Title: Revenge is Sweet

Author: ZukoKrazy

Rating: T (maybe M later on)

Summary: (ItaSaku) Meet Sakura, an average high school nobody. She was ignored and forgotten. Her only friend and reason in life is a boy named Uzumaki Naruto. When Naruto is framed for something he didn't do, he left Sakura forever, and she swears revenge. To carry out the revenge, Sakura joins a group who called themselves the Akatsuki. Sakura's life is about to change. AU Akatsuki fic

A/N: Woo-hoo! ItaSaku! Sakura and the others are all 14 or 15 while the Akatsuki remain their ages. Enjoy!

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And it's a beautiful morning here in Konohagakure at 5:15. Today's forecast will be…

Haruno Sakura slammed her fist on to the radio clock and groaned. Muttering threats against the radio station, she rolled out of her bed.

Yawning, Sakura flipped on the lamp. Light exploded in the room and Sakura shielded her eyes. Turning on the radio again, Sakura's eyes widened as she heard her favorite song: Animal I have become by Three Days Grace.

For the first time that morning, Sakura smiled.

Singing along with the song, Sakura walked into the bathroom. Turning on the shower, Sakura discarded her clothes and stepped into the shower.

She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and shampooed her bubble gum pink hair. Quickly rinsing it out of her hair, she soaped her body and rinsed that as well.

Turning off the shower, Sakura wrapped herself in a fluffy white towel and stepped back into her room, looking around.

Her room was fairly neat, with the occasional piece of clothing strewn about. Her deep blue room always reminded her of the ocean.

Sakura walked up to her dresser and pulled out some underwear. Not delaying Sakura slipped them on and pulled out a pair of jeans. Slipping said jeans on, she looked for a shirt. She pulled out a black shirt that said I'm smiling because they haven't found the bodies yet in white letters.

Sakura smiled to herself and pulled it on over her head.

Running a hairbrush through her hair quickly, Sakura left it down. Bounding to the kitchen in her cramped apartment, Sakura pulled out a cup of instant ramen.

As she waited the three required minutes, Sakura smiled as she thought of the person that got her hooked on ramen in the first place.

Quickly finishing her ramen and brushing her teeth, Sakura grabbed her worn out backpack. Running out the door, Sakura hoisted the backpack up on her shoulder.

"Sakura-chan!" Sakura's best friend, Uzumaki Naruto, exclaimed as he saw her.

Living in the same apartment complex, Sakura and Naruto walked to school with each other every day.

"Good morning, Naruto," Sakura greeted. Naruto had on a pair of denim jeans and a blue shirt. Letting his spiky blond hair hang in his face, Sakura had to say that he looked pretty good.

"It's a good thing we have normal classes today, Sakura-chan, 'cuz you wouldn't be able to fight in those!" Naruto exclaimed, eyeing Sakura's tight-fitting jeans.

Naruto grinned. Sakura scowled and playfully hit him over the head.

"Aww…well isn't that touching?" a voice sneered from behind them. Naruto and Sakura whipped around.

Uchiha Sasuke and Yamanaka Ino stood there, smirking. As the most popular couple, they loved torturing and making fun of people lower on the "social totem pole."

"Look, Sasuke-kun! The Kyuubi boy and forehead girl! You know what they say, Sasuke-kun, freaks tend to stick together!" Ino shrieked with laughter while Sasuke smirked.

"Have you looked in a mirror lately, Ino-pig? Surely you've noticed the poundage you've gained around the stomach area. And what about you, Sasuke? What's with the chicken butt on the back of your head?" Sakura dished out harshly. "Let's go, Naruto." Taking Naruto by the wrist, she stalked away from the scene.

Sakura was still fuming when they arrived at school. "I'll see you later, Naruto!" Sakura's face softened, waving goodbye to her friend.

Walking to her locker and opening it, Sakura got her books and headed to homeroom.

She looked around at the familiar faces.

Sighing, she started walking to her seat in the back.

Ino and Sasuke stopped in their making out long enough for Ino to stick her leg out and for Sasuke to glare. Smirking, Sakura kicked Ino's leg out of the way.

As Sakura walked by the Hyuugas, Hinata gave Sakura a sympathetic look while Neji talked animatedly to Tenten, ignoring Sakura.

Passing by the Sand Siblings, Gaara glared at every living thing, Kankuro ignored her, and Temari made weird faces at Shikamaru's back, grinning at Sakura when he turned around.

Sakura chuckled and sat in the back. Pulling out a piece of paper, she started doodling.

