Chapter 29


I would love to dedicate this chapter to Cherry Blossom petals seeing as this person has reviewed literally every chapter which only doesn't make me just happy it makes me feel over the moon. So this is for you on the bonus chapter like you wanted the final.
We had been rushing through the thick forest for a while now, she had been first and Sasuke was right behind her, but still the mood was tense.


She looked at him shocked for a second before the tears started to fall down her face again. It was over he was gone.

Sakura couldn't help but move she just rested her head on his chest as the faint sound of him breathing disappeared.

It was so confusing and painful to even think that someone that she had got so close to was gone.

She tore a piece of her dress and wrapped it around the severally bleeding wound, it would hope for some time or so she hoped.

It had been 10 minutes before the tears started to dry up, but it felt like an eternity.

That's when she felt someone's hand on her back, they placed there hands on her shoulders trying to pull her away from Itachi's dead body.

Sakura struggled, her tears starting again.

She didn't want to be away from him. For some reason it felt as if something was missing, a small part of her. Sasuke turned her around, so now sakura was facing him.

Through watery green eyes she saw his well formed face; sakura could see that he had been crying, and she was surprised.

He looked down on her, there eyes fixed on each other.

It had been such a long time since they had last seen each other.

He moved closer brushing his hand across her pale face.

He moved close and crashed his lips onto of hers.

His hands went through her long pink hair down her back so that they rested around her waist.

After a few minutes sakura reacted and placed her hands delicately around his neck, pressing herself against him.

Sakura closed her eyes as she relaxed against her, as Sasuke slowly broke the kiss she rested her head on his shoulder.

He came close to her ear and whispered, "We have to go," he called and kissed her neck lightly, she nodded lightly his hot breath tickling her neck.

She felt him take her hand and pull her towards the gaping whole in the side of the building.

Sakura looked back peering at Itachi's cold dead body; she had to do it no matter what.

Sakura dug her heels hard into the rubble and Sasuke turned around to look at her, a confused expression on his face.

"We can't leave him here" she yelled wanting her point to be recognised by him.

She herd the faint sound of clattering metal and the sound of footsteps but still she wouldn't budge, she folded her hands across her chest and glared hard and now the last standing Uchiha.

Sasuke stood there on edge looking down at her; she was glaring even worse as the seconds went on.

"I'm not taking him, with us if that's what you're asking," he yelled back at her and crossed his arms over his chest, copying her.

"then I'm staying!" she shouted and walked away from the youngest Uchiha, however much it pained her stay that she wasn't going to leave him behind, not after everything he had done for her, for Sasuke, for the whole of the Uchiha clan.

For a while they stayed like this, her glaring at the floor, and him staring out into the distance, waiting for either of them to snap first.

Time had past and neither of them had made a move, and soon enough someone would come looking for Itachi and her.

There was a crash and Sakura's eyes averted to the door, "Uchiha, Haruno. Come out already!"

Sakura's eyes went wide, she needed to get out of here fast and she knew it but she had to convince someone first.

Sakura rushed towards Itachi's body, I'm sorry I had to do this she thought, she pulled the piece of fabric that was stopping his wound from bleeding so severally.

She lightly placed her finger on the wound and the blood seemed to drench her small fingers.

Sighing she placed one in her mouth and drank the coppery blood.

A tear slowly feel from her cheeks onto his flesh as she placed the dress material around his wound again.

"Kyoko no jutsu" she spoke as the taste of blood drenched her lips.

Sakura clutched her throat and Sasuke just watched in amazement.

She felt as if she was short of breath, as if she was drowning, was this natural? She had never tried this jutsu before just read about it, a long time ago.

Sakura coughed and lowered her head some tears falling onto the wooden floor next to Itachi.

"Sakura!" Sasuke yelled and ran towards her, "Itachi is that you?" the person outside the door spoke again. Sakura turned to face Sasuke square in the face, she shook her head and pointed to the bathroom door, and she winked at him and stood up, a sense of power fore filling her.

