Okay people, um, Itachi is not in the picture yet. Please note, this story was not copied, I was merely inspired.
Chapter 1
Kisame and Zetsu were returning to the base in Amegakure, having just completed a simple assasination. They had just been contacted by Leader-sama and were to return as quickly as possible. Leader-sama had sounded rather annoyed and had very subtley -not- voiced his displeasure at Kisame.
The ex-Mist nin had no idea as to why the Leader had seemed pissy but decided not to waste anytime. Both he and Zetsu quickened their already extreme pace and hurried back to thebase.
Back at the base...
The squeals of a baby could be heard and the cold Konan apparently had a warm mothery side, albeit still a little colder than normal mothers.
Leader-sama, or Pein, was getting extremely frustrated. This baby had turned up at their doorstep -rocky mountain base front- with nothing more than a basket, a note and way too much chakra for a baby.
All the note had said was that she was to be protected at all costs or that they would pay. Now, on normal occasions, Pein would not pay any attention whatsoever to something as ridiculous as this. But the fact that the baby had turned up at their base - one that not even the top shinobi could find- and had more chakra than Kisame... Worse still, the baby's chakra was multiplying non-stop and was sucking minute amounts of chakra from everybody.
If this were to continue... she, a little baby, would have more chakra than all of the Akatsuki combined, including he, the great leader whose chakra pool was greater than a demons...
He thought that it was possible that she might be related to Kisame... Hell, she had his strength. Earlier... when she was throwing a tantrum... she had pounded the floor with her tiny tiny fists... and had created something akin to an earthquake. All they needed now were giant cracks the size of the grand canyon.
It seemed so impossible for anyone to have power like that. It had taken Tsunade many years to gain inhuman strength... and that only happened because of her excellent chakra control... this baby... she had bare-handedly just struck the floor... without crying at all... and the floor shook.
Stranger still... she... the baby... had soft wavy pink hair and bright green eyes. It was unusual for anyone to have pink hair. He had orange hair... but that was because of his chakra signature... mixed with the power from the Rinnegan... and the fact that his parents were blondes and redheads...
She was still crying... however... Kisame would be arriving soon, as well as Zetsu... he sighed... in all his years... he had never experienced such an anomaly... he was getting a migraine... Those two had better arrive soon. Now... he really needed advice...
"WAAAAAAAHHHHH! !" She wailed once again... the piercing sound hurting his ears. How something that tiny could contain so much volume...
She was still wailing... did her little throat not hurt? "Pein-sama..." It was Konan...
"Hmm?" "Please take a look at this..."
He turned away from the window and walked towards her. She was still carrying the baby... trying to calm her down... she had said that perhaps the baby would need human warmth... he thought that it was because she did not want any more shaking floors. He looked at the baby... she had stopped wailing the moment he had come over.
"Buurhrhrhhhh...Bbbbrrrruuuuu..." She was gurgling now. She was rather adorable. he could understand Konan's need to give the child affection... But still...
Something silvery caught his eye...
Upon the gurgling baby's smooth forehead... he could see a silvery white seal. He moved a little closer to her. Scrutinizing the seal, he noticed how it was shining and glowing.
He could see its shape now. A triangle with the words Haruno Sakura around it... and within the circle... another complex seal... with the kanji himitsu in it. He could not understand it. Why himitsu? It meant secret...
The Haruno's were not a powerful clan... they were more like a merchant type of family. And, the few Haruno's that he came across were either dark-haired or red-headed... He had better get Zetsu to check up on the Harunos... Zetsu, being able to teleport extremely long distances would be very useful at this point of time.
Ah... they have arrived. They had just walked into the rain, signalling that they would arrive very soon.
Zetsu and Kisame were now in Ame... And could already feel the ridiculously large amount of energy that came from the direction of the base. It was sharp... in waves... and was so pure and dark at the same time...
It was not Leader-sama's... in belonged to another... but who? Who could be so powerful?
They were almost there... had almost reached... and then... just as they were about to move the well-hidden rock that covered the entrance...
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH- !"
And they felt a burst of immense chakra... before... the rock broke like glass and Orochimaru came flying out... the blindly white and opaque chakra behind him like a flame pushing him further and further and destroying the rock...
The white flame continued to burn Orochimaru... settling on his neck and chest... his clothes ripped apart...
His screams revealed the agony he felt... and afer what seemed to be eternity... the flame stopped... and.. dispersed into silvery white dust and, like a cloud... and pulled the shards of rock back into place before disappearing...
When all was over... it was like nothig ever happened, before the rock was moved once again by a member inside and out came Leader-sama... with Konan by his side and a baby in her arms...
Wait a minute...
Baby?
Baby...
And the source of great power was coming from it...
And the silvery white dust that just tortured Orochimaru was settling onto the baby before glowing and disappearing once more.
Then... they noticed... a syringe... half-full... of glowng blood lay on the floor... and then... as if the blood were acid... the syringe melted and it was as if it was never there...
Before Kisame and Zetsu arrived...
Goodness... They were almost there... why were they not there yet? They were almost at the entrance... oh...! He decided to walk to the rock that covered the entrance to reprimand them for being late...
Orochimaru had followed them... saying something about wanting to check-up on te baby...
He had ulterior motives... that was definite... He had concealed a syringe in his palm... and when Pein had seen him take blood fom the baby -it was crying and wailing again- he had given the excuse that he will do some tests... but obviously he had tried something.
The baby had been wailing and wailing until... with a piercing shriek... a blinding white chakra filled with purity and darkness shot out of the baby's entire body and threw Orochimaru out...
