**WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT**


I lost track of time as I just lay on the ground. Nightfall soon fell and I knew that it was time to get up and go find my team. I sat up and assessed my body. I wasn't really psychically injured, more mentally than anything. I heard thoughts in the distance and knew that it was my team looking for me. I stood up and made my way to where they were.

"Anako!" Naruto shouted, running over to me and grabbing me by the arm. "Why did you run off like that?"

"Why did you just disobey my orders? I specifically said not to face the Akatsuki by yourself and you just did it anyways." Master K said.

"Why didn't you come get one of us? We could've helped you." Yamato added.

"Just shut up!" I shouted, pulling away from Naruto. Everyone gasped at my sudden outburst. "I don't need anyone's help! I'm not a fucking pathetic little girl! I can handle myself! I'm not a damsel in distress! So quit treating me like I am! I don't need protection like Sakura and Hinata do! Unlike them, I made sure to get stronger so I wouldn't need the protection of anyone! I'm not like I was three years ago." I turned away from everyone and walked away from them. I felt a hand grab my shoulder.

"No one said you were like that." Naruto said.

"No, it's your actions. I don't need to always be saved. I know how to fight and I know how to defend myself. So quit giving me help when I don't want or need it." I snapped.

"Do you not understand that importance of teamwork?" Master K asked.

"Yes, I understand the importance of teamwork, but Yamato has even said that we're at the age and rank where we don't need protection."

"But we can help." Naruto said.

"Quit trying to save everyone Naruto!" I shouted at him. "You don't always have to prove that you're better than everyone else!"

"Just shut up, Anako!" Naruto shouted at me. "You know nothing about me! How dare you say that to me?"

"Yes I do! Can't you see that Sasuke doesn't want to come back to the village?" I shouted back. "I understand the bonds you share with him, but he just flat out doesn't care! So why push yourself so much to bring him back. I didn't ask you to do this for me!" Naruto didn't say anything to me. He just looked down and then turned away from me.

"I can't believe you'd say such a thing to me. You know my ninja way and if that's the way you feel about me, then I see no reason for us to be friends anymore." I gasped at what he said. I clenched my fists and walked over to him. I grabbed him by his shoulder and turned him to face me. My fist connected with his face as I heard a crunch. He flew back and hit a tree.

"Alright, enough of this!" Master K shouted. "You two need to stop this right now. There is no reason for you two to be fighting. I know both you are hurt over Sasuke, but that gives you no reason to say such harsh words to each other when you don't mean them. Your anger is getting the best of both of you. Fighting and yelling at each other isn't going to solve any of this. I know you two care deeply about each other, so just stop this. Your emotions are getting in the way."

I felt tears falling down my face and I looked at Naruto. He was crying as well. I made my way over to him hugged him. He hugged me tightly and rested his head on my shoulder.

"I'm sorry." He said.

"No I sorry. I had no right to say such things about you."

"I had no right to say what I did as well." Naruto said.

"We need to be strong for each other." I said.

"We'll do this together." Naruto said.

We pulled away from each other and I made my hand green, placing it over his face. I healed his nose and we turned back to the others.

"I'm sorry for my outburst. Sakura, Hinata, I am sorry for what I said about you." I said.

"It's okay." Sakura said.

"I-it's fine." Hinata said. Both of them were crying from all the yelling and shouting.

"Let's get some rest for tonight. I have a feeling Sasuke and his group has stopped as well." Master K said. Everyone nodded and we set up a camp. "Anako, can I talk to you?" I nodded and we went away from the group.

"I'm sorry for disobeying your orders. I'm just sick and tired of being the weak one."

"It's okay. I just want to know what happened."

"The Akatsuki found me. It was Deidra and his new partner named Tobi. I made my stand against them when Sasuke showed up and saved me. I stayed out of the fight while the two of them battled it out. Once they were both done, I made my way over to the two. That shining light was Deidra killing himself. Sasuke summoned Orochimaru's snake and it protected us. When I opened my eyes, I was in the forest, with no sign of Sasuke or the Akatsuki." I said. I didn't want to say what actually happened with Sasuke.

"Is that all?"

"Yes. Master K… that masked man… He's…" I stopped.

"He's what?"

"He's just weird." I said.

"Hmmm; okay." He said, nodding.

"I won't run off again." I said.

"Okay. Let's head back to the others." We made our way back to the others and I sat down.

"What happened to your cloak?" Kiba asked.

"I lost it during my fight." I said.

"Here, have mine." Naruto said, taking off his cloak and handing it to me.

"Thanks." I said, putting it on. We all talked for a few, before it was time to rest. I lay down and soon was fast asleep.


