Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto nor the characters that I will be abusing with my crap-tastic writing skills, all of them belong to Masashi Kishimoto. c:

Random fact: This story was written simply to be a fun read and nothing else.

It isn't something overly descriptive, well written and so on. At times maybe even OOC so do not expect something mind blowingly fantastic.

'Thinking,mentally talking.'

'Sakura's inner talking'

SHOUTING

Sometimes, I can't help but think about the times back at Konoha, our old team seven or even about Sasuke.

You might wonder why I left out the kun? For several reasons, might I say, but none of them are worth mentioning.

Not any more.

I was forced to change and grow to be able to protect myself from the world that was surrounding me.

Somewhere deep in my heart I am thankful for that, because if not the harsh times I've been put trough, I would have never been able to become the person I am now.

Because I am the new Sakura that the world has yet to see.

Even if I'm the Sakura Haruno who is now classified as a missing-nin, medic-nin, bounty hunter and well, the obvious traitor of the Leaf village.

The tiny pieces of the Old Sakura or what was left of her from the life she had lived.

Doesn't that just sound so dramatic?

But you know, I had to put those pieces back together by myself, for I was alone and broken.

But not any more, now I will be the one, doing the Breaking.

Cold wind blew straight into the missing-nin's face, making her long and unevenly cut pink locks dance along in a playful manner.

Sakura was sprinting back towards the current Inn she was staying at, after yet another successful bounty hunt.

Feeling absolutely unsatisfied, the pinkette scoffed, pulling the black cloak she was currently wearing, closer to her lean body.

It hadn't been any fun at all that evening, no, scratch that. The evening had been downright boring just like her target.

Eyes narrowing in disgust at the memory, Sakura bitterly smirked. Almost all of the men she had met so far wanted sex from her.

That said, she obviously hadn't had any trouble so far, seducing her targets one by one, luring them into her trap.

BORING she could hear her mental disease scream while throwing yet another tantrum inside of her head.

Well, it's not like Sakura had anything better or fun to do than to bounty hunt.

Unless defending yourself from the other occasional bounty hunters and Konoha ANBU was considered to be fun?

Yeah, suuuure.

When was the last time that she truly had fun and just simply enjoyed herself?

Scratching the back of her head, still deep in her thoughts, Sakura slowed down and began to walk.

Five years ago, when everything still had been normal. That was the last time the pinkette had enjoyed herself and her, at that time, wonderful life.

The happy days she had spent in back in Leaf village with team Kakashi, Konoha twelve and Tsunade.

Tsunade

Even remembering the name of her ex-mentor, made Sakura clench her fists in anger.

Tsunade's teachings had greatly helped to raise her as a weapon, tool for her village.

She was teaching her everything she knew herself, helping Sakura to become the second-best medic-nin of the whole shinobi world.

That fact alone could make anyone's knees weak from joy, especially if you were the one that became the second-best.

Yes, it was great until Sakura found out that her beloved shissou knew much more than she was willing to tell her,

the famous apprentice of the Slug Princess.

Not that she could really blame it all on Tsunade, elders had played a big part in the situation nonetheless.

Sakura Haruno, from the seemingly non-existent Haruno clan.

The clan that was almost completely wiped out by the elders when she was only two years old.

Well, not exactly by the old geezers.

By the Konoha ANBU to be exact, but you get the point, right?

Sakura's family replaced by two civilians who always wanted to adopt a child. Two civilians who fed her lies for the most part of her life.

The same two civilians she had loved and called parents.

'Tsunade knew it, yet refused to tell me..' Thought the pinkette, biting on her bottom lip as she scowled at her memories.

'ENOUGH ALREADY SAKURA, YOU'RE MAKING ME DEPRESSED!'

'Sorry inner, wont happen again...' Sakura told her cranky inner, who let out a sigh of relief.

'..till next time' she added as fast as she could, right before tuning out her inners protests and screams of frustration.

Only then the young bounty hunter found herself already standing in front of a familiar building.

Deciding to take a hot bath after eating dinner, the medic-nin lazily stretched her tired limbs before entering the Inn.

After skipping right past the reception desk, earning a couple of weird looks from the civilians, Sakura quietly walked up the stairs.

Being only few meters away from her door, the missing-nin whirled around, suddenly seeming to feel a spark of two sinister chakra signatures not so far away.

They faded almost instantly after appearing, making Sakura think her tired brain was once again, playing pranks on her.

Dismissing the strange feeling in her gut, she unlocked the wooden door and entered her room.

Little did she know that there really were two strong chakra signatures not too far away.

Not just that, they were also heading straight towards the Inn.

"We're almost there." whispered the bored swordsman to his silent partner, receiving a barely audible hn as the only response.

After a few more moments of tense silence and jumping from one branch to another, Kisame decided to once again check for chakra signatures in the distance.

Not finding any, he let out a quiet growl. Something just didn't feel right or so warned the nagging feeling in his gut.

Deciding to break the silence, swordsman turned his head towards his graceful partner.

