Chapter 13! It's here! It's alive! It's waiting for me to get on with the disclaimer so you can read it! Thank you to everyone for your support! You're seriously keeping my mood on the plus side! Now is the time for me to shut up and write my story! Kick me if I start blabbering.

Hinata: Akemi-chan doesn't own Naruto or anything related to Naruto.

Akemi: Especially not the real Naruto. He's all yours Hina-chan ;)

Hinata: No! Bad Akemi-chan! No talking! *THUD*

Akemi: OOOOOWWWW! Hina-chaaaan!

Hinata: You said to kick you if you start babbling.

Akemi: *waterfall tears and band-aids* yeah but I wasn't serious. You kick hard Hina-chan… Well, ON WITH THE STORY!

Hinata: … I thought you were hurt.

Akemi: oh sweet little Hinata, a true writer does not let physical pain get in the way of writing unless they cannot use their hands. TO THE WRITINGS!

Hinata: …

Thoughts

Inners Thoughts

Flashbacks

Jutsus/Bloodline Traits (Sharingan, Byakugan, etc.)

Sasuke POV

Damn the dobe to hell. I thought as he dragged me into Ichiraku. The last thing I wanted was to be forced to stare at his grotesque eating habits. As we reached Ichiraku I actually had to look away as he said goodbye to the Hyuuga heiress. It was actually sickening how sweet he was to her. I even filled my ears with chakra so I wouldn't have to listen to them. All I really knew was that whatever the dobe was saying made her blush like crazy but, unlike when we were Genin together, she didn't pass out like she used to. After she left the dobe dragged me in and ordered beef ramen. I went with miso.

"Glad to have you back, Sasuke." He told me. Secretly, I was glad to be back. I missed home; I missed my best friend and sensei. I even missed Sakura and her constant…what should I call it? Not an obsession. She wasn't that bad after the first few weeks… The fact that she so obviously cared I guess. Not that I would admit to any of this.

"Hn" I replied before asking the question that had been bugging me since the Hokage's office. "What was all that about you and Sakura being Tsunade's children?" Naruto grinned a little sheepishly.

"Tsunade-baa chan sorta adopted Sakura-chan as her own after her parents died. And I guess I'm enough like her kid brother was that she couldn't help but take me in too. Give it a few months she'll probably have added you to the list too Teme! Dettebyo!" He replied grinning, before turning his ramen.

Just like before.

Tch. Dobe. The way he eats ramen… It's revolting.

Just don't look at him.

No shit.

I hadn't even gotten a quarter of the way through my bowl before Naruto was ordering another bowl. How he could eat so much of the stuff was beyond me.

"So teme how was Sakura-chan's interrogation?" Dobe asked. I nearly spewed my ramen and he grinned knowingly. "Yeah she's pretty tough in interrogation. She seriously even scared the crap out of Anko when she was first testing out the technique. Whatdja see?"

"What makes you think I saw anything?" He just grinned wider.

"Because you wouldn't let the physical torture get to you. I know you too well teme."

"Hn." I said. Why the idiot thought I was going to tell him I had no idea. Besides, it was pretty embarrassing for her to get it out of me so easily. I nearly shuddered when I thought about my weakness. How could I let my own mind turn against me like that? But just watching Itachi and Kisame come near her, seeing her jade eyes widen with fear… I knew they were dead but it still got to me.

"Fine, don't tell me." He pouted but, like the idiot he is, immediately brightened when his ramen arrived. He went through about eight bowls before the Hyuuga girl arrived. She slid in next to Naruto who grinned and kissed her.

"Hey Hina-chan." He said, tossing an arm around her shoulders. I rolled my eyes but otherwise remained stoic. You could practically see the hearts circling his head.

"Hello Naruto-kun. Uchiha-san." She replied, cuddling close to him. They were like to fucking birds in a tree. "Sakura-chan is ok, just exhausted. She's sleeping now and Ino-chan gave her some chakra to help along the recovery process."

"Recover from what?" He asked. I answered him this time.

"Tsunade worked on her seal earlier." I stated before returning to my ramen. Naruto stared at me dumbfounded.

"In front of you?" He asked stupidly. Tch. Dobe.

"Of course not dobe. She took her into another room. I saw the change in her chakra when I used the Sharingan." I explained. It was like I was explaining to a three year old or something.

