"Piggy-chan!"
Ino turned around and glared at the 8 year old Sakura.
"Forehead! Don't call me that!"
Sakura pouted.
"But Ino, you promised today you'd make a video with me to send to the Akatsuki!"
Sakura looked up at her with pleading eyes. Ino sighed and put down the sandwich she was just about to eat and slide of her stool.
"Fine…" she sighed. Sakura squealed and grabbed her hand, and with the two girls were gone.
"Alrighty than, guys, this is my best friend Ino! I meet her a few years before I meet you guys!"
"Hello, I've heard a lot about you from Sakura!"
The two girls sat at the park, Sakura holding the camera steady on Ino. Ino smiled and batted her eyelashes. Hey, you never know, Ino thought slyly, they may be cute when they come here…
Sakura swiveled the camera to the pregnant woman sitting on the bench a little ways away.
"That's Kurenai, she lives next door with her Mr. Asuma. She can be kinda cranky though.."
Said woman, turned around and scowled at the two little brats trying to hide in the bushes.
"OI! You little brats, what are you doing over there!"
The pinkette and blond ran away, screaming in fear.
"I'm not that scary…" Kurenai huffed, rubbing her pregnant belly.
"HEY, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" she shouted to the two boys hiding in the playground equipment and watching her, wide eyed.
"AHHH! RUN TEME, THE OLD HAGS GONNA GET US!"
"Hn!"
"AHHH! WHO YOU CALLING OLD!?"
"-this is Kabuto-sempai, one of the middle schoolers who live around here! I'm sure you'd like him Stichy-kun, Plant-kun."
Kabuto looked up from his conversation with his girlfriend, Tayuya, and stared at the pinkette.
"And that's Tayuya-sempai and she's dating Kabuto-sempai but-"
Tayuya interrupted, not liking the attention they were receiving
"Hello, Sakura-chan, me and Kabuto-kun were just-" Sakura ignored her, continuing her observation.
"-I've seen Kabuto-sempai trying to eat Kin-sempai 's face and she kept moaning like it hurt, whatever that means, and last week he was hitting on Konan-chan, but she slapped him, right Ino-chan?" Sakura said sweetly.
"Right, Sakura-chan!" Ino chimed back.
Tayuya turned to Kabuto, her attention diverted.
"…What?" she questioned Kabuto dangerously.
"T-Tayuya, I can explain!" he glared at Sakura quickly.
"Brat!" he hissed at her. Sakura and Ino stuck their tounges out than turned away.
"Come on Ino, there's more to see!"
"Yes, have fun girls!" Tayuya doted sweetly. Her glacial glare froze Kabuto, who had been inching away slowly, his glasses almost falling of his face.
Tayuya smiled maliciously.
"I' .To…KILL YOU!"
And Sakura and Ino giggled as they heard cries of pain and pleas of mercy trailing in their wake.
"Naruto-kun! Hinata-chan!"
The two 8 year olds turned around, Hinata blushing and Naruto carrying a rather odd frog.
Sakura continued to narrate.
"This is Naruto, he's one of my bestest friends along with Hina-chan over here! Tobi-chan, Dei-chan, you'd love Naruto! And Weasel-kun, you and Hinata would get along real well, your both so polite and quiet!"
Naruto grinned and waved to the camera.
"Hey, Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan's friends! Check out the frog I got!" Naruto shoved an orange frog into the camera's path.
"His name is Gamakichi! I got him from this cool girl from our class, her name's Vena-chan! She said that I could have him because her sister died or something and it used to belong to her.."
(A/N: *winks* you know who you are~!)
Sakura blinked in shock.
"Naruto, that's horrible!"
"…I agree with Forehead on this one…"
"N-Naruto-kun…"
"Yessss, Hinata-chan?" Naruto questioned eagerly, whirling around and shoving his face into the violet eyed girl's personal bubble.
"E-epp!" Hinata shrieked, than fainted straight away. Naruto barley caught her before her head smacked into the concrete.
"Not again!" Naruto complained.
"Well…Bye Naruto-kun!"
"Wai-!"
"Yup, bye ramen-freak!"
Naruto sighed as the two girls disappeared into the distance.
"Not again! DAD, HINATA FAINTED!" The blue-eyed 8 year old shouted, looking towards his house.
"Not again!" his father, Minato, exclaimed from inside.
"-and this is Kakashi-sensei, the teacher at Leaf Elementary!"
The masked man looked up from his precious Icha Icha Paradise and stared at his two female students who seemed to be videotaping him.
"Yo." Kakashi greeted.
Sakura smiled and waved, while Ino, using this as a distraction, snatched up Kakashi's book. The silver-haired male lunged after her, only to grab air and land on his face.
"Watcha reading Ka-Ka-sensei?" she cleared her throat and started to read. "He moaned as she came up behind him, her pale hands massaging his back muscles. Her hands came up and stroked his chest, her naked body flush against his-" Ino dodged another desperate grab from the panicked man.
Ino tossed the book to Sakura, who was perched in a large oak tree, and Sakura started anew.
