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WARNING: WARNING ALERT!:

MAJOR SPOILER! MAJOR NARUTO SPOILER!

Chapter 20

Recap:"I already said it. Do I have to repeat myself?" Sakura asked.

"Yes," Sasuke replied.

"I said you would look cute as a cat." Sakura mumbled.

Sasuke heard that time and said "I see."

Sakura was shocked by his response.

Then Sasuke was quiet for a moment.

"WAIT A CAT!! WHAT THE HECK WHY WOULD I LOOK CUTE AS A CAT!!" Sasuke screamed.

Sakura laughed at the thought of Uchiha kitties. 'At least they would be cute.'

Karin came marching down the stairs at full force.

"SHUT UP YOU IDIOTIC PINK HAIRED WENCH!" Karin yelled at the top of her lungs as she stomped into the kitchen.

"Whatever you dumb little b-" Sakura began.

"Sakura, watch it or else!" Sasuke warned.

Ayamari rolls her eyes at Sasuke's threat. Like he could actually hurt her Kaa-san!

"Please, Uchiha-baka you honestly believe you can hurt my Kaa-san?" Ayamari scoffed.

"You little whore of course my Sasuke-kun can beat your weak mother." Karin defended.

Sakura laughed a cold laugh. For some reason Sasuke couldn't find, her laugh, her cold hearted laugh pain his heart.

He frowned; his pain seemed unbearable for a moment. His ex-teammate, who was so benevolent, turned into a cold hearted person who never listened to anyone. How could that happen?

Sakura eyed Karin. "You honestly think an Uchiha who would kill his own family member, could honestly beat me? Please, I know I was weak before. But that was thenand this is now.

"Please he had to kill his brother. He killed his whole clan! He was a murder who needed to die!" Karin defended Sasuke. "He is a pathetic weak, liar who is a worthless baka! I mean who would kill their family!!"

"SHUT UP! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HIM. DON'T CLAIM YOU DO. AND DON'T MAKE UP CRAP ABOUT HIM. IF YOU EVER KNEW HIM, THE REAL HIM, YOU WOULD KNOW EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID IS A LIE; A LIE FROM THE PITS OF HELL. SO SHUT UP AND WATCH YOUR MOUTH!" Ayamari blew up on Karin.

Sakura just stood there. She remained calm, almost as if this has happened before.

Karin laughs. "As if, I know for sure that it's not a lie. He killed his clan, there for he's an idiot."

"Karin, if you know anything, you would know to never, EVER, talk crap about Itachi-kun." Sakura said in a calmly manner.

Sasuke's heart fell as he heard Sakura call his brother, the one he hated, Itachi-kun.

"He killed my clan. He deserved to die." Sasuke said in a slightly angered tone.

"NO HE DIDN'T. HE NEVER DESERVED WHAT HE GOT. HE ONLY DID WHAT HE WAS TOLD TO DO! HE NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG TO YOU. HE SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU BUT HE DIDN'T. HE LOVED YOU TO MUCH AND IN RETURN YOU KILL HIM. YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON EVER!" Ayamari said as tears formed in her eyes.

Sasuke stood there shocked. What was Ayamari talking about? His brother did what he was told? As if, like his older brother was innocent of killing his clan!

"Ayamari," Sasuke said in a soft voice, that no one has ever heard him use before.

Ayamari didn't say anything but looked at him coldly.

"Itachi got what he deserved. He killed his clan and in return I killed him. The past is history Ayamari. You can't change it, so just move on and forget about it." Sasuke said in his soft voice.

"I-I c-can't. He did everything for me. He was like my father. He was there for me and Kaa-san when you weren't. He was the only reason to why I didn't hunt your sorry ass down and kill you! He loved you too much. He didn't want you to die! And all you do is say he's dead and tell me to move on? HOW CAN YOU SAY SUCH A THING? He was your older brother. Whether you like it or not he was apart of you, and he always will be. He's someone you looked up to, and when he did just one thing wrong, you hated him? While you…you think you are a god, you did so many things wrong and yet you still think your better than him?

You have no idea how wrong you are. Sasuke Uchiha you make your clan weak. You are a true disgrace to your clan. You stooped to the bottom of the deep gray ice cold heart of your clan. You think you're the best person around don't you?" Ayamari asked through gritted teeth.

"I am the best Ninja around." Sasuke replied simply as his fiancée Karin stood next to him.

"Liar, you know you are not the best. No one is perfect. No one can say that they are truly the best. No one can believe they are stronger than someone else. No one can be everything. We can only be nothing, but yet we could still be something."

"You are making no sense you little runt!" Karin snapped.

