Pein walked through the filled halls, all the recruits had been called in. After a few interrogation sessions with Nami they came to find that the leader of Me Suishoo had been kidnapping children since he ran away...all those years ago, he just happened to have an army larger than Konoha, Suna, & Iwa put together, which is the reason why they were getting all the recruits they had new & old. If this wasn't enough then that only left two options Sakura dies & their enemies get the scroll...or They some how convince Konoha, Suna, Iwa, & Taki, to help rescue her...he highly doubted that such a thing could be pulled off as well.

Life was becoming complicated more and more, never in his entire life did he imagine something like this happening. He had known that he was getting attached to Sakura in an emotional way, but he didn't realize that he was this attached to her, just the thought that the old man has her, probably raping her, making her fight without her chakra, cutting her in all sorts of places. It made him burn with rage and anger, he should have watched her more closely this wouldn't have happened him if he had.

Pein pulled at his hair as he walked towards his office, he was blaming it on himself again, & it was killing him at the moment...that damn woman just had to go and get kidnaped.


Sakura was dragged through many large & long halls, she looked like an expensinve slave slash whore. Yuu was dragging her by the back of her neck, his long claws digging into her flesh, his skin was ice cold, the devils touch was probably warmer than his. She had no idea where he was dragging her off to but, she knew that it probably had something to do with the chakra shield on her, this was the only time she was thankful that she decided to grow her hair out again. Her hair was long enough to cover the back of her neck...where her monthly sealing was located at.

Pein had been kind enough to allow her to continue with her sealings & unsealings when she was with him, and if his chakra formed a shield atop her skin then that could only mean that her monthly seal was the weakest point of the shield...she couldn't allow that old man to see the seal or the scroll was his.


Naruto sat on the window-sill in the Hokages towes. His cheeks stained from his tears, the tears that had been shed for Jiraiya...for Sakura. His heart ached at the thought of his sister, the sister he had abandoned when she needed him most, running away to help someone who didn't need him, just used him to break his sisters heart.

Karin that girl had known all along what she was going to do the moment she had set her eyes on Sakura, she knew that if everyone saw her differently than he'd be there & save her, take her in. She knew that once she was takin in by him then everyone would also warm up to her, allow her into their hearts. But she knew that at the time she was just a replacement for Sakura, as soon as the two meet Karin had made everyone love her, casting her spell on all of them, playing them like the idiots they were.

Sakura hadn't had a chance the day they meet Karin, the red-headed whore had stolen her life by the time she came back. Idiot, that's the only word that could desribe him, he was an idiot for allowing it to happen, he hadn't done anything about it when the game with Sakura had started he had been tricked by her charm.

All of them had been, Kakashi, Tsunade, Sasuke, the rookie nine, Gai's team everyone...and now they were paying for it.


Sakura was thrown into a black rusty cage, a very large cage...now she was felt like an animal. The cage was in the middle of the village...if that's what you wanted to call it, people men & woman & children...now she felt like a zoo animal that was just pulled away from the wild life that she was accustomed too. They just kept staring at her, whispering things back & forth about her looks, now she felt like a sideshow freak, life just wasn't fair. Then she felt the cage being lifted looking down she watched as the people become smaller, she could tell that it was hanging on a rope, that would soon enough begin to thin out & finally break...what god did she piss off?

"Now Sakura you will stay up there until we figure out a way to get that shield off...perhaps if we keep you from eating then it will help some, I'll be seeing you." Yuu said

"Yippee at least I get to bond with mother nature!" Sakura yelled back in a bitter sweet tone

"That's the spirit." Yuu said before he dissapeared from her view.

"What scorned goddess did I piss of when I was born?...and why the hell do these sociopaths have an old cage!" Sakura mumbled to herself.


Black ringed eyes stared at the black moon from their window, the grey iris duller than usual, eyes filled with nothing in them, eyes showing nothing. These were the eyes of the Akatsuki leader, the eyes that had killed many, fought many, & lead many.

"Pein, Madara wishes to see you." A female voice said from behind him.

Pein turned around to find his blue haired partner leaning against the door frame, the woman in front of him did not seem to be all there at the moment, she seemed lost in thought. It had been a week already & nothing had changed yet.

The moon was still the same, nobody was capable of using their chakra other than him & Nami, & the newest information they had recently gathered was leading them nowhere as well.

Brushing passed her he walked through the long halls, finally stopping when he reached his destintion. Opening the door he waited for the elder to notice him as he took his seat.

"Pein take a look at this drawing & tell me what you see." Madara said as he passed an opened scroll to the rinnegan user.

