Sakura rubber her eyes as she sat down on her chair adjacent to the vanity counter, she swirled her spoon around in her bowl of rice porridge. Sakura just woke up an hour ago and was thinking about the note she received last night, Sakura was considering whether she should go or not because she was definitely not in the mood to bash the shit out of any backstabbers today. Sakura still had an hour till the meeting to decide if she was going or not, eventually she decided to go just to see who it was that left the note.

When Sakura finally got out to the forest of death no one was there so she just hid under water until she heard someone, the foot steps got closer until they inevitably stopped right in front of the stream Sakura was hiding in. Sakura took a peek to see who it was and was shocked to see it was Kabuto, he was rumoured to be dead months ago but then again that's all it was a rumour.

Kabuto did his signature mannerism and pressed his index finger to on the rim of his glasses to push them back then smirked "Sakura I'm not here to play games"

Sakura emerged from the water much like the lady of the lake to reveal herself "I'm sorry I'm not going to destroy my village"

As Kabuto watched Sakura walk away he started to plead his case "Actually I need the nine tailed fox neutralized other wise I'm dead meat and you need him neutralized because he has every one against you"

Sakura stopped in her tracks "I want Naruto to get the help he needs not be killed by some psychopath's protégé"

Sakura started walking away again but Kabuto rushed behind her and pinned her to a tree; one hand was on her neck while the other was holding her arms behind her back. Sakura glared at the murderous yet peaceful look in Kabuto's eye, after a few minutes of staring each other down Kabuto released her from his vice like grip. Sakura rubbed her sore arms as Kabuto smiled devilishly, Sakura really wanted to wipe the smile off his hooded face.

"Naruto being institutionalized is still good for me after all once he's been admitted to the nut house he'll never be able to leave the village again let alone be a ninja so you see we can both win"

Sakura thought about it for a while and knew what he said made sense but was it really worth it listening to him and siding with him? "Find yourself another lackey any way even if I was to side with you how do I know you're the real Kabuto and not just some set up?"

Kabuto's smirk grew wider "Well I know something that will convince you that I am who I say I am" Kabuto lunged for her neck then bit down, Sakura felt a surge through her whole body which paralysed her for an instant. As soon as Kabuto released himself from the bit he disappeared.

Sakura felt extremely sick she needed to get home quickly to see what she was dealing with. Sakura looked around to see if any one was there; if some one saw her there they might think she was a traitor. After she finished checking the area she ran as fast as she could to get home.

…

Sakura opened her bed room window then rushed over to the mirror attached to her vanity counter; she examined the bite mark closely along with its tamoe's which we're a sign of Orochimaru's curse mark which meant it really was Kabuto. Sakura sighed then pulled out her chair and slumped down into it, Sakura lifted her head up to see what was in the mirror. It was none other than the orange jumpsuit enthusiast himself standing right by her window which he seemed to have closed.

A smirk was plastered across his face "Hello Sakura, may we continue our previous encounter?" The smug attitude which he exuded through his voice made Sakura twitch.

"Really you want to continue our little romantic entanglement I guess you're more energetic than I thought"

Sakura even though she wasn't sure whether to be scared or not played along with Naruto's delusion. Sakura flittered her fingers across her neck then down to her jacket buttons, she took off her overcoat to reveal a lacy pink bustier with a matching pink lacy g-string. Sakura noticed how Naruto's attention was more focused then before which played right in to Sakura's plan, Sakura swayed her body seductively as she walked towards Naruto. Naruto traced his fingers down Sakura's body until he got down to her arse; he squeezed her posterior then started kissing her neck vigorously as she moaned.

Sakura was disgusted with being this close to the one who killed Sasuke but she knew Kabuto was watching and that he had a plan so for the time being she had to serve as a distraction. Of course the closeness of an attractive male did make her body give off the natural reaction of arousal but Sakura fought it, although she had to admit that it was nice to feel a warm body next to hers. As Sakura was fighting against her emotions she heard a shattering sound and felt Naruto's body shake, Sakura watched on in shock as he collapsed on to the floor.

"Sorry I took so long I had trouble finding some where to contain him"

Sakura immediately went for her overcoat to cover herself up in Kabuto's presence "What do you mean contain him?"

"Those journals you stole we're decoys he created for someone like us to find and the books with his real long term plans are hidden some where so we have to keep him contained while we're looking"

"That's not going to be easy with all these ninjas doing inspections since I got back"

"Actually thanks to my dead master we have some where to hide him and keep him knocked out at the same time"

"Orochimaru's underground medical lab, I guess that could work but you'd have to constantly check up on him since they are probably keeping a close eye on me"

Kabuto picked up the unconscious Naruto and slung him across his shoulder, Sakura ran to the window to open it for him. Sakura sighed then checked outside to see if any one was watching, after a few minutes of carefully scanning the area she confirmed no one was watching them.

