Chapter 8
SM123: Hi everybody! Um, for once, Sasuke is busy rehearsing so he can't chase me down today.
Itachi: *walks in*
SM123: So I invited Itachi to come instead.
Itachi: Yo, what's up, peoples.
SM123: Um, yeah. To answer all those questions that you asked last time, yes, I play the flute. Um, my competition on the 18 was at Ohlone College (did I spell that right?). And I was under the TRMS band. Yeah, my band won silver. The guy that won the outstanding performance at my school was ****** ********* (sorry, not revealing any identities). If you know what TRMS stood for, then you were there! Yippee! Thing is, if you were there, I know that you didn't see my school perform. We were the first to perform. 8:30 peoples! I had to wake up at 5:00 A.M. just to get to school in time. And yes after the performance, my school went partying at Great America. Yeah, life is a blast.
Sasuke: Well, you're prep.
SM123: GAH! Shouldn't you be rehearsing?
Itachi: I'll be leaving now.
Sasuke: Yeah. I finished rehearsing. But then Naruto caused the rehearsal room to have a black out and we all got kicked out.
SM123: Whatever. Now for the next featured person is: ****** ***. That person is an awesome friend. I look to h** as my rival. We're rivals in academics, sports, and in band. But we're still friends. Yeah, it's Sasuke and Naruto all over again. But we're just not as dopey as Naruto.
Sasuke: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now hurry up.
SM123: Anyway, I'm adding some drama for Itachi (go ahead and do your fan girl screams). And for the name "Rukia," I am not relating her to the character in Bleach in anyway. I'm only using the name. NO CONNECTIONS, PEOPLES! And to make things easier, Itachi, Rukia, and Satoshi are about 22 years old. Add a month, or take a month. Alright, ON WITH THE STORY!
"ITAAAAAAAAAAAACHI! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKIA!" Sasuke screamed.
Tsk. Where are those two?
Sasuke walked over to Itachi's locked bedroom door and began banging on it.
"Itachi! I don't care if you are Rukia are having sex or not but I am coming in any way!" Sasuke screamed.
Sasuke tried to yank the door open but it was locked.
"Itachi! Open up this door right now!" Sasuke replied.
No answer.
Not even a sassy remark?
"If you can't speak you can at least groan or something!" Sasuke kept on yelling.
No reply.
"I'm breaking down this door!"
Still nothing.
"Five! Four! Three! Two! One!"
Sasuke ran forward, hoping that Itachi heard his warning and would open the door for him. The door never opened. Sasuke tried to stop in time before hitting the door but was unable to.
*Crash!*
"Ow."
Sasuke crashed through the door leaving a "fossil" of himself there. (You know those classic cartoons where the main character would run through a rock and their shape would be left behind? Yeah, that's what Sasuke did.) He landed on his butt after his crash.
Aw, man. Now I have to pay for the door.
Whoa, what happened here?
Pillows were thrown around everywhere. The blankets on the bed were messed up and on the verges of falling of the bed. The windows were wide open. And Itachi and Rukia were nowhere to be seen.
Okay, did those two just have major sex and ran away?
The answer was no.
Somewhere else
"OUCH!" Itachi yelled as the ninja threw him onto the hard gravel floor.
Itachi tried to wriggle his hands free but they were bound tight. He couldn't even make one hand sign.
Sharingan!
"Who are you people?" Itachi demanded.
Itachi was about to make eye contact with the ninja but then Rukia appeared next to the ninja and covered his eyes with her hand.
The ninja was wearing a tight black shirt and baggy black pants. His skin color was similar to Sasuke's. His hair was a light chocolate color and its position was similar to Sai's. His face had a confident tone. He had that baby face look (not the little crybaby, but the girl magnet one). Itachi was unable to see his eye color.
"Rukia…" Itachi murmured.
"Oh, hi, Itachi. Are you surprised?" Rukia asked in a girly mocking voice.
"…"
"Oh, don't worry. We won't kill you just yet. Not Sasuke either. Well, that is if that pink haired girl answers our questions."
"Why are you doing this?" Itachi asked.
"Ugh! It's the same questions every time! Deactivate your Sharingan and we'll talk."
Itachi did what Rukia told him to.
