Sakura appeared in a blur before Tsunade. And she looked back and nodded at her team, "You guys can go now. Ill take care of the findings." Her team began to bicker quietly as they all removed they're masks and disappeared in a puff of smoke except for He old team-mates, who stayed behind in the darkened corner.

Tsunade stood up grinning at Sakura, "You can take the mask off now…I know who you are."

Sakura smiled gently under her mask and reached for its edge. Sakura pulled back her black hood and yanked off her mask in one brief moment.

Her long pink hair fell back as she pulled her hair from the ribbon she previously had it in. The pink locks bounced down her back and landed at her hips. The curves that outlined her body were perfectly seen as she took of the sweat coat and threw it to the floor.

Silently she turned around to face the two chuunins.

They looked over the soft ivory skin on her face and stared into her sparkling emerald eyes filled with ambition and strength, and silently outlined the long scratch that ran down the side of her face lightly bleeding.

She closed her emerald eyes and the two watched as a soft green glow outlined the scratch as it began to patch the cut together. Again she opened her eyes.

She looked the two up and down and turned around to meet Tsunade. "The mission was a success. The information suspected is a negative. A ploy, rumor whatever you want to call it, the real information unknown, but cryptic. WE must figure it out soon."

They four watched as the hokage's eyes hardened as she stalked to her desk. She pulled out a brown bottle from a drawer in her desk and took a long swig.

She slammed the bottle back on the desk and sighed, "Fine, mission tomorrow," She pulled out a scroll and a quick pen, "Leader, Haruno Sakura, Second in command Hyuuga Neji, Team, Kiba Shikamaru Hinata…Sasuke and Naruto." She peered up and met Kakashi's eyes, "You can take a break." Silently she went back down to the scroll, " Mission rank, S, Time limit one month unless more if needed. Mission: to gain information on enemy plans of attack." Silently she threw the scroll powerfully to Sakura after signing it.

Sakura slipped the scroll under her waist band and sighed.

"Your second mission is to assess Sasuke and Naruto. You leave tomorrow morning at Six Am sharp, Sasuke Naruto Kakashi, you're dismissed."

They hesitated, breathing deeply and looking between the two. Silently they left in a puff of smoke.

Sakura stared at Tsunade again, her eyes never leaving her shishou's.

"You-"

Tsunade quickly cut her off as screamed into the air with exploding giggles as she pulled out a glass of alcohol, "A drink?"

Sakura sighed, a small smile playing on her lips, "I knew you were to sober." She spoke smugly as she downed a small glass. "I have to go."

Sakura bowed slightly to her shishou and disappeared in a swirl of cherry blossoms and leaves.

Tsunade smiled lightly to herself, "She is growing up way to sane for my liking."

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Sakura crawled into her bead, soft and clad in forest green sheets and a dark red comforter. She stared silently aat the ceiling as she listened carefully to each drop of rain that splattered against her roof and rushed down her windows, thinking of her mission tomorrow. She thought until long forgotten flashback came to her in dreams, right after black clouded her mind.

Hail bounced off of the hardened concrete, striking everything in sight. Denting windows and breaking ground. A teenage boy walked coolly throughout the long streets of Konoha. Off to the side a tiny bush shivered as a flash of pink rushed through the trees and into an open field, and the young boy, curious, followed the trail.

HE arrived cleanly in a clearing where a young girl laid there, her arms each twisted and bent, strewn in awkward angles by her side.

He stalked over to the girl and hovered over her body silently nudging her side with his foot.

One eye cracked open and a tiny moan escaped her cracked lips.

Briskly he crouched down and examined her. Little wounds covered every inch of her skin, pellets of ice embedded into them. Her one opened eye was a dull green eye, shimmering with youth. Pink hair was matted to her head with sweat and rain and grime and dirt covered her clothing.

Her skin was a sickly pail and her lips were cracked with dried blood running out of her mouth.

Swiftly he brought his hand to her cheek and was surprised at the freezing temperature.

"What is your name?" He asked getting ready to pick the girl up, scooping her up and holding her tightly to his toned chest.

"Har-" She interrupted herself with a shuddering cough and closed her eyes as she painfully spoke again, "Har-haruno Sakura."

The boy with ebony long hair began to race through the trees, "Who did this to you?"

The girl known as Sakura cringed her eyes closed and pressed her lips together firmly.

"I wont repeat myself."

Sakura opened one eye and stared into the boys red eyes, again she closed them only this time in fright, "Don't hurt me." She whispered. Her throat terribly sore.

She tried to push him away until heat hit her hard, and the pounding of hail on the stopped.

"Why would I hurt you?"

""Y-your eyes, the the scary man who hit me has those same eyes." She shivered again as she was set down on a small bed. Again she peered through one eye, and examined the boy.

He was a few years older than she, and held those scary eyes. His hair was clean but wet and he held an ambu mask on the side of his head. His fist was next to her frail body, clenched and shaking furiously.

"Wh-who are you?"

The boy looked up through his bangs and a small smirk played at his lips, "Uchia Itatchi."

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