The Reconciliations of Haruno Sakura
Hey I know it has been a REALLY long time since I have updated and also I have deleted the original 2nd and 3rd chapters to this story because once I reread this story I realised they really sounded like crap so I am redoing them.
PLEASE READ! I am currently trying to decide whether or not I should change the pairing for this story to SasuxSaku rather than ItaxSaku. The pairing SasuxSaku plays better with my plans however if you guys want me to keep this as ItaxSaku I can make that couple work. So after reading this chapter, please review with the couple you guys want me to use...
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto nor do I wish to.
Chapter 2
FLASHBACK
And with those few simple words, Haruno Sakura became a full fledged member of the Akatsuki and traitor, along with Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke, to Konoha; the city that had taken her in when she was abandoned by her only brother subsequent to the brutal murder of their parents.
END FLASHBACK
'I wonder where Itachi-kun could be...' A certain pink-headed kunoichi pondered as she strolled through the garden in the backyard of the Akatsuki hideout. She continued walking until she felt an added pressure on her stomach. Grinning slightly, she gracefully turned in the embrace in order to face non other than Uchiha Itachi himself.
"Hey, what took you so long?" Sakura asked the flawlessly handsome Uchiha.
"I had some business to take care of." Itachi stated nonchalantly as he took a small step back while releasing his hold on the worried looking female. Sakura's expression immediately lit up when Itachi knelt down on one knee. She gasped as his hand went inside his coat only to bring out a small velvet box.
"Haruno, Sakura..." Itachi paused mid sentence to look straight into the emerald eyes of his lover. Sakura's eyes started to tear up as she anticipated the next few words to come from the man she loved dearly, the words that would forever bind them together.
"Will you ma-
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
Sakura shot up from her bed as she let a long stream of profanities spew from her mouth. Grumpily, she got out of bed, grabbed her clan robe, and proceeded to the entryway.
Before opening the door, she rubbed the sleepiness from her dull eyes. Once the door was ajar, Sakura stood staring at the shark-like features of her partner.
"What the hell do you want?" Sakura snarled.
"Leader-sama wishes to speak with you." Kisame replied while letting a grin adorn his blue face. His annoying trait of natural perkiness reminded her of a certain blond kyuubi.
However, not caring what possessed Kisame to smile, the female nin simply slammed the door in his face and walked back to her overly inviting bed.
'Well somebody's not in a good mood today.' Inner Sakura exasperated.
'No shit Sherlock, what was your first clue?' Sakura sarcastically thought back as she rubbed her face in hopes to wake her up a bit more. She had gotten no sleep the previous night thanks to that malicious dream that continued to haunt her once pleasant dreamless nights
'Well it is pretty obvious to me. You have fallen quite hard for that Uchiha prodigy!' Sakura's inner stated matter of fact-like.
'Uhm, I wouldn't exactly call it love but yes that is pretty much the gist of it.' The annoyed woman admitted.
'Wait! Did you just agree with me? You mean you actually do love him! I was right!' Inner Sakura screamed with joy as she pranced around Sakura's mind in triumph.
'Well, I am not in denial about this because I do remember how it happened so I know it must be true.' Sakura stated.
'Yea, he is the one who convinced us and gave us the opportunity to finally leave and destroy all our bonds with that wretched town.' Inner stated as she stopped mid prance to allow a more serious aura envelop her.
'Yep, I do not know to this day why Itachi would ever choose me, of all ninjas, as worthy enough to be recruited into the infamous Akatsuki.' Sakura pondered this for a brief moment before changing into something more suitable to wear, in order to speak with her older brother.
A few moments later, Sakura walked out of her room clad in tight black biker shorts, a red tank top with a black stripe at either side, black knee high combat boots, and her Akatsuki robe left hanging open. As she scurried down the halls of the main base, she wondered what her brother could possibly want with her so early in the morning.
'It is prbabaly something stupid and unimportant.' Inner Sakura grumbled.
'I highly doubt that, as it is 4 a.m. For him to wish to speak with me this early it must have some form of importance to it.' Sakura reassured.
'Whatever, just hurry up so we can get back to sleep!' Inner remarked.
Ignoring her inners childish antics, Sakura waited for a brief moment out side of Pein's door awaiting a response. A semi-audible 'come in' was heard before she entered his office.
Pein turned in his seat in order to see whom the intruder was. Once realising it was only his younger sister, he relaxed a bit.
"Sakura, a spy has informed me that Konoha has a scroll that Akatsuki would find very useful to achieve our goals. Konoha is holding it until a ninja from Amegakure comes to retrieve it. I want you and your team to go and fetch the scroll. Use any means necessary..." Pein trailed off.
Sakura simply nodded as she walked out to inform her teammates of their upcoming mission.
'Wow, that was completely and utterly pointless!' Sakura's inner stated.
'Not really, if it is going to help towards our goal then I believe it is well worth it.' Sakura informed.
'Well it could have waited until 6 a.m.!' I mean what is the point of waking us up so damn early!' Inner Sakura vented.
