WhiteMint: Horrah! Time for the second part! I updated faster b/c it's actually quite short! So I'll make this the prologue?

Summary: Wait-WHAT? I have to endure the initiation for joining Akatsuki when I never even agreed to this? I don't even know how to play basketball! SakuraxAkatsuki Rated T for potential language

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, the massacre would never have happened.

Prologue

'I can't believe those bastards tricked me'

Collapsing on her small and hard dorm bed, Sakura groaned at into her pillow and contemplated suicide by suffocation. But she didn't want to risk having the members squabble over who gets to do CPR on her while she died slowly, enduring their bickering in her last moments of life.

The only good thing – or maybe the worst thing – was that she found out that her dorm mate was none other than Konan, whom all the Akatsuki feared and respected. When Sakura asked, Pein muttered something about papercuts and hand sanitizer but didn't go into great detail.

Punching her pillow half-heartedly, Sakura mentally listed out the pros and cons about her new roommate.

Pros

The Akatsuki respects Konan

Konan is very nice and calm, unlike the calamity of the others

… Konan folds origami?

Cons

Now the Akatsuki knows exactly where I live

They will find excuses to visit me… and Konan

Crap, I think they said something about alternating who picks me up and who drops me off

I have no more alone time now… *insert tear*

As she punched her pillow once more for good measures, Sakura put her mind on the even more serious situation.

Her forced initiation, or what she liked to call it: The Impossible Tasks.

~Flashback~

"You stupid kids! Stop fighting over her like she's a piece of meat! Can't you see she's terrified?" Konan yelled as she quickly retrieved Sakura from the pits of men filled hell. While Konan took a terrified Sakura to the team office and gave her some water, the team paused and looked at each other. A sudden meeting soon took place among the Akatsuki.

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"So… It's unanimous that Haruno Sakura should join the Akatsuki as the team healer?"

When answered with a chorus of "yes," Pein smirked, before relaying to the rest of the team his plan.

By the end of the discussion, the rest of the team looked at Pein in awe. The plan was ingenious. This was why only Pein could be the captain of the famed Akatsuki basketball team… He really was brilliant.

"Alright, lets go. It's showtime…"

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As Sakura sipper her water, Konan gave her a half-smile, "Don't worry, these guys are really calm and collected all the time, I think your presence just excited them a bit but I'm sure they'll respect your wishes if you don't really want to join us."

Sakura smiled back, "That's nice to know, but I wonder why they like me so much? It's not like I'm attractive or anything."

At those words, Konan smirked, 'She really has no clue on how cute she is huh? I bet that in highschool, her friends really protected her from other guys'

Meanwhile, back in Konoha High, Ino Yamanaka, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki simultaneously sneezed.

Before Konan could explain to Sakura, the rest of the team walked in on them. At first, Sakura was wary, but to her surprise and relief, the Akatsuki really was calm and gave her no more than a nod or – in Tobi's case, a wave. Pein gave her a charming smile before speaking.

"I apologize on behalf of the rest of the Akatsuki. We were too excited and if you don't want to join us, then that is perfectly fine with us," and with that, he started rummaging through some files.

"Sakura-chan," Itachi then spoke up-

'Why does his voice sound like chocolate for the ears?' Sakura mentally groaned.

-"I happen to remember that for first years, it is required to join one of the many groups in Tokyo University. What group do you plan on joining?"

With that, Deidara spoke up, "Sakura-chan's probably going to join the Healer's Group, yeah? I remember you saying that you're studying medicine to become a doctor, yeah."

Sakura immediately brightened, "Yes! I plan on joining the Healer's Group. I heard that the director, Tsunade, is one of the best doctors in all of Japan!" too bad she didn't notice the entire Akatsuki smirk.

"Really?" Pein asked, handing her a piece of paper "I happen to have one of the extra forms for the Healer Group, back when Sasori wanted to join. You can fill it out and I'll send it to Tsunade."

Sakura was immediately suspicious, 'Are they trying to recruit me…?'

But when she glanced at the form, she noticed nothing unusual. It looked like a normal application form with "Healer" at the top and there was no mention whatsoever of the infamous basketball team, Akatsuki.

She brightened up, 'Konan was right! These people aren't that bad! And I don't even have to join them!'

Sakura immediately started to fill out the form, blissfully unaware of the positively evil grins among the Akatsuki.

"Here you go Pein-san! I hope it's not too much trouble to give this to Tsunade!" Sakura smiled, making Pein almost – keyword: almost – guilty for tricking her. "My pleasure," Pein said, before taking the paper and filling out some parts.

Sakura paused. It was the part that said "For Official Use Only" that she didn't bother to look at. Eyes widening in horror, she saw him write "Akatsuki Basketball Team" in the line that said "Line of Work" before signing it with a flourish.

She had totally forgot one part about the Healer's Group: besides learning on being a doctor, they were assigned to groups such as sports teams that needed medical aid.

Before she could grab the form, Pein tucked it away into his sports jacket, looking very smug with himself.

Sakura felt herself suddenly lifted up and put on the shoulders of the biggest member of the Akatsuki. Kisame grinned up at her, "Welcome to the Akatsuki Pinky."

As she looked down, all the members stared back at her.

Pein looked really pleased with himself, and her.

Sasori looked like he was about to jump her.

Deidara looked positively giddy, in the manliest of ways.

Itachi looked like a cat recently fed cream.

Hidan looked like he was praying?

Kakuzu – she later learned his name, along with Hidan's – looked at her calculatingly.

Tobi was practically bouncing off the walls.

Konan didn't know whether to be happy to be with another girl, or to knock some sense into the guys and take the damn form.

And Zetsu-

"Yay! We have Sakura-chan! – It's time for her initiation."

'INITIATION?'

If possible, the guys suddenly looked even happier.

"In Akatsuki," Pein explained, "the initiation is where you complete one task for each member to determine your worth." He glanced at Konan, who immediately grabbed some white star paper from her pocket and scribbled on the ends on each. Handing them to Pein, Konan looked at Sakura apologetically before sitting back down on the chair.

Pein shoved his fist that was clutched with the ends of the star paper, "Please take one."

Dumbfounded, Sakura silently grabbed one and slowly read off the name printed on there.

WhiteMint: Now is the time to vote! Who gets to have our dear Sakura-chan first? ;P

Yes, this will be multi-chaptered...

I already have in mind the tasks from most of the Akatsuki and I think Kakuzu's will be pretty funny (hint hint It will be less KakuzuxSakura and more like, 75% will be SakuraxAkatsuki)

I will tally up the votes on the 5th of August and then do my best to write a fast chapter! And if it makes you all feel any better, I will write bits of my ideas beforehand to speed things up with the updating. I hope to finish this arc before school starts because I will be busy for a while.

During the waiting period for the votes, I think I will try to sketch out the Akatsuki jersey. My art sucks though so I don't think it will be posted anytime soon.