AUTHOR'S NOTE:I am sooooooo srry, but my parents haven't let me come on the pc till like this weekend. They are soooo strict with school it makes me sick. So I'm sorry for all those who stopped looking for updates and I thank everyone for reviewing!!!!

NOW ON WITH THE STORY!!!

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Sakura walked back in the hotel room and made her way over to check up on her three injured friends.

'Lets hope we can get more out of this mission. Then we can all go home.'

Little did Sakura know Naruto was watching her from the other room.

'Look at her Kit, she is beautiful. How dare you let that bastard touch her.'

'What has gotten into you Fox? Your acting really weird and you made me act different around Sakura-Chan as well. What's the deal.'

'It's that time…..'

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The next morning Sakura woke up to a pitter patter noise coming down on the hotel's roof.

'Don't tell me it is raining. That would totally kill our plans.'

Sakura stretched out, got out of bed and made her way, very quietly, to the window. Hoping not to wake up any of her friends who were still fast asleep. When she looked out of the window, she saw that it was indeed raining outside.

"Great….Now we are gonna have to plan a different route."

"It's not going to be that bad." Hinata said.

Sakura turned around to see one of her closest girl friends. It always surprised her that Hinata would act normal around her but when those boys wake up, well let's just say she gets nervous.

"You really think so Hinata-Chan? What if all yours and everyone else's wounds reopen?"

Hinata nodded her head and she made her way out of her bed to join Sakura at the window.

"Sakura-Chan, you worry to much about all of us. We can handle ourselves, just sometimes we need extra help. But forget about the rain. We can just continue on home and pray that we can get there as soon as possible."

Sakura smiled up at Hinata and nodded her head as well. "Your right Hinata-Chan. I don't get why there can't be two captains on a team. Then you and me would be able to boss those men around."

Hinata giggled softly at Sakura's comment and they started to pack everything up. So that way when then the men woke up they could leave.

"I still don't get why Tsunade wants all long term missions to report home once in a while. Doesn't that make the mission pointless?" Hinata asked as her and Sakura packed everything.

Sakura smiled as she picked up a lingering kunai on the ground. "Well you remember when Sound attacked us and no one was there to help Tsunade. All there was were high level Chunin and some Jonin. She just wants to make sure we don't get attacked again. Just for at least a few months at least."

Hinata giggled at the mention of the Hokage. "It amazes me how she can be so gentle but so scary at times. She is a lot like you."

"Hey!" Sakura said as she threw a pillow at Hinata. Hinata blocked the pillow and giggled at her action. "Well come on Sakura don't you think it's true?"

"That doesn't mean I want to believe it."

The two girls giggles once again and proceeded to pack up their belongings.

-----At Kohana------

Sakura saw that the rain was not, in fact, a factor in their travel. They did make it home safely in a few days.

"Ah! It's great to be home!" Naruto shouted.

"Now I get time off to not be with you Naruto." Kiba said. Naruto looked over his shoulder at him and glared.

"Ditto, Dog Boy. Ditto."

"W-Well. Looks l-like I-I will b-be off."

Sakura turned around to her friend and gave her a concerned look. Hinata just smiled a small smile and poofed away.

Soon after that, Kiba and Shino did the same thing. Now it just left Naruto and Sakura.

"Damn them. They don't stay long enough to even come and give Baa-Chan the mission report!"

"You better stop calling Tsunade-Shinshu that before she ends up sending you to the hospital."

Naruto turned to Sakura and gave her a slight puppy dog pout. Sakura couldn't surpass the laughter building up into her lungs. She couldn't help but let out a lung crushing laughter.

Naruto looked at her and smiled. He always did love it when she laughed, especially when it was him that made her laugh. Somehow she made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

After Sakura surpassed her giggle fest she turned to her best friend and smiled. Sending shivers of an unknown feeling throughout Naruto's body.

'What is going on with me? I never act this bad when I'm alone with Sakura-Chan.'