"Oh…"

"Tch. Idiot."

Time Skip - Several Hours Later

Sakura POV

When I woke up, three things were obvious. One: I was no longer in the Hokage Tower, two: For some reason I can feel a familiar chakra mixed with my own, and three: I hurt like hell. Groaning I rolled over and off my bed, staggering off to my bathroom.

We need a nice, long, relaxing bath.

Yeah no shit Sherlock… What happened?

Ummm… You unconsciously let me take over a little during Sasuke's interrogation and afterwards Tsunade-shishou took us into a different room to check on our seal, strengthened it, and then we tried to leave but ran into Sasuke who knocked us out with the Mengekyou Sharingan.

When the HELL did he get the Mengekyou?

Beats me.

You're no fucking help.

Whatever. Oooo! Hey, check out our seal! It changed color again!

I had been unknowingly preparing for a bath throughout the conversation with Inner. And had just stripped out of my shirt when I realized she was right. I had decided to just wear a lower cut chest binding instead of my regular bra as my only plans today were interrogating Sasuke and ramen with Naruto and Hinata-chan after my report to Shishou and wasn't going to do anything very physical unless after ramen I decided to go training, in which case I could go home and put on one of my usual bras. The low cut ones were for civilian woman for physical activities. Kunoichi have to have ones that cover more because we make more movements and would fall out of the low cut ones easier. Anyway, obviously only two of those three, possibly four, things were accomplished but that's beside the point.

I was still in the civilian sports bra and the curse seal was plainly displayed rather proudly and dominant against my ivory skin. Inner was right, it had changed color. It was now the same color of Tsunade-shishou's eyes, a dark topaz-amber color. If it weren't for the ever-changing color, you could almost imagine it was a tattoo instead of a sealed curse.

We'll definitely have to show it off a little this time. Inner thought at me.

No kidding. This color is so much prettier than that pink I was stuck with last time.

Although that was so much better than that blue… that made me sick just looking at it. It was such an ugly shade!

Dear Gami listen to us… we sound like Ino on a bad day.

We both shuddered and I turned away from the mirror and slipped into the warm waters of my bath. Sighing with what I'm sure was a relaxed and overjoyed smile; I sunk down in the water and closed my eyes. I released a hum of pleasure and slowly began to relax even further, my muscles aching in a pleasing way, telling me how stressed I really was.

Ok, after this, we're doing an actual report to Tsunade-shishou and then we're going to a hotel with a natural hot spring because we are obviously way too stressed and need a fucking vacation.

I'll think about it.

NO! Not think! DO!

Inner, we are the head medic in the hospital. We make sure everything runs smoothly and take over in emergencies as well as do the main healing for emergency cases and are always the medic nin sent to other villages when there's an epidemic of some sort. We're needed. I'll think about it.

Fine.

She went off to the depths of my mind to pout about the unfairness of it all. I stayed soaking for another fifteen minutes before the water began to get cold.

Damn.

I thought, before pulling the plug and waiting for the water to drain before taking an actual shower. I love baths, I do, but outside of hot springs it's like sitting in a tub of your own filth. Natural hot springs have minerals that take care of that little problem so it's nowhere near as gross. But relaxing in a bath is a wonderful thing. Thus the reason why I shower either before or after, depending on how badly I need to relax. Today was an after day. Like the day before I left, I decided to channel chakra to my scalp and made my hair grow out again. I didn't want to deal with it down today and it's difficult to put my hair up when it's at its usual length. Once I finished it was at about two inches above the middle of my back.

Stepping out of my shower I quickly toweled off and ran a brush gently through my hair. I walked out to my room with the towel wrapped tightly around my body and stood in front of my closet in contemplation. I wanted to show off my seal today. Even though I was usually ashamed of it and hid it, I was proud to wear this color, the color of my master's eyes.

Digging through, I found many things from Ino that I swore I would never wear, ranging from lingerie and fishnets to shirts and skirts. But I did find a few golden pieces. A top like the one I had from when I was captured but it was all black, a black tube top that had came up past the seal but had a v-cut in the center that dipped halfway down my breasts and would show it off clearly, several different types of fishnet, a pair of gloves identical to the ones the Akatsuki gave me except they went up just above my elbow and the metal extended to cover my outer forearms, and several different kimonos, dresses, and skirts, varying on the styles but they were all black with the exception of the obi on the kimonos. That had a large color range. As well as slightly heeled medic boots that went up anywhere from mid-calf to upper-thigh and a few pair of the classic medic heels the nurse, Tsunade-shishou, and Shizune-nee wore.

