Chapter 2: Jiraiya's arrival and more of the truth
Itachi could not believe what he had just read but in a way it made perfectly reasonable sense because now he knew and understood why Sakura would sometimes call the Hokage, Ojiisan, but for her to have both the Sharingan and the Byakugan was unheard of. Never had anyone heard of, in the entire history of either clan, any of its members ever being together and had a child with one another. So how was Orochimaru able to combined these two clan's blood and make this little girl, because Itachi knew that Orochimaru would need blood from both clan's in order to do that and as far as he knew no one from his clan had went missing and he was pretty sure the same went for the Hyuga's. But there was one thing Itachi knew for sure and that was if it all was true and some how his father, Fugaku Uchiha, the head of the Uchiha clan and Hiashi Hyuga, the head of the Hyuga clan ever found out the truth about Sakura and her eyes then they would try with all their power to have someone from their own clans to begin to pursue her for their own personal gain, to be the most powerful clan in Konoha and possibly the world which would only server to make their already too big of an ego swell even more, which was something Itachi honestly knew was not a good thing when he himself was the clan hair.
"Hokage-sama is it true, I mean about her blood and eye's?" Itachi asked still unsure of rather or not to believe that part of the letter but he made sure to keep out every trace of emotion in his voice, he was an Uchiha after all.
"Hai Itachi it is. I had one of our medic's test her blood when I brought her back almost 13 years ago and compare it to both your clan's and that of the Hyuga clans blood as well as my own and it is as the letter say she has all three clan's blood running through her vein's how that is even possible I do not know its still a mystery to us. And as for her eye's that is also true but I have a feeling it will take her showing you both of them and then them together before you may actually believe what the letter and I are saying." replied Sarutobi before turning his attention to Sakura and motioning for her to stand up. "Sakura dear this here is Sasuke's oniisan (A/n: means older brother) Itachi…"
Once Sakura stood up and sat back in her Ojiisan's lap, she looked towards the young man her ojiisan had spoke of before saying "Hello Itachi-san, it's nice to meet you" Sakura said in a shy voice and for the first time since he had arrived, she was able to get a really good look at him.
He was a very tall young man at the very least 6' tall with very beautiful long black hair that was pulled back into a pony tail sitting high on his head, and if you looked at it a certain way it had a blue tint to it and it looked and probably felt very silky. His face was even more handsome than that of Sasuke's which she never thought was possible but now knew it was, but one might think he was older with the crow's feet he had running down both sides of his nose but she could tell that he could not have been but maybe three or four years older than herself. But it was his eye's that she found the most intriguing because they were the deepest black she had ever seen they were like endless pool's of ink but like his hair they had just a hint of blue to them unlike Sasuke's and held no emotion in them as far as she could tell, did he even have emotion's and if so how was he able to hide them so well, he must be an amazing ninja if the ANBU uniform told her anything. While she was studying Itachi she never noticed the small blush that began to dust her cheeks.
"It's nice to meet you as well Sakura-san" Itachi replied with the hint of a smirk gracing his lips. Sakura believed she had never in all her young life ever heard a richer, smoother, velvety voice come from a young man before. 'Now who's brother did Ojiisan say he was again?' Sakura thought to herself.
"Sakura dear do you think you could show Itachi-san your different eyes?" Sarutobi asked in a kind old voice. Sakura snapped her head back to her ojiisan, the startled look that appeared in both her eyes and upon her face said it all.
"But…but Ojiisan you told me to never show them to anyone unless it was Jiraiya-sama or ojisan (A/n: this means uncle when it has only one i the other is with two i's and means grandfather) Asuma…" Sakura began before Itachi interrupted her.
"Sakura-san if I showed you something special then would you please show me your eye's I am very interested in seeing how you have such beautiful emerald green eyes?" Itachi asked in what he believed to be a kind voice, he had seen the hint of a blush dust her cheeks as she studied him after her greeting. It might be cruel but if it got her to show him her eye's than he would play the nice guy to achieve his goal as well as show her his Sharingan and not actually use it against her.
Once Itachi said that she looked back to her Ojiisan with hope and excitement both showing in her big wide eyes, hoping if it was truly alright to show him her eyes. Once Sarutobi nodding his head and a smile graced his lips she looked back at Itachi and nodded her head with the biggest smile Itachi had ever seen. 'Hmm…it seems that the smallest things can make her happy, I will have to keep that in mind incase the need may arise.' thought Itachi. As Sakura continued to watch Itachi, she let a small grasp escaped her mouth as his eyes changed from their midnight black to a blood red just like hers even with the three black toma's, then they began to change again to where the toma's connected to each one another.
