Ok, I know the prolouge was very short and not that good. So, to make up for that here is the first chapter. Thanks to those of you that reviewd, it helps a lot to know that some of you actually gave my story a chance ^_^. I'm fairly new at this so I will try to make later chapters better and longer.
Oh, by the way, I in no way, shape, or form own Naruto or any of its characters.
I, however, do own this story and the outfits Sakura will be wearing. I will be posting the outfits and so forth as soon as I am able.
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The day had started like any other with Sakura attending her clan studies in the morning and playing with Sasuke and Itachi afterwards. Their clans had decided after all, that she would wed one of the Uchiha brothers in order to unite the clans. Even before that though, she and the brothers had been friends and she loved them both very much.
She had so much fun playing with them that she had not foreseen what would transpire later in the middle of the night. She had been woken by her father and a series of screams outside her room. The clan had been attacked and all able bodied ninjas had been batteling whatever enemy stood outside her home. Her father had quickly had taken her in his arms, taking her to what he assumed would be a safe place. On the way there she saw many of her clan being cut down, brutally and unmercyfully before her eyes.
The attackers had been so quick her eyes could not see them. It was like ghosts had suddenly appeared with a vengeance. Her eyes began to water and her stomache began to hurt in all that too familiar burn from when she was sick. She had then been put down next to the clans secret underground tunnels. "I'll need you to stay hidden, Sakura. If anything happens you know where to go." The man before her had said in a grave tone. His green eyes, that were so much like hers, looked down into her own in sadness.
"But what about you, daddy?" the five year old had asked in tears. Many of the houses now were being engulfed by fire. The stench of blood and smoke rose up about her making her little heart pound strong against her chest. He shook his head.
"I have to help here. Don't worry though, I'm sure the other kids will be with you. Everything will be fine, you'll see." At that point the man didnt know if he was trying to reasure her or himself. He looked at her one last time, seeing how much she resemlbed her mother with her small nose and jade colored eyes. An explosion then sounded behind him, bringing him out of his revirie. He pushed Sakura towards the tunnels, ushering her to safety.
She looked back at him one last time and began to run, crystal tears falling behind her.
Now Sakura ran fast through the forest sorrounding her village. She had seen the man that caused all the trouble and she couldnt believe it. He was suppose to be good, he was suppose to protect her and her clan. Wasn't that the job of the Hokage after all?
Still she ran, knowing he was persuing her in a sick game of cat and mouse. She kept running, uncaring of the low branches that hung and scratch at her bared skin. Her hair now was free of its usual low ponytail, flowing freely behind her in its bi colored tangled mess. The little voice that usually got her in trouble was now exclaiming profanities, willing Sakura to run faster, to out run the man behind her. Yet, despite his old age he was Hokage for a reason. Sakura just couldnt understand why he would play with her in such a way. Why prolong her death?
'I won't be able to keep running for much longer.' She thought in fear, her eyes darting this way and that for a place to hide. She was, after all, the best hide n' go seeker of all time, if she did say so herself. Surely she could hide from the Hokage too. 'Are you crazy? He's a ninja you dimwit!' inner Sakura, as she had named her, shouted.
'But, I can't keep going, inner.' Sakura thought back, tears streaming down her dirtied cheeks as she kept pushing her body for survival. 'Shit!' the voice cursed in a harsh whisper. With that the Hokage appeared before Sakura with the kind smile she had always seen him with, making her stop abruptly. She scrambled back in fear, tripping as she did, staring at him as she would death itself.
"Sakura-chan, what are you doing here?" He asked even as he brandished a blood soaked sword. Sakura's eyes went from the weapon then to the man as her heart fluttered in despair. "Y-you...k-killed them." She whimpered, as her entire being trembled. His smile didn't falter, if anything it only widend, almsot baring his teeth. This made Sakura shiver more than before, uneasiness taking hold of her heart as she stared up at him. 'RUN!' the voice inside her head exclaimed, making Sakura's limbs do as ordered.
The odd thing was though that suddenly everything seemed to get bigger, and her center seemed to shift as what landed on the ground next was not her feet but four paws. Her senses sharpend at an alarming rate, making her able to see everything clearer, hear all the screams behind her, and smell all the burning bodies. Her stomache lurched as bile began to rise up in her throat. She couldnt move and her mind seemed to idle as she layed in a heap on the forest floor. 'Sakura, get up! I did not save you just so you can get yourself killed so early in life!' the voice growled out.
