Hey guys! This is my first fic! FANFIC IS BEING STUPID AND WON'T LET ME EDIT THE ORIGINAL... Therefore this is the actual story. Ignor the one title Sakura the Akatsuki, I can't edit it at all, delete it or anything... so ya... PLEASE ENJOY! XD
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Chapter One-Not Our Sakura
She smiles darkly as she watches the scene bellow her, double checking her chakra, making sure it is fully repressed. The irony of the debate going on 30 feet below her is hysterical in itself. Not that she felt very much like laughing.
A blond male, around 24 years old, stands in the center of the clearing arguing animatedly with his ANBU team. The other three members are standing in a semi-circle facing him. He is getting more and more animated by the second. He is obviously distressed with their reactions.
"I'm sure I saw her!" he says loudly flailing his arms. "She was across the street walking in this direction!" She knew he'd seen her. In fact that was the whole point. She knew he just couldn't resist following her, if it meant the chance to convince her to come back. Her smile widens at the thought briefly, then disappears altogether.
"Naruto, I think you were just imagining it." one of his teammates, a female with long dark hair and pearl colored eyes interjects shyly, "I mean we had just finished an S-class mission. You were probably just tired." She walks over and touches his arm affectionately.
"No!" he replies in a low voice, "I'm sure she was real. It's hard to miss bright pink hair." At this the rest of his team are quiet. The silence stays for a while, and then it is broken by the pale dark haired boy.
" I know this has been hard for you Dickless, but you've got to move on. Ugly isn't coming back. And neither is he" Naruto looks up at him, pain clearly in his eyes. Pathetic. He looks away from his group. A breeze blows in the field ruffling the leaves. The woman hiding in the trees watches him take a deep breath and turn back to his team. He puts on his ANBU mask before saying, "I won't give up hope. Let's go" The others nod putting their masks on.
"Sakura." A deep voice sounds beside her as the team prepares to leave.
The girl smirks at her partner, gives him a single nod, "I know". And she silently jumps down to the forest floor below, leaving a trail of rustling leaves behind her. She releases her chakra hold just as the group turns around, in fighting stances.
Silence follows as they take in her appearance. She smiles a small dark grin. The mouse masked woman whispers something along the lines of 'oh kami-sama.' in disappointed surprise. Sakura's smile deepens at that. Is that disappointment I hear? Funny, I was feeling the same thing about them. This group is just pathetic. Naruto steps forward, removing his fox mask.
"… Sakura-chan?" He questions taking another step forward his eyes wide with surprise. The woman looks at him with dead eyes. That's right trust me Naruto. I won't hurt you… much.They stare at each other. Naruto seems to be at a loss for words. Sakura just stares blankly into his bright blue eyes.
"What are you doing here Sakura?"
Sakura slowly turns her head to stare at the person who spoke, the tiger mask. Nenji.
"Hello Nenji." She says, now staring into his foggy white eyes behind the mask. His Byakugan is activated the girl notes. Not that it'll do muchshe mentally scoffs at the thought of a mear ANBU being able to take her on.
His patience seems to be in desperate need of a tune up because he snaps,"Sakura, I asked you a question"
She watches his teeth grind together in what she assumes to be annoyance. Pathetic.
"And I deliberately didn't answer it" she dead-pans in response. Nenji glares as she continues, "It'll just make you aggressive and I don't really feel like fighting right now. Not that it would be much of a fight..."
Nenji's chakra flairs at her words. She smirks, a spark of amusement in her eyes. That all you got? Pathetic. Nenji growls impatiently and looks at Naruto questioningly. Naruto just shakes his head. Nenji looks upset. Ah, so I was right. Narutois the captain. That means they need permission to attack. Sucks for you Nenji. A small smirk appears on her plump lips as silence covers the area.
"Sakura, why…" Naruto looks her up and down with hurt eyes, Sakura turns her head to look at him "...Why are you wearing… that?" he asks confused.
I can almost feel the pain in his voice. What a weakling. Pathetic really. She looks down at her attire. Black cloak with red clouds, red nail polish, ring on her left ring finger. Long hair with bangs hanging in her dark emerald eyes. Straw hat with white strips hanging loosely at her hip, large battle ax strapped to her back. She doesn't reply.
"You're not-" The blond seems to choke on his word before recovering, "You're not part of the Akatsuki are you?" again she remains silent, letting her pink bangs cover her eyes, a tight, evil smile forming on her red lips.
"You aren't, are you?" he asks again, desperately. She slowly raises her eyes to his. And laughs. Her laugh sounds strangled and forced. Hysterical. The ANBU team looks at her alarmed. Hinata looks uneasily at her cousin, who has narrowed his eyes. Sai just cocks his head. Naruto cringes at the crazy sounding laughter. This isn't the Sakura they know. She hunches over holding her stomach and wipes the tears from her eyes. Then, just as quickly as the laughter began it was over. Then she glares at Naruto. He steps back scared at her behavior, she has never glared at anyone before, let only with this vigor.
"No fucking shit Sherlock. You're just a stupid and wishful as ever, I see." She says glaring maliciously at him.
"n-nn-no, you can't…" a voice sounds from behind Naruto, the mouse has removed her mask, revealing Hinata. She steps forward slightly, "Sakura you just can't-"
Suddenly Sakura is gone. In a flash she's right in front of Hinata. Hinata gasps, stopping from finishing her sentence and fumbles backward. But Sakura pushes forward.
