Title: Revenge is Sweet

Author: ZukoKrazy

Rating: T (maybe M later on)

Summary: (ItaSaku) Meet Sakura, an average high school nobody. She was ignored and forgotten. Her only friend and reason in life is a boy named Uzumaki Naruto. When Naruto is framed for something he didn't do, he left Sakura forever, and she swears revenge. To carry out the revenge, Sakura joins a group who called themselves the Akatsuki. Sakura's life is about to change. AU Akatsuki fic

A/N: Wow…more reviews than I expected. Sorry for not updating in forever! By the way, Sasuke going out with Ino is just basically there; it's not the main relationship or even one that I support. The main pairing is ItaSaku with possible DeiSaku fluff, if you guys would like that

Special thanks to: sesshoumaru13, Zidra, Fwee, Sakura and Itachi Forever, Siy, Flame Unicorn, MistressBlossom, hoishe-chan, xxX-sakura haruno-Xxx, 1kenshinlover, streetboarder ur ass, sakura5584, OnlyxHatexUnderstandsx, New lord of darkness, sillymail, xXFreak-headXx, cette-FILES, and sakuraluvssasuke.

Bold- Inner Sakura Italics- Thinking + announcer + emphasis

"Quotes" Talking

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"And it's another gorgeous day in Konohagakure, high of 75 today, perfect, cloudless skies..."

Sakura stumbled out of bed and into her bathroom.

She took a quick shower and was beginning to dry of when she heard the announcer say something of interest (for a change.)

"And ANBU are still on the search for Uzumaki Arashi, the current Hokage, and his son, Uzumaki Naruto. However, while Arashi has been a great Hokage, the council of elders has chosen Konoha's retired Hokage, Sarutobi, to fill in for Arashi while the council of elders decides on a Fifth Hokage.

Anyways, the two remaining Uzumaki have been charged of ambush of Konoha's very own Yamanaka Ino. Although Ino was hurt, she was quickly healed and is going back to school today.

If anyone has information on these two, please call…"

Sakura shut off the radio and sighed.

School is going to be hell today…she thought.

Groaning, Sakura slipped into a black shirt with fishnet sleeves and plain black jeans. Today was another day of normal classes.

Grabbing her bag, Sakura walked out of her apartment.

Grinning, she looked around for the blonde that always greeted her in the morning.

Suddenly remembering what happened the night before, Sakura felt close to tears.

Sighing dejectedly, she looked down at the sidewalk and started walking to school.

Halfway there, Sakura heard the scornful laughter of the "popular" group.

She sighed and kept walking, her head down and her feet moving a little faster to let her reach her destination sooner.

Suddenly, the atmosphere around her changed. Before, the busy streets of Konoha had a cheery atmosphere to it, adults laughing and children running to their school and playing in the street.

When Sakura turned the corner, however, the children that were playing in the streets were suddenly pulled back into the house, and the laughter stopped.

As Sakura made her way past the shops, she received glares and she heard the people whispering about her.

"That's the Uzumaki kid's friend, Haruno Sakura."

"I heard she helped them!"

"It's a wonder she wasn't arrested by now."

Sakura felt fed up and leapt away, using the rooftops.

School didn't start for another hour, yet Sakura was there already. Panting, she walked towards the woods.

Five minutes later, Sakura was sitting with her back against a weeping willow, silent tears streaming down her face.

A weeping willow, she thought, looking up at the magnificent tree. The perfect crying tree.

She took out a kunai and twirled it in her fingers, thinking about her best friend and the Hokage that felt like the father she never had.

Sakura sighed again.

A rustle in the bushes alerted Sakura. She stood up and took a defensive position.

"Who's there?" she called out bravely, wiping away her tears hastily.

She saw blonde hair. "Naruto?" she whispered.

The blonde looked up and Sakura was greatly disappointed.

"Ino-pig," she spat out.

"Forehead girl! Long time no see," Ino smirked.

Sakura glared at the blonde and fingered her kunai.

Ino noticed the kunai in her hand and backed up slightly. "Sakura…" she said.

"You ruined his life you know," she said, advancing with the kunai. "You ruined my life! You ruined the Hokage's life! You are such a !"

Sakura ran forward with the kunai, blinded with fury.

Suddenly, hands from behind grabbed Sakura. "Can't have you doing that, now can we?" a voice said in her ear.

Sakura struggled against the iron grip of the man she used to fawn over. Uchiha Sasuke.

"Let go of me!" Sakura screamed as loud as possible, struggling against the Uchiha.

Sasuke shoved Sakura into Neji, who had just shown up with Gaara, and took out a couple shuriken.

Sakura's eyes widened and she struggled against the iron grip of Neji.

"You were going to hurt my beloved Ino…now I must hurt you!" Sasuke cried, throwing the shuriken.

Neji disappeared but Sakura was held by Gaara's sand. Her jade eyes followed the shuriken racing towards her.

I guess this is it…she thought, closing her eyes.

The shuriken entered into her flesh one by one, tearing muscle and letting blood flow freely.

