Yes new/redone fic well what can I say I have issues?
~~Kyo~~
Disclaimer: Don't own NARUTO
Chapter one:
" Well this is interesting." Sakura Haruno eighteen year old medic nin and ex- ANBU and missing nin said looking down at Neji Hyuuga and Sasuke Uchiha tangled on the ground fighting about something or another or perhaps they were just having ' fun' she didn't want to know. Sasuke and Neji looked up at the same time to the tiny figure dressed in black and red.
" Sa...Sakura!" Sasuke said choking since Neji's arm was across his neck cutting of his air supply.
" Haruno!" Neji said quickly not releasing the Uchiha because it was his mission to detain the Uchiha after catching him and then bring him back to Konoha.
Sakura Haruno had left the village after realizing she was sick of being played. She had become ANBU and the top Medic in the village perhaps in the entire fire nation, but no one ever took her seriously. She finally had enough and left. No one had dared come after her with the note she left about going to train to get stronger and if they came after her she would join Akatsuki. They wisely did not follow. That was two years ago.
Not much had changed with her. She still had that soft pink hair that now flowed down her back like silk come to life. Still had bright jade eyes that even though were slightly hardened and serious were still the same beautiful shade with the same long black lashes.
She had not grown taller but her chest had grown and her hips as well though those were perverted things neither men should have noticed as Neji pulled the Uchiha to his feet while still detaining him. She was stunningly beautiful with dark eyes that looked much to much like someone who saw things never meant to be seen, like death.
Neji wondered if in the time she had been a rouge what she did with her life out here, if she did get stronger, and if she had joined Akatsuki like she threatened. They had heard a year ago that the Akatsuki wanted her to join. They all hoped she wouldn't agree but they had ways to force you to join.
Sakura eyed the two men, she shook her head.
" You know I was going to go this direction, but since I was interrupted in my travels I will just go else where." Sakura said turning on here heel with out so much as a ' hey Neji and or Sasuke how you doing?' Neji made a face. Like they hadn't spent hours upon hours training together being partners and not even a hello after all this time?
Sasuke blanched. Seriously what happened to her? Why was she out here alone? Was she on a mission? Holy sh...Was her head band crossed out?
" Oi Sakura Wait!" Sasuke said as she walked off she paused and looked back at them both with a raised pink brow.
" What? I . Am . Busy." She said coldly. She had no time for old flames, or childhood dreams, that Sakura Haruno died a long time ago.
" What happened? Why did you leave the village? Naruto?" He asked as Neji stiffened. She lowered her lashes but not her eyes. Those eyes were dark.
" He's married happy, has kids now." She said and shrugged. Sasuke frowned Naruto married? Kids? WTF was going on?
" Now if you'll excuse me." Sakura said but was cut off.
" Sakura come back to us. Come back to the village we need you. The village is in a mess." Neji begged which he didn't do often. She had longed to hear those words once upon a time but two years was just a little too late.
" I'm late." She said and promptly disappeared to Sasuke's surprised and Neji's disappointment.
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Sakura ran a hand though her messy hair as she landed in front of the inn she was spending the night in before she moved on again. It had been like that for years. Place after place. Town after town. Village after village. She sometimes took assassination's just for the trill of it.
Being a rouge you had no missions assigned unless you were willing to kill for the highest bidder. Sometimes she killed the person assigned sometimes she killed the person who assigned it. What ever floated her boat. She had to be hard in this world. The village people in her home town were sheltered they didn't know what a hard life was in the village. They wouldn't last a second in the real world out here. She adapted and look where it got her. Little to no morals left and her medic hands stained with lives taken by her hands.
She was far from proud but she had to be who she had to be to make a living or die in the crossfire.
She walked into the inn and went to her room which was not empty when she entered it. She however was not alarmed by the person waiting for her nor the two others the one in the bathroom nor the one next door.
" I saw your brother today Itachi." Sakura said stripping her bloodied shirt. She had been late for a contract and the person she had to kill had not been killed so she had to find the contractor instead. It was Sasuke and Neji's fault for making her late. The wrap covering her breast barely held on as she unwrapped it. She had Itachi's attention who had been looking out the window, now his eyes onyx as night locked onto her. Eye brow raised.
