Sakura blossoms and snakes wonder chapter! Well sorta haha. I'm soo sorry that I haven't been updating often it's been hectic haha. Thanks for all of the reviews and favorites! Those are what keep me writing.
DISCLAIMER! : I do not own nor will ever own Naruto! That is the genius who writes it and I still don't know how to spell his name.
I'm pretty sure you all know what the bolds and italics mean so I won't bother with that today. ON TO THE STORY!
Three year skip!
With the toad sage.
Jiriaya looked up from his "writing" and glanced over to Naruto who was making trying to master a new technique and was failing miserably. "Not like that! Move your right leg back and keep your left leg there." "But what's so important about the leg stance? I'm trying a new jutsu not a combat move." Jiriaya rubbed his temples and closed his eyes. He then said through grit teeth. "If you don't have the right stance you will fall, we have been over this countless times." He then went back to writing. He will get it faster if I leave him alone. Naruto then growled in frustration, and then tried and tried again. Jiriaya looked at the fifteen year old blonde, kyubi. He was getting stronger.
"Naruto we have a mission." "Where pervy old man?" Jiriaya rolled his eyes. "In Kiri brat."
With the pink haired girl
Sakura was walking down the hallways of the lair. Orochimaru had told her to come to the living room at five for a special training, and Sakura didn't want to not listen to him even though it was her birthday and she wanted nothing more than to sit under a tree and think. Cheer up. So what if he forgot your birthday and is making you train, you don't have to be down about it. At first I thought you were trying to make me feel better, now I realize you really do hate me. Sakura thought to inner as she tuned her out.
She finally arrived at the living room. She exhaled deeply and opened the door. "I'm here Oro- what is all this?" she said while a huge smile overcame her face.
She had opened the door to see Orochimaru, Kabuto, Sasori, Kisame, and all of her other close friends of the Akatsuki standing under a huge pink 'Happy Birthday Blossom' banner that was hanging from the twenty foot ceiling. In the past three years she had became friends with the members of the Akatsuki and other members of Orochimaru's guard. Kisame opened his large, blue arms for her and she ran and jumped into them hugging him tightly. He swung her around and laughed with her, her long, pink tresses swirling around with them. "I thought you all forgot about my birthday but here you all are!" "Little blossom, how could we forget about your birthday?" Kisame let Sakura go to see all the others. Sasori mussed up her hair and gave her a small smile as his greeting to her. Pein and Konan came up to her a hugged her but not quite as tight as Kisame. "Happy fifteenth birthday blossom." Konan said while putting a paper flower in her hair. Konan had come to think of Sakura as a little sister, who she thought was absolutely adorable. "Happy birthday." Pein said putting a hand on her shoulder. He had also come to accept Sakura as part of his family. Hidan and Kakuza came up to her next and in their own way told her happy birthday, which was Hidan cussing every other word, and Kakuza making sure she keeps up with her money and is not spending it all. Tobi and Deidara attacked her with hugs and nearly knocked over Sakura. Deidara had a "small" crush on Sakura. While Tobi, or more commonly known as Madara, who had taken a special interest in her training had come to think of her as student whose well being was very important to him. Itachi gave her a small smile that if you hadn't seen it before you wouldn't notice was there. She had understood his reasons for murdering the Uchiha clan and had accepted that he wasn't as masochistic and heartless as he was made out to be. He in return became one of her closest and truest friends. Zetsu congratulated her on still being uneaten after another year. It was their long standing inside joke. She laughed and gave him a hug
"Alright alright. I think it's time for cake!" Orochimaru said breaking up the reunion. He put a pink, large, ice cream cake onto the table that was in the center of the room. Sakura squealed in delight. It was her favorite, chocolate chip cookie dough. You might be asking how can she tell the flavor of the cake covered in icing and well cake. But this is one girl who knows her cake. Orochimaru smiled at his 'daughters' antics. "After cake we can open presents!" "Wait you guys didn't have to get me a present. You have done enough for me the past three years to last through a thousand birthdays!" Sakura said looking around frantically. "No way blossom. You always gave us presents on our birthdays, when we didn't even know you knew when our birthday was. So there is no way that we won't do the same." Kisame said with a large smile on his face. Tears welled up in Sakura's eyes, but she quickly used her new jutsu to dispel them. She hadn't cried since the night her heart broke.
