Warnings:- Rated M for future/current violence, sexual/adult themes, and coarse language.

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Disclaimers:- Naruto & characters belong to Kishi-san, Sayuri belongs to me.

CHAPTER ONE

The Scroll of the Sharingan

Sayuri gave a big sigh as she walked out of Konoha Hospital. She had been in there for almost a week, and she was relieved to get out of course, but there was a hint of dread in her sigh, as she surveyed Konoha. She saw some Academy shinobi running around, acting as kids should. They have no idea how much blood, gore and loss there is in the world of shinobi…after a few years…those games will be nothing but a memory…

Sayuri shook herself of her little depression swing and made her way down to her house. Before she had made about three meters, however, she sensed something that made her go a little paler.

"SAAAAAAYURIIIIII-CHAAAAAAAN!" She heard her long before she saw her. But to be honest, all she could see anyway was a blur of blue as one of her best friends, Shiro Mai, rushed to greet her friend.

GLOMP

Sayuri's butt gave a thud as she hit the dusty street as a light blue…jumble came and hugged her tightly. Sayuri gave her a small, but fake, smile in return to the full-on grin Mai was giving her. Mai noticed of course, and her grin faltered a little.

"Wow, you've really changed since I last saw you! Tell me about how things are in the Mist right now." Mai said excitedly as she got off and helped Sayuri up. "Hey…I…er…got something to tell you…"

Her heart skipped a beat as she saw him. Uchiha Sasuke. He walked up and stood right beside Mai, as she had expected him to, since they were the closest of friends. Their friendship had been very close; starting since they were eight and until now, at twenty, they were even closer, if that was possible. What she hadn't expected the Uchiha to do was grab Mai's hand and twine it with his own fingers. He whispered something to her, and giggling, she whispered something back. Sayuri gave a small "ah-hem" to catch her attention. "You were saying, Mai?"

"Well…me and Sasuke…" she didn't have to finish. She had already figured it out on her own. She was happy for Mai, she truly was, but it was just…she couldn't help but be jealous of Mai, after all, she had liked him openly…and she sort of felt that Mai didn't deserve him.

"Congratulations!" Sayuri gave another fake smile to the couple. Over the years, since she first became a Chuunin, she had become used to that fake smile, the one that never really showed what she was feeling, and the one that made her problems disappear. All she really wanted to do was get home. If she could just walk away now….

"We aren't just a couple though…we're getting married…" Mai gave a shaky laugh "And…you're invited…"

"What? How long have you been going out? Isn't it a little too early?" Sayuri sputtered. Mai always knew that she liked him too. Why would she suddenly just come up with this? Not give her time to adjust to the fact that they were together?

"Sayuri…" Mai frowned "We've been together six months…we say we're ready."

All Sayuri could do was stare with her mouth slightly parted, blinking several times, before snapping out of her reverie. "Again, congrats!" her smile didn't quite reach her eyes though. But she was saved from her embarrassment as a little boy, out of nowhere, gave her a note and ran away.

"He he, baa-chan wants to see me…and you as well, Sasuke-kun" she said turning to Sasuke and adding on the –kun spitefully. She turned around straight away and bumped into….something. When'd they build a brick wall here? She looked up and truly smiled for the first time…in ages. Hyuuga Neji.

"Neji! How're you?" she asked him cheerfully. She could almost feel Mai narrowing her eyes behind her. It was common knowledge, that the water-woman and the Hyuuga boy were like cats and dogs, though which was which was hard to tell.

"Fine, Sayuri-san, thank you, I was just on my way to get you for our mission." Neji said talking in his formal manner.

Sayuri frowned a little "Neji, drop the formalities. So you're on the mission too? Well, I was just about to grab Sasuke and take off, but now you're here, you can do the honors." Neji looked absolutely horrified at the thought of having to touch the Uchiha. "Neji…I was joking." Sayuri laughed.

