inner thoughts..
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"Yes." the Hokage then let out a frustrated sigh and spoke again "As we all know, they will stop at nothing to get what they want. And they are prepared to attack Konoha if necessary." Again she let out a frustrated sigh and reached for a bottle of sake near her desk. After she was done drinking half of the contents of the bottle she spoke again. " We need to prepare for war with the Akatsuki.."
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The masked jounin stared carefully at the woman in front of him. He knew that she was not kidding, he knew that she was not drunk from all that sake that she drank. He knew that she was dead serious with what she just told him. And he knew that she was right. He stared at her and then sighed.
"Kakashi, we can not hand them Naruto. You know that. We can not hide him, he'll just come after them himself, the stubborn brat. We have no choice.. We have to fight." the blonde Hokage said as she felt a major headache coming and began rubbing her temples.
"I know that Hokage-sama.." the silver haired man replied "But when do you think will the Akatsuki start their move?"
Tsunade didn't really know the answer to this question but inferring from the information she knows about the Akatsuki she replied with a 'Soon.
She knew that she was being vague, but then again, that was the most appropriate answer she could give him. She knew that the Akatsuki were constantly on the move and since they're nearing their goal, it seemed stupid for them to just suddenly stop and take a break. No, they wouldn't do that. They had the momentum now, stopping will only cause their momentum to falter, and obviously they didn't want that to happen.
"It may be a few weeks from now, hell, maybe earlier. I really am not that sure. We're still waiting for the reports of our spies about the matter." the Hokage added as she then finished off what was left of her sake. She was about to speak again but an ANBU member suddenly came bursting into her office.
Tsunade let out a sigh and eyed the ANBU that was now approaching her. She wanted to know just what the hell was that important that he didn't even bother knocking on the door?
As if reading her mind, the ANBU spoke up "I am very sorry for disturbing you like this and barging into your office like that Hokage-sama, but I have urgent news, an Akatsuki member was spotted near the village!"
Well that was earlier than expected.
Hearing the news, Tsunade suddenly straightened out her posture and gave the ANBU a serious look. "How many are they?" she asked
"We believe that there is only one Akatsuki member. Currently, some ANBU are trying to track him." the ANBU replied.
"I see.." the blonde then turned her attention to the masked ninja beside the ANBU member and spoke to him. "Kakashi, warn your team including the Uchiha, I want you to keep an eye on Naruto. I'll call for you later after I talk with other ANBU members."
"Hai Hokage-sama" replied the silver haired man as he disappeared in a poof of smoke.
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Near one of the training grounds of Konoha a black haired ninja was peacefully drawing the scenery in front of him. He was nearly done with his drawing when something threw off his concentration, and caused him to make a wrong stroke. He looked behind him and saw his pink haired teammate. He could clearly see that she was really pissed off, and him being Sai, really didn't care if he pissed her even more.
The pink haired kunoichi was stomping her way towards the training grounds. She was stilled pissed at Naruto for stealing her bra and calling it 'training', and so she wanted to go the training grounds to vent off her anger. It sounded like a good idea to her. After all, with this she would be able to kill two birds with one stone. She could vent off her anger and train to get stronger at the same time.
Stupid Naruto the kunoichi thought to herself. How could stealing somebody's bra be training? Jiraiya has really poisoned his mind. Stupid pervs
As she was thinking to herself, she failed to notice her teammate directly in front of her until he spoke up and nearly startling her.
"Eh? Ugly what's the matter? You saw yourself in the mirror? Tsk tsk.. I told you to smash all your mirrors already.." the black haired ninja said as he was trying clean up the mistake in his drawing. He then looked up and spoke again "You look uglier than usual.. but then again, you're always ugly."
twitch.
Ignore the temptation Sakura.. You don't want to kill a teammate now do you? But then again, evil grasses are hard to kill.
An idea suddenly popped into Sakura's mind, and she inwardly congratulated herself for being such a genius.
smirk
She then approached Sai with a genuine smile plastered on her face and bent down close to him. "Hey Sai, how about we spar?" she asked with a very cheery tone.
Sai looked up the girl and asked "Are you sure ugly? I don't want to hit you and make you even uglier. Ahhk.. you're ugly enough.."
twitch.
twitch.
Calm down, just calm down. Breathe.. breathe.. okay! He can pay for that comment later.
"Don't worry I'll manage." she said with a smile still plastered on her face. (Although you could clearly see that her left eyebrow was twitching.)
"Fine." the black haired boy replied and stood up. "Let's go then."
And with that they both proceeded to the training grounds. Once there, Sakura started stretching a bit and warming herself up, while Sai just stared at her uninterestingly. He failed to notice though the evil glint in the eyes of the pink haired kunoichi that he was about to fight.
"Ugly, you're taking too long.." the black haired artist said with a bored look on his face.
Wow, he's in a hurry to die now isn't he?
Sakura just smiled and said "Okay then, let's start.."
Hello misplaced aggression
smirk
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A raven haired male was making his way to the training grounds that his former team usually trained on. He had nothing else to do after all. Staying at home was out of the question, it only reminded him of his clan's murder and how he was the only Uchiha left. Talking to other people was definitely not on his to do list, since he doesn't talk very much plus other people annoy him. And well, he couldn't go on any missions, since he's still under probation for his betrayal and all. He sure had a boring life, not that he cared anyway.
As he approached the training ground, he heard the sound of the ground crumbling. Being the genius that he was, he knew that there were some people already training where he wanted to train. He was about to head to another location when his eyes caught sight of a black haired male and a pink haired female.
He knew for a fact that the black haired male was his replacement in team 7, and the girl with the pink hair was obviously his former teammate. He wanted to see what his so-called replacement was really capable of, so he stayed there and watch their sparring session.
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Sai drew a tiger on his scroll and it immediately came to life and attacked Sakura. Its movements were really fast, and it managed to land scratches on her body. The scratches she received were only minor injuries since she was able to dodge most of his lethal attacks.
She was able to defeat some of Sai's drawings which included two lions and a few ink clones of himself. However this left her almost drained in chakra.
Sakura knew that only dodging his attacks would lead to nothing but exhaustion, so she decided to fight head on with Sai's tiger and planned to land a chakra filled fist at it.
Before she could land the punch, the tiger disappeared and Sai reappeared behind her.
Sai kicked Sakura from behind, but only heard a 'poof' sound signaling that it was only a shadow clone.
He sensed that the real Sakura was above him, and as he realized this, he saw that she was already descending towards him and is aiming one of her strong punches at him. He was quick to react however that Sakura's fist only made contact with the ground that he was previously standing on, leaving a huge crater.
The impact of the punch was so strong that it was as if an earthquake had occurred and caused the ground to crumble. It also caused Sai to be blown away, crashing into a nearby tree and nearly breaking it in half.
Sai however immediately stood up, as if nothing happened and began to draw again. This time he created a dragon and like the tiger, it came to life and attacked Sakura. Again, Sakura was back to dodging Sai's attacks as she was once again waiting for another opening.
Sai made another drawing, this time of a bird, and rode on it. The bird then flew and from above, Sai observed the pink haired kunoichi as she dodged his attacks. He knew that Sakura was capable of dodging attacks effectively; after all, Tsunade did train her to do that. And with her dodging most of his attack, only causes him to waste his chakra. He then began to think of a way to stop her from dodging and to make her stand still. Suddenly an idea hit him and he decided to try it.
Sai stepped off from the bird that he was riding on and it immediately disappeared. The dragon he drew earlier that was attacking Sakura also disappeared. He now stood a few yards from her with a smirk plastered on his face.
The young Uchiha saw the smirk on Sai's face and began to wonder what the artist nin was planning.
Sakura saw that the dragon attacking her earlier disappear and that Sai was now in front of her. She knew that this was not an ink clone, but the real Sai himself. Like the younger Uchiha, she saw the smirk plastered on the black haired male's face and wondered what he was up to.
Sai then began running towards Sakura at a fast rate, the smirk was still ever present on his face. When Sakura saw what he was doing she mimicked his actions and ran towards Sai.
So he's going to take me head on is he? Heh, this would be fun.
When they were about a foot and a half from each other Sakura pumped chakra to her fists as she prepared herself to punch him. Sai however only smirked at Sakura. When the gap between them were only a mere inches, Sakura swung her arm in an attempt to punch him, however her fist only met air, since Sai jumped behind her. She immediately turned to face Sai and was suprised to what greeted her.
WHAT THE HELL? DID HE JUST KISS ME?!
Sai smirked at the reaction that he got from the kunoichi. He saw that a blush crept up her face and that her eyes were wide. He knew that she was too shocked to move so he took his chance and kicked the kunoichi in the stomach sending her crashing into a tree.
"I knew that would stop you from moving ugly.." Sai said as Sakura glared at him.
"No fair Sai, that was a dirty tactic." Sakura complained as she saw him smirk again.
Sai just shrugged and said "Whatever ugly.. It was effective though."
Sakura was about to retort but a kunai flew in front of her. When she found who threw the kunai, her eyes saw that it was her former teammate. She wondered why he threw the kunai and was about to ask him when the younger Uchiha suddenly spoke up and said "Get out, I know you're hiding in there."
Who's hiding where? Has he gone crazy?
"Well, well.. I never knew you could still sense me with my chakra masked and all. I have to say, I'm impressed... yeah" a cloaked figure with a sakkat said as he revealed himself to the three. "I guess I should've expected that from the one who defeated Itachi... yeah"
"Hn." Sasuke and Sai both glared at him and Sakura stared at him in disgust.
"Akatsuki." She spat out.