Chapter 7

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Even the killer has a heart

Sakura ran with a huge grin on her face towards maybe her grave. Arriving bodies and blood littered the concrete. She hoped that this mission would be much easier, but, unfortunately, the universe once again screwed her over. She hadn't the slightest idea of where the damn thing could be.

Sakura quickly went in the huge leaning plane. She had no plan but to shoot those who try to kill her. Straight and simple.

The plane wasn't just any ordinary plane you ride to a place it was a cargo plane filled with illegal and legal things. She was supposed to find the UAV somewhere in all of the cargo. As if the picture Itachi sent her was going to help her find the thing.

"Oi!" Sakura whips her head around and saw a huge group of Akatsuki grunts leading them is Sasori wearing the same jacket Deidara had on.

"Get behind the group you're important for the mission we aren't completely done taking down Gato's men yet." Sakura nods and makes her way through the group. She quietly walks the way they just came from and begins searching through crates while also keeping her guard up. Guns after guns were all she could find. Her phone vibrates the caller id was Deidara. She knew it had to be important if he was calling her on an important mission.

"What?" She opens another crate finding some cocaine in it.

"Sakura abort! Zabuza is arriving!" Sakura resisted the urge to curse to the heavens right then and there. Everyone in Akatsuki knew who Zabuza was though she wasn't in Akatsuki Itachi still told her about him. He was a murderer who started killing since he was in elementary school. He killed every single last one of his classmates just for giggles.

"I can't I have to get this UAV." She whispers after a minute of silence.

"Sakura don't try to be a fucking hero just get out of there now!"

A smirk was on her face when he said those words. "Are you worried about me Deidara?"

She heard him curse under his breath. Sakura was aware that it was no time to joke around, but she had questions that needed answers and she wasn't going to die without them. Sakura hangs up the phone before he could try to talk her out of finding the UAV.

Multiple gunshots rang throughout the plane it was most likely the sound of a machine gun. She sighed still digging through the crates praying that Zabuza would be smart and go towards the gun shots.

Her phone once again started vibrating the caller id said Sasori. "What's going on?" She snaps as soon as she answers the phone.

"We know where the UAV is come to the front of the plane and hurry. Be careful it's a bloody mess here and stay low don't come into contact with Zabuza!" Sasori never got an answer back from her and he wondered what was wrong.

"Sakura what-"

"Shit!" Standing in front of her was Zabuza and his loyal sidekick Haku. Even in person Zabuza scared her shitless.

"Who the hell are you?" She was going to lie but the way her situation looked there was no need.

"Wow what sane person doesn't go towards the shooting!?" She was frustrated that everything on the mission was falling apart.

"You're part of the Akatsuki shitheads." He states noticing her hand moving to her back pocket he instantly goes on the offense. How Sakura never noticed the large sword on his back was beyond her. He swings his sword aiming to chop off her head, but she dodged it quickly. Before she could retaliate against him she had a dagger to her neck. 'Haku. So fast I didn't even see her move.'

Haku leans close to her ear that she could feel her breath tickling her skin. "By they way I'm a boy."

Sakura doesn't move an inch when she heard those words. She had no idea that she was a he. Clearing her throat preparing herself to ask a question that more or less was going to get her killed. Unfortunately, her curiosity was much stronger than her rational side.

"So uh are you like a homosexual or something. You and Zabuza like this..." She lifts her hand up and crosses her middle finger and index finger to prove a point.

"Or no..." She drifts off when she receives noticeable angry looks.

The only sound was her nervous cough. The knife to her neck pierces her skin a little bit causing blood to slide down her neck. She was now sweating bullets her mind was mush Itachi taught her at least twenty ways to get out of situations like this and none of them came to mind.

"Haku let the brat go. I want to see what she's made of don't interfere again."

"Oh thank Kami I thought that with that question I was done for." Haku releases her and walks back to Zabuza's side.

"You're not that smart are you?" The gir- uh boy says.

