was nothing to find. 'Weird... I could swear I saw something... Great now I'm hallucinating.'

'Come on, how much time do you need to take the stupid file?'

'I'm coming.' he ran to her spot. 'Sorry I thought I saw something... Something pink?' he sounded unsure as Rin opened the door and squeaking was heard once again.

'I believe I'll have to report this to Kakashi. I mean, imagine his reaction when he finds out you're seeing pink unicorns. Or was it a tooth-fairy?'

'Rin you-' in that moment the door closed shut.

'I'm saved and this trip was almost wasted...though now I wish it was.' Sakura didn't want to doubt her father. She didn't want to question the King's leadership. By asking questions, that could lead her to the Royal Dungeon, she could end up without everything and she liked what she had.

As Sakura walked out behind the tapestry, lost in the thoughts of what could be lost, she spotted lone, white piece of paper. She picked it up. It was a list of names. Writing was messy as if someone was taking the names in great hurry. List was torn in half and that meant it was incomplete. It held seven names, one of which wasn't finished. She started to read the names on the list.

Hidan

Kisame

Deidara

Sasori

Yahiko

Konan

Nag-

When she finished the list she went through it again and again until she memorised all the names. As far as she was concerned she had never heard of any of those people.

She left the Archive behind her as her body moved on autopilot. When she made an exit and stood beneath Clock staircase she sneaked off to the kitchen. Fortune seemed to favour her that night because kitchen was completely empty. Sakura strode to the fireplace that held bright burning coal and threw the piece of paper for fire to consume it.

As Sakura watched paper burning to ashes the list of names flashed in front of her eyes along with only yesterdays memories of conversation between little, black haired boy and smiling, blond teen. Her eyes widened. 'They know Yahiko! What if it's the same person? If so, who are other people on the list and why is the list of their names in the Archive? And most important are they connected to the rogues that Rin mentioned? If they are what's the connection between them , the King and the Outer Ring?'

While she sneaked to her room Sakura couldn't hide her mental debate that continued till first rays of sunshine peaked on the horizon and painted it in beautiful colours which, in that moment, seemed to be the only thing that she could call constant and true.