Chapter 2
Captive Sakura
When Sakura woke up the next morning she had a terrible headache.
"Ooh, what the fuck? If I remember right I wasn't in a bar with Ino last night… I think that Tsunade-shishou gave me a mission to do and there were also Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi…and then the Akatsuki came and we were fighting with them…" And then she remembered everything. How she fought with Itachi, healed Kakashi, felt hard pain in her neck and then everything had went black.
She tried to move her hands but they were tied behind her back. Her legs were tied together too and her chakra was very low. She almost started to panic but her Jounin training told her to stop and determine her situation. Sakura's green eyes started to check the room where she was. It wasn't very big and the walls were coloured black. The bed where she was sitting was small and there was one window in the room. She also noticed a brown bedside table next to the bed and a wardrobe on the opposite wall.
"Oh, great. I'm kidnapped, thanks to that bastard Itachi, and he has done something to my chakra system."
Sakura tried to find her travel bag and kunai pouch but both of them were gone.
"I will kill that piece of shit! For heaven's sake, why did he kidnap me instead of Naruto? I'm not useful to him. I'm only a medic ninja and Jounin and, yes, Tsunade is my teacher and …wait a second that bastard used the Sharingan the whole time when they attacked to us and I'm sure he has used it always, anyway. Maybe his eyes are harmed and he needs me to heal them? Or maybe-"
Sakura's thoughts were interrupted when she heard a door open.
Itachi and Deidara walked inside and Deidara had a food tray on his hands.
"Well, its look like your sweet little kunoichi has woken up, yeah." Deidara pointed out and put the food tray down on the bedside table. Then he walked next to Itachi.
"His sweet kunoichi? What the heck?" Sakura looked at the tray and she noticed how hungry she really was. A bowl of white rice and a miso soup looked so good that they made hers mouth water but she couldn't be sure that the food wasn't poisoned. She glared at Itachi and Deidara.
"Hn, eat kunoichi." Itachi ordered and was leaving when Sakura's sarcastic voice reach his ears. "And may I ask how? If you didn't notice my hands are tied behind on my back."
Itachi didn't like the sound of her voice and he definitely didn't like the small laugh which Deidara let past his closed lips. He glared murderously at Deidara and he stopped laughing immediately.
Itachi walked in front of Sakura and was going to hit her because of her attitude but her angry voice captured his attention.
"What the hell am I doing in here?" She asked and her eyes glowed with anger.
"You're here because of Naruto-kun." Itachi said and he had to appreciate the pink haired kunoichi's behaviour. She was a prisoner but still she had the bravery to yell to him.
"What?" Sakura cried out.
"He will come to rescue you, and when he comes we will take the Kyuubi."
Sakura's world crashed and she felt like she was betraying her friends and village. If the Akatsuki took the Kyuubi out of Naruto, he would die. Maybe she and her former team mates weren't friends anymore but she didn't want them to die because of her. Sasuke and Kakashi would come with Naruto and maybe the others too. Well, Sasuke would come to kill his big brother but he would come anyway. She had to do something to stop them from coming. Maybe she could escape and warn them or maybe she could try to kill Itachi and the others or then she could-. Then it hit her. She couldn't do anything even if she might escape from Itachi and the others. She remembered what Tsunade had said to her month ago.
"Two months and maybe a couple of days but then it will be over."
Yes, she couldn't do anything to save her friends or even herself. After two months she wouldn't be able to do anything. She smiled sadly at Itachi and opened her mouth. "Sorry to disappoint you but he wont come to rescue a corpse."
Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke were exhausted from running to Konoha as fast as they could. They ran straight to Tsunade's office and the hell's doors opened.
"SAKURA IS WHAT?" Tsunade yelled to them and her face was red from anger. Light brown eyes were on fire and she almost broke her working table.
"She was kidnapped by Akatsuki." Kakashi's voice was small and he talked to the floor.
"You idiots! How could that happen?"
"They surprised us and when Sasuke and Naruto were fighting with Deidara, Kisame cut my stomach with his sword and Sakura was fighting with Itachi Uchiha."
"WHAT?!"
"Well, somehow she managed to get past Itachi and healed my wound but then Itachi appeared behind her and hit her on the neck, when she fell unconscious he threw her to Kisame. Then they called Deidara and disappeared in a smoke." Kakashi's voice sounded monotonic when he spoke.
"You idiots. You are fucking idiots! How is it possible that she fought Itachi?" Tsunade shouted and the boys were shocked.