The next morning we were on our way. Kiba said we were getting closer and closer and sure enough I could feel Sasuke's chakra and hear his thoughts. Tree after tree our feet pounded against the branches. Kiba got a look of confusion on his face and said that Sasuke's scent was split up. I searched for his teams minds and found that the girl, Karin, is a sensor; a damn good one at that. She kept Sasuke's old clothes from battle and had another member spread them out. She's an obsessed fan girl. Hmmm. Naruto made shadow clones and they split up. I slipped out of my mind and went into Sasuke's. He was fighting Itachi and it was just one of Itachi's crow clones. He told Sasuke to meet him at the Uchiha Hideout. I left his mind as we continued. One of Naruto's shadow clones soon found Sasuke and his group. We followed Naruto and soon we came face to face with the masked man.

"Wow, I didn't think I'd find a bunch of leaf ninja way out here… And 8 on 1 isn't fair at all." Tobi said.

"He's an Akatsuki." Yamato said.

"He's not in the list that Kabuto gave us." Master K said.

"That's because I'm new to the company! Nice to meet you!"

"Don't start acting cocky yet! We haven't even fought yet!" Kiba yelled.

"Don't make any sudden movements. Just observe him for now… He's severely outnumbered, we've got an advantage." Master K said.

"You're not taking me seriously? Not cool…" Tobi said.

Naruto had made a shadow clone that tried to attack him. The Naruto clone went right through him. Ha. Just like I did. I closed my eyes and listened for the thoughts of Itachi or Sasuke. The fight had begun. I opened my mind further and found that his teammates stayed behind with Kisame. I needed to get to them. I watch as Naruto tried to fight Tobi. If I can just slip past him while the others fight him off, I'll be in the clear. I looked at the others and then back at Tobi. This breeze of cold air came by me and I got the chills. Something bad happened. I can just feel it. I shrugged the feeling off and took my chance to slip past Tobi.

"Anako! No!" Master K yelled at me.

I ignored him and continued to where the thoughts of Sasuke's team are. Clouds started to form as the rain began to pour down. I looked towards where I heard Sasuke and Itachi's thoughts and gasped. That's just insane. Lightening was going crazy. This has to be Sasuke's doing since Itachi is a fire user. I needed to make sure that I stayed away from Sasuke's team or they'd come after me. I hid my chakra as I made my way below where his teammates where. My feet pounded against the ground as I got closer and closer to the battle. The rain stopped as I felt immense chakra ahead of me. I looked ahead and gasped at what I saw. Itachi had this armor thing around him and around Sasuke was a bunch of snakes. Orochimaru took over Sasuke. Itachi's armor thing took Orochimaru out of Sasuke and sealed it in this gorge. Itachi coughed up some blood and then started talking. Being hidden, I was unable to hear what they were saying. Itachi started coughing more and this time blood was in his hand. The armor around him shrunk down. I reached his mind to find out the name of that technique. Susanoo. It's an ability of the Manekyou Sharingan. Sasuke tried attack after attack and nothing was working. The Susanoo is like s shield that protects the user. Sasuke kept trying to attack as Itachi kept advancing on him. Sasuke had nowhere to go now as he was backed up against the wall. Itachi put his two fingers out to Sasuke and then poked his forehead. I saw a smile on Itachi's face as the Susanoo was completely gone. Itachi thudded against the wall and I heard no thoughts from him. I put my head down as tears flowed out of my eyes. Itachi's gone. Rain clouds came again and I made my way out of hiding as I saw Sasuke starting to fall. I caught him before he could fall to the ground. I held him against me as he didn't say anything. He just had this blank expression his face. I made my hand green and placed it over his chest.

"Anako…" Sasuke said, looking at me. "You came back?"

"Yeah. I did." I said, sniffling and smiling at him. Sasuke started coughing and I panicked. I moved from him and made my hands green. His heartbeat started to fade and I made my hands green.

"No, no, no." I said, over and over again. "It's okay, Sasuke. I'm going to save you okay. I promise you're going to be okay!"

I felt his heartbeat start to come back and I sighed in relief. Oh thank god. I placed my hands on his chest as Sasuke laid unconscious. I needed to get Sasuke and Itachi out of here. I heard thoughts above me and looked up. The masked man sat there and just looked at us. I shielded Sasuke's body with mine and waited to see what the masked man was going to do.

"Relax. I'm not going to harm you right now. You healed Sasuke, but I am going to take you two away." He said in a normal voice. His actual voice. I looked at him and suddenly Sasuke were sucked into his eye and everything went black.


