Several minutes Kabuto comes to rubbing his jaw sending a pulse of healing chakra through it to relieve the pain as he stands up finding Sakura being held back by Hidan and she was struggling so much that the man was having a hard time keeping hold of her all the while she was still clutching her long pink locks in her hand "You bastard because of your precious master Sasuke is dead" Sakura spat venomously giving up on escaping and settling for glaring at Kabuto who completely understood her reaction.
Hidan seeing that another silver-haired guy was about to talk the one that was probably Sakon he shakes his head and mouths 'Don't Say anything about being affiliated with Orochimaru' and Sakon taking the hint wisely remains silent "Now Sakura that's not proper language for a lady" Kabuto antagonizes knowing that it probably wasn't the best thing to do at the moment "FUCK THAT YOU ASSHOLE SCREW BEING A LADY" Sakura shouted causing Hidan to wish that he had earplugs at that moment.
"Sakura I'm not here to threaten you" Kabuto drops his act sighing out tiredly "Are you here to die by my hand" Sakura asks smiling widely "No not yet at least" Kabuto gives her a small smile, Sakura finally calming down the veil of red rage receding from her eyes she realizes that Kabuto wasn't alone "Sakon" she blinks upon recognizing him "That's right" he smirks staring at her warily "Let me ask you one thing do you know Kabuto" Sakura asks her words dripping with malice and Sakon shakes his head prompting the others to do the same.
"We're in trouble and you promised to help me out" Sakon announces walking over to her once Hidan had released her "Of course I always keep my promises Sakon but first" Sakura smirks and reaches out to punch his arm "That's for knocking me out back in the Land of Lightning jerk" she smiles at him before welcoming the others into their group before turning and facing Kabuto again who raises his arms to show he was harmless when he gets an idea that would keep her from attacking him again.
"Sakura why don't you seal that hair of yours up and travel to The Village of Artisans ask for a guy named Touga and he'll make a weapon out of your hair so that way you don't have to get rid of it" he offers "Why would you help me" Sakura narrows her emerald eyes "I'm tired of being Orochimaru's nurse-maid and I want out" Kabuto shrugs pushing his glasses up his nose again before disappearing with a pop it was silent until "You know I think I'm gonna like you pinky" Tayuya speaks up attaching herself to the younger females side.
"I'd hope so" Sakura sighed feeling exhausted before pulling out an empty sealing scroll and stowing her hair in it before grasping her kunai and smooths her hair fixing the messy ends before tying her headband around her neck sliding a dark green hairband with blood red cherry blossoms on it in it's previous place moving her head side to side "Maybe it isn't so bad having shorter hair" she runs a hand through the shoulder length hair watching as her bangs turn silver to replace what she had cut apparently it was a permanent effect from being a jashinist.
"I'm Tayuya the fatso over there is Jirobou and four arms over there is Kidomaru and you seem to know the freak over there as Sakon and of course his freak brother Ukon" Tayuya introduces them smirking when Ukon separates from Sakon a pout on his lips "That's not very nice Tayuya saying such mean things" he sighs dramatically before staring at Sakura warily as her skin grows pale "Uh Hidan I don't think I feel so good" Sakura wipes her forehead she says slowly lowering herself to the ground feeling sick suddenly.
"YOU IDIOT I TOLD YOU NOT TO MOVE AROUND SO MUCH" Hidan jumps right into an angry rant as he scolds Sakura who smiles sheepishly at him "I forgot" she announces leaning her head against Midori "Hey what's wrong with pinky" Tayuya asks in confusion "Oh well before you guys got here and before I cut my hair I was in a fight with a group of bandits it's just a little poison is all nothing to life-threatening" Sakura slurs her words "Really Sakura" Hidan chuckles pulling out the cure and injecting it into Sakura's arm.
