Story: Admitting to Love

Chapter: 12 Death

"Are you okay?" Naruto put Sasuke's arm over his shoulder and pushed him up.

Sasuke, who was still deep confused about the attack that had just a cured, looked rather numb then 'okay'.

Sakura, he saw her again, but it was just a memory. A memory that how hard he tried he could not forget and every time he would relive it, he would feel the pain, the pain Itachi cost him.

If you would review everything he had dun in his life back to the source, you would find Itachi standing there, smiling his evil smile, laughing at his younger brother. Always to weak to defeat him, to protect his loved ones. Just that smile, that he could not wait to hit off. That evil smile that caused him so much pain, that smile that took away the clan, his parents and when he finally let him self love a person….that too, just like everything else. Now after al these years of misery, pain and hate, he still could not defeat it. That smile, that drove him to the edge, that smile he could not reach.

"Sasuke, come on, talk to me. You can't lose to that baka. You need to kill him, you promised Sakura." Naruto desperately tried to wake up his friend from the blow he just got. He had never been in the same situation as Sasuke. He never felt the pain what the thousand years of pain could give you. Some said it showed you your deepest fear, other said that you saw your loved ones being killed, and there was only on that survived the attack; Kakashi, he said that he saw and felt a thousands katana's being sliced in to him. Naruto figured that was what hurt so much, and why the attack was so powerful. Still Sasuke could not die now. After al these years he could get his revenge, and here he was feeling pity for himself.

Sakura, if you would be alive, I would hold you forever, I would ask you to marry me, we would have children. A boy and a girl, they would be beautiful, just like you Sakura. Just like you.

"So it proves that not al the Uchiha's are strong." Kisame laughed while watching the blond hit his teammate. "I can't see what she saw in him. Itachi would have been a much better lover." He smirked and looked at Itachi that frowned deeply.

Itachi was not enjoying the little scene that took place before his very own eyes. He was lost in his thoughts, something that was so not like him. His eyes were darker then they ever were. His hate raised, the look of his little brother humiliated by his friend was not the problem. It was what Kisame said. He lost a battle against his little brother. A battle Sasuke did not even knew off, the battle for Sakura's heart. She rejected him, she choose some one she did not even remember over him. He lost, the feeling he got was making him sick. Sakura was his, even if she didn't want to be. He had trained her too what she was now, he owned her. She was a whore; he paid for her by training her. Still she had not repaid him, she never did. She always backed out at the last moment. Her targets could touch her, but she never let him touch her. Even if he forced her, it was not as he wanted it to be. In addition, he knew Sakura would let his younger brother touch her. That thought was the worst thing in his life, there was one thing he could not get. Moreover, he needed to kill it before his brother could find out and clame it.

Itachi finally looked up. He could not loose to his younger brother. She needed to die, she asked for it every time she rejected him. It was her own fault that she would die.

"Kisame take care of them." He said and turned his back to them.

Kisame looked up from the order. He looked at Itachi that was already walking away from the fight. He wondered what could have bee so important to leave his little brother. He recalled everything what just happened.

They found Sasuke and that loud mouthy blond boy.

They started to argue about Sakura.

Then he said that Itachi would have been a much better lover then his younger brother.

Nevertheless, what in the name of the Gods would make Itachi consider leaving his brother to him?

"Sasuke, you bastard wake up." Naruto shuck him up and down, from left to right and finally he opened his eyes a little more then just a moment ago. "Finally, come on Itachi is leaving, what about your revenge?" Naruto knew Sasuke would never forgive himself for throwing away an opportunity like this. He had been training forever for this very moment, and now because of one stupid attack he let him leave it, better said walk away. Al these day's of endless training, al the pain Naruto knew he felt when he saw him and Hinata being so close. It would all be for nothing, if he let his brother walk away like this.

"Leaving?" It finally struck him. The smile, the one that held all the answers was leaving him, to be killed by his partner. He had failed again; in showing how strong, he really was, in his revenge for his clan, his parents and his Sakura.

...Failed...

"NO, YOU'RE NOT LEAVING BEFORE YOUR BLOOD IS SHED."

Naruto fell back from the scene Sasuke just made. Like a little child, he was screaming at the traitor of his clan, his brother.

"YOUR GONNA PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO HER."

Naruto looked amazed, Sasuke who never said nor cared for anyone was going to make his brother pay for…...Sakura death?

Kisame started laughing. Itachi just smirked and faced his younger brother. "Sweet dreams." He preformed a jutsu and the square they had just used as battlefield filled with smoke.

"NO!" Sasuke screamed. His revenge, his target was just going to walk away.

"You idiot, go after him. I'll take care of shark guy." Naruto pushed the angry Sasuke in the direction Itachi left.

"What is it?"Sasuke asked when he felt something pushed in his pocket. Naruto smiled and gave him a slap on his shoulder.

"She'll watch over you."

Confused he left the square, to start tracking his brother.

