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i really hope you like this fic, it was on my head for a while now,
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An ANBU was returning home from a mission when he spotted someone near the waterfall, deciding to check in case it was an intruder, he got closer to the person, realizing that it wasn´t an enemy, but a friend, more exactly, his little brother teammate and best friend, Sakura Haruno, after a couple of seconds staring at her, he decided to leave her alone, only to be stopped when he heard a masculine voice calling out for said girl
"Pinky" the masculine voice froze the girl in her place, but after a second, she shighed
"what do you want shark-boy?" the familiarity of the question startled the ANBU, he got closer still hidden on the shadows
"Have you decided anything yet?"
"yeah, and my answer remains in NO WAY IN HELL, do I have to spell it for you shark-boy? "
"Come on pinky, we both know that you want to"
"As if"
"Scared of the S-rank criminals?" he mocked
"I remember killing one of those fearsome S-rank criminals just a year ago" she stated raising a brow
"yeah, Sasori, you are quite strong to have done that, if you come with me, you will be more powerful than now" he seated himself on a nearby rock
"And you seem to think I want to do just that because…."
"We have been keeping tabs on you pinky, we know everything about you, we can force you to come if we have"
"…"
"Just think about it a little longer, Leader would like you to come willingly, if not, we can always use that friend of yours to obligate you"
"You have been asking me this for over 6 months now, why don´t you just go to find someone else that would like to join your circus of a criminal organization?"
"Ask leader"
"yeah right, I will ask him the next time I see him" she rolled her eyes
"-come on pinky, it won´t be that bad to go back with us, you could always be my partner"
"wow, if you wanted to convince me not to go, you have done a good job"
"I´m wounded little one, I thought that you liked me" he raised his brows in a teasing manner she merely growled
"as if I´d like a super grown fish/shark as my partner or even near me, go tell your freaking leader that I will DIE before going to that zoo that´s called Akatsuki"
"tsk, those harsh comments will do nothing to change leaders mind, in fact, it´d amuse him to no end"
"go to hell"
"only if you come with me" he smirked at her
"fuck off, just report to your leader that I will not accept your little offer" she dismissed him with her hand, but he reminded there "what?"
"you know I can´t do that"
"and you seem to think I care because…"
"….."
"just leave before my patience runs out"
"well then, bye pinky" he stood
"go to hell shark" he grinned before disappearing, she sighed loudly, then, a shadow appeared before her "what now?" she asked irritated
"Haruno Sakura, you are to report this encounter to the Godaime Hokage" she paled before growing annoyed
"what the hell Uchiha?, are you spying me or something?, I know I have to report this to shisuo, but not now" the ANBU was surprised she recognized him even when he had his mask on, not that he showed it
"you are to come with me to the Hokage tower"
"I will go after I check on something out here"
"…"
"you can leave now"
"no" she grunted in response
"fine, but wait here and be quiet" she said before turning around to go deeper into the forest, the Uchiha followed her, stopping a few meters away from her, he watched as she started to look for something on the base of a three, after she found the thing she was looking for, she took it and started walking towards the Hidden Village on the Leaves.
"what were you doing talking to a S-ranked criminal?" he asked after an uncomfortable silence
"Curious are we?"
"hmp" a silence fell over them, out of the corner of his eye, he kept watching her every move, but nothing in her posture betrayed her expressionless face but her eyes
"I can go for myself to the hokage tower"
"I have to report to Godaime-sama"
"whatever"
Both of them walked without another word, while she was annoyed, he was amused by the emotions flashing on the girls eyes, when they reached the hokage´s office door, she entered without calling for permission
"what?" the blond sitting on the desk glared at them before realizing who they were "what are you doing here Sakura?, I thought you were at the training grounds"
"I was, but Uchiha-san here, wanted me to accompany him all the way here" she said sarcastically
"hmp, I have a report to do"
"shot"
"there is no Akatsuki nor Orochimaru´s activity on the land of wind, seems our sources were wrong" the hokage sighed but he glanced at the pinkette from the corner of his eye, her stance betrayed nothing
"that´s to be expected, after all akatsuki is short of a member, and Orochimaru can´t use his arms nor has a new vessel, you can go now Uchiha, I´m sure Shisui will stop being a pain in the ass if you show your sorry ass at the Uchiha compound more often than not" she growled, he bowed and left the room "now, exactly why are you here?"