" Did you? Is that why your late?" She scoffed as she looked to the bathroom and heard the running water like she didn't need a shower enough now it was going to be cold since that blond prema-donna had to shower every hour to keep his ' lush ' hair from trying out.
Itachi tossed her a wet wash cloth, who knew where he got or what he was doing with, but she took it gratefully. She just needed to get the blood off for now. At least most of it. She wasn't in the least bit shy being naked from the waist up in front of anyone anymore let alone Itachi. She'd worked along him for a while now. If you couldn't get naked with your partners who could you get naked with? ( O.O)
" Leader is not going to be happy if we are late again tonight Sakura." She frowned and made a face.
" Like it was my fault last month?" She said wiping blood off her skin then tossing him the bloodied wash cloth back he caught it one handed and she walked to her pack that was on the floor next to her Akatsuki cloak. It wasn't like she was a full member anyway. She figured it was easier to run with Akatsuki then from them.
" So what was my little brother doing?" Itachi asked as she dressed and sat on the bed brushing out her tangled hair. He stood in a huff and sat behind her taking her hair and brushing it out for her. She just ended up pulling it and ripping hair out. It angered him how she treated such beautiful unique hair like trash.
" The usual, making people wonder about his sexuality." Itachi tisked and shook his head.
" Who with now?" He asked in return as they heard the shower stop and a curse follow from the bathroom.
" Hyuuga from Konoha. You would think he would learn to just kill who he's fighting not get in awkward positions with them." Itachi smirked as he tied her hair back like his was. She thanked him with a absent nod
" Anyway... Hyuuga asked me to go back to the village." She said shrugging, Itachi nodded.
" It makes sense they have yet to know you are one of us now, and they know you have gained great power." She shrugged as if not caring, but agreeing.
She turned to face him. She linked her hand with his. Itachi looked down at their hands and sighed.
" What do you think Itachi?" She asked raising their hands to look at them while also looking into his eyes, jade and onyx with their hands intertwined between them.
" Do you want to go back?" He asked. She stared into those eyes.
" No, but you know leader will take any chance he can, with Tobi gone and Pein ruling the organization we're basically assigned killers. Akatsuki lost a lot of members. Sasori I killed myself, Kisame was killed last year, Kakazu is gone as well as Konan and Zetsu." Itachi nodded. Only few remained.
" Pein wants a home to return to." Itachi said. Sakura snorted.
" This isn't a home. This isn't a family. We're just a bunch of people to stubborn to play house with our old villages." Itachi smirked slightly, he squeezed her hand then removed his hand from hers.
" He will send you to your village." She rolled her eyes.
" He will, but it doesn't mean I have to go." Itachi shook his head amused.
" What will you do when you go back Sakura?" Itachi asked with his eyes pointed to the outside world as rain started to fall washing away the blood of the day.
" Who knows. I don't want to go back at all. They will most likely put me on hospital duty. Who knows if they will trust me. If they are smart they won't." Itachi smirked and ran a hand through his bangs.
" Who knows." He agreed.
The bathroom door opened and Deidara walked out dressed and clean. She frowned at him.
" It's time to leave and I didn't even get a shower." Deidara shrugged drying his long blond hair casually before he was tackled and Sakura ah a kunai in one hand and his hair in the other.
" I'll cut it." She said and Itachi sighed and Deidara started screaming bloody murder.
" NOT THE HAIR!YEAH!" Deidara yelled cursing her and trying to throw her off.
" FOR JASHIN SAKE ITACHI DEAL WITH THE F-ING CHILDREN!" Hidan shouted slamming the door open. Sakura paused and Deidara froze. Itachi sighed again.
" Lets go already why are you guys holding us up?" Sakura asked standing as if nothing happened and blamed everything on Deidara and the rest.
" Oh I don't think so you F-ing pink haired slut." Hidan grabbed her by the arm and hauled her over his shoulder. She made a face as he found some blood on her arm she missed and licked it off.
" You sick Sadist prick. I'll curse you and your Jashin-sama." Itachi shook his head. Couldn't any one ever get along?
" I'll have fun playing with you later." Hidan said slapping her on the rear. She cursed him and he just laughed. Itachi stiffened at Hidan slapping her like that. Deidara set a hand on his shoulder.
