Hops everyone is so far enjoying the story, and I know chapter 6 was kinda lovey dovey stuff, but I had to put it in as in update for the wedding. Well enjoy chapter 7!


Chapter 7: The Mission of a Lifetime

Itachi and Serina's room

Today, Serina woke up early from her slumber with Itachi, and no they did not do it. They just share a bed now. Serina slowly arose from the bed and walked over to her closet. She chose a baby-blue tank top and a black skirt that reached her mid-thigh. Under the skirt, she would wear light blue skin-tight shorts. They were a little above her knees though. She also picked out a pair of black ninja sandals. Satisfied with her clothes, she went down the hall and to the bathroom to take a shower.

Itachi woke up a few minutes later and wondered where Serina was, but he guessed that she was taking a shower, seeing as her clothes for today are laid down on the bed. Itachi just picked out a black tee with the Uchiha fan on the back of course with a fishnet shirt underneath it and black cargo pants with his normal black ninja sandals. Really he just picked out his normal attire. Then he sat on his bed waiting for someone to come out of the shower so he could go in.

Sasuke and Sakura's room

Sakura as usual woke early too. She quietly crept to her closet and decided to wear a pink fitted tee that had a small cherry blossom imbedded on it. She also took out a dark red skirt that reached 5 inches above her knees. She wore white shorts though and they went down to her shin. She wore red sandals also. Sakura went to the other bathroom and took a warm shower.

Soon enough, Sasuke awoke and saw that Sakura was gone. Hn, probably went to take a shower. Sasuke chose to wear a dark blue t-shirt with his off-white cargo pants, and also with blue sandals. His normal attire as well like Itachi. He sat down at the desk and started to draw a picture. Then he heard someone come into the door, it was Sakura.

"Oh! Your awake, sorry I kinda thought you'd be asleep until after I got changed." Sasuke eyed her for she only had a towel around her body and a towel wrapped around her hair. "What are you staring at?" Sakura asked curiously. Sasuke still stared though and then Sakura spoke again and said, "Pervertsayswhat?" "What?" Sasuke answered.

"HAHAHAHA! Omg do you even know what I just said!" Sakura was bursting with laughter and then Sasuke slowly played back their conversation in his mind. Now he realizes what he said.

"I am not a pervert! And you tricked me!" Sasuke grabbed his clothes and towel and headed toward the bathroom.

"hehe, I knew that would work." Sakura whispered with a grin. She walked over to the bed and got dressed. Then she sat down at the desk and started to rush her bubblegum pink hair. She stopped when she noticed a drawing. It was a picture of a girl and boy who seemingly resembled Herself and Sasuke. They were under a cherry blossom tree and the girl leaned her head onto his shoulder. They look as if they were sleeping. She then saw that their hands were twined together while sleeping.

"Aww, who knew Sasuke was so romantic!" Sakura squealed. Then she noticed that the door just closed and in the room was Sasuke with his clothes on. He stared at her and heard what she said. Sasuke walked up to her and grabbed the picture.

"HEY! Sasuke-kun! I want that picture! Its too cute!" Sakura desperately said.

"No! Besides I didn't draw it!" he lied.

"Yeah sure, and somehow someone imaginary came into the room and took a pencil and just randomly started drawing a picture of me and you, right?" Sakura said sarcastically.

"…"

"Uh, whatever, lets just go downstairs." Sakura said.

Back with Itachi


Itachi sat on the bed and started to think back to the Uchiha Massacre which he caused. Itachi blamed himself for the deaths of the Uchiha clan, but what could he do, there is no way to bring back the dead. Itachi then heard the bedroom door open and close and he saw Serina wrapped up in a towel and she looked surprised.

"Uh… ohayou Itachi-kun, I forgot my clothes, and that's not like me, eheheh.." Serina nervously laughed. Itachi stared at her and forgot about what he was thinking before.

"Uh.. I'll go take my shower now and you can have the room for yourself." Itachi grabbed his black towel and clothes and rushed out the door.

"Weird, and I thought that he would have done something perverted, oh well." Serina whispered in a low voice. She quickly put on her outfit and attached her kunai hollister around her leg and attached a shikuren by her right ankle. Serina walked out of the room and came to the kitchen.

