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"Inner"

"Thoughts"

"Normal talking"

Recap for the last chapter

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"Come in" A deep voice from behind a door answered.

"You wished to see us leader-sama?" A silky, deep voice asked.

"Yes. I have an important mission for you two."

To an Akatsuki hideout

Itachi Uchiha and, his partner, Kisame Hoshigaki stood in front of a large desk in a barely lit room with a shadowy figure known to them as leader-sama, or Pein. Kisame Hoshigaki often compared to the large predator of the sea, the shark, due to his blue like skin tone, sharp and pointed teeth, the gills on his cheeks, and his beady eyes. A giant of a man that towered over most if not all that see him and his well-defined muscles from years of training and fighting. Compared to Kisame, Itachi is not as tall or has as pronounced muscles, but still reached an impressive height all the same with his lean figure. Itachi had long silky black hair that reaches just down between his shoulder blades, stress lines permanently fitted on to his face, lightly tanned skin, and blazing red eyes that seemed to analyze your every move.

"I want you two to find Sakura Haruno, and bring her back to me." Pein said with his stern ringed eyes looking directly into Itachi's own red eyes.

"Sakura Haruno? That name sounds familiar. Who is that?" Kisame said.

"Sakura Haruno? The pink haired female that used to be my foolish little brother's team mate?" Itachi asked.

"Just as Itachi said, she used to be Uchiha Sasuke's teammate, and she had nothing really noteworthy about her besides her pink hair and green eyes." Pein said in a disinterested tone.

"If she is nothing important, what is the point of us retrieving her?" Kisame asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

Pein glanced towards Kisame and answered, "Despite Sakura Haruno's uninteresting past, she has made quite the name herself for the past few years. She became Tsunade's only apprentice to inherit Tsunade's monstrous strength, she has saved thousands of people's lives with her impressive medic nin skills, found the cure to Sasori's poison while in her apprenticeship, she "killed" Sasori, she has been proven to have a high intelligence, and is said to have developed the strength of a hundred seal into her forehead."

Kisame let out a low whistle, "She became quite the accomplished little kunoichi, but that still doesn't explain why we need to capture her."

"Before, we could make due using Sasori's medical skills, but Sasori's skills as a medic is limited. We need to have a skilled and experienced medical-nin to care for our members in order to have them in top condition at all times. Itachi needs to have his eyes and illness healed, and several other members require a skilled medic. Sakura Haruno just happens to be the second best if not the best medical-nin there is, and my sources have alerted me to the fact that she has left the village alone to take a vacation somewhere near the border of Amegakure and Konoha. I want you two to capture her, and bring her here to become our medic. Is that clear?" Pein said in a commanding tone of voice.

"Yes." Itachi and Kisame answered at the same time.

"Good, now go retrieve our medic." Pein said as he returned his attention to some documents he was working on before they arrived.

With that, said Itachi and Kisame left to prepare for their mission, so they decided to leave early the next morning.

To Sakura the next morning

Sakura was sun bathing in her wolf form on a large rock enjoying the feeling of the warm sunrays heating her up. She stretched out, closed her eyes, and yawned as she felt herself start to get drowsy. "What do you think you're doing?!" Inner yelled from inside her head. One of Sakura's eyes opened to reveal her emerald and hazel speckled eye, and answered, "I am relaxing and I may take a nap on this rock inner." "No you're not! We are finally out of that hospital, and we are going to enjoy every moment!" Inner shrieked. "And what makes you think that I won't enjoy this lovely nap?" Sakura thought to Inner slightly amused. "You may enjoy your nap, but I am going to be bored! We need to do something like go for a run around the forest, cause little animals to have heart attacks then leave them to gain a sense of security just to come back and do it again, or go train in your wolf form, or go swimming in the lake, or-" Sakura interrupted Inner with an amused huff. "I get it Inner you want us to go do something, so how about I go take a bath at the lake than go for a walk around the forest." Inner crossed her arms, and said, "Fine! As long as we do something!" Sakura got up with a chuckle then set off in a run towards the lake enjoying the feeling of her legs stretching as she pushed off towards her goal.

