Hi ya!!! Sorry I haven't updated sooner!!! I broke my nose and fractured my cheek bone so I could only sit and work a little at a time. I've had a killer headache and my computer is reeeaaaally bright!
Ugh…I hate doing chapters with ALL the characters! I always feel like I'm forgetting some one…--shrugs- -Oh well.
flashback/thoughts
Inner Sakura
Disclaimer….Don't claim ownership of anything except the plot…Because I DIDN'T kill Itachi!!! :p
Sakura looked throughout the training grounds. Soft grass lined the forest ground near the three post that held more memories then she could believe.
Team 7 training grounds….Like Team 7 red bridge….
Sakura shook her head. How strange…Team 7 seemed to have many things and yet they weren't even a full team.
Her thoughts turned to Naruto who for once stood silently beside her in the open. He had grown so much over the past years, and not just in height. His skill level had definitely improved and he had even matured in his own way…Note that it is said in his own way.
His goofy nature was still there along with maturity…Who would've thought that Sakura would see the day that he would act his age?
"Hey Sakura-chan! Have you read Ero-sensia's books? Well don't because it's completely pointless…But," he said after a while, completely oblivious to Sakura's dry look. "There were some interesting positions…Like you put a girl on her stomach and her leg—"
"Naruto!!!"
--PUNCH—
Naruto was suddenly thrown onto his face with his feet in the air with Sakura behind him clenching her fist. "I can't believe you're so immature, you baka!"
"Eh…" Naruto flipped back up right and sat with his legs sprawled out and tending to his red cheek. "What do you expect? I've been with Ero-sensei for two years…"
"I don't care! Keep that stuff to yourself, you pervert!"
Sai watched the interaction with the same grin as he approached them. "What did dickless do now?"
Sakura blinked and looked to the new voice. "Oh, hey Sai. What took you so long? You're normally here early."
"I ran into the other teams."
"Other teams? Are they training too?" Naruto questioned as he joined them.
"…they said they were coming here."
Sakura furrowed her brows and looked at Naruto then back at Sai. "Here? But Kakashi said that we were meeting here for training. Why would the others be coming here?"
Sai just shrugged.
Suddenly, a large amount of chakra's alerted the teams' attention to the new arrivals. The entire rookie teams casually walked into the clearing to join Sakura, Sai and Naruto.
"Hey forehead!" greeted Ino as she rushed to Sakura followed by Tenten and Hinata. "What's going on?"
"I have no idea…What are you guys doing here?" Sakura asked.
Rock Lee and Neji followed by Shikamaru went to stand with Naruto and Sai while Kiba went to stand with Shino and Akamaru near one of the posts.
"It seems like we're going to train together…how troublesome."
"Aw, don't be like that," Naruto drawled out with his foxy grin.
"Yeah! Where's your youthful spirit?!" Lee yelled out.
Shikamaru rolled his eyes, "Back at home…in bed like I should be."
"You know the early bird gets the worm…you can't always sleep in," Ino called out next to Sakura.
"The early bird gets the worm but the early worm gets eaten…" He stuffed his hands in his pockets and leaned against a tree.
Neji smirked and closed his eyes. "You're views on life surprise me sometimes."
Shikamaru just shrugged while he listened to Naruto and Lee talk about their training from the past two years.
"Hey guys…" Choji waved as he joined everyone in the clearing. "So where are our sensei's?"
"They said that they weren't coming…" Tenten answered.
"Y-yeah…T-they said that K-kakashi could handle it." Hinata added.
"Eh?" Kiba trotted over with Akamaru. "Where is he anyway?"
Naruto huffed and crossed his arms. "Don't wait up for him. He'll be here in a few hours."
"Don't exaggerate, Naruto," Ino harped.
"Seriously…Naruto's right." Sakura defended, confirmed by Sai's nod.
This brought out multiple groans.
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Not too far away in Konoha were a large group of ninja. Seven wore their usual attire with red clouds while they followed the Hokage and Jiriaya through the early waking streets. It was silent for the most part, no one sure what was going on. All they had heard from Pein and Konan after the meeting was that they were going to stay in Konoha for the time until other arrangements where made…No doubt this caused for a slight up roar between the criminals that inevitably led to an angry Leader.
But long story short, rules were to follow Konoha laws…Unless orders from Hokage or Leader-sama them self.
