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Chapter 17. Organs

"So it shouldn't be able to work right?" Shikamaru asked looking over at Sakura who crossed her arms across her chest.

"Well yes in theory it isn't supposed to work at all, they figured if the organs were able to hide the bodies secrets it would be quicker to cut them out and dispose of them quickly without worrying about the whole body."

"But that isn't the case here is it?" Naruto asked Sakura shook her head.

"There is another reason for it to be in play, back in the bay there were few who possessed the chakra abilities. They would use the organs of the fallen to put into Chakra less bodies and they were supposed to have the abilities of the former own."

"Something went wrong though I remember the days when our missions were simple like chasing a cat." Naruto said Sakura sighed then nodded.

"They were supposed to be able to think with their own thought but they weren't able to at all in fact there bodies normally became vessels, soulless bodies and inside grew hatred monsters. They are hard to defeat one let alone how many ever the person who has been taken the organs has!" Sakura said Gaara leaned against the table this was a grave situation, with the war right at their back door he wasn't able to really supply aid for them other then himself.

"How do we even know they are still in the village?" Naruto asked Ino walked in with Lee and sighed.

"We don't think he is, no bodies, to sign of anything out there tonight, he would have killed by now if he was still here don't you think?" Ino asked Lee nodded and looked to Sakura who also nodded.

"Ino think of the seal, we don't know how long the seal was on them, the No Faced man had one yes but what if they were seeing if we could heal them? Tenten? Hers was strong enough to undertake three nurses and Tsunade was forced to come in and seal the wound completely." They nodded.

"I am thinking that yes there is a possibility that the person responsible has left and he has left with the ruin pieces! We need to figure out what those pieces were!"

"So what do we do?" Naruto asked Sakura looked at Shikamaru who pushed off from the bed.

"We return to the village and prepare a scouting team to see if we can find anyone, Hinata would have been good for this mission but with her out we need to ask Neji and possibly get a Anbu force out there as well. Perhaps Oro has something to do with this, its not like he isn't some how always involved in the shadows else where." Shikamaru said Sakura nodded even though Sasuke said he didn't think there was anyone who would have that ability she had her doubts too. Sasuke was almost ready to give him body to Oro and with his extended stays Sakura wouldn't be surprised if Oro was starting to get suspicious.

She had hoped in one last effort to stop Sasuke that she could convince him to defeat Itachi on his own strength, like Naruto when he was put forward to stop using his demon's power he grew stronger. Then again Sasuke was strong enough to kill every village now if he truly wanted too. All of that would be on his own strength.

"Sakura do you have any ideas?" Shikamaru asked breaking her thoughts. She relaxed her brow then shook her head. "I will stay here and see what I can do to help Gaara everyone should start out back to the village." They nodded but Lee shook his head. "Then I will stay as well." Sakura nodded and the other looked at each other and together all started out of the building and headed off while Lee and Sakura stayed behind.

"Are we going to fight?" Lee asked beside Gaara Sakura nodded and turned to Gaara.

"Lets see this war." He nodded and led the way to the wall.

"How are you feeling these days? Lighter gourd? "Lee asked tapping the sandy case on his back.

Gaara didn't answer which made Sakura smile and jump up the cliffs face with the other two and looked down at the camps lit with red flames.

"They almost want you see them." Sakura said Gaara nodded. "Those aren't camps those are decoys they fight in gorilla style which is why they have been such a pest."

"Why are they here? Konoha was their point of attack why stop here?"

"They cannot past first of all and in order to get to your forest they have to cross the dessert. Fools they didn't stop to think that I was waiting for them for three days."

"They are still here with large numbers?" Lee asked Sakura spotted three sand sitting on the wall looking into the forest then moved as a large fire ball came in their direction crumbling the wall Sakura and the others were standing on. The wall repaired its self as Gaara stood up right from the ground and together they all moved again.

"Do they know they are fighting where there is infinite sand?" Sakura asked Gaara sighed and sent his sand waving into the fake forest life the others had created as shelter. Sakura rushed running down the wall fallowing the sand and smiled as it shielded her aiding her movement. Lee raced behind her and Gaara guided the sand to where it needed to go in order for them to be safe.

