"We couldn't find a trail, we have no idea where he is. No sign of Haruno either." a voice said beside him
"The kid is in ICU, we don't know if he will make it yet." a different voice
"His eyes? They say he took his eyes, this is bad, really bad." voice number one said.
"She has been forging her own medical records?" a different voice
How many people were fucking there he thoguht and why are they talking by me?
"She knows the second Hokage's jutsus! No way, how did no one know?" voice number 3?
"She had been training in secret for years, only a few people knew the truth." muffled voice.
Sakura, they were talking about Sakura.
"Her chakra levels according to her medical records before they were changed, doubled every year, if they keep doing that or who knows when they stopped, you know what I mean, it is almost scary." voice number 2
"What's scary is she left her team to die and went off with the Uchiha." voice 3
"I don't think she went willingly, she is loyal to Konoha!" angry voice.
Yes, she is loyal to konoha. I will never doubt her again.
"She is a traitor and needs to be killed!"
Kakashi's eyes snapped open and he grabbed voice number 3 by the throat and slammed him against the wall.
"NO ONE TOUCHES HER!" he snarled and growled spitting and foaming, fingers digging into a soft throat, arm trembling.
"Hatake! Drop him!" Tsunade Senju commands from the doorway.
"He said that Sakura needed to be killed. She is no traitor!" Kakashi was spitting in the man's face as he sneered, teeth bared at the man.
"I said let him go" Her voice low and commanding. "Or I won't finish healing you. And you can die here like the dog you are."
Kakashi opened his hand and the man dropped to the floor gasping for breath.
"Crazy fucking cold blooded freak. She's a traitor!" voice three foolishly said
Kakashi picked him up by the arm, and kicked him through the wall into the next room.
Tsunade threw her hands into the air, "Making more fucking work for me asshole! Enjoy your injuries, I'll be back later to maybe heal your sorry ass."
"I can wait." Kakashi got back into his hospital bed.
"She isn't a traitor, I don't know why she left with him but we will get her back. She may have been too injured to fight him off. I saw him whisper something to her , pick her up and then they were gone, heading to the forest." Yamato said.
"The forest?" Kakashi asked him
"Yeah, strange isn't it? They went in the opposite direction than the rest of the Akatsuki that were there." Yamato told him.
"She was badly injured? Where was everyone? We arrived and we didn't see anyone." Kakashi asked.
"Underground tunnel system, we got word an hour before Naruto's attack and we got everyone to safety." Yamato said.
"We didn't know what was happening until we heard your Chidori and Sakura's raging chakra, only then did we know you had returned and we sent Anbu up to help you. We found Sasuke with his eyes taken, bleeding to death, and you mangled and sliced up like dinner meat. Sakura was in Itachi's arms but before we could get to him, he was gone of course." Yamato shook his head.
"Water" Kakashi mumbled.
"Yeah sure." Yamato turned around to pour a glass of water, when he turned back to Kakashi, he was gone.
"Fucking hell Kakashi you better not be doing what I think you are doing!' Yamato groaned.
Kakashi paced back and forth by the river. He had followed their scent to his point but lost it. He went to the river ,no scent at the edge, they didn't continue by river. He went to the forest edge, it ended like, almost like it went into a wall.
Genjutsu! He made the hand signs, "Release!" A shield, waiver, it looked like a layer of glass then disappeared.
He did the hand signs again and concentrated , focusing his chakra to the wall , spreading it out like strings to crack, to break, "Release!"
There was a cabin in front of him. "What the hell?"
Kakashi was overwhelmed with Sakura's scent, it flooded his nose, washing over him like warm water.
He went to the door to listen, nothing. He sent out chakra, nothing. He opened the door.
It smelled like...sex. Kakashi narrowed his eyes and went straight to the bed. He sniffed. Sakura. Itachi.
Kakashi took a step back. He looked around. Did he force her? It didn't smell like fear. Did he trick her?
The smell of Sakura's arousal filled his nose, he groaned. He shook his head to clear it. Where did they go from here.
He went back outside. He couldn't pick up their trail, even with the genjutsu broken. Damn.
Kakashi bit his thumb and slammed it to the ground.
"Hey boss." Pakkun greeted Kakashi.
"Find Sakura, take all but Bull."
"Sakura?" Pakkun tilted his head to the side. Pakkun had met her once but had fallen in love with her, much to Kakashi's annoyance at the time.
"Yes, I think she has been kidnapped. It might look like she wants to be wherever she is but I have a bad feeling, I think she is being manipulated." Kakashi told the dog.
"Find her and then come tell me where she is, do not talk to her, do not let her see you. Don't get caught. Oh and Pakkun, I think it was Itachi who took her." Kakashi warned.
"Shit." Pakkun bobbed his head and was gone in a puff of smoke.
Itachi finished sealing the scroll he had used to combine Sasuke's eyes with Sakura's outside of Amegakure. This had not gone how he had hoped it would. He wanted Sakura with him but her being here now was a risk. She was still loyal to Konoha, and being here could put her in jeopardy.
