Ok so I haven't been on in like forever and really there's no excuse I just wasn't motivated enough to get on and right for you guys, so yeah, you can go ahead and beat the crap out of me, it's justified.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other characters.
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Recap:
"Sakura-chan, Teme!" Naruto screamed "What happened, are you alright?" concern was apparent in his voice for his two friends.
Without even taking his eyes off Sakura he answered Naruto's question "I'm fine dobe."
Then all eyes turned to Sakura she hadn't spoken yet, but she was glaring holes into Sasuke, Naruto seemed to be the only oblivious one to her glaring and asked her "Sakura-chan are you o.k., are you hurt anywhere, Sakura-chan?!" Naruto had started to yell at the end of his sentence since it seemed like she wasn't listening to him.
"I'm fine, Naruto." was her curt reply.
"A-are you s-sure Sakura?" Hinata asked, her friend sure didn't' look fine.
"Yes, I am." and with that Sakura got up from the ground stumbled a little, and pushed past them with Tsunadae yelling at her that she hadn't recovered fully.
Tsunadae turned back to the hospital room when Sakura had disappeared and proceeded to glare at the young Uchiha and finally after much glaring from Tsunadae and curious stares from everyone else Naruto finally asked "what the hell happened in her teme!?"
Naruto got a hn in reply and Sasuke too got of the floor and walked out of the hospital.
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Sakura had walked out of the hospital into the street and was currently sitting in a small abused training area. "Who does that arrogant bastard think he is, if I had had my strength he would have been dust by now" she was growling under her breath cursing him and her weakness every so often.
She was so steamed up she didn't notice the lone figure approaching her; she did however feel the hot breath against her neck. A shiver went up her spine; there was only one person who could get away with doing something like that. Sakura turned around and came face to face with Itachi; no words were exchanged between the two, her eyes told him of the shame and self loathing she was coating herself in.
He shook his head sometimes she could be a handful, because after all she was still a child and sometimes she could demean herself over the most trivial of things, because she was a (as she described herself countless times) monster and monsters always did everything wrong.
In a very out of character gesture for Itachi he picked her up sat her down on his lap and cradled her there. Sakura was in a state of shock for at least two minutes, before realizing what exactly Itachi was doing, and then it took another minute for her to realize what his actions meant. He, Uchiha Itachi, cold blooded murderer of his clan, famed Akatsuki member, was giving her, Haruno Sakura, feeble little monster of the Akatsuki a shoulder to cry on.
It was more than anyone had given her especially coming from Itachi. Sakura did cry on his shoulder in her moment of weakness she let it all out and Itachi didn't seem to mind which she was grateful for. Who would've guessed that Itachi could be comforting like he was now, sure they were lovers in a since, but Itachi had never acted this way around her, not even when they were alone. It was nice; it felt nice to be held like this; in such a caring way and vaguely Sakura wondered if this was what the younger Itachi had once been, she knew of his past and what had happened, Itachi himself had told her.
The two stayed like that for what seemed hours, they parted when there was a sound of rustling nearby and when they felt the chakra Itachi quickly disappeared into the trees. As soon as Itachi had left Kakashi appeared, no orange book insight and Sakura instantly knew that whatever Kakashi had come here to talk about was serious. 'Here we go' she mentally sighed and rolled her eyes though on the outside she stayed stoic. "Sakura, we need to talk" Kakashi mentally sighed this would be one long talk; he was losing precious reading time.
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On the other side of the village near the Nara forest Sasuke sat extremely pissed. As soon as he had left the hospital he had hopped onto the roofs to avoid running into innocent villagers, he had then gone to a secluded area and started to punch and chidori trees, bushes, and ground. One thing circled around his head Sakura, he was so pissed at her, how could she and with his brother, his mind just couldn't wrap itself around the idea, it was then that Sasuke had a revelation; they really didn't know anything about Sakura or what she had done, all they knew about her was that story she had given them and that could've been fake.
Sasuke's eyes were wide with realization they knew nothing about her and they had just let her walk right in and opened up their arms for her. How stupid could they get! And now that he had had this epiphany there was just one question left, how could he reveal her true self to everyone without them thinking he was crazy. Telling them straight up was already out if he told them what she really was, a traitor, a liar, a criminal, they really would think he had gone crazy. Sakura had the whole village already wrapped around her finger, oh she was good, he would just have to be better and beat her at her own game, but how.
Sasuke had set there for hours trying to think up a plan and so far he had nothing and this bothered him, he was prodigy for heaven's sake and he had nothing. Sasuke just didn't understand why he couldn't formulate a plan to reveal Sakura; it wasn't as if he liked her anymore that blew out of the water when he saw her kissing his older brother, who was a murder and scum of the earth. Maybe it was because at one point of time she had been one of his closest friends and had been there in his time of need, maybe it was because it was a little hard for he himself to actually believe his own revelation. Ugh, this was so confusing half of him hated Sakura and the fact that she had lied to him and everyone else and that she was with his brother and the other half still loved her, maybe not in the way he used to, but there was still a friendship/sisterly brotherly love there.
