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His eyes once again snapped back to the girl who was on the move again, he nearly fell behind. He looked back at the tower he once lived in with those boys. It'd long since been destroyed when The Uchiha family's internal affairs went wrong and half of the family was killed. Sasuke hadn't been seen since, Naruto and Sai had moved to Sakura's side at her school and Haku left with Zabuza a run away from the school. He hadn't made contact with Sakura since that day she's said goodbye.
She became occupied with her school and Gaara had become obsessed with his revenge.
He'd made only two attempts to kill his sister the latest being right before he'd taken Sakura as his. That night was as fresh in his mind as the night fourteen years ago. It heated his body in uncomfortable ways and he shook the thought from his mind. The pink disheveled mess finally surrendered and turned to return to her dorm room alone.
Several months flew by and Gaara had made himself scarce. Perhaps her sleeping with him had settled his obsession with her and now he was off to seduce some other woman. Sakura sighed.
Her health was deteriorating over such a foolish thing. She'd began to accept his presence almost yearn for it at times. She'd grown tired of living without his unpredictable entrances in her home, during missions, randomly on the street. Where had he gone?
She yanked herself from her bed she'd been bed ridden with a cold all week. Her eating had gone out of whack from worry, her solitude and lack of training had left her weak and out of shape, now she was ill. Her mission availability had been put on hold until she could regain her strength.
She teetered over to her bathroom where the over whelming urge to vomit brought her to the sink. After the urge passed over she washed her mouth out brushed her teeth and showered as best she could.
Turning the water off slowly she reached for the tubs edge only to find the water stained red. Was she bleeding? Just where on earth would she be bleeding from? She calmed remembering she was most definitely female and had certain monthly needs. She sighed. Just what she needed.
She pulled herself from the water settling herself into some clothing and laying back down, in bed. Almost immediately pain rushed through her body making her body stiffen, her mouth open in a silent cry.
Why was everything going so terribly. If only she could just see that moron's face just once. The pain brought her to a sudden dreamless sleep.
When she woke next her fever had broken and her body no longer felt pained and sore. Her cold must have been linked to her time of the month. It happened from time to time. She pulled her ninja gear on noting she'd really let herself go since she'd last seen Gaara. He probably saw what she looked like and ran away.
She chuckled sadly. She pulled on a larger pair of pants and a longer shirt to make up for the extra weight she had gained and made her way to the assigning offices.
"I have recovered please reinstate my mission assigning." Sakura said happily to the man behind the desk. He nodded dismissing her with an immediate mission.
She returns to her room plopping down onto her bed with a sigh to open her assignment.
"Target: Orochimaru." Orochimaru, something about the name sounded vaguely familiar.
She continued to read over the files.
"Assassination requested by Ino Yamanaka." She rolled her eyes at the pasty blonde woman in the picture. Lord knows it was probably another innocent man requested to be assassinated because he was creepy.
She strapped her gear on over her tight black pants and sleeveless black tank pulling her pink hair up and pulled it under a black hat. She really regretted being born with pink hair sometimes, It was so easy to remember.
She felt a slight pang of pain in her stomach and clutched at it before letting it fade away and leaving the room.
She pulled up quickly to her target's location shocked to find a dark, and rather terrifying warehouse on the outskirts of town. What the hell was this guy doing here?
She recalled her target's photo mentally. Paste white skin, snake like eyes and jaw structure, midnight black hair, and narrow slitted golden eyes. He was indeed a frightening man.
She entered the warehouse priding herself on the very first A she'd gotten in Infiltration class, and every A after. She slid from one shadow to the next until voices slid towards her ears.
"Yes, your improving quickly. It's remarkable." She heard a rasped voice call happily. She slid towards the door peeking into the room she heard the voices come from. Her eyes widened at the man her target spoke to.
"Sasuke-kun, you are a remarkable apprentice, soon enough i will have the data to make this puny human body immortal and the power to let you kill your brother." Sasuke nodded.
"Sasuke?" She whispered in horror. "But how?"
"Make haste, this body is not going to last very much longer. I need to implement these plans on a new host body now." He called out in excitement. She shuddered she mentally apologized to the woman who had requested this assassination. She pulled out her gun silently listening as the men walked towards her.