By the time Kakashi finally walked in, it was time to switch classes.

Stuffing her drawing of Ino being fed to crocodiles in her bag, Sakura followed her class out the door.

First period: Science with Kurenai. Walking into the class, Sakura scarcely paid attention to the division of cells.

Second period was history with Gai. It was pretty easy, but occasionally Gai would shout out, "YOSH!" if a certain battle was won.

Third period: Math with Kakashi. He put up a simple problem on the board and sat down to read. Sakura finished early and took out her drawing and continued with it.

Looking over at her teacher to make sure he was looking away, Sakura passed the note to Naruto. As soon as he read it, he laughed very, very hard. Silently, of course, but his chair was shaking as he laughed.

Sakura grinned and started making another.

Soon the bell rang and everyone sprang from his or her seats.

Sakura and Naruto both walked to their lockers, laughing and joking.

As Ino passed by Naruto's desk, she noticed a piece of folded paper on it. Curious, she picked it up.

Ino's mouth dropped open. Crumpling the sheet in her fist, she growled and set out to find Sasuke. Naruto would pay for this.

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It was after school. Everyone was gone. Of course, Naruto's books had fallen all over the places and people had kicked them all over the place in their haste out.

"NARUTO!" came the angry cry of Sasuke.

"What?" Naruto replied, confused, not bothering too look up from gathering his papers.

"Stop drawing gay pictures of my beloved Ino!" he yelled, picking Naruto up by the scruff and slamming him into the wall.

"But I didn't draw anything!" Naruto choked out, scratching at Sasuke's hands.

"Then what the hell is this!" Sasuke roared, shoving the picture of Ino that Sakura drew into Naruto's face.

Naruto realized that if he told Sasuke who really drew that, Sakura would be in for a life of misery.

Naruto gulped and said, "Well, I did draw that one."

Sasuke growled and punched Naruto in the face. Falling to the floor, Naruto flinched and stood up.

Bolting past a surprised Sasuke, Naruto tried going to the only place where he was safe: his own home.

Suddenly, sand engulfed him. Naruto screamed and tried to escape, but he couldn't.

"Should I kill him?" a quiet, dangerous voice asked Sasuke from behind Naruto.

"Not yet, Gaara. Where's Neji?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know," came the soft reply.

"You know what we have to do," Sasuke said grimly.

"Actually…no," Gaara said.

Sasuke fell over anime-style.

"What do you want me to do with him?" Gaara asked, indicating to Naruto.

"I don't know," Sasuke replied, thinking.

"I've got an idea," Neji said, appearing out of the shadows.

"Get his girlfriend."

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Sakura hummed as she walked home. It being about three in the afternoon, not many people were out.

Then again, Sakura lived pretty far from the city.

Shifting the weight of her backpack, Sakura continued her walk home.

Suddenly a blur rushed out at her from behind a nearby tree. Sakura gasped and dropped her bag. Whipping out her kunai, she stood ready to defend herself.

Suddenly, someone grabbed her from behind. Sakura shrieked and tried to stab her captor's arm.

The first blur got out a piece of cloth and gagged Sakura while the one holding her from behind tied her wrists and ankles together.

Throwing Sakura over his shoulder the second person started to set off to wherever he was taking her.

"Now that's not to nice…yeah," came a voice outside of Sakura's vision. Quickly her captor dropped Sakura and ran for it, along with the other person trying to capture Sakura.

"Are you ok, yeah?" a voice asked Sakura, untying her. Sakura sat up and removed her gag, turning around to face her rescuer.

A teenager about the age of 19 or so stared back at her. With his long, blond hair covering his left eye, and a grin on his face, he didn't look too intimidating.

"My name's Deidara, yeah," the man said, helping Sakura to her feet. Only then did she notice the long, black cloak with red clouds he wore. With a gasp, she noticed a long slash mark through his forehead protector.

"You're part of the Akatsuki!" she gasped, backing away.

"Yeah," he confirmed.

"Uh…well, thanks for helping me out," Sakura said hastily.

Deidara shrugged, turning away.

Sakura nodded once at his back before leaping off into the trees to go find Naruto.

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Sasuke and Neji returned soon after they left. Scowling.

"That Akatsuki bastard, Deidara, helped her out," Neji stated.

"Is she part of Akatsuki?" Gaara asked.

"Not that I know of," Sasuke said.

"Akatsuki?" Ino, who was also there, asked.

"An organization that deals with pranks and sometimes more serious things like revenge," Sasuke answered.