"Only when I want to distract you." A bullet shot from behind them flew towards them only nipping Haku.

"What the hell was that Sasori?! Did you purposely miss?!" Sasori waves her off only making the pinkette angrier. "You should be thanking me I saved your ass." The two argued back and forth until Zabuza finally snapped. "Enough!"

A sneaky and unappealing smirk formed on his face even with the bandages covering his mouth she knew. Hell, she knew Kakashi when she was a little kid and somehow always knew whether he was smiling or not.

"How about this we don't use guns to fight so we'll make it easy on you to find any weapon besides a gun to challenge us with."

Sakura gave him a confused stare, "It would just be quicker to kill you with the guns we have now." Sakura goes to take out her own gun but found it missing. She saw that in Haku's hand was her gun pointed at her. "On second thought I think fighting with no guns should be easy. How about Sasori?"

"You're an idiot for letting them get your gun has Itachi taught you anything." Sasori snaps aiming his gun at the boy.

"Fuck you Sasori and fuck Akatsuki. I don't know if you noticed, but this is the last thing I thought I was going to do when I woke up this morning with the worst possible hangover EVER." Sakura angrily glares at Sasori who was slightly taken back. Sakura rarely got angry she was always calm and levelheaded and really liked to play games.

"We're going to fight them without our guns because I do not want to have a bullet going straight through my head. Now put down the damn gun and find something that can actually help us." Sakura turns around and begins looking through more and more crates.

Zabuza's loud chuckles interrupted her thoughts, "you two are very amusing that it'll be fun to dislodge that pretty little head from Your head. I'll give you both 10 minutes."

Sakura turns around to face him and gave him a fake smile. "We'll see who'll be laughing once this is all over Za-bu-za." Sakura goes back to looking for anything. She planned on staying by those words no matter how many cuts and bruises she receives.

Flashback

A week goes by since she last saw Rin, Kakashi, and Obito and she was worried. She didn't have anything to look forward to after school. Sasuke was always told to return home immediately after school or he got picked up.

Today was her official birthday March 28 Sasuke wanted to celebrate with her.

Sakura put on the dress that Rin gave her for her birthday. She tied the ribbon like how Rin showed her the day after they celebrated her birthday. She smiled at herself in the mirror she couldn't wait to actually see Sasuke. They were both in different class but they did eat lunch together.

Sakura finally reached the Uchiha residents and saw a note on the door address to her."

Sakura,

Come to the park.

Sakura smiled and sped up to the park she saw balloon with happy birthday on them and kids playing around. Sakura smile started to fade she knew the kids some of them bullied her because of her oversized forehead and some she only saw in the halls.

"Sakura!" Sasuke runs over to her with a happy grin on his face.

"Happy birthday!" He put the party hat on her head while blushing.

"T-Thank you Sasuke-kun." Sasuke nods and pulls her over to the other kids.

The kids saw Sasuke pull a frightened looking pink haired girl to them. "Here's the birthday girl now we can play." The kids cheered happily and requested they play hide and seek.

Some blonde kid who always argued with Sasuke was the one who had to seek.

While that was happening Mikoto and Itachi were watching over them. "She doesn't seem happy." Itachi agreed as he watch the girl look around for a hiding spit that wasn't taken.

Itachi got up from the picnic table and went to help the girl. "Sakura you look like you need a hiding spot." Said gurl face light up like a Christmas tree.

"Ita-kun!" Sakura immediately hugs him tightly.

"Sakura what's wrong?" He asks the girl when he could feel tears wet his shirt.

"I don't know any of these kids." Itachi smiles sadly at her the girl only friend was Sasuke and the reason why all these people showed up was because of Sasuke. The poor girl realized that. Itachi knew that now was an opening to start getting close with her like Madara said.

'I'm sorry Sakura.'

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Finally she found what she was looking for a sword. She hoped it was not harder then swinging a knife or she was dead. Sakura unsheathe the sword and turns back around wearing a cocky grin. Her grin fades when Zabuza starts laughing in her face.

