Chapter Eleven

"SASUKE!"

"Sakura-chan?"

"Our parents are calling for us. And Itachi. Have you seen him?"

"I'm here Sakura."

"What do our parents want us for Sakura-chan?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know Sasuke-kun. They just want us."

"Well we shouldn't keep them waiting should we Sakura. Our families after all hate to be kept waiting." Itachi said walking off in front of Sasuke and Sakura.

"You sure you don't know what this is about Sakura-chan?"

"Not a clue Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke and Sakura started to walk after Itachi. The heads of the Haruno clan had come over to Uchiha estate dragging Sakura with them. Sakura was the heir to the clan but still too young to be one of the head people.

"Hey Itachi-chan, wait up!"

"Maybe you two should run Sakura."

"Come on Sakura-chan." Sasuke started to run, Sakura soon following her face lit up with a smile, and laughing. They quickly passed Itachi.

"Hey you rascals!" Itachi shouted now running after Sasuke and Sakura.

They ran into the main room where both clans were discussing something. As soon as Itachi, Sasuke, and Sakura were in the room the room fell silent and all head turned to the three heirs.

"What's going on here?" Itachi asked. He looked at his father and almost knew what was going on. "Oh no. No. No. I won't do it."

"This isn't your choice Itachi. You and Sakura don't have a say in it."

"Daddy. What's going on?" Sakura asked.

"Be quiet sweetheart."

"No tell me daddy."

Sakura's father sighed. "You and Itachi are to be married as soon as you reach the age of sixteen."

"What!?"

"No daddy. I can't. I'm with Sasuke-kun."

"You will do as you're told." Her father said. "You will respect the clan's decision."

"And what about Lenora-chan? She was meant to be the heir. Not me!"

"She was not a Haruno. And your mother was just as bad as your sister. Never mention either of them in my presence."

"Mother was more of a human than you are! And my sister was more of a Haruno than you are!"

"You are never to speak back to me Sakura! You will marry Itachi and the Haruno and Uchiha clan will be united."

"NO!"

Sakura's father moved quickly towards Sakura and struck her across the face. Sasuke and Itachi both ran to her not caring that they were meant to stay out of it and threw Sakura's father backwards.

"Itachi! Sasuke!"

"Stay out of this Sasuke." Sakura's father said. "You no longer have a part in Sakura's life."

"Like hell I don't. You can't just some in here and say that she and my brother are going to get married. Sakura is still my girlfriend. And no one except her or I can change that."

"Sakura I order you to break up with Sasuke."

The colour drained from Sasuke's face. Ever since the death of her mother, Sakura has always obeyed her father.

"No."

Sakura's hair flowed around her face but there was no wind, no breeze. Itachi had seen that before. Just before she killed her father.

Every one in that room stared at Sakura. There was a strange light around her. Something that glowed. Sakura's hair moved around her face, not from wind but her will.

"No father."

"What would your mother say?"

"At least mother was a Haruno. You just married into the clan. And you know that means that Lenora was a true Haruno. She just wasn't your's. But maybe she was your's. Mother was the one with the pink hair. You have black hair. Lenora could have been your's."

"Lenora wasn't mine. Where would she have gotten violet eyes?"

"SHUT UP! Okay she wasn't your's. But do you think you could leave me alone. And stop trying to run my life. Just because of the death of mother and my brother doesn't mean you now have to right to run the Haruno clan. As soon as I'm eighteen I run the clan. You are only the care taker."

"And that is why I can still say that you are going to marry Itachi when you're sixteen."

"Come on Sakura. I know how this works." Itachi said under his breath.

"NO!"

Sakura clutched her head. 'I can't do this. No. Father. Mother. Lenora. Sasuke. Itachi.'

A beam of red light burst from Sakura's chest aimed at her father. His scream echoed through the room. The beam ripped through his chest. He fell to the floor his eyes lifeless.

"Itachi!"

Sakura ran forward at Itachi, his kanata in her hands.

"I'll kill you, you bastard!"

