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Chapter 4: It’s Oh So Quiet

After a few
days, Uchiha Shisui found himself back in top condition. Sakura had mended and
set his leg quite well, allowing him to go back to his team and accomplish that
mission his cousin had told him about. They came back unscathed thanks to
Itachi’s well-thought out strategies, but they made a stop in the hospital
nonetheless in order to get clearance from the Head Medic for the Hokage to assign them another mission soon.

Unfortunately
for them, as Shisui murmured to his cousin and sometimes best friend, Sakura
wasn’t around when they were there. It took a polite question from the older
Uchiha to get an answer from the treating medic, which told them that
Haruno-sama was away on a special mission.

Shisui had
lifted a brow in surprise when he heard that honorific attached to Sakura’s
surname. At his side, Itachi had had the same reaction, although he didn’t show
it. Sensing a shift on his cousin’s mood, Shisui wisely didn’t comment on his
curiosity.

To his
obliviousness, Itachi’s mind was already in the works.

-X-

Sakura was
running towards the red bridge, munching the onigiri as she dashed through the
bustling market. It was training day, and she was late.

“Damn!” she
growled in frustration. If only she hadn’t paid attention
to Ino and went to bed early! But no, she just had to be convinced by the
blonde to go to Tenten’s house and have an impromptu sleep over party with all
their kunoichi friends.

To be true,
they had a good time talking and catching up. Hinata seemed livelier since
Naruto had started to pay attention to her, just as Ino bragged about her new relationship with Chouji and Tenten seemed to
glow under the happiness brought by her youthful significant other.

But then
they asked the pink-haired medic about Sasuke and everything blew up. She had
relayed their friends with his last blow off, so it was understandable that Ino
and Tenten got furious at the younger Uchiha. She managed to calm them down
enough to tell them what she had decided after Naruto’s and Kakashi’s
reassurance.

“I am a
Leaf kunoichi,” she reminded them and herself. I won’t hold back anymore.

The truth
was that she was rather eager to show him what he was missing... but she
stopped when an image of another member of the Uchiha family pushed over
Sasuke’s in her mind.

Sakura
growled again, cleaning her mouth with a napkin that found its way into a
trashcan as she leapt over it in her running towards her team.

“Sakura-chan!”
Naruto greeted her enthusiastically. “Good morning!”

“Good
morning, Naruto! Good morning, Sasuke!” she exclaimed as she stopped, panting
lightly. “Where’s Kakashi-sensei?”

“Still not
here,” the blond grumbled, but his face lit like a sun when Sakura offered him an
onigiri. “Thanks, Sakura-chan! How did you know I hadn’t had breakfast yet?”

“Just a
hunch,” she replied with a smile. “I brought another one for you, Sasuke.”

He merely
crossed his arms. “I already ate,” he deadpanned, but his eyes detailed how she
shrugged and sat next to Naruto, sinking her teeth into
said rice ball. The young Uchiha frowned inwardly at her sudden change of
addressing him, but said nothing.

“Maa,
Sakura-chan, that was delicious!” Naruto praised her as his tongue fished the
loose rice grains on his face. “Can I have the bastard’s too?”

“Sorry, I’m
eating it,” she said dryly. “And the other one is for Kakashi-sensei, so don’t
touch it.”

“But I’m
still hungry!” the blond whined. Sakura sighed, exasperated and divided the
onigiri, stuffing half of it on Naruto’s mouth.

“Here, now
shut up for a while!”

The sunny
head bobbed as he chewed enthusiastically. She finished her half and cleaned
herself, letting out a contented sigh.

“I really
hope we can get a mission soon, I’m getting bored,” she commented, eliciting
curious stares from both of her teammates. It was a change even Naruto noticed,
because he knew how much she enjoyed working at the hospital.

“Really?”
he asked. “I thought you had some training to do with Tsunade-baachan.”

“We’ve
already completed this month’s quota,” she sighed. “And I want to shatter something
other than the training grounds. Maybe a
missing-nin’s face,” she added with a playful smirk.

“Who are
you and what did you do with Sakura?” a voice said lightly. Kakashi waved his
hands in his customary greeting. “Yo! So you’ve been busy these days, Sakura?”

“Not as
much as you, tardy pervert,” she shot back with a smile and giving him the
wrapped onigiri. “Here, you can eat it while we read the scroll.”