Easy enough rules but some didn't find it quite that simple…
"So where the fuck are we going? I don't like following this bitch around like a dog—" Hidan said followed by a punch sent him flying backwards.
Kisame winced as Hidan skidded along the concrete before being roughly dragged up by the collar of his cloak. "If you plan to live here—and I mean LIVE—then you better stop calling me a bitch!" exclaimed Tsunade.
Hidan blinked before jerking himself from her grip. "I'm immortal—what makes you think I would be fucking afraid of you?"
Tsunade's eyebrow twitched. "I'll show you---!"
"Tsunade—please!" Jiriaya warned as he intercepted the raging blonde and soon to be victim. "Let him adjust and if he still doesn't learn then we'll have Sakura handle him for you."
"Wait—" Hidan said as he walked calmly to the fuming blonde's side. "You mean the pink haired girl? Fuck no! I'm not going near that heathen!"
"Then it would be best if you didn't push your luck," promised Tsunade darkly before she turned and started towards the training grounds again.
Deidara snickered at the scowling Hidan, earning him an elbow in the ribs by Kakuzu before they followed.
"Tobi's a good boy! Tobi will follow all the rules, Ms. Scary Lady!" Tobi bounced happily.
Jiriaya sweat dropped and stared at the happy criminal. "You're going to get it…." He warned.
Tobi stopped and looked to Jiriaya with a tilted head. "Get what? Tobi's going to get a present?"
Tsunade resisted smacking herself in the forehead. What was wrong with these men?! They made Naruto look like a saint!
"Noooo, you're going to get in trouble."
Tobi gasped. "Why?!! Tobi's a GOOD boy!! He is, really!"
"Why don't you just shut up, un," Deidara said as he rolled his cerulean eyes. "You're annoying everyone…again, yeah."
"--Gasp—But Senpai!!! How could you say that?! Tobi picked everyone flowers!"
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…Did Tobi say something?" he asked innocently.
Sigh.
"We're almost there so just be quiet!" Tsunade exclaimed.
There was a mere 15 seconds of silence before….
"How much money are we going to get on missions?"
Twitch…I'm going to lose it….
"And is there a limit on Sake?"
Twitch—twitch…Just breathe…Shizune has a bottle of Sake ready for you when this is all finished…
"And I like to eat at certain times a day…I hate having to wait…"
Just breathe, girl….you don't have to deal with them too much longer….Just think happy thoughts…Like unlimited sake…
"Tobi wants to meet lots of friends!"
Happy thoughts…Like no annoying Tobi…
"Where can I practice my art, yeah?"
No more disrespecting jerk-offs….
"And how am I going to work this fucking sacrificing deal out?"
"..." Tsunade's clips of heals stopped abruptly and she spun around, pig tails spinning, to look at the following men with hands on hips; all men froze behind her expecting another explosion from the hot-tempered kunoichi. Amber eyes searched right to the Uchiha who looked back at her calmly. "What?! You don't have anything to say?! 'Cause if you do then spit it out!!!"
"…Hn."
"…" Tsunade gave him a skeptical look. "Nothing?"
He stared back at her with the same emotionless expression. After a moment he answered, "…I'll meet you there." Calmly he walked around Kisame and Kakuzu then around the confused hokage and continued down the street towards the training grounds. Everyone stared at the back of Itachi in silence.
"Damn…" Hidan said after a moment. "You really are bitchy if Uchiha left you behind—"
--Punch—
Jiriaya shook his head sadly. "You just don't get it…"
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"How much longer?!" Ino asked from her spot kneeling next to Hinata.
"I'm telling you he won't show up for a few hours…" Sakura sighed irritably. She leaned against the left post and stared at the large stone in front of her.
MIA…Those three letters sure had an impact on the ninja society…even more on the ever missing white haired shinobi that was supposed to be here. Keh, right now he's MIA, Sakura thought dryly.
"I don't know why you can't just relax and enjoy a break from training," added Shikamaru who lay a few feet from them with hands behind his head. "It's better then having to work our butts off."
Ino huffed and chose not to say anything. But that didn't mean anything to Naruto.
"Hey! We should just start training now. Like we can make our own teams and have some spars," suggested the happy blonde.
"T-that sounds l-like fun," Hinata commented slowly.
"Why can't we just go get something to eat while we wait," Choji questioned as he walked over to where Naruto, Shikamaru and the girls were.
"Like ramen!!"