"She'll be fine in a few minutes" he sits pulling out a book to read while the cure ran it's course through the now unconscious Sakura a few minutes later she sits up "Mistress are you feeling well" Midori asks and Sakura nods "Much" she giggles happily hopping to her feet "Come on Hidan I want to get to that village Kabuto mentioned" she calls getting up on Midori to run "I don't think that will be possible we've got incoming" Sakon called instead of Hidan moving to stand next to the giant wolf.
"Jashin fucking damn it" Sakura curses sliding off Midori "Damn heathens just can't leave us alone" she mutters angrily going through a set of handsigns right when another group of bandits appears "Snow Style: Snow Shuriken" Sakura calls out and snow forms mid air in the shape of shuriken only to be sent flying in their attackers direction hitting with deadly accuracy killing 3 of 7 before Sakura gets back on Midori with a smirk and another set of handsigns her snowblade forms as the wolf takes off running.
Several minutes later they circle back around "Damn girl your freaking amazing" Tayuya whistles in appreciation "That's not even half of what I can do" Sakura slides back off Midori to gather her bag stock full of items "Pinky, what the hell did you make a deal with me for if you could do that and escape yourself" Sakon was pissed he felt used "Oh" she turned around to face him with a grimace "Well when we met back in lightning country I couldn't do any of that which I just did I guess you could say only in the last 5 months or so I've improved" Sakura shrugged.
"Come on which way is this artisans village" Hidan sulked, Sakura was no longer paying him any attention and he hated to admit it but it hurt and it really fucking sucked 'Ok so I suppose I deserve to be ignored for a while' he finally thought while she pulled out her map of the land "It's about 3 days away from here" Sakura looked up to tell Hidan only to find him pouting "Hidan are you seriously pouting" she let out a loud laugh when he crossed his arms childishly "It's because you were ignoring me" he sulks.
"Oh Hidan I wasn't ignoring you" Sakura stood up stowing her map away and walked over to him so that she could pull him into a side hug which Hidan eagerly returns "It's this way" she poked his side leading the enlarged group in the direction of the new village a few days later they walked in and Sakura stared in horror before rushing forward and knocking the huge person off the little kid "Don't you know it's wrong to pick on little kids that can't defend themselves" Sakura placed herself between the person and the kid.
"Don't you know how to keep your mouth shut you little bitch" the guy insults hoping to make her cry "Psshhh" Sakura laughs "That word is just that another word I happen to be known as the Fucking Bitch" she crosses her arms staring at him "What kind of girl are you" he screams out running away like a coward "You go pinky you show that ass whose boss" Tayuya cheers while Sakura turns to face the little boy "Thanks Tayuya I just can't stand it when people pick on little kids" she answers while her hand glows green and heals the bruises on the little boy.
"Thank you miss your really kind" he stutters out cheeks going pink at the sight of her "Nonsense just doing what I thought was right" she pats the kid on the head as people start coming out of their homes cheering "Thank you for standing up to that guy he's been harassing us for the last several weeks" a woman says rushing over to her son "People I swear can't we all just get along" Sakura muttered under her breath before remembering what she was doing there in the first place "I'm looking for a person named Touga" she asked looking around.
"I'm Touga" a tall bulky looking man comes forward from the group "What brings you to our village of artisans miss" Touga looks down at the short pink haired girl "My name is Sakura, see I recently cut my hair but I didn't want to get rid of the locks and I was told by someone that you could turn my hair into a weapon" she explained sheepishly getting a smile out of Touga "Well because you helped us out it would only be fair to return the favor" Touga ruffled her short hair as she digs into her pouch to pull out the scroll she had stored her hair in.
Her movements draw Tayuya's attention to Sakura's tattoo's "Damn pinky where'd you get all the tattoo's" she whistled "Oh well a few months ago we were in the Mist Village and that's where I got them I have more they are just covered up" Sakura smiles widely before following Touga into his shop as he unseals the scroll "That's a lot of hair Sakura-san" Touga blinks in surprise he hadn't been expecting much "Just how did you fight with so much hair" he asks because he was really curious.
