A/N: Thanks for the reviews: Dolpher, catxangel, Liber Fatum, Poppy Grave Dreams, argent-snow and Shadowlove'scookies! To clear things up, Inner Sakura isn't gone forever, since she's just a manifestation of Sakura's inner thoughts. Madara only destroyed her temporarily, but she won't be appearing in the story again. I always found it super annoying when authors would write Inner heavily into their fics, so I will not be doing that. She served her purpose.
Sakura speaking to Madara in her mind.
Madara speaking to Sakura in her mind.
-Madara-
"Get out," Sakura hissed, her voice the only sound in the large cavern, "Get out of my head right now!"
'As much as I would love to do that,' the Uchiha replied inside her mind, 'Unfortunately I can't. Believe me, I am not happy about being stuck inside a weak brat like you.'
"Weak!?" She seethed, furious at him for daring to still be inside her head and having the nerve to insult her, then paused, the rest of his words finally sinking in with a increasing feeling of dread, "Wait, why can't you get out?"
He sighed, 'The jutsu I used to seal my soul into you only gave me a short window of opportunity to take over your body completely. It's just my luck that not only are you a pathetic weak little girl, but you have some sort of obnoxious split personality too. It delayed me just long enough to keep you alive.' He paused for a moment and she could vaguely tell that he was quite annoyed, then he continued, 'The end result left us sharing one body. Due to the nature of the seal, I cannot get rid of you now without killing myself at the same time.'
"My body, you mean," Sakura frowned, feeling very irritated with the situation herself.
'Our body,' he countered.
"No, MY body. You're just an unwanted parasite who lost to a girl," She taunted, feeling vindictive, "That's the cold, hard truth. You lost. You failed to take over my body and I'm still alive." He didn't bother to give her a reply other than an unamused snort.
Sakura rubbed her forehead and groaned, feeling a headache creeping up on her. This was just fantastic. She had an asshole of an Uchiha stuck inside her head, who moments ago had tried to murder her and steal her body, and now was insulting her with pretty much every other thing he said. She took a few deep, calming breaths. Now was not the time to panic. She was not weak, despite what Mr. Asshole said. There had to be a solution to this problem. First things first, though...
"Who are you?" she asked. Sakura knew she had seen him before somewhere but she could not put her finger on it at the moment. She was still cold, tired, and now getting hungry too.
He huffed and she could almost feel the disdainful glare he was probably sending her way. 'You are a Konoha shinobi and you don't recognize me? The standards at the academy must have slipped dramatically since I left the village.'
"Are you going to tell me or not? I'm fine with calling you Mr. Asshole Uchiha, Traitor to the Village Hidden in the Leaves, but that title is kind of long and it'll get old fast," she drawled. She couldn't help mocking him. This guy really just pissed her off.
'Show some respect, brat,' he replied with a hint of anger. 'You are speaking to Madara Uchiha.'
The name rang a bell, and not in a good way. "Fuck," she whispered to herself, as the lessons of the village's founding came back to her. It made sense now, why she had felt he looked familiar. Of course she had to be stuck with the most infamous Uchiha of them all. "You're supposed to be dead," she accused. How dare he still be alive, well... kind of alive.
Madara chuckled darkly inside her head, 'Looks like you're not as brain-dead as I assumed. I never truly died. My soul never left the living world, even if I didn't have a body for some time.'
"You're insane," she stated. "What kind of nut-job seals himself into another person?!"
'It was not my desire to be sealed into someone like you. I was hoping ideally for another Uchiha, but my jutsu was set to activate on the first person who discovered this cave and touched the seal. You just happened to stumble upon it. Quite unlucky, no?' She didn't bother giving him an answer, too busy cursing her luck. Madara continued in a sarcastic tone, 'Besides, who are you to call me insane when you're the one talking to yourself?'
It was a fairly juvenile comeback but Sakura blinked, realizing that yes she had been having a conversation with the bastard in her head and had been answering him out loud every time. She decided to test a hasty theory and thought at him, 'Fuck off.'
Madara just laughed and called her a brat again.
Next Chapter: Sakura heads back to Konoha. Madara invades her privacy.