Sakura sighed. It was bad enough that she always had to wait for Kakashi already, but now she was forced to listen to everyone complain about it…Sigh.
"I vote for us to start training now," Tenten said as she started to stretch.
"Let's not and say we did," Shikamaru sighed.
"Come on! Where's your youthfulness, Shikamaru?!"
"I, for once, agree with him," Neji said as he walked to the group with arms crossed. "We've been training non-stop…perhaps we should just say we did for once."
Sakura looked to the stoic nin. "That's not like you to not train." This earned her an elbow from Tenten. Looking over to the brunette, Sakura held back a giggle from Tenten's blush. Hehe…Tenten and Neji were going to have a date! Inner Sakura squealed happily.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm out of here," Kiba stated and got up to leave.
"That won't be necessary…" said a new voice.
All eyes turned to the source in the tree to see Kakashi sitting on a branch with his faithful book out.
"Hey!" Naruto pointed. "How long have you been there?!"
Kakashi gave an eye crinkle. "For a few minutes…." He jumped down to the ground and placed his book safely into his jounin vest. "Sorry I was late…You see there was an old lady that—"
"Save it, " Sakura said as she stood up and walked to him with all eyes on her. Just as she reached him, she calmly looked up to see the shinobi's confused expression before roughly grabbing him by the vest collar and pulling him to her level. "What were you thinking?! You left me alone here with everyone complaining about how you were late! I don't care if a black cat crossed your path or you got lost on the road to life—Next time all the teams are going to be here, then show up on time!"
Everyone sweat-dropped and Kakashi straightened up with an eye crinkle. "Ok…I'm sorry—really."
"Why are we all here to train?" Neji asked as he stepped forward.
Kakashi seemed to ponder it for a moment. "Well. It's not really "training". More like a chance to get to know one another…without walls or buildings being destroyed."
"Huh?" Naruto so intelligently asked. "We all know each other though!"
Kakashi chuckled. "You'll understand soon enough." As if on cue a group of strong chakras made itself known, turning every one's attention to the path.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" yelled, Naruto, Kiba, and Ino as they caught sight of the black cloaks and red clouds.
"Calm yourselves and I will explain," stated Tsunade as she stopped next to Kakashi with a hand on her hip. "As you may have heard, the Akatsuki were here for a meeting…Because of certain circumstances we have made an alliance with them as well as Amegakure. As a sign of trust, the members are now part of Konoha and will stay like that until other wise…"
Silence….
Tsunade sighed. At least there wasn't an angry mob forming.
"So," Kakashi said with a forced grin under his mask, hoping to keep it somewhat peaceful. "Now that they are with us…we have rearranged the teams—"
"WHAT?!" yelled members from both sides of the clearing.
An uproar of insults and profanities went up, mostly from Hidan, Deidara and Kisame from one side with Naruto, Neji, Ino, and Kiba from the other.
"Well this is going great…" Jiriaya whispered to Kakashi who sighed.
"Who's idea was it to mix teams again…"
Tsunade' brow twitched. She was definitely on the verge to make some heads roll very soon…"SHUT UP!"
Silence.
"Listen here and listen good! I will not tolerate arguments—"
"But, granny—"
"Naruto…Shut up," she said at a near whisper, silencing the blonde. "As I was saying, no arguments. That's what the elders are for. The teams have been split up and only the following names are excused to leave." Jiriaya handed her a paper and she paused slightly before reading it. "Hinata, Kiba and Shino…you are still a team and will stay the same." Each nodded to show that they understood. "Choji, Sai and Lee, you are now on a team."
Choji looked to Sai and Lee who both looked back. Shrugging to himself he took a handful of the last of chips in his bag and stuffed it in his mouth. If he could handle Ino, then Sai and Lee were no problem.
"Those six can leave now." Each person took the hint and grabbed their kunai pouches before walking out of the clearing. "Good luck," Hinata whispered to Sakura and the others before rushing after Kiba and Shino.
Everyone waited silently until the six had left the clearing before Tsunade turned back to the others. "Now the reason why we are in the training grounds is because respect is obviously going to be part of the adjustments. I will name off a new team and allow you to work out any differences here and now. After all the teams are…acquainted then you may return to your new apartments—"
"Apartments?" Neji asked.
"Hai," Jiriaya answered. "It was agreed that all teams will learn to live with each other. We don't want grudges or biased opinions to affect the team's effort and therefore you will learn to get along as a family, so to speak."
