Author's notes: Okay well, I decided to update quick, I don't know why, but I just did. Okay so I changed my mind about the three parts. Instead there will only be two parts, and you'll find out later. Sorry for the cofusion but this is the final part to the TWO parts. Enjoy.

Chapter 9:

An Old Friend ; A New Enemy Pt2.

Once on his feet he caught a glimpse of the pink haired girl in front of him. Her name he could never forget. Sakura Haruno. He wasn't certain this was her though, it looked like her, and sounded like her. Now that he thoght of it, it even smelled like her. But he noticed the Akastuki colours she was wearing. The unforgettable black and red print of clouds. The unforgettable cloak that he wore, Itachi. She couldn't possibly be one of them. She just couldn't. However, this could be good. He could get information out of her. Information on where he was.

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What was he doing here. A million and one things ran through her head. The anticipation was killing her. She wanted to punch his face in and continue doing so until she was physically pryed off. She wanted to ask a million questions, she wanted to yell at him. She wanted so much right now. She felt so much right now, however, none of the mixed emotions she was feeling involved any love or caring towards him. None.

This made her happy, this satisfied her. She now knew she was FINALLY over him. She was over Sasuke Uchiha. And now, she had fallen for Itachi Uchiha. What was it about the Uchiha boys, was it the pale complexion, the dark hair, the personality? No, definatly not the personality. Itachi definatly had a better personality then Sasuke. And Sasuke, well, Sasuke basically lacked a personality. Itachi was loving and caring and actually spoke to her and returned the same feelings. Sasuke was an ignorant jerk who wanted nothing more put power..power so that he could kill Itachi. Kill her Itachi. She wouldn't allow that. She would stop him. Even if it meant killing him.

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The reddish-orange haired female sat upon a villagers fruit cart as she watched Suigetsu and Jugo torment some of the villagers for fun. A smirk was on her lips. She didn't do anything, mostly because she couldn't. She wasn't much of a fighter..mainly because she couldn't fight. She turned her attention to the side as she sensed a strong chakra presence approach them. Her smirk soon faded when the shark-faced man soon came into view.

Suigetsu laughed as he pushed around an elderly man taking his pouch of money. He looked up at Karin and saw that worried look. He looked to the side where she was looking and his face almost lit up in excitement as he watched Kisame draw near. He dropped the old man and walked towards Kisame stopping a few meters away. The look on his face could be comparable to that of a little kid in a candy store.

Kisame stopped as Suigetsu approached him. He saw the red-orange haired girl on the fruit cart and the rather large man, Jugo, standing a few meters behind Suigetsu. He looked at Suigetsu who had a rather large grin on his face. Kisame sighed crossing his arms. "It's been a while." he said looking at a very happy Suigetsu in front of him.

Suigetsu nodded enthustiastically. "Indeed it has... sensei." Karin and Jugo looked at Suigetsu wide-eyed as Kisame grinned.

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Why was he just standing there staring at her. Why hadn't he made a move. He was eager enough to attack her before when they were in the house, in the dark .Why now had he decided to not attack. After a few moments of silence she finally spoke up. " What buisness do you have here, Uchiha. " she said almost venomously. Very unlikely of Sakura, especially when she spoke to Sasuke.

Surprised by her tone Sasuke looked up at her with his ever so nonchalant look plastered on his face. He had never heard her speak to him like this before, so rough, so..evil? Yes, evil would be the word he would use. Everything about her now was.. evil. "I think it would be obvious Haruno," he said in his trademark monotone voice. " An informant for the Akatsuki would surely know how to contact them or know where they are. In turn, allowing me to find and murder.. him." he responded.

Sakura smirked, crossing her arms along her chest as she looked at him. "I think it would be obvious Uchiha, that the Akatsuki would never tell an informant of there whereabouts. And we contact them when we see fit, not the other way around. To make sure situations like these won't occurr." she said looking at him with an im-smarter-then-you look. In all honesty, she probably wasn't. But if there was one thing she knew more than him, was about the Akatsuki. Considering she's a member herself.

