DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto, neither do I own the soundtrack music. I only own the plot.
WARNINGS: This site doesn't have MA rating in the system. As such, I'm warning beforehand - this story contains explicit language and adult themes. If you're a minor, I advise you not to read it.
A/N: This is a repost of an old story I decided to rewrite. Please review, because without your feedback, I can't know if the story is good or if it sucks. Also, it helps a lot with motivation.
SOUNDTRACK: Mumford and Sons - The Enemy
Prologue
Sakura dived into the lake again. The cold water didn't bother her much for it had been a hot day. Opening her green eyes under the translucent liquid, she could see small fishes swimming around her. One of them brushed her right leg slightly and she giggled.
She swam back and forth with the fishes, emerging only when her lungs pleaded for oxygen. Shivering from the breeze that passed through her naked body, the woman admired the scenery.
She was surrounded by a dense forest with thick trees and turquoise water that descended graciously from the waterfall not far from her. A red light coming from the sunset created a halo in the woods, giving the place an enchanted aspect. The whole frame seemed to be taken from a fairytale book.
Sakura was somewhere in the Land of Rivers, though she didn't know exactly where. She found an old, abandoned, wood cabin near the waterfall she was currently in. She actually meant to go to a hot springs in Suna, but something about that place claimed her attention.
She didn't even want to take this vacation, for she had been so busy at the hospital. Tsunade-sama was the one who insisted - more like demanded - that the kunoichi should take a break when she passed out from exhaustion after two days without sleep. But now, she was glad she did.
Closing her eyes, she breathed in the strong scent of earth and wood.
That's when another smell invaded her nostrils.
Iron.
Sakura opened her eyes right away, knowing exactly what that smell meant.
Blood.
She scanned the area, searching for its source. Turning around, she realized that the water, which was supposed to be of a nearly transparent blue, was slightly tainted in red. Following the alarming color, Sakura saw a body lying on the shore not far from her. She swam towards the bleeding person, medic sight already analyzing every single wound.
But as she got closer, her eyes widened.
It was a man.
But not any man.
There, bloodied, half conscious, with a large gash on the chest and uncountable other wounds, laid no one less than Uchiha Itachi.
With one of his arms inside the water, he tried to wash the wound while fighting to stay awake. The man pulled out a kunai as soon as he saw her, and threw in her direction. The kunai landed on a stone, about inches from her arm.
Sakura yelped.
If he wasn't in the verge of death, that kunai would've probably landed on her throat. Still, closing his dark obsidian eyes, exhaustion claimed him.
And with that, Sakura was left with a hard choice to make. As a kunoichi and as Sasuke's friend, she was supposed to let him die. As a medic and as human, she was supposed to save him.
Life was quickly running out of his body while she stood frozen in place. The water seemed to drop ten degrees, numbing her body. She took her arms out of water, lifting herself enough to touch him but not enough to show her nakedness. She brought her shaking hands to his torso but stopped dead in her tracks.
What was she doing?
That was Uchiha Itachi, S-ranked rogue ninja, murderer of the Uchiha clan, traitor of the Hidden Leaf Village, member of Akatsuki, one of the most searched criminal in the world.
And a human.
To save or to kill, Sakura wondered.