A/N: Oh Gosh I'm sorry for the long ass wait!! I had all of the usual end of the year crap-ola going on. You know how it goes. Exam review, early exams, painting -grumbles-, cleaning out of the lockers and then essays out the wazoo! And I have bad news my loves...I'm going on vacation on the 9th and won't be back until the 21st...of July...BUT I am hoping that I'll get the chapters typed up and if I am VERY VERY VERY lucky I'll be able to type them up on my grandparents computer!! Oh I really hope that I can! So here's to summer, exams and long vacations! I hope that I can get something else up before I leave though!!

Disclaimer: Yeah...If I owned it there would be none of this Saintly!Itachi crap...-glares- Sorry for those of you who aren't caught up with the manga...but it makes me mad still...

Ths Story So Far: Sakura comes for a visit!! And Naruto couldn't be happier about it! So far its been one nice thing after another in the little village they were sent to by Tsunade. Can things last like this or will it all be sabotaged?

Warnings: Implied Yaoi (...You read right...), Swearing (Yeah...yeah...you get it), Shoujo-Ai (in the form of lovely TsunadexShizune) and one angry Hokage.

Chapter 22

Sakura stood up and surveyed the depleted house. It was cozy but she got the feeling that that was true simply because Sasuke and Naruto were living here with a small child. She turned around and was greeted with the sight of their bed.

"Damn, that bed is HUGE!" she exclaimed before letting out a whistle.

Naruto kept his hold on Sasuke's shirt so as not to fall again, "Yeah so we've been told," Sasuke commented as he batted at Naruto's grabby hands…They had begun to 'migrate' south for the winter.

The pink haired woman felt Mio brush against her leg and decided to ignore it. If Mio wanted something she should open her mouth and ask for it. Or so Sakura believed. She thought that since Mio would be living with Sasuke and Naruto (and since both could be about as dumb as walls) she needed to learn how to vocalize her needs and wants. But Sakura didn't know that she was plenty good enough at that with her two fathers it was new people she had issues adjusting to.

But it seemed that the age where children could form bonds readily with others was still alive and well in Mio because after the strange team of people ate dinner and the day winded down into the night Mio insisted on Sakura sleeping next to her. Sasuke thought that the girl liked the idea of having some one else next to her while she slept… or at the very least a play toy.

He had no doubt that by tomorrow Mio would have gotten Sakura to take her somewhere to play.

Sasuke sat at the dining room table, chewing the crusts off of a piece of toast as if he held some sort of grudge over it. Naruto was still sleeping. Mio was still sleeping. And Sakura was taking advantage of the small showering facilities their house boasted.

Uchiha had never been one for mornings and often cursed their existence. But when you had Naruto sleeping next to you, teasing you mercilessly when you both know damn well that you can't go any farther, then you can yell at Sasuke for being moody. Until that happens though, it was best just to steer clear of him during the a.m.

A thick fog of steam billowed out behind Sakura. She wasn't wearing her usual red/tan/black ninja outfit, that would seem too conspicuous in a non-ninja village like this nameless squat. Instead her legs were partially covered in a pair of jeans that came down to about her mid-calf and there was a dark plum, quite modest, collarless shirt. She tousled her bright pink hair with one of the murky brown towels from the bathroom.

"Good morning, Sasuke," she greeted cheerily.

Obviously after her shower she was a much easier person to deal with than the girl he'd seem back in Konoha.

Sasuke muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, 'No such thing' and continued to eat his toast. Sakura poked her head back into the bathroom and threw the towel in, pulling a brush out of a small traveling bag that Sasuke hadn't noticed she had when she arrived at their door. The girl made her way over to the table while detangling her hair. Faintly Sasuke was reminded of the way Mio brushed her hair, ripping the brush straight through instead of actually working on the knots. Sasuke couldn't help but smile at the similarities, it was too funny really.

"What are you smiling about?" Sakura asked in a humored tone.

Sasuke shook his head, still not in the mood to talk but in a better mood none the less.

"Well I know it's not about last night," she jibed knowing that her comment would get Sasuke going.

The boy visibly stiffened when his teammate said this, "What would you know about that?"

"The bed is huge Sasuke," Sakura began while looking at the object itself. She turned her emerald gaze back to him, "But I am not deaf. I head you two!"

