Hey. This is the first chapter of the first story I have decided to make public. I have been writing fan fictions for about 10 years now but this is the first one I've posted. I will update according to your reviews. Thank you.
Disclaimer:Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto.
SLEEP
By ViviDarkAngel
Sleep…It's supposed to be a normal mechanism for people to rest their bodies. But sleep equals dreams.
What are dreams?
One would say they are escapes from reality…but not for me…my dreams are a different reality on their own.
Ever since I was little I used to dream about this far away place. In my mind I call it Konoha. I know people there even if I am not there myself.
How can I explain this? Even if they are my dreams…I am not there…I am but a lingering shadow that can only watch the events that are shown to it…
It started out as a peaceful place. The part of Konoha that I was in, in my first dreams, was full of dark haired people. I could see red and white paper fans on the walls that surrounded the particular house I was shown. A small boy around my age, which was eight at the time, came home very happy.
"Mom, dad, I have great news…" he shouted whilst taking off his shoos and stepping into the house.
"What is it?" A tall stoic man who I presumed to be his father said.
A woman, his mother probably, who was holding a three year old baby in her arms came rushing too.
"I graduated from the Ninja Academy top of my class today!" The boy said.
"As expected of my eldest son". The man said putting his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Good work Itachi."
"I'm so proud of you Itachi." Said the woman. "And so is Sasuke." Gesturing towards the baby. "You'll be a great older brother to him…someone he can look up to." She said smiling.
And that's how my dreams of Itachi began.
That small eight year boy grew to be an ANBU captain at the age of 13 and he was a genius above all others.
My dreams watched over him as years passed and as I grew so did he. One night my dreams turned into nightmares.
It started with the rumor that passed through the Hokage's ears: that the Uchiha Clan, Itachi's clan, wanted to take control of Konoha.
Itachi was fourteen at the time and he was highly trusted by the Hokage so he gave him the order to spy on his own family…which he did and the rumor was confirmed.
In this time he had met another Uchiha. His name was Madara and he told Itachi about a scroll that could be found beneath the floor in a shrine. The scroll told the secrets of Sharingan, the Uchiha blood limit, one of the most powerful of eye techniques.
Itachi, upon finding and reading the scroll that Madara told him about, learned how to gain the next step in the power of the Sharingan. So he killed his best friend, Shisui Uchiha, to be able to gain that power. The older boy was found drowned in a river from what appeared to be suicide, though the Konoha Military Police believed it to be murder, and accused Itachi, but they had no proof. Even after that, Itachi didn't scare me. I knew he did it for a reason.
Then Itachi was ordered, by the third Hokage, Danzo, the head of ANBU Root division, and the Konoha council, to kill his whole clan. That night I woke up in a cold sweat and I had cried…just as Itachi did, before he killed everyone with the exception of his younger brother Sasuke, who he had to torture with his newly obtained Mangekyo Sharingan, in order to make the smaller boy hate him and survive.
Itachi didn't kill his whole clan single handedly. Madara had helped him and after that, the older Uchiha disappeared. Itachi became part of an organization of missing ninjas named Akatsuki and was pared up with a rogue ninja from Kirigakure, named Kisame Hoshigaki, a shark like man, with blue skin and an impossible amount of chakra.
My dreams were never the same. They were filled with murder and blood and the lost lonely heart that belonged to Itachi.
I had grown up watching him turn into the most beautiful man I had laid eyes on (or my mind's eye in this case) he was strong and so sad but no one except me could see that. Right now only I knew him. And I fell in love with the man that plagued my dreams. I didn't even know if he was real or not but if I couldn't have him, than I would have no one.
I had not told anyone about my dreams, not even my mother. It was my own personal world.
Lately my dreams started getting chaotic. There was no more storyline. All I could see were pictures and flashes and an impossible amount of data that my brain could barely handle. I started waking up with headaches and much more knowledge of my dream world that I ever wanted to have.
I learned about Sasuke's life and the chunin exams and how he ran away with Orochimaru and how he finally managed to kill him, I learned about Naruto and team 7 and Kakashi, and Tsunade and Sarutobi sandaime's death and many other things.