"He grabbed her roughly, bending her over the desk-"
Kakashi started climbing the tree in desperation.
"-she pled 'Oh please Hizashi! I want you-"
Kakashi groaned as he pulled himself onto the branch behind her, sweating.
I'm getting too old for this! He groaned silently.
"-he shouted back 'Oh Black Sun!' and than he-" (A/N: It's what you get for being the first review! CONGRATS!)
Sakura shrieked as a hand swiped the book out of her hand panting and gasping, and several things happened at once.
Ino, holding the camera she had been tossed during the fight scene, screamed and dropped the camera.
"Sakura-chan!"
And Kakashi reached out, his uncovered eye wide.
"Sakura!"
And Sakura plummeted from the tree, eyes wide and screaming bloody murder.
The Akatsuki boys were worried beyond belief.
Kisame stopped cracking jokes, and when he talked, he'd sometimes look sad, depressed even, before perking up, trying to look happy.
Hidan didn't curse at Konan, Nagato or Yahiko, the three in charge of their health and wellness, when they forced him into the bath at nighttime. He had picked up the habit of rubbing his strange necklace, mumbling under his breathe feverently like he was praying for something.
Tobi was inconsolable, sobbing and wailing, sometimes going as far as to become deathly quiet, just whimpering. He still acted as hyper as ever most of the time, but sometimes his smiles would flatter, and he'd glare up at Yahiko or Nagato with such rage that Konan was the only one able to have a steady conversation with him.
Itachi was as silent as ever. Every time he picked up a book though, he'd just stare at the same page for hours, before quietly closing it and returning it to the dusty shelves. He snacked on dango idly, paying great care with each and every bite, savoring it.
Zetsu had taken to carrying around Tsun-chan, cuddling her like a doll. Konan was terrified of the thing and often left the room when Zetsu sulked into the room to idly stroke the Venus fly trap.
Kakuzu was the unofficial treasurer, seeing as all the adults were truly idiots with money, and despite his love for his job, whenever he started to count the mountains of cash, he would quickly lose count. The area of stiches on his arms was red from his constant and furious scratching.
Pein was silent as a grave, staring sullenly at everyone and answering with one worded answers, his presence like a glacier. He reread the book gifted to him over and over, sitting in a window sill illuminated by light.
Deidara was sullen, pouting away like a scorned child or a kicked puppy. He had taken to trailing after Konan, seeing as everyone else was on edge from all the tension. His wide blue eyes were constantly filled with tears just like Tobi's.
Sasori was the worst. He didn't talk, and while the others had lost interest in eating, he seemed to despise the food, refusing to eat anything other than chocolate chip cookies, for some odd reason.
One night at dinner, Konan could take no more off the silent atmosphere.
"Alright!" she growled, slapping down her chopsticks, the noise making Yahiko and Nagato wince.
"What, exactly has everyone so down in the dumps?!" she demanded.
They all stared at her silent.
Deidara looked away first, bowing his head so his blonde, unbound hair, covered his face. Tobi's eyes filled with tears and he just stared at Konan, like the others, lost in thought.
"She hasn't written."
Everyone turned towards Itachi, who just stared at the table stonily.
"He's right." Kakuzu flinched as they all turned to him but he steeled his nerves.
"Sakura hasn't written to us in a week."
Kisame chimed in, stating with concern,
"Cherry usually writes every Thursday."
"Today's Friday!" Tobi cried. "Cherry-chan never misses a Thursday, because Tobi's always a good boy! Tobi's been a good boy, but Cherry-chan hasn't written, Blue-chan!"
Pein turned to Yahiko, and asked the question on everyones minds.
"Is Sakura-san hurt?"
Everyone's gazes zeroed in on Yahiko, who had sunken in his seat, laughing nervously.
"Um, well, this video was sent-"
And with that, the Akatsuki all jumped into motion.
The bound and gagged Nagato struggled vainly against his duct tape prison, as did Yahiko. Konan sat next to them, bound but not gagged, seeing as she hadn't known about the video.
"You idiots..."
"Mhmgnsh!"
"Momam! Mshs msnfbuj sjfsdnd djsnn!"
"Bakas…"
The screen focused in on a grinning blonde haired girl, and for one terrifying second, they thought she had been their cherished Sakura.
"Hell no! That bitch looks like Blondie!"
"Does not, un!"
"Silence!" commanded Pein.
Not even a few seconds later,
"Jeez, that Kurenai chick is hawt!"
"For god's sake, Hidan! She's pregnant!"
Apparently, Hidan's perverted nature had manifested at the tender age of nine.
"I do think Blossom-san was mistaken. There is no way I would associate with that low life."
"I agree, Itachi-san…he wouldn't even be worth eating."
"…What the heck, un!?"
They all watched in silence until…
"That frog is hideous. There is no way that could ever have any beauty, even as taxidermy…"
"I agree with that Sasori-danna, yeah…"
"This Vena-chan sounds pretty cute."
"FOR GOD's SAKE HIDAN-!"