"That's bull! They're criminals not our family!" Ino stated angrily.
"They are now your equals!" Tsunade growled out.
"Tobi's a good boy!" jumped the cheerful masked man. All the cloaked figures sweat-dropped before Deidara hit Tobi over the back of the head and hissed, "Shut up, yeah. You're embarrassing!"
"As I was saying they are now our allies and your team mates," Jiriaya continued.
"And how do you expect us to tell our families? They won't like this at all." Neji questioned heatedly.
Amber eyes turned to the brunette. "I've already taken care of it. They were informed by ANBU as soon as you had left this morning and they aren't happy, but they understand that it is for the best of Konoha."
"What is going on?" Sakura asked. "Is there….something bad?"
Tsunade's hard glare softened. "Yes, Sakura…There is a shadowing of another Shinobi War…perhaps the biggest yet…." She explained grimly.
There was a short but tense silence before Kakashi continued with the explanations. "For the first week or two, there will be Anbu teams that are to keep an eye on each team. If there are any problems then they will interfere and you will have a punishment that will be assigned."
"Like what?" Tenten asked.
"Like community service." Tsunade grinned evilly. Displeased groans from both sides were her answer. It was obvious that no one wanted any part of that.
"How do you know that they aren't tricking you so they can get Naruto," Shikamaru asked.
"The leader made a truce in blood as well as myself. They also tried to hand over the seal that contained all the gathered demons so far and therefore they are making an effort to side with us. We can and will do the same for them."
"Is Gaara ok with this," asked tempered blonde.
"Yes, Naruto, Gaara has agreed to this fully."
Everyone seemed to mull over there own thoughts as Tsunade let it sink in before she continued. "Now that, that's done let's get to the teams."
"Let's have all rookie members stand on one end with Akatsuki on the other," guided Kakashi.
Every one hesitated before following the directions and mumbles were heard from both sides.
"Ok the first new team is Neji and Tenten…" she paused to allow them to step forward, "with Kakuzu."
Hidan snickered at the match up and Kakuzu's displeased twitch. "Shut up, idiot," he hissed before hitting the back of the sadist's head.
"What the fuck?!"
"Eh-hem," Tsunade tapped her foot. Kakuzu obediently walked to the equally displeased Neji and slightly nervous Tenten. Both brunettes stared at the tall masked man who stared back…
Silence…
Not even a cricket was heard….
"Awkward," Ino whispered to Sakura who nodded in agreement.
With neither side saying or making a move, Tenten sighed and swallowed her pride. With as cheerful of a smile, she held out her hand. "Nice to meet you on…not fighting terms…hehe."
Kakuzu glanced at the hand and hesitated before shaking it. "…yeah…you to." Confused was obviously a word to describe him at the moment. It was a rare occasion indeed to be addressed in a domestic way. All he knew after all was to fight.
All three walked to stand away from the line up by the three posts; Neji never taking his eyes off of the tall man.
"Right then…" Tsunade inwardly jumped in joy. That was a lot smoother then she thought and not a single fist was sent flying… "Next team is," she spoke too soon… "Ino and Hidan."
Ino blinked and looked at the line up to see Hidan meet her gaze. "Keh, I get the hot bitch Kakuzu!"
"Bitch…" Ino said slowly as if the word was foreign to her. "Bitch…" Every one scurried away from the soon to be disaster. "BITCH?!"
"Ooooh, not you too!" Hidan smacked himself in the forehead. What was wrong with these women?! All the women he met in other villages didn't care if he called them bitch, cunt, whore, slut, skank, wench…well you get the point…Then again they were normally all those things…Strange. Sadly for our sadist, he was temporarily too lost in thought to see a flying kunai flying towards his head.
Bingo! It made its mark!
He was sent on his back while he stared blankly at the sky for a moment.
"Noooo! Hidan's hurt!" Tobi yelled frantically.
"Uh-oh…" Ino said slowly. "I killed my partner!"
"Great job, Ino," Shikamaru said sarcastically. "There go our allies, how troublesome."
"What?! I didn't mean to kill him! H-he shouldn't have called be a bitch!" she defended through her panic state.
"I agree with Ino," Sakura huffed.
Suddenly Hidan sat up and pulled the kunai from his head before glaring at the panicking blonde. "Hey! I'm not fucking dead, you stupid bitch!"
Ino blinked and looked back to the white haired man who stood to his feet and stomped towards her. "What? How are you alive?"
