Death and Rebirth

Chapter 2

A SasuSaku Fanfic: By UchihaSanNin

Sequel to: Unwanted Desire

I promise that this one will be a little longer. lol. sorry I was in a hurry. And I am very sorry that I haven't updated in a week or two...I went to drill and got dehydrated at the Qaul Range even tho I drank at least 6 canteens (6 QTs of water -That is alot...)...I was FUCKED UP...had to be stuck with a needle six times in order to find a vein. sucked ass. My skin was that damned hard to get through...don't EVER get like that people...you getting dehydrated? tell someone. don't play the super trooper like I did, and tell someone you feel like that. DRINK WATER. painful, but hey. I'm doing fine now. gotta bruise the size of a rather large hickey on my arm (That is what it looks like...a fucking hickey...), but its all good. lol. I felt like straight up shit yesterday and Sunday...I'M SORRY!! DX

My deepest apologies,

UchihaSanNin

Me no owns Naruto.

Sakura searched fervently for him. She could find nothing. Not even a hint of Ishin's footsteps, Chakra, or anything. NOTHING. "Ishin..." She whispered harshly, afraid to yell out, not wanting to alert nearby Nin of her position. She was putting everything on the line to find him, and nothing was working. "Where are you..."

She leaped through the trees, and kept her chakra at a low level, to keep from being picked up on. She then leaped to the ground, and started walking. She still couldn't sense his familiar chakra. "Ishin?" She whispered, louder, trying to stay as quiet as she could. "Ishin...where are you?" She could see nothing but the trees, and the shadows that seemed to add to their massive size. She couldn't see much due to the new moon, and sh frantically looked around, searching for her son.

"ISHIN!!"

"Did dad do something stupid again...?" He whispered, and she turned toward the boy's voice. He was sitting up in the tree branches, where she couldn't see him. He hid his chakra well, and she still couldn't sense it.

"No, Ishin...Your father hasn't done anything yet...Why did you run off like that? Do you know how worried that I was?" She put her hands on her hips and sighed. "Just...just don't do it again..." He didn't reply. He just sat there. "I-Ishin? What is it?"

"You don't love him do you...Is that why we're here? Why you were kissing that weird guy? Doesn't dad want us?" He asked, keeping his voice low, to hide the tears that he forced back. She wanted to cry.

Look what you're doing to your kids, Sasuke...you're tearing them apart...Ishin...She sighed again, and leaped up and onto the branch that the boy sat on. "No, Ishin...it's not that. Your father is just...being careful, that's all. He thinks that it would be better if we were here with the Sandaime, instead of in the Sound..."

"But why?? Why can't we stay HOME? I want to go back to MY school...to My house...not some ancestral inheritance that my father has, and I have never been in...I want to go home to father..."

"We can't darling. I want to too, but...until your father says the word...we can't do a thing but sit and wait..." Ishin leaned against her, and she smiled at the affection that he was able to show her. He showed it rarely with his father, and sometimes, if rarely, with his younger siblings. He showed none with his fellow classmates. Or so she'd been told. "Why don't we go back and go to bed, huh? we have the rest of the weekend to look foreword to...W can go for a swim. okay?"

"Yeah..." Ishin whispered, and jumped down from the tree. "Can you teach me those techniques, mom? You promised me a long time ago!! PLEASE!!" He looked up at her shadowed face, pleading with his beautiful dark-green eyes, and she relented.

"Yes...tomorrow...Now lets get home."

"YES!!" The boy leaped into the air at least five feet. They walked side by side, and silently made their way back to the village.

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Sasuke Uchiha panted heavily, and hunkered down on one knee.

Damn it...

He swiped his raven bangs out of his blood red eyes, and squinted at his target in front of him. Suigetsu stared back, and Karin watched from the sidelines with Juugo. "If your Kekkai Genkai is bothering you so fucking much...then STOPusing it, you dumb ass." He lunged at the kage, sword at the ready, swinging into a wide arc at his right side.

Sasuke vision still faded in and out, giving him the blurry objects to work with. He watched Suigetsu's frame run swiftly at him, and he leaped to the left, dodging his blade, and he ducked, feeling the wind off the Samehada caress his skin as it went right over his head, shaving off a few hairs. He grabbed Suigetsu's hakama from the front as his vision went black, and the shark-toothed man grunted in suprise. "Well, I didn't expect you to still have the same speed, Uchiha..."

