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Note: In later chapters that will be marked the rating will be rated R but for now is just Mature.

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Chapter 13: What shall we die for?

Sakura had been in the muck three days now searching for the plant. It of course grew in the swampiest of places. Known to few that the plant itself is harmless to eat, but when mixed with other variables if becomes a dangerous long term drug used to slow down body organs. Lucky for Sakura it attacked her eyes first and not her heart or lungs.

She leapt onto a island rock looked around its base then spotted the rare strand line and narrowed her eyes as she slide down the rock stepping on top of the water she walked to the lone plant by the base of the rock. Bending down she reached behind her pulling her bag from behind her she dug into the cloth pouch and pulled out a jar. Setting it to the side on the rock she pulled out a small shovel looking utensil and dug into the murky water pulling the root up by the roots along with it's soil and placed it carefully into the jar then sealed the top with the special breathing lid and placed it back into the slot in her bag where it wouldn't be jarred.

Standing up she tightened her bag and jumped onto the rock and froze seeing a good number of men standing along the bank watching her.

"Well this was easy…" She said lowly, "Steal something from them and they come out, and could have saved myself the trouble." She sighed and waited to see what was going on but when they were exchanging looks she was sure they were no threat because they looked a little confused. She was about to take her leave when a large man walked through the crowd.

"Sakura? Well now this is a surprise, the man said her eyes widened. It was the same man she fought in her village when everyone found out about Sasuke! She thought he was surely dead.

"I see you know my face, good because I was hoping it would be well known by know… not anymore right? You have something I want Sakura and I am not will to do anything but take it from you." Her hand moved to her bag but he laughed.

"Don't be silly girl I have the swamp that has the stand, no what I am talking about is you. Sasuke's weakness." Sakura felt her body tense. Sasuke's weakness?

"I think you might want to re-think that strategy…" She called to match the distance.

"Oh? Was he not the one who came to your aid in the forest killing three of my good men? I do think that was his handy work, oh and the time I made a visit to you?" Sakura didn't move her fingers trembled, all this time she was thinking Sasuke was the target, it would make sense everyone wanted him.

"He was in the area." She said trying to sound strong. "He doesn't simply hang around anymore; I think your wasting your time trying to get Kohona involved with your petty games."

"Ah Sakura, Kohona is the game, you see I have full intentions of running all the nations and your little home town will be the first to fall, because when it falls, so does the rest of the fire nation." Sakura stood upright and tightened the bag further around her and moved as fast as she could. Leaping to the tree she broke branches as she went with the force she was exerting into her legs.

She could hear shadows moving below her as the men were sent to chase after her.

"You can't escape you are in my land I am free to do whatever I want legally!" He said Sakura smiled and flipped sideways avoiding a man. She turned around throwing a kunai missing by inches. Grabbing a branch she rolled her body up missing three thrown at her and continued.

Zig zagging around the trees she managed to escape for a minute to plot her way back to the entrance of the swamp. She spotted the man who came into view but vanished into the shadows of the trees. She looked around again and sprung backwards as he attacked. Their fist moving in unison colliding with each other. She gripped a tree swinging around to behind him kicking him off the branch and went into hiding herself

A bead of sweat ran down her forehead fallowing the line of her jaw to her chin where it dripped off to the branch. She looked down at where it had landed and swore as an exploding tag went of below her.

The force of the explosion flung her to another tree allowing her to move as another hit then another. She was on tree tops now and jumped back into the depth of the forest where she could see her opponents again. She spoted a breath in the tree line and stopped to breath again looking around her carefully.

'Up' she looked up, 'left, right'

'Behind…' She smiled and shattered the tree onto the man who was sneaking up on her. The weight pushed the man off and another one came up in his place she moved forward as he pulled his large blade out. He gave a large swing giving her time to jump.

The man stood there motionless looking for where she had gone then looked on the end of his sword and gasped as she ran along the thick blade slicing his throat open she continued jumping to a lower branch then away from the two men who joined her again. The contract punches was enough to hurt them enough that no movement would be permitted afterward without medical help. Finished with the rest batch she raced towards the break in the tree line again and swore as the a large group of men waited with the evil villain in the middle of them his arms crossed across his chest.

She sighed blowing a strand of hair form her face. 'Bring it.'

