Akatsuki's Blood Blossom

Chapter 11

Re-cap

I'm so glad that the Uchiha's decided not to say anything about their appearance and just nodded and disappeared with a poof. Only after the door had closed did I start laughing my ass off while pointing my finger at the both of them making them blush and run back to the rooms they were just in, the only problem though was that Kyo had run to the bedroom and Jirou ran to the bathroom, the complete opposite rooms they were supposed to be in. Not two seconds later did they walk out; nod to one another, and walk into the right rooms to finish what they were doing. Man, the day so far has been great, just hope that the dinner tonight with the Uchiha's doesn't ruin anything.

End re-cap

Dinner

Sakura's P.O.V

After we had all showered and had finished getting ready it was about 6 o'clock. Kyo and Jirou had dressed up for this evening. They both had traded their ninja gear for nice civilian clothes from this place called America. (A/N; x3)

Kyo had worn a pair of black skinny jeans and a white button up dress shirt. Jirou was in the exact opposite, with a pair of white skinny jeans and a black button up dress shirt.

'Awe, don't they look handsome?' said my inner appearing in my mind, the Nibi appearing next to her.

'They do don't they?'

'Ugh! Could the both of you please leave my mind? Your distracting my and we're almost at the Uchiha compound!'

'Fine whatever! You're no fun!' pouted inner.

'Enjoy your dinner Kit! Remember not to give anything away and just agree with anything and everything they say. Their Uchiha's, meaning their power-hungry assholes that want to control anything and everything they can. They'll try to tell you do something, anything, that would benefit them in someway, and if it doesn't seem that way, then it's probably just one person after something. And considering that the clan head himself wanted you three there for dinner… it would probably be him.'

'Great… just, just great.'

'Have fun Kit!'

'Shut up you!'

After talking with the two beasts that lay inside me I took a moment to check my clothing, I was wearing a pair of black tights, a black spaghetti strap shirt under an over sized off the shoulder tan sweater and a pair of black ballet flats to complete the look. My long pink hair was in loose curls down my back, the only make up I was wearing was a bit of eyeliner and mascara. Over all I didn't look that bad…

After about a twenty-minute walk (I refused to run and mess up my hair… a girl needs to look presentable in front of important people, at least that's what mom tells me) we had finally reached the Uchiha district. Itachi Uchiha had been at the gates waiting for us.

'Wonder how long he's been there?…' I thought as we finally stood before him. No words were spoken, we only nodded to each other. He started walking and I assumed we were supposed to follow him, so we did while nodding at the guards who were at the main gate. It was a little uncomfortable walking in the silence.

I could have sworn I felt his eyes on me every once in a while… it made my stomach feel a little weird. I've only felt this way two other times… the day I hugged and kissed Gaara all over his face and were caught by his siblings, and the day I hugged Sasuke the first day of the chunin exams, when I tackled him making his two number one fans let him go and he wrapped his arms around my waist so I wouldn't fall off of him. At first I thought it was just me being weird… but now… I couldn't even describe this feeling. But before I had the chance to figure out anything about what I was feeling we had arrived at the house-mansion… thing. And DAMN was it huge!

When I looked to see Kyo and Jirou's reaction I was not disappointed, their jaws were by their feet. I could tell Itachi was amused by our reactions considering he was smirking at us. I lightly poked their sides and that seemed to wake them up as they picked up their jaws off the floor. I couldn't blame them though; it was probably the size of one of our bases… yeah… big right? After our shock wore off, which Itachi oh so patiently waited on us for, we were led up the stairs that lead to the front door.

We walked inside and nodded to the guards that were at the front door too. Man, were there guards at every corner or something?

When we got inside and took off our shoes my teammates and I looked at the interior, Kyo whistled lowly under his breath but we all heard it.

"The Uchiha's are doing alright." He said. Jirou and I just shook our heads.

"Thank you." I looked over to the new voice that spoke up, it was a woman who looked to be in her late twenties early thirties, a typical Uchiha look, blackish blue hair, obsidian eyes and extremely beautiful. I shook her hand when she held it out for me to shake. "I'm Mikoto Uchiha, Itachi and Sasuke's mother and Shisui's aunt." I made an 'o' face and blushed a little. I had honestly though she was like an older sibling or something. The three of us had bowed almost immediately.

"Hello Uchiha-sama, thank you for having us for dinner." She just waved it off.

"Oh please, call me Mikoto, no need for the formalities." When I rose up I introduced the three of us.

"My name is Sakura Akatsuki, and these are my teammates, Jirou Suzuki and Kyo Sato. It's a pleasure to meet you Mikoto-san" I said smiling kindly at her. That's when it happened, I had felt the wind get knocked out of me and was struggling to breath. Mikoto had pulled me in for a hug and Jeez, did this woman have a vice grip. Kyo and Jirou were having a blast watching my face turn purple. When she finally let me go she pulled Kyo and Jirou in for a hug too. I smirked when I saw their faces puff out like chipmunks. When they mouthed for me to help them I just shrugged my shoulders and let Itachi lead me to the dining room.

