Sweet Sensations

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"You..." Itachi said lowly as the ninja turned his body in their direction...

Ink orbs staring into crimson ones...

Now I recognize this chakra...

He's different...

The shinobi, Uchiha Sasuke, thought to have been long dead, stood in the middle of the room; his lips formed a smirk as he looked at his older brother...

So he's the new ruler of Sound...

Taking Orochimaru's place...

He wore an outfit almost identical to Orochimaru's old one, though it wasn't tightly fitted, loose in the leg and arm parts and a bit tighter in the rest... A Sound symbol was stitched on the back of Sasuke's grey robe, indicting that he had no more ties to the leaf village...

Taking one look at the young boy, Sasuke could at once tell that Daichi was Itachi's son. He was almost a replica of him, his sharingan had been activated which helped him figure it out further...

"Your father..." Sasuke said slowly, enjoying what would come next...

"Is a murderer..."

Crimson eyes went wide, while Itachi stayed completely silent, only glaring at his younger brother with a hate so immense he couldn't even begin to explain...

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Chapter 26: Truth above All Else

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"He's... a what?" Daichi stuttered, hoping he hadn't heard right.

"Murderer." Sasuke said flatly.

And it was at that very moment that Daichi learned the horrible truth, because his father wouldn't meet his gaze, he look so unsure...

"That's enough Sasuke!" Itachi spat, venom dripping from each word.

"Kisame, Sasori, Deidara, Daichi..."

"Let's finish what were for."

All but one nodded their heads, Daichi stayed glued to his spot, his gaze to the floor, his fists clenched and eyes wide. Uchiha Sasuke got into a fighting position as The 3 Akatsuki members ran at him, weapons in hand...

Clashing of metal against metal was all that could be heard as Itachi grabbed his son's arms and looked at him in the eyes...

"Dad... is what he said... the truth?"

The grip on Daichi's arms tightened as Itachi forced himself to look his son in the eyes instead of turning his head away in shame...

His silence told Daichi everything... Pushing away from his father, Daichi stumbled to the ground and punched it once with the side of his fist, wallowing in the pain that went shooting up his arm...

"It is the truth!" Daichi breathed.

"When the hell were you going to tell me this!?!" Daichi cried as he looked up into his father's face...

Never...

"Daichi I-"This time it was Itachi who was being cut off...

"What did you do? Tell me!"

Bending down beside Daichi, the eldest Uchiha parted his lips slowly; wondering if he should tell Daichi or not...

"You have the right to know... I won't continue to hide the truth from you..."

He took in a deep breath until he felt it to be the right time...

"When I was only your age, I slaughtered my entire clan... I only left Sasuke alive..."

That man fighting the others must be Sasuke...

"Your family... You killed them all!" Daichi yelled.

"What purpose did it serve?"

Almost instantly, Itachi had answered...

"Power and the mangekyou sharingan..."

Daichi was at a loss of words, nothing could suppress what he was feeling at the moment... Just to know that his father... the one person besides his mother that he could trust, had kept a secret from him until today...

"Does mom know?" Daichi asked.

Nodding his head, Daichi let his body fall against the cold stone floor as he breathed in and out slowly; thinking over what he had been told... Or more, what he had gotten out of his father...

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Creating a clay bird, Deidara sat on its back with numerous weapons in hand. Lighting a circular bomb, Deidara dropped it from high above and watched as Sasuke easily dodged ever single on of them...

The fighting was taking a lot out of all three of them, where as Sasuke looked fine; no scratched adorned his body and his clothes weren't ripped or dirtied... Biting back a grunt, Kisame came at the Uchiha with samehada in hand, raising it high before attempting to bring it down on Sasuke's shoulder.

Jumping to the side, Sasuke landed a punch to Kisame's gut, the force of the impact sent him flying backwards, the samehada sliding away from his grasp. Bombs were thrown from above to keep the Uchiha at bay as he approached the fallen Kisame...

Attacking multiple times, Sasori was thrown to the floor but just as quickly got back up and began to fight head on with the powerful Uchiha...

Too bad Sakura's not here...

I'd be more than happy to kill her in front of Itachi...