Practically I knew of everything that ever happened in Konoha's existence.
Than, the worst dream came. I was 20 when the flashes started, and now at 21 years old my dream world ended.
Sasuke had eventually found Itachi and they finally had their last battle. Itachi died and Sasuke learned the truth about his brother, who upon dying gave him a last brotherly smile.
After that, the dreams never came back and I was left with only a memory of the man I loved with all my heart.
I cried for a week and my parents didn't know what to do with me. I didn't tell them anything because they would think I was crazy. I lied and said that I had a nervous breakdown because of my university exams. They finally believed, and I was off the hook. But my broken heat could not be mended so easily.
I'm 22 now. A year has passed since I hadn't seen Itachi anymore. I started to slowly put my life in order again. I was in the last week of my collage exams and I was staying at a friend's hotel for the last 3 exams. I had just taken the first of the three and went for a day out with one of my friends so I could relax. When I had gotten back to the hotel room it was already dark. I decided to take a shower and go to sleep.
The water was warm on my body and it felt relaxing. I finished and wrapped a towel around me but before I exited the bathroom I heard voices on the other side of the bathroom door. They sounded familiar but it couldn't be…
"Hey…how about you go in there and grab her? If she sees me she might scream. Girls usually like you." One of the voices said.
"Wait until she gets out and we shall speak to her if she tries to scream I will take care of it." The most velvety voice I had heard said. It sounded almost like…no…it couldn't they were just dreams.
I pushed open my bathroom door and what I saw made me gasp: Itachi and Kisame stood by my window, through which I presume they had entered.
I didn't say anything. I just stood there and stared at the man that plagued my dreams from when I was eight. He was alive, and standing in my room, and talking something about grabbing me? Wait, that wasn't right…
"Well…" Kisame said "…at least she isn't screaming…".
Act normal! Act normal! Act normal! Act normal! Act normal! I kept telling myself.
Why should I be screaming? I asked trying not to look panicked but who the hell did I think I was kidding? I was in the same room with two of the most powerful members of Akatsuki and one of them happened to be the man I loved, who I didn't even know really existed outside my dreams until a couple of seconds ago.
"Well…that's a different reaction…" Kisame said smirking. "Let's just grab her and get it over with…"
"Hn…" was all Itachi said
"Hold up! Wait right there Jaws! Who the hell do you think you are? I demand an explanation! Why are you kidnapping me?"
"Did she just call me Jaws?" The question came from Kisame and it wasn't addressed to anyone in particular.
"I believe she did." Itachi said slightly smiling, whilst walking closer to me. "We are humbly asking for your presence and hopefully assistance in a few of Akatsuki's goals, for you seem to be a very important asset to us." Itachi continued. He was standing quite close to me at the moment and I had just realized my state of dress…a towel…and so I blushed deep crimson, seemingly to his content…
"I'm not an 'asset' I am a person!"
"My apologies…let me rephrase…you seem to be a very important person to us right now."
"Hook Line and Sinker." I heard Kisame mumble.
"Screw you!" I yelled over Itachi's shoulder, who seemed amused by my boldness. "I'm not that easy to woo!"
I pondered my options: I could either get knocked out and go with them or… go with them willingly. I chose the option that didn't involve a headache.
"Fine! No need for lies…" I said looking at Itachi. "I'll come with you. Just let me get dressed and grab a few things. I know you're not going to kill me because I'm not a jinchuriki so I'm going to need some things…"
I started packing: I threw some clothes in a bag and got my cigarettes and a lighter. The last thing I needed to do before we left was get dressed so I took a tank top a pair of jeans and a pair of panties and went into the bathroom. I put my clothes on quickly and put some makeup on. I couldn't travel with Itachi looking like hell.
"Done!" I said walking out of the bathroom.
"Damn you're hot!" Kisame said smirking.
"Shove it!" I said calmly to him. "Can we go now?"
The question was directed to Itachi.
"So how do you intend on keeping up with us?" He said with a slight smirk.
