Sakura

Chapter Fifteen : Meet Akatsuki

When I open my eyes, everything seems blurry and disoriented. I look around, in hope to see someone, but I am trapped into the dark dungeon, with no one but me.

"You woke up?" Suddenly I hear a faint familiar voice behind me and I jump from surprise. "You have been sleeping for a long time."

"Is Gaara okay?" I ask in a low voice, afraid of the answer coming to me.

"Yes, Chiyo sacrificed herself for him." I nod and swallow my tears away. I can't cry in front of him. "And you killed Sasori."

"I know." I whisper again, this time, tears managing to escape my hold. "He... one day he promised that I would kill him. I had to."

"I know." He nods and smiles. "He told me, after all, we were indeed best friends. Me, him and Shisui."

"What do you want Itachi?" I ask irritated. I hate when they remember the old times, because it makes me remember, how they betrayed the village, after killing Shisui.

"Pein-Sama wanted to see you." He answers monotony and looks away. "You should come with me, and meet rest of the Akatsuki."

I nod, not having much option. We start walking pass different rooms and dungeons, until we reach the main hall. The hall is cave-like with large table and sofa in the middle. Around the sofa are couple of armchairs and on the wooden floor there is fluffy red carpet.

"Hello." Out of nowhere an orange-haired guy appears with couple of piercings into him. "I am Pein, and you can call me God or Pein-Sama."

"Don't care, what do you want?" I ask him nonchalantly and look around. "What am I doing here?"

"First, I would like you to introduce yourself to Akatsuki." Pein mumbles and rolls his eyes. Or at least, I think so. Hard to know with his purple renningan. "Everyone this is Haruno Sakura, Sasori's younger sister." Pein exclaims. I roll my eyes. I am sakura, just sakura for you.

"I know you, un!" A blonde yells. "You are the one who killed Sasori." He says annoyed. "So, you killed your own brother?" I nod. "Interesting. He has been talking you a lot, actually besides the art you were the only thing he was talking about..." he looks down and I can see that they were good friends. "He also told me about the promise." My eyes widen at that. No one, no one knew about that, only me and Itachi. They should really be pretty close. "By the way, name is Deidara."

"Kisame." The shark boy says and smiles.

"One of the seven swordsman?" I ask and he nods, proudly. "Sameharda? (Sorry if I spelled it wrong. It is pretty hard to write you know?)" he nods again, this time surprised that I knew about the sword. "I know Zabuza, he is my friend. He told me lot about these swords." I whisper and he looks shocked at me.

"He didn't try to kill you?" Is the only question asked by him, and I shake my head.

"Nope, he is pretty much fond of me." I say gleefully. "Actually, I met him couple of weeks ago, a month maybe. He and Haku are pretty worked up. They may even return to the village."  Kisame nods, shocked about the information. Seven Swordsmen and especially Zabuza, expert of the silent killing, are pretty dangerous and people hating.

"Kakuzu, and don't touch my money." Green eyed and freak looking one says.

"Sure thing dude." I say and chuckle. "But if you touch mine, then..." the dark aura starts surrounding me. "We will talk differently." He gulps and nods.

"Hidan, bitch." The white haired man exclaim and I look at him surprised. Another foul mouthed, huh?"

"Don't call me bitch, dickhead." I say coldly and roll my eyes. "Man-slut." I murmur the last part loudly for him to hear.

"What did you call me?!" He yells and jumps on his legs. "I will sacrifice you to the Jashin!"

"Yeah, yeah, sure." I say annoyed. "But Jashin won't take my blood, so better not even try." He nods, amazed by my simple actions.

"Tobi is Tobi, and Tobi likes Flower-chan's hair!" The lollipop man, aka Tobi starts jumping around me.

"Thanks, I guess." I chuckle and looks around. "I know Itachi, so no introductions needed." He simply nods and I look at plant man.

"Zetsu." He says and I nod. He is creep.

"I am Konan!" The only famale in the group exclaims and hugs me tightly. "I am so happy that another girl will be in here!" I nod slowly and smile at her.

"Okay..." I say simply and look back at Pein. "So, basically this group consists of Money-Freak; Shark Boy; Weasel; Bomber; Lollipop-Man; Pervert; Plantie; Piercing-Lover; and Only She?"

Everyone looks at me confused, then amused, and then angrily. I just shrug them off. I have seen and felt worse before, so this is nothing new, I guess.

"So... what am I doing here, Piercing-Lover?" I ask a bit irritated. No one, and I mean no one is kidnaping  me and then making me introduce myself to the groups of idiots.

"Pein-sama!" Pein yells frustrated and shakes his head. "But for now it isn't your business to know, just try to get along with them." With this the main idiot disappears, alongside Konan and they leave me with them.

"So, Saku-chan." Itachi sits next to me, everyone looks confused at us. "How is he?"

"Better than before." I say nonchalantly and smile. "He is coming after you by the way. So, you better be careful, as he is going to kill you."

"Like you killed Sasori?" He asks me in low voice, and I nod. He can never understand nor me, not Sasori. Our relationship was different, and my promise was unbreakable.

"Sakura!" Dei-Dei sits on the other side of me and smiles. "Sasori has been talking a lot about you, un."

"Really? Like what?" I can't help myself but ask. I didn't have much time to spend with Sasori, but I knew that he was happy when he saw me.

"Like things about how awesome and beautiful you are." Deidara smiles at me gently. "Or how strong. Usually he would start talking how much you were practicing to reach your goal, or how you were traveling with Slug Princess Tsunade."

"He knew?"

"Of course! He would usually come and watch you from shadows. He even made me come along once or twice."

I blush a little, but shake it off right away. I look around them and smile, all of them are different and same at the same time. They are kind and evil and I think that they are humans. Everyone is looking at me, studying me and wondering about who I really am. But unluckily even I don't have an answer about that question.
Maybe it won't be that bad to spend some time here, after all, knowing new people is never a bad thing.