As sakura approached the door she stood there for a while until Sasuke disappeared from her vision.

"Haruno's,,, taking a shower" she called her voice was identical to Itachi's it was just like she was him,

"but I don't hear any water," the person called and sakura let out a large cough,

her jutsu had realised seeing as she didn't take as much blood as she needed then sakura herd the faint sound of water, she turned around to see Sasuke walking out of the bathroom, she smiled lightly and pressed her ear against the door.

There was the sound of foot steps slowly fading into the distance. She turned around to find herself face to face with Sasuke again, "don't think for a second I've given up yet!"

he whispered into her ear again. So he's playing it this way, sakura thought as the hot air caressed her neck, she could play it this way too.

She wrapped her arms lightly round his neck and pressed herself against him,

"what make's you think I've given up either?" she called and smiled flirtatiously at him.

"So you're voice has returned, powerful jutsu, when did you learn that" he asked,

"while you were away, I'm more capable than you think Uchiha" sakura smiled again and poked his chest with her forefinger.

She could see that he was getting frustrated and she knew that they both didn't have much time, that's when she decided that if there was only way that she could escape with Sasuke and Itachi's body there was one option that she knew for certain that would get Sasuke to agree.

Sakura dropped her head and sighed deeply, "You know you're never going to win?" She giggled and took hold of his hand in hers, connecting there fingers together so that they formed a strong hold

. "And what make's you think that?" he muttered and unhooked his hand from hers. Sakura smiled flirtatiously and brought herself onto her toes.

Sakura moved closer her lips barely centimetres from his ear, when she spoke "you need me." She whispered, smiling seductively.

When she brought herself back to her natural height she caught a glimpse of his reaction and it was nothing like she had seen before.

He seemed shocked, right to the core, as if it was something he would never suspect from her. It just made her smiled more as she once gain hooked there hands together.

But for now we have to leave this place and take your brother with us." She yelled demandingly at him,

"but why take him." Sasuke complained almost childishly for the first time in his life.

"Because that's what your parents would have wanted." She said subtly stroking his cheek, "now you take him and ill lead, enough blood has been spilt by your today."

she yelled walking over to the crack in the wall. Once again the thought came across her why only one person had come to check on her, well they did think that Itachi was a murder, a cold hearted one at that.

She pondered what would have happened if that was true. As she took off at a great speed towards Konoha her home.


Sakura dropped onto one of the trees that they had been literally flying over and climbed to the top using her chakra to keep her steady.

When she reached the top she looked back, it had been so long since she had been outdoors, the atkasuki hideout was almost like a prison for her, well not only her maybe Itachi to, but he did have to put up with it longer.

Surpringly sakura knew where she was going, she had scouted this forest many a time and she was surprised that she had never come across the lair before.

She walked back down the tree to see that Sasuke had been waiting for her; ever since they left there had been an element of tension between them, it's not like anything had happened.

He had wrapped Itachi in the bed sheet that was in the room, it was black silk and it seemed to cover the whole of Itachi's body.

Even though sakura couldn't leave him there like that she wouldn't be able to carry him the whole way back to Konoha so Sasuke had ended up carrying with dead brother.

That's when it hit her she knew why Sasuke had been cold since they had left, it was the mention of the Uchiha clan. Sakura remembered a time before when they were young that they had got on the subject of the Uchiha massacre and how much he tensed as he told her the story of the clan's murder.

It must have been that the mention of the massacre, the mention of his family, and the recollection of what he thought that Itachi had done.

"Sasuke" she muttered as she stood on the tree branch, a lightly hn was herd and sakura looked up, dam nit she didn't know what to say it wasn't like she was actually going to have conversation with him now not with this tension.

"Um..." she said quietly looking at the branch at her feet hoping to think of something to say,

"well sak-ur-a" he called from next to her and her head shot up, what had he just said.

"um…thank you" she muttered trailing off slightly at the end, he cocked an eyebrow at her and she smiled lightly, "thank you" she said a little more clearer, a lightly blush on her cheeks.

