Dance To Your Soul

BrokenAngel714

Chapter 1: Prize of War

Sakura awoke suddenly to a cry of shrill terror. She bolted upright throwing her clothes on and tying her kunai holster onto her upper thigh tightly.

Sakura went to the window quickly her mouth falling open in horror. The Haruno Village was under attack! Billows of smoke reached for the heavens while flames of fire flickered and danced eager to claim a new victim.

She tore out of the house ready to fight till the death for her village.

Sakura ran outside turning her head form side to side trying to find the source of the village's attackers. People were running and screaming hysterically as heartless ninja's attacked killing innocent people left and right.

Sakura almost shrieked out loud when she witnessed an attack ninja stab a commoner man in the stomach swiftly. The man gasped but quickly tilted over the sword limply as his dead body fell to the ground, the ninja yanked the katana out of the dead body disappearing into the shadows eyes set on his next victim.

She quickly realized why this was happening. The Uchiha Village had offered a truce agreement between the two clans to keep from being attacked by each other. Secretly both clans had been slightly afraid of the other's power and The Uchiha Village had graciously offered to make an alliance of the two villages to be more powerful together. But Sakura's aunt and uncle had refused the offer no matter how much Sakura had pleaded with them out of fear to take the deal.

Her own parents, the real rulers of the Haruno Village, had mysteriously disappeared and had been classified as dead. Sakura had spent years denying this but had finally come to the conclusion that her parents really were gone forever. But when her aunt and uncle had eagerly stepped into the positions as soon as the news was sent that her parents were dead was finalized. Sakura was supposed to be the heir but at the time she was too young to take on such a position of power.

Yet Sakura had always suspected foul play and she knew killing people to get what they wanted was hardly beneath her greedy aunt and uncle, but she could never prove anything.

Someone suddenly gripped her legs from behind tightly. Sakura grabbed her kunai spinning it into position in her hand ready to attack whoever it was that was behind her. But when her candy apple green eyes met big blue tear filled eyed she stopped immediately.

"Onee-chan…I'm scared!" her little cousin Haiku cried tears running down his cheeks as he buried her frightened face into her body.

"Haiku it's ok." Sakura whispered feeling tears well to her own eyes as she leaned down quickly picking the three year old up in her arms running for somewhere to hide.

"Sakuwa-chan what's goin on? Why dis happen'n?" Haiku slurred through his tears as Sakura ran down an alley for cover.

"I don't know why Haiku. But it'll be ok, I promise," Sakura said with fake confidence for Haiku's sake. He was like her brother and he thought she really was his big sister and she hated to see him so scared.

Haiku's bottom lip quivered and he rubbed his sleeve across his nose still crying a little bit.

"Hey you trust me don't you?"

Haiku nodded then smiled showing off his tiny teeth, Sakura giggled ruffling his brown hair acting like everything was fine but really her mind and body had tensed into red alert. And just as her ninja skills predicted she heard the faint sounds of footsteps at the end of the alley and strong unfamiliar chakra. The footsteps began advancing toward her and Haiku's hiding spot at the end of the alley.

Sakura spun hurriedly wrapping Haiku tighter in her arms hiding him behind her body kneeling on the ground trying to make them smaller and more hidden. She masked her chakra and kissed Haiku on the forehead because this might be the last time she ever saw him.

"Onee-chan?"

"Shh…" Sakura said gently.

Sakura heard the footsteps stop and she drew in a deep breath holding it until she heard the footsteps turn and retreat out of the alley.

Sakura let out a relieved sigh straightening up again a sudden plan forming in her head.

She scooped Haiku up and began running toward the small building next to the palace where the servants and maid lived. She jumped from shadow to shadow dodging the fire that was now trying to completely engulf the village.

She tried to open the door but the maids had locked it, she cursed under her breath summoning her chakra to her foot and kicked the door in sending it flying across the room splintering into pieces when it hit the wall.

"Miyu! Miyu! Miyu I need you!" Sakura screamed desperately and loudly running from room to room quickly trying to find the maid.

"I'm here Miss.Haruno," a small voice quivered as the young women stepped out of her hiding place in the small closer into the main hallway.

"Miyu, take Haiku and go to the Village Hidden in the Leaves as fast as you can. Tell them what's happening here, mention my name, and take care of Haiku for me. I'll try to get there as fast as I can. Can you do that?" Sakura asked her green eyes boring into the maids hazel orbs. Miyu nodded slowly a tear fell down her cheek as she extended her arms to take Haiku. Sakura handed Haiku to Miyu and began to leave until Haiku's piercing scream stopped her.