"Hey Naruto, come on. We don't want to be late to Tsunade's office. Instead of breaking the table, she will break us!" Sakura yelled as she started to run on top of the roofs. With Naruto behind her.

'You know, do you se the way his shirt crushes up against his muscular chest. And the way his butt moves when he runs. It's like BayWatch, but in real life!'

Sakura almost lost her footing when she heard her inner self say that. 'Where did you come from seriously?'

"Sakura-Chan?" Naruto said. He could see her face go from happy to complete disgust.

Sakura snapped out of her thoughts and turned her head to Naruto. "Yeah Naruto?"

Naruto could feel that same shiver come up again. But he pretended to ignore it. "Nothing. It's just that your face showed disgust."

Sakura eeped and blushed a light pink. "D-don't worry about i-it. It was nothing."

----At the Hokage's Office-----

"Sit down Sakura and Naruto." Tsunade said as she pointed to two chairs in front of her desk.

With a nod of their heads they made their way to sit in the comfy black leather chairs.

"How has your mission gone so far?" she questioned.

Sakura looked at her with a questionable look. "Didn't you get my message?"

Tsunade looked at her apprentice with a confused look. "I didn't get a message from you at all."

Naruto looked between the two powerful women. 'Sakura-Chan sent a message?'

Tsunade shook her head as a way to clear out her confusion. "Let's deal with that on a later note. Right now I want to know how your mission went."

Sakura turned to Naruto and nodded her head at him. Naruto smiled his fox grin and turned to Tsunade.

"Well I don't know about Sakura-Chan, but Hinata, Shino, Kiba, and I cornered Sasuke and attacked. The only part that burnt a hole in our plans was that Kabuto and a few Sound Ninja were with him……And there is something else to……"

Tsunade looked at Naruto and glared. "Spill it Usumaki…NOW!"

Naruto jumped a little bit at her sharp tone. "He….He….He changed. He isn't the Sasuke-Teme that Sakura-Chan and I know. He looks at people as practice dummies. And he is just cold."

Tsunade nodded her head a few times and sighed. "I knew that would happen. Listen you two. As you found out Sasuke is no longer the 13 year old boy you knew. He has changed. And since you still have three more days on this particular mission, I want you to try your hardest to get as much information as you can."

"Hai." Both Sakura and Naruto said.

Tsunade turned to Sakura and gave her a serious stare. "Sakura….What about you. Where were you?"

Sakura took a deep breath in and out. 'I know Naruto doesn't know my relationship with Itachi, so this is gonna be hard to explain.'

"Sakura?" Tsunade said as she raised her elegant blonde brow. Naruto also was waiting to hear how her encounter with the Criminal went.

"Before our team slit, I told Naruto to take everyone to go against Sasuke and I went to go and face Itachi…."

Sakura could see the color drain from her Sensei's face. Then once Sakura saw her Sensei nod her head to continue she did. "It wasn't a battle or anything. I meet up with him and his partner. He sent his partner to survey the ground and we talked."

Sakura looked around to see Naruto about to burst and Tsunade was very curious.

"Sakura-Chan! You talked to the murderer?! How come he didn't kill you?!"

Sakura looked at him and sighed. "Can I explain it to you later?" Sakura asked him with pleading eyes.

Naruto nodded his head and Sakura continued. "Through our talk, I didn't get why he was there or anything. But I did get the whereabouts to where the person I have been looking for is at that time."

Tsunade nodded her head and had a weak smile on her face. "Sakura, you know that I can't let you pursue that mission until this one is done."

Sakura shook her head up and down. "That I know. I thought it would be helpful when I do try to find that snake."

Naruto looked to see that Sakura's hands were balled up into a fist, having her fingernails dig into her palms drawing blood with each passing moment. But he noticed that she didn't notice it.

Tsunade looked down to see the same thing as Naruto. She shook her head and sighed, once again. "Ok Sakura. Thanks for the update and for the first question as to why I didn't get your message is because…."

