"Where is my Sakura?"
"Sasuke."
Naruto looked at Sasuke with hate. He knew what Sasuke had done to Sakura, and he was all to pleased to deliver the message to Sasuke.
"Sakura is with her fiancé, back safe and sound away from you in the village."
"Naruto careful what you say."
Kakashi warned him before Naruto smiled. He watched Sasuke's smug face turn into one of anger. His two companions stepped back, both smart enough to stay out of Sasuke's path.
"Neh Sasuke- kun. Aren't you missing that red headed girl, you know the one who follows you like a puppy? Shouldn't she be good enough to sate yourself with."
"Who the hell has Sakura."
Sasuke was livid, Sakura was his, he claimed her, he took her. She should be grateful he thought her worthy of his seed. Yet here she was betraying him with some other lowlife. She said she loved him, would do anything for him. She lied to him!
"Naruto, thats enough, we don't need a confrontation, we can not put her in danger. She is under village protection, that includes you."
Kakashi new where this was heading and he did not like it one bit. The look in Sasuke's eyes meant death, he did not know whom it was pointed at but Sasuke was someone to not be provoked. This was three vs two, an uneven match as well.
"No Kakashi sensei, he should know!"
"Know what! Tell me who hell has MY Sakura!"
Kakashi did a few hand seals before all his Nin-hounds appeared, Handing them the scroll he told them as a group to get the message to Suana. Pakun nodded before the group of hounds took to the tree's.
"Oh poor Kakashi, you scared of my wrath?"
"No, I simply want to finish my mission and protect Sakura like I am supposed to."
"Why don't you just answer me, who has Sakura, and why the hell is the whole village protecting her, is she truly that weak. She put up a hell of a fight before I took her."
Naruto was getting more furious as the Uchiha spoke, he spoke about rapeing his friend as if it was the most natural thing to do. It was sick, this was not the Sasuke he knew. Time to throw it in his face.
Kakashi spoke first, though he was careful how he worded things.
"Sakura is engaged to the head of one of our villages clans. She is to be the new matriarch and as like all the head families, she is to be protected at all costs."
Kakashi kept a close eye on Sasuke, he seemed to be analyzing the information. He new when things began to click together because the glazed over look disappeared.
Sasuke new of the other clans, but the head of a clan the only other heirs besides himself were Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba. He knew any of them could have become the head of the clans by now but what one would take HIS Sakura. Clearly everyone new he took her, who was dumb enough to take what was his.
"Who."
It was one word and Naruto took it, he was not going to sugar coat it, he wanted to fight, his insides were on fire with anger.
Sasuke watched as Naruto's eyes bled red, Kirima was there, he too wanted the brat to suffer.
"Itachi Uchiha."
Sasuke froze. No it wasn't possible. His brother was dead, he killed him himself! Sakura would not betray him with his own brother. Sasuke did not know what to think, he had heard from Madara that Itachi was not the killer he thought him to be, that he was ordered to kill his clan. But why, how, how was Itachi alive, why would the village take him back? He had so many questions but no answers.
"How."
Kakashi put his hand out infront of Naruto, Sasuke was clearly mentally unfit, he was twitching his head a little while staring to the ground. The woods seemed to be closing in on the group and Kakashi new this needed to be handled carefully.
"Sasuke, Itachi is alive. You never killed him, he somehow managed to find medical help, he had stayed hidden up in the mountains of iron country. He is blind of course since you have his eyes. He found Sakura almost dead on the ground after you were finished with her."
Sasuke could here the sneer in the word finished, everything was finally hitting him, he had raped Sakura, she wasn't willing, Itachi is alive some how. His brother, found her, after he broke her. His brother. His brother is in the leaf village, the one that forced his hand into killing there family. Why would he return? Why!
"After he found her he took care of her, healed her. The two were cooped up in the cabin for a few months before we found her. She went to the elders to allow him home under the pretense of a breeding plan. The two are to create an heir if not more then one child to save the bloodline, they are to teach the clan to respect the village compared to hating it as madara had."
"That is impossible! I refuse to believe that!"
"That is up to you Sasuke, but its the truth."
"Your wrong!"
Sasuke and his group took to the tree's he would see it for himself.
Kakashi sighed before looking back to Naruto.
"We should head straight back to the leaf village, we need to warn Lady Tsunade and Sakura."
"YOU WHAT!"
"But Baa-chan he needed to hear that! The way he talked about Sakura-chan was terrible!"
"I don't care how bad it was! Do you two know how much danger you possibley put her in!"
Tsunade took a breath as she glared down on at the two before her. They were incompetent fools. She expected this behavior from Naruto, but Kakashi as well? It was unheard of, but given the situation it sounded as though Naruto forced Kakashi into it, if Kakashi did not say something to help, Naruto would have made it worse.
"Shizune! Get in here!"
Shizune ran into Tsunade's office carrying the pig in her arms. She seemed worried considering she heard her yelling at the two before her now. Then again she was sure the whole village has heard her by now. Looking at Kakashi she could tell he was very much over the situation. Naruto looked more pissed then anything else. He stood there his hands in his pockets with his traditional pout as he stared to the floor.
