Chapter 6

Sorry this has taken me so long, but I have been very busy lately. Enjoy chapter 6. Oh and I have yet another big plot for this story!!!

Sakura sighed heavily as she gazed at the bomb in front of her. She couldn't afford to make any sudden movements-if she did, it could blow.

"Sakura?"

Sakura heard Sasuke's voice close by. She was only too relieved to hear him. "Sasuke, I'm over here, but be careful!" She called to him.

Sasuke cautiously slowed the pace as he gestured for Soukai to slow down. Reaching the clearing, he skidded to a hault and gazed at the thing before him. It was like a white phantom looming over their small figures.

"Gah! You brought Soukai?" Sakura said worriedly, spinning round on her husband. "He can't stay here!"

"He was already with me when I felt your chakra, I couldn't leave him alone...not after..." Sasuke's voice faded, as he remembered the gen-jutsu.

"What? After what?" Sakura demanded, her jade eyes widening.

"I think the giant bomb in the middle of the ground is our main crisis right now," Sasuke told her sternly.

Sakura frowned as she gazed back at the bomb with concern. "Right...I can stop it from going off, right now it's not stable and could go off at any time so we need to work quickly. I need operating tools."

Sasuke lowered his eyes at this. "What do you mean? You're not attempting to operate on this thing are you?"

"I have to, I'm the best medic nin we have," Sakura told him.

"Get the ANBU over here, they can fix this!" Sasuke protested.

"Their chakra could disrupt the bomb, I'm already pushing it with you standing here. The chakra waves within the bomb are somehow being affected by chakra on the exterior, I need to get in there and seal it," Sakura explained. "I was part of the ANBU Sasuke, I can do this. Trust me. Now, please, I need tools."

Sasuke hesitated. "I'm not leaving your side." He knelt to face his son and stared at him with serious eyes. Soukai looked back nervously. "You're fast like me."

"D...daddy..." Soukai said nervously.

"I can't leave your mother's side right now, I might be able to help with this. Go to the hokage, tell him there is a bomb and Sakura needs tools from the hospital. Let Naruto take it over from there...and then..." he rubbed his nose against his son's playfully to settle him. "I want you to stay with Hinata, okay?"

Soukai nodded. "Okay, I'll be a ninja and do my first mission..." he sniffed.

"I love you more than anything," Sasuke told him, standing up. "Go on Soukai, you can do it."

Soukai nodded as dashed off through the forest and straight towards the hokage's mansion. Sasuke turned back to his wife, taking a cautious step forwards.

"Don't get too close," Sakura told him quickly. "I can feel it...the bomb is getting more unstable..." She gazed at the spot where her son had been standing. "I need him to be fast..."

Sasuke nodded. "He will be...how did you find it?"

"It rose from the ground," Sakura replied. "It's Deidara's."

Sasuke glared at the bomb, he recognised the claywork, of course. "Yeah...but how did it get here?"

"He must have planted it here..." Sakura answered. "So the Akatsuki are still in tact..."

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"I'm fading..."

The darkness was like a swollen bruise within the temple's skin.

"I can't survive as your half any longer..."

The man removed his hood and gazed in the mirror. "You owe me for my services...it's not everday I would allow your kind to share my body..." A glint of silver hair shimmered in the blackness of the room.

"You should be used to that, your work is quite similar after all. Harvesting chakra from deceased legends, as you put it..." His other half hissed.

"Well realising you were still living I decided why not help you out a little bit? After all, we both have similar goals. I want Otogakure and you want Konoha."

"The moment we have Sasuke, I shall be my own..."

"Shame you can only survive on him, with me, you just got lucky..." The man answered with a smirk.

His other half smirked also. "I am fortunate...indeed..."

"And the previous organisation? What will you do with it?"

"It is rotting without me."

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Soukai burst into the office, breathing heavily. "Naruto, Naruto!"

"Eh? Soukai, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked, kneeling to face the exhausted boy.

"T...there's a biiiig bomb Naruto, my mom needs tools to operate on it, quickly! She can fix it!" Soukai exclaimed.

Naruto widened his eyes. "Right, you stay here. I'll handle this one myself." He disappeared from the room. 'A bomb...in Konoha, how did I miss it? Where was it? At least Sakura found it first, her medical skills may be in use here, and if she sent her own son to deliver this message, it may mean she already has a plan.'

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Naruto ran straight into the hospital, ignoring gasping nurses as he dashed into the supply cupboard. Grabbing anything sharp and shiny he could find, he slammed the door and ran back out again. 'Should the people be worried...? How unstable is this thing?'

He tracked Sakura's chakra using a simple jutsu. It was deep within a forest. That left Naruto some relief, at least it was doubtful any civillians would be nearby.

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Sakura placed a hand on the bomb. "I don't understand...why it won't be set off..."

"Perhaps it responds to chakra only, like you said. Maybe, the more the chakra, the weaker it gets. Deidara would have wanted this bomb to go off with plenty of people around," Sasuke said.

Sakura nodded. "Then why plant it here?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Deidara may have planted it there on a whim."

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto exclaimed, bursting into the clearing, juggling tools in his arms.

"Don't move!" Sasuke and Sakura shouted together, hands outstretched.

Naruto paused, one leg in the air and arms raised above his head. "Can't I at least...have both legs on the floor?"

Sakura shook her head. "Your chakra is the most strongest in the village, it could set off the bomb."

Naruto frowned. "I need to get my people to safety, how unstable is this thing?"

"It reacts to chakra," Sasuke answered.

"But if I can operate on it, we won't have a problem. The chakra on the inside is slowly expanding, but I can seal it." She thought for a moment. "But we'd need it to be sealed permamently and I can't leave my hand in a bomb forever."

Sasuke looked up. "I can deactivate it with chidori. The moment you've sealed it off, I can place a jutsu on it, which will destroy it."

"Alright then," Sakura said.

Naruto handed Sasuke the tools. "I trust you Sakura, but be careful. I have to get my people to safety, but then I'll come straight back. Be careful." He disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Sasuke watched him leave. Naruto was behaving calmly about this, it almost settled his own worries. "Sakura-"

"I know, let's do it."

That's the end of chapter 6, hope you liked it, the next one will be up asap! Please review!