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Shadow of Fire
Chapter One
She walked with absolute grace like her feet weren't touching the floor; most shinobi looked at her with a brief nod as a sign of respect. She ignored them all and walked casually to the Hokage's office and knocked three times. She slowly walked in when she heard the 'come in' and shut the door behind her ignoring the gazes she got from the other people in the room. She wore no attire that symbolized her position and she like it that way so people would underestimate her in battle. Her black dress was long and had slits all the way to the top of her thigh, she wore red shorts underneath. Her dress held the Haruno Dynasty Clan symbol on the back and she wore it proudly. No one knew of her clan so no one knew of her special abilities which made her even more mysterious. Her hair was in a tight ponytail and she wore the mask of a Cat which symbolised her grace, strength, agility, cunning, and flexibility, it also showed she knew how to think on her feet. The front of her dress completely covered her breast but still showed she had moderate sized breast. She wore fishnet tights under her short and knee lengths boots and wore black fingerless gloves showing off her manicured hands and her feminine like features. She walked to the Hokage and bowed lowly and said still bowed
"You requested my presence, Hokage-sama!" Tsaunde nodded in calm demeanour and smiled inside of how proud she was of her apprentice. She loved Sakura like a daughter and although nobody in the room could recognise who she really was they were all apprehensive of how she entered the room. She looked over her student and her dark features; she had dyed her hair with streaks of black and used a powerful henge to change her pink hair to a shade of dark brown. She was still bowed lowly I watched her a while and wondered where she got her training in customs from.
"You may rise!" she slowly did so and stood still like a true shinobi did. I coughed a little and said
"The reason you have been summoned is to meet the shinobi you will be teamed up with in missions!" she didn't turn to them in recognition and I knew she recognised who were behind her
"The Copy-nin. Genma, Gai, Kurenai, Hyugga's, Shikamaru, Shino Chougi, Ino and Naruto, Ten-ten, Lee, Kiba and last but not least, Sasuke!" I looked at her with a raised eyebrow and said
"What is it?" she looked up and said never wavering
"I will not be going on any missions with Sasuke Uchiha or Neji Hyugga!" Everyone was shocked to hear her say this and Kakashi knew why she didn't want to work with them, they had way too much pride for their clan and she disliked that the most about clan members.
"Will you at least think upon it?" She looked back at Kakashi and then to the two males who scowled her openly and shook her head, Sasuke was the first one to rage on about her insult
"I don't know why you even take her opinion into account she is a lower status to us!" Neji agreed with Sasuke. Tsaunde smirked and so did all the other Sensei's even Shikamaru sighed saying how troublesome they were
"She is the Anbu First Captain, she is also a skilled assassin, Hunter-nin and trained in Medical Jutsu's, she has worked in Black ops and a trained Geisha!" Everyone looked amazed at the List Shikamaru listed down and watched as the said ninja turned around and said looking at Kakashi
"Why aren't you reading your come come paradise book?" Kakashi placed a lazy smile and said looking at his Hokage
"She threatened to ban me from missions if I brought it into her office!" she shrugged and said looking at the Sensei's
"Where is Sakura Haruno?" The senseis knew she was fooling everyone, she was Sakura Haruno but not the normal Sakura, she was Inner Sakura and some how they found a way to make her appear as Human form instead of an inner spirit,
"She is on her way, she was dealing with some patients!" she nodded until Sasuke said with a disgusted look and an undertone of annoyance
"Why do you want that annoying weakling for, she is not even Anbu?" Tsaunde scowled and said with a smug smile and a slightly teasing manner
"You are mistaken, Sakura is my apprentice and also in the bingo books for being able to surpass me in medical jutsu!" Everyone looked shocked and Kakashi could only laugh in humour. No one knew much of Sakura now a days but everyone had heard great rumours of how she helped out so much in the village and surrounding villages of Konoha and how she had become an elite amongst the elite Anbu and was highly respected in the Shinobi ranks. Sakura walked in with a bloody sword and without a word to anyone went into the Hokage's personal sake cupboard and drank straight from the bottle and gulped down in ecstasy before saying with her back still facing them and she seemed to be relishing the taste a little habit she picked up from her sensei
"I never realised you were in a meeting, anyways, Akatsuki was spotted in the boarders of Fire, they are requesting an audience with you, two are injured!" The Hokage looked in the Sword in her hand and said
"Who?" she looked slightly startled and said sheepishly
"Well I was angry with what a certain team mate said to me, so I went out of Konoha trying to find some spies or enemies to kill, all of a sudden I bump into a man with Sharingan eyes and black hair, thought it was Sasuke-kun and attacked him and well blindly stabbed him in the stomach, until I realised it was a clone and started fighting properly, I stabbed Deidara and Tobi with Kisame's sword, he was pretty angry when I ran away laughing, hoping they would follow me here to retrieve it!" Everyone in the room tensed and she laughed and said
"No worries, Deidara and Tobi's chakra is almost gone and it looks like Itachi and Kisame are not really here for a fight!" Sasuke's anger began to fuel at hearing his brother name and was about to head for the door when Blood Blossom, appeared in front of him startling him at her amount of speed
"Don't think so, you will stand still whilst they are here, if you engage in conflict I will remove you from team seven, demote your rank and throw you in jail for two years, is that clear?" He looked at her in surprised and stepped back into his old position and looked away. Blood Blossom then said coldly
"You may enter!" The Hokage looked at her slightly amused and watched as the infamous Akatsuki walked into the office supporting their wounded partners. Sakura began to let out a humorous laugh and said
"What do we owe the pleasure of the infamous Itachi Uchiha?" The room elapsed in total silence until they all saw Itachi smirked and say
"Sakura Haruno, apprentice of the fifth Hokage, perfect chakra control, and an assassin in the Bingo books!" She laughed and put the sake down and bowed mockingly and said smirking
"It is nice to meet you!" Blood blossom scoffed and said
"Why are you here?" Itachi looked over at Sakura and Blood Blossom and smirked, they two female ninja's knew he would figure out their little secret, after all he was their first mentor and friend
"It seems a lot has changed since I was last here Sakura-Chan!" Everyone gasped as they heard the formalities change.