Having Sasuke's eyes would help her. He needed to start training her as soon as possible. What new abilities had she gained? What new abilities for the Uchiha? He had been watching her all these years, she was the perfect candidate and he was glad that all his hard work and dedication was finally coming to fruition.
No time to celebrate though, there were too many outside factors to consider. The main one being Madara Uchiha. Itachi had won one battle though. He had taken Sasuke's eyes and now they were safely in Sakura. He wouldn't put it past Madara to take them from her but he would have a much harder time taking them from Sakura than he would Sasuke.
Itachi was not worried how she would fair with the Akatsuki, most of her ideals and morals were the same as theirs. She might not be willing to go to such extremes but he did not think she would be unhappy and besides, it was only temporary.
Itachi made his way slowly back to Amegakure and to their tower. He couldn't wait to see what she could do with her new eyes.
Sakura was reading the scroll he had given her when he opened the door to her room.
"Itachi, is this a summoning contract?" She asked him still looking at the scroll and not looking up at him.
"Yes." He walked up to her bed that she was on and sat down beside her.
"For the Crows?" She asked him frowning.
"Yes, do you not want a contract with them?" He asked her
"It isn't that, I only wonder why you left it with me, you said in case something happens or I need to get ahold of you." She did look up from the scroll and look at him now.
"If we have the same summons it is easier for us to communicate, it will not draw attention, one crow looks like another to those who do not have the summons contract with them." He told her
"It is beneficial for both of us." He said.
"Will I be able to turn into a crow too?" She asked.
"Let's find out." he said and smiled.
"How?" She asked him
"It is one of the abilities of my Mangekyo, there are usually two, and if you have the two abilities mastered you get the third a susanoo. I can warp mass into a summons shape. I have a contract with the crows, so I can turn into a crow, but I am not really a crow, it is a genjutsu, a high level one that so far has not been broken, though some have tried." He said.
"Do you know what my two abilities are? I have Sasuke's you said his Mangekyo so I have Amaterasu with his left eye and can shape the flames or extinguish them with his right?" She asked Itachi who nodded.
"And his susanoo." She said and he nodded again.
"What I would really like to find out though, is if you have Shisui's,Kotoamatsukami. I saw his tomes when your eyes were spinning after you opened them, it was only for a moment but I saw them. If you have his ability to manipulate someone's thoughts without them knowing...you truly will be unstoppable." Itachi stood up.
"Let's go and see shall we? Leader Sama gave us one week , I want to train for 6 hours a day at least to both assess and train your new abilities." He headed for the door.
"Can I sign this first please? She held up the summons contract."
"Yes, we will include that in the training and see if you have the ability to turn into a crow." he nodded to her.
Sakura unrolled the contract, bit her thumb hard and dabbed each of her fingers with it, stamped her imprint on the scroll at the bottom and wrote her name in blood. The scroll absorbed her signature along with her imprint glowed red then turned ink black. It was done. She looked up and smiled at Itachi following him out the door of her room.
Itachi chose a wide open space, depending on her abilities they might even need something larger. He made the hand signs and put up privacy seals. If she had acquired the skills he thinks she has he did not want it available to prying eyes.
They stood facing one another eyes red and glowing.
"Try to focus on moving your tome with your chakra, find the tome in your head, and focus on just one, any one of them will do for now, we will work on bringing forth the individual ones of choice later." He instructed her.
Sakura concentrated and did what Itachi told her to, at first it hurt her head but she flooded her eyes with healing chakra as she spun her tomes in her eyes. Itachi watched her eyes glow green then red then saw the tome spin and set.
"Kamui" He said.
"What?" she asked
"Your tomes, Kamui, it is the ability to teleport yourself, or anyone you are touching to Kamui's dimension. We need to see if it is long range like Kakashi's or short range like Obito's." Itachi said.
"Focus all the tomes into one point, they will not move but your chakra will be sucked into the point and try to envision yourself moving from one space to another."
Sakura's body flickered out of focus and spun, then she stumbled and she stopped spinning." She put her hand to her head and it glowed green relieving some of the pressure that had built up around her eyes.
"Try again, you almost had it. Focus it all into one point, like the tip of a pin." Itachi told her again.
She nodded and focused her chakra like he had instructed. She flickered, spun, and disappeared.
Itachi waited.
Sakura hadn't appeared yet.
A muffled thud across the field, he saw her drop out of the sky 10 feet in the air. He ran to her and checked for injuries. Her eyes were swollen and she was unconscious.
"Enough for now love, you did wonderfully." He picked her up releasing the protective seals and took her to her room where he laid her on her bed.
Itachi sat next to her stroking her head, finger combing her hair, when he felt his presence. He took his hand away from her hair and looked to a chair across the room to see Madara watching him.
