Late update. Yes, I know, I am a bad person for making you wait but…ta-da. Pein is in this chapter, as promised. And of you don't understand what I'm referring to, read the last chapters last author's note.

Title: Sakura and her merry band of misfits

Summary: I've never done anything bad ever. I always do my work, listen to my elders, and shown respect to everyone I've ever met. So why am I in a mansion with a bunch of freaks that are at least seven years older than me? sakuraXmultiple

Disclaimer: I do no own Naruto

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Emphasizing

"Dark Zetsu" 'cause he's kickass like that

Chapter 4: Bad little Queen

Pein looked down at the Sakura then down at the girls crowded around her legs. "You have younger siblings." She smoothed out the princess dress she had on and adjusted the large princess cone covering her hair. "No, I'm an only child. It's my god daughter's birthday and she wanted a princess theme party." She did a little curtsey before opening the door wider. "You can come in if you want." He nodded and they all made their way to the back yard.

Everything was pink and glittery from the food and decorations to the party games and costumes. "Her mother said she'll be here soon to take all the kids home so you might have to wait a little while." Sakura muttered as the little girls ran back to the castle, a.k.a the very expensive climbable plastic structure.

Pein sat, simply watching as the girls moved around giggling and playing make believe. "I've been meaning to ask…" He looked at her as she sat down next to him in the throne decorated lawn chair. "But why're you here?" Sakura thought about her words and a sheepish look came to her face.

"Ah, I mean, well, I never gave you my step-aunt's address and was wondering how exactly you found out." She quickly waved her hands in front of her face. "Not that I'm calling you a stalker or anything! I just thought it was kinda odd…" "The orphanage told me you needed a ride." She nodded and the entertainment came before an awkward silence could settle over them.

Sakura stood to meet him and Pein checked out the newest guest. It was a man in dragon outfit. His eyes looked to Sakura as she wrote him a check and asked him to quickly put on the costume's head before the children noticed. He blew the smoke from his cigar into her face and put it out in the punch bowl before slipping on the head.

"Why did you allow him to act so rudely to you?" Pein murmured as she returned to her seat beside him. "Because it's my god-daughter's first birthday party." Sakura replied evenly as she watched the dragon put on a little show for the girls. Pein's ringed eyes narrowed slightly as he found her explanation hard to believe. All of the girls at the party looked to be at least seven and the one girl with the "Birthday Girl" crown looked six.

Sakura could fell his gaze demanding for a better explanation and crossed one leg over the other. "Her parents always put their needs ahead of her own. I'm her god mother because I actually buy her clothes and toys. It really isn't much more different than when she was at the orphanage with me." She whispered the last part but surprisingly Pein still heard.

"King!" Their attention was drawn to the small girls as they stood at the top of the castle. The little girls were all starring at Pein who in return starred at them. "Defeat the dragon!" They all burs into giggles as the dragon took "threating" steps towards him. "The crown! Put on the crown!" Sakura sighed and mumbled an apology as she put the plastic gold on his head.

Pein barely raised an eyebrow in response to all the commotion. He wasn't surprised that they called him king; he would dominate over the world one day. What surprised him was the fact that girls so young knew of his greatness.

"You're supposed to "slay" the dragon." Sakura explained bringing him out of his musings and handing him a plastic sword. "I know this is a lot but the "king" had a wedding to go to and canceled last minute and you were kind of in the king's chair." Pein stood in front of the dragon before looking at Sakura. "Pay attention to me buddy, I'm your opponent." He pushed Pein making the ring eyed man glare and Sakura tense.

Uh-oh.

Shit's about to go down.

A menacing look covered his face before Pein dropped the fake sword and-BLAM! The dragon was on the ground. The girl's cheered as Pein picked up the old man by the collar of his costume. "W-wait!" Sakura quickly stood from her throne with a worried look. "The girls can't see so much violence at such a young age!" The dragon desperately nodded in agreement to Sakura's statement but he dragged the man back to where Sakura stood.

"Apologize. Now." Sakura's eyebrows disappeared behind her hat as Pein dropped the man at her feet. "S-sorry." "Ah…" She nodded as he scurried off and the girls cheered louder than before. "KISS THE KING! KISS THE KING!" Pein looked stoically at Sakura and she turned a little pink as she looked at her god-daughter. "B-but princess, this isn't that type of fairy tale." She began to hold her breath and Sakura blanched.

