The Kazekage & Chief Uchiha.
"Itachi I have to ask ... why did you tell Pein that you were pursuing me?" Sakura asked as she closed her book and looked into the glass cell.
He hated the cell. He couldn't use his chakra at all. The glass was made especially for chakra users. He sighed as he stayed in his spot on his bed, sitting up against the wall. The bright room made it easy for him to see her. She sat right across from the glass that separated him and her.
"Sakura you know a lot about the Uchihas, about the Senjus, and even more about the Akatsuki. As well as you know everything about me, Kisame, and Deidara. You and Shisui are the only ones who know as much as you do. I'm positive that because of this you & I will see each other much when we return to Konoha. We'll most likely be seen together a lot, and I need a good alliby for that."
Sakura snorted. "I'll make sure that like all other pursuers that you get the same treatment as the rest then." She said.
He laughed. She truly was amusing, as well as great eye candy. He was glad that they deemed him so dangerous that they put her as his guard.
"Tell me how do you treat the rest of your pursuers?" He asked, he was sure she had many.
"Slamming the door on their face of course." Sakura said with a brilliant smile.
He was getting to accustomed to her. Yet he couldn't find a problem with it, she on the other hand might give him a couple lists of reasons why it was bad.
Had she been courting someone he could even see her as a good friend. As the heir & clan prodigy he had very few real ones.
"Sakura I have to ask why didn't you use your kekki genkai in such a situation?" He truly was curious.
"I'm not stupid, the man had the Rinnegan. the founder & creator of chakra. he invented ninjutsu, kekki genkais came from his practices. dojutsus were because of him ..... He's not a good guy .... well from our side he's not the good guy at least. If he got a hold of my kekki genkai, and figured out how to truly use all of his powers. The world as we know it would end." Sakura explained.
He understood.
"You see I not only have the telepathy but I also have the spirit and the control."
Itachi said nothing she was holding back during the fight if she had the control she could have finished him in a second.
If Pein & Madara found out what she was capable of, once they got a hold of her they'd use whatever they had too to get her to follow them. To use her powers for their own purposes.. Like she said the world as they knew it would end.
"The spirit may not be much, but from what I've seen in my history if the user is smart they could get the deceased to tell them secrets. Teach them jutsus, fighting techniques. It's a bit weird but possible. I really don't like using it personally. Seeing the dead isn't that great, they're not exactly a pretty sight ya know." Sakura explained.
"And what of the control?" Itachi asked.
"What's the fun of being able to control someones mind? Their emotions? Their bodies ... It's theirs not mine." She answered.
"And the telepathy?"
"That may come in handy someday. Just not right now. I'm not brave enough to use it yet."
Itachi nodded. Really he understood he was the same way when he first got his sharingan when he was younger. Afraid of using the power, the same had happened when he got the Mangekyo, it may be easy now, but it never is at first.
The door behind Sakura opened and a runner came out. "Haruno-taisho, Uchiha-taisho you both have mail." The runner said as he handed Sakura a sack of mail.
"Jeez someones loved." Sakura said as she looked through the sack.
Itachi rolled his eyes. "Admirers, most likely." He said.
"Obviously ...... even though you could be a criminal they still follow, sad, so, so sad." Sakura said as she opened one of the letters.
"Your reading my mail?" He asked.
"This one belongs to me." Sakura said.
She gasped. "Why the sneaky old man!" She said as she stood up and opened the drop, stuffing the mail down it for him.
"I'm so avoiding the hospital when I get back." Sakura said under her breath.
She looked up at him and smiled. "Sorry letter from Naruto, he's just telling me that my Ojiisan has been up too no good lately."
The door opened again and the runner from the last time came running in. "Haruno-taisho!"
"Nani?" Sakura asked.
"Kazekage-sama & Uchiha-sama have both just arrived." He said quickly.
Sakuras eyes widened and looked up at him. "What the hell is your father doing here?! I can't handle him and Gaara at the same time!" She said hysterically.
"Then let me deal with them." Itachi said.
Sakuras eyes widened even further. "If that glass wasn't indestructible I"d break it and then smack you on the head. Everyone knows that the taisho of the medical squad always deals with the guest. We have the biggest housing residence so we give out our extra rooms. Now that Ehime has been taken care of I can go back to my room, but I can't deal with both of them!"
Itachi shook his head. Finally the runner spoke again. "Taisho may I be of any use to you?" He asked.
"Yeah go and find my evil twin for me." Sakura said sarcastically.
"Taisho, a team of ANBU have just lead them to the meeting room. Their waiting." The runner said.
Sakura sighed. "Where's a bottle of sake when I need one?" She mumbled as she stood up and straightened herself out.
