Sorry! That I post this a day late! You see this past week a good friend of my (Emmy-Chan!) have offer herself to be my editor! I gave her my rough draft of chapter 1- 4 she was editing them on her weekend which yesterday was her birthday! Happy Birthday Emmy! I got my draft today at school and I came rushing home, to try to start editing, but I got this really awesome book called "Looking for Alaska" I read that instead for an hour, then I took almost an hour to edit my word document that have chapter three. I found out that I have bad grammar I hate grammar its evil I say! Good news is that this past weekend I wrote two chapters more so right now I planning to start to write chapter seven tonight, and tomorrow I giving the chapters I wrote on this past weekend to Emmy so she can edit them. Right now I am not going to promise when I am going to post chapter since my life is going to be busy soon since next month I have study for my math proficiency, I am going to have a trip at LA, and I have many books to read ( I have to do my read 100 books in a year goal). If you guys what to keep update in my progress on the fan fiction check out my my space blog, which the link is in my homepage website located in my profile. Disclaimer Do not own Naruto!
Chapter Three The Crusader
Sasuke point of view
So we arrive at Sakura's mansion which I have to admit its bigger than the Uchiha Manor back at Konoha, it has elegances of what you expect to see in Europe. I have to admit I wasn't all that happy to come here to France for a mission which was really part of a deal I made with Tsunade. I came back to Konoha about a year ago when I was sixteen years old, Naruto and Kakashi were glad to see me back, but not the rest of the village. When I came I had successfully kill my brother I won't go into the details, but I took advantage of his state of blindness you could say and also the fact that I learned some skills from Orchimaru. After six months being train by him he got sick of those bad arms he had. Kabuto tried to heal him, they were even planning on kidnapping Tsunade to help them heal the arms. One morning Kabuto and company found him dead in his death bed, who would of thought the greatest sannin died in his sleep? After that all Orchimaru crew went there own path some of them were caught by other hidden villages. Kabuto is still at large he now a missing nin, I took this time to prepare myself to kill Itachi.
I spent months at camp by myself finding him, but I did and I killed him with all I had. After that I thought I was going to die since I was laying there with my wounds that could be fatal to anybody. I was happy after that I said to myself I'd die for the Uchiha Clan and I closed my eyes to what I thought was eternal darkness meaning my death. I woke up one day in a hospital that was familiar, when I woke up I toll myself at that time that I have been here before. It hit me there I was back at Konoha, I never thought I was ever coming back here again. I was then thinking of Kakashi , Naruto and Sakura. Sakura I then have a memory of her crying the night when I left the village, she telling me she loves me and begged me to let her come with me. I couldn't do that because at that time I was only thinking about revenge, but now of me thinking about killed my brother and other goal I wanted to archive if I lived through killing Itachi was restoring my clan. Should I really do that? It's a bit rude to ask a girl to bear my children? What if I won't be able to do that? I don't think Tsunade will let me off the hook like that.
Then at that moment Kakashi and Naruto came to the room, still the same as always but Naruto had grown a bit taller, then behind them was the hokage herself Tsunade they stood in front of bed. I know they were going to do what the hell were you thinking leaving the village??! talk from Tsunade. Wait a minute wheres Sakura?
"Uchiha Sasuke, don't think you be let off the hook you were a missing nin for almost a whole year! Worst of all, you went to Orchimaru! I have to say even if you went all that shit you did, you did to kill your brother" Tsunade said., I almost wanted to smirk.
"So I really did kill him? So whats your punishment for me then?" I asked the hokage. I was waiting for a huge punishment like I have to give up being a ninja for life. Tsunade then smiled.
"You have to do a special mission for me but you have to wait a year to do the mission Naruto and Kakashi willed company you, that is all the details I can tell you now and if you don't accept you will be not doing missions for a whole year" she said, I was like that's it? I knew this mission have some greater importances.
"What is the mission? Why do I have to do it?" I asked her and she looked like she was expecting questions like the ones I was asking her.
"Really you don't have to do it any other ninja could, but I just wanted to give you that mission I will say it be a long mission it will take months to do it, that is all I am allowed to say for now so do you accept or not because I don't bloody well want to spend it here waiting for your answer" she said with her usual temper voice. I didn't want to be a year without missions it might drive me crazy or even insane, I have no choice I have to accept it.
