Story: Admitting to Love

Chap 11: The confrontation

She threw a bag with all her stuff over her back and left the motel room. Itachi and Kisame left some hours ago. When they left Kisame told her that there were some ANBU soldier looking for the three of them in Lurea, and they needed to be taken care of. So they left and after some hours she too closed the door.

The wind blew her pink hair out of her face and the rain soaked her tight black clothes.

Since she woke up it had been raining. The whole town got a depressed look from it. No children running through the street's, no mothers gossiping about a scandal that happened in the early morning and no men was seen going to work or what so ever they did in this town for living.

When she looked at her clothes it felt like they were from someone else. If it was true what she saw last night then she needed to dress up in a red dress, not from tip too toe in black.

She ran over tree branches and after some time when the sun came up she stopped. She loved the view of the up coming sun. It gave her a calm feeling like everything would be okay. She closed her eyes and saw little images from people flash by. A blond boy, a dark raven-haired boy and grey haired men with a strange mask covering his face. The names where on her tip of her tongue but she somehow couldn't speak them. Her mind worked over hours to get at least the name of the raven-haired boy. Sasuto….no that wasn't it, Narusa…no….Damn what is it.

She sat high up in a tree resting her back against the trunk, one leg hanged under her body while the other was bent as she rested her head on it, while still thinking of the boys name.

She was so distracted that she didn't noticed two men closing in on her. She was still thinking of the name and finally when she thought she had it she was knocked in the back and hit the ground. Immediately her hand went to her pocket to get a kunai but she was to late and a hard hit threw her face in the mud. She tried to get up and scanned for her attacker but she saw no one.

After minutes looking around she heard someone laugh and in a blink she found the person standing in front of her.

"Orchimaru?" She asked as she looked up at the ugly white man with scary snake eyes. He smirked. She backed away from him when he lifted his hand. He smirked but didn't take back his hand instead he walked towards her and pushed a pink strand out of her face.

She was frozen by his touch, but after a while she noticed it wasn't the touch but a jutsu. She tried to get out of it but it was damn strong.

Before she realized he threw her over in a tree, the branch slammed against the ground with the pink kounichi still in it.

She shacked her head and while Orchimaru watched with a grin she graphed a kunai and threw it at him. He easily dodged it but didn't notice it was a distraction. Before he got back up from his dodge he felt strong arms, that came out of the ground, keeping him in his place, while a big chakra was build up behind him. Sakura grinned and thought about how serious Itachi said this mission was. But how it looked now it was child's play.

After building enough chakra she closed her eyes and punched her fist in his chest. She opened them when she didn't hear a death cry and looked in front of her. He was gone, but how?

After scanning the area she found him sitting on a tree branch with a young men beside him.

"So, you must be Sakura." He grinned and looked at the boy next to him. The boy nodded and jumped of the branch facing Sakura.

"Why do you care?" She asked while scanning the boy in front of her. He would be tough but it was nothing she couldn't handle.

"I wanna make a deal." He said and looked down on the girl, she looked confused but still ready to attack any time. "If you defeat him, I'll let you kill me without a fight." She grinned and thought about it. "But if you loose, you'll work for me for the rest of your life."

She thought about the deal. I can easily take this one down, but it will cost a lot of chakra. And then he will have the opportunity to kill me, with just one finger. Damn, this is a fucked up situation. "How will I know you wouldn't go back on you word?" Kisame told her she shouldn't listen to him because he never kept his word.

"You'll just have to trust me." He grinned. He knew in what kind of situation she was.

Damn, I feel so weak. I can't make this deal, because he can't be trust. But then again if I don't take it I'll be dead before noon.

"To scared to fight yourself?" She tried. She didn't really cared about the answer, because this bought her time to think.

Damn, damn, damn. What to do ?

"Scared, no." He laughed. "I just want to see where you're capable of, I heard allot about you. I also know you were send on this mission to seduce and kill me. But as a gentlemen I am, I can't let a lady wait?" He said with a smile Sakura couldn't wait to hit of.

"I don't take your offer." She said with some doubt in her voice. She saw the boy grin in front of her.

"Thanks now I can try out my new ability. To bad, there will be nothing left of you beautiful body. Sorry Orchimaru, but no girl tonight." He smiled and prepared for battle.

