Chapter 9
Authors note:
Im asnwer to certain questions-
Sakura does have the healing abilities but usually when she needs to heal herself she cannt get herself up together enough really to know she needs healing.
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Sasuke has no feelings towards anything in the stroy at the moment but i think I will change that at the end or in the sequel
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No, Itachi is not going to turn out gay XD lmao !
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Oh anddd ! Thankyou if anyone helped me with suggestions for sequelling and such it really helps thankyooou.
And i think this was reeeeally short but i'll drag it out a little
Sakura
After walking for what seemed like forever the rain had stopped and bright warm sunshine fell from the sky onto Sakura's skin. she could see that it wouldn't last for long as dark cloyuds loomed around the outside waiting for the right time to burst. She smiled at the sun for the moments that it stayed out warming her. She removed the light coloured straw hat that had been shielding her from the rain and a watchful Itachi looked forward at her as she kept walking along with her hat in her hand by the side of her.
She turned around to see him staring at her. "What?" She asked as politely as she possibly could. Her hat dangled alongside her and little rain drops feel to the floor
"Put your hat on" Itachi said scanning the area while she stared at him her green orbs radiating her confusion.
"Why" She asked. Itachi didn't reply but held his finger up to shh her while he still scanned, his ruby eyes with a very faint glimmer in them which amused Sakura.
"Ohh is it because we'll get seen, we'll get spotted by some scary ANBU. Are you scared your gonna get caught? The great Uchiha Itachi scared of being caught by ANBU?" She mocked leaning back from his finger that he'd pressed againt her deep peach coloured lips.
"I'm not scared and the only one getting caught is you" He said then back flipping himself landing into a tree out of sight.
Sakura looked around worriedly wondering if she'd lost Itachi so quickly.. "I don't see any ANBU. Even if I do it's a good thing they can take myself and 'Mr.Itachi' back to Konoha where we belong" She thought childishly crossing her arms and legs, sitting on the floor with a pout plastered across her face.A thought then crossed her mind causing her to lean back and giggle at the air infront of her. "I'll tell the ANBU your about 5 meters above me, in the third tree to the left of the discarded kunai pouch then shall I ?" Sakura said knowing Itachi's precise location. She could feel him angered that she knew where he was and she giggled again.
"Don't get cocky" He said landing down next to her his cloak falling around him. She wondered why he wore such a stupidly large cloak but forgot this as she laughed loudly throwing her head back. "Like I'm going to listen to you" She said tossing her hair back letting it fall down her back.
She turned around to further this conversation with Itachi but stopped in her tracks upon realising that the mysterious Itachi uchiha wasn't there.
"He must be near" She figured knowing that the seal would only let him travel so far before leaving a burning sensation that decayed through his limbs and she knew when he'd be that for because she'd feel the same effects.
She concentrated letting the ends of her hair rise from her body and her jade green eyes radiated beautifully while her chakra started circulating faster.
She suddenly sensed the common flow of chakra that surrounded her slightly making her find the exact location
"Got you" She shouted triumphantly, jumping up to mock Itachi's failure at hiding. But she was very taken aback to see three beautifully painted red and white ANBU masks surrounding her. They were engraved with hidden mist symbol and for a brief moment Sakura felt the words "Done for" hit down on her heavily. Even without heeing their faces she could somehow tell they had no expression.
She pulled out kunai shakily from her pouch and stood in her fighting stance ready to try her best at deffending herself even if it was against another league of ANBU.
She stared at the ANBU that barely moved from their current position in front of her.They were almost un-real. she pondered this obscure thought as she stood straight and walked towards one . She stood straight at it and raised her kunai before it blew up into a puff of light hazy cloud. Sakura's body tensed and boiling anger flew across her face instantly. She turned throwing the kunai in a loop through the two other fake ANBU clones.
"Dammnit" She whispered to the floor below her.
She turned again feeling another presence of chakra yet much stronger than the other 3 commoners. Itachi stood in front of her staring blankly at her.She compreesed the rage inside of her while inner Sakura ran around inside Sakura's head screaming at Itachi's rudeness to try testing her with fake ANBU that didn't hardly move.
She gathered her courage to talk but ended up just heavily breathing in an attempt to calm her nerves. She still couldn't believe he#d have the nerve to test her abilitie.
"You're annoying" she whispered to Itachi and turned away from him.Letting the words travels through the silence that surrounded them like a blanket.
Itachi
Striking him hard her words made him tighten his grip on the shiny silver kunai that was point upwards inside the large sleeve of his robes. He lunged forward grabbing her pink hair tihs made her jerk backwards and he aslmsot cringed when she shreiked at the sudden jolt in her head. He didn't care as e started ringing his arm around her neck, holding her close with the kunai.
She didn't dare move under his grasp as he slowly moved the kunai closer to her delicate, un-touched skin. He wanted to smirk evilly at the girl who he could feel quivering against his chest lightly. She was helpless, no doubt about it.
She was that pathetic.
She was completly worthless.
He picked her up lightly the kunai still nearing her throat. He watched her breath and her chest move up and down irradically, she was constantly whimpering under his grasp as if he would kill her which made him feel more powerful for thie first five seconds before he got bored dropped her to the grassy floor beneth them both. She first looked down at her legs and knees which where obviously in pain at the sudden fall but she looked up as slight rain drops fell around her.
She hid her face with her hands and Itachi stood watching her make a spectacle of herself. He didn't wish to be un-necessarily rude to her but she was taking up time that could have been put into more productive uses. all that she seemed to achieve in her everday life was being picked on and crying, It was like she'd always need protecting.