“Actually,
there’s no training scroll today,” Kakashi said as he unfolded the treat that
she had given him. “We’ve been called on an A-rank mission.”

Three pairs
of eyes stared hard at the seasoned Jounin. “Come on, old man, spill already!”
Naruto yelled.

“Oh? Ah,
yeah. We’re going to the Hokage now.”

He suddenly
found himself alone in the bridge, for his teammates had disappeared, dashing
towards the Hokage
Tower at top speed.

Naruto and
Sasuke climbed up the stairs running, only to see a flash of pink entering the
Hokage’s office. They stopped momentarily. How she had got there so quickly if
they were ahead of her?

-X-

Inside the
office, Sakura was greeted with the sight of four men standing next to the Hokage;
two of them were quite familiar to her by now.

“Sakura,”
Tsunade welcomed her. “Naruto, Sasuke... Kakashi,” she added, watching the Copy
Nin entering the office through the window with a silent wave. “Jounin Team
Seven, meet the Alpha ANBU Team. Their real names, if you know them, are
forbidden to repeat until further notice.”

Sakura
gaped openly at the sight of Uchiha Itachi standing next to Tsunade, Shisui
next to him. To the Hokage’s other side, two dark-haired men stood, one with an
obvious fake smile and the other with a relaxed façade.

“Sakura,
seal the room.”

The
pink-haired medic blinked and nodded her head at her shishou’s command, setting
herself into what she was told. A flare of her chakra was on her hands, which
were pressed to the wall and floor simultaneously. This caused several lines of
green chakra to intertwine with each other, knitting a web that covered the
walls, ceiling and floor.

“Good,”
Tsunade approved with a hint of pride. “I can’t see any gaps, you mastered it.”

“It was all
thanks to you, shishou,” Sakura smiled, a bit embarrassed to be praised in
front of an ANBU Team.

“Whoa,”
Naruto said, observing the net that covered the entire office. “That’s a neat
technique, Sakura-chan!”

“Hokage-sama,
are you sure we can’t be overheard?” one of the dark-haired ANBU asked.

“I’m
positive, Yamato,” she responded easily with a wicked smirk. “Not all medical
ninjutsu are for healing, as you can see. And unfortunately for the Sharingan
users, only a person with perfect chakra control can master it.”

Shisui
dipped his head in order to control his silent mirth when he saw the hidden scowl
on his youngest cousin’s face.

“Tsunade-sama,
it would be best if we concentrate with the task at hand,” Itachi cut in
smoothly. The busty Hokage lifted a brow but nodded.

“Team Seven,
you went on a mission for Ieyasu-sama, remember?” she asked, and the four Jounins
nodded. “Ieyasu is our Daimyo and the main economical supporter for Konoha. In
return for his kindness, we need to provide him with the best shinobi in our
village. Those who are in this room right now.”

Sakura
blushed, something that wasn’t missed by four pairs of eyes.

“Well, it’s
true, Sakura. You are the only medic-nin in Konoha who have enough guts to take
on any mission or training I place upon you. As for the rest, Sasuke was the
first of his class and Naruto... well, it’s Naruto.”

“Oi!”

“However!”
Tsunade boomed over a few male chuckles and Naruto’s indignant protest. “The
Alpha Team had been requested to accompany you in this mission. Ieyasu-sama had
requested Team Seven to guard him. It seems that he had been received a number
of threats, but the last one was the one that really scared him.”

Tsunade’s
hands unrolled the scroll she had in front of her. “He sent me the letter.”

As all of
the shinobi gathered together around her desk, Sakura read aloud.

“‘It is of your
best interests if you cut the budget to Konohagakure no Sato. They can stand on
their own. Keep in mind that we have you well guarded...’ I don’t get it,
Shishou... why is he paying attention to such a childish threat?”

“Because
this was pinned to Ieyasu-sama’s firstborn son’s body,” she said lowly, taking
in the surprised faces in front of her. “Someone entered the Fire Daimyo’s palace
and killed his Heir, leaving this behind.”

“That’s...
sick,” Naruto whispered with a disgusted face. Sakura nodded her agreement, as
well as Shisui and Yamato.

“Sakura, I
want you to perform an autopsy on the son’s body as soon as you get there.
Kakashi and Itachi will work with the Daimyo. Try to find out who’s behind
this--”

“I can tell
you already, Tsunade-sama,” said the Copy Ninja, tracing a finger on the scroll’s
parchment. “This is a rare material. It can be under the rain and whatever is
written on it will not disappear.”

