Chapter 2 In the Hospital
Sakura entered Sasuke's hospital room. Everyday she came into his room to check how he was healing, and everyday she hoped that he would finally wake. She checked his injuries. He was getting better, but it would be awhile before he would be fully healed.
"S-Sakura," said Sasuke. Sakura saw that his eyes were open and he was finally concious. "Sasuke" she said and hugged him tightly. He tried to hug her back but all he could manage was to put his hand on her back. "Thank-you" he said softly in her ear while she hugged him. Sakura let him go and pulled away. His hand slipped of her back and flopped down on the bed. They both had a slight pink tinge on thier cheeks Sasuke's less noticibale than Sakura's. Sasuke sat up... or tried to sit up but when he grunted in pain Sakura pushed him back down. "Just lie down for now. You won't be able to get up for the next couple of days. He laid back down feeling the pain in his chest recede slightly.
He felt as if parts of his body were on fire. He tried to ignore the pain, but the attempt was useless. "What happened to you?" Sakura asked. "It's a long story" he replied. "I have time" Sakura said. " Ok, I left to join Orochimaru. I wanted to get powerful. I wanted to kill Itachi so I thought that by training under him I would finally be strong enough to kill him. I had been with Orochimaru for 10 months. Then I overheard him and Kabuto talking about me. Orichimaru chose me as his next body. In 2 months he was going to take my body. I didn't want to die so I decided to kill him. For the next 2 weeks I tried to think of a way to kill him. I tried to slip him poison. He drank it, but after he drank it he found out it was poison and knew I slipped it in his drink. He came after me but he was getting weaker and slower beacause of the poison. The battle lasted only 20 minutes. He tried to kill me but the poison killed him just before he killed me." Sasuke thought back to that moment. He had been so close to death that day. Orochimaru did some kind of jutsu that caused him to be pralyzed and then he had put a kunai against his neck and was about to cut his throat. The poison finally acted and killed Orochimaru." Sasuke" said Sakura. Sasuke noticed that he had stopped. "After that I went deep into the forest a couple of miles away from the leaf village. I camped out thre trying to figure out my next move. I deided to track the Akatsuki so I could find Itachi and kill him. Idisguised myself and went into any I found and tried to get news. Soon I found out that they were becoming active. They were raiding villages. It seemed like they wanted something, and they were just going from one village to the next. It was easy to predict were they were going to strike next. I decided to wait for them at the sound villlage. They attacked and killed lots of people, but they took all the children they could find. I saw Diedra and Sasori were leading the attack while Itachi was raiding the place of anything valuble or edible, and Kisame was doing the kidnapping. When they were done at the village I followed them, but after half an hour I lost them. This happened several times so I placed a tracker on them. The next time I folllowed them I knew why I always lost them. They graduly made themselves invisable and then teleported away. This time I used chakra strings and attached myself to them, and teleported too. I ended up in front of some kind of house built against a cliff. When I walked arouund the house I saw that there was a cave in the cliff and it was connected to the house."
"For the next 3 weeks I watched their movements so I could find out how to catch Itachi alone. Everyday Itachi would go out to this secluded place in the forest and meditate or train. I decided to attack him there. The next day I battled him. Aparently I'm no good at tracking because he had known I was there. We fought. After 2 hours we were both getting tired. So he started using his Mangekyou Sharingann. I was forced to relive the massacre. I just started sending kunia and shurikan everywere and I got lucky because a kunia hit him and killed him. After that I tried to teleport myself to the leaf village, but I didn't have enough chakra and I ended up in our old training ground. Then I just collapsed half-dead, and woke up here." (A/N That was a long story, right? Maybe I put too much into it. Oh well.)
Sasuke fell silent. Sakura was having a hard time beliving everything Sasuke had said. She also knew that Sasuke hadn't told her everything, something had happened to him. Something bad.
Sasuke was thinking back to what Itachi had said to him "If you kill me then the rest of the Akatsuki will revenge themselves upon you. They might kidnap you... or maybe someone more precious to you, like that girl with the pink hair." As soon as he said that he saw Sasuke get all defensive. Itachi knew that he cared about her. " Don't you dare touch her. Don't even come into the village." Sasuke said. Itachi just laughed evilly.
"Sasuke...Sasuke" said Sakura. "what?" he asked trying to bring his thoughts back to the present, and forget about Itachi for now. "You'll be able to walk in 2 days. Until then you have to stay in bed and do not leave nobody knows your back except for Tsunade, Shizune, Kakashi-sensai and Naruto. " Sakura said. "ok" replied Sasuke. " I have to go know and meet up with Naruto and Kakashi-sensai. I'll see you tomorrow." "See ya. "he said while she was leaving. She closed and locked the door.
Soon Sasuke fell asleep. He had a nightmare about the fight with Itachi. Everything Itachi had said was going through his head. It was like a never ending horror movie. He woke up suddenly drenched in cold sweat. Just a dream he thought to himself, just a dream, but it disturbed him. He turned over on his side and tried to fall asleep again.
Sakura arrived at the training grounds about half an hour later.Naruto and Kakashi were already there. "How's Sasuke doing?" asked Kakashi knowing Sakura had just come from the hospital. "He's getting better. He woke up today" Sakura replied. " Can I visit him now?" yelled Naruto. "No, you can't so stop asking." said Sakura and proceeded to punch him into a tree. " ok, I was just asking." said Naruto from within the tree.
"Both of you listen up" said Kakashi because it looked like they were going to get into a fight.Tsunade wants to see you in her office. They stopped fighting and went to Tsunade's office." What does Granny Tunade want from us?" Nauto asked. " Your new mission." " Yeah, a new mission what is it?"Naruto kept badgering both of them. "Sasuke's going on this mission." Kakashi told Sakura. " He can't. He's still injured. He can't even walk. " said Sakura. "Tsunade performed a new type of Jutsu on him and he regained the use of his arm and he can walk." answered Kakashi." When did she do that?" Sakura asked. "After you left."
Soon they arrived at Tsunade's office and they saw that Neji, Shikamaru,Tenten, Ino, Hinata, and Sasuke were already there. Tunade was sitting at her desk and started talking after Sakura and Nauto came in. " We have recived news from several villages that the Akatsuki are active again. We are going to send out 2 teams and you will later split up into pairs. You will patrol around the village we think is the next target. Team 1 is Sakura, Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto. Team 2 is Ino, Tenten, Sikamaru, and Neji. The pairs you will split up into will be Naruto and Hinata. Hinata blushed. Sakura and Sasuke. Sasuke hned. Ino and Sikamaru. Shikamu said "troublesome" Neji and Tenten. Neji just nodded.Your mission will be in 2 weeks, so I suggest you use the time to prepare. This mission will last about 3 weeks. I will see you all again in 2 weeks. By then I will hopefully have more information for you. Dissmised." All of them left to go eat supper or sleep.
(A/N This chapter didn't have much of a point to it. This was just to tell what happened to Sasuke while he was away. Soon i'm going to kidnap someone, but I don't know who. Tell me who you want me to kidnap in your review, and I promise there will be fluff in later chapers. Also I would like to thank XxFlowerAngelxX and Tiger Priestess for reviewing. So review and tell me who you want me to kidnap and I might kidnap someone in the next chapter. Thanks Gives cookies and candy to all readers and reviewers.