"Hn." Sasuke replied. However, that did make sense. The Akatsuki wouldn't be stupid enough to give information like that to lowly informants who only bettered their organization. Besides, once they were done with the informant and had no more use for them, they would kill them anyway. He looked at her. "Tell me Haruno, how did you become a memeber of the Akatsuki. Did they lower there standerds that much. I didn't know they were so desperate now." he said keeping his same expression and his tone more boring than ever.

Sakura shot Sasuke a cold glare. If looks could kill, he would be a deadman. She clutched her hand into a fist as the sound of the leather rubbing together was evident she was pissed. Sakura was not always one to hold in her anger, but for now she did. Soon, she would unleash it all upon him. "What about you, I'm surprised Orochimaru let you off of your leash. Have you been good lately?" she said with a smirk.

Sasuke glared back at her as he was getting annoyed himself. He had always found her annoying anyway. "He is dead." he stated no hint of emotion in his voice or appearence, like there ever was.

Sakura, shocked at the news, kept the same expression. Orochimaru was.. dead? But how, did Sasuke kill him? Even so, that's just one more threat taken care of. However, if Sasuke had grown that powerful to take out a sannin with so much power, he had now become a new threat. Luckily his wrath was only focused on one person. And then it struck her. Itachi.

"Now Haruno," Sasuke said breaking the silence. " You're going to tell me where to find him." he said more seriously.

"And if I don't?" Sakura responded.

"Then I'll force it out of you." he said in a threatening tone.

Sakura smirked at his threat. "You can try." with that, he dissapeared only reappearing behind her with his sword at her throat. "Not good enough." she said as her body was soon replaced with a log and she reappeared above him with her fist pulled back.

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Suigetsu and Kisame looked at each other, both with grins on their faces. Karin and Jugo still confused.

"How have you been keeping?" Suigetsu asked Kisame.

Kisame shrugged. "Well you know, making money. Killing people. It's all in a days work. How about you? Still out to achieve your major goal? I see you have momochi's already." Kisame asked.

Suigetsu nodded. "Yeah, although I was hoping I'd be able to fight him for it. Too bad. Instead I pulled it off his grave. But don't worry, because now I have one left. One sword to obtain. And here's where it ends. With you, with the samehada." Suigetsu explained as he pulled out his large sword, formaly that of the infamous Zabuza Momochi who met his death by the hands of none other than Kakashi Hatake.

Kisame's grin became wider as Suigetsu spoke. "Well my pupil, you will just have to pry it from my cold, dead, hands." Kisame said as he now held his Samehada and some of the wrapping came undone.

Suigetsu, eagerly taking Kisame up on his offer dashed forward swinging his sword in prescise movements ; Kisame saw him charge at him and retained the smirk on his face. He moved Samehada sligtly to the left as he blocked Suigetsu's attack. "You'll have to be much better than that if you want this." he said as he kicked Suigetsu in the gut launching him backwards.

Suigestu slid across the ground comming to a stop as Jugo stepped forward and Suigetsu held out his hand stopping him. "No, this is my fight." he said with a smirk as he dissapeared reappearing above Kisame and continuously attacking him not allowing for any openings.

Kisame lifted his Samehada and blocked the continuous barrage of slashes from Suigetsu while his other hand layed limply to his side, he applied the least amout of effort.

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Sasuke looked up at the decsending female as she was ready to make him part of the ground. He knew moving his sword to block it was useless, with her power she would probably snap it in half. He thought for a minute, but he didn't have a minute. Within seconds her fist collided with his face and he was sent flying. He managed to stop himself as he looked up at her rubbing his cheek. Damn that hurt. He thought to himself. "Enough playing around." he said as he became more serious.

Sakura could sense the annoyance and seriousness in his voice. Now he would attack her seriously. Now she would have a challenge. Perhaps too much of a challenge. It was then she noticed that his dark obsidean eyes changed and his sharingan was activated.

Sakura knew this would pose a problem. She was a tai jutsu master and his sharingan would allow him to predict every move and stop her, allowing for a counter attack. She sighed. She couldn't use a genjustsu either, his sharingan would see straight through that. What was she going to do. Well.. she could use that. But it was too early. She didn't wanna waste all her chakra now. She sighed. If only she was fast like Lee, then he wouldn't even see her long enough to predict what she was going to do.

