Chapter 9 Battle between new and old Allies
"SAKURA! ITACHI! SAKURA! ITACHI!" I screamed around the base, I was teleporting all around the base until I found them under the tree bloody from sparring. "Heal and run Heal and run!" I ordered them.
"What's happened?" Itachi stood up with Sakura. Sakura healed them both and picked up her weapons. "Leader says Leaf Ninja in Sea country main town... want to explore this land. Our people on the land are trying to keep them away from here..." I informed them. "We must act as though passing through... And knock them off track..."
"We should go west and then pass through east as if we are passing into the eastern island." Itachi nodded, "Let's move out..."
We trailed a road heading east from the western fishing town. I picked up a fried fish stick (or twelve) while I was there. Sakura and Itachi shared one... Dunno why... There was heaps of them... Oh well more for me...
"I can sense them." Itachi informed us. Sakura nodded in response and put on her rice hat which had material all around it to prevent people from seeing who she is.
Itachi put me on his shoulders and I put my hands around his head. I was trying to be serious but I couldn't.
"You can be yourself." Itachi chuckled darkly. "You don't have to be serious..."
"Ok." I cheered.
"You do know that if my hat is knocked off there is going to be one hell of a confrontation..." Sakura warned us.
"Does that mean you will be talking a lot?" I asked.
"Yep." Sakura nodded, "I will cut it as short as possible."
"Just as long as it's amusing." Itachi replied. Sakura rolled her eyes and we walked on. We hid in the trees where six Leaf ninja stood talking. "Shall we toy with them?"
"Ok." Sakura smiled darkly. She wanted payback for them calling her weak. "You know what to do Nai..." I nodded in response.
Sakura and Itachi jumped down to the ground and shocked the ninja. I giggled at their reaction. They went into a defensive position.
"Akatsuki." The tall grey haired man snapped, "What are you doing here?"
"That is none of your concern." Itachi replied.
"You're after my demon aren't you."
"Kyuubi doesn't belong to you." I pouted. "Demons belong to the Gods..." The Kyuubi is my father's Demon creation.
"What's with the kid?" The blond boy sneered. "Kidnapping are we?"
"No." Sakura shook her head.
"You do know you are outnumbered here six to two..." The tall grey haired man informed us. "And we will take those odds to our favour."
"And wipe your existence off this planet." The blond boy added as his eyes turned red.
He has accessed the Demon's power... I thought to myself, "I haven't been near a host before... are they able to access the power?"
"That's what makes is harder to get them." Itachi replied.
"If you want Kyuubi..." the blond boy pulled out two kunai, "try and get him."
"We are not after you today." Itachi replied, "Step down."
"We cannot do that." The longer haired blond girl replied and pulled out weapons.
"Ino, Shikamaru, Lee..." The grey haired man said to the blond girl, brown haired boy with longer hair and the brown haired boy with short hair and a green spandex. "You are on that one..." He pointed to Sakura. "I, Naruto and Neji are on Itachi."
"It's pointless." Itachi replied and took me off his shoulders. He bent down to me and whispered, "If it gets bad then help us... Until then... watch their movements... if you want to stop some weapons then do so..."
"Yes big brother." I nodded and jumped into the tree.
Sakura pulled out two katana and went into a fighting stance. "Make your move." Sakura hissed. Ino was the first to make her move; she pulled out two kunai and went at Sakura. Sakura deflected her attacks easily and moved incredibly fast to avoid a black shadow coming for her. Shikamaru was using a shadow technique that he can use to stop her body, Sakura was too quick for that but the guy named Lee was nearly as fast. He nearly landed a punch but Sakura blocked and retaliated with a swing of her katana, she cut his upper arm slightly.
"Gah." He grumbled and swung his leg up to hit Sakura, she ducked out of the way and her hat nearly fell off. She returned a kick at lightning speed with added chakra to the kick and hit him in the chest, he went flying into the tree.
Sakura jumped out of the way of the another shadow attack from Shikamaru and flipped over the kunai thrown by Ino. Sakura was getting bored.
Itachi was getting bored to, he had put them all through so many illusions they didn't know what was real. If it wasn't for Neji's byakugon they would be screwed.
Sakura stood back to back with Itachi and they began off again. Sakura began to use genjutsu which made Shikamaru stop Ino with his shadow technique and Lee kicked Ino square in the chest breaking all of her ribs.
"SNAP OUT OF IT!" Naruto screamed at Shikamaru and Lee as they went to attack Ino again. They broke the genjutsu on them and realised they had injured Ino who was on the floor barely breathing. Naruto began to attack Sakura to keep her away from them three, they needed to get Ino conscious enough to heal herself.
Naruto was attacking Sakura full on but it looked like it was nothing to Sakura. Sakura grew tired of this and with a nod by Itachi she used an illusion technique taught to her by Konan, it was similar to teleportation. She walked behind Itachi and disappeared. Naruto stood there confused until he sensed something strange, he turned around only to be stabbed in the stomach with the sword.
"You're aim was off." Itachi commented,
"Shut up I am still perfecting it." Sakura snapped.