Before Tsunade could finish, there was a tap on the glass. She made her way over to the window and opened it up. Out flew Kai. Sakura looked at her summoned creature with great concern.

"Tsunade-Sama. I have a message from Sakura-Sama."

"Kai-Chan!"

Kai looked to his right to see his master all ready in Kohana. He bowed his head in shame. "Sakura-Sama. I am sorry for my delay…."

Sakura didn't let him finish for she ran up and checked to see if he was injured. "Oh Kai-Chan! Are you ok?! What happened to you?!"

Kai looked at his master and smiled at her billion questions coming at the speed of light. "I just got lost, that's all."

Sakura shook her head and giggled. "You're a goof. But I appreciate the job well done."

Kai looked at her with confusion but didn't question it. She was always to kind for her own good. With a few hand seals Kai poofed away and Tsunade also wanted Naruto and Sakura to poof away as well.

----Out and About with Naruto and Sakura----

After Tsunade literally kicked them out, Naruto and Sakura decided to walk around a bit.

"Sakura-Chan….Can you explain that issue now? I was wicked lost when you were talking about it." Naruto tried to say as gently as he could.

Sakura stopped walking and turned to him. "You really want to know Naruto?"

"Yeah!" Naruto smiled a huge smile. Hoping it would help her to tell him.

"Well Itachi…..he is like a big brother to me, ever since he went out with my sister…."

"You have a sister?"

"Well had a sister but yeah. She died a long time ago when she was out on a mission." Sakura said as she started to retreat into her mind.

'I don't want to tell him the whole truth right now. I'm not even ready to replay it all still.'

But Sakura wasn't at her thoughts long, for Naruto placed his hand on her shoulder to show that he was there for her.

"Thanks Naruto." She said as she smiled up at him.

Naruto couldn't take it anymore, all her smiles and all her gestures were really getting to him and he had no idea why.

'What is going on with me?!'

'Don't worry Kit. This will only take a second….'

'What do you mean this will only take a second?! What do you think your doing to me?!'

Sakura could see great pain flash throughout Naruto's eyes.

'What is wrong with him? Is he ok?'

Sakura placed her hand on his shoulder. "Naruto? Naruto?" Sakura was getting a little scared at his lack of answering and tightened her grip on his shoulder. That's when she saw blood pouring out of her hand.

'How did I get that?'

But Sakura couldn't concentrate on that because her friend was in horrible shape.

'Kyuubi! What the hell are you doing?!"

'I just want a few minutes with her Kit. No harm in that is there?'

'Yes there is!'

'To bad.'

Sakura was about to grab him and run him to the hospital when all of a sudden he stopped.

"N-Naruto?" Sakura asked as she tried to see if he was ok.

Naruto's head was low down to the ground and the closer she got to him the more she worried for him. So she called out to him again. "Naruto." She said it this time with more of a stern voice.

"Hello, little one."

Sakura had to surpass a gasp when she heard that voice. She never heard Naruto sound like that before. But when "Naruto" made his eyes meet with hers she no longer saw the blue ocean eyes that she adored. But she saw blood red eyes.

"K-Kyuubi."

The Kyuubi smiled brightly at her, revealing his fangs as he did. "I do say, your much more prettier in person. And as sharp as ever." He said as he looked her up and down.

Sakura was scared out of her mind. 'H-How can he get out? But yet he is still in Naruto's body. What is going on?!'

'Well the demon is quite hot. If I do say so myself. Mummm Muuummmm Good.'

'Ewww. Your disgusting.'

Sakura was blown out of her thoughts when Kyuubi took hold of her. "Hey! What do you think your doing?!"

The Kyuubi smirked at her useless actions. "You can't escape my grip Kit. Just relax."

"How can I when you took over Naruto's body!" Sakura said as she tried to break out of his embrace.

"Let's go somewhere more…..secluded."

'You son of a bitch! You better not hurt her Kyuubi! Or else!'

'Oh shut your mouth Kit. You'll thank me later.'

And with that in mind, Kyuubi locked Naruto up behind the bars and couldn't hear a word out of him. No matter how loud Naruto tried to scream.

