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Chapter 2: Cherry Blossom Abduction
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Haruno Sakura awoke early the morning of the mission, she groaned at what time it was and buried her face into a soft purple pillow. She really didn't want to get out of her warm bed and out into the cool of her apartment. Sakura rubbed the sleep from her emerald eyes and sat up from her bed. The room had grown cold and she was now shivering under the temperature.
Sakura took off her pajamas and pulled on her regular shinobi clothes. Once she had finished putting the last piece of clothing on, Sakura brushed her pink tresses and tied on her leaf village headband. When she was satisfied the kunoichi filled her weapon pouches with shuriken and kunai. Sakura ran her fingers through the long pink hair and slipped on her footwear before running out the door.
She remembered to lock her apartment door and sprinted towards the Hokage's tower. Not many people were up this time in morning so Sakura didn't have any interuptions whatsoever. She sighed in relief and focused on getting to her destination, when the tower came into view Sakura noticed two other figures standing at the front doors...
The kunoichi gulped and new that Sasuke was one of the figures. Sakura summoned all her courage and ran faster until she was only 5 feet away from her two teamates... Hyuga Neji and Uchiha Sasuke.
Like always Sasuke didn't make eye contact with her and instead turned his head away. It was awfuly silent for a few minutes before Neji decided to say something...
"Lets move out..."
Sakura and Sasuke nodded in argreement and they all started to run in a quick pace towards the front entrance of Konoha. They decided to travel through the forest so they could sneak up on the Akatsuki. Sakura had to admit that she was a little scared to go on this A-rank mission... Especially if Akatsuki was the target.
The pink haired kunoichi would never admit this outloud, she wasn't going to let her emotions speak for her this time. Sakura was going to prove to everyone
that she wasn't weak ninja, but a strong one!
Sakura had told everyone that she had no feelings for Sasuke after he betrayed Konohagakure... Now she knew that it wasn't true, deep inside her heart she
still loved the Uchiha...
Shaking those thoughts out of her head Sakura stayed focused on what she was suppose to be doing. When Neji and Sasuke suddenly came to a stop Sakura almost smashed into the Uchiha if it hadn't been for her fast reflexes. The kunoichi took out a shuriken and looked around trying to sense some sort of powerful chakra.
Far out in the west, east and north Sakura could feel chakra moving throughout the forest and making its way to Konoha. The kunoichi opened her mouth to speak...
"I can sense chakra towards the east, north and west..."
Neji narrowed his eyes towards the west of Konoha forest and then took out two ear pieces, handing Sakura and Sasuke one each. When they both put on their given ear pieces Neji took one out aswell and did the same.
"These are for communication use..." The white eyed prodigy explained.
"Now were going to split up and try to block off the Akatsuki from different areas..."
Sakura held her breath when Neji had informed the team that they are going to split up and fight on our own. She was a very talented kunoichi but alone and against the Akatsuki she didn't stand a chance... Sakura didn't want to say anything to eaither Sasuke or Neji, they would probably think that she was the same weak, cry baby when she was Genin.
Sakura's train of thoughts were interupted by a deep husky voice. Sasuke was explaining where each of them would go.
"I'll take the north,"
"Neji you go west... and Sakura go east."
All three shinobi nodded and turned on their ear pieces before jumping towards their chosen destination. When Sakura began to run to the east she felt a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. Like something bad was going to take place...
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Three tall cloaked figures stood in the middle of Konoha forest. They wore woven hats and black cloaks with red designs placed on them. One of the figures went by the name of Uchiha Itachi, and another Kisame who had a shark like face and Deidara who specialized in clay jutsu. They were part of a group called 'Akatsuki'...
All three nodded their heads and took off in different directions, Itachi could feel chakra in three different directions. One towards the north, east and west, the Akatsuki looked at eachother and started to run where the sources of chakra were. Deidara went towards the north, Kisame went in the direction of west and the Uchiha took the east of Konoha forest.
Itachi knew that the three shinobi were trying to take them out by seperating and stoping them from getting any closer to Konoha. The Uchiha smirked and hoped that the enemy wasn't too weak, this would be a good warm up before destroying Konohagkure. Itachi picked up speed and could already feel the enemie's chakra getting closer every single minute.
'I think I'm gonna have a little fun with the lucky shinobi...'
The Uchiha could feel the chakra, it was so close now. He decided to surprise the ninja so Itachi took out a kunai and masked his own chakra. Itachi stoped near a clearing in the forest and hid behind a large tree. Now all he had to do was wait for the shinobi to fall into his trap... Itachi caught a glimpse of black and pink fly through the forest clearing and land on a large branch...
