Red Eyes Chapter 2: Back to the present

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Black Bullet or any of the pictures. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. Black Bullet belongs to Shiden Kanzaki.

A/N: (11/15/2016)- Edited and a lot of story added.

Year 2062

Sakura's P.O.V.

"Ne, Itachi-nii"

"Yes, imōto?" He asks as he glances down at me.

"Weren't we supposed to go see Tsunade-sama like, half an hour ago?" I ask as I tilt my head to the side, suddenly Itachi's face goes pale.

"Sakura! I told you to remind me damnit!" He exclaims before getting up and running out of the dango shop insanely fast. Everyone in the shop, me included, just stare at the door. The whole shop is silent for a minute before he comes back in glaring at me. I grin innocently.

"So weasel, how was your run halfway across town?" I ask as I continue eating my dango. Just as Itachi comes up behind me I dart away and run out the door laughing as millions of different curse words leave his mouth.

"Sakura, you little brat get back here!" He yells as he chases after me, but I continue to run away easily thanks to my enhanced speed due to being a cursed child and having the Gastrea virus mixed into my DNA. I look up ahead trying to think of a way to get an advantage of actually hiding from Itachi, when I spot a alley way. I grin as I pick up the pace and dart into the alley and just as I'm halfway in the alley I run into someone. The impact of running into them sends me flying onto my butt.

"Oof!" I grunt as I hit the ground. "Hey! Watch where you're go..." The words quickly die in my throat as I take in the scene before me. Two bodies are completely covered in gashes and laying in a pool of their own blood. I slowly start to get up until I feel something land on my shoulder. I slowly look up and my eyes widen as I see a spider Gastrea sitting on a already woven web above me. I quickly jump back out of the alley only to see Itachi barely reaching my spot breathing heavily with his hands on his knees.

"God damnit Sakura, what have I told y-"

"Not now Itachi-nii. Look." I mutter as I try to think of a plan while I take in my surroundings. There are people everywhere. We are in the busiest part of town, and it's also the busiest time of the day. I look back at Itachi with a panicked look on my face. "What do we do? There are way to many people for me to be able to fight Mr. Daddy-long-legs up there without getting anyone hurt." I hiss quietly as I notice the two bodies starting to convulse weirdly on the ground. In seconds realization hits me, their turning into Gastrea. Ugh all I wanted to do today was eat dango and then go hang out with my friends. Itachi sighs loudly which breaks me out of my train of thought.

"Well the spider Gastrea is at least a level 2 by now...and those two on the ground are turning if you haven't noticed. We need to get these people away from here," Itachi pauses for a second taking in his surroundings with calculating eyes before turning to look at me once more. "Sakura I leave the Gastrea Spider and it's soon to be lackeys to you for now. Be. Safe. Understood?" Itachi says looking dead serious into my eyes and I nod in reply as I close my eyes and take a deep breath to calm my nerves. When fighting a Gastrea is initiators have to be very careful to not get bit or else our corrosion rate increases if left untreated for too long. Or it could force us to level. I look at Itachi-nii and we maintain eye contact for a second longer before I turn back to the three Gastrea before me and he takes that as his que to start yelling at everyone to move away. His black cloak with red clouds flapping around him. I smirk at the not so distant memory.

Once Itachi and I got ranked in the top 1,000 pairs, we were invited to an organization called 'Akatsuki'. Also when we joined we found out that two of Itachi's friends, Pein-nii and Deidara-nii are also a part of it. Pein is actually the leader of the group. Then for some odd reason Deidara decided that as an organization we should have matching outfits, and so then we all had to wear some type of black clothing, and over it a black zip-up cloak that reaches our feet with a high collar that covers the lower half of our faces and long sleeves. Deidara's initiator; Yamanaka Ino, claimed it was too boring and so then they decided to add red clouds placed randomly on it. So from then on we all have to wear our cloaks, unless it is a formal occasion or if we're relaxing at home obviously.

