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Naruto watched as his best friend balled her hands into fists and hung her head so her eyes were hidden. Anyone would be able to sense the anger, blood-lust, and regret radiating off of her. Her knuckled started to turn white as she prevented herself to destroy something close to her.
Tsunade as well watched her student react to the distressing news. Just that afternoon they had found and captured the man responsible for the Haruno clan murder. As she was told, he seemed to not put up much of an effort to escape. He almost seemed amused for being captured. When the ANBU had taken him into custody, he hadn't muttered a single word or made any movement on his own. He wouldn't even say a word or even flinch when Ibiki came down to interrogate him.
The two blondes watched as the pink haired kunoichi relaxed her shoulders, unclenched her hands, and her mood change back to emotionless. She held up her head and look Tsunade right in the eye.
"Kill him."
Where the two words she said full of hatred before she walked out of Tsunade's office.
Naruto was too shocked to move. He had never heard someone use that tone of voice before, and never wanted to hear it again. Especially from his little cherry blossom.
"W...what are you going to do?" Naruto asked recovering from the shock.
"Execution." Tsunade replied. "Due to the crimes he has committed, and not just the murder of the Haruno clan, but Sakura brother, many villages, some of Konoha's finest ANBU and jounin and some of other villages finest ninja." Tsunade continued. "Naruto, give this scroll to Ibiki immediately. Don't even think about reading it." Tsunade said handing over a scroll to the blonde seventeen-year-old.
"Hai, Tsunade-sama." Naruto bowed and left a shocked Tsunade in her office.
Sasoumi sat against the cold hard wall of his 'cell.' He was going to accept death for he knew it was coming eventually. Taking in a deep breath he took notice of the room he was held in. Thick, grey concrete walls were the only things stopping him from escaping. Sure the few dozen ANBU guards would be a small problem. But, some ANBU couldn't even stop him.
There was no luxury of a bed a sink or even a toilet. If they weren't going to kill him outside these walls, he would die inside the walls. Outside the steel door, he could still here the small 'thump' of the ANBU walking. To think of a plan would prove to be futile considering the fact that all of his chakra was drained and did all he could to stay conscious.
The flash of pink ridded his minds of thought of escaping and killing.
Flashback
A young man walked the streets of Konoha coming back from serving a five year sentence for a crime he didn't even commit. Five long years were wasted sitting in a 'cell' of some sort. He had no ability to use his chakra; the food was... it didn't even look like food. It was in its own classification of a different substance.
Five long years were wasted because of the Haruno's. Oh how he despised their very being. He was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone had kidnapped the head of the clan's youngest daughter, and they had found the girl with him. He had simply found the girl in a tree crying. Then ANBU came and saw him with the girl and assumed he did it and took him into custody without even listening to his side of the story.
They would surely pay for their horrible mistake. As of just thinking of the pink haired girl, he saw the same girl but of course five years older. She was playing with her bangs trying to hind her forehead.
He smiled inwardly and headed for the girl. He would make them all pay.
End Flashback
That's how it all started. Just remembering the memory made him feel the same hate he felt while wasting away five years. He had his revenge so he felt no need to continue his life. He would accept death without a struggle. Making the pink haired girl want revenge for the rest of her life and not able to fulfill, it was enough to make him feel content.
Hinata was leaning against a tree at her team's training ground. Watching her two team mates, Kiba and Shino, she noticed that she wasn't fidgeting with her fingers. Through all the years she had always messed with something, usually her fingers. She smiled inwardly at herself for overcoming such a miniscule task.
"Hinata!" Kiba yelled knocking Hinata out of her previous thoughts.
Hinata looked up at her team-mate who in turn was throwing a newly sharpened kunai at her. She tilted her head just in time before the weapon hit her left shoulder. Instead the kunai hit the tree she was leaning against and after a few seconds, let off an explosion.