"Well, you're going to carry me of course. And Kisame will take my bags since he is NOT touching me."
They both stared dumbfounded at me. I guess they didn't expect me to be so straightforward. At that Itachi, threw Kisame my bag, took me in his arms and jumped out the window.
"Well that went well…" I heard Kisame mumble before he jumped out after us.
"Should I have left a note?" I asked Itachi.
"Hn…"
"I mean my mom might think I'm dead and that won't be good…"
"You're better of for them to think you're dead than knowing you're helping the enemy."
"You don't know my mother…"
"Fine! You can text her once and then turn off you're phone."
"Ok" I said as I started texting:
Mom. I'm fine. I'm going to be missing for o while but you should know that no harm has come to me. I hope I can see you again soon. Don't try to contact me. I love you. Jessie
"Ok. I'm done." I said turning off my phone.
"Good. Give me your phone." Itachi told me.
"If you're going to throw it away, I'm not gonna help you anymore!" I said as he looked at me perplexed.
"And what do you suggest I do?" He said mocking me.
"Keep it!"
"What?" He asked raising a single elegant brow.
"Keep it. Hold it for me until your boss trusts me enough to let me have it back."
"Very well." He said a bit skeptically.
He took my phone and put it in his weapon pouch beneath the Akatsuki cloak. The rest of the way to the hideout we didn't talk much, so a nuzzled my head into the crook of his neck and fell asleep to the sweet smell that belonged to Itachi only.
When I opened my eyes, I was in a sort of cave. The light was dim but I could make out the figures that surrounded me. They were the other Akatsuki members, or what was left of them anyway. Deidara, Zetsu, Konan, Pein, and Tobi were standing around Itachi and me.
"Isn't she cute…?" Tobi said in a sweet voice.
"Damn! Here we go…This is gonna be such a pain in the ass…unn" Deidara was so nice to point out. I had closed my eyes again but the unmistakable 'unn' at the end of the sentence gave the blond Akatsuki away.
"So…how do we begin? What if she refuses?" I believe Konan was the one who asked the question since she is the only Akatsuki member that has a girl's voice…because, frankly…well…she is a girl.
"I'm awake…" I trailed off opening me eyes. Taking in the site of the most infamous and dangerous people in the world right now gathered around me
"Thank you Itachi… you can put me down now." I said as he gently laid my feet down on the floor, and slipped his arms from my waist. "Don't your arms hurt? You carried me all the way here…"
"Hn …" he said and slightly smiled. Than he turned away and joined the group of missing ninjas.
"OH MY GOD! SHE MADE THE DEVIL SMILE!" Tobi said, obviously talking about Itachi.
At that I turned towards Tobi and gave him the coldest and most evil glare I could muster. Tobi pretended to hide behind Pein. Uchiha Madara…there you are…Still in his Tobi persona, he really didn't seem that much of a threat but I had to keep my eyes opened. I mean…the guy screwed with everybody from the first Hokage till now. My gaze softened, as so it would seem I was falling for his cute scared act.
"Please do not call Itachi-san that…it bothers me…" I calmly said to him "And if you need my help, all I'm asking for is a little respect."
"First we need to break the seal that keeps her powers locked up" Pein said. His strong voice echoing off the walls and making it sound even more ominous than it already was "Hopefully the surge of chakra won't destroy the place before she can keep it at bay."
"That's reassuring…" I mumbled. "Shitsurei shimashita…demo…anata-sama wa dare? [Excuse me, but who are you?]" I asked addressing Pein.
Itachi and Kisame had introduced themselves on the way here, luckily for me because I had utterly forgotten I was supposed to be totally oblivious to any of the people here, before they did that. Lucky me, nothing slipped out.
"Ore wa Pein." He said looking down on me "This is Konan-san, Deidara-san, Zetsu-san and Tobi-san."
"Boku wa Tobi-chaaan!" The man with the orange mask piped up. I swear…I have no idea how he keeps this up without feeling humiliated.
Pein coughed slightly to regain my attention which had been diverted to the anomaly that was Madara, at that moment. "I presume you have already meat Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame."