"just wanted to ask you if I can get a solo mission, I need to get away from my boys before they appear in the hospital with a few broken bones" she smirked at the thought
"how long?"
"a week or two if that´s okay with you" the hokage started looking on her papers for a mission for her protégé
"there is one to the land of snow, it´s the assassination of the head of a minor criminal organization, and there is another one to a village near mist, there is a person who wishes to return here, in this one you can take your time to do it, which one are you taking?"
"I will go for the one on the snow"
"good, you leave in a hour"
"hai" with that she was gone, little did she know that the Uchiha returned with the hokage to report her encounterment with the akatsuki
"you are to shadow her, not letting her sense you, I don´t know what´s going on inside her head, but I hope she isn´t going to betray us"
"hai" whit that he was gone
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Half way to the snow, Itachi watched Sakura forming the hand seals for a katon jutsu to fire up the wood sticks she chose, after long minutes of silence, from the threes behind her, he observed as a shadow came closer to where the girl was.
"Cherry-chan!" exclaimed the figure once reaching said girl
"What now girly-boy?" she asked exasperated, she was trembling for what Itachi assumed was cold
"Now now, no need to treat me like you treat Kisame un, I´m merely here to ask you if you have considered coming with us"
"as hell I will" she said with rage still trembling, he chuckled clearly amused while he walked till he was next to her and placed his akatsuki cloak on her shoulders, she glared at him
"you know un, the color suits you perfectly yeah"
"too bad i´m not one to betray her village or her friends" she took off the cape letting it fall to the mud
"come on cherry-chan, we both know you want to come with me, take the offer and forget about that pathetic village of yours yeah"
"there you are terrible mistaken, I don´t want to join your pathetic excuse of a criminal organization, I will rather die" she said with determination and annoyance, Itachi could tell that the kunoichi was far from happy, he had seen first hand what she was capable of when pissed off like this.
"you know that leader-san will keep sending us after you right? yeah"
"tell him to fuck off, now go!"
"see ya! un" with that he disappeared in a cloud of smoke
"stupid blonde, stupid shark-boy, stupid akatsuki leader, stupid stupid stupid everything" she growled
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"report"
"they are beginning to suspect her un, the hokage sent someone with her on her solo mission, he is hiding his presence, I don´t think she knows a thing about it, un" the blonde smirked
"good"
"our little visits are more frequent than not, the ANBU watching her is the same one that saw me talking with her, I have the feeling that he was the one who told the hokage that something was up, they will be searching in her apartment soon" the blue man said with a widen grin
"have you taken care of what I asked you to?"
"of course" the leader nodded
"it´s just a matter of time before she needs our help" the leader stated causing both men before him to grin "Kisame, Deidara you are to tail her till she gets to Konoha, don´t let that ANBU see you" he ordered and the two nodded and left the room
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"thank you nee-chan" said a little boy while eyeing her in admiration, she smiled
"you are welcome, now go to your mama, she will be worried If you don´t"
"yes!" the boy ran towards his house
She began to walk to where she was staying for the night, the next day she will be ending her mission
"you are fucking sexy when you fuckin´ smile" commented someone next to her
"i´m beginning to think you all are stalking me" she glared
"no need to get all bitchy on me bitch"
"fuck off"
"is that a fuckin invitation?"
"no"
"I fucking tough so, how about our freakin offer?"
"no"
"well fuckin bad your fucking opinion matters not"
"go fuck your leader and leave me the hell alone"
"Nasty mouth we have here" he mocked
"okay, i´m leaving" with that she walked away, Itachi followed the girl.
"phase one complete" said the Akatsuki, aka Hidan, with a smirk on his face
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"Sakura Haruno, you are to accompany us to the Hokage tower" was the first thing she heard after stepping out of her house the day after arriving from her two-week mission, an ANBU squad was in front of her, she merely nodded and followed them.