"I can" the Akatsuki says lowly towering over Hinata, "and I did." Hinata'seyes widen and her mouth gapes. Then just as quickly, Sakura is gone and Neji is in front of Hinata, kunai in hand, eyes blazing.
"Don't touch her!" he spits out protectively pushing Hinata out of Sakura's view. Sakura chuckles,
"And you would stop me? You? HA!" she merely rolls her eyes at the thought. Nenji fumes and whispers earnestly to Naruto,
"What are we doing?" Naruto turn to look at him, a confused look on his face "You heard her, she's Akatsuki now. We have orders to kill any members we see! Why are we just standing here?" Naruto'seyes flick across the feild to where Sakura is standing. She waves in a mocking manner, a smirk on her face.
"Nenji nii-san, I think we should let Narutodecide what to do, he is the captian." Hinataspeaks, her face still pale from the sudden move from Sakura.
"I vote we capture Ugly and let the interogation squad deal with her" Saisays blankly. all eyes turn to Naruto who is still gazing at Sakura.
"…I can't" Naruto says, looking toward his team, "she was my best friend. My team mate. I love her like my sister." There is a short silence.
"No, you don't." Nenji says Naruto looks at him. "You loved the Sakura we knew. This woman isn't Sakura. She's Akatsuki, and we have to kill her." Naruto glances at Sakura who is just standing there watching patiently, a blank expression on her face. A mask. Nenji is right, she thinks easily hearing their conversation, I'm not the old, pathetic Sakura. I'm better. Stronger. Smarter. I know my destiny now, and it involves all of Konoha dead.
"We have to kill her Naruto." Hinata says taking his hand. He meets her eyes for a second.
"I can't." he says forcefully looking away. "Friends don't back out on Friend, Kakashi taught us that"
"Fine, then our best bet is to leave" Sai states. Nenji nods, Hinata looks at Naruto, who's eyes flicker with pain.
"Right. Let's go." he says with authority and the team starts to leave.
"oh, I'm afraid that just isn't going to fly." The ANBUstop in their tracks at the breathy voice. Naruto turns to look at The Akatsuki member, eyes now fierce with passion. the rest of the team slowly turns to look at her. she starts to walk toward the group.
"See, I've got this mission." She states flatly walking toward the Fox Container. "It involves you being captured." She says taking out her huge ax. Naruto's eyes widen. The Pinkette continues, "I really don't want to fight, but being as smart as I am, I know it's not an option. So can we just get this over with please?" she finishes stopping walking. She is now no more than five feet from him, ax resting on her soldier, hip cocked, eyebrow raised.
Nenji narrows his eyes, "you're going to take on four ANBU by yourself?" he asks suspiciously.
She turns her cold gaze from Naruto to him, "I was an ANBU captain before I left, and a Sannin. Or did you forget, Nenji-san" she mocks dryly.
Before Nenji can reply Naruto steps forward, "As was I, Sakura." He says stress clear in his voice, eyes now slited and red. The scratch marks on his cheeks becoming more visible. his fangs elongating.
"Yes Naruto, but the difference is, I've gotten stronger" Sakura retorts grin slowly spreading across her features, "I've gotten stronger than You or Sasuke! While you have been content to stay as you were" she scoffs, grinning largely.
"Sakura..." Naruto starts sympathetically, eyes returning to normal.
Sakura glares, smile wiped from her face. He pities me! How dare he!
"Don't you pity me! I should be pitting YOU! I AM THE STONGE ONE AND YOU ARE JUST PATHETIC! Who's weak now, Naruto! Who's the one being over shadowed by their teammate! Who's the one who is the strongest shinobi of their age, the brightest! ME! AND I WILL BE THE SRONGEST TO EVER LIVE!" she yells at Naruto pointing her ax at his face breathing deeply. Oh no. I've let my emotions out again. Uchiha-sempi is always telling me not to do that. Damn, and he's watching this too. He's totally gonna kill me tomorrow at training. Well shit.
Naruto looks at her silently. The beauty she had become in the last five years. The way her hair flowed loosely about her waist, the way her arms felt none of the weight of the ax, the coldness of her eyes, currently light with the craziness she was experiencing.
"You have changed Sakura" he says sadly, adding in thought, You've changed for the worse. What happened to you? Sakura looks at him confused then lowers her ax as she composes her emotions into a blank mask once again. That's better, she thinks feeling the comfort of being able to keep her emotions and thoughts to herself. The ax gives a loud THUD as it hits the dirt, making a small crater. She waits for him to continue.
"But I can't go with you. I'm set to be the Hokage in a week and no way in hell am I gonna miss it." he says evenly. "Believe it." he says firmly taking a fighting stance.
Sakura looks at him with dead eyes. Straightening up and picking up her ax she says "Well then prepare to be taken by force, Kyubi."
A/N: I tryed to keep Sakura's personalitly as close to her original (i.e. talkitive and blunt with random bursts of anger) but more evil and crazy. I also tryed to make Naruto darker (both of his best friends have left him for power- I figured that would make him kinda depressed) and Hinata braver. I don't know how well it worked. Ha ha. Let me know what you think!
~Your Bismuth Killjoy, Lexie~