Moroha Katana (Double-Edged Blade)
Story # 0001
by Kaline Reine
Author's Note: This is the very first Naruto fanfiction story that I ever planned out. It came to me one day when I first started watching the show, and I was really bored. Over time, I have added amny ideas to this one. It's really important to me, and I will try very hard not to mess it up. I know some of you don't like Sakura but this story involves her in the plot. It also has Sasuke, Itachi, and other important people. So deal.
WARNINGS: I have no idea what this story may contain. It may include, but is not limited to, sex violence, rape, abuse, angst, and just suffering in general. There is craziness and a really wild plot. So bear with me. Main pairing is ItachiXSakura.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto series, or any of the related characters or setting. They belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I just like to write about them.
Chapter 2:
Every day that he was busy, all his mind could think about was her. The delightful little girl with the pink cherry hair... She was so sweet, so innocent... So pure. He wanted her.
But in the back of his mind, every moment he spent with her was torture. All that Itachi could think about, was how it was only temporary. Of how soon it would have to end, and he would never see her again. Sakura had claimed his. Every second they spent together, he fell deeper and deeper in love with her.
'But at least I am smart enough to realize the feeling for what it is,' He reasoned with himself. 'We were able to enjoy one another's company while it lasted...'
He was only thankful that she was not an Uchiha. At least he didn't have to kill her. Soon he would kill everyone else that was supposed to mean something to him. And what would she think of him then?
Sakura looked up to the Uchiha prodigy, as it was. His little brother, Sasuke, looked up to him too. But he was her hero. What would she do when she saw that it was all a lie? That her hero, the one that she idolized, was a murderer? He shuddered at the thought. He wanted her to worship him, as she always had, not think of him in that way.
He would see her one last time before that day came. He would have to make it count.
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"Sasuke, Itachi!" Mikoto called. "Sakura-chan is here to see you!"
"Oh hi," Sasuke grabbed her by the arm, and tugged her to the den, where the two would usually always play together.
He glared at his big brother when he came around the corner. Sakura looked at him. She got butterflies in her stomach the instant that he was in the room with her. She never got them with Sasuke, and that felt strange to her. It made her wonder why...
"Sakura-chan," He ruffled her hair, just as he often did Sasuke's. "I have to leave for a mission today. I probably won't be back for a long time. I've already talked to Sasuke about it..."
"When will you be back?" Curious eyelashes fluttered around green eyes immediately following her sentence.
"As soon as I can," He told her, knowing that it was a lie. "I will come back for you."
Sasuke and Sakura looked at him strangely when he said that. She blinked in confusion, not quite understanding the depth that lurked just beyond his words.
Itachi smiled, and kissed her forehead, just as he always did when saying goodbye.
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His face was passive, emotionless, as he was killing all of them off. One at a time, his katana swatted them down like flies. Itachi felt no remorse for what he was doing. Not in the least. He was like a trained animal. Vicious, and wanting only to accomplish his goal.
His little brother was still training at the Ninja Academy. He had planned it this way. Sasuke wouldn't know anything about it, until the last minute. Then it would be too late for him to escape.
He'd already killed everyone. Only one more person was left to go, and that was Sasuke. He had to kill him too. He was an Uchiha, after all. And they all had to erradicated. That was his mission. There was no other way to avoid war, and ensure the safety of the Leaf Village. If there was a war, the Uchiha's would have killed everyone in Konoha. That included Sakura.
But Itachi had no time to think of anything, as he turned from his parents' cold corpses. He heard the door to the main room opening, and he knew there was only one person it could be.
"Nii-san?" Big wide eyes looked up at him in shock. "What's going on? Why is everyone-" His attitude changed when he looked into Itachi's eyes. There was the Mangekyou Sharingan. And he used it to show Sasuke all the horrifying things that he had done.
'I'm a terrible person for doing this,' He thought. 'But I can't kill him. I know I supposed to, but he didn't even know there was going to be a war. I have to find a way to warn him.'
All his efforts were in vain. All this did was scare the boy, as he screamed loudly. "Please don't kill me! I want to live!!! Nii-san!" he was horrified.
Itachi took a few steps forward, into the moonlight that filtered in from the window just to his right. It didn't work. He couldn't make Sasuke understand his motives. He had to kill him, as ordered.
Suddenly, words filled his head. Words that had been spoken by a sweet, innocent young girl.
"Sasuke-kun..." She told him one day when they were coloring pictures in the living room floor of the Uchiha household. "I love you."
Itachi had been there. He heard her say that to him... He already knew that he would have to leave the village. There was no way he could stay after doing what he did. If he killed Sasuke, then Sakura would be alone forever. She would lose the person that she loved.
"Run," He spoke darkly. His younger sibling looked up at him, confused. "Run, and cling on to life..."
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Sasuke never was able to understand why he was left all alone. His coldblooded brother... The man who had no heart. He had left him alone, with no oen to turn to for comfort. And the bastard had just left him.
Nothing, in Uchiha Sasuke's opinion, could be worse than having to live this lie. Nothing was worse than being alone. He kenw he had people that he could turn to, if he wanted friends. He had a certain pink-haired girl who was just dying to be his girlfriend. And maybe, just perhaps... They could have become truly close, if his brother had not killed the clan.
All he could think about was revenge. He had no other desires, until this one, outweighing all others, was met. He knew that he would have to explain, somehow, the way that he had always pushed everyone away the moment they began to get close to him. It was better this way. Because the more he distanced himself from everyone around him, the easier it would be when he left to exact his revenge. His only purpose in staying here in this filthy village that his brother had left him to rot in, was to become strong.
