Death and rebirth
Chapter 7
UchihaSanNin Does Not Own Naruto.
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UchihaSanNin
So...here I am sitting here in the sunroom, watching for tornadic activities outside...and watching the news...so if there are any ANY grammatical errors, then I am sorry...I am highly paranoid right now...Ive been through a tornado b4, and I am getting ready to bolt towards the closet that is right across the hallway...DX The tornado sirens went off here in dothan like twice now. so Yeah...I am HIGHLY paranoid...And My sister is at the school that got hit last yr on March 1st. So yeah...urgh...I wanna cry...!!
Sakura handed Hikaru to The big man who seemed to tower over her. Karin stood to the side, staring at her with utter disgust in her eyes.Sakura refused to meet her stare, or she would lose the control over herself and have to rip her face off. Juugo looked from Karin to Sakura, and his friendly grin faded off to a morbid scowl. "Sasuke won't agree with what you are doing, Sakura-San...He will raise alot of Hell."
"I know...and as far as I care, he can do all the bull he wants. I am not going to sit here and watche them...I am also a Kunoichi,...a Sanin for that matter, and I can take care of things." She replied, and Hikaru reached out for her, letting his binky fall out of his mouth and to the dirt as his mouth opened in a silent protest.
"Mommy...!" Tears began to fall down his face, and she smiled at him.
"Just stay with Uncle Juugo for a few days, baby...Mommy will be back...I promise...okay...?" She caressed the boy's soft hair, and backed away. She made a hand sign and disappeared a few seconds later.
Later...
"Naruto-Kun..." She whispered, pulling her short, pink hair out of her eyes, and putting it into a ponytail at the back of her head. "I want to assemble a team of ANBU and join the effort."
Naruto looked up and stared at his long time friend. "I can't do that, Sakura-San. You know as well as I do, that if something happens to you or Ishin, Sasuke would really come unglued, and kill me along with whoever managed to hurt you. I'm sorry. It's out of the question." He waved her away, and she rolled her eyes, and walked over to the large oak desk he sat behind.
She clenched her fist, and growled. "I was Tsunade's apprentice for Kami's sake. I know how to defend myself. I still have the best chakra control, and I can beat you and Sasuke both in a sparring match with my strength alone. So don't even go there about the oh I am so defensless fangirl routine, baka!!"
Naruto stared up at her, and his eyelid twitched. "..."
"Naruto, I swear...If you don't do this for me, I'll-"
"Okay, okay, okay!! Don't you even dare make that threat again!!" He stood, and glared daggers at her. "You get your old team back. Is that good enough?"
"Fine with me." She answered, a smile replacing her scowl.
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Akihiko and his brother, Liu, walked down the small path to the training grounds. They watched the scenery pass them by as they walked slowly, and reveled in the sweet, intoxicating smell of the Cherry blossoms. Akihiko looked over at his younger twin, and smiled. "Doesn't that scent remind you of our old sensei...?"
Liu just scowled, and stacked his hands behind his head, threading his fingers into the feather-like hair at his nape. "Feh..." He turned his amazing grey-blue flecked eyes the the azure blue sky, ignoring him. "What makes you think I want to have to be reminded of a traitor, huh, Akihiko-Kun? She is out of our lives so deal with it."
"Huh...Siut yourself then. Hn...I heard that she's come back to Konoha while the Otokage is in Oto still. They say that he disowned her or something."
"Well," Liu muttered, a clear note of pissiness in his voice, "Then I guess that she got what she wanted eh...? I mean she has been dragging us on mission after ungodly mission to search for the guy that supposedly took her heart and left her with nothing. And now...since she's gone, I guess that she and us both can be happy. She Had him, and we no longer have to search for him."
Akihiko had stopped walking, and Liu noticed his brother's lack of light footsteps and lack of response. "Liu-Kun...? Hey, what--" He looked backwards over his shoulder, to see his brothers equally amazing grey-blue flecked eyes widened considerably. His jaw was hanging to the dirt, and he was pointing to something in front of him.
