Crimson Shuriken

By ScarlettKunai

Explanation and Summary:

Before I begin, I just want to say that you can be as mad at me as you like, comment, pm, beg all you like, but my mind is made up and the decision was much harder on me than the outcome of that decision will be for you to hear. And if you would like to know, at the bottom will be a summary of the rest of the story. So here goes:

I will no longer be writing for Crimson Shuriken. After a very long talk with my twin, I've realized that the story is draining me, mentally, emotionally and physically. And please do not blame her, I realized this before she had said anything.

When writing the prologue, Scarlet Kunai, I originally planned for Itachi to die as he had in the manga and for Kyoko never to have become pregnant. However, I got so many private messages and comments asking me for Itachi to live and for he and Kyoko to have a baby that I went ahead and wrote the ending that way. I never intended to have a sequel. Again, the same reason for the ending to Scarlet Kunai. The original plan was to simply let you use you imaginations as to what had happened after that.

Here is the summary of the rest of Crimson Shuriken.

Suigetsu is not dead. Sasuke's blade was chakra-charged and gave Suigetsu enough chakra to work the poison out of his system, something Sasuke was not planning on. Despite his trust in Sasuke, Suigetsu had not told him everything, including the fact that he can heal any wound in or on his body, including internal injuries his arteries. He just needed that extra chakra to be able to filter the poison from his body. When he wakes up, he will go to Akatsuki naming Sasuke a traitor to his own team, resulting in Madara becoming annoyed and killing Suigetsu with his Sharingan while Sasuke watches impassively. Juugo, who managed to dig himself and Karin out of the wreckage of Deidara's bombs and rejoins Sasuke, shows no emotion at this, but his loyalty to Sasuke is now gone. Since he is learning to control himself without Sasuke's help, he plans to stay with Sasuke only long enough to be able to control himself completely. He then plans to leave, taking Karin with him. Karin miscarried in the fight against Sakura and Deidara.

Kakashi will never forgive Sai. His emotional attachment to Sakura will not allow him. She was, and always will be to him, the twelve-year-old girl he use to teach.

When Sai went to talk to Sakura, Sakura apologized to him for the same things she apologized to Deidara for: information on him and on Konoha. She did not, however, tell him that Sasuke had made her think that she was talking to him, Sai.

Sakura remembers every detail of what Sasuke did to her, but there is a catch—she remembers it only as the way Sasuke wants her to remember it. She remembers pleasure, a willing body, and being awake. She believes that the aphrodisiac Sasuke gave her made her want sex and that Sasuke used it to his advantage. Only when Deidara tells her that she was unconscious when he found her and Sasuke does she let go of the added guilt she feels, thinking she had been willing. That is when the full weight of what Sasuke did to her sinks in. Deidara tells her this a day before the ferry reaches land. Sakura is able to keep calm until she sees Tsunade waiting for Team Seven in the Konoha Hospital. She then becomes hysterical and begins to have nightmares.

When Team Seven returns to Konohagakure, it is to find that Naruto has returned from his training and Kyoko and Itachi have returned from Sunakagure, having left Mikoto in the care of Temari until they can get Fuuka place back in prison. Naruto is furious over what has happened to Sasuke, Itachi is as well, and Kyoko depressed that she had been unable to kill Sasuke with her own explosion when Sasuke had attempted to rape her.

Two months later, after numerous testing, it has become apparent that Deidara will never fully regain his memory—he has remembered all he can. Kakashi has also noticed that Deidara has been acting strangely the past two months, often shaking his head as if to clear it, sometimes having glazed eyes, and seeming confused. Kakashi has also noticed that Deidara will occasionally repeat his actions. Deidara is beginning to lose his short-term memory. Numerous testing reveals no reason for this and Tsunade suspects Deidara's short-term memory loss is only in his mind, that has an emotional attachment to seeing Sasuke raping Sakura. However, it soon becomes apparent that this is not the case. His failed suicide bombing against Sasuke injured his brain when he was thrown back from the blast. Deidara is unable to remain a ninja and is forced to retire. He is able to earn his living making bombs that can be used by others, not just himself. He also works part-time in the daycare center for the children of Konohagakure's shinobi.

Meanwhile, Sakura is in intensive therapy. She is on leave of her Kunoichi duties until it is determined if she is mentally fit to return to work and if she even wants to continue being a ninja. She works in the Yamanaka flower shop and is living with Ino, who is on leave due to injuries from her last mission: multiple broken bones and fractures, including broken ribs. She expects to be fully healed within a few weeks and able to get back to missions withing a month and a half.

With Chuunin exams coming up, Team Seven is now taking missions that will help Naruto to finally become a Chuunin while Deidara (of all people) teaches Naruto to control his emotions and temper. Sai is attempting to teach Naruto strategy planning for leading teams, and Kakashi is trying to put it into Naruto's head that he can rely on neither signature jutsu or impressive techniques to get through the exams.

Sakura is in a therapy session when she begins to have pain in her lower abdomen. It progresses quickly, spreading to her back, until Ino insists she go to the hospital. Sakura learns that she is pregnant and miscarrying. Tsunade takes the lost baby and prepares to do a series of tests to see if anymore can be found out about Sasuke. As even Sasuke's DNA had been altered by the numerous forbidden jutsu applied to his body, she first performs a simple DNA test to see if his child's DNA would show up the same. That is the only test she performs before calling Sai to her office to inform him that his is on probation for endangering his teammate. As he was not punished by Tsunade when returning to Konohagakure after the last mission Team Seven had that included Sakura when said Kunoichi had been attacked by Sasuke, Sai is confused. It it then that Tsunade informs him that the child Sakura had not known she was carrying was his.

Before they reached land by the ferry and after Deidara explained to Sakura about how he found her, Sakura convinces Sai to have sex with her. It takes her a long time, but she manages to convince Sai, having already convinced herself that consensual sex is what she needs.

