It was an icy cold evening in the village, everything was quiet... too quiet. Tsunade had called two squads in for a mission that she knew no other squads could do. Another reason she called in two squads was because one of squad 7 wasn't able to go out on a mission for the next few months, and one from squad 8 would have to replace her. The two squads stood before her, wondering what she might tell them.
"Since Sakura is pregnant, I don't want her out fighting, so Hinata you'll take her place, the rest of her squad please leave" Tsunade began coldly. Kiba and Shino nodded and left quickly. "You four... this mission is one I know only you four can pull off; you have to find, and kill Sasuke. I don't care anymore, just get rid of him! He's caused so much pain and suffering to the village that I want him dead! When you're done hide everything about this, don't even tell me what you had to do, just kill him" she finished.
The four were shocked to hear those words come out of her mouth. Naruto was the most shocked out of them all; the rest could see that at one point she was going to tell them that. Hinata noticed the troubled look on Naruto's face, and held his hand even tighter now. She knew it wouldn't be easy to kill his own friend, but it was no longer a thing of how easy or hard something would be. Within minutes they left. Finding him wouldn't be that hard, he had been lurking around the forest around the leaf village, as if he were waiting for them to come after him.
"It'll be easier to take him out with two people, me and Sai will go that way, Naruto and Hinata you two go that way. We have to find him before morning, I don't care if we have to be up all night" Kakashi ordered.
The three nodded, and shot off to find him. Not long after rain began to pour down on them as if flood gates had been opened. They all shivered and shook in the icy cold rain, and at times you could see ice forming on the tree branches. I hope its Kakashi and Sai who find him, Naruto thought as he tried to keep himself and Hinata as warm as possible. After an hour of wondering thru the icy cold, they knew he was behind them; waiting for them to noticed and attack.
"Go hide in the bushes, don't attack until I give the signal" Naruto whispered to Hinata. She glanced up at his blue eyes, and then nodded.
Within seconds she managed to hide herself so that not a single person would know she was there. Naruto turned around slowly, dreading what would be next. Once he was facing his once good friend, finally he could now see how this was no longer the same person he once knew.
"You're such an idiot to come out here alone, but you never were that smart. If I were you I would have taken as many with me as possible, so that they could watch you die!" Sasuke growled as he charged straight at Naruto with a chidori in his hand.
Naruto growled, and charged right at him. A split second before the chidori would have hit him, Naruto jumped over him, and landed like nothing. Sasuke turned around, annoyed as ever that he had missed. The rain picked quickly, and soon the water on the ground began to rise slightly. Naruto slowly pulled out a simple kunai, and held it with a death grip.
"So it's that game you want to play" Sasuke laughed as he pulled out his sword.
Naruto charged straight toward him with the weapon in his hands, ready to attack. Again Sasuke laughed, and charged at him. Seconds before he has reached Naruto, he heard a voice called out behind him.
"Over here idiot!" the voice yelled at him.
Sasuke turned around, only to see what he thought was one of Naruto's clones coming at him with another kunai. He looked back over at who he thought was the real Naruto, but instead a puff of smoke flashed, and the one he had been fighting was Hinata. He then turned back to face who was the real Naruto, but now, it was all over. Naruto had driven the kunai straight thru Sasuke's heart, and Hinata had hit him in the heart as well while in the byakugan mode. For some reason, he didn't see thru their attack, even though most would have, and yet, he didn't. His body went limp, and then fell to the ground.
"We got him" Hinata said as she glanced up at Naruto.
"Yeah... we got him. Let's tell the other two and then clean this mess up, we don't need anyone to see this or know about this just like Tsunade said" Naruto replied, amazingly without a sound of sadness in his voice.
"I wonder why she wants up to hide this, why not tell everyone they'd be happy to know he's gone" Hinata said, now finally wondering what the point to hiding this was.
"I don't that the fact he's dead is what we have to hide, I think it's who killed him. Wouldn't you think that normally she'd send out an anbu black op or something for this, but she sent us" Naruto replied.
Neither could make much sense of the matter, other than if they didn't do what she said there would be problems. Soon Kakashi and Sai found them, and helped them get rid of the body. Normally they would have burnt it, but since it was raining the most they could do was bury it, and if they rain stopped soon, burn it. Tsunade had not told them what to hide, but they could guess some of what needed to be hidden. First off the bloody kunai, also his Akatsuki cloak and ring, since that could be traced back to something and another was his old headband, which could be traced back to them somehow. Sai wrote down everything that had happened; even though they weren't even suppose to tell Tsunade what had happened.