I opened my eyes and looked around. All I saw was black. I sat up and felt my hands behind my back. They're bounded just like my ankles are. I heard muffled sounds not too far from me, but I couldn't make out what the voices were saying. I struggled to get my hands free. I heard shouting and realized it was Sasuke. Tobi is there too. No, no. This isn't supposed to happen. Sasuke and him shouldn't be meeting.

"Don't listen to him, Sasuke!" I shouted as loud as I could. "Don't listen!"

I didn't hear anything coming from them anymore. I heard footsteps coming my way and I felt my hair being pulled and I was yanked up. I cried out and looked up. Tobi held tightly as I tried to get my hands free.

"I said I wouldn't harm you right now, but if you don't shut your mouth, I'll make sure to kill you." He said, in a scary voice. I tried to get out again and he only tightened his grip on my hair.

"Where's Sasuke?" I asked.

"He is in the other room. Stop struggling or I'll kill you." I shivered at his words and I knew he meant what he said. I stopped struggling and he loosened his grip, but he still had ahold of my hair. "Good girl. Now, I am only keeping you alive because I saw the healing you did. You healed Sasuke's injuries with perfection. You'll be a good asset to us, but one slip up and I'll kill you."

"You think Sasuke will let you kill me?" I spat at him. "He won't let that happen."

"That may be true, but Sasuke isn't strong enough to stop me." He said.

"Do they know who you really are? Do they know your real name? You're not Madara. You're-" I suddenly felt myself being thrown into the wall. I slammed into the wall hard and cried out as I hit the rocks. I fell to the ground and coughed. Tobi walked over to me and I felt a hand around my throat. I was lifted into the air and I felt him squeezing tighter and tighter until I gasped for air.

"How do you know who I am?" He asked.

"That… Space… Jutsu…" I choked out, making up a lie.

"Hmmm. You are a smart girl for your age. I expected nothing less from the Third Hokage's daughter." He let me go and I fell to the ground, coughing and gasping for air. He took out a kunai and cut the ropes that held my hands together. "I'll come and get you when I am finished talking with Sasuke."

He left me and I looked in the direction of where the masked man was walking. I put my hand to my neck and tried to catch my breath. After a good 10 minutes, my breathing returned to normal and I sat up. I rubbed my forehead and untied the ropes from my ankles. I pulled my knees to my chest and placed my head in my arms. I heard talking again and this time, I decided to listen. I slipped out of my mind and went into the mind of Tobi. Instead of listening to what he was saying to Sasuke, I went in deeper into his mind to see what I can find out about him. I found a memory that caught my interest. It's the day that the nine tails attacked. I learned that he was the one who controlled the nine tails that day. I left his mind when I saw him looking at me.

"Sasuke is asking for you." He said. I lifted my head and made my way to where Sasuke was. I saw him sitting against the wall. He had a blank expression on his face as I made my way over to him.

"Sasuke…" I said, sitting down on my knees in front of him. He just kept looking at the ground, his thoughts going crazy from what he was just told. "Sasuke…"

He looked up at me and opened his arms to me. I took that as a cue to move closer to him and I did. I straddled his hips as he rested his head on my shoulder and his arms went around my waist. I rested mine on his shoulders. No one said anything, we just sat in silence. After a while, I broke the silence.

"Sasuke, do you want to talk about it?" I asked.

"He did it to protect me." He mumbled in my shoulder.

"Sasuke, I'm sorry." I said. "I'm sorry that this had to happen to you."

"Why?"

"I can't tell you why, but I can tell you that Itachi cared about you a lot. He did what he did to protect you." I said.

I felt warmth on my shoulder and I felt Sasuke's body shaking. He's crying. I placed my hands on his back and felt him grip me tighter. I've never seen Sasuke so… vulnerable. Well, he did lose his only family. I didn't say anything to him, I just let him hold and cry on me. Some time passed and I felt his body stop shaking. My shoulder was soaked, but that didn't matter to me.

"I'm sorry, Anako." Sasuke said.

"Why are you apologizing to me?" I asked.

"I'm sorry for leaving you all those years ago. I just didn't want Itachi to hurt you, so that's why I said the things I did to you. That one day when Itachi hurt you and you got this scar." Sasuke ran his thumb over the scar on my forehead that I received long ago from Itachi. "I knew I'd never forgive myself for letting you get hurt. I never stopped loving you though." I looked down at the ribbon on his wrist and I smiled. I went to my back pocket and pulled out the Uchiha bracelet.

"I never stopped loving you either. I'll be honest, it was so hard. There were days that I just couldn't handle the pain." I said, not looking at him.


**MATURE CONTENT AHEAD**

I didn't get to finish because his lips were on mine. I gasped into the kiss as I felt Sasuke's hands grasp my ass. Our tongues fought for dominance as I ran my hands through his hair. I just realized that Sasuke didn't have a shirt on. Sasuke's hands slipped up my shirt and he pulled away, taking my shirt off in the process. I tried to hide my body from him, but he just pulled my arms away.