When they arrived at the hokage tower, the council was waiting at the entrance of the Godaime´s office, they watched her with hate, she was confused, but she entered the office when the blonde called her in, the elders followed suit
"Haruno Sakura, jounin of Konohagakure, medic-nin and former member of team 7" at this moment, she took note that inside the room were Anko, Ibiki, Inoichi and Shikaku "you are accused of the charges of fraternizing with the enemy, a.k.a Akatsuki´s members, what do you have to say in your defense"
"I did not do such a thing " her voice was steady, even thought she was scared shitless about her current situation
"our reports says that you have been approached by some members of said organization, is that true?"
"yes" she was growing paler by the second
"and you did not harm anyone of them, did you?"
"no"
"why is that?"
"the first time one of them approached me I was at the brink of death months ago, my chakra was exhausted because of my duty as a field medic, last time I was in a small town, where if a fight was to happen, the damage to the village and villagers could have been fatal for Konoha´s reputation" Tsunade sighed shaking her head as did Inoichi
"are you willing to lie as to not to risk your Akatsuki partners?"
"I´m not protecting anybody" she hissed, Anko tsk'ed
"Our evidence says otherwise and the informant says that you have been having contact with them for over six months now"
"They have been looking for me for that long, expecting me to join them" her voice was steady
"we found an akatsuki rope in your things" ibiki put it over the table" then, at your place we managed to get a hold of your akatsuki ring, this is the evidence we have of your betrayal" Anko did the same for the ring
"the ring belongs to Akasuna no Sasori and the cloak, is Deidara´s, I do not belong to that criminal organization"
"we found them in your house" stated Inoichi
"I do not own those things"
"then how did they get there in the first place?"
"I don´t know, for the last two weeks I was out on a mission, I do not know anything about these things"
"who was with you during those encounterments?"
"I was alone but…" she didn´t get to finish
"if you don´t mind me interrupting Tsunade-hime, I can not believe what this traitor is telling us, for what I can tell, nobody was with her when the akatsuki approached her, what a coincidence don´t you think?"
"once I wasn't alone" Danzo narrowed his eyes at her
"and who was with you at that time?"
"ANBU Capitan Uchiha Itachi,the one who rat me out isn't he?" they ignored her question
"and what would he be doing near you?"
"I have been asking myself the same thing" said Uchiha appeared at the office, he bowed to the hokage before looking at the pinkette
"report everything you saw Uchiha" the elders gave him the order, he nodded
"Haruno Sakura went to her mission like she said she would, but in the way she was approached by an Akatsuki member, Deidara from Iwa, whose akatsuki cloak was found inside Sakura´s house, then at the town, Hidan the Jashinist approached her like it was a normal thing to do"
"did something happen to Sakura while they approached her?" Danzo smirked in satisfaction when he heard the next statement
"no harm was done to Sakura Haruno while she talked to them" she glared at him, but he could see the emotions on her eyes, hurt, betrayal, pain, sadness and resignation, she lowered her head on defeat
"I think that this little traitor gave them information about the village" the elders nodded at what Danzo said, the other just stared at the girl.
"Haruno Sakura you are found guilty of the crimes of betrayal to your country and village, you are to be removed of your shinobi status and freedom, you are under arrest" the godaime´s voice was hard, the pinkette nodded looking at her shoes, four ANBUs appeared surrendering her, one of them grabed her elbow and dragged her out the office
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A week had passed since the pinkette went under arrest, nobody told team 7 about that, that is till Itachi was assigned to tell his little brother and his blonde friend
"what do you mean Sakura-chan is under arrest? she was on her mission to snow!" yelled the blonde teammate of the pinkette, beside him, Sasuke was glaring daggers to no one in particular, Itachi saw worry on both of their eyes, but kept a calm façade
"she was found guilty of the crime of fraternizing with the criminal organization Akatsuki" he said with a monotone voice, he dodged a hit from the blonde
"that´s false!, she wouldn´t do something like that, you must be wrong, Sakura-chan is innocent!"
"the council…"
"the council just wanted to get rid of her!, they hate her since she became the apprentice of the hokage years ago!"
"dobe…..shut up" they were at the Uchiha compound, on the training area behind the main house, Mikoto Uchiha was watching as her youngest son tried not to look broken, her eyes traveled to the face of Naruto, where she saw tears running free down his cheeks, his eyes loosing their usual shine .