Sakura screamed and passed out, gladly letting herself slip into the black abyss of unconsciousness.

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Several hours later, Sakura fluttered her eyes, trying to open them. So she was alive. That was nice surprise.

"So you're finally awake, un," a voice said out of the darkness.

Sakura bolted upright and her eyes flew open.

She was on a hard bed in what seemed to be a cave.

Sitting a little bit away in a chair reading a book was a blonde haired man with sparkling blue eyes. Well, it was only one eye, seeing as the other was covered with his blonde hair.

"Where am I?" Sakura asked frantically.

"Akatsuki headquarters, un. Itachi-san saw his little brother attack you along with those other nuisances, so he brought you back here. We couldn't do a great healing job, but we did bandage you up, un," the blonde said. Sakura noticed a faint blush cross his cheeks as he said the last sentence.

Sakura looked down to discover her black shirt gone, while in place of it very tightly wrapped bandages.

She looked to her right and saw her shirt, torn and bloodied. She also noticed a thin piece of black cloth. Sakura blushed furiously as she realized that was her bra.

The blonde got up, walked over to her, and offered his hand. Sakura accepted it, and tried to get out of the bed.

Suddenly a searing pain shot through her chest and arms, making Sakura cry out and started to fall.

Lucky for her, the blonde man caught her and picked her up bridal style, smiling that goofy grin of his.

"Name's Deidara, un," he said.

"Haruno Sakura," she replied. "Will you please let me down now?"

Deidara chuckled and complied. When Sakura's feet touched the floor, she cried out once more and winced visibly.

Deidara picked her up and asked, "Where to, un?"

"My house, please," Sakura said softly.

"Where do you live, un?" he asked.

Sakura gave him the apartment complex and her apartment number.

About four minutes later, Deidara and Sakura were standing about a block away from her apartment, where Sakura insisted on walking on her own to her apartment. After all, she was Haruno Sakura. She should be able to do it herself! Hell yeah! Inner Sakura cheered.

"Thank you, Deidara-san," she said, limping towards her apartment. Deidara only nodded and disappeared in a whirl of his cloak.

Sakura limped slowly towards her living space. She stopped about halfway and dropped her bloodied clothes to the ground and healed herself, her hands glowing a faint green. She stood up, healed. She sighed and continued on, picking up her clothes.

Suddenly Sakura stopped in front of the complex, frozen in shock and awe.

The whole place had been burned down.

"And here we are at the same apartment complex where the former Hokage and his son, the traitors, lived," a reporter said into his microphone, standing in front of a T.V. crew and the large crowd. "Apparently some villagers decided to burn down the apartment complex to rid the village of evils such as the place where the traitors lived. They were apparently the only ones who lived in the complex, besides a girl named Haruno Sakura, who has been accused of helping the criminals."

"Look! There's the traitor Haruno girl now!" someone in the crowd yelled, pointing at Sakura.

Suddenly all eyes were upon Sakura, who felt rooted to the place where she stood in the lights and glares.

"Get her!" someone else yelled, and a kunai was thrown at Sakura, cutting her arm.

Sakura wheeled around and bolted towards freedom, clutching her clothes to her chest.

The crowd roared and surged forward, the shinobi taking the lead. Sakura cried out as other shuriken and kunai struck her back and legs, forcing her to go faster. They kept on chasing her until he citizens had given up, leaving it to the shinobi. About a half an hour later, Sakura was bleeding and her world was darkening around her, whether to tiredness or to the multiple genjutsu that had hit her, no one knew.

Sakura suddenly tripped and fell, crashing onto the pavement below her. She looked up in terror as a shadow fell in front of her.

ANBU. Four of them. A fox, a bear, a duck, and a random design. The bear and duck picked the exhausted girl by her upper arms. She was breathing extremely hard and her eyes closed multiple times.

The ANBU were gentle with the broken girl. They picked her up and disappeared at the signal from the fox, evidently the leader.

The ANBU set down the girl on a small cot in a dark cell. They quickly headed out of the cell to inform the Third Hokage and possibly a healer.

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When Sakura woke up awhile later, she was chained up by her wrists to a stone wall, her feet barely grazing the floor. Her wounds had been healed. She now had fresh bandages around her chest as well as her arms and legs. Nothing had been broken, thankfully.

"Where are Uzumaki Arashi and his son Uzumaki Naruto going?"

Sakura looked up and saw the fox mask. She struggled against the chains and pulled her head away.

The ANBU took her chin and forced her to look at his mask.

"Where are Uzumaki Arashi and Naruto going?" he asked again quietly but firmly.

"How would I know?" Sakura spat out, twisting her head to get free.

The ANBU mumbled something to the tiger ANBU next to him then turned back to Sakura, once more forcing her to look at the mask.

Dog, Serpent, Ox, Bird, Tiger. "Jigyaku no Jutsu," the ANBU muttered.

Sakura's emerald eyes came unfocused and her body went limp. Her head fell onto her chest and her breathing evened out.

