Chapter 10: Disaster - Edited Version
"I could think of a lot of things I could be doing at this very moments with Sakura." Sasuke mumbled to himself yet loud enough for the whole table to hear him. Then he smirked and Sakura was beginning to figure out Sasuke.
"Sasuke!" Everyone yelled that was so immature of him to talk like that.
"Yeah Sasuke, do that on your own time." Kaydin suggested.
"Kaydin," Ino elbowed him. "Don't encourage them, they aren't married yet."
"So, they're engaged. They're allowed to have fun, and so am I when I want to with you." Ino's face was struck with fear. Hinata and Naruto were laughing this up.
"Uchiha men," Ino and Sakura said causing Kaydin and Sasuke to look at them.
Then a large bang interrupted their dinner, the door blew open and a figure entered. "You called?"
"Itachi," Sakura stated in a way of pure hatred.
"What do you want?" Sasuke asked harshly.
"Remember what I said when I killed mom and dad; we'll I plan to keep that promise."
"You said..." Sasuke couldn't say it out loud. 'I will make your life lonely, sad and pathetically and anyone close to you shall die.' (don't have the exam quote, sorry.)
"I see you remember and now I'm here for her." Itachi looked at Sakura.
"Sakura, run, now." Sasuke yelled. She couldn't.
"Sakura Jutsu." She called, and he was hit and it poisoned him and he fell to the floor and so did she but she was caught by Sasuke. He picked her up, carried her out, and ran to Tsunade. He knew that that jutsu was hers, and only Tsunade would know the consequences of it. It was so fast no one knew what happened and before anyone knew, it was over, and before it started, it was over. So fast that they were all put in shock.
Sasuke came in the office and laid Sakura on her examining table.
"What happened to her?"
"Her personal jutsu did it to her."
"I thought so, because it used none of her chakra, it took her natural life source."
"What?" Sasuke asked.
"It's a great jutsu very powerful, but she designed it to kill Itachi but at the cost of her own life force."
"Can we return some?"
"Some will return over time, certain events in her life but only she has the ability to create herself."
"So there's nothing we can do?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah, you can protect her, her jutsu is anything but a normal jutsu, he'll die in 1 week but until then he can't see any of the symptoms. He's still at large."
"What?"
"You heard me, take her home and keep track of where you brother is. He'll want to kill her before he dies, so he can live, her life force is connected to the jutsu."
"That's a huge problem."
"She made it to save you, and to stop Orochimaru and Itachi."
"I'll have to protect her, and to keep her safe until the week is over."
"Good, because it is your job."
"I thought it was her job to protect me?"
"It's both of your jobs and she's done enough for you over time, and she just killed your brother, so be thankful."
"Whatever,"
"Sasuke, Sakura is almost as wanted as you are. Here is the description sent through out the city to make sure she is known."
Whoever reads this:
This letter certifies that Haruno Sakura is an official Jounin of the order of Konoha. Some of her many accomplishments include creating her own jutsu, retrieving Uchiha Sasuke, becoming a medical Nin, out doing Tsunade in the fields of fighting. I am pleased to inform everyone that she is the order of Konoha and is under our rule. She is able to leave and return as she wills for her protection and of the person whom she guards, meaning Uchiha Sasuke. This is for the best, thanks for your concern.
Tsunade, Hokage of Konohagakure, Village Hidden in the Leaves
"Wow, she's in a lot of trouble."
"How I see it, being wanted on the side of evil means that they think they can do it. Be wanted by the side of evil means you are too weak, or you are too good." Tsunade explained.
"I think I'm too weak for them."
"Under estimating yourself is as bad a crime as under estimating you opponent because both cause you to lose." She explained. "They want you for your strength, your sharingan but they can't have both, and the sharingan is rarer then strength that is why."
"I think using anyone at all like that is wrong from a stand point of virtues." Sakura said finally waking up.
"Sakura, you are finally awake, good." Tsunade said looking at the very tired pink haired girl.
"Weak and very tired but awake for now, won't last long, but hi to you too. Sasuke are you okay?" Sakura asked concerned for Sasuke.
"Sakura, you don't remember using your jutsu?"
"Yeah, but I wasn't sure how it would work, is he dead?" She asked concerned.