'Pein probably wants us to leave rather soon...' Sakura answered.
'Ugh. Still, it couldn't have waited?' Inner retorted.
Taking her mind off of her inners pointless complaints, Sakura walked back towards her teammates and her side of the base. Sensing a certain Uchiha and Shark-face's chakra signatures, though it was heavily concealed, Sakura accelerated a little until she was able to catch up to them.
"Itachi, Kisame, we have a new mission; pack now as we will be leaving in a few short hours. Our mission should be finished in no less than eight days. It takes place in Konoha." Sakura informed as she stared at them impassively.
Itachi raised an eyebrow at his younger teammate and occasional team leader.
"Uhm, and what exactly would our mission requirements be?" Kisame voiced the question that was currently going through the Uchiha's head as well.
"You will know when you are finished packing." Sakura answered as she continued walking, this time going to her own room to pack.
In the training grounds at the Akatsuki's main base, a kunai whizzed through the air until it hit a tree dead center. Smirking, Sakura retrieved about 30 or so kunais and shurikens that were wedged into the centers of several trees. Once finished, she placed them into her weapon pouch, and a few into her clothing.
She was currently wearing the normal vest she would wear when traveling, a white vest outlined in black with the Haruno circle in deep blood red on her lower back. Her bottoms consisted of a white skirt outlined in black that ended about mid thigh, and dark red leggings with her black knee high combat boots.
As she put on her Akatsuki cloak, Itachi and Kisame walked up to her.
"Are you guys ready to leave?" Sakura asked the two boys in front of her.
Once they both nodded their heads, Sakura gave a curt nod in return.
'Well it is time to go back to the place that holds most of my childhood memories, joy...' Sakura thought as she turned to leave the base.
'Well don't you just sound so enthusiastic?' Inner Sakura replied, laced in sarcasm.
Ignoring her inner, Sakura sprung forward into the trees to start out towards their destination, Konohagakure.
After a few hours of non-stop running a top the trees, Sakura sensed a follower. She quickly glanced at Itachi to see if he noticed. Once Itachi caught her gaze, he stopped in his tracks to take care of their pursuer.
"Itachi, he is a medic nin, watch his hands." Sakura announced before he was out of hearing range.
'Wow. I can not believe we noticed what the Uchiha could not.' Sakura thought, amazed that she had surpassed Uchiha Itachi at something.
Sighing, Sakura looked over to Kisame as she sensed another ninja following them.
"I'm on it." Kisame mumbled before he quickly turned around, jumped down from the branch he was on, and ran straight towards the second ninja.
"Well, so much for sticking together." Sakura sighed.
'Do you sense that?' Sakura's inner asked curiously.
'Of course I do. I just do not want to see him at the moment.' Sakura thought back. She continued leaping through the trees until she came across a male ninja around her age with spiky hair.
"Sakura, it has been a while." he exclaimed.
Sakura scoffed and simply rolled her lifeless eyes.
"What are you doing here?" Sakura growled.
"Just thought I would drop in for a little visit." The male ninja replied coolly.
"Aren't you going to say, 'I am not here for you, I am here for my brother', like you always have in past encounters?" Sakura asked while regaining her composure.
"Not this time Sakura, you are the only one I wish to see." Sasuke informed.
'Well, I just wish you could have said that a few years back before you left. Maybe then things would not have turned out the way they have. Maybe thing could have been different.' Sakura thought with a bit of grieve and regret.
"Come now, let us not reminisce in the past, Sakura. What is done is done." Sasuke snickered.
'Wow. I still love the way our name rolls off his tongue. God, what the hell am I thinking? Anything we might of had was over the day I regret the most.' Sakura thought.
"Hn." Sakura replied with the syllable mostly used by the Uchiha standing in front of her. In return, Sasuke raised his eyebrows in amusement.
"And what is it exactly that you want with me?" Sakura asked, getting rather annoyed by the way he was beating around the bush.
"Well, it is more of what I want with your body..." Sasuke trailed off.
"You haven't even killed your brother yet. So why would you want to rebuild your clan right now?" Sakura asked as she quirked an eyebrow.
"Though it is nice to see you are excited about rebuilding my clan with me, that will have to wait for another time." Sasuke stated with a smirk.
"You egoistical bastard!" Sakura screamed out.
"Hn. For now however, I need to use your special ability." Sasuke said.
'Did he say special ability?' Sakura thought confused.
"Uhmm... Do you mean my medical skills? Don't you already have a medic nin?" Sakura asked, completely confused.
"No, your bloodline ability. Or better known as the gift that killed a certain ninja you knew too well." Sasuke smirked as he said this, realising that he had hit a soft spot within the toughened kunoichi.
As Sakura stood in confusion and sadness, she instantly felt relieved when Kisame snuck up on Sasuke and knocked him out.
"Thanks." Sakura mumbled as she once again hid all emotions from her now stoic face.
