Hello, this is my first fanfic ever, and I speak Spanish, then: why I am I doing this? Because I want to improve my English and I think (and hope) this will help.

This story goes with the manga, it's somewhere between when Sasuke killed Itachi, talks with Madara, and Naruto is informed of Jiraiya's death, by the frog whose name I think was Fukasaku (inform me if I'm wrong), from that point, everything was made up by me.

Now, as I already told you I'm doing this to improve my English, so: if you like my story please review, if you see any grammar errors, please tell me, I welcome criticism as well. Now with the story:

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Thoughts

(AN: Author note)

It was a beautiful day in Konoha, the Sun was shining in the sky, the flowers were blooming, the birds singing and the people were starting to get out of their houses to start a new day, everything was peaceful…

-SAAAKURAAAAA-CHAAAAAAN!! OOOOOOOW!!- Too peaceful to last, the owner of the voice, a sixteen years old blonde boy, known as the number one hyperactive ninja made his entrance to the Yamanaka's Flower Shop, only to be greeted with a beautiful flying flower arrangement, made only ten minutes ago by Ino Yamanaka herself, courtesy of their best friend, a pissed pink haired girl, apprentice of the Hokage and well known for her extremely bad-temper.

-Naruto!! Why must you do that every time, my ears function well I can hear you, you know? – yelled Sakura.

-B-but Sakura-chan I only wanted to show you how happy I was - said Naruto, as an excuse for waking up the entire Fire country -, anyway baa-chan wants to see you.

-What? This was supposed to be my day off! Well anyways thanks Naruto, I'll be going after I go see my parents, bye Ino.

-Bye forehead!

-Um…well I'll be going too…bye Ino!- said Naruto.

-Hey! Where do you think you are going? You owe me $20 for the flying vase and you have to clean up the mess you left – said Ino while she gave Naruto a broom – I want all of this clean, got it?

-But! - tried to protest the boy.

-NOW!

- Awwww…maaan.

The Hokage office, the place where the most important person of the village was, the place where important decisions were made, the place where we could see a woman working hard for her village, fighting against all the paperwork that kept arriving everyday, while the Hokage was happily looking at her do her work.

-Hurry up Shizune! - ordered the Hokage.

-Isn't your turn now, Tsunade-sama? I thought we were going to switch each hour…

-Are you defying the Hokage?

-N-no, but Tsunade-sama! - Shizune sighed, why did she always have to end up doing all the work?

-Good then – but the legendary sucker was interrupted when someone knocked- come in.

-Tsunade-sama, you called? –asked Sakura, entering the room- oh, hi Shizune, why are you doing the paperwork?

-It's not like I have a choice Sakura-chan – sighed Shizune.

-Anyway Sakura – interrupted the Hokage, before Sakura and Shizune would accuse her of slavery- I have a "B" ranked mission for you, you have been called from the mist village to help the son of an important family there, they requested you specifically.

-Okay, when do I leave?

-It'd be better if you leave tomorrow the trip should take you a day at least, so you should rest today, Sakura, please be careful – started Tsunade, since Sakura's parents had died three years ago (AN: that would be during the time skip before Shippuden), Sakura had moved with her and Shizune, and the three of them had formed a little family, with Tsunade being the mother (or grandma Naruto says) and Shizune being the older sister -, I don't like the fact that they requested only you, I know you are the one of the best medic ninja in the village, besides Shizune and myself, and I know that just as Naruto has surpassed Jiraiya, you have surpassed me in fighting ability, but, there's something about this I don't like, so…

-Don't worry Tsunade-sama, I'll be fine and I'll come back, after all what would the village do if no one can control Naruto hyperactivity?- said Sakura with a smile to assure Tsunade that she would be okay- well I'm going, bye, Tsunade-sama, Shizune.-And with that she left.

The next morning Naruto awoke with a thud when someone, or something, threw him off his bed. When he was finally able to get up, now almost completely awake he realized what had happened.

-Hey, who is it? What do you want? - asked to no one, looking everywhere to see who had pushed him, until he felt a tug in his shirt.

-Look down, idiot –came a voice.

-You are…um…what was your name again? – asked Naruto looking down at the old frog.

-You are hopeless kid, my name is Fukasaku (AN: the frog that trained Jiraiya and Naruto and taught them Sage mode), and I came for you…time is over Naruto, we must start now if we want to win this war, we'll talk with Tsunade tomorrow, the you can go and say goodbye to your friends, we'll leave the next day.

Sakura was running trough the forest as fast as her legs would let her. She didn't know why, but even she couldn't feel any presences near, she had the feeling something was waiting for her. She found her answer waiting for her three hours later, near the exit of the forest, when the gates of the Mist Villages were no more than five miles away, she stopped when she saw someone standing in her path. When she finally realized who was the person in front of her she could not believe her eyes. Right in front of her was no other than the responsible of the Uchiha massacre and member of akatsuki, or former member since the last Sakura had heard he had finally died in his little brother's hands.

However no he was standing in front of her, no longer wearing his Akatsuki cloak, but a simple black one. Getting out of her daze she immediately took a defensive stance and confronted him.

-Itachi Uchiha? But you were…

-Dead? – interrupted Itachi.

-Yes, Sasuke…

-Haruno Sakura, isn't it? - cut again the Uchiha, indifference in his voice, it sounded like he didn't care at all if Sakura was listening or not- Sasuke ex-teammate and Tsunade's Apprentice, though you already surpassed her didn't you?

