Day 23 Bonnie and Clyde

[a/n: as I said in day 18 this is going to continue from there cause I can't help it if I like the idea alright… nothing in the rules stated that wasn't allowed.]

Summary: Sakura inherited one of the nation's top crime rings from her father when he passed away. Now, she's getting out, and it's starting to endanger her life. Sasuke, her personal guard and lover, is becoming closer and closer to her and he's worried she could get hurt.

It had been months since Sakura started her clan's shut down. Months since she made her immunity deal. Months since Kisame first visited her, growing suspicious of her actions. So they got careful, Sasuke would arrange a dead drop at his gym, made sure he wasn't followed there or back. He made sure his phone wasn't tampered with and made sure hers wasn't as well. However, threats against her were made when she got rid of the opioids and moved onto the weapons, she did so under the notion that she didn't like guns because they'd been pulled on her so many times already.

Sasuke talked to the hospital president Tsunade and explained that Sakura's father was a crime boss and that when he passed she turned everything over to the authorities so he would need to be close by as they were worried, as the key witness, she could be hurt. She agreed to heightened security wanting her top doctor well protected.

Several more months passed and the rest of the weapons were gone, half the money going to charities the other have moved into her private off shore accounts. She'd give them Intel over the phone, she didn't want to risk being seen walking in there again.

One night they were walking back to her car when several members walked out and surrounded them.

"I'm tired; I'm not dealing with whatever pissy problems you're having, they can wait until tomorrow ok." She groaned and they got closer and in turn Sasuke did to her hand on his gun.

"You're selling us out to the feds." Kisame said stepping out from the shadows. And watched as Sakura slow clapped, Sasuke had half a mind to tell her to stop it but he was too busy focusing on the others.

"Congratulations you're just as paranoid as my father." Her rolled her eyes. "I'm not doing shit; if your division is getting sloppy that's not my problem."

"You're getting rid of the divisions." He snarled and she sighed

"I got rid of two of many, I got rid of the opioids because they were barley profiting and the weapons because I'm tired of having them pointed at me." She glared at the ones with their guns drawn. "I don't want them in any kind of association with my name." she snarled and Kisame stepped into the circle

"Then why are the clan members getting thrown in the big house?"

"Like I said if they got sloppy with their tongues after I let them go and spilled something to the wrong stripper, hooker, or escort, that's not my problem," She looked at him and made a motion for them to move but they didn't.

"Let me pass…" she ordered yet they didn't move.

"You're going to come with us; you and your fuck toy are going to answer some of our questions for once."

"No I'm going to go home and I'll count this as your first strike…" she countered but a gun put to the back of her head caused her poker face to crack. They took Sasuke's and lead them into an SUV the whole ride they had guns on them. He reached for her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze trying to let her know it'd be alright. He knew that if he didn't check in soon enough they'd have people looking for them.

They got to a warehouse and were lead inside their wrists soon bound in front of them with zip ties. Sakura didn't speak again even as they asked questions she zoned out and thought about a similar conversation she had with Kakashi regarding the funds.

"I'm telling you where the other half is does not matter, it's not in anything bad, it's not going to be in anything bad," she sighed "I have a limit on the amount my taxes allow me to donate in a year or I will get audited, I'm almost at that limit right now so I have to put the rest somewhere it's not going to get seized."

"Why don't I believe you, not entirely?"

"I'm a crime boss's daughter?" she sounded sarcastic and he glared at her.

"Enough with the shitty games," he slammed his hands on the table

"I'm not playing any!" she replied

"Then where is the rest?"

"Off shore accounts," She told him, it wasn't a lie.

"Where is it going?"

"That hardly matters." She rolled her eyes

"No it matters we are talking about a few hundred million dollars here!" he yelled "So where is it going?!"

"Want the fucking truth!?" she snapped standing up, in her heels almost meeting his height

"Yes!" he exclaimed and she sighed

"I was going to open a pro-bono clinic to provide quality care to those who would otherwise die! However I changed it, recently, to a non-profit grant under my father's name!"

"Why would you do that?" he asked slowly

"Because I'm trying to maybe balance out all the bad my family has done with a little good… I've been doing this since I started… I've done 74 surgeries to those who would have otherwise died! Yes it was illegal but it's a good in a world of bad I chose the lesser of two evils. Besides, I think a jury of my peers would have said giving a veteran the ability to see his first child born by removing the metal in his spine, saving the life of a mother and her unborn child, and so many others far outweighs that it was under the table…" she glared and at that point Shikamaru spoke up

"You wouldn't have your license taken, you did it at your hospital, you did it on paid time but you personally covered all of their medical costs… it's not illegal by federal or state laws it might be against your hospital polices though." Sakura in turn raised a brow and shrugged

"Well you really do learn something new every day."

Now though a stab of pain across her face brought her to the present and Kisame glaring at her.

"What do you want fish face?" she scowled and he slapped her again. She didn't cry out, didn't make a sound just let her head stay bent like that for a while.

"Enough of your snippy little shit," he snapped and demanded she transferred everything over to him.

"Can't do that from here." The statement was simple but she jumped when someone kicked Sasuke.

"If you don't cooperate I will kill him."

"I am cooperating…" she said slowly "I'm telling you I cannot transfer any of the funds, papers, or intel to you from here." She stated and again he was kicked

"Where do you need to be?"

"My office." She was looking at the ground and they were dragged up back into the SUV and taken to her office when they got to the door she made no motion to open it Kisame growled and took out a gun pointing it at Sasuke.

"Open the fucking door."

"The keys are in my purse, one of your men has my purse." She kept the annoyed you're-a-moron tone out of her voice. She was handed her keys and awkwardly unlocked the door with her bound hands, she turned on the lights and they walked in she sat at her desk while they had Sasuke stand off the side. She held up her hands. "I can't type or unlock the safe with my hands bound." He growled but cut the ties anyway and she went through the process of starting up the computer asking questions like where he wanted it all sent? If he even had a server big enough to do so… things like that. She knew however that with the first file transfer to someone else Sasuke's people would know, they'd been watching her server, she'd given them viewer access, watching her accounts, they didn't completely trust her and in this moment she was glad for that.

Shikamaru got an alert on his computer; the Haruno girl was starting a file transfer. He called Kakashi who tried calling them both but to no avail. They got the tactical team together and started off towards her offices, either she was betraying them or under duress, neither were good.

Sakura continued the files copies to transfer, he wanted them sent to an email that only allowed so much at one time before it was sent to cloud storage so she had to do several and wait for them to send. Sasuke looked at her watching how her hands shook, he'd rarely saw that from her, she was a surgeon, steady hands were something she needed but she was scared.

"Sakura…" he tried speaking to her only to receive a punch to his gut increasing the tremor in her hands. Her eyes were wide set in a dead panic her teeth worrying her lips or cheeks between them.

"Don't talk," Kisame commanded he still had a gun pointed at her. There were only 4 people in the room the others outside waiting. Kisame, Sakura, Sasuke, and the goon keeping him in check, Sasuke thought about what he could do how long it'd take for them to found, he looked around the room but couldn't see any weapons besides the ones in their captors hands. He waited several minutes until she was typing in file codes before he reacted, he smashed the one holding him in the nose hard enough to render him unconscious and broke the bonds before grabbing the gun and pointing it at Kisame

[A/n: it is possible to break zip tie bonds; look it up on YouTube it's really cool]

Sakura froze staring at them both and he pointed the gun at her she let out a scared whimper.

"Sakura," he started his own weapon pointed at Kisame "Close your eyes and cover your ears…" his voice was firm and yet still tender she nodded slowly and shut her eyes moving her hands over her ears tightly.

"How noble," the man scoffed and Sasuke armed the gun

"You have 5 seconds to drop your weapon,"

"No but you do or I will kill her,"

"You won't kill her, if she's dead you can't get any more of the files, you've gotten maybe a sixth of them." he aimed at the other man. Kisame cocked his own gun and made a motion to fire at her, Sasuke shot him right in the head he watched Sakura jump, blood splattering on them and he ran over kicking the weapon away from the man. Not a moment later there was fire fight outside the door and he grabbed her pulling her down under the large desk. She was shaking, eyes and ears still covered. The door was kicked in and he heard the sounds of his men running in he called out to them and slowly pulled her up she uncoiled but he blocked her view of the man behind them.

"It's over…" he told her hands wiping away the blood and cupping her face. "You're safe…" his voice was barely above a whisper as he kissed her softly she nodded still crying silently. Soon she gripped onto him like a life line and he picked her up and carried her outside the office and to where the others were.

"Are you both ok?" Kakashi asked and they nodded slowly Kakashi had them both checked by an EMT and Sasuke talked to some of the others. She gave a statement and was soon deemed able to go home. He was with her, at her side, he wasn't about to leave her not now.

In the next few months the trial started, she testified against her father, against his clan, against all of it. She told Tsunade that she'd been funding some patients under the basis of a private grant in her father's name. Tsunade didn't fire her; she liked the idea of it and encouraged her to continue as normal. Sakura refused witness protection at every turn; she hadn't run and hid so far she had no intentions of starting now. There were over a hundred arrests and prosecutions made with her help and in the end a lot of horrible things and horrible people were taken off the streets.

It'd been three years since then, since Sasuke shot the man threatening her life, the trials were over, the people all arrested, he didn't need to protect her any more. They'd been together for longer than those three years. She was at work, fixing the broken arm of a child that had fallen from a tree and he was waiting, he wanted to do something, wanted to say something, needed to do those things.

She walked out of surgery and spotted him a gentle smile graced her features and when she kissed him it was just as gentle.

"What's this about?" she asked as he handed her some flowers she inhaled their scent peering up at him through their petals.

"Are you off for the day?" he asked and she started to shake her head when Tsunade walked over

"She can be all yours today; she will have to be back tomorrow though." Sakura smiled happily at the woman and they left the hospital they got in the car and he drove them to a grave yard.

"What are we doing here?" she asked she knew this sight well, her father was buried here.

"Just… wait…" he started and they walked over to his headstone. She was sitting in front of it tidying up what was around it when he sat next to her. "I never met him personally…" he started and she looked at him.

"Thank god for that…" she laughed "He wasn't a good person but he was a good father…"

"I can agree with that…" he looked at the stone. "So I hope he won't mind if I ask you something…" she looked confused and he stood her up before kneeling in front of her. Her eyes started welling with tears and a hand covered her mouth which was surely hanging open.

"Haruno Sakura…" he pulled out a box with a ring inside it "Will you do me the honor… and marry me?" he asked and she was crying now, trying to speak but nodding happily. He smiled and slipped the ring onto her finger.

"I love you…" he whispered before kissing her and wiped away the tears

"I love you too…"

[A/n: End. What did you like yes? No? Let me know ]