Rukia and the ninja walked into Itachi's cell and closed the door behind them.
Itachi's cell was a hexagon shaped room. The floor was simply made of the gravel dirt. The walls were made out of pure steel and so was the door. When the door was open, Itachi noticed that there were three large steel blockades/locks on the outside of the door. There would be no doubt that there would be high level guards outside his room that could use that time jutsu. His chances of escape were low.
"Sorry, Itachi but I've always been a spy for this organization for as long as I can remember."
"You've been spying on Konoha haven't you?"
"Obviously."
"…"
"Aw, are you upset?"
"OF COURSE I'M UPSET! I LOVED YOU!"
"'No, I'm pretty sure it was just a crush."
"I've liked you since I was eight."
"Aw, how cute," the ninja next to Rukia taunted.
"Why are you here?" Itachi snapped.
"I'm glad you asked!" Rukia said cheerfully. "He's my real boyfriend."
"What?" Itachi asked.
Rukia grabbed the ninja's head and kissed him hard on the lips.
The ninja slid one of his hands over her back and pulled her in and his other hand held the back of her head. He immediately kissed her back, hard. After what seemed like years to Itachi, the two broke apart.
Itachi charged forward and tried to attack the ninja but the ninja shoved him down.
"Aw, are you jealous?" he asked.
Itachi growled.
"Satoshi, why don't you go guard outside. I want to do this alone."
"If you need anything, just scream," Satoshi replied.
"Of course," Rukia replied and smashed her lips onto his.
Satoshi left the cell, closing the steel door behind him.
Rukia pressed Itachi onto the ground and laid on him.
"I'll say this, Itachi: You're a damn good sexy kisser."
"Get off of me," Itachi growled.
"I thought you still want me," Rukia whispered.
"Bi—" Itachi began but then Rukia began kissing him.
"GET OFF!" Itachi roared and kicked Rukia off.
Itachi tried to sit up but Rukia shoved him down again. Rukia positioned her body so that she was sitting on him and laying on him on her side.
"Itachi, tell me, what is the most strongest of the Konoha's defenses?"
"No way."
"C'mon," Rukia flirted. She rested her face on Itachi's neck. "What ever happened to 'I loved you'?"
"I don't work with the bad guys."
"That's no fun," Rukia kept flirting. Rukia swung an arm around Itachi's neck.
"You know, after you and your boyfriend kidnapped me, haven't you gotten the hint that we're over?"
"Look, I told you: You're a damn good sexy kisser… and you're pretty hot, too."
"Ugh! Go flirt with your boyfriend!" Itachi snarled and tried to shake her arm off of him, unsuccessfully.
"Oh, come on, Itachi, we both know that you still want me."
Rukia leaned into Itachi's face and was about to kiss him again but then Itachi kicked her in the gut.
"OUCH! Fine, if you're so persistent."
"…"
"You know, Satoshi and I need a good place to have our private time, so I guess this cell will be good," Rukia said glancing around.
She got up and said, "Yeah, I think this place will do. But we're out of cells for ninja your level lately so you'll have to stay in here."
Rukia was grinning wickedly as she stared at Itachi's blank gaze.
Rukia sat up and pulled Itachi into a sitting position. She kissed him on the lips again for about two or three seconds and headed towards the door.
Rukia softly knocked on the door and Satoshi opened it for her. Rukia left the cell making one last wicked glance at Itachi.
After five minutes that the door shut, the first tear strolled down Itachi's face. And that first tear was followed by another… and another… and another until he was silently sobbing.
Rukia. Don't do this. Itachi thought.
He loved Rukia. And he still did. More than she would have ever known.
In Sakura's cell
Sakura's cell was similar to Itachi's cell. The only difference was that there were only two bolts instead of three.
Sakura was lying on the gravel with her body thrown around, her hair had gravel mixed within it, her clothes were worn and torn although Sakura only put them on yesterday, her body was stained with mud and a slight amount of her own blood, and there were numerous slashes all over it. Obvious signs of torture. But the worst was her eyes: Her pupils and irises were shockingly small and were darting around the place although she was not controlling them. Also, around her emerald green eyes, there was a thin yellow ring around it. Sakura was poisoned.
The door creaked open and Sakura weakly looked up.