Without warning Sasuke moved too attack. Sakura was slashed across the stomache and thrown back against the builing they were previously in. The bricks fell down upon her and she groaned in pain. She moved them off of her and looked up at him, he was standing where he was only moments ago before the attack. She looked down at her now bleeding midsection. She held her hand over it as it began glowing a pale green and she healed it instantaneously. She glared at him, she was pissed now.

She got to her feet using the building as a balance, some of it fell apart. She watched as the pieces fell to the ground. This gave her an idea. She turned and face the house as she outstretched her hands and tore off a huge chunk. Setting it on the ground she tore of several more pieces. Sasuke stood rather confused as to why she was tearing apart the house..literally.

Once satisfied with the amount she had Sakura turned and faced Sasuke. She took two large chunks of the wall in her hand and spun throwing them at him. However it didn't stop there, she continued throwing them until there were no more and it blocked his vision of her. Sasuke deflected and cut in half the pieces of the building being thrown at him. A useless attempt he thought. When he looked up, there she was in mid-air preparing a kick. Even though he had his sharingan, he wasn't prepared and couldn't move out of the way fast enough.

Sakura's foot connected with his stomache sending him flying back further then before. This time, he went so far back he landed right in the middle of where Kisame and Suigetsu were fighting. Sakura landed on the ground and began walking towards him.

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Suigetsu jumped back and stopped attacking Kisame as he saw Sasuke come flying straight at them. Kisame could sense this and he jumped into the air avoiding the Uchiha. He landed, and by the time he landed Sakura was beside him. He looked at Sasuke, who was now rising to his feet. He had no idea that Sakura was fighting him. He looked over at her and searched for wounds but found none. However he did see that her shirt was cut on her stomache area and there were bloodstains. Assuming she healed it already, he didn't bother asking if she was okay.

Kisame lifted his samehada and rested it on his shoulder. "Well well well, if it isn't Itachi's little brother." he said with a wide grin. Sasuke glared at him.

Karin jumped off of the fruit cart and stared at the pink haired kunoichi. She knew who she was. Sakura Haruno. The one who loved Sasuke, the one Sasuke supposedly had feelings for. Karin clutched her hand into a fist. She didn't like Sakura already. No way would she let anyone get her Sasuke.

Suigetsu looked at the pink haired female. He had heard stories about her. He knew that she was Sasuke's old teammate. "Whooie Sasuke, you left that behind. What were you thinking." Suigetsu said as he winked at Sakura.

Sakura looked at him disgusted as she turned her attention to Sasuke.

Sasuke shot a look to Suigetsu then looked back at the two Akatsuki members in front of him. "Well it appears as though I'm not the only one who has betrayed the village." he said as he looked at Sakura. "Tell me where he is." he commanded.

Kisame simply laughed as Sakura smirked. "Come on now Sasuke, you know were not going to tell you." Kisame said adjusting his samehada.

"Then I guess you're no use to me alive." he threatened unsheathing his katana.

"Empty threats mean nothing." Sakura said now glaring at him.

Suigetsu lifted his sword as Jugo stood beside him, his hands clutched into fists and Karin looking as pissed off as ever. "Four against two, that's not fair." Kisame said as the bandages fell from the samehada. "I'll take sword boy and Sasuke. Think you can handle the other two?" he said looking at Sakura. She frowned inwardly, she wanted to fight Sasuke. But, it would probably be better this way. Kisame could handle Sasuke a lot better than she could anyday.

Sakura nodded. "Sure. Besides, I don't think firehead over there will be much of a challenge." she said referring to Karin. That was when Karin snapped. She ran at Sakura attacking her with a kunai. Sakura dodged each hit and finally pulled back her chakra filled fist and sent it forward. Karin was thrown back like a rag doll smashing into a nearby building. Breaking almost every bone in her body Sakura smirked. "She won't be a further problem." she said as her teammates saw what happend.

Sasuke and Suigetsu then took this oppurtunity to start attacking Kisame. Kisame blocked thier attacks and countered them. Sasuke and Suigetsu blocked Kisame's attacks. They were having difficulty landing a hit on him. He wasn't an Akatsuki member for nothing.