Even if Sakura breathed air into the tiny girl's lungs she'd still hold her breath until she got what she wanted. 'Damn.' Pein was handsome, with his chiseled features and confidence she could only wish to have; but she couldn't look him in the eyes if they actually did something like that. "You do not have to do anything you don't wish to." He didn't get to finish when she stood on the tips of her toes and pressed her lips against his.

She kissed him with more force than intended and her tongue slipped into his mouth. Realizing her slip up, she tried to part only to fell a hand at the small of her back, pushing her back to her place against his lips. The warm metal of his tongue piercing rubbed against the roof of her mouth in a massaging manner making her eyes widen. "Sakura?" She took a large step back and faced the adoptive parents of her daughter. "What are you doing?"

Sakura quickly glanced at Pein, then the girls whose attention was drawn by a butterfly, before back to the parents. "Playing pretend?"

After a silent ride to the Akatsuki's, Sakura thanked Pein for helping her at the party and picking up her and her bike before he went to his office to work. She walked a little ways through beore she ended up in an unfamiliar room. Upon entering, the first thing she heard was: "What the fuck do you want?" Sakura glared at Hidan remembering their first meeting. "You broke my mp3 player. I want a new one." He rudely scoffed, not even bothering to spare her a glance.

"Hell no. I didn't even break your shit." "Yeah you did you freaking liar." At her comment Hidan looked up and starred. Sakura's princess dress was surprisingly fitting, even if it did look like a fairy puked on it. The neck was a deep v and the long transparent sleeves reached her fingertips. "Damn bitch, who knew you had a rack!"

"Who-why...what?!" The glare on her face was replaced by shock as she turned her back to him. She had tried to sound enraged but her embarrassment was clear through her incoherent response. At the sound of his low whistle she peeked at him over her shoulder to see his gaze more…south. "And you've got a nice ass! I fucking love puberty!" She whipped around with one arm over her chest and clenched at her side.

"Yo-ou…freak! Oddball! You're a, a, a motherfucking pervert! Just give me the money so I can buy a new music player!" He smiled deviously from his seat but Sakura was blind to his secret. "You're a bad ass little girl and you know what the fuck happens to bad ass little girls here, right?" She brought down her arm and saw him looking from side to side. He gestured her over as if he was telling a secret and she walked over until her head was beside his. "They get punished."

Hidan's arm quickly shot out and he pulled her down so that she was laying on her stomach across his lap. He brought his hand up high above his head and quickly swung it down against her butt three times in a row. As she got up he looked very happy with himself as she looked very dissatisfied with him. "Bitch!" She screamed before she lifted her leg high above her head and brought it down onto his knee.

She didn't give two fucks if he had pretty eyes of if he was handsome, Sakura didn't do rude guys.

"Fuck!" Sakura was seething and watched in sick satisfaction at Hidan's kneecap was kicked down to the middle of his shin. "You do not ever under any circumstance ever lay your hands on a lady!" She ignored the sound of him withering in pain as she spoke over him. "Until you learn this, you are my bitch and I am your queen." She knew she was saying this out of anger but it felt so damn good to finally tell him off.

Sakura quickly shoved his knee cap back into place before sauntering out of the room. Once she knew he couldn't see her, she rubbed her sore bottom as she limped down the hall because that shit hurt so freaking bad. "What happened to you?"

She turned her head in the direction of the voice and saw Itachi lying on a bed reading a book. "I sort of, maybe, got in a little…disagreement with a certain silver haired male." She stood straight before taking her hand off her rear-end and really looked at him.

His hair was out of his signature ponytail and he had on a pair of thin rimmed glasses. All in all, she had to admit he looked rather…cute. She felt her face reddened and saw Itachi look up from his book at her in an inquiring manner. "Why are you all the way across the hall? Come here." She scratched behind her ear, looking down the hall. "I'm fine, thanks. I like standing, it's a hobby of mine."

Itachi raised a single eyebrow with the slightest hint of amusement. "A hobby, really?" She nodded vigorously like he'd bite her if she came closer. "Come here." He couldn't help but notice she looked like a scared kitten the way she had backed into a corner. Sakura inched forward and ended at his door. She'd never been into a man's room before. She's been in her "young brother's" room at the orphanage but she'd never actually been into a grown man's room.

