Betrayal

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Her body shook and her eyes watered. This couldn't be happening, it just couldn't! How could he kill them, how could Itachi betray them like that? Betray her like that. It wasn't possible. This was just a nightmare, just a horrible, horrible nightmare that, come morning, would fade away. But deep down Kagome knew that this was reality and that Itachi had committed the ultimate betrayal by slaughtering his clan and severing the ties between her mind and his.

She had been training when it had happened. Kagome had been over come by dizziness and had collapsed in the dirt of the training grounds, lying there trying to make the world stop spinning. She had finally managed to rise only to realize the symptoms she felt had come from the seal bound in both her and Itachi's blood shattering. Kagome had rushed to the Uchiha district as fast as her dizzy and weak body allowed her to discover what was going on. What she saw there would haunt her and terrorize her in her nightmares from then on.

Blood was splattered everywhere and bodies lay strewn about on the streets. Shuddering with disgust and trepidation Kagome had hesitated for a long moment before she steeled herself for what she might see and raced towards where Itachi lived fearing that something had happened to him. A sorrowful glance was all she had allowed herself as she raced past the corpses of friends and almost-family.

When she arrived at the house she had burst in, not bothering to take any of the formal steps necessary when entering the house of a clan leader. Ignoring the main house she had instead she headed towards the training room where she could feel faint chakra signals.... and to both her surprise and growing horror she could feel both Itachi's and Sasuke's chakra. What disturbed her the most was the maliciousness of Itachi's aura. She had never felt anything like that.

As she yanked open the heavy oaken doors to the training room she stumbled and gasped, for there on the floor where Fugaku and Mikoto, dead, and only a little ways away was Sasuke staring at something beyond the bodies. As her eyes followed his gaze she began to tremble for there in the darkness was Itachi easily and calmly wielding the katana he had been gifted with when he had became an ANBU.

Kagome knew then that Itachi had inflicted all of the damage she had seen, knew that he was the one who had permanently stained the streets a bloody red. For all the years she had been with Itachi she had never been afraid of him, not once, but now seeing him like this, eyes impassive as he watched her piece together all that happened, Kagome felt true fear for the first time in her life.

"Why brother? Why?" Sasuke's voice cracked on brother and his words drew Kagome out of her stupor. She drew a kunai in each hand before slipping into tight a defensive position. She hoped Sasuke would be smart enough to wait for Itachi to make the first move, but judging from the way that he trembled with hatred and rage she guessed all rational thought had fled from his mind. Her fear was proved correct, when Sasuke charged forward intent on killing the person who had slew his family.

Itachi smoothly dodged his punch and then calmly rammed his fist into Sasuke's gut, sending him flying back. Sasuke would have hit the wall had Kagome not shot forward to catch him, in the process losing any advantage on attacking Itachi.

She ignored this fact and set Sasuke gently upon the floor before shooting forward, her hands whipping the kunai she had drawn before at Itachi before beginning to rapidly form seals, hoping to be able to summon it before he got to her. But Kagome had vastly underestimated how fast Itachi could move because before she couldn't even fully start to make the first seal before Itachi was before her, his hand shooting out to snap her wrist.

Crack.

Kagome let out a sharp cry as she felt the bones in her wrist be crushed by the one she had used to trust so implicitly. Itachi with an easy movement drew her up to his face. His next words both froze and shattered her aching heart.

"Why the hatred, Kagome? Do you believe that they would have lived much longer? And so much anger before you have even seen what has happened to your dear family."

Itachi spoke softly into her ear and when he was done he softly licked her ear lobe. Despite how much she hated and feared him right now her body still shuddered softly in desire. When he felt this he allowed a smirk to briefly cross his aristocratic features before he banished the emotion away.

"If you hurt Souta I swear I will bury your own blade in your heart."

Kagome spoke the words savagely but she knew that no matter what she did or how strong she grew, Itachi would always be stronger, faster, better. Never the less they still seemed to amuse Itachi. His next words were proof of that.

"Really, then why was it that before I removed the seal that I could have you begging before me in an instant? And I bet you, even now I could have you writhing upon the floor easily."

As he spoke the words Itachi moved his mouth from her ear down to her neck and he planted soft kisses there. Kagome sank her teeth into her lip in order to keep the sounds of pleasure in. Itachi, as if scolding her for not allowing him to hear her whimpers, sharply bit her neck before soothing it with his tongue.

Kagome knew she was falling and if she didn't find some way to stop it she would be too far gone to stop herself from begging him to continue his sinful actions upon her body. She also knew that if Itachi were truly bent of breaking her spirit and Sasuke's heart he would take her here on the wood stained red with the blood of his parents. And she would let him. That single fact was what scared her most out of all that had happened.

Sasuke watched the scene stunned, how could she be enjoying this? He felt his hatred of her grow exponentially, especially when she tried to break free of Itachi before slumping into his arms. He was surprised when Itachi simply moved to where the blood had not stained the floorboards and gently placed Kagome down before turning to look at him. Sasuke felt fear blossom in his chest, for if Itachi didn't leave Kagome unscathed, and he could clearly see the blood welling up gently upon her neck, then what chance did he have of Itachi going easy on him?

Sasuke was proven right when Itachi activated Tsukiyomi upon him. Sasuke's screams rang out through the compound. The last thing he could remember before he blacked out was Itachi leaning over Kagome softly licking up the blood upon her neck before murmuring, "I will come for you, and when I do, you had better be ready for me."

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Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, and Kakashi had been called to the Hokage's office for 'an important meeting'. Sasuke personally thought it was bullshit: the only time that the Hokage wanted to meet with all of them was when they had a really crappy mission to complete and she needed to badger them into doing it. As they passed Shizune at her desk, she looked up from her paperwork to comment to Kakashi, "You had best be careful when you go in there, Tsunade is in a foul mood."

Kakashi barely spared a glance at Shizune but nodded in recognition of the advice. As they entered they could clearly hear Tsunade's aggravated voice demanding, "Then why have you come back if not to be re-instated as a shinobi?"

"Because there is unfinished business here that I must complete before I leave for good." It was not the words but the voice that spoke them that had Sasuke suddenly flying forward -drawing a kunai as he did so- towards the figure that had dared to return after what she had done.

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