In the end, I ended up in the tube top with a skirt that started at an inch above my belly button and went down to mid-thigh and slit up both sides just to the top of my thighs, a pair of black spandex shorts that went to the midpoint between my upper and middle thighs with my kuni/shuriken holder and medic pouch fastened on my right side, a cream colored obi to cover the point where the skirt went over the tube top, a pair of black, medic boots that went up my legs to my lower thighs and had fishnet socks underneath that peeked out two or three inches above the tops of the boots. I also had fishnet fingerless gloves that went up to my mid-biceps and the gloves that I had found.

When I looked in the mirror I smiled. The entire thing looked good on me, and the seal completed the look in a way that I couldn't achieve otherwise. There was only one thing missing. I looked at all of my Hidden Leaf hitai ates. I had only three colors of cloth; red, blue and black. I picked up the black one and ran my fingers along it. Usually I would wear it only for funerals and it was smaller than the others because of that. It had never seen a day of fighting but… with this outfit… I went to my bathroom and watched myself as I set the headband on the sink counter, and carefully pulled my hair up in a tight pony tail and wiggled one of my decorative hair chopsticks just behind it near my scalp. I quickly pulled the rest of it up into a messy bun and carefully placed the hitai ate over it, careful to make sure that it was correctly positioned and pushed it tight against my head while running my fingers down to the ends, keeping it pulled tightly and slid the ends in the space the chopstick created and created a quick but tight knot that I was sure wouldn't come undone without some human help and slid out the chopstick.

Looking in the mirror once more, I decided that I liked this look. It suited me. With this seal color at least. I quickly picked up and put away everything in my room and straightened things out. Yes, I was slightly OCD about my living space but in a "it doesn't matter if it gets messed up so long as it gets cleaned later on" way not a "you so much as drag a fleck of mud onto my doorstep I'll tan your hide" type of way. I wandered downstairs to the kitchen and looked around in the cupboards for something quick to eat that had more sustenance than cereal or protein bars. Finding none, I downed a bottle of water and one of the bars before going to Ichiraku to get some real food.

Maybe Naruto and Hinata-chan will be there to eat with. Inner said hopefully. I mentally snorted.

It's Naruto. He's going to be at Ichiraku. He's always at Ichiraku when he's not training, or sleeping, or on a date with Hinata-chan who's almost always with him.

Good Point.

WOO! Chapter! Of the finished variety! The procrastinator has beaten the odds once again! For anyone who has not figured out what girl Sasuke saw between the fact that this is a SASUSAKU FANFIC and the JADE EYES thing then for you (O.\O) *FACEPALM!* just pointing that out as my cousin, who was reading the beginning of this chapter and already read ALL of the other completed chapters just asked me and I quote "So what girl was it that Sasu-chan was hallucinating about?" like the idiot she is. I love her but DAMN! And don't ask me why she calls him "Sasu-chan" it disturbs me for Sasuke to be called that by someone other than Sakura when she's teasing him. Well… now that I've had my mini-rant and blathered on about nothing particularly important for about 7 sentences not including this one, let us get back to the awesome stuff. Thank you to Gaara777 who was the first to review and tell me not to discontinue Love And Revenge and Sailordeelit for being the second, though I'm still thinking about it. I've got a poll for it going on right now and it'll be up until March 30th so the day before the end of this month. I'll try and keep it going until then but please vote and review. PLEASE! I BEG OF YOU! *On her knees pleading for reviews and votes* Thanks to all of you who have added love and revenge to your favorites and are following it as well as those of you following me as an author, and everyone who's reviewed for the reviews! You all are amazing godsends! ( o/.\o) Thank you god thank you god thank you god… and no that's not supposed to be Itachi, though it could be a good mildly-surprised Itachi emoticon. It's supposed to be a prayer of thanks emoticon. Oooo! Wait! I know! (O/.O)/ hallelujah emoticon! ….dear god I should not write and 2:45 in the morning… Imma go sleep and post this in the morning sometime! Ja ne! - Akemi