“You gave
me one of these for my birthday last year,” Sakura piped in, looking at her
team leader. “You said it was from Amegakure.”

“Exactly,
the Rain Village,” Kakashi nodded with a happy
eye crease. “I forgot you had such a good memory, Sakura-chan, what else did I
tell you?”

Sakura
furrowed her brows, recalling that birthday gathering celebrated on Naruto’s
apartment. “You said that only fire could destroy it... and this kind of scroll
was really good for keeping familiars and summoning animals.”

“And...?”

“We
recreated the Nin Dog Pack Summoning on my scroll because yours was full of
signatures,” Sakura completed with a smug smile, reaching into her hip pouch
and pulling her scroll and unrolling it open next to the other.

“It is the
same kind of material,” Shisui said, with his Sharingan alight. “Sakura-san’s
scroll is way more conserved though. This other one seems to be handled
carelessly.”

“And
there’s blood on its creases,” Itachi added smoothly.

“Surely it
is the Heir’s,” Sasuke butted in tersely, but it was clear that he merely
wanted to add his two cents to the brainstorming session.

“We won’t
know until Sakura runs the proper tests on it,” Tsunade nodded with a frown.
“The child was killed with a large weapon, or so that’s what Ieyasu-sama said
on his dispatch. We don’t know if it was a katana or another kind of sword. I
want you to find that out. Yamato, you and Naruto will work on the witnesses
and interviewing all the servants in the castle. Sai and Sasuke will check the
perimeter for security breaches. You leave in two hours, pack a cloak because
you’ll be heading to the northern Fire.”

“Hai!” all the
gathered shinobi saluted, before turning to exit her office as all the ANBU
slid their masks back on their faces, but not before she could see Shisui
offering her a little smile, which she returned before going to the wall and
moved her fingers over the chakra net, making the jutsu dispel itself.

“Sakura,”
Tsunade called. “Stay for a moment. Itachi, you too, please.”

She nodded
obediently, closing the door and standing next to the Uchiha Heir. He exuded
confidence and aloofness, which made her scowl inwardly, remembering how full
of himself he had been on that occasion in his house.

“Sakura,
Itachi knows how to reach me if the case arises, but I want you to learn the
communication jutsu from him. We aren’t sure what are we facing, so I want you to
relay all the information from the autopsy as soon as possible. Maybe two heads
can think better than just one, and the two of you are my most intelligent and
reliable shinobi.”

The
pink-haired medic blushed at the impromptu compliment, but soon she realized
that she had to work side by side with the most arrogant, antagonizing man in
the whole village. Her lips turned downwards in an open frown.

“Perhaps I
can report to Kakashi-sensei and he can get back to you, shishou,” she said politely,
hoping for her mentor to catch the underlying plea. “He’s the most adequate to
process all the clues that surely we would find, and he could work on a theory
along with Uchiha-san here.”

Tsunade’s
lips pursed reproachfully, but her amber eyes glinted with hidden laughter.
“I’m aware of Kakashi’s intelligence as well, Sakura, but I need your input as a medic, not his. As for Itachi, as
an ANBU Captain has plenty of knowledge about criminal and psychological
profiles as well as a copy of the Bingo Book. I’m sure you both will come up
with some answers as soon as you get to the Daimyo Estate. Now, shoo.”

Being
promptly praised and told off as well, Sakura found no reason to stay. Bowing
slightly to her master, she opened the door and walked out, her senses aware
acutely of the silent presence that walked behind her, closing the door
noiselessly behind them.

“Sakura-chan!”
called a male voice, making her release the breath she was holding unconsciously.

“Naruto, I
thought you were packing,” she greeted the black and orange ball that landed
next to her.

“I was
waiting for you,” he said with a jovial smile. “What did Tsunade-baachan want now?”

“She wanted
me to throttle you to make you stop being to nosy,” she shot back with a mock
glare. “And she wanted me to have a nice little girly chat with me, wanna know
the details?”

The
disgusted look on Naruto’s face almost made her lose her act. “Hell no, I don’t
want to know anything about baachan’s love life, ew.”

Sakura
snorted, throwing a covert glance at her back. Itachi had already disappeared,
to her relief and inner chagrin when she remembered that she had to go on a
mission with him.