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Back in Lurea two figures arrived and asked around about three ANBU soldiers that stayed there. An old woman knew where they stayed, but before she wanted to tell them where, they had to explain why they wanted to know that.

Itachi made up a lie over his lost brother and thinking it his him in the team. The old woman bought it and told that there were only two, and stayed in the local motel. She also knew there names and Itachi wasn't surprised to hear his brother's name.

Off course that figures. It's a good thing Sakura isn't here. So Sasuke, we meet again. Let's see who strong you really became.

"Thank you very much." Kisame said and sliced her neck with a kunai. The lifeless body fell on the ground and her blood covered the sandy ground.

"Nervous?" Itachi asked while looking at the dead body. Kisame only killed like that when he was nervous or something bothered him.

"No it's Sakura, I don't think we shouldn't have let her go alone on that mission." He confessed and looked at the up coming sun.

"She can take care of herself." Itachi said and walked in the direction of the motel, they to stayed in just same day's ago. He knocked the door but no one answered. He scanned the room and noticed there was nobody. He broke the lock and walked in, Kisame followed.

"So what are we gonna do now Itachi?" Kisame asked while sitting on one of the beds.

"Now Kisame, we wait, until I'll be reunited with my little brother." He grinned and took a chair and placed it in front of the back window.

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In a tent near the border of Sialso a girl waked up. Her body was stiff from the hard ground, and her hair a mess. She graphed her hair together and put it in a messy ponytail leaving one string out. She looked around at the mess and decided to break the camp up. There hadn't been an attack on her so the weapons were still in the same place where she putted them last night. She picked them up and threw them in front of her tent while she got in to get Sasuke's bag.

It slipped out of her hand and all the food fell out. She sighed and sat down to put it back in. When she picked a bowl of ramen up she found a picture underneath it. She took it and looked shocked. Sasuke the always so cold boy had a picture of Sakura in his bag. She examined it.

Sakura looked like the age of 16. It was taking a year before she disappeared/died. She wore a light red kimono and Ino figured it must have been taking at the Spring Festival. Her hair was tided up in a knot and two strings were left out. The picture looked warm because of the sweet smile Sakura had given to the cameramen. She smiled a bit looking at the photo. She almost forgot how warm Sakura's smile could be. But then again Sakura never smiled like that to her because they were enemies. She put the picture in her pocket and broke up the rest of the tent.

After breaking up she walked into the direction she thought was right but after awhile she found herself at a sigh saying: Sialso. She was in the wrong town, but maybe she could find a map over some directions to Lurea.

She walked around for some time. No one really talked to her, maybe because they didn't liked ANBU soldiers or it was because she looked like crap. She start to try some stores, maybe if they thought she would buy something they would help her. She walked into a drugstore. She looked around and got noticed by the woman behind the counter.

"Can I help you?" She asked and looked at the situation the girl was in.

A bath would be nice, and some directions to Lurea. She thought as she walked to the counter.

"Well, I'm exactly lost, I need to get to Lurea, do you know how I can get there?" She asked with a desperate voice. The woman smiled and looked at the label saying ANBU.

"A ANBU soldier that got lost, mhh, that never happened before." She said and saw the girl turning red from shame. "Oh, sorry there's nothing to be ashamed of. It can happen to anybody. Let me make you some tea, as a excuse."

Ino looked up at the woman. She didn't expect to find someone so nice and took the offer. The woman opened a door behind the counter and walked up stairs. Ino was a little confused but then she heard the woman call for her to come upstairs. She walked upstairs and found the woman standing in a small kitchen.

"It's nice to have people over." The woman smiled and took the cups of tea. She walked to the table and put them down. Ino sat down at the table and wondered why she was so nice.

"Let me introduce myself I'm Yumi, I own the drugstore." She smiled and took her tea to drink.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Ino, as you already know I'm a ANBU." She drank her tea and looked at the woman, still confused why anyone would trust a stranger in her house.

"So tell me, how did you got separated from you team?" She asked while making some more tea.

"Well, it's a long story. But to make it short one of my team-mates sort of freaked out when he heard his brother's name." She started but she saw Yumi was confused so she told the longer version.

After 5 cops of tea and a long story Ino got up. "Excuse me, but I think I should be taking of to Lurea. Thanks for everything." She smiled and bid good-bye. When she walked down the stair Yumi ran after her.