-How do you know that? What do you want? How are you still…? - started Sakura, she had so many questions, however Itachi ended the phrase for her.

-Alive? That's none of your concern however I might tell you if you agree to come with me, I just want to talk, the mission that was given to you was fake, I sent it to get you out of the village, I wanted to…

-Cut the crap, there's no way I'm coming with you - this time, Sakura was the one who stopped the Uchiha, she was starting to get mad, just who did he think he was? -, how can I know that it's really you, we went after Sasuke when we knew that his fight with you had ended with you dead, we heard it from an Akatsuki member that saw your fight so…

-Kunoichi, did you find my body? – inquired Itachi.

-N…

-Well here it is talking to you, does it looks dead? - asked him, sarcasm evident in his voice.

-Stop interrupting me! I have to say I'm impressed, being an Uchiha and a killer you sure talk a lot.

-Hn

Sakura couldn't help but give a pained smile, for a second it was like Sasuke was the one before her.

-Did you know that's like Sasuke's favorite phrase?
-I'm his brother of course I know- was Itachi simple reply.

-Then why didn't you act like one?

The next thing Sakura knew, the older Uchiha had her pinned against a tree, and with a kunai in her neck. His eyes were narrowed and the next time he spoke his voice was filled with anger.

-I have my own reasons for doing what I did, if you think that I like the way Sasuke is now you are wrong,- then he released her and looked away, what he was going to say next wasn't easy for him- that's why I'm here, I need your help…

-What? Itachi Uchiha can't deal with his little brother by himself?- Sakura could not believe her ears, he was asking her for help?- Hey, you really are losing your…

-I'm dying.

-What? - Yeah, what? Did she just hear that? Now she was surprised but not for the fact that he was dying, but the tone he had used, he sounded so…defeated?

-I'll be dead in year or so, if I'm lucky, that's why I need to train someone, a person able to stop the sharingan…and the rinnegan if Naruto-kun failed –said Itachi waiting for her response.

-And what makes you think that I would be able to do that, if Naruto can't defeat Sasuke or the leader of Akatsuki then no one can, he's way more powerful that any ninja of my group and he has the Kyubi, I have…

-Nothing, that's why you should be able to stop any bloodline, your chakra is completely pure, besides you have almost perfect chakra control, you should be able to fulfill our expectations.

-Our? You are…not alone in this? Who are the others? - inquired Sakura, fearing the rest of Akatsuki was in this, maybe they didn't want Pein, the one with the Rinnegan, as their leader so they wanted to bring him down and Sasuke could be a threat to them since they were in the same organization as Itachi, so maybe Sasuke would go for them too. Then Itachi spoke.

-No one from Akatsuki I can assure you, the person who is helping me doesn't belong to any village now, and no, she isn't a criminal either.

-Hey I didn't say I was going to help you, did I? So stop telling me your plans as if I'm going to help you to do whatever you want me to. I won't go against Sasuke at least I really have to I want to bring him back to the village, not kill him or anything.

-I never said I wanted him dead, I want to stop him from destroying the only things that are left for him.

-What do you mean? – inquired Sakura, was Sasuke planning something?

-You didn't know? –asked Itachi, but he didn't wait for a reply, he already knew Konoha had no idea about what the Akatsuki and Sasuke were planning- He is working with Pein now and they are planning to destroy the leaf village and get the Kyubi .

-What? Why? He has no reasons to…- Now Sakura was worried, what was he talking about, she knew that Sasuke had never give much thoughts about what was he going to do after killing his brother and getting his revenge, however, destroying Konoha? Yeah, right and Naruto wanted to take over the world after becoming Hokage.

-If you decide to help me I'll tell you everything. Here – Said the Uchiha as he tossed a small envelope to the girl who almost let it fall – that's for the Hokage, it says you completed your mission successfully, looks like you'll get paid for doing nothing at all – explained the man with a ironic smile but then turned serious again -. About my little plan, I'll give you a week to think about it, now it would be better if you returned to your village, you've got nothing to do here- he said pointing the direction that lead to the gates of the Mist Village.

-Uh? Wait! - Too late the older Uchiha was already gone. Leaving a very worried Sakura, with a lot of questions behind.

Somewhere else, in a room illuminated by torches, a small group was having a little discussion.

-How much time do you plan to wait? - A dark haired teen, whose black eyes were narrowed and showed annoyance, questioned.

-A year at least Sasuke, but if you want you can go tomorrow with your team and die, but I won't risk what's left of Akatsuki for a kid who thinks he can take a whole village alone. - said a man with a orange mask, that only left his right eye to be seen, and from there it had a swirling pattern on it, he was dressed in an Akatsuki robe and the only other part of his body to be seen was his spiky black hair.

-Hn, a year? That's too much time, what are we supposed to do in the meantime? – asked Sasuke.

-Well, you and your team could use that time to train, as for us we could try to find some "allies" so it's easier for us to bring Konoha down, of course they will be trained for us also, that's what we will be spending our time on. Of course if you can get us some help in finding people it would be better. – Said Tobi, who had recently revealed himself to be Madara Uchiha, one of the founder of the village they wanted to take down now, and creator of Akatsuki.

-Hn, whatever, I guess we'll wait. - with that the young Uchiha left the room- I guess this isn't what you wanted brother, but I can't let the elders and all the people who knew about the mission get away with it, just to be sure nothing would happen they killed our family, now I'll make them feel our pain.

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