"Have Shisui keep them busy for now, I need to shower, I've been down here for the last thirteen hours, so I'll be using the back way." Sakura said as she walked away from his cell, the runner on her tail.
Pein watched from his view in the trees.
He and Konan had been sent to Kirigakure for a little pickup. Unfortunately this pickup was hiding in a small shack that was in the middle of a small vineyard. Konan was checking for fatal traps.
A paper butterfly was seen in the distance, giving him the signal that all traps had been set off. He couldn't help but wonder what was so great about the old geezers, why Madara wanted them. Needed them.
He walked through the vineyard patiently they were going to come out and see what they caught. That's why they put up traps. They wanted to see their enemies in pain.
The door opened with a creek, and he watched as the two elders walked out and onto the porch only to freeze in place at the sight of him.
He heard the shuffling of paper and watched from the corner of his eye as Konan returned to her natural form. Looking back to the elderly he found that they were gone, the front door shutting at the same time, he shook his head.
Did they really think they could escape?
Walking up on the porch. Konan scattered again. Stepping into the small cottage he looked around from his spot in front of the door, before heading down the hallway.
They opened the last door at the end of the hall walking into it.
He watched as the elders ran to a back door and opened it only to have Konan reform and block them in.
"What do you want with us?!" Koharu asked.
The woman was obviously the mastermind between the two.
"I want nothing with you." Pein said as he walked further into the room.
"Did that imbecile blonde finally put our heads in the bingo book. are you just here for our heads then?!" She asked.
This time it was Konan who spoke. "We only go for the high priced heads, as well as we don't do messy missions like those." She said.
"Uchiha Madara has a proposal for the two of you and would be pleased to discuss it in person." Pein said.
Itachi watched as the door opened and Fugaku stepped into the room with the young Kazekage.
Gaara walked up to the side of his cell and placed his hand on the stone, the glass door slid open and Itachi walked out of the room.
"Taisho- Uchiha Shisui has spoken for you three, so you are free to go. Hokage-sama says to finish your time here in Kemuri, and when you return the council will have a trial waiting for you all." Fugaku said.
Itachi nodded his head. The Kazekage began to speak.
"Hokage-sama wishes that you, Uchiha-taisho, escort myself and Uchiha-sama to the village, we have some business to discuss with their leader there." He said.
"Haruno-taisho will be coming as well, we need her too over see the autopsy on the girl." Fugaku said.
Another nod. Speaking with both of them was to risky, they were both very easily annoyed, like time bombs.
The door opened and Shisui walked into the room.
"Ah there you are Haruno-taisho has asked me to be your host until she's finished cleaning her self up, she's been doing guard duty and foreseeing the other squads as well preparing for your arrival ...... she's very stressed at the moment." Shisui said with a smirk.
He turned his head and looked towards himself. "Uchiha-taisho I recommend you go change and ready now there will be no time later on." Shisui continued.
Shisui always knew ways of escaping and when he himself had to get away.
The tension was too strong even for himself. Sakura obviously had seen it coming, thus the reason for her panicking.
Who knew that the two couldn't stand each other?
"It's unfortunate but I must leave, perhaps when I finish we can catch up." Itachi said before he bowed to both Fugaku and the Kazekage.
He poofed out of the room quickly.
Finding himself in front of the mess hall. Sighing as he walked passed it and walking up to his residential building.
It was completely empty for some reason and he really could care less. Walking up the stairs he observed how the silhouettes of his men in their rooms moved in all kinds of different ways. Some room had silencing jutsus, but you could still see their bodies silhouettes move against the thin rice paper that made up all the rooms, and gave every man and woman their privacy, their sanctuary.
Some people were in the book areas sitting on a chair or at a desk reading away on whatever they needed to read. He came to his room and slid the screen open.
Everything seemed so much more lively when she was around .... or perhaps everyone was more lively when she was around, and now that she back at her residence house everyone went back to their old ways.
She'd been watching him for a good week and not once did he tell he that he really, really needed a fix from her. Most of the time if he never got to finish he would usually find another woman in a town or at a hot springs that he and Kisame would stop at and would get his sexual frustration taken care of.
Of course though Sakura was just one of those people that you craved for, and he had the worst feeling in the pit of his stomach that even if he did get his fix from her he'd become addicted to her. He'd been with many women before but Sakura was, beautiful, sarcastic, lazy, intelligent, witty, strong, and she was soft, a total contradiction to her strength; she could make a mountain fall with her pinky, usually people would be the opposite of soft. For all the women he'd been with he'd never been with one that actually wanted to do something other than lay on her back with her legs spread open. That's all women wanted to do with him, as if they knew he was an Uchiha- which was not likely seeing as all the women he'd ever slept with were civilian. Perhaps it was a female thing, he'd heard of women who'd only slept with men because they could tell they were fertile. Either way he'd think that civilian women would be more spontaneous in bed, instead of letting men dominate them so easily. Kunoichi were always on missions, if they slept with anyone it was always their teammates or that certain teammate, and their lovers back at home if on an away mission. And Konoha kunoichi were all about the mission the women were not like the men, they could hold their urges and push it to the back of their minds for a very long time.