"We are nothing by ourselves. We aren't strong. We aren't weak. We aren't friendly. We aren't kind. We aren't anything by ourselves. But when we have someone with us; someone who is by our side, we can do anything. We are stronger than anything. And that is all because we have friends. But you…Uchiha….You through them away! You left your friends like they were nothing!" Ayamari snapped back.

"You are a pathetic ignorant selfish no good rotten little piece of-"

"AYAMARI, that's enough," Sakura stopped her daughter. "He should know his place soon enough, but you of all people should not teach him where he belongs. He will learn his place once he finds out the truth. But until then, Itachi-kun is off limits. No one talks about him. No one thinks about him. His name is to NEVER be spoken. He is an off limits subject.

He helped you when you need it the most. He helped me when I need it. The least you can do is respect him; by not yelling at the person he cared for the most, no matter how much you hate that person. Understood?" Sakura commanded. Her last question was more of a demand than a question, but only Ayamari caught that demand.

"Hai, I do under stand Kaa-Sama. His name won't be mentioned, I won't disrespect Uchiha-teme." Ayamari said as she hung her head, so her facial expression wouldn't be read.

"Kaa-Sama I am going to go. I need to do something…" Ayamari said in an expressionless tone, as she slipped out the door and walked down the road that lead outside of Konaha.

"She's going to become a missing-nin if she doesn't stay in Konaha." Karin sneered.

"No she won't," A male voice said as a blonde haired male with cobalt eyes.

"Yes she will. When Sasuke-kun left, he automatically became a missing-nin when he stepped foot outside of those gates. What makes her any different?" Karin frowned.

"She's coming back. That's the whole difference." Sakura replied icily.

"I came back. There is no difference, Sakura." Sasuke spoke up for the first time in about twenty minutes.

"Sasuke, shut up. I just stood up for you when I could have just watched. But I didn't. Your brother loved you, and I made a promise I wouldn't let you get hurt, emotionally, physically or mentally. I promised him that and I'm keeping that promise. Its not because I care for you, because believe me if I didn't make that promise to Itachi I would have let you rot in the pits of hell and burn to death as you lie on the floor to think about your mistakes.

I swore on mine, Naruto's, Ayamari's, and Tsunade-Shishou's lives, that I would never let you get harmed." Sakura explained.

"Why?" Sasuke and Naruto asked in unison. Naruto who was a little shocked, Sakura mentioned his name about swearing on his life…

"It was his dying wish. He said I shouldn't hold a grudge against someone who couldn't even realize the true reason to what his Clan really wanted." Sakura mentioned.

"Oh, and what does his clan really want? Hmm…?" Karin asked.

"Everything," Sakura replied.

"They want him to be happy. But they don't want him to think that all they needed to be revenged."

"You know nothing about my family or clan, Sakura. Quit pretending that you do." Sasuke said, his voice became rough and cold again.

"I know more than you. That is for sure." Sakura growled back. She wasn't going to take any ungrateful crap, especially from him.

"Oh yeah, what do you know that I don't?" Sasuke growled back. He, just like sakura wasn't going to take any crap.

"If I tell you then I would have to kill you." Sakura said.

Karin looked at Sakura skeptically. "What are you talking about? I mean come on! This isn't the time for jokes!"

"Who said I was joking? I am dead serious. If I tell him, I will have to kill him. It's the law. It is no joke Karin." Sakura said. Neither her voice nor her facial expression was betraying her.

Sasuke stared at Sakura for a few moments, before Sakura's pager rang and she told them she had to go.

Sakura left quickly and walked, although to Sasuke it seemed like she ran, and went to the hospital.

"You really shouldn't have done that Sasuke-teme. Believe me; what Sakura did was uncalled for. She never had to stand up for you. But she did." Naruto, Sasuke's cobalt eyed friend said.

"What were they talking about earlier? What happened that caused Sakura and my daughter began to care for my brother?" Sasuke questioned with authority.

"Since when was Ayamari your daughter, I mean after all you never acknowledged her as your daughter before." Naruto questioned.

"She is my daughter and I just accepted it. Now answer my question dope." Sasuke demanded after he explained his reason.

"Well it all began when Sakura worked with Tsunade-Baachan. You see, Sakura was going through the mission scrolls when she found Itachi's mission records. Well out of curiosity she opened the scroll and looked through it. From what she told me, she happened to see Itachi's last mission and she was then determined to find Itachi, and ask him if it was true.

Well she found Itachi, but the only way she could have done that was to become a missing-nin. So instead of that, she went to Tsunade, asked for a mission with that involved the Akatsuki told Tsunade-Baachan her plans, and pretended to become a missing-nin. When she went to Tsunade-Baachan for help, she saved herself a great deal of trouble from the elders.