"Not now, but...
"As good as dead Sakura." Sasuke looked at her. She mouthed, 'don't worry her.' He nodded and she tried to stand up but her legs were tired and literally buckling under her weight. "Sakura you can't use that jutsu very much; it doesn't use chakra it uses life force, like hastening healing every time you use it your life span gets shorter." She looked scared.
"Don't worry, it's not that bad, your life span is safe if you rest up and regain it."
"Okay, but I can't walk."
Sasuke picked her up and held her. "I think Sasuke can handle that, if you start getting sick alert me immediately, because it's an early symptom."
"Of what?" Sakura asked.
"Of Death at this stage, Sakura." Tsunade said warning her but calmly and quietly.
"Is there a way to renew someone else's life force?" Sasuke said, causing Sakura to look concerned.
"Of course, but I nor anyone else will tell you. You don't want to know."
"Actually I..." Sakura brought her face close to his.
"Don't Sasuke there is no need to I'll be fine, just tired." Sakura rested her head on his shoulder. "Promise me you won't."
"Promise." He kissed the crown of her head.
He brought her back and laid her in her bed but she had a tight grip on him from before. He smirked at her utter brilliance even in her sleep.
He lay next to her and her grip loosened and she brought herself closer to him and rested her head in his chest.
∆ (Meanwhile) ∆
"He's really gone," Ino stated.
"No I'm not." Itachi said. "Stupid girl, I'll die in one year because her heart is weak for the love of my brother it used her chakra instead of life force so it's not powerful. I'm going to be here."
"Leave her alone!" Kaydin commanded.
"Ah, my cousin Uchiha Kaydin; you finally came back to be killed."
"Sakura, help!" Ino yelled.
Sakura awoke suddenly and realized that Sasuke was sleeping and she had a very tight grip on him. 'Sasuke, I know you are stronger than me. You could have gone to sleep in your room, and IS, behave!'
"Sakura, what's wrong, something's bothering you?" Sasuke asked.
"Ino, she needs me. But I can't walk." Sasuke sat up and sighed he stood up and carried her marriage style and appeared in front of Itachi, and Sasuke got hit by the attack, falling two his knees protecting Sakura.
"Sasuke!" Kaydin, Ino and Sakura yelled.
"You brought her into the battlefield. I think you are getting stupider brother." Itachi said.
Sasuke did hand signals and laid another hand on Ino still having Sakura in his own arms. They disappeared, and he sent them away.
"Okay, you are going down!" Sasuke yelled at his brother.
"Yeah, no one messes with our family." Kaydin agreed.
"Stupid, I am your family." Itachi rebuked.
"I think killing the entire family is calls for disownment from our family." Sasuke argued back.
"We'll put it on our to-do list. First is killing you, then finally disowning you. Then is to marry Sakura."
"I think that won't happen."
"Why?"
"I'm not going to die, before killing her first."
"Oh no you don't," Sasuke summoned his most powerful jutsu, chidori and hit his brother right in his heart, causing it to go right threw him, and blood splattered the floor.
Itachi summoned the last bit of his chakra into a last final jutsu and hit Kaydin with it, double headed dragon suicide jutsu." Kaydin body fell to the floor, and crashed into a huge pile of blood.
Itachi died there on the spot and the white carpet of the expensive dinning hall was died blood red, not a spot of white in sight and two dead bodies lay on the floor. The carpet was so red that to anyone you couldn't tell the difference from the red entry carpet and the inside blood drenched floor.
Sasuke couldn't move. He fell to his knees covered in blood and he put head in his hands at the horrid site the he saw. If one saw Sasuke, they would think that he was dying himself too. Moreover, on the inside that could be that was the truth. Many hours past in Sasuke's mind, which was only just mere seconds.
∆ (Meanwhile) ∆
"Where are we?" Ino asked.
"In my bedroom, during a sending travel jutsu the first place you think of, you send those people to."
"And why pray tell would that be this particular room?"
"Because, he thought of it to take me back here, if I was hurt."
"Whatever Sakura, I hope that you understand that I'm going to be on guard." Ino warned.
"Stop worrying Ino, what could happen?"
"A lot of things Sakura, you are only 15 that would mess up your life if you had a child. Sasuke is very strong and persuasive. I'd be upset if...
