Chapter Ten
Author's Note: I wrote this chapter around Easter last year and for some odd reason, pastries somehow came up. It must be those creamed horns or something. Anyways, enjoy.
And if Itachi starts to become OOC, I'm sorry. He kind of has to be a little OOC for this story.
"Itachi must have my parents," I said. "That bastard." I knew it was him from the moment I saw the note. Only Itachi Uchiha would do something this crazy and rash! But why? Then I remembered why:
"He still has feelings for me...and he wants me back..." I said softly. I think he was crazy for doing this. But if I didn't go turn myself in, then my parents were as good as dead.
"I need a back up plan," I said.
I found Naruto at Irichiraku's ramen bar with Kakashi and Iruka.
"Hey Sakura, how are you today?" said Naruto waving to me. I just looked at him with fear.
"What's wrong?" asked Kakashi.
"My parents were kidnapped."
"By who?" asked Iruka.
"Itachi." Their eyes widened and they quickly got up.
"Now why would he do something like that?" asked Kakashi. "What is he after this time?"
"He better not be after me again, there's no way I'm ever going back to that crazy place!" said Naruto.
"He doesn't want Naruto. He wants me."
"What? Why would Itachi want you?" asked Iruka. Then he remembered why.
"He wants you back in the Akatsuki, doesn't he?"
"That's one reason."
"What's the other one?" asked Naruto.
"Well...it's a little...embarrassing..."
"Why is that?" asked Kakashi. I started blushing.
"Itachi...well...he sort of..."
"Sort of what?' asked Naruto.
"Quit interrupting me!" I shouted. I took a deep breath and finished my sentence. "Itachi...has feelings for me."
"WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?" shouted Naruto.
"That doesn't sound like Itachi at all," said Kakashi.
"Please tell me you don't like him too," said Naruto.
"Well, I used to, but he makes me nervous, especially when he tried to get me to kiss him before I left."
"So he likes you, but you don't like him," said Naruto. "But you like Sasuke?" I nodded.
"Look, I didn't come here to talk about my love life, I need some help to save my parents without turning myself in, or getting them killed."
"I'll call in some black ops agents as back up," said Iruka. "And I'll send Gai, Kurenai, and Asuma to help you."
"Actually, I think all you'll need is Naruto," said Kakashi. "He's much stronger and he's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve from what Jiraiyah has told me."
"All right, but I'll have Asuma and the others as a back up in case there's more Akatsuki members," said Iruka.
"Thank you," I said to Kakashi and Iruka. "Come on Naruto, let's go."
"But I haven't finished my ramen-" I grabbed him by the arm.
"Forget the ramen, let's go already!" I said making him follow me.
Itachi's Point of View:
Our plan had definitely worked. We were able to get into Konoha without being detected, break into the bakery, and kidnap Sakura's parents without anyone seeing the three of us. Now all we had to do was wait for Sakura to show up. I knew that she wouldn't be alone, but either way we would still get her back and maybe get rid of a few extra shinobi as well.
"I'm sick of waiting for her," said Sasori from inside his puppet Hiruko. "How the hell do you even know she's coming?"
"I know for a fact that Sakura will show up because she cares about her parents," I said plainly. Deidara was sitting down tapping his feet while eating one of the pastries he stole from the bakery.
"Well, at least we got some pastries, yeah. Would you like one Itachi-chan?" he asked me.
"No."
"Okay then, more for me, yeah."
"Some one's coming," said Sasori. Deidara put his pastries back under his cloak and made himself look as intimidating as possible. However it's pretty hard to be scary if you have blonde hair like he does.
Two shadowy figures appeared in front of us. Out of the shadows came Sakura and Naruto.
"Well, I see you decided to show up," I said approaching Sakura. "Tell me, did you decide to give us Naruto as well?"
"Shut up you dirty scumbag," she said darkly. "Just give me back my parents." I started chuckling at her.
"Didn't you forget the other half of the deal? You have to turn yourself into us. Only then will we set your parents free." She sighed.
"You just don't quit, do you?" I said nothing. Then Deidara took Sakura's parents over to us and let them go.
"Well, it looks like your little girl is here to take your place, yeah. You're lucky we didn't kill you." They quickly ran over to Sakura and gave her a hug and the three of them talked for a few seconds.
"You can't go back to that horrible place," said her mother.
"But if I don't then Itachi will kill you both," she said with tears in her eyes. Then Naruto, who had been standing still the whole time, was now missing.
"Hey, what happened to that blond kid?" asked Sasori.
"What? I'm right here, yeah," said Deidara.
"Not you, I'm talking about the kyuubi."
"Oh...he was right there and-" but before he could finish his sentence, Naruto kicked him in the back of the head.
"Surprised to see me?" Then he turned to Sakura. "Sakura, take your parents and get out of here, I'll hold them off!"
"But you're going to get yourself killed!" she said.
"Don't worry about it. I'll be fine. If I can beat Gaara, then these three will be no problem at all." But before she was about to leave, my clone stopped them.