Then she went to the Akatsuki and it's really unclear for me from there. All I know is she got really close to Itachi, not like she loved him, but it was kind of the way she was with me. She trusted him with her life, and he treated her like family also. He really did act like a father to Ayamari, which made Ayamari really respect him. Growing up with out two parents is hard, believe me I know that much. But growing up with one mother, who is working under the Fifth Hokage, and second head-medic at the hospital, Tsunade being the head, can be even tougher.

You would never know what happened to your father. Your mother diffidently wouldn't tell you about your father for fear of hurting your feelings; by making you think it was your fault they aren't together. Plus your mother might have very little time to spend with you, so you would practically grow up with out both parents…

It was difficult for Ayamari. She was considered worse than me, because she was the daughter of a slaughtered clan, her uncle was a criminal, her father was no better than her uncle, because her father left the village, and her mother raised her by herself. She felt unwanted. So to know that someone, someone like your brother, was there for her and her mother, made her feel like she belonged.

I know you might not understand this, Teme. But believe me; your brother can't be as bad as you say he is if he helped Ayamari and Sakura-chan that much. He went so far just to make them happy, and Sakura went through so much trouble just to give him a proper burial. She fought for hours, days, weeks, even months with the elders. She yelled at them, threatened them, she might have actually hit them! But I think what got them the most, which actually made them accept her demand, was her black mail." Naruto told.

"What did she black mail them with?" Sasuke questioned with Karin still by his side.

"She black mailed them with Itachi's last mission…" Naruto replied simply.

With Sakura: (Sakura's POV)

I was currently in the Hokage's tower, trying to request a movement in our current location. Seeing how I can't stand to live in a house with my ex-love, and the home didn't seem to make Ayamari happy either.

"Sakura, I am not changing your location. Uchiha Sasuke agreed to his punishment as long as he could remain in his home" Tsunade told me.

"There wasn't a point to stay at a house Ayamari refuses to sleep at. Besides I'm thinking of my daughter! She can't stand to be in a house that holds so many memories of the one person that meant the most to her! And living with the killer of the person she cared for, isn't helping either, Tsunade!" I argued.

"Sakura, I said I wouldn't change his location no matter what the cost!" Tsunade told me.

"I DON'T CARE! I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO CHANGE HIS LOCATION! I WANT YOU TO CHANGE MY DAUGHTER'S AND MY LOCATION!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I wasn't about to lose this argument.

"Sakura, has Sasuke hurt Ayamari at all?" Tsunade asked me.

"Not physically or mentally. But emotionally, yes he has." I said quietly.

"What did he do?" Tsunade questioned again.

"He keeps telling her to forget about his brother, telling her that there is no point in talking about him because he is dead. Refusing to even acknowledge she is his daughter. Allowing Karin to talk trash about her, doing nothing to help her…

You honestly think that is how I want my daughter to be raised? You think I want her to know who her father is, but have to deal with her father not acknowledging her existence. She can't handle that Tsunade! She might be strong but no child can ever live with that knowledge for ever! My daughter won't put up with another thing that has to deal with him.

I don't care if it was just me, but I will not let my daughter out of my sight. If she is going to leave, which she is, I will follow her. I am not going to allow something to happen to her." My arguments grew worse, as I fought for my reason to leave the Uchiha compound. Unfortunately my argument was futile, seeing how Tsunade refused to relocate my daughter and me, this time….

Although that still didn't stop me from trying to convince her other wise. I mean come on, do you honestly expect me, Sakura Haruno, to back down from something I think is of the utmost important thing! My daughter can't even sleep with out having a nightmare that forces her awake and into a fit of screams.

Her heart seems to slowly degrade as if it was slowly fading into dark, and never to be found again. Her heart beat was slowly fading into nothing, and it scared me.

My heart ached every moment I saw her expression. How am I suppose to live with myself I am practically hurting my own daughter, and the only reason why I am actually hurt her, is because I am making her live with the made who she considers worse than the devil!

"Tsunade-Shishou, please," I begged. "I'm not asking you to do this because I want to leave. I took on this mission and I will finish it, but I didn't count on the fact of how Ayamari might react to the Uchiha House hold. I don't want this to her hurt anymore than I have already had. Tsunade-Sama, please do it for her." I begged. I didn't want my daughter to get hurt, not again.

"Sakura," Tsunade began her voice was clear with sincerity. "I will think about it…" she told me with an unreadable expression.

