It was a four day journey to the Tenchi Bridge, and Sakura was nearing the end of her journey. She only had a few more minutes until she got there, and she was not going to chicken out. At that thought she grinned. Then she remembered that she had no backup if something happened, or went wrong, she then frowned, reaching a her destination. She then jumped down from the tree, and transformed herself into Sasori's puppet Hiruko, cloths, voice, and all. With that, she simply waited on the bridge for this so called spy, while trying to look as irritated as possible.

She then noticed a certain chalkra signature, then a "release" came from somewhere behind her, turning back into her usual red shinobi outfit, with a poof. Then she widened her eyes when she heard someones breath at her neck. "Nice to see you again... Sakura," Said a voice, causing Sakura to shiver. She knew exactly who that voice was.

She then turned around abruptly, starring wide at the once dead puppet master. "H-How?" She whispered almost scared.

Her prediction was right. He was still alive, but actually human. He seemed exactly the way he was before, still having a bored look on his face. However he also seemed a bit more gentler, and not as merciless from his tone. She also noticed that instead of an Akatsuki cloak he wore a long black sleeved shirt, with elbow guards; Long pants, nee guards, and a red scarf wrapped around his neck, which seemed a little out of place to her.

He smirked at her half scared, half puzzled face. Gaining a growl from the pink haired kunoichi. Sakura then opened her mouth, but was interrupted when purple cloaked man came into view. She then stood next to Sasori with a determined look plastering her face. Sasori then walked up to the cloaked man, while asking, "Were you followed?"

The spy then looked up. Sakura gasped at what she saw. It was Orochimaru's servant Kabuto! He then replied with a no, Sasori nodded. "I have a few questions for you then," Sasori started. "Where is your current base, and where would I be able to find Sasuke Uchiha?"

Kabuto then told him that it was dead north of here, and that Sasuke was in the base, along with Orochimaru.

When he finished, he ducked his head, for there was a kunai headed straight for him. Sasori was not pleased by this, and growled at Kabuto,"You told me that you weren't followed!" Kabuto then went right beside Sasori, chalkra in his hands. When Orochimaru came of the shadows, Sakura gasped, while Sasori's eyes filled with hatred. Kabuto then smirked, going straight for Sasori, hitting him right in the chest, but suddenly he turned to wood. Kabuto gritted his teeth, and leaped back to Orochimaru, who had a distorted smile on his face, eying Sakura suspiciously.

Sakura then felt a shadow envelope her. Looking back, she found Sasori standing just mere centimeters from her back, looking curiously at her. "You will assist me, after all I told you of this meeting, and I still need to tell you something very important, something that will indeed take time," He whispered into her ear, causing her to shiver once again. She then nodded, cheeks tinted red from their proximity from each other. Sasori then spoke, "Heh, perhaps I have a helper? Sasori smirked," Or two? Deidara!" He yelled making Deidara his, "Partner" jump out of some bushes, almost franticly.

"Kami! You scared me, yeah. Don't usually hear you yell, un" Deidara said with an almost scared look on his face.

Sakura cocked a brow at this. This was the guy that beat Gaara. Gaara! The freaking Kazekage! He got scared by Sasori just yelling at him? Whats wrong with this guy? Shouldn't he be all I'm-way-stronger-then-you, and all that?

"Deidara," Sasori said, while glaring at Orochimaru,"Take care of my "spy" along with Sakura. I've got Orochimaru all to myself," Anger flooded his eyes, Sakura winced at that.

"Alright, un," Deidara replied while smirking, creating a clay bird for himself to fly with.

He then looked at Sakura grinning, and told her, "Heh, so your the famous Sakura that my Danna has been talking about, I also heard that you were the one who caused his death, yeah. Well, if your so ungodly strong then I dare you to help me kick this guys ass into next week," Deidara grinned pointing to Kabuto who just gritted his teeth more. Sakura grinned happily at Deidara, glad to be considered strong. That's when Sasori glared at him, gaining a chuckle out of him.