Sasuke looked a little mortified by this statement. Even after Naruto covered Sasuke's mouth they still heard him. He wanted to crawl up into himself, Pakkun hearing them was one thing…and Mio kinda got used to seeing them so her hearing them was just the next step. But Sakura?! She'd been teasing them since before they actually got together!

And now they had to go and give her more material.

"So…" Sakura tapped the table with her index finger and looked around for a moment. "Do you want me to take Mio out today?"

Her invitation hung in the air, the intent obvious. Sasuke turned his eyes to look at her instead of his table. He saw her waggle her pink eyebrows a little slyly. Sasuke raised one of his at her gesture.

"Are you sure?" he asked. It wasn't a question out of disbelief, more out of his own surprise.

Sakura nodded, "Oh yeah. You two seem a little SF'd. And if I know anything about you two it's that you guys need this before you start tearing things apart."

With the look on Sasuke's face Sakura was a little more than shocked when he didn't drop to his knees and worship her. He looked like he was about to say something but Mio's voice cut in.

"What's SF?" she asked as she stretched her arms this way and that.

Sakura gave the girl a weak smile, "Super Fun."

Sasuke shot Sakura a look. While Naruto had lied about what happened 'in the bed' Sakura lied about an abbreviation that Mio could and probably would use!

"Come on Mio," Sasuke pushed himself away from the table and clapped his hands twice at his daughter as he walked over to her. "Sakura's gonna take you out to do something today."

Mio bounced up slightly when Sasuke clapped and he slipped his hands under her arms to pick her up from the bed. She laughed a tired laugh, no doubt happy to get out of the house with some one who would do something fun with her. Sasuke twirled the small girl around before setting her down to scurry off to get ready for her day with Sakura.

Sasuke turned back to the infamous bed and sat down beside the sleeping form of Naruto. He brushed a few unruly strands of straw colored hair away from the sleeping eyes. Naruto swatted at his hand slightly, trying to get back to uninterrupted sleep. The Uchiha smiled at this, moments like this were few since they had brought Mio into their home. Not that either of them regretted it in the least.

Slowly Sasuke leaned down, "Hey Naruto…" he whispered while waiting for the unavoidable string of grumbles from his lover.

As sure as Mio would make sarcastic remarks, Naruto released a few unintelligent words as Sasuke smirked down at him. The blond had yet to open his eyes and already he was frustrated.

"Hey Naruto…" Sasuke used a breathy tone this time, his words tickling Naruto's ear. This only irritated him further.

There was this moment where Sasuke was almost sure that Naruto was going to wake up, yell at him and roll over and go back to sleep but a second before the man did that Sasuke leaned into him once more, his chest brushing against Naruto's shoulder…

"Sakura's going to take Mio out today…"

Bright azure eyes were revealed, piece by piece, to look skeptically at Sasuke. Naruto didn't utter a word, nor did he make a sound as he lifted his head and torso from the bed. He gave this look…'Are you serious…?' Sasuke just nodded and watched as Naruto's eyes grew wider and wider.

Sasuke could feel Naruto's pulse go through the roof the more they sat there in silence just searching each other's faces for ideas of what to do while they were alone. They both had a general idea…but the details were yet to be worked out.

"Hey hey! Wait 'till I'm gone to start anything you two!" Sakura teased with a good humored voice as she watched them simply drown in each other.

Naruto laid down on his back again, laughing at how lost he became with Sasuke even after this hellish passed few months. Sasuke still sat on the edge of the bed, just thinking about how hard he'd fallen for Naruto.

"I'm ready!" Mio declared as she popped into the room in a pair of tan short and a red tee shirt.

Sakura chuckled at the girl. You could tell she was taking after her 'blond one'. The kunoichi bent down and took Mio's hand, but was denied that right by the girl and the two simply began to walk to the door. Sakura knew that the no hand holding rule was another one of those 'I'm not some child' things. She paused a few feet from Sasuke and Naruto and gave them a devious smirk.

"I'll send out a shock of chakra when I'm on my way back," Sakura told them as her smile grew a little more.

Naruto gave her the thumbs up, eerily echoing Rock Lee.

As Sakura stepped out the door she called back to the pair, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

"That doesn't leave much for us then!" the fox-boy whined out with his lip trembling in a fake fit of depression.

Sakura laughed at him, per usual, as she closed the door behind her and Mio.

"So…" Sasuke suggested as he looked down at his twitching hands.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke by the back of his neck and pulled him to be nose-to-nose with him, "If you don't kiss me right now I'm going to rape you where you stand."