Dear Kami Sakura was becoming a problem, it was either Sakura was amazing or Sakura was a problem for him, he need to figure this out before it got out of hand.
"Oi Uchiha you got a visitor." A guard said as he opened the gate to Sasukes cell.
Sasuke quirked a brow. He had a visitor. Nobody other than his counselor visited him.
Getting off of his bed he walked out of his cell and down the hall. Inmates were watching him, they were always watching, like predators they watched him as if he were their prey. It was a good thing he learned how to make everything a weapon or else he'd be somebody's bitch very very soon. Someone was gonna be a dumbass and try him. He'd already seen them go after some other prisoner.
He'd never actually known how many people got locked up in a few months. Now that he knew he felt bad for the weak ones, the pretty ones.
They walked him into a room with tables and it didn't even take a second to identify which table was his, the bright orange clothes gave everything away.
He walked over to the rectangular table and sat down across from the dobe.
"What are you doing here?" Sasuke asked.
"I finally convinced the elders to let me visit you, you need someone to help you keep up with the outside world or you'll go mad, trust me I did a few moths of guard duty down here, and man, some people just break from not being able to know about what's going on in the world outside these walls." Naruto said.
Sasuke smirked. "They actually gave you guard duty?"
"Hey I did an excellent job, it was a test to see how I was in the prison system."
"So what is going on in the outside world?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto shrugged. "Not much, actually I've been planning my wedding. I promised Hinata that she needn't worry about all that all she needs to do is pick out her dress, and I'll take care of everything else."
"Do they still have that law up about-
-the man and women living together for longer than five months are to be married within two months, yeah they still have that law, don't worry though I stopped by your place and asked your mom if I could help her with the wedding." Naruto cut off.
Sasukes eyes widened. "She did say no right."
Naruto shook his head with a happy smile and glittering big innocent eyes. "Nope. she said she'd be delighted to have me help, she even gave me the position as best man." He replied.
Sasuke smacked his own forehead. "Dear Kamu I hope she knows whats she's gotten herself into."
"I should be saying the same thing to you." Naruto said in a serious tone.
"Sasuke a child is a lot of responsibility, it's not some toy you can get rid of when you get tired of it, and it's not like an animal where you can sell it when you can't handle it no more, it's a human being."
"Naruto I know I've been thinking a lot about this lately." Sasuke said with a sigh.
"Listen I know I'm not the smartest person in the world but I know when someones gonna be a good parent, I know you can be and will be a good father ...... but that girl Sasuke I don't know about her, she's sick Sasuke she willingly worked along with Orochimaru knowing of what kind of person he was. And her background is shady to shady."
"She's carrying my child and she's refused to give it up or pass the fetus to another willing carrier, I can't say much at the moment she's not given me any reason to judge her as a monster just yet."
"I know, and I'm not saying that she's a bad person she's just off, and .... I don't know maybe it's just me."
"I understand your concern Naruto, and I thank you for it. .... we'll just have to wait and see what will happen."
"Sakura would be a great mother .... but with the virus putting her through early menopause she'll never get the luxury of knowing what it'll be like to have kids." Naruto said as he changed the subject to Sakura
The other subject he'd been thinking about since he'd been locked up.
"Naruto don't try and give me a guilt trip over this." Sasuke said.
"I'm just saying." Naruto said.
"The Uchiha council will never allow such a marriage, or even allowing me to court her, she's not capable of conceiving children we cannot be together."
"But you want to be with some girl you met through Orochimaru?!"
"It's not like that Naruto."
"Sasuke you're not an idiot I know you knew what you were doing, I know you planned for her to get pregnant."
"And you know this how exactly?"Sasuke asked.
"You weren't shocked! Had you not known what you didn't plan then you'd be shell shocked that, that thing in their was carrying your child!" Naruto said angrily.
Perhaps Naruto wasn't as dense as he allowed people to think.
"I think you were around me to much."
"Your just saying that to make me forget the fact that you planned her pregnancy."
"So what if I did?"
"Sasuke what if I were to tell you that a year ago Haruno-sama had taken off to find a cure for Sakura?"
"I'd say he'd come back empty handed Sakuras case is the first and most likely last case any will ever see."
"He came back with a cure Sasuke, and when Sakura returns he plans to give her the shot to give her back her menstrual cycle, which means she'll be fertile."
Sasuke leaned back.
"Kuso, if my father finds out about this he'll be trying to get Itachi with her!" Sasuke said as he slammed his palm on the desk.
