Hey guys, sorry it took so long, again. I mean you should expect it by now, but still sorry for the wait, again.
I'm glad for all the reviews I am, and I don't mean to sound rude, but the couple's for Saku are already decided on, you can choose couples and suggest them for anyone else, but I've already decided for Saku, and if I do change my mind later I won't even tell you, I would be as much of a surprised to all of you as it would be to me. I roll with whatever the story takes me, so if it takes Saku away from Neji to someone else, then so be it, but at this point I stand by who was already decided on.
Which doesn't mean you still can't tell me who you'd like with Saku, I could roll with it, but I want you all to know it's not a guarantee and not to get your hopes up for a couple you desperately want for this fic not happening.
You could tell me who you'd like with Saku FIRST. I'd appreciate knowing what your thoughts are on that.
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Chapter twenty two: Trust or Trouble
Konoha:
No matter the outstanding proof of Sakura escaping the demands of the Elders to be a Missing-Nin, Itachi couldn't make herself believe it of him. A bias affection that ruined even logical thinking, because everything pointed to him leaving. Neji Hyuuga had returned wounded and barely alive, with Sakura's scratched out forehead protector.
The elders had put a lot of pressure on him, but not anymore then anyone else in the village, Itachi knew what it was like to have pressure put on you from all sources actually, including marriage, but she hadn't ran away and Sakura loved people, loved the people of this village, he was kind and put the village before himself, he'd never leave the village let alone attack Neji Hyuuga, even if she drove him past the breaking point. He'd been horrified he'd accidentally 'attacked' her in Suna.
The matter was dire, he had so much proof against him here that it was a concerning development. The Elders were pressuring him and he was doing badly with the progression of that task, the logical assessment would be he left on his own, however...something told Itachi that Sakura wouldn't do that. Even with everything going against that. It wasn't logical and she didn't understand it.
She'd been ANBU Team leader and Captain for a long time now, she'd been somewhat his friend in all those years, spending more personal time with him then she had with anyone else outside her family. So she could conclude she knew him fairly well and knew that this was very out of character, as a matter of fact, it was inconceivable that the Sakura Haruno they all knew, would ever leave the village for anything short of keeping someone he loved safe and alive.
Even if he was forced into finding lovers for the sake of the village, even begrudgingly he was trying, someone who'd never had a lover outside missions and had no reason to find anyone with how well his career was between being a medic and being ANBU, would have issues finding someone. Sakura would never leave the village just to escape his fate.
Itachi knew him well enough at this point to confidently say that Sakura wouldn't leave for such a simple reason, let alone leaving Sasuke and Naruto without a word edgewise, or Hinata Hyuuga or Shikamaru Nara, his closest friends.
No, something was most definitely wrong. She needed to hear Neji Hyuuga's side of the story to find out what was going on, but no matter what Neji said, she wouldn't believe he'd left willingly even with proof, and that was weighing on her. It disturbed her that she trusted Sakura so completely in that manner that she'd not even believe the word of his teammate. Something was most definitely wrong, with her as well.
She flat out refused that Sakura left after confessing he loved her. She was useless in romance, but she wasn't an idiot, she could read between the lines. She hadn't thought it was possible for him to like her, let alone be attracted to her, but apparently he was. She wasn't sure what to do with that knowledge, but she'd worry about helping Sakura before she concerned herself with his obvious seduction.
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Akatsuki base:
A week he'd been begrudgingly helping the Akatsuki if only to keep his word to keep Neji alive. Don't be fooled with his outside willingness to help, he was all rage and suppressed violence. He was a frustrated mess. He was desperate to get both him and Neji out of this situation. He was still just working on waking her. It'd be easier to escape with her awake.
He tried everything he knew, he even gave her some of his chakra, but it was immediately absorbed by something inside her and vanished, it was lack of chakra keeping her unconscious, whatever it was, was no longer making her sick, but it wasn't helping matters for her to be at this constant dangerous level of chakra. She was stabilized, but she was far from out of the woods.
When he was doing maid work, medic work, cooking, or mixing poisons for the Akatsuki, he was also scoping the base, finding the traps, testing his limits, all the while never betraying his word. He would escape, but not until he was ready, until they were ready. He had to bide his time. At this point they hadn't asked him to do anything he would really object to, there had been moments he wanted to refuse, but he hadn't.
They were testing his willingness to keep Neji alive, which could be used against him as well, which was why he was careful as well. To not appear too willing, but doing as asked anyway. They at least trusted him to do what he was told, and not sabotage anything yet.