I quickly snap out of my thoughts as multiple loud monstrous screams echo around the now almost empty shopping center. Suddenly one of the newly turned level 1 Gastrea charge at me. It's purple and also it looks like a snake, but with wings...so a dragon in a way. I snort at my own joke. The purple snake/dragon whips its tail at me and I quickly jump out of the way. Taking the advantage of being in the air, I do a front flip to help gain momentum before slamming my foot down on the purple snake/dragon's head. The minute it's head touches the ground it creates a crater. I grin at my accomplishment. Suddenly another tail, yellow this time, comes crashing onto me and I go flying through a building.

"Damn forehead, you're losing your touch." A loud voice echos. A smirk spreads across my face as I slowly get up off the ground.

"Shut it pig! That damn other yellow snake/dragon came out of literally nowhere!" I exclaim while I run at the purple snake/dragon that is still recovering from my earlier kick. I quickly blink my eyes, and my once emerald eyes turn a bright red showing to the world my true self. With a flick of my wrists, wire shoots out from under my sleeves. I start to run around the snake/dragon while waving my arms around in certain motions to wrap wire all around the purple snake/dragon. Once the purple snake/dragon is contained I stand in front of the Gastrea and have a short staring contest with it, before I scoff and pull my arms back with as much force as I can. Within seconds the wire cuts the Gastrea into millions of pieces quickly ending its life. With another flick of both my wrists the wire disappears back into my sleeves.

"Pft. Show off!" I turn to the source of the voice, and grin. Standing there is Yamanaka Ino. Deidara's initiator. She is a model cat Gastrea. She is also 10 years old like me. She has blonde hair that is up in a high ponytail and it reaches her waist. She is wearing the Akatsuki's cloak. Her eyes are a baby blue. A grin spreads across her face as she blinks and reopens her eyes, only for them to be a bright red like mine.

A monstrous roar sounds and suddenly the yellow snake/dragon is flying towards her. Her nails extend out to at least a foot in length, and she runs at the snake/dragon and jumps on its back. Once she lands she begins scratching at it like a cat out of hell. Heh, she's a model cat Gastrea so for her to scratch like a cat out of hell...hahaha... I sweat drop at my own stupid thoughts. Her nails are creating deep gashes and slowly the snake/dragon stops flying around and starts crashing towards the ground. Ino quickly runs to where it's heart is located and she shoves her nails into the the Gastrea's body, piercing the heart. It shrieks in pain before its body goes limp and it dies.

"Damn pig, you have improved a lot since I last saw you like...6 months ago was it? I mean like all you used to do was cry about getting your nails ruined like a little baby!" I say while tapping my chin in thought and a smirk blooming onto my face. Ino lands in front of me retracting her nails, and smooths out her cloak before putting her hands on her hips and glaring at me.

"Forehead! You saw me last week! And I stopped doing that 2 years ago!" She exclaims and I notice her hand twitch. I slowly grin while putting my hands behind my head.

"Awe pig you know how bad I am with anything that has to do with time." I joke knowing that she knows completely well that I don't have an issue with telling time, it's just that I don't care. I glance down as I see her nails starting to grow longer again. My grin widens mischievously as her face starts to turn red in frustration.

"FOREHEAD! I SWEAR I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO KILL YOU THIS TIME!" She screams as she lunges at me. I quickly dodge her and she flies past me and lands face first on the floor. I snort at her failed attempt to attack me.

"Awe come on porky, you know you love me!"

"IM SERIOUSLY GOING TO MURDER YOU BILLBOARD-BROW!"

"Hey, that's rude. No need to call me names pork-chop." I say faking a hurt expression, and Ino turns even more red in the face if that's even physically possible. Hey now that I think about she almost looks as red as H-

A monstrous roar that shakes the ground sounds from behind me. Ino's eyes widen in fear, and I know that means trouble. I quickly turn and see the level 2 spider Gastrea jump in into the air and is aiming right at me with its fangs gleaming as the sun reflects off of them. My eyes widen as I realize there's nothing I can do to get out of its way. Even if I attempted to run, it's long legs could drag me back to it within seconds. I turn back to Ino and I flick my wrist to make my wire wrap around her, as soon as it's securely wrapped around her, I throw her far out of the spiders reach. I wince slightly as I hear her slam into a wall.

