Still super confused about Sakura eh? No, it isn't a flashback story so don't worry about that, well the first quarter of the story is flashbacks but other than that, not many flashbacks. I also explained why and how kyuubi died.

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ON WITH THE STORY!

Hidan opened the door and carried his date inside of his apartment only to find it in complete darkness. 'This is weird' he thought. His hand traveled to the light switch to shed a little light but soon froze from the amout of killing intent unleashed on him. Hidan's she-friend screamed and fell to the floor in the fetal position. There was small popping sounds, indicating light bulbs breaking. Then Naruto's demonic voice filled the room. Unlike Kyuubi's normal deep tone, Naruto had his own mixed in with the deepness giving off a high and low tone combined.

"Do not turn on the fucking light's!"

Hidan's eye's focused into the darkness and he saw a pair of red eye's staring at him. The KI toned down a bit, allowing Hidan to throw his date out the door before she got injured. Hidan closed the door and allowed his eye's to adjust completely. In the middle of the living room sat Naruto, almost in his demonic form. 9 tails were laying or moving around incredibly slowly. He was in a cross-legged form with his hands on his knee's, palms down.

"I take it you had a bad night?" asked Hidan.

"Don't toy with me Immortal!"

Hidan sighed, the only time Naruto called him Immortal was when he was pissed. Hidan crossed the living room and sat in a chair looking at Naruto. "Come on...what happened?"

Naruto let out a deep sigh and explained what happened to him 20 minutes earlier. How the smell was too real to be a trick on his senses. "It's never happened to me before.." he ended.

Hidan nodded and tapped his chin with his finger. "Me either. Maybe the smell lingered?"

"For 5000 years? I doubt it. Plus I heard her say she was coming for me. How did the sound linger hm?" asked Naruto.

"I don't know! I'm only trying help you dude."

"The only thing that's going to help me is some straight forward answers." said Naruto standing up. His tails seemed to dissolve only leaving him with red eye's, claws, and sharp teeth. "Let's get this over with."

After a 24 handseal combination he slammed his palm to the floor. There was a poof of smoke and a ghostly figure zoomed out of it and sat on the couch. It was a female, dressed in what looked like a secretary outfit. "Ah...if it isn't little Naru-chan." she said holding out the chan part.

"Yes, hello to you, Nasumai. Where's the Shinigami? I need to speak with him" said Naruto. Nasumai stuck her tongue out and disappeared again. The demon and immortal sat in silence for a moment. Naruto checked his watch, it wasn't normal for him to take this long. After a few more minutes, there was a knock on the front door. "Go Away!" yelled Hidan.

"Oh, You need me, then turn me down?"

Naruto walked by Hidan, but not before smacking him on the back of the head and answered the door. "Wow...um...that's a diffrent look." said Naruto. Before him stood your classic looking Grim Reaper. "What can I say, people aren't as scared of the old form as they used to be. What did you need of me Mr. Uzumaki?"

"Come in and we'll discuss it, there's an old lady down the hall that likes to eavsdrop" explained Naruto. The Shinigami looked down the hall, just as a door slammed shut. "You need me to take care of her?"

"There's a diffrence between want and need" said Naruto and let the Shinigami pass by. The Shinigami pass Hidan and sat where his secretary sat a few minutes earlier.

"This is...the comfiest couch I'v ever sat on! Is it a Laz-e boy?"

"Let's not get side tracked here" said Naruto "It's very important."

Naruto explained to him what exactly happened to him earlier in the evening. Making the Shinigami cock his head to the side. "I've never heard of that before. How can you talk to her with a five thousand year time diffrence?" he asked.

"Do you have her soul?" asked Naruto. The Shinigami shrugged. "I don't really aknowledge my souls unless they mean something to me, but I'll check on it."

He pulled what looked like a rolldex out of his robe and opened it, "Name?"

"Haruno Sakura."

"Alright...Haruno...H...as in Hat" he said as he flipped it around. He stopped at a couple cards and flipped them back and forth before closing it. "No, I've never recieved her soul."

"WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?" yelled Naruto.

"She hasn't died yet. Which only gives me two good theories. One is that she somehow became Immortal, or the other is that she's lost in time."

Naruto chuckled, "Yeah, it would be her to get lost in something so simple."

"You should know Uzumaki that time isn't that simple." said the Shinigami. Naruto scowled at him, "I know that, but still the only way to travel through time is if you..." He stopped mid sentence. "Oh fuck."

"What?"

"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE DESTROY THE STATUE COMPLETELY! AW, FUCK! AKATSUKI MUST HAVE REPAIRED IT AND HARNESSED THE OTHER BIJUU'S POWERS!"

"And?"

"If they have 8 of the other demon's, they have enough power to travel through time. Oh...shit." Naruto bit his lip and looked at Hidan, who wasn't there. He looked at the door and found it ajar.

"Kid, I think you've been betrayed."

o000o

Sakura rolled up her sleeping bag and sealed it back into her scroll. She looked at the dead Ame nin that layed about thirty feet away and felt a smirk tug at her face. 'Hold on Naruto-kun I'm coming!'

She turned her attention back to the hulking village down range. Full of steel and acidic rain. Sakura sighed and began her long trek to the village. She knew for a fact that this wasn't going to be easy, but there was only one way for her to get into the village. As she walked, she pulled out Naruto's forehead protector and hoped it was good enough. She entered the rain and instantly felt she was being watched. Sakura shrugged it off and kept walking until she reached the entrance of Amegakure. Inside, it was nothing but steel pipes that made buildings. It was an incredible sight...if it wasn't raining. Sakura walked to what looked like a check in area and held up the forehead protector.

"I'm a nuke-nin from Konohagakure, wishing to speak with the head of Akatsuki." she said. The nin looked at her with almost dead eye's. "Yeah yeah" he said. "They all do."

Sakura didn't have time for this, she grabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled him out into the rain. She slammed him on the ground and held a kunai to his throat. "I will not ask you again" she said in a monotonous voice. "Take me to Akatsuki or you will die. Painfully."

The Ame nin nodded with a small whimper. Sakura pulled him to his feet and pushed him ahead of her. "You lead the way."

They walked for about 15 minutes before the nin pointed to a door ahead of them. The door was connected to probably the biggest structure in Ame, it towered above the rest making them seem like they were compensating. The inner Sakura chuckled at the thought.

"Your coming with me." said Sakura to the man. But he quickly shook his head, "They'll kill me. I have a wife and kid to think about."

"What makes you think I care?" asked Sakura shoving him ahead. "If you don't go, I will kill you and deliver your corpse to them."

"Your a monster, you know that?"

"I've been told" she said as they headed for the door. Right before the man touched the door Sakura felt eye's on her again. She tucked her arm into her robe and drew another kunai just incase. When the man knocked once, the door flew open into what looked like a big reception room. At the far end was desk with what looked like a man sleeping.

"Your useless to me now" she told him now that she was inside. "Get lost."

The nin nodded and ran back down the street, excpecting a kunai in his back. He never recieved one as he turned the corner and headed back to his post. Sakura sighed and moved down the hall until she was infront of the sleeping man. "Hey" she said. The man snorted and mumbled something about a scene in Icha Icha. The inner Sakura was furious that the man talked perversions in his sleep.

"You should kill him and let the rain eat his body!"

'Is that all' asked Sakura with no emotion.

"sigh. Yeah"

Sakura put some chakra into her finger and flicked the man in the head. Causing him to fly back out of his chair. His head popped out from beneath the desk and glared at her. "Who are you?"

"That's not important, I'm here to speak with Akatsuki."

The man chuckled, "What could Akatsuki want with a little girl like you?"

Inner Sakura sheilded her eye's, just incase Sakura pounced on him. But Sakura kept her cool and sighed. "If you take me to them, I'll do it forcefully. And I'm sure you wouldn't want that would you?"

"What could you d-" Before he finished his sentence she was sitting on the ground next to him with a kunai on the crotch of his pants. "I could castrate you, or about a billion other thing's in this next second."

