The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter Thirty Eight

Sakura masked her yawn as her eyes watered, they ached from overuse as she blinked a few times staring at her laptop trying to force her eyes to focus on the dimly lit screen. Dawn peeked over to check on her commander who had been working around the clock.

While Sakura was with Kakashi in her free time she would be inside the leaf village but now that he didn't want to be with her Sakura was home more, Dawn enjoyed having Sakura around the waterfall village but was becoming worried about her health.

"Sakura?" Dawn questioned pulling Sakura's gaze off the charts on the laptop and onto the brunette. "You haven't checked in on Carver and Raiden's training sessions in a while, shouldn't you go see if they are not slacking off?"

"Oh, I am sure they are slacking off." Sakura said leaning back in her chair. "But Carver and Raiden no longer work for me, they belong to the Leaf Village if they chose to continue their training sessions that has nothing to do with me now."

"Oh..." Dawn muttered looking to her feet.

"I haven't checked on the other villages though that, I probably should do soon." Sakura sighed at the long list of things she needed to do; the pinkette moved her head to gaze at her second commander who was looking at her shoes disappointed. "Are you missing when those two would run around the village stirring up trouble?" Sakura teased; Dawn blushed as she shot up.

"N-No!" Dawn shook her head. "How could I miss those annoying little splooges-!?" Sakura smiled leaning on her arm as Dawn got ruffled up, the waterfall village did feel quiet without Carver and Raiden here. Dawn and Diem in their own ways were close to the two men, they would hang out when they swung by after completing a mission.

Sakura turned her eyes as Diem walked in, he tilted his head seeing Dawn was ranting mostly herself about not missing anyone, she didn't care that Raiden and Carver took off leaving them in the dust to retire inside a different freaking village!

"What did you do to break her?" Diem asked Sakura.

"Why is it always me?" Sakura leaned back in her office chair as Diem chuckled, "What's up?"

"Do you remember our fun-loving snitch inside the Reapers?"

"The one who gave us half ass information!?" Dawn growled.

"That would be the one." Diem nodded.

"What did he do now?" Sakura sighed.

"He knew you weren't too pleased with him when the whole memory issue with the shinobis who came back from the dead occurred so he sent you a present to try and get back in your good graces."

"Oh?" Sakura's interest perked. "I like presents."

"I know." Diem smiled, "That is why I knew you would be happy to hear it turns out, the Reapers sent a spy into the Leaf Village and it was able infiltrate successfully."

"Who?" Dawn wondered; Diem shrugged.

"Don't know-" Diem said, "-from what our snitch said the Reapers used something like the mind transfer jutsu, when the user transfers their consciousness into the target's body, giving them complete control of that person."

"What's different?" Sakura asked stretching her arms above her head.

"Whoever they used-" Diem said, "-is dead, this technique kills the person the jutsu is being used on."

"Fantastic." Dawn sighed.

"The user is projecting his consciousness into that body it's, basically a puppet at this point." Diem finished crossing his arms over his firm chest.