Chapter 2 – A New beginning

The time was 5:30am, the sun had just started to rise. Sakura was more ready than she would ever be for this mission. Her other team mates; Neji, Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru and Ino were there already when she arrived.

"Good your all here. your all coming back as well, I'm in charge of this mission and I will try to ensure your safety for the whole of this mission, so, if anyone is unlikely to come back alive, it will be me..." Sakura's head dropped, Ino and Kiba did the same, "are you all ready?" They all replied simultaneously

"Yes!" Sakura took one look back at the village that had always known had been her home, unsure of whether she would come back... But that didn't matter now! Naruto had died and now Sakura needed revenge! Her and her team left there home village, Konoha.

It was 7am now and the sun was almost fully in the sky. Team Sakura was resting while Neji and Hinata tried to find clues with the Byakugan, at the same time Kiba was trying to catch the scent of Sasuke or anyone that would lead them to him. Sakura, Ino and Shikamaru we're trying to think of an attack plan.

"Sakura, when we see him I will use my shadow possession jutsu, Ino you use your mind, body confusion technique if he tries to break free of my jutsu or I dare to say breaks free successfully. Sakura, after me or Ino has him in out jutsu then you should make you move while ou-"

"I have his scent!!"

"Kiba?!, Are you sure?!" Sakura jumped up as soon as the words had left his mouth.

"There's no doubt about it. We were pursuing Sasuke on the mission 4 years ago. The one that Shikamaru was in charge of, I never forget a scent after I've been following it for more than a day or two. It's him" Sakura and Ino went over to Kiba and Akamaru.

"What direction do you smell him in?"

"North-east" Sakura turned to look at Neji

"Neji, Hinata look in the direction that Kiba just Said" Neji and Hinata nodded and both looked in the direction that Kiba had told them. Hinata spotted it first. She sighed and "Turned off" her Byakugan.

"It's not him. Someone has his Jacket and is trying to lead us of coarse...They must have heard about our mission from somewhere..." Sakura looked like she was about to cry.

"Neji?"

"There's no doubt about it. It's not him. It's a Woman, she has long red hair and looks nothing like Sasuke. She just has his Jacket, Like Hinata said." Sakura's face dropped.

"Karin?..." Ino looked at her ex Best friend.

"who?"

"A bitch that would do anything to get Sasuke to go out with her! The whore probably heard about our mission from a spy and now is sacrificing herself to save her 'boyfriend'. Well if she's willing to do that for him then what do you guys think of pursuing her and getting information of Sasuke's whereabouts" The pink haired kunoichi had an evil glint in her eye, she was sure to torture this bitch who had helped to kill Naruto. Kiba was the only one to argue with Sakura's judgement.

"Sakura, wouldn't it be quicker to-" Clearly Ino was just as Interested in beating up Karin as Sakura was. She too had liked Sasuke at one point.

"If we can get information from her then it wont have been a waste of time." Sakura flashed Ino a quick smile.

"So what do you say? We pursue her?" Everyone nodded to say that they agreed with her idea. So, they headed north-east.

It wasn't hard to track her, she wasn't too fast as she had acquired a leg injury during a fight with Sakura when she was on her way to save Naruto. The failed mission. But she had managed to get past Karin, why hadn't she just killed her then and there?

Shikamaru gave the nod to begin the plan that he had created while they were chasing her. Ino got Karin in her sights and used her jutsu.

"Mind, body confusion Technique! Huh?!" Karin disappeared!

"This is imposable I can't smell her any more!" Sakura knew this move, she recognised it from the previous fight that she had with Karin, This was just a disappearing act. Sakura closed her eyes and said nothing.

"There!!" Sakura pointed up to a tree. Shikamaru reacted instantly. He caught her in his shadow bind technique.

"This is her technique...She can trap everyone around her in a genjutsu, while in this genjutsu, she makes it look like she's invisible when in reality she could be standing right in front of you and you wouldn't be able to sense her." Sakura headed in the direction of the red head and was ready to get some answers.

It was 4 long hours later when Sakura and Neji finally managed to get any information from her she was not in Shikamaru's Shadow Bind Technique any more they had tied her to a tree after they had been torturing her for 20 minutes and Shikamaru couldn't hold his jutsu any more. Team Sakura had found out that Sasuke was working with Akatsuki and he was on his was to Suna, there he would be meeting with a Suna spy who had been undercover helping Akatsuki extract the 1 tail from Gaara. He was now working for Akatsuki again and this time they we're targeting Temari who had valuable information for the 7 tails whereabouts. Then Neji finished Karin off. They would be heading to Suna first thing in the morning.

The chase and battle with Karin had exhausted them all So for now they would rest after the first 2 hours of torturing Karin Hinata, who had returned to Konoha only the day before the mission started. fell asleep on Kiba's shoulder. It was not long after that, that Kiba also fell asleep. Ino had Shikamaru's Jacket on as she was too excited about this mission that she forgot to bring her jacket, and was wearing nothing but her regular mini skirt and crop top, she was leaning on a nearby tree talking to Shikamaru.

"Sakura, are you okay?"

"Neji? Yeah. I'm just a little tired" She yawned.

"Go and sleep, I'll take the first watch duty." Sakura could tell from the dark circles under his eyes that he was just as tired as she was...

"Are you sure?"

"As if I'd stop a woman getting her beauty sleep. Ne? Shikamaru. And besides Shikamaru isn't going to sleep yet" Shikamaru laughed and nodded.

"You should see Ino after me and Chouji have both done our watch duty. She starts crying if you wake her up!" Ino gave Shikamaru a stern look but at the same time it was blatantly obvious that she wanted to laugh.

"Thanks, Neji" Sakura gave him a warm smile and bid him goodnight.