"Yes. I have."
"Good. Than we can begin the unsealing process?"
"Wait!" I said a bit scared now.
"I presume that you have been told that you must help us; is that correct?" This time it was Konan who spoke to me.
"Yes…but…why should I help you? What do I gain out of all of this?" I asked as uncertainty and fear creped into my voice.
"The pleasure of not having your family hunted down and slaughtered in front of you unn…" You can guess who said that, while sporting a sly and dangerous smirk.
Suddenly they all started to make the same hand seals and a felt their chakra pour inside my body. I felt a surge of power go through me. It was my power! And along with it came the memories that were sealed away from when I was eight. I understood that my powers or the small part of them that leaked out from the seal that was put on me was the reason for my dreams…and I also realized that I already knew how to control most of them. The powers I mean.
My memories came flooding in. My mother was, like me, born in Konoha. My father, my real father, was born there as well…my adoptive father, Race Bannon, who I thought to be my real father until now, had raised me like his own daughter, he was American and he worked for the SSS (Social Secret Service). Adrian Sasaki, who was my real father, was or is a great ninja from the village I was born in. Itachi and I knew each other since we were two years old. We went to ninja academy together. He was my best friend; in secret of course. We had this special spot in the heart of Shi no Mori (the Forest of Death), near a small lake. We used to sit on a log near the edge of the water and talk or play, throw stones in the water and see who can throw bouncing stones the farther; that was the only game I could win with him. I could throw a mean bouncing stone. I had these powers since then.
One of my most interesting powers was the eye limit I had. It was an old eye technique considered ancient and extinct. It was the mother of the Byakugan, the Sharingan, and the Rinnegan, and it was called Jagan. When using it my eyes turned completely black. I had 360 degree vision with no blind spots; I could see any movement or find any object or person I was looking for no matter how far away he, she, or it was. I could see through any genjutsu, and create one at my liking.
My Jagan originally activated when I was 4, and I kept it a secret from the world.
Itachi was the first and only person I told about my eyes. He helped me train almost every day at our secret spot. We sparred on equal terms but he always won. I was the only one of the kids his age who could spar with him and not lose in less than thirty seconds; actually our sparing matches could last up to hours.
One day I, when I was almost eight I made the grave mistake of getting mad at my father and my Jagan subconsciously activated. That's when my fairytale ended. My father [my true father] left me and my mother telling her that she gave birth to a monster, a devil; she remarried Roger Bannon [aka Race] and he is now the man I called "dad" without even knowing he had no blood ties to me. My mom and Race decided that to "protect" me they had to leave Konoha and seal away my powers and memories for my own good.
I was 8 when they had done that. My mother and Race moved to America and I was told I had had a car accident and had amnesia. "And the rest is silence."
With all my memories back on course and some new ones created along the road of my dreams in my fake life. I got up off the ground and sat up straight.
I noticed that they were all staring at me. I looked around the room. Seemingly I didn't destroy anything. That meant I could still keep my chakra in check.
"So…What do you need me to help you with?" I said standing up. My knees hurt from falling onto them most likely.
"We need you to help us collect the bijoux." Pein answered. "What kind of ninjutsu do you use best?"
"Odd question considering it's been a while and I can't remember everything…it's all still blurry. I do remember using Raiton and Fuuton quite well." I answered knowing that it wasn't entirely true…I could use all five kinds of ninjutsu and a couple of combinations for example Hyōton and Mōkuton...just don't know how well I could use them; but the combination I told Pein had a reason.
"You would work well with Itachi-san and Kiasme-san. Your Jinchiurinki is from Konoha. It's the nine tailed fox, The Kyuubi." He told me.
"Hn…" I said indifferently…though I knew that it was Naruto we had to capture…the blue eyed, blond sunshine, son of Yondaime Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
I would play the game for now…on the other hand…as soon as Sasuke would kill Orochimaru I would have to leave. I had something important to find and I needed help. As soon as I would leave I had to find some old friends from Konoha.
Hell…what have I gotten myself into?
Thank you for reading my first chapter.
TBC