Saku was currently bathing Neji, they hadn't been so helpful to give him another pair of clothes for her so he was forced to wash her own clothes and keep her bare body covered with the blanket they had provided while her clothes dried.
What they had provided was; a blanket, a bucket of water, and soap to wash her, and himself. He'd been able to feed her soup without her choking, much, but she never woke up even when she drank and ate, with his help to work her throat muscles, she was at least sustained, for however long it would take for him to figure out how to cut whatever it was stealing her chakra and drain her, if he cut it perhaps she would at least regain her chakra enough for them to walk out of here.
He almost mapped out two different routes to go and all the traps he could find between there and here as well as where the Akatsuki were during the day and night. The fact they trusted him out of his room and free made him nervous, it was too much freedom and it worried him, what if they knew he'd never escape because they booby trapped Neji?
And what exactly did they need him 'out of the way' for? Out of the way of what?
Saku sighed as he trailed the cloth down her nude body. She'd be angry if she knew he'd stripped and laid her bare, but she wasn't awake to yell at him, though Kami knows he wished she was. She was less irritating when unconscious, but what he wouldn't give to see those silver eyes or hear her voice even if it was to sprout rude sexist things his way and belittle him. He missed that from her. Kami he was probably a masochist to want that.
He had to be if he allowed her to always shove him around. Or maybe that was just what it was like to have a partner, no matter what shit they put you through, you dealt with it because they were your partner and you take things that you would normally never take, because they were who you trusted to have your back and you theirs.
Her skin was like his, scarred in places from battle, his more then hers because of course he was 'reckless' as she liked to say. She still had the body of a woman despite her scars and her slim frame. She wasn't built like Shisui or even Naruto, but...this really was what he preferred. Small and lithe, muscled from years of hard work, scarred and proud of it. Maybe he just liked that she had to work harder then others to seduce someone. He didn't want to be one of the many, hell he didn't want to be that way to anyone himself. He didn't need more then one wife.
It was why he tried so hard yo avoid getting involved with Shisui, why he disapproved of Ino's lifestyle. If he and Neji ever had gotten better along he'd probably have chosen her as his lover a long time ago. What wasn't to like about her? She was brilliant, she could keep toe to toe with him, she was beautiful and cunning, not too shy to say what she wanted and she never took shit from anyone. She worked hard every day of her life for the village, putting it first no matter how hard it was on her. She also had the ideal body type for him and that long hair he could wind his hands in.
However the fact of the matter was, they disliked each other so much that they could possibly never even be friends let alone have sex. Saku even knew why she didn't like him. A lot of people agreed that men shouldn't be in ANBU with their situation, but not being in ANBU and being one of the best in the village was just as foolish. ANBU had a high fatality rate, and having someone like him in ANBU to keep his teammates alive would make the death rate go down, not up. Neji knew these things as well as he did, but she wholeheartedly disagreed with him.
It wasn't his skills as a Medic that was what got him into ANBU and she knew that, she'd fought at his side more times then he could count over the years. She refused to acknowledge him for whatever reason, that he didn't know. She was complicated. Usually he liked complicated in his women, but Neji was too frustrating for him.
Besides she never tried to get to know him as a person, she had pushed him away so much that people who didn't know they were teammates in ANBU thought he'd done something to make her hate him. Even when they got out of here, because he refused to say if, she would never change her mind about him and he never expected her to. He'd be out of her hair soon enough if the Elders had their way.
Besides when he met Itachi, it was over for him. He couldn't think of anyone else after her. How he even managed to deep down care about Shisui was beyond him when Itachi was in the picture. He never expected her to ever want him, Itachi, but he was alright with that. He could spend forever just at her side as long as he could, sure he wanted more, but he would never push Itachi, she never even noticed when he flirted with her.
Saku startled when Neji shivered beneath the rag he washed her with, he glanced down, her skin was damp and goosebumps rose across her skin and she shivered again. He felt guilty he hadn't been paying attention to her, they Akatsuki wouldn't give him a fire to warm her, or heat the water, and so the water was cold, he trailed the rag with his hand to at least give her warmth if only by easing the cold with his own body heat. She stopped shivering at least.
He had company, but he ignored her until she spoke up.