"Chidori Nagashi!!" The electrical current ran through the Uchiha's body, and at first appeared as sparks, then full fledged flashes of lightning like electricity. Suigetsu was thrown back, his body convulsing suddenly as he hit the ground, the current still running through his body. His blade flew a few feet further, and sung a few inches into the ground as it landed blade first. He didn't move for a few minutes, then he slowly sat up.

"Damn...fucking asshole...You didn't have to pull that shit on me...I mean come on," He growled, and hunched over for a few seconds." For fuck's sake...that fucking hurt! I am a water Nin, I am weak against electrical based attack, you prick!"

"That's the point," Sasuke retorted. "That's why I sed it. I can't fucking see your skinny ass, so what did you expect me to do. Come at me again." Suigetsu mentally cursed himself for being the Otokage's Guinea pig, and stood on shaky legs.

Bastard...He thought. He'd better not use that shit again...or I am out of it...

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Sakura looked back at the other Uchiha siblings. They were playing in the water, and Ino was watching them with eyes like a hawk. Ishin was literally jumping at the chance to learn what she promised to teach him. "You ready, Ishin?" She yawned, and he nodded eagerly.

"Yep!" He ran ahead of her, and she watched him run, remembering how he was when he was smaller.

They came to a rather large tree, and she stared at it, remembering when Kakashi had taught them how to master the tree walking technique. She was the first one to master it that day. Sasuke and Naruto had looked on with jealousy. Naruto had been the only one who praised her. "That's the girl from my dreams!! Ah, Sakura, my love...!" He'd said, then earned a good, hard kick in the face by both Sakura and Sasuke. She giggled at the memory, remembering the jealous and infuriated look on Sasuke's face. Then how pissed and put down he looked when he and naruto had asked her how she did it herself.

"All right ready?" She concentrated her chakra into her feet as she walked over to the tree, and Ishin watched intently. She placed one Nin sandal clad foot on the bark, then the other, and proceeded to walk up the side. Ishin watched, silently, hiding the elation on his face.

Dad NEVER taught me this!! He thought, and crossed his arms, hiding his thoughts.

Then Sakura's chakra dispersed, and she flipped right side up as gravity pulled her to the ground. She landed on her feet, in a sort of half crouch, and looked up at Ishin. "All right. Your turn. Concentrate all your chakra into that one single point that comes into contact with the tree. Just like I taught you, okay?"

"yeah!" He concentrated for a few seconds, closing his eyes, and focused. After a few seconds, he looked up at the tree, and walked forward. he then ran up the tree, and then stopped, grinning, then the happy smile turned to a scowl as he started to fall. He fell to the ground, on his back, getting the breath knocked out of him.

"I know that that HURT..." She murmured, trying not to laugh at his failed effort. "Here." She handed him a kunai as he sat up slowly. He took it, and gave her a confused look. "Use this to mark the place where you left off. If you keep going, then you'll get better. Your father and I did the same thing when we were your age, Ishin." She smiled, and walked off. "If you need any help or advice, then I'll gladly help you!" She called over her shoulder.

"I WON'T!!" Yelled an angry Ishin, and he sprinted up the tree again. Sakura smiled to herself, and kept on walking towards the others, wanting to help him, but knowing that she couldn't. He would have to do it himself. Without her.He would have to do it til he himself came to her for help. That was how Kakashi did it. That was how SHE would do it; because it had worked.

Later...

Ino and Sakura were laying out in the sun on there backs, relishing the warm sunlight. Their bikinis didn't really leave much to the imagination, but there was no one else but the kids, so it was fine with them. Ishin was still off on his own, training, and Sayuri was sitting behind her mother, beside her head, toying with her coral pink hair. Satoshi and Hikaru were playing in the water a few feet away, keeping themselves busy for the time being.

"Hey, forehead, maybe you should go and check on Ishin-Kun. If he is anything like his father, he wouldn't dare lower himself to come to you, being his mother and a female, for help. I mean, just for safety's sake." Ino said, and Sakura sat up, pulling her shoulder length hair out of her duaghter's grasp.

"MOMMY!!" The small girl wailed, making the two kunoichi wince in discomfort as their ears rang. Sakura turned to the direction she last heard Ishin, and she strained her ears and other senses. She could feel his fluctuating chakra, and his rapid, heavy panting. She turned back to Ino.

