Warning: Action, sadness = no humor
*IMPORTANT! If you don't know about Kabuto's story, go look it up! It'll really help!
Chapter 3
It was 4 A.M., a hour before meeting everyone at the training ground. Sakura, who knew that Kakashi wouldn't arrive until 10:30 A.M., decided to fulfill her mission number one: eliminate Kabuto Yakushi, one of the greatest enemies of Konoha's future.
Deciding that Naruto will have to help her, Sakura secretly knocked Naruto out and hid him inside a bush before he could arrive at the training ground.
Sakura then decided to organize her facts about Kabuto.
"1. He was raised in the Konoha Orphanage.
2. He decided to work for Danzo when Danzo was looking for an orphan in exchange of funding the orphanage.
3. Because he was getting too powerful and knew many secrets, Danzo decided to eliminate him.
4. Orochimaru, who took notice of Kabuto, lured him when the nun that took care of Kabuto, Nono, didn't recognize him during an undercover mission.
5. Thus, Kabuto hasn't been the right-hand man of Orochimaru for long time.
6. He is now working as an undercover captain for the Konoha Medic Corps."
Sakura obtained these facts when she was helping Tsunade on office work. By the time Sakura finished organizing her facts, she arrived at the hospital. When she was sure that nobody looking, she grabbed a kunai and hurt herself, leaving a deep, ugly gash on her calf. Sakura also rubbed some dirt on her arms, face, and legs as if she had a training , Sakura created a shadow clone, and it transformed itself as Naruto.
"Somebody help! My teammate is hurt!" the fake Naruto half screamed and wailed.
As soon as he finished screaming for help, the medics ran out and immediately took action. Two of them, one of them being Kabuto, carried Sakura to the hospital, while the other medic tried to calm down the fake Naruto.
"Nurse Shima, check her blood type and supply her with that blood! I'll handle her while you're gone!" Kabuto ordered.
"Yes, taichou!" the woman suspected as Shima complied to his request. Because she was a medic nin, Shima didn't even take 10 seconds to check Sakura's blood.
"Naruto" was in a "shock" as he waited for Sakura to be healed.
After Sakura faked losing conciousness (an act that she perfected after seeing so many of her patients do that), Kabuto carried her to the emergency surgical room. He immediately started to heal her.
Sakura knowing that they were finally alone, decided to take action.
Kabuto's left hand was over her ankle, while his other hand healed the gash. Then, Sakura used a technique she had perfected over the years of being a medic nin. She concentrated her chakra on her thigh. At the same time, she made it undetectable. It slowly and carefully made its way to her ankle.
"Now he has to touch it,"
Sakura shifted her injured leg, causing Kabuto to grab her ankle.
"Well, well, missy. I'm sorry to tell you that you're acting is very bad," Kabuto snickered
"Huh, too late," Sakura snickered back.
The hidden and deadly chakra immediately entered Kabuto's hand, and it began to shut down his organs.
Legs first.
"Wha- What?" Kabuto fell.
Eyes.
"Wa-Wait! Please, wait a moment!" Kabuto begged.
"Begged? Ten years of now on, I never thought I'll see you beg,"
"Please! Just let me meet someone!"
"You're asking too much as the spy of Orochimaru,"
"No! You can kill me afterwards! Please let me see Nono!"
"Nono? You're "mom" that didn't even recognize you?"
"You don't understand!" Kabuto yelled, frustrated. He suddenly grabbed a kunai he had hidden and swung it to where he thought Sakura was.
Kabuto couldn't lunge far enough at Sakura because of his legs , but the action was still so sudden that she grabbed her kunai and stabbed him.
"Stupid man, at least you could have died without pain,"
"You will never understand. Can't you just fulfill my one last wish?"
"You really are arrogant,"
"Please, give my glasses back to Nono. Please say that I'm sorry," saying his last words, Kabuto died.
"Stupid man,"
While Sakura had gone to the emergency hospital room, fake Naruto managed to throw a huge tantrum to delay Nurse Shima. By the time she arrived to the emergency room, Shima discovered Kabuto, who was dead, and Sakura who lay injured and half-conscious.
"Oh dear! Miss, do you know what happened?"
"Oh! I'm so scared! A masked man suddenly teleported here. He..he tried to...and...that nice medic tried to save me...but...The man ran away when he heard you coming," Sakura trembled.
"Oh, sweetie, you must have been very scared! Go wait outside with your teammate while I call the ANBU, okay?"
"O-okay,"
Mission complete.
Sakura looked down at her hand. In her hand was Kabuto's glasses.
"Why am I even doing this?"
Before Sakura dispersed her clone, she found Naruto and put in her clone's memories and some other fake memories inside of Naruto, another deadly jutsu she had learned.
"S-Sakura-chan! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you!" Naruto woke up with a guilty expression.
"It's okay. It was just a training accident. Anyway, can you go tell Kakashi-sensei that I'll be a little late?" Sakura lied smoothly.
"Sure! Make sure you get better!"
After Sakura and Naruto answered some of the ANBU's questions, Sakura headed toward the forest.
Her hands were covered in blood. Sakura was so used to blood that she didn't notice how her 12 year old body reacted to it. She had also lied to Naruto and put false memory inside of him. Her hands were trembling and for the first time since she started her life again, Sakura was stumped.
"Well, better hurry and give back the glasses," Sakura tried to forget.
Konoha Orphanage.
When Sakura knocked on the door, a friendly-looking nun came out.
"Oh, child! Your hands are covered in blood! What is the matter?"
"A kind man helped me when I was about to get hurt, and he told me to give his glasses to a person named Nono," Sakura showed the nun the glasses.
"Oh! This is..."
"Are you Nono?"
"...Ah, yes. Tell me, how is he doing?"
"..."
"I see. Thank you for telling me," Nono was about to go in.
"Wait!"
"Yes?"
"He told me to say, 'I'm sorry,'"
The nun finally broke down.
What was she doing? Had she forgotten her mission? Her future? No!
Then why was she feeling...so...sad for a criminal that pushed her home into ruins?
When that cold, sadistic criminal begged for forgiveness from someone special, her heart ached.
Before those criminals: the Akatsuki, Kabuto, Zabuza, Haku, and Obito/Tobi were beasts, they were human.
They were alone from the start. What if someone had understood them? Listened to them?
Then how will the things have differed?
That's it. I'm changing the mission.
From obliterating enemies to:
Turn enemies into allies.
Right now, she had a chance to change things.
Therefore, it is only normal that they have a chance too.
You criminals! You'd better be thankful!
Aw...so sad...I never thought that I'll sympathize Kabuto, but I needed him to give Sakura a reason to save the Akatsuki!