Liu gulped. Only one thing could scare the piss out of his older twin brother. and that was...
"Liu, I would like for you to repeqat that sentence one last time...I don't think I heard you quiet right." Sakura Haruno's voice. He turned fully around, and saw her hellish look. A blood vessel throbbed to the point of busting in her wide forehead, and he smerked half-heartedly.
"Sa-Sa-Sa-Sakura-San...I...I um...hi..." He scratched and fidgeted with the Konoha hitai-ate that was tied around his bulging bicep on his right arm. "Uh...hows the married life...?"
"You stupid BAKA!!" She drew back a fist and slammed it into his face, and the sheer force of the blow sent him flying backwards thirty feet.
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Later...
"Sakura-San!!" Came a high pitched sqeaul, and a young brown haired jade eyed jounin came flying out of the cover of the trees at the pinkette. "It's really you!!" It's been twelve years!!"
Sakura turned to be engulfed into a strong embrace, and smiled when she reckognized her smaller Sakura-reincarnate. It was Lin. The young kunoichi now full grown Jounin that she taught as a Genin. She looked up at her master with hazy, teary jade green eyes. "Sakura-San, we've missed you so much! No matter how indifferent Liu acts!!"
They pulled away from each other after a few minutes, and started walking toward the training grounds. ""I've missed you guys too...But...I didn't come here to re establish my bonds with you guys...Not entirely..."
"Don't tell me you have a proposition for us, Hime..." Akihiko asked, reverting to the old nickname they gave her, from being Tsunade's pupil. She didn't mind the Chan part, It was just an affectionate name that they had given her in their Genin days. The twins had a crush on her, and it had accidently slipped out one day, and then it just became custom to call her that.
"Naruto-Sama has allowed me back into the ANBU...And I need your help. My family is in danger..."
The twins pumped their fists rapidly into the air. "You got it, Hime!! We yours!!" They shouted simultaniously.
Lin shook her head and rolled her eyes. "So...what's going on, Hime...?"
Sakura sighed. "You'll all have to sit down and hear me out. It's a long story..."
"Sure thing, Master!!" They all said, and went into a full out sprint for the training grounds.
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"You gotta be fucking kidding me." Akihiko monotoned without realizing it, then clapped a hand over his mouth.
"We're going to go into unknown territory." Liu echoed after his brother, "And look for Sasuke-Teme's bast--I mean son...and do an all out fight to the death to get him back out of KAMI KNOW'S WHO'S HANDS...?"
"Yep." Sakura nodded, looking each of her team mate's in the eyes. "I am tired of Sasuke-Kun not allowing me to do anything...I was able to keep Ishin from getting killed twice now...I can fend for myself...and I have you guys with me...and Sasuke-Kun doesn't know that I am here. What he doesn't know won't hurt him, eh?"
"You say that now..." Lin answered. "As much as you talked about him...how...tempermental and random he can be with his anger...That probrably won't last for long...He will find out, Hime...and He won't like it..."
"Just rememeber...I can take some flack for ya when you need it blocked...but damn...I sure as HELL ain't takin' nothing from an Uchiha. He'd fucking kill me..." Liu stated, and stood up. He ran a hand through his brown locks of hair that fell into his eyes, and it was sent flying every which way with the light breeze that blew against them. "DO we have any type of Itell at all?"
"All I know is that Kakashi Hatake is out there with his Nin dogs, and his own team of ANBU also...and found no traces whatsoever...we need to join them." She simply stated. Lin smiled half-heartedly, and pulled her long, brown hair up quickly into a pony tail at her nape.
"Well, we've worked with this type of info before, so let's do it." She smiled, and held her hand out. The twins threw their hands in, smiling like idiots, clasping her smaller one in their own. Sakura smiled, tears in her eyes, thankful for the team that she had practically raised before she was forced to go to Oto. She grasped their hands with her own, and they all winced at her strong grip.
"That...hurts..." Sakura just squeezed hardcer and laughed.
"Thankyou, you guys..." She murmured.