"I heard that they sometimes do assassinations," Neji said quietly.

"Only rarely. They are composed of mostly of upperclassmen that have nothing better to do. My brother Itachi is one of them," Sasuke said.

Naruto squirmed more and the attention was brought back to him.

"Well, I guess we better get started," Neji grinned evilly, cracking his knuckles and advancing towards Naruto.

"Yeah," Sasuke chimed, also grinning.

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At about nine that night, Naruto limped home.

Covered in various injuries, he was glad that the torturing was over. Remembering Neji's promise of beating him up tomorrow too, Naruto shuddered.

"Naruto!" Sakura cried out when she saw him.

"What happened?" she asked, rushing up to him.

"Nothing," he lied.

Sakura grabbed his arm and pointed to a bleeding cut. "This isn't nothing!" she cried. "Come to my apartment."

Without giving Naruto a chance to answer, Sakura grabbed him and dragged him into her apartment where she healed him using her chakra.

"What happened?" Sakura asked softly after she had finished.

Naruto looked away.

Sakura sighed and sent him home. Soon after he left, Sakura got into bed.

What the hell happened to that poor boy? She thought as she let sleep claim her.

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And so it continued. Almost everyday after school Naruto would come home with cuts, bruises, and once a broken wrist.

Naruto's single father, Arashi, was clueless as to what was going on, for every night Naruto would come home completely unscathed.

One night, however, Naruto came to the apartment complex with many more cuts and bruises then usual, and Arashi had been getting the mail. He saw Naruto and immediately rushed over shouting things like, "What happened? Who did this to you?"

Naruto looked away and Arashi knew that he had been bullied. His face softened and he said quietly, "Let's go see Sakura. She'll be able to heal you."

Knocking quietly on the door of Sakura's apartment, Arashi looked down at his only son. He sighed and looked up sharply when Sakura answered the door.

"Hokage-sama," she said, looking surprised, then, remembering her manners, bowing.

"Sakura-san, will you please heal Naruto?" Arashi said, getting straight to the point. Sakura nodded and invited them in.

Kneeling on the floor, Sakura healed the wounds on Naruto's legs while Arashi pumped Naruto for information.

Naruto begrudgingly told his father and when Arashi heard, he scowled and said quietly, "That explains it."

Sakura finished healing and Arashi took hold of his son by the shoulders.

"Naruto. There was a note in the mail. It…it was a message delivered by that Uchiha boy. It must have been delivered to the wrong address. It was a note recruiting all ninja. Apparently the Yamanaka girl was hurt. It said that all ninja should report to training ground 11. They…they were planning to kill you, Naruto," Arashi said urgently, showing Naruto the note.

Sakura gasped.

Naruto's eyes widened.

Arashi closed his eyes and said, "We're moving."

Sakura and Naruto both cried out, "No!"

"Naruto, they had you listed as a criminal! I'm surprised ANBU aren't at our door right no-!" A loud banging on the door cut off Arashi. His eyes widened and Sakura whispered, "Hide!"

Arashi and Naruto both scrambled into the bathroom and closed the door quietly. On the other side of the door, they heard Sakura kick away their shoes and open the door.

"Yes?" she asked.

"We're looking for a boy named Uzumaki Naruto and his father Uzumaki Arashi. They both took place in the ambush of Yamanaka Ino. We were told that he lives in this apartment complex and we are evacuating all citizens that live here. They are highly dangerous and they are known to attack randomly," a muffled voice said.

Naruto and Arashi's eyes widened as they heard this.

"Alright," they heard Sakura say. "Just let me get something from the bathroom. I'll get out of here after then." They heard the footsteps of the other people and the banging of them moving on to next door.

The bathroom door opened and both Arashi and Naruto fell away from the door.

Sakura's eyes were wide and she said urgently, "You guys have to get out of here! There are ANBU moving door-to-door looking for you!"

Arashi nodded and took Naruto's arm.

"Goodbye, Sakura-san. It was very nice knowing you," Arashi said.

"Sakura-chan," Naruto whispered, hugging Sakura tightly.

"I will miss you, Naruto," Sakura said softly, hugging her best friend.

Naruto let go of Sakura and Sakura kissed Naruto on his cheek. "Be careful," she whispered in his ear. He nodded and disappeared with his father.

Only when the smoke cleared did Sakura shed a tear.

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A/N: And there's chapter one! No, this isn't a NaruSaku fic. It is going to be ItaSaku with a little DeiSaku fluff. I hope you enjoyed chapter one, please review!

Forever,

ZukoKrazy