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Ch22: Extraction
"Oy Suigetsu catch" Sakura threw her scarlet Akatsuki ring to him. "I want you to take my place this time for the extraction"
"Me? Why? Are you going off to take care of your boyfriend." He said teasing her over Itachi.
"Hn. " She ignored him. Then she turned to the rest of Akatsuki. "Extract the nine-tail fox from Naruto. I have business to tend to"
Someone :clears throat:
Sakura turns around to see who it was and her eyes land on Kimimaro looking at her expectantly.
"Aren't you forgetting something." He says with knowing eyes.
:something clicks into place: "Oh yeah, the soul trapper" Sakura calmly walks over to Naruto's unconscious body and begins pumping some of her chakra into him. With her perfect chakra control she effectively removes Kushina's and Minato's chakra blocks. Then places a spirit bubble within Naruto.
"Don't worry Naruto this will keep you safe. You shouldn't feel a thing while they are removing the fox." She tells him and kisses him on the cheek comforting him even though he is unconscious.
"Awws" most of the Akatsuki taunt Sakura. Some even hoot "isn't that sweet. "
:laughs: "Shut up and get to work" she says in a playful manner and starts walking back to her room.
Before she gets to her door she realizes Kimimaro has been following her and turns around to talk to him.
"What is it Kimimaro?" she asks.
"I want to be by your side"
"No, not for this. You go and help them remove the nine-tails. I'll be alright."
Then he blurts out "I don't want you alone with him." As if he didn't want to say it, but had to let her know.
Oh really. "Why? Is it because you're concerned for my safety or is it because you don't want me fooling around with him? Either case will be up to me. I am more than capable of taking care of myself as for the other reason that is none of your concern."
Kimimaro winced. Ok a little too harsh there Sakura, she told herself.
"Kimimaro-"
"No you've already given your order, leader. I will go back" he says sneering at Sakura. You could tell he was not happy with her.
:sigh: I'll have to apologize to him later. Sakura turns back to her door and opens it; entering her room where the drugged Itachi is.
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Itachi was laying down on Sakura's bed with all four of his limbs tied down with special chakra rope. His hands are tied down on his sides and his feet are also tied down straight, with a foot of distance between them. She had wanted to tie him down in the most natural position as possible in order to make him feel more comfortable.
By now the groggy Itachi was awake and turned his head towards her.
"What are you going to do to me?" he said quietly unable to use his voice to its full potential.
Sakura gave him a warm smile trying to ease his hesitance towards her "It's going to be ok, Itachi-san." She told him kindly and walked over to him; placing a hand on his chest.
Itachi was so weary he couldn't even make a half attempted at struggling. It must be something she has put in my system.
"Just relax. It will all be over soon." Sakura fired up her green chakra and invaded Itachi's body.
He stared at her the entire time she was working. Now no longer afraid of what she was doing to him, because he knew.
"You're healing me" he said in a shocked voice. "How did you know I was sick?"
"Well I found out that you had a serious illness a long time ago, but it's status became known to me when I healed you from Orochimaru's poison." She brought her other hand and also put it on top of his chest, so that way both of them could go to work on Itachi's disease. "I couldn't heal you then because the procedure takes about 2 – 3 days and by then some Konoha shinobi would have come by and stopped me. "
One of Itachi's eyebrows arched up in a disbelieving fashion. "So you became the Akatsuki leader, just to kidnap me and heal me?" he said with a touch of sarcasm.
:giggles: "Noo. Although it's funny how it worked out that way." She said.
A moment of silence passed where he just admired her while she worked.
Why Sakura? Why are you doing all of this? Why do you always have to be such a mystery?
"I was thinking about stepping down as Hokage" Itachi said, breaking the silence.
"Oh yeah? Why?" she asked.
"My illness was starting to unable some of my fighting. I couldn't protect the village as well as other shinobi could."
She smiled "Well, I'm glad to be of assistance Lord Hokage"
He gave a soft small smile himself and was able to bring his hand up just enough so he could brush his fingers against her lower arm.