Kakashi crouched down on his haunches as PakKun leaped over the trees toward him. "...?"
The small pug like Nin dog just sighed. "Nothing, Kakashi. Not a damn thing. It's like they were just wiped off the face of the earth. I don't even understand it myself. No traces of chakra, or anything."
Kakashi stood, scratching the back of his head, ruffling his silver hair. "Where did they go...?"
"Us dogs can't smell anything through water, Kakashi. Neither can you. Naruto couldn't even pick anything up, and he learned to track people from Inuzuka Kiba. I think they are from the Mist. Elite Water Nin. Like that Suigetsu from Oto that works along with That Uchiha kid."
"Hm..." Kakashi thought for a moment, and looked down at his Nin dog counterpart. "You may be right, Pakkun. But...right now...we have no choice but to set camp, and send word to Naruto-Kun of our discovery."
"Hai." Pakkun leaped away, to get the others.
Meanwhile...
Ishin slowly opened his eyes. It was dark. He closed them slowly again, and blinked slowly. His head was killing him. His mouth was dry, and his throat felt like sandpaper. "..." His voice was like a harsh croak. He needed water. His hands were tied behind his back, and something tight was around his ankle. He flexed his arms, testing to see if he could break his restraints. It was to no avail. No matter how he tried, he couldn't do it. He didn't have either the strength or the chakra reserve.
"H...Ha...Haj...Hajime...?"
No answer. Ishin felt his fear leaking through his insides, and his mind seemed to stop working. He struggled to keep the tears at bay. They couldn't have killed him! He's the Hokage's son! They must want him for something!! But WHAT!!
"Ha-Hajime...!" He croaked, in a voice that he didn't reckognize. He moved around, and froze, feeling that cold iron band around his ankle once again. Before he could activate his sharingan, a door was thrown open, and light filtered into the room, blinding the raven haired bo for a few seconds.Clean, fresh air swarmed the place, letting the boy breath, instead of having htat stuffy dank smell. Ishin squinted and looked up at the form in the dorrway. a large muscular man over half his height, stood in the light.
Hajime's limp form was suddenly bathed in that sunlight, and Ishin's eyes widened. "Hajime!!" He sat up and dove for his friend, and before he made it over to him, he was grabbed up by the back of his shirt, and dragged out, leaving the limp form of the blond boy in the darkness as the door was slammed behind him.
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The young Uchiha was literally eating the ground as he was thrown down once again, after being dragged through another hut. He was sortof glad to escape the jeering cheers of the ugly looking Nin that stared after him and laughed. Ishin spat blood, and came up on his knees, his upper body was balanced on his forehead, and his lower half on his knees. He rolled back, allowing his wieght to roll up onto his heels and knees under him, and looked up, to see open toed Nin sasndals and black painted toenails.
He spat again, expelling dirt and blood once more from his mouth, and looked up, letting his gaze settle on his kepers face. He reckognized the person emidietly. Then a foot lashed out and took him off the ground as the open toed Nin Sandal struck him in the chin. Ishin was sent sprawling on his back, and he closed his eyes tightly, feeling his teeth get buried into his bottem lip.
He just sat up again, slowly this time, and spit the blood out once more. and the clot of blood landed on the person's feet. "Bitch!" He sneered. "I knew that there was a reason that i didn't like your ugly ass...and not only becuase you constantly drooled all over my father..." He looked closer, and his eyes narrowed on the blanket that wqas wrapped around a bundle in her arms.
Karin looked down at the little boy that was in her arms and had his face scrunched up, trying to keep from squawling. She cooed to him, and then narrowed her red eyed gaze on Ishin once more. "You know, Brat, this kid should be mine...not your mother's..."
"Get your hands off of my little brother!!" He got up on his wobbly legs, activating his sharingan in his fit of anger, and started to move toward the redheaded woman, but a foot was planted squarely into his back. He was sent back into the ground, and he was eating the dirt once again. He coughed loudly, and glared up at his old babysitter with a nasty, sand hazed glare. "What makes you think my father would let you-"
"That's enough." A gruff, deep voice cut off the boy's angry protest, and the foot dug into his back. He gritted his teeth to keep from crying out.