She jumped to the ceiling waiting for the chance to attack. Upon sight of the pale man she cocked her gun and slowly pulled the trigger only for her bullet to be deflected.
'Impossible! I used a ATU specialized modified silencer, there was no way he could have heard it!' The man's neck bent backwards in a rather grotesque way as he smiled up at her.
"Well, well, I believe we've found quite the test subject. Won't you retrieve her for me Sasuke?" Orochimaru asked with a chuckle. Sakura jumped to the floor springing straight towards Orochimaru only to be kicked away by his apprentice.
'Shit. That hurt.' She said clutching the spot. She looked back up to him just in time to narrowly miss a fatal strike from the blade he wielded.
He came at her again striking blades with her several times before landing another successful kick to her body. She flew harshly into a wall, recovering quickly as he continued his attacks relentlessly.
"Sas-Sasuke! Is that really you? Don't you remember me?" She asked between blows. Sasuke gave no response only continuing to attack her. Orochimaru chuckled in the background.
"Sasuke does not know nor remember anyone or anything. He is simply my pawn. He seeks revenge on the one who killed his family, and I shall grant him that request but in return he will give me his young able body to transfer my soul into." He answered back now laughing loudly.
Sakura ground her teeth together rushing towards Sasuke again only to receive a kick to the head and feel her self impaled by his blade. He'd cut straight through the left side of her stomach ripping the blade out and letting her fall to the floor clutching the wound. He lifted his blade above his head to finish her before a gun shot was heard and Sasuke's blade was torn from his hands. Two more gunshots came and Sasuke fell to the ground bleeding from his stomach, Orochimaru followed bleeding from his head.
A snake crawled from Orochimaru's mouth and slithered away. Ignoring the snake, Gaara stepped out from the shadows of the room and made his way to Sasuke who was still alive. He stepped harshly on his head and ground his foot into him.
"You absolute scum. Stabbing a woman?." Gaara growled out lowly. "You do as you please with your women, but you don't hurt mine." He threatened pointing the gun at the squirming man.
"Gaara!" She called out hugging the man so that his gun could not reach Sasuke. "It's over no more. My target is dead, please, let's g-" She tried before a surge of pain erupted from the deep wound in her stomach, her vision blurred and she fell into darkness.
Her eyes fluttered open stinging slightly from the bright lights dangling above her? Where exactly was she? She wasn't entirely sure. An all white room rather empty, and very clean. A small white door to her left opened letting in an elderly old man she recognized as he school's doctor.
"Sensei? What am I doing here?" She asked quietly feeling her trip to the hospital had something to do with the horrid pain in her stomach.
"You were brought here and left in the emergency room's patient hall, thankfully a nurse passed by before you lost too much blood. It seems the wound you suffered has taken the life of one of the children you were carrying. It seems as though it had a very weak constitution despite the wound. We are going to have to force you into labor so that the dead fetus doe-"
"Children?" Sakura interrupted. "I'm sorry doctor, you are mistaken, I don't have any children. I'm not pregnant." Sakura said with a slight chuckle at the doctors mistake.
He looked down into his papers holding up a sonogram of her body showing both her both fetuses inside of her, one curled up and breathing gently the other unmoving a small incision going through its entire body. Sakura paled slightly.
"No, No there is no way I can have children doctor, you have to do something about this please!" She begged. "I couldn't have gotten pregnant! My father will be so ashamed of me! I will have to stop school!" She panicked. The doctor waited silently.
"Disregarding your dislike of the news, unfortunately it is far too late for anything to be done, on that note, we must force you into labor at once the dead fetus inside you seems to be affecting the other child's growth in a rather unhealthy way. It must be removed from your belly at once." He finished off rummaging through his papers.
Sakura could not hear anything the man was saying. She clutched at her body, how could this have happened? How could she have been so careless.
"Ms. Haruno! Pay attention! If we do not act upon this now Both you and your child may die!" His stern warning had her neck snapping over to stare at him in horror.