" Let's go. Yeah." Which meant ' let it go' really.
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The cave they went to was as dark and damp as any cave would be. The hallo-graham-ed (?) figure eyed his members. He sighed as he saw the scratches and bruises across Hidan's face and arms, the blood running down his leg with the kunai actually still lodged in the wound, Sakura over his shoulder in an undignified position. Deidara stoking his hair and muttering some sort of words to it as if it were a pet not hair, and Itachi with Sharingan activated glaring dangerously at the Immortal of Akatsuki.
God he was the leader of a bunch of freaking children.
" Leader this has to stop." Sakura said wiggling free of Hidan's grip only by kicking the kunai in further. He groaned but not because it hurt. Freaking sadist masochist. She dropped to her feet brushing the dirt off herself and smoothing out wrinkles. Pein eyed her.
" I don't so much mind wondering aimlessly looking for work to live or anything, but with this sadist and this moron," She pointed to Hidan then Deidara. Hidan paid no attention and Deidara ignored her. " I hate to say this but we are losing more business then we are gaining. I know you want us to settle down, maybe even separate as a group." She said and Pein nodded hesitantly and took over speaking.
" Your correct, with no real idea in form for this organization, it would be wise to return to our old villages, if possible, or find a place to live out our lives. As much as we all dislike being controlled by a village it is the best way, though I will not force you to leave to your own villages, I will not let you stay here." Here, Sakura guessed being in Akatsuki which was being dismissed.
Sakura looked back at Itachi. He looked into those jade eyes and nodded. If she would return so would he, though she knew they could very well just settle in another village. Konoha didn't have to be their only choice.
" Where will you go Pein?" Sakura asked not even caring where the Sadist and blond moron went or did with themselves. She had a few things she'd like to say to those idiots, but didn't. Pein sighed again which he had done more so once Konan was killed.
" Join you in Konoha perhaps?" She frowned. If Pein wanted to go to Konoha she would then have to go along as well, which meant she was stuck going there. She sighed this time and nodded.
" From here on out Akatsuki is dis-banded." Pein said as he looked to the other member then back to Sakura and Itachi.
" I will meet the two of you a days journey from Konoha." And the figure disappeared. Deidara finally getting his attention on the here and now not his hair, spoke up.
" I don't think I can return to Stone, I'll have to go back to being a bomber for hire. Yeah." Sakura nodded at the blonds decision. She looked to Hidan unsure she even cared where he would go. He locked violet eyes with her and shrugged.
" I'm not good with the whole play house thing pink haired slut. I'll just go where ever for Jashin-sama." Sakura raised an eyebrow. Wow except for the slut comment that was the cleanest thing he had ever said since she had known him.
" Listen Akatsuki may be splitting up, but in case of emergency, I want you two to keep in contact. You know this place and if need be we'll all meet here in a year or so. If not killed or other wise imprisoned by then." Hidan looked doubtful but shrugged. Deidara nodded. Itachi touched her shoulder softly, she nodded and then they left the cave.
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" Do you think they'll kill us both on sight?" Sakura asked Itachi nonchalantly as they made their way to the point where Pein would be waiting then make their way to Konoha. Itachi glanced over at her.
Other then her headband being scratched out, she didn't look like she had been in Akatsuki, though bringing Pein and Itachi back with her would sort of give that indication away. He wondered if ditching their Cloaks would do any good, though figured they would anyway. Itachi suddenly paused to remove his cloak and stuff it into his bag. She raised an eyebrow. He shrugged.
" That's so not going to make a difference." She said as they started again leaping from tree to tree on their way to Konoha.
" Maybe not, but it may." She shrugged it wouldn't but perhaps it wouldn't make them seem like their going to attack right on, or get them killed on sight.
" I doubt they will kill you on sight, and they may kill me, though they were well could just lock us both up. Regardless of you betraying them I do not think they will kill you Sakura." She nodded. She didn't think they would either, but locking her up they would.
" Do you really think they'll let us peacefully live in the village?" Sakura asked her companion. He laughed softly.
" Well living at all is still a question, and peacefully certainly not, but as for being let to stay.. It would all depend on what we have to offer." She smirked.