"Itachi?"
"Don't you listen to the rumors? Itachi has been hanging around Sakura in the settlement, I know Itachi, he has a liking for girls with unique beauty, and Sakura is a unique beauty!" This time his fist hit the desk creating a dent in the plastic table.
"Your father was there when Haruno-sama announced his achievement, he's known for a while now."
Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the back of the neck and brought him nose to nose with himself. "Naruto you need to keep Itachi away from Sakura for me." Sasuke said in a whispered voice.
Naruto pushed away from Sasuke and crossed his arms looking away from the Uchiha rebel. "No can do Sasuke, you're pretty much a married man once you leave this place you'll have to wait for her to give birth which is another couple of months, and when that happens the law will be ordering you to either move out before the fifth month begins or start preparing a wedding, Itachi on the other hand is neither a man who's slept with another woman knowing that someone is waiting at home with him as well as he's not going to be a father to anyone..... Besides there's no real proof that those rumors are true their merely rumors."
"All rumors have some truth in them though." Sasuke said.
"I can't and wont get involved with any of Sakuras relationships, they could merely be friends for all we care, like her and Shisui." Naruto said.
"You really think Shisui never messed around with her?" Sasuke asked with a quirked brow.
"He may be a horny bastard but from what I've seen and observed he's not in any categories Sakuras made for herself, trust me on this they've never messed around."
"Sakura doesn't have a type." Sasuke pointed out.
"No she goes by certain categories though, hair she can play with, pretty eyes, tall and well groomed, mysterious, amazingly more intelligent then her, not intimidated by her reputation, someone who will sometimes take her for granted, someone who'll fight with her, someone who'll like to spar with her, someone who's not afraid to stand up to her .... I have the list written up and it's somewhere at my house, but Shisui doesn't fit all of them .. just some of them."
"You actually observed her?" Sasuke asked.
"What?! Ino and Anko were convincing her into blind dates so me & Kakashi merely watched from a distance to make sure nothing went bad for her ... and nothing happened to her; I merely noticed things that she'd unintentionally gave away; things that she likes more than other things."
"That's actually really impressive."
"That's what Kakashi said ..... he was to busy paying more attention to the guys' stances and words and stuff like that, and not Sakura ya know making sure he wasn't going to make any threats to her or try something to her that she wouldn't like."
"You really are overprotected."
"She's like a sister to me what do you expect? I mean at least I didn't go and kill Gaara when I found out what happened between the two of them." Naruto mumbled.
"What happened between her and Gaara?!" Sasuke asked.
Narutos eyes widened into saucers as he meet Sasukes pissed of eyes. "You heard that?"
"Naruto did you forget I'm a shinobi still just because I'm locked up doesn't mean I lost my training." Sasuke said.
"Forget what I said if Sakura knew that you knew because of my slip she'd kill me!" Naruto said as he pulled Sasuke across the table by his collar.
"I wont say anything I don't talk to anyone, and if you don't remember I wasn't particularly liked by many people anyways besides you and Kakashi anyways." Sasuke said.
Naruto sighed. "Your right. I guess I'll tell you."
Sakura reread the letter in her hands for the hundredth time, she could feel the tears slipping onto her cheeks. Everything that was going on in the background was left behind, and everything in the letter was there.
Her white dress was wrinkled from her sitting and teardrops were beginning to fall on it.
It couldn't have happened, but it was she was suppose to be looking for a cure and she was here playing around with and Uchiha. Such a disgrace to her family name, she was disgusted with herself.
They would be so mad at her if they could see her. That was all gonna stop she was gonna get her act together.
Refolding the letter she opened the nightstand and put it in with the other letters. She wiped her eyes and waited a few moments before she stood up and walked over to the shoji screen and slid it open, stepping out of her room she slid the screen shut and walked down the hallway. Her hands were gripping at her dress and she swore she would have a panic attack at any moment.
"Sakura!" Inos voice rand through the hall.
She could feel her blood boiling, why was it now she realizes all the bad things, nobody was gonna want to deal with her now.
"Oi where have you been Gaara & Fugaku hav-
Sakura grabbed Inos head and pushed her against the wall, her eyes narrowed in anger. Ino squeaked.
"Shut up and go to the infirmary and take care of things there till I get back." Sakura ordered before she let go of Inos head.
Sakura watched as Ino ran off quickly avoiding all people that tried to talk to her.
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So I'm very, very, very, very sorry for taking forever, but you know in my defense I'm trying to keep up with each of my stories and the wost part is, is that I'm doing the same with them because I'm writing them all at the same time, as well as coming up with new stories and writing them down to post ... one day or another.
But please don't be mad.
I updated for you all.
Oh and some action and suspense stuff will be back in later chapters.
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