Yo, guys I'm back! Sorry for the long wait DDDDDDD:
I wanted to update early I really did but I was on vacation(for 3 weeks, whoot!:D) and I couldn't update there D':
I'm sorry!:OOOOO please forgive me!
Cause I love you all.
Sasuke: She's telling the truth.
sakura: she was whining all day that she couldn't update and that her readers would hate her.
Naruto: But I cheered her up! Believe it!
Me: That's true you're such a cutie, Naruto :*****
And a big thank you to sheflirtswithstarbuckscashie rs(or redxcherrie ;D) for cheering me update, too! You have to put up with so much because of me -.-' I feel bad :D
Sasuke: You should. You've been nagging her every day.
Me: Don't make me feel even worse Sasuke *tears*
ANYWHO! My lovely readers! All the other reviews helped me through that harsh time too! I LOVE YOU GUYYYSSSSSS! I guess I'm...multisexual?:D
SO CONTINUE TO MAKE ME HAPPY
...I don't own, bitches *runs into a corner and cries*
She couldn't focus. Her eyes were dull and the world around her was a plain grey. She felt Itachi's arm around her shoulder steadying her as they walked but she couldn't feel the warmth she usually felt when he was around. Even though she would need it right now.
It was very quiet. She was left alone with her thoughts. And when she did think about it she was generally left alone. Without him nothing had a meaning. She didn't have a meaning.
And because of her wish for a new meaning, a new challenge, a new identity she joined the new Akatsuki.
She needed to…forget. But how should this be possible?
Sakura wasn't able to forget him after he left her as a team mate, so how should she forget him after he left her as a lover, a fiancé!
"Let's rest here for the night", Kabuto proposed but it wasn't something you could really oppose.
They were near Takigakure, her mind recognized for her
As Sakura sat down and stared emptily at the camp fire Deidara had quickly made, the rest of them build up the camp.
After setting it up, they sat down next to her and began making something to eat.
"Do you want to eat something, too, un?", Deidara stopped humming as he stirred in the pot.
Sakura shook her head.
"Gonna go for a walk", she murmured and stood up.
After a few steps she was engulfed by darkness the trees provided.
She didn't know how long or how far she walked, she stopped when she landed on a small clearing.
The light of the moon gave it a ghostly glow.
She couldn't take it anymore.
The numbness suddenly faded and tore her heart in two.
An agonizing scream made its way out of her throat as she punched a tree, full force and effortlessly splitting it in two.
Because she hadn't used any chakra, the skin on her knuckles split and began to bleed furiously.
Clutching her hand and sinking to the ground, tears rolled down her cheek.
All her bottled up emotions were exploding.
First she had been angry. Angry with Konoha for betraying her and hurting her.
But then there was just the pain. The unbearable pain that broke her and took her sanity.
That's how Kabuto found her, crying on the cold ground, as he kneed down beside her.
"How are you?"
"What do you think?", the pinkette sobbed.
The medic awkwardly put an arm around her shoulder trying to comfort her.
"Ne, Sakura-chan?"
Sniff.
"What is it?"
"You know I'm a medic right?"
"Yeah, but why should I care?", she cried.
"I think…I can help you…"
"Eh?", Sakura looked up, surprised.
Kabuto took a small bottle, filled with a dark liquid out of his cloak.
"What's that?"
"You know lithium?"
The pinkette nodded.
"It's something like that."
"Isn't it dangero-?"
"Just drink it…", he said, seemingly helpless, because his efforts to help her were to no avail.
Sakura hurriedly took the vile and drank its contents, while Kabuto smiled at her.
"I hope it will help you", he still smiled as he stood up.
But when he turned his back to Sakura, his smile turned into a victorious, sick smirk.
"What do you mean, you can't find her?", Sasuke demanded while slamming the ANBU that broke the news to them against a wall in the Hokage's office.
"Uchiha, calm down!", the Hokage barked roughly.
Kakashi got him off the poor shinobi and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"She's right, Sasuke."