"I will say yes to that special missions, but I want to know why Sakura isn't on the mission or is it a very dangerous mission" I asked . They were silent for a while and Naruto looked like the one who going to speak up.
"Sasuke, after you left the village she left Konoha a month after" Naruto said in a melancholy way. What? Did she leave to try to find me? What in the world would make Sakura leave Konoha? Tsunade then glared at me then I knew she knew something about Sakura leaving.
"She didn't became a missing nin?" I asked wanting to know an answer in the inside while the on the outside I looked like I really didn't care at all what the answer could be. Tsunade then moved to the right side of the bed looking at the flower display of a cherry blossom.
"No, she left for reasons I can't say she toll me not to tell anybody. She is with her mother I tell you, that I do have some ninjas check on how she's doing when they are in the area where she living now. They tell me she is happy and she's looks like she enjoying life better where she's at now then when she was living at Konoha" Tsunade said that picked up the vase, reading a card on the vase she then smiled and put it back on the vase.
"So she came to you when she was about to leave? I did not know that grandma Tsunade!" said Naruto, he came almost face to face to her. Kakashi then pulled him away from Tsunade's personal space.
"Yes actually she asked my permission to leave and I to her I let her leave if she made a agreement with me and she did that" Tsunade said to me, Kakashi, and Naruto. What kind of a agreement can Sakura do with Tsunade?
"What is the agreement that you two made?" I asked, I really not the type of person who asks things about other people life but I have to know what it is?
"It a secret I can not say I'm already telling you guys way to much information about her so if you guys excuse me I have to leave and do work at my office. Kakashi and Naruto you guys will watch him over in the next couple of days since I am not completely sure that Sasuke wants to stay at Konoha. And Sasuke you will be interviewed by the AUBU to get all the information you got of Orchimaru and Itachi and I be leaving now " she said and left my room.
"So Sasuke its good to have you back" said Naruto, while Kakashi was reading that book he always reads. Things really didn't change for those two. In the next couple of days after Tsunade visit Kakashi and Naruto were watching me like a hawk even when I went to use the bathroom they followed me. Also the AUBU went and they interviewed for almost five hours. Soon I'd gotten better and left the hospital and went back to my home which was the Uchiha Manor. It looks old now and dirty as hell since I was wasn't around. Since Tsunade will not give me a mission for that it I spend that week cleaning the Manor and training. After that week I became a Konoha ninja again and for little less than an year life was normal yet something was missing when I am on mission with Kakashi and Naruto. It was Sakura.
A month before we came to France Tsunade called team seven to come to her office. On the way to the office I met up with Kakashi and Naruto.
"So Kakashi do you know why grandma Tsunade called us into her office? Do you think its that special mission she talked about almost a year a ago?" Naruto ask Kakashi.
"Yes, Tsunade toll me the reason she wants us to meet her at her office has something to do with the special mission that Sasuke has to do with us" Kakashi had said to us. I knew it before Kakashi toll us this that Tsunade was going to touch more details about the mission that Tsunade want me to do. Soon we arrived to the hokage's office. She was sitting on her chair reading a stack of papers and she then noticed us when we came through the door.
"Thank you for coming team seven most likely Kakashi told you that this is about that special mission that I wanted to give Sasuke" Tsunade said to them. Sasuke then was eager to know what hell the mission was. "This mission was previously assign to somebody eighteen years ago and after he successfully did the mission they were other that were against the mission that they even took their time to find and kill the man who was assign to that mission" Tsunade said and stopped for a while which seem more like stalling.
"So why is this important for us to know since we were not part of that mission?"said Naruto to Tsunade, and Tsunade then was taking a breath about to say more about the mission.
"Well that man was doing a peace treaty with the country of France we have had problems with them in the past since we done many mission for the French leaders and the prime mister for many years many people didn't like the idea of outsiders helping them. There was a group of people that were against it they are called The Crusader they did not like idea of Konoha and France signing a peace treaty, it took that man six months to stay in France since there were many protests of the treaty. Funny enough something good came out of that mission for that man and info might hit home for you guys" said Tsunade , she was waiting for us three to say something.