Sasuke just stared at her for a while and eventually a small blush brushed over his cheeks too, it was a long time since she had seen this sort of emotion from the Uchiha if ever.

She smiled, "shall we get going?" she asked and turned her back to Sasuke, the blush growing harder on her cheeks.

He gave a slight nod and picked up Itachi again, sakura fanned herself lightly with her hand, hoping that the blush on her cheeks would disappear faster that way. But of course it didn't, she gave out a large sigh and leapt of the branch and further into the forest.

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Sakura moved at a fast place towards the entrance of Konoha, but it couldn't help but cross her mind, what would happen when she got back.

Would she get welcoming pair of arms or a scolding from the Hokage, for bringing him back, well both of them.

There was a chance of both but in her opinion she hoped she wouldn't be bothered at all. She was feeling tired the day, or the weeks that she had away from Konoha only made her worry more.

She felt a brush of air and the sound of a shiriken hitting wood, sakura dropped onto the nearest branch and Sasuke doing the same behind her.

"Did you hear that?" she asked hiding her form behind the thick branch of the tree.

She herd him give out a small hn as he hid himself and his brother too. "Do you think it's an ambush?" she called as she peered around the tree, looking out for anyone at all.

"There's a chance, but it wouldn't be an ambush for us, no one knows where we are?" he explained, dropping Itachi at the bark of the tree.

Sakura scanned the area around them and found that there was no trace of chakra apart from Sasuke's and hers but she concentrated harder, she knew someone was there with them, it even be orochimaru coming back to get Sasuke.

Her mind trapped in the thought and the battle that might commence if that would happen. But she had something, how did he escape orochimarus, snakey clutches.

"Sasuke..." she called still scanning the area from peering around the tree. "hn" he called sitting down on the branch, due to the heaviness of his brother he really needed a break

" how did you escape?" she asked, almost casually, trying not to sound to interested, of course she would probably end up telling the Hokage the whole thing, right when she was about to lock Sasuke up for being a missing ninja and bringing back his brother.

Sasuke blushed hard, he couldn't tell her it was the idea of her being captured by his brother, "I herd about my brothers were abouts, orochimaru wouldn't let me go so I invalidated him."

Sasuke clenched his fist, the anger had resurfaced. Sakura's turned to see his clenching his fist hard and glaring at the tree branch, "hey, come on it's alright," sakura called sweetly walking over to him and placing a pale hand on his back.

" everything's over, we can go back home and not worry about the sound, or i-Itachi" she said trailing off at the mention of Itachi, true he wasn't a good brother to just leave Sasuke but it was for his own good.

Sakura felt a pair of hands wrap around her waist and he buried his head on her shoulder. Almost like an embrace, sakura was shocked at first but after a while she hugged him back, placing her head on his shoulder.

They stayed like this for a while, holding each other for the others comfort. "Sakura," he called lightly, his head still resting on her shoulder.

She didn't answer she just enjoyed the warm embrace that she was getting from him; it almost made her feel sleepy.

"Sakura" he called again his hot breath tickling her ear, "hmmm" she called, "someone else is here" Sakura's eyes widened.

"What" she called reseating her head from his shoulder, but when she thought about it she could feel it too, it was faint very faint but indeed they weren't alone.


Sakura took a deep breath as she stood still next to Sasuke on the tree branch, "what shall we do?" she called, staring at the brown bark that she was standing on.

"I suppose, we can just leave, there not strong enough to hold us back."

Sasuke explained once again, he was right the chakra was so faint that it was probably only a gennin, Then it crossed her mind, what if it was a gennin, they were only a few miles away from Konoha, if they were a gennin, they could take them back, and she would be excused for bringing Sasuke back.

"Come on, were going to get that gennin!" sakura yelled and slid down the tree trunk towards the forest floor, Sasuke gave out an aspirated sigh as he followed.