"I will not repeat myself Itachi, what do you want?" she seemed to be exploding in anger, Itachi looked at her coldly and said
"We have a proposition for you, we will help get rid of Sound as long as Sakura Haruno comes back to Akatsuki to help find out who leader really is and what his purpose really is!" Sasuke looked between his brother and Sakura and said angrily
"What is going on?" Itachi looked at Sasuke with a blank face, no anger, no resentment, no hate, just blank. Kisame sniggered and said tauntingly
"Sakura used to be Itachi's apprentice, she was Akatsuki at the age of ten and then we wiped her memories and blocked her chakra and left her in Konoha!"
Everyone began screaming in outrage The Hokage looked as calm as ever and said
"I already knew Sakura informed me of this when she began feeling a drastic change in chakra and her memories changed!" Everyone who didn't know of the news looked in shock and Sasuke said
"Why would you train her?" Sakura scoffed and said looking straight at Itachi and said
"Because I was his friend!" Itachi looked back at her with hard eyes and said looking at her and then Blood Blossom
"I see you have grown without my assistance!" she looked at him and said angrily with a little resentment
"I hear you have a new First Lady!" Deidara groaned and said holding his stomach wound
"Can we go down memory lane later yea; I'm kind of dying yea!" Sakura laughed and went to work quickly after getting the Hokage's permission and said whilst she cleaned up
"Why did you abandon me?" Deidara was the first to answer and said
"Leader wanted us to assassinate you because we were growing too attached to you!" she nodded absently making the whole of Akatsuki feel guilty until she said
"I do not know why your First Lady is still under her Genjutsu illusion but if she has truly done homework about the one she replaced the she would know that I am a prodigy at Genjutsu and was mastering it well at the age of ten!" The said Woman revealed herself, wearing an Akatsuki cloak that swept the floor, she had piercing blue eyes and sharp elegant features, and she wore a cold expression and said walking towards Sakura
"Ah, I see you are better than I expected!" Sakura rolled her eyes and said looking past her and to Itachi
"Nice to see you again but I have work to do!" and with that she nodded to Tsaunde and poofed away in a fury of Cherry Blossoms. Itachi looked back at Blood Blossom who had barely said a word. The Hokage turned to her and said calmly
"What do you wish to do about the upcoming missions?" Blood Blossom looked back at the rest of the shinobi and said stoically
"They will be tested, I wish to see how they work in a team and how strong they really are, if they are able to get through it in at least one piece I will work with Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyugga!" Everyone looked at her in apprehension and Kakashi said a little annoyed
"Will you just work with them for now, if they ruin your mission then you can kick them out!" she looked back at Kakashi and nodded and then slowly turned to Akatsuki and said
"It was nice to meet you!" and she bowed lowly to the Hokage and was about to walk out when the first Lady of Akatsuki grabbed her hand and said
"You will do well to respect the Akatsuki members!" Everyone looked at her in shock and Tsaunde wore an amused smirk, Inside Blood Blossom was more than enraged, she smirked under her mask and slowly slides it off her face revealing her dark feature and her noticeable dark green eyes and said looking straight at the First Lay of Akatsuki
"Itachi forgot to tell you an important fact that may get you killed, I am Sakura Haruno, I am her blood thirsty side, hence the name Blood Blossom, Sakura made a special jutsu that allowed me to feel and move around like a normal being but the advantage is, I cannot die, if you wish for a fight, then I can assure you that I will refuse to hold back and the only person who can stop me from killing you is Sakura!" she suddenly activated a special jutsu that allowed her to absorb another person's jutsu, The First Lady's hand was struggling to let go and she was looking weaker by the second. The room was tense and even the Hokage cringed as she watched the scene before her.