"...Guh..." His face was sent back into the dirt, sending up a puff of dirt and dust.
"Uchiha Ishin..." The man muttered, letting his foot off his back. "There are many, many people out for you..." Ishin slowly let his face up out of the dirt, and glared up at the muscular man who comepletely degraded him as he was dragged through the encampment of Mist and water Nin.
"What do you want from me, Mist Nin...?" He growled, seeing the tell tale hitai-ate that was tied around his bicep on his right arm, showing that he was from the Land of Waves. his eyes still blood red, the two twin tomoe clearly visible around his black as sin pupils.
"Oh, it's not me that want you...Its them." The man stated as he came around to veiw Ishin's face. Ishin's eyes narrowed, and started to turn, but he was grabbed and thrown back to the ground, this time on his back, and his hands flattened out underneath his weight. He stared up into those sickening yellow, green flecked eyes. Slitted pupils seemed to narrow even more as the focused onto his face.
Ishin swore to himself that as he was shoved further into the ground (IF it was even possible) That each and every vertebrea in his spine popped at least three times.
He stared up into those eyes, showing no fear. It was Takara who was sitting ontop of him. Her fingers dug into his shoulders, and her brother, Osamu, stood to the sidein his white snake form, staring the two of them down. Ishin never broke her gaze. Takara's inhuman, purple, snake like tongue flicked out of her mouth, and over Ishin's throat. He narrowed his gaze on those slitted pupils, and she stared into those alluring ruby red eyes. "Yes...show me the power of the Sharingan, Uchiha..."
Then, she hissed, and opened her mouth wide, and dove in for a bite. Ishin's whole body stiffened, and his mouth opened in a silent scream. His blood red gaze widened, his pupils retracted, and then the iris went back to their orignial iredesent dark green color. Takara pulled away, and licked the blood off of her chin and lips, then stood. Ishin could do nothing but bellow loudly in pain.
Hikaru sobbed at his brother's painful cry, and started crying himself. He writhed against Karin, and she scowled.
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!" Ishin writhed, and curled into the fetal position, then struggled to get loose from his restrainst that kept his arms at his back. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
Purple liquid dripped from the two twin 1 Inch diameter holes in his neck, the soaked into his skin as they seemed to disappear. Takara smiled, and looked up at the man who watched in silence. "He should be dead within the week." Takara chuckled madly, and disappeared in a hazy smoke.
Sakura crouched down onto the thick branch, upside down. Her three man team leaped ahead, stopping not too far away. Her slitted skirt came up to her waist as it came off of her hips and legs, showing her long, well muscled legs and rounded bottem. Like she cared.
She took a second to take in her surroundings, and then relaxed, cutting off the chakra flow to her feet. She flipped over as her feet came off of the tree branch, and landed gracefully on her feet, in a low crouch.
"We'll stay the night here. I'll take first watch. Lin, second, Liu, thrid, and Akihiko, third. Understood?" She odered, and stood to her full heigth.
"Hai." They all answered at the same time, and shouldered their way out of their heavy packs.
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She stared at the full moon, and clenched her fists in her lap. "Ishin...where the hell are you...?"
A pair of well muscled arms hugged her to an epqually muscled body, and she sighed. "Go to bed, Liu. When I need comfort I'll let you know next time."
"Well..." The brown haired grey eyed man sat down in front of her, and smiled. "It's kind of hard to do when you can feel someone else's feeling from about fifty feet off. It's not the greatest of gifts... I hate being able to read your mind sometimes..." he chuckled. "You're makin gme want to cry, hime."
He pulled away, and smiled. "Go to bed. I got this watch."
"No. I am fine. I'm the leader of this teeam so you better--"
"GO TO BED." he ordered. He pointed down at the place he just left that was between his brother and Lin. "Now, Sakura. I may be a subordinate, but you are our only medical Nin here on this team. and you knkow as well as I do, that you need to be at your top." She stood and jumped down from the tree branch.