'Great... I have to fight a girl...'
Itachi readied his kunai and threw it with great speed, he smirked when he heard a feminine voice give out a small cry. The Uchiha looked to where the kunoichi was
currently kneeling down and placing a hand on her bloody shoulder. Itachi jumped out from behind the tree and walked towards the wounded petal haired kunoichi.
When Sakura saw a cloaked figure approach her, she took out a shuriken and stood up. The crimson blood falling freely from her left shoulder and traveling down
her arm until it landed on the tree branch.
Sakura waited until the enemy was at a close enough range, she threw the shuriken and he dodged it. Itachi took off his woven hat and tossed it to the ground and
chuckled at the kunoichi's reaction. Sakura knew that she was up against a powerful ninja, Uchiha Itachi.
If Sasuke couldn't beat his brother than she certainly didn't stand a chance nor a threat to Itachi.
The Uchiha decided to end this right now and began to sprint towards the wounded Sakura. He was way too quick for Sakura to dodge or block any of his powerful attacks. Itachi punched the kunoichi in the gut and sent her flying into a tree, she coughed up some blood and wearily stood up. Sakura used the tree for support so that she wouldn't collapse onto the ground.
Itachi took out a kunai and ran in the direction of Sakura. The kunoichi jumped to the side only to be met with Itachi's kunai, the sharp weapon made a deep would in her abdomen and was now staining her top. The ear piece that Sakura had was picing up static and a faint voice in the background, the kunoichi adjusted the frequency until the voice was the only thing you could hear.
"Sakura are you okay!"
Itachi recognized that voice... it was his little brother Uchiha Sasuke! He ran for Sakura again but this time she was lucky and managed to dodge. Sasuke's voice rang throughout the forest and Itachi was starting to get annoyed. Sakura opened her mouth to speak but only coughed up blood, when Sasuke heard his teamates coughing he began to worry...
"Sakura answer me are you okay!"
Before the kunoichi had time to speak, Itachi snatched the ear piece and held it close to his mouth. The Uchiha could hear his brother repeating the same question over and over again so he answered...
"Not at the moment but don't worry little brother I'll be sure to end her life soon enough..."
Sasuke punched the ground when he heard the spoken words 'little brother' he would never forgive himself if Sakura got hurt, let alone died. No! Sasuke wasn't
going to let his bastard of a brother kill Sakura... not on his life.
The Uchiha closed his eyes and began to speak...
"Don't you dare touch her Itachi!"
All he heard was his brother's chuckling and the sound of Sakura panting and coughing. Itachi decided to let his brother hear the kunoichi's crys and screams of pain.
He knew that it would eat him up inside if anything happened to this girl... A smirk played across Itachi's face and he thought of a way to destroy his brother, he would
simply use this kunoichi to bring him to his demise...
Itachi threw the ear piece to the forest floor and slowly walked towards Sakura. He took out shuriken and flung them at the already wounded kunoichi, they were embeded into her leg and right arm. A loud cry escaped Sakura's lips when the shuriken made contact with her flesh, Itachi looked the kunoichi up and down. She closed her emerald eyes and fell to the ground, blood was everywhere especially on Sakura.
Itachi was sure that she would die from blood loss but he couldn't let that happen. He needed her for something that would destroy his brother physically and mentally. Sakura could hear the voice of Sasuke coming from the ear piece and the footsteps of Itachi getting closer to her. Even though Sakura had her eyes closed she could tell that Itachi was now standing beside her and looking at her bloody form.
She could feel herself slipping into unconsiousness, Sakura tried hard not to let that happen but soon enough she was unconcious. Itachi knew this aswell and walked over to where the ear piece was, he raised his foot and before smashing it Itachi said a few last words to his brother...
"Don't worry I'll take care of the cherry blossom... Little brother..."
Sasuke opened his mouth to speak but only heard Sakura's line go dead. He punched the ground again and looked up at the sky, he was going to get Sakura back there was no doubt about that...
Itachi took out his own ear piece and called for Deidara and Kisame. He could tell that they weren't in battle yet which was a good thing at the moment, he heard Kisame grunt in annoyence before speaking...
"What is it Itachi?"
"Were heading back to the fortress... move!" Ordered the Uchiha.
Both Kisame and Deidara said 'Hai' at the same time and they turned around from their first location and headed towards their base. Meanwhile Itachi scooped up Sakura and placed her over his shoulder. He sprinted through the forest with an unconcious kunoichi, Itachi was sure that he would have to explain himself when he arrived back at the base.
'This is just the beginning of your suffering little brother... there will be more to come...'