Looking at the parchment Pein looked at the drawing "I see dots in the shape of a cresent moon, with another lighter dot in the center then there are symbols on the far side of the light dot."

"Does it seem at all odd to you in any way?" Madara asked

An orange eyebrow lifted at the question. Looking back at the parchment he scanned the scetch again.

"The symbols seem more like kanjis if anthything." Pein replied

"Ah so you see it as well...I think this is a sealing technique...possibly for the scroll they need." Madara said

"If it's the sealing technique they plan to use then how do we have it?" Konan asked

"Well I've been thinking about what that Nao girl said, If they truly were tipped off by an unknown source that can obviously tell the future then how was it that they didn't see the Uchiha Massacre coming or see that the Rinnegan was to be reborn in this century, or anything else about what has happened in the past?" Madara asked the two

"Perhaps they didn't see it coming?" Konan replied

"Or perhaps they didn't tell them in the first place." Pein said

"Correct Pein...the source didn't tell them about the true future they twisted it, at first we thought Itachi had changed everything by killing the clan, but he didn't."

"Come again?" Konan said

"Those ancient symbols we found I just finished decoding them, the third chiefs & the chiefs after that of both the Kamata & the Haruno clans were being sent messages about the future from an unknown source as well, those symbols were the locations of were they hid the messages, which I had some recuits go to & they found them. So far from what I can tell...they're all from the same person...even ours has the same writing." Madara said

"So now we have another immortal walking around the five great nations & they can see into the future & we didn't know about this why?" Pein asked

"He's good at hiding his tracks, as far as I can tell it seems more like he's playing with everyone now. You see the messages to everyone else were far more specific about things, unlike ours. This persons describes what will happen at certains times & dates, they even decribe the emotions the person will feel." Madara explained

"It sounds like this person is a prophet." Pein said

"They onbviously are." Madara replied

"Well prophets all come from the Kamata clan, why would a prophet send messages to the Haruno clan?" Pein asked

"Perhaps they knew that they would marry or they planned for the clan to unite through marriage...that would explain why the Kamata just appeared in Yukigakure." Konon exclaimed

"Exactly! the last messages he ever sent to anyone was us that's when his wordings came out funny like it's all just a game to him, like this is the start of the game & whatever happens when this is all over is the end of the game." Madara said

"Now I think you've lost your mind completely." Pein said before he was interrupted by Deidara.

"Sorry for disturbing you but, one of my recruits said that this was supposed to be handed to you." Deiadara said as e walked into the room handing Madara a small folded piece of paper.

unfolding it carefully Madara read it out loud

"Akatsuki you have successfully found the scattered puzzle pieces, but there is still much more to be done. To rescue a damsel in distress, one must travel through the the coldest waters, & freeze over to the land of monsters. If you wait to long for you signal to be heard, then the damsel will no longer be a damsel in distress, but a sacrifice ready to be made." Madara read aloud

"Damn so in other words he won't tell us when the jutsu on the moon has been canceled he's gonna make us keep our focus on our chakra...great..just geat." Konan said

"I guess we better call the others & meet back in the meeting room then, meditation will be the best course of action." Madara said

"Madara-sama what about Nao hmm?" Deidara asked

"Take her out of the observation room & put her in yours until later, hopefully by the time we recover our chakra she'll have had enough rest to fulfill her end of the bargain." Madara replied

Deidara nodded his head before he left the room again.

"I think we should be worried about him, he's been hanging around that girl quiet a bit lately." Konan said

"He has but we shouldn't worry, she's no real threat to us." Madara said

"What if she turns against us last minute?" Pein asked

"Then we kill her, only she can choose her own fate." Madara replied before he too walked out of the office with Konan right behind him.


Sasuke watched as the stars flew by him, each one faster than the other. It was times like these that he was truly at peace, he had no hangover killing his senses, he had no woman nagging him or following his every move. No best friend to spoil the moment, nothing just peace & quiet.

Although his mind did keep wondering off into dangerous territories, such as Haruno Sakura, but since he talked with Naruto everything was better in his head with that subject. Perhaps he could convince the elders into allowing him in having a mistress, perhaps he could convince them into having a restraining order put on the Daimyo of Yukigakure keeping him at least a good three countries away from Sakura at all times.

No that was him dreaming again, that was highly impossible it was obvious that they loved the Daimyo so getting rid of him was much to complicated. Although stealing Sakuras heart before his filthy hands could even reach for it was something he was allowed to do, so now if the Daimyo was serious about Sakura he would have to compete with him for her, & it was as simple as that.