The Kitchen

"Ohayou everyone!" Serina cheerfully said.

"Ohayou!" Mrs.Uchiha, Sakura, Mr.Uchiha, and Sasuke said. She noticed that Itachi wasn't there yet.

"Hey sis, you know what, me and Sasuke-kun ran into Itachi in the hallway, he looked nervous." Sakura said.

"Yeah, and he was muttering something about towel, wet, hot, I dunno, he freaks me out sometimes though." Sasuke continued.

"Do you know why?" Sakura asked.

"no." she lied. Then on cue Itachi came into the room. He sat next to Serina and wondered why everyone staring at him.

"what! Stop staring!" Itachi yelled.

"Maybe they would stop staring if you looked in the mirror, your hair isn't tied into a ponytail, and your only wearing your fishnet shirt." Mr.Uchiha said sternly.

"Suits you nice brother!" Sasuke took that opportunity to laugh at his brother.

"Sasuke quit it! Now Itachi put your shirt on and tie your hair, and girls, could you give me a hand with bringing the food to the table?" Mrs.Uchiha asked. "Hai" all 4 teens said.

Itachi fixed himself up and came back. Sasuke was now in her normal position. And the 3 women arrived with the food. They set it onto the table. The family began eating their food and talked about what would happen today.

"Just think, today, Serina and Itachi will move into their own house and live their alone.. (sobs a little) I'm losing my big son!" Mrs.Uchiha whined like a little girl.

"Serina make sure you take care of him. And I expect to see little Serinas and Itachis run around here soon too!" Both Serina and Itachi blushed a dark red.

"Mom your embarrassing them, besides you know that Serina will take of Itachi good, I mean she's the only one that like has control over him." Sasuke made a point.

"Besides they will be living 2 houses away." Mr.Uchiha spoke up.

"I no, but soon then Sakura and Sasuke will go too! Ahh my baby boys are growing up so fast!" Mrs. Uchiha then put both of her arms around her sons and held onto them tightly. She finally let go when she realized that they were gaping for air. Mr.Uchiha, Serina, and Sakura, couldn't help but laugh at the 2 Uchiha Brothers.

Later that Day


Serina and Itachi both packed all of their belongings and were about to leave to go to their new house. They were bidding their goodbyes, but did they really have to? I mean they were only living 2 houses away!

"Yeah, yeah, good bye kaa-san, tou-san, I'll see you later, remember?" Itachi said. He really just wanted to leave, since he was 18 and kinda still living with his parents…

"Ja ne son, ja ne soon to be daughter-in-law!" Mr.Uchiha said with a smile.

"Goodbye guys, and we'll be 2 houses away so if you need anything, then let us know!" Mrs.Uchiha said.

"Bye brother, looks like I get your room now!" Sasuke said with a smile. Itachi's old room was really big and Sasuke liked that.

"Whatever little brother."

"Bye guys, have fun!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Hai, ja ne everyone!" Serina said. And so Serina and Itachi left their old home to go to their new home. It was a cream colored Victorian house, with still the Japanese sliding doors. The backyard and front yard both had blooming flowers and covered about 3 acres of land. It looked like a mansion, but it wasn't, for the house was just a little bit bigger than its normal size.

Once Serina and Itachi unpacked everything and settled down, they finally were able to relax. And how they packed up everything in one afternoon, 2 words, Kage Bunshin! Itachi plopped down on the light brown love seat couch and turned on the t.v. Serina sat on an arm chair and closed her eyes. She had lost most of her chakra considering the fact that she made more clones then Itachi.

"Serina whats for dinner?" Serina opened one of her eyes and said, "I don't know! I'm so tired, why can't we go out and eat?" "Okay, okay! Lets go get ready then. But remember we have another mission tomorrow morning, so we have to be home early to get some rest." Itachi said. Itachi and Serina both went to their room and picked out what to wear. Serina chose another tank top but it was black. She also chose a black mini skirt that was 6 inches above her knees. She also picked out black high heels. Itachi chose a black big collared shirt ( you know like what he wears in the show) with the Uchiha symbol on it and he chose black jeans with black adias. Once they were ready, they decided to go and eat at the ramen shop. (sorry forgot how to spell its real name!)