"First thing you gotta know—I'm fucking immortal!" he yelled in her face.
"Don't fucking scream in my face!"
"Like this?!"
"Yes you son of a bitch!"
"Fuck you!"
"No-- Fuck you!"
"I call the Fucks around here!"
"Think again Bastard!"
"Motherfucker!"
"I know you are but what am I?!"
"That was fucking childish!"
"Cocksucker!"
"At least I fucking have a dick!"
"I don't want one you gay bastard!"
"I'm not gay you fucking wench!"
"You live with at least seven guys! Where do you get sex?!"
"From fucking whores like you!"
"I'm not a fucking whore! I'm still a virgin!"
Blink—blink. "Blondie's a virgin?" He looked her up and down before a devious grin set in. "You're a damn liar."
"Am not!"
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"…"
"…"
"…"
"…ooookkkaay." Tsunade drawled out while Jiriaya scribbled away next to her in his notebook, no doubt for his next book. With that thought in mind, Kakashi peeked over the Sannin's shoulder to look over at the notes, but Jiriaya hid it away inside his pocket and looked back with a devious grin.
"Not yet, Kashi…"
"Are you two done?" Tsunade asked at Ino and Hidan.
"I'm fucking done."
"Good! I'm glad I made my point!"
"Fuck! You didn't make any point, bitch!"
"Says you! Why don't you go jerk off with some guy?!"
"I'm not fucking gay!"
"And I'm not talking to you!"
"What was that?"
"I said I'm not talking to you!"
"Ha! You fucking just did!"
Ino growled and stomped her foot. "Shut up!"
"Damn, whatever!"
"Hmph! Not talking!
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"…"
"…"
"…riiiigght." Kakashi said.
Naruto snickered to himself…Damn was Kiba missing out!
"The next team," Tsunade said after she cleared her throat. "Is Zestu and Shikamaru."
Shikamaru stepped forward to the plant man and stuffed his hands into his pockets. "How troublesome."
"I couldn't agree more…You said it."
"Well, it's nice to be on the same side," Shikamaru said as they walked to join the other new teams.
"K then. Next team is…." Tsunade took a deep breath, preparing for another explosion. "Naruto and Deidara."
Both blondes locked blue eyes and glared. "No way, un! I'm not going with him!"
"I agree! Believe it!"
Jiriaya sighed and stepped to Naruto who crossed his arms stubbornly over his chest. "Now Naruto, you don't want to be with him because he killed Gaara, right?"
He gave a firm nod.
"But Gaara has forgiven him. Don't you think you can too?"
"Yeah. You and Gaara are like best friends…Remember that Gaara had tried to kill me? We'll work on this together!" Sakura encouraged.
Naruto looked to the ground and then to meet Sakura's smile. "I'll…try."
"Great then!" Jiriaya said as he returned to Tsunade's side.
Deidara stubbornly didn't look to Naruto who looked back questioningly to Sakura. "He likes art," she whispered. She remembered how it was to connect to Sai was through art. "Tell him that you can show him around and where all the art stores are…"
Naruo frowned slightly and walked to the stubborn blonde. With a hand rubbing the back of his neck, he looked to the ground with a scowl. "I can show you around later…You know….Where all the art places are."
Deidara blinked and looked to Naruto. "Don't worry about it, un. I don't want you to try and be my friend, only my partner," and with that said he pushed past Naruto and to the other teams.
Sakura sighed. Looks like she would be helping everyone adjust…
"Next is—"
"Does Tobi get a partner?! Tobi wants to meet new people!" he yelled next to Kisame.
"Yeah-yeah…"Tsunade pinched the bridge of her nose stressfully. "You're going with Kakashi-"
"Yay!! Tobi's going with the white man!" he ran over to Kakashi who forced a grin.
"Glad you're excited…"
"Tobi's a good boy! Tobi will pick you flowers later!"
"Uh…that's…nice," he said in uncertainty.
"Anyway, the last is…" Tsunade blinked and looked from Sakura to Kisame. "Where's Uchiha?"
"Here," came the emotionless voice. Every stared at the new comer who walked to stand next to Kisame.
"Where have you been?"
Dark black eyes looked to Amber. "I took a walk…"
"…whatever. You two and Sakura are a team now."