Jugo looked at Sakura. He was huge compared to her. However, this made no difference in strength. Although Sakura may have looked like a petite feeble feminine, she packed a hard punch. Jugo moved forward too attack Sakura. Sakura jumped dodging the attack as she threw several kunai at him. They all stuck in his arm. He looked at them and up at her with a sadistic grin. Sakura landed on the ground and looked at him.

Suddenly, markings began spreading across his body. The cursed seal. However, this was different..soon Jugo transformed into a huge berserk demon. Now he was twice the size he was before. Sakura's shoulders slumped as she saw this. He almost roared as he looked down at the petite female and sent his fist crashing down upon her. Sakura lifted her hands and stopped his. He looked surprised. She then grabbed his hands fully and spun throwing him halfway across the village. Jugo collided with some poor old mans house smashing it to pieces. He jumped too his feet, now furious, he charged at Sakura. Sakura turned to run and leapt from right to left as he swung his arms.

Out of the corner of his eye Kisame saw Jugo transform. However he didn't have much time to spare to marvel at this demon. His attention was focused on the two attacking him. Seeing an opening, he took it. He swung his samehada, Suigetsu moved to dodge it but he wasn't fast enough. Samehada came in contact with Suigetsu's back shaving off his skin and sucking up his chakra. Suigetsu fell to the ground with a cry of pain. Sasuke saw this, but continued to fight. Taking this oppurtunity he made a handseal and held out his hands as the sounds of birds chirping could be heard. Electricity formed around Sasuke's hand as he charged forward leaving a trail in the ground. Kisame moved to protect himself,succesfully moving he looked down in shock as he saw a hole in his left shoulder. Looking up he saw that Sasuke was no longer in front of him. He was now behind him. In a split second Sasuke had dissapeared reappearing behind Kisame to attack him. But Kisame thought that the chidori was a straight attack. A hit and miss. But this, this changed things. Kisame swung his samehada as the Uchiha blocked it with his katana. However, he could feel some sort of drain. The samehada was touching his arm without him even noticing it and draining his chakra. He quickly pushed off and looked at Kisame.

Sakura tried throwing several more kunai's, but after they all stuck into the demon without him paying any attention to it, she saw that it was useless. He was going beserk atatcking in every which way not allowing for an opening, or for her to even breathe. Sakura was running out of space and soon she would be cushed between his hands. He swung his arm and it got stuck in the side of a building. She took this advantage and jumped onto his arm running up it. She took out two fuuma shurikan and threw one while keeping the other in her hand. She leapt from his shoulder positioning herself on his back. The fuuma shurikan that was in the air reached her now and she took it stabbing it into the man's neck. Using the momentum she had left she took the fuuma shurikan in her hand and stabbed it into the his back and as she fell towards the ground, she dragged the shurikan with her cutting open his back. He let out a cry of pain, loud enough to break someone's ear drum. She landed and ran backwards avoiding the now falling beast.

She let out a sigh of relief as he just layed there, and slowly returned to his orginal form. She turned to the fight between Kisame and Sasuke. She noticed the hole in Kisame's shoulder. How the hell did that happen. She ran over and stopped a few feet away. She watched as Kisame still fought with all his strength and the wound barely hindered his movements. Sakura watched, that was all she could do right now. Fighting against Sasuke, Sakura wasn't exactly the greatest backup to have. She couldn't do much anyway. That was when she mentally slapped herself. She was doing it again, making herself feel bad. She reminded herself what she had done to that beast. All by herself. It was then that smirk crawled on her face.

Kisame's samehada collided with Sasuke's arm shaving his skin off and sucking out more chakra. Sasuke could feel the drain as he distanced himself. He held his arm as he glared at Kisame. Kisame smirked and took this opening but was stopped by another blade. Suigetsu. He had stood and wanted to continue fighting. Sasuke appreciated this devotion, but then again it wasn't to help him. Suigetsu was doing this for himself, for his honour, for his goal.