"Who are you?" Naruto growled not seeming to care about the sword in his stomach. He swung his arm and Sakura pulled back removing her Sword from his gut. In progress of jumping back to under the tree I was standing in her hat fell off.
Itachi appeared next to her and leant his arm on her shoulder. Sakura waved at them and laughed at their faces.
"S... Sakura?" Naruto couldn't believe it. "You... they... they said you were dead..."
"Presumed dead..." Kakashi said and looked at her in a dark way, "She may as well be... How could you?"
"SHE MUST HAVE BEEN THREATENED!" Naruto shouted.
"Sakura would never join them on her own free will!" Lee said loudly, "She is too beautiful to be with an evil group."
"Akatsuki isn't evil..." I murmured.
"Whatever they told you kid is wrong." Ino replied, she had healed herself by then.
"Explain yourself." Neji ordered her.
Sakura just laughed, "If I must..." She laughed and looked at Itachi, "I don't know if this will be amusing as you wanted it to be."
"Nai tell them a story of how Sakura became your older sister." Itachi said to me. I smiled and jumped down onto his shoulders.
"Well Leader told me to find someone to heal big brothers eyes so I went to the Leaf Village and the Hokage said she could come... and then it took us AGES to get near home and then big brother and our friends took her and then they had to hurt her to make her heal big brother but then she still wouldn't and then she said mean things to me and Itachi punished her then she said she'd heal him as an apology to me. The she figured seeing she had healed brother she decided to stay... then she got super strong and we went to her funeral which was bad because you all said she was weak. So Sakura isn't happy anymore..."
"Sakura..." Naruto whispered, "YOU DIDNT HAVE TO JOIN THEM! You could have come back... we wouldn't have judged you! I would have done it too!"
"That doesn't mean anything to me." Sakura snorted, "You all think I am weak..."
"But... when we were genin... you were always so weak... we had to protect you..."
"That was then." Sakura shook her head, "That was before I developed into my full potential... You all pathetic."
"I will bring you back!" Naruto snapped and a demonic aura enveloped him. Sakura didn't know what to do, she had never faced this power.
"We do not need this blood shed right now."Itachi informed the ninja.
"Well you are going to get it." Naruto growled, "I will kill you Itachi and take Sakura home!" The red chakra went flying towards Itachi and Sakura, they didn't have time to move and they prepared themselves for impact but it never came.
I stood in front of them, stabbed multiple times by the chakra.
"Nai." Sakura whispered.
My red eyes were glowing bright as blood dripped to the floor. I began to growl at the ninja as Naurto's red chakra retreated back into him and his demonic power was suppressed.
"Why is he reverting?" Sakura asked,
"Nai is suppressing it... a power passed on in the family I guess." Itachi suggested. My blood shot forward from my wounds and stabbed the ninja like the demon chakra did to me.
The blood dropped to the floor and my eyes returned to normal. I turned to Itachi and Sakura and shook my head. I felt really weird, I knew what I did but I didn't know how I did it.
"What just happen...?" I was unconscious.
"She's been unconscious for six months now..." Sakura informed the Leader who was standing next to Nai's bed. He wasn't a hologram this time. "Do you know what that power was?"
"It was a power passed down from her mother... she is a God but her mother was a Demon God who had the power to make her blood into weapons..."
"And being able to suppress Naruto's demon?"
"Her father created the Kyuubi but not to attack humans... that was a humans influence on it..." Pein informed Sakura. "It is her power that allows me to harvest the power of the tailed demons. She is all for it because she doesn't want demons to be in the hands of humans."
"Ok..." Sakura nodded, "Why had she been unconscious?"
"I think it is because she wasn't ready to use such a power as she did... she is only very young." Pein explained and looked at Sakura, "We need to meet up with the others... there is another problem we need to deal with."
Sakura followed Pein into the meeting room where Konan, Deidara, Sasori, Zetsu, Tobi, Itachi and Kisame stood waiting. Pein told them to sit down but they noticed two missing people.
"Where are Hidan and Kakuzu?" Sasori asked, "If this meeting is of dire importance... where are they?"
"Dead." Pein said,
"What?" They asked,
"Hidan is immortal and Kakuzu is well... Kakuzu..." Sakura replied, "how?"
"I don't think they are dead but they are useless for the time being..." Pein replied, "But that is besides the point. I think it is time we did something... About Orochimaru..."
"What is he doing?"
"It is as Nai informed us, Orochimaru was planning a war and he has waged it." Pein replied, "Unfortunately we are unable to stand on the sidelines... Have you heard of the term 'the enemy of your enemy is your friend'?"
"Are you considering making an ally of the Leaf?" Itachi asked in serious tone. "They will not agree so easily..."
"We have power beyond their imagination... they are fully aware that if they had our power then they could have an advantage in this war..."
"How will we consult them about this matter?"
"Walk in and demand to see the Hokage." Pein replied, "Or something more subtle... Nai would have a better chance at this... We wait two more weeks before we do this... hopefully Nai will wake up by then..."
"So..." Sakura hummed, "We wait..."
Yeah I am not good with fight scenes...