Shadow of Fire
Chapter Three
"Because she already knew pain of a true shinobi!" everyone looked at him slightly confused and he ignored the stares he was getting and looked at nothing in particular when Anko said with a sneer
"Why did you block her chakra?" Everyone looked to Itachi and then were taken aback when he said calmly
"For her own protection!" Everyone knew they wouldn't get any more from him and Naruto said slightly annoyed
"That means Sakura surpassed us all and we never knew!" the Sensei nodded and Sasuke scoffed and said
"Sakura is still weak, the only reason she most likely is Anbu because she is the Hokage's apprentice, Kakashi daughter and has an ancient bloodline!" Naruto completely ignored him and said aloud like he just figure something out
"No wonder, Sakura always seemed to have low chakra, she was always training but it never got any higher because that baka stopped her ability to increase her chakra, he stored it away as reserves!" Itachi smirked at him and said slightly amused
"Continue!" everyone looked to Itachi and Naruto who looked like he was getting brainier by the second
"She was always good at Genjutsu so that was her strength and you were hoping she would get better and use that Genjutsu to her advantage, but Sasuke constant teasing made her loose sight of her goals adding to the fact the she only had an infatuation with Sasuke because she unconsciously was reminded of you!" Itachi nodded with a slight smirk and leaned back in the armchair and said
"You may have the brains to be Hokage after all!" Naruto jumped up in excitement and said happily
"You think so, wow, thank, your not so bad after all, maybe there's more to that massacre than everyone thinks!" at that everyone stiffened and Itachi slightly looked at Sasuke and then at Naruto and said with interest
"Why do you think that?" Naruto stood rooted to his spot with his arms crossed and a finger to his lips and said
"Because one Tsaunde baa-Chan wouldn't be so easy on you and Sakura would have killed you because she would have blamed you for Sasuke hate towards her!" Itachi nodded and said
"You're smarter than you look!" Naruto smiled and then frowned and said looking at Itachi with seriousness that made everyone in the room do a double take
"Will you return Sakura chakra?" Itachi was deep in thought, if he gave her back her chakra it may be easier for the two of them to get along, but he didn't know how much she trained meaning he didn't know how much chakra he was unlocking, if he didn't take it step by step she would find it hard to control the chakra she may have gained. Itachi looked back at Naruto and nodded. At that moment Sakura walked in with Kakashi in tow who wore an angry expression that made everyone slightly flinch. Sakura looked back at her angry father and rolled her eyes and looked at Itachi who was sitting in her seat, she watched him a while and said
"Why did you return?"
Sakura
He looked at me with coldness and said not looking at me. I hated it when he did that. He made me feel like I was nothing like Sasuke normally did
"Your Hokage knows!" I sighed at his half answers and said softly trying not to break down
"Why?" he looked at me and my posture; he knew something was wrong, he knew what I wanted to know and he knew that keeping it inside was hurting me. I watched him a while before I got tired and was about to walk away when he said
"Leader wanted you assassinated, I didn't want that for you, the third Hokage was the one who had helped me secure the jutsu that was held on you, but since he died that weakened!" I stared at him in shock and anger started to melt through and I slowly took breathe in and out and said
"Will I have the seal you placed on me removed?" he nodded, I bowed in thanks and said smirking
"One more thing!" he looked at me with question and was slightly amused with the game I was playing
"Can we finish the game of last shinobi standing?" Kisame and Deidara laughed. I smiled brightly and Itachi smirked a little and said
"So were on equal terms!" I nodded and was about to talk when Sasuke shouted
"Sakura how could you betray me like this?" I looked back at him in anger and looked at Itachi in question. I wanted to tell them the truth about the massacre and he watched what was happening with boredom and nodded. I sighed and moved to Itachi and sat on the arm of the chair and leaned back resting my arm on the back of Itachi's chair until I felt comfortable
"Itachi did not kill his Clan for power!" Everyone was slightly confused by my statement and Sasuke seemed to get angrier and was about to charge for Itachi when I said
"I was Itachi's apprentice by the age of nine; I lived in the Uchiha mansion but was told Sasuke was never allowed to know that I lived there. Itachi was training me to be the perfect Konochi in all aspects of Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu and how to act like a proper Konochi!" Everyone was listening intently I sighed and looked back at Itachi for confirmation, he slightly nodded so I said
"It happened when I was 10 and he was gone for a mission for about a month. His mother and I were training and the rest of the Uchiha's had locked us up saying that if we didn't stop poisoning Itachi's mind then they would kill us before he gets back and blame on Rogue ninja's. They tortured us and chained us to the wall to keep us there but they thought I was fairly weak and believed I could get out of the chain, I used a fire jutsu Itachi taught me to escape, Mikito- san told me to run and find help, I ran out the compound and was bout to get out where a few elder Uchiha's found me, I panicked and knew that they wouldn't let me escape so I tried out a jutsu that I created, it like a flare but with Chakra instead. Mikito who had taught me bout my bloodline said that I could have all of nature under my control so I used the chakra I had left to send out a tracking beacon to find Itachi to let him know there was danger. He got back a week later to see that blood was all over the mansion and he went to the basement and found his mother and I and got us out, when he did that the rest of the Uchiha cornered us and said that 'if he wanted to live, he kill his mother and I or die' he killed all of them before they got the chance and his mother used a jutsu to fake her death and fled Konoha!" I looked at everyone's faces and saw Sasuke looked more than angry but he was confused as well, he sat in his seat and said quietly
"So my mother is still alive?" I nodded a little and then looked back at Kakashi and said smiling
"So is Rin!" Kakashi's book drooped and everyone looked at him in shock at what had been revealed
"How?" I smiled and said
"When we escaped Konoha we were travelling and I found Rin hiding in Mist and she and Mikito began travelling together and I stayed with Itachi!", I sighed and thought of my mother and how much I missed her, I haven't seen her in years
"Anyways she somehow came into contact with Mikito-san and they formed a plan to get me training in my bloodline!" I sighed and said
"Later after that I became Akatsuki with Itachi and began training with Sasori, Kisame, Deidara and a few others who were there!" Everyone seemed slightly apprehensive and Itachi looked at me and said
"What were you training with my mother?" I laughed nervously and got off the arm chair, well, I tried to until he grabbed my waist making me sit still; I closed my eyes and said quickly
"Shetrainedmetobeageisha!" he looked at me sternly so I sighed and said
"She trained me to be a geisha!"
Meanwhile in the Hokage's Office
Two female Konochi stood in front of the Hokage with a small smile of either recognition or joy. Tsaunde leaned back in her chair and smirked at them and said
"It's time you two showed your faces!" The woman with Black hair smirked and sat straight hair flowing down her back like a dark ocean and said with a smooth yet controlled voice
"I know, I've missed this place!" The woman besides her laughed and said flicking her long brown hair out of her face
"Too long but since you contacted us on the upcoming events and such we thought we might as well make an appearance now and see how my daughter is doing!" Mikito laughed and said with a graceful smile
"I want to see if she is ready to take my place as Head Geisha of Land of Fire!"