She raced through the forest, only landing with the tip of her toes on the branched to jump to the next branch. She kept repeating the conversation she had with Yumi. According to Yumi, she was alive. She did excited, she would find Sakura and she would make Sasuke happy.

The only problem was her memory. It would be hard to let Sakura trust a 'stranger', but still she felt exited. Finally, the couple Konoha mourned for reunite at last. Sakura and Sasuke would finally become more then a gossip from years ago. Although he would never admit it, he missed the cherry blossom, and she could reunite them again.

She still tracked the footprints she found a while ago. She was so happy, but something in her mind told her that something was off. If she was not Sakura, that she was tracking that what would it be? Maybe a strong ninja did not want to answer questions about seeing a pink haired girl. Maybe it would kill her.

She stopped and sat down, resting her head against the trunk. She could get herself killed. There wasn't enough evidence to tell she really had found Sakura. However, she wanted so badly, her mind already told her she did. Nevertheless, she knew she was just being stupid. She closed her eyes and thought about the decision she was going to make.

Go back, find Sasuke and Naruto, tell them, let Sasuke decide if they would look for her. It would be better. Sasuke was always the best in tracking people, he never lost a target when it counted. He could tell if it was Sakura, or not. It was safer for her, for them all including the maybe 'Sakura'.

She turned around with an ache in her chest, and went to Lurnea. Yumi told her how to get there so it would not be a problem.

Why did it have to end like this? I still do not know about that boy. That name, Sasuke. Why does that name keep on popping up in my mind? Why does my heart hurt so much? Why can I not stop thinking about those weird dreams? I am not that girl, I cannot be. I do not like pink, it forbidden to like pink. It's a warm colour just like Itachi said; "The one who wears warm colours is weak, and can't protect herself. She will be an easy target and will be the first to find the death on her road of life. Sakura do not ever wear that pathetic colour! "

Her foot slipped from her lack of concentration. She miscalculated the boy Orchimaru pointed out to fight her. When he activated his cursed seal, that she had not noticed when the fight had started, she was dead meat. With one powerful blow what the boy called 'Dying-chakra jutsu', he depleted her chakra. Even with the training of Kisame and Itachi, she did not know how to fight it. Orchimaru told her it was a shame to let such a beautiful girl die like that. Sakura on the other hand was not ready to die. She finally knew the name of that boy and fled. She could hear Orchimaru laughing, yelling to go back to her master, the traitor of the Uchiha.

She could not care les; the only thing on her mind was to get rid of the boy behind her.

It was not hard to find Sakura's tracks, the deep footprints told him enough; it would not be too hard to kill her. She trusted him, so would never suspect him to kill her. His love for the girl vanished the moment he knew Sasuke won her heart. Now she was nothing more then a piece of dirt that was once part of their 'killer team'. He hated the girl now, the way she had made him feel repeatedly. Every time when he thought about his moves towards her, he found Sasuke there smiling at him. That evil laugh off his, that drove him to his edge. His edge; to kill the cherry blossom.

His mind became empty when he saw someone going the same way he was. It was a boy not much older then Sakura. It looked like he was also tracking her down. Itachi could not let someone else get his revenge on Sakura. He would be the one to kill her, slowly. He hid his chakra and preformed a justu. The boy would not know what happened to him until he breathed his last breath.

After some minutes, the boy fell of the branch he just landed on as his lifeless body fell down. The only thing he saw before his heart gave his last heartbeat was a smirk on a dark figures face.

Itachi smirked and looked at the body. The punches that were on him were defiantly from Sakura. Nevertheless, did not look like she had not gone all out. She could have easily taking out this one. Maybe she would be in mortal dread afterwards but it was not as if she had something to live for, no parents, friends or lover.

He got up and his feet were already pushing himself to the next branch. He did not really care anymore the only thing in his mind was the blood of the cherry blossom covering her lovely face. Her last words that would be some like, 'why?' Her body desperately clutching at life as it slips out of her grasp. To watch her chest rise and fall once more, be for becoming rigged and drained of life. An evil smile crept over his face, the last person who will see her alive will be me.

"So shark guy, that leaves us." Naruto smirked finally he could show off his new moves he had be training for months now.

"You think it's going to be that easy?" Kisame found it amusing that a blond shinobo was that confident. Was he that stupid?

Naruto got a serious look in his face. His eyes narrowed and a creepy smile played on his lips. "Yeah I do think so." With the most serious voice Naruto ever used he took off aiming right at Kisame.

Kisame blocked Naruto's fist attack, and unleashed a chakra glow that hit Naruto right in the face. Naruto's body went flying up in the air only to get knocked back down again by, Kisame who was already waiting for the body to make contact with his elbow. In a blink of an eye, Naruto's body vanished from the air and Kisame hit the air. Kisame who had never seen someone move so fast scanned the area only to find Naruto standing on a tree branch.

"So your fast, that's not gonna help you, you know." Kisame said with much irritation. He would never forgive himself if he would lose to this loud mouthy blonde-haired person.