:gasp: The skin on skin contact momentarily taking Sakura off guard, but somehow she maintained her composure enough to keep up the medical healing jutsu she was performing on him.
"Itachi…" she whispered.
"Who are you Sakura Haruno?" he whispered back.
Sakura just looked into his concern dark ebony eyes for a while without answering "…".
She rarely has the opportunity to take a step back and appreciate him in all his Uchiha glory. Here is the most lethal man in the world touching her and worrying about her. Sakura's eyes started tearing up, but she was able to contain them inside. Itachi would probably do anything for Sakura, if she was only to ask, but she couldn't. This is something she has to do by herself. Taking a moment to really look at Itachi, she sees the man he really is. In her previous time period, Itachi was robbed of who he could have been. He had lost everything. His family killed by his own hand, his own village using him and destroying his reputation as a loyal shinobi, his most precious treasure, Sasuke, killing him from blind hatred, and all the while he was battling a serious illness all by his lonesome self.
How could she not answer him?
"Itachi…don't worry about me. I'm just a girl who fell for the wrong boy…"
He looked back into Sakura's teary emerald eyes.
The wrong boy?
Who could that be?
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When the Akatsuki finished extracting the nine-tails from Naruto, Sakura was ready and waiting for them. She had already finished healing Itachi and was just waiting on Naruto to take both of them back to the village.
"Alright he's good to go" Deidara told her. Sakura walked over to Naruto to make sure he was alright. She pressed a palm gently to his chest and injected some of her chakra into him to perform an internal exam.
"Naruto" she gently, trying to coax him awake. "Naruto, wake up we're finished."
Naruto's eyelids slowly fluttered half open to reveal his sapphire blue orbs. "Suki?" he whispered.
"Suki what-", but before he could finish Sakura pressed some pressure points to knock him back to sleep.
"Alright he looks good" she said and removed her hand from his chest. She then hauled him up on her giant Hawk owl along with the already unconscious Itachi and fastened them in securely.
"I should be back before you know it" Sakura said mounting her owl. Then she stretched an arm out to Kimimaro.
"Kimimaro…" she says to get his attention.
He has been angry with Sakura and has been faithfully ignoring her up until now, but he couldn't refuse her request for his attention. I've become weak, he thought.
Even though he couldn't stop himself from giving his attention to her, he could however make sure she knew he was angry at her. Kimimaro turns his head towards her and gives her an angry glare. What.:|
:Sigh: "Kimimaro will you join me?" she says in a sweet voice.
Damn her, she knows my weakness.
Kimimaro takes her outstretched arm and makes to mount her Hawk owl beside her, but before he fully situates himself Sakura stops his movements and tries to force him to look at her. He however refuses to cave in twice, it isn't until she asks him to that he does.
"Kimimaro look at me" she says in a firm voice. Kimimaro slowly lifts his eyes to gaze into her serious stare.
"I shouldn't have treated you that way Kimimaro, it was wrong of me. I'm sorry." She says in all seriousness.
Kimimaro nods his head; accepting Sakura's apology. Forgiven, forgotten.
Then he proceeds to sit behind Sakura and wraps his arms around her, holding her close to him. Sort of like a couple riding on a horse with the woman at the reins, except in this case the horse is a fearsome owl.
"Let's go Nissho!" she commands her owl and kicks him into gear.
Then they were off.
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Author's note:
Wow 22 chpts. That's crazy, I didn't think the story was going to be anywhere near this long and I still got a few more chapters to go!
lol :)
So yeah, see you guys Sakura is still sort of her caring self. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
I will now tell you that you guys already know who her 'dark master' is. It should be fairly obvious. If not I will tell you it is one of her romantic interest in the story.
Dang I've said to much.
Also I was thinking about cutting the story in half. With the other part being Sakura's life in the previous dimension, because when she starts explaining what happened before, that stuff is going to go into some serious dark stuff. Rated M stuff for sure.
So just let me know what you think should I keep this story a rating 'T' and make another story about her previous life and that be an 'M' rating or should I just change the rating on this story to 'M' when I explain what happened to her?
Sincerely
~Claja