"Fine..." She grolwed. "Just don't be a bitch from lack of sleep tommorrow."
"Huh..." He smirked, and fought to keep the slow blush down to a minimum. "Have I ever...?"
Suigetsu ran Shikamaru Naara down with the door. He was panting hard. He didn't even bother to knock, or try to open the door, loike any normal Nin would've done. He barreled right through it, not even noticing the Nin that it fell over onto. He now stood ontop of the lazy, cloud watching Leaf nin, bent ove, hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath.
"I gotta...replace...the door...AGAIN...?" naruto growled in dismay, "God Damnit..." Sasuke pushed off of the desk, and crossed his arms over his muscled chest. He stared the water Nin down, and scowled.
"What is it." He demanded.
"Karin...she...gone..." He replied, breathless.
"Like I care." Sasuke snorted, and turned back to naruto.
Suigetsu took a deep breath, and looked up, one eye closed due to sweat getting into it, and the other eye stared the uchiha down. "Sakura-San...she is gone too...and karin...she took Hikaru...she knocked Juugo out..."
Sasuke froze. Ishin...He can defend himself...to a limit...at least until we get to him...But...Hi-Hikaru...? Karin...??
Before anyone could move, Sasuke uchiha was on Suigetsu, and he grabbed the panting Water Nin's collar, and slammed him back against the door that still stood on the left side of the frame. "WHERE IS SHE!!" He roared. "WHERE IS KARIN? SAKURA!? WHERE DID SHE TAKE HIKARU!!" Suigetsu flinched back, and Sasuke loosened his hold a little.
"I don't know! We need to track her before the scent goes-- COOOOOOOLD!!" He yelled that last word becuase Sasuke had thrown him to his left, and stomped out of the room.
"I'm going to fucking kill that bitch..." He muttered, loud enough for everyone to hear. His hand was gripping the hilt of his kusinagi tight enough to turn his knuckes white.
Naruto watched, unable to tell Sasuke about what Sakura was doing, becuase he was gone from his sight and radar. He had just got through with telling the Uchiha that his duaghter, Amaya, had been taken also just the day before. No fight, or struggle. It is someone that they know. He watched calmly as Suigetsu walked over and lent a hand to a crawling Shikamaru, whoo was easing his way out from underneath the fallen heavy door. Shikamaru looked up, and took it. He stood, popping his back, and Suigetsu laughed.
"My bad. Didn't knkow ya was behind there, or I woulda shouted a warning..."
"You fatasses...you'd all outweigh Chouji any day...shit...how troublesome..." He replied, and sighed.
Naruto sighed, whispering, "At least we have a scent to go off of..." He faded off, and heard a faint knocking sound from his left, and turned to see a black crow pecking at the window. Sai's ink bird. with a scroll tied to the birds scaly leg.
Sasuke had an unlikely gang of teammates. Akamaru and Inuzuka Kiba. Rock Lee. Tow people that he couldn't care less to be with. But he need Akamaru and Kiba becuase of their super sense of smell. They had followed him back to Sound, along with Suigetsu and Lee, and traced the scent of the redhead. Then, they had all taken off. Juugo had set out alongside the Uchiha.
It had been three days since Ishin and now Hikaru and Sakura had gone missing.
He sat up that night on the cold hard ground, as far away from the glow of the fire as he could get. He stared at the moon that seemed to bathe his surroundings in its everlasting, pale white glow, and sighed.
I am such a fucking idiot...
Little did he know, Sakura was thinking the same thing.
But now he knew one thing, and one thing only.
He was going to make That bitch suffer. If there was one hair missing on His Sakura's or Ishin and Hikaru's heads, he wasn't going to kill her. Oh no. hew as going to prolong her death, and make her suffer badly. He didn't know how yet, but from seeing Orochimaru's sickening experiments, he had a notion how to do it.
R/R!!
Karin will DIEEEEEEEEE!!
YOSH!!
UchihaSanNin