When I walked in the room the only other person there was Shisui which kind of surprised me. 'Where was Sasuke?'

As if reading my thoughts Itachi answered. "Sasuke is in his room, he had just gotten back from training with Kakashi moments before we arrived. I had passed him on the way to the gates." He elaborated when seeing the confusion on my face regarding the whole 'moments before we arrived thing'. I nodded, when I looked at Shisui we nodded at one another in greeting, he still looked at me wearily though. We stood there for a moment of silence… awkward silence. I was extremely grateful when Sasuke came in the room. He had a look of surprise on his face when he saw me.

"What are you doing here?"

I shuffled my feel a little, that feeling in my stomach doubled with Itachi and Sasuke both being here. "My teammates and I were invited here for dinner." He nodded in understanding. We started to talk about the upcoming finals for the chunin exam when who I'm guessing the head of the clan walked in with a scowl on his face but considering the creases on his face he must always be scowling like that, when our eyes connected I felt nothing. No need to flinch or even be scared by his presence at all. Guess I over reacted when I heard I was meeting the head of the clan who had personally invited team 13 to dinner.

I held his gaze without wavering for a near minute, trying to see what was behind his mask and the reason for the invitation but I saw nothing. In that one minute the tension in the room had skyrocketed. Sasuke, Itachi and Shisui were looking back and forth between the three of us, waiting for something to happen. Fugaku had opened his mouth to say something but in that very moment my two teammates had walked in looking overly exhausted next to a very chipper looking Mikoto making everyone else who was in the room sweat drop.

As Mikoto went to greet her husband I walked up to Kyo and Jirou.

"Thanks for leaving us there to die Saku." I tried to conceal my laughter.

"You're welcome." They both glared "So what happened to the both of you?"

"Well… after you and ice prince over there left, Mikoto oh so kindly showed us around the mansion and the garden. Then came back here after Kyo's stomach started to growl."

"Hey I was hungry!" he defended but not a second later he stomach growled again and he put his had on it.

"I though I told you to shut up! I'll get you damn food!" he yelled at his own stomach, he even went as far as to hit it like doing that would make it stop.

Yupp.

What a smart teammate right? Psh, some ninja.


I sighed in contempt as I set my fork down. I had just finished eating a piece of apple pie, home-made by Mikoto. And it was delicious if I do say so myself. I silently watched as my teammates slightly bickered back and forth, it soon becoming into a full-blown argument. I covered my face in shame, 'Those idiots!' I thought.

But when Sasuke added in his two cents I didn't feel all that ashamed anymore. Finally fed up with their yelling Mikoto abruptly stood up and demanded the take their altercation outside in the back yard to settle their argument.

"I am so sorry for my teammates! They really should have known better than to start an argument in someone else's home." Fugaku had scoffed, however Mikoto only waved if off.

"No need to worry dear, they're boys, sometimes they need to let it out and do what they need to get rid of frustration. In fact, I should be the one apologizing for my son's behavior." I was about to say something but we heard a loud crash coming from where I assume was the back yard.

"Itachi, Shisui." She started, exhausted, "Can you two keep an eye on them? I have to start cleaning up." the two nodded and left. Mikoto soon stood up me following behind her.

"Would you like some help Mikoto-san?"

"No, no dear, I got this, you just sit and relax." She insisted, soon leaving me with just Fugaku. I was quiet for about a minute, neither one of us saying a word, the only noise was the sound of fighting and screaming coming from one end of the house and the sound of water running in the other. I was expecting it to stay that way until someone came back but I was shook from my thoughts when Fugaku had spoken up.

"Akatsuki-san," startled, I looked up to see Fugaku standing and waving me over with one hand. "There are some things I would like to discuss with you. Follow me to my study?" he asked though it sounded more like a statement. I nodded and began to follow him through many doors, stair cases and hallways before finally reaching a large door. They swung open as he led me inside; I jumped slightly when the large door slammed shut.

I watched his every move, curious about what he was up to. When he took a seat he just sat there for a few seconds. I looked around the entire room in those few seconds, and in those few seconds I had found three different escape routs and had thought of every case scenario. I saw him open his eyes to look at me and open his mouth to speak. 'Here it comes…' I thought.

"Who are you?" I sat there dumbfounded and oh so intelligently said… "Huh?" I'm pretty sure if he wasn't and Uchiha or a clan head he would have rolled his eyes.

"Who are you? You're not showing your true skill and you're hiding many things. I don't think you are who you really say you are." I tensed, but played dumb.

"Oh? And what gave you that idea?" I asked though I had a pretty good idea.

"My son and nephew." 'Called it!'

"Oh? What did they say?" I asked, curious.

"What they said doesn't matter, however, what does matter is the fact that you're not who you say you are and I want to know why you lied." Shit…

"It's not my place to tell…"

"What!?" he nearly spat, anger clearly shown on his face. He really didn't like that answer.

"It's just as I said, it's not my place to tell, if I did I would be disobeying not only my orders but orders from the Hokage as well."

"The Hokage knows about this?!"

"Of course he knows, do you think your Hokage is that stupid? He was the first to know. If the Hokage tells you it would be no way whatsoever against my orders or the Hokage's." He raised a skeptical eyebrow.