While walking, people bowed their heads in respect to the couple since they were Konoha's top 2 elite ninjas. Suddenly they spotted two oddly familiar people who just happened to be their siblings in the ramen shop.

"Hey look it Sasuke and Sakura." Itachi said.

"Yeah, hey I wonder what they are doing in the ramen shop and why are they so close?" Serina asked. Sasuke and Sakura did not know that their older siblings were watching them.

"I don't know but look, Sasuke and Sakura are well um….(whispers) kissing." Itachi said, he really didn't care if his brother made out with Sakura, and Serina she understood kissing and hugging, but making out in public!

"Ah!" Serina shouted, Itachi slapped a hand over her mouth and then they both walked over to the kissing couple. Sasuke and Sakura stopped once they heard someone go 'ahem!'

"Uh….. Hi guys, what are you doing here?" Sakura asked innocently. Serina took Itachi's hand off her mouth.

"We were going to eat here, but instead we found you two." Serina replied. For once, she was not bursting into a mad fit.

"Serina, aren't you suppose to go ballistic or something since you saw me and Sakura kissing?" Sasuke questioned. "Why should I? I have no control over her life anymore and she is of age to do that." "Yeah, besides me and Serina used to do that when we were 15 too only a little more..." Itachi accidentally blurted out. Sakura and Sasuke stared in horror and wondered exactly where they made out. "Oops!"

"Way to go baka." Serina said rolling her eyes.

"ahaha, why don't we just eat now." Both couples took their seat and ordered their ramen. 5 out of 10 seats were taken by people at the ramen shop. Four taken by our couples and 1 taken by a single man in a brown trench coat and a black cap on. He made the teens start a quiet conversation. Right now all 4 teens are whispering.

"Hey, do you see that guy over there?" Sakura asked them.

"Yeah, he looks like an outsider, maybe a drifter." Serina answered.

"He does but I don't have a really good feeling about him." Itachi said.

"Me too, he looks way to suspicious, and the trench coat and hat make it even worst." Sasuke said.

"I no what ya mean, he kinda reminds me of-" but before Sakura could finish her sentence, the strange man got up from his seat, he paid the ramen man and glanced towards the two couples while walking out of the restaurant.

"Whoa.. did you see his eyes, creepy." Serina said, everyone forgot about what Sakura was about to say.

"Well let's just drop it, anyway, we should be going home now and so should you too Sasuke and Sakura." Itachi said with a look of concern.

"Hai, ja ne!" Both Sakura and Sasuke said. Itachi and Sasuke paid for both of theirs and their girlfriends' meals. Sasuke and Sakura got up and left. Sasuke had his arm around Salura's shoulders and they walked off slowly. "Ja, get home safely!" Serina shouted a far when Sasuke and Sakura were already walking. "Yes mother!" Both Sasuke and Sakura said. Serina and Itachi chuckled. "You do know that they live only 2 houses away from us, right?" Serina nodded and smiled. She giggled.

"Well we better go too." Itachi said. Itachi took Serina's hand and they left to go to their own house.

The Next Day

Serina and Itachi got up and they dressed in their outfits. Serina wore her blue tank top and black skirt, and Itachi wore his normal attire.

"Morning Itachi-kun!" Serina was making breakfast when Itachi came into the kitchen. Their kitchen was fairly large, complete with all the essentials that a kitchen would need.

"Morning Serina." Itachi said sleepily. "Whats for breakfast?" he asked.

"Well I'm actually making a big meal today since we have a couple guests coming over right now to help with our mission." Serina said.

"Oh? And who would that be?" Itachi asked. He raised and eyebrow at her. On cue, the guests barged through the front door and ran into the kitchen. And who else would it be but Sasuke and Sakura.

"Those are our guests and teammates for this mission from Tsunade-sama." Serina sighed. Sasuke was chasing Sakura around the whole kitchen because she took his last tomato from him. Sakura actually ran to Serina and Itachi's house just so she would be protected from Sasuke. Sakura ran behind Itachi.

"Itachi! Help me from your crazy brother!" Sakura yelled. She was digging her nails into his back really hard so that he could accept.