"Why does this information matter anyway?"said Naruto not knowing this information is valuable for there mission. I was thinking why would that man 'hit us home' using the terms Tsunade to us.
"One is that the Crusader might be out there when you go on your mission. You see the treaty is going to expire in seven months and my mission for you three is to go to France and do the treaty. Kakashi will do the paper work for this mission in other words I mean Kakashi will be handling the talking to French enforcement and that is only for Kakashi. As for Naruto and Sasuke this where you come in I want you guys to find out who the Crusader are and do research where they are and who is part of the group, but you not be allowed to kill them" Tsunade said to them. I was disappointed that the mission was about a treaty I wanted to do some action then doing an investigation on some cult.
"Tsunade may I ask you a question?" I asked her, and she nodded as a yes"Why in the world did you assign me to this mission? You even planed it for a year? Why me?" I asked her. Tsunade then frowned and looked at team seven in the eye.
"You know the man I was talking about all this time his name Keiko Haruno, he is the father of Sakura Haruno" Tsunade said, and I was in shock so Sakura's father was the man who did that mission eighteen years ago? And he got killed because of it?
"So this was your meaning it 'might hit home'?"said Kakashi and put a hand to his head looks like to be a bit of disbelief.
"Do you want to hear his story of the mission which tells us how Sakura was able to be here today?" said Tsunade to the the three of us. Naruto was having of face of "Huh?". While I was thinking this might became some kind of fairy tale type of thing. "I take that as a yes then, you see as I told you before the mission took about six months to completed since with all the protest and all. He was stuck in France in other words, you see Keiko Haruno was used to this type of mission since he was usually assign missions outside the Hidden village's boulder line and spent months in other counties. Then in a week when he arrive to France he went to a restaurant and he accident bumped into a girl who has pink hair" Tsunade was saying this story to us guys like it was something that came out of a love story.
"So that girl is Sakura's mom since she has pink hair and all?"said Naruto to Tsunade. She was a bit mad when he said that since she didn't finish with the story.
"Well we do not know for sure I didn't quite finish my story" She said that to Naruto. "Her name was Christine Dechannel, she was eighteen when she met Keiko she was studying to become a composer and was the heir of the opera house of the Dechannel family. Somehow Keiko and Christine were at that restaurant for four hours just talking to each other. Soon as the weeks past they soon fall in love with each other. Keiko was still waiting for the protest to end so that the treaty could be finish, but he wasn't in a rush to leave Paris. When it came close to the six months the treaty was almost done and Keiko and Christine knew they were meant to be." said Tsunade in way any women would fantasize any love stories would say.
"I can't believe Sakura's parents have that kind of love story it sounded like something that could came out in a movie!" Naruto said he was amaze by the love story of Sakura's parents. Even I was impress by the story it doesn't sound all that non fictional to me.
"Hokage I'm sorry just ruining your story telling mood, but why do we need to hear a love story of Sakura's parents?"I said stressed that she was just telling us stories than telling us about the mission.
"Do you know where you going to stay in Paris?" Tsunade said to us. We didn't have a clue what she met by that question I though we would stay at a hotel or something like that?
"Let's just say knowing the story would be helpful when you go to Paris because you will see Christine herself and her daughter" Tsunade said to us. It took me a couple of seconds to know what she was talking about. Naruto took minutes, but he still didn't figure it out.
"So we are staying at the Haruno's"? I ask her.
"Yes, because Paris is where Sakura Haruno and Christine Haruno live at and do you understand why the story is important now?" She said to us.
"A bit maybe, but why this a personal story so important?" I asked the hokage.
"Because what I want you to do is investigate her" Tsunade just said to team seven.
"Does it have to do with the Crusaders then? Do they have some connection?" I ask Tsunade, and she nod as a yes.
"Christine is smart women and I know she has more information about Crusaders since she was the wife of Keiko. You see after the six months they both elope they got marry in Konoha, after nine months they have Sakura. During the fourteen years of Sakura life, Keiko was order to do investigation on the Crusaders. When Sakura was twelve Christine had to leave Konoha since her father was about to pass away of some illness she went away for two months, but since she was only blood member of the Dechannel family she was heir of to the family fortunes including an Opera house. Christine was the rightful owner of that place and had no choice but to stay at Paris. Keiko for the next two years went to France every so often and did more investigating too" said Tsunade. I understood more of what she meant why this information could be important to know if we want to investigated Christine Haruno.