"We could one day need to go back use it for something, it's better to have it, just hide it with everything else" Sai explained.
After an hour the rain stopped, and they burnt the body so that no one would know a thing. They took items and stuffed them inside a cardboard box. Once everything was set they returned to the village to tell Tsunade everything was done. Sakura was waiting for them at the gate, since she wanted to know badly what the mission had been. She didn't look like the usual girl everyone knew; she had dark rings under her eyes, matted hair from bed rest, and a belly that was huge.
"Finally you guys are back! What was the mission anyways?" she asked like nothing.
Kakashi and Sai didn't stop to answer her, but Naruto and Hinata thought it would be easier if they told her. Because of the long cold silence Sakura began to wonder why everyone had such a blank look on their face, as if they were hiding something from her and everyone else.
"The mission was to... find... and kill Sasuke. It's over now, he's gone for good" Naruto as calm as possible to her.
Tears rolled down her face at the idea of what he had told her. For years they tried to find and bring their friend home, and rather than continue with that they killed him. The sad look in her eyes vanished and now blazing anger was all that was left. She lifted her hand to slap Naruto for thing, but Hinata grabbed her hand before she could. Sakura lowered her hand, and lifted the other to slap Hinata for both allowing Naruto to kill him, and for stopping her. That time Naruto grabbed her hand. His turned blood red and his claws all but tour thru her skin.
"Don't you dare think of hurting her" Naruto growled before leaving.
The two caught up quickly to the other two. They had waited to have the whole group go and tell Tsunade it was done. Once they had gotten inside the rain started again, only worse this time.
"Enter" they heard Tsunade call. They entered the very second she said that.
"It's done, the body is burnt and once the rain stops we can take that evidence to the sand village to hide it. Who would look there?" Naruto said coldly. "Also, since Sakura would have been on this mission if she wasn't pregnant, we told her that he's dead" he added.
"Kakashi, go check on her" Tsunade growled. Kakashi nodded and left in a flash. "I told you that no one needed know, but it was her I mainly didn't want to find out about this. Who do you think the father is to that child she's carrying?" she added in a low growl.
The three stood there in shock; that thought had never crossed their minds. Before Tsunade began anything else she told Sai to leave for an unknown reason. Naruto and Hinata were scared that they were the last ones left there, what possibly would Tsunade tell them that the others couldn't hear?
"A few months back I saw Sakura sneak out the village at night. I had a black op follow her, and when they came back I was ready to kill Sakura because of what she did. I would have found a way to kill her for what she did, but once I came up with a plan, she started gaining weight, you can guess why. After that I made sure that there was more than just a couple gate keeps watching everything. A month ago she managed sneak out again, and again I had a black op follow her. She planned to once the baby was born to give it back to Sasuke, since he was short on numbers. I couldn't let this get out of hand, so that's why I sent you to kill him" Tsunade explained.
It was impossible to hide the shocked look on their faces. Sakura was their friend, and yet she was working with the enemy. Neither ever thought their friend would do such a thing, but now that they heard the full story it made sense to them. But now that he's dead, and Sakura was caught, what would happen to the unborn baby? Tsunade sighed, and then looked back up at them, as if she were to continue the horrible story she had began.
"Sadly though, the nightmare isn't over. After everyone noticed that Sakura was pregnant, one of my black ops reported seeing that Karin girl nearby. They also said she looked pregnant, so we could only guess who the father was to her child. If Karin's child finds Sakura's who knows what the two could plan. But that won't be a problem for another twelve years at least" Tsunade continued.
"Twelve years? How do we know the child won't come looking for its sibling sooner?" Hinata asked.
"What can two little kids really do to an entire village? Yes they would have their mothers who would help with their plan, but still that won't be a big enough problem for us to deal with. But two Genin at least, or even Chunin would give us more problems" Tsunade replied.
"But what's gonna happen to Sakura's kid for now?" Naruto asked.
"Sakura was good at covering her tracks in this; she knew there would be one guy would still take her. That baby will probably have dark hair and eyes, and so does Rock Lee, so for now people will just think the child is his, but later people will notice the difference" Tsunade replied.
After that she let them leave, but before that had them promise that the whole secret would only be known to them, not a single person more. By the time they were almost home Sai came running up to them like a mad man. He was about to pass out from running that fast to them.