"Lee we need to take out the tree life." She called over her shoulder Lee nodded and kicked down a tree only to have it reform.

"Sakura!" She looked over but a wall of sand blocked her view making her stop. The sand flowed low so she could see and she moved as the sand was forced apart by other hands. She swore moving away from the large hands. Springing backwards she caught a look at Gaara who was now being surrounded by others his sand was required for himself now She grabbed a hand full tossing it in the mans face and moved away from him all together.

"This would be why Gaara hasn't been able to get rid of them quickly!" Lee said joining her side kicking away a man and joined her in one of the trees.

"Why?" She asked looking around her and gasped as the tree moved.

"Because the trees are alive!"

(Sasuke)

Sasuke opened his eyes that worry weariness flooded over him again. He looked around the room seeing he was alone and sighed pulling the sheets from his body he slowly made his way from the bed and looked at the sun starting to set then spotted movement by the gate. Seeing familiar faces not recalling all of them he noted that Sakura wasn't with Naruto who looked towards the hospitable. He waved to Shikamaru and headed towards it while Sasuke moved away from the window.

Naruto wouldn't have been able to see him at all with from the distance and through the darkness. Sasuke was a shadow after all.

Sasuke walked to the side where his clothing was and got dressed ignoring the pain of his wounds and finished tying the large knot on his back when Naruto walked inside the door.

"She is fine." Sasuke looked over at him and adjusted the belt then stopped fussing with things to look at Naruto with his full attention.

"Why do you think I am still here?" Sasuke asked coolly.

"I was just about to ask you that, isn't you place by that bastard snakes side?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes his muscles tense with anger.

"Ah jealous Naruto, you finally come here to confront me because Sakura isn't here, pity I am sure she would like to know that you are such a coward." Naruto flinched the sneer voice of Sasuke's anger was present yet his face always looked so calm, uncaring.

"You are using her aren't you, you really don't care."

"No I don't." Even to Naruto's ears that sounded almost sincere. He was using her then? Naruto thought to himself and clenched his fist tightly his claws/nails biting into the palm of his hand.

"Cool your jets Naruto you already knew it was true didn't you? She knew it too right before she took off to Sand why do you think she suspects Oro is really behind it?" Naruto couldn't take it anymore and rushed forward. Sasuke grabbed his blade from Sakura's hiding place under the mattress and flew backwards shattering the window behind him.

Naruto kept coming with unprecedented speed and anger. Sasuke felt bad that he said what he did but Naruto wasn't Sakura. He still stood in the way of him leaving. Sever all unneeded ties.

(Sakura Lee and Gaara)

"They aren't people! These are those things I was telling you about, so they were using the Organs!" Sakura yelled jumping away from a large branch that crashed towards them Lee sprang to the side pulling Sakura mid-air out of the way of another.

"Gaara said they were gorilla warriors how could he know that they were trees?" Lee asked Sakura nodded somersaulting away from a branch slicing it watching as it hissed and pulled back.

"I don't understand why can't we hurt them?" Lee cried.

"Fire hurts them they are trees after all!" A voice called from above them as Temari and Kankuro arrived. Temari send waves of flaming wind towards the trees which cried in horror then vanished into the ground.

"The only thing is we can't kill them with it when they vanish under the sand!" She said landing closing her large fan. Kankuro and his puppet walked to the large gapping holes and looked inside.

"Gaara? Wasn't he with you?" Temari asked Sakura who nodded.

"He was but we got separated an hour or so ago."

"The ruins were like the ones they used to pull my demon from my body," a voice from the side came as Gaara walked towards us.

"What?" Sakura asked looking into a hole.

"I was thinking while battling these pathetic beings…" He said Sakura smiled and turned to face him.

"You saw what it was?" Lee asked Gaara nodded and looked at Temari who looked at the ground sadly.

"They use the same thing to put it back inside you, if they wanted they would have an army of just the worst creatures possible. Then again not every one thought of the beast as burdens, there was the two tails who embraced her gift and used it to protect her village."

"Like you did that night," Kankuro said Gaara closed his eyes for a moment thinking.

"Yes but when we rely of them too much we loose power ourselves, Naruto figured it out early and has gained ground with new techniques" Sakura nodded and Gaara opened his eyes and looked over at Sakura who looked back into the hole hearing movement.