"Yes my lady?"
"Send for Itachi and Sakura. Then I want you to assemble an anbu squad to protect the two. They are not to be left alone, Add a few extra guards around the village, notify all shinobi to be on guard for Sasuke Uchiha to infiltrate the village."
"Yes Milady!"
Shizune ran out the door in a hurry.
"As for you two, Naruto, Kakashi you will be with the couple. They will be holding that fire tomorrow night, Stay next to them 24/7. Kakashi go tell Hinata and Ino as well. Actually Naruto you go tell them, Kakashi you will stay here until Sakura and Itachi get here, then you will leave with them."
Naruto turned to do what he was told, as he left the room he walked past Sakura and Itachi without so much as a glance in there direction. Sakura looked to Itachi in concern but both proceeded to the summoning.
When Itachi entered the room, he was greeted with an eight member Anbu squad, and Kakashi. He began to get nervous but willed himself to calm down. Gin gripped his shoulder in concern as well, out of reflux he pet the bird a few times to also soothe both him and Gin. Sakura held his other hand as they approached Lady Tsunade's desk.
"Itachi we have bad news. Naruto and Kakashi ran into Sasuke on there last mission. Naruto proceeded to tell him Sakura was now engaged to you. As well as how you are now staying in the village under the pretense of a breeding program, Kakashi tried to dial it down to not upset him more but he took off on them. We do not know where he is at the moment so we are assigning an Anbu team to guard you until either Sasuke comes to us or we find him. Not only will the Anbu team be watching over you Kakashi, Naruto, Hinata, and Ino will also be next to you two at all times. Do you understand?"
"Yes milady."
Itachi/Gin looked to Sakura, she was unresponsive. She stood in silence staring at the floor, she was stiff. Fear coming off her in waves. He reached for her hand, clasping it in his own. Giving her a reassuring squeeze she looked up to him, tears in her eyes.
"This, this can't be happening."
Everyone watched her, Kakashi especially felt guilty, he should have knocked Naruto out. He was sure he was going to now. He had never seen Sakura so terrified, not even when she loved Sasuke and he had cast that genjutsu on her so many years ago. To everyones surprise a couple of the Anbu kneeled before her.
"Lady Sakura, we will not let any harm come to you or your intended. Please have faith in us, we will risk our lives to protect you."
"Yes, we have been personally selected to be able to withstand fighting against the Sharigon."
Sakura nodded her head slowly before turning to leave, Itachi in tow. Kakashi followed suit as the Anbu disappeared in a flash.
Itachi held Sakura's hand in a vice grip as the two walked back to her apartment, they would need to prepare for the others to show up.
"Itachi?"
"Yes love?"
"He is going to come, isn't he?"
"Yes."
Itachi felt his gut clench, he wanted to say it would be ok, that Sasuke was going to stay away. But truth was, his brother never gave up. He had hunted Itachi down after years of training. If that didn't say determination he did not know what did.
"Kakashi sensei?"
"Yes Sakura?"
"Why?"
Kakashi looked back to the ground. The guilt was eating him. She was broken, not to mention he knew why she feared Sasuke unlike most of the others in this village, it was strictly information to team seven and the council.
"Naruto did it out of anger, he wanted to scoff in Sasuke's face. I tried to warn him not to. But he did anyway so I tried to settle things down. It clearly did not work."
IItachi dragged Sakura into Ino's flower shop. Naruto was there with Hinata, all looked to Sakura with worry, that did not help the situation.
"Hinata, Ino, and Naruto, take Sakura back to her apartment."
Itachi sounded cold and calculated, much like before he came back to the village, when he used to be with Akatsuki. Everyone could feel his aura, it held venom to it. Sakura looked up into Gins eyes before sadly turning with the group. Ino's mother took hold of the shop while she watched the group leave.
"Mrs. Yamanaka? How much would it cost to buy every flower you have in this shop?"
"Oh my um..."
She began typing into the register before wide eyed looking at Itachi.
"It would be 4,057,668.08 yen."
Itachi nodded his head before pulling out the money, the woman couldn't believe her eyes, how had he accumulated so much money? Not to mention he did not even hand her all of it.
"Please deliver these to the Uchiha compound."
She just nodded before Itachi and Kakashi turned to leave.
Itachi sprinted with chakra enhanced speed along with Kakashi, his skin burned from the chakra seals that now glowed red along his skin. It covered his body more as he used more chakra. No one new that even with the small leak Tsunade allowed that Itachi figured out how to break a larger leak. He knew he could potentially have about two hundred ravens at his command if he so wished. Stepping onto another building before leaping off again he looked to Kakashi.
"Kakashi I know we have at least two Anbu following us, I need you to go get Yamato."
Kakashi nodded before taking off in another direction, Itachi continued on in the direction of the compound. Once there he summoned his ravens, In a large wind gust the compound was cleared. His ravens dispersing, All with red eyes flew into the trees, some landing around the compound to keep watch, others went around the village continuing to fly, searching.