"You see Sakura you have eyes like Itachi does so it's alright to show him" Sarutobi said as he and Itachi watched as Sakura's eyes bleed from there emerald green to the blood red Sharingan that was identical to Itachi's and then to the Mangekyo Sharingan which seem to startle both of the men in the room with her.
"Okay Sakura show us the other one okay" Sakura just nodded her head because she was just to nerves to say anything with the way Itachi was staring at her as she showed him her 'red eyes' as she called it.
Once she nodded her head she let her 'red eyes' change back to her normal emerald green ones where she took a deep breath and slowly released it to concentrate on bringing her 'white eyes' forth this one took a little more work because it was a little bit harder but once she did she saw Itachi's own eyes widen just a little and knew she had done it. To anyone else they would have thought she was a Hyuga because now her eyes were a very light purple almost white with no pupils the only difference between these and her emerald one's was pretty much the color. She even had the veins surrounding her eyes like a Hyuga.
"Now Sakura, one more, do you think you can do it? I know it's hard but remember what I told you, you have to practice it in order for it to become easier, right?" Sarutobi asked in a soothing voice once he saw her begin to sweat a little and moved to brush his hand across her forehead.
Sakura nodded her head again and smiled up at her Ojiisan, and the process repeated its self again with her eye's changing back to their emerald green but this time when she took a deep breath she held it for a minute then released it and once she did her eye's stayed the same emerald green but this time she had brought only the three black toma's to appear in her emerald orb's and not the blood red color and one could see the veins she had trailing from her eyes out ward. Once she had finished bringing her new eyes up she looked directly at Itachi who also had his Sharingan on to be able to get a closer look at her eyes. Once Sakura felt Sarutobi's hand on her shoulder she released her special eyes and allowed her normal everyday eyes to show again.
"Thank you Sakura dear. I see you are getting better at bringing each of them up but I must…." Just as Sarutobi began to talk there was a loud poof and a cloud of white smoke appeared right beside Sakura.
"Gasp…JIRAIYA-SAMA!" squealed Sakura as she jumped straight from Sarutobi's lap, her arms out stretch to wrap around Jiraiya's neck almost knocking the poor Sannin to the ground that is if he wasn't use to this kind of treatment.
"Hahaha…. Hello to you to squirt, wow you sure have grown since the last time I saw you, a genin now huh?" Jiraiya said as he gave her one of his big bear hugs and an even bigger smile that showed his happiness at seeing her by the twinkle in his eyes.
"Hai Jiraiya-sama and my team and I are partaking in the Chunin Exam's; we have passed the first two and are awaiting the third one."
"I'm proud of you squirt you better keep up the good work. Now why don't you sit up here and let me talk to the Hokage and Itachi-san okay." Jiraiya said as he placed Sakura in her favorite place, on his shoulders.
"Hai Jiraiya-sama"
"Hello Sarutobi-sensei, Itachi-san" Jiraiya said as he turn to each and nodded. Itachi also nodded his head towards the Sannin in greeting.
"Jiraiya before I tell you the reason for summoning you here like this, I must let you know that I have told Itachi about Sakura…"
"But Sarutobi-sensei do you truly believe that is…"
"Jiraiya I had to because she will soon have to be trained in how to use her Sharingan and I honestly believe there is no body better than Itachi here, plus there was another deciding factor involve which I will explain in a moment but Itachi knows what it could mean for her." interrupted Sarutobi. Once Jiraiya nodded his head and stole a glance at Sakura to make sure she was not paying attention to their conversation, which he should have known she was not when he sat her on his shoulders because she always played with his hair like a child would do with their parents, then he glanced at Itachi who only nodded his head letting Jiraiya know that what Sarutobi said was true at least on his behalf.
"Now before we begin, Sakura dear, I have a question I want to ask you about your red eyes…." Sarutobi paused and held out his hand while shaking his head no at Jiraiya to silence him again before he could even start. "As I was saying your red eyes when did they change to look like the one Itachi-san is going to show you?"
Sakura paused in her playing of Jiraiya's hair when she heard her name being called. When she heard the questioned asked she wasn't sure what her Ojiisan was talking about until he gestured his hand towards Itachi, when Sakura turned her head to Itachi he let his Sharingan transform into the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Sakura then knew what he was talking about, she stopped playing with the white spiky hair that was in front of her and turned her head down to look at the ground as she began to remember the pain that shot behind her eye's at seeing both her teammates so badly hurt and endanger and her being unable to do anything about it.
"It ha…happen when he…he bit him" they were barely able to hear her, but each of them were able to see the far away look that her glazed eye's took at remembering something that she would rather forget ever happened.