"Hidan helped me style it every day but lately it had been getting in the way no matter what he would do so I kinda cut it in a fit of anger and well here we are" Sakura smiled at him sheepishly "Well it will take a couple of weeks at best and as a sort of thank you for saving my son Sakura, you and your friends are welcomed to stay here in this village until it's finished" Touga offered "That's really nice of you" Sakura smiled again "Yes so nice of you" a man sulked over in the corner of the shop "Kakashi-senpai" she blinked in confusion.
"Hello Sakura-chan" Kakashi perks up when Sakura turns to look at him, the village of artisans had hired him to take care of the guy that had been harassing them but before he could even move Sakura had come out of nowhere and ran him off "Are you pouting senpai" Sakura asked 'What is it with grown men pouting like little children' she thought but like usual Inner didn't even make an appearance to be honest she had gotten used to not having a person in her head ever since Inoichi had searched her memories she hadn't spoken up once.
"Absolutely not" Kakashi grinned at her behind his mask "I think I like your new haircut" he teased ruffling her short pink hair "Is that a tattoo" Kakashi stopped in surprise "Try more like are those tattoo's" Hidan grumbled "How many tattoo's do you have" he asked eyeing Sakura like she was crazy "Uh technically 8 but it's more like 7 because two of the tattoo's are together" Sakura giggled "Don't tell me you got them all at the same time" Kakashi furrowed his brows together in concern while glaring at Hidan.
"Yes it's not like they hurt or anything and they healed quite nicely it's been at least 4 months since I got them" Sakura quipped oblivious to Kakashi's glare as she walks over to Touga who had started working on turning her hair into a weapon he was currently braiding the long pink locks "Well I guess I'll be seeing you Sakura-chan" Kakashi gave her a pat on the head before disappearing "You know pinky I think we'll follow that guy" Tayuya sighs out "Oh your going to the Leaf Village already" Sakura asks curiously.
"Yeah" she shrugs glaring back when Sakon glares at her "Got a problem asshole" Tayuya snaps "No" he answers simply "Let's just go already he can't be to far" Kidomaru ushers them out of the village and just like that Sakura and Hidan were alone again "That was weird" Sakura said a moment later "Yeah at least we don't have to feed them anymore" Hidan laughed causing Sakura to shake her head and roll her eyes in exasperation "Back to your offer we'd be honored to stay here" Sakura finally spoke up.
"That's wonderful there's a small hotel down the street from here that you can rest up in" Touga said not looking up from his work "Before you go could I get you to do one thing for me" he called out before they could leave "Yes, what is it Touga-san" Sakura skipped back over to him "Pour your chakra into your hair" Touga instructs watching curiously as purple and silver chakra is channelled into the hair "Thank you" he gives her a quick smile as they walk out of his shop and probably to the little hotel he had told them about.
A few weeks later he was finished 'It took a week longer than expected but it's finally done' Touga thought wiping the sweat off his forehead putting the newly forged weapon in a custom made bag that her name stitched into it and red and green cherry blossoms along with her clan symbol stepping out of the shop he runs right into the person he was looking for "Sakura-san it's finished" he holds out the bag saying the words she'd waited for 3 solid weeks to hear "What is it" she asks jumping up and down.
"It's a whip made of your hair channel your chakra into it and you'll find out what it does" Touga explains as her friend comes walking "Here it's not much but I would feel wrong otherwise" Sakura holds out a small wad of ryo and Touga takes it "Thank you so much" she gives a wave and with that the two were gone a few hours later they run into another unexpected person "Bee" Sakura eyes the older man warily because for where ever Bee was Ay was surely not far behind and like Sakura thought a second later Ay came charging out of the forest with a yell.
"Brat what are you doing all the way out here" Ay paused in his pursuit of Bee allowing the man to escape again while his brother was distracted after he asked his question he realized that she didn't look the same "Did you cut your hair" he asked next "Well that ties in with why I'm here, I had my cut hair turned into a weapon so that way I get full use out of it" Sakura announced giving a wave to Cee and Darui as they appear a few seconds after their leader "Boss, Bee escaped again" Darui said a moment later and they were off again.