"Don't. You're beautiful."

I felt Sasuke's lips on mine again and then felt a trail of kisses going down to my neck. Sasuke kissed my neck and when he kissed this certain spot, I felt myself reacting at his touch. I felt him smirking against my skin and he bit it. I gasped and a low moan came from me. I felt Sasuke's finger tips going up my sides and I shivered at his touch. His hands went to my back and I felt him grasp my bra. I heard it unclasp and it fell to the ground, leaving nothing between our chests now. I felt Sasuke's hands move to my breasts and I felt my face heating up.

"So, so beautiful." Sasuke said, his hands needing at my breasts.

I felt his lips on mine again and I wrapped my arms around his neck, wanting to be as close to Sasuke I could. His lips traveled down again, but this time, they attached to my right breast. I moaned and arched my back, giving him more access as he sucked and bit. His hands came up to my left breast and he started to play with it. Soon, he switched breasts and I felt myself starting to want more. I pulled him away from my breasts and kissed him hard. I ran my hands down his chest and he ran his up and down my sides. I felt myself being pushed down and Sasuke was hovering over me. He moved from my lips and trailed all the way down to my shorts. I felt him kissing my stomach and I shivered from his lips. I felt his hands go to my shorts and he slowly pulled them down. I blushed as I felt his hands go to my underwear. This is really happening. There's no turning back now. I felt my underwear completely gone and Sasuke came back up and kissed me.

"Are you sure you want this?" Sasuke asked.

I pulled him down and kissed him. I felt Sasuke smirking and his lips traveled down again. I felt his hand going in between my legs, spreading them apart. I felt his lips on my thigh and his hands went under me and he placed them on my hips. I gasped when I felt him kiss my awaiting heat. I moaned when I felt his tongue slip in me and I gripped his hands. I squirmed around as Sasuke's tongue just kept going and going. I felt his lips on my clit and I gasped out in pleasure. I felt this sensation building up in my stomach and I gripped Sasuke's hands tighter as the sensation just kept building and building. I cried out in pleasure as that sensation exploded and I felt everything releasing. I let go of Sasuke's hands and ran them through my sweaty head. Sasuke moved back up to me and pressed his lips to mine. I could taste myself from Sasuke. I felt Sasuke fumbling with his pants and I spread my legs, giving him access. I felt his hard member against my thigh and I knew this wasn't going to be pleasant.

"Tell me if it hurts, okay?"

I nodded and I could feel Sasuke's member slowly start to go into me and I closed my eyes and sucked in a sharp breathe. I felt him push further in and I felt tears welding in my eyes. Sasuke held my head and cradled it. I felt him push all the way in and I started crying. Sasuke rubbed my face and kissed my forehead.

"Do you want me to start?"

"Not yet."

After a few more moments, it stopped hurting and I nodded at Sasuke to go. He started slow at first, giving me the chance to fully get used to him. He's big and I could feel every inch. I moaned as Sasuke picked up the pace. I ran my hands up and down his back, before resting them on his shoulders. I wrapped my legs around his waist, giving him even better access. I felt his arms go around my waist as he kept a steady pace. I just moaned and moaned, enjoying the moment and feeling that I was experiencing. Sasuke brought his lips to mine and he kissed me soft and slowly. I felt the similar sensation starting to build again and I moaned into Sasuke. I felt him start to pick up the pace and I knew he was cumming soon too. I felt that sensation building and I couldn't hold it anymore.

"Yes! Yes! I'm cumming Sasuke!" I screamed as my climax came hard and cried out.

I heard Sasuke grunt as I felt his seed filling me up. Sasuke collapsed on me and we just laid there, breathing heavy and covered in sweat. Sasuke got off of me and I just laid there. He pulled me in his arms and grabbed the blanket that was laying there. He covered us and I laid on his chest, feeling it rise up and down. Sasuke moved a piece of hair from my face and he rubbed my arm.

"Sasuke…"

"Hmmm?"

"I love you."

"I love you too, Anako." I closed my eyes as I listened to the rhythm of his heartbeat. I slowly fell asleep as I knew I'd been marked as Sasuke Uchiha's.


Chapter 13. Yes, there is sexual content. And I am sorry if it sucks. So this story is now rated M. I made the part with Naruto and Anako fighting because everyone reaches their breaking point and Anako and Naruto both reached theirs. You can only be strong for so long.

As for Sasuke seeming OOC, he just lost his brother, wouldn't you be vulnerable and just act without thinking? I know I would. He's professing his love to the girl he destined to be with. So deal with it!

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