"Follow me" the man said quickly. The man stood up and walked to the elevator with Sakura in tow. He hit the top floor button and sighed. "Word to the wise, don't insult them."

"Only if I need to" she said. The man nodded and moved to the side of the elevator with raised Sakura's awareness. The elevator stopped and the door opened, allowing a few kunai to fly through directly at Sakura. Her hand shot up and deflected them all into the wall, right next to her guides head. Sakura sighed and walked into the room. The elevator rose up directly into a one room penthouse, which Sakura knew it was going to be a trap but still, she had a job to do. It was dark but she could see 6 outlines of people standing in the darkness. She moved into what light there was and stood in the center.

"Who are you" asked a deep voice from infront of her. Sakura removed the hood to her robe allowing her pink hair to be free. "I'm Haruno Sakura and I'm here for information."

"What kind of information would that be" asked a cool toned voice from her left. Her head looked over and she saw Uchiha Itachi staring at her.

"I'm here to find the location of Uzumaki Naruto." The room was silent for a moment then the first one that spoke to her spoke again.

"If you believe we are in the possession of the Jinchuuriki, you are mistaken. He's been eluding us for quite some time now. But my question is why are you looking for him."

"She probably loves him" said a woman's voice to Sakura's right, "no one in their right mind would come to us unless they were in love."

Sakura sighed and looked at Itachi again. "That's right, I love Naruto-kun. Now tell me when you last seen him."

"We have not seen Naruto-kun since before he left Konoha." said Itachi. "If we did, he would have had an unpleasant experience."

Sakura grinned the most evil grin anybody in that room has ever seen. "Aw, is someone still feeling the effect's of losing their baby brother?" Itachi visibly tensed at her words, she knew Itachi found out that Naruto killed Sasuke and was on his own revenge agenda. But all the other members of Akatsuki minus the middle on stared at Itachi.

"That's right, I've read the file about you Uchiha. How the Uchiha planned a hostile take over, but their little prodigy was ordered to kill all of them. But not before having a hissy fit, that he should be able to spare his wittle brother." said Sakura with sadism in her tone. Itachi narrowed his eye's at her, she could see the Mangekyo Sharingan looking back at her.

"Tsukiyomi!" he said quietly while looking at her. Her smirk grew wider as she stared back into his Mangekyo. "What'sa matter? Not working" she said with a humorous monotone. Itachi's eye's narrowed but before he could speak, the elevator door opened and a white haired man ran out, carrying a large sythe.

'I thought Shikamaru took care of him?' thought Sakura.

"HE FOUND OUT" he yelled. The other people in the room shifted nervously. Hidan completely oblivious to the female kounochi in the room ran up yelling at the top of his lungs. Also completely oblivious to the fact that a few member's were signaling to shut up. "Uzumaki found out about our plans! If he finds the rebuilt statue and comes back, we're done!"

"What do you mean comes back" asked Sakura. Hidan turned to her with his mouth open but when he saw her, he froze and whimpered something. "Um..nothing" he said with the best smile he could.

"Where is Naruto" she asked darkly. "You will tell me! Immortal or no, when I'm done with you, you'll be begging for me to kill you."

Hidan was about to answer when the first voice spoke out again. "Alright Haruno-san, you'll see him soon." The sound of fingers snapping flooded the room. Out of the darkness five men with peirced faces surrounded her. She ripped one arm out of the gasp of her captures and succeeded a solid punch to one's face, but a large fist hit her in the back of the head. Sakura fell to the floor unconcious.

o000o

Naruto was back alone in the darkness of his apartment meditating on how he will destroy Hidan and the rest of Akatsuki. But the only thing was, he needed to wait for them. And that was something he would rather not do. He sighed and made his way over to his weapons room. "Fuck it, I'll find them myself."

Sorry this chapters a little shorter but I have to go to work and I was in the zone in writing I will write another chapter tonight possibly when I get back but it wouldn't go up til like 4 in the morning, the earliest. So til then

Peace,
Blood Rain