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Warnings: Perversion

Chapter 9: Too much information

"Sasuke-kun, is everything all right?" Sakura asked when Sasuke emerged from the shower. She was in the kitchen, helping herself to breakfast. "I didn't want to start without you, but Cerberus said it was okay."

"I just defeated one of those Clon Reid Cards, and its fine. I was just otherwise occupied." Sasuke explained.

"Oh, which one," Sakura asked curiously.

"Trust me; you're better off not knowing." Sasuke said, giving Bunny-chan a dark glare. "What kind of sick pervert was Clon Reid anyway?"

Sakura blinked. "…Pervert?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Bunny-chan defended.

"Well, explain this." Sasuke slapped the Lust Card down on the table. Sakura took a peek, her eyes widening at the provocative image on the Card.

"Sasuke-kun, are you all right?" She gasped.

"Well, Itachi and I are still in one piece, so yes," He said bluntly. "I restrained him before he could rape me." Not that you can rape the willing, his mind supplied helpfully. They didn't need to know the details.

"Bunny-chan!" Sakura shrieked, before she punched the winged rabbit clear into the living room. "How many cards are there like that out there?" Her voice had risen an entire octave. "I-I don't want to deal with this!"

"O-only three more!" Bunny-chan whimpered when she returned. "The Reshape Card can alter your body in any shape or form. The Mind Card can do the same to your mind. And the Reality Card can make those changes permanent."

"And you didn't think to tell me any of this beforehand?" Sakura was visibly fuming now. You could practically see the steam rising from her ears and puffing out of her nostrils. "Don't go anywhere, Bunny-chan. You're going to tell me about the rest of the Clon Reid Cards right now."

Bunny-chan gulped.

"Water Card, Metal Card, and Tree Card are the other three most powerful Cards remaining," She said as quickly as she could. "They control the elements their name suggests. Water controls Water, Metal controls all metals, and Tree controls plant life."

"Fine," Sakura said. "How do we defeat them?"

Bunny-chan winced. "Tree and Metal are weak to Fire, and Water is weak to Tree." She confessed.

"All right," Sakura took a deep breath. That was a start, at least. "What's next?"

"Lightning," Bunny-chan babbled. "It uses electrical attacks."

"Fine," Sakura wasn't sure how she'd deal with that one, perhaps Wind. "Next?"

"The Bind Card, it conjures ropes, webs, chains and the like to tie the opponents up."

Sakura winced. That could be dangerous. She motioned for Bunny-chan to continue.

"The Slow Card," Bunny-chan gulped. "It slows the opponent down."

"The Levitate Card," Bunny-chan mentioned next. Sakura rested her chin on her hands. She had a pretty good guess what that did, although that could be an interesting ability to have. "Is that the same as flying? How high can you go?"

"I'm not sure," Bunny-chan confessed. "The Attack and Defense Cards are next. They boost your martial arts skills in those areas, respectively."

Sakura shrugged. She knew taijutsu wasn't her strongest point.

"The Stone Card," Bunny-chan counted on her paw. Another element, Sakura thought. At this point, she was going to have as much ninjutsu as Sasuke did.

"The Crystal Card…" That added another element.

"The Mirage Card shows you illusions…"

"I thought so," Sakura was starting to get a headache.

"The Timeslip Card," Bunny wrinkled her brow. "It's hard to describe, but it allows you to slip between seconds of time." Sakura gasped.

"This just keeps getting better and better," Sasuke said dryly. That one seemed particularly dangerous. Would he even be able to counter that one with Time, or would Loop be a better choice?

"And you said that's not even one of the strongest ones?" Sakura shivered.

Bunny-chan clapped her paws together to get their attention. "The Gateway Card," She said next. "It is how Clon Reid managed to travel to this world." That caught their attention.

So, there was a way to travel to other worlds. That was very important.

"The Poison Card, master of poisons," Bunny-chan said. Sakura sighed. She didn't want to meet that one anytime soon. Sasuke just hoped a broad-spectrum antidote would be enough to temporarily shut it down.

"And finally, the Whore Card…" Bunny-chan finished.
Both Sasuke and Sakura blinked at her.

"…Could you repeat that?" Sakura asked.

Bunny-chan looked sheepish. "The last Card Clon Reid managed to create was made by sealing the soul of the whore who knifed him when he tried to cheat her on his payment the morning after. Its powers are unknown."

Sasuke and Sakura looked a little queasy.

"…He really was a horny teenager, wasn't he?" Sasuke finally muttered.

"Pervert," Sakura agreed.

Itachi, who had caught the entire conversation, just smiled to himself.