"I'll be back in a second" He spoke bluntly, looking in the direction of some familiar trees. She nod her head a little cradling her chest and letting tears fall down her cheeks. Itachi saw this and although knowing it was his fault she was crying, ignored her not wanting to get involved with a woman's emotions. Espicially Sakura's.
He headed towards a large oak tree and jumped up into the nearby branch that cracked in old age as he swiftly landed.. The faint sound of wheezing breath greeted him not as warmly as anyone would have wished and he sighed heavily inside the safety of his neckband.
"Pathetic" He said his gaze directed to a faded ocean blue coloured skin tone that was covered in a large black cloak identical to Itachi's, apart from the slight fact that Itachi's cloak was a size or two smaller than the blue mans.He, like the fake ANBU Itachi had made earlier barely moved and although Itachi's never really cared, a dead or dying body of his partner needed to be dealt with.
The blue man continued to wheeze and barely move in Itachi's presence. Remembering his purpose for visiting the blue skinned man Itachi reached inside an inside pocket of the Akatsuki cloak and produced a small bottle, very familiar to the bottle of Shimizu poison Sakura had found.
The bottle had no words on it, just a small inked picture of a medic needle and what looked like a thin piece of thread dripping in some short of dirty green substance.
"I expected more of a fight.." Itachi left his sentence unfinished staring at the shadowed blue body.
"Kisame" He spoke quietly crushing the glass bottle in his hand letting his blood mix with the substance and drip onto Kisame's wounds.
The fish man's rapid wheezing reduced to a normal breathing pattern and he coughed a small amount of blood.
"Sorry Itachi-san"
Sakura
Her face and hands were sodden and salty covered in her own shed tears. "I don't understand" She thought wiping her face only to let it her covered again with a mix of bitter rain and deeply emotional tears.The rain had now increased like sha had predicted and she was glad that if it was raining her tears would still look like a natural raindrops and she could cry freely without an real worry.
She had a small amount of thinking time and had figured out that it wouldn't matter if she rebelled against Itachi because he obviously didn't care about her enough to fight back, she'd have no chance in defeaing him.
She then noticed he'd left her alone at a distance where Sakura felt burning in her limbs knowing Itachi was further than the comfortable required distance for them both.
It was cold and her back tingled with a shiver that made her eyes close and the warm tears fall down her cheeks.
She didn't care where Itachi was she just knew that the further he went the more pain she would feel. Her blood was boiling at the intense pain that filled her every muscle.she wished to stop the pain but if she looked for Itachi there was a big possibilitie tyhat she would go the oppisite way and she'd get lost.
She wanted to scream but there was no one to scream to , her mission was to find Sasuke. But she was un-sure if he would even care if she was screaming and crying. She didn't know if he even cared that he was being looked for.
For all she knew Sasuke could have forgotten all about her.
About her and about Naruto, about everything.
She reached in her kunai pouch taking the sharp metal to her finger and slowly cutting into the peachy white skin.
A drop of the darkest crimson blood fell from the open slice on her finger and ran down the sharp kunai side.
The rain was now dying of slightly but she heard a clap of faded distant thunder clap and dark clouds filled the sky in a swirling pattern.
She stood when rustling began in the leaves and wiped her crystal like tears from her cheeks. She quickly fell into her fighting stance when she heard the rustling get nearer.
Jumping into a nearby tree she could only see a dark shadow looking from left to right. She could sense a large amount of chakra but he wasn't hiding himself. She jumped down her arm ringed around his neck and another kunai to his back.
"Déjà vu kunoichi?" she heard the man say. She tightened her grip on her kunai realizing this man was Itachi.
She in the ultimate position, she knew that Itachi had no choice of making any movement unless Sakura released her stance. She felt a smirk tug at her mouth but she denied herself the pleasure of a slight happiness in order to keep her head in the game.
Suddenly she knew it was time to drop her stance as a shuriken came flying through the air barely missing Sakura's face and hitting a tree in font of her.
She turned back and lost all grip on her kunai.
"Ino" She said her face losing all emotions.
Ino stared back at Sakura almost feeling her heart miss a beat.
Her face was a pale white and the other shuriken in her hand was tightly gripped causing a deep red liquid to flow through the gaps in-between her fingers and down to the floor.
Shikamaru quickly joined her falling into the same pale shade as Ino.
For a few moments the four of them just stood there, un-able to speak at first but the when they found the words to say they didn't want to leave.
Soon Itachi took a step to the right drawing all of their attention to him.
Ino and Shikamaru stared in disgust at Itachi un-knowing who he was or what he was doing with Sakura.
All mixed feeling of everyone
Shikamaru saw single tears falling from Ino's beautiful blue eyes and their usual spark had dimmed to a faint un-noticeable glitter. He put his hands on her shoulders and she let the salty tears fall down her cheeks as Sakura stared back at them both as if they were foreign to ever seeing her before.
"Sakura" Shikamaru took a long pause after saying her name. It seemed to echo through both his and Ino's empty minds. Once gathering his emotions he continued.
"What are you doing here? Lord Hokage declared you-"Shikamaru couldn't bring himself to say the word.
Beforehand whenever anyone had said a word about Sakura, Ino would have to leave as she mourned for her best friend. In her mind she felt Sakura was gone forever but her heart wanted to keep hold to the last moments they had spoken to each other and memories of sakura's and Ino's weird childhood relationship.
Ino felt the word tingle like it was under her skin and she felt lost when she spoke the ending to Shikamaru's sentence.
"Dead"