"Now please calm yourself, we have arranged for the operation to commence as soon as you had woken." He helped her off the bed watching her clutch at her still pained wound. "Please calm yourself. Everything will be just fine."
*******Warning this shit gets a little bit graphic, and wierd lol. You may want to skip to the end. Maybe. You have been warned.***********
Sakura's screams echoed through the hallway. After inducing labor, nurses and doctors alike gathered at the foot of her bed awaiting the arrival of the dead child. Tears streamed down Sakura's face.
"Shit, doctor something seems to be keeping the child at a standstill. Quick, Shizune, grab a sonogram and find the problem." A nurse called out after the child had not moved another inch.
Sakura continued to push with all her might clawing holes through the mattress she was laying on.
"Doctor...You may want to take a look at this." Shizune whispered out. The doctor quickly shuffled over to the screen Shizune stared at in horror.
The doctor's expression mimicked Shizune and he pulled his mask from his face.
"I don't understand." Was all Sakura heard before she flew into a panic. It was highly unlikely anyone could stay calm when their doctor no longer knew what was happening.
"Doctor! Tell me what the fuck is going on!" Sakura screamed.
"Your living child is clutching onto the dead child. His grasp is making the labor impossible." Sakura stopped pushing to glare at the doctor.
"What the fuck are you talking about?! What am I supposed to do?" She begged breathing still erratic.
"I don't know." The doctor whispered. The nurses excited grasps and screams tore the doctor from the screen where upon the sight of the baby's once fully revealed head was now slowly returning into Sakura's body.
Sakura cried out harder no longer knowing how to deal with the impossible situation. What the hell had she done to deserve such a thing?!
Finally Sakura's body lay limp on the bed and her eyes fell shut in a well needed slumber. The child had fully receded and the doctors and nurses crowded around the monitor to see the living twin clutching desperately to his dead sibling.
***That's over and done with :P***
Sakura coughed violently bringing her tired sleep deprived body to a slight consciousness. Her body ached, however surprisingly her earlier wound did not. She lifted her hospital gown to find her skin scabbing over rather quickly. What exactly was going on? She looked out the window her bed sat beside seeing nothing but the dark of the night. She supposed she'd been sleeping since the failed birth.
She motioned to stand noting her stomach had grown just slightly. She touched it cautiously not knowing how to process the fact that there was still a life inside her.
She clutched at her arms. What would she tell her mother? What would she tell her father?! The other students would ridicule her, her missions would be halted for so long. She fell to her knees. Maybe she could just pierce her stomach again? If it had gotten rid of one child perhaps the other could be taken care of in the exact same way.
'You cannot kill us.' She nearly screamed backing into a corner of the room. Who had just spoken? How? No one was inside her room!
"What?" She whispered back.
'You cannot kill us. We will not die.' She heard again.
"What?! Who are you? What do you want?!" She screamed out but she got no reply. Nurses burst into her room restraining her terrified movements and finally calming her enough to put her to bed where she curled up into herself to cry.
When next her eyes opened she turned over to find several doctors in the room.
"Sensei?" She asked tiredly.
The doctor jumped turning to her sheepishly.
"Ah good morning Ms. Haruno. We are here to check on your child's well being." He said nervously. What had him so shaken?
The nurse Shizune set up the sonograph to Sakura's body nervously, applying the gel to her stomach and slowly gliding it in calculated motions.
She jumped.
"The sonograph is picking up a continuous blood flow throughout the body of the stillborn. I'm also picking up a steady flow of chakra in the body." The nurse told the doctor looking ushering him to the monitor. "I-It isn't dead any longer." The nurse whispered. Sakura watched the nurses curiously as they discussed her child or children it seemed. Every new detail of her pregnancy seemed to horrify them to a new level.
"Ms. Haruno, we need to speak to the father of your children. Urgently." The doctor begged. Sakura turned away.
"That isn't possible, I do not know where he is." She whispered out. The doctor remained quiet before he and his nurses left. She sighed replacing her hand on her stomach, there was nothing left to do than to accept the fact that they were alive and well inside her, despite the fact that one was once dead.
How would Gaara react? Surely he would want nothing to do with them and would vanish if she ever saw him again to alert him of his fatherhood.