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"Itachi!" Deidara called from on top his clay bird.

Looking to where his teammate was, Itachi stood up and outstretched his hand to Daichi who turned his head away.

"Daichi, they need out help..."

Standing from the floor, but never making eye contact with his father, Daichi and Itachi ran towards the Uchiha who was currently busy fighting off both Kisame and Sasori. Ducking, however when Daichi went to kick him in the back, Sasuke did a back hand spring and jumped backwards to avoid shuriken thrown by Itachi.

"Fire style: Fire ball jutsu!" Sasuke screamed as his chest puffed out and hot flames erupted from his throat and out his mouth.

As the others all avoided the attack, Daichi thought it best to act while he had the chance, or so he thought. Sasuke turned around and caught Daichi's fist, pushing him backwards before outstretching his leg and kicking him in the chest.

Kuso!

Hitting the floor, Daichi felt a pain go through his already injured chest and he began coughing all over again, blood staining his Akatsuki cloak and staining the stone floor. Seeing this, Itachi acted upon pure impulse and charged at Sasuke, managing to tackle him to the floor and landing 3 good punches to the face.

However, everyone ceased when the two large doors where kicked open and none other than Naruto and at least 10 other shinobi stood there, weapons already in hand...

"Sasuke-teme!?!" Naruto cried.

"So you're the new ruler of Sound..."

Kicking Itachi off of him, Sasuke totally lost interest in the Akatsuki and set his goals on Naruto who was glaring at him; pure hate filled his eyes for his former friend and teammate...

"You bastard!"

They both ran at each other, catching their punches in their hands and shoving forwards, trying to push the other away. Naruto dodged and blocked, just as many of Sasuke's attacks as the Uchiha did the same...

Running over to his injured son, Itachi carefully pulled him into a sitting position; all the while his arms were helping to keep him up. This time his coughs were closer together by only a few seconds and more blood was coming out...

Sakura... we need you...

"Deidara!" Itachi called.

Directing his clay bird to land next to Itachi, Deidara gave him a questioning look.

"Go and get Sakura! Hurry!"

Understanding instantly, Deidara knew that since there was no way out other than the doors they had come through, which was too big for the clay bird to fit through, he decided to make his very own exit.

Chucking the last bomb he had, Deidara watched as it exploded and made a large hole in the wall, big enough for the bird to go through. Flying outside and towards Akatsuki base, Deidara urged the bird to go faster every few seconds, not wanting Daichi to die...

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"You traitor! After all we did for you!" Bellowed Naruto, punching Sasuke into a wall.

"You're exactly like Orochimaru..."

Moving his head so that his face wouldn't have to suffer anymore beatings, Sasuke uppercut Naruto in the jaw and made him go flying backwards, blood trailed from the corner of his lip to his chin, a few drops staining the floor.

And just like that, Rock Lee jumped in with Might Guy by his side. Catching the Uchiha off guard, Lee preformed his leaping whirlwind kick and knocked Sasuke to the floor.

"Fire style: Phoenix flower jutsu!"

Multiple balls of fire flew from Sasuke's mouth as he jumped into the air. They flew in all directions, a few were singed by the flames and a few were lucky and got out of the way in time, too bad for Neji; his arm had been burned a little...

The bandages wrapped around half of both arms, were gone since the one on Neji's left arm had been burnt off and the other was being wrapped around his injured arm...

Activating his byakugan, Hyuga Neji ran at Sasuke and saw all his chakra points. Using his gentle fist technique, Neji ducked as Sasuke went to swipe at him with a kunai and tapped Sasuke's left arm and shoulder, shutting 2 chakra points all together.

Not seeming to care, Sasuke still charged at Neji who jumped to the side and watched as he took out countless weapons and threw them all at Neji who used his eight trigrams palm rotation and sent all the weapons right back at Sasuke.

Stepping in, Kiba opened his mouth and screamed.

"Piercing fang!"

Spinning ferociously, Kiba went at Sasuke who got out of the in time and no major damage was done to him... He never saw Naruto who slashed a kunai across his back, making Sasuke grunt in pain and elbow the hokage in the gut.