“Come on,
Naruto,” she said, faking cheerfulness. “We need to pack. And we won’t pack
more than ten bags of instant ramen!”

“But,
but—Sakura-chan!” the blond Jounin whined as she dragged him out of the Hokage
Tower.

-X-

When they
reached the village’s gates, only Sasuke was already there.

“Oi, teme!”
Naruto saluted, punching him on the arm none-too-lightly. “Why you didn’t tell
us that your brother was ANBU?”

“Because
that’s none of your business, dobe,” he grunted, pushing him back with his
shoulder.

Sakura
tch-ed absentmindedly, earning the attention of both of her teammates.

“Sakura-chan?”
Naruto called her, breaking her out of her reverie. She focused her eyes on
both males, which were engaged into a double arm-lock.

“You surely
look idiotic, or maybe a little less than straight,” she said with a lift of
her brow. “And that would explain some things regarding the both of you.”

Naruto looked
at Sasuke and wiggled away from him with a horrified look. “Sakura-chan! I’m
going to have nightmares because of what you said!”

“Are you
now?” she deadpanned with a little smirk. “Are you sure?”

“Gah!”

Sasuke
looked disgusted as well but he said nothing, preferring to narrow his eyes at
the female that was currently laughing silently at them. She was behaving quite
strangely lately, to his opinion. More snarky than usual... and she hadn’t
attempted to shower him with all the attention
she was accustomed to do.

He
dismissed it as the behavior she showed when she was on her time of the month,
but the way that she didn’t pay attention to him was kind of nonplussing for
him.

Now,
watching her flapping out her dark green cloak and slipping it on as she kept
teasing Naruto, he asked himself what the hell had gotten into her.

“Come on,
Naruto, you taught Konohamaru that stupid jutsu,” she was saying as Naruto started
to hit his head on the painted wood of the enormous gate. “Don’t tell me that
you haven’t thought that maybe if I used it I could change into a male?”

“EW,
Sakura-chan, please!” he whined. “You’re way too pretty to henge into a man!”

“And I
agree with him,” a somewhat off voice sounded next to them, startling the blond
and his pink-haired companion and four shadows loomed over them. “Yo,
Sasuke-chan, you should stop scowling like that or you’ll get all wrinkly.”

They looked
up, discovering the Alpha ANBU Team perched on the gates.

“And here I
thought you would be more inconspicuous,” Sasuke growled. Two muted chuckles
made him turn, noting that Sakura and Naruto were laughing behind their hands.
“Tch.”

As the
Alpha Team landed noiselessly in front of Team Seven, Sakura noticed that all
of them had their sandy-colored cloaks pulled on their heads, covering every
physical trait that might have identify them as the men that she saw at the
Hokage’s.

“It would
be a pleasure to work with Team Seven,” offered the masked man next to the one
she knew was Shisui. His voice led him as the male that Tsunade had called
Yamato. “For now, our Captain wants you to address us as the animals we sport
on our masks.”

“Excellent
idea, Weasel-san,” Kakashi said by the way of a greeting, poofing next to
Naruto. “Eagle-san, Hawk-san, Tiger-san.”

Sakura
noticed straightaway that Shisui nodded when Kakashi pronounced his totem
animal, the hawk, while the other shinobi did the same at the eagle name. So
that left the lean, pale boy she had seen in her mentor’s office, Sai, as the
tiger.

The
pink-haired medic’s eyes slipped to the last member of the ANBU Team, the
weasel. The white porcelain mask was directed directly at her, as if the Uchiha
behind it was staring right back at her.

Not knowing
what to do, she felt a dull warmth on her cheeks. Clearing her throat, she
piped in the conversation, trying to overcome her flustered state.

“Naruto,
put your cloak on, I’m sure we will depart soon.”

“And
without delay,” Itachi’s steely but polite voice seeped through his mask. “We need
to reach the Fire
Temple before nightfall.”

“So,
children, are you ready?” Kakashi asked good-naturedly, trying to soften the
ANBU’s cold command. Sakura lifted a brow at her former sensei before slipping
her head in her cloak’s hood.

“Good and
set, Ero-sensei!” Naruto exclaimed, copying Sakura’s movements.

With a nod
to Itachi, Kakashi jumped to the first tree branch, followed closely by his
team, while the ANBU vanished from the gates with a whisper.

