He must do it. He can't let a girl affect his emotions and plans. she is supposed to be his most lethal weapon. But if those darn emotions and meaningless feelings keep getting in way, then she will become like she was before. weak.

And in the process she is making him weak. And he can't afford to have a weakness.

His eternal art is not weak. And He will do everything for it to remain strong and powerful.

he stood up from his position.

Sasori gazed at the stairs which leads to the way to her room.

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"i am back, un" Exclaimed the blonde As he entered his home and went straight to the living room.

he searched the room for a certain teammate of his, but was disappointed to not find any pink and fiery presence there. He walked to the front of the couch and faced sasori who was lazily sitting on it.

"Sasori-danna where is Sakura-chan, un? she should've been running to greet me by now, un."

sasori pointed to the stairs, meaning she was in her room.

Deidara gave him a weird look. "your acting weird, i mean weirder than normal."

sasori just stared at him with bored eyes.

deidara sighed and just went to find sakura, there's no way he is going to further decrease his sanity by talking to this mad man-er puppet.

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"Sakura-chan, un"

deidara opened her bedroom's door and proceeded to go in. he found her sitting on her bed, reading a scroll.

she didn't look up from her scroll when he entered her room.

"deidara-san" she greeted, her eyes still on her work.

Deidara gave her a puzzled look.

"What's with the formality, sakura-chan,un? now come on won't you give your dei-chan a welcome hug, un"

her reply was quite simple."no"

"but why,? i was gone for a week, didn't you miss me, un?

he wriggled his eyebrows.

the busy girl's attention was still on her scroll but she replied

" If your done, may i ask you to leave this room. As you can see, i am quite busy."

Deidara was now confused.

Honestly, this was weird. sakura never talked to him like this. Even all those months ago when sasori abducted her, she was not this rude to him.

"okay, um so do you want anything to eat. i brought food."

"no" her tone was frosty.

"sorry for intruding then" his voice was annoyed. Her attitude is frustrating.

he left the room slamming the door shut behind him.

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"what is her problem.un?"

"i mean i was just trying to be nice to her And she, she just gave me that shitty attitude of hers" deidara continued his ranting.

"what happened to her anyway?" he looked at his long time partner at this.

Sasori didn't reply at first. But knew that if he didn't say anything, he will be enduring Deidara's annoying voice complaining and ranting more than usual.

So he just told him the truth to save himself from future nagging and prodding.

" i used a jutsu on her to remove her distracting emotions, permanently "

he did what!

deidara's eyes widened. he felt hot raging anger at his partner right now, he wanted to tear apart sasori's wooden form..limb from limb, how dare he do that to her.

he extinguished the sacred fire that used to burn in Sakura's eyes so brilliantly.

Her emotions didn't make her weak, they gave her the will and power to fight.

before deidara could express his anger and disappointment at Sasori's actions , the red headed puppet spoke.

" Your opinion doesn't matter in what i do to sakura. She is mine to begin with. i brought her here. And it is better if you do not get attached to her."

deidara was gaping at this...this insane man. He just turned around and stomped off to his own room to cool down.

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'they are strong, but it is getting annoying. I've to finish them now.' thought sasuke as he dodged another round of shuriken.

already the two jounin teams sent after him are under the effects of his sharingan.

But the four Anbu are beginning to become a problem. They are delaying him.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed. They are planning something.

'are they waiting for reinforcements? No this is something else. And that woman had let me take the scroll rather easily. Is this a trap?'

He looked around the battle field and signaled his teammates to retreat. They were reluctant but did what they were told to do.

sasuke stayed. he have to finish them and then he can read that scroll undisturbed.

Sasuke took his stance as he unsheathed his kusanagi. His sharingan was activated.

then he moved. fast. very fast.

it doesn't matter, if they have a backup, he alone is enough for everyone.

On the battlefield he was a demon in all sense of the word.

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midnight, two hours after finishing his fight with konoha Anbu, sasuke found an inn in a small civilian town at the border of fire country.

he was injured, but not fatally.

His teammates are supposed to meat him in this town at noon so, Until then He will rest and recuperate.

He checked in, got his keys and proceeded to his designated room.

But before he could go to bed and sleep of his exhaustion, the scroll resting in his weapons' pouch rapt his attention.

he sat indian style on his bed and started prodding the seal on the scroll.

the onyx changed to red, and three tomoe started spinning.

His sleep now forgotten in favour of the scroll.

With the help of his sharingan, he broke the seal on it. He carefully opened the scroll after checking it for any traps. there were none. The inside of the scroll was now visible to him.

there was nothing on it. sasuke frowned. Even his sharingan can't find anything on the scroll. it was blank.

They fooled him, but why? and even back in the village, if they sent all of their elite shinobi they could've easily imprisoned him, but they didn't.

sasuke narrowed his eyes.

What is that woman playing at.

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when sakura came down the stairs and into the living room she found her blonde teammate eating like a buffalo, he was practically inhaling the food.

Her nose scrunched up in disgust.

"where is Sasori-kun?" she asked deidara.

"out"

Sakura frowned.

"out,where?"

" i am not his damn secretary"

sakura narrowed her eyes. "what got your pants in a knot, i was just asking a question." her tone was annoyed. when she received no reply , she just stomped off to the main gate and was out of the house in a second.

Sakura searched around the front yard for any sign of her puppet teammate, but found nothing.

'where could he have gone after asking her to meet him'

her thoughts started wandering.

then she sensed a slip of chakra from the forest behind the house.

it was sasori's chakra signature. he have absolute control on his chakra, so there is no way that he lost control and let his chakra slip accidentally.

he wanted sakura to know where he is.

she took off to the trees.

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She found him, relaxing beneath a tree. "i was looking for you."

he just nodded at her statement.

"what did you wanted to talk about, Sasori-kun. ?"

Sakura stared expectantly at him. Sasori looked almost hesitant to say whatever he wanted to say.

he parted his lips to say but closed them immediately.

"is something wrong?" now she was worried, Sasori-kun never hesitates. It must be something really important or...something really bad.

Sasori sighed. It brought her out of her musings.

"leader-sama called me, yesterday night. he knows about you"

she tilted her head. "is that something to be worried about, Sasori-kun? "

He shook his head once and continued.

"I have a mission for you"

to be continued. . . .