Kiba, thinking he got her, waited till the smoke cleared. There was no Hinata. He sniffed the air to only be met with the smell of smoke. Before he could detect her smell, he left cheek was met with a foot. He was sent flying through about five trees and stopped short because the same foot kicked him back to where he previously stood.
He lifted his head and spit out the tree bark and dirt that filled his mouth. There stood Huuyga Hinata in all her glory doing a small victory dance. Behind her was their other teammate, Shino, who was noticeably smirking due to the fact that Akamaru ripped off the collar while they were training.
He dropped his head to be met with the hard ground. Hinata came to his side and helped him up. Once he was in a kneeling position she took out a small compact looking think and rubbing a green cream on his left cheek and forehead.
"Who taught you to kick like that?" Kiba asked rubbing the back of his sore head.
"Sakura-chan and Kisame-san." Hinata said softly.
Kurenai eyed the two due to the fact that they mentioned the Akatsuki. The Akatsuki was known for their ruthlessness and cruelty, not for teaching chuunin and jounin ninja skills, or anything! Kiba and Hinata noticing the look their sensei was giving them stopped started talking about something else.
"Have you seen Naruto lately?" Kiba asked.
Said ninja came running past them in a hurried pace as if he was looking for something he lost. Apparently missing the fallen trees and branches from earlier, the blonde tripped over them and landed head first into a large oak tree. Hinata ran to Naruto leaving Kiba laughing at their friend's stupidity.
"Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked as she helped him stand.
"Please tell me you have seen her!" Naruto pleaded.
Hinata gave him a strange look, like the look everybody gave him when he asked for more ramen after his twentieth or so bowl.
"Seen who, Naruto?" Shino asked the frantic ninja.
Instead of saying anything the blonde ninja started making hand signs, pointing to his hair and eyes, drawing an invisible line extending out of his lower left shoulder, and pulling his hair out.
"Words might help." Kiba advised pulling some stray grass out of his hair.
"Sakura!" Naruto screamed as his threw his arms up in the air.
Kurenai was the one who spoke up this time. "Why would you be looking for her?" Kurenai asked, emphasizing on 'her.'
Naruto through his arms up in the air again as if he gave up on something. Hinata, noticing how frustrated Naruto was pulled her sensei back before Naruto could do any damage.
Kurenai, who somewhat despised the pink-haired girl for betraying Konoha and capturing most of Rookie 9. Then she came back with the others a bit scratched up, go to the Hokage's office and was granted Tsunade's permission. It was ludicrous! Tsunade only let her off because she was her most favorite student! Of course this was in the eyes of the genjutsu mistress.
"For your informat-" Naruto was cut off by Kiba before he could bad-mouth their sensei.
"What's wrong?" Kiba asked.
"Sasoumi." was the only word Naruto had to say.
Naruto explained the situation and finished just as the sky started to change from a light blue to a variety of oranges, reds, yellows, and purples. By the time he finished he was even more frustrated then when he started because Kurenai kept making rude comments under her breath.
Sakura was standing in front of the memorial stone eyeing the names 'Taroyukio' Haruno' and 'Haruko Haruno.' The sun sat directly on the horizon daring the world that it would soon disappear for a few hours. The sky, which was blue, purple, yellow, red, and orange, made the earth seem a golden color.
Tracing her parent's names with her right index finger, she noticed another presence behind her. Ignoring the person she continued to give the names her attention. Almost seven years apart from her family and she was beginning to forget their faces. She pulled out a small piece of paper from her left pocket. She only had one picture, one picture to remember everything about them. The edges of the picture were burnt from the fire nearly seven years ago.
The picture contained her mother, father, brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, and other people part of the Haruno clan. Her mother had her best smile on for the picture. Her dark green eyes lit up every time she smiled or laughed. Her long red hair was tied up in a high ponytail. Dressed in her normal attire which included a long sleeved white shirt with the clan symbol in red on the front and back, a red skirt that came down right below her knees and classic blue ninja sandals. Even though she was long retired as a ninja, she insisted on wearing them just in case.