Sasuke felt energized by this growled out threat and crashed his lips unceremoniously into Naruto as he crawled over the boy to straddle his hips.

"You can't fucking use other countries ANBU squads to find two kids!" Tsunade yelled after her fist made a dangerous dent in the table in the council's room.

"You'd do well to watch your language Tsunade," the only other person in the room barked.

"I'll talk however the hell I want to!" she defended getting more and more livid as the man spoke.

It was only two days ago that she found out that the council was using ANBU squads from the Rain Country to hunt down Sasuke and Naruto. Not only were those ninjas more cut throat than the Konoha ones she 'deployed' but they were also more resourceful in their tracking techniques considering their day to day life.

"There is no law saying that the council cannot employ the ANBU of other countries," the man's mouth seemed to leak out venom as he spoke. "Besides you ninjas will do anything for some pocket change." His mouth turned into a poisonous smile, making Tsunade wanted to hurl the desk at that horribly twisted man.

"FUCK YOU!" the Hokage screamed at the top of her lungs.

She wasn't sure if it was the sake she'd just ingested or if it was the fact that this old bastard of a man just insulted entire civilizations that made her scream such an obscene thing at him.

Tsunade didn't regret it in the least.

The man drew his body back slightly, satisfying Tsunade's need to feel intimidating, "I will continue to use Rain's ANBU until I find your two little fugitives. It is none of your business about who I hire and for what reason."

Rage washed over Tsunade's body in torrents, her fists powering up with chakra automatically due to her anger. The man turned on his heel and walked out of the room. The Hokage's fist rose in the air, determined to break something to release this build up of hatred and chakra. Without any reservations Tsunade brought her frustration down on the solid cherry wood desk.

The sound of wood splintering and shattering rang through her ears, causing a morbid sense of comfort in her chest to swell up as she faced the closed door of the council room.

If those old geezers wanted to play the game she would give them something to play. There was no way she was out for the count after all she'd done to keep those boys safe.

Sakura held her breath, trying to keep from breaking out into a fit of laughter. Mio had already passed her three times and the girl hadn't spotted her. She saw her turn around and huff out a frustrated breath of air.

After Sakura used a genjutsu to disguise a stretch of sand, sand and, uh, sand to look like a lush forest Mio suggest (rather loudly) that they should play hide and seek. Sakura knew she couldn't keep up the genjutsu for much longer, as a ninja she was used to keeping a normal level of chakra just in case there were enemies around. This practice ingrained in her even in this small town with a total of three ninjas right now.

Mio stood up again and began to search the area around a moss covered rock. Her back was turned to Sakura. The pink haired teen stealthily stalked up to the girl and grabbed her around her torso and lifted her in the air.

"Ha ha! I have you now!" she called out in a deeper voice than usual.

Mio cried out in laughter. She could understand why Sasuke and Naruto went so crazy when Pakkun mentioned Sakura. So far Sakura had treated her like a kid without any prompting by Mio and it felt nice to have no self-appointed responsibility on her small rounded shoulders.

"Come on let's go do something else Mio," Sakura suggested as she dispelled her own genjutsu to reveal a merciless desert in front of them.

"Awwww…" Mio whined as she was turned around in Sakura's arms.

"None of that," Sakura chided as she readjusted Mio to a more comfortable position on her stomach. "We'll do something else okay?"

Mio really had no other option since Sakura was the one treating her today.

"Shizune," Tsunade sat down at her desk slowly and stared up adoringly at the young woman.

"Yes Tsunade?" the assistant asked not seeing the need to add formalities since the two women were alone now.

"Come here," she requested with a slight smile that nearly forced Shizune into submission.

Shizune stood in front of her boss and tilted her head to the side. Tsunade reached up and stroked her velvety soft cheek with the back of her index and middle finger. She took the small face into her hand, wincing slightly when the fingers of her damaged hand stretched out. There was no doubt in her mind that it was bruised but she wouldn't heal it herself. That would ruin the whole reason behind the bruises.

Shizune's face showed confusion when Tsunade's face showed pain. She would have gotten a word in if the Hokage hadn't seen her face flit from bliss to concern. Before Shizune could say a word about why Tsunade looked the way she did Tsunade pulled her down into a kiss her hand felling the brash pain of her hasty ways.