"Maybe it will, maybe it won't." Kisame found it strange that the loud mouthy nin spoke like a mature nin. When their battle began, he changed, from a boy to a man. Like this was serious business to him.

"Why the sudden change?" He asked curious.

"That's nun of your concern" Naruto answered and attempted to hit Kisame. He nearly hit him.

Kisame was not planning to make this a long fight, when Naruto made another attempt; he graphed the boy's leg. He twisted his ankle and threw him in a tree. Knowing this wasn't enough he graphed his sword and sliced the unconscious body in two.

The pain in her chest grew until it became numb. Her legs, where she lost feeling in for already 10 minutes carried her further and further away from the lost battle. Her arms, wounded from the fight, were graphing branches to keep herself from falling. Her eyes, that were red from crying, were searching for a familiar place where she could return to. She continued passing by rivers, falling tree's, rocks and animals that didn't even noticed her, nor the pain she was going through.

Finally after seeing another river she stopped. She had not heard or felt the boy anymore and assumed he must have left her for the animals. After making sure, no one was fallowing her or watching her, she sat down with her back against a tree near the river. She kicked of her boots and examined them, she did not had any wounds but because of the rush of chakra she had but in them they were bruised. After seeing this, she dipped them in the cold stream of water. She closed her eyes and after awhile her muscles relaxed. The cold water tickled her feet and finally after some minutes she could feel the pain. It was not pleasant but at least she felt something. A little melody can up in her mind and she started to hum it. Finally feeling free and peaceful, she began to think of her dreams. Because her curiosity won over common sense.

Itachi, who had looked at the girl while she was putting her feet in the stream, made his way to Sakura who looked now more like a life les puppet. Her chest rising in a unbelievable slow movement. You would almost think she was dead, but Itachi knew better. He cleared his throat and watched the pink haired blossom slowly opening one eye. She looked at his frame, then at his face, giving him a little smile.

"..Itachi..." She sighed and closed her eye again.

"You failed" He moved next to her and sat down. In his mind, he already saw the beautiful scene where he killed her.

"I have some questions." She opened her eyes and looked at her 'sensei'.

The wind became a little stronger and blew some strand of pink hair in her face. Itachi seeing it pushed them away and looked in the jade green eyes of his 'love' and target of his mind. "Go ahead."

Sakura, exited from the answer, wondered what to ask first. She could ask where she was born, about her family, her whole life before she got amnesia, but as she tried before she knew Itachi did not knew the answer to those question, or at least he made her believe that. However, one thing she needed to know.

"Well, I'm having those dreams, where everything looks so real but in the past you know."

"Mmh." Was all she got from him, so she continued.

"There always different, but one thing isn't, one thing is always there." She stopped and looked at the river that continued to flow down into the woods, until it reached the sea, she never saw. She sighed but continued. This one question could be the key to the past. However, the real question was, if she was ready to hear it. "In every dream there's a boy. He reminds me of you, but he is younger then you. I think I figured out his name. It Sasuke, do you know anyone that goes by that name?"

Itachi who was taking back by Sakura's thinking, her right theory of the boy made him close his eyes. At least she had the right to this question, because it would be the last she would ever ask. "The boy from you dreams, Sasuke, is my younger brother." Opening his eyes, looking deep in de Jade green ones filled with fear for the truth, he continued. "I needed a girl in the team to seduce men, that where you know you came in. But the thing you don't know is that I hit two flies at once." Confused of the answer Sakura stood up and started walking in circles. Itachi closed his eyes and a smile crept over his lips.

"Two flies?" She got out afraid of the answer but she knew she needed to know.

"Yes, my little brother needs to fill himself with hate, so he can kill me. You see, he just admitted he loved you."

It was Sakura turn to be taking back, tried to remember some words like; I love you, from the boy.

"You can't remember because you never heard those words."

Sakura had a good set of brains but still she could not figure it out.

"To fill him with hate, I kidnapped you, trained you to what you are today."

"But why don't I remember that?"

"We drugged you, so you would remember and become again weak."

Weak? The colour pink, the boy, no Sasuke. Why is he telling me this?

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because it's the last you'll ever hear."

"Last?"

Itachi punched her in her stomach, she fell on her knees, closed her eyes for the final blow.

She finally had her answers. Someone did love her; she was not alone in this world. Someone searched for her, while her training had taken place, someone cried for her.

Itachi's hand, filled with a stranger red light of chakra, made contact with Sakura's chest. The lifeless body, of the cherry blossoms, fell in the river and drifted away from her sensei, kidnapper and mostly the most feared men in the Leaf.

…To be continued.

Darw-Angel:

All credits for the nicely done spell check/grammar goes to a good friend of mine, that doesn't wants to be named . So here's the credit part.

Darw-Angel: Nanie? Did I let Naruto and Sakura die?

Sakura: Yeah ya did.

Naruto: WHAT……… I can't die by that ugly shark guy.

Kisame: I have a name you know, and the shark face runs in the family.

Sasuke: YOU KILLED HER!

Darw-Angel: Seems like it, but be happy it continues

THANKS FOR READING.