To her left was her husband, Sakura's father. This was one of the few pictures he showed a smile. Of course everyone made him give at least a small smile, in the end was his two oldest children's bickering that made him give his famous grin. Giving his smile made everyone else smile. It was rare that the head of the clan gave his best smile. Dressed in traditional robes that all heads of the clans wore, the only thing different was the clan symbol in the front and back.
Kennia and Keidai were in front of their parents, since they were shorter than them at the time. Both wore a black tank top bearing a white circle on the front and back, red skin-tight ninja shorts and a white kunoichi skirt over them. The same as their mother, they wore the classic ninja sandals. Instead of being blue, they were white. Mietta and Sed on either side of them making bunny ears behind their heads as a joke were smiling. All four of the sibling had red hair, and the same shade.
The two boys wore red shirts and black shorts. Instead of the shirt bearing their clan symbol, the shorts had the white circle imbedded in the fabric of both front pockets. Their light brown eyes matched those of their fathers remarkably. Sitting on Mietta's shoulders was a six year old Sakura. Instead of having red hair like her mothers or black hair like her fathers, she had pink hair. Nobody knew why, but they liked it none-the-less. Emerald green eyes, instead of forest green or light brown, shone brightly just like her large grin.
Sakura smiled at the picture as a few teardrops landed on the picture. The person behind her stood in place not making any intention of coming any closer.
"Why?" she whispered.
"It happens." the person replied.
"But it shouldn't" Sakura spat. "Someone shouldn't forget the people she loved the most. Someone shouldn't get a person she loves back and then get them taken away from them again. Someone should have their parents killed in front of them. A child shouldn't have to go through life without parents. Someone shouldn't be hated for a stupid reason. Someone shouldn't go through the same pain that I'm going through." she finished.
A breeze blew by caressing her hair and the others. Leaves danced with the wind and fell to the ground when the wind stopped blowing.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked turning to the blonde ninja.
Said ninja turned his head up to where his blue eyes met her green ones. His eyes were glassy with the tears he was trying so hard not to let fall, for her sake.
"You know what's funny?" she asked tilting her head toward the darkening sky. "Team 7. We'll never be able to find true happiness." she said ending with a small chuckle.
Naruto watched her with a straight face. This was taking a bigger toll on her than she would let herself believe. The man that ruined her life was in the same area she was and she couldn't do a damn thing about it. Now she was forgetting her family.
"Sakura," Naruto began. "That's not true."
"Of course it is." she said laughing a bit. "Sasuke lost his family at six to his older brother, now look at him. Kakashi's father was shunned; Obito was killed before him and holds his Sharingan. Now he won't let anyone get close to him, emotionally that is. You never even knew your parents and were punished because you contain the Kuuybi. Some people still hate your guts today. My clan was killed when I was about ten by a man I let into our lives. I found my brother but he was killed by that bastard. I joined the Akatsuki as an escape and now their dead. I-" she was cut off.
"Stop!" Naruto yelled. "That's the past. We still have the rest of out lives to figure stuff out. About not finding true happiness, I've found it. All your talking about is the past. Now look at me! Sure people still hate me for the Kuuybi, but I know have people who love me and will do anything for me. That goes the same for Kakashi, Sasuke, and you! We all have people who love us! So stop saying that we won't find happiness in the world!" he yelled.
"We have people who love us." Sakura copied what Naruto had said. "But none of us has family, by blood. None of us has our mother who brought us into this hell hole called the world. Sasuke, Kakashi and me no longer have the people who raised us. You didn't even have the chance to meet or remember your parents. So don't give me any more shit about people loving us! I already know that!" she yelled back.
Silence filled around them, a rare event for the both of them. She stepped away from the memorial stone and in front of the blonde male who was watching her every movement. Raising her right hand, she held the picture in front of the Kuuybi container's face. His face lit up because the tension between them was broken.
"Who's that?" Naruto asked pointing to her sisters.