As sakura sped off towards the chakra that was still faint and seemed to be getting fainter by the second, but would it really work, bringing back a gennin to be able to be accepted back into the village.

She couldn't doubt herself it had to work, or at least she was doing something for someone in need, not like anything she had done in a while.

As sakura followed the faint pulse of chakra she wondered what life would be like when they got back, would they be the old team 7 again, or would it all be completely different.

Sakura brushed past a tree, this is where the chakra had been, but the opening in the forest seemed empty.

Sasuke turned up behind her and she couldn't help but feel confused, he had followed her to the same place which meant that they had both been following the same chakra feed.

"I guess we're going to have to look!" sakura called enthusiastically, speeding off to look behind trees. "Why are you so insistent about getting this child?"

Sakura turned and stared at him, "because it will get all of us back into Konoha free and safe" sakura said, sounding confident in her plan, she was not one to give up, not yet.

Sasuke let out a sigh and started looking behind the trees like she had done.

Sakura smiled proud of her convincing plan to get them all back into Konoha.

She started looking behind some trees but still nothing, now and again she would peer over at Sasuke was looking like she had done but more thouror he would look behind the trees and a little bit further, and sometimes sakura thought that he might have given up and walked off.

She did expect it from him. They had spent a while searching and still she had found nothing, "sakura!" she herd him yell and she sped off into the middle of the clearing.

"Where are you?" she called looking around to see any sign of the Uchiha. He came walking out of the darkness of the forest holding something tight in his grip his head down.

"Naruto!" she screamed tears falling madly down her face, he looked so beat up, worse than anything before. Sasuke raised his head and there was a glimmer of tears in his eyes, "he's still breathing" sakura nodded and sped over to her team mates.

She concentrated her chakra into her right hand and placed it over his head, almost like a green halo appeared as sakura concentrated hard on sending her chakra into her dear team mate.

That's when Sasuke took hold of her wrist, "there's no use in using up all your chakra, make him stable and we'll go" sakura nodded the tears still falling down her face. She gave a sharp nod and they all sped of towards Konoha once again, leaving Itachi forgotten in the night.


They reached the gates, out of breath breathing hard, and looking as if they had been ambushed themselves.

Naruto hadn't wakened throughout the whole journey back, but he was still alive, he knew what was going on as well.

Sasuke took the lead to whole way carrying Naruto safely, it proved that he cared more about his team mate than she thought, but she was glad, at least they were all together again.

"Let me through" Sasuke yelled at the guard as they reached the gates.

The guard on the door just pulled out his katana and challenged Sasuke to fight him; it was useless they weren't going to listen to a missing ninja, even one with an almost dead kyuubi in his arms.

"Sakura" he yelled and she stepped forward from behind her team mates.

"Let us through," she said sternly, glaring wonders at the guard, something she had learnt from her team mate. The guard just stood there for a while waiting for her to falter, before he spoke for the first time.

"I don't care who you think you are, your not getting in!" he yelled and by this time some other guards began to gather behind him.

"Fine "sakura called and gathered the last of her chakra into her hand.

She was merely inches from punching the ground when something stopped her, "SAKURA-CHAN" someone called, she looked up to see lee, wearing a jonin uniform at the front of the crowd, "let us in lee, its urgent" Sasuke muttered staring at the leaf village jonin.

Lee gave a sharp nod and sped off towards the gates, sakura run after him followed by Sasuke and Naruto, but if you think about it they didn't know were to go, Sasuke didn't.

As they ran through the streets of Konoha, they were all empty no one was there, not a sole; maybe an attack was due soon.

As she followed lee through the streets she spotted the ramen shop, and a tear formed in her eye. "Hold in there Naruto" she called ash she ran faster towards the hospital.

Sakura pushed open the doors to the hospital and angered look on her face.

"get Tsunade-sama here now" she screamed and pulled a cart from the walls side.

Sasuke entered a few minutes later with Naruto still firm in his hold, "set him down here..." sakura trailed off, she grabbed hold of the wall but there was nothing there to steady her.