"Calm down, calm down, how can I calm down?", the last survivor of the Uchiha clan raged.
"Sakura's missing and I don't know why and where she is!"
"Well...", Naruto chirmed in, "I think some of us may have an idea why she's missing", he said while giving Tsunade a pointed look.
Said woman sighed.
"Alright, I'll tell him…You see, Sasuke…Anosa…I think you should sit down", the blonde struggled to say.
Sasuke obeyed and sat down (what he would never do under normal circumstances, but it was about his soon-to-be-wife, dammit!).
"The thing is…before Naruto vouched for you…there was your death sentence and all…and it could have happened…", she stopped but Sasuke urged her to go on.
"…that she thinks…you're dead."
"What?", the raven nearly-screeched, very un-Uchiha-like.
But before Sasuke could let his rage show another ANBU appeared in a puff of smoke.
"From reliable sources, Squad 13 found out that Haruno Sakura left the village", the shinobi hesitated before going on, "with Itachi, Deidara and Kabuto…in an Akatsuki robe."
Death silence hung above the room.
When Sakura came back to the camp, she did feel a bit better. Well better was the wrong word…just number.
She plopped down on a log next to Deidara who instantly put his arm around her waist.
Questions flooded her mind she wasn't able to produce before.
Her eyes narrowed slightly as she asked the first, most obvious one.
"How can you be alive?"
Itachi chuckled lowly and Deidara grinned at her but Kabuto answered her.
"It's a resurrection jutsu that I came up with. I use the dead bodies and let their soul flood in them again. It's a bit like a puppet jutsu and I had Sasori help me develop it before his…well death, even though the 'puppets' still have their own mind, but I can control them when I want to which most of the time isn't needed because they support my ideas and ideals."
Sakura's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Then can you-"
"No."
Her eyes were filled to the brim with tears.
"Why not?"
"Konoha destroys the body of those who are sentenced to death. Without bodies I can't perform the jutsu. I'm sorry, Sakura-chan."
Said girl sniffed but nodded as she stared into the sparks of the fire, swirling and dancing.
Her mind still moved around Kabuto's words.
"Kabuto...?"
"Yes?"
"What are your ideals?"
Instead of Kabuto, Itachi answered.
"You know the elders and governments of the shinobi villages are corrupted, Sakura. We want to change it. We want to stop the pointless wars during villages and countries because of their councils. Our ideal is very similar to the Allied ninja forces. We want to reunite the countries and let them become one to stop pointless fights."
Sakura gulped afraid that the answer for her next question would be the same Madara gave her.
"And how will you get the power to do such a thing?"
Deidara laughed and held her tighter against him.
"Don't worry, no bijuus this time, un."
Kabuto nodded.
"We found an even greater source of power. Sakura you know the element chakras right?"
"Of course fire, water, earth, wind and lightning."
"Well we found another element."
"What? That's impossible!"
Deidara chuckled.
"Apparently it's not dumbass, un."
"And what would that element chakra be?"
"It's called dark element chakra. If you train it its minimized jutsu will be superior to the most advanced jutsus from other elements…There was one person who was the first to use it. He didn't use its force directly because it needs a lot of specialized training but he mixed it with lightning chakra."
Sakura gulped as an uneasy feeling made its way into her gut.
"A-and who would that be?"
Kabuto and Itachi exchanged glances while Deidara just looked at her sympathetically.
Itachi then spoke up.
"That person would be…my little brother."
"Sasuke-kun…", the pinkette whispered and felt the numbness fading for a short time.
Tears were in her eyes again and she slowly, apprehensively touched the ring Sasuke gave her.
Her hands shook, but Deidara sandwiched them firmly and looked in her eyes.
"Come, I'll take you to your tent…you should rest a bit."
When Deidara and Sakura left the fire place, Itachi turned to glare at Kabuto.
"What did you give her?"
Kabuto's answer was a sick smirk.
"You don't need to know", he answered while standing up himself.
"But be prepared to hear a lot screaming tonight."
Sasuke was already impatiently waiting as the first members of the Rookie 9(plus Team 10) appeared.