"W-what are you laughing at?" She was now fuming since it didn't look like he was going to stop anytime soon.

"You've never wielded a sword a day in your life have you." Haku says accurate.

"No but I can surely learn by whopping you-"

"Sakura if we're going to defeat them let them let their guard down on us." Sasori whispers into her ear. She saw the logic in his words even though they always argued with each other she respected his quick thinking in situations like this.

"Great idea." Zabuza and Haku stares at the both of them wondering what they're whispering about.

"Whatever you two are whispering about it won't work. Now enough chatting it's time to fight." Sakura holds her sword the way she saw them do it in movies.

"Haku you get the girl I'll get the guy." Haku nods and quickly engage in combat with her.

His speed was impeccable he must have worked all his life to accomplish that. Sakura just barely dodged the knife slice to the face or so she thought.

She could tell she was cut when she felt liquid fall down her cheek. 'What the hell this is like a fucking movie I should of felt that.' Sakura grit her teeth she knew that taking the initiative was dangerous especially with less skill then her opponent. But did she really have a choice. Sakura tighten her grip on the sword Haku was observing her every move she had so many holes in her defense he didn't know which one to choose from.

He could easily break her wrist because of her death like grip on the handle. Or even trip her up especially with that sloppy stance and end it quickly. "Oi! Where did you get that injury?" Haku points at her nose finally noticing the bandage there.

"None of your damn business." Sakura snaps obviously not wanting to talk about it.

"I see I'll ask again if you don't answer I'll break your wrist." Haku steps back and pulls another sword from the crate. He pockets his knife and gets into a more proper stance.

She tighten her grip feeling anxious definitely out matched. "Where did you get that injury?"

"Wouldn't you like to know." She saw Haku run at her in full speed ready to attack.

Like one of those sword movies like kill bill she put her sword up to block it. What she wasn't prepared for was the amount of force put into the attack that he actually did break her wrist. The sword fell from her hands as she stared shocked at her broken wrist the bone was protruding out under her skin. She was in agony as her wrist began to swell up. The pain felt like a thousand electric needle stuck into her wrist.

"Oh my god." That was all she could possibly say as she stared at her wrist. No wrist was suppose to look like that. But no matter the pain she had a mission to finish but was it really worth the pain.

"Hmm I admire your determination." Haku just stares at her gawk at her broken wrist.

Sakura manages to stop staring at the messed up wrist. She smirks although it was strained it was still there none the less.

"Why do you smirk even though you have a broken wrist?"

"Oh you know thinking of a thousand ways to kill the boss." Haku didn't understand how she could just joke around as if her bone wasn't out of place. "You're-" he thought for a minute of how to describe her.

"Weird." Sakura eyes him up and down making him feel very uncomfortable. "Says you?" Sakura chuckles and walks to a crate and sit down on it.

"Just give me a moment I'm sure it'll go numb soon." Haku examines the pinkette quietly he was indeed intrigued.

"Are you going to keep fighting me?" Sakura gives him a sure look to his surprise. Any other person would have been gave up but not her.

"You intrigue me." Sakura stops her panting from holding in the painful moans and groans. She gives the confusing guy a please shut the hell up look.

"What are you fighting for?"

"You never stop talking do you?" Haku shrugs off her rude question he liked the girl's different personality. Her fierce attitude her blunt questions her never ending determination even her joking. Was this how it felt to meet a charismatic person.

"I see in your eyes you're just like me an orphan." Sakura clenches her fist as she remembered how sad and angry she was when Kakashi, Rin, and Obito never came back to the orphanage after some months. "Betrayed by so many that you have a hard time opening up to others. You may think you are but it's never enough for them. Everyone wants to know who you really are so they pick with you like a child picks with a scab wound."

"Sakura do you believe that people become truly strong when they have someone important to protect?"

"No."

"I see you've had someone important to you but never needed to protect them huh?"