It was rather amusing really...
And then... the rock broke... the rock that weighs a ton broke... the rock with a seal... broke... And Zetsu and Kisame were revealed with rather... amusing face expressions... and after that... the chakra began to burn Orochimaru... the rock was put together... And he could not put up with it anymore and opened the entrance once again...
They were in the living room now...
"So... she is not your daughter?" His voice sounded amused and angered at the same time...
"NO! Of course not... How did she get here anyway?"
His face was priceless... eyes bulging out like crazy...
"She turned up at our doorstep... with only a note..." replied Konan...
They had tried many things to try to reduce her chakra... heck... they had even tried Samehada... Her chakra had ended up eating it's chakra instead... and Samehada... being upset... decided to eat up half of Kisame's chakra...
Zetsu had been sent to check up on the Haruno's and was not back yet... he would most likely be back by the next day...
And so... the rest of the Akatsuki... would have to be introduced to Haruno Sakura...
Why?
Because although she most definitely was not... an innocent harmless baby... Konan decided to keep her... at least util she was of genin age...
By the next day...
Zetsu had returned... with many injuries... but they were all healing...
His injuries had not been in vain... he had managed to solve part of the mystery of Haruno Sakura.
He recounted his story, detail by detail to Leader-sama and Konan.
He had quickly traveled to most of the hidden villages and had stolen several old scrolls... most of them were at least several decades old.
After a few hours, he had finally discovered something on the Haruno's. It was an unopened letter to the Kage of Tsuchi.
To the Honoured Kage Of Tsuchi,
You have betrayed our trust, you most likely have not read this have you? We put our trust in you and yet you send shinobi to spy on us and to try to take our secrets.
If you do not call of your assasinations of our priestesses and clan members at once, you will regret it.
Revengeful,
Clan Head Of The Harukata,
Mikata Mamoru Megami,
Harukata Meiyo.
He had also found a scroll from Harukata Meiyo to the Kage. It was dated earlier than the letter.
Opening it was a hard task because the seal upon it was so complex... After an arduos two hours... it was finally broken.
The scroll was decorated with black patterns and leaves. Upon it there were the words, A little knowledge of The Haruno's and The Harukata's
We are as old as The Sage Of The Six Paths, and each of us are the decendants of The Goddess of The Three Springs. Our goddess made our three clan creators from her own soul. To teach us of her power, and what her name truly is, Sanza Harusoba.
The three springs stand for three sides. The good... the flowers, the life, the blooming happiness of spring, The bad... the flowers that are picked, the romances that fail... the rain... And The Hidden... that... is a secret.
Following our goddess, we have three parts in ur clan. The pure, The Dark, The Hidden. I am The Hidden, Protector of The Goddess's Secrets. The Pure and The Dark, Yin and Yang. Every two years, The pure and the dark will copulate, and if they have two children, the elder shall be sent to the hidden for training, the younger, will learn the other clan arts.
The Hidden is special. Each of them are speakers of the goddess, they are silver and lavender haired. Some of the rare few are blessed with a seal from the goddess, their true name, and they will take after the goddess.
We do not. All of our surnames are Harukata, we mix the spring in our goddess with the sides of the family.
The rare few will be named Harukata Gami name.
Our goddess is the grey between black and white. In between heaven and hell, she is the divider, the bridge. She is the most powerful. She is perfection.
She watches our realm more than any other god or goddess. She watches generation after generation, century after century, when necessary, should she foresee or know that another generation of shinobi will go haywire, she will bring us another child, a fragment of her soul within that child. Each child she brings is special. They have both darkness and power in them. But the light in them is never forgotten. Their light is subtle but will never be overwhelmed by their darkness. They will not hate. They will love. They will both kill and save. They will restor order among the shiinobi world. When they have done well, our goddess wil reward them with a place beside her in her realm of Bunshu-ki.
Each child she brings is sent to live with the Haruno's. They are the powerles of our clan. Intelligent, they have the surname, 'spring of' because, they still work hard though they have no power, for that, they are blessed by our goddess and are considered as her human children.
Each child will have its own power. To survive, all of them either became shamans or shinobi to protect this world.
Our goddess has already told us, great danger and change will occur in the later generations, when the time comes, she will come to us from The Hidden, and when the next copulating of the two come, she will imbue their child within her own Hidden child wth fragments of soul, so that the child may absorb her never-ending aura that she will give, to be blessed with power so great and powerful, she may protect the entire world without harming herself.
Her name is Himitsu. That is all you are permitted to know.
We fear that there may be war, but the goddess will make sure that we, as a family, never separate. We hide within the Haruno's for people are bound to come and hurt us.
Generation by generation, we train among ourselves, geneation after generation, we each send ten of us throughout the nations to train. However, one day, the goddess shall send only one female, with only her ownself as a guide for the child. This child has more than the fragments of the goddess's soul. She has her goddess's aura and spiritual energy, her soul, is now the childs as well.
This child shall then live among misunderstood but powerful beings. They are human... however... they will help cultivate her darkness. There is no chance at suppressing it.
You may not understand. There is no worry.
Please keep this scroll. If we find out that you have tried to reveal our secrets, our apologies Tsuchikage, this friendship and alliance will end and we will declare war on Tsuchi. We are more than enough to bring down this nation.
Pein looked at the sleeping baby. Himitsu. So that was her. They had truly been described quite accurately. Well then, now that her secret was understood, the new Akatsuki baby was to stay for an undetermined length of time.
She would be trained in many things. Especially the shinobi arts. She would be a powerful asset to their organization.
Little did he know, she would be a real handful.
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