"Ino wait, about that girl-" Ino stopped half way the stair and turned around to face Yumi.

"Yes, what about her?" She asked. Why did I told her all that. It's not like she would know her or something.

"Pink hair you said, do you have a photograph of her?" She asked and Ino was frozen from the direction the conversation could go to. She could say she saw Sakura even that she knew her. Ino remembered the photo from Sasuke's bag and pulled it out of her pocket. She looked at the warm smile Sakura gave and she felt sad. If she was still alive why didn't she come back?

She gave it to Yumi, Yumi's hands started shaking and Ino got nervous looking at the reaction from Yumi. "It's-it's her." Yumi stuttered. "This is Sakura," Ino shocked from the name. In the whole story she didn't mentioned Sakura's name, but Yumi did called the girl Sakura. So she was alive.

"Are you sure? She's been missing for two years." Ino said with a smile, she somehow felt exited, after years she would see Sakura and Sasuke would be so glad to hear she was doing fine.

"Yeah it's her, I took care of her two days ago, and yesterday she returned the favour. She wanted to know something yesterday that's why she came, but well I was kinda drunk. And I haven't seen her since." The smile vanished from Ino's face and a big concern took control of her.

Yesterday. If I didn't rest I could have bumped into her. I need to find her. "Yumi, did she talked about anything before leaving you?" Sasuke and Naruto have to wait. I'm so close I can't let her disappear again.

"No not really. She did looked confused but that's not strange after taking those herbs."

"Herbs?"

"Yeah, she said she took them for over two years now. It can cost a lot of damage to your head and come to think of it your memory becomes a black hole."

So this is why she didn't returned to Konoha. If it's true she doesn't even knows of Konoha's existence or Sasuke's.

"Do you know where she went?" Please say yes. She was so excited but sad in the same time. She was so close to finding her lost friend, she could make Sasuke happy again all that depended on one word. Everything could turn out great. Sasuke would kill Itachi and when he came back he would find Sakura. It's like a fairytale. But what if she doesn't remembers Sasuke. His heart will be broken and what if she doesn't trust me and kills me. She must be so strong, trained by Itachi, damn just say yes.

"Mhh, I don't know where she went. She never spoke about her job."

Her job? She made it her job to kill others. "Do you know in which direction she left?" If she was last seen yesterday night then she can't be far.

"Oh yeah, there are only two exit from this town. The one on the north and the other on the east. She took the east one." She smirked a little. "This town always keeps a eye on strangers. No one will leave without someone seeing it."

"So she took the east exit? I have no time I need to find her.

"Yeah she did, I hope you find her, she's such a sweet girl, a little depressed but really sweet."

"I hope so too." With that Ino ran out of the store and headed to the east exit. She looked back and saw Yumi waving at her.

"Thank her for taking care of me, please come visit again." Yumi yelled and saw Ino vanish in the forest.

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"Come on, where are you." Naruto sighed and rested his body against a tree.

They had been searching for hours. They left the motel when they found each other awake and decide to go search for their teammate. When the sun come up they rested a bit. By the look at the upcoming sun Sasuke got really angry and hit down a tree. Sakura loved to watch the sun come up. And there they were, he could revenge Sakura's death and his clan but instead of that he was looking for Ino. Who was to slow to keep up with them. In his eyes she turned from teammate to a pain in the neck.

"We can't find her she must have gone to a nearby city. She'll be fine there. We need to continue the mission Naruto." Naruto looked up in surprise this was the first time Sasuke said such a long sentence. But still it sounded cold like he didn't cared about her safety.

"Bu-" Naruto stared but he understood it. Sasuke wanted revenge, for his clan, his parents and most of al for Sakura. They could loose track of them and as a ANBU, missions came first, especially in this team.

"Okay let's go back for our stuff." Naruto said and followed Sasuke that already left.

I'll have my revenge Itachi. I'll make you suffer till your last breath. I'll make you apologize to her parents for killing their only child, to Naruto for taking away a friend, to the Hokage for taking away her best student, to Konoha for loosing a great sunshine. To me for taking away the only thing I loved. You'll beg for your life, in front of Konoha, I'll kill you.

He stopped as did his mind full of revenge. They were at their motel room but there was a strange feeling in the air. It felt like the air was full of electricity. Sasuke gasped. He knew this feeling. He looked at the door, it was open. "Itachi." He said while opening the door with on hand and the other ready to attack his older brother.

