Two days that's how long it took for the three to get back to the village after receiving Ay's message that Sakura had been taken when they arrived in the Raikage's office he told them that Sakura was back but she was still unconscious and waiting for medical treatment at Darui's apartment so with that the three of them ran down the streets and up to Darui's apartment to start knocking rapidly on the door a moment later Darui opens it looking utterly exhausted.
"I'm so glad you guys are back" he yawned tiredly leading the three men into Sakura's room where she lay on the bed "Oh Sakura" Hidan breathed out heart clenching painfully at the sight of her laying in that bed "Yeah it's been a hard keeping watch" came Darui's response when Hidan slid down on the floor "She's fine just a lot of bruises I think she's just been resting she should come to in a few hours at the least" Cee looked her over before giving his report "Thank Jashin" Hidan whispers settling against the bed with a sigh of relief.
"Come on Hidan" Cee gestures for him to follow but Hidan doesn't move an inch "Sorry Darui I guess we're staying" the blonde heaved a sigh "That's alright if you don't mind I'm gonna get some rest let me know when she wakes up" Darui yawned out giving the three permission to stay as he left the room to crash on his bed meanwhile Kimimaro sat on the floor next to Hidan and Cee settled into the vacant chair watching Sakura closely for any signs of her waking up he wouldn't admit it but he hadn't wanted to leave anyway and he was glad Hidan was stubborn.
Silently Hidan was praying to Jashin 'Oh Mighty Jashin, God of this world, God of my flesh, God of my mind, God of my Innermost Will, Every part of this world is within your power, you are within every part of this world, every part of me is within your power, you are within every part of me, Of my own free will, I acknowledge your power, Of my own free will, I now present myself to You' he finished his prayer before sinking into his mind the black taking over as he did a ritual for the first time without using his blood.
He loses his sight for a moment before Jashin appeared before him "Lord Jashin" he bowed his head in acknowledgement before soft feminine laughter comes from behind him "Hey Hidan" Sakura tackles him and he hits the ground "Fucking bitch do you have any idea how worried I've been" he turns around a scowl on his lips and anger in his violet eyes "I'm sorry Hidan" the smile falls from her lips as tears well up in her eyes "Ah shit Sakura I didn't mean to snap at you" Hidan runs his hand roughly through his hair as he pulls the girl into a quick side hug.
"I think it's time you woke up young acolyte" Jashin ordered wanting his two followers out of his garden "Of course Jashin-sama" Sakura gave him a quick bow before disappearing followed by Hidan who opened his eyes first he realized that hours had passed and then a groan from Sakura which causes Cee to jump to his feet and help her sit up in the bed "Glad your awake Sakura" he gives her a small smile "Me too I feel like I've been asleep for ages" Sakura croaked out rubbing her throat before sipping her water Cee handed to her "Thank you" she whispers.
"Tell me Darui's alright" Sakura asks in a panicky voice a moment later when she doesn't see the man "I'm fine Sakura what happened after I passed out" Darui's voice enters her ears as he comes into the room bags under his eyes and looking like he hadn't slept a wink of sleep for weeks followed by Kimimaro "Well they took the poison out but they left you there and took me pretty far away of course I don't remember much except for the beating they gave me and what they wanted was all the passwords into the village which I didn't have" Sakura explains.
"How did you get out of there" Hidan asks he had been expecting to have to go tearing down building to find her "I made a deal with a guy named Sakon that if he was ever in trouble I'd help him out of it" Sakura shivered remembering how creepy the guy had been completely missing Kimimaro's reaction to the name "Well at least he brought you back" Hidan sighed ready to head back to Cee's "Yeah me to that jerk knocked me out" Sakura pouted in remembrance "I would suggest training even harder so this doesn't happen again" Kimimaro jumps up ready to leave.
