Blossom of Leaf Chapter 4: Of Love and Hatred, a naruto fanfic

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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto, Kishimoto-san ownes it. I wish he'll sell it to me...But it's only in my dreams... sigh I own nothing... . Not even my darling smexy Itachi-kun!

From some random comic: "I'm so much sexier than Sasuke...DRAW me..." -Itachi

"For that was the day that Itachi decided to make Sasuke's life living Hell..."

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Chapter 4:

The monster pounced. He leaped.

His eyes widened in shock. Before him was a giant monster. A Hunter. A legendary Hunter species. It was that legend he read about. A tale supposedly. A made-up story that was made for entertainment! He had scowled and threw the scroll away after he had read the story. How a monster, a giant, would hunt for the blood of skilled ninjas, or people that the Hunters knew would be an interferance later on...

"...Few ninjas are known to escape high-leved Hunters...Ninjas that are high-skilled well-bred ones that happened to be very lucky that is..."

He recalled those exact words from the scroll. But he couldn't die! He had Sakura still out there waiting to be saved! His journey couldn't end here. at the hands of some supposed spinned fairy tale. IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE THE END OF HIM HERE! He refused to be dead until he rescued her...Until he have fulfilled his second goal in life. And he was SO CLOSE! The end was almost there. Beyond the reach of his arm. he could practically see Sakura...

The thing roared in fury, landing on it's four legs with a giant thump. It's snarling white teeths were pointy..Like deadly spikes ready to chomp him up into pieces. The hideous hide of patchy brown hair was reeking with the smell of blood. It pounded one paw onto the ground, leaving a crater on the ground...And a earthquake to follow. Sasuke stiffened and got into a battle stance. He was NOT about to leave without a fight. The dog-like thing seemed to smirk at him before letting out a giant roar and once again pounded toward the raven-haired prey.

He crouched and lept into the air, flipping he focused on the fast shape below him, "Katon: Karyuu endan no jutsu (fire release: great fireball techinique)!" And flames lept from his mouth and scortched toward the now-aware Hunter. The thing, unlike Sasuke's reasoning, was not afraid of fire, but it did dodge the flames that flew at it.

Howling in fury, the thing lept, too, and snapped its jaws at Sasuke. Sasuke, propelling himself from the monster's nose lept off once again, and bombarded the thing with shurikens and kunais. If he had a chance, it would be that the thing's eyesight wasn't good... He crossed his fingers. The dog thing lept again and was struck by some kunais and shurikens before it realized and crouched to dodge the rest.

Sasuke prepared himself, he had to get out of here without being drained of chakra. This dog-thing was probably only a level one Hunter...The ones that awaken..Because...His eyes widened...Because someone instructed it to... Someone had KNOWN that he was going to come and decided it would be fun to set a Hunter onto him...Itachi... He had known all along that he was going to come. And Itachi had taken his time to delay his dear little brother. How he hated that cursed man...

He smirked as he kept running around the confused animal, "Katon: Hosenka no jutsu (fire release:phoenix immortal fire technique)!" And fire balls shot at the animal quickly, but only to have the Hunter already prepared. The hunter crouched low and the fireballs missed, but what the Hunter didn't know was that the fireballs were trailed with speedy shurikens and kunais which embedded themself into the hunter flesh. The monster howled in pain, snarling and roaring toward the attacker who was smirking in triumphant at the nearly defeated creature who was rolling itself on the forest floor, only making the kunais and shurikens bury themselves deeper into the bloody flesh. Crimson blood flew around as the dog thing tried shaking the weapons out, it stained the dirt red and splashed red markings over the tall trees that surrounded the field in which the now attacker and the prey were fighting.

But the Hunter was not about to end this fight. It had to harm the prey before dying. No Hunter should shame themselves by dying without even marking the prey, even this dim-witted monster knew that. He would be an outcast once in Hell if he didn't. He Hunter seemed to smirk at the prey before charging head on toward it. He knew that the prey would jump...Would try to get away...And that was what he was waiting for. The prey indeed jumped! Glorious.. The Hunter snapped it's head up and it's white teeths gnarled at the prey. It knew that the prey's eyes widened and that it had bite into the prey's leg..Oh...How fresh the taste of blood... But wait...His master...The Hell Demon...His blood...It tasted the same as his master's... The Hunter was suddenly aware of the prey's red eyes, oh, the crimson colored orbs that would stare him down when he did something bad...This had to be his master! How could he have fought his master! Wouldn't master have already punished him? But...Unless master intended to due him dead!

The Hunter suddenly decided to back off...His master...Was definetely capable of killing him...So..The Hunter turned on its heel, tail between legs, and ran for it. Leaving a confused "master" standing in the field wondering why the Hunter had just left the prey...Standing there...

Before even the supposedly wonderful Hunter had left, Itachi knew he made a mistake and that his brother would soon be at his presance.. He should have known, their auras were almost identical, that stupid dog thing was idiotic enough to believe that his foolish little brother was him. The Hunters were idiots, he had always known that. God, who ever published that stupid book about Hunters was a fool, those guardian things were only for minor protection and they were only good for show... The size, the monstrosity... sigh

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Later on:

He had survived the first test, but was that enough to defeat his brother? Was it enough to bring back Sakura? Was he strong enough? Sasuke questioned his own abilities. How can he... How can he succeed if he wasn't powerful? Without power, life was meaningless. But she had always said..That life wasn't always about power and strength...She said that life was about happiness and love. But she was stupid. What did SHE know about his life? She had all her loved ones (maybe except him..but), she had people she could lean on all her life, people who would protect her.