"You guys are the sweetest!" she said looking at her friends. "Yes, yes, yes. Sakura sweetheart we all know how wonderful we all are, but now lets eat this cake before it melts all over my white carpet!" Orochimaru started handing out plates with cake on them. Needless to say everyone finished rather quickly, with Kisame eating all the extras and Sakura eating seconds, and thirds, and fifths.
Very soon everyone was squeezing onto Orochimaru's oversized leather couches. Tobi jumped up to Sakura who was sitting on the floor, by Orochimaru's command, and handed her a small, red box with a big, black bow on the top of it. "Here you go Saku-chan! Tobi picked it out especially for you! Tobi is a good boy!" he said very excitedly. She patted his head gently and opened the box. Inside was a crimson flower. Upon closer examination it turned out it was a hair piece. "Thank you Tobi! It's beautiful." She said smiling at him. "Press the middle." He replied losing his 'Tobi' voice. She pressed the white middle of the flower and the crimson petals elongated to sharp points with many smaller sharp petals coming form each individual petal. She pressed the middle of it again and it returned to its original form. Sakura looked at Tobi in awe. "It was made especially for you blossom." Madara said quietly. She got up and hugged him with ninja speed. "Thank you." She whispered.
As she sat back down Zetsu handed her a black flower with a red stem. She looked at it confused before she finally understood. "I was experimenting on poisonous flowers and I created this. I thought you could use it." Black Zetsu said while white Zetsu scratched his head. "Thank you Zetsu." Deidara put a large, heart shaped box in Sakura's arms as he sat down beside her, it seemed everyone was sitting around her now. She rolled her eyes at him, and opened the box. Inside was a small, clay heart surrounded by clay, Sakura petals. "Dei-dei! This is so sweet!" she said giving him a small hug. He turned bright red and ducked his head. "I-It was nothing." He said bashfully. "Alright lover boy it's my turn." Kisame said handing Sakura something that looked suspiciously like a sword wrapped in pink ribbon. She took it from him and nearly fell with its weight. "Kisame this thing is heavy!" she said breathlessly while sitting back up. He just laughed. She took of the ribbon to find a mini SameHade but instead of blue it was a crimson red. "Thank you Kisa!" she said smiling brightly. Kakuza and Hidan handed her a small, black box. She opened it to find a black wallet with a silver scythe keychain hanging from it. "Thanks guys!" "That's not all it fucking is. Asshole wanted something for you to use if ever get caught up in a shit storm. Hold the fucking scythe and put some chakra in it and the scythe and shit will become a real fucking scythe." Sakura put the wallet and keychain in her hand and focused her chakra into it. The scythe grew until it was about Hidan's scythe size, and the wallet turned into a ball of threads that looked like the kind that Kakuza used to stitch himself back together. Sakura knew what the thread was for, but Kakuza beat her to saying it. "If you ever need to stitch yourself up, or tear apart others." "Thanks you two!" Itachi put something wrapped in crimson cloth in her hand. It felt weightless. She gingerly unfolded the cloth. Underneath the cloth was a necklace similar to Itachi's. The necklace instead of being three, silver circles it was three black circles that looked like flower petals. Sakura hugged Itachi tightly. He automatically tensed, but then put his hand on her back. "Thank you." She said then went back to her original position. Pein put a medium sized, grey box into her arms. "It's form Konan and me." He said quietly. She smiled at both of them and opened the box. Inside was a black cloak with red clouds. She pulled it out and looked closely at it. Instead of a collar it had a hood, and the sleeves went halfway down the cloak and came down to a slanted point. The cloak fanned out at the bottom like a dress and had multiple pockets on the inside. "Konan designed it and I picked out the materials to make it more invulnerable. The cloak is waterproof, fire resistant, and can black virtually any blade." He said still quietly. "He went a little overboard on your cloak." Konan said laughing; Pein gave Sakura an embarrassed look and sat back down. Orochimaru handed her a large scroll. She opened it and realize that it was a snake summoning scroll. "Omigosh! I can now summon the snake?" "Your chakra reserves have gotten larger and I know you are ready." She got up and hugged Orochimaru, he hugged her back. As she sat down Kabuto handed her a brown, leather pouch. She opened it to find medical needles, poison needles, scalpels, and other medical equipment. "Thank you Kabuto." She said to him. "They were my first set and I thought you would need them were you are going." "Where am I going?" she asked. Everyone started smiling. "Your first mission as an Akatsuki." Pein said as he handed her a mission scroll. "I am going to Kiri?"
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