"Hello, Sakura," Rukia said.
Sakura couldn't reply. She just laid her head back onto the ground.
"Yes, the poison is working perfectly isn't it?"
Sakura closed her eyes.
Rukia walked over and yanked Sakura's head off the ground by her hair.
Sakura groaned in pain.
"Will you look at this? The Sasuke Uchiha has a girlfriend that can barely stand up for herself," Rukia laughed.
"What do you want?" Sakura groaned.
"What is it in your blood line that prevents the time jutsu to work against the Haruno clan?"
"What?"
"Ugh! You are clueless! Look, our time jutsu does not work against the Haruno clan for some reason. Since you're Tsunade's apprentice, you are the most likely person among your clan to recognize any genetic material among your blood line that prevents the time jutsu to work against you guys.
"When we kidnapped you, you were still conscious unlike everybody else. Not only that, you're entire family was conscious. Several of our members had to be sent to your house to take out your family.
"What?"
"You're family had to be knocked unconscious."
"Did you kill them?" Sakura asked worriedly.
"Of course not! If we were to kill them, it would look to suspicious for time had been frozen. There would be stabs that looked like they were born with them. Too suspicious."
"…"
"Anyway, what is in your genes?"
"I don't know."
Rukia performed some fast hand signs and pressed her palms onto Sakura's body.
"AAAAAAAGH!"
"You know that poison I injected into your body? Well, it doesn't just weaken your body, it doesn't allow your mind and eyes to focus, and all that other wonderful stuff. The poison goes along with this jutsu I developed. Whenever that poison within you makes contact with any part of my body, you will be in serious pain. Not just physical pain, although that is included with this wonderful package deal. This poison with my jutsu will be directly aimed at your heart and your immune system. The poison and my jutsu will control your amount of heart rate. Your heart could speed up or slow down to my liking causing you to have massive chest pains and breathing difficulties. Also, for the immune system, my poison will greatly weaken your immune system, making the pain you feel even worse."
"…"
"Don't worry about the immune system part. It would only temporarily weaken your system… for now. If I was to keep torturing you like this, then your immune system will begin to be permanently damaged."
"…" Sakura was too weak to say anything to Rukia. Although she had about a million questions within her mind.
"Am-I-speaking-too-fast-for-you?" Rukia asked in drawling the words.
"You… you…"
"Shut up," Rukia snapped and kicked Sakura in the stomach.
"Now let me ask again. What do you know about your clan's traits?"
"…"
"Does your clan have any kekai genkai?"
Rukia thrust her palms onto Sakura's body again.
"AAAAAAAAGH!"
"You're so stubborn."
Rukia grabbed Sakura's hair and yanked her face up so that they were eye to eye.
"I don't know," Sakura managed.
"How many times do I have to tell you?" Rukia roared.
"No, I mean I don't know if my clan has encountered any form of power like that," Sakura gasped.
"Are you sure about that?" Rukia snarled.
Sakura nodded weakly.
"You better be."
Rukia kicked open the door and dragged Sakura outside down the hallway.
"Rukia," Satoshi said while walking up to her. "What are you doing with the prisoner?"
"Making sure that she will talk eventually."
"What do you mean?"
"Pinky here doesn't know if her clan has any kekai genkai or not," Rukia said and gave Sakura a swift kick.
Sakura began gasping in pain again.
"Are you sure that she's a ninja?" Satoshi asked. "That kick didn't look too powerful to make her gasp like that. Well, unless she somehow bribed the ninja examiners!"
"Hahaha!"Rukia laughed with him. "It's the poison I injected into her."
"Does she know of its life span?" Satoshi teased.
"No, pinky doesn't. But feel free to tell her."
Satoshi leaned down and grabbed Sakura's hair again, causing her more pain, and smiled. "Say, pinky. Do you know how long that poison in you will last?"
Sakura looked him into the eye with a curious look.
"Forever," he whispered. "The moment the poison is injected into your body, it will remain there forever! So if we were to set you free for about a year, then capture you again, if Rukia was to just poke you, the poison would be fine as ever."
Sakura had a shocked expression on her face.
"Wonderful, isn't it? Rukia designed it herself!" Satoshi smiled and dropped Sakura to grab and kiss Rukia.