So she fell down onto the hospital, floor her long pink locks spread out on the white tiles. "Sakura" Sasuke called and that was the last thing she herd.


It had almost been an hour and sakura still laid there on the bed, Sasuke watching over her, like friends do.

Her light eyelashes flickered and reviled her emerald eyes. She was awake finally and you could see the tension recite from his face.

"hey" he called sweetly and took hold of her hand, she looked at him confused for a second before giving him a light smile, "hey" she called and laid back in the bed staring at the ceiling, she was surprised that she ended up passing out it wasn't like her at all.

She was quite stronger now, but as she thought about it the distance they had travelled in one day and all the shocks that had happened in that time, she was surprised that she didn't pass out sooner.

"They wont tell me anything about Naruto" she herd Sasuke grumble and sakura shot up straight in the bed. "Why not?" she asked and her just shrugged his shoulders, "maybe it's the fact that I'm a missing ninja" he said once again placing a hand on top of hers.

Hm, she muttered and began to stare at the door. It swung open relieving a very tired looking Tsunade, "Tsunade-sama" sakura called as she watched Tsunade storm into the door slamming the door hard behind her.

"when did you get back!" she yelled glaring lightly at her apprentice, "around a hour or so" Sasuke spoke from behind her, Sakura's eyes turned to him as he glared back hard at the Hokage.

Then her eyes averted to her hand that was wrapped with his almost in a comforting gesture, he made no heed to break the contact either.

"Thank god" Tsunade yelled and sakura looked up to see her sensei running towards her with her arms wide. She smiled lightly as her sensei embraced her tight,

"there was an schedule attack to be any day now so the guards have been told to keep there guard high until the time when they attack" sakura smiled lightly as she rested her head on her sensei's shoulder and squeezed Sasuke's hand lightly.It made sense why they wouldn't let them in at the mere sight of them both, and of course Sasuke didn't look that trustworthy as everyone knew his nature.

"Tsunade-sama" sakura called pressing a hand lightly on her sensei's shoulder, Tsunade instantly removed herself from her apprentices shoulders and stared at her waiting for her to continue.

"How is Naruto?" sakura asked a pleading look on her face she needed to know even in her weak state. "He's responding well to treatments I gave him, and I've been operating while you were asleep so now he is stable. But I also have to check on you, you nearly took a bad fall back there"

sakura looked confused a minute before answering her sensei, "nearly?" she asked.

"Yes, nearly. Sasuke was luckily there to catch you on time, you should be grateful, it seemed as if he was pretty beat up to, but he refused to rest until he knew that the two of you were ok.

And he also insisted on watching over you while you were sleeping" Sakura blushed lightly and her eyes averted to the Uchiha sat at the end of the bed on a chair, there hands still connected, she smiled and turned to her sensei giving her a small wink.

Tsunade smiled back at her and retreated from the room, getting ready to finish up the kyuubi's treatment. Sakura turned to Sasuke he was still staring out into space as if he hadn't herd a word that her sensei had just said about him,

"Sasuke" she muttered and he turned to look at her, sakura patted the bed beside her.

Sasuke nodded knowing what she meant and he took the seat next to her, sakura smiled up at him and kissed his temple causing him tense a little, " now go to sleep, you need it more than I do" she said and brushed another stray strand of hair out of his face.

He looked at her and gave her a small glare "no not until I know that Naruto's safe" sakura smiled at him, he really did care he wasn't the emotionless little boy that he used to be.

She wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head on his shoulder, she was worried to and it was her way of showing it to him, "everything will be ok" she muttered, hoping that the reassurance would work on someone other than her.


While in a tree a few miles off of Konoha sat Itachi's dead body, a smile crossed his features, he wasn't dead. He pressed his hand on his neck the gash, it didn't sting at all, and he took the fabric away to find that there was nothing that at all not a scratch.

He smiled lightly to himself, "thank you sakura" he called lightly, and took off in the direction of konoha's only secret entrance through the abandoned Uchiha estate.

