I Do Not Own Naruto


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Bloody Petals


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"The Land of Waves is just up ahead," Itachi informed Kisame as they ran there. Kisame said nothing for a change as they ran through the mist. His Sharingan was whirling with life as he ran towards the familiar chakra signatures of Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi. They were separated at the moment, moment but he still felt that something was off there.

"Something is wrong," Itachi said.

"Samehada cannot taste the girl in the area," Kisame said as they neared the Team. "But there is plenty of Mist shinobi he's itching to devour.

"Yes, Sakura is not there," Itachi agreed as he noticed Sakura's chakra missing. They leapt to the house and leapt in to where they found Kakashi, and Naruto.

"Where is the girl?" Kisame demanded when they entered the room where Kakashi was.

"What are you two doing here?" Kakashi asked weakly.

"Something was off," Itachi said.

"Sakura was taken by the Mist," Kakashi asked as he weakly sat up. Itachi's eyes wandered over his Captain's form, the heavily bloodied bandages were an indicator to Kakashi's weakened state. "My Hounds are tracking her as we speak."

"Who took her?" Kisame demanded, Itachi looked at the shark man with a raised brow.

"Don't know, we were fighting Momochi Zabuza when she was taken," Kakashi said weakly as he rubbed his seeping bandages. "Sasuke has tried to chase after the hounds to help track her," Kakashi informed him. Of course his brother would try, Sasuke was very attached to the pinkette and he was not attached to many.

"Kisame, take Sasuke and meet up with Kakashi's hound, I will stay here to aid in your mission Kakashi," Itachi said calmly.

"Are you certain that is wise?" Kakashi asked him. "He is just a genin."

"And if he does not go now he will sneak away to hunt her down, it is best to at least send him with help," Itachi admitted. Sasuke was persistent and stubborn and fiercely loyal to those few whom he dared to call his friend. Even as a toddler he was known to chase after Sakura and hunt her down when she was in trouble with Naruto. Sasuke was pretty close to her, Itachi was certain she was his best friend.

"Alright, he's at the bridge with the bridge master Tazuna," Kakashi sighed.

"Alright, and Naruto?" Itachi asked because the small dobe's chakra was unusally still.

"He had a run in with a needle wielding shinobi yesterday, he can hardly move." Kakashi said calmly.

"Let's move Itachi," Kisame said gruffly as he left the Kakashi in the room that he was resting in. Itachi was quick to follow his partner. He had a really bad feeling about all of this as they ran towards Sasuke's chakra. His brother was impatiently guarding an old man when they arrived.

"Sasuke, go with Kisame," Itachi ordered. His little brother said nothing as he darted after the sharkman and Itachi remained behind with the old man who gave a once over before resuming his work.


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It had been three days since Sakura had been taken, he had been counting every minute, every hour, and every day as it ticked past him. His best friend was missing and he wasn't able to tear the place apart looking for her; and before one got the impression the dobe was his best friend, understand this: the dobe was basically his brother. They could wail away on each other and never do any serious damage. However, Sakura was his best friend, and he'd do anything for his best friend. Just like she'd do anything for him and Naruto, or how Naruto would do anything for him and Sakura. It was their cycle of friendship, it was their family; and no one fucked with their family and got away from it.

Not the Cloud, not the Mist and not anyone, and when he got his hands on the people who had taken Sakura he was killing them all for harming his best friend.

"Pakkun," Sasuke slid to a stop when he greeted Kakashi's hound. Kisame stopped as well and Samehada purred.

"She's this way, but I must warn you there's been a major change in her chakra signature," the hound informed him as they started running. Sasuke was confused about this but it didn't matter really when all he wanted to do was get his best friend back.

"How?" Kisame demanded.

"It is like when we got Rin, just before she died. Sakura smells like that," the small dog said as Sasuke landed in a tree and looked around

"They wouldn't have," Kisame growled. "Mutt, go faster, the girl's in real danger if they are doing what you say they did!"

"What did they do to Sakura?" Sasuke demanded as he ran beside the larger sharkman.

"I was involved with the plot with the Three Tails nine years ago, it failed because the girl threw herself in the path of Kakashi's chidori despite having been saved. If they have done to Sakura what they did to the other girl then Sakura is in real danger, for those idiots would not have sealed it in her properly," Kisame snapped.

"What?"

"Your precious little friend has just been made another jinchūriki, like your blonde friend," Kisame snapped and Sasuke faltered in his running.

Itachi had told him at the beginning of his friendship with Naruto that Naruto was something called a jinchūriki but had later explained that it was a very dangerous thing. A jinchūriki was the host of a Tailed Beast, like Gaara and Naruto, and if that was the case he had a bad feeling about this. Sakura was strong though, she wouldn't die because of this! Would she? He didn't know, he didn't care; all he cared about was getting his best friend back which was why he ran harder after the dog as he tried to think of how Sakura could be a jinchūriki. He did not think she'd have the chakra for it.