Once she reached the lake, she jumped into the deep end of the lake still in her wolf form. "Now how do you plan to wash your hair with paws?" Inner said with her eyes alight with amusement. "Yeah, Yeah I get it! I just wanted to cool off a bit before I changed form." Sakura responded. After she made it back to land, she began to shift back into her human shape, and her fur receded back into her skin. Her paws reverted back into small feminine hands, her head changed back into its human shape, wolf ears changed into human ears, her silvery-pink tail disappearing to leave her bare behind, fangs shrinking back into her mouth, claws sheathing themselves in her hand, and her emerald and hazel eyes turned to their pure emerald color. After taking a breath to calm herself, Sakura said to inner, "Is that better?" Inner snorted, "It will do." "Thank you for your kind words your highness." Sakura said with her voice thick with sarcasm. "Your welcome peasant!" Inner returned in a haughty voice. They both broke down into laughter as Sakura re-entered the water, and began to wash her body.

As she started washing her hair, she thought she sensed one of her traps that she set up around the perimeter of the entrance to the cave went off. She tried to shrug it off, and she continued to rinse out her hair as she suddenly felt several more start going off. "What the absolute fuck is going on!" Inner roared from inside her mind. Sakura jumped out of the water, and ran to grab her weapons and some clothes from her den. Once she reached her den, she threw on the clothes nearest her which happened to be a tight red t-shirt and tight shorts that reached to half way down her thighs, and she grabbed her weapons as she rushed to the outside of the cave.

About a half hour earlier with Kisame and Itachi

Kisame and Itachi had finally reached the area where Sakura was suspected to be, and were now scouting the area for signs of Sakura. "Why the fuck are we out here looking for some brat with pink hair when we could be out capturing jinchurikis or assassinating some bothersome ninja!? Where is the fun of babysitting some pink hair girl when I could be out fighting some ninja that is worth my time!? I mean what kind of shinobi has pink hair!?" Kisame ranted as he jumped to another tree branch beside Kisame.

Itachi, being his usual self, ignored Kisame's complaints with is regular straight face as he scanned the surrounding area. "Hmmm. There is trap right there, and it does not look like it was meant to be a fatal trap. However, what is its purpose of being here? Maybe I should warn Kisame about it since it is in his path. Hmm. No, he should be paying attention to his surroundings in the first place besides it may get him to stop with his annoying complaining." Itachi thought as he spotted a trip wire hidden by chakra.

Kisame looked over to Itachi as he asked, "Are you even listening to me!?" then he stepped on the trip wire. "Shit!" Kisame yelled as he jumped back as the branch and the rest of the tree exploded. As he landed on the ground, he ended up stepping on another wire that caused two large logs to come swinging towards him, which he stumbled away in time for them to both explode as they collided. As he stumbled away, he almost fell into a pit filled with C4, which again went off. "Damn! Whoever the hell it was that set up these traps would be great friends with Deidara!" Kisame cursed as he tried to avoid the large amounts of traps set up around the area as Itachi watched with a blank look on his face. Little did Kisame know that Itachi was restraining himself from laughing at his misfortune, and Kisame yelled up to him, "Damn it Itachi! Why did you not tell me that we were walking into a death trap?!" After a moment of calming himself, he spoke in an uninterested tone, "You should have watched where you were going. Now stop fooling around; we have a mission to complete."

Kisame struggled at first, but he finally made it back up to where Itachi was standing. He turned to Itachi, and he said, "You know you are a di-"it was at that moment a shower of kunai heading towards them decided to interrupt him mid-sentence. "State your name, and what your purpose is here!" Kisame and Itachi turned to look in the direction of the feminine voice came from. Kisame said, "Ah, you saved us a lot of trouble coming here instead of us coming to find you."

And scene! Thank you guys so much for sticking with me to this point! I know I don't update regularly, but I am trying. I can't wait to get to the next chapter, so until next time!