"He's fine. He's still working hard." She answered, and Ino stood, and shoved her pointing finger into the pinkette's face, making her iridescent green eyes cross toward her nose to see it at the tip of her nose.

"What kind of mother are you!!" She yelled, and Sakura narrowed her gaze to Ino's face.

"What do you mean what kind of mother am I? I seem to be a damned good one, raising four kids and not screwing up at all!!" She growled back, and Sayuri whimpered. She layed back, and her friend smiled.

"Don't worry Sakura. you're a damned good mother...damn good...you gotta have alot of patience, since you're dealing with the infamous Uchiha...and his little demon spawns..." She dissolved into a fit of laughter, and Sakura soon followed, holding her middle, and Sayuri stared, bewildered.

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"So what say you about letting me and Shika-Kun come over and get these to to come over and meet Masaru and Hanako?" They're the same age. and they should get along well." Ino said, and Sakura threw Hikaru into the air, gaining a squeal of delight, an caught him, laughing along with the boy. Ino smiled, realizing that her friend was happy. Even though she was probably in a marriage of convenience, with a husband who didn't have any feeling what-so-ever toward her.

"Yeah, sure. I need a break anyway," Sakura answered, cuddling her youngest son. "With Sasuke still in the Sound, I don't get much of a break or any rest...thanks Ino...Um...hows six?"

"Yeah, sure. Shika-Kun and I will be there then."

"All right! See ya!!" She waved as her once in a lifetime rival turned best friend disappeared into a cloud of smoke, and her smile faded. "Now, Hikaru, my dear boy...Back to a 24/7 job..." She cuddled him to her again, and called Sayuri and Satoshi out of the water, and told them about hte sleepover that They were going to.

Later...

Ishin threw himself onto the futon, and growled. "I can't believe that I couldn't get it down in one day!! I was able to do the Katon techniques dad taught me on the first try!! I can't believe that I am failing at something so...damn...simple!!" As he yelled the last part, he slammed his fist into a pillow. Sakura heard the muffled F-wump-!! And turned and glared at her son. "Oh...Uh...S-sorry mother..." He grinned sheepishly. She frowned at him.

"I would say that you could practice some more, but you have school tomorrow mister. We'll practice tomorrow on your Chakra control okay?"

"You SWEAR...?!" He asked, his eyes going all doll-like.

""Ughhhhhhhhhh..." She sighed, clearly annoyed, and swiped a hand over his face. "Why would I lie to you, huh?"

"YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!" Ishin yelled.

"GO TO BED." She ordered, and leaned against the wall. The now happy and bruised, scratched boy ran up the stairs for a bath and to get ready for bed. She let her back slide along the smooth surface of the wall, and she hit the floor, and sighed loudly. she wanted to go to sleep. She pulled the string to her bikini that tied around her neck and it came loose from its knot. She pulled a shirt on over her head, and then it covered her breasts and flat belly, and she stood up. Great...Hikaru needs a bath first...then sleep...

The youngest Uchiha let out a wild, banshee scream, and Sakura winced, as she lightly rubbed the shampoo into his baby fine locks of raven hair. "You know, Hikaru? You are so precious..." He cooed loudly, as he squeezed his rubber ducky, and she smiled as she started to rinse the just developed and perfumed suds out of his raven locks. He just stared up at her, as if admiring her beauty, his coal black eyes seeming to sparkle with life. "Nothing like Sasuke..." She giggled, and he suddenly started thrashing and splashing around, making her jump back as water spilled over the side and nto her body, soaking into the shirt that she wore.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! HIKARU!! You know so much better than that!" he yelled, in a playful but tired voice. She splashed him back as she finished with his hair, and then he suddenly threw his rubber ducky out into the hallway. "Geh-- what the...!? Hikaru? What's gotten into you??" She looked into his small, rounded face, and he screamed with glee. "Kids..." She murmured, and kissed the boy's prominent forehead. Before she stood to fetch the small yellow squishy toy, the boy yelled: "DADDY!!"

She froze, wanting to jump up and down. His first words!! YES!! but...Her happy mood was destroyed at the memory of Sasuke not being with them.He won't hear it...didn't hear it...Damn it...Pull it together Sakura...She then froze, feeling a large amount of Chakra behind her. She whirled around and saw someone leaning against the door-jam.

"Sas-Sasuke!?"