-X-

They had
caught a little bit of drizzle while leaping from branch to branch, the ANBU
team hot on their heels.

“Sakura-chan,
are you sure you don’t want to get a shelter or something?” Naruto asked,
shaking his head from side to side to get rid of the water that clogged his
hair.

“I’m not
made of sugar, Naruto. I can take a little bit of
rain,” she said with a sigh. “Besides, the Fire Temple
is not that far, we can camp there and continue tomorrow.”

“I’m sure
that’s the plan, Sakura,” added Kakashi, bouncing next to her. “Aren’t you
tired?”

The emerald
glare sent to his way was enough of an answer.

“No,
Kakashi-sensei, I’m not tired.”

“You have
less stamina than the three of us,” Sasuke observed abruptly. “If you exhaust
your reserves we aren’t going to make it to the Temple if we have to carry you.”

“Why, thank
you for your deep observation, Sasuke,” she shot back. “I’ll have to keep that
in mind that when I’ll perform a healing on you
guys.”

Landing in
a wide branch, she sent a minute pulse of enough chakra that the next one to
land on it –her Uchiha teammate– broke it in splinters with his weight, nearly
sending him plummeting straight to the forest ground.

“Sakura!”
Kakashi exclaimed, surprised of such display of non-concern for Sasuke from
her.

“Want to
catch me?” she said lightly, focusing on her fleeing jumping way and her chakra
gathering in her legs and feet. “Let’s play, boys. If I get first to the Fire Temple
you’re going to apologize for being a bunch of morons, get that?”

And with
that, she took off like a green-clad flash.

“How the
hell--”

“Come on,
Naruto!” Sasuke said, gaining speed. “Are you going to let her get away with
that?”

Kakashi
sighed deeply behind them. Sakura’s little stunt proved that she was even more
competitive than the two young males under his command. He was sure that it was
Tsunade’s doing, but he didn’t say anything to avoid a direct confrontation.

But lifting
his head to the ‘road’, he had to notice that the medic was nowhere to be seen.

“Damn
perfect chakra control,” he grumbled, hearing a faint male snicker over him.

-X-

Sakura
landed on the ground in front of the Fire
Temple’s gates with a
soft hush. Smiling in triumph, she turned her head and noticed that it was a
cloaked figure already there, standing next to the gates as if he had been
waiting for a while for them.

The masked
face came up and she frowned. A weasel.

“Where is
the rest of your team?” he asked coolly.

“Sniffing
for my conditioner,” she replied sarcastically as she turned around and watched
how Naruto landed on his bottom while Sasuke landed with a thud on the ground,
both panting slightly from the race. “Boys.”

“Maa,
Sakura,” Kakashi scolded behind her, startling her for a moment. “What were you
trying to prove, that bunnies run faster than squirrels?”

“No, my
point was about panthers and wolves, Kakashi-sensei,” she shot back with a
smirk. He let out a chuckle as the other three ANBU Ops flickered in front of
their Captain.

“The monk
said that they’re under a state of emergency, Taichou,” Yamato’s voice floated
to them. “One of the Fire Twelve Shinobi Guardsmen had been killed.”

“I figured
as much,” Itachi answered curtly. “How bad are the damages?”

“Ninety-five
percent of the Temple
is in ruins, Captain,” a new muffled male voice responded. Team Seven
understood that the owner of the voice was the pale young man in the Alpha’s
Team.

“What can
we do to help?” asked Naruto, worried when he saw a trail of blood from the
unhinged gate.

“Be on your
guard,” ordered Itachi. “We don’t know if the premises are clear. Tiger.”

“Hai,” the
cloaked operative nodded, pulling out a scroll and a brush. Several rats and
birds sprang out to life from the parchment, spreading quickly in all
directions.

“Team Seven
will pair up with the ANBU partners that the Hokage had devised for our mission.
Hawk, protect our medic,” the Uchiha leader added, leaping onto the big gate
followed closely by Kakashi.

“Naruto,
keep your big mouth shut,” growled Sasuke before taking off with Sai. Grumbling
in annoyance, the blond ninja followed by the eagle masked male, Yamato.

“What do
you know about the Shinobi Guardsmen, Sakura-san?” asked Shisui softly, walking
next to her and standing back to back, their senses alert.