"You are climbing back into your memories. One day…two…three…back to the day the Uzumakis left. The afternoon, what happened?" the ANBU asked softly.

"Naruto came to me with cuts and bruises all over him, like he had been the past couple of days," Sakura mumbled, resembling a robot to some extent.

The ANBU mumbled to the other and then spoke to Sakura, "Did you take place in the ambush of Yamanaka Ino?"

"No." was all that Sakura said.

"Do you know anything about the ambush?

"No."

"Where are the Uzumakis going?"

"I don't know."

The interrogation continued on like this for a while, but the ANBU gathered little information from the girl.

"Keep watch over her," the fox ANBU mumbled to the tiger-masked ANBU. The fox left and the tiger took Sakura down from the wall, placing her in a cell a little away.

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A while later, Sakura woke up to pitch blackness and the sound of a scuffle outside the door, quickly followed by the thump made by a body hitting the floor. Sakura hoped that whoever it was, wasn't dead.

"Sakura-san," a whispered voice came.

"Who are you?" Sakura asked in a hushed, shaky voice.

"It's Deidara! We've come to bust you out!" Deidara whispered back eagerly.

We? Sakura thought hesitantly.

The sound of the cell door opening came to Sakura and she tensed up slightly.

She felt hands wrap around her legs at the knees and her back.

"Sakura-san," Deidara whispered. "This jutsu will put you into a deep sleep. Don't worry, you're among friends."

Sakura heard hands seals being performed and finally a whispered, "Nehan Shōja no Jutsu," from Deidara.

Suddenly white feathers began falling from the sky. Sakura took in a breath and prepared to dispel the jutsu, but suddenly remembered Deidara's words. So she allowed herself to sleep.

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"Deidara, Sasori, did you retrieve the girl?" a figure bathed in shadows said to the two artists assembled before him.

"Yes, Leader-sama," Sasori nodded, his red hair falling into his eyes while Deidara simply nodded.

"Good…very good…" the Leader muttered, "She will make an excellent addition. Where is she?"

"In my room, Leader-sama, un," Deidara said softly.

"Bring her here, Deidara," the man clothed in shadows commanded.

"Yes, Leader-sama, un," he said, and Sasori and himself leapt away.

The Leader put his face into his hands and said, "Please, please don't let her be like another Tobi."

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Sakura opened her eyes to the grinning blond that was Deidara.

"Good morning, Sakura-san," he said, hopping down from the ceiling.

"Good morning, Deidara-san," Sakura said softly, getting out of the comfortable bed she had apparently slept in. She winced, however, at a pain in her lungs.

She looked down at her bandaged chest and formed the seals for the jutsu: Shōsen no Jutsu. Her hands glowed blue and she placed them over her chest, healing the broken ribs in her chest.

Deidara placed a lump of black onto the bed and walked out of the room, blushing slightly.

Sakura walked over and picked up the clothes. Black ninja pants, fishnet shirt with a black part sectioned off for…well, use your imagination, a bra, and a pair of sandals.

"Deidara-san," Sakura called out after getting dressed.

Deidara walked in and led Sakura to a shadowy room without a word, where he left her; glancing back with…what was that? Regret? Sorrow? Well, whatever it was, the emotion was gone in a split second.

Sakura shivered as she looked around the cave. Drops of water echoed throughout the room, making Sakura tense up.

"Who are you?" came a voice to her right.

Sakura whipped around and found red eyes boring into her own emerald ones.

"Haruno Sakura," she said softly, staring into the entrancing red eyes.

"What are you?"

Sakura looked somewhat surprised before replying, "A kunoichi."

"That is what you do. What are you?"

Sakura looked surprised then she scowled, "A girl hell bent on getting revenge."

The red eyes closed for a second before opening once more, as mesmerizing as ever.

"Welcome to Akatsuki, Haruno Sakura."

Sakura looked very surprised at this.

"Itachi," the voice called out softly. "Find the new girl a room and a set of robes."

The door opened once more and into the light from the hallway stepped a pale man with black bangs hanging down and a robe with a high collar covering the lower part of his handsome face.

When he spoke, however, his soft voice sounded around the cave-like room clearly.

"Who are you?" Sakura whispered, taking a terrified step back, for she was reminded greatly of Sasuke.

Red eyes glared through the darkness as only two soft words were spoken…

"Uchiha…. Itachi…."

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A/N: Wow, that's a cliffhanger and a half. I'm so sorry I haven't updated in forever. I thought this was a great chapter, so enjoy, for I most likely won't update in awhile, seeing as I am almost completely out of ideas.

Jutsu Translations:

Jigyaku no Jutsu: Time Reversal Technique

Nehan Shōja no Jutsu: Temple of Nirvana Technique

Shōsen no Jutsu: Mystical Palm Technique

Right, well, I'm outta here. If you liked this chapter and/or fic, check out my other fic, For I Can Touch The Sky, and for comedy check out 50 Ways To Freak Out Yakushi Kabuto:THE FANFICTION.

Night!

-ZK