She sighed again flopping back into her pillows hoping it'd all be over soon and she'd at least get to meet them soon.
Night fell over the small white room the moon light illuminating the all white room quite beautifully. Sakura laid on her side breathing even and peaceful in the quiet of the night.
'Run.'
'Run!'
Sakura groaned pulling herself up to rub the sleep from her eyes. Who was telling her such foolishness in the midst of the night?
She turned to find no one with her in the dark, moonlit room.
'Run!' She heard again. She tightened her fists around the sheets her breathing increasing rapidly. Terror clawed at her every thought. Just who the hell was terrorizing her this way?!
'RUN!' She heard one final time before she nearly leaped from the bed. Outside her door she heard footsteps drawing nearer. She couldn't exactly waltz into who ever was there.
'The window.' She heard again. She turned towards it looking down to the street many floors below. No other real choice she opened the window grabbing her assassin gear before climbing onto the slim ledge and closing the window behind her.
She pulled from her pants pocket a pair of gloves, slipping them on and then slipping on her shoes. She jumped from the ledge to the concrete of the building climbing slowly but steadily to the top chakra emanating from her hands and feet.
"What the hell am I running for? For all I know that could have been my doctor coming to check on me after hearing that stupid voice." They'd probably insist she was insane after they found her again. Yet the urgency in the voice had her second guessing her every move. She reached the roof sliding off her gloves and hurrying into a corner to cuddle into herself from the cold night breeze.
'RUN!' The voice continued to urge. She noted it was a small child's voice. Sakura clutched at her head her eyes opening wide at the slight sound of something. She pushed her ear against the roof hearing the schools emergency alarms going off. What was going on? She rushed back into the building to find students faculty and thousands of others rushing back and forth.
She snuck through the chaos, hoping not to draw any unnecessary attention to herself. Nurse Shizune shot passed her sliding to a stop.
"Doctor! I've found her!" She screamed to her superior. A hoard of nurses and the lead doctor came stampeding towards her.
"Ms. Haruno, you cannot be lurking around in this chaos!" He begged her. She pulled away from him.
"What is going on?! What started all of this in the first place?!" She asked refusing to let the nurses restrain her.
She shoved away the doctors running off in any direction that would take her away from them. She pulled around a corner and her mouth was covered once again.
Frozen to the spot her captor released her mouth and spun her around, her green eyes met light brown ones that gave their best not to seem to frightened.
"Neji sent me for you." She said grabbing her wrist and pulling her away from the noise and panic. "Apparently a friend of yours asked he and his friend to keep you safe." She said lowly peeking around a corner. She snuck into a room immediately locking the doors behind him.
"The school seems to be in a state of chaos now over an intruder. An intruder with whom you are very well acquainted, Ms Haruno." Neji said standing from the chair he had apparently been sitting in this whole time.
"Your little boyfriend seems to have sensed the danger to your pregnancy and came to protect you. Busted in earlier today killing fourteen people on the spot." Another voice revealed to be Shikamaru explained.
"What? Gaara? when was I in danger? How the hell would he even know?" She asked in confusion.
"I'm sorry, that has to be explained by Temari. She is the only one who knows the entire story behind this weird guy." Shikamaru said lazing his head back on the couch he sat on.
"That's enough of an explanation for now, the doctors are searching for you, they had planned to hide you far away from him to study his spawn in hopes of harvesting and studying it's DNA again to create more." Neji explained opening the door and nodding to the rest to move out.
"DNA? What on earth for?" She begged before being shoved from the room by TenTen. She grabbed her hand and pulled her quickly behind Neji and Shikamaru.
"It seems the two chakra growing inside you is insanely unstable, much like that of their father. They believe that this means they will be granted whatever strange abilities their father has." Neji explained his Byuakugan active. And despite both children being very much alive, their chakra patterns are exactly the same, which is impossible even for twins." Neji explained turning several corners. He opened a door hidden in the corner of the schools library.