Kisame simply nodded in response, soon after a smirk appeared on his face as he saw a blood stained Itachi walking up to them.
"Well, I fought Orochimaru, so you must have fought Kabuto. And by the looks of it, you won..." Kisame announced.
"Kabuto is not dead. However, he is close to death." Itachi reported grimly.
Sakura just smirked before she continued on their journey, to Konoha.
"So what are we supposed to do on our mission?" Kisame asked.
"Well, basically we retrieve a scroll from Konohagakure." Sakura said.
"They why is it going to take eight a days for such simple mission?" Kisame whined.
"Because, we are using my tactics instead of yours, which yours consist of- going and killing everyone rather than actually thinking critically about the situation, possible outcomes, and possible difficulties. I also have personal obligations to carry out." Sakura explained.
Itachi smirked at the shark man's dumbstruck face once Sakura was finished explaining.
"Whatever pinky." Kisame grumbled as he threw a twig at the pink-headed nin, who easily dodged the flying stick. From there, Sakura remained silent so the rest of the voyage was pretty much quiet and rather boring for Kisame.
As Sakura stood upon the gate/entrance to Konoha, she breathed deeply, secretly hoping that as she exhaled, the air would take her childhood memories as well. She no longer wished to feel ties to the place that had brought her so much pain, and made her do some of the tasks she will regret carrying out.
Sakura was far from oblivious to the fact that she has made an abounding number of mistakes, all of which lead to her fleeing and joining the Akatsuki. She does feel aguishly of the many things she has done in the past; however, she has not entirely regretted the fact that she is a member of the Akatsuki.
Sakura was brought back to reality when a cold drift blew past her now exposed shoulders.
'Explain to me why we are not wearing our Akatsuki cloak, which happens to hold over 30 of our weapons, while we are in the enemy's territory.' Sakura's inner yelled out.
'Is it not obvious? I put a temporary jutsu on my body to make it appear as a normal civilian to not attract any attention to myself. However, the second I start to use my chakra again the jutsu will completely dissipate and I will once again appear as Haruno Sakura.' Sakura thought nonchalantly.
'Well, we are standing on top of the entrance to Konoha, in the middle of the night. Yeah, there is absolutely nothing strange at all about that.' Inner Sakura stated sarcastically while shaking her head back and forth.
'Well, no one is around at the moment to see me, plus my chakra is heavily confined at the moment so no one can sense me either. It is like we are completely invisible right now.' Sakura informed.
Once ending the conversation going on in her mind, Sakura propelled her body towards the cold, damp, and vacant streets of Konohagakure. As she took a few steps forward, she felt a presence lurking in the shadows behind her.
Sakura sent chakra to her eyes to enhance her vision, with that done she consequently revealed her identity as Haruno Sakura. She turned to where she thought the stalker was, to find total emptiness in the ally she was now facing. Little did she know that her spy was a mere foot or two away from where she chose to glance.
Though Sakura could not see the intruder, the male nin observing her had a clear view of his target. His eyes widen in response from seeing the pink haired ninja's eyes. They had changed from their typical icy emerald colour, that everyone was so accustomed to seeing, to an almost lilac colour with two silver rings, one on the outer rim of the iris while the other was surrounding the pupil.
Shrugging her accusations off, Sakura released the concentrated chakra in her eyes. The man watched in amazement as they faded from the lilac colour to their original emerald colour. Sakura turned on her heel and walked away, towards the poorly lit town square of Konoha once she had replaced the jutsu on her body.
"Well Sakura, it is time." The man mumbled to himself as he stepped out of the shadows...
A few hours later
As Sakura paced back and forth in a hotel room, Itachi and Kisame gave her weird looks. Both of them wondered why their naturally calm and collected team leader was currently walking around the room with a distressed vibe emitting from her body.
"Sakura, what is the matter?" Itachi asked, getting annoyed with the troubled aura surrounding his love.
Sakura stopped pacing upon hearing Itachi's question. She really did not know if her problem really was something dangerous or worrisome. Quickly glancing at her arm, she then decided to keep it a secret for the time being, at least until it proves to be troublesome.
Upon releasing the chakra from her eyes, Sakura felt a tingly kind of sensation in her right arm and when she inspected it, she noticed a strange marking had appeared on her upper right arm. It went from her shoulder blade then flowed down across her tricep, and spiraled to her bicep, as it got closer to her elbow, where it ceased. The marking itself was black, but she realised when she concentrated chakra to her arm it glowed a silver colour with a hue of purple.
Sakura was confused beyond relief as to the meanings and symbolism behind the newfound weird marking. She guessed it would go away, but for now she would just have to wear clothes that would confine her 'tattoo' until it disappeared.
TBC..
A/N: Well there is the long awaited second chapter. It took me a while to write this but the next update will be faster than the last.
Please leave a review saying which pairing you guys want for this story, either ItaxSaku or SasuxSaku. However, if you guys feel another pairing would also work I will consider it.
Until next time, xXSasuxSakuXx