"Well right now we have a problem on our hands perhaps we should discuss this later." They all agreed and moved away from the holes.

"Do we have a plan?" Temari asked being joined by four other men who came out of hiding.

"Were most of your men here?" Sakura asked Temari sighed.

"We have out own patrol out helping with the Akatsuki scouting, most are there and then we have a lot of people still in the city watching over the citizens with Gaara out here." Sakura nodded looking at who she had with her and secretly wished she had Shikamaru's wit.

"I am no Shikamaru but I think I have a plan…" Sakura said they looked at her and she waved for them to come closer.

(Sasuke vs. Naruto)

"So I was right? Sakura is just your frustration release you beat her up too?" Naruto asked as they stood face each other both bleeding pretty good from their faces, Sasuke had re-opened most of his wounds which of course slowed him down quite a bit.

"What the hell are you two doing?" A harsh voice came from the side. Naruto turned and jumped away as Tsunade rushed him and walked towards Sasuke who stepped back but stopped as she pushed his shirt to the side and pressed her fingers into the cut making him swear and went to move but hit the ground by her powerful fist.

"Naruto! Take a walk you have somewhere to be!" She snapped Naruto looked at Sasuke who was pulling himself from the ground angrily and winced as Tsunade slammed her foot into his back forcing him back to the ground and looked at Naruto again with a death glare.

He looked at them again then walked away. Once she was sure he was gone Tsunade reached down grabbed Sasuke's neck and pulled him to his feet slamming him into the tree cracking it behind him. He chuckled and opened his eyes his Sharigan swiveled.

"I didn't know you cared." He rasped from her tight grip around his windpipes.

"You are only living right now because I would loose my best student if I killed you here and now. This is my village you are a guest." She hissed He chuckled again and she dropped him allowing him to slide down the tree holding his rebroken ribs.

"I suggest you get back your room…" She said lowly he spit blood from his mouth off to the side and started forward holding himself up so his ribs would be jarred with each step.

Damn village.

(Sakura and Gang)

Sakura watched as Lee walked with the three other men through the forest that had re-grown a few hours later.

Her green eyes narrowed as a feeling of pain rushed through her body making her hesitate in her spot of hiding for a minute and looked around her person and looked at Lee who was still moving through the forest. She reached upwards towards her ribs and winced they felt like they were being pressed tightly. Then the feeling vanished making her really confusing and she waited for it to happen again.

They moved through the trees now as they started to come alive again, Temari and Kankuro leapt forward sending flames into the forest. Gaara and Sakura were next they leapt forward right behind them.

Gaara sent his sand holding the trees from entering the ground while Sakura reared her fist back smashing the ground disrupting the roots forcing the real monster belly up. Sakura swore jumping away from the mass of roaring teeth.

"Now!" She yelled fleeing the long vine like tongues and pulled tightly on the invisible wire she had connected. Flames lit and flew down over the wires making her wince from the heat but held tight as Termari and Kankuro torched the tree creature which screamed in agony till it was nothing more then ash. Sakura released the wires and looked at her burned fingers and sighed. You win some you loose some.

"I am hurt it was so easy to think of a plan, shocking for a woman of your stature." A voice came they turned and faced an unknown man.

"Ah Sakura I have heard you were a beauty but I didn't know you were a cold stone fox." Sakura's eyes narrowed and Gaara stepped forward.

"Down boy we don't have any need for an empty case." Sakura rushed forward but the man chuckled and vanished in a small puff of smoke.

"Who was that?" Lee asked anyone who knew, Sakura walked back and looked at Gaara who looked at Temari no one knew who it was which concerned Sakura that there was another out for Naruto's head one who could potentially be dangerous if he severed organs and created a monster that was under his control.

They went back into the village where Lee and Sakura told them to keep an eye out for any news and to let them know as soon as anything came up. They were leaving in a hurry because Tsunade told them to get back when they could.

(Konoha)

"I see so the organs were used then, I will see if I can find anything on users who have tried to get the jutsu mastered." Tsunade said linking her fingers together under chin. Sakura nodded and looked at Lee who looked tired but stood upright and proud. She smiled then looked at Tsunade again who seemed to be in deep thought.

