Akatsuki Kittens

A/N: New chapter! It only gets better from here! I have so much planned for the next couple of chapters so keep reading and reviewing please!

Chapter 12 – Mission Impossible part 1

'I wonder what this mission could be about?' Sakura pondered whilst jumping at ninja speed, from branch to branch through the trees; her destination? The sound village.

'What could be so important in the sound village?'

The wind bit and numbed Sakura's face, it was so cold and moving at inhuman speeds was not helping; for miles all she saw was thick dense tree's, making her surroundings dark and hard to make out, but suddenly up ahead, a bright light shone out of the thick bush, the sound of shouting and slurred drunken words infiltrated her ears. It could only be one place, the sound village. Tsunade had informed her that there would be an old man with her mission scroll waiting at an old Inn called 'One night stands', this did not sound like the place she wanted to be at, but she was a ninja, this was her job and what she had to do, without complaint.

Sakura lifted up the hood of her black, silk cloak and tucked her pink hair in her top; unfortunately pink hair was highly recognisable, so she had to hide it when on mission's encase she was recognised by an old enemy.

Sakura made her way down the cobbled path, which was drowned in red liquor or blood, it was most likely liquor because that was all she could smell, but she was not going to rule out the possibility of blood as this was the sound. The streets were filled with drunken men, slurring sexual favours toward her; the buildings were short and stubby compared to the buildings in the leaf, they looked like cute little run down cottages, which were homed to drunken midgets.

Sakura finally found the little old inn that had a small wooden sign, which swung on 2 lengths of chain from the ceiling, saying 'One Night Stands' and a small drawing of a couple having sex.

Sakura cringed; this defiantly wasn't the type of place she wanted to meet someone. Tsunade had informed her also that the man would be staying in a room under the name of Hitachi; so when she walked in she said the name to the clerk and he gave her an old rusty key.

Sakura admired the key as she walked up the stairs to her room; it was one of those big keys, with the round handle that looks like it should open the gate to Narnia. She finally found her room, number 23, entered the key into the keyhole and twisted it until she heard a click.

Sakura peaked her head around the corner of the door and scanned the room, she saw an old man sitting in the arm chair.

"You must be Sakura, come in dear" He called to her, waggling a finger at her, motioning her to come forward and closer to him.

"You must be Hitachi?" Sakura asked the old man, closing the door behind her as she walked into the small room.

"To you I am" He replied, moving his old wrinkles as he talked "Now then, your mission"

"Yes?" sakura asked excitedly, wondering what it could be.

"It is important that you complete it, here is your scroll" The old man handed her a scroll, with old looking paper and red handles "I must leave now"

"Thank... you" Sakura exclaimed, but then realised he had disappeared.

"Well at least I have some time to myself now... let's have a look at the scroll" Sakura said to herself whilst opening the scroll, it read:

Name: Sakura Haruno

Mission Rank: S

Objective: Capture and bring back a rouge, alive if possible.

Target: Sasuke Uchiha

"I have to find Sasuke?" She sighed and collapsed on the sofa burring her back into her bag, which should not feel the pain of being squished by sakura's back, but for some reason yowled out during the squishing.

"Huh?" Sakura wondered, and then realised what was actually in her bag...

She grabbed the bag and tipped it upside down and out rolled 8 small, colourful kittens.

"Mew!" Tobi purred happily up at her, glad he was out of the bag.

"I can't believe you followed me here!" She shouted at the kittens, who were looking up with guiltily eyes at her.

"Don't pull those innocent eyes at me" she scowled at them and pulled each of their tails to they could explain themselves.

"Well?" Sakura asked raising her eyebrows at them and waiting for them to give her answer for why they were here.

"We wanted to make sure you were safe, un" Deidara told her, eyes guiltily facing the floor.

"Don't give me that bullshit" Sakura exclaimed angrily, placing a stern hand on her hip.

"It's true" Kisame replied looking up at her, with honesty in his eyes, it may not have been the whole reason, but it was the main one!

"We wanted to make you didn't fucking die Sakura, we need you!" Hidan exclaimed to her, with pure emotion in his eyes, not something he experienced a lot in his life; he then looked disgusted at his emotional outburst and shook his head like he was rejecting that he had really just said that to Sakura.

"It's true, un" Deidara agreed, Hidan was happy he wasn't the only one, he didn't wanna seem like a pussy in front of the girl he liked, wait... where did that come from? He didn't like Sakura! Did he...?

"Guy's I'm an ANBU now, I'm not a little girl; I can take care of myself!" She told them, determination and anger in her eyes; it wasn't that she was angry at them, in fact she was touched they cared so much, even Itachi came along, it was just that they didn't think she could take care of herself without the need of being looked after by a man.

"We know Sakura-chan, we were just worried about you, if anything happened to you, and we'd be out on the streets again!" Kisame explained this softened Sakura's eyes slightly.

"We're sorry Sakura-chan, for coming on your mission, if you wish for us to leave, that is what we shall do" Zetsu told her, sadness and guilt shadowing his eyes.

"No we will not" Itachi huffed, his red eyes gleaming with anger and... Jealousy?
"And why not?!" Sakura huffed back at him, placing both hands on her hips in anger and frustration.

"I'm not letting you near my brother" He informed her, his eyes red and black in anger, spinning like pinwheels.

"What's it got to do with you?" She asked him obnoxiously, purposely trying to piss him off, simply because this is probably the most they've talked in weeks.

"He's my brother" he stated, stepping closer to Sakura, Deidara eyeing him and shuffling closer to her, so he didn't like jump on her, attack her and rape her, which in all fairness he looked like he was about to do.

"It's my mission Uchiha!" She growled at him, oh how she loved pissing Uchiha's off.

"Don't call me Uchiha Sakura" He growled back, stepping closer again.

"Why Uchiha?" She teased, half smirking and half snarling, stepping closer to him to piss him off even more, and just when something was about to happen, they were interrupted by arms pulling their angry, pissed off, yet lustful gaze toward each other.

"Hey!" Sakura exclaimed as Deidara dragged her away.

"That's enough fighting Sakura; you have smaller Uchiha's to fry, un" Deidara replied whilst carrying her away from Itachi.

Sakura would have laughed at his remark, as in all fairness, it was pretty funny, but she was pissed off and was currently being carried away by very strong arms around her belly.

"I'm coming for you Sasuke"

End of Chapter

A/N: Better? :D I liked this chapter better, let's admit that last chapter was pretty shit, I hope this made up for it :D please leave a review as they make me very happy :)