Mendacity

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This is the filler chapter I said I would try to get up.

Hence why its so short.

When I get back Ill have at least two more chapters ready.

Chapter 4

Set Up

I could feel the sun shining brightly around me, kissing my face, igniting my skin, grass soft under my finger tips. But it wasn't supposed to be like this, I knew it wouldn't be when I opened my eyes. And personally I was sick of seeing it, Blood.

"Sakura, hide!" I was being pushed through even more blood.

"Mom, where's dad? What's happening?" The words escaped my lips with no intension. I already knew where my father was, the blood had to come from somewhere.

"Hide, don't come out, and don't say a word." Scrabbling into the cupboard I did as I was told. I was weak, I couldn't help, I couldn't even stop Sasuke-kun from leaving, and I prayed that Naruto and the team had better luck. The cupboard door left a crack, I watched the blood spill, heard the terrified screams of my mother. Until only silence rang in the room.

"Mom..." I whispered. But you would have thought it was a scream. The murder turned towards me, light reflecting away from his eyes, so I could barely see that part of his face. But I didn't have to see his face to know who it was, the glasses and silver hair gave it away. I hid behind my arms.

"Sakura, come on I'll get you out of here. You don't need to see any of this." I looked up to the man standing in front of me, Kabuto nowhere to be seen.

"Kakashi-sensei..." I let him pick me up and carry me out of the house. I never looked back.

My eyes focused, cold sweat clinging to my flesh. The end table clock blinked at me. 3:21 Am. It would be time to leave in a few hours, and I only felt worse. I went to move out of bed, brain sending messages to my limps. Only they didn't move, I couldn't move. My eyes flickered around panicked.

"Do you honestly think I would leave our little spar as it was, pet?" Red eyes called to me from the dark corner of the room, the rest of the man shrouded in a black cape, decorated with red clouds. Akatsuki, but not just any Akatsuki, Uchiha Itachi.

"Uchiha!" I managed to spit, jaw not willing to move. I tried to jump up, sit up, move, anything, but my body was unresponsive. Damn, I mentally slapped myself, I had been poisoned, and I hadn't even noticed. The sickness must have been side effects. It had to be a brilliant poison for me to not even have noticed the difference. Only the poison maker in the Akatsuki, Sasori, is dead. So who do they have now? My situation clicked. Fear shot through my body, I was at the mercy of an S-class missing Nin, a clan murderer. If he could kill his own clan, then what kind of tortures could he have planned for me, and I couldn't even raise a finger to stop him. Double damn, but I was strong now, never would I collapse to him, he couldn't break me. Not even Ibiki could, I calmed at that thought. He stepped toward me, raising an eyebrow at what I hoped was a defiantly lifted chin. He scooped me into his arms, as if I was as light as air. I flinched at the whimper that escaped my lips. I had been hoping for a ferocious yell. I decided it was best to just keep my mouth shut from now on. I struggled against the unmoveable binds to no avail as he moved silently over rooftops unill sand began to twist around me, like fingers desperately trying to pull me out of the bastards grip; Itachi leapt back pulling me out of range.

"Foolish little brother, you have come to retrieve the kunoichi, and you have brought the ex Shukaku container." Itachi's low voice rang out above me; I tried to see who he was talking to. It seemed so odd, to say the least, Sasuke and Gaara fighting together toward a common goal, especially when that goal was me.

"Uchiha Sasuke, leave now, that is an order." So they were both here, it would be a miracle if they were actually working together.

"No, this is my brother, my fight. I won't let you take anyone else precious, Itachi." If the situation hadn't been so serious, and if I had been able to move, I probably would have laughed. The tone sounded like they were discussing tea, but they're words were far more menacing... even if he had called me one of his precious people. My stomach turned at the thought.

"A precious person... and you knock out your precious people and leave them on a bench? I can understand why she wanted to be the one to beat you first... If you want your 'precious' kunoichi to live, Sasuke-kun then you must let her go with your brother." Kabuto, the bastard. So it was his poison, he's the one working with Akatsuki. It made sense; he was they're spy to begin with.

"As we speak, four eyes poison is running through this little chickies veins. As he explained it starts like any other common cold. But it is poisonous and the more you two... three stall the closer death steps to her door." I could see Kisame walk up behind Itachi, grin in place. Three? What three? How had they gotten the poison in my system anyway? The facts were getting more skewed every second.

"Sakura-chan! Let her go!" No... Not him, anyone but him. Naruto... I wanted to push him away, scream for my friend to run. I could feel Itachi's hands grip me tighter... Wait, I could feel? I willed my muscles to move but they couldn't. My body was paralyzed but I could still feel everything. It could be a genjutsu, but I would have felt that, and Kisame said it was Kabuto's poison, meaning it must be complex. It couldn't be attacking my nerves because I wouldn't be able to feel anything, and it's not my muscles because the pain would be severe, so what is it attacking. Only one Jutsu I knew of could do something like this, Hakke Rokujuuyonshou, after Hinata used that on me I couldn't move both arms and one leg. The object is to use the byakugan to attack chakra points. So the poisons attacking chakra points, but not just them, motor functions as well. I pooled my chakra in my jaw letting it mix with the poison and pull it away, it was dangerous, it would spread the poison more rapidly through the chakra system, but it was worth it.

"Naruto, run! Save yourself!" I commanded, voice coming out strong and clear before the poison could return.

"Sakura-chan." I barely heard Naruto respond, the side of Itachi's cloak blurred out of focus; I wasn't sure how much time was left.

"Ah, Sakura-san, you have figured out the mechanics of my poison already, impressive." Kabuto's voice rang from the side.

"Feisty and smart, eh?" Fish face's voice boomed from the left of me.

"Kisame, finish with this minor inconvenience. I have... more important things to take care of." I heard muffled complaints and the sounds of a battle beginning as Itachi took to the trees. The rushing air disoriented me, my head lolling to the side with every land and take off. Akatsuki wouldn't go to all the trouble of poisoning me to kidnap me, only to either kill me or let me die. This being the most feared organization in the world I didn't think that was a good thing, it probably would have been better had I died. So why did they want me alive. It couldn't be bait, if they wanted Naruto they could have set him up with the note instead of me, Kami knows he would have got angrier then I ever could. Think Sakura why else could they want you. I am the Godaime's apprentice, and have surpassed her in medical ninjutsu, but they have Kabuto, I couldn't deny he's as good as any, not to mention just as twisted.

'They should be recruiting new members, and you did destroy one of them.' Inner Sakura tossed in. That couldn't be it either; the note said 'stay away from Sasuke', not 'join Akatsuki or die.' The note... Sasuke... Itachi... Precious person... It had to connect somehow. It was like a puzzle and I was missing the most important piece.

The sudden stop made my head bounce, but still all I could see was tree's, why had we stopped? His hand tightened around my wrist, letting my body hang.

"Kunoichi, hear me," It seemed ironic; I couldn't hear anything but his demanding voice. "You are mine to do with as I please, if you forget your place, I shall remind you. I am the only thing standing between your life and death." If I could have argued I would have, but that time would come later, instead I just hung my head, letting him spew his non-sense. His other fingers rose to my chin, lifting so that we were eye to eye. My vision faded with every new fibre of red spinning in his eyes until black corrupted my world.

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Expect more when I get back.

-engineFAILURE