Sakura tried to get out of his grip but before she knew it, they were deep into the forest.

"What the...How did you get out?"

Kyuubi smirked at the girl in his arms. "That's a secret for me to know." He said as he pushed her closer to him. Poor Sakura because she crashed right into his very beefy chest.

Sakura was about to push him away but he was too strong for her. Kyuubi shot Sakura a playful smirk and backed her up into a tree, but very gently though.

"Now you have no where to go Kit."

Sakura glared at the "demon" in front of her. Kyuubi lowered his head down to her ear and his breath tickled her ear. Sakura kept her emotions locked inside her. There was no telling what the demon would do if she responded to his mere movement.

"I can sense your emotions, even if you lock them inside you little one." Kyuubi took Sakura's hands and pinned them above her head. "You need to keep yourself in better condition. I can't have something that is mine hurt."

"What are you talking about?" Sakura said still trying to figure out how to get out of this mess.

"You were so caught up in your cute little temper that you didn't see you injured yourself? Tisk. Tisk. Little one." Sakura watched as the demon reached up and started to heal her bloody hands.

'Wait…so that's means I got it when I was thinking about Takashi. How am I going to get out of this mess?!'

"Mind letting me go now!" Sakura said her temper rising with every second that the demon held her against her will. It was all to much for her mind to process.

"No. Who said I was done."

"Too bad because……"

Sakura's sentence was cut short because Kyuubi leaning down and planting a kiss right on her lips. Sakura tried to surpass the fact that the kiss was well….awesome. And also the fact that his hands were running up and down her sides.

'I have to get out of this mess I can't be enjoying this demon's kiss!'

'Oh no you don't! If your gonna back out I'm going in!'

'What?! No! What do you think your doing?!'

It was to late. Inner Sakura was already out. But Kyuubi didn't seem to notice. Being the bold inner person she was, Inner Sakura kissed the poor demon back. Going another step further, Inner Sakura pushed him back and opened her mouth to set free her tongue. First she ran her tiny tongue over his lips and before she knew it Kyuubi sent his tongue to play with hers. It was battle for dominance with a few grunts and moans thrown into the mix. Inner Sakura sent her hands on a mission to play with his now long golden blond hair. Kyuubi sent his claw like hands up to her chest and "explored" the terrain. It surprised him that she was letting him do this.

Having the need to see her reaction Kyuubi broke it up. When he did, he made sure that he liked his lips trying to savor the sweet taste she left on lingering on his lips.

"Well little one, you are bold aren't you?"

"Why don't you step it up a bit more?"Inner Sakura said with a playful look on her face. Kyuubi smirked even wider. But then he could see that her eyes were a duller emerald.

"Wait a minute……your not the same person." He said as he let go of her and circled around her. As a way to se how else she changed. Inner Sakura however just had that same playful look on her face.

"I'm still the same person." Inner Sakura answered with attitude.

Kyuubi glared at the girl in front of him and backed her up against the tree, but this time he wasn't careful not to hurt her. He literally didn't care if this girl got hurt.

"Who the hell are you and what did you do with my Kit?!" Kyuubi was enraged now. He held his hand up and let his claws appear.

Inner Sakura winked at the "man" in front of her and sighed. With in a second Kyuubi had his claws come so close to her face, that if he just made them flex he could scratch her.

"Don't make me ask twice. A demon as powerful as I doesn't like their patience tested."

"I don't know if Sakura-Chan would like it if I told you."

The Kyuubi looked at her with a confused expression. But his claws went closer to her face. "So you aren't the real Sakura."

Inner Sakura just laughed at his assumption. "I'll give you a hint. Ever heard of a Vixen?"

Kyuubi was about to lunge at her but all of a sudden he saw her go into slight pain and her eyes change. Then as fast as it came, it disappeared. And before he knew it, the regular Sakura was back.

"What did she tell you." Sakura said with demanding eyes.