(Tsunade)

Tsunade researched her own experiment on the wine Sakura had left for her. She read over the results again and again and leaned against the counter setting the paper with the others. It would make sense if she knew how the man could stomach it. She picked up her papers and walked to the door and out into the hallway.

She stopped on the wall of doctors and looked them over and shook her head, there were no doctors that would be able to get away. Sakura was the main doctor other then herself. Three more doctors who grew up here were trust worthy as well as all the nurses. She bit her thumb and continued to walk wondering if a doctor was treating him without Kohona knowing he existed. How would he get in then?

Sasuke got in easy enough without anyone even knowing and was able to keep it that way. She moved around a nurse who bowed her head and continued to the rooms. She looked at her and sighed walking on to the next hallway winding her way through the maze of people and hallways looking at the patients. She stopped a couple feet away from the door and headed into Sakura's office shutting the door behind her and opened the case files that she used to have.

Seven cases had been turned over to another doctor three of the patents have died since Sakura stopped treating them. She looked at the doctor's name and raised a brow. A doctor she didn't recognize. She shut the file and found the file on the recent turn over. An elderly man who Sakura had been seeing for many years and showed good signs of improvement, but died a few weeks after being taken over by the same doctor.

She looked down at the case file seeing what the man had and shook her head. Someone shouldn't have died from such an easy fix. Sakura's treatment would have cured him with in a few months stand and he would have had at least five good years left to him. He was old and retired from being a ninja his body would have been tired as well but not enough to make this chakra deficiency worse.

She closed the file and walked out of the office remembering the name of the doctor and made her way back to her own office. She would look up the doctor in her own record cabinet.

(Naruto and company)

"Tsunade sent us pretty fast to Mist, do you think we will find Sakura on the way?" Naruto asked looking over at Shikamaru who shrugged.

"Beats me Tsunade looked honest when she said she wasn't sure where she would be, the swamp area is small so she figured it would be likely Sakura would be in the village investigating."

"Then that is most likely what the good Sakura would have done, but she is in uncharted waters, running off without telling anyone, leaving a note does this all sound familiar?" A new voice entered they turned and looked at Ino who was assigned do to the lack of skilled ninja in the village right now. Naruto didn't say anything for a few minutes they were all thinking it.

Could Sasuke possibly have worn off on Sakura?

"Lets hope that's not the case, she did tell us what is going on, maybe she didn't have time to explain everything or maybe…"

"She just wanted to do this on her own," Ino said they went silent again and continued through the forest.

(Sakura)

She leaned heavily on a tree watching the forest around her. Her body was growing weak with her injuries to heal and the loss of blood she has had. Healing your own body wasn't as simple as people assumed it would be, your draining yourself to heal yourself.

She moved away again as noiselessly as possible being given away by a bird and swore as kunai raced towards her. She jumped up into the tree line again hiding in the thick canopy and looked around her at the men who raced for her position. She sighed and moved away again she was managing to get closer to the exit, from there she would be able to move faster for she knew the land.

"We can play all day my dear I cannot afford you to leave this place." She would have said some smart ass remark but didn't want to give her position away. She moved again to another trunk and looked around at the men marking their waiting positions. She sighed and leaned against the bark closing her eyes for a few minutes in thought. What would Shikamaru do?

(Naruto and company)

"Ah welcome Naruto what brings you into our village again?" A man asked Naruto smiled and shook his head, "Nothing really, we are looking for a friend of ours, Sakura do you remember her?" the man nodded taking a puff of his pipe.

"Yes she was young the last time I saw her, I haven't seen her since the last time she was here with you!" He said thinking it over again.

"Thank you old man we should get looking." He nodded and started on his way while Shikamaru rubbed his chin and looked around the area. Ino frozen in her tracts turning and looked up at the bird resting on the branch. She turned forcing her chakra into it and watched keenly as her body fell to the ground making Shikamaru turn around alarmed. Ino stretched her wings and took flight with a loud squawk and headed into the forest.

It didn't take her long to find the group of men which she circled around to see their faces and continued flying spotting Sakura breathing heavily against the tree and flapped her wings in reverse breaking through the tops of the tree and headed back to her body. She landed sending her soul back and gasped for air as Shikamaru cradled her softly she smiled and looked at where she was again and remembered. Being in a bird brain wasn't exactly normal.

