Sakura didn't know what to say to this turn of events. I mean sure she was wearing Sasori's old ring that meant she was part of the Akatsuki, but that didn't mean that she wasn't going to fight her way out. She did not want to say cooped up with a bunch of S-ranked criminals! She wasn't one of them! Not only that she wasn't a person to betray her own village! No, not one bit.

Sakura narrowed her eyes at the tall red head in front of her, "Are you the only one who knows of me so far?" She asked seriously.

Sasori's smirk faded, and turned back to its original bored expression,"So far."

"Tell me then Sasori," She seethed through her teeth, "How can I leave this Kami-forsaken place?"

He then put his lips just a centimeter from her ear, "Death," He whispered softly. The feeling of Sasori's breath on her neck made her shiver, making her curse her own body, she didn't want that to happen when he was simply talking to her. Yet, it felt kinda, good. She had to admit, but she would never ever say that aloud.

Sakura was starting to get angry, not only at her unintentional reaction, nor the proximity of Sasori, but the way he was speaking to her. He was speaking down to her! She gritted her teeth, at the calm man before her.

She was mad, Sasori could tell. He could feel the spike in her chalkra, and knew to back away. He knew her strengths, and also knew that she must have also gotten much stronger in the past five years.

"Hmph," He started crossing his arms, and moving away, "If you'd like to battle we can, but not in here," He said in his normal calm voice that made Sakura's eye twitch in irritation.

She hated him being so calm and composed. He was like this more than Sasuke! That was hard to beat, and yeah maybe she was over exaggerating, since she has only been talking to him for about five minutes, but still. She hated it to no end, and she knew one thing for sure, she hated this man.

Sakura glared at the calm red head, and nodded before saying, "You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into," She challenged, crossing her arms.

"Actually, I do, dear Sakura," Sakura's eyes twitched once again when said 'Dear Sakura' He had no right to call her by her first name, let alone put 'dear' before it! "I'm not sorry to say that I've also gotten much better since that last time saw each other, I've been alive longer than you think," He stated calmly.

Sakura was fuming, and she had unintentionally put a ton of chalkra into her fists. She was not expecting to meet with such an irritating version of Sasori, in actuality she had thought that if she had met him before he had gone insane that they would probably be decent friends. That topic somehow had entered her mind every now and again in the past.

"Let's just get this over with!" She seethed through her teeth. Sasori chuckled at the temper she had, and started down the hall on the left, motioning for her to come along.

The walk was long, and the corridor was dimly lit, with many doors that looked exactly the same as the ones before them. Sakura was starting to believe she was in a genjutsu, but blew it off when she accidentally ran into Sasori's back. She hadn't realized she had been in such deep thought, that when Sasori stopped she didn't notice.

Sasori looked behind him in a calm fashion, with a question of the words,"Hmm?"

Sakura stared at him blankly not knowing what to say. Sasori then shrugged to himself, and kept on walking.

Thats when Sasori stopped, but didn't look behind him, "We're here," Sakura looked around, they were now outside in a large clearing, with stream that ran through the middle, with a waterfall on the right of it.

"It's nice," Sakura whispered halfway shocked.

Sasori then looked at her confusedly. "Did you expect anything differently?"

"Well, you Akatsuki people don't exactly look like people who would train by a waterfall, and such," Sakura stated, trying to sound not dumb as it sounded.

Sasori's annoyed look then returned, "Just because we are criminals, does not mean that we aren't civil, on the terms of training. In actuality the only time we are not civil, is when we fight, or when torturing our captives," Sasori stated a-matter-of-factly.

Sakura's eyes widened, but decided not to further the topic, "Well then Akasuna," Sakura started challengingly, "Are you ready?"

Sasori gave her a half glance, and looked like he was going to kill her, "Indeed," he said flatly, but with an edge in his tone. Sasori then took a scroll from his pocket, and released it, it was the 3rd Sandaime Kazekage!

Sakura growled at it, and got into a defensive stance,"I dismantled that thing into pieces five years ago!" Sakura yelled.

