Betrayal
ItaSaku is one of my favorite pairings, so last year I decided to write about them.
Author's Note: This story was written almost a year ago, but has been reworked just for all of you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, especially not Itachi.
Six years! It had been six years since he left to go join Orochimaru...
I laid down on the bench: the same bench that I laid on after he left. I still remember the last thing he said to me...
"You're annoying..." I sat up and then I began to cry.
"Sasuke was my everything...but he left me! I don't know what to do now!" I shouted up at the sky. Rain was pouring down on me as I screamed those words. They say the rain can wash away the pain...but it can't erase the memories...the memories I had with Sasuke.
I still remember the day we got put on the same squad together...
Flashback
"And here are the people that will be on squad seven..." Iruka-sensei was announcing the new genin teams. Each team would have three students, and there were ten teams. I had been waiting for ages for my name to be called. But I was really hoping that I would be on the same team as Sasuke...
"Uzamaki Naruto."
"Yeah! Believe it!" I was hoping it would be me, Sasuke, and some nice person I could tolerate. But my dreams were shattered when my name was called...
"Haruno Sakura."
"I'm doomed!"
"Yeah!" Naruto had a crush on me at the time, and he was happy to have me on his team. But I wanted to beat the crap out of him! That kid was so annoying! He even stole Sasuke's first kiss! That could have been my kiss...
But then things totally flipped when the third name was called...
"And. Uchiha Sasuke."
"Not Sasuke!" Naruto and Sasuke have been rivals for ages. And now they were on the same team! This was not going to end well at all...
"Yay! Sasuke's on my team! Ha! Take that Ino-pig!" I turned around to shout at Ino. Ino liked Sasuke to, but I liked him first! And now that I was on the same team as Sasuke, all I wanted to do was rub it in her big fat ugly pig-face!
"Hmph. Well you may be on the same team as him, but he's still going to be mine!" she said glaring at me with her ugly pig-face. I laughed in her face. But I laughed twice as hard when she got put on the same team as Shikamaru and Choji. Shikamaru was the laziest guy in our class, while Choji only thought of his stomach.
End Flashback
"Sasuke..." I whispered. I hadn't seen him for so long...I missed him so much! I began to cry again as soon as his face entered my mind.
FlashbackKakashi-sensei had recommended all three of us for the chunin exams. We were in the forest of death, and Sasuke had just defeated the sound ninja.
"Sakura."
"Yes, Sasuke?"
"Don't tell Naruto about the curse mark. If he's worried about me, then it won't do any good for the team."
"I won't tell."
Then several months later Sasuke was leaving to go join Orochimaru. I tried to get him to stay, but he refused.
"Sasuke! Please...come back," I said with tears in my eyes.
"No. If I leave now, I won't be strong enough to defeat my brother," he said turning his back to me.
"But...I don't want you to leave. We're a team," I said. Sasuke continued walking. Then I got irritated and grabbed him by the arm.
"Sasuke, please don't leave! I love you!"
"Sakura..." He turned around to look at me. Then he spoke.
"You're annoying..." he said. I just fell on my knees and began to cry, and Sasuke left... I haven't seen him since...
End Flashback"Sakura..." I turned around hoping it Sasuke...but it was only Naruto.
"What?" I said wiping the tears from my eyes.
"Why are you out here in the rain? You're going to get sick," he said sitting down next to me.
"It's been six years," I said to him.
"I know. That jerk! Even after I beat the crap out of him he still wouldn't listen to me!" said Naruto slamming his fists into the wood of the bench beside him. I just sat there and looked down at the rain soaked ground.
"Sakura."
"What?"
"Lets get out of here," he said getting up.
"Okay," I said. I followed Naruto until we got to his favorite place in the world: Irichiraku's Ramen bar.
We sat down on the stools and ordered our usual ramen. It was warm and dry underneath the canopy that hung over the bar. And for some reason, ramen always tasted better on a cold rainy day.
"Hey Sakura, watch this," said Naruto. He took two chopsticks and stuck them in his nose.
"That's real mature," I said laughing. I took a few noodles and put them on my upper lip.
"Nice moustache Sakura," said Naruto giggling.
"What are you two doing now?" said a voice. We turned around to see Shikamaru staring at us. Naruto quickly took his chopsticks and hid them behind his back.