'Wait just a fucking minute Kimimaro knows something' Hidan narrows his eyes in suspicion when he quickly leaves the room hopping up he gives Sakura a wave before following Kimimaro out of the apartment catching up with Kimimaro halfway to Cee's apartment "You know something" Hidan accuses causing Kimimaro to speed up "Not here" he hisses a moment later before Cee joins them later one after they eat a late dinner Hidan follows Kimimaro to their room and once the door shuts seals and soundproofs the entire room so as not to be heard.
"Sakon is an old comrade of mine" Kimimaro sits tensely on the edge of his bed "You know ever since you showed up I've been wary tell me where the fuck you came from" Hidan hisses glaring at Kimimaro fury in his purple eyes "Kabuto Yakushi sent me to protect Sakura-sama he gave me a way out from Orochimaru's rule" Kimimaro grinds out from between clenched teeth not liking the anger that Hidan was directing at him "YOU MEAN YOU WORKED FOR THE FUCKER THAT'S TRYING TO KILL SAKURA" Hidan shouts his chakra exploding with his anger.
"That's the key word Hidan worked which mean as in I don't any more" Kimimaro stresses standing up in his own anger "For the last almost 3 months I've gotten to know you and Sakura-sama I don't think I could go back ever again" he yells refraining from attacking to Hidan "I FUCKING SWEAR IF SAKURA GETS HURT BECAUSE OF YOU IT WON'T BE HER THAT YOU WILL BE DEALING WITH IT WILL BE ME" Hidan's face grows red with his shouts as he takes Kimimaro by his shirt and shakes him harshly in his anger.
"I promise Sakura won't get hurt" Kimimaro chokes out gasping for air as Hidan clenches a fist around his throat cutting off his air, gaining his desired response Hidan abruptly drops Kimimaro on the bed allowing the younger male to breathe again as he rubs his throat that now had a bruise in the shape of a hand print "I suggest you hide that from Sakura and everyone in the village" Hidan warns before removing the jutsu's around the room and laying down on his bed drifting into a deep sleep.
The next day Sakura drags Darui out to the training field again "Ok so if I wanted to learn what my chakra nature was how would I go about doing that" is the first thing to come out of her mouth as she faces him "Well you'd need one of these" Darui holds up a piece of paper that he luckily had on him handing it over to Sakura who stares at it curiously "I gather chakra into it right" she guesses "That's right" Darui gives her a grin, concentrating Sakura pushes chakra into the slip of paper watching as it does nothing.
"I think it's a dud" she pouts at Darui who scratches the back of his head in confusion "It was brand new" he stares at it before gathering chakra in it and it gets wet "See it works perfectly fine maybe you just can't use jutsu" Darui suggests "That's not true if I can't use jutsu then how come I can perform genjutsu, medical jutsu, and all those other jutsu's I know I have" Sakura stomps her foot on the ground "Ok maybe you have more than two chakra natures" he guesses and Sakura grabs it like a lifeline.
"Here try this one" Darui goes through a set of handsigns before calling out "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu" he calls out and a water dragon rises from the pond before dropping back in with a splash "Alright I guess I'll try it" Sakura sulks but runs through the handsigns before calling out the jutsu and then as Darui had guessed a water dragon quickly forms and rises high before it loses it's form several minutes later "We need to get you some scrolls that have jutsu's" Darui sighs out before pushing Sakura with him into town to the supply store.
Walking in he pulls her into an aisle filled with nothing but books and scrolls scratching the back of his head again he looks down at Sakura "How much money do you got on ya" he asks causing Sakura to look up at him "Oh well enough to last me a long time" she shrugs in answer and Darui starts grabbing a few books with complicated jutsu's in them and then several scrolls "Come on Sakura" he motions for her to follow him to the front of the store when she pauses in a different aisle seeing this he stops and waits.