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He lightly ran his thumb and forefinger over the rubber yellow surface, and stared at his son. "I figured that he would say damn it, for his first word. As much as you say it around him..." He muttered. "Here." He tossed the duck back to her, and she caught it, too shocked to say anything.

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She walked into Hikaru's room, and cradled the young boy in her arms. "Good night, Hikaru..." She whispered, and kissed his forehead. She carefully layed him down in his crib, and smiled as he made a light cooing sound and moved in his sleep. Sasuke suddenly came up beside her, and stared down at the boy.

"..." He lowered a hand, and ran it lightly over his son's raven black hair, and smiled. She watched, and then sighed.

"You know...They miss you...so much..." She whispered. He took her hand as he turned to her, and led her out of the room. She stared down at their joined hands, and frowned. What is he doing here...? He is putting everyone of us in great danger...

He pulled her to him as they made it down the stairs, and he leaned against the wall. "And I...miss you. my blossom..." he murmured. He leaned forward, as if wanting to kiss her, and as her lips parted in anticipation, he stopped and pulled back, as if teasing her. he wrapped an arm around her slender waist, and ran his hand over the back of her neck. He came forward again, meeting her open mouthed, letting his tongue meet hers. She made a small keening sound, and he pulled away.

"Why-w-why are you here, Sasuke-Kun..." She murmured, and he dragged her mouth to his again, his tongue meeting hers again, exploring her mouth, and making her sigh again. His tongue slid over and around hers, and she arched against him helplessly, unable to refuse his offer. "...Sasuke...!!" She suddenly pulled away from him, and glared at him. His kisses were different. more...demanding...less affectionate...less...loving. She couldn't place it. What is with him...?

"Why...why a-are you here, then Sasuke? A simple fuck? Sorry Sasuke-Sama, But I will NOT comply with you urges no longer. Not until this is over!" She hissed, and backed away.

"I can't stay. I didn't come to get some from you, don't worry...I came to talk to Naruto. And, to see how you and the kids were doing...I had heard that Ishin ran off the other night."

"What...? He's fine. He got angry that's all. Nothing for someone who isn't here to worry about." She retorted. Before she could react, he grabbed her by the upper arms, and slammed her up against a wall to their left. she gasped and her back popped.

"What made him so mad to run away, Sakura...?" He muttered. "Word has it that you were drooling over the replacement..." Her eyes widened.

"You...You're NOT Sasuke-Kun..." She murmured. Then, three jet black, hissing snakes made their way out from under his sleeves, and slid over her body and around her waist and legs. the last one looked her in the eye, and she stared her attacker in the face. "WHO the FUCK are you..."

The imposter's voice changed from Sasuke's deep masculine voice to a lighter feminine one. "Oh...You should already know...we were created incase our lord failed to take little Sasuke-Kun..." She froze, knowing exactly who their lord was.

"Mom? Dad...?" Ishin's sleepy voice. "You guys are fighting aren't you...?" He asked, rubbing his eyes with a fist, and staring at them as if they had just murdered someone.

"ISHIN--" She was cut off as a hand was shoved onto her mouth, silencing her warning.

"Go to bed, Ishin." Sasuke's deep voice rang out, and Ishin stayed where he was. " I said GO." Then the boy looked back towards his mother, who was still pinned to the wall, and then scoffed.

"TCH...whatever..." He turned on his heel and walked back upstairs.

ISHIN, NO...No...don't...take them and RUN...!!

She struggled, but even her inhuman strength couldn't help her this time around. "Mhphmmmmmmph...!!" She narrowed her gaze on 'Sasuke's' now slitted yellow eyes.

"The more you struggle, dear...the tighter they get, until your bones are crushed...and the last dying breath leaves you body..." an inhuman chuckle came from the imposter's throat, and a hand went around Sakura's slender throat. The voice went to it's delicate feminine tone again, and she growled. "Sakura-San...you do smell good...I wonder...My brother might find some good with you when He decides to... 'pop on out...' " Sakura's eyes widened, and her writhing struggles continued, with even more fervor than before.

"You...You bitch...! What did you do with Sasuke-Kun...!!" Her breathing became labored as the large black snakes wound tighter around her chest and abdomen, restrcting her breathing.

"Oh...kukukukukukuku...we did nothing...Yet..." The attacker's skin rapidly turned an albino color, like a pale, cloudy white, and the lips turned rose red and became full and feminine. The eyes went to a yellow and green flecked color, and eyeshadow appeared on the upper eyelids.