"Onee-chan! Don' leave Haiku! Take Haiku wit you! Pwease don' leave Onee-chan!" Haiku shrieked kicking violently trying to get out of Miyu's grasp to be with Sakura, in his mind his older sister.

Sakura went back to Haiku kissing his cheek tenderly. She slipped off on of the two necklaces she always wore; they were both early gifts from her parents. She took off the one with the silver pendant that had her initials S.H. engraved delicately on the front.

She slipped it over his head and brought the pendant up to his eyes so he could read the letters.

"Here. If you wear this I'll always be with you. See? S for Sakura and H for Haiku. If you miss me hold it real tight and we'll always be together." As Sakura said this her eyes stung with tears, she really wanted to be with Haiku always like she said but she had to stay and help it was her duty as a trained ninja.

"You pwomise?"

Sakura nodded slowly and Haiku grabbed the pendant in his hand smiling widely.

"I'll come with you as far as the forest edge," Sakura said tugging Miyu's free hand trying to make her run faster. They ran quickly finally reaching the forest's edge where they would depart.

"Ok start by going northwe-" Sakura was cut off when she felt a blow to the back of her head, Miyu and Haiku screamed loudly. She stumbled forward grabbing a kunai throwing at the attacker slicing the side of arms up by his shoulder he shouted in pain cursing at her grasping his arm tightly.

Another man grabbed Sakura from behind roughly, she kicked her legs up and over his head flipping him harshly onto his back aiming to break it.

"Go Miyu!" Sakura screamed when she noticed the two ninja's closing in on her.

"Onee-chan!"

"Go! Now!"

Miyu took off into the forest with Haiku as Sakura struggled to fight off the expertly trained ninja. She jumped so she was balanced on her hands kicking one in the stomach flipping back over onto her feet. When she was balanced on her feet the other ninja grabbed for her and she stabbed another kunai into his leg.

The man yelled loudly backhanding her across the face so hard she flew back before she crashed back down to the earth.

Sakura tried to get up but was quickly pinned to the ground by the men. She squeezed her eyes shut waiting for them to kill her but a long minute went by and she heard nothing but low whispers. She opened her eyes and saw the two men looking down studying her intently.

She began to struggle violently kicking and bucking wildly. The on top of her brought his knife to her neck pressing it into her skin so it cut into her neck. She stopped struggling but gave them each a glare filled with poison. The other ninja touched the ends of her soft pink tresses than grabbed her by the chin turning her face from side so side inspecting it.

"Ok, we'll take her." The man stated grabbing Sakura's wrists tightly together while the other ninja with the cut arm tied them together tightly in front of her.

"What the hell are you doing?" Sakura demanded trying to roll away or break the strong rope. The men stayed silent standing up the bigger one with the cut arm held the rope yanked on it so she would stand up. Sakura got to her feet but yanked at the rope trying to get away. The man holding the rope smiled at her tugging it so hard she fell to the ground heavily on her side.

Sakura tried to kick at him but he pulled the rope harshly making it bite painfully into her skin.

"I san do this all day," he said pulling it the other was so the binds tore into her against skin again.

Sakura ignored the pain, "so can I," she spat out trying to run back to the village desperate to help the few people that were still crying for help.

"We don't have time for this," the smaller man hissed grabbing the rope from his partner yanking Sakura toward him.

She stepped back reluctantly keeping her eyes glued on the destroyed village in front of her. Her village.

The man swiftly hit a pressure point located on her neck. Sakura's lids fell heavily and her body went limp falling forward towards the ground, the bigger men stepped in catching her light body before it hit the ground throwing her over his uninjured shoulder easily.

The two looked at each other than disappeared into the forest heading back toward the Village Hidden in the Rocks leaving the devastated village behind them without a second thought.

"Do you think Prince Sasuke will like our choice? I mean he is running out of time before he has to turn the throne and kingdom over to Itachi-san if he doesn't pick one." The man with Sakura asked.

His partner shrugged absentmindedly, "I don't know. He's turned down prettier girls for his wife but that guy's hard to figure out. And if he doesn't want her she can always be used as slave. But you know…" the man said with a sly smile glancing at Sakura lustfully, "I'd do her."

Both men laughed agreeing heading faster toward their home village with their prize for Prince Sasuke.