"I see thank you Sakura. Itachi, Jiraiya what you are about to here can not leave this room until we can figure out what is going on…"Sarutobi said looking at each of them making sure they both understood. He waited before he continued for both of them to nod there heads. "Good now mind you this is the first time I will also be hearing about everything that has happened, thou I do know a little bit, now with that being said, Sakura come over here sweetheart and sit on the couch with me."
Jiraiya picked her up off his shoulders and carried her passed the Hokage's desk as Sarutobi was just sitting down on the couch; Itachi got up as well and moved his chair around and closer to where the other three were just beginning to sit on the couch. Once Jiraiya had sat Sakura down next to the Hokage and Itachi had moved and now was sitting in front of them only then did Jiraiya sit down on the other side of Sakura as he noticed the tears running down her face, just when he was about to ask her what was wrong she spoke in a cracked voice that sounded nothing like her own but yet she never stuttered.
"Ojiisan…I know what you want, but must I really live through it again?"
"Hai Sakura we need to know everything that happened in the Forest of Death if there is any hope of stopping him. And I know you do not wish for your teammates or yourself to be hurt again right?" Sarutobi said as he looked down upon her hating himself but hating Orochimaru more for putting her through this.
"Hai your right Ojiisan I never want to be put into another situation like that where I am not able to protect my teammates or the one's I care about. I never want to be weak again but please just bear with me as I tell you all that happened…"Sakura said courage and determination entering her voice as she spoke.
"Hai we will child just take your time, I know it will be difficult but I have faith in you."
(A/N: I'm not going to write all that happened in the Forest of Death because we all know what happened, but I will write what takes place that I am changing to fit this story. Thanks.)
"The one thing I ask of all of you is please don't stop me until I finish I just want to get this over with as soon as possible. So I guess I'll start where things began to change and everything went wrong. We, my team and I where resting near a creek but still hidden from anyone should they come across the area we were at, we figured since we already had both of our scrolls we could afford to take a little break and regain what energy we had lost back since it had only been about four hours since we entered the forest…
"Sasuke had went to scout the area and set traps up, while I went to the creek to fill our water bottles and to wet the bandage's for Naruto's head since he had taken a pretty bad hit from one of the ninja's that was from Sound that was meant for me and he was still out cold. Once I got to the creek and checked the area making sure no one was around and filled our bottles and everything and caught a few fish for us to eat, I was getting ready to head back to the boy's when I noticed smoke coming from around a big boulder to my right. The first thing that went through my mind is that they were pretty stupid for starting a fire and then I heard talking coming from that way so I figured I would get closer and see who it was and what they were doing so that way we could plan ahead so we could get around them and make it to the tower. I never thought it would be them never. Once I got closer I noticed it was the group from Sand the one that had that boy with the red hair and the love symbol on his forehead…." Sakura paused to breathe a shaky breath as goose bumps appeared across her flesh just remembering what happened.
"The girl that was with him and that other boy was talking from what I could understand was that they were on an important mission from their Kazekage and they needed to keep out of trouble so there mission wasn't uncovered. Then out of no where the red head got up and lifted his hand when he done that the girl shut up and looked towards the tree's where sand had brought three Waterfall ninja's out of the wood's for them to see, no sooner did they appear did the sc…screaming start and once the red head closed his hand and made a fist the sand covered there body's an…and you could see blood…then nothing only clapping coming from a different part of the wood's and a laugh that was pure evil, I have never heard anything like it before, it sent chills up my spine.
"When I turned my head to the voice that was beginning to talk, don't ask me why but for some reason I was frozen I couldn't move, I've felt fear before but this this was something I never felt before it was like if I was to breath to loud I would be dead before I could even exhale that breath, not even what that red head did to those Waterfall ninja's could compare to what I was feeling as that guy came out of the wood's. I only noticed that he had a Sound headband on but I had not seen him before, then he spoke.
"'Ah so the Kazekage sent his own children to do this mission did he. Well I am impress but I wonder if you will be able to truly handle the one I need and those he is with?' One of the other's said something but I couldn't hear it. But that guy just laughed again and said ' true but like you have been told before I am sure that girl will not be killed, you may wish to rough her up fine as that may be but none shall kill her. And the same goes for the Uchiha, but if you wish for more blood after this you may kill the blond kid that is with them and any other's that may get in your way…' I wasn't able to hear anything after that because someone came up behind me, put a hand over my mouth and took off back towards the direction my team was in…"
Sorry I had to leave it at a cliffy. Please don't get to mad :P I really hoped you've enjoyed the story far. There's more to come already working on Chapter Three. Please review