'Naruto would love that' Sakura giggles softly as she spies the kunai chains in the shape of ramen bowls 'Ah what the heck why not' she thought grabbing a couple packages before smiling brilliantly at Darui as they continue making their way to the register "That will be 420 ryo" the lady behind the counter rings up the price and Sakura hands over the money "Now I expect you to read those books" Darui waves his finger at her as they head back to the training field that was now occupied by Ay and a man she hadn't met yet.
"That's Killer Bee he's the bosses brother" Darui tells her when he caught her staring at Bee before pulling them further down to a different spot sitting on the ground Darui stares at Sakura expectantly to which she promptly opens a scroll and reads it intently for a few minutes before going through a new set of handsigns "Earth Style: Mud Wall" she calls out softly pouring her chakra into the ground sighing in frustration as it rises a small amount "More like tiny fence" Sakura sulked "That means you'll just have to keep practicing" Darui encourages from his spot.
That's how her last month and a half goes practicing jutsu's and learning she had 4 of the 5 chakra natures before Hidan decided it was time for them to go again "But we've barely been here" Sakura gave him a sad look but Hidan wasn't relenting this time "In the last 2 months alone you've been in more danger than I can count" he scolded Hidan was right of course those bandits had attacked the village a day away again not to mention Kimimaro had slipped of to who knows where which had hurt Sakura immensely.
A few weeks later Sakura received a letter from the Hokage telling her that Kimimaro had showed up in the village but that he was alright which had of course helped some the bottom line of it all was Hidan really wanted to get out of the Cloud Village "I suppose you're right Hidan" Sakura sighed "Fine just one more day buy some souvenirs for your friends back home and for Jashin's sake girl stop whining" he throws his arms up in the air causing Sakura to laugh but nod her head in acquiesce "Thanks Hidan" she gives him a quick side hug before running off.
On her last day in the Hidden Cloud Village she practices a bit of medical ninjutsu with Cee spars with Darui and even tries rapping with Killer Bee but she fails horrible at it if his horrified expression was anything to go by and then she went through each shop and bought even more souvenirs for her friends the next day they set off and headed in the opposite direction just the two of them again "I know were we can go next Sakura" Hidan tousles her hair in his hand as he leads her to one of Jashin's temples in the Hidden Grass Village.
A few days later they enter the new village passing by a ramen shop a loud obnoxious and very familiar voice draws Sakura's attention and with a squeal of happiness she runs into the shop and pulls the boy off his seat into the biggest hug she'd ever given anyone "NARUTO" she yells in his ear startling him even more "Sakura-chan is that really you" Naruto swallows his bite of noodles before returning her hug "It's me" she laughs "You've really changed in the last several months Sakura" Jiraiya emerges staring at her with an inappropriate look.
"Master Jiraiya please refrain from staring at me like a piece of meat I'm happily in an arranged marriage Shikamaru Nara" she crosses her arms emerald eyes narrowed and a scowl on her lips to match the current Hokage when she was angry "Of course Sakura-san I meant no offense and I meant you've grown stronger" Jiraiya hurriedly tries to save himself from getting into deeper trouble "Thank you Master Jiraiya" Sakura quickly perks up giving the older man a small smile before sitting next to Naruto and ordering her own bowl of ramen.
"So what brings you here to the Grass Village Sakura-chan" Naruto asks between slurping up ramen noodles "Oh well ask him" Sakura points at Hidan completely avoiding the question "We're here to visit a temple" Hidan explains vaguely glaring at Sakura "Which temple there are lots of temples here in this village" Jiraiya calls from his seat on the otherside of Naruto staying far away from Sakura as he could "Jashin's temple" Hidan rubs his forehead feeling a headache forming at there incessant questions "You don't mean the God of Sacrifice" Jiraiya asks.
"That's the one" Hidan gives Jiraiya a smirk when he stares at Sakura in concern "You shouldn't be taking a kid to a temple like that much less a girl" Jiraiya rises from his seat to stand next to Sakura protectively he'd heard many things about this girl from Naruto and it made him just want to take her away from Hidan and make her travel with him "Master Jiraiya I assure you I can take care of myself" Sakura hisses causes Jiraiya to press himself to the wall of the restaurant to avoid the fist she swung at him.