There was a small cry from Tsunade uttered into their pressed lips. Shizune tried to pull away but the Hokage kept her in place with her hands on her face.

Once Tsunade let the kiss dissipate she said, "Shizune get the fastest hawk Konoha has and summon Kakashi for me."

Mio laughed into the hot afternoon air, Sakura was carrying her around a neighboring village on her shoulders. The village a quite a run away but it had more than just a few produce stands, scant groceries and a few shanty-like houses. Sakura had bought a few frivolous things like chocolate bars, hard candies and Mio's first hat. Mio was more than excited to have a hat. She took no time attaching herself to Sakura's curvy torso in thanks.

Now she wore the hat, a small beanie with bunny ears hanging off of it, and Sakura had her doubts about the girl's departure from it.

"Sakura! Hey Sakura!" Mio shouted while tapping on the top of her head.

"Hmm?" Sakura answered not caring that the child was using her scalp as a doorbell right now.

"Let's go home and give Sasuke and Naruto some candy!" she suggested with an airy burst of innocence in her voice.

"You know Mio," Sakura began, about to reject the idea. But something inside of her told her that they had to go home. She wasn't about to brush off her intuition. "I think that's a great idea."

Sakura changed her course and started to head home. As she started running she sent out the shock of chakra she promised. But it felt as if there was another chakra signature in the area, about fifty miles west roughly based on her estimation. It collided with hers and she realized that she needed to get home and get home now.

Sasuke was jolted awake by the flare of Sakura's chakra. Naruto followed a little less awake than Sasuke. He rubbed his eyes and lazily smacked his lips together. The two of them were still stark naked, and groggy from their activities. Sasuke started to get up to get dressed but was pulled back down by his boney hips. Naruto playfully nipped at the nape of Sasuke's neck and carelessly kissed up his neck to land on Sasuke's soft earlobe. Sasuke allowed Naruto this moment of soft sweetness, not to mention he loved the way Naruto treated his skin with his kisses and bites.

They might have indulged in a few more moments of foreplay if it weren't for the second, third and fourth burst of Sakura's chakra. Something wasn't right if she was spending some of her chakra like that.

Sasuke and Naruto both bounced into action, getting dressed and equipping themselves with numerous newly sharpened weapons. Sasuke didn't know what it was, possibly the intensity in the last shock of chakra, but he started throwing some clothes and food into a few bags. Naruto didn't understand why Sasuke did that but he wasn't going to object to it.

He as well started grabbing up random articles of clothing and cans of food and threw them into a bag.

"Send Pakkun out to Suna again," Tsunade advised Kakashi with a stern and bloodshot look on her face.

"No problem Hokage-sama," he conceded with the same lazy voice. "But may I ask why?"

Tsunade let out a sake stained breath of air, "The Council has been hiring Rain ANBU squads to look for Sasuke and Naruto."

Kakashi felt winded by this knowledge. If anyone knew anything about the Rain's ANBU squads it was him. The war, being one of the strongest ANBU in his year, oh yeah Hatake knew a thing or two about those troops.

It didn't take Kakashi but a second to work out why the Council would go through so much trouble to eliminate two boys who were no longer bringing danger to this village. It was a struggle for respect and power from the citizens of Konoha. Whoever got their way this time would no doubt get more support from the village. And the Council hadn't liked the fact that Tsunade gained the prestigious title of Hokage despite her drinking, and harsh words.

"I'll send him right now," Kakashi walked out into the hallway and down the stairs.

Tsunade knew he wasn't a fool, he was going to summon Pakkun in some non-descript alleyway, where the prying eyes of the Council couldn't see him. She took another sip of weak sake. While she refused to allow her hand to be healed by magical ways she didn't object to numbing it via alcohol. Shizune only allowed her this if Tsunade let her pick out the sake.

The Hokage picked up a pen and a piece of parchment. Shizune had brought her the fastest hawk in Konoha, it was perched on the windowsill behind her, all that was left to do was to write the letter to seal the deal.

She pressed the ink to the paper and began to spell out the words:

Dearest Aoi,

It's time to pay back that debt you owe me…

By the time Sakura had arrived in the village she started off in she could feel the two other people tailing her. She caught sight of Sasuke and Naruto running towards her. Apparently all of those exercises they'd practiced on that week-long camping trip paid off. It was as if they knew exactly what she meant by all those spurts of chakra.

