Chapter 3 - The Fight and The Past

"So sensei...Who is she?" Sakura asked. And what is she doing on my man... that bitch! Inner Sakura screamed.

"She is the Mixed Clan ninja of the leaf village..." Kakashi answered her smiling. "And also my daughter..."

"Your What!!!" Naruto and Sakura yelled together.

"But Kakashi sensei I thought you weren't married?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi looked over at the questioning blond. "I'm not..."

"But then how..."

"I never said I wasn't at one point..."

"So she died?" Sakura asked.

"She was murdered...by Itachi Uchiha..."

"I thought he only killed the Uchiha clan," Naruto said stupidly.

"No he's killed many others, but She was an Uchiha..."

So that's how she knows Sasuke... I guess that would explain it... Sakura thought.

All of a sudden Karasu fell to her knees. Her hands were placed on her stomach right below her ribs, as her tears dripped to the ground. Sasuke kneeled next to her. Kakashi left the other two and came over to his fallen daughter. The others came over as well.

"Karasu what's the matter?" Sasuke was caring and loving. Sakura sighed, she had never heard him use this tone with anyone before, she must be really special to him...

"Sasuke don't you remember, this is the year..." Kakashi told the boy. "The year of the wedding"

"The year I was supposed to marry that murderer" Karasu said her voice full of anger and hate. "Now about that fight I've been brought to fight...who's it going to be?"

"I want to fight her, Kakashi sensei," Naruto yelled.

Kakashi looked over at him, and then back at Karasu. "I guess you'll be fighting both boys, Naruto then Sasuke. Do you have your mask?" He asked. He threw her one from his pocket knowing she didn't have one.

"Thanks dad..." Karasu slipped the mask over her head, and up to cover her mouth and nose. "Bring it on Uzumaki"

The two squared off. But the fight didn't last long. Karasu soon had Naruto hanging upside down in a tree. She did this with a rope of chraca. But Naruto was capable of fighting long enough to give Karasu a cut lip. She pulled the mask down; it already had a spot on it from where the blood had seeped through. She sighed and made a few hand signs and placed her right hand up to her lip. The cut quickly healed up. She wasn't a medical ninja but she had fought one.

"Can you let me down now?" Naruto yelled. With a snap of Karasu's fingers, the charca came back to her and Naruto fell to the ground.

Karasu smiled, "Now I guess it time for us isn't it Sasuke..."

"I guess it is..." Sasuke replied. He stepped up into the makeshift arena. He was only about 10 steps away from his opponate.

Karasu pulled her mask up to its rightful place. She looked at Sasuke and closed her eyes. Me made some hand signs. But Sasuke realized what those signs were and quickly did the same. The both slowly opened their eyes, "Sharingon" The said together.

Karasu quickly disappeared; she had gotten her mother's inhuman like speed. And even with the almost fully matured sharingon Sasuke had, it was still to fast for him to see. Karasu also was very strong, but this wasn't a gift, she had worked on it. But she popped up right behind Sasuke and planted a powerful kick to his upper back. It wasn't a fatal blow but it knocked him off his feet, gasping for breath.

She soon reappeared back where she began. Karasu again charged at Sasuke, this time dead on and a little slower to make sure she got the best aim she could. Sasuke could easily follow this and with his speed that wasn't really even half of Karasu's, he through his fist into the air. Karasu noticed this but it was already too late. Sasuke had hit her right below the ribs.

Karasu's eyes became wide, and she seemed to have froze. But after about five seconds, she began to cough up blood, and she couldn't stop. She fell over holding the spot where Sasuke had hit her, still coughing.

Flash back

Karasu was going with her father into town tonight to get things for her mother. She loved going into town. But today was different. She seemed to be in deep thought the whole time. She rarely spoke, which was odd for this 8-year-old.

But on their way home Karasu seemed to get her voice back. "Daddy...I think I can get used to marring Itachi..." She seemed to say that out of no where. Her mother had told her last year but it had taken her very long time to get used to having to be forced to marry someone.

"Were did that some from kiddo?" Kakashi asked his daughter.

She looked up at her dad. "I was just thinkin'..." She grabbed her fathers hand. "Now lets hurry home and tell momma." She smiled a cheeky 8-year-old smile and began to skip along to her father's long steps.

As they walked to their house they noticed that there was no one out, the streets were silent. It's to early for every body to be in bed... Karasu thought.

When the two walked into the house, they found Sokomame. She was lying in a large pool of blood. But you could tell that she didn't go down easily, there was blood spread all over the kitchen. This definitely proved a struggle between two almost equally matched ninjas.

Karasu ran into the kitchen next to her mother, "Momma, Momma" she yelled tears flowing from her face.

The woman opened her eyes just barley. "Karasu, my darling..." that was all she said, before her body went completely limp. Karasu's head fell to her mother's chest.

But soon she shot up to her feet eyes wide, like something in her brain just clicked. "Sasuke..." she said to her self. Pushing passed her father who was still stunned by the scene, Karasu ran out the door and down to Sasuke's house.

She was stopped in her tracks, by a flying shuriken. She felt the long cold metal pierce her flesh. It didn't hit anything vital and if she were to die it would be from loss of blood. She fell back on to the ground, her hands on the knife trying to pull it out. As her vision was beginning to fail, she saw the shadow of someone.

"Please help me..." She cried out softly to the figure.

The figure did not say a word but placed their hand on the kuni, and placed a soft kiss on Karasu's forehead. "Not today...Kara-san. You need to save your self if you are to marry me..." He pulled out the kuni and ran off.

"Itachi…" She whispered, with the last amount of energy she had left. Her voice was not angry but was sad and lonely. Karasu soon passed out from blood loss.