"Madara Sama." Itachi inclined his head toward the older man, who wasn't wearing his orange mask or his short haired genjutsu. There was no need. Itachi already knew who he was.
"She is an interesting one isn't she, your wife." Madara said to Itachi.
"But you know, since I am alive and well, she isn't really your wife is she?" Madara smiled.
"Your title has long since been passed on in our clan, to me. It is official, she is my wife." Itachi said.
"A questionable topic for the future no doubt, but not important at the moment." Madara was gazing thoughtfully at Sakura.
"What abilities have you found so far?" Madara asked Itachi.
"Nothing yet, this was our first training attempt, as you can see just trying to focus on a tome has drained her. I will let her rest then we will go back to training in a few hours."
"Do you think she is strong enough, being an Uchiha can be physically...demanding on a woman." Madara smirked
"She is stronger than she looks, that is why I picked her. Do not underestimate her." Itachi spoke to him and started stroking Sakura's hair again.
"What are you planning, blood of my blood, you are plotting, do not lie to me." Madara's gaze turned hard upon Itachi.
"I only plan for the success of our clan's future, father of my blood, nothing more." Itachi looked at him
"Itachi, as strong as you are, and you are strong," Madara looked at him, almost proud," I am infinitely stronger. Remember that." and he got up and left the room.
"I am not likely to forget." Itachi said to his shadow.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Kakashi hated hospitals. He hated how broken Sasuke looked. They had cleaned up his face, there was no blood but his eye sockets were sunken under the sterile wrap, and his skin was a sickly greyish white.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
They told him Sasuke was stable, he would make it, but what kind of man would he be when he woke. What would losing his eyes do to him. Tsunade had suggested an eye transplant, regular eyes of course, from one of the fatalities the village had suffered from a civilian around Sasuke's age. A civilian.
"Sasuke, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I will get her back, I will bring her home." Kakashi reached out and patted the young man's hand.
Kakashi sat back in the chair he had pulled up to Sasuke's bed and stared at the wall as thought flew through his head.
"Hatake San, Hokage Sama would like to speak with you." the masked figure in the doorway spoke quietly.
"I'll be right there."
When Kakashi entered the office of the Hokage he found several people already there.
"Kakashi, good, let's get started." Minato said to the room.
"As you know my son the ninetails has lost control of the tailed beast and the nine tails in now in control of Naruto. I am responsible. I should have tightened the seal and never let him attempt to control the beast." Minato looked each person in the eye in turn as he spoke.
"Sakura Haruno is missing, by her own choice or kidnapped by one Uchiha Itachi." Minato paused here.
"What I am about to tell you does not leave this room." Minato looked from Kakashi, to Yamato and Sai.
"Uchiha Itachi is a double agent for Konoha, he is not a traitor. He has been working undercover for us since he was discovered five years ago in rain country. He was ordered to kill his clan by the council of Konoha to prevent a civil war. The decision was made under my predecessor." Minato said.
"I don't believe it." Kakashi said flatly.
"I just found out myself." Minato said.
"Itachi si the one who warned us about the attack on the village?" Yamato asked.
"Yes." Minato confirmed.
"He saved thousands of lives." Yamato muttered.
"How do you know he is not working for the Akatsuki and only pretending to be working for us?" Kakashi did not believe it.
"His one condition for the mission to slaughter his clan was that Sasuke be spared and that Sasuke be the one to kill him and avenge the clan and the family name. Sasuke was to be a hero. However, it seems his plans have changed and we don't know why." Minato said wearily.
"What changed?" Kakashi asked eyes narrowed to slits.
"He took Sasuke's eyes." Minato said simply.
"But he left Sasuke alive." Sai pointed out
"It wasn't Itachi who attacked the village." Yamato said.
"There is not enough evidence to provide an accurate conclusion." Sai spoke.
"Why would he take Sakura with him.?" Kakashi asked Minato.
"We don't know." Minato replied
"You have a hunch though don't you ?" Kakashi knew he did.
"I think Itachi plans on giving her Sasuke's eyes. With her perfect chakra control, her estimated chakra reserves to rival the nine tails if her records are correct, her seal on her forehead, and her natural genius...she is essentially the ultimate weapon." Minato admits.
"Her potential is limitless." Kakashi said.
"I believe Itachi took her to also keep her safe, he thinks the safest place is with him now." Minato continued to say. "He loves her, has for years now."
"He took her right into the viper's pit!" Kakashi protested, Sai looked like he was just about to say the same thing.
"This is Itachi Uchiha remember." Minato reminded him.
"So what do we do now?" Yamato asked.
"Your mission is to find out if Sakura left on her own free will, if she is being manipulated or controlled and one more thing. Itachi's last report, said Madara Uchiha is the real leader of the Akatsuki, not Pein as we previously thought." Minato said.
"Madara Uchiha?" Kakashi hissed, "but that's impossible, he's dead."
"Apparently not according to Itachi, find out." Minato dismissed them.