"The one on the left his Kennia and the one on the right is Keidai." Sakura replied giving a soft smile to the picture.
For the next two hours Sakura told Naruto about everybody in the picture. Surprisingly, talking about her family made her feel a whole hell of a lot better. Naruto must of sensed it because he kept asking question after question, which she was happy to answer. After two hours of non-stop questions and answers, the two headed for their apartments.
"Would you like for me to walk you home?" Naruto asked rolling up the sleeves of his orange and black jacket.
"No thanks." she replied giving him a kiss on the cheek. "'Nite, Naru-chan." she teased.
"'Nite, Saku-kun!" he yelled as she walked away.
She rolled her eyes, but he couldn't see that. She walked past Naruto's favorite ramen stand, the hospital, and Sasuke's apartment. After walking for about ten minutes she came up to a tall dark green building with uneven windows and shutters. Opening the dark green door that was slightly off its hinges', she was met with the same dusty smell as before. The check-in desk was abandoned except for the many papers scattered everywhere. The only light that was given to the small room was a single light bulb above the check-in counter. There were several chairs along the walls; in the middle was a single coffee table with coasters on the surface. The carpet around the table was slightly stained, probably from dropped tea or other drinks, making the off white carpet turn a light brown.
Sakura stepped into the building, scanning the room for any movement. She stepped up to the brown desk and rang the small gold bell that lay on top of several pieces of paper.
"Hello?" she asked to no one and was greeted by silence. "Did this place get shut down?" she asked again.
This time she heard foot steps.
"No, no. This place is still up and running." she paused and looked around. "Sort of. What would you like dear?" she asked giving her attention to Sakura.
"I, um, used to live here. Apartment three on the fourth floor." Sakura said fidgeting with the hem of her shirt.
"I'm sorry dear, but all the rooms are filled. Try another building." the old woman said disappearing from where she came.
Letting out a heavy sigh, Sakura exited the building. She let her feet carry her, since she didn't know where she would be going. At about 10:45 at night, few people were out. Some where closing their shops, some where opening. After a few minutes of walking, the pink haired kunoichi found herself in front of the Hokage building. Letting out another heavy sigh, she walked inside. Ignoring the sleeping guards and Shizune, she walked right into Tsunade's office.
"You haven't changed at all." she commented when she saw her ex-sensei sleeping among empty sake bottles and papers.
"I'm not sleeping." Tsunade mumbled.
"Could have fooled me." Sakura laughed as the Hokage lifted her head from the desk.
Brown-gold eyes met emerald green eyes. Tsunade smiled tiredly at the last Haruno while Sakura took a seat in front of her desk.
"Are you okay, Sakura?" the Hokage asked.
"Just find, especially the fact that I have to where to stay." Sakura said sarcastically.
Tsunade smiled a smile that only meant that she would do something that was unnecessary. Sakura shook her head and tried to exit the office but Tsunade stopped her.
"Then why don't you ask a friend." Tsunade said, apparently she was drunk.
"Let go of my wrist and I'll be on my way." Sakura said trying to get free of the woman's death grip.
"Try the Huuyga boy, he's gotten cute." the drunken Hokage suggested. "Or Aburame, if you forget the bugs he would be a great match for you! Oh, and then there's Gaara. No 'cause he went back to Suna with Temari and Kankuro, damn. How could you let the cutest of them all get away from you like that?" Tsunade scolded.
Sakura freed herself from the woman's grip and ran out of the office leaving Tsunade's ramblings to themselves. Wishing a 'goodnight' to Shizune, she set off for who knows where.
Today was the day of Sasoumi's death sentence. But of course only a few people knew about it. The public shouldn't have to worry about miniscule things. His death would be quick and painless, maybe, but either way it would hurt him more than the person that was getting rid of him.
Tsunade walked down to where said man was being held. Ibiki, Kakashi, and several other ANBU followed the blonde haired Hokage. Was the door was opened, the man inside closed his eyes due to the sudden light. Before any words could be exchanged, other presence joined the small ground.