"Dammit!" Sakura gets up angrily and punches Haku in the face her rage written all over her face. Haku stumbled back from the force of the punch.

"You don't know me so stop acting like you do! I don't need you talking to me like this is a damn intervention. We live in two different lives, worlds, and especially gangs."

"I see but I still feel the need to lead you to the right direction. You see Zabuza and I aren't Gato's right hand man he knows that we aren't loyal to him. Zabuza is my most precious person I am his tool. He raised me and honed my skills to benefit him. I would follow him to the end of the earth he's my only family." Sakura gave him a look of horrification. She never heard someone speak so highly of one person nor blindly follow someone who doesn't see them as an equal.

"You're right so I just want to say this. I'm glad that I was able to meet you and I wish that someday you will become truly strong when you have someone important you want to protect." Haku quickly runs to where Sasori and Zabuza are fighting.

She was honestly confused he sounded like he was telling her his last words. She was going to question him but a gun shot cut her off. Sakura looked back and saw Deidara there with a sniper rifle. She saw him grin and give her the thumbs up.

"H-Haku." Sakura whips her head back around and saw the long haired guy on the ground with a smile on his face and eyes closed. A bullet went straight through his head killing him instantly.

Her green eyes widen as she came to realize he sacrifice himself to protect Zabuza. She felt some wet substance trail down her cheeks. She lifts her fingers to her cheeks and knew that they were tears.

'Why?' She asked herself wondering why she was crying for her enemy. Maybe it was because someone in this world actually understood her and was able to figure her out like an open book. He was able to look underneath her pretty face and nonchalant attitude. He was her enemy yet he got her personality all correct.

"Damn where am I going to find another apprentice that I can use?" Sakura snapped her head to the calm looking killer.

"Do you even know what you're saying? It was pretty obvious that you were his only family and all you can think about is trying to find a damn replacement!" Now she was angry never in her life has she felt such hatred for one man in her life.

Sakura picks up the sword he had that caused her wrist to break and soaked it with his blood. She doesn't grip the sword as tight as earlier and not as loose. Her green eyes make contact with brown eyes. Zabuza could see the flame of hatred in them pointed towards him.

And he was right.

"I swear on my life and Haku's I will kill you!"

Sakura picks up the sword into her left hand since her more dominant wrist was broken and she couldn't use it.

"He said he would follow you to the end's of the earth hell the world. And you don't even care." Sakura held the bloody sword out in front of her.

"Your blood is mine!" Sakura kicks off of her right foot and runs to him with as much speed as possible.

They clash head on neither one giving an inch. He couldn't believe that she was able to hold him off without even knowing how to use a sword. Is her belief that she's going to kill me that strong. Her eyes never left his he could see how much hatred she directed towards him. They both back away from each other.

"He cared about you." They once again clash he saw the unshed tears in her ablaze eyes.

"He lived for you." Another clash of their blades. Sasori and Deidara wanted to interfere but they could see the amount of determination she had.

"And you spit those words as if he was... He was no one to you! Did all those years you both spent together mean nothing to you." Her unshed tears fall to the ground as she gripped on the sword.

She ran to him again and to everyone surprise he allowed her to stab him right in the stomach.

"Kid your words cut deep deeper than any sword." He grab the sword and pulled it out of him he moved it to where his heart was. Zabuza the demon was crying he walked forward to her blade and it stab him right in the heart.

He actually did care just needed a little convincing.

"A killer really does have a heart."

A/N: Saddest chapter thus far intense chapter not much action. Man I had this whole author notes set up but when I finally finished this chapter in four days I might add I forget everything I wanted to put. I'm going to go sit in a corner and just cry I based this chapter on the wave arc one of my favorite arcs.

Oh a review was curious of how Kakashi, Obito, and Rin came together to raise Sakura. Don't worry it'll come up sooner or later maybe in a future flashback.

Also, I changed some things in chapter 5 instead of a bomb she's supposed to set off I changed it to a UAV.

Grammar might be a it off but I just wanted to get this posted all ready.

RxR