My first ever KisamexSakura fic. I've had this in my head for a while now and I finally get in down in writing. If some people are like WTF? Kisame and Sakura together?! Just wait it out, I thought the same thing when I saw my first pic of these two but I read further and read some fanfic's and I love these two. Nothing really apparent in the beginning chapters but wait it out. Reveiw! I always love reading those when I get them! Thanks! -Mokana-chan

Ripples

Chapter 1: Captured

How long does it take to kidnap someone?

If done perfectly and conditions were right, it would take 15 minutes max, 10 minutes if no obstacles arose, and 5 minutes if luck was on your side.

But how do you kidnap a kunoichi?

These are woman that are trained in the deadly arts of seduction and of the sword. No man wants to trifle with these kinds of women.

But what if that kunoichi was also trained as a medic?

The last thing Sakura remembered was coming back from a two week mission in Rock Country. She had been called away from Konoha to take care of Rock’s local villages due to a serious epidemic outbreak from poisoned well water. It was a sabotage attempt to kill their Leader, but luckily Tsunade received the plea for help two days after it was sent. Sakura was instantly sent out to take care of the problem.

Sakura was sent out so quickly that no other Shinobi was assigned to properly escort her. Rock needed a medic and Sakura was the only one that was able to get away from their duties. Everyone that she knew was either unable to get away or were on missions of their own.

So her immediate kidnapping was expected.

But what really got her going was the fact that she was tricked with a genjutsu. She was particularly good with this jutsu and it irked her to no end that she was kidnapped with it. The jutsu she was hit with was unique all together; it caused the person to think that they couldn't move any part of their body. With this in mind Sakura couldn't move her arms so she could do the release seal, “Kai”, and that was when she was knocked out.

It had been 5 years since the attack on Suna, 5 years since she fought an Akatsuki member and won, and 5 years to now realize that Sasuke would never come back. It had been 5 long years and she still was considered weak by her team mates. But it took 5 years to prove that she no longer was a hindrance.

Now at the age of 20, Sakura Haruno, the long remembered little girl that always cried was forever gone. She said goodbye to the long pink hair, the teary eyes, and the feeling of worthlessness. When she turned 18 she already established the rank of Jounin.

Sakura learned at the age of 16 that she had to be on her own if she wanted to become faster and stronger. Tsunade, the current Hokage in Konohagura, was the one that helped her bring out that hard work and determination.

Kakashi helped her from time to time only due to her persistence in training her. He finally took her seriously when they were training one day, he happened to tick her off, and he ended up with a broken jaw. Kakashi then realized that he wasn't dealing with the little Sakura Haruno that he trained long ago but a grown woman that was becoming a promising Kunoichi. He then made it known that Sakura be made his own personal medic whenever he was sent out on mission because he still did not trust any of the hospital staff only Tsunade and herself.

The only thing that told Sakura that she was being kidnapped was due to the constant up and down motions her body kept doing. Her mind was fighting off the after affects of the genjustu and…. something else. From the position that she was in she could tell that she was being carried on someone's shoulder for it kept ramming into her stomach. But there was something else causing her pain. She felt something harder run into her stomach and hip but it was at an angle.

It then took her to realize that the thing that she was laying on was eating her hip. Each time her body went up and down it brushed up against her skin and it felt like her skin was being shaved off.

But what confused her the most was the weak feeling she experiencing. It felt like all of her energy and power was draining out of her. But what kind of thing could do that? She had her fair share of chakra reducing amulets and jutsu's but this was different. This thing was literally taking her power as well as a piece of her.

She could tell that the person kidnapping her was smart enough to have her wrists and ankles bound together. They also took the liberty to blind fold her. Her wrists were bound behind her back with the back of her hands facing each other so she couldn’t do any hand seals. So her captor knew that she was a ninja meaning that they knew how to deal with them either being one or knew what to do with them.

She tensed when her captor jumped higher into the air, due to her tensing her captor tightened their grip on her thigh. She knew that would leave some kind of bruise after she got done with this. Sakura took note of the size of the palm that squeezed her thigh, giving her the hint that her captor was a rather large man due to the large hands.

Hmmmm large hands Inner Sakura said.

“Why are you thinking such thoughts at this time?” she snapped back at her. Sakura tried to focus where her charka levels were at but with the unknown item sucking at her it was really hard to focus on the invisible power within her.

Her mind focused on the invisible system that ran through her body which represented the power that each and every ninja needed in order to live.

Her concentration was cut short due to her hip brushing up against the unknown item again. It felt like her skin was on fire while at the same time her energy and chakra were being sucked out of her.

Her captor jumped higher than before, the extra power in the jump caused her to brush even harder against the item. That was when she felt them, as her hip brushed up against the item she felt what was slowly gnawing away at her. The protruding items felt like teeth.

Sakura’s jaw tightened from the movement. Her body shifted against it again and this time she could feel every single individual object from the item. But they weren’t teeth, they felt like scales.

Sakura froze from the late realization. Scales? Sakura felt her pulse freeze from the thought. Sharp scales that could tear human flesh as easily as shredding paper. Only one thing could do that and that one thing was tied to a certain someone.

And that certain someone was tied to a certain group. And that group was known as Akatsuki.