Sound Princess
A/N: HEY! Wow its been a while since I've updated this and I know, but I've been moving and also I didn't have the internet for a while, but I'm still alive and writing! Thanks for all the wonderful reviews and questions! I can't wait until you read this because this is going to knock your socks off just like it does my sisters! (Kakashi-neechan and Haku-neechan!)
I do not own Naruto or the characters, I only own this story and that's it so don't sue!
Where we left off…
"She's very different isn't she Itachi-kun? Would you like to know her last name?"
"Hn."
"Its Haruno. Sakura, Haruno, the last one of her kind. Amazing what you can do to women when they are in love with you isn't it."
On To The Well Awaited Story…
Itachi huffed while looking around his surrounding. He was deep with in the woods of Konoha. This place brought back memories of pain and happiness. It was the same place he was after he killed his clan. Slowly he stopped walking and sat down. Five tall trees surrounded his on either side to look like a pentagon. Shadows played tag on the bark and leaves fluttered around his soulless face.
Birds could be heard in the back ground and his senses dulled, this place was happier since he'd been gone. Things lived and survived unlike the night when he found it. Nothing was here, no birds, or light, only shadows from the full yellow moon.
He closed his tired eyes and laid back down hoping that everything he'd been through was just a dream, a bad horrible dream he was having from eating too many sweets or from the food Deidara cooked.
.:Flash Back:.
Itachi laid still in the tall grass of the open fields near the Akatsuki base and breathed in the fresh air of early morning. The sun was just coming up and he could feel it warming up his cold skin. This was what he lived for, to see the sun rise and set, to smell the air and all the wonderful mixes it creates, yes this was his heaven on earth.
"Well, Itachi-kun, how nice to run into you again, and on such a beautiful morning as well."
"Orochimaru-san, what is it you want now?"
"I have some business with Pein-kun and Konan-san, you have a job as well."
"Hn."
Orochimaru smiled to himself and looked down to his daughter who was a little older than the last time they had met. She wore a simple light blue kimono with butterflies etched in a gold trim. Her eyes were cold and emotionless like last time, but one was hidden behind her bangs.
"You are to watch my precious daughter until I return."
"I am not some babysitter Orochimaru." Itachi said getting up and turning to look at the man and the child he'd seen before. Orochimaru was the same as before but that girl was different. She wasn't all happy and smiling like before, her eye that he could see was void of emotions and rang out death instead.
"Like I was saying you two will not have any problems and I expect you, Sakura, to listen to Itachi-kun like you would myself. Do you understand?"
He saw how she looked up at the man with no emotion still in her eyes and nod her head in understanding before pulling him toward her level and kissing his lips softly and walking away. Her footprints were like a feather on the grass, which was up to her shoulder. Everything about her seemed to reek of death and darkness.
"Good bye you two, stay safe Sakura." Orochimaru said before turning into a cloud of dust in the soft breeze.
Sakura just stood their statue still. Her face was tilted a little to the side and her eyes stared up at him. Itachi felt uncomfortable with her looking at him like she was.
"Stop staring at me," He said sitting down in front of her, "Its rude."
"Hai," came her soft voice that sounded like the wind. Itachi watched as her eyes diverted from him completely and onto a flower growing in the field. Several minutes passed between them and she was still the same.
"Sit down."
She did what was told and sat down perfect in front of him still not looking at him. This child was different, and Itachi knew that she was special. It wasn't the fact that she would obey. No, it was that she probably could kill someone and not think twice about it.
"Sakura?"
"Hai, Itachi-sama?"
"Have you ever killed someone?"
She moved to look at him and the way her head moved reminded him of a doll. That was it! She was like a doll, and Orochimaru knew it to!
"Yes, when I was younger father and I used to live in a nice little village in the forest not far from here, and I made friends with a boy who belonged to a strong clan. I also made friends with others as well, but I was told to kill them, and I can not disobey an order."
"Hn. How many?" he asked looking down at her and still seeing no emotion.
