One Change: Chapter 6 – Sakura
Sorry this chapter took a little longer than others to write, I had trouble writing some of the later scenes without making it too unrealistic
We're gonna hear from Sakura instead of Itachi here to make a change. The story will mostly be told from Itachi's point of view but there will be points when we hear from the other characters.
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06: Sakura
Later the same day
It had all happened so quickly. One minute she was standing in front of Mikoto Uchiha, genuinely terrified for what the older woman had in store for her, the next she was sobbing in Itachi sensei's arms. Under normal circumstances she would never had done anything so bold but at that exact moment she had craved the protection that she knew he could provide.
Now, as she sat in her room, tightly tucked under the covers of her bed she felt herself flush with embarrassment at what she had done. Not only had she hugged Itachi Uchiha, literally the most stoic man she knew, but she had also attacked the matriarch of the Uchiha clan with a water jutsu and without provocation. Shame flooded her when she thought of how she had let her team down, it was just supposed to be a dinner with sensei's family but it seemed that she couldn't even manage that.
As soon as the youngest Uchiha had entered her line of vision she had recognised him. Sasuke Uchiha had been one the boy who had constantly picked on her when she was still in the same class as the rest of the children her age. It was obvious that he was furious with her, his main insult to her had always been that she was too weak to ever become a ninja so it must have been a blow to his pride when she graduated two years ahead of him.
There were other children from her original class that resented her advancement. Yamanaka Ino and Inuzuka Kiba were the ringleaders of the groups that taunted her. Ino for her wider-than-average forehead and Kiba for her small stature and pink hair. Honestly, she tried to forget her days in the academy and it wasn't that difficult after all, worse things had happened to her in her lifetime. It was those things that flashed through her mind when Mikoto Uchiha had approached her earlier.
instead of seeing long back hair and soft black eyes, Sakura had seen wavy red hair and piercing blue eyes, those eyes promised pain. The words still echoed in her head, "Could marry somebody like you... So Cute... No Choice."
That was a time in her life that Sakura didn't care to remember. She had been just 4 years old when her that woman had first come to her home. Her mother said that she was a friend and that she had a son, a few years older that Sakura, they would be friends.
Sakura's 4 year old mind didn't sense any danger, any reason why she shouldn't believe the woman after all, she was a friend of her mothers and her mother would always protect her. She never noticed that the woman only came when her father wasn't home and she didn't find it odd that she would catch the woman staring at her intensely when she thought she wasn't looking.
3 months after meeting the woman she happened upon her and her mother having conversation, she knew she shouldn't listen but she did anyway and what she heard scar/ed her. They were discussing taking her away forever, did her mother not want her anymore? That night she slept fitfully until around 2am when she heard her bedroom door creak open and froze in place. Ice blue eyes stared at her, not bothering to conceal the look of loathing and hatred within them.
Sakura screamed. She screamed but nobody came because her father was away on a mission and her mother had no intention of stopping this from happening. The woman bound her hand and feet and gagged her with a cloth that smelt weird and after that she couldn't remember anything.
When she came to she was in a room that she didn't recognize and her restraints had been removed. It has warm and lavishly furnished but that didn't comfort Sakura at all and she found herself shaking in terror. Pulling her knees up to her chest she curled up as tightly as possible and cried as silently as possible.
What she would have given to remain alone but the woman joined her in the room after what could have been hours or minutes.
"Little Sakura, don't be frightened. Soon you will meet my son Renjii, you two will get to know eachother and then you will eventually marry. I always hoped that he could marry somebody cute like you. Of course, you have no choice in the matter but I'm sure that you'll cooperate," The woman was smiling sweetly but it had a malicious edge. That was the first time that Sakura had ever been afraid of the woman.
The woman's tone was impersonal and cold, "The children the two of yo will produce will be so powerful. Renjii's massive chakra reserves and your perfect chakra control. I will have created the perfect shinobi." The woman laughed manically and Sakura drew further into herself.
After that day Sakura was alone for a long time. She wished it had been longer.
On the 6th day of her containment Sakura met Renjii. He was tall, towering over her small frame with red hair and grey eyes. She didn't like the way his lips twisted into a sneer whenever he spoke to her or the way his eyes were always cold with not even a hint of warmth.
He hit her. He raised his fist to her and she could do nothing to defend herself because she was small and weak. She passes the day wondering what she had done to deserve the treatment she was getting but she never came up with an answer. he decided that her mother must not have loved her because no loving parent wold willingly allow this to happen to their only child.
The treatment she was receiving didn't get any better and Sakura became numb to the pain that was inflicted upon her small body on a daily basis. She didn't see the woman very often but the more she did the less she seemed to care. The woman knew what her son was doing to Sakura but she did nothing to stop it. Sakura concluded that these two must hate her as well.
6 months after the beginning of her imprisonment Sakura heard a commotion in the hall outside her room. That was odd, usually the halls were completely silent until Renjii came to visit. she tried to ignore the argument going on just outside the door but people were shouting and covering her ears did nothing to block it out.
The door was pushed open with rushed force and the person whom had been arguing was revealed. There, in his jounin uniform was her father looking angry and releaved at the same time.
"Sakura! Come on, we're going home!" For a moment she didn't move but when he beckoned to her again she ran into his arms and sobbed. He lifted her into his arms and carried her away from the place that would haunt her nightmares for many years to come, maybe even the rest of her life.
The day, she concluded that her father did love her. He may be the only one but somebody would always be there for her.
Coming back to the present, Sakura felt tears running silently down her face. Her father had been there for her when nobody else was. She could still remember the look on her mothers face when she and her father and had returned to their family home. She was angry but she did not speak out again Kizashi. 2 weeks after her return, her mother left on a mission and never came back. 2 years after that her father also left on a mission, when he didn't return Sakura knew she'd be alone forever because the last person that loved her was now gone.
Things had started to look better in the last year. She could tell that Iruka-sensei cared for her enough to try and keep her out of trouble. Her team cared for her, they were like her brothers and Itachi-sensei would always protect her, she was sure of it.
So why, when things were just starting to get better did she have to ruin it by attacking Mikoto-sama? Surely people would see her as out of control, somebody who didn't deserve their love. Why did she have to think of that woman when she was just starting to be happy again?
She needed to fix this, she had to apologize to Mikoto-sama, to Sasuke and Itachi and to her teammates who had to see everything earlier.
So that's the end of Chapter 6 and we finally heard from Sakura. I can promise that there will be nothing more terrible about Sakura's past revealed after this point and her relationships with the other characters will develop further.
So we've had the first appearances of some select member of the rookie group. Sasuke, Ino and Kiba we're all involved in Sakura's bullying. This doesn't mean that they won't be friends in the future, it will just take a bit longer for those characters.
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Sei x