Hinata and Tenten were the first and came with a slightly flushed face.
Neji came in next and instantly put his arm protectively around his girlfriend's waist while glancing warily at Naruto who smiled slightly at Hinata, who again was blushing and near fainting.
"Two more to go…", Tsunade mumbled, already knowing that the third person even though it was an emergency would come later than the rest.
Sasuke slumped down into a chair.
He couldn't stand anymore. He felt too…drained.
Being away from Sakura and knowing he wouldn't be seeing her soon, was taking its toll on him.
It was like he was without his drugs for too long.
He needed her.
Just like drugs.
His hands shook as he buried his head in them, every in the room shoot him sympathetic glances (as far as Neji could glance sympathetically), but he dismissed them.
They didn't matter. Nothing matter. There was only Sakura for him.
Sakura, Sakura, Sakura.
The only thing on his mind.
He couldn't concentrate on anything Tsunade said as she cursed the two remaining members of the search party for being late.
And right when she was about to break something or rather somebody Ino and Sai appeared with unruly hair and red faces.
Only god knew what they were up to.
"Why were we summoned, Tsunade-sama? As an emergency, too…", Sai started.
Said woman looked up and glared at the two.
"You got that just right, you two. An emergency it is. And when there is and emergency and you're summoned, YOU ARE TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT TO ME! HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD?"
"Y-yes…", Ino squeaked while Sai just stared at her.
"And the reason why you are all here is", the Hokage looked around the room, her glance halting at Sasuke's divested look, "because a highly skilled shinobi went missing."
The girls gasped as the eyes of the boy's(who didn't know already) widened.
Ino's eyes flickered towards Sasuke and she suddenly stood there in shock. Could it be…?
Tenten, having the same thought, spoke up bitterly.
"It's Saks, right."
Tsunade stared at her for a moment and then nodded.
Ino again gasped and all the girls were near tears. They had all been good friends.
"Forehead's gone…?"
Then realization hit her and her eyes flew towards Sasuke again.
"Gosh, Sasuke-kun, I'm so sorry for you!"
The raven just shook his head. His face was still hidden behind his palms.
"You are the search party that will go after her."
They all nodded.
"Since this is a very dangerous mission, it's S-ranked of course and since there might be combat with Akatsuki members, I will send a highly skilled battlefield medic with you."
Sasuke stiffened visibly. Sakura was a highly skilled battlefield medic…
The rest just wondered who that person would be until-
"Shizune!"
The brunette haired woman stumbled into the offices with lots of scrolls and papers in her arms.
"H-hai, Tsunade-sama?"
"I'm sending you on a mission."
After putting the papers on Tsunade's desk(and earning a glare for it) Shizune stood straight.
"Hai. What kind of mission?"
"You will be on the search party for Sakura."
The medic nin nodded.
"Then I take it Shizune-san is captain?", Neji asked in his calm, collected voice.
He tried to beware a cool head even though he had been very close with Sakura, too.
Every one had.
"No, actually not. Under normal circumstances I would have send Kiba and Shino with you to help you with tracking, but they are on another mission right now and Shikamaru as captain is in Suna right now, so your captain will be-" PUFF!
In a puff of smoke the infamous white haired copy ninja appeared and greeted them with his trademark "Yo."
Tsunade sighed and continued.
"-Kakashi. You'll start in Oto because Sasuke still has connections there and might find something out about a hideout. You'll depart in one hour from the gates. DISMISSED!"
Woot, Woot! The end, my lovelies!
OMG Kabuto! Bad boy, bad boy! But still...is it weird for me to think the new OrochimaruKabuto is...kinda hot? yes I know I'm disgusted with myself too D':
Gosh my poor baby Sasuke! Falling into depression without his Sakura DDDDDD': TEARS GUYS! TEARS!
Sasuke:...don't make it more embarrassing for me than it already is.
Sakura: Sasuke-kun you're so cute
Me: *squeal with Sakura at his cute/hotness*
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-JuxVa-chan