"Hey, Itachi?"

"Hn."

"Are you sure there are no other shinobi in that place?"

At that question, Itachi Uchiha paused and stood on the branch behind his partner, his posture visibly tensing.

Kisame noticed that and also stopped in his tracks, slowly turning around only to lock eyes with the sharingan user.

"Kisame, have you forgotten I do not have any chakra sensing abilities?" Itachi calmly asked the shark man all the while flashing his sharingan eyes.

The said shark man nervously rubbed the back of his head, giving his partner an innocent grin. No way he wanted to be caught in a genjutsu.

"Of course not, I'm just making sure that we can relax for today."

'Just trying to make a conversation since I'm bored as hell and in need of entertainment.' Actually thought the swordsman, inwardly rolling his eyes.

Itachi on the other hand, seemingly satisfied by his partners reply let out a last Hn before skipping ahead of the swordsman into darkness of the moonlit forest.

The swordsman let out a silent chuckle, happily grinning as he decided to occupy himself with planning out his free time at the hot springs.

After all, he really did love water.

Sakura sighed with delight as finished eating the wonderful dinner that had nicely filled up the void in her stomach.

'How about going to the hot springs outer?'

Thoughtfully biting her lip, Sakura hesitated before replying to her wonderful mental disease.

'Mm, I don't know Inner. I mean..I just finished eating, wont I feel nauseous?'

'Oh don't sweat it outer, it'll be fine!' Replied the enthusiastic inner Sakura as she jumped up and down with the newly gained energy.

Sakura rolled her eyes before glancing over at her travelling backpack inside which were all of her clothes and weapons,

along with some of the other things she always carried around.

'Besides..' continued her inner 'If you'll feel nauseous, I will too!'

'Good point.' Sakura agreed with a grin as she reached for her bag, pulling it onto her lap.

'By the way outer.'

'Yes?' Replied Sakura who was already eagerly digging trough her bag, trying to find her towels.

'The hot springs are coed, do you think there will by any hot naked guys for us?'

Asked the mental disease making medic-nin's eyes widen in realization, as she stopped digging trough her bag.

"Coed?" She asked out loud, shocked.

'Yeeeees, mmmm.' Purred her inner pinkette, already imagining dirty things her outer self couldn't help but cringe at.

'Hell no inner.' Sakura growled, her grip on the new-found towels visibly tightening. 'There is no freaking way I am going now.'

'WHAAA..DO GO!..HOT GUYS, HOT GUYS,NAKED!'

'No way. No freaking way inner.' The medic-nin firmly said to her inner while mentally slapping herself.

'Come on, it is not like there will be any, lets just go and relax! You can even leave one towel on and then get another one to dry yourself.'

"Uuugh, I really don't know." Sakura pitifully mumbled, looking down at the two pale-pink towels that were folded on her lap.

'Sakuraa- Hot springs, gooo and have fuuuun!' whined the inner as she mockingly grinned at the helpless Sakura.

'FINE! J..just shut up already.'

'YOSH, HOT GUYS HERE WE COME!'

Rolling her eyes at her overly excited mental disease, the pinkette picked up her two towels and some of her other currently needed belongings,

walking towards the door.

Slightly blushing at the thought of ending up naked with a bunch of equally naked men, Sakura opened the door,stepping out and locking it right behind herself with a defeated sigh.

'The hot springs better be worth it.'

Letting her beautiful pale green eyes wander around, Sakura took in her surroundings.

Pine trees surrounded the whole place along with some moss covered smooth rocks, some of which were wet and somewhat shining in the moonlight.

Such a wonderful and pleasing sight it was for the stressed missing-nin from the Leaf village,

who lazily relaxed in the steaming water as her eyes travelled up, towards the beautiful night sky.

It had definitely been the right choice to visit the hot springs, coed or not.

No one was even around, meaning that Sakura had this little paradise all to herself or just until she decided to call it a night.

Sinking lower in the water, the medic-nin glanced up at the full moon as it mysteriously shined trough the clouds.

'So pretty.' The pinkette softly thought to herself, starting to fall asleep. That of course until her inner self had to cut in.

'I don't think we are alone.' she warned, gesturing for Sakura to be quiet.

Blinking in response, Sakura concentrated her trained ears to catch any foreign sounds while silently slipping out of the water,

wrapping a towel around her body and sitting down on the edge of a rock, acting as if nothing had happened.

Just about sixteen seconds later there was a splash about five meters away,

making the medic-nin direct her attention towards the cheerfully grinning man whose head was now sticking out of the steamy water.

Blueish grey head with wet, dark blue hair and gills.

'Hey, isn't that Kisame of the Akatsuki?' Asked the mental disease, checking out the mysterious man in the water.

Sakura inwardly rolled her eyes, calmly reaching for her cup of sake. Bringing it up to her mouth, she took a long sip.

'Yup, definitely him.'

Man, was she glad about bringing sake along with her, who knows how stressful this encounter could turn out to be if she managed to fuck up.