Sasori then decided to get away from the brat, and charged towards Orochimaru puppet scrolls in his hands. When he was about ten feet from them he saw Kabuto trying to slice him in half, but failed miserably when Sasori simply leaped out of the way, and behind the two.

"You can't kill me that easily," He retorted in his usual bored tone, while releasing his favorite puppet, the 3rd Kazekage, from his scroll. He could hear Sakura shocked voice in the background, saying that she had destroyed the puppet, in which he smirked at.

"Orochimaru, I believe that we have a score to settle," He said calmly,"Without others," He said eying Kabuto.

Orochimaru licked his lips with is long tongue, and said,"Indeed, we do."

With that, they took off making sure to distance themselves from each other. When the three could no longer see them, Kabuto turned to them chalkra igniting from his right arm.

Sakura did NOT want to stay here, she wanted to help Sasori! She was grateful that Deidara had said such pleasant words to her, but she didn't exactly feel like getting blown up today. With that, she leaped up to Deidara's clay bird. Deidara however already knew what the girl was thinking when she leaped up here. "Oi, how long exactly do you plan on staying, and helping me, un?" He questioned, with his usual smirk.

Sakura's eyes widened at his question, but soon she smiled at what he said. He was far smarter than he had led her to believe. "Only long enough for him to not notice that I left," She replied while pointing to Kabuto, who was watching them fly in circles above the bridge.

Deidara then shoved his hand into pocket full of clay quickly making a spider, and filling it full of chalkra. Right before he dropped it onto the bridge, he told Sakura to leave as soon as smoke appeared.

"Art," He said calmly, "Is an explosion!" He yelled while doing a hand sign.

With that the bridge exploded, causing Kabuto to fall backward in the opposite direction of where Orochimaru, and Sasori were. While at the same time, Sakura jumped off the bird, landing at the edge of the bridge, just before it collapsed completely. With that she ran off in the direction of the two other ninja, masking her chalkra completely. Wondering one simple question, 'Why the hell do I want to help the lifeless bastard?' She asked herself completely annoyed.

Sasori was in trouble. Both Orochimaru and himself knew it. He was running out of chalkra, he could probably last another ten minutes before he wouldn't be able to hold the puppet any longer. He sneered at Orochimaru for making him be in such a bind, getting a creepy grin from his opponent. Then with a twitch of his fingertips he released another pyramid of iron sand at the snake man. Just a few seconds before it could strike Orochimaru put up a barrier, three in fact. This jutsu was one of the snake man's were huge stone walls, about fifty feet in height, with creepy looking monster faces. When the iron sand connected it barely left a scratch, leaving a very flustered red head.

"Che!" Sasori growled, "This is really starting to bug me."

He needed something stronger than iron, but where in the world would he be able to find anything strong enough right now? Sasori then realized what he had to do, the problem was she wasn't here right now. Or so he thought.

Sakura soon arrived to where Sasori and Orochimaru were, but was still hiding in the trees, not wanting to get involved unless Sasori figured out that she was around from her chalkra presence, while at the same time hiding it from Orochimaru. Sakura was shocked at what she saw, from the looks of things they have been at it for hours, which was not the case. It hasn't even been an hour! This place was usually covered with trees as far as the eye can see, but nope this place was dirt, rock, and sand. The two basically created a gigantic hole in the middle of a nice forest!

She then saw that Sasori was completely exhausted from the battle, and she couldn't blame him. He's only been in his human body for what? A few days? Just maybe. She almost felt bad for him. Almost. She also saw that the 3rd Kazekage was creating a pyramid of sand. Sakura smirked at that, this was almost over, unless Orochimaru had some type method of get away from those death traps. She doubted it to. When the sand was a complete pyramid, it was hurtled towards the snake man. Just moments before it hit, Orochimaru created some type of stone barrier. Sakura cocked a brow at the barrier, they looked like some type of messed up monsters.

'How weird...' Sakura thought.

When the iron sand finally hit, she was even more shocked to see that it had not even given the barrier the slightest bit of a dent. She looked at Sasori who clearly wanted to get this over with, and she chuckled a bit at his reaction, she figured she might as well help him, all things considered her fists were probably stronger than than those stupid walls of Orochimaru's anyway.