Sakura had dropped Mio down to rest on her back while they ran from their uninvited company. Her arms were locked under Mio's legs, and she's already told her to keep quiet or she wouldn't be able to give Sasuke or Naruto candy. The reformed team wasted no time heading out of Suna, their bearings being Konoha. It was more of a natural instinct that made all three of them chose to go towards Konoha.

Sasuke set a few traps for their pursuers. He wasn't sure who they were yet but he set middle level traps, hoping that they were amateurs like the Konoha ANBU who'd looked for them in that small village back in Konoha. Then the team began to run like bats out of hell to get away from whoever it was that was chasing after them.

The only way that any one person in the group could explain what happened next was a sheer twist of fate in their favor. And honestly it was about time. Usually it was just before capture or quick uprooting that occurred for Sasuke and Naruto. Although the enemy was gaining fast the Konoha team still had the upper hand.

"We have to change our course!" Pakkun advised them after everyone got over the initial shock and gratefulness to a higher power. "We are going to Kirigakure!"

Naruto shook his head, trying to shake out the surprise. Why would they need to go to Kiri? He didn't bother to ask, considering that talking would waste energy that he would need later on, for sure.

Pakkun kept a steady lead ahead of the teenagers and Mio. For now all they could do was run away. Everyone knew that they didn't have the capacity to fight whoever decided to follow them.

It wasn't until the team was nearly to the border of Konoha until Sakura approached them with a plan.

"We need to fight them," she suggested in a tone that said she was deathly serious.

"Normally I'd agree with you Sakura," Naruto started with an unusual voice of thought. "But it's not just us. We have Mio with us too. We can't fight off these guys and keep her safe."

Sasuke nodded in concurrence, "Besides this isn't just between us and some other ninjas. They're Rain ANBU," Pakkun had told them the first chance they got to rest after sending out clones, setting up genjutsus and concealing their location.

"I know we can take them," Sakura crossed her arms over her chest and gave the two boys a sassy smirk.

She turned to Pakkun who was sitting outside of the tent where Mio was sleeping. She'd never traveled before and though she understood the dire situation they were in she still needed to sleep.

"Pakkun," Sakura addressed him and he straightened up a bit to show he heard her. "Can you call any of Kakashi's nin dogs here?"

"All of us have the ability to summon help from his hounds," Pakkun replied. It only made sense for the ones being summoned to be able to call for help.

"Do you think that they would listen to us even though we aren't their master?" she asked wrapping her index finger around her chin.

"They'll listen to me. They know I'm Kakashi's right hand," Pakkun confirmed. "And nin dogs aren't like other summons, like frogs, they're a little more willing to do things."

Naruto couldn't help but laugh at the reference to his frogs. He hadn't tried to summon them this whole trip in order to help save his chakra (despite the Kyuubi being inside of him).

"Can you call some of them to watch over Mio while we fight these Rain guys?" Sakura requested with an inflection in her voice.

It wasn't caused by her doubt in their abilities (there was none of that) it was more like she was nervous. They could face off against the Akatsuki but they had more people then, more teams. Right now it was only the three teenagers of Cell Seven. All they had to rely on was each other.

Pakkun nodded, hoping that his answer would quell her voice, "It's no problem."

"Good," Sakura moved her head back to view Sasuke and Naruto. "You go and summon him and we'll come up with a plan…"

At least her voice was level now. Sasuke nodded once, a strong firm nod attempting to pull Sakura together. This was the test of their teamwork. Hopefully all those mock bell exercises in the training fields of Konoha had paid off. If it didn't…well that's wasn't an option now was it?

End of The Uninvited

A/N:

Okay...so I hope that this chapter was enjoyable. I was using all of my creavtive jucies on essays and final paintings. So be happy that I could get this out at all. Not to mention the new fandom that has snapped me up! Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles! It's great, go check out the manga! Yes yes. If you've read all the way up to the new chapters of Naruto, just imagine that the Council is like how 'Tobi' portrays them (I think it's a load of bull but that's just me and my lil sis...) but if you haven't the explaination is in the story. Tell me what you think!! I -HEART- YOU ALL!!

Preview of Next Chapter: Sakura just barely manage to jump back from an attack that was well aimed at her head. She thanked the heavens for Tsunade-sama's rigorous training now. If it hadn't been for all those insane routines she probably wouldn't have been able to dodge that artfully executed kick in time. These guys weren't playing around with the three of them...It was time for her to stop playing around...