Kitsune Mistress
Princ- Manage Storiesess of Ikana
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and its respective owners.
Chapter 10: Roof
Sasuke was startled when he heard someone land on the rooftop beside him. He only let his guard down when he saw it was Sakura.
She smiled coyly before addressing him
"Sasuke-kun..." she slurred with delight.
Sasuke turned to her suspiciously, as he had never heard her say his name with that tone.
She moved swiftly and stood right beside him, lightly wrapping her arm around his, smile never wavering.
"Sakura?" he asked, nervous now.
She didn't answer him and went in for a kiss…
Itachi underestimated the speed capabilities of the kitsune. Before he knew it, he had actually lost track of her.
He growled in frustration and sought out her chakra signature before summoning the others to his location.
He soon caught up and was shocked to see her kissing his brother, who was frozen stiff….
Two ANBU members moved behind him and pulled her off of Sasuke, who now appeared quite pale.
"She… was absorbing my chakra….?!" he sputtered, now understanding the weird feeling that she had ignited in him.
"That's right… I was attempting to kill you, stupid boy," Sakura confirmed.
All of them stared at her, with her blunt cold tone…
She only smirked.
It took three members to subdue her. Sasuke drew close to Itachi, now afraid of what they were dealing with…
Before he could ask his most pressing question, the lights turned on below, and Minato and Naruto also appeared on their rooftop.
"What's going on this early in the morning?" mumbled a tired Naruto.
Minato looked at the ANBU restraining Sakura. "Itachi-san?" he asked.
"Yondaime-sama… I'm truly sorry for the late disturbance." He bowed to his superior.
Naruto rubbed his eyes, gaining his bearings before recognizing Sakura as the person they were restraining.
"Sakura-chan? Hey bastards, let her go!" He shouted before Minato grabbed his shoulder roughly.
"Naruto, look closer, that isn't Haruno Sakura anymore," Minato revealed while holding him back from running over to her.
"Whatta mean, that's not Sakura?" Naruto snapped.
"Dobe. He's correct, that's not Sakura," Sasuke lashed out, already trying to figure out how Kitsune had gotten past everyone.
Naruto stopped his struggles before addressing her.
"Sakura? Tell everyone they're wrong. You're you … right?" he asked, words tumbling out weakly.
"The soul that once inhabited this body is sleeping… I am known as Yotsuna, a kitsune spirit," she introduced herself.
Before Naruto could respond, Itachi signaled to his teammates to leave with their prisoner, and they left with Sakura in tow.
Naruto looked like he was going to cry but held back. They were tears of true frustration. He had only just been getting his head around the responsibilities of being the jinchuriki, and now Sakura had been possessed by an evil spirit?
Sasuke looked haunted for some reason. Had something else occurred before Itachi and his ANBU squad arrived?
Itachi disappeared moments later, and Sasuke walked over to the other two.
"I would like to go to bed now," he announced, being the first one to go back down to the house.
"Come on, we'll figure this out in the morning. She won't be going anywhere." Minato guided Naruto back down and made sure the boys were comfortable before going back to sleep himself.
During the morning check in, Itachi reported to Tsunade, who looked a bit peevish.
"How exactly did the Kitsune obtain Sakura?" Tsunade asked.
"I believe she may have marked her in a previous battle or encounter, and she must have been able to take over her mind without us knowing she was there, because she didn't appear to us in physical form during the night," he theorized.
She sighed. There wasn't anything they could do now but solve how to separate the two souls residing in one body.
"Dismissed," she told him, turning around in her chair.
Itachi nodded before disappearing out of the room.
Breakfast at the Namikaze residence was awkward.
Naruto was still in disbelief that Sakura had been taken away from them, and that they might not see her again. If they couldn't figure out how to dispel the fox spirit from her body, would she would be trapped for the rest of her life?
"Naruto…" muttered Sasuke cautiously, as he didn't want to repeat the emotional outburst from a few days before.
"What can we do?" Naruto replied, sounding a little helpless.
"Nothing at the moment, I'm afraid. We haven't dealt with a case like this before, so I'm sure Tsunade-sama has her best people working on it," Minato offered.
"Nothing? She must be so scared right now, she was always terrified of the kitsune!" Naruto argued back.
"We get stronger," stated Sasuke quietly.
The other two glanced at Sasuke in surprise.
"She might be terrified at being taken over but she would be devastated if she woke up and found out that she had killed one of us… we should continue training and climb the ranks as originally planned, and if the day comes where we are forced to fight her… then at least we can ensure that we won't die… she will be targeting all Uchiha now that she doesn't have to worry about you."
Naruto appeared thoughtful before eating his breakfast again. Minato sighed.
Sasuke had been reassigned to another team, team 9, with shinobi fresh out of the academy. He wanted to complain, but everyone agreed that it would be a decent test to his teammate skills in leading other shinobi who had less mission experience.
Naruto decided to listen to Sasuke for once and took his fate into his own hands and was up bright and early at the Hokage's office demanding an audience with Tsunade.
Shizune finally arrived at the front desk where Naruto was harassing the poor staff and asked him to follow her.
"You know there's a process in getting an appointment with Tsunade-sama, Naruto-kun, you've got to stop using your status as a Hokage's son to get what you want," she lectured him as they ascended towards the third floor.
"I didn't even mention it this time. I'm sorry for being pushy, but it's urgent!" he told her, taking two steps at a time.
Tsunade was looking out at the landscape of the village she loved when suddenly Naruto burst through the doors.
"This better be good, brat," she uttered with a scary even tone.
"Uh… I'm sorry, but I needed to talk to you as soon as possible in negotiating a way for me to be reinstated as a normal genin? The contract with the Uchiha clan only stood as long as the kitsune spirit was a threat to them, correct? And well, I'm no longer useful now that she has gotten a human vessel…" he started while plopping down in the chair in front of her desk.
"You've wasted your time. It's a matter between you and the Uchiha clan to revoke or change before I could resinstate you."
"Dad's already set a formal meeting with the Uchiha's, as he mentioned that as well, I just wanted to see you about reinstating Team 7 once all the formal stuff is okayed," Naruto pushed.
"Ok, you want to talk about planning ahead. I've already reassigned Sasuke to team 9, and Sakura is now in custody. There is no Team 7 to reinstate. I'm sorry, Naruto, but it's already been decided. All I can do for you in that regard is assign you to another squad by yourself, like Sasuke," she offered.
Naruto scrunched his brows together in frustration, and agreed to wait to see what the result of his meeting with the Uchiha's went…
After a long day of attempting to take back control of his life, Naruto decided to treat himself to Ichiraku ramen for dinner. Tonight, Minato was away on a mission, and he had to fend for himself.
Sitting at the bar, he was very surprised to see Itachi sitting by himself, before he showed up.
"Itachi-sensei?" Naruto asked dumbly.
"Evening, Naruto," he replied between bites.
He smiled in response before ordering his usual and striking up a conversation with his sensei even though Team 7 had now officially disbanded.
A/N: So this will be the end of present day Konoha for the moment, next chapter we dive into the future and I wanted to get to this point in the story because it is once again Camp NaNoWriMo and I was planning on taking the month of April off with fanfiction.
At the beginning of every chapter on A03 I've made a comment on which timeline period the chapter takes place to make it less confusing.
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We'll be back up with bi-weekly updates in May :)
***Also, I posted an A03 exclusive story. Ita/Saku called Captured by Your Eyes, its a Modern AU with Itachi being a lawyer and Sakura his assistant but lives a secret double night life as a stripper :P check it out! I'll have 3 chapters up by April 1st.