Just as I turn to face the spider once more it pounces on me. I put my hands up and have my wire stab through it, in attempt to keep it off of me. I struggle to hold its weight off of me. I notice there's a clear liquid coating its fangs, and I narrow my eyes at it. I've never seen a spider Gastrea have this trait before. Suddenly the liquid drips onto my cloak and I hear it sizzle. My eyes widen. It's acid! My mind kicks into overdrive as more of it starts to drip onto me.

"SAKURA!" I hear Ino yell. My eyes widen. If the acid is coming out of its mouth...the whole body must contain acid, even its blood! I glance to the side and see Ino running towards the Gastrea with her nails stretched out. I feel panic wash over me.

"INO STOP! STAY AWAY!" I scream my eyes wide in fear. She halts in her steps and her eyes are darting back and forth, from me to the spider and then back to me.

Suddenly a gun shot rings through the air, and then suddenly a bullet pierces straight in between the spiders eyes. The spider quickly goes limp and I start to calm down until I notice it's acidic blood dripping down its face.

I quickly try to shove the large Gastrea off of me, but it's weight is too much for me. Suddenly I feel a grip on the back of my cloak, and within seconds I am pulled out from underneath the spider. I blink a couple of times before looking up at my savior. A grin blooms across my face as I throw my arms out asking for a hug.

"Kakashi!" I exclaim like a little kid who just received a huge bag of candy. I see the corner of Kakashi's right eye crinkle which proved that he's smiling under that damned mask of his, but his eyes quickly turn serious and loses all signs of amusement. I tense and let my arms drop to my side. I grin sheepishly.

"Sakura. What in Kami's name were you thinking? You could have died! What did I teach you about teamwork, hmm?" He says in a fairly calm voice, or at least that's what it would appear to everyone else, but to me it promises death if my answer isn't a well thought out excuse. My eyes widen in fear.

"Saving, pork-chops, mush, spider, acid, me, mush, acid, pork-chops!" I exclaim frantically while waving my arms around.

"Sakura. English." Kakashi says even more calmly than before. I right about pissed my pants right then and there. Kakashi is a civil officer, sadly his initiator; Rin, died during the mission when he saved my life. At the time both him and Rin were around 15, and they had committed what is considered taboo between civil officers and initiators around the same age, they fell in love. After Rin died he swore to never get another one. Apparently I was the first cursed child in years he had even approached or conversed with. 2 years ago when I asked him why he said it was because I reminded him of Rin, and he also saw me as a daughter in a weird way, and I'm perfectly okay with that.

"Well you see Kakashi, ummmm, hehe, I was trying to save Ino-pig from being turned into melted pork-chops by the spiders icky acid gunk and also saving myself from Ino-pig causing me to be turned into mush!" I exclaim hoping he'll believe me. We stare at each other for a couple of seconds before he sighs and finally sets me back down on the ground. He rubs his temples before looking down at me.

"Be more careful understood?" He asks his voice laced with concern. I smile softly at him and nod. "I don't know what I would do if I were to lose you too..." He mumbles so quietly that if it weren't for my enhanced hearing I wouldn't have heard him. I pretend to not hear him as I turn to take in my surroundings.

"Ne, Kakashi, how did a level 2 Gastrea get in here with the Monolith walls...?" I ask as I go up to the spider that was just killed. Then I remember how it was killed and a grin starts to make its way into my face. I hear footsteps quickly approaching and turn with a grin on my face waiting to be praised by Itachi, but my grin quickly fades as I take in the sight before me. Running towards us is Pein, Deidara, Itachi, and Hinata. Hinata is Pein's model owl initiator. She's ten like Ino and I. She has long purple-black hair that goes down to her hips. Her eyes are usually a plain gray with no pupils, but at the moment they're red.

They're all covered in the purple blood of Gastrea and their clothes is disheveled. I make eye contact with Itachi, and a chill goes down my spine. Itachi's eyes are filled with panic. I have never seen Itachi panic in the entire 4 years we've been partners.

"Itachi-nii! What's wrong!?" I ask as they finally reach us. Itachi takes in my disheveled outfit and notices the burnt material. He raises an eyebrow I wave off his concern. "I'll explain later, meanwhile what's going on?"

"While evacuating the towns people, a level 2 bug Gastrea attacked. It infected quite a few people, but instead of leaving them behind it grabbed a hold of them and flew off with them before we could kill it and the newly formed Gastreas." Deidara explains before walking over to Ino a placing a hand on her head. They smile at each other. If no one knew better they could be confused for being siblings. We all stay silent as we let all the events that just occurred sink in.