"Ino, that wouldn't happen. I'm not like that, and neither is Sasuke." Sakura replied not thinking twice about what she was saying.
"I know but it's just weird after so many years."
"But it's something you'll have to get used to." Sakura made her understand. They sighed and sat on the bed.
"Why are we kidding ourselves Sakura? By the time we're 18, we'll probably be pregnant." Ino said sighing.
"What do you mean? Most girls aren't pregnant in our village until 20."
"Sakura, we are going to be living vessels to the new generation of Uchiha Clan. We can't spare a moment reviving the clan."
"You don't think...
"No, of course not they love us." Sakura answered. Her heart knew it but in her mind, she began to seriously begin to doubt him. True, that if she couldn't have a child or refused to he couldn't marry her because everyone needs the Uchiha Prodigy.
Nevertheless, would Sasuke still love her if that was honest was there a way to test him, yes, but Sakura was not one to jump to conclusions, especially one as far fetched as this.
Honestly, she was taking a huge jump from Sasuke thinking about her bedroom to Sasuke and Kaydin using them to have children. It was very far fetched and it was being quite silly to jump. Sakura was one to trust her heart.
Sakura and Ino went downstairs and sat on their couch. Then Sakura felt extreme pain, then moments later another sharp pain. Ino knew what was happening.
They teleported themselves to the spot they had left. There in front of their eyes was a dead Itachi and Kaydin. Sasuke fell to his knees, Sakura, and Ino moved closer to him.
Sakura walked and knelt down next to Sasuke. She hugged him, he had ended only one life that night; and it seemed that killing your only brother wither evil or not was something that was hard on your conscience. Sasuke turned to her and first once and probably not the last time, you could see the guilt and sorrow clearly on his face like a cloudless sky.
Ino walked over to Kaydin's body and rested her head on it. She realized that a dying Shinobi wouldn't do this to him, what the blood showed was not the truth.
"Sakura what was that jutsu we use on all the new born babies in the village?"
"It's called 'Death Seal Jutsu'. Death Seal Jutsu is a jutsu put on every baby in this village."
"No, what does it do Sakura?"
"It makes it so any people while on their death bed, meaning anyone destined to die in less than a week can no longer kill someone." Sakura smacked her head. "I'm stupid that's why Sasuke couldn't kill Itachi before."
"No Sakura, Sasuke told me that your jutsu worked, it would kill him in 1 week of when you attacked. So he couldn't have killed Kaydin, right?"
"In theory that is completely correct, and Kaydin couldn't die from that. But I don't think someone like Itachi would keep that jutsu on him." Sakura reminded him.
"I have to check." Sasuke and Sakura nodded. Ino walked over to Itachi and looked at the bottom of his heel, and there was a mark. A mark known as Death Seal Jutsu. "It's here, that means...
"He's alive." Sasuke said standing up and taking Sakura's hand and guiding her toward the body. "You have to find out you are the only one who can do it Sakura." She nodded, in fear but she knew she'd have to.
She laid her head and felt a small heart beat but barely any breathing, he was dying. Shinobi seals were never taken off because when someone enters a real mission, Destiny marks it as suicide because you are destined to die in the fight, and you chose it.
"So?" Ino asked like awaiting the news.
"Yes but not for long." Ino fell to her knees and wept. Sakura looked at Sasuke, and then preformed seals, and she healed the eternal wounds of Kaydin and he began breathing. "Kaydin!" She said hugging him.
"Ino it's hard to breathe when you are on me."
"Sorry but you are alive." She said hugging him causing Sasuke and Sakura to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Kaydin asked still unable to sit up.
"The same exact thing happened to us when we went on our first away mission." Sakura said laughing.
"Yeah except he was healed after that happened and I still had a lot of needles in me at that point."
"Wow Sakura, you really should learn how to think before you act." Ino said.
"I thought he was dead, and I was sad." Sakura said.
"If we would have known about that seal before hand then we would have guessed Haku would have died so you would have known that I'd live."
"Yeah but it was 4 years ago, a long time before I went into the medical field."
"Sakura, would you mind calling for help!" Kaydin yelled.
"Calm down, Ino already left to get help." Kaydin nodded, and rested while Sakura and Sasuke watched him.