'If he is here, Uchiha is also nearby. What are we going to do outer?'

The outer only smirked, pouring herself another cup of sweet sake.

'My chakra is perfectly masked and my hair hidden under the towel. Not to mention the fact that sharky-san probably doesn't even know me,

plus we are here just to relax. So let's just see what happens.'

'You got a point there.' Agreed the inner.

'Mhm..'

"That's a lot of sake for one woman."

The pinkette heard the swordsman comment from her left. Noticing the teasing note in his voice, she decided to go with the flow.

"Oh? I can drink more than that." Sakura gestured toward the seven medium sized jugs of sake, her eyes holding a mysterious gleam.

"Besides, I'm only getting started." She added with a triumphant smirk

Kisame's eyes narrowed as his grin on the other hand widened, showing his pointy teeth.

He was impressed that someone as small as the woman in front of him,

well, he noticed that she was quite small compared to his muscular form of course, could drink that much sake alone.

Noticing the way the fishy Akatsuki member checked her out, Sakura decided to return the favour by letting her eyes freely roam over his well built body.

That happened at the exact same moment when the swordsman had stood up in the water, obviously naked.

Surprisingly enough Sakura hadn't felt any discomfort or shame while knowing that there was a man close to her wearing his birth suit.

'God damn, he is ripped.'

'That he is.' Agreed the outer Sakura while biting her lip, suddenly feeling very glad that she had a towel wrapped around her slender body.

'Get your act together girl and think of a way to get laid-ahem, I mean save our ass.'

'Yes ma'am.'

Pinkette suddenly grinned back at the shark man, gesturing for him to come closer and sit down next to her.

"Want some sake?" She asked the naked man, who licked his bottom lip before replying.

"Sure thing girlie, I never say no to good sake."

He said, plopping down next to Sakura, placing a towel on his family jewels. (Thank god Sakura didn't catch a glimpse of those nor anything else of sort.)

Smiling at the swordsman, pinkette took one of the jugs of sake she had, boldly handing it over to her companion, who gladly took it.

"It's good, all right." Kisame complimented with a satisfied sigh and an approving nod, after taking a nice long swig straight from the jug.

"Mhmm." Sakura hummed in agreement while savouring her own mouthful of sake.

Half an hour later after finishing off 7 jugs of sake

"Oi, Sharky-san."

"Yes Pinky?"

"Turn yer back towards me." Commanded Sakura as she pointed her finger into the shark man's confused face.

"Why?" Asked Kisame, raising a rather suspicious brow at the mildly drunk female next to him.

"Just do it, I ain't gonna hurt you." She playfully whispered close to his ear, pulling away with a seductive smirk.

"You better." Kisame warned,turning his back towards his companion, suddenly stiffening when he felt her warm, feather soft hands on his back.

"What're ye doin Pinky?" He asked, cautiously glancing at the pinkette from the corner of his eye.

"Making you feel better." She dryly replied before slamming both of her hands in different spots on his back, making Kisame groan out in pleasure.

Sakura smugly smiled at her handiwork, after all, she was one of the best at this.

"Fuck, you're good at this Pinky, real good." Complimented the swordsman as he felt his muscles relax, shivering with light pleasure.

"So I've been told." Sakura smugly replied, continuing to rub up the back of his neck, but that was until Kisame suddenly stiffened, glancing down at his Akatsuki ring.

"What's wrong sharky?" She asked, eyeing the man who slowly stood up, wrapping a big black towel around his bottom.

"As much as I'd like to spend some more time with you Pinky, I have to leave." He replied with a friendly grin, yet slightly disappointed eyes.

How sweet, he actually didn't want to leave.

'Mmm, seems that Mr Shark enjoyed our company so..' purred the pinkette's inner self.

'Indeed.' agreed the outer.

"Heh, was nice knowing ya sharky." Sakura said, giving him a playful punch on the shoulder.

Kisame only laughed at her gesture, suddenly leaning down and grabbing her hand, pulling it towards his mouth and kissing it.

"Thanks for the nice back rub, Pinky." He whispered, locking his eyes with hers, before cheerfully grinning and disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"Wow, an S-class criminal just kissed me hand. Oh my.."

'OUTER, HE IS TOTALLY INTO US!' Cheered the inner Sakura while holding her bleeding nose.

'Inner, don't forget that he is as dangerous as any of the Akatsuki members, we just simply got lucky because I gave him a nice back rub. That obviously

doesn't mean we wont get killed if we meet again in another place...'

Soberly mumbled the medic-nin back at her inner self while looking at the spot on her hand, that Kisame's lips had rested upon, blushing.

'Uh huh, convince yourself all you want honey, but you still gotta admit it was fun.'

A content smile crossed Sakura's face as she stood from her spot, picking up her belongings.

"Yes, it had been fun while it lasted."

Loudly sighed the pinkette as she calmly padded her way back into the inn, leaving behind small, wet footprints.