"but…Sakura-chan is all alone on jail"
"shut up"
"we have to take her out, she´s suffering while we talk!"
"I said SHUT UP" Sasuke yelled, Naruto was shocked, just like Mikoto and Itachi, there was a single tear running down Sasuke´s face, and his onyx pools were void of all emotion but hurt, Itachi shifted uncomfortable, he was the reason as to why Haruno Sakura, his little brother and Naruto´s best friend, was in jail
"Sasuke…" his mother began to say, but her son refused to look at her in the eyes
"I will be staying at Sakura´s place for the time being, someone has to pay the bills " he began to walk away followed by his hearth´s brother, Naruto.
"Sasuke…."
"he just needs time, mother" Itachi walked towards the kitchen.
"I know, but i´m worried about them both, Sakura was more than a friend for them, she was like family…. oh god, Kakashi-san must be on the same situation as them, she was like a daughter for him" she said hurriedly before heading inside the house.
Itachi felt like it was all his fault, his beloved foolish little brother was suffering as well as Naruto and Kakashi, lets not forget about the Hokage herself, he knew it was his duty to report those encounterments but seeing at the consequences he wasn´t sure anymore.
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"Cherry-chan!" she was hallucinating, she had to be hallucinating, there´s no way Deidara of the Akatsuki was in front of her cell grinning like a mad man
"pinky, we are here to rescue you" she was drugged, that was the second logical explication her mind came up with, she was seeing Deidara and Kisame just a few meters away from her
"come on cherry, you gotta hurry if you want to escape!" it has to be the side effect of the interrogation she had to undergo at the hands of Ibiki Morino
"no"
"don't be selfish, we came all the way here just to help you, we risked our lives yeah!" exclaimed the blonde
"why thank you, but you are the reason i´m here in the first place, and nobody asked you to come"
"leader asked us to help you"
"it´s his fuckin´ fault I´m in here!" they chuckled amused
"they betrayed you, didn´t believe in you and yet you want to stay in here when you could be free with just saying yes? are you insane?"
"you are one to talk shark-wannabe"
"Deidara, make one of your bombs, we need to destroy those chakra infused bars"
"I said no" she backed away from them
"you are coming with us, it´s your only opportunity to remain alive" stated the blue man with a worried glance
"I´d rather die than go with you"
"cut that "I´d rather die" crap, it´s annoying yeah" the blonde formed his little bombs and put them on the bars, then, they exploded and Kisame dragged her out, the sound of the explosion alerted the guards who came rushing towards her cell
"Let me go!" Sakura yelled. They were already out of the basement of the hokage tower, where Sakura´s cell was, the commotion attracted the attention of all the ninjas on Konoha, and some civilians.
"Sakura-chan!" a voice shouted from the distance, seeing as his best friend, almost sister, was being dragged away from him by a Shark-man and a male copy of Ino, Sasuke who was by his side activated his sharingan, both of them begun to chase the akatsukis and their friend
"Naruto!, Sasuke! " she yelled in response, tears were forming on her eyes, she felt the way she hadn´t felt in years, weak, useless, pathetic. None of the ninjas managed to stop the akatsukis before they exited the village flying on a clay bird.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" yelled the kyuby host seeing his sister disappear at the distance, Kakashi, Asuma, Genma and Iruka were holding him and Sasuke back, Naruto was crying like there was no tomorrow while trying to make them let go of him, Sasuke wore a pained expression still trying to break free, and Kakashi was avoiding eye contact with anyone.
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"Hokage-sama, I dare to say that Haruno Sakura is in fact, an ally of the Akatsuki criminal group, they came all the way here to rescue her, and they knew where her cell was, that´s too good to be a coincidence" Danzo was standing in front of the Godaime´s desk
"Danzo, your concern for the village is remarkable, but I must ask you to leave this situation on my hands for the time being"
"by all means, I´m just a villager who is worried for the security of his village and country"
"we all know that, but I ask you to leave my office for now" the blonde was physically and emotionally tired, her protégé was kidnapped and was made a traitor to the village, tough, she knew there has to be something else, Sakura never took missions where the akatsuki was supposed to be, but Itachi´s report was making her doubt that fact.
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