Title: The Sacrifice
Author: Fukyuu no Tenshi
Pairing: Naruto x Sakura
Summary: A mere servant girl in her village and shunned by it inhabitants, Sakura Haruno is sacrificed to the great demon lord Naruto when his wrath is incurred. Upon meeting, things go from bad to worse.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
(A/N: Don't read this if you don't like NaruSaku works.)
Chapter 1
"Are you absolutely sure her parents are dead, those bloody beasts are hard to get rid of." a huddle figure in black whispered worriedly. "Yes, the mother died giving birth, the father was killed off by our villagers." Another figure whispered back, this time dressed in casual peasants clothing.
"Good. It is best if no one from her past remains, it will be perfect; her powers will never develop if she does not come along one of her own."
"Are you sure, you know, you can properly seal it off?"
"Yes, it will be hard, but I can do it. Her parents were strong, so her powers are probably strong as well. Stand back now."
The peasant ran back to the village as the figure dressed in black pulled down her hood. You could tell by just looking that it was an old lady, her eyes were beady and she held a look of wisdom about her.
"Be gone, beast."
With one last look, the old woman held her fingers together and formed a triangle, she started to chant under her breath as a tiny baby placed in the middle of the altar began to glow blue. In a flash everything was over. The old lady was no longer there, she had given her life to seal away the tiny baby's powers, with no regrets at all.
The small baby continued to wriggle and cry as she flailed her arms, a tattoo burning itself upon her skin.
It was the mark of a beast.
17 years later, in the village of Konoha…
"Look, there's the monster girl!" one girl cried as the rest huddled around her to protect themselves against the so called 'monster'
"Stop calling me that!" a teenage girl cried angrily, after seventeen years of shunning and hate, she could never understand why in the world everyone was being so mean to her.
Had she done something wrong? Like maybe take something she wasn't supposed to? "No! Mommy says you're a monster! Leave us alone!" feeling more courageous, the group of kids gathered rocks and started to throw them at her.
"Hey, you brats, cut that out!"
The pink-haired teen began to chase after them, unaware of the angry looks she was getting. After another five minutes of chasing, one girl ran off to get her father and came back with a burly looking man.
"Are you picking on my daughter?"
"More like she was picking on me!" the girl cried angrily, the man shook his head. "You need to learn your place girl." Some other 'concerned parents' gathered around and started to beat Sakura.
When they were finally satisfied, they left the bloody heap alone, not even caring if she was badly hurt or not.
"Argh. Damn." The girl gathered herself and marched off to finish her work, she was used to this kind of attention, it happened almost daily, since she had no parents, no one would look after her.
She lived at an abandoned shack on the far side of the village, she worked for the manager of Ichiraku, he was fairly nice to her, but he didn't pay her much.
It was enough though, just having someone who didn't hate her like she belonged in hell.
As she finally neared the ramen restaurant, she was shot more dirty looks from the customers. "Sakura, I need you to go to the well and fetch some more water."
The girl known as Sakura nodded and grabbed a couple of pails; she headed to the edge of the forest and started on gathering water at the well. Once both pails were full she started off for the village once more.
She spotted a boy who was about her age along the way, his name was Sasuke Uchiha, he didn't have any family like her, but he treated her no better than anyone else did, he didn't beat her at all or anything, he just seemed to ignore her.
Secretly she had a crush on him, but she could never tell him that, he would never like her.
"Hello, Sasuke."
"Hn." He sneered and looked the other way.
Sakura sighed and continued on her path.
When she reached to center of the village, she noticed that people were gathering around something, being the always curious one, she approached with caution, careful not to get caught.
The village boys seemed to have caught something big while hunting, it looked human but it had bat wings.
"See! Look, we caught one of them."
Sakura didn't know what they meant by them, but suddenly a village elder shuddered. "Do you know what you did! Look at his crest; he is obviously one of his men, now you have done it. And all of us have hell to pay."
"Relax pops, it's only one."
"Only one? Do you know what he will do to us? Do you?"
The gathered villagers all shuddered and gasped. Suddenly the boy paled.
"I-I I didn't know."
"Of course!" the villagers again shuddered, they were obviously very scared, not being to take it any longer, Sakura spoke up again.
"What are you talking about?"
Everyone turned away from her and walked away, they shot her glares as they passed and sneered at her.
"Argh! Why does this always happen to me?"
Day after day, the village seemed to tense more and more, they were waiting for something Sakura could not understand, and it infuriated her to no end.
Day after day, she found herself wondering what they were talking about when they were discussing the thing the boys had caught, but even though she tried to ask everyone, they turned away and left.
A couple days after the incident, while she was out getting more water and trying to say hello to Sasuke, something happened, a village civilian ran to her and dragged her away, making her drop her pails.
"Hey!"
She screamed in outrage, but they didn't seem to hear.
"He's here. Come along. Hurry up. He's here! He's here!"
As they approached the center of the village again, Sakura shuddered there was something…powerful about, even she who had no training as a ninja could feel it, it felt so, so powerful.
Just powerful…
Approaching the clearing, everyone in her path stepped away, she was being treated as though not to be touched or she could kill them all.
When she reached the center, she saw it, or rather him.
He was a fairly human looking thing, he had no wings, but there were to orange appendages atop his head, his eyes were red and there were claws and fangs instead of fingernails and normal sized teeth.
Sakura then realized it; the person standing in the middle of the village was the one who contained all the power. Sakura shuddered again.
"You have killed one of my men." The person began, his eyes seemed to get redder and fiercer, although he was just as tall as some of the village men (about more than 6 feet) they all seemed smaller than him.
"Please, please! The boys did not know!"
One of the villagers bowed hurriedly and pleaded for forgiveness, everyone did the same except Sakura; she still didn't know what was happening.
Then noticing that she was in a different position than the elders for the first time, Sakura turned to face the person with fox ears; they're eyes met for the promptest of moments before the person smirked.
"Very well, I will generously assume they were stupid. Don't let it happen next time."
All the villagers seemed surprised, and so did Sakura, the person looked so angry before, but now he seemed almost…happy.
"But I will require payment."
The person stated finally, his eyes were dulling to a much less fiercer red and finally they turned blue, his nails turned back to normal size and his teeth as well, though they were still pointed.
"Anything, We have food money – "
"I don't need your human things. I want her."
He pointed a finger at Sakura; she gasped and walked back a few steps, but was grasped by the other villagers and thrust forward.
"You can have her!"
The man snorted. "It always sickened me how easily you would sacrifice another for your own lives…"
Then he grabbed Sakura and slung her over his shoulder.
"What? Wait - no! Lemme go! You traitors!" Sakura continued to thrash as the villagers held their stoic faces.
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