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Chapter 4

Sakura sat silently, working away on his unconscious body, careful not to wake him.

Half an hour went by, and the shark-man was still sleeping soundly, Sakura was pondering a quick slip of her hand into his chest cavity. Maybe a small chakra induced puncture to the heart, that would kill him for sure, well maybe. It would slow him down atleast.

The chakra in her palm wavered, It was possible to take this man out here and now, I mean he was an A-rank criminal. But something was stopping Sakura, her chakra was just centre metres from his vitals, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

He's fast asleep, I'm not like that. No way! What kind of a wimp would I be if I killed someone when their defences were completely down...But what he said about Naruto. He couldn't kill him, could he?

As Sakura was pondering her choices, her hair began to stand on ends, what was that chakra she could feel? It wasn't Kisame's, it was, scarier.

"Heh heh heh, looks like we have an Assassin in our mits, lets kill her!" A dangerous voice filled the small cave room, but there was no body to accompany it.

What is this? Genjutsu? RELEASE! Damn...

"Maybe She is a friendly...you never know" Another voice. Still no body.

"Nonsense! Lets eat her! She looks so tastey"

"Well She did look like she was going to kill him..." Sakura by far preferred this voice, but either way, they both wanted her dead.

The pink haired Kunoichi rose to her feet, She couldn't take on two Akatsuki members, if they even were Akatsuki, but she'd be damned if She didn't go down kicking and screaming. She stood up carefully, pulling a kunai off the table with her left hand and held it defensively In front of her face.

Used most of my chakra healing that freakin' Shark, okay concentrate, You don't even know where they are. Not above, behind, must be below!

A chakra infused hand broke the still air, fist clenched and dangerous. Sakura swung her hand toward the ground, planning on smashing them out of the floor. As she felt her knuckles make contact with the earthy floor, something halted her attack completely.

She swung her head to where her hand should have shattered the ground to see a green vine protruding out of the ground, and it certainly wasn't their earlier. It had her hand and wrist clenched tightly in it's grasp and it was getting tighter. What the hell kind of plant was this?

The grip got tighter as it began to sink back into the earth it came from, dragging Sakura with it. She could feel the damp cold dirt against her knuckles as She started to panic. She flipped the kunai in her free hand and charged it toward the thorn covered writhing vine.

-CLINK-

Her eyes widened as the helpless realisation kicked in. Another vine had flew out of the ground and grabbed her other wrist with such force that the kunai dislodged itself from her hand and fell spinning to the floor. Sakura swore under her breath and began to furiously twist and shake her arm to rid her of this strange plant.

-SNAP-

A blood curdling scream filled the cave and echoed back to Sakura's ears. Her hand fell limp and blood began to seep out of the cuts the sharp thorns had left behind. Her wrist was broken, in more than one places she figured as there was nothing her sobbing pleads could do to get her hand to move. Her flush cheeks became red as tears streamed down her sweat covered face, and dripped solemnly onto the floor, the only sound that penetrated through the silence of impending doom.

"Zetsu, enough!" A bellowing command came from the blue haired man.

"She's an imposter! And must be disposed of"

"She's my new trophy I brought back, and i'd quite like her to finish fixing me up before you eat her" Kisame stood from his seat, and strode over to where Samehada was leaning patiently against the wall.

Sakura's scream had woken the man from his sleep and immediately put him on his guard. He took Samehada and rested her on his shoulder "Don't think I can't sniff you out, now if you'd kindly leave my quarters".

"Yes Kisame"

"Wait till Pein hears about you keeping a pet in here" The voice trailed off as the vines began to unwind and slither back into the ground.

Sakura's knees finally gave under the crushing agony and she slumped helplessly onto the floor, arm limp by her side.

Kisame pointed his sword at her, trying to elicit some kind of explanation. He touched her chin with the covered blade and lifted her head gently using Samehada. He took in what a pathetic sight She was, tear-stained face, matted pink hair dotted with dry blood, and the newly broken flesh becoming sticky on her wrist.

"I didn't try anything" the girl whimpered. She turned her face to meet his glare, the shine in her eyes outlining the fear that still lingered there.

Kisame huffed in approval and lowered Samehada to his side, before setting her back against the wall. He looked down at his faint scar and turned his nose up, She didn't even finish the job.

"He was going to kill, no, eat me" She sobbed "What kind of people are you!" She flung her head back toward the ground, covering her fresh tears with her dirty hair.

Kisame looked at her with almost pity, she had healed him, he probably would have died if She hadn't used her little medic hands to fix him. Hell, Kakuzu could barely stitch up a cut without causing more damage.

He sighed and walked over to the girl "Get up".

"No" Sakura whispered.

He saw her turn her face just enough to glare daggers at him, the ferocity in her eyes had returned, and it almost sent a shiver down his spine. He smirked just enough to make sure She saw and outstretched his hand in her direction.

Sakura looked up at the powerful man, smirking as if this whole situation was funny! She pulled what strength She had left and slapped his blue hand away, anger apparent on her face.

"This is your fault! Everything, He was going to eat me with no second thought!" words were escaping her mouth with no sign of stopping "I have friends and, and family and they need me, Do you even know what that's like to care about someone, or are you just a monster like the books say!"

Kisame was taken back by her outburst, this wasn't the goody-i'm-going-to-kill-you Kunoichi he had seen thus far. And then She said something She wouldn't be able to take back.

"Why didn't you just kill me!?"