The pink haired kunoichi furrowed her brows, but after a hard glare from Tsunade, she sighed and stepped forward. Kisame slung his sword over his shoulder and held out a hand with a toothy grin. "Nice to meet ya, as a partner."
Sakura gave a small smile and took his hand. "Like wise."
"Keh, you've got a firm grip. I like that," he winked.
They released their hands and Sakura unwillingly turned to Itachi who stared back.
Emerald eyes glared. This was the man that was responsible for Sasuke's pain…He was the one that killed his own family…No matter how much he looked like Sasuke, she knew that they were completely different.
But as she stared at him, her glare softened. What changed her hostility was a clouded, almost like a film over his dark eyes…He's going blind…
"It's a pleasure to be paired with Lady Tsunade's apprentice," came his deep voice that shook her from her observations.
Sakura unintentionally, blinked back what was left of her hard glare. What he said was no doubt sincere…
"Alright…Each of you have a new address and all your belongings are already there," Tsunade said as Jiriaya and Kakshi passed out slips of paper with the address of the new apartments. "You may leave now and be sure to try and not fight." She turned to Sakura. "I'll need to talk to you alone for a moment."
The kunoichi nodded and walked towards the river after Tsunade, leaving Itachi and Kisame alone. Tsunade stopped and turned to Sakura.
"I'm guessing you've already noticed right?"
"You mean Itachi's blindness?"
"Yup. I'm going to need you to heal him."
"But can't we say that I can't. I mean he killed his own family, don't you think that he should at least live with his blindness?"
"Sakura…I taught you better then that," Tsunade chided.
The kunoichi dropped her head slightly ashamed. "Hai…forgive me."
Tsunade sighed and wrapped her arms around Sakura in a short hug. "I understand that this is a lot. And news about a War isn't easy to hear either, but I want you to stay strong." She pulled back and looked at Sakura who gave a small smile back.
"Alright…I'll try."
"Thank you… Naruto will need your help to cope with the change as well and of course Ino will need you as well."
At this Sakura chuckled. "Yeah…That's a mess waiting to happen."
Tsunade laughed before turning serious again. "I don't know why or what, but for some reason—between you and me—I think that there is something that happened behind the Uchiha massacre."
Sakura furrowed her brows. "Like what?"
"I don't know, but if you think about it, why would Itachi want to test his strength just to kill his clan? There are other ways to test your strength…I think that he's hiding something and I want you to keep an eye on him. I don't trust him…If you ever get worried and want someone else to be teamed up with you then let me know and I can send Izumo with you."
"Don't worry. I'll be fine by myself," she smiled.
"That's the kunoichi I know," Tsunade laughed.
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Sakura sighed as she walked back to the given address. It had been a long and stressful evening and all that she could think of at the moment was a nice cozy bed…Sadly she wasn't quite sure how well she would be able to sleep with two criminals in the same building. Sigh. Hopefully Tsunade was kind enough to give her an apartment with three rooms…
She sighed again and continued to drag her feet down the road. Earlier after her talk with Tsunade, she had told Itachi and Kisame to go ahead and she would meet them their at the apartment. She of course wanted to go check on Ino and Naruto.
She had stopped by Ino and Hidan's apartment first only to hear angry yells through the door. She guessed that it was a continuation of what was said in the training grounds so she decided to check back on them later…sadly on her "escape", Ino had sensed her from the room and insisted that Sakura should stay with her for a while…turned out that Sakura was forced to stay as long as she could.
Poor Ino… her pink haired friend didn't stick around quite that long. In fact she escaped the foul mouthed couple at the first chance. Out the window she went and on to what she hoped to be a…safer environment.
Finding Naruto and Deidara wasn't too hard…Safe to say that the two full teams of Anbu breaking up a fight in the middle of the street was enough to show Sakura where the troublesome blondes where. There were four men on each blonde that continued yelling insults to the other.
"You killed him!"
"He's alive so what are you worried about, yeah?!"
"I should've killed you the first time we met!"
"Yeah right! You don't have what it takes!"
"Shut up, both of you!" ordered one of the Anbu.
"Naruto, if you don't settle down then we will be forced arrest you," warned another.
"I don't care! As long as he doesn't live!"
"Naruto! Stop!" Sakura yelled. She rushed to the men, but Naruto was still fighting back. The resisting continued until both Deidara and Naruto were knocked out cold and sent to the interrogation room until they woke up…
When they finally did wake up, both found themselves strapped tightly down to a chair on either side of a table. As if on cue, Tsunade and Kakashi walked in, with Sakura at their heels. "What the Hell do you think you were doing?!" Tsunade questioned. Naruto winced from her harsh tone.