"How-How..." She was panting heavily now, and her vision was going black.

"I am Orochimaru's daughter...Takara...and my brother is called Osamu..."

"Geh...hah..." SHe was pulled foreward as the grip on her throat constricted even more, blocking off her oxygen supply. Her vision dimmed even more. SHIT...

"Shikei Seppun..." The female version of Orochimaru's spawn leaned forward, and Sakura's struggles renewed. The Snake freak's lips met hers, and Sakura felt her chakra being sucked out of her body. then she was dropped to the ground, and the female hissed and snarled in pain.

"I knew since I saw you, that you weren't my father. He would NEVER hurt my mother..." Ishin growled in a feral tone. Sakura choked, and tried to stand. She leaned back against the wall, feeling poison slowly leaking through her body, and her chakra was continuing to go down.

I...I have to...I have to protect...Ishin...Sayuri...Satoshi...she...they'll...they'll kill them...She lunged at the snake reincarnate, and sent a punch into the female's face, making her go flying across the room, over Ishin's head. Takara hit the Fusuma door, and it collapsed to the hallway outside. Ishin ran to his mother.

"MOM, are you all right...!?" He asked, worry clouding his dark green eyes. "Mom?"

"I...I'm fine, Ishin..." She panted heavily, and took a step toward the attacker. Takara stood up, and straightened her tall frame. then, her mouth opened, and Ishin's look of worry changed to on of horror, as something black started to emerge from her mouth.

"OH WHAT THE HELL!!" He yelled, and pointed. "That is the sickest shit I've ever seen in my life!!" Sakura herself wanted to throw up. but it was taking all of her concentration to stand.

"Uh--buuuuuwaaaaaaaaaah!!" A body landed on the ground, and slowly stood, also straightening it's body. It was an exact copy of Orochimaru.

"What the fuck...?" Sakura murmured, her vision cloudy, and she struggled to breath. "Are you..."

"I'm Osamu...I...I...am your worst fucking nightmare..."

He stared the mother and son down, and Ishin refused to meet his gaze. He knew what would happen, and he didn't want that to happen again. He wasn't going to rely on his father this time. He would protect his mother. And his younger siblings. He stared at the madman, watching his hands and body for movement, noting the way his fingers seemed to twitch.

"What do you want with my family..." Ishin asked, standing in a ready position.

The shadows played over the twin snake's faces, giving the deep grooves and hollows of their sunken features even more definition. It wade Ishin sick. He didn't want to touch them. But since they layed a hand on his mother and wanted to harm him and his family, he had no choice. "I want...you eyes. and your mothers medical skills...She has the best Chakra manipulation and control in all five Nin countries...she...is the second of the three Sannin...Your father...Hm...I just want him dead..."

Ishin turned his gaze to his heavily breathing mother. "Mom? why didn't you tell me...?"

"It's not important, Ishin. I'll fill you in later, now watch HIM!!" The last part of her sentence was a yell, and Ishin sprang into action as Osamu lunged for him. He couldn't see his movements well enough to interpret his hand signs, and before he knew it, snakes shot out of the man's mouth and wrapped themselves around the shocked boy's body.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!" Then, Sakura appeared out of nowhere, and grabbed hold of Osamu's long, ebony black hair, and swung him around with one hand, while cutting Ishin loose with a kunai. Then she released her victim and sent him flying. she was sent sprawling as she blocked a punch with her arms that was delivered by an enraged Takara. Sakura was slammed into a wall, and she slid down to the ground.

"Now...for the easy prey...then we'll come back for you, Ishin-Chan..." She cooed, putting extra emphasis on the suffix, purposely enraging the boy.

"I...AM. Not. WEAK..." He snarled, and closed his eyes, ducking his head. He then rushed his enemy that was now turning down the hall, and suddnely disappeared.

A shunsin No Jutsu...? How the hell did this kid--Takara's thought was cut off as a powerful kick was delivered to her face, and the crackle of breaking bone was loud and audible through the quiet night air. Ishin landed on both feet and looked up at the two twin snake's taht were now lying against each other, staring at him with wide eyes. They were now staring into blood red eyes with black as sin pupils bordered with twin Tomoe.

DUNDUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUN DUNDUN

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REVIEWS MY PEOPLES!! FOR THE SAKE OF RED!! BLOOD BLOD BLOOD RED!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

UchihaSanNin

I luvs us...