As the sides of him waged war within himself, there was a snapping sound in the distance, he stood and turned all in one motion while whipping out a kunai and turning on his sharingan. For one split second there was nothing no noise, no chakra signal, nothing, but that didn't last long because in the blink of an eye he felt a presence behind him and the mark on his shoulder started burning, Sasuke knew then who it was the was behind him "what do you want" Sasuke spat out while going down on his knees the pain starting to be too much for him to handle. The figure behind him chuckled "now Sasuke-kun is that any way to treat the person who's going to help you get rid of your problems?" the figure chuckled again. "I don't need your help "to defeat my brother" Sasuke was in agony right about now the pain never ceasing. "Oh I wasn't talking about that, I was referring to Sakura-chan." Sasuke had enough energy to snap his head up and look wide eyed at him, "wha-how do you know about that?" his strength was waning and it was getting hard to stay conscious. "I know everything about Sakura-chan, I am the one who created her after all." A sick smile graced his lips as the sentence travelled into the air. 'Damn' Sasuke thought, everything was starting to get blurry. The last thing Sasuke saw before he passed out was Orochimaru stepping closer and bending down that sick smile still on his lips "we have much to discuss Sasuke-kun" and with that Sasuke went out. Orochimaru picked up the boy and chuckled before disappearing out of the area.
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Kakashi sighed for the umpteenth time that day, so far he had gotten nowhere with his 'interrogation'. Sakura was being extremely stubborn and wasn't really answering any of his questions just repeating the same story over and over again. "Alright Sakura I'm not going to ask again, what happened back there in the hospital, we know that Sasuke was there and we know that there were two other chakra signatures there and we know that there was a scuffle." Kakashi was starting to get a headache, he had asked her this question a thousand times and her answer was always 'nothing happened'. "If you have all of that information, then why are you asking me?" Well at least it was better than 'nothing happened'. "Because we have the basics, but we need more specifics to be able to actually determine what happened." Kakashi paused for a second and then went on in a fatherly tone "you know if something happened between you and Sasuke, you could always tell me Sakura, we've always been close and we've always shared a close bond to each other, if you're ever hurt or in trouble you know you can always count on me, right?" he sounded like he was pleading with her and in a way he was.
This time Sakura was the one to sigh, "I know Kakashi and we have always been close, but that doesn't mean we haven't drifted apart over the years, I've had to grow up a lot more than everyone else has and to tell you the truth you don't really know me like you think you do, you've never known me like you think you have." 'Liar' her mind screamed at her, but it wasn't all a lie Kakashi really didn't know her, no one in Konoha really knew the real her and she hoped they would never know her.
Sakura picked herself up from the ground, turned and left a contemplating Kakashi behind. 'That did not go as planned' were Kakashi's only thoughts.
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Sakura had been wandering through the forest going further and further away from Kakashi and she only hoped no one else would run into her. She was looking for Sasuke, his chakra had gone off in this direction and she hoped he had cooled down enough so that when she appeared, he wouldn't chidori her.
She had been going at a steady pace for at least 20 minutes, until she stumbled to a stop. All of a sudden she had felt a disturbing chakra, and this chakra was with Sasuke, her speed increased as she started to barrel towards Sasuke and that sickening chakra.
As she came closer to the two signatures she stopped and stood frozen hidden in the underbrush, there stood Sasuke and that monster, Orochimaru! She couldn't understand why Sasuke was talking to him or for that matter why Orochimaru was talking to Sasuke.
It looked like Sasuke was in pain; he was kneeling on the ground cluthching to his right shoulder. Orochimaru had on that disgusting smile and was chuckling, looking down at Sasuke like he was an animal.
Rage ran through her blood at the sight 'how dare that bastard!' Sasuke blacked out then, and Orochimaru bent down and picked him up threw him over his shoulder and vanished.
Sakura stood there shocked, had Orochimaru just really taken her friend and had she just stood there and watched while he did so. 'Look at you, look at how weak you are, caring and worrying over someone who nearly raped you. You don't need him, let the snake take him and use him for his own purposes, you don't care, you shouldn't care.' That voice, that evil little voice was whispering in her head and it was like she was on surround sound that was all Sakura could hear.
Sakura gasped as she clutched her head "No leave me alone!" she screamed out into the open, hoping that would shut her up, it didn't the teasing increased. Sakura was close to tears; the voice just wouldn't stop ringing in her head 'monster monster monster' Sakura screamed again until she blacked out.
When she woke up she was still in the woods, and according to the suns position she had been out for quite awhile. She sighed the voice didn't happen very often just when there were stressy moments. The first thing she needed to do was go back to the village, the second tell Tsunadae what happened here and third go get Sasuke back. Sakura felt like it was her fault in the first place for not stopping Orochimaru and so she felt it necessary to go and get him, because no one deserved to be near that creature.
With a stretch of her limbs she was off going at full speed with the tower as her destination, hopefully Tsunadae wouldn't be drunk by the time she got there.
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Ok in know it's still short, but at least it's there.
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