With that thought in mind she raced down towards the puppet master, grinning from ear to ear. The puppet master quickly saw her, and stared at her bored with a bored look, hoping that she picked up on whats happened, and that he needed the help. Sasori felt defeated at that thought. Never in his life has he actually needed something from anyone, let alone their help on a matter.

When she reached him, her grin turned even bigger. She put her hands on her hips, and smiled at him cockily, "So," She began, smiling like an idiot, "You need my help don't cha?"

Sasori narrowed his eyes at the girl before him, "Not entirely, your strength is more of what I need than you exactly," Sakura scowled at his response, but quickly dismissed it, looking at the barriers.

She sighed, and turned to him, "Well, let's just get this over shall we?" She asked him calmly.

Sasori nodded, "Indeed."

Sasori then sealed his Kazekage puppet away. Sakura looked at it quite annoyed by its being here.

"Che! Do you mind telling me how the hell you still have that thing around, even though I completely destroyed it!" Sakura said to the puppet master fuming.

Sasori smirked at her reaction, "A story for another time and place Sakura."

Just hearing her name out of the puppeteers mouth sent shivers down her spine. She loved it, but would never ever repeat it aloud. She had to admit, she almost liked this guy. In a friend way that is.

With that, he attached chalkra strings to her body. "Ready?" He asked.

Sakura nodded, a determined smiled spread across her face. Green eyes flaring with determination, drive, and the desire to win at all costs. Sasori did particularly enjoy the pinketts expressions during their last battle, but even more so now that they were working together.

With a flick of his finger Sakura was moving, fast! Sakura was amazed at how fast she was going, she felt stronger, and more powerful with each passing second that Sasori controlled her. She loved the feeling a lot more than what she had thought she would.

She was about fifty yards from where the barriers were, and with her current speed she was going to hit it about what, two seconds? 'Two...One...' She thought as she gained chalkra in her fists, jumping in the air, and slamming the barrier; channeling her chalkra into the stupid wall to finally break into a million pieces. Maybe more.

In a matter of seconds the barrier was in rubble. Sakura smiled at her work, 'Heh, beat that Sasori! Now this is art! Being able to crush something with just your fists! Ha!'

She then leaped back to Sasori who was about thirty feet away now. She smiled happily at the now human puppet master, "Well? What do you think?"

Sasori narrowed his eyes at the girl, and retorted back, "What do I think? I know that by now you should be almost done with the other two instead of conversing with me girl."

She frowned at him, thinking that he should be at least a happy that she was helping him. Little did she know that Sasori has always been impressed by the girls strength, not that he would even admit it aloud.

"Che!" She grunted annoyed by Sasori's rude remark "Well then, then move me," She said challengingly, crossing her arms.

Sasori smirked, "With pleasure," He then flicked his fingers, making Sakura move once again. An angered look spread across her face. She then raced back to the wall smashing it with more anger than before.

He then figured that this is more than likely how she got her anger out, he thought about it, and was convinced. A sincere smile spread across his lips. He chuckled at the thought.

When she crushed the last one in pieces, they both saw Orochimaru fly backward. They also heard a loud boom echo across the valley. They all looked to where the noise came from, and saw an exhausted Kabuto running toward then at record breaking pace. They also found an overjoyed Deidara flying about on his clay bird, clearly playing cat, and mouse with Kabuto. Sakura chuckled a little, while Sasori smirked at the sight.

With an opportunity Sasori threw a poisoned needle at Orochimaru. Orochimaru moved as fast as he could, but still inevitably got hit by the needle in the arm. He grunted in pain, and fell on his knees, Kabuto then put an arm around him to help him up, and before Sakura could smash their faces in with her fists, Kabuto smirked at them, threw something invisible at Sakura, waved goodbye, and teleported off. The moment they left, Sakura slowly slipped into unconsciousness, she noticed that right before she hit the ground something soft caught her, and pulled her close.

Second edited chapter.

What did you guys think? :D Sasori was a little rude to Sakura in this chapter, but you guys all know how he can be. Hehe :)

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-Cassandra