"I'll be back tomorrow to meet you here then we'll go dig up what we can at his apartment"

Sakura nodded then watched as Kabuto disappeared into the night with out a trace, Sakura stepped back then closed the window. As Sakura held on to the window handles she started to cry like a little girl who lost her favourite doll, the events of what happened to her over the past two weeks just caught up with her all at once. Of course the death of Sasuke is what got to her the most; Sakura fell to the ground with her head against the window. The warm tears streaked down her cheeks like a shower head on full blast, but just as quickly as it started the crying stopped like some one had flipped a switch.

Sakura stood up then walked over and laid down on her bed, she closed her eyes tightly and tried to drift off to sleep. Sakura tried to remain in an undisturbed state but was unsuccessful because all she could focus on was her parents talking down stairs, they usually talked this loud and it didn't bother Sakura but this time it did because it only highlighted the fact that she needed to have her own place but it was very doubtful the Hokage would let this happen after recent events. Either way she was going down to the Hokage's mansion tomorrow to fill out an application for an apartment.

…

Sakura was spending most of her morning filling out a tremendous amount for papers which she had to fill out; she was basically stuck in this large room with a desk and a big amount of people in chairs also filling out forms. All in all it was very tedious and Sakura couldn't wait to get out again. After three hours of signing forms and waiting Sakura was called up by Shizune to red over the papers, Sakura was led into a mall room where Lady Tsunade was sitting at a desk and Shizune went to sit in the chair next to her. The Hokage stared at Sakura for a full minute trying to gauge her position in this matter; Tsunade examined the papers carefully then placed them down on the table.

"Alright I'm willing to accept your application on the condition that you don't accept any out of village missions for a month. In light of recent circumstances I think this is a very generous offer on my part"

"It is and I accept"

"Well then head to room 405 to get your apartment key"

"Thank you Lady Hokage"

…

It took a whole week for Sakura to pack up, move in then un-pack and surprisingly Sakura was more worn out than she should have been. Besides the move the week had been pretty uneventful since she didn't end up meeting Shikamaru and Lee but it turned out she was right when she thought it was a trap because the next day she saw them talking to Lady Tsunade.

Sakura stood by her sink waiting for the bile in her throat to finally come out her mouth, besides the extreme exhaustion Sakura had been throwing up for the past three days. Sakura just thought it was the Flu so she didn't test for anything. As she finally vomited into the sink Sakura thought it was time to check on Kabuto, maybe he had some good news to cheer her up with.

…

As Sakura walked down the stone corridors of the underground lab all she could feel was a creepy vibe she just couldn't shake like something bad was going to happen. Sakura eventually reached the chamber where Kabuto kept Naruto, Kabuto was fussing over some read out on the screen while grabbing a syringe of something and injecting it into Naruto's IV. As Sakura got closer to the screen she could see Naruto was crashing and if they didn't do something quickly he would die.

Sakura watched the read out and gave Kabuto directions as they tried to revive Naruto, Sakura couldn't actually help with her hands because they we're shaking violently after all she wanted Naruto cured not dead. Things kept getting worse by the second which made Sakura's eyes water, the more her eyes got watery the harder it was to read the screen but she didn't need the screen to see that Naruto was about to go. Sakura smashed the console in frustration then turned around and stood next to Naruto's body, as the tears rolled down her cheeks Sakura performed CPR even after his heart stopped beating.

"Sakura stop it's no use now"

Kabuto had to pull her off Naruto so she would stop trying to revive the dead body right in front of her. Sakura went straight down to the floor crying, as she kneeled down on the ground with her arms flat on the floor holding up her body she let out all her sadness. Sakura had lost the two people she loved the most in the space of three weeks how much more did she have to lose before this was all over?

Kabuto kneeled down next to Sakura then started to shake her "Hey I here some one in the distance we have to get out of here before they catch us"

Sakura lifted her head up from the cold marble floor "You go on a head I have nothing to live for any more"

"Well if you change your mind and want to escape with me I'll be hiding out in the forest of death for as long as possible"

Sakura nodded then let her head fall back to the hard ground beneath her as she left out her sorrows through her tears. The sound of dozens of steps echoed through the corridors of this under ground chamber and they we're getting closer and closer. The steps stopped as they reached Sakura who was still on the ground crying in the praying position.

One them grabbed Sakura off the ground then put her in chakra cuffs but it didn't matter she was no threat at the moment she probably won't ever be a threat again.

…To be continued…