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Sakura's POV
I opened my eyes, and I immediately jerked out of bed. This wasn't my bed... This wasn't my room, this isn't- 'SAKURA!' Inner screamed at me. What? 'The Akatsuki adopted you, remember?' Inner sighed.
Oh, yeah. Whoops. Totally passed my mind on that one. Hey, wait a minute. The Akatsuki adopted me? Oh my Jashin, they could want me to be their maid, or their slave, or even worse. Their training dummy...
All of a sudden, my head began to pound, and it felt like someone had embedded 15 kunai in my head at once. I let out a high pitched scream, and held my head, as I fell to the floor on my knees.
I pulled at my hair, and screamed louder, trying to make it go away. Then, all the members burst into my room, but it was getting worse. Konan came over and kneeled beside me, looking at me, frantically asking, "What's wrong?"
I screamed out, "Make it stop! Make it go away!" I felt the tears pour down my face, and I fell forward, and began to convulse. I choked out blood, and everyone was rushing around me, trying to help me.
Abruptly, everything just stopped. I stopped moving, and I picked myself up off the ground. I blinked a couple of times, as they stared at me, and suddenly the floor was right in my face.
I felt someone's arms catch me, but I it felt like I fell through. I kept falling into the darkness, as my eyes blankly stared on, and I kept falling as my eyes closed, and unconsciousness took over my body.
I blinked my eyes open, and I looked around at the people surrounding me. Akatsuki members. What happened again? 'Your... illness happened.' Inner said sadly. Oh, yeah. Now I remember.
Everyone looked at me worriedly, and I smiled. Fake, but still a smile. Everyone's frowns got deeper. Dang. They could probably tell it was fake, now couldn't they?
Konan was the first one to speak. "Sakura-chan... What happened?" She asked worriedly. I smiled, a soft sad smile. That smile was real. "It was nothing. Just the shock coming in," I lied.
"Sakura... What really happened?" Pein-sama asked. "Nothing," I replied. They don't need to know. I was nothing to worry over. Why did they care in the first place?
Most of them shook their heads, and I swung my legs over the table, and hopped off my bed. 'Sakura... Maybe you should tell them,' Inner said softly. I closed my eyes, and a large frown crossed my face.
No. They didn't need to know. It's not that bad. I'll be fine. 'No you won't,' Inner said. 'You'll never be fine, you'll be in pain a lot. You can't be normal, and if you don't tell someone this disease will kill you.' Inner reminded me.
"Shut up," I whispered, letting my head hang down. She kept going on and on about what would happen, until I screamed, "Shut up!" Everyone looked at me. "Sakura, we didn't say anything," Pein-sama said quietly.
I looked up, and I felt a single tear fall. Their eyes widened. "What?" I asked quietly. I turned to the large mirror, and the first thing I noticed was the single teardrop falling off my face.
Though, it wasn't a teardrop. No, it was a teardrop of blood. I stared at it with dead eyes, before hanging my head. Why couldn't I be normal? What did I do, to be cursed like this?
After I thought this, I ran. I don't know where I was going, or why, but I ran. I faintly heard people chasing after me, and I ran out of their base. I ran and ran, until I made it a meadow, where I stopped by the sparkling lake, and looked down at my reflection. Hideous.
The Akatsuki members bust into the clearing, and ran up to me. I let the teardrops, probably blood drops, fall freely. I looked up to them with eyes of pain. "Why?" I cried.
"What do you want from me?" I yelled, taking a step backwards, walking on the lake, a normal shinobi thing. Thing is I wasn't a shinobi. I just could.
Konan took a step forward and stretched out a hand. "We want to help you," She whispered. I felt more tears fall. "Why can't you just leave me alone?" I screamed, stomping my foot.
The water jetted up on either side of me, spurting up in jets about fifty feet in the air. They came down, not a single drop out of place. "Why would you want to help me? You can't help me! There's no possible way! I'm broken to the point where I can't be helped!" I cried out.
Sasori stepped forward this time, and said wisely, "Anyone can be helped, Sakura. You just have to let us." That's... That's...
True.
I felt my knees buckled under me, and I fell under the water. Someone grabbed my hand, before I went under all the way, and pulled me back up. I saw out of the back of my eye that it was Itachi Uchiha who had pulled me up.
I broke down. I felt him pass me to Pein, and I sobbed into his chest, or rather his shirt. I cried all the way home, as Pein stroked my hair, trying to sooth me. Eventually, I began to get tired, and the tears ceased.
The only ones in the room were him and Konan. And the last words I whispered, that sounded something like a normal six year old, were, "Thank you... Mommy... Daddy..."
And with that I let the waves of sleep crash down onto me.
Pein's POV
...Daddy? I'm a... Dad? My eyes widened, as did Konan's, when she called us that. It sounded like a normal kid's voice, rather than the adult-like voice she uses.
I know she's been through a lot, and she is only six. I knew that her parents abandoned her, as well as that she has a life threatening disease. I know she has great power, but we don't want her for that.
No, when I first saw her, I saw a little girl, that had been through a lot, and still held her head high, and walked out with a smile. Fake, but still a smile. When I ordered the mission for Deidara to go adopt her...
I had wanted to make that fake smile, real. I wanted to fix her heart, and pick up the pieces of her crumpled heart, no matter what it took.
I know it's not safe with us, us being the bad guys, but I knew I had to have her. So I talked to Madara. He said yes, but I had to watch over her. I could tell when we saw her having a seizure that he was as worried as I was.
I know we are the bad guys, and all of us have rough pasts, but maybe she... Could be our light. Help us off the brink of insanity. Yes...
She could be... The Akatsuki's blossom. We could fix her, and she could fix us. I felt a warm smile cross my face. I think I like her calling me dad... And Konan mom...
I looked up at Konan, after putting Sakura down on my bed, and tucking her in. She looked into my eyes, and smiled as well. I walked up to her a whispered, "If your supposed to be the mother, and I'm the father.. Aren't we supposed to be together?"
I saw her eyes widened, and I pressed my lips to hers. She wrapped her arms around my neck, and mine went around her waist instantly. I felt my spine tingle, and we pulled back after a few seconds to look at each other.
"I love you," I said quietly, while looking lovingly into her eyes. "I love you, too," She whispered back, staring back into mine, her eyes full of love and compassion. I pulled her into another kiss.
Maybe a heart that was meant to be healed... Could fill us all with love at the same time that we're fixing it...
