I Do Not Own Naruto

Chapter 10

He groaned as he cracked his eyes open to a faint, eerie green glow which illuminated her eyes to be an even more striking shade of green. Her gaze was focused, her face was serious and the warmth he felt as she mended his body had him wincing a bit from the intensity.

"You're lucky you know, nothing major was broken and there was no extensive damage done to your exterior though you could have internal bleeding or damaged organs or worse and I would be none the wiser." She said softly as she turned that brilliant emerald gaze on him.

"I'm fine," he said it coldly as he stilled and removed her hand from his person. It wasn't that he didn't like her touch it was he found himself liking it too much. Wincing a bit he sat up an noted he couldn't sit up all the way because they were trapped. He blinked and felt his Sharingan activate as he studied the prison he was in with the healer. Sakura's breath caught, he glanced at her and grabbed her chin. He could see the horrid bruise forming on her temple but her regenerative abilities had healed the gash so it was nothing but a fading bruise, that was good.

"Sakura, hold still," he ordered.

The lightning came slashing through the rocks to his katana. The silver night light greeted them as he stood up. He didn't offer her a hand, she stood on her own then looked up at the sky.

"We were trapped a long time," Sakura commented, he frowned. They carefully made their way through the rocks and rubble, he glanced at the healer as she followed him. She wasn't complaining or pestering him with questions at this point he wondered what the woman was thinking, not that it really mattered. She was simply a pawn for him to use until she could serve his cause anymore, then she'd be disposed of and he'd continue on. Still as he watched the pinkette he wondered what was going through her mind.

"Why are you hunting Uchiha Itachi?"

Sakura stared into a set of brilliant red eyes then but she held his gaze. All of the village knew of the Uchiha brothers, and honestly until she had started healing Sasuke she had thought he worked with the Akatsuki. But when he had shanghaied her services as his healer she had learned enough about him to know he was a lone operative, he didn't work with or for the Akatsuki which was odd because she knew IUchiha Itachi ran the Akatsuki.

All she knew about Sasuke was that he was dangerous, highly motivated, and a known; classified; missing-nin. He was also secretive and obsessed over whatever his mission was. And until recently she didn't know what his mission was. As she stared into those red eyes though she saw him close his eyes then open them again so they were back to being black. He walked over to her so he towered over her, she didn't like their height difference but was ignoring it at this moment as she looked up at him.

"Uchiha Itachi is planning on destroying the world as we know it," Sasuke said coldly and she froze. What!? Coming from anyone but Sasuke she'd have assigned them to an asylum or something because Kami knew that sounded crazy. But this was Sasuke and he was one of the sanest, most logical, cold, calculating people she knew and if he was saying it then it was true.

"What do you mean?" she asked softly as she eyed him.

"Itatchi is planning on capturing and releasing all the jinchūriki tailed beasts on the world. Releasing one will not destroy the world but to release all ten will," Sasuke said it calmly, she stepped back.

"Naruto," she breathed as the image of her blonde friend flooded her mind then. Sasuke nodded slowly then.

"He intends to release all the beasts, and if he succeeds there will be no stopping them," Sasuke said softly. She just looked up at him as her mind swirled with these revelations.

"Then we have to stop him," Sakura said firmly.

"Only I can kill Itachi, and you only need to handle Kisame," Sasuke said in a firm voice.

"No, that's not how this works, Itatchi is threatening my family, you are stuck with me until I'm dead or Itatchi is and if you die on me I'm finishing this," Sakura informed him seriously. She would've sworn there was a faint smirk on his perfect lips but that was impossible because this was Uchiha Sasuke she was with and he never smiled or smirked.

"You are unusual Haruno Sakura," he informed her. "And annoying."

"I try," she shrugged with a smile then. He frowned, that was more like it, she thought. "Now where too?"

"Come on," he grabbed her wrist and dragged her along. She stumbled after him then walked beside him when he released her outside of the rubble of the cave.

He was pleased with her calm reaction, he was even more pleased to hear her promise to carry on with this mission if he were to die. Kami knew he didn't give a fuck about the world; he only wanted his revenge; but on the path of revenge he had decided to destroy everything his brother was creating or attempting to start. There would be no destruction of the world, if only to infuriate Itachi then so be it but Sasuke refused to let his brother win.

And when Itatchi's creation was crumbling all around him then Sasuke would kill him so he would finally understand what it felt like to have nothing. Because of Itatchi his world was this, and he had no loyalties to anyone but himself. However as he glanced at his small, determined pink companion he wondered just how loyal she'd be to him and he to her. He'd never, in the past thirteen years, had a companion or anyone really so this would be interesting. Sakura was definitely different though.

So I tried something different for Father's Day, I'll still be posting my original Father's Day special probably on Wednesday, but I posted another one for my new Naruto readers if you would like to check it out, it's called Uchiha. Unoriginal title, I know but I like it.

Anyways the only other thing that'll be updated today is Never Be the Same.

I'm playing updates by ear at the moment...

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Healing Pain! =)