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because, I think you might just be able to help." I answered truthfully. Now it all just depends on whether or not the Hokage tells him.

Family

Two weeks later; day of the Finals

Sakura's P.O.V

*SPLASH!*

I yelped as I jumped up from bed, soaking wet, I turned to my left and saw Kyo who had an empty bucket and some water droplets coming down off the edge. I schooled my voice and calmly asked.

"Kyo… did you just pour water on me?"

"…Yes?" he said sheepishly rubbing the back of his head, about three feet away Jirou shook his head.

"Why?" I questioned.

"Because you wouldn't wake up and it's pretty much time to get going to the arena… your family should be here by now." I turned to look at the clock on the night stand and my eyes nearly came out of their sockets.

"You've got to be kidding me! We're gonna be late! We have to be there in twenty minutes!" I yelled, rushing to the bathroom to take a shower.

"Um…Kyo?" asked Jirou, walking up to his best friend.

"Yeah?" asked the read head turning to look in his direction.

"Do you think we should tell her she read the time wrong?" he asked with a tilt of his head to look at the clock, seeing that she read the time one hour ahead.

"…Nah." They both shrugged their shoulders and sat down on the couch and just waited.


"You guys are jerks!" I hotly exclaimed with my arms crossed over my chest.

"Hey! It's not our fault you read the time wrong!" Kyo nonchalantly said with his arms in the air in a carefree manner.

"Yeah but you could have told me about me being wrong about the time!" I said glaring at him.

"Well where's the fun in that?" he asked with a cheeky smile.

"…"

"Sakura?" 'Nope.'

"…"

"Hime?" 'Uh-uh'

"…"

"Are you giving us the silent treatment?" 'Ho yeah.'

"…"

"Yeah she's giving us the silent treatment." 'Nah really?'

Both of them kept trying to get me to talk or say something by yelling and flaying their arms all but to no avail as I kept my mouth shut. They finally realized I wouldn't say anything else so the kept quiet and just talked to them selves, asking for my input every now and then though I said nothing… still.

As we neared the arena the more people there were, though that didn't really surprise me, but what did surprise me though was that the closer I got to the front entrance, the more people I saw crowd around it. Soon there was so many people that the three of us had to push our way though. 'What's with all the people?' I thought when I saw everyone crowd around the entrance to the arena.

The closer we got the more we were able to understand what the people were saying. Then suddenly it all started to make sense.

"Is that who I think it is?"

"I think so? Isn't he cute?"

"Yes he is but who is that with him?"

"A girlfriend? Wife perhaps?"

"Awe, the ring on his finger says it all, not to mention the woman next to him."

"So he's taken? That's sucks!"

"Yeah but look at the other two."

"The three of them look so alike!"

"Brothers? So cute!" Was all we heard but the one thing that confirmed my suspicion on how it was when someone said. "Look at those eyes! Purple with rings! So cool!"

"Cool? I think they look a little creepy."

'It's always the eyes…' I though.

Pushing our way through till we had finally got to where we wanted to be I saw them. My parents and uncles, I locked eyes with my dad and I tried to fight the smile that came to my lips when he gave me a small smile.

"Daddy." I whispered.

"Saku." He whispered back, and thankfully by that time people had done enough staring and wanted to get the good seats before they were taken, now it was just my team and family in front of me, but the other examinees and their own families who were behind us that I paid no mind to, why? Because this is the first time I've seen them after so long, especially the uncles…

Oh no…

THE UNCLES!

And right on cue they both rush toward me pinching my cheeks and cooing.

"Saku!"

"My my, it's certainly been a while hasn't it?"

"My have you grown."

"She has! Especially into that forehead of hers!"

"Yes but it's still a little big though."

"Yes, but she could still grow into it of course!"

"Oh don't know Yahiko, it's pretty big!"

"You're right Nagato! What if she never gets married or has children?!" they both mock gasped dramatically with hands over their mouths the looked to Kyo and Jirou. 'They wouldn't…'

"Oh Kyo!~~~"

"Jirou!~~~"

'Oh yes… they would.' I though dreaded-ly, mentally pace palming as my two uncles left my side in favor of going next to Kyo and Jirou to torture them instead.

"But remember brother, we mustn't forget about Gaara!"

"No, of course not! Never forget about Gaara! Never!"

I had blushed slightly when they had brought up Gaara but thankfully they didn't notice. I don't think I would be able to live though all that torture.

"Yahiko, Nagato, please refrain from pestering my daughter and her teammates." My father had asked (More like demanded) making them both pout and walk away. Suddenly with hearts in my eyes I glomped my father in gratitude all the while yelling 'Daddy!' not at all caring about the people who were behind me, though I'm sure if I turned around I would see the shocked and surprised faces of all the rookies, team Gai and their families faces, minus the Hokage of course. Oh well, they were bound to find out eventually right?


Fin!~

Poll results!

Gaara; 9
Itachi; 5
Sasuke; 1

Poll still stands until like… chapter 15 or 17 or something… so keep voting!

Until next time!

Ja ne!