The Plot thickens so much, it's thicker than pea soup
April 27th, 1:36 PM, Akatsuki HQ
The cracks in the wall made a focus point for his gaze. They were not, perhaps, the most interesting thing to watch, but he would dwell on them until a more exciting object to stare at came. It was a wonderful day, with air as soft as a kitten's breathe, and the pretty feeling of mid-spring.
All was quiet until…
Boom! Pein sat on the statue's head, and watched as the rather dull wall of rock crumble from the force it had been hit, no, exploded with. He regained composure in time to see Deidara, bits of rock in his long, blonde hair, storm in with a sort of demented look on his face.
"What the is going on here, yeah?" Deidara shouted, organic eye wincing to emphasize the fact that he was not pleased. Pein lifted an eyebrow.
Profanity, well that meant more displays of complete idiocy to come. Maybe he would even mention this scene as a joke to Konan later on as a joke.
"What do you mean?" he said, searching the dusty pile with his eye to find Madara.
"What the do I mean, yeah? Yeah, what do I ing mean, yeah? Oh, maybe, that someone who is to be dead is not, yeah!" Deidara screamed.
Well this meant Sasori had found a particulary inventive way of revealing himself to Deidara. 'Drama queen.' Pein thought, almost rolling his eyes at the dramatic puppeteer.
"Does this mean that Sasori has showed himself to you?" he said.
" yeah!" At this came a loud noise under the piles of rubble. A dusty man of about twenty emerged, dusting his crimson hair off. "Hello, Leader- Sama." Sasori said.
"Have you accomplished the task I sent you to do?" Pein asked.
"What the are you two talking about" Deidara screamed, his mechanical eye joined the organic one in a jubilee of twitching...
A metal coil sprang out of a hole in Sasori wooden torso, and hit Deidara on the head.
Deidara crouched down and held his head in pain.
"Shut your mouth, brat. Yes, Leader, I have accomplished the task." "Meet me in my office in an hour. I shall give further instructions on your assignment." Pein said briskly, leaving the room with a concealed door. Sasori glanced at Deidara and left.
"Again, what the is going on here" Deidara said.
A pile of rubble moved to let aside Tobi, looking confused. "Deidara-Sempai?" Tobi asked. "What the do you want?" Deidara snarled as he got up.
"You do know twelve year-olds read this fan fiction?"
"Well, they should keep their goddamn inquisitive minds out of Fan fiction. Net" Deidara said. "That's not nice, Deidara-Sempai." "Shut up."
"Deidara-Sempai?" "Yes?"
"Shut does not go up."
April 28th, Konohagakure's Elder' Council Room, 4:06PM
"Next in line, Haruno Sakura, please step forward."
Sakura stood up and stepped to a podium in the center of the courtroom, mostly empty, since it was a top secret hearing. The cream colored walls were cracked in un-natural ways, since sometimes tempers ran high here, especially with Tsunade. Currently, Tsunade was fuming at the fact. Sakura was going to be interrogated. Well, lightly interrogated, but that still made the point that the council thought Sakura was a traitor.
A female stood above her, looking at Sakura sharply before reading off her page.
"Haruno Sakura, you are here because it has been reported, that you, a chuunin of Konoha Village, have been sexually assaulted and abused by Aka Suna No Sasori, S-Class Nin, currently residing in the Terrorist Organization named Akatsuki, am I right?" A smooth female voice said from the stand harboring various important members of the Council of Konoha. Sakura gulped. 'My experience with Sasori put into a bundle of words. How quaint.'
"Yes." she said.
"Sasori's sexual assault of you was not your first encounter with him?"
"Yes."
"In that first encounter, you were to rescue the Godaime Kazekage form his kidnapping by said bunch of criminals?"
"Yes."
"You and Chiyo of the puppets, Elder of Suna, and Sasori's Grandmother faced Sasori and his puppets in battle. In the battle, he revealed numerous crimes of his, including assassination of the Sandaime Kazekage?"
"Yes"
"You built an antidote for his poison and beat and destroyed his puppets."
Yes."
"What did Sasori say to you during the battle?"
"He threatened Chiyo and I, by swearing he would add us to his collection. In the midst of the battle, he said that I was worthy of being an honored puppet, for, in his terms, I had proved my self of such."
"When Chiyo stabbed him, he gave you information to the location a spy in Sound, who after later confirmation is Yakushi Kabuto?"
"Yes"
"Why did he rape you?"
"I think he had an ulterior motive, and thirst of vengeance on my behalf."
"And can you specify this ulterior motive."
"No, I have no clue what it is."
"Is the ulterior motive for Sasori's own gain?"
"I have no idea, but I think it has to do more with Akatsuki."
"Have you had any none enemy-combat meetings with him?"
'Yes.'
"No."
"You may leave the room."