"TOBI IS A GOOD BOY, AND GOOD BOYS DO NOT LIKE NASTY WORDS!"
"That foolish boy. That is no way to act."
"Poor girl…she must have to put up with a lot of stupidity…"
Everyone nodded to that, making sounds of agreement, than turning back to the TV.
And they were all riveted by the pink haired angel.
She had flowing petal pink hair, reaching mid-back, and it danced in the breeze as she laughed and ran. Her eyes were emeralds plucked from the ground and cleansed until they sparkled like stars, her smile with the radiance of the sun.
Sasori was riveted. This was true beauty. True, eternal beauty, her skin pale and smooth like a doll. He shared a look with Deidara, and it was plain in the young artists' eyes. They didn't agree much, but her beauty was true art.
Itachi had never seen anything so alive, so vibrant…and he was snared just like that.
Tobi was a good boy, and he knew a pretty girl when he saw one. This girl was a good, just like Tobi!
Kakuzu glared at Hidan. He had been entranced, but the way Hidan was drooling was quite distracting.
Hidan was on cloud nine, simple as that. She was like a divine angel, and he had to burn the image in his mind while he still could.
Pein took one look at her, and his eyes went wide
"Tenshi…" he murmered silently. (A/N: Tenshi= Angel or celestial maiden, whatever sounds better to you!)
Zetsu couldn't help but compare her to a sakura blossom, as she was so delicate and beautiful, not unlike the flower itself.
And then they came out of their stupor, and heard what she was saying.
"He grabbed her roughly, bending her over the desk-"
The boys blushed furiously, although Hidan looked to be in heaven, the others couldn't exstinguish their burning cheeks.
And than the angel fell.
She slipped and fell, plummeted to the ground, screaming, like she had been shot from the sky.
"Sakura!"
"Sakura-chan!"
"AIEEEEEE!"
Crack.
"Quick, Ino, get Tsunade, I think it's broken!"
"O-okay!"
They all stared at the fuzzy screen, frozen in shock and fear.
S-Sakura? They all thought.
Our Sakura?
"Shizune-nee! I'm fine!"
"Alrighty sweetie, sure your comfy?"
"Yup!"
As Shizune scurried out the door, Sakura pouted. She had just broken a leg. It wasn't that bad…
She sighed again, and turned to the pile of cards and gifts. Her little eight year old hands reached out and sorted through the cards.
She made her way through the pile, tucking the money away in her pocket.
For my boys she thought fondly, patting it once before coming across a rather large letter, taped to the most fearsome teddy bear she had ever seen.
It was dark blue on one side, light blue on the other, and stiches ran up its middle, connecting the two. He had multiple piercings in his fluffy ears, reminding her of the ones she had sent Pein for his birthday. His one eye was red; the other was covered by an eye-patch. Oddly enough, there was a little mouth sewn onto one of its hands, and the other carried a three-bladed scythe. Were his heart was, there was a cylinder container with the kanji for 'love' on one end, 'heart' on the other.
She thought it was the best gift ever.
Sakura wiped away tears as she read the card.
GET BETTER SOON CHERRY-CHAN!
-Tobi
Don't give us another scare like that, Cherry.
-Kisame
Ha, that was a great fall! You shouldn't try it again though. It'd suck if you died…
-Hidan
Blossom-san, I hope you stay healthy and heal quickly, my best wishes.
-Itachi
We saw your video, Flower-chan, and you should really be more careful climbing trees.
-Zetsu
Blossom, you should be more careful, I hear medical bills are expensive, but I'm glad you are safe.
-Kakuzu
You should be more careful, Tenshi, not all people have the luck you do.
-Pein
Cherry-chan, what kind of teachers do you have, yeah!?
-Deidara
Take care, Cherry, I shall think of you, and I wish you the best
-Sasori
Sakura smiled
"My boys…"
When Tsunade came in to check on her daughter, she was not excpecting this.
"DEAR MOTHER OF GOD, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?"
When she calmed down, she walked over to the pinkette who slept clinging to some kind of stuffed demon.
"Only you, Sakura…only you could touch so many hearts…"
But before Tsunade left, she snapped a picture of her sleeping daughter to send to the Akatsuki boys.
After all, she thought sneakily, I do want grandchildren…someday…
Sasori was the first one up that morning, and he lazily sipped his orange juice while going through the mail. His interest was perked though, when he spotted a letter from Konoha.
With mounting curiosity, he ripped open the letter…
Than spit out his orange juice all over the table, coughing and hacking as he looked at the picture with wide eyes.
W-w-what? W-w-w-what!? He thought, blushing wildly.
Then, after he had calmed, he slipped the photo into his jacket pocket with a secret smile.
Well, I'll just keep this one to myself than…finder's keepers, after all.
Good, wasn't it?
Don't get used to long chapters, cause that was a BITCH to write...
And shout out to Vena-chan and her sister! You guys cracked me up!
Any questions? PM if you have any~!
REVEIW~!
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ITACHI FACEEEEEE!
(sorry for peoples who read the first upload of his chappie, i forgot a few things and had to change it...)