After eating their now cold breakfast, Sakura went to practice using her Fire and Wind Cards while Itachi trained with Fight and Sasuke monitored his tracking spells. While Bunny-chan's explanation had been truthful, as far as he could tell (and verified with the discreet use of Libra), the little winged rabbit was still hiding something. He had a pretty good idea of what it was. Twenty-five cards to a deck didn't quite make sense. There had to be at least one more Card… Quite possibly, it was something like Void had been, strong enough to balance out the power of the other twenty-five.

Sasuke went to visit Naruto in the hospital. He had a sneaking suspicion as to why Naruto was there. Mixing magic with demonic chakra was probably not a good idea. Having a guardian merge with a human host was one thing. Having a guardian merge with a human host who was already hosting a bijuu was probably not a good thing.

Kakashi was already in the room, his nose buried in a familiar orange book. He looked up when Sasuke entered the room. Sasuke nodded to his Jounin-sensei and spent half an hour sitting there, occasionally talking to the comatose Naruto, telling him how he and Sakura were doing, carefully omitting any mention of magical incidents. He could definitely feel the foreign magic struggling against the Kyuubi's chakra. The Kyuubi was winning, for now, but once all the Cards were captured… the balance would probably tip the other way.

"I'm sure Naruto appreciates the visit, Sasuke." Kakashi said when he got up to leave.

"I'll make sure Sakura visits soon, too." Sasuke promised.

Kakashi nodded and watched him leave with a slight smile.

Sakura was exhausted when Sasuke returned from the hospital. Sasuke handed her a shake. "Drink this." He said. "We don't have enough time, so I'm going to make time."

"What do you mean?" Sakura looked at him, taking a sip of the shake. Her eyes widened as she felt energy fill her. What was in that shake?

"We need Naruto to wake up and be back in shape before the Chuunin Exams," Sasuke replied. "That means we need to capture all the Clon Cards before then. If we wait for them to come to us there's no guarantee they'll appear in time. So I'm going to attract them."

Bunny-chan's eyes went wide. "But you can't!" She gasped. "There's no way Sakura can defeat them all, at her level!"

Sakura glared at her guardian.

"I wasn't finished," Sasuke said. "But you are correct. We'll just have to get Sakura to that level."

Itachi smiled. Sakura got the feeling that she was missing something very important.

"Keep practicing," Sasuke told her. "We have plenty of time." For some reason, that statement struck Sakura as very ominous. She excused herself and went to use the restroom. On impulse, she checked the date and time on the clock when she was finished.

By the next morning, Sakura had realized what had happened.

"Once you're proficient with the Cards you have, time will resume." Sasuke reassured her. "It's all up to you."

Sakura scowled at him. She hated it when he was right.

The Tree Card withered into flames. Sakura breathed heavily as she captured it, a smile on her face. Thank goodness that had been the first one to show up!

Sasuke slashed through everything the Bind Card could conjure up with ease.

Tree shattered Stone, its thick branches and roots ripping apart the rock. Sakura almost felt sorry for the Card, but not enough to keep herself from capturing it.

"There is no difference between my illusion and my reality," Sasuke whispered, as he gazed into the Reality Card's eyes, much to Itachi's amusement as he watched the scene taking place. "You came when you sensed I was casting Illusion, didn't you? But I didn't change a single thing… everything… was exactly the same as it already was. And now, you're mine…"

Lightning crashed against the Stone, but Stone held firm. Bunny-chan squeaked in fear, but Sakura was confident. She smiled triumphantly as she captured the Card.

Metal glowed red-hot as Fire finally melted it down.

She jumped from rooftop to rooftop, finally using Lightning to strike Levitate down.

Sakura panted as she trapped Water with Hail and Tree. "Finally…"

In the hospital, Naruto's eyes opened. He might not be fully recovered, but the balance had tipped enough that he was awake.

Kakashi gasped, and called for the doctors right now.

"Sakura-chan, Sasuke," Naruto met them outside the hospital the next day.

"You already know," Sasuke said. Naruto nodded.

"Yeah, he and I aren't exactly separate," Naruto said. "I'm still kind of pissed, and I don't want to fight either of you, but the sooner we get it over with, the sooner I can get my body back."

"You can absorb him?" Sasuke asked, intrigued.

Naruto's smile was foxy sharp. "Yes. He was only temporary. Clon Reid didn't have enough power to permanently create a second guardian." He cast a hungry look at Bunny-chan. The winged rabbit shivered.

"In any case, I seriously need to get back into shape, so," Naruto turned to look at Sasuke. "Mind doing that nifty little trick for me?"

"Already on it," Sasuke said, as they walked towards the nearest training ground.

End Chapter

Started 3/26/16

Completed 3/27/16

Team Seven reunites! The Bind, Reshape and Mind Cards were taken from the Breast Expansion Archive Unending Adventure CCS threads, which I participated in back in 2004. The Gateway Card came from White Shirt's hentai fanfic 'Cardcaptors: The Gateway Card' on the Greyarchive but I was unable to contact him for permission to use it.