" How about the resurrection of the most powerful clan?" Sakura asked. Itachi looked over at her. She had that devious -I have-a-plan-look on her face.
" They would not need me for that Sakura they have Sasuke." She chuckled and Itachi frowned. He never could understand her mind.
" Yes well we'll just have to give them a reason to not need Sasuke, but you won't we?" He glanced at her again frowning.
" I had thought you were fond of my little brother." She looked over at him this time a little confused, then she understood and smirked.
" I'm not taking about killing him. I'm just saying what if you were the only choice for another clan of Uchiha?" He looked to think about that silently for a while.
" What do you have in mind?" She grinned deviously and he had to wonder if this was a good idea or not.
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Pein looked doubtful when told the plan to keep Itachi alive as well as perhaps keep himself out of jail. Pein had to say he wasn't fond of jail. Though he wasn't sure how building a clan for Konoha to have his kekki genkai was what he had in mind either.
" Listen with both kekki genkai as powerful as they are, to have the village in control of both the village would be not be one to be messed with. Tsunade would not pass up this chance." Itachi had to agree with that even if he didn't know the current Hokage as well as Sakura herself did. He knew no leader would pass up so much power for such little in return. To stay out of jail and live there like a civilian. Pein and Itachi and even Sakura herself would not be trusted, but maybe they would be allowed to be Shinobi for the village, even if only assassins?
Pein knew it was the only choice he had left and accepted Sakura's proposal.
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Konoha's gates came into view and so far no one to stop them. Sakura grew uneasy at that news. Then suddenly three ANBU appeared in front of them. She knew who they were by hair alone. Neji, Shikamaru, and Naruto. Sakura stepped forward in front of the two ex-Akatsuki and waited for one to speak.
" Why have you come back Sakura? Does it have to do with handing in two Akatsuki?" Neji asked. She shook her head.
" No. They are ex-Akatsuki that origination is no more. We're here to make a proposition to the Hokage." Neji was silent but Naruto wasn't of course. Though he wasn't his usual loud self either but people change.
" What do you have in mind Sakura-chan? Teme is already back in the village." Naruto said.
" And using his older brother as leeway to stay in the village isn't going to help. Sasuke can rebuild the clan without the help of his elder brother." Shikamaru added speaking up. Sakura smirked.
" I beg to differ. If you will allow me to speak with the Hokage I am sure she will see what I have in mind." Sakura said. Neji sighed.
" Naruto." He said. He knew very well Sakura knew who they were no use for code names. Naruto nodded and disappeared.
" You'll be detained until the Hokage says otherwise." Neji said. Sakura stiffened, but nodded. Shikamaru tied Pein and Itachi together while he tied Sakura up separately. Then Neji took a hold of her arm and Shikamaru Itachi and Pein and they were transported to the prison, underground.
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Tsunade made a face at the taste of the tea she was forced to drink. No Sake while doing paperwork, but paperwork was almost all she did so that meant no Sake ever when working. It was pure hell. She heard a slight sound and then an ANBU she recognized as Naruto dropped into her office. He knelt and she nodded for him to speak.
" Uchiha Itachi, the ex-leader of Akatsuki, and Sakura-chan are here. They came here willingly and are being held in the prison." Naruto reported calmly. Tsunade's eyes bugged, what a time not to have Sake.
" What do they want?" Tsunade asked in return knowing for sure now, that Sakura had joined Akatsuki and betrayed them.
" Sakura-chan says she needs to talk to you about a proposition." He relayed. Tsunade nodded.
" Take me there."
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Well this certainly wasn't the home coming she had thought.
Sakura sat on a chair in an interrogation room her hands bound in chakra ropes. She was still in the under ground prison she knew just a different part. She was sure Shikamaru had taken Itachi and Pein off to a cell while she spoke alone with Tsunade. She knew this would work, she just wondered how long it would take for Tsunade to make that decision. How long she would be in prison, and away from Itachi and Pein.
End chapter one:
Yep I decided to redo this fic simply because I had no idea where to go from where I wrote it, and so here's the idea I had and decided to redo it differently. Hope you like it and all that ne?
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~~Kyo~~