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Waking Nightmare
-Chapter One-
Sakura was running out a back door as she looked down at her watch.
10…
"We have ten seconds until they go off! Get out and run now!" Sakura yelled over the radios.
9…
"I'm almost out" Genma replied.
8…
"Hey… I'm next to a window and we got a problem. They just drove up!" Raidou yelled, interrupting what Sakura was about to say.
7…
"CRAP! Okay just get out everyone!" She screeched back.
6…
A chorus of "Hai" was heard through the radios.
5…
"Sakura! We have a problem! All the doors are locked!" Kotetsu's voice sounded.
4…
"What? You all should have been out by now!"
3…
"Sakura go! You can't do anything!" Genma said.
2…
"NO! I can't lose all of you too!"
1…
"Goodbye" was the last thing she heard before the lines went dead.
BOOM!
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/Six Months Later/
BEEP…BEEP…BEE-
SMASH
"Shit… now I gotta get another one."
A young girl woke in a cold sweat, to an annoying beep. Before thinking, the object that was making that beep was now a smoking pile of wires and glass in the corner of her room. She ran a hand through her dyed black hair, which was damp with sweat from her nightmare.
That dream again… after six months, why is that night still haunting me? I should have done something. Anything to help them, but I just froze up. Like the weak little leader I was.
After looking at the time on her phone she jumped out of bed and ran to the shower.
"Crap I have school today! I have a feeling this day will not end well for some reason…"
She lived alone, in a small apartment she had bought with the money she had saved. He parents had died when she was eight, leaving her and her brother who was one year her senior, to fend for themselves. One morning some three years ago she had awoken to find him gone, and she had never heard from him again.
After getting dressed, she looked in the mirror while brushing her hair. She was wearing a tight black t-shirt, with a dark purple hoodie over it, ripped denim jeans, and black converse. It wasn't as if today was particularly cold, but she had to wear the hoodie to cover the black metal brace over her wrist, holding it in place after it was severely fractured two months ago. Her nails were also the customary black they had been for the past five years.
After approving her outfit, she walked down the hall to the kitchen, and grabbed a piece of toast before locking her door, and beginning the ten minute walk to her new school.
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"Good morning class! Today we have a new student joining us, but she has not arrived yet-"
The door slammed open with a loud bang, and most of the students who were talking, hushed, and scrutinised the newcomer.
"Sakura Haruno I presume?" asked Iruka.
"It's Nagato actually, but just call me Sakura".
"Very well, you can take your seat next to… Sasori! Raise your hand so Sakura knows where to sit!"
Sakura watched as a boy with messy red hair and caramel eyes sitting next to a window raised his hand and she went and sat next to him. On her other side was a boy who looked bored, and was reading a book. He had black hair, and crimson eyes.
"Hey"
She turned to Sasori.
"You wouldn't be related to that guy over there would you?"
She looked to where he was pointing, and froze, recognising the boy immediately. Sitting at the back of the classroom was a boy with spiky orange hair, grey eyes, and many, many piercings. He was deep in a conversation with a blue-haired girl and another boy with black hair and a black mask over his face. She heard brief mentions of money, alcohol, and potatoes. She was confused as to the last one.
He appeared as though he had ignored everything the teacher had said all morning, which was a good thing for her.
She did not want to speak to him, not after what had last happened between them.
After he promised to always be there for her, then proceeded to walk out of her life three years ago, and abandon her.
After he made her the leader of his 'gang' in the village of Rain.
Sitting in the back of the classroom was her older brother Pein Nagato.
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As soon as the bell for homeroom sounded, she ran out of the room, completely forgetting about the question that Sasori had asked her. In her rush to get to her Physics class, she tripped over air, and crashed into a girl with red hair, and black glasses.
"Watch where you're going bitch", was her only reply as she was shoved into a wall, hitting her wrist against it in the process.
Wincing, she walked slower down the hall, until realising her classroom was the other direction, and up three floors. Annoyed at herself, she proceeded in the correct direction, eventually reaching her class only ten minutes late.
Great start today Sakura… you found your long-lost brother, made an enemy, and are late to your first class. Good job! She thought sarcastically.