"Can we go to Pervy Sage" Naruto pipes up innocently completely oblivious in his naivete "Definitely not Naruto" Jiraiya shakes his head no immediately causing the blonde to sulk and give him the dreaded puppy dog eyes "Fine but if you try anything Hidan I'll tell the Hokage" Jiraiya warns caves a few minutes later when Sakura turns to give him her own look "Don't worry I just wanted to show Sakura what one of the temples looked like since she's been asking so many questions about why I'm immortal" he covers for them giving Sakura a covert wink.
"That's right Master Jiraiya, I find the concept of immortality is so intriguing" Sakura adds to the story hoping that it was believable "Alright enough already we can all go" Jiraiya shouts childishly apparently Naruto was used to this because he was just rolling his eyes at the old mans antics "Come on Sakura-chan let's go see this temple" Naruto takes her hand and slips out his chair "Wait Naruto I should warn you that the Jashinists don't pray like normal people they cut themselves" Sakura explains so Naruto could understand.
"Don't tell him that" Jiraiya cries out from behind them Hidan walking ahead of Sakura 'They're going to corrupt him before he reaches twenty' Jiraiya sulked "Oh I see" Naruto says wisely "Well here you go kids welcome to Jashin's temple" Hidan gestures to the temple before leading them in "Master Hidan" the jashinists bow at seeing their honored gods favorite disciple "Stop it you guys are embarrassing me" Hidan rubs the back of his head sheepishly as his cheeks flush red "This is Sakura my apprentice" he puts the spot light on Sakura who glares at him.
'Pay backs a bitch Sakura' he sniggered behind his hand as the Jashinists once again bowed "Mistress Sakura" the said as one 'That's kinda creepy' Sakura thought "You guys don't have to bow" she gives them a tight lipped smile as they stand in unison "We've heard great things about you Mistress" one of them approaches her "We would be honored if you'd lead the evening ritual tonight Mistress" another approached holding out a ceremonial dagger and she takes it hesitantly before giving Hidan a nervous look and he steps in.
"That might be to much for her right now" Hidan slides through the mass of people to reach Sakura's side "I see perhaps another time Mistress" the Jashinist bows again taking the dagger back from Sakura who doesn't resist as Hidan leads the group out of the temple with a small wave "Well we must really be going" Jiraiya talks after several minutes of silence "Let's go Naruto you still have a long ways to go in your training" he drags Naruto off while giving them a wave as they disappear from sight Sakura turns and gives Hidan a hug.
"That was so awesome" Sakura jumped up and down excitedly "Can we go back tonight since we don't have to worry about those two anymore I really want to do that ritual with them" her eyes sparkled like the emeralds they so resembled "I knew you would that's why I was having a conversation with the head of this temple and you'll be the center of attention tonight that's why I've got to prepare you" Hidan explains leading her off in a supposedly random direction, turns out it wasn't so random it was a hotel owned by the Jashinists.
"You wash up get as clean as possible" Hidan orders giving Sakura a card and pushing her into the hotel while he headed back down the street to a clothing store knowing that Sakura wouldn't want to ruin any of her clothes so he would by her some to use for tonight grabbing a frilly white skirt that was soft to the touch and also extremely short and extremely short, shorts before shoving them in his basket before grabbing a shirt that was exactly the same that was also short it would cover her chest and that was it before grabbing a white pair of unmentionables and white open toed boots.
Finished he heads up to the counter his cheeks burning hot when the cashier rings up the clothes and gives him a flirtatious wink hearing the total he shoves some money in her direction not caring that he gives her a few ryo extra and hightails it out of the store and back to the hotel where Sakura was waiting in the room dressed in her regular clothes throwing the bag at her "Put those on and please for the love of Jashin don't complain" he pleads with her as she peeks into the bag before turning a bright red in embarrassment but quickly runs into the bathroom.