But what did HE have? Nothing! He's brother stole everything! His parents, his life, and now...Sakura... HIS BROTHER WAS ONLY OUT THERE TO MAKE SURE HE WAS MISERABLE! Wasn't that way! His brother wanted him isolated and in order to do that, Itachi had decided to take away all the happiness he had... All the love that was given to him (ok...So fangirls don't count TT). Sakura was the only one that showered him continously with love even when he had betrayed Konoha. She had willingly thrust out her heart in her hands and handed it to him..But it was his fault wasn't it? He had shattered her heart into a million pieces, riped it up in front of her, destroyed her hope, and stopped the rain of love she showered daily onto him... He felt like it was his burden.

But alas, he had came to rescue her. He had finally realized his wrong and decided that she was part of him, and that she had taken his heart and selfishly took it with her even when she was taken by his BROTHER! So, here he stands. In front of his calm brother, wary but still alive. And definetely angry.

"Itachi! Give Sakura back!" he shouted murderous at him, trying to keep himself from charging at his aniki in full rage. His brother, in all his glory and coolness, smirked and quietly spoke, "Oh? Who's Sakura? I've never heard of her...But if you want to try me...Take down Chira-chan first!" There was a definete gleam in the mangekyou sharingan of his brother's. The crimson eyes glittered like fresh blood while the blackness of it went blacker and blacker.

A girl stepped out of the shadows casted by the ring of grand trees that surrounded the siblings. She was wearing a midnight dress lined with red, seeming like a akatsuki cloak gone dress. It was her eyes that broke his heart. The once emerald green shining with delight was battered down to a hollow pale green that resembled those of a zombie. His face had gone pale, and his sharingan eyes wide.

She had all the spotlight, but to him, it was heartbreaking to see the girl that once stood as the goddess of happiness and love, to the zombie who's face was an unhealthy pale color. The glory of her shining beauty had left and was replaced by the ones of ice. Cold, heartless, emotionless...Dead.

"...Sa-Sakura?..." he choked out her name. It was forceful, no longer did that name roll of his tongue. It choked him and he was forced to stutter it out. As much as he wished, that pale pink-haired girl standing before him WAS his teammate, Haruno Sakura.

Itachi smirked, his brother, from the full fury of anger, to the unbelievable look on his face as his eyes trained toward the girl's face, "She's quite a beauty isn't she? Hmm...She's my puppet." Sasuke's face jerked from Sakura's as he faced his older brother with a pale complextion, the confused look snapped and was replaced with one of anger as he shouted in fury, "What have you DONE with her!"

"Oh..Nothing...Nothing..Nothing at all!"

Flashback:

Itachi's genjutsu, the Tsukuyomi eye of the mange sharingan was one of the best genjutsu casters in the world. His genjutsu pierced her emerald ones and she couldn't look away... Her eyes widened in fear, "Itachi-kun! You're hurting me! Let me go!" All that she could say before her eyes went void and hollow, clouded and hazed. She, was under the influence of the Tsukuyomi..She was a puppet now.

"You will do what ever I command."

"At your service, Itachi-sama."

"Yes...All falls into plan..My foolish little brother shall be broken..."

"Brilliance." was all she could say.

End Flashback

He was in shock..No, this was no clone...His sharingan made sure of it... It was more than any clone in the world...it was the real thing, Haruno Sakura herself.

She smiled at him...Those plastic-like doll smiles (but he was absolutely sure it was a PORCELAIN doll...Although he would never admit it). Exactly what she was at this point, a doll, a puppet. She curtsied cutely lifting the the edges of her black dress.

"Is it not confusing, Sasuke-san? Hmmm...That has a wild sound to it doesn't it? Sasuke-san...Sasuke-san...Makes me feel excited to meet you in person after all these years... Sense...Itachi-sama massacred your clan...All except for dear dear Sasuke-san..." she cooed...

This was made to hurt him...The Sasuke-sans and everything...The memory of the massacre. Herself...All to break his heart wasn't it? He had to break the spell...It had to be a genjutsu...

"This techinically is not "in person" Sakura...Chan... You're not the Sakura I know...Not the one who's my teammate and my friend!" he shouted at her, unbelieving that she could hold up the stoic look as well as he could...

"Friend? Sense when were we teammates? Never alone friends? I grew up with Akatsuki and Itachi-sama...I've never seen you sense I left Konoha with your brother." she retorted, seemingly untouched by his words.

"Sakura! Snap out of it! It;s a genjutsu casted by Itachi! He told you lies didn't he?" he shouted, hurt. She just smiled. Itachi smirked.

"Oh Sasuke-kun? Itachi-sama has no reason to lie to me..I'm perfectly sure I'm not in a genjutsu, too. And who's this 'Sakura' you speak of? I'm Chira Hirashi mind you...Or Uchiha Chira if you prefer...It has a nice ring to it doesn't it? I would have never dreamed to be married to one of the FINEST men on earth, Uchiha Itachi."

This snapped his heart in two. Crunched it in her hands...Stomped by a million people. He's face paled in horror. Chalk white. His very soul dimmed. She had taken that seemingly unending love she 'once' (he winced at that) threw at him...And served it now in a silver platter up to his brother of all people... He understood how she felt now...The pain and the heartbreak. For once sense the massacre, Uchiha Sasuke felt alive.

"How does it feel, my dear foolish little brother? Did your soul die? Does your heart ache? Is that love gone and replaced by hatred?" came that smooth calm voice that haunted his dreams... His brother's silky voice.

His head hanged low...He already felt the tears in his eyes...No..He quickly blinked them away...There was no chance to save Sakura if he broke down right here and now.. He gritted his teeth...This was life, the life of an avenger...But he plans to end it..

There...A chapter.. TT you guys seriously need to review more...I don't know WHAT's wrong with this fic...But you guys NEED to give me ideas andc comments...I live on them... Rite...Naruto has more readers than my Rave Master fanfic, but so far...You guys have WAY less reviews... REVIEW! (or else)

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