"Alright. You all need some rest everyone head home, that's an order." Kakashi speaks up, snapping everyone out of their own thoughts. Everyone slowly nods before taking their leave. Today has really been a super long day, and all I wanted to do was eat some damn dango and relax.

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As soon as we reach the manor Itachi stops me from opening the door. I raise a single eyebrow at him in question.

"What Itachi-nii?"

"You go on in, I have something I need to take care of." I blink at the mystery that is Itachi-nii, but I still nod at him nonetheless. Itachi smiles at me, and then he turns and walks away. A bad feeling settles in the pit of my stomach as I stare at his back, but I simply brush it off. I sigh as I walk into the building that has been my home for the past four years. A smile blooms across my face as the smell of Mikoto's cooking invades my senses.

"I'm home!" I yell as I shut the door behind me. I sigh once again before stripping off my damaged cloak and let it drop to the floor. For a few seconds I feel chills appear on my skin as my black sports bra and black spandex short shorts do no help to cover my exposed skin. Suddenly my vision is covered by something and a grin covers my face as the smell of lightning and earth invade my senses. I quickly pull the shirt off my face and put it on before running and hugging the figure in front of me.

"Sasuke-kun!" I exclaim in happiness as I wrap my arms around his neck, and his arms quickly wrap around my midsection tightly in response.

"Hn." He grunts. "You really need to stop doing that, or wear more clothes under that cloak." I roll my eyes at his response before pulling back, and looking at his face which holds a small smile and a light pink dusting across his cheeks. My grin softens to a small smile. Suddenly the smile disappears and his eyes narrow. I tilt my head in question. "You're hurt." He grabs my arm gently and lifts it, I blink before looking at my arm. My eyes widen as I spot a giant wound on my arm that is missing the top layer of my skin and the skin around it is bubbling red. I meet Sasuke's questioning gaze.

"Umm, I might've gotten hurt fighting a Gastrea." I mumble while laughing nervously. Sasuke's gaze lingers on mine for a couple seconds before he looks at the wound once again. Suddenly I'm being dragged away from the front door, barely being able to grab ahold of my cloak. As we walk to Sasuke's room I take in his topless figure. My cheeks burn a light pink. I lower my head to hide my embarrassment. Meanwhile I've always seen Itachi-nii as an older brother, that doesn't apply for Sasuke. When I asked Itachi-nii about it a look of shock crossed his face before a smile did and he said that my feelings towards Sasuke were that of how Mikoto and Fugaku felt towards one another. I instantly understood that.

Before long we reach Sasuke's room breaking my train of thought. "Sit." He says while motioning to his bad. I huff in annoyance.

"I'm not a dog." I mumble and he glares at me in response before walking over to his closet grabbing a shirt and pulling it on as well as a medical kit he has for whenever I come home injured. I stick out my tongue at his back childishly. Once he turns around he walks over to me before treating my wound in silence. I wince every now and then. After he finishes cleaning the wound, he grabs a small black box. My body tenses and his eyes soften. He pulls out a syringe and flicks it a few times before sticking it in my arm and injecting the liquid into my arm. I whimper in pain, and he finishes up quickly afterwards putting away the tools used to clean the wound and the syringe. Suddenly Sasuke's arms are wrapped around me and I'm pulled into a hug. My eyes widen for a few seconds before softening. I hug him back.

"Sorry.." He mumbles into the crown of my hair. I close my eyes and shake my head.

"Don't be it's not your fault. I'm the one that was reckless and got hurt." I mumble into his shirt. His grip tightens around me. We sit there for a few seconds wrapped in each other embrace until the sound of footsteps come towards Sasuke's room. As the sound reaches his ears, he breaks away and heads to put everything away in his closet. Within seconds the bedroom door is thrown open.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Echoes around the house, quickly followed by me being tackled by an orange blob. I wince and hiss out in pain as too much pressure is applied to my still fresh wound. Within seconds the orange blob is removed and on the floor, with a glaring Sasuke towering over it.