"I told him that I didn't want to be his friend. That wasn't in our agreement to be BF's, yeah."
"It wasn't in the agreement to cause trouble in the streets either!"
Kakashi sighed and looked to Naruto. "What happened?"
"We got in a fight…"
"Over what?"
Both blondes looked to each other for a moment…
"…"
"…"
"Well?" Kakashi pushed.
"Uh," Naruto grinned sheepishly. "I don't really remember."
"Keh," grinned Dediara. "I don't either, un."
Sakura looked back and forth between the two before laughing. Deidara chuckled, followed by Naruto until all three where laughing at the situation.
"So what do you plan to do now?" Kakashi asked Tsunade.
"They got in a fight for no reason…what kind of punishment does that deserve?"
Kakashi pondered it for a moment. "A free pass?"
Sakura smiled at the thought. To think that Deidara and Naruto where perfectly fine now…All because of some pointless fist fight…
Maybe Ino and Hidan should look into anger management…
She sighed and stopped in front of a tall three story building. 1785… this was the place.
Damn! Tsunade knows how to pick a place to stay!
Sakura agreed. She started to walk up the stairs until she came to her number…9. Absent mindedly, she tried the handle, before it dawned on her that she didn't have a key. With yet another sigh, she knocked on the door, choosing not to just pick the lock. She didn't want to startle either one of the S-class criminals in fear that she may come face to face with Samehada or worse…Sharringan.
The door suddenly opened to reveal a blue skinned man with a toothy grin in place. "Hey kid! 'Bout time you showed up. I was thinking you ran out on us."
Sakura walked in only to meet Itachi's black eyes from where he sat at the dining table. Holding her ground she glared. "I don't run out."
The look and hostility went unnoticed to Kisame as he made his way to the kitchen. But Itachi caught it. He looked back to his cup of steaming tea and he sipped on it gently, aware of Sakura's wondering gaze.
"Like what you see?" he asked in a deep voice. Unlike the normal mocking tone that the question was asked in, he kept it serious.
Sakura scrunched her nose in a half snarl. "It's actually sickening to be in the same room as a clan murderer."
Cold eyes turned to her calmly. "…Hn."
Sakura's eye twitched. "Ok let's get one thing straight. If you're going to say anything then use an actually a word—not this stupid "hn" stuff."
"…" Itachi's corner of his lips curled into a smirk and his eyes narrowed. "…Hn." He said daringly, knowing that Sakura was already uncomfortable.
She resisted smacking herself in the forhead and Kisame's laughter didn't help either.
"Good luck with that one kid!"
"Look—We have had a tough day so I'm going to get some sleep." She walked around the couch and gave Itachi enough birth room to walk to the hall where she paused. "Which one is my room?"
Kisame shrugged.
"Second to the left. Next to Kisame." Itachi said quietly.
"…Thanks…" She started to walk down the hall, not bothering with a good night and closed her door.
Kisame sat down on the couch and started to drink his Sake. "So what do you think?"
"About what?"
"About everything? The agreement, the teams, the girl?" he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
"…Hn."
Kisame sighed. "Alright, so you're not too happy." He downed his cup and poured another which didn't go unnoticed by the stoic nin. Obviously, Kisame was on edge as well but after being a missing-nin for so long, you learned to hide all discomfort. It was like second nature. But what wasn't normal was to actually stay in one place. Difficult…yes, but learning to trust again was going to be a chore…to everyone.
"So what are we going to do? I'm telling ya, I'm gonna get bored real quick around here."
"…Train…That's the only thing worth doing."
"So you don't have any friends or girlfriends you want to hook up with?"
"…No."
Kisame sighed. He liked Itachi, but Hell he wanted someone to actually talk to. And now that Deidara, Kakuzu and Hidan where separated, he had to leave what was left of his sanity in the hands of the pink haired kunoichi…
Sigh …
He was doomed…
How's that for ya! It will be a little slow for the next chapter or two, but please hang in there! Anyway this is what's happening right now. Wednesday I have to go to the Doc's again and Thursday I have surgery…Joy. Anyway after all that I'll start updating with a weekly chapter…Maybe even two chapters!! Just give me the rest of this week off and I'll update AS SOON AS I CAN!! I swear!!
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