The two stopped walking to kiss and Sakura was left lying on the ground in pain.
No. I will not let myself become a burden again! Sakura thought.
Sakura scanned her surroundings. The tunnel that she seemed to be traveling in seemed to be like an abandoned cave. The walls and floor of the tunnel was shockingly moist. Moist enough that Sakura didn't even have to touch them to see the water trickle down the walls. Every few meters, there would be a bared steel door. For some reason, Sakura managed to observe that some doors had three bars, some had two (like her door), and some only had one. The doors did not have any form of cell window for her to look out in. The steel doors were also hexagonal shaped, like her cell. Apart from that, it seemed like a regular cave tunnel.
"Where are we?" Sakura managed to gasp.
"Oh, look. She can speak proper sentences," Satoshi snarled.
"We're in this organization's hide out," Rukia answered.
"Which is where?" Sakura kept asking.
"Like I'm gonna tell."
"Why are you guys here? I mean, what is the purpose of this organization?" Sakura kept gasping. Rukia and Satoshi were on the move again. Since Rukia was the one dragging Sakura along, she was in pain again. And since Sakura was being dragged along the ground, which was causing her even more pain.
"I don't suppose there is any danger in telling you what we are after," Rukia spoke hesitantly. "This world is corrupt and is full of mistakes," Rukia began. "Anytime someone makes a mistake, the world could be thrown into complete chaos. But then, our leader, whose name I have no intention of telling you, thought of this: What if we could undo our mistakes? To have the power to control time. Our leader began a search. He searched for people that had the potential of becoming true ninja. Ninjas that could control time.
"For years, we have spent our time developing a jutsu that would allow us to control time. Satoshi and I were one of the creators of this jutsu. We were one of our leader's most skilled and trusted associates at the age of seven. By then, our leader recruited several more skilled ninjas. The outside world began recognizing our existence. But anytime an outside ninja would see our faces, we would just reverse or freeze time and simply walk away… And for those who managed to have their faces seen and was unable to remove the memory, they became known as the rogue ninja. Like the ones that first attacked you.
"But even so, the world began gathering clues to our exact identities. By now you should know that Rukia is not my real name. Anyway, our leader decided to send us as spies into the elite villages to gather information of how much the outside world knows about us… and their security programs."
"Why would you want to know about the village's security?"
"Why would I tell you? I've been on many missions for my master by the age of eight. More than anyone in this organization. I was officially his number one ninja."
"That's my Rukia," Satoshi said and swung his arm around Rukia.
"He was afraid that by then, people would already know my gender and age. So he sent me on one of the hardest missions ever. To become an ANBU black ops in Konoha and to spy on them. I have to admit though, it wasn't that hard to gain Itachi's trust," Rukia laughed.
"So for fourteen years, I've remained a spy. But now, I'm back here.
"Satoshi here was a spy on the Village Hidden in the Cloud."
"I was an ANBU guard for the Raikage himself," Satoshi said proudly.
"Well, here we are," Rukia said and dropped Sakura hard onto the ground.
Sakura looked up. Rukia and Satoshi had led her to another cell. This cell had three bolts, instead of two.
"Why are we here?" Sakura asked.
"You'll see. Do you know whose cell this is, pinky?" Rukia sneered.
Sakura couldn't answer but in her mind, she thought: Not Sasuke. Not Sasuke.
Rukia flung the door open to reveal who was inside.
Relief and sorrow flew through Sakura's mind.
Itachi was leaning against the wall with his knees against his chest. He was sobbing silently. Tears slowly rolled down his cheeks onto the ground. Itachi's forehead rested on his knees shielding most of his face from view.
Sakura's relief was that it wasn't Sasuke but her sorrow was because of Itachi's state.
"Aw, look. He's crying," Satoshi's cruel voice taunted.
Itachi's head snapped up. Tears were still rolling down his cheeks but his eyes were in Sharingan mode and he was in a battle stance.
"Oops. I think I damaged his pride," Satoshi sneered again.
"Satoshi, can you stand outside?" Rukia asked in her girly voice.
"Sure thing."
Rukia dragged Sakura in and Satoshi slammed the door.
"Do you know why you're here, Sakura?" Rukia snapped.