They had know that she would be angry and sad but not this angry. She looked like she wanted to kill all of them with her own hands right there. Her eyes filled with sorrow and her voice was tremulous. "I thought that you could have protected her.
I thought that she would be safe with you." Tsunade started to cry quietly and the boys looked at the floor with ashamed faces.
"Um, baa-san I think we should go and get Sakura-chan back. I'm sure we can save her from Akatsuki!" Naruto said and was almost leaving when he heard a deep sigh from Tsunade. He looked at her and her reddish eyes. Tsunade shook her head and opened her mouth.
"No. There's no use in saving her." All of the men looked shocked. What did she mean by saying that it was 'no use' to try to save their female team mate?
"I'm going to tell you something very important and classified. Do not interrupt me. You have any rights to be angry at me but remember that this happened when nobody of you three were here."
Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi first looked at each other and then at their Hokage. All of them were abashed but they also wanted to know what Tsunade was going to tell them. Tsunade looked at all of them and wondered how she should explain them what had happened to Sakura almost eighteen months ago. Finally she decided and started to talk with a calm voice.
"Do you remember the A-rank mission I gave to you a year and half ago?" She asked.
"Do you mean that what was supposed to take a year but we did it in seven months?" Kakashi was the first one who spoke.
"That's right. And when you came back Sasuke was in critical condition and I healed him. When I had healed him and come to look you two-" Tsunade said and pointed Naruto and Kakashi "- we all heard a loud scream. You asked what it was and I said that one of our elite Anbu had been wounded in the Anbu exams and was now healed in the next room. You just muttered 'okay' but in reality… the screamer was Sakura."
Naruto and Kakashi lost the little colour what they had had in their faces and looked even paler than Sasuke. Both of them remembered the scream. It had been so full of hurt and pain that they had felt sorry for the owner. But they could never imagine that the scream belonged to Sakura.
"Two weeks later Sasuke was liberated from the hospital and I gave all of you two weeks vacation. You all spend it training but did any of you see Sakura in those two weeks?" Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi shook their heads. "I thought that she was in hospital healing others or on a mission." Naruto said. "Yeah, me too." Sasuke and Kakashi muttered.
"Yes, she was in hospital but not working. She was laying in bed in a critical condition and was fighting for her life. On the same day when you left to accomplish your mission, she travelled to Suna and took elite Anbu test there."
When Sasuke heard this, his mouth opened on its own and the words came out without him even understanding it. "But she's only a Jounin! She's too weak for becoming an Anbu, and how on earth she thought that she could become an elite Anbu? " The next thing what Sasuke knew was the hard pain in his back when he hit the wall. Naruto and Kakashi stared at Tsunade who had punched Sasuke's chest so hard that he had flown in the opposite wall.
"Uchiha, you fucking little brat! Say that again and I will make sure you can never rebuild your clan without adoption." Sasuke stood up and rubbed his back with his left hand. He glared at Tsunade but didn't say anything. He knew that the next punch could fly him over the Konoha's gate, if he insulted Sakura once more.
"That's the problem. All of you have somehow insulted Sakura over the years and that's why she trained so hard that she was able to become one of our elite Anbu's. " Tsunade's voice was full of contempt but then her head fell down and her voice started to shake. "In the middle of the test someone poisoned her but she didn't stop the test. She became one of our elite Anbus but she cost her life for that." Naruto's eyes were full of tears but they didn't fall down yet. Kakashi's right eye stared at the floor and Sasuke was sure that he tried to drill a hole in the floor. Sasuke felt sorry for Sakura but he knew that Tsunade was the world's best medical-ninja and she could help Sakura.
"When she came back I was surprised that she was even able to breathe and was still alive. The poison had damaged her chakra system badly and her wounds were still open because the poison didn't allow them to heal. We had to put her in a coma so we could make the blood transfusion and heal her wounds. I took all blood tests I know but I didn't recognize the poison. But we know that it will…it will kill Sakura." Tsunade started to cry as well Naruto. Kakashi felt how tears were burning in his eye but they didn't fall down. Sasuke's face was like stone. Only different was the fact that stones are not white.
"W-when she woke up I saw a mark in her left shoulder blade. It looked like a cherry blossom and when I touched it I felt that it was the mark of the poison. I managed to shut it in the small area of her body but it isn't enough. The mark scatters little by little and at the same time it released the poison in her body. When the cherry blossom mark in Sakura's left shoulder blade breaks the poison will take control and kill her."
"That is the reason why I won't let you go and try to save her, because she will die in a two months and there's nothing we can do."
Disclaimer I do not own Naruto
I have lost the inspiration for the other story, so you will have to settle with this one.