Several minutes later Sakura comes out of the bathroom glaring at him ignoring her angry glare for the moment he gestures for her to sit with her back facing him and she does so while he attempts to twist her hair up in an intricate knot so that her hair wouldn't get bloody during the ritual "Ok turn around" Hidan orders again dipping his finger in a vial of blood red gloss and painting it on her lips making her lips pop brushing her cheek delicately with a white powder putting eyeliner on both of her eyes before brushing light green eyeshadow on her eyelids.
For the finisher he puts mascara on her lashes before blowing on them gently to get them to dry quicker before sitting back and staring at her critically "Your ready" he nods giving himself a pat on the back for doing such a good job 'Man am I glad Yukina made me do this for her all the time' he thought sadly remembering his best friend from so long ago picking Sakura up despite her complaints to be put down he walks out of the hotel and down the street to the temple while Sakura struggled to be set down.
Entering the temple they receive ever more bows as the head of the temple walks towards them "Master, Mistress" he bows his head in acknowledgement as Hidan finally sets Sakura on her feet only for her to be drug to the front of the temple and sat on her knees on a cushion in the middle of a symbol she was very familiar with unlit candles at around the massive symbol surrounded her and a ceremonial dagger lay in front of her along with a bowl meant for collecting blood behind her was a statue of Jashin she suddenly feels nervous.
"Worshippers of Jashin we have gathered here tonight for a ritual that will go down in history Master Hidan has brought his apprentice before us the only other person known to have received immortality Mistress Sakura will be leading us this evening for our daily ritual if you would please pick up the ceremonial dagger and begin" he gestures for Sakura to do as he says and taking a deep breath she releases it slowly as she reaches out hesitantly and grasped the dagger in her hand.
"Black Candles Burning Jashin Invoked" Sakura began reciting the ritual that Hidan had ordered her to remember as she takes the dagger and thinly cuts her left wrist before holding it over the bowl the candles around the symbol suddenly lit as the worshippers follow her lead "Sigils drawn, flesh is cut" she continues slicing her other wrist the same way feeling the rush of pain as it threatens to consume her "An offering is made in the Master's Name" Sakura releases the next words slowly as she trails the dagger up her arm creating a thin line of blood.
"I have given you, Jashin, my life force" she hisses at the pain switching hands and trailing the dagger up her other arm "My blood spilt for your victory" she takes the dagger and makes an X on her stomach "My soul is my ultimate sacrifice to you, my master" she grits out biting her cheek harshly causing blood to pool in her mouth as she stabs the dagger through the center of the X she had made "Darkness overcomes me, and I bask in it's infernal pleasures" Sakura huffs softly dragging the dagger down her face making it look like she was crying blood.
"Your presence surrounds me, therefore I am never alone" blood spills out of her mouths as she punctures a lung with her next move "With bended knee before your alter" Sakura struggles to her knee as she turns her head bowed as she raises the dagger in offering before stabbing both of her shoulders spilling even more blood staining the white clothes "I have made eternal oaths that can never be broken" Sakura feels the strain as she falls back onto her knees as she stabs the dagger into both knee caps the blood pooling underneath her.
"May you always be glorified in everything I do, Lord Jashin" she finishes panting as she shoves the dagger into her throat before falling over in a faint as her pain turns to pleasure moments later she wakes up Hidan leaning over her and staring at her in pride "You did good Sakura" he wipes the blood of her cheek her eyes were drooping in tiredness so Hidan scooped her up in his arms expecting to hear a complaint but looking down he finds that she had drifted off to sleep so giving the worshippers a wave he head back to the hotel so they could rest.