Rukia threw Sakura on the floor and waited for an answer.
No answer, Sakura was too busy trying to fight the pain and reach for Itachi with her hand.
"ANSWER ME!" Rukia screamed and grabbed Sakura's arm powerfully with both her hands.
"NO!" Sakura cried. "I DON'T KNOW!" she continued when Rukia wouldn't release her.
Itachi stood up and knocked Rukia away from Sakura, but then sat back down.
Rukia recollected herself and said, "You here because Itachi's life depends on you."
Sakura looked up at Rukia.
Rukia walked over to Itachi and sat down next to him, leaning her head on his shoulder.
"Anytime you lie to us, or after every three weeks that you don't give us an answer, Itachi will be tortured."
"What?" Sakura managed.
"Deactivate your Sharingan, Itachi," Rukia whispered.
To Sakura's dismay, Itachi obeyed.
Rukia took out an injection needle filled with a yellow liquid.
"No," Sakura said. Sakura realized that the needle was filled with poison.
Rukia grinned wickedly at Sakura and injected the poison into Itachi's arm.
Itachi didn't wince at all from the injection. But after Rukia removed the needle, Itachi's pupils and irises began to shrink and a thin yellow ring appeared around it. His eyes began darting swiftly around the place.
But Rukia kept her head on his shoulder and he didn't wince in pain at all.
"What?" Sakura asked softly.
"I injected two poisons into you. One is the torture. The other one is to knock out your focus. The second on is only temporarily though.
"The way we are going to torture Itachi is the classic way. Nice, hard whips."
Sakura saw Itachi close his eyes after this and leaned his head back against the hard gravel wall.
Rukia pressed Itachi onto the floor and laid on his body.
She brought her face up to his and kissed him passionately.
Sakura thought that Itachi was going to throw Rukia off but instead Itachi eagerly kissed her back.
Then it hit Sakura: Itachi still loved Rukia. He wanted Rukia. He was trying to convince Rukia that he was better than Satoshi. Itachi wanted to tell Rukia that he loved her no matter what she did to him.
Rukia broke apart from Itachi and laid her head on his neck.
"You're strange, Itachi. One moment, you're saying we're over. The next moment, you're screaming you love me in any way you can," Rukia chuckled.
"Don't go back to him." Itachi whispered.
"Hmph," Rukia replied playfully.
Rukia sat up and grabbed Sakura and began dragging her to the door.
Sakura winced in pain from the hard gravel floor she was being dragged on and the poison.
Rukia knocked on the door and Satoshi opened it for her, grinning wickedly at Itachi when he swung his arm around her.
The three began to depart Itachi's cell. As Sakura struggled to look back up, she saw that Itachi was desperately trying to focus his eyes on Rukia's departing figure. Sakura managed to catch a small glance of Itachi in the eye.
He smiled.
Itachi swiftly activated his Sharingan and looked at Sakura in the eye for a brief second and deactivated it.
But that was all he need to send Sakura a telepathic message.
Don't worry. I have a plan.
Sakura managed to hive Itachi a small smile before his cell for slammed shut.
If I can't do anything right now, Sakura thought, then I can at least try to let him know I believe in him and Sasuke…
Sasuke…
Sasuke, you're the craziest bodyguard ever, Sakura jokingly thought.
Many hours later (around 2:00 AM or something)
Itachi managed to pry his walkie-talkie out of his pouch.
He set it to the ground and placed it on speaker mode. His bound hands made it unable for him to speak into it directly. (How Itachi managed to get it out of his bag, I don't know.)
"Lady Tsunade, are you there?" Itachi rapidly whispered.
No reply.
"Lady Tsunade!"
Still no reply.
Itachi changed his walkie-talkie to message mode with Tsunade.
"Lady Tsunade, this is Uchiha Itachi calling in. Sakura and I have been captured, Tell Sasuke he's on his own for this mission. His opponents are tough, skilled ninjas that can manipulate time and are experts at poison, weapons, ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu, and nearly everything else. One of the members was our own: Rukia Suzuki. There are others that are spies on other villages, too."
Itachi paused. He was hearing footsteps headed his direction.
"I have to go!"
Itachi turned his walkie-talkie off and began trying to put it back into his bag. But it was too late.
