Chapter 6

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The next morning Team 7 and Team Guy packed their stuff up from the night before. The only problem was that they couldn't get the last tent down. Why? I will give you one guess. "NARUTO! GET UP NOW! WE HAVE TO SAVE SAKURA!" Screamed Tenten in Narutos ear.

Naruto woke with a start, jumping up and running out of the tent fully dressed, looking for their cherry blossom. "Save Sakura-chan?! Where is she?" He asked looking around. Everyone sweatdropped. Well except for Sasuke and Neji who looked annoyed at the blonds yelling so eairly in the morning.

" Come on loser, were leaving." Said Sasuke starting to walk away. This made Naruto mad. "SASUKE-TEME!" Screamed Naruto ready to beat up the young Uchiha. Luckly Kakashi grabbed Naruto at the last second. " Naruto please we don't have time for this." Said Kakashi. Naruto stopped struggling and Kakashi let him go..

" Okay then lets get going. If we leave now we can be at the Akatsuki base in about a couple hours. Twelve at the most." Said Kakashi. Everyone nodded their heads and took off into the trees.

Back at Akatsukis base…………………………….

Sakura woke up to find that she was not in her bed. Just then all the memories from the day before came rushing back to her. She lifted the covers of the bed of her body, and swung her legs over the side of the bed. 'That's right. Im weith the Akatsuki now.' She thought. She looked over at her night stand at her red Konoha headband. The one that was not sliced through.

She had told the Akatsuki that she had lost her Konoha headband so they gave her another one. She picked her original headband, starring at it intently. Suddenly the door opened. Sakura quickly put her headband under her pillow and turned twards the figure who appeared in the doorway.

Deidara poked his head through the crack in the door. " Hey Sakura-chan, yeah. Leader-sama wants to see you now, yeah." He said. Sakura sighed. 'Sakura whats wrong?' Asked Serenity. 'I don't want to be bothered. I just want to train.' She thought to Serenity.

"Sakura-chan?" Asked Deidara waving a hand in front of her face. Sakura slapped his hand away standing up from the bed. " Tell him I will be there in a minute." She said. She shooed him away so she could dress. She took the Akatsuki clothes from on top of her dresser and put them on. She didn't button up her Akatsuki all the way, in turn showing a little bit of skin. The cloak went alittle above her ankles and her skirt was to her mid thigh. Underneath the cloak was blue armor around her chest, arms, and legs, and fishnet under the armor. You could only see a little of the armor and the fishnet.

Finally she put on her blue slashed Konoha headband in her usual place on top of her head. Sakura looked at herself in the mirror. She looked hot. 'You look really good Saku chan'. Said Serenity. Sakura smiled. "Thank you Serenity-san." She said.Sakura forgot one thing. She look at her dresser. On it was Orochimarus ring. The rings symbol and meaning were 空 meaning "Sky". She placed it on her left pinky finger. Sakura figured that she had wasted enough time and walked to the door, opening it and stepping into the dark hallway. Right outside the door was Deidara was leaning on the other side of the wall, waiting for her.

Sakura stared at him. He didn't move at all. She poked him. Nothing. A vein poped out of her head. He was asleep! She couldn't have taken that long! Her face mad with anger, she punched him in the stomach, waking him up with a ophhh! He kneeled over and looked at Sakuras angry face. "Damn Sakura- Chan. Whyd you do that, yeah?! He asked a little upset. Sakrua made a pouty face and snapped her head away. "That's what you get baka." She said.

Sakura studied Deidara when he got up and started to lead her to the leaders office. She was walking behind him, not far away. 'Hes kinda like Naruto in a way.' Said Serenity. Sakura thought about that for a minuete before answering. 'ya your right'. She said to Serenity almost laughing when Deidara tripped on the carpet. She and Deidara walked back up the same steps they had last night. They went into another room that was suprisingly bigger than the confrence room they were in last time. It had a huge looking throne at the other side of the room.

It was light in the room, which also surprised Sakura. In the throne sad the leader looking kind of ticked off. Ops. There was one other Akatsuki member in the room. He was wearing a straw hat with the bell in the front and looked like he was ready to go on a mission assigned to him. Sakura had to look closley but she recognised the Akatsuki member as Itachi Uchiha. Deidara turned around and walked out of the room without so much as a glance at her. She watched him leave, than turned to look at the leader.

She walked a little closer to him and bowed nice and low to him. " Leader- Sama, what did you wish to see me for?" She asked straighting up from her bow to stare him right in the eyes. He smiled warmly at her. " Ah Sakura-chan how nice of you to finally join us." He said. Sakura took a look in Itachis direction. He was slowly moving up to stand next to her. Once he stood to the left of her the leader continued.

" Sakura-Chan, Itachi, I have a mission for you. You are to assionate a spy that has been working for me in the hidden waterfall vilage. He has recently betrayed me and ows me money. Your job Itachi is to get the money that he ows me, than help Sakura assinate the spy if she requires your assistance. The man goes by the name Hosame Kinamero. Scence this is your first mission for the Akatsuki Sakura, Itachi is the leader. Do not fail me." Said the leader staring at Sakura and Itachi intently.Both bowed to him. "Yes leader". They said simotainesleoy than walked out of the room.

Neither said a word as they walked down the steps and went to their seprate rooms. Then Sakura remembered. "Itachi." She said to get his attension. He turned and looked into her eyes. Sakura flinched mentaly not showing any emotion flicker on her face. But he reminded her so much of Sasuke it hurt. She quickly burried the thought and finished her question. " What time do we leave?" She asked her face blank with no emotion. Itachi stared at her for a couple of minuetes before answering. " We leave at sun set." He said. Then Itachi walked into his room without another word or glance her way. Sakuras face tightened in a scowl. 'All Uchihas are alike'. She thought to herself.

Sakura went into her room to find out what time it was. Her clock read 9:40. Sun set was a long ways away. She figured she could train with one of the Akatsuki members for a while. To see if she was at their level. With that she walked out of her room in set for a Akatsuki member.

Time skip to sun set. Back with Team 7 and Team Guy………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Kakashi could see out outskirts of the Akatsuki base. They were so close. Kakashi was currently standing on a tree branch looking at the doors of the base. The rest of the squad were below him in the bushes, also looking at the base doors. He joined them down there. " Kakashi do you see anything?" Asked Guy. "Nothing it doesn't look like there is any activity." He said. Neji was looking throught he door with the Byakuugan (sp?). His eyes widened a fraction but Tenten caught the movement. " Neji what did you see?" She asked. The whole group, hearing this looked at Neji.

Neji took a while to answer. "Look for yourselfs." He said. For a second the whole group was confused as to what Neji was saying. Then all eyes were on the doors. The double doors opened and emerging from the inside of the base were two Akatsuki members. One of the members was a little bit shorter than the other one. None of the Konoha ninjas recognised the Akatsuki ninjas because they were wearing the straw hats. "Im going to beat them to a bloody pulp!" Nauto whispered. He was about to jump from his hiding spot but Kakashi and Lee stopped him. "Hey whats the big idea?!" He whispered. " Shut up baka. Our mission is not to just go and beat one of them up. Its to find Sakura!" Sasuke hissed at Naruto. Naruto stopped struggling and Lee and Kakashi. "…Ya your right." He said hiding his face with his bangs. Kakashi and Sasuke looked at him with consurn and pity. They knew exzactly how he felt. "Hey look". Whispered Tenten. They all wipped their heads around to see the two Akatsuki members running to the left twards the hidden waterfall vilage.

Now was their chance to go inside and take a look.

That's all for now. Thanks for being very patient with me. will update asap

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