Itachi easily jumped out of the way. He knew how Sakura moved when her magic was about to blow out of her body. She became faster in movements, got quicker reflexes, and growth in strength. The only thing that went to his advantage is that Sakura also become more careless. But then it had been awhile since Itachi had fought with her like this. And back then she was only twelve, and he was able to overpower her easily. She was ten years older now, and stronger.

A red light beam sped towards him. Grabbing on to a pole was the only way Itachi was able to dodge it while still in the air. Landing lightly on his feet not far from the platform he ran towards Deidara, trying to get some one as a hostage to have some influence on Sakura. Sasori in his puppet was out of reach, so Itachi went for the next best thing. A woman with blue hair and a white flower in it, and a man with blond-brown hair and six piercings on his nose, stopped him. They were dressed in Akatsuki clothing.

"Konan? Pein?" Yondamine whispered.

The woman grabbed Itachi's arm and pushed him back. "Your fight is with Sakura-chan. Don't bring any one else into it."

The woman and man walked over to Yondamine and joined the Akatsuki ranks.

"Where the hell have you guys been?" Yondamine snapped.

"Busy." Pein answered.

"Nice excuse. Ten years the leader of the Akatsuki is gone and all I get is 'busy'?"

"Pein is in a bad mood because I made him come out of hiding. And plus you are pretty much the leader now. Or at least everyone says you are." Konan said with a small smile.

"Only because you and your partner left us."

"So what is going on anyway? We really only have the last ten minutes." Konan asked.

"Well Sasori and Sakura, the newest addition to the Akatsuki are married and expecting a child."

"Is that the Haruno Sakura? The one who killed the Haruno and Uchiha clan?"

"Yes but she didn't really kill them. Uchiha Itachi did. And now he just killed his brother Sasuke, and Sakura is on the war path to kill him and get revenge. And that pretty much brings you up to date."

"I remember Sasori's and Sakura's wedding."

"Pein!" Konan snapped.

"What? Oh…"

"You were there and didn't say anything!?" Yondamine almost shouted.

"I like to keep a track on my group. We just happened to come on the day of the wedding. We couldn't say anything because Sakura's chakra was so jumpy that if we just walked in, I have a feeling, she would have kicked my arse." Pein said.

"Watch out!" Sasori ran at Yondamine, Pein, and Konan grabbing them with Hiruko and getting them out of the way as Itachi was thrown in their directing as a blue light from Sakura's body hit him. The fall and the hit from Sakura broke four of Itachi's ribs.

"Shit. Okay so she's not careless anymore. And stronger."

Itachi had tried to come up behind her. Big mistake on his part. Sakura had once again focus chakra into her eyes creating her own sharingan. And infused with her magic it made her sharingan as good as the Uchiha real sharingan.

"Come on Itachi! I know you can do better than that!"

Itachi wiped blood from his mouth. One of his ribs had pierced his lung. He knew that even if he did now kill Sakura he would die from the effort, for after a fight with her with his condition, considering the fight lasted a few hours, there was no medic ninja alive, except for Sakura, who could heal him. Itachi though he made a wise choice when he decided to stay down and just let Sakura kill him. He didn't know about the power of a woman's tongue.

"I always knew the Uchiha's were weak. That's why they pick on people weaker than themselves, otherwise their cowards."

A nerve in Itachi broke and as he pushed himself from the ground he ran at Sakura forming hand seals as he went. He knew Sakura would know what he was planning to do but at that moment he didn't care. He may never have liked his clan because what she said was true, taking out the weak part, but he didn't like them being insulted. After all he still held their name.

Sakura stood, her legs apart, pink chakra surrounding her, arms up the kanata's tip facing forward and right for Itachi's chest. The same end for the two brothers.

"Time to die Sakura!" Itachi screamed. "Katon no jitsu!"

A fire ball sped towards Sakura. She pushed her legs into the ground and moved through the earth till she was right under Itachi. She reached out and grabbed hold of his ankle. Itachi threw a kunai at her hand forcing her to let go as he then ran to the wooden platform. He found a kanata from one of the dead ANBU and picked it up.