April 28th, Hokage's building, Godaime Hokage Tsunade's office, 4:20 PM
Tsunade's red nails tapped on the oak desk, making slight cracks invisible to the untrained eye.
"An ulterior motive? Am I to be kept in the dark all the time? Why doesn't anyone tell me?" Tsunade snarled. The princess stood up and started pacing around.
"I wasn't sure; it was just a hunch-" "Just a hunch? This whole goddamn hunch can jeopardize this damn village! Just a mere notion should have you running to me and telling me about. Why didn't I even think about this whole ordeal on grander scheme?
How could I miss it?" Tsunade rubbed her forehead.
"I did not think it was that important." Sakura said quietly. Tsunade, who had her back toward Sakura's face, turned sharply on her heels, and leaned directly into Sakura's face.
"Important? Sakura, you were raped! Think about it! Is that any reason to be calm? What are you thinking, not telling me? This can hurt this village. Not to mention that Akatsuki is hatching a plan right under our noses and we almost did not notice it!" She yelled.
"I don't to see you hurt ever again! I don't want to lose anyone precious to me ever again! You were raped! I can not let anyone go again!"
Tsunade walked back to her oak chair and sat in it.
"I have… lost so many people… I do not want to lose anyone ever again. I don't think I can handle losing everyone, every-thing again." Tsunade muttered, reach in her desk drawer.
"Yet, you can find someone to ease the pain you go through, right, shishou?" Sakura's eyes were downcast as she stared at the floor. Tsunade paused in her search for something in her drawer, and then withdrew her hand from the desk, grasping a bottle with purple liquid. Tsunade shook the bottle, the bottle was filled to the brim with the thick purple liquid that reminded Sakura of poison, yet, and the bottle's cork was unsealed.
Sakura eyed it warily, before realizing that it was alcohol.
"Tsunade-sama, I thought you said you would try to quit?" she said.
"Bah, Sakura, I don't care if I die of kidney cancer. Lemme have my ambrosia!" Tsunade growled. Popping the cork open and swigging the dark liquid into her mouth, Tsunade made a noise of pleasure when she felt the warm liquid enter her mouth.
Her master's eyelids drooped as she sighed. "That was 'Aged Plum Wine', fermented, picked from the Nagasaki Mountains. Simply wonderful."
"Why did the council hint at me being at traitor?" Sakura said, fiddling with her gloves before nervously patting her stomach. This was a new habit of Sakura's, as if she was trying to make sure the baby was there. It had only been a week, and Tsunade said that the embryo had not even formed yet.
"Same scenario as Anko's: Young, pretty konouchi in the wrong place and time, corrupted by an extremely powerful man, who has had a past relationship with the victim.
The council, being the paranoid conspiracy theorists that they are, immediately suspects treason. Anko and you are going to be great friends…" Tsunade sighed and laid her head on the table.
Sakura smiled. The sadistic snake konouchi and her we're already the best of friends. The rather-eccentric older woman was very friendly underneath all the 'Mucho EBILNESS!'
A few weeks before Sakura had been raped, Anko and had taken a small trip, which involved burning Kakashi's porn. There still was a hole in Kakashi's sheet rock apartment commemorating their success.
"Tsunade-Sama, do you think they still suspect me?" Sakura said, again patting her stomach. Tsunade remained silent in her slumped position.
"Shishou?"
No answer.
Quickly, Sakura stood up and slid toward her master. Lifter Tsunade's head up in medic mode, Sakura noticed many things: Tsunade was turning blue, starting from her chest.
Her honey-colored eyes were dilating quickly. Tsunade opened her mouth and wheezed, struggling for a quick breath. "S...A...K...U…Ra…" Gasping and choking at the same time, the sannin became paralyzed before falling face first into the desk. From her mouth seeped a purple liquid which burned hole through the wood.
The great medic had been poisoned.
April 28th, 4:40 PM, Konoha Hospital, Ward 11: Critical surgery Room.
The white doors swung so hard, that Sakura was about to slap the person who dared disturb her panic
"Sakura-Chan! Is it true-?" Ino yelled and ran forward, halting one foot away from the surgical table where Tsunade was laid on.
"Oh shit!" The blonde whispered.
Shizune entered the room with tools.
"Who did this?"
"Aka Suna No Sasori mixed his poison in with her wine." Sakura said, tying her hair up.
"Okay, listen up! As far as I can tell, this poison is really fast acting and works by clogging the ventricles in the heart. We need to do open heart surgery on her. Ino, prepare her for the surgery. Shizune, keep steady amounts of charka pouring into the ventricles or she will die!" Sakura shouted.
Sakura ran out of the room and toward the greenhouse, where she kept plants and herbs that healed many afflictions. Entering the humid room, she ran toward a few small, dark green herbs moist with dew. Putting them in a boiler of water, she looked around for a few more herbs…Before bumping into something large…with a black-and-red cloak…and red hair.
"Hello, Sakura."