"Sakura I'll help just stop tugging on my shirt and quit digging your fingernails into my back! It hurts!" Itachi yelled back. Sakura stopped and nervously laughed. Serina could only chuckle.

"Now Sasuke quit it or I'll kick your ass!" Itachi yelled again. Sasuke was afraid of his angry brother so he ran behind Serina. "Serina nee-chan! Please don't let him hurt me." Sasuke pleaded as he hugged on Serina's stomach. Serina wrapped her arms around Sasuke's head since he was a little shorter than her. She giggled.

"Itachi-kun look at us, we've become protectors of each other's siblings." Serina said and Itachi smirked. "Well, I guess you can't kick Sasuke's ass because I'm protecting him." Now Serina was the one to smirk.

"WHAT! Itachi no! You've got to save me from that tomato obsessed freak!" Sakura joked. Itachi turned his head to Sakura and nodded. Then he turned his head back to Serina and Sasuke and said, "Well looks like I have to now.."

"WHAT! Serina you've got to help me against jerk of a brother and tomato stealing girlfriend!" Sasuke said also. Serina becoming irritated with this conversation decided to end it.

"EVERYONE STOP! Ok now Sakura apologize to Sasuke for taking his last tomato. Sasuke apologize to Sakura for chasing and scaring her. Itachi, apologize to Sasuke and Sasuke apologize to Itachi!" Everyone did as they were told by Serina, or else she would have done cresent moon on then and summon her powerful technique.

"Good, you big babies." Serina murmured. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY!" the rest of them said. "ah…nothing..?" Serina nervously laughed.

"Good, well lets get going to the mission shall we?" Itachi said. Everyone got ready and headed out the door for their new mission.

At Tsunade's office

KNOCK KNOCK

"Come in." Tsunade said.

"Ohayou Tsunade-sama." The four said.

"Ohayou. Well your probably wondering why I chose you four for a mission seeing as I rarely put jounin and Anbu onto teams." Tsunade said. All four of them nodded in response. "Good, because for this mission you will be investigating in the Konoha forest. There is an S-class criminal whose been wandering around these parts of Konoha. I've sent 2 Anbus before to capture him but they failed and it cost them their lives. He used to be a ninja of the leaf but then turned against us. Now hes with sound. Does this sound familiar to you guys?" Tsunade knew who the criminal was and she hoped that the teens knew as well.

"Hai." All of them answered. "Its Orochimaru.." Itachi and Sasuke said. Serina gritted her teeth at his name and Sakura flinched at the said of his name. Itachi and Sasuke already looked angry and their mission hasn't even begun yet.

"Correct, now I trust that all four of you know what he is capable of doing and how tricky Orochimaru is. All I can tell you is to be careful. Remember he is after the Sharingan and Cresent Moon. Which is why Serina and Itachi have to keep a sharp eye out for anything suspicious since it is likely that he will go after Sakura and Sasuke." Tsunade said. She was concerned for all four teens but she had confidence in them. "Your mission begins, NOW!" the 5th yelled. Quickly, all four teens left Tsunade's office and were now sprinting through the Konoha Forest.

All of them turned on their bloodlines, and now could see everything on their path to finding and bringing down Orochimaru. Kabuto was said to have died by the 2 Anbus who were recently pursuing Oro. Itachi's eyes showed red with 4 black pupils, same with Sasuke. Serina activated Cresent Moon and her eyes showed silver, she had the sapphire moon on her forehead and her hair was now a lighter pink. Sakura's eyes were at stage 2 of Creasent Moon, gray. She did not obtain the cresent shaped moon on her forehead yet, but her hair did also change a lighter pink.

They leapt through the air, trying to sense any amount of chakra that they could find. They did not succeed however.

"Okay this is taking too long, we'll have to break apart." Serina demanded.

"Okay, well Sasuke and Sakura, you guys go together and search up north, Serina, take west, and I'll take east." Itachi flung a kunai at a big oak tree and said, "If we don't find anything within 2 hours, meet back at this tree with the kunai. Okay move out." Everyone nodded and went their ways.

With Itachi

"I hope I did the right thing with putting Sasuke and Sakura alone. I just hope we find Orochimaru before he finds them." Itachi whispered to himself. Itachi then felt a strong presence near by. Hn, got ya! Itachi thought.