" You don't need an unconscious girl to satisfy you boy, not when there are plenty women here who desire the satisfaction." The Akatsuki, Kisame, if he recalled her name right, said. She was tall for a woman, with pointed teeth, gills, blue tinted skin, and sharp gold eyes. He continued to ignore her as he finished with Neji and covered her body with the blanket. He turned to her standing with hands clasped behind his back, soldier pose. He'd pretend to be compliant.
Kisame flashed those pointed teeth in a grin that seemed like a snarl, but there was amusement in her look.
" Obedience, but such defiance in your eyes." She shook her head at him then turned serious.
" Need you to heal the princess, apparently girl is too reckless with her bombs." Kisame said off hand and jerked her head for him to follow her.
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Konoha:
" You don't even for a second believe he actually ran away do you?" Shisui demanded as they walked to the hospital together, apparently the Hokage had healed Neji and she had opened her eyes. Itachi frowned at her cousin and then turned her eyes back ahead.
" No." She answered simply, Shisui opened her mouth to argue his case, but snapped it shut when she realized Itachi's answer and turned surprised black eyes her way.
" I do not believe Sakura would run from such a important task and he would certainly never harm a teammate in such a way, despite their differences." Itachi said in reply to her cousins sharp curiosity.
Shisui nodded her approval.
" So, what are we going to do about it?" Itachi cast her a bemused look.
" This could be a ploy for Akatsuki and whatever they desire Sakura for." Itachi said with a wave of hand.
" And the Hyuuga?" Shisui asked curiously.
" If Akatsuki is behind his disappearance, they would never return the Hyuuga to ruin their plan." Itachi revealed.
" So you don't think it is Neji? Shouldn't the Hokage have noticed that?" Shisui pondered.
" It is Akatsuki Shisui, we do not know half as much about their members and their abilities as we'd like to."
" There is no real way to know, but if Sakura has been captured he is working out a plan of escape for himself and the Hyuuga this very moment." Itachi said confidently. Shisui smiled at her slightly, but Itachi caught it and glanced over with a raised brow and silence question.
" Nothing, just thinking that you're slowly giving into Sakura's charm aren't you?" Shisui asked with a devious smirk. Itachi startled then blinked at her cousin and scoffed at her.
" We are friends, I am his team leader, and Captain, Shisui, that is all." Itachi said turning her eyes toward their path to the Hospital. Shisui chuckled to herself, but Itachi refused to glance at her again.
" You mentioned ' friend ' first cousin, it was all those kisses, it skewers the way you see thins." Shisui joked. Itachi tensed up in surprise at her words then gave her a long sigh, Shisui grinned at it.
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Akatsuki base:
Deidara sat still for him at least as he healed her bloodied arm and the pieces of rock embedded in her skin. She was also silent as he healed her, just watching him. Which wasn't strange, all the Akatsuki did that, when they needed healed. Watching him to make sure he wasn't killing them instead of healing them, he could do it, but he wasn't ready for that plan, not until he pushed all his other options. He wasn't that desperate to escape, not yet.
Though it was strange for her to be silent with him, she usually liked to talk his ear off in a manner that was a mix between Sai and Naruto, Sai as she spoke of art, Naruto as she would not stop.
Saku glanced up from his healing and met her blue eyes. She was serious for a moment, then her usual smirk crossed her face.
" What's wrong pretty boy, getting lonely by yourself? Yeah?" She asked leaning forward, his hand dug into her arm and she yelped and pulled back startled.
" Opps." He said softly, but he looked away from her eyes and got back to work. She snorted at him.
" Do you have a lover waiting on you back in your village? Yeah?" She asked. He refused to glance up again and meet her eyes, but he hesitated, there wasn't harm in answering her. If it kept her occupied with something other then him, he didn't care.
" No. Not really." He said easily. She chuckled, then hissed as he removed another piece of rock from her arm and dropped it into a pan at her side, with a clink from stone meeting metal.
" Pretty boy like you? I find that hard to believe. Yeah." She trailed a finger from her good arm down his cheek. He flinched slightly at it.
" I don't have one. I'm too busy." He said in turn, but he had tensed up at her touch and she hadn't failed to notice, but she at least stopped touching him and let her good arm fall back across her lap.
" One you're chasin' then? Yeah." She questioned.
" Does it matter?" He asked with a frown.
" Getting offensive there, yeah. This girl not like you pretty boy? Yeah." She grinned at him.
" Or is the pretty boy instead interested in other pretty boys? Yeah." She teased. He sent her a dark look under his eye lashes.