"Come on Sasuke…we've got a mission" Sayuri said, trying not to look at him. The trio noticed she hadn't added a –kun to his name. She walked off. Neji followed in suit. Lastly Sasuke walked off, but not before giving Mai a kiss on the cheek.

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Sayuri entered Tsunade's office all ready in her clad ANBU uniform, as that was how she left the hospital. They even had the courtesy of washing her uniform. Her 'uniform' consisted of a black hoodie to hide her smoky-white hair and a pair of shorts that came up about a quarter of her thighs. On her right thigh she had her weapons pouch, straight on her skin, unlike other shinobi who wore it on their trousers. she wore the normal shinobi sandals, as they were easier to concentrate chakra through. She wore around her backside a beige pouch, a normality for ninjas to have, full of scrolls, exploding tags and soldier pills as well as charcoal pills.

As she made her way in front of the Sannin's desk, she took off her mask, which was patterned to look like a white tiger, and slipped a charcoal pill into her mouth. Tsunade made a face, as though she was about to protest to her eating those things, but then clamped her mouth shut, only to open it again to state the mission. "We have an A-ranked mission for you and your squad Sayuri." The medic nin said eyeing Sayuri as she sat on a chair in front of her.

"Only A-ranked Tsunade? I would've thought at least S-ranked, seeing that last A-ranked mission you gave me." She spoke to the Godaime avoiding her eyes, a bitter, challenging tone to her voice, as she traced the design on her mask.

Tsunade swore loudly, and then looked at Sayuri "You know that's not how it was; we had no idea that would happen! Our informant- "but she was cut off by Sayuri, who slammed her hands on to the table and stood, leaning in close to her desk.

"Our informant, as you say Tsunade, was unreliable, and you knew that. Yet you still sent me on that mission. I would think that being the third best medic nin in all of Konoha, I would deserve nothing less right? Nothing less to be KIA because our Godaime's 'informant' was unreliable, but she chose to trust him anyway!" she hissed. Sayuri's team whom consisted of Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Neji and Sai all stared at her sudden outburst. Their squad leader was usually the one to keep her cool, so the mission must have really wound her up. Neji could feel a sudden increase in her chakra and stepped forward to grab her arm. She could be dangerous with too much chakra.

Very dangerous.

She looked behind her and saw Neji and she calmed down. He was her best friend. He was always there; he would never let her be harmed. Ever. He was the only she could trust. The only one. She back away from the table and looked Tsunade right in the eye. "Well, are you

going to tell me the mission or not?"

Tsunade let out a sigh of relief. She stood up and looked out of her window, down onto the village she loved, and had vowed to protect. "You have to go to the Mist to retrieve a scroll they stole from us, a very important, a very valuable scroll." She turned around and looked specifically at Sasuke. "An Uchiha scroll."

"…"

"The Mist has it and there has been reports saying that they were going to hand it over to Orochimaru, who is an ally of theirs. If that scroll gets to Orochimaru, he won't need to ever try to capture an Uchiha, whether it's you Sasuke, or your brother Itachi." At the sound of his brother's name, he clenched his fist. "Because that scroll contains information on the Sharingan. All the secrets, which also maybe possibly include how to gain it…" Tsunade said. It made the Godaime Hokage pale and made her look fifty, not twenty, like she usually did.

"And if Orochimaru has the Sharingan…"She said looking desperately at them.

"We're all in deep shit." Finished Sayuri in an empty sort of tone. "Tsunade-sama, I promise you, that I'll do anything it takes to get that scroll back with one of us."

She strapped her katana a little tighter to her back and slid on her mask. She popped on her hoodie to hide her unmistakable white hair. She looked like your average ANBU now, the only thing to show who she was, was probably her amber eyes showing through the slits in her mask.

Her team followed in suit, putting on their masks. She threw them some soldier pills and said in a cheery voice "Buckle up boys! Team S is back on board!" before nodding to Tsunade and disappearing in four 'poofs'.

"Be careful Sayuri…"