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Kisame was not kind, he was not compassionate, he did not form friendships or attachments. He had always been the perfect assassin, until he was betrayed by his own Mizukage and nearly killed because he was getting to be too good at his job. He had run, he had found a fight at the Leaf and joined in only to unwittingly help Uchiha Itachi against the Cloud-nin who had been invading his home. Many had been killed in that battle, but afterwards he had felt… comradery with the quiet Uchiha and had defected to the Leaf. He had been interrogated and had his mind so thoroughly plucked by a Yamanaka that at one point he hadn't known up from down.

However, he had been admitted into the Leaf jonin ranks, he had been assigned to work under the jonin captain; Hatake Kakashi who's squad consisted of two oddball members of something called Root, the Uchiha, and a few other ragtag guys who didn't belong in the ANBU division but were dangerous. However, working under Kakashi's command had introduced him to the Hatake pinkette; a fearless child who had wlaked right up to him continuously with a smile.

He could admire the kid, hell, he had even grown fond of the kid, and she was a rare gem who wanted to grow up to be in the ANBU and work with her guardian's team. He could respect the girl for that, she seemed so fucking sincere every time she told him so. In fact, he was relatively certain everyone under Kakashi's command thought of that kid as a niece of theirs'; she hung around in their locker room enough. And even though he had never been particularly fond of kids, he liked that brat; she was spit fire.

Now though, now he was royally pissed.

His village would dare to take a child to repeat a failed mission!? To repeat the same attack!? It hadn't worked out well the first time, no, in fact Kisame remembered the carnage of the after math after Kakashi had killed the entire team chasing him and his small woman and passed out from exhausted. Kisame also remembered how obsessed Ao and Mei had been to get the Three Tails back, and had been fast to extract it from that girl's dead corpse.

Kisame knew the fate of the spit fire pinkette, the one who the Uchiha were enamored with, who had won the hearts of an entire ANBU squad, and who was considered a treasure of the Leaf. He didn't want the kid to die, he didn't want her to be hurt, and he was going to settle his score with Ao once and for all in the process.

After all, that Byakugan thief was the very reason he had left the Mist; that back stabbing traitor was going to know how furious he had made him and Samehada with that attempted murder. Kisame never forgave and forgot; no, he plotted painful deaths for his enemies instead.


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"Where am I?" she whispered as she stood on water. It felt like she were in a prison, looked away in an underwater cave. Everything was dripping, she could hear it as she crept through the dark.

Suddenly blue flame illuminated wherever she was, she let out an involuntary scream as she fell back and stared at a huge beast chained up. It stared at her with a crimson eye which stared down at her, her heart was slamming in her ribs as she scrambled behind a stalagmite as she peeked around it at the beast.

"H-hello," the small timid voice filled the cavern, Sakura stared at it from around the calcium of the cave. "Who…who are you?" the thing asked her timidly.

"Who are you?" Sakura demanded as she stayed where she was and stared at the thing with large eyes. She was not leaving her spot. No she wasn't, she was not leaving this spot until she was certain it was safe to leave.

"I'm the Three Tails, you are my new host," the thing said shyly and she stared at it with wide eyes.

"What?" she whimpered, what was a three tails? What did he mean host? Was that thing in her!?

"You need to wake up, girl, wake up now," the thing ordered in a desperate hiss.

A gasp escaped her lips as she coughed and her eyes flew open. She looked around wildly at where she was, she twisted around, only to find her ankles and wrists were chained to a table. Lifting her head she stared at a weird seal painted on her stomach and whimpered.

"Two Leaf shinobi are approaching," a voice called.

Yes, friends, help! She opened her mouth but no sound came from her lips.

"Leave the girl, the Beast will do the rest, let them have her back," a dark voice snapped.

"Alright, and do we want to leave a guard here?"

"Can't make this look too easy, can we?" another voice mused darkly. Sakura whimpered a bit at a rolling, burning pain that coursed through her as she tried to move away from the voices but found her arms to still be pinned to the table.

"She will destroy the Leaf for us, the Hatake brat will take care of the mission for us," the sinister voice mused and Sakura's eyes widened in terror as she lay there, tears slipped her guard as she tried to escape her restraints.

No! No! No! Sakura refused to destroy the village which had given her a home, a purpose, a family, her friends. She refused, she refused to be so weak as to be used in that manner! She didn't want to hurt her friends. Struggling against the metal restraints she felt her skin going raw but she continued to struggle against the restraints. Tears wouldn't stop as she struggled but they were tears of pain, they were tears of fear of what she was going to do.


Hello Everyone

Sorry about the lack of updates here but I have news.

I'm finishing up stories over the next few months and in this order:

1. Only Tears ✔

2. A Gift for Kiyomi, It'll be in Uchiha ✔

3. Still Hate You

4. I'm Pain, She's Healing

5. Cast Adrift

6.. Trying Not to Obliterate Him

7. Rid of the Monsters

8. That Which Cannot Be Put Into Words

9. Wrong Number, But Don't Hang Up!

Before the end of this year I will also have:

10. Conceal, Don't Feel

11. Blooming in Darkness

I am also working on wrapping up Never Be the Same, Part VI: Emptiness Inside; and 'the Day I Die' stories I have going on here.

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)