" Well that's a sexy look, yeah." She purred and leaned forward, he was startled and didn't get a chance to squeeze her arm again, their noses brushed her hair was soft and tickled his arms and chest.
" You seem more interested in Master Sasori then anyone else, that because she has that boyish body? Yeah? That the secret pretty boy? You ever even tasted a woman? Yeah?" Anger flared over his skin heating it hot.
" Show me a woman and I'll taste her then." He growled at her. She blinked startled, taken back she pulled away then flushed and scowled at him.
" Go play with your boys then, yeah." She snorted at him and went silent again for the rest of the healing. He glared at her arm the entire time he healed it, trying not to give away the quick gallop of his heart. He was getting reckless being here so long. Reckless was dangerous in the midst of a dozen Akatsuki.
Reckless could get him and Neji killed.
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Konoha:
" How long is Saku-kun going to be on that mission anyway?" Naruto complained around a mouthful of ramen she ate across her bed. Sasuke scowled over at her with a slight blush, as the object they were both reading lay propped open on her pillows.
" How can you sit and read this so casually? It's about Saku's sex life." Sasuke complained.
" Well it was too easy to snatch from the old woman, somethin' is goin' on teme, and Saku is still off on a mission. Doesn't that sit wrong with you?" Naruto questioned.
" If he was in trouble don't you think we'd have been told as his teammates?" Sasuke asked in turn. Naruto shook her head, slurped up a noodle as she finished then set the bowl on her bedside table.
" We aren't his teammates anymore teme, his new teammates could have been told already and we just weren't told." Naruto said shaking her head.
" Has your sister or cousin said anything? Hina didn't say anything about Neji-teme." Naruto said and crossed her arms.
" Wouldn't the Hokage tell us or Kakashi at least?" Sasuke asked.
" Maybe we should give gramps a visit and find out." Naruto said and reached forward and snapped the pink book closed then put in in the pouch at her hip.
" If the Hokage is busy as he has been, why don't we go to Kakashi?" Sasuke asked.
" Because she won't tell us anything anyway, just like your sister or cousin wouldn't." Naruto said rolling her blue eyes.
" We could bribe her." Sasuke offered.
" With what... oh gross! We are not giving Kakashi-sensei a book about Saku!" Naruto complained with a horrified look.
" She likes the porn your master writes, she wrote ...that, so she'll like it, whether it has Saku in it or not." Sasuke said and crossed her own arms. Naruto and Sasuke stared off for a long moment until Naruto threw her hands up.
" Fine, we'll try Kakashi-sensei first, then if she can't give us anything, we go to gramps." Naruto pointed at her. Sasuke rolled black eyes.
" So...how much of that do you think is real? I mean...do you really think Saku and my Nee-chan have been..." Sasuke shuttered with a freaked out look. Naruto snorted.
" Pervy-sage adds a lot of things teme, I'd be surprised if Saku-kun has been with any of those women she wrote in there. I mean Saku-kun and Neji-teme? Maybe your cousin, but not your sister! Or Shika, and Hina, and seriously Ino? I mean..." Naruto shook her head. Sasuke relaxed slightly.
" But Pervy-sage does have a hint of truth in her books, so maybe...something in there is real." Naruto rubbed the back of her head.
" Knowing Saku-kun I think he'd tell us if he found a lover, I mean I would hope he did." Naruto said warily.
" He said he wouldn't." Sasuke reminded her.
" Yeah but...I mean this is important! I mean if it is your sister or cousin wouldn't your clan know it? Or if it was that lazy ass then I'd know, and if it was Neji-teme, Hina would say so!" Naruto said waving a hand.
" And if he turned to your pretty little Hyuuga because he couldn't stand the pressure of the Elders breathing down his neck and decided to just say to hell with it?" Sasuke asked giving Naruto a firm look. Naruto blushed at that and then looked away quickly.
" Don't know about this book, but wouldn't Hina say something about that? I mean why would he ask me out when he was with Saku-kun?" Naruto asked. Sasuke flushed at the imagery she'd just caused herself.
" They are close." Sasuke pointed out.
" We know Saku-kun likes your sister and is lusting after your cousin, he likes women! Not men!' Naruto said covering her ears, a dark blush across her face as she recalled all the moments in the pink book with Saku and the men. Sasuke sighed at her.
" I'm just saying... maybe there's more then one reason Saku likes my sister, I mean...maybe it's just a cover and that's why he doesn't want to talk about his sex life and hasn't been with either of us." Sasuke said huffing. Naruto gave her a look.