"Multiple shadow clone jutsu!"

More than 100 Naruto's appeared and prepared for a head on attack. All jumping at Sasuke at the same time and delivering a few attacks that hit Sasuke in numerous places, though he defeated each and every single one, now only the real Naruto remained.

"Ninja art: Shadow possession technique."

Using the candles as a way to get his shadow around, Shikamaru was able to grab Sasuke before he could jump out of the way. He knew that it would use up a lot of his chakra and couldn't hold on much longer; Sasuke was far too strong!

Must not let go...

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"Sakura-chan!" Deidara called.

Running into the kitchen to find both women chatting happily while drinking a cup of green tea each, looking up to see Deidara, Sakura's smile widened.

"You're back so soon? Where are Itachi and Daichi?" Sakura said.

"Daichi's in trouble, we have to go!" Deidara said sternly.

Sakura's eyes widened as she lost her grip on the cup and it fell to the floor, breaking into multiple shards and whatever tea was left, spilling all over the floor. Standing up and running after the blonde male, Mayou was quick to do the same as she reassured Sakura that every thing was going to be fine...

And as they got on the clay bird, Sakura couldn't help but feel as if she were going to loose Daichi...

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Hours passed, but still the battle raged on... Sasuke was down to the last remaining 5 shinobi, while the other half lay helpless on the ground... The remaining were, Naruto, Kakashi, Sai, Might Guy, and Neji...

Kakashi held in his hand, visible chakra, he had used the lighting blade and was running at Sasuke who tried to get out of the way but the older male got him nonetheless. It wasn't were Kakashi was aiming, he wanted to end this quickly and get him in the heart but Sasuke had ducked and instead hit his already injured shoulder...

Blood spilt on the floor, dripping down Sasuke's arm and staining his grey kimono. Growling in pain, the Uchiha unsheathed his katana and held back groans and grunts of pain as he charged at the remaining ninja and thrashed his sword...

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"Daichi... Stay awake, don't close your eyes!" Itachi ordered.

A few traces of blood could be found staining Itachi's cheeks from when Daichi coughed and blood ended up hitting him in the face, he didn't care if he was covered in blood, all he wanted was for Daichi to pull through...

And it was at that moment that Itachi could feel his fear escalating. Fear that his one and only son was going to die... because of his foolish Ototo! Daichi's large eyes opened and closed numerous times, but this time they began to slowly close until they were half lidden...

Don't die on me!

His heart stopped when the grip Daichi had on his cloak loosened, his eyes closing fully and his breathing coming out as ragged breaths...

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A large clay bird was spotted as it flew back into the castle, Sakura jumped off as soon as it landed and ran to Itachi's side, letting her held back tears fall. Chakra began to flow from the palms of her hands and she placed them on Daichi's blood stained chest.

Watching as the colour on his went back to normal instead of a pale white colour and his eyes slowly opened to meet the face of his saddened mother, her tear stained face made Daichi's eyes go wide with fear and sadness...

"Mom..." Daichi breathed.

Shaking her head slowly, Sakura ran her fingers through his hair as she placed a kiss on his forehead and pulled away to speak...

"Your going to be fine, Daichi... Now rest."

Turing to look at Itachi, Sakura buried her face in the crook of his neck, holding him close for fear that she had nearly lost her son... He stroked her hair gently and whispered sweet nothings into her ear as she breathed deeply, in and out...

Sakura-chan!?!

Catching sight of Itachi embracing a pink haired woman, Naruto stood from the floor and opened his mouth wide as he began shouting.

"Sakura-chan!"

This caught everyone's attention as they looked to where Naruto's eyes were on; they all went wide eyed as they looked at Sakura who was supposedly dead... She too, pulled away from Itachi as she looked for the person who had called out her name.

"Naruto!?!"

Cerulean clashed with emerald...

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Author's Note

So what did you all think of this chapter. I hope it was to your liking; I sure as hell had fun writing it and hope that it wasn't too short or too long... Tomorrow's the first day back to school from March Break... "I don't wanna go mommy! Don't make me!!!" LoL.

Please ignore any and all spelling or grammar mistakes I might have not fixed...

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