"Let's go to the waterfall village" Sakura suggested next she really wanted to collect even more headbands "Sure Sakura" Hidan rubbed her head as he said this smiling down at her a week later they arrive outside the massive waterfall where they meet the weirdest girl "Hi, I'm FU want to be my friend" the girl bounced on the balls of her feet practically yelling the sentence at them as she ran around them 'Man her hyperness put's Naruto's to shame' Sakura giggled to herself "Sure Fu-san, I'm Sakura Aburame" Sakura introduced herself.
"Fu no suffixes friends don't call each other by suffixes" Fu rattles off "So Sakura what brings you to this village" she finally settles down "Ah just visiting the different villages I'm collecting headbands and I've heard a lot of good things from a friend of mine about this village" Sakura explains letting Fu drag her by the hand through the waterfall "A friend of yours" Fu asks questioningly "Yeah his name is Naruto Uzumaki" Sakura smiled fondly "He wouldn't happen to a blonde haired fellow traveling with a white haired guy would he" Fu asks a moment later.
"Exactly wait how did you know that" Sakura blinks in confusion "Oh well they were here just a few weeks ago" Fu answers shrugging her shoulders as if it was common knowledge "Dang guess we missed him huh Hidan" Sakura pouted looking back only to find Hidan wasn't following them "Ah the silver-haired fellow he said he had things to do and would see you in a couple of weeks" Fu chirped out snorting in laughter when Sakura looks at her "Oh thanks" Sakura rubs the back of her head 'He is so getting it when he gets back' she sulked silently.
"Your strange Sakura most people I meet don't want anything to do with me" Fu laughs softly drawing peoples attention to the duo "Why's that Fu" Sakura asked in concern "Well everyone in the village hates me" Fu explains like the fact of being hated doesn't bother her "Oh" Sakura gave her a look filled of pity but then she shocked Fu and several people around the two females by pulling the girl into a hug "You have a tailed beast sealed inside of you don't you Fu" Sakura whispered softly in her ear.
"Yeah but Chomei is cool see he's number 7 of the tailed beasts a giant horned beetle" Fu said really quickly but Sakura understood easily because Naruto talked like that all the time "Well I'll be your friend and your always welcome to come visit me in the Leaf Village" Sakura offered getting a high pitched laugh from Fu who nods excitedly ignoring the stares of hatred and the whispers of disgust from the villagers "So what do you like to do for fun" Sakura asked randomly wanting to change the topic of conversation.
"I like pulling pranks" Fu giggled mischievously "I think I know something else we can do" Sakura suggests instead pulling Fu along behind her "Where do you live and do you have a swimsuit" she asked suddenly "Oh well I don't actually live in the village I live on the outskirts way over there" Fu pointed in the opposite direction "I don't have a swimsuit though" she pouted cutely "Well come on don't just pout lead me to a clothing shop" Sakura smiled widely at the pouting girl who just stared at her in confusion.
She to had been ignoring the whispers and stares being used to this because being friends with two other tailed beast hosts the stares and whispers kind of followed "Why are we going to a store" Fu asked her utterly baffled "To buy you a swimming suit silly" Sakura laughed softly confusing her even more as they entered a small clothing store and headed over to the swimming suits "Why would you do something like that" Fu scratched her head as Sakura started going through the different swimsuits.
"You said it yourself we're friends and friends help each other out and do things with each other" Sakura explained holding up a swimsuit and comparing it to the others before setting it down a minute later she picks up a swimsuit that had a watery effect as it's design "This is perfect why don't you go try it on Fu" Sakura pushes the suit in the girls hands before nudging her in the direction of the changing room several minutes later Fu emerges and Sakura nods satisfied "That looks wonderful on you Fu" she claps "We'll get it" she says a moment later.