Itachi sent fifty out to search for his brother, Sakura would not get hurt. He felt a presence approaching, extending out his chakra he felt Kakashi's and Yamato's. Good.
Kakashi and Yamato landed beside the young Uchiha, both looked around the compound noticing it was empty, no buildings, no debris. Nothing. there were trees that bordered half the compound,and some grass areas from where the training grounds used to be held, other then that nothing. The debris that was once everywhere was now in a nice large pile ready to burn.
"Itachi, how did you clear all this?"
It was then that Kakashi's eye noticed movement, and a lot of it in the tree lines. Ravens, Thousands of them. Only a few here and there had red eyes though. So Itachi could use this much chakra still?
"Yamato, thank you for coming."
"Of course, Kakashi updated me on your situation, what could I help you with?"
"I would like you to build me a traditional Japanese house, tea room, living room, five bedrooms, two story, kitchen garden in the center of the house with sliding doors opening to it. Three bathroom one on main floor two second, one in the master suit. Main floor to have a place for a hot spring. can you do this?"
"Oh wow, it is a lot but I can try."
"This is not something you will not be paid for. I will pay for the home."
Itachi pulled out another large amount of cash before handing it over to the wide eyed Yamato. Kakashi couldn't believe his eyes, how did Itachi have so much money?
"This is 5,600,000 yen! this is way to much, I don't even know what to do with this kind of money."
"Take what you feel is right, or donate it if you feel you do not want it, we could make it for all the work to be done on the compound."
" I can agree to that. Now lets get this building built."
Yamato took in a huge breath before waving some signs, with all his concentration a house slowly rose from the ground. Exactly they way Itachi described it, Itachi turned to see Yamato huffing on the ground. It was a huge amount of chakra he used all at once. Gin gripped Itachi's shoulder when Itachi began to walk to the entrance of the compound. It was only a hundred feet away, but he knew the Yamanaka's would have the flowers. Just like he thought they were there.
Kakashi and Yamato watched as Itachi lifted one hand, soon as it was up Raven's flew all around them, the breeze from the sheer amount flying past everyones faces, mere inches of hitting. Flying past Itachi they began taking the flower heads and placing them all around the house. Petals where everywhere in all sorts of colors covering up the brown dirt that was currently occupying the most the compound. Kakashi stared in aw at the beauty of it all.
Itachi looked commanded a bird with its red eyes to retrieve Sakura. It flew off toward her home with a few others going with whom had there dark as black eyes peeking down along the village as they flew.
"Itachi, this is, beautiful. How did you come up with this?"
"Hn, Sakura."
That was all that was said, Itachi and Gin walked over to the scarp pile of wood, he took what he need and grabbed a large rock before taking old nails and building something. Kakashi looked on in amassment until he saw what Itachi built.
Itachi place the bench he built from the scraps over by the house. Sitting down quietly he relaxed. He was in so much pain from using his chakra, the seals still glowed with a fire on his skin, It now cover his arms his torso and half his face. He felt Kakashi and Yamato sit beside him.
"Yamato?"
"Yes Uchiha?"
"Can you make Cherry blossom tree's?"
"I can."
"Think you have enough chakra for two lines? One on each side of the walkway to the main house"
"I think I can manage that."
Yamato stood with a smile before doing the hand sign and planting his hands to the ground. Out came thirteen trees on each side equally spaced. Sitting back down he looked at his work, he add a boardwalk for the pathway. It was absolutely stunning, if only they were on the opposite end, so they could see the house with it.
Gin communicated to Itachi that Sakura was coming up to the entrance, standing he walked infront of the house. His ravens came from the tree's to sweep around the house fast enough for the flower petals to rise into the air, spinning around the house and trees like a snow globe effect. He would never forget the way Sakura's eyes shown when she walked into the compound to see there home.
Sakura walked through the gates, her friends following close behind. She couldn't believe what she saw, it was so beautiful. There were petals blowing around a beautiful traditional Japanese home, cherry blossom trees leading to it. With the setting sun behind. It was the most stunningly beautiful thing she has ever seen, and Itachi did it for her. the ravens dispersed so she could clearly see Itachi standing there, waiting. Slowly she began to run to him, throwing her arms around the man she kissed him.
Itachi picked her up and spun with the force of her throwing herself on him, Gin had taken to the sky just as she jumped to him.
"Itachi, it is so beautiful."
Itachi touched his nose to hers.
"Yes, beautiful."
Red eyes, eyed Kohona carefully. Clearly Kakashi and Naruto had gotten there before him thanks to damn Kirin. He should have never went back for her. The Walls were covered in security guards not to mention all the anbu squads he had to sneak past. Kakashi was not kidding, Sakura and Itachi were to be protected at all costs. He couldn't believe it, even with it before his eyes. a Raven above him squared made him jump. Wait Raven? No.
Sasuke new they had to move quick. If this was one of Itachi's, they had been found.