"Sakura-chan." Sasoumi said greeting the girl.
"You are not allowed down here Sakura." Tsunade scolded.
"Like hell I'm not." the pink haired girl retorted, glaring at the man. "I have more reason to see this man die than any one of you." Sakura said turning her attention to Tsunade.
Tsunade let out a heavy sigh and said nothing else to the girl. She gripped the door handle, hard enough to make it crack a bit. She loved Sakura like a daughter, but she hated the fact that the girl had her temper.
"Aren't one of you people going to kill me?" Sasoumi asked smirking with amusement.
"Don't sound so happy." Kakashi said revealing his Sharingan.
Before any question where asked, Sasoumi fell to the ground twitching every once and a while. Moments followed by with silence until a blood curdling scream was heard from the man. Sakura winced at the scream, but did not do anything to stop. She found pleasure seeing the man that ruined her life in pain and misery.
Kakashi stopped torturing the man with his Sharingan and covered it back up.
"Some are still alive." he said.
"Clarify that statement." Ibiki spoke up.
"He managed to kill some Akatsuki members, but not all of them." he paused seeing the reaction of the ninja around him. "Kisame, Deidara, Zetsu, the Leader, and Hidan were the ones killed. The only ones." he continued.
"Mietta." Sakura whispered. "What about Mietta?" Sakura almost yelled gripping Kakashi's vest.
Kakashi nodded meaning that he was still alive. She let go of him and collapsed on the ground below her. Her eyes drifted to Sasoumi, who was unconscious from Kakashi's Sharingan.
"Where?" Sakura asked being helped by Kakashi to stand up.
"Probably somewhere nearby." Kakashi replied.
"Ibiki, you take care of the rest down here. Kakashi, Sakura, I want you two to gather up about three others to find the remaining survivors. Bring back all of them, when you arrive back take the Akatsuki to the interrogation room. Now go!" Tsunade ordered.
"Hai!" Kakashi and Sakura replied running up the stairs and out of the building.
Sakura was ahead of them by a few yards, them including Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Kiba, and Shikamaru. She ignored them; they had told her which direction they might be in, so she raced off. All of her thoughts focused on two people, Mietta and Itachi. If her brother left her again, she would destroy something and then probably kill herself. They just had to be alive.
Behind the frantic kunoichi, the others were just as quiet. Naruto was worried for his friend; his kept thinking the worst would happen. He tried catching up to her, even with some of Kuuybi's chakra, but she kept running like a mad-man.
By the time they all had left for the rescue mission, Sasoumi was long dead. Easily killed by Tsunade by her chakra. Just send a large amount to his heart, and he was gone. Even if they confirmed it to Sakura right now, she would just ignore them.
After about thirty minutes of non-stop running and tree-hopping, the group came to a large clearing. Kiba and Akamaru sniffed the air trying to find a trace of them.
"They're here somewhere," Kiba said still sniffing the air. "And I smell blood."
Sakura looked around the area frantically, trying to find something like a piece of clothing or a chakra signal. The others joined the search, but found nothing.
"Where could they have gone?" Shikamaru asked. "They must have been weakened and if their smell is mostly concentrated in this area, they should be around here."
"H...help." a voice cried out barley audible.
All heads turned to see a beaten up Tobi. Sakura rushed to his side immediately and started to heal him. His mask was long ago abandoned and his face was bruised and blood was started to clot. Sakura healed him enough to where he could sit, stand, and talk without any pain.
"Where are the others, Tobi?" Sakura asked as calmly as she could.
Tobi pointed to the direction he crawled from and Sakura leaped from her position and ran. She ran through bushes and tree branches, ignoring the scratches they were giving her. Lay amongst fallen down tree, right before her very eyes, were a badly beaten up Mietta and Itachi.
"Oh, my god!" she yelled running up to the two.