"Come on out Sakura. Let's fight fairly."

"Now why would I do that Itachi?" Sakura's voice resonated through the square. She was still merged with the ground so she sent her voice out with her inner self. "After all. You and Sasuke never fought fairly with me. You sent a hundred ANBU at me and then knocked me out with a very dirty trick." Sakura rose out of the ground and up in to the air. Her Haruno magic gave her the power to fly at least for a little bit. Her hair billowed around her face and her magic created a wind that caused the leaves and dirt to swirl and form small whirlwinds.

"Okay yes. I played dirty, and made Sasuke do the same. But come on. This is you Sakura. You always play by the rules." Itachi was trying to find a foot hole with which he might find some chance of surviving this fight. The rib in his lung was already making him weak, if he could hold out for just another half an hour he might be able to get healed.

"Do I? Really?" Then Sakura lowered her voice, her eyes locked with Itachi's, her sharingan forcing his out, and she whispered. "Utopia genjitsu."

Itachi suddenly found himself in the same place as he had taken Sakura only a week ago. "Ah, shit. So she'll kill me here huh?"

"Oh I won't kill you Itachi. You'll kill yourself."

"What do you mean?"

Itachi's question was answered as a clone of himself sped at him. Itachi managed to jump out of the way, but only just. If he had jumped a moment later, his clones kanata would have gone through his chest. Which he suspected is what Sakura had wanted it to do.

"How did she figure out how to do this?" Itachi voiced.

"Easy Itachi. Genjitsu is an image of the mind. All you have to do it release it out into the world. But of course I'm not going to tell you how to do that. Otherwise I'd lose my advantage. So it's my little secret."

"Genjitsu huh? Kai!" Itachi said. Sakura started to laugh and Itachi became very confused.

"This isn't a genjitsu you can release yourself from Itachi. You have to fight your way out of this one. You're in my world now."

Utopia started to transform.

The green grass became dust, dirt, and sand. The clear waters of the lake became muddy and filled with vile. The luscious trees turned into stumps with black branches. Utopia, a land of beauty and peace, had transformed into a place of vile and hate.

Utopia was now Hell.

"Ugly, isn't it." Statement not a question.

Itachi turned to look at his captor. Sakura was as beautiful as ever. The most beautiful thing is this waste land. Though anything was more beautiful than this place. But even in Utopia she had been the most beautiful thing to Itachi.

"What is this place?"

"Well it's no longer Utopia." Sakura said with a smirk.

"Really? No shit. Come on Sakura that much is obvious. And it doesn't answer my question."

"This place," Sakura said waving her hand across the horizon. "This place is where I first met Orochimaru. I was an inch away from death for the first time. Kabuto found me and would have killed had he not fallen in love with me the moment he saw my face. At that time word hadn't gotten out that far from Konoha that I was the great 'murderer' of our clans. He took me back to Orochimaru, and Orochimaru healed me. He fed me, nursed me, and soon I thought of him as my father. He taught me and trained me. He always refused to give me the cursed seal no matter how many times I asked for it. He told me that with my magic there was a possibility that that cursed seal and my magic would start a war of power inside my body. Until it would have eventually killed me. He wanted to give it to you or Sasuke. I was the reason he never did. I've seen what the cursed seal does to people. Or what it can do. Some survived and because strong beyond belief. Others couldn't handle the surge of power and it killed them. In some ways I did want him to give it to you. But I wanted it to be where it would kill you. But there was that chance that you would survive and then you would be unstoppable. And well, I couldn't have that. You see Itachi, I was the reason Orochimaru left you alone. You and Konoha."

"So why do you want him dead if he was so good to you?"

"Because he's so much like you. I hate him, and love him at the same time. Just like you. I love to hate him. And I hate to love him. I just can't help it. I can't help how I feel. And you know what. The same goes for you. And Sasuke…

I love to hate, and hate to love."

Hey guys here is the next chapter. sorry it took so long to get it posted i was having a little difficulty writing this chapter. What ever i wrote just didn't seem right to me and in some way just didn't fit the story. but this is kinda working for me.

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