"Sakura... just had her baby!" Sai panted.
He then took the two to the hospital where she was. If Tsunade had not sent Kakashi when she did the baby would have been born outside in the cold. When they got there Sai took them over to where they were keeping the baby. They hoped that the little new born baby wouldn't look like its father, but sadly, the little baby was a perfect copy. He had jet black hair and dark eyes. They hoped that maybe, just maybe his eyebrows would be a little bit thick so that people just thought he might Rock Lee's son, but he didn't look a thing like him.
"What did she name him?" Naruto muttered.
"Kosuke" Sai replied.
"You would think she would pick something much different" Hinata added.
The three went silent for a second, until one of the doctors came and said that Sakura wanted to see Naruto and Hinata both. Neither understood why she wanted to see them, but they didn't ask. The doctor took them to the room Sakura was in, and then left. Sakura was half asleep, and now much skinnier than before.
"You two... come closer I'm too tired to yell across the room" she muttered.
Both were now a bit scared, but walk just a bit closer. They had just killed the father to her child, and yet the sound in her voice showed no anger or anything, as if she had forgotten.
"You found out my plan, and made sure I couldn't go thru with it... but it's not over... it's nowhere near it. You two better not ever have your own kid... I'll teach mine to kill yours... a life for a life right? But I won't stop there... I won't... because of what you two did, I'll kill you myself... just give it some time... give it... some time" Sakura said before falling asleep.
Naruto sat up at the speed of light, panting and shaking because of his dream. He had tried to forget those memories, but they refused to leave him alone. But in years he hadn't remember that day in such detail as he did this time. Hinata sat just a split second after him, also panting and shaking. Had the horrible memory come back to them both at the same time?
"Where did you bury the evidence?!" Hinata asked.
"In the... no... he wouldn't!" Naruto growled as he jumped out of bed and ran off.
Hinata followed right behind him. They had buried everything in the sand village, and they knew that somehow, Kitsune had found that out and went there to find out the truth. And sadly, they both were right, for the very time they had remembered that icy cold night, Kitsune was reading what Sai had written down. Luckily Kitsune and Hitori didn't understand everything. They didn't know who the person was that had to be killed, and they had no clue what the odd black and red cloak had to do with the matter.
"I think I remember that cloak now!" Hitori said.
"What is it then?" Kitsune asked, since trying to make sense of everything he read.
"My dad said he was attack by someone wearing a black cloak that had red clouds on it, just like that one! He called the group the person was from... the Akatsuki I think... yeah that's it Akatsuki!" Hitori replied.
Once she had said the name of the group, Kitsune knew who she was talking about. When he was much younger, Naruto had shown him a photo of a cloak like that, and told him that if he ever saw someone in a cloak like that to run and not fight them. Had the person that was killed been a part of that group? But the papers made it sound as if the person who was killed was their friend. Kitsune dropped the paper that was in his hand, and glanced slowly over to the cloak Hitori was holding. Finally, everything made perfect sense to him. The reason Naruto had never mentioned his old squad was because one of them joined the Akatsuki group, and because of that had to be killed. Every little detail wasn't there, but he had most of the important things he needed.
"Hitori, do you cognize the name of the person that was killed?" Kitsune asked, hoping his new friend would be of help again.
"Umm... I'm not sure" she replied.
Kitsune sighed, and then picked up the papers. He still needed to know who the person was, and if his idea was right. He looked at the name once again, and noticed how it seemed so similar to someone he knew.
"Bingo" he said as a smirk came over his face.
Everyone noticed how Kosuke looked nothing like his siblings, and this case here could also tie into that case as well. Kitsune took the papers and thanks Hitori for helping him. After that he went back to the house, and said that he now needed to return home. None of them asked why that was. Once he went to leave Hitori followed him, and said that he might get lost on the way home. Kitsune thanked her again, and continued walking. It seemed to him as if he had found the answers to his questions, but he truly had no clue about the can of worms he had just opened. Meanwhile, back in the leaf village, someone unknown had managed to get past the gate keepers. The look of pure evil was in their dark young eyes.
"It shouldn't be too hard to find my Nii-san, I bet he's right now even looking for me" the child said. The child probably weren't any older than thirteen. He had blazing red hair that fell in his face, and glasses that were slightly hidden because of the thick wild red hair. He also wore a cloak just like the one Kitsune had. "My one problem is that I think I might stand out a tad bit" the child said in a slight laugh.