"Dismissed till further notice, lets keep this under wraps for now I don't want the user to find out we really know if he has tires in our city too." Sakura nodded and started to fallow Lee out of the office.

"Sakura stay with me a moment." Sakura paused and turned around to face her while the door shut behind her.

(Naruto)

After the small tuff with Sasuke he was a little more then still fuming. He fought back his anger that bubbled with his red chakra through out his body. He was slow regaining control of the beast inside when Sakura came around the corner.

"Naruto?" She asked walking towards him as stared at a small creek.

"What are you here to yell at me?" He snapped she smiled and sat next to him looking at the creek as well.

"No I am here to see if you're okay. He must have said something about me for you to be this angry."

"He is using you Sakura that would normally make a person mad." She laughed making Naruto look over at him.

"Sasuke may say things like that because he knows it makes you mad, I wish Sasuke was like the Sasuke I know to everyone else." He sighed and looked away from her again.

"I miss him still you know, the old Sasuke not this high powered angry shit head." She smiled and nodded.

"Naruto if you think about it…he isn't the one that has changed, he has always been the strongest, till now," she paused the till now was for his ego to cheer him up. "And he has always been angry and you know it. When have you ever seen Sasuke really smile?" He thought about it and shook his head. "I can't really remember any!"

"See, he just carries a big chip on his shoulder, you used to, too you just handled it a little differently." He nodded again.

"But don't listen to him, don't talk to him if it really makes you that mad. He isn't who he perceives himself to be." With that she stood up dusting herself off.

"What happens when He joins bodies with Oro?" Naruto asked lowly Sakura lowered her eyes sadly then turned and faced him.

"Then Sasuke really wouldn't be Sasuke would he?" She asked and started to walk away.

"I won't let him go Sakura you know that…"

"I won't let him go either…" She breathed and waved over her should then walked towards the main section of the village making her way to the hospitable. Walking up to the top level which was mostly empty she walked into Sasuke's room and gasped as he got caught stitching himself up. She walked forward grabbing the needle from him and glared he shrugged and she sighed cutting the thread and pulled it out carefully opening the wound again.

"Wow this is the worst self sew up job I have ever seen."

"How do you think I did it before I decided to come here?" She smiled bending over to look at the wound on his waist then stood up right picking a piece of glass from the wound. She raised it and raised her brow testily. He gave a small grin and she set the shard to the side and pressed her hands over the wound healing it with her Chakra.

He watched her carefully as her warm hands found new and old wounds healing them as she went and stopped at his ribs and moved away from them weakly and leaned on the bed his quick hands grabbed her from fainting and pulled her back up.

"I am okay…sorry." She said dizzily holding her head then reached forward to heal his ribs but he pulled her arms around his neck and scooped her up putting her onto the bed and crawled beside her.

"They don't hurt leave them be," She nodded and he pushed her head to his chest burrowing his own face into her pink hair kissing her sweet smelling hair.

"I thought you don't heal anyone who isn't your own." He said after a few minutes of silence. Sakura was exhausted her body couldn't even handle fixing broken ribs but she forced herself to heal the rest of him which confused Sasuke.

"We don't, but your mine I want you to be healthy…and well taken care for… That is what people do when they loving something." She was drifting mostly talking in and out of her consciousness.

"I have not taken very good care of you, letting you run around like a mad woman fighting weaklings getting hurt for them." She smiled pulling herself closer and snuggled closer to his shoulder.

"They aren't weak, just compared to you they seem…ill prepared…and…I get hurt because I fly into battle blindly and recklessly remember?" She yawned and his nodded against her head his onyx eyes narrowed slightly.

"I will take care of you…"

"You already do…" She said lowly he closed his eyes and pulled her tightly to him completely like they normally slept, he was possessive over her in a good way a way that would always make her feel safe whether he knew it or not.

I am sooooooooooooo sorry this has been delayed a lot of things sprung up on me! So here it is sorry again. I kinda really rushed typing this all out so there are errors everywhere inside there, but if you have gotten this far I am sure you don't even read the errors anymore right? Right that makes me feel good…..not… ha ha anyway sorry again and hope you enjoyed you know the drill for the rest.

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