"All of them…even the people in the village."
"Do you regret it?"
"Regret? What is that?" She asked moving the piece of her pink hair that was blocking her other eye from being seen and looking at him. Her skin caught the sun' s morning rays and glistened like a diamond. Her eyes sparkled and he forgot about them looking like a cat and saw how much they reminded him of green emeralds.
"Regret means you wish that you wouldn't have done something. Do you wish that you would have never killed those people?"
"Sometimes, I miss having friends to talk to." Sakura said grabbing her arm and holding it while frowning.
"Fight me…" Itachi said standing up and walking over to the main clearing taking off his cloak and hanging it on a nearby tree. Sakura stared after him in confusion. Did he really want her to fight him?
"Nani? Itachi-sama, are you sure?" She said moving to stand in front of him in uncertainty. She wanted to do nothing more than obey him and follow what her father said to do, but she also didn't want to hurt the man her father needed.
"The rules are first blood, do you understand Sakura?" Itachi said eyeing her and smirking. This is going to be fun. He could use his sharingan and copy all her jutsu and attacks earning him more variability with his attacks. This girl had no idea what she is up against he thought activating his sharingan.
"Itachi-sama," She started walking up to him and kept her eyes on his so he knew she wasn't going to attack," What is first blood?"
Is this girl serious? Itachi thought, does she not know the simplicity of first blood rules. "First blood means the first one to bleed loses."
"Oh, so you mean if I scratch you," she said taking her fingernail and running it along his hand, "and you bleed I win?" Itachi nodded his head and she smiled up at him and said, "I win."
"No you have no won, I am not bleeding." Itachi said smirking at the girl and thinking how much knowledge he could learn from her. "Yes you are Itachi-sama, look down where I scratched you. It's bleeding and I'm not so I win and you loose."
He looked down at his hand and sure enough he was bleeding from where she ran her fingernail across him. This girl was smarter than what he originally thought. Not once did she attack him, but instead out smarted him instead using the fact that she was a child and did not know what first blood was, when in reality she did.
"You are smarter then what I originally thought," Itachi said looking down at her and smirking to himself, "Do you fully understand the extent of your powers?"
"No, all I know is that father says that one day I will be the ticket to his true happiness."
"Oh, you will be, and mine as well. Follow me." He said walking back to get his cloak and putting it back on.
"Hai Itachi-sama." Sakura said walking behind him holding onto his long cloak sleeve. Itachi didn't mind the girl at all. If anything she just earned her a spot in his mind where the elite would sit. She was the only person able to defeat him in a battle and out smart him.
He walked back to the base in total silence with her following every step. She never asked where they were going or how much further to get there. She never once spoke a word. She really was an interesting person. Itachi entered the base with her beside him and immediately drew attention. One was because of her hair color. A bright pink that contrasted to the blackness of his cloak. Two was because of her size, she was very small compared to him as well.
"Itachi-san, what is that little girl doing following you?" His partner Kisame asked sitting at the table drinking sake in the kitchen. He looked different to Sakura then what she has seen of a normal man. This one was blue and looked like a shark.
"This is no mere 'girl' Kisame-san. This is Haruno, Sakura, Orochimaru's daughter."
Kisame looked around the table at the girl and smiled. She was very pretty for her age. " So this is the little brat." He stood up and finished off his glass of sake and started to walk to the girl but was stopped by Itachi.
"If I see one mark on her from anyone-" Itachi didn't have to finish his sentence. Kisame understood what he meant perfectly. No touching the girl, no fighting her, and no toying with her.
"You know that if Deidara sees her he's going to do what you just said not to. You know how he is with children and little girls…."
Itachi didn't say anything to Kisame. Instead he took Sakura into his arms and held her like a little baby. She balled up into his chest feeling the warmth emit from him. Soon she was nuzzling her nose in his shoulder and yawning and rubbing her eyes.