"She is in the forest, she looks pretty beat up then again so do the other men…Not sure what is going on in there to be honest." She said Shikamaru helped her up and looked at Naruto who of course rushed into the forest blindly.

(Sakura)

Sakura rushed to another hiding place but only to be pursued she swung her body around the rough bark slicing her already chewed up gloves and kicked a man and continued forward boxing the men who came. Her quick body was enough to keep up with the strange movements of the group and the sheer number of them only grew she pushed her muscles harder and faster as she plowed her way kicking and jumped away again as her wounds grew worse re-opening. She gasped taking a hard hit from a large fat man who sent her into the tree line again. She fell through the thick branches and landed on a thick branch with a thud.

She gasped for air rolling to her side and got to her hands and knees. She stood shakily and gritted her teeth.

"Okay…I was playing nice…" she rasped and stayed where she was for a minute and straightened up and sighed taking a calming breath and cracked her knuckles jumping back to the top branch and spotted the men waiting for her looking for her was more accurate. She jumped out swinging down into sight and they chased again.

She jumped over her trap unlatching the trap pin snagging several who swung around each other taking out other and hung there. Dodging another blow she jumped to high branches running along that one taking out men who came early and set of the second trap. The explosive tags went off taking out the men around her leaving her to jump higher landing on a flimsy branch which flung her into the tree line hiding her again.

(Sasuke)

Sasuke opened his eyes his red sharigan rounded the room but disappeared as he remembers where he was and sat up. A wave of anxiety ran over him as he stared into the room. Why the worry? He laid back down ignoring it again but couldn't shake it… what was this feeling?

It was like feeling the physical pain of the victims, but it wasn't them it was… it was… he growled frustrated and closed his eyes rolling to his side. He closed his eyes and the only thing he saw was…

Sakura.

(Sakura)

She sighed and smiled taking out the last of his group and triumphantly stood on the top branch. She swung her leg to the side jumping off but landed only to have the branch break and she began to fall towards the very far away ground. She tried grabbing branch but couldn't stop herself.

She did hit the ground but it wasn't as hard as she though it would be. She opened her eyes sitting up and looked under her and patted the Evil man himself. She smiled at the unconscious man patting his head and looked over to the side seeing Naruto, Shikamaru and Ino leap through the trees and stopped seeing her sitting there.

"Sakura!" Ino called Sakura winced and stood up.

"What happened here?" Naruto asked looking over at men hanging from trees sprawled on the ground and random branch above them.

"Well they weren't going to let me leave with the plant!" She said smiling weakly but would never show that she was exhausted from today's work. They got the man to his feet tying his hands behind him and started back to the village.

"So what, you going to make a habit of this?" Naruto asked as they traveled behind Ino and Shikamaru who were a head of her.

"Yeah I was thinking I would become a rouge for a while, I like this alone thing." She said her face was calm and almost dead serious.

"Sakura you can't just leave, he shouldn't have that control over her." Her laughter made him stop his lecture.

"I am kidding Naruto, I love my village." She said stepping over a log and sighed as her sore legs protested against the movements.

"Believe Sasuke doesn't have that control seeing how he can't even drop by lately and see if I am even alive." She said lowly huffing and looked at Naruto who smiled.

"Well I guess that is normal for you…" he said she nodded and nudged his arm with her elbow.

"Beside if I left permanently who would keep you under control?" He smiled and nodded. She nodded too, happy they were having a good conversation for once. As of recently they had been all about her and Sasuke and not about the friendship Naruto and her still had.

(Tsunade's office.)

"So?" Sakura asked as she stood before the desk Tsunade opened her golden eyes and pushed a file forward.

"There is no record of this Yamata… the man doesn't exist, I sent word to near by villages to keep an eye out for him." She said Sakura nodded looking over the other ingredients that Tsunade had found.

"This could have been lethal..." Sakura said looking up at Tsunade who nodded resting her chin on her hands.

"Brave man…" Sakura added.

"I am looking into further but there is little information I can get from a man who isn't here. No face is in the solitude containment unit three Anbu watch over him now, as well as the man you brought in, he is in the Bingo book for a good reward, but before we send him on the way with the Sand village patrol we need to get what information we can from him by any means necessary." Sakura swallowed the threat was real.

