Me: Guess what?

Inner self: What? O_o

Me: CHERRY DREAMER PART NINE IS HERE!!

Inner self: Woot! We don't own Naruto!


Cherry Dreamer part 9

Without hesitating, Madara caught the glass and broke it in his hands. Sweets gasped and nearly fell onto the ground. The music died out as everyone in the bar began to talk to each other.

"Miss!" The bartender yelled at Sweets, "I can't have you in here tossing my kegs around, you have to leave."

"But…" She whimpered, tears rolling down her face.

"How pitiful." Madara tonelessly said as he whipped the broke glass off his hand. "People like you are a waste in the world."

"But Madara…" She sobbed, running to him. "I love you!"

"Hey! What about me?!" Hidan shouted, swinging his fists in the air.

"I only danced with you to learn more about Madara kun…" She answered. "But now he hates me…"

"Well no duh! You tried to toss a glass keg at me!"

"I don't understand…" Sweets pulled herself away from Madara and everyone else at the table. "Am I not pretty? Am I not a good ninja? What is she that I'm not?"

"For one, don't lie. With the way you tossed your wineglass at Sakura, I noticed that you were not a ninja. And secondly, she may not look it but Sakura happens to be a talented ninja from the Leaf Village."

Madara pointed to Sakura's crossed out Leaf headband.

"Not only her medical skills are remarkable, she fights with her heart and soul unlike low class scum like you. I would never fall in love with a person like you."

Without another word, Sweets ran out the door sobbing. The music began again and everyone started to dance once more. Sakura couldn't help but stare at Madara.

"Madara…" she thought, "he actually backed me up…"

"Sakura are you ok?" Sasori suddenly jumped in. "Did that crazy girl hurt you?"

"No…" Sakura smiled up at Sasori. "Madara caught the glass before it hit me."

Sakura turned around to Madara.

"Thank you, Madara."

"It's nothing." Madara looked away, tightening the hand that he caught the glass with.

A couple drops of blood dropped from his hand onto the hardwood floor. Sakura quickly gasp quietly and pulled up his hand.

"You shouldn't have broken that glass, you cut your hand pretty badly."

"It didn't even hurt." Madara patted her head with his other hand. "I am a fast healer, I will be ok."

"At least let me heal it." Sakura's hands glow green as she began healing his cuts.

Sasori and the other Akatsuki members looked at Sakura, worried of what Madara will do. Madara just sat in his seat and continued to let Sakura heal his wounds on his hand.

"Why did you grab the glass?" Sakura suddenly asked as she kept on healing him.

"Because." He simply responded.

"...Because? That doesn't really answer my question."

The wounds healed and became as good as new. Sakura and Madara moved their hands away. The music slowed down and couples began to slow dance.

"They have slow music in a bar?" Sakura was surprised, looking back over to Sasori.

"I don't really care about the music, just the drinks and the dances."

"Sasori, you didn't tell me that you can dance." Sakura cheered up, getting out of her seat.

"Me either." Hidan cocked his eyebrow and chuckled.

"Well I know how to, but I am not in a mood for dancing tonight."

"I can dance as well!" Madara turned happy all of a sudden. "You should dance with me Sakura."

"Eh?" Sakura slightly twitched her eyebrow. "Are you serious?"

Madara walked up to her and lead her to the dance floor.

"Hmph," Sasori sat back down.

"Jealous Sasori?" Deidara chuckled as he drank his sake.

"No." He lied, crossing his arms.

Itachi and Hidan sighed and watched as Madara and Sakura waltz on the dimming dance floor. The fan girls dreamily sighed as Madara lead the dance and twirled her perfectly.

"Madara was right, he does dance and pretty good too."

He spun her around and pulled her back to him. The soft music ended and loud metal began to play again. The waltz dancers sat down as the others danced to the blaring music.

"Madara, the song is over, you can let go of me." Sakura said.

Madara still held her close to him, not responding.

"Madara?" Sakura tried to pull away. "What's wrong?"

"I need to tell you something." He whispered, grabbing her by the wrist. "Follow me."

Madara and Sakura walked out the back door of the building.

"What is Madara up to?" Itachi wondered, gulping the last of his drink.

"…." Sasori looked down at the ground sadly.


"Madara what the heck?!" Sakura nearly shouted as he continued to pull her by the wrist.

Finally, Madara let her wrist go. They were a couple of yards away from the bar by a small pond with small butterflies hovering around it. In the distance, the music from the bar still played, making the ground shake faintly.

"I need to tell you why you're apart of the Akatsuki."

A gust of wind blew Madara's and Sakura's hair. Small ripples formed in the pond.

"Sakura, you are nineteen years old huh?" Madara asked, looking at her with eyes of knowledge.

"Yes, how did you know that?"

"I know more about you than you know. I know that ever since you were a kid you were picked on. You had problems making friends and you fell in love with Sasuke and your best friend became your rival."

Tensely, Madara walked closer to Sakura, still staring at her.

"The Haruno clan, you know its secrets huh?"

"……"

"Sakura, I have been watching over you for awhile now. Every mission, everything you knew I knew. Your parents died when Sasuke left the village and you have no other members of your clan. Even Tsunade was involved by assigning ANBU to be your fake parents."

Sakura took a step back.

"But…" Her anger rose. "That means you know why they are dead! Did you kill them?!"

"I wouldn't do that unless I was forced to." He confirmed.

"I don't understand how all of this is concerning me being in the Akatsuki."

"Your destiny is to serve me, to be loyal to me." He reached out to her.

Swiftly, Sakura jumped back a couple of feet.

"Don't be making up bull!" She yelled. "Don't try to make me feel like as if I am important! I'm already sad at the fact I am the only regular ninja in my team, I feel like as if I am a burden. That's why I gotten stronger, but I am still not as good as them."

"Because you have been training the wrong way." Madara walked back up to her. "Tsunade has been training you to be a medical ninja. You are supposed to become gifted with powers like mine."

Sakura laughed, wiping away new tears. "Me? As strong as you? Never will happen. You are an Uchiha, you along with Sasuke and Itachi were born with power, it's in your blood."

"You are the last Haruno; you have more power than me, Itachi, Sasuke, and all the tailed beasts. You have something that no other person I've seen have, and that's courage. You have the will to become stronger, to go home to your friends. You have grown impressively over these last few years which makes me positive that you will grow stronger than everyone, including Sasuke."

"That's what you meant that night," Sakura softly spoken, "when you said that there was something stronger than Naruto and the other tailed beasts. You think it's me…"

"Yes. Sakura, if you stay with me you will later on surpass the Akatsuki, maybe me. If you leave, you will not get the true training you need. So stay with us."

Sakura moved her hands uneasily.

"I don't know what to say. Should I stay with him to become stronger or leave and go home to the people that I love?"

"By the way," Madara added, placing his hands on her slender shoulders, "that's not the only reason why I want you to stay here."

His arms went from her shoulders to around her waist.

"Everyone says the only way to activate your Sharingan is to kill your closest friend. I activated mine a different way."

Not knowing what to do, Sakura looked up to him with a puzzled look on her face.

"I have dreams of the future. Before you were born, I had dreams of cherry blossoms. Beautiful petals and trees filled my thoughts and a girl with stunning green eyes and short soft pink hair always made me smile."

"You think that girl is me?"

"I know it's you because in my dreams, I called out for Sakura Haruno and she always answered to it."


Me: O.O

Inner self: O.O

Me: T^T

Inner self: T^T

Me: STOP IT!!

Inner self: Hehe, I hope you liked the chapter! Tune in soon to find out how Sakura reacts to Madara's dreams.