"She sure is cute Itachi-san." Kisame said standing near her so he could see her yawning and nudging into Itachi. The girl was very cat like in the way that she would move her hands and head. "Well, what are you going to do with her?"
"Train her and learn from what she already knows."
"She's just a child, what all could she know that you do not?"
Itachi looked up at his partner and smiled an evil grin while walking to his room and placing the sleeping Sakura on his bed and covering her up. She snuggled into the warm covers and grabbed onto the pillow and went to sleep peacefully not worrying about where she was or if anyone was going to hurt her.
Itachi opened his eyes again and let out a sigh. He wanted to remember everything but it hurt to, and this was an unknown pain. He'd never felt this much pain and it wasn't from a wound or poison. It was a pain that ran from his chest throughout his body.
"Hey."
Itachi sat up and saw his little brother sitting across from him. How Sasuke found him was amazing, but more importantly why Sasuke found him was more important. This was unusual for even him.
"Good day Sasuke-san. What brings you here?"
"I wanted to talk to you about Sakura."
"What is it you wanted to know?"
"From what you said the other night about her the other night, about how powerful she and her clan is, how did you know?"
"First of all Sakura doesn't belong to a clan anymore, they were all killed but her. As to how I knew it was because I met her before you did. I've had time to do research and I've seen her fight."
Sasuke looked at Itachi dumbfounded. He'd seen Sakura fight to and their wasn't anything really special besides that she knew some more advanced jutsus.
"I know what your thinking Sasuke-niichan, that fight you saw when she was fighting against Orochimaru was only her playing around. Orochimaru was kind of playing around but also being serious.
"How was is also serious? I mean its either serious or not."
"You see Sasuke-niichan the one thing you do not do is underestimate ones opponent whoever they may be. Orochimaru was fighting to survive while Sakura wasn't. She wasn't taking it serious because she is stronger than him and can beat him easily. You need to learn to see a fight from both perspectives. Not just your own."
Itachi eyed Sasuke and stood up brushing all the dirt and grass off his black pants and let a smile escape his lips and offered a hand down to his little brother. Sasuke looked up then down to the hand offered to him and smiled taking it and hoisting himself up. Both brothers looked at watchtower then down to their linked hands and let the smiles drop from their face.
"This isn't going to last forever. Once your out of the village your as good as dead to me." Sasuke said letting his brothers hand drop. Itachi nodded his head once and then turned into a shadow clone and disappeared.
"Tch…show off." Sakura said coming out of the blue and scaring Sasuke. Her voice was soft and reminded him of Orochimaru. He knew for certain that she was he daughter.
"Where have you been? I've been looking for you, Naruto has been looking for you, Itachi has even been looking for you!" Sasuke said turning to face her and hitting the ground in the process.
"Shut up, do you want them to find me?" She said sitting down and looking at him straight in the eyes. Hers won in the end but Sasuke's gave her a fair fight. "Why don't you want us to find you?" Sakura's catlike eyes struck his own again and she let out a sigh.
"Its too dangerous for you to know me anymore, I won't and don't want to see you or Naruto or anyone else hurt…so please I forget me."
"No."
"What?" Sakura said snapping her head to look at him with her mouth gaping open.
" I said no. I refuse to forget you. How can you even hurt us anyway? I've seen your power and I know you are strong but we can handle that don't be afraid." Sasuke wanted to comfort her the best he knew how but from what he saw it wasn't working.
"That's not even the problem," Sakura said bringing her knees to her chest and crossing her ankles, "The leaf is the problem."
"Leaf? Do you mean the village? How can this village be the problem?"
"I can't tell, nor can you ever know. Just know that I love you all and am very sorry if anyone gets hurt."
She stood up and before Sasuke could say anything else was gone leaving him in her place a beautiful blue rose.
"Damn it…" Sasuke cursed softly to himself, "She doesn't trust me anymore."
A/N: Like OMG wasn't that just the best and seriously wow that was good even in my opinion. Lol. Well please review and leave your opinions and thanks for not forgetting about me, and merry Christmas and happy new year!