She sat in the only remaining spot, next to the crimson-eyed boy from her home class.
"Why are you sitting here?" She turned to him, and saw him gazing intently at her.
"Uh… look around, where else am I supposed to sit huh?"
He looked around and sighed. She was right, there were no other seats.
"Hn" he muttered, and turned his attention back to the board, where the teacher was droning on about electrical currents.
Hmm friendly guy isn't he?
"What's your name?" she asked him.
"Itachi Uchiha" he replied.
"Ok. I'm-"
"Sakura Haruno, the new girl."
"No… It's Sakura Nagato" she corrected him.
"Are you related to Pein?" he questioned.
"No" she glared at him, signalising the conversation was over.
After class, she packed up and walked out of the classroom, careful not to trip again. The rest of her morning classes passed without any incident, and she sat next to Sasori again, this time in art. He and the blonde next to him were arguing over the true meaning of art… something about it being eternal or fleeting.
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When lunch came, she walked to the cafeteria, spotted her brother, and proceeded to walk out again.
I think I will just sit outside, and try to avoid him as best as I can. She sat down next to a tree, and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she saw the one person she did not want to ever see again, standing in front of her. Her shocked gaze met his disapproving one.
"What are you doing here Sakura?"He asked.
"I could ask you the same question jackass! What are you doing here Kabuto?" she glared at him.
"At the moment I am welcoming the new student."
"That is bullshit! What do you want from me?"
"It's simple really. We want you. Join us, and fight against the Akatsuki. We all know how much you hate them. Especially that dear older brother of yours for leaving you!" he smirked as her eyes filled with rage.
She stood up and walked over to where he was standing, unknowingly in from of the cafeteria windows, in plain view of everyone inside, including Pein and the rest of the Akatsuki.
"I would never join you! I may hate my brother and everything that he put me through, but it does not mean I would join his enemies. Remember Kabuto… I am an Akatsuki too, whether or not my gang is dead."
"Yes… and you made one heck of a leader didn't you? Leading them into a trap and watching them get blown into-"
SLAM
The force of her punch had thrown Kabuto back into the cafeteria windows, and captured the attention of the students sitting at the table closest to said window. Three of those students were Pein, Sasori and Itachi.
When Pein saw her, his eyes widened, and he leapt up from the table, and raced out the cafeteria door, Akatsuki in tow. Sakura knew exactly where he was going to go.
Shit. I don't know this school well enough to find a place to hide.
She settled on running flat out towards her next class, which conveniently was gym, so she hid in the female locker rooms. She did not want to face him yet.
"SAKURA!" she heard him yelling, but she just froze t his voice. It was one she hadn't heard in so long, and weather she wanted to admit it or not, she had missed him, a lot, and now he was here, just a few meters away, and she couldn't even forget her anger, and tell him how much she had missed him. Those times when she was so cold, he would let her share his bed. When she was so sad he let her eat the last ice cream. When they were all still children and play in the park, raining or not. She missed those days - the days that she, Pein, Genma, Raidou, Kotetsu and Izumo would all hang out as one happy family.
"SAKURA! Where are you?" his voice brought her out of her thoughts, and she huddled closer into the corner of the room in fear of being found.
Eventually the voice faded as he continued his search of the school. Ten minutes later she heard the bell signalling the end of lunch, and students filed into the locker room to change for gym, but she still hadn't moved from her spot.
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She hadn't participated in her double gym class (it was just pure torture to have an hour and a half of gym every afternoon), much to her enthusiastic teacher's disappointment. Instead she completed her Physics homework, rather then saving it for tonight.
After school ended, she walked home again, but bumped into Sasori.
"Pein was looking for you" he said
"I know. But he could never find me if I didn't want to be found" she replied
"You shouldn't have run. He needed to talk to you."
"I don't care. I don't want his excuses. I don't need them after three years. Now if you'll excuse me, I want to go home." She left him standing there as she walked away.
"He will find you tomorrow you know. You can't run forever." He called out
"I don't plan to run forever, just for today." She replied as she waved.
I knew today would suck. I will talk to him tomorrow I guess. As if I have a choice. It's either return to him or join Kabuto. I hate having no third options.