"This is an emergency stairwell that leads to the school's underground parking lot, in case of evacuation. We are headed to my families car I had my little cousin prepare. We need to get you away from the school now. He will sense the disappearance of your chakra and will most probably follow after us. After that only Kami knows what may happen." The two men proceeded first TenTen following suit with Sakura in tow.
"Wh-What? Abilities? I don't understand! Where is Gaara?!" She begged loudly. Neji glared at her from in front of the group.
"Rarely do I ever do favors for another person but when I do, I do not fail. You will be escorted safely from this building where Temari can explain the situation to you. Your little friend will fare just fine on his own." He forced through his teeth. They continued down the stairway.
"There are no cameras in here." Sakura mentioned quietly. Their school was a very well observed place although modified tapes were kept of every moment in case of police interference.
"In the event of an evacuation student identities, dress and possessions are not to be caught on tape so that no evidence is left behind." Neji explained. "If they arrive upon a completely and or nearly empty school, they have no means of finding just where the students went nor where our school's gear was taken. It's a basic defensive maneuver." He finished off reaching the ground floor on which two cars were parked.
Hinata peeked out of the first car's passenger window passing her cousin a quaint smile. Neji smiled in return and he and Shikamary climbed into the first car while the girls climbed into the second. In the passenger seat, Sakura spotted four spiked, dirty blonde ponytails.
"No! She's trying to kill him! Why is she here?!" Sakura screamed out pulling away from the car.
"Calm down Sakura! Get inside I can explain everything, please trust me if only just this once." Temari begged refusing to look back at Sakura.
TenTen took the opportunity to drag the now calm girl inside the car.
Several minutes the girls rode in an awkward silence.
Temari took a deep breathe before she finally spoke.
"My father is the leader of our village Sunagakure. Way before either Kankuro nor Gaara were born, our country fell into war with a neighboring country. Our father loved his village far to much to let it call by the hands of our neighbors so he called upon an old friend Chiyo, who was working in an allied village, renown as a genius in medical science. Our father begged his friend to turn his son, my younger brother Kankuro into a human weapon. She refused saying the risk was too high that he would die since his body had long since developed despite his birth and his DNA would be harder to stabilize after the changes. She insisted that the experiment be performed on a fertilized egg where the DNA was still easily modified." Temari began. Sakura stared at the back of her seat in surprise. Where exactly was this story going?
"So soon after Kankuro's birth, our youngest brother was conceived. However he was removed from our mothers stomach and put in a state of suspended animation, so that he could be experimented on. Finally the DNA had stabilized and after half a year he was replaced into our mother, and was allowed to grow. Every day since he'd been implanted, our mother grew weaker and weaker. Despite witnessing her digressing health, the continued the experiment, and finally she collapsed and became bed ridden for the conclusion of her pregnancy. Upon inspection, they found her body had been eaten slowly from the inside resulting in her sudden poor health and finally upon our youngest brother's birth, our mother died." Temari finished quietly.
For a while longer she offered no other explanations or stories. Sakura wondered just what this was supposed to explain. She could not say a thing however at the sound of Temari's quiet sniffle.
"Upon arrival, Gaara was immediately trained to fight once he reached the age where his body could support itself. He was taught all manner of fighting skills until one day he was put to fight against several high ranking fighters of our father's army and was defeated easily. Distraught from his losses he berated the so called geniuses that had created Gaara and in repentance, they send a small army to annihilate the opposing forces leaving the village finally in peace. But our father wasn't satisfied. He'd lost his precious wife all for a son who'd done nothing at all to protect the village. It was then he began to notice my resemblance to our mother. My being young, I had no idea what had caused our mother to die, what had caused our father to change, what made our brother so important, so different." Temari paused again. Sakura wasn't sure she was liking where the story seemed to be heading. But the past wasn't something either of them could change.
"Soon after he began to use me to vent his loneliness and frustrations. He would beat Gaara and Kankuro, and continue to use me for his sick relief. Soon anger bubbled inside me overflowing and driving me into a state of high adrenaline, and i killed him. I killed our father. When I turned around Gaara was behind me covered in the same blood that I was covered in. I couldn't help but blame him, from my young point of view it was all his fault, if he hadn't been born our mother would have been alive! If he hadn't been born father wouldn't have to force himself on me every night! If he hadn't been born everything would have turned out better! I was wrong. It was no fault of Gaara's. It was all the fault of father's misplaced thinking." She said sighing before continuing on.