"Dobe. She's hurt don't just tackle her like that." Said 'dobe' quickly turns to me in worry and takes in my figure before it's eyes landing on my arm.

"Sakura-chan you have to be more careful!" I growl in response my eyes flashing red.

"Naruto, I am careful!" I whine at being scolded by everyone. Naruto quickly comes and sits by me. He takes hold of my arm very carefully and a frown takes place on his usually grinning face. His eyes flash red before going back to their cerulean blue.

Naruto is the same age as Sasuke and me. They're best friends, practically brothers, but complete opposites.

Sasuke has pale fair skin and black hair that frames his face but is spiked in the back like a chickens butt. His eyes are black as coal. His body is very lean, and toned. Sasuke is also part of the Uchiha Clan which gives them the ability to posses the Sharingan. Sharingan is a weird eye mutation that occurred due to the Gastrea disease. Only children born with Uchiha blood in their veins posses this trait, and only their bodies can handle the strain it puts on the body. If not careful the people who posses this trait may cause them become blind if overused once their eyes reach the level of the Mangekyou Sharingan, and there is only one treatment but I don't know of it since it's and Uchiha secret.

While on the other hand Naruto has sun-kissed skin and blonde hair that spikes up in all directions. Naruto's eyes are a cerulean blue. His body is more muscular looking than Sasuke's but still the same amount of toning. Another big difference is somehow Naruto is a cursed child. As far as history knows, only girls have been cursed children, but Naruto is one as well. His mother is a cursed child who grew old enough to marry and have two children; Naruto and his older brother Pein. While Pein came put unaffected, Naruto is a cursed child, but Naruto has no corrosion rate. His body simply accepts the Gastrea blood.

My train of thought is broken by said two boys fighting.

"Teme! You're supposed to protect Sakura-chan!" Naruto exclaims as his eyes flicker red. I groan in annoyance.

"Shut up dobe. I wasn't there when this happened. Aniki and her were out on a mission." Sasuke growls as his hands clench into fists. His eyes flash red showing off the infamous Uchiha bloodline trait. "Besides you know neither of us our allowed to participate in missions until we become certified civil officers in two days!"

It came as only a slight shock to everyone when they realized that Sasuke and Naruto both had the potential to become Civil Officers at such a young age. Naruto's father; Minato, is the mayor of the area in which we live so he is a very skilled Civil Officer with his wife; Kushina, being his Initiator, and Sasuke's father; Fugaku, is the head of the Uchiha Civil Officer Force with his wife; Mikoto, being his Initiator.

Finally having enough of their fighting I get up in between both of them. My eyes changing from emerald to red to show my annoyance.

"Will the both of you stop fighting! I'm perfectly fine alright!" I growl, and both of them quiet down. Naruto grins sheepishly holding his hand up in front of him in surrender while Sasuke crosses his arms and glares at the floor.

"Sorry Sakura-chan."

"Hn."

I stare at them both for a second before sighing. A small smile spread across my face as I grab both of their hands. "Thank you both for worrying about me."

"Of course Sakura-chan!" Naruto says with a grin covering his face.

"Aa." Sasuke says with a small smile. His gives my hand a squeeze and blush spreads across my face. A smirk takes place of his smile as he notices. Suddenly Naruto pulls his hand away, and I look at him in question.

"Seriously you two, if you're going to flirt, do it when I'm not here!" He whines with a smirk on his face and a mischievous glint in his eye. My face turns tomato red and Sasuke's face goes blank as he glares at Naruto.

"S-Shut up Naruto-Baka!" I exclaim as I punch him in embarrassment before shuffling out of Sasuke's room and heading towards the kitchen where Mikoto is. A frown covers my face as a wave of sadness hits me. I bite my lip in frustration. Even if I have feelings for Sasuke there is no way that he could return those feelings. I inhale slowly and exhale slowly, before putting a smile on my face entering the kitchen followed by the sound of Sasuke and Naruto fighting. I roll my eyes as Mikoto gives me a look of sympathy.

"Those boys." She mumbles and I nod in agreement.

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A/N: IM SORRY! I don't think I can say sorry enough. I've been super busy and dealing with a lot of life changing things,

BUT

I'm officially back. I'm just working on rewriting a lot and adding more story. So far so good! Let me know what you think, please?