Sakura's decision made Fu enters the changing room again a second later she comes back out and hands the suit over to Sakura as they make their way to the cashier "Sorry I don't service the beast" the man says instantly causing Sakura to reign in her rage but a few tendrils of her chakra slip through in her anger "I suggest you refrain from insulting her in my presence and I'll be buying this and she has a name its Fu" Sakura snaps throwing down a 30 dollar ryo before snatching up the suit taking Fu by the hand before storming out of the shop.
"Oh no you shouldn't have done that now I'll get scolded by Shibuki again" Fu groaned "Don't worry about it Fu let's just go swimming and have some fun" Sakura smiles reassuringly at her "Well ok" Fu smiles back widely excited at the thought of going swimming with a new friend "Your staying with me right Sakura" Fu asks as she leads Sakura to her home "Yeah definitely" Sakura answers "Awesome" Fu laughs excitedly again as they finally enter her home which was a complete and utter mess.
"Hehe sorry it's so messy" Fu laughs "It's ok I can help you with that to but maybe later" Sakura calls looking around the place "Hey why did you agree to be my friend so quickly anyway" Fu asks suspiciously "Everyone deserves a chance at happiness and even if it's one person it can definitely make a difference or an impact on that persons life" Sakura calls from the spare bedroom "Your weird" Fu giggles "Not the first time I've been called that" Sakura responds exiting the room wearing her swimming suit.
"Here put yours on and then we can go swimming" Sakura hands over the suit and Fu rushes off to put it on "Come on Fu" Sakura laughs eager to splash around in the water the second they exit the door they come face to face with a man who immediately began glaring at Fu when he caught sight of her "Can't you go one day without disturbing the peace" he growls out angrily "Excuse me but Fu had nothing to do with what happened in that shop" Sakura stepped up staring the man down.
"Oh she didn't I doubt that" the man laughs arrogantly "It was me, I don't like it when people treat others badly for something they have no control over we were in that store because I was buying Fu a swimming suit so that we could go swimming and the man at the cashier was rude, I apologize for snapping at him but he shouldn't have been such a jerk because Fu was with me" Sakura smoothly explains placing herself between Fu and the man "Oh well I guess it can't be helped your off the hook for now" he announces and promptly disappears.
"Oh my god you are super amazing" Fu hops up and down in her hyperness making Sakura smile "Told you I could handle it" she teases before spying a small pond a little ways away from Fu's house "Betcha I can beat ya" Sakura calls over her shoulder taking off at a run only to be passed a few seconds later as Fu beats her to the pond and jumps in with a whoop of joy "I guess I got to work on my speed" Sakura shrugged doing the same "So what did I win" Fu emerges from under the water and splashes her.
"Dinner my treat and 1 item of your choice from any store" Sakura calls out splashing back as they play about in the water a few hours later they walk back towards Fu's house hair dripping wet and wrapped up in Sakura's fluffy towels "Before I make dinner how about I help you clean up now" Sakura suggests at seeing the mess 'Not even Naruto's room is this messy, well that's only because I make him clean it up regularly' she thinks suddenly grabbing a few empty scrolls handing one to few they get to work cleaning up the living room.
An hour later Sakura empties her scrolls out in the trashcan the small home clean from top to bottom she heads into Fu's kitchen and looks through the cabinets when she runs across another problem "Fu where's the food" she called her head stuck in cabinet as she looked through "Oh well today was shopping day and I forgot to go" Fu laughs sheepishly dreading going back into town now "We should probably do that" Sakura lets out a sigh "At least your cabinets aren't full of nothing but ramen" she joked thinking about Naruto again.
Before Fu could ask who would be crazy enough to do Sakura took her by the hand and led her back into town to buy groceries entering the shop they get some glares but otherwise no one speaks as the two girls buy groceries to last Fu for a few weeks exiting the shop 25 minutes later the groceries stored in sealing scrolls so they have full use of their hands Sakura spies another shop that grabs her attention immediately "What kind of shop is that" she whispers to Fu in confusion.
"Oh that's a tattoo shop I believe" Fu scratches her head "Want to get matching tattoo's with me" Sakura asks an idea forming in her head "No way nothing against you but I've heard tattoo's hurt like nuts" Fu backs away quickly "They don't hurt that much especially if you choose a place that doesn't have many veins in it because that's what hurts the most" Sakura explains soothingly making Fu pause in her steps "You sure Sakura" she asks warily "Yeah otherwise I wouldn't have gotten tattoo's" Sakura shows off her tattoo's getting a loud whisper of awe from Fu.
"I guess that this will be my one thing from any shop I choose huh Sakura" Fu asks as they enter the tattoo shop "Hello girls how may I help you" the tattooist smiles politely "Well we want to get matching tattoo's" Sakura explains "Do you have something already in mind" he asks again "Yes on our arms here the kanji for friendship" she told him instantly "Ok well for both of you it will come to a total of 180 ryo" he rung up their total "Wait aren't you gonna ask us how old we are" Fu blurts out in confusion when Sakura hands over the money.
"Well as long as you pay then does it really matter" he smiles taking the money and putting it in the register before leading the two girls into the backroom "Shimmery Dark blue like a water effect" Sakura explains the color she wanted as Fu sat down tensing as the buzzing of the machine greets her ears several minutes later she hops up and Sakura takes her place getting the same tattoo done on her arm 20 minutes later they exit the shop a bandage wrapped around the new tattoo's and head back to Fu's home to begin dinner.
A couple of weeks later the villagers started treating Fu a little better as Sakura bought some gifts for her friends back home buying a forehead protector from the village as Fu escorts her through the underwater tunnels and back outside the waterfall "Do you have to go" Fu pouted after their first day Sakura and Fu had trained for the last 2 weeks Sakura improving on her speed "Yeah" Sakura smiled pulled Fu into another hug and seeing Hidan followed him until they were out of sight Fu waving.
"Don't worry Sakura I'm sure you'll see her again" Hidan ruffled her hair as they walked Midori appearing as they got further away from the village "So why didn't you come in the village" Sakura asks suspiciously "That's Kakuzu's old village no way in hell am I gonna tell him that I entered that place" Hidan shouted tugging on her hair in reprimand "So where to next, is that another tattoo" he trails off in frustration "Yeah kanji meaning friendship, it's a matching one with Fu" Sakura explains keeping the smile off her face as she explained it to him.
"I swear Sakura your Hokage is going to murder me or put me in a whole 20 feet under the ground" Hidan rubbed his face glaring at her "Ah don't wory I'll protect you from the big bad Hokage" Sakura giggles her lips twitching in amusement as she smiles widely at him "And let's head the rain village" she grins when Hidan sighs "If Pein murders you I am not explaining to Lady Tsunade how you purposely annoyed the guy" he announces a moment later as they head in the direction of the Hidden Rain Village as they travel quickly.
Along the way they pass through several different villages such as the Star Village, Moon Village, Snow Village and lots of others grabbing souvenirs and adding to her collection of headbands helping out here and there in each village making friends before moving on as they continue heading towards the rain village Sakura training each time they stopped getting stronger and stronger as time passes her short hair growing to her shoulder blades as she continues wearing her headband around her neck much like Hidan until after 5 weeks of nonstop travel they reach the border of the Rain Village.
Entering the village they have no idea where to look so they decide to head to the old Akatsuki base only to stop when Konan appears in a swirl of paper and swiftly pulls Sakura into a hug "Sakura-chan" the woman greets leading them to the new building "Konan-chan" Sakura laughs happily hugging the woman back quickly "You know Pein isn't going to be happy" Konan half jokes when she catches sight of Hidan "Don't worry Konan we'll be on our best behavior won't we Sakura" Hidan tugs her hair harshly as they enter Peins office where he was glaring.