Sasuke decided to team up with him again and take Kisame out. He prepared an attack. Sakura noticed this and knew that Kisame was weak on his left side and Sasuke would exploit that weakness. She had to do something, quick. She then closed her eyes and gathered what was left of her chakra. When she opened her eyes they were glowing that vibrant green that had before, and her pupil was totally gone.

Sasuke couldn't move. He looked down at his body, but nothing was happening. His katana fell from his hands. He struggled and tried to force himself to move but he just wouldn't. What the hell was happening. He looked around and that's when he saw her. He saw Sakura, and her glowing eyes. She couldn't be doing this..could she. But her eyes.. was this some kind of bloodline.. one he didn't know about. But he thought that the Uchiha's and the Hyuuga's were the only ones with eye bloodlines.

"Don't try fighting it Sasuke, it's no use." Sakura said as she looked at him and his arms began to bend backwards. Sasuke could feel the pain, but there was nothing he could do about it and he definatly wasn't going to show that she was winning. No, he wouldn't let her win. He tried to use his sharingan to counter her attack in some way, but it was useless unless he had the mangekyo maybe.

Sasuke's arms continued being pulled back, on the verge of breaking when Sakura felt a sudden pain. She was at her limit, she couldn't do anymore. She had used up most of her chakra earlier and it already took soo much to just use this bloodline properly. Especially since she hadn't fully mastered it yet. She couldn't stop, not now. She had to at least break his arms. The pain increased as she tried harder but just couldn't. She closed her eyes and fell to the ground.

Sasuke felt his arms return back to his side as he watched her fall. "Tch. Pathetic." he said as he grabbed his katana and walked over to her. He looked at her laying on the ground. She was still concious, for now. "I should've killed you when I had the chance." he said as he bent down and turned her on her back. "I can't believe I ever cared about such a weak person like you.." he said only loud enough so she could hear.

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Kisame saw Sasuke over at Sakura. He knew that if he didn't do something to help her that Sasuke would kill him. However, Suigetsu just wouldn't give him a chance. Frustrated Kisame moved to fight back hoping to get to her in time.

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Sakura's vision was becoming blurry as she was slowly being succumbed into darkness. Sasuke sighed and stood. "You're still the useless kunoichi you always were. I'll end your misery." he said as he took his katana and held it at her neck. Suddenly, he felt a presence behind him, he heard a crack and pain surged through his right arm and he watched as his katana fell. He looked to the side, and his jaw could've almost dropped.

The dark haired man stood behind Sasuke staring at him. Sasuke slowly turned and looked at the man. His facial expression changed dramatically. "Itachi." he said in a low venomous voice. He moved too attack Itachi with his left arm. Itachi moved to the side grabbing his left shoulder with one hand and his wrist with the other. He snapped it backwards as Sasuke was rendered useless with both arms. Sasuke stumbled back and glared at him. He was already at a low of chakra thanks to Kisame. And now both his arms were unusable.

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Kisame swung the samehada as he caught Suigetsu in the side. The sword shaved off more skin and sucked out the rest of his chakra. Suigetsu fell to the ground dropping his sword as he groaned in pain. Kisame brought the samehada up to rest on his arm as he made his way over to Itachi, Sakura and Sasuke. He stood a few feet away.

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Itachi and Sasuke glared at each other. Sakura looked up at Itachi weakly. "Itachi..kun.." she said slowly before becoming completely unconcious.

Sasuke heard the suffix she had used on the end of Itachi's name. Hie eyes widened at this. That couldn't be..she didn't love him. How could she love his enemy.

Itachi dissapeared and reappeared behind Sasuke. He whispered something in his ear. "Still. Not. Strong. Enough." Itachi said as Sasuke beame more furious. There was a sudden pain at the back of his neck and he fell forward, unconcious. Itachi sighed looking down at Sakura. He bent down and picked her up. He looked over at Kisame as Kisame's smirk had faded. "Let's go home." he said as Kisame nodded and they jumped into the air dissapearing.

Author's notes: Well, there you go. I hope you enjoyed it. Review please and let me know what you think ! I'll update ASAP because I'm in a good mood. Ughh, i hope i get over 100 reviews for this story. it would make me incredibly happy !!