Sasori remained still, and narrowed his eyes at her, "And I reassembled it. It's just as I have told you, have had nothing, but time on my hands. I've been alive longer than you think, Sakura."

Sakura narrowed her eyes as well, giving her the look that she was trying to find a method to use to destroy the puppet, "You, know I'm not one to be kept waiting, Sakura," He said aggravatedly.

Sakura rolled her eyes at his impatience, and put chalkra into her hands, readying herself. Sasori then flicked his finger, and the puppet was moving at her faster than Sakura could've even imagined, and she was almost hit by its blades. She was the dodging specialist of Fire Country, almost nothing could hit her anymore.

She needed someway to hit it, but it was too quick for her. Sasori could see her distress, and chuckled darkly at the sight, "Having troubles?" He asked amused.

Thats when Sakura found an opening, and leaped into the air, disappearing in a blink of an eye, forming again at the back of the Kazekage, and hitting it dead on with her chalkra enhanced fists. Sakura smirked, feeling little bits of wood hit her. Sakura stood up completely, and looked at Sasori mischievously, "That all?"

Sasori glared darkly at the girl hoping to make her flinch. He then held out a hand, with chalkra strings still attached, and spoke darkly, "Not even close."

Then a shadow enveloped Sakura from behind, and her eyes went wide in shock, she knew to run, so she did. Actually she had just missed getting hit by a pyramid of iron sand. Sakura was getting annoyed by this. He made an exact copy of the Sandaime Kazekage, to make opponents think that they've won? He has gotten better. Now she had to destroy another one? Apparently.

"You've gotten faster," Sasori stated in his calm, yet bored tone. Sakura smirked, still dodging many hits from the Kazekage. Actually he hasn't hit her once, but Sakura knew that Sasori would never hold back all that he has.

Thats when Sakura had an idea. What would happen if she disrupted the ground that Sasori was standing on. She knew she couldn't hit him without the Sandaime Kazekage going all out on the defense. So why not do something to the ground? She then gained some chalkra, still dodging iron sand, and in a split second released all of it into the ground.

The ground erupted, causing small chasms to appear nearly everywhere in the training area. Sakura stayed in her position smirking at her work, but frowned when she saw that Sasori was now on top of the waterfall. It was as if he was trying to intimidate her! Sakura growled under her breath, and clenched her fists once again, gaining chalkra. That's when she remembered that Sasori was also an amazing taijutsu ninja, even though he didn't specialize in the field. Just her luck, too.

Sakura glared at the smirking red head, standing on a sharp tipped piece of land. He knew she was angry, and he loved to see the fire in her eyes spark with desire to win at all costs. He then quirked a finger upwards, and another pyramid of sand started to form.

Sakura took a glance at it, and did a few signs, performing a new jutsu. It was once where all solids that she hit turned to air, or another type of gas, a Sublimation jutsu. Actually Sakura invented the jutsu for a reason like this one. All she really had to do was increase the amount of chalkra in her fists, and hit the iron pyramids. It was true though, that it caused her to tire easily.

She looked up from her spot of the tiny ridge, and found that the sand was fully formed. Sakura simply glanced at it, silently putting more, and more chalkra in to her fists, reading herself.

"This is over," Sasori stated calmly, yet with a look of insanity on his face. Sakura could see it clearly. She understood that the all the Akatsuki members were mentally insane in all, but why exactly? Was it their pasts? Or just their time with the Akatsuki? Both? Sakura would ponder forever.

The pyramid then dropped, and she stood there waiting for just the right moment. She then hit the bottom of it perfectly, and not only had it started to turn into gas, Sakura was almost completely out of chalkra now. She panted for breath, still standing on the ridge, before she leaped off of it with amazing speed, and was just about to have her victory against Sasori, by defeating his prize puppet, by using her secret jutsu. She was just about a centimeter from it, before a gigantic explosion came into effect, but it wasn't Sasori's doing.

An explosion! Do you guys know what that means? Also what do you think about Sakura's new jutsu? Pretty neat huh? :)

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Ja-ne!

-Cassandra