"After killing my father I took my other brother and escaped after i cruelly engraved a mark on my younger brother's forehead. My brother was terrified and had long left me in my voyage to any where that wasn't my village. I soon entered Konoha where i was picked up by a young pink haired girl. Namely you Sakura. That's when you introduced me to your father and got me enrolled in this academy. I realized very quickly what kind of school it was although your father had you in the dark for years. I became a part of the schools underground students ranked number one at jobs so filthy most of the school didn't know about them. Finally my brother found me and it was then the academy became aware that their mistake had finally awaken and they were determined to capture him and learn to control him." She chuckled.
"My brother wasn't so easily caught. We lost one thousand graduates of ATU, that day to a battle with Gaara who escaped after being shot with a sedative. He wasn't seen again until a few days ago when we followed after you in order to capture Gaara. It was after this battle I became suspicious about the Academy's true reasons for chasing my brother. While doing research for our school's data base, I came across a very old file. When I opened it I found the details and doctors notes on the experiment carried out on Gaara as well as pictures of his birth and DNA modifications. Despite my horror at finally understanding the truth, I truthfully still haven't forgiven Gaara for everything that happened despite the fact that none of the things implemented by our father were his fault. After that I was put on constant reconnaissance missions to locate him, but before long they realized his attraction to you and they had me keeping tabs on your every move. It seems his beastly DNA entered some form of mating season when he realized you had been followed and he planted his seed inside of you. Now his children are living inside of you." Temari said finally turning to meet Sakura's eyes.
"They believe that they can harness the power of your children, however under their control and kill Gaara with it." She finished off. Sakura sat back barely able to process everything she'd just been told. She looked beside her and even TenTen was wide eyed.
"I-" Sakura whimpered out not able to do much more. Temari silenced her.
"I've known you for years now Sakura, I know exactly what your going to do which is why I prepared all of this in advance. Apparently Neji's cousin owes you a debt of gratitude and chose to assist us." The cars slowed to a stop and Temari climbed from the vehicle, motioning for both females to follow after her. Neji and Shikamaru also left their car to join them. Hinata watched anxiously from her seat.
Right in front of them something landed heavily creating a small crater and a small dust storm before the air cleared and Gaara stood his eyes black with golden irides just like she'd seen on that night.
"Return her to me." He demanded. Temari stood forward and Gaara tensed to attack. He rushed towards her and she pulled Sakura up at her side and smiled sadly.
"I'm sorry I can never bring myself to forgive you for things you had no conscious part in. This is all I can do in return. I leave her in your hands now Gaara. Take good care of her." She told him watching him slow to a walk then stop moving all together.
"What makes you think I will do as you say." He bellowed making Temari and Sakura cringe.
"Because you love her, far too much to waste time fighting a battle you've already won." She replied with a smile. She nudged Sakura in his direction. In response Sakura slowly tottered over to him looked into his blackened eyes which slowly faded back to white and his jade eyes reappeared.
"Gaara-kun." Sakura whispered out touching his face softly. "I'm glad you are ok." She whispered again clutching at his shirt. He grabbed her hands in his pulling her away from the cars, her comrades, and away from his sister.
Quickly picking her up bridal style he lept into the sky away from where they'd just been vanishing into the surrounding dessert.
Temari smiled turning away.
"Is this it? You won't accompany them?" Shikamaru asked quiet;y. The others stared waiting for her reply.
"I couldn't possibly live along side him happily when i still haven't accepted the fact that he is not to blame for my suffering. I couldn't possibly stay at the side of a friend I've lied to basically since we'd met. It'd have just been too hard. Besides we have quite the battle in store for us." Temari said looking back to the academy that was still visible even from their distance due to its height.
The other three piled into the vehicles which sped back towards the town they'd just left there was most likely a huge mess to pick up behind them.
And there you have it finally! The mega twist lol that was also probably a little expected. haha I hope you enjoyed it sorry for the graphicness of certain parts lol.