"Well, hello little brother." A dark figure said that was sitting in a chair near the window. "We finally meet again." He smirked and got up from his chair. He looked at Kisame. "He has grown so much, in length and hate. I wonder why?" He laughed and looked at Naruto that walked in behind Sasuke.

"Itachi, you…." Naruto yelled and ran to him to attack but Sasuke stopped him. Naruto looked up and never in his life has he seen so much hate on Sasuke's face. "Sasuke?" he questioned but Sasuke didn't answered his eyes where focused on the evil smile Itachi was giving.

"Come have a seat, let's catch up." Itachi smiled and sat down on his chair. "How's life to you." He asked. Sasuke was to surprised to answer. After a silence where Sasuke exactly should have told his life to him, Itachi continued. "Team 7 changed a bit, who do I miss. Ash yeah, that sweet little pink haired girl, Haruno Sakura. Oh she was fun, always thinking she was so smart always lecturing Naruto." He laughed and looked at Naruto who was filled with anger.

"Shut up about her, you have not right to tal-" Naruto yelled and felt a great pain in his chest. It was the place that Sakura felt for a long time.

"I don't have the right to talk about her? Well, I don't think I do then, do I."

"What have you done to her?" Sasuke finally spoke. In front of him was his brother who held all the answers to his questions.

"Well foolish little brother, do you remember what happened to our loving parents?"

"Off course." Sasuke groaned. "You killed them." The place of the pain he had giving that memory start aching. He thought about Sakura, did she too go through that hell, the hell he put our parents through?

"Ahh, yeah indeed I deed. But that was necessary."

"You killed her for fun…you bastard." Sasuke ran to Itachi and start hitting him, Itachi dodged them all. Kisame looked amused at the fighting brothers.

"So troublesome." He sighed and looked at Naruto. "Let me guess your gonna fight too, only not with Itachi but me."

"You damn, right I am. I bet you watched her get killed. I'll kill you for that." Naruto shot a kunai to Kisame. He easily dodged it, the kunai fell on the ground behind Kisame and exploded. Kisame lost his balance but kept himself from falling.

"Is that all?" He smirked and walked toward Naruto. "Let's go outside and settle this." He walked past Naruto and let him to the city square.

"I'll make you pay for what you've done to her." Sasuke yelled as he preformed Lion Combo on Itachi. Itachi dodged it again and activated his Sharingan.

Itachi vanished from Sasuke's vision. It turned dark although it was noon and the sun finally showed it self. The colours vanished from his eyes, he felt sick, he closed his eyes in the hope to catch some movements of Itachi but when he opened them he found no need for that. Itachi stood in front of him. He tried to perform a jutsu but found his hands stuck on a cross.

"Don't tell me you forgot about the power of my Sharingan." He smirked while Sasuke tried to get loose.

"Thousand years of pain" Itachi smirked while Sasuke cried from pain. He opened his eyes and saw thousands Itachi's attacking him with thousands katana's. His whole body felt numb, his eyes shut and he focussed on a blurry memory of a long time ago the pain left while thinking of that night.

Flashback
"But you know, he didn't even looked at me." She said with a sad face.

"I did look at you, you look beautiful tonight." Before he knew the words got out.

"What did you said?" She confused asked.

"I said you look beautiful tonight, Sakura." He said again.

She was still confused. His voice sounded familiar.

At that moment the moon showed herself and Sakura saw Sasuke's face.

"What? You? Since when? She confused got out.
End flashback.

The memory vanished and blood streamed down his eyes, when he finally opened them he found himself lying on the ground. He looked around and found Naruto in front of him. A red chakra filled the air around him.

"Sasuke?"

"Sasuke, are you okay?"

I really should apologize for the delay. A stupid hacker broke in my computer and made it crash. I hate those hackers, I lost all my stuff and I needed to write the chapter over and over because there was a big error in Microsoft word because of the damn hacker.

But my computer is doing fine now. And I wrote the new chap. I hope you like it. I really must say I suck at fight scenes as you maybe noticed. As for the grammar same old story. My grammar programa went down when my computer crashed so I need to find a new one.

Please review and if any one likes to be the beta reader to this story please e-mail me then you can find my e-mail address on my profile.

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