“Not much,”
she murmured with a frown. “I know that almost all of them live in Konoha, I
didn’t know that there was a monk among the members of the Daimyo’s Guards.”

“Very good,
Sakura-san,” the elder Uchiha said lightly. “This particular man was to be
retired by the end of the year, but apparently someone wasn’t too agreeable
with this.”

She was
about to ask how did he knew that when a black inked cat shot out of the
Temple’s remnants, making her jump slightly.

“Come on,
the coast is clear,” he whispered, skipping towards the door, the pink-haired
medic in tow.

The Temple was obliterated
beyond recognition.

The Hawk
Operative and the cloaked petite medic-nin walked in carefully, surveying the
damage and avoiding carefully the debris and boulders that lay scattered around
the site.

“Kami-sama...”
Sakura murmured under her breath.

“Sakura-chan!”
they heard Naruto’s voice to their right. “There’s a survivor here!”

A poof was
heard next, leaving the elder Uchiha behind the mask lifting his brow, stunned.
How did she teleport away? That jutsu was ANBU level...

“Don’t move
him, Naruto,” she ordered as soon as she arrived with a poof. “I’ll take it
from here.”

Kneeling
next to the bloodied monk, she slipped the hood of the cloak back in order to
free her face. Emerald eyes surveyed the patient carefully as she pulled her
gloves off. The monk opened his eyes and breathed lightly.

“Leaf--” he
choked. “I need--”

“Souryo-sama,
let me heal you,” she said softly. “I’m from Leaf.”

The man
breathed again, relieved, and slipped into unconsciousness. The rest of the
teams gathered around the monk while she worked.

“Kakashi-sensei,
I sense a disruption of chakra near the monk’s main artery,” Sakura spoke
suddenly, without taking her eyes off her patient. “Can you please take a
look?”

“It seems
like the after-effects of a jutsu,” he answered readily. “Can you break the
disruption?”

“Yes, but
something doesn’t let me reach it,” she responded, making her hands glow more
intensely with green medical chakra. “It’s like if something blocks my chakra.”

“There’s
another disruption on the first one that acts as a barrier.”

Sakura
snapped her eyes open, looking up at the ANBU that had said that. Uchiha Itachi
looked down at her, watching how her orbs narrowed in analytical deliberation.

“...I can
sense it now,” she said absently, averting her eyes again to her patient. “It’s
like two whirlpools gyrating in different directions...”

Her hands
flared with both of her chakras, one green and one blue. Slipping a string of
hand seals, she slammed her palms together and brought them next on the monk’s
chest, pouring the mixed energy into his body.

“In order
to break the barriers I’ll have to attack it and heal it at the same time,” she
murmured to herself. “This one was hidden because it was placed in a little
tenketsu point... I’m no Hyuuga, but I know that this specific point is quite
important to distribute the chakra on the main pathways of the body... so I’ll
have to do it the hard way.”

Lifting the
hand with light blue chakra, she directed one finger over the man’s heart.

“Don’t you
dare die on me, Souryo-sama,” she added, pressing her finger and surrounding it
with her other hand, glowing green. She felt Naruto kneeling next to her and a
little smile curved on her lips.

“Gambatte,
Sakura-chan,” he said in a whisper. She nodded gratefully, glad that he had
understood the gravity of the situation.

“There!”
she opened her eyes again in surprise. “The first disruption was so tiny it got
confused with the big one... and the other one is a piece of cake.”

The monk
opened his eyes again, breathing more freely. “Thank you...”

“No need to
thank me, Souryo-sama,” she smiled, brushing his forehead and part of his bald
head. “You’ll be just fine, I promise.”

“Who did
all this, Souryo-sama?” asked Kakashi, crouching next to the monk. “Do you
remember something?”

“Yes,” he
responded weakly. “Two men in black cloaks with red clouds came and slayed Chiriku-sama...
they said they were members of the Akatsuki.”

-XxX-

AN: Just messing with the manga timeline here,
people. The events are going to be twisted up but with the same conclusion.
Keep in mind that the mission to Suna didn’t happen just yet, but the events
regarding Hidan and Kakuzu did. Also, the Isonade (the three-tailed bijuu) was
captured as well by the Akatsuki before the events relayed in this chapter.
Regarding the Shukaku, let’s say that the organization hadn’t made a move on
Gaara just yet.

Also, the Souryo is a monk, heheh.

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