"I don't think so. You're not going anywhere," I said glaring at Sakura. She looked up at me with anger and punched me in the face. But it didn't really bother me until I felt one of my teeth fall out of my mouth. I spat it out on the ground and glared at her.
"I'm still not letting you leave, but your parents are free to go," I said looking at them.
"Just go, I'll be fine," she said to her parents. They ran away as fast as they could and now it was just us. Naruto was now fighting against Deidara and his exploding clay birds, while Sasori watched.
Then Sakura threw a kunai at me and punched the ground. The once flat ground suddenly became rugged and I jumped out of the way before she punched the ground.
"So, you threw a kunai at me to distract me from what you were really planning. But a technique like that won't work on me." Then I pinned her to one of the boulders sticking out of the ground and closed my eyes.
Sakura's Point of View:
"You're going to use the Mangekyou sharingan, aren't you?" I said closing my eyes. He chuckled for a second and then I felt his soft lips press against mine. That bastard! I tried to push him off me, but he wouldn't get off!
"Get off me!" I said trying to get free.
"No, you can't escape me," he whispered. He kissed roughly on the lips and I gave up on trying to get free.
"Sakura!" Naruto saw what Itachi was doing and ran over to save me, but Sasori had his puppet use his scorpion tail to stop Naruto from reaching us.
"Oh no you don't, we're not done with you yet, yeah," said Deidara grabbing him by the collar of his vest. Itachi pulled away from me to see what was happening and then looked back at me.
"If you had came here alone, you wouldn't be in this situation right now." Then to my horror, he used the Mangekyou sharingan without warning. I was now in his crazy nightmare world and I was on the ground and he wouldn't stop stabbing me.
"Stop it! I can't take this!" I screamed. Itachi wouldn't listen. For the next 72 hours I had to be stabbed repeatedly by his katana. Then I opened my eyes and I was on the ground curled up in a ball.
"Only a second has passed?"
"Simple, I can control it," he said. "And I'm surprised you still have your spirit intact." Then out of the blue I began to cry. I looked up at him with my sad eyes.
"Why? Why me?" I asked. "Why did you have to do that to me?" Itachi knelt down in front of me and sighed.
"You irritate me," he said. Then he pinned me to the ground and took out a kunai.
"No, you can't do this!" I shouted at him.
"Let her go now!" Sasuke appeared out of nowhere on top of a cliff and jumped down.
"Sasuke!" I pushed Itachi off me and ran over to him. "I'm so glad you're here!" I asked him.
"Exactly what are you doing with that creep?" he asked me.
"He tried to kidnap me," I said as we both got up. Sasuke gave me a hug and then turned to Itachi.
"You are really pissing me off right now," he said taking out his sword.
"You're not going to fight him, are you?" I asked him.
"I am, but not to avenge the clan. This fight is for you."
"Foolish little brother. You still haven't obtained it?" Sasuke glared at his older brother.
"Shut up! I don't want to hear it! I'm not here to kill you. We have another matter we need to settle."
"Sakura?" he asked. "I already know that it's about her. I saw her first, and you can't have her."
"Since when do I belong to you?" I shouted. Itachi walked over and grabbed me by the arm.
"Since I laid eyes on you. I knew from that moment that I would make you mine," he said pulling me close to him.
"Let go of her now!" said Sasuke punching him in the face. Another tooth of Itachi's fell out. He spat it on the ground and threw me aside and punched Sasuke in the face. I couldn't stand seeing them fight.
"Please, stop fighting! Do you really want to spend all your energy fighting over me?" I said.
"Would you rather have us fight over the clan instead?" said Itachi sarcastically. I gave him a dark glare.
"Let go of Sasuke now," I said.
"And exactly what makes you think I'll do that?" I walked up to him and pulled him close to me. I kissed him roughly on the lips and pushed him away.
"That's why," I said. Sasuke looked at me with surprise. Then I heard a loud bang, and saw Naruto running back over to us.
"Sakura! We have to get out now!" he said.
"Why?"
"Deidara set off a bomb and it's going to kill us all if we don't get out of here now!" he said grabbing my hand. We started running and Sasuke came with us.
"I'm going with you," said Sasuke.
"What? After all that you did? You gotta be joking," said Naruto as we ran.
"Fine, just get out of the village after, we don't want you here," said Naruto. Sasuke nodded and we managed to get far enough away from the bomb. It exploded as soon as we were a couple hundred feet away, but then a rockslide blocked the rest of the path leading to the bottom of the mountain.
"What do we do now?" I asked Naruto.
"I got it," said Naruto. He bit his thumb and made several hand signs.
"Summoning jutsu!" A large toad appeared out of nowhere and we jumped on its back.
"Where to boss?" the toad asked.
"Outside the village," said Naruto. The toad quickly jumped from rooftop to rooftop until we were well outside of Konoha. We jumped off its back and Naruto thanked the toad.
