It's Always Been Us All

Chapter eleven— Its all Been Bottled up Until Now

“Okay, so let me get this straight… Ninja’s carrying the symbol of the Sand attacked you for absolutely no reason… Naruto wasn’t a match for them and couldn’t do anything about it…?” Kakashi’s one visible eye was arched, and it was obvious that he didn’t buy a single word the young girl was telling him, “They took him and let you go without a single scratch.”


“Yes… that is exactly what happened.” Ako looked right into the Hokage’s eye… a rather bold move to make under such circumstances. It seemed though that the girl had no intention of changing that ridiculous story of hers. Sakura could have sworn the girl rolled her eyes when Tsunade looked away.


She wanted to kill that bitch. She wanted to rip her throat out and hurt her in every way that came to her mind at the time. She wasn’t retarded, Sakura could see through those lies that the girl kept spitting out, even if everyone else was too blind to see them… she knew it was all bullshit.

“So did they say anything to you, what they might want, perhaps?” Kakashi spoke up before Sakura was able to actually formulate her thoughts into words…. The bitch was lucky too.


“No, they didn’t say anything at all… the man had a kunai to my throat and told me to be still… the next thing I knew they were all jumping away. I was scared so I ran straight to Anko…” Ako chose that exact moment to grasp onto the older woman’s hand.


It made Sakura sick.

“I don’t believe you,” Was Sakura’s simple input. She wasn’t going to go around the bush like everyone else… she knew Kakashi had his doubts too, but unlike her sensei, she wasn’t about to indulge the little bitch in her game.


“And exactly what is that supposed to mean?!” Anko asked, looking a bit disoriented— sort of like a fish lost in the sea. The pink haired shinobi hadn’t realized that this woman who had such great power could actually be this naïve…

How could it not be obvious that Ako was feeding them nothing but lies?


“I mean exactly that! I refuse to believe that some petty ninja’s were just able to beat OUR Naruto so easily! He’s stronger than most of us here, excluding you, Tsunade-sama.” How could they not see it? It was fucking slapping them in the face and they did nothing about it! How could they just allow Ako to be in their presence, unpunished?! Sakura didn’t have time for this… they were supposed to be out searching. They were supposed to be doing something…. Anything!


“But they were strong!” Apparently Ako had a dick or something, she continued talking, doing her best to convince the occupants of the room.


The pink haired shinobi snarled at the woman who was obviously responsible for her friend’s abduction… Sakura had nothing to prove her theory with, of course, but just looking at the girl she could tell that she was guilty. “Well they were obviously not strong enough.”


“What do you mean?” Ako’s eyes narrowed a fraction, not at all liking how she was all but being interrogated as if though she had committed the crime.


“She means that there weren’t any chakra signatures to be tracked… No sign of anyone being on Mount Hokage but Naruto and you.” Anko’s face paled, her hand squeezing onto Ako’s tighter… Sakura felt like she could puke at the sight. “But you know as well as we do, Sakura, that that could also just mean that they were good enough to hide their chakra signals.”

“I still don’t believe that just anyone could beat Naruto up like that! Are you really telling me that this doesn’t sound like a load of bullshit to you?! Food fuck’s sake Anko… there weren’t even ANY fucking signs of a fight! How could there not be any traces of a fight, when it’s Naruto that we’re talking about!” It seemed to Sakura that the woman was willing to bypass all the clues in her face in order to save her lesbian lover.

“Enough! We will not accuse each other unless we have sound proof! Everyone is dismissed except for Sakura.” Sakura jumped as Tsunade slammed her palms on her desk, and she briefly admired the old piece of wood for not breaking on the spot… she wished she had that kind of strength. Though as soon as she caught herself wishing she was an old desk, she shook her head.


She growled as Anko and Ako left the Hokage’s office, hand in hand, the older woman leaning on Ako as if though she were about to fall… When had the older woman lost all self respect? It seemed as if though that bitch was able to make a fool out of everyone though, even Naruto. Ako had somehow managed to get him to fall for her… and if Ako had been able to do that to Naruto, who was one of the most careful people she knew, then Sakura really couldn’t blame Anko for her sins.


As soon as Kakashi closed the door behind him, Tsunade started to scarily bark at her, “You will do nothing unless I tell you to do something! Is this understood?!”


Sakura blinked, her hands playing nervously with each other under her red blouse… it was an old habit she thought she had broken a long time ago… Every once in a while though, she found herself doing it when she was nervous...


How could the Hokage really expect her to do nothing?


“Sakura, you won’t help Naruto by going out and getting captured…” Tsunade’s voice was softer, soothing even, and Sakura closed her eyes, thinking of some way to explain to her mentor all the mixed feelings she was having at that moment.



“I can’t just sit here and do nothing.” The Hokage obviously didn’t understand what Sakura was going through. She couldn’t see what this meant for her… Naruto couldn’t be gone. She had to see her blonde again… she had to be able to touch him again. She had to press her lips against his again; she had to stare into those ocean blue eyes again… She had to apologize for being a fucking idiot! She had to tell him everything that he made her feel… she had to see that smile that had always secretly made butterflies explode in her stomach!


Sakura couldn’t loose Naruto… She couldn’t ever loose Naruto.

“I know how you’re feeling Sakura… but I have another mission for you, and it requires your presence in Konoha.” Tsunade sat down on her chair tiredly, rubbing the back of her neck as she stretched her right arm. “I don’t trust that girl… The only other person that I can think of to do this is Anko, but as you can see, she is way to emotionally attached. So I need you to watch the girl’s every move. You are to report to me every two days.”



Sakura let the words sink in her head… this was what she wanted to do. She wanted to catch that bitch with her hands in the cookie jar. It would be so gloriously awesome if she was able to plunge a kunai threw her heart once she had all the proof she needed to declare her guilty. “Who will go after Naruto?” She asked hesitantly… she wanted to prove Ako guilty, but not at the price of loosing her blonde. A part of her wanted to deny this mission completely and go after Naruto instead; she couldn’t stand the thought of her Love suffering while in danger of dying. “Sasuke needs to know,” The words passed her lips before she had even thought them.

Sasuke would definitely go after him once he found out, of that she was certain. And strangely enough, he was the only one that she trusted with her blonde’s life at the moment. No one would try harder to bring Naruto back than Sasuke. No one cared for Naruto like Sakura and Sasuke did. She needed the Uchiha to bring the blonde back to her— she needed to hold them both in her arms… together… and safe. “Someone needs to tell him.”

“Sasuke is on a mission, he probably won’t find out until he returns. The ANBU are doing all they can do right now… The best thing we can do right now is have patience… let the ANBU do their job.” Tsunade looked weary, and it looked like she was on the verge of crying, and for the first time Sakura realized that Tsunade must be in about as much pain as she was.



“There’s something you’re not telling me,” Her voice came out weaker than she had intended, but really, she had just found out she was in love with a man that had been kidnapped by the worst kind of criminals that were out there. Could you really blame her? She was scared that she would never see those blue eyes again… that he would never find out how she really felt about him…


Sakura was terrified that he would die thinking she hated him.

Sighing, Tsunade closed her eyes for a few moments, weighing the option of telling her everything there was to know about the situation at hand. Sakura watched with mild interest as her sensei’s eyes were furrowed in deep concentration… and she felt a sense of dread settle in the pit of her stomach.

“I believe somehow the Akatsuki are involved in this. I can’t be completely sure though. You know as well as I do that they’ve been after the kyuubi for a long time. They’re the only ones I believe would be strong enough to do this… and smart enough to cover up their tracks so well.” The Hokage’s voice held the remnants of horror… and for a second Sakura’s eyes widened in deep fear.

The Akatsuki. Itachi. Sasuke. Naruto. Kyuubi.

They were all connected… it was all a horrible cycle and they would always in the end come after her blonde. Though that didn’t explain Ako, because for some reason, no matter how much the raven haired girl didn’t fit in the picture, Sakura refused to believe that she was innocent. She wondered what sorts of links Ako had to the Akatsuki… how involved she really was with their down to the root plans.


“We have to save him…” Sakura stated the obvious. She didn’t care if they had to go against the most dangerous organization around… she didn’t care if Sasuke had to face Itachi once again… and hell, she didn’t care if people died.

Naruto had to live. Naruto had to survive for her and for Sasuke. She couldn’t imagine living her life without her sunshine around to make everything easier for her… she couldn’t imagine life without him.


“Well… that is the idea, Sakura. You realize you must be very secretive about what we have just discussed…” In that moment, Tsunade was no longer her mentor or friend, she was her Hokage. She was laying down the ground rules, and in order for Sakura to play this game, she had to obey… in order for her to win, she had to submit. Konoha’s secrets were what they had always been: Konoha’s secrets.

“Of course, Tsunade-sama, but if you’ll allow me, there is something else that worries me,” With a nod from the Hokage, Sakura continued, “If Akatsuki are really the ones behind all of this, do you really think that a single squad of ANBU will be enough to stop them?”

Tsunade sighed, sincerely curious as to when it had been that her apprentice had grown a brain, “Uchiha has been sent on a mission that is in a way very much connected with the events that have transpired. If he succeeds, he might be Naruto’s only hope.”


Sakura nodded, understanding the seriousness of the situation, completely prepared to act like a professional shinobi. She had to act like she knew what she was doing… she had to find Ako out, she had to do her best… if she messed anything up, she might not ever see Naruto again.


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AN: So I took longer than expected, but hey you got an update so be happy! Yeah, yeah, I know it was short… but damn, I’m not an effen machine! Lmao… Anyways, has anyone heard that song: Always, by Saliva? So my friend showed it to me and I can’t get it out of my head… so the whole time I was writing this I was jamming out to that song! It’s awesome; you guys should look it up! So anyways, I would love your review for this chapter… Let me know if you like it so far, hating it, and what you would like to happen. I know I haven’t hardly thanked anyone by names, mainly because I’m too lazy to do it… but I totally read everything you guys have to say and I’m so thankful that you guys are sticking with me on this one! I hope you enjoyed it!

By the way, completely off the subject, DOES anyone else hate Sakura as much as I do? She’s so effen selfish… and I never really did like her. Lmao… that’s funny… a threesome with a girl I hate… ironic, really.


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