"Sakura! Don't!" Kabuto yelled, getting back up. "Why are you only using Onsei? I thought you could do more than that!"
"Sakura's not here right now, please leave a message," and other female voice said from inside Sakura's body. "this is Shannaro speaking. Where's Sasu-kun, you ass? I want my boyfriend right now!"
Sasuke choked. "I'm not your boyfriend! And there's a K-E at the end of my name."
Instead another voice yelled out from the Akatsuki. "Leave my baby-sister alone, Shannaro! I was and never will be your boyfriend. Just because Orochimaru is an ass, doesn't mean the two of you can take it out on my sister." The figure turned to Kabuto. "Dude, when you were trying to kill the bitch, you should have checked who the hell her father was and if he was right behind us!"
Sasuke froze. Orochimaru said only once or twice in passing that he had a child. Was this...Shannaro her? But why would his daughter be inside Sakura?
Karin gasped. She had grown up with Orochiamru and knew his daughter. When the Akatsuki had destroyed the Rasuto Clan, he went to take any survivors and use them. He brought his only daughter--Shannaro--with him to show her what one day she would be capable of doing.
There were four survivors from the battle--two older boys, a small boy that looked like one of the older boys, and a girl that seemed to be the reason they all weren't dead. two of them had silvery-gray hair and one had raven-hair and onyx eyes. The girl, he said, had pink hair and green eyes. Sometimes they would flash blue, though.
Karin didn't remember why, but she went there with them. Shannaro took an immediate liking to the raven-haired boy who looked just like Sasuke had at that age, and she claimed to Orochimaru that the boy would be her husband someday.
He asked the boys to come with him and when they refused he killed the boy that was several years younger--perhaps around the same age as the girl with pink hair. That was when Kabuto decided to join--he lost his brother and Orochimaru promised to bring him back.
But the other refused, saying he would watch his little sister and if he dared lay a finger on her to harm her, he wouldn't hesitate to fight back.
Karin hadn't been more than eight maybe when it happened--around the same age as the boy Orochimaru killed for sure. And then she watched as Kabuto got so annoyed with Shannaro trying to hit on his cousin that he took up the nearest katana and sliced her throat straight across and spat on her, saying not to mess with the Rasuto family.
"Sasuke-kun, we need to help them! That's not the girl you think she is--if we don't help them, Shannnaro can destroy everyone!" Karin told him, running out. "Hey! Shannaro! Look at me! Remember me? Leave Sasu alone and get out of his sister's body already--he made his choice and you weren't it!"
Sasuke watched as his new teammate was shot back in a gust of wind the new Sakura--Shannaro, apparently--shot at her from the fans. "Wow. And Daddy was sure I would be as weak as this child after he placed the seals on her! I guess the curse mark was just the power she needed. let's see her body use it!"
"Shannaro! Sakura didn't do anything to you!" Sasu yelled.
Shannaro laughed maliciously. "Sasu-kun! Soon I'll be able to help you with the Rasuto Clan! Your sister is an idiot--she allowed me to roam her mind like I was her Inner and I gained up energy. My body is getting more and more powerful and soon I'll be able to kill her and leave her body for mine.
"But you should be proud of her--she's gotten so much stronger with my constant reminders of the words Itachi-kun's brother told her once. She's been trying to get a mission to kill all of the Akatsuki and avenge your clan. Very much like Itachi-kun's brother, but she just started to look for revenge about two and a half years ago. How's my dad?"
"Dead," Sasuke replied from behind. Shannaro spun towards him. "I killed him myself. That's why she started to remember--I killed the sealer. Everything should be coming back gradually. Who are you?"
"Orochimaru's daughter, Shannaro. Sakura was a simpleton in the way of me and my love's eternal life to--ah! What's wrong? Sasu-kun, what are you doing?" she asked, looking behind her and seeing Kabuto holding her in place with a jutsu similar to Shikamaru's Shadow Possession.
Itachi came up from behind and knocked her down, throwing a ofoudo (spell scroll) on her back immobilizing her and not allowing her to transform back into Sakura. "This is for Sakura. You mess with her, you mess with us all. she was going to be my sister, too. Bitch," he breathed into her ear. Straightening up, he yelled. "Sasu! Hurry up and finish her! I want Sakura back to being just her soon."
"Shannaro, meet your maker!" Sasu yelled, spinning and doing a side-flip, coming down and throwing a fire ball at Shannaro from his hands. "Fire Phoenix Flying!"Sasuke watched in awe as he saw someone else using his family's skill. Shannaro screamed as she seemed to be destroyed in the fire. In her place came Sakura completely unharmed as the flames died away."Sakura!" Sasuke yelled, running towards her and ripping the ofoudo off of her. He picked her up and motioned for the recently righted Karin, Jugo and Suigetsu to come with him as they disappeared and ran far away from Konoha and to their base. "Hey, wake up! Come on, Sakura!" he whispered as he laid her down on his bed to rest. They used the old Sound base, but they didn't call themselves Sound anymore. And now that Sasuke saw what Sakura did, he wasn't sure that they deserved the name of Sound-nin.
"Sasuke-kun?" Karin asked. She walked in and watched Sakura sleeping. It was the second time she had seen something awful happen to this girl and do nothing. "How is she?"
He sighed and let her lay down and rest. "Karin, you have some explaining to do. I want to know what you know about Orochimaru and his daughter."
She nodded, knowing it was finally time to tell.
Sakura sighed and turned over in bed. "Sasu-niichan..." she whispered in her sleep. Sasuke watched as she started to move in a sleep-walk manner. She had interrupted Karin before she got very far, and now they were both watching the girl.
To her, she was in a memory-like dream, back when her life was perfect. "Aniki, guess what's coming up soon! I bet you forgot...Yay! Aniki remembered my birthday! I can't wait...Yep. Seven! I wish Sai-niichan and Gaara-niichan and Kankuro-niichan and Temari-neechan could be here...I promise, I'm going to find him! Sai was abducted and when I find him I'll always watch over him!"
"It's like she's seven again," Sasuke whispered to Karin.
She shook her head. "She's almost seven--weren't you listening? I think she's having a flashback. She had one of these the day Orochimaru brought us to the Rasuto Clan grounds. She was sleeping and the suddenly acted out the day that she lost this Sai kid. It was halfway through the year she turned six--she said a princess couldn't be happy without her favorite duke. I think it was some kind of joke.""Sasu, who am I supposed to marry?" she asked, drawing their attention back. "But everyone has to...What do mean? I have to have a sixth-cousin at least...So, whose he?...Itachi-niichan's really nice! Is he anything like him?...You should know already...Okay. Good night, Aniki."And at that, Sakura went back to sleep. Karin and Sasuke both sighed. "All right, Karin. Continue."