"So do you have any information on the investigation then?"I ask the Hokage. She signed and stood up and walk in front of her desk.
"No, you see four years ago Keiko Haruno was kill by The Crusader themselves and they destroyed all the evidents he found when he was investigating" said Tsunade.
"Then why do we have to investigate Christine Haruno?" I asked her.
"Because Keiko was killed during a mission to France and was staying with his wife, knowing Keiko trusted his wife he may have told her all the information about the Crusaders and may have told her not to not tell anyone about the information even if he was dead" Tsunade said. I understand now why we must check on Christine Haruno she could be hiding a secret about The Crusaders.
"Does Sakura know about the Crusaders?" Kakashi asked Tsunade.
"No, she does not. She thinks her father was killed by some ninja from the hidden village of sound on his way back home. Christine wrote a letter to the third hokage telling him to hide the truth of who killed Keiko and do not to tell Sakura who was real murder of her father. Sakura had a choice to stay here in Konoha or got to France from the third and Christine, but at the time she was happy to stay here in Konoha. If you guys recall it was a year before Sasuke left" said Tsunade.
"This was after the chunin exams second round from the forest of death when she heard the news about her father passing then?" ask Kakashi to the hokage.
"Yes it was. It was during that month when the finalist were training for there final round for the chunin exam when Sakura found out about her father passing. Now you understand why you didn't noticed anything, because you three were busy with the chunin exams and Sakura had time to recover from such news so that you guys didn't noticed anything" said Tsunade to them.
"Does this have to do with why Sakura left Konoha?" ask Naruto.
"No, it does not. She toll me she left because being in Konoha was unbearable it was right after Sasuke left" Tsunade said to them.
"But we are going to see her during the mission right maybe we could hang out in France won't that be awesome-" said Naruto but was cut off by the hokage.
"Yes you will, but I have to tell you Sakura may have moved on she even forgot you guys and she is really happy. I don't want you guys to ruin that happiness that took her so long to get right after her father's death and when Sasuke left. Even if she became a workaholic in Paris and now is the owner of the opera house" Tsunade said. I was feeling unsure about the way Tsunade said that she was unhappy because of me and left because of me I felt guilty in a way.
"Are you saying that we won't be able to hang out with her?" Naruto said to Tsunade.
"You could, but I am thinking about Sakura maybe she doesn't want any contact with you guys at all and I want you guys to respect that she has a life of her own is that clear" Tsunade said to the three of them.
"Yes" said they said.
"Also if Sakura is in a some type of relationship I really don't want you guys to butt in and try to do anything" said Tsunade to them. I somehow think Tsunade and Sakura may have kept contact with each other in the past two years since she knows an awful a lot about Sakura's life? What does she means about relationship?
"So when are we leaving for France and how long are we staying there?" ask Kakashi.
"In one month you will leave for France and also this might be bitter news but you are staying in France for six months" said Tsunade.
"Why that long?" I ask the hokage.
"Its going to take that long for the treaty to be complete and this is one of those long mission too. So I want you guys to prepare to pack a lot of things since you be spending half a year in France. So that will be it and you can leave I have to go get a bottle of sake" said Tsunade as she left her office to get her bottle.
We then in the month prepared ourself for the mission. Naruto got a books to learn to talk French and Kakashi was buying six months supply of his novels that he loves to read. While I just packed necessary things and then soon we headed it off to France and you know the rest.
Back to present time we were being greeted by Christine Haruno herself while Sakura was getting ready for a party and she was going with some kind of Jacob person she met when she was in France. She changed a lot outside and inside mostly. I wonder if I will be able to control myself since n I realized that Sakura the only person who I am able to have a relationship with, but now she has a relationship with somebody else?
I want to hear you guys reviews and all that. I am tried I going to go watch my Spanish soap opera now. I going to try to post once a week, but not sure. But I will try to write everyday. I actually have a planed deadline when I want to finish this story, before September or October of this year. Since I planning on doing Nanowrimo! If you have no idea what I am talking about Google Nanowrimo. Well bye love you my readings!