Early in the morning Sakura wakes her body tingling with left over pleasure when she remembers something "Hey Hidan" she calls softly instantly waking Hidan "Yeah" he rolls over in his bed "I know the Leaf Village is my home" Sakura starts off explaining her thoughts "But I've never felt like I've really belonged, it wasn't the ritual more like being in Jashin's temple why is that" she asks turning her head to look at him "I'm not sure Sakura" he gives her a small smile "I want to know who I am I'm sick of not knowing" she cries softly into her hands.
"I promise you Sakura we'll find out just be patient a little longer" he winces as her cries increases "I'm sorry Hidan it's just for the first time in my life I truly felt as if I belonged somewhere" she hiccup laughs rubbing her face to get rid of the tears "I know exactly how you feel" Hidan agrees with her as they drift off back into sleep the next morning Hidan heads off leaving Sakura to her own devices he knew exactly what to get her to cheer her up while Sakura wandered around the village.
Passing by a shop something in the showcase captures her interest so she enters and heads straight to the display case it was a huge snow white wolf "Wow" Sakura whistled softly in awe not wanting to wake the sleeping wolf marching to the cashier Sakura knew what she was going to do "How much do you want for her" she points her thumb in the direction of the wolf "Sorry kid too much for you" the guy behind the register smirks "I asked you how much for her" Sakura repeated crossing her arms and staring at the cashier.
"1,999 ryo plus the training supplies which includes books, leash, collar, name tag, vaccinations, bowls all custom made of course along with a whistle and food which comes to a total of 4,000 ryo" the cashier rattles off blinking in surprise when Sakura whips out her wallet and pulls the ryo half of it being what Kakuzu had given her before they had left and hands it over to him before staring at him smugly "You said that would be all custom made right" Sakura asks and he nods dumbfounded.
Her question answered she goes around grabbing the things she would need right as Hidan enters the shop "I swear I leave you for 5 minutes Sakura and you get yourself in trouble what did you do now" he stares at her warily "I bought the wolf over there" she answered simply going around and grabbing things she'd need for her wolf "You just had to buy her didn't you anyways here I got this for your collection" Hidan hands over a Hidden Grass Headband as she heads up to the counter with her selections and starts explaining what she wants done.
"For the name tag I want Midori engraved on one side and then a green cherry blossom engraved on the otherside, the bowls I want her name engraved on each along with a green cherry blossom every thing else a green cherry blossom" Sakura explains simply "Ok kid come back tomorrow and I'll give you the rest of the stuff" the cashier tells her taking the stuff and heading into the back room as Sakura stows the headband in her scroll with her two other headbands as they leave the store.
The next day they spend the day wandering the village buying souvenirs at noon Sakura heads back to the shop "I'm here for Midori" Sakura leaned against the railing as the giant wolf is brought out of the backroom decked out in her new stuff and the shop owner hands over a scroll "That has everything you need" he says before giving her the leash "Come on Midori" Sakura rubs the wolfs snout leading her out of the village where Hidan was waiting the minute they were clear of the village Sakur takes the leash off and climbs onto her back.
"Let's run Midori" Sakura calls softly and the wolf takes off at a fast run Hidan right behind her and Sakura laughing the entire way as they run through the forest several hours later Midori slows to a stop and allows Sakura to clip her leash back on before laying down in the snow they had entered snow country and were only a few hours away from the Samurai's headquarters "Thanks Midori I bet your happy to be out here instead of cooped up in that shop" Sakura rubs her fur gently pulling out a book only to look up in shock when "Mistress I'd rather serve you than be back in that shop with that arrogant human" Midori huffs out angrily shocking Hidan.
"You spoke" Sakura asked dumbly "I'm intelligent I was captured by that shopkeeper" Midori snarls showing her teeth "That's ok Midori you don't have to go back" Sakura soothed rubbing her fur again as they bed down for the night the next day they continue making their way to the Samurai headquarters Mifune greeting them mid-way only to pause in fear when Midori stands still her crystal blue eyes scanning her surroundings he leads the group the rest of the way to the building and up to his office to get the details from Sakura about her trip thus far.