He shortly reached his old home seeing as he knew the shortcut, of course he was the only one alive that knew of it's presence, not even his little brother knew, as Itachi pulled the rock of the entrance shut he made up his decision, he would never return.

As he walked through the dark tunnels his memory of fleeing the Uchiha home for the sake of his name returned to him, he seemed to remember every inch every crack ever gap in the tiled floor, almost as If it was something that haunted him in his dreams and it did.

The day that it happened. Soon enough Itachi found himself at the underground room that he knew was only used by the elder of the Uchiha estate; it reminded him of the walking down here, reading the scripture and finding out about the clan, and its terrible deeds.

That's when he decided that he would never return even if it hadn't happened.

As he scanned over the sheet of Uchiha text he thought about his little brother, he wondered how his life would have been different it the whole massacre ever happened.

He grabbed the book in his hand and read a few words aloud, "let my brother find the happiness he deserves" Itachi yelled as he took an Uchiha katana off the wall and stabbed it through his own heart. "I am doing this for all those I have hurt in my life, for there sakes not mine," he whispered as he dropped onto the floor of the hidden room.

It was over but this time Uchiha Itachi was dead.


"Sakura" she jumped "sakura" she looked ahead to see the fuzzy outline of shizune.

"Shizune?" sakura asked "yes its me hurry up!" she yelled, sakura was confused, she looked around her to see no Sasuke, not even a sign of him.

She was laid down on the white bed. She followed shizune out the door trying to hold her up by anything that she came across.

She felt so weak like she was going to collapse any second.

Finally shizune stopped in front of her, she turned around and gave sakura a smiled, sakura was just in a dream land she didn't know what was going on for all she knew anything could be happening, but it seemed that shizune was pleased about it so it relaxed her a bit.

Sakura pressed open the door that shizune was standing next to and walked straight in. there on the bed laid Naruto, almost looking like normal, "Naruto" she cried tears literally streaming down her face, Naruto placed a hand on his lips and pointed to the chair at the side of the bed.

There Sasuke sat relaxed as could be asleep on the comfortable chair, sakura smiled but the tears seemed to still fall down her face.

She raced over to Naruto's side and captured him in a large hug. Everything was going to be ok now everything… team seven was together again forever.


The end

wipes away a tear the end it's finally over the bonus chapters done everything, I expected a lot from this story and I got a load of review for it so I'm really grateful. Ever though it's done I still like feedback, ill probably go back through and correct spelling mistakes and stuff so it will probably come up when I'm doing that.Yeah and finaly any spelling and grammer mistakes i am so sorry didn't have enough time to look through. XD

I was asked by animefan0000012345 what the original ending was, well if you wanted to know originally…

I was going to write a sequel about Sasuke at Orochimaru's

I was going to kill of Naruto yeah I know you all would have hated me then

Itachi was going to live,

Sasori [from atkatsuki was going to take the place of Kakashi at Orochimaru's

I wasn't going to have any naruhina at all [:O I know shocking

And finally

I was going to have a massive battle at Orochimaru's lare where Sasuke finds out about his clan and forgives his brother at the last minute. And they team up to beat Orochimaru and it was going to be a very happy ending. [That is after I wrote my first battle scene and I found out that I was so bad at it that I shouldn't write them anymore haha XD

Well I would also like to give out to everyone who reviewed the story:

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Kyoko is a girls name that means mirror, I thought this was appropriate for the jutsu seeing as she's mirroring Itachi's voice with the blood that she took from him.

Once again I want to thank everyone for reading and reviewing it makes me so happy to make you all happy and that's what really counts to me.

Lastly I'm going away on holiday on Tuesday so I won't be back for two weeks so I would love to come back to loads of lovely reviews from all of you talking about the ending and telling me what you think

Lastly any good ideas for a new story that you want :D ?? I have another one on the go called I made a mistake so you can have a look at that if you want XD anyway

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