She started to heal them, which was hard seeing the wounds due to her tears. Soon followed after her were Shikamaru and Naruto. Naruto held her back while Shikamaru picked up the limp bodies. Sakura buried her head into the blonde's chest and cried her eyes out, in happiness that they were alive and in worry that they were in such a state.
Meeting up with the others, they rushed to the hospital where they could have proper treatment.
Mietta opened his eyes expecting to be in the same place as before. Instead he was met with a white ceiling. He turned his head to see an unconscious Itachi. The last thing he remembered was he, Itachi, and Tobi fighting off these rouge ninja. The next thing he knew, he was here. But why was he in a hospital? Oh man how he despised hospitals.
Beside his was a sleeping kunoichi, her head resting on the side of the bed his body was not occupying. What tipped him off was the pink hair, Sakura's pink hair. Her breathing was just as calm as Itachi indicating that she was asleep. He shifted a little bit to make himself more comfortable and accidentally woke up his youngest sister.
"Mietta?" she whispered. "How do you feel?" she asked.
"Fine." he replied.
Before he could register what happened he found Sakura crying into his chest and her arms wrapped around his back. He in return wrapped his arms around her small waist and pulled her into a hug. Tears fell down from his eyes making her shirt wet.
"I thought you died." she cried out. "We had a funeral for you and everything and your body was there!" she yelled into his hospital gown.
"But I didn't, and I'm here hugging my sister." he said kissing the top of her head.
"He's dead." she murmured into his chest.
"What?" he said not understanding what she said.
"He's dead." she said a bit louder taking her face away from his clothing.
"All for the better." Mietta said ruffling Sakura's hair.
Itachi was still out cold. Sakura was previously sitting at his bed side but she was taken away by a nurse that had to re-dress his wounds and do what ever else. Now Sakura was in the hospital waiting room waiting for a nurse saying that she could go back in the room.
Several hours of waiting was making the pink haired teenager very aggravated. Soon a black haired nurse walked down the hallway and allowed Sakura to go back into their room. The pink haired medic walked into the room to see an empty bed where Mietta lied and an awake Itachi staring at her with his dark eyes she loves. She practically jumped on him as a way of saying 'hello.' No words were exchanged, just a long lasting hug and sobs from Sakura. Soon they pulled out of the hug and they just stared into each others eyes.
"You do know you scared me, right?" she asked him.
"It was all planned." he replied giving her a light kiss on the forehead.
"Oh yeah right. You planned getting your ass kicked by some rouge ninja, almost getting yourself killed, making me cry my eyes out, and allowing yourself to be beaten up by me in a few minutes?" she asked.
"Of course. But I don't think you'll beat me up." Itachi said replied.
"And why is tha-" Sakura was cut off by his lips.
She melted almost immediately when she realized they were kissing. They were soon interrupted by none other than Sakura's older brother.
"You do realize your kissing my younger sister." Mietta said threateningly, but joking at the same time.
"Hn." he replied kissing her again.
"I'll kill you later." Mietta said walking out of the room giving them some privacy.
Today was Sakura's seventeenth birthday and she had all she needed. Her brother lived a few blocks away from here, Itachi and Sasuke were getting along, she has a new boyfriend, and everybody remembered her birthday this time. The only thing bad about everything was that her boyfriend, Itachi Uchiha, was on probation for a few years.
But what do you expect when you kill your whole clan, join the Akatsuki, and come back? He's lucky he was sentenced to death. Itachi and Sakura were happy that all he got was probation. He couldn't go on any missions with her and he had to be watched at all times, but it was a small price to pay.
Life couldn't get any better at the moment for Sakura Haruno. Soon to be Sakura Uchiha when Itachi proposes, when they go out for dinner tonight.
FIN!
Yes, this is the last chapter. I think 20 chapters in enough for one story.
Again, sorry for any mistakes in here, my spell checker thing is still screwed up.
Should I do a sequel? I might, depending on how many people want one.
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