"Oh, hi Shikamaru," I said taking the noodles off my lip. "What's up?"
"Not much...just hanging around..." he said taking a seat next to Naruto.
The three of us sat around and talked over ramen and hot chocolate. Then it was getting late.
"Well, I guess I'll head home," I said getting up.
"Aw. So soon?" said Naruto sighing.
"Sorry, but I'll see you guys tomorrow," I said. "Bye!"
"Sounds good to me..." said Shikamaru. "I guess I'll go home too," he said getting up.
When I got back to my apartment the room was completely trashed! Someone broke in, and I was going to kill them! I took a kunai from my weapons pouch and slowly, but carefully searched the house to make sure no one was still here. I slowly walked around the room and into the kitchen.
Nobody was there.
I kept going until I entered the bathroom. I peeked inside the shower and there was no one there either. But I couldn't let my guard down. I searched every nook and cranny and then I started making my way to the bedrooms.
I went into the guest bedroom and looked in every direction. I looked under the bed, in the closet, and even under the desk...but no one was there. Then I went into my room. I went in and the window was open...
Attached to the windowsill was a note:
Give us the kyuubi, or we will kill you.
The note was anonymous, but I knew who sent it.
"They're after Naruto again," I whispered. I put the note in my pocket and cleaned up my apartment. Three hours later I was done and I made myself some dinner.
I sat down in the living room in front of the TV and watched all my favorite shows. As usual, it was a pretty quiet night. But I still couldn't help but wonder is Sasuke was okay. After all, he was under the control of Orochimaru.
After I finished eating and watching all my shows, I went to bed.
I was running down a dark corridor towards the light. All I could hear were screams of other people. I was trembling in fear as the screams got louder and more blood curling. Soon blood was dripping from the ceiling all over me, but I kept running. Then I heard a mysterious voice:
"Come...come to me," said the voice. I kept running faster and faster until I entered the light. I saw a shadow and by the looks of it, their back was turned towards me.
"Who...who are you?" I asked as I approached the shadow. Then I started to shake in fear as the shadow turned around. The mysterious stranger came closer and closer and then...
I woke up in cold sweat on the floor next to my bed. I got up and turned on the lights to my room. But when I did, the window was open.
"I thought I shut that thing," I said walking over to the window. When I was just about to close the window, I saw another note taped to the window frame:
We're waiting... Bring the kyuubi to the training grounds or we will kill you.
"Great, how am I supposed to do that? There's no way Naruto is going to agree to this... I'll have to find another way..."
I made it to the training grounds to find on one was there. Then a shadow jumped down from the treetops.
"Do you have the kyuubi?"
"He's right here. Come on out Naruto." Naruto came out and walked up the shadow.
"I'm here," he said. "And ready to obey every command."
"Good." The shadow emerged and revealed a scary guy who looked like a shark. I stood there and glared at him. Then he pulled out his giant sword from his back.
"Hey! Come on down, we've got a feisty one!" he shouted up to the trees. Another shadow jumped down and he was wearing a hat to cover his face. But I knew exactly who was under there.
"Itachi...I know it's you...you coward," I said pulling out a kunai. He took off his hat to reveal the most dangerous criminal in the world. His face was stoic, void of emotion. Crimson eyes stared back at me through wisps of silky black hair.
"Coward huh?" Then he looked over at Naruto. "You're the one who's a coward. Using a clone. You should have thought more carefully," he said taking out his katana. The Naruto clone I had made vanished, leaving me left to fight these guys.
"Well Itachi, what should we do to her?" he said looking at me.
"Kill her. She didn't heed our warnings." Itachi lashed out at me and punched me in the face. I fell to the ground and I began to bleed heavily out of my mouth.
"You...really think you can just hit me like that?" I said getting up. Itachi just stared at me with his cold red sharingan eyes. "Well, you're wrong. I'm not the weak little girl I used to be!" I said hitting him back.
Itachi didn't really care though. He just wiped the blood away from his mouth and chuckled.
"You're foolish," he said. "But I think we would have use for you," he said.
"What do you mean?" I said. "What have you got up your sleeve?"
"Hn."
"Well?"
"I know that you're quite taken with Sasuke," he said looking down at me. "Tell me. Would you like to see him again?"
I wasn't quite sure exactly how to respond to this.
"Keep talking," I said.
"I bet you want...revenge. