Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Of Love and Betrayal ❯ Ugly Missions, Stealthy Traps ( Chapter 13 )

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`The one man I want I cannot have.'

She laughed bitterly silently cursing Kami. So it was true she was destined to be alone. She continued to make her way back to her house unaware of the red eyes that followed her every move.

`Aw there you are Sakura… I've finally found you.'

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- XIII -

Ugly missions, stealthy traps(revised)

 

`Agh! Sensei you're killing me with all these missions!'

Sakura groaned inwardly as she walked into the familiar red building. It had been two weeks since her little `encounter' with Kakashi and since then both of them had not said a word to each other about the event. Both made a silent agreement that they would go back to treating each other as before and they had thus far succeeded. In the mean time Tsunade had been giving them many missions, so much so that they had been constantly busy running here and there. She swore if she saw anymore of the woman's face she would burst. But her unlucky streak continued when early this morning she was summoned to Tsunade's office once again. Withdrawing from her thoughts, Sakura knocked twice on the door and slowly stepped in. She was surprised to find only herself and Tsunade in the large office.

“Uh… am I early?” she asked hesitantly.

Tsunade shook her head and motioned for her to sit.

“No you're actually right on time; I wanted to see you before I debriefed the rest of your team. I have just gotten a mission from the grass country and it requires special services.”

Sakura frowned slightly at her comment but didn't say anything.

“Sakura this mission requires a female ninja to be able to infiltrate and save a group of girls that have been abducted recently. As I am told, in the recent month or so a lord from the rock country just moved to the village and ever since then girls had been disappearing from the village one each week. It is said that the lord has a very healthy urge for young woman and his fortress is so heavily guarded that the only way to get in is if you are able to get in and kill him from the inside. If I could give this mission to anyone else I would but you are the only ANBU team I have left…” Tsunade trailed off.

Sakura closed her eyes for a minute. She understood that is was hard for her sensei to ask this of her. She knew perfectly well what she was being asked to do and she knew as a Kuinochi she had to do it.

“It's alright Tsunade-sensei I understand… I will take this mission and see it through to the end,” she said her eyes showing Tsunade that she was unafraid.

`Sakura… you truly are a great woman.'

Just then Kakashi, Kaijo, and Naizu walked in interrupting the two women. They both turned and looked at the three men as they walked in closing the door behind them. Sakura could see the slight surprise on Kakashi's face at seeing her there before him but it was quickly wiped off.

Sakura stood and joined her team.

“Team wolf I have another mission for you. This mission will require you to travel to grass country. There are reports of a lord that has been taking young woman and raping and killing them. I want you four to infiltrate his fortress and kill the lord. You are also to find whatever girls that are still alive and rescue them. I have already spoken to Sakura about her role in this mission and she understands and agrees. Kakashi she will explain it fully to you later but you are not to fight her in this,” Tsunade said sternly.

Kakashi's brow furrowed but he nodded in understanding.

“Okay then… good luck and as always make sure Konoha's involvement in this is not known. You're dismissed!”

The four shinobi bowed and then left the room walking quietly down the halls of HQ. Once outside Kakashi stopped and his team followed suit.

“The grass country is a day's hard travel from here… we will leave tomorrow morning and I want you guys to travel light.”

The three shinobi nodded their faces hidden behind their masks. Kakashi turned to Sakura.

“Sakura come with me and brief me on what the Godaime was talking about. Naizu, Kaijo I'll see you tomorrow.”

“Hai! See ya,” They both said and left, leaving Sakura and Kakashi to stand in awkward silence.

Sakura started to walk and Kakashi fell into place beside her, silently following.

“Tsunade wants me to seduce the lord in order to get into the fortress. She says that it is heavily guarded and this would be the only way to get in. I am to seduce and possibly partake in intercourse until I get the chance to kill him silently.”

Sakura didn't look at Kakashi as she told him what her part in the mission was to be. She could feel the tension radiating off of him in waves and she knew that he was angry.

She stopped and turned to face him. Even though she could not see his face she was sure that he was not happy at the thought of her having to have sex with a lord that raped innocent girls.

“I know you're not happy with this… but I knowingly accepted the mission. I'm not a little girl, this is something that every Kuinochi goes through and I am no different,” she said.

“Sakura are you sure you can do this?”

Sakura felt a shiver go through her as his silky male voice whispered over her. Ever since two weeks ago she couldn't help but feel her sexual awareness heighten around him.

“Yes I am sure.”

Kakashi sighed and ran a hand through his hair. He nodded seeing no point in arguing with Sakura or Tsunade. He had to admit he hated the fact that he had to stand by and know that another man was touching Sakura. He could remember her soft skin rubbing against him… He shook his head roughly pushing those thoughts away knowing if he followed down that path it would be a bad idea.

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The next morning Sakura found herself waiting at the front entrance alone. When she had approached the front gate and seen none of her other teammates in sight she had to roll her eyes.

“Figures I would be the only one on this team who knows the meaning of on time,” She grumbled under her breath leaning against the stone wall. A couple of minutes later she spotted Naizu and Kaijo walking her way. Kaijo was talking his companion's ear off, while Naizu just scanned the area quietly.

`They are so different and yet they get along so well. Naizu is quiet and calm but Kaijo is loud and outgoing, it's so crazy how much they resemble Naruto and Sasuke.'

She pushed herself from the wall and met them in the middle of the road.

“Ohayo Sakura-Chan!” Kaijo exclaimed exuberantly.

Sakura's eyebrow ticked at his cheery voice. “How can you be cheery this early in the morning?”

“Oh I see you're not a morning person…”

Kaijo brought his hand up to scratch the back of his head, beaming. Both Naizu and Sakura's eyebrows rose a fraction at their comrade's idiotic antics but they both just shrugged it off.

“So how long do you think we will be waiting here for Kakashi? I say 20 minutes.”

Kaijo dropped his hand and frowned looking between his two teammates, who were leaning against the wall nonchalantly.

“Great now I'm stuck with two serious people, god can't you guy's lighten up a little?”

Sakura cracked a small smile and went over to Kaijo, ruffling his hair affectionately.

“Don't worry this is just my morning attitude,” she said.

Kajio's face fell comically and a small blush stained his cheeks.

“Uh thanks Sakura-Chan…”

“Just call me Sakura, we're teammates we don't need any formalities.”

“Uh, okay Sakura,” Kaijo said and Sakura chuckled amused at his boyish mannerisms.

Naizu watched his two teammates closely, paying close attention to the conversation between them. He was glad Sakura was so laid back it was like a new breath of fresh air but he didn't like the way Kaijo was beginning to look at her.

`If he starts to like her, it won't bode well for our team. Kaijo already knows how Kakashi feels for her but I don't think he would be able to help but fall for the pink haired Kuinochi.'

“It seems that everybody is pretty awake this morning.”

All three pairs of eyes shifted to the shinobi that had just appeared in a cloud of dust.

“Oh look what a miracle, Kakashi is actually on time for once,” Sakura mumbled under her breath and picked up her pack to settle it against her back.

Both Kaijo and Naizu smirked, hearing her comment but if Kakashi heard it he gave no indication.

“Well the grass country is two days from here; we will stop only once I plan to make it there before the end of the second day. For right now it's good that you all dressed in civilian clothing, I want to stay that way until we actually find out a way in and only then will we wear our ANBU clothing.”

“Hai!”

Kakashi nodded and they all disappeared leaving only a cloud of sand in their wake. They traveled fast, all three of them conversing amongst themselves every now and then. The only one that staid quiet was Kakashi, which bugged Sakura to no end. She knew that it would be a hard mission and her role would be especially hard but she didn't like the way Kakashi was acting because of it.

Before she got mad she shrugged the feeling off and went back to her conversation with Kaijo. She had noticed that the blond haired man had started to flirt with her a little and she was flattered at the attention. She decided that she would flirt back just to have fun but she could hear that little voice in the back of her head saying that she was only doing it to get Kakashi jealous.

The team finally reached their destination and once there they had split up to find any clues or hints pertaining to the whereabouts of the fortress and about the missing girls.

They each met back up at a bridge that was an entrance to the village.

“So what did you guys find?”

“I found out from a couple of sources that the lords fortress is about two miles west of here, if we follow this river down we will run right into it. But I couldn't find out what the lords name is; it seems that the villagers are scared to even talk about the guy.”

“Yea I know what you mean I had a hard time finding out stuff too but I did manage to learn that the girls were all in their early twenties and they were all very pretty but quiet. It seems that the pattern is that they are young and poor so that not many will miss their absence,” Naizu said thoughtfully.

Kakashi nodded and turned to Sakura who had yet to report.

“I found out that the girls each had gotten a message that they were to deliver a package of some sort to a hut outside of the village but they never came home. So far three girls have been taken and the first was taken about two weeks ago. It seems the pattern is that a girl is taken twice a week; the fourth girl is scheduled to be taken by tomorrow if the lord keeps up with his pattern. I also found out the Lord's name is Sousa and he came from the rock country he came here to obtain more money so he basically taxes everything in this village. I was told that villagers are able to go to the fortress each day to trade and what not so I think that I will be able to infiltrate the fortress and meet the lord through that.”

The other three looked at Sakura shocked.

“What?”

“How did you collect all that information?”

She shrugged smirking. “I have my ways; I'm good at getting people to talk.”

Kakashi nodded. “Good job everybody; I got us a hotel. Our story is that we are all friends and that we are traveling to go to a wedding of our close friends. We will look more into how to get Swan into the fortress tomorrow, meanwhile I'm going to have Pakuun and the Nin Dogs check things out during the night.”

They all nodded and followed him back into town and to the hotel. The sun was just beginning to go down when they entered the hotel room. Sakura was the first to enter and she immediately noticed the two beds.

`That means we are going to have to share beds…'

She dropped her things on the furthest bed from the door. “Hey Tiger you and I can share this bed and wolf and eagle can share the other one. Just don't try anything funny or you'll find yourself punched through that wall, got it?” Sakura said and walked into the small bathroom.

Kaijo dropped his bag onto the bed next too Sakura's bag and sat, glancing at Kakashi who had just walked over to the window.

“Is that arrangement alright with you Wolf?”

“Yea yea don't worry about it… uh I'm going to go out for a little bit I'll be back a little later. Don't get into any trouble we can't afford to attract any undue attention to ourselves,” Kakashi said and left the room.

Naizu exchanged a look with Kaijo frowning. “Tiger you know how wolf feels about swan… I hope your not…”

Kaijo waved his hand dismissively interrupting Naizu. “Don't worry about it eagle she's just a friend we just like to joke around. Plus if wolf likes her so much why doesn't he say something to her already.”

“You know why he can't… He's our captain if it is found out that he has feelings for one of his teammates we would all be separated.”

Kaijo sighed and lay back onto the bed folding his arms behind his head.

“Yea I know. Its' funny how out of all the girls that have fawned over him all the years we have known him, That he decides he likes Swan… I mean she was his student for Kami's sake.”

Naizu walked to the window and watched the people down below, the setting sun's orange rays lighting up his pale face. “I don't think these feelings are new, I think he's had these feelings for her even when he was still her mentor. Remember when Sakura said that he was replaced and she hadn't talked to him since then?”

“Yea, so what all that happened in the past and there is no way he has had feelings for her for that long.”

“Well I think he has and the reason why he decided to drop team 7 was…”

“Hey what are you guys talking about? Where is wolf?” Sakura said walking out of the bathroom and looking around the room for their missing captain.

“He went out, he said he would be back later,” Kaijo said exchanging an uneasy look with Naizu.

Seeing the exchange Sakura frowned but didn't note on it. She turned and dug a hat out of her pack and placed it on her head, tucking her pink hair underneath.

“Well I'm going to go out and find some more information if wolf comes back tell him I'll be back later,” she said and walked out the door.

The minute the door closed Kaijo turned to Naizu and waited expectantly for Naizu to finish his statement.

Naizu sighed and sat on the opposite bed. “I think that the reason Wolf stopped talking with Swan is because at that time he had started to realize his feelings for Swan and he was trying to deny them by distancing himself from her. But then again that's only a guess.”

Kaijo nodded his head thoughtfully, his eyes unfocused as he thought about Naizu's words.

“You know I think your right it sounds like something Wolf would do,” Kaijo said thoughtfully.

Naizu turned from Kaijo, his pale eyes staring at the closed door Sakura had just closed.

`I just hope Kakashi lets Sakura in… those two need each other.'

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Authors Note:

I'm SO SORRY for taking so long on this chapter. I've had it type up almost finished for awhile now but I have been so busy with the start of school and and starting work again that I haven't had the time to go through it. Thanks so much for all the review I'm so glad that so many people like it. I hope this chapter is alright nothing much happens here but its kind of a filler chapter. Well I will try not to take so long in updating the next chapter. Till next time. PLEASE REVIEW and tell me what you think.

 

Next Chapter:

Sakura gets into the mansion but things go horribly wrong and she is captured. Will Kakashi and the others be in time to save her or will another person's blood be on Kakashi's hands.