After the conversation about her spontaneous leave Sakura was able to leave with in a few minutes of lecture. She made her way down the numerous amount of stairs to the ground outside and started home to her apartment.

She reached it as the sun began to fall and headed up the stairs to her room and unlocked it and shut the door behind her. She looked around and raised a brow, something was off. She spun a kunai from her leg and readied it as she walked into her room and jumped as arm wrapped around her. She ducked and the kunai was stabbed into the wall as Sasuke came into her sight making her step back he looked at the kunai then back to her.

"Recent events make me want to make sure you are who you look you are."

"What?" he asked sharply.

"Prove to me you who you look like."

"I shouldn't have to prove that."

"That just did." She said lowering her arms to her side and walked to the window locking it and looked at him as he stood there.

"Some guy kept coming in at night who looked like you but was never there when I woke up… I almost met a tragic end thinking you really were trying to kill me again. So I had to be sure it really was you, because I would take you out before I got caught being soft on you." He grinned and rose a brow testing the waters would be interesting.

"Take me out huh?" She walked up to him looking up into his face.

"Well with all this built up tension and all I think I could give you a run for you money not to mention how long its been since you have been here to see me." She said inches away from his lips moving away making him growl lowly and grabbed her pulling her back she smiled evilly.

"See not all battles are fought with brut strength. Mental control is key." His sharigan flickered on making her smiled again this time she succumbed to his pull and buried her face into his chest.

"No fair that is cheating" she said he moved to the bed plopping down holding her hips between his hands. She looked tired, and a little beat up. This could have been the source of his weariness.

"What have you been up too? I cant concentrate if you out getting hurt and all."

"How do you know when I am getting hurt and all." She asked he shrugged slightly his emotionless face never gave away anything so she assumed he was being sincere.

"Well maybe we are connected on a deeper level, and you know when I am in danger and I take on your bad moods… I have to tell you those men I was kind enough to waste time and effort with was all because someone wouldn't come see me leaving me rather bored and in need to risk my neck. I secretly think it was your bad moods that made me so irritable with everyone else too…" His Sharigan eyes roamed her body hardly listening to her. She smiled as he touched her skin even with his gentle slowness the movements were quick, harder like a press rather then a graze but she wouldn't change him.

"Are you listening or amusing yourself?" she asked he ran his hands over her sides to her ribs pulling her a little closer.

"What?" She asked he shook his head and released his Sharigan and looked at her as she stared at him.

"You look tired." He said lowly she nodded then smiled. "So tired I can't get out of these clothes might have to sleep with all this gear on tonight…" She said raising her leg setting her foot on his leg. He looked at her leg then back at her as she raised a brow about to move away. "What with all your training you all of a sudden became great with weapons and not so great with women's clothing?" He unlaced her tall boots and pulled them off.

"No I was thinking you should leave just these boots on." She laughed and he continued up her leg removing the wrapping and weapon which he tossed to the heap of things off to the side. She switched legs so he could do the other side. This continued till she was out of most her clothing. She was getting to tired to stand so he let her lay with him with what she had on by that point which was her shirt and booty shorts. She was asleep within a few minutes of being with him in silnce but when he moved she woke up grabbing his hand. He rolled his head to look at her as she sighed and let go.

"Sorry…" she said and closed her eyes again. She opened them again as his strong arms wrapped around her again pulling her close so he could rest his head on her chest his arm resting protectively over her middle. She smiled closing her eyes again stroking his hair. He stared at the wall for a while till her hand stopped moving and fell softly to the bed behind him resting against his bareback.

Sorry this took me an extra day school started up again….stupid collage… so I tried to get it done but didn't so here it is today! Um I will try to get them up first reviews but that doesn't always happen so bare with me! Much love though I love you guys.

One more thing inspiring music for Sakura's fight scenes was from the BATMAN soundtrack: the track is called: Antrozous

And Sasuke and Sakura's little scene here was 1,000 words the just the piano version not sure why but it really put me in the mood to be soft and gentle so feel free to um give that a whorl I write all of my things with music helps me throw them out there. I see it happening I hope I portray that…eek…hn

Not to mention fan fiction would let me upload it! *cries*

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