"Sasuke-kun!" The lighthearted voice found it's way to him once classes were over. "Hey, do you want to eat lunch with me? I thought that since we were on the same time, we should eat together." Sakura smiled warmly at him.
'Be strong,' He reminded himself. 'If you let her get close to you, you'll never have your revenge. It will be too hard to let her go... You'll just hurt her, Sasuke.'
"No."
The cold, hard reply would have shattered a normal girl's heart, right then and there. It would have crushed all hopes and dreams, as easily as one stepping on a discarded soda can, crushig it beneath the soles of their thick shoes. But no. Not with Sakura. She could put up with anything, as long as she thought it would lead her to Sasuke.
"Aww, come on. Don't be that way!" She sat down next to him on the stone bench anyway.
Sasuke stood up, leaving the remains of his lunch there. 'It will be too painful...' He reminded himself, walking away.
Sakura frowned. 'Oh well, I'll get him next time! He can't keep saying no forever!' Once his goal was completed, he would be free to be with her, as much as he wanted.
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Haruno Sakura had once, a very long time ago, felt the glorious sensation of butterflies dacing in her stomach when in the presence of a certain older man. But now that man had gone, she realized sadly, as she stared at the fading designs printed on the paneling in her bedroom. She was sitting on the bed, hugging her knees to her chest as she always did to comfort herself at times like this.
It had been another long, exhausting day. She was a Kunoichi now, a Genin. And she had a lot that was expected of her. She no longer felt any of the butterflies from her childhood.
But when she was around Sasuke, the last remaining member of the clan that she was so fond of... Those feelings somehow sparked up again. She felt light as a feather, as if she could dance... But then he'd always find away to bring her crashing back down to reality again.
'Why can't I just act the way that I want to?' She wondered.
By now her heart had been broken by Sasuke so many times... She was barely able to feel that feeling anymore. It made her not want to feel any feelings anymore. But she knew she had to. She would just have to keep going. That was life. And she was living hers... alone.
Curiously, she never thought about Itachi since that day. He'd become a bloodthirsty killer in her eyes. A time bomb waiting to snap. And she felt like... he would have most likely killed her, if she had been there. It was a scary thought, to know that someone which she trusted so much, who even held her in her arms when she was little, would do a thing like that. He'd gone on a killing spree. But to Sakura, he had killed himself in the process. He'd destroyed the image she had held in her heart for so long, of him as her hero.
There is no such thing as a knight in shining armor.
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Sasuke wanted to become stronger. He was the one on Team Seven who trained the hardest, day in and day out. He wanted to be an exemplary Shinobi just like his brother. Yet at the same time, he wanted to be nothing like his brother!
'I will surpass him!' He thought, as he destroyed another target in his training area with a spinning kick.
Sweat poured down his exposed chest. He'd taken off his shirt long ago, when he began to feel too hot, from the midday sun. He was panting, and all of his muscles were taught. He was wearing only his black shorts, and Ninja sandals. He caught his breath for a moment, after that series of kicks.
He thought he was alone. He'd come into the training grounds to train alone. Away from his team members, and all the other nuisances that bothered him all the time. They had no missions today. It was their day off, to spend it how they pleased. He had chosen not to be lazy like the others. He would improve himself with every spare minute he had.
"Sasuke-kun!"
'Oh no,' He gritted his teeth. 'Not her again.'
He had sensed Sakura's chakra a while ago. But he hadn't said anything to clue her in on the fact that he knew he was being watched. He was hoping that it would be like all the other times that the girl came out here to watch him train.
When Sasuke didn't answer, she became particularly interested in a blade of grass that was by her feet. Sakura usually didn't talk to Sasuke when he was training, but today she had made up her mind... She would try one last time, before giving up forever.
"Sasuke-kun... I love you."
"No you don't," He said like always. Then what he said next surprised her. "Don't you get it?! Sakura-san... You are always bothering me. You're annoying. I don't have any interest in you right now. I only want to get stronger, so I can finally have my revenge. I fucking hate you! Go home and stay the hell out of my life, you stupid bitch!"
'There, that should do it,' He felt proud of himself. 'Now she'll never bother me again. I hate to be so mean to her, but right now... She's just another obstacle. Why can't she see that?'
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Rather than talking about his feelings, he had lashed out at her. Sakura's eyes watered up. Her hands were shaking. Her world was shattered.
Sobbing, she ran deeper into the forest, as far away from the training grounds as she could get. The tears clouded her vision, and she couldn't see where she was going. She looked up, but couldn't see the Sky. All the trees and rocks and bushes looked the same. She was lost.
Sakura began to panic. She couldn't see which way she had come from, so she sat down at the base of a large tree, and cried into her crossed arms.
'Some Kunoichi I am...' She thought. 'I can't even find my way back when I get lost. And the guy that I love hates me.'
Then, she began to sense a strange chakra near her. She could tell the person was much stronger than herself, and it began to worry her. She wanted to crawl away and die anyway, so what did it matter if it was an enemy? She just couldn't get over what Sasuke had said to her. The sinister chakra slowly creeped it's way closer to where she was.
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A/N: I didn't mean to keep things like this for so long, but I felt this story needed a good backstory in order for people to understand it. I like how I portray Sasuke in this one, and to me it almost seems... accurate. Things will be much more interesting, once everything is set up the way I want it. I would like to know what you think of this story so far. Thanks for reading!
-Kaline Reine