He motioned her forward with a single curl of his index finger and she reluctantly replied. His room was sparkling clean. Everything was so spick and span she felt out of place, what with birthday cake smeared on the front of her dress, but that was the least of her worries at the moment.

Once again Itachi was staring at her in the odd manner he always did. It's like he knew all of her dirty little secrets. Sakura stood in front of him feeling like she'd gone into battle naked. She began to wish he was like one of the boys at her school, were she could glance at them and they'd look the other way. But he wouldn't stop and if she tried to stare back she felt like she was sinking sinking sinking-

Sakura blinked and glanced the other way before her eyes started to dry out from lack of moisture. "Now I know why you look so familiar." Itachi sat up and placed his book on the bed. "You were the little girl Sasuke used to bring home." "Little girl?" She echoed after him slightly offended. She knew Sasuke was the guy in her chemistry classed that tried to tease her and was often her lap partner. "Sasuke-san's house…" Sakura slowly nodded regardless of not remembering going to Sasuke's to play.

Itachi could see the clear confusion on her face but didn't speak on it. "Don't you need your book signed?" She crossed her arms and he silently noted she never left the door frame. "I don't want you to do it. You'll only sign half your name like last time." "If you earn it, I'll finish signing it." Sakura looked at him wearily as he once again beckoned her forward and reluctantly came to stand beside his bed.

"What do I have to do?" It was obvious she was uncomfortable if the stiffness of her shoulders was anything to go by. "My glasses got scratches on them so it's harder for me to read. I just want you to read my book to me."

That's it?

That's really it?

Inwardly Sakura shook her head. It couldn't be that simple. Itachi slipped the glasses off of his face and gently tugged her forward by her sleeve. Sakura sat down on the edge of his bed and quickly began mumbling the words on the page before her. "I can't hear you." Itachi slid forward so that he was sitting behind her and put his legs on either side of her own. "Speak up." Sakura heaved a sigh unaware of the closeness of the owner of the current room she was in.

"The murder's one clue left behind at each crime scene is the single flower whose color pales in comparison to its…s-sa-sac-" He leaned his head onto her shoulder to peer at the word she was having difficulty reading. His lips brushed against the shell of her ear and she instinctively jumped.

"The single flower whose color pales in comparison to its sacchariferous scent." She sharply stood and snapped the book close. "Oh, so that's how you say it! I'd love to stay and feel your hot breath down my neck but silly me, forgot my community service book!" She softly knocked on her forehead and handed Itachi his book back. "At least I learned a new word today, ha ha ha!" Her laugh was obviously forced just like the smile that didn't reach anywhere near her eyes. "What was the word?"

Her fake smile fell off her face and she looked down at him in confusion. "The word?" "The new word you learned." She inwardly wished his glasses was back on, they made his eyes look less intense. "It's a little late," Sakura prepared to turn around and leave when he grabbed her clothed wrist.

"Sacchariferous." She looked into his eyes and inwardly wished she didn't. "Sac-cha-" He stood, still not letting go of her wrist. "Sacchariferous." He slowly repeated taking a step forward making her step back, "Sac-rif-" Sakura felt he back press against a wall and took a sharp intake of breath. "Sac-cha-rif-er-ous. Containing or yielding sugar." Itachi's head lowered closer to hers and he stopped mere inches from her face. "Sa-ku-ra."

Itachi knew that she was different from the way she reacted to hearing his younger brother's name. Usually girls would smile bashfully and make little comments on any interactions they've had with Sasuke. Or the sluttier ones would say how they liked himself and his younger brother. But Sakura did treat Sasuke like any other classmate and even had to take a moment to remember who Sasuke was.

"No!" Sakura screamed bringing him out of his musings as she quickly made her way to the door. "Ino told me what happens when a guy gets a girl alone in a room and I am not going to lose my virginity to you in a frat house!" Deciding that different was good and riling her up was fun, Itachi smirked. "So, not in a fraternity, right?" She crossed her arms over her chest and nodded defiantly. "Right!" He was going to tell her how misleading her little comment was but she left the room before he got a chance. 'Sacchariferous. Sakura. Basically the same.'

Aaaaaaand done. Next chapter is Deidara visiting her at school~! A lot happens but that's all I'm telling.

P.S.: There's a reason as to why I keep making Sakura wear some type of hat and will be revealed in the next chapter.