"You're welcome boss," he said vanishing.
"Well, that was definitely entertaining," said Sasuke. "But I have to go now," he said walking away. I ran after him.
"Sasuke, wait. I wanted to thank you for showing up like you did. It was...It was very sweet of you to do that." He smiled at me and pulled me close to him. Then he leaned in and softly kissed me on the lips. He deepened the kiss for a minute and pulled away.
"You're welcome," he whispered. He looked over at Naruto whose face was now turning red and left. Naruto and I walked back into the village and he wouldn't talk to me the whole time.
"What's your problem?" I asked him.
"You're in love with both of those scumbags," he said. "And it was pretty stupid of you to trust Sasuke like that."
"You don't trust him either?" I asked.
"Sakura, he's still working for Orochimaru!" I clenched my fists in anger. "He's just using you because he wants to get something for Orochimaru!"
"No! It's not true! He has changed, and he...he cares about me! You're just jealous because I don't feel that way about you!"
"No, its just that...okay, I'm jealous."
"But why Naruto? Why are you still jealous of Sasuke?"
"Because he always gets what he wants, and he hardly even has to do anything for it."
"You're wrong. He's been working his ass off to get stronger than Itachi," I said trying to defend Sasuke. Naruto sighed.
"I just have a bad feeling about Sasuke. I don't want you to get hurt. It's bad enough you already have Itachi after you all the time."
"I know. He won't leave me alone, and he keeps on insisting that I'm his..."
"His what? His girlfriend?"
"I hope not. I thought I liked him before, but I'm never going to forgive him for kidnapping my parents and using the Mangekyou sharingan on me."
"He used it on you? That gives me another reason to hate him!"
Then he stopped in the middle of the street.
"Do you want to get some ramen?" he asked me. And once again, Naruto's randomness never ceases to amaze me.
"Alright, let's go get some ramen." We were about to turn around when we saw a large clay bird flying over the village. It swooped down and Deidara had the bird grab me by it's talons. We quickly flew up to the air and I screamed. I didn't tell anyone this, but I was terrifed of extreme heights.
"Sakura!"
"Naruto!"
"Don't worry, I'll go get some help and we'll get you back!" He said trying to talk to me. But then the village quickly turned into a small dot and we were now up in the sky.
We landed in somewhere deep in the woods and Deidara tied me up. Itachi and Sasori appeared a minute later and looked down on me. I hated all of them so much for doing what they just did. And that stupid puppet that Sasori wore creeped me out!
"I hate you!" I shouted at Itachi. Itachi knelt down in front of me and looked into my eyes.
"Now, now, be nice," he said softly. I spat in his face, and he wiped it off and glared at me.
"I really wish you'd stop trying to fight me like that."
"What do you want me to do? Let you get away with everything? Because I'm not going to let you!" I said sharply. Itachi sighed.
"Alright, I'm sorry," he said. "I never should have hit you or tortured you like I have," he said. Then he looked at Deidara and Sasori. "Could you two leave for a minute?" he asked. They nodded and left us alone together.
"Sakura, I know you're mad, and I know you...like my brother...but how do you know he even loves you?" Argh! He's as bad as Naruto!
"You're jealous too, aren't you? You and Naruto are always on my case telling me who I should be with and who I shouldn't!"
" I just don't trust anyone who works for Orochimaru, and then all of a sudden shows up after several years and says he's in love with you."
"What are you getting at?" I asked.
"Sasuke is using you. If there's one thing I know about Sasuke, it's that when he wants something...he won't stop until he gets it," he said leaning in closer to me. "Just like I won't stop until you're mine." Itachi was now so close that his forehead was touching mine, and I was now lying on the ground.
"How do I know you're not trying to use me either?" I asked him. "That's what you did with Mai."
"I don't want to talk about her right now. You're not like her; you're better than that," he said. "I'm not using you. If I was, then I would've already had my way with you." I blushed when he said those words.
"So you're not using me...for...that?"
"I wouldn't do that to you," he whispered. I wasn't sure if I should believe him, but what if he was right about Sasuke? What if he really is using me so he could bring me to Orochimaru? I hadn't forgotten that Orochimaru is still interested in having me be one of his henchmen. Then I looked into Itachi's eyes. He had deactivated his sharingan, and I knew that he wasn't lying.
"I believe you," I whispered. Then to my surprise, Itachi gave me a slight smile. Then he gently kissed me on the lips. I felt the kiss deepen and his tongue found it's way back into my mouth again. After a few minutes Itachi pulled away and kissed me on the cheek.
"I knew you would believe me," he said. He got off me and helped me to my feet. Then he held me tight in his arms and whispered in my ear,
"I think I'm falling in love with you, and by the way you're blushing...you feel the same way."
"I am," I said softly. "I'm head over heels for you."
So romantic of Itachi to do that! Either that he's just really obsessed and its unhealthy. The poor guy really took a beating, but don't worry Itachi lost his molars and it will not affect his hotness. Reviews are appreciated.