With Serina

"Damn it! I can't find Orochimaru's chakra anywhere… No, come on Serina, concentrate. There's got to be at least a small amount of chakra somewhere, anywhere in this forest." She spoke quietly to herself. Suddenly she was picking up strange chakra. She then dashed back toward the opposite direction.

With Sasuke and Sakura

"Sasuke-kun, do you think Serina and Itachi will be alright by themselves?" Sakura asked concerned.

"I honestly don't know Sakura, but we have to keep looking too." Sasuke said. He was more concerned about himself and Sakura.

Suddenly they saw a flash of pink and it was Serina. She was running past them but stopped.

"Guys, we have to go now! Itachi, we have to find him now!" Serina yelled. Both nodded and began to follow Serina.

With Itachi

Itachi felt the presence behind him now and he knew it was none other than Orochimaru. He turned around and saw that Orochimaru was no longer there but now only mere inches away from Itachi. "Well, I haven't seen you in a while huh Itachi-kun?" Orochimaru whispered into Itachi ear. Itachi tried to elbow him but Orochimaru moved out of the way.

"You sick bastard! How dare you try to pull this shit with me, and then drag Serina, Sasuke, and Sakura into it!" Itachi was fuming but he tried to control himself.

"Ku ku ku, now now Itachi-kun, you shouldn't speak like that in front of me, or else you can kiss your lover, brother, and sister-in-law goodbye!" Orochimaru smirked and charged at Itachi. His movement was far to quick for the Sharingan to copy it.

"Damn it, looks like I have to use my forbidden techniques." Itachi whispered. He quickly made a few hand seal and from his mouth he spat out black flames. "GOD OF SUN!" He yelled. H had a perfect and clear shot at Orochimaru but somehow it was deflected by Orochimaru and shot back right at Itach. "AHH!" black flames burned Itachi's skin causing him to fall to his knees. But he quickly got up for he knew he could not die so quickly. Qrochimaru took the opportunity to strike Itachi with his swordlike tongue and it cut Itachi's shoulder badly. Itachi was then stabbed in the stomach repeatly. He coughed up a lot of blood and fell backwards onto the floor. His body was not moving.

With Serina, Sasuke, and Sakura

"Hurry guys, something bad is about to happen, I can feel it!" Serina was panicking now.

Sasuke and Sakura quickened their pace and were now caught up to Serina. Serina's heart suddenly skipped a few beats and she smelled fresh blood. And it was not Orochimaru's blood but Itachi's.

"no…" she whispered. Please Itachi, be alright, please! You can't leave me, please…

Finally they reached where Itachi had been battling Oro. Serina saw Orochimaru standing in front of a lifeless body onto the floor. She recognized the black clothes and hair. It was Itachi.

"NOO!" Serina rushed over to him and laid his head onto her lap. Her eyes were brimming with tears as she stroked his pale face. A little blood was on his face but she didn't care. She hung her head down and screamed. Sasuke watched as Serina screamed and suddenly he ran by Serina along with Sakura.

"hehehe, so this is what has become of the famous Serina Haruno. Pathetic. And I thought that I would have a challenge." Orochimaru chuckled. Serina glanced toward Orochimaru and then gave one more look back to Itachi. She then said, "Sasuke, Sakura, guard Itachi with your lives and don't try to interfere when this battle begins. Orochimaru is mine and shall die by my hand." Sasuke and Sakura nodded and were now surrounding them. Serina gently took Itachi's head up from her lap and laid it onto the ground. She gave him one more kiss on his forehead and let one tear drop escape her eyes. She got up and was in a fighting stance.

"Well, this should be fun, maybe I'll have 3 prizes today instead of 2!" Orochimaru snickered.

"Shut up! Lets fight you bastard!" Serina yelled. She performed a few hand seals and

purple and blue chakra began to surround her. Everyone watched wide-eyed, even Orochimaru. What was to happen during this battle, and will everything turn alright in the end?


I kinda left ya on a cliff-hanger there, but I truly hope that this chapter had some action in it, for it was the longest chapter that I've ever written! Review please!