With Ayamari: (Ayamari's POV)

I walked deep with in the forests. I tried my best to hurry to my destination, but I was extremely quiet. The last thing I want is someone to follow me. But this is really ticking me off. The dumb elders had to keep it out of Konaha. Saying it would be a disgrace to the Konaha people. But the truth is, THEY are they disgrace. They ruin everything for everyone, and they have the nerves to say it's a disgrace?

They made him do it. They knew he would be come what he did. But I can't believe they would say he is a disgrace. Kami-Sama those rotten bakas are lucky Kiba-Niisan, Naruto-Niisan, Neji-Niisan, Bushy brow-Baka, Kakashi-Sensi, Genma-Sensi, Shikamaru-Niisan, Panda-Niisan (Gaara), Puppet-Niisan (Kankuro) Tenten-Neechan, Ino-Neechan, Hinata-Neechan, Temari-Neechan, Shizune-Neechan, Tsunade-Shishou, Ayame-Neechan, Anko-Sensi, Kurenai-Sensi, Shino-San, Asuma-Sensi, and Jiraya-Sama were there to stop Kaa-San and I from beating them to a bloody pulp!

Well truth is they stopped me first, and then the elders said something that pissed my Kaa-san off causing all of them and me to TRY and calm my Kaa-san down! Anyway, I finally got to my destination.

"Ohayo," I said to a stone as I sat on the ground.

"I am sorry I haven't been here for a while, I had some things go on at home. Have any kids been on here? I hope not, that would be a disgrace to your resting place. I wonder if I should put up a stronger barrier than the one you already have..." I questioned mostly to myself.

I know he is dead, but I might as well talk to him. He did say that no matter what happened to him, he was always there for me.

"I miss you so much. I wish I could see you again; I would do anything just to see you for at least five minutes!

It's not fair, why did you have to leave? Why did it have to be you? You never did anything wrong, I know you never did! It's just not fair…" I began to sob.

It was always hard for me to handle this. I never could control my tears. I know he is in a better place and he is happy because he can watch over me and everyone else he cares for. But, I can't help but feel selfish and want him to still be here, with me, and me alone, minus Kaa-san, he can be with her. They are extremely close, just like Naruto-Onii and Kaa-san. I never understood the things he told me about anything that he held precious to me. He seemed like he cared for things that I wouldn't understand, and he knew that. But for some reason that never stopped me from asking him why, or what was it like for you to do that, it was as if I never understood anything he told me. But for some reason I enjoyed it. He made me happy. He was my savor from myself. He was my safe-harbor. Even though he was more dangerous than anything I have ever known of, or ever feared of. He seemed like he was an angel disgusted as the devil. He was a sinner who never sinned. He was the light that hid deep with in the dark, waiting for a chance to out shine its dark evil.

He was different than anyone I have ever known. He was something that seemed so different than what he truly appeared to be. He was one of a kind. He was reliable, over protective, and fun. He seemed like he was more of a dream than a reality. Who could be that perfect to everyone but himself? He seemed different, almost as if he hated himself, but loved me.

I know he considered himself as a part of mine and Kaa-san's family, just like how we though he was apart of ours. We loved him so much. He was such a big help to my family, we were such a broken family, and we were so shocked that he mended us so easily.

He was so different from what my mother portrayed him as. He seemed almost harmless. In a small way, he was so much more than he ever appeared. Strange as it is, we think of someone as what others portray them as, when we have know idea of who they are ourselves. We are only getting fed the information from second hand. It seemed wrong now that I think of it this way. I always judged Sasuke as a heartless demon who was lost in the path of darkness and didn't want to be helped out. He chose his path, and I just assumed he was a heartless no good son of the devil.

I finally understood what he meant. He wanted me to forgive everyone I thought that hurt me. He wanted me to be happy, and not hurt myself anymore than I already had. He seemed as if he wanted me to forgive him, almost as if he predicted I might. But I won't forgive him, not fully at least. He will have to earn my respect the old fashion way.

I am not even giving him a chance to regain my respect because of him. I am only doing it for him, not because I want Sasuke in my life, I have lived all my life, so fair, with out him; what would make a difference if he suddenly appeared now and wanted me?

God this pain was ripping my heart open and I hated it. I couldn't handle this. My heart ached so much.

"I don't understand! Why did you need to do that? Why didn't you just decline the mission? Why? I don't understand!" I said as I finally cracked. I began to cry and I couldn't stop.

I cried for about a good five hours or so before I finally got up and looked at the stone I have been staring at for well over five an half hours. I got up and began to turn around. But I gave on last look at the stone and reread the words:

Resting place of Uchiha Itachi….

May he rest in peace and rest happily knowing he is loved!

As I read those words I knew I could live another day, with out actually trying to die to see him, my only true friend…

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