AN: This fic is going to be a little different from your normal Ita/Saku fics. The main part of the story will be set in several years in the future and the circumstances will be quite different. Also I have the next two chapters finished, so if you guys like what I have so far the review and let me know.
Thats it...Oh yeah I forgot: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. If I did Itachi would kill Sasuke and run away with Sakura.
On with the story!
Raison d'être (plural raisons d'être[2 or raison d'être)
1. The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the purpose of something or someone.
2. A "reason for being"
PROLOGUE
The sun shone brightly over a clear sky as a single figure moved through the open field. Her long pink hair wafting gently behind her. A pure white wedding gown, stained with blood, brushed gently against the long blades of grass. Her right hand clutched an unsheathed katana, her left held a bloody Konoha hitai-ate. Silent tears streaked down her face as she continued to walk, alone.
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The day Sakura was assigned to team 7 her life took a dramatic turn for the worse.
It's true that through this random assignment she was able to find friendship and strength, but what she lost as a result outweighed everything she gained.
Sasuke's decision to leave in search of power set off a chain reaction that ripped away everything she held dear. Sound's first attack on the village, several years after the chunin exams, claimed the lives of both her parents. They were simply civilians who got caught in the crossfire.
After the news that Sasuke had killed Orochimaru and set off to find his brother, Sakura and Naruto decided they needed to become stronger. They trained as hard as they could, becoming two of the strongest shinobi in the village.
They were accepted to ANBU and were placed on a team specifically created to retrieve Sasuke. It took them almost a year to catch up to him but they finally did. When Sasuke refused to return with them, the battle began.
Sakura and their other teammates took on Sasuke's companions while Naruto took on Sasuke himself. Naruto succeeded in holding him off until he activated the curse-seal. By then it was clear that whatever vestiges of humanity Sasuke had were gone.
When Sakura called out to him, he attacked her, the intent to kill written clearly on his face. Naruto was forced to release five of the Kyuubi's tails in order to stop him. The cries of Rasengan and Chidori could be heard for miles.
In the end she lost them both. She tried in vain to heal Naruto but not even the Nine-tail's power could save him from the gaping hole in his chest that the chidori created.
Through it all, Sakura never once considered herself unlucky.
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Chapter 1
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After their deaths, Sakura left ANBU. She had had enough fighting. She took over for Tsunade at the hospital, hoping that in time she would be able to heal herself.
Although she had survived the final confrontation with relatively few injuries, she knew that the wounds to her heart would be nearly impossible to heal. She didn't think she would ever be truly happy again... until she met him.
His name was Akio, he was an injured ANBU that she had been treating. He sweet, fairly attractive, and surprisingly upbeat for an ANBU. He was the first person to make her laugh since Naruto's death.
On the day he was released from the hospital, he asked her out for coffee. Six months later they were engaged. She was happy with him and for the first time in many years, she was at peace. She was finally able to let go of the past and move forward. She loved him and was ready to spend the rest of her life with him.
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But nothing lasts forever…
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It was during her final dress fitting, a week before the wedding, that she got the news. His squad had been attacked by rogue ninjas on their way back to the village. She rushed to the hospital, still wearing her wedding dress.
By the time she got there, he was already gone. She sat there, clutching his lifeless body to her chest, sobbing.
He was gone and she had finally broken.
All the wounds that had begun to heal had just been reopened and the hole in her heart had grown larger than ever.
She sat their for what seemed like hours, until the medics pulled her away, saying they needed to take his body. The surviving members of his squad gave her his katana and hitai-ate, saying how sorry they were. But their words fell on deaf ears.
She finally found the strength to leave the hospital but found she had no desire to go home. There was nothing there but an empty apartment and the memories of her now shattered life. So she simply walked, with no real destination.
By the time she noticed her surroundings, she was at the village gate. It was then that she decided what to do. She gripped the katana tightly and marched through the gates, intent on finding the men who murdered her fiancé.
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Itachi flew through the dense forest, his Akatsuki cloak fluttering behind him. He was alone for this mission, as there was no need for a partner for something as simple as this. Then again, he had no real need for a partner on most missions.
The only reason he was assigned to work with Kisame in the first place was to retrieve the Kyuubi. Now that the Kyuubi was dead his partnership was unnecessary.
However his true disappointment lay not in the end of the Kyuubi, and there by his Akatsuki mission, but in the death of his brother. Not that he was saddened by his brother's death, merely disappointed that all his plans for him were now moot.
Sasuke was supposed to be his death. Not because of any guilt he had over his clan's demise, there was none. Simply because he wanted his death to be at the hands of someone worthy, someone strong, and most importantly an Uchiha.
Now with his eyesight diminishing, he would be forced to wait for some weak ANBU squad to get the drop on him and take advantage of his vulnerability. Not exactly the honorable death he had envisioned.
And now with the Akatsuki's numbers so severely diminished, he was forced to carry out simple missions, not at all befitting a ninja of his status. Not that he lamented the deaths of his former comrades in the least, aside from the fact that he was now forced to carry out such mind-numbing tasks.
However, the fact that so many members of the Akatsuki had been taken out by a handful of chunin, lead him to believe that their deaths were rather justified. It would have been different if they had been eliminated by a large number of specially trained ANBU elites. Death at the hands of an ANBU squad would have been preferable, not to mention more fitting, for shinobi of their supposed caliber.
At the moment he was seriously considering ending his association with the Akatsuki. Despite the fact that membership is supposed to be life long, their growing weakness was something he could no longer ignore.
He only joined them to test the limits of his own power against that of the strongest group of ninja alive. Now it appeared that they no longer deserved that title.
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Sakura wandered through open fields and dense forests, still wearing the beautiful gown that she was going to be married in. She traced the path that the ANBU team had taken after escaping from the rogues. She finally stumbled upon the rogue-nin's chakra signature.
She paused for a moment to place her fiancé's bloody hitai-ate on her forehead.
This would be her last act as a leaf shinobi.
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Itachi paused for a moment, landing gracefully on a tree branch. He'd been tracking a group of rogue-nins that were in possession of a scroll that the Akatsuki wanted. Apparently the ANBU squad he'd been sent to retrieve it from had been attacked by these rogues and they had stolen it from the ANBU.
But now he could sense something going on with the rogues. There had just been several flare-ups of chakra and what sounded like the screams of dying men. But now everything had gone silent. Their was only one chakra signature left and it was very weak.
Itachi pushed off from the branch he was standing on and headed towards the source of the weak chakra. Retrieving this scroll was becoming more troublesome by the minute.
He reached the edge of the clearing that held the single chakra source. He concealed himself high in the trees to assess the situation. What he saw surprised him. He had expected to find an ANBU squad, come to take back their stolen scroll. That was clearly not the case.
The clearing was littered with the bodies of the rogue-nins, and standing in the center of the destruction was a single figure. A woman with long pink hair, wearing what appeared to be a wedding dress covered in blood. She held a single katana and Konoha hitai-ate gleamed on her forehead.
He was very intrigued. It appeared that this petite kunoichi had single handedly taken out over twenty rogue-nins, and wearing a wedding dress no less. This could become very interesting.
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So, what do you think. Should I continue?
Please review and tell me If it's any good. If you guys like it I got some fan art I could post for you.
I know it's kinda like blackmail but if I get 15 reviews I'll put up a drawing I did of Sakura in her wedding dress splatterd in blood.
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