" You know exactly why Saku-kun isn't with you and it's your own fault." Naruto pointed out. Sasuke scowled at her.
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Akatsuki base:
Saku tried not to fidget, but sweat beaded at the back of his neck in nervousness. He didn't like being alone with any of the Akatsuki, but he particularly didn't like being alone with Sasori. Who liked being alone with someone you killed anyway? Least of all one who had wanted to make him into a human puppet and seemed to have an obsession with him. Besides, he didn't trust the look she kept giving him. He'd seen animals look at their food the same way.
This was also the first time he'd been brought into one of their personal bedrooms that didn't sit well in his stomach. Actually he wasn't sure he was comfortable with anything at all in this situation. He'd put up with a lot of things in the past week with the Akatsuki, but...this was testing him, a bit too much.
If she wanted to talk they could have done it in the kitchen, or the training room, hell even in his cell was better then in her room. With all the dead eyes of puppets staring at him, bringing back bad memories from their battle. Not to mention he was standing in only his nin-pants, she'd told him to remove his shirt, it had been a tense minute before he did.
She stood silently in the shadows of her room, brownish gray eyes watched him, looked at him like she was dissecting every part of him, like she was forearm deep in his chest and digging around in his body. He tried not to, but he squirmed. She hadn't moved or spoke since he removed his shirt, and it was all he could do to not run away. He didn't like being alone with her, not when fighting her wasn't an option, not when killing her wasn't on the table, not that it worked well the first time apparently.
" I have not been in a human body for a long time, but I do recall it needs to breathe." She stated and he blinked at her, before he realized he hadn't been breathing for a while now and he let out the breath he'd been holding, it came out a little shaky. He wasn't afraid of her, he hadn't been afraid when he had fought her the first time, it was just...she made him very uncomfortable. He still had dreams of her occasionally since he'd killed her with her grandfathers help.
" I've been watching you for a long time Sakura." Sasori's voice cut through the tense silence and he jumped and cursed himself for it, then went tense all over again when she came forward and her fingers, disturbingly warm, brushed lightly across the skin along his waist and then around as she circled. He held perfectly still as his eyes followed her around.
" After I was able to return to life in this body, it had taken years to restore me, when I was well enough to travel, I sought you out." She circled like a shark, her fingers brushing a never ending trail around and around, over his abs, dipping down his navel, across his hips, up his sides, down his spine, around and around it was never going to stop, it was almost hypnotizing.
" I found you had aged, like all things do. I was disappointed at first, then realized your changes pleased me more." Her breath fanned his spine and he went taunt his breath catching.
She was beautiful in her human skin, she no longer look eternal in her puppet body, but she was no longer a child either, she was perhaps around Kakashi's age. She had a strange smell, a mix of her poisons no doubt. Though the puppet body freaked him out, he preferred it to this human one, she was too warm at his back, her fingers caressing his skin too lightly, too familiarly, it was too much, he flinched away, he couldn't take it. She didn't seem to mind, though her lips twitched at him. As if it were all a test.
" What do you want with me Sasori?" He asked, he wanted to sound confident, but his voice was rough and a bit shaky. Damn it! He wasn't a kid anymore!
She came from behind him, to slide up in front of him, her hand came up slowly and landed on his chest, moved up just as slowly to his throat and encircled it with as much as her one hand could. She tugged and his head was forced to look down at her, he met her gray brown eyes, he almost missed the crazy indifference from the past, this look made him shiver. He didn't like that look. She swept down his body in a slow sweep with her eyes and then met his as if she had all the time in the world.
" This human body has needs I hadn't felt in a long time, I require your body to rectify these baser desires." She said and he almost wished he hadn't asked. He felt her hand squeeze his throat tightly almost enough to choke him. He debated his choices. He knew something like this would happen, he had hoped to put it off as long as possible and he hadn't expected it out of Sasori, but he had known it was a possibility.
He could probably overpower her in her human body, she didn't have all the weapons inside her she did as a puppet, this body was just flesh and bone like he was. However, was he really ready to escape right now? Neji was still unconscious and for all he knew the leader would know if he killed Sasori, again. Then it would have all been for nothing and they'd not give him freedom, if they let him live at all.