The door swung open and Rukia was standing there amused at what she saw.
"I should have remembered," she said playfully. "All ANBU members have walkie-talkies to Lady Tsunade."
Rukia strode over to Itachi and stepped on the device, breaking it.
She grabbed a fistful of Itachi's shirt and brought his face up to her.
His poison is wearing off, Rukia noticed.
With Itachi's face in front of her own, Rukia hesitated to punch/kick Itachi.
He's beau—
What am I thinking?
Rukia shook her head and turned around, about to leave but then Itachi whispered, "Wait."
Rukia twirled around and snapped, "What?"
Itachi looked at Rukia in the eye and whispered, "Good night."
Itachi stood up and began heading towards Rukia but then she left his cell without a word leaving Itachi there.
The next day, but back with Sasuke
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WHERE ARE THOSE TWO?" Sasuke shrieked while running around his hotel room.
Sasuke thought that Itachi and Rukia only left to go partying for the night but it was now 2 in the afternoon and they still weren't home.
*Knock, knock*
Finally! Sasuke thought.
Sasuke opened up his door to see a small ninja hound carrying a message in its mouth.
Sasuke bent down and took the message and the ninja hound then vanished.
Sasuke:
Itachi has been captured. Rukia was a spy all along. She and her associates managed to capture Itachi and bring him to their hideout. It turns out that Sakura is with them. We cannot send you any back up ninja right now because of the amount of mission requests currently coming in. You're on your own on this one. Itachi managed to make contact with us last night through his walkie-talkie but that I learned that the enemy destroyed it later. You're opponents are heavily strong and are masters with weapons, poison, you name it! But the most dangerous part is that they can change time. We have learned that through our research there is a one-minute interval between anytime they use that jutsu. That jutsu seems to take up a lot of their chakra. But don't under estimate their weakness. They still have enough chakra to perform jutsus and fight however. They just can't repeat the jutsu. Also, I'm adding a new part to your mission. It is not only to retrieve and guard Sakura, but this time, is to try and defeat this organization. Keep in touch with us. When we are through with these missions, we will immediately send you, Sakura, and Itachi backup. Good luck, Sasuke.
~Lady Tsunade
P.S. If you do not stop this organization, there is a high possibility of the world having a time crisis.
"I'm screwed," Sasuke muttered to himself.
He headed down to the lobby (by the elevator of course and yes there was elevator music) to check out and left the building.
Rescuing Sakura was only part one. Stopping the bad guys was part two. And possibly save the world from a massive time crisis was part three.
Yeah, Sasuke was screwed.
SM123: Wow, that was fast for me to come up with. I'm sorry that this chapter wasn't that funny. I know this is a humor story but this is still a ninja world so I have to add drama and violence and save the world stuff.
Sasuke: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that means, I get to be the star now!
SM123: No, you, Sakura and Itachi are the main characters now.
Sasuke: Whatever.
SM123: Well, the next chapters might not be as fast as this one because that the State testing for me is coming up in one week. So I need to study. (YES! I AM A 4.0 STUDENT! I CARE ABOUT THIS STUFF! I HAVE STRAIGHT A'S I TELL YOU!)
Sasuke: I'm surprised.
SM123: Well, there still might be hope for Rukia and Itachi but…. We'll have to see. And I am going to stop it before it even starts: THERE IS NO CHANCE OF ITACHIXSAKURA IN THIS STORY!!!!!!! And yeah, when Sakura thought that Sasuke was a crazy bodyguard, that's where I got the story title from X].
Don't you guys have a hard time coming up with chapter titles? It's really difficult for me!
Sasuke: Dope.
SM123: HEY! You wanted to name this chapter "Attack of the Monkeys."
Sasuke: Monkeys are awesome.
SM123: Newsflash. I will not be making/posting a chapter for about 2 weeks. Why? My Language Arts teacher nominated me and several other students (yes! I'm special!) to write our own stories for our school's anthology, a collection of stories. Not many students were nominated so I am dying to do this. Thing is, my dead line is in 2 weeks! So, I am going to have to try to write as many chapters as I can for this. He said that the whole story is not required but I am trying to get as much as possible.
Sasuke: Nerd.
SM123: Whatever. Well, see you guys next time! ^^