Tsunade is not only furious with Sai, she is disappointed that it was he who had impregnated Sakura. As wrong as she knows it is, she had been bitterly disappointed when she had realized the baby was not Sasuke's, knowing that there may be no more information on the Uchiha from Sakura. Sakura, Sai, and Tsunade are the only ones who know of the miscarriage.

Despite having tested Sasuke's sperm, hair, and blood numerous times, Tsunade begins to test it again on a hunch and sends ANBU to all of Orochimaru's known laboratories to recover papers on Sasuke. She discovers through the tests all the forbidden techniques Sasuke has used on his body have made it impossible for him to have children. That is, he can impregnate women, but the jutsu in his body are carried on to the baby and to the mother, neither of whom can handle the jutsu. Through the research papers of Orochimaru's, she discovers that all the women who had been impregnated by Sasuke died about a month after their miscarriage. By testing Sakura, she is able to stop this, discovering that it is Sasuke's altered DNA contains toxins that remain in the woman's body, whether she becomes pregnant or not, and is able to remove the poison from Sakura's system.
Karin, however, is not as lucky, and Juugo gives up on leaving, seeing Sasuke's rage and knowing he would not survive if he tried to escape.

Madara is becoming increasingly angry. With Zetsu able to mimic the chakra of others, he has killed a Chuunin and taken his place in Konoha. The information Madara receives from him is that Akatsuki is now in danger of being attacked, and that Konohagakure has a very real chance of defeating them—unless Akatsuki strikes first.

Madara, Sasuke, Zetsu, Juugo, Pein, and Konan lead Iwagakure to Konohagakure from the North, able to keep Sunagakure from even knowing what is going on.

Deidara joins the fight alongside Kyoko as together they lead anyone who can handle a bomb well leads the defense attack. Zetsu has informed Akatsuki of Deidara's short-term memory loss and Sasuke, in an extended revenge against Itachi and as punishment for Deidara and Itachi's friendship, brutally kills kills Kyoko, resulting in a heavily mutilated corpse that is barely recognizable. Deidara, who had been sliding in and out of lucidity, is easily overcome with Sasuke's Sharingan, and the false memory of killing Kyoko himself is implanted in his head. Before his comrades can even try to subdue him, Deidara has committed suicide with Kyoko's shuriken.

Kakashi goes head-to-head against Madara, and manages to drive his Chidori through Madara's chest, but not before the eye containing his Sharingan is ripped from his eye socket and crushed. Madara escapes the battle fatally injured. He will be followed by his trail of blood and found dead a few hours later. Pein is defeated by Naruto and Konan leaves, no longer having her companion or Madara threatening her.

Sakura and Ino lead the medical team while Tsunade and Kakashi, despite the loss of his Sharingan and the severe loss of blood, face Sasuke. Though they are able to severely wound him, Sasuke manages to get away.

It is a long battle, but Konoha eventually defeats Iwa after reinforcements come from Suna. Konohagakure has lost nearly half their shinobi population and over a third of their civilians. Suna lost nearly as many of their reinforcements. Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro all survive.

When Itachi discovers what has happened to Kyoko and, despite efforts to prevent him from seeing what Sasuke had done to her body and face, sees her, he leaves the battlefield despite orders to help the injured. He goes back to the house he and Kyoko had shared and pulls a box from his dresser. When Kyoko had had Orochimaru's poisons removed from her body, Tsunade had kept most of it for testing. Itachi had stolen a portion for Akatsuki—and kept a sample for himself by twisted way of keeping something of Kyoko's. Sai and Naruto find him unconscious in his bed. The poison, being too much for him to swallow, had been vomited over Itachi's body, running down his throat and leaving bloody blisters. Days later in the hospital, Itachi uses the needle of his IV to puncture his own jugular.
Mikoto is given to Kakashi, her godfather, whose own injuries have left him not only half blind, but missing his right leg. Madara had his shoe with a shuriken infused with a jutsu. It had pricked the skin of Kakshi's foot just deeply enough for the jutsu to take effect without him noticing and was slowly killing him, creeping up his leg. Tsunade noticed this and amputated Kakashi's leg beneath the knee in the field as Sasuke had fled.

Tenten and Rock Lee survive with minor injuries. Neji has been slashed above the eyes and the blood ran into his eyes and caused an infection. He is now blind, but still has his Byakuugan. Iruka, Izumo, and Genma all died at the hands of Konan. Kiba lost his left ear and Hinata lost an eye to a kunai. It was later replaced; she now has the Byakuugan in only her left eye. Shizune loses her right hand. Suna shinobi suffered mainly minor injuries. Temari and Gaara's faces are scarred in a continuous line. Temari's fan was broken by an Iwa Kunoichi and Gaara stepped in as the kunoichi's sword slashed Temari's face, also catching Gaara as well. The Kunoichi killed by Kankuro's puppets before a second kunoichi stabbed him, puncturing his lung. He was revived by Shizune, who had already lost her hand by the same two Kunoichi.

And that's about it. No, Sai and Sakura never actually get together. It just doesn't happen. Sakura goes back to being a ninja, Shizune is able to continue working in the hospital. Neji and Hinata are both able to continue being ninja. Neji's blindness eventually makes him stronger and, unable to rely solely on having Byakuugan, Hinata is able to gain her confidence. Naruto leaves Konohagakure and eventually finds and kills Zetsu. Sasuke is never found. Kakashi marries a civilian. They are unable to have children of their own and so formally adopt Mikoto, who does not inherit the Sharingan from Itachi. It dies out with Sasuke being the only one left to posses the Sharingan eyes and he unable to have children. The rest is up to your imaginations.

You can expect shorter fanfictions from me in the future.