Forsaken {Book 1}

XXIII: The Red Scorpion

"The last I heard from him was months ago. But you wouldn't have to worry about finding him considering he stays around Suna. Just look for something....unusual. He'll most likely be somewhere around there and if not, then he will be in Suna. Keep an eye out though, he is a careful man and has many traps set. All the traps are poison. It can be gas, liquid, solid, it's all poison." Tsunade informed. "But, I'm sure that you are already aware of his mastery of poison and puppets." Sakura nodded.

"Yes Tsunade-sama. Akasuna no Sasori isn't an unfamiliar figure to me." Sakura confirmed.

"I would assume so." Tsunade stated.  "If you really want to seek him out though, you'll have to know how to counter the poison quickly.  When going against him and his traps you don't have the time to sit down and extract the poison.  You'll need to remove it from your system, or temporarily contain it in one spot so it can't affect you." Tsunade explained.  Sakura nodded.  "I'm willing to show you, but I have one request."

"Yes Tsunade-sama?" Sakura inquired curiously.

"I never wanted to pass my teachings down to anyone.  I thought all kids were brats.  Until I met Shizune.  She begged me to teach her.  I never thought I would actually agree to teach her.  I began to pass down my skills.  I taught her what I knew.  But now....I have no one to pass down my teachings to the next generation." Tsunade paused and gave Sakura a serious look.  "I know you don't want me to teach you.  Don't take this personally but I don't want to teach anyone.  I'm not ready for another student.  So I'll make my request.  You allow me to show you my skills for you to pass on to the next generation." Sakura grinned.

"Of course Tsunade-sama.  I'd love to." Sakura said.  Tsunade smirked.

"I'll show you the basics and you can teach yourself so to say.  We don't have the time to go through full training so I'll show you what you should do and you can practice on your own.  It's not going to be hard." 

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"Wait, so Sakura-chan when are you leaving?" Naruto asked.

"I'm not sure." She claimed with a small laugh.  "I'm not really in a rush.  I mean, are you trying to get rid of me."  She gave both the boys a knowing look.

"NO!  No we aren't trying to get rid of you!  Right teme?"

"Yea we aren't trying to get rid of you so quickly.  I mean, it's good that you aren't rushing to leave since we won't really see each other for awhile." Sasuke said being careful with his words, making sure they couldn't be used against him.  Sakura rolled her eyes with a giggle.

"Well you guys are leaving with Jiraiya-sama and Orochimaru-sama.  So I'll just wait till you guys leave and then I'll head to Suna.  I mean, you guys are supposed to leave soon right?"  She asked.

"Yea, by the end of the week I think." Sasuke answered.

"You aren't trying to get rid of us?  Are you?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.  Sakura laughed and punched his arm playfully.

"No!  I would never!" She claimed.  "But on to a serious note, how are we going to stay in touch.  We don't have summons , and we don't really have a way of know where we're at the entire time."  Sakura stated.

"I don't know." Naruto said looking over to Sasuke who had a calculative look on his face.

"We still have a couple days here so we can figure it out later. I could ask Orochimaru-sama if he has any idea. I mean, Sakura's right. We don't have summons so we can't really contact each other. We can't keep track of each other and know where we're at all the time. I mean, I could mail a letter to Suna for Sakura and she wouldn't be there. But the thing is, I wouldn't know." Sasuke explained.

"Well then. Instead, since we don't have a way to immediately contact each other, let's just set up a meeting place. We can set certain dates we can go there like once a month or something." Sakura said after a couple minutes. Naruto threw his arms up and yawned.

"Well, either you guys can figure this out now. Or you can wait for me. But I'm going to sleep!" Naruto claimed walking off into one of the bedrooms.

"But it's barely seven o'clock." Sakura muttered with an exasperated sigh. "I bet he just doesn't want to deal with the planning part." She shook her head. "I guess I'll get ready to sleep as well. I'm going to take a shower." She stood up and made her way out of the room. Sasuke nodded and watched as she left before standing up himself. Instead of making his way towards the bedrooms he headed towards the front door. Leaving the inn he headed towards another room. After rapping his fingers on the door a couple of times he stepped back. The door opened and the person let Sasuke in the room.

"Sasuke, what are you here for?" Orochimaru asked curiously.

"We need help." Sasuke stated and he begun explaining their situation. Orochimaru thought for a second.

"We'll figure it out. I'll need to speak with Jiraiya and Tsunade first, but we can figure it out."

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A/N: DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER! Next chapter will be up next Friday. I don't really have anything to say so yeaaaa.

I FORGOT TO PUT THIS IN EARLIER....I entered this story in the Naruto Watty Awards so if any of you would like to vote for it you can.  And if you do, it's under my old username, Katz12Kz (I think that's what it was.)

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