He had a bad feeling this wasn't the end of this either, the other Akatsuki would probably come to him as well for this, they'd said it the first time he asked after all, that they'd use him for whatever they wanted even their own whore if they needed to. And why wouldn't they? He couldn't do anything about it at this point. He wasn't ready to fight the entire origination single handed. He licked dry lips and swallowed, it was hard to do with her hand firm on his throat.
" What do you want Sasori?" He repeated. His eyes wary. She smirked at him, her gray brown eyes were warm, he preferred the cold crazy he was use to. He missed her puppet form.
" I am sure you have already guessed that Sakura." She purred and leaned forward. He rose his hands and pushed her back quickly. Nope.
No. He couldn't sit there and take it. There was a difference between seduction missions and letting someone have their way with him. She flicked her hand and he stumbled as his arms were jerked down and his middle went taunt as if...Son of a bitch, she had attached chakra stings to him when she was feeling him up.
He felt his arms jerked and he let go of her, his arms going behind his back against his will and linking together. He was bound.
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Konoha:
Shisui and Itachi stood in front of the Hokage with identical wary expressions.
" What do you supposed Akatsuki's plan is? It's obvious that isn't Neji Hyuuga, even if ' she' only woke to confirm Sakura ' attacking and leaving'" Tsunade said eyeing all in the room, even Jiraiya on the window seal. He locked his hands together under his chin, then placed his elbows on the desk to prop his head up.
" What could the Akatsuki want with the kid?" Jiraiya asked puzzled.
" Why send this impostor here to remain comatose, only to awake to tell us Sakura has gone rouge, then go back under?" Shisui asked.
" That doesn't sound much like a plan, send a comatose spy here to what, take up a hospital bed?" Tsunade asked sarcastically. Jiraiya snorted.
" Funny, Tsuna, but Akatsuki are tricky." Jiraiya said amused then got serious and crossed her arms warily.
" That impostor can be more dangerous then we think, it could be a bomb from the blonde Akatsuki Deidara, a clone, or even the Akatsuki Zetsu itself." Jiraiya warned.
" If we try to move the Impostor to another place, it could trigger something, and worst we have a bomb in the hospital, we'll need to clear that part of the hospital just in case." Tsunade said with a frown.
" How is a bomb the worst case, we could have a actual Akatsuki member in Konoha, that's a little bad don't you think?" Shisui asked with a pointed look.
" One Akatsuki can be handled if push comes to shove, we will put ANBU at the door to guard the room and the impostor." Tsunade said.
" What could Akatsuki want with Sakura anyway? Neji Hyuuga is still out there, dead or with Sakura, that could be why he hasn't made an effort to escape, they have Neji as incentive." Shisui said with a frown.
" There are hundreds of medic-nin out there, Sakura is very skilled, but he is not more valuable then a healer of the same caliber. I'm not pushing down Sakura's importance, but they wouldn't want him for his family line being males, that isn't common knowledge, there's no reason they'd know that. It's possible they sent the Akatsuki into Konoha to kidnap Naruto while we were dealing with the mess they caused with Sakura ' leaving'" Tsunade said.
" Send a 'search and capture' after Sakura to where Jiraiya-san last spotted the Akatsuki." Itachi spoke up finally in suggestion.
" We'd better get the girl out of the way before she learns the kid is missing." Jiraiya pointed out.
" We send Team seven, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Naruto on a mission away from the village out of the Akatsuki's immediate reach in the village and away from learning about Sakura."
" You two, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuuga will scout for our missing- nin." Tsunade added.
" You want us to take on all the Akatsuki alone?" Shisui asked seriously.
" Scout, do not engage, I do not want you near the Akatsuki let alone letting them know we know of them having Sakura, we do not want to risk whatever trap they have with the impostor in the village getting word, or to kill Sakura or Neji if you're spotted. Watch and find him, then report back. We'll find a way to rescue them both." Tsunade said firmly.
" Aye aye Hokage-sama." Shisui said then both flickered away leaving Tsunade with Jiraiya.
" The Impostor?" Jiraiya asked.
" Have ANBU on her, and two on the door. Be careful not to be seen with them 'Raiya." Tsunade warned. The white haired woman grinned at him.
" I'm very careful at not being seen Tsuna, or else it'd not have seen you in the hot springs so many times." She teased with a saucy grin then left before he could toss a sake cup at her head.
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End Chapter:
So, how was that? Entertaining enough? Hope you all enjoyed the update. Sorry it's been a while. I'll try to get another wrote up and out as soon as I can. Hit me with a review with how you like poor Saku with the Akatsuki, lol.
Kyo