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I do own this story so please don't copy it exactly, but you're welcome to as many of my ideas as you like.

With the greatly apreciated permission of BlackElement7, CrimsonSakuratree I begin writing what I hope will be an amazing Story! (Check out their stories (my inspiration): Not Weak, Untold Secrets).

Chapter 53 -

Sakura stepped into the fesh air and looked around.

"But..." She murmered.

"Yes?" Itachi asked.

"We're still in fire country..."

"Very good."

"How can you tell?" Sasori asked, stepping out of the door to join them.

Sakura looked over. "Simple, the energy. Everything that grows has a power source, in most cases, it's chakra. In fire country, what do imagine the the nature of the tree's chakra would be?" She asked Sasori.

"Fire..." He said, almost to himself.

"That and the fact that you could only have gotten so far over night and I can sense a ninja troop about a 2 kilometers in that direction.

Itachi frowned and strained to find the same chakra disturbance.

He flicked on his sharingan and located exactly three chakras, all typically interesting.

"Well, I think you're friends miss you..." He sighed, looking at Sakura.

"No way... That sucks... So what do we do?" Sakura whined.

"We go inside and cloak the hideout. Genjutsus are my specialty afterall."

"Don't brag, they're mine too." Sakura laughed.

Sasori was still unsure how Sakura had managed to sense the chakra in the trees let alone the ninja.

Did she have a kekkei genkai? He wasn't sure, but she certainly was getting more and more interesting every moment.

"Sakura-san. How could you sense the chakras?" He asked.

"Any ninja should be able to sense chakra." She replied.

"Yes, but you could sense the ninja that Itachi-san couldn't until he used his sharingan."

"Well, I guess practice helps..." She replied, shrugging dismissively.

"Practice?" Sasori whispered.

Sakura looked at him briefly and smiled. "The sharingan has many advantages, one being that you can see chakra. If you can sense chakra well enough you needn't nescessarily 'see' it. I can use this to do many of the things the sharingan can; Like locating people, detecting potential attacks when up close, even seeing through mediocre genjutsu."

"If that is so, can't Sasuke-san and Kakashi-san find the hide-out by using their sharingan?"

Sakura looke shocked. How had he known it was them. She was reminded that it was Akatsuki she was dealing with.

"Well, Itachi-kun's genjutsus are the world's envy, superior to any, and can only be sensed in very unlikely circumstances, you needn't worry." Sakura said slowly.

"Hn." Sasori grunted, watching Sakura retreat to the door... following Itachi.

They got inside and headed to the kitchen.

"So far, training hasn't really been as stimulating as I'd hoped." Sakura pouted.

Sasori kept a fairly straight face, but Itachi saw him twitch.

"Sasori-san?" He teased.

Sakura seemed oblivious.

And who but Deidara entered the kitchen yawning.

"Only just woke up Deidara-kohai?" Sakura asked innocently.

Deidara growled at her angrily. "Don't patronise me."

'Yeah Sakura-chan, be nice to Dei-kun.'

'You've got to be kidding me, Sasori and now Ino's impersonator too!?'

'He's just a li'l feminine, a pretty boy, I like it.'

'Are you kidding, you like boy.'

Kohai - Opposite to sempai, like... lower classmen?... yeah

srry bout the kinda filler chaptas but a-p and i wer tryna wrk out wat id planned to hapn... i think i rememba now :)

Oh, and most of u seemed to really love the "dont stalk lil girls" line, so i'l try to create more o that kinda drama! XD

The chap length issue realli is getin old, all mi long time readas hav gotn used to it, but if u just strted readin mi stry, let me explain again: i write wat is possible at the time. Its very improvised, sometimes they're long sometimes they're shrt... infact they're usually shrt but dealling with it is the thing that will no doubt better u as a person... (cheeky grin)

There are many typicalities of my writing style. One is that I don't use long and heavy paragraphs, this is to make reading easier.

Another is to very rarely use specific points of view, simply because they confuse me... .

So heres the fun litle challenge for those of mi daring readers: find a benefit of shrt chaptas. Itl b hard i no, but good luck! OPTIONAL.