Yet Sakura could not hear her for her head swam with so much information, everything around her seemed to want her attetion. Like the bark of the tree in front of her, how every little splinter seemed to be seperate or how the blades of grass had such a strong fragrance. Even the loud foot steps coming her way seemed to boom and cause the earth to quake beneath her. It was too much for her and so the darkness beckoned her and held her in its cold embrace.
The Hokage now looked down at the furred figure as it lay before his feet. Its breath was slow and the figure didn't so much as squirme. How vile, unnatural, it was. It had no place in this world. He didnt hold this much anger towards Naruto though for he was not mixed with his demon. He was simply housing it. Unlike the thing that lay before it now. No being, much less a little, emotional, girl should be allowed to hold such power. Only God could and as far as he knew, that thing was no God.
He lifted his sword above the prone figure, ready to sheath it in its flesh. That is until a fireball flew right towards him. He dodged just in time, however, turned towards his assailant. Uchiha Itachi stood before him now, blood soaked, and with his Sharingan activated. The Hokage smiled, making more wrinlkes appear on his already aged features. "Have you delt with your clan so fast already?" The Hokage asked the teen before him.
"I have." Itachi answered. His eyes traveled then to the furred figure that layed a few feet away from him. "I was not informed that you would be hunting." He said in a calmly manner. The Hokage knew though of his allegiance to the Haruno child. He also knew that the Uchihas knew of her true self. "It seemed fitting that the village should be desposed of all trash." The hokage said, catching how Itachi's eyes seemed to shrink in a frown. "Trash." The Uchiha intoned, as if testing the word that rolled off his toung. It did not fit her, he decided.
"I'm sorry, but, I cannot let you harm her." Itachi said as he blew another fire ball at his once leader. "You've become too soft itachi, your father would be dissapointed." The Hokage said as he too began to form seals for a jutsu. Itachi glared and flash stepped towards the Hokage, weapon in hand as he dodged a couple of mud balls that the earth itself shot at him. They moved quickly in a deadly dance, only appearing every now and then as their weapons met at a dead lock.
At this Sasuke came out of his hiding place, careful not to attract any attention as he moved from shadow to shadow as his brother had tought him. He made his way to the wolf pup and just as he was about to ben in arms reach of her a kunai was thrown between them. This made him retract his arm towards his person in order to keep the apendage.
"Watch out Sasuke!" Itachi exclaimed as he ran for the Hokage who was making his way to the children. He managed to tackle him, injuring him with a kunai as he did so. "Take Sakura and run!" Itachi said and began to fight with the Hokage once more.
Sasuke did as he was told quickly, making his way through the bushes with Sakura in his arms. He too knew why Sakura was how she was at the moment, it was after all a secret entrusted to his clan. It was one of the reasons his father had agreed to an arranged marriage between she and his sons. He had wanted more power, after all. Sasuke looked down in his arms at the wolf pup. How could it be possible to actually turn into a wolf? He knew the Inuzuka could do this with their dogs but that was a jutsu. This, in his arms, was nothing of the sort.
Even so, he knew it was her for her subtle breathe came out the same. He knew her well enough to know that even the slightest twitch was her. With that thought he made his way to the hide out he and his brother had agreed on and waited in the small place.
Tears streamed down his cheeks then for how they had suffered this night. He had lost his family at the hands of his brother, who had been wronglu ordered by their Hokage to murder his own family. The same Hokage who had murdered the Haruno clan. What had they done wrong? Surely whatever Itachi had been told was wrong and thus the reason he had been kept alive. Also the reason he was fighting their Hokage now. There was just no reason his brother was bad. Right? He had been tricked. Right?
Sasuke looked down at his hands in thought to see midnight, black, fur. It was soft and warm under his hands, heating up his body like a blanket. Outside of the hide out was cold in the autum night, the wind bellowing past trees, rustling the leaves on them.
A twig was then snaped, alerting Sasuke to someone being near. He shuffled back further into the small like cave, trying to keep himself hidden, just like his brother told him to.
"Sasuke?" Itachi's voice sounded behind the foliage that hid the child and the pup. With a smile Sasuke then scrambled toward the entrance and moved to itachi's side. "Are you alright?" Itachi asked as his eyes roamed the two figures. Sasuke nodded and soon Itachi ushered him away from what once was their home, their village, their lives. "Where are we going brother?" Sasuke asked, still holding on to the unconscious Sakura. "Akatsuki." Itachi replied with a smile.