Kyuubi smirked at the girl and put his claws away, which didn't go unnoticed by Sakura. "So you do have another personality. I knew that you were not that much of a goody-goody."

Sakura slapped her head and mentally yelled at her inner-self of making a fool out of her. Kyuubi smirked at how she retreated back into her mind and he decided to wrap her up in his arms again.

"You know Kit, I think your other personality should come out more often. It gets things even more interesting. And more fun"

Sakura didn't say anything at all, she just stared at the demon who was now past the personal bubble mark.

"You mind letting me go, NOW?!"

Kyuubi chuckled at her demand and bent his head down into her shoulder. Taking in all of her smell.

"Sorry Kit, but I'm not done yet."

Sakura groaned an annoyed groan. She was so not liking how this evening turned out. Of course it got worse. While Sakura was wrapped by the demon she could sense a familiar chakra.

'Oh no just perfect! The one time I find the guy I can't do anything about it! What the hell.'

Kyuubi sensed the chakra too, which made his hold on Sakura that much tighter. It was like a possessive grab, so to speak.

"Whose there?!" He yelled, while he spun Sakura around so she was behind him. Thinking it would keep her from getting harmed.

The mysterious man chuckled an evil chuckle and disappeared into the forest. Sakura tried as long as she could to make sure she could find his chakra again. While Kyuubi sent a series of growls towards the man. As Sakura watched the exchange it suddenly hit her.

'The demon………He wants to………wants to "mate" me. Since when?'

'Well I wouldn't mind actually. He is a good kisser. Especially once you get everything going.'

'I still can't believe you did that.'

'Well I need some action once in a while. You get it all the time.'

Sakura shook her head and turned her attention back to the demon. "Why me?"

That got Kyuubi's attention. He turned himself around and placed his hands on her waist. "Why what little one." He said as he looked her over again, but this time with lust filled eyes.

"Why would you want me? Out of all the women you two have seen…."

Kyuubi shook his head and held his finger up to her lips as a way to silence her soon to be rambling mouth. "So you figured it out. But why you ask? Are you to blind to see why I chose you. Your smart, not to mention beautiful, and lets not forget that little vixen you have over there." He said with a grin.

Sakura looked at him with a still confused expression. Kyuubi, yet again, closed their distance and kissed her with a lustful kiss. Sakura was about to glare but she noticed that his eyes were growing lighter.

'Good return to your cage dude. I would rather have Naruto out thank you very much.'

Within a minute Naruto was back and he was down right mad.

"Naruto are you ok?" Sakura asked.

Naruto noticed their position and broke apart, a little happy that he was that close to her but mad at the same time.

"He didn't do anything to you did he Sakura-Chan?!"

Sakura smiled brightly at him. 'So that is why he is mad. How cute.'

"No. I'm fine Naruto. Don't worry about it."

Naruto looked at her with a confused look. "You didn't mind it? At all?"

Sakura giggled at his astounded face. "It wasn't me he kissed most of the time with. Remember my little friend." Sakura said as she pointed to her head.

Naruto grinned a huge grin and lifted her up and twirled her around. Almost like in a fairytale, where the prince finds his princess.

"Thank god. But that means she is going to be all hyped up on him. You do know that."

Sakura giggled at his statement. "Trust me. I know all to well."

They both chuckled at each other and started to make their way out of the woods. Unbeknown to them though, a pair of red eyes and a pair of black eyes were watching their whole exchange.

The Red eyes glared at the blonde with murder. 'So let the games begin Dobe. Let the games begin.'

While the black eyes were looking at Sakura. With much curiosity and satisfaction.

'So Haruno. Your wanted by the Demon and his container. How appealing. And I see you have gotten stronger. No doubt you will come looking for me. I can't wait to see your blood spill from your body. Just like your sisters.

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Author's Note!: Yes! Finally I got a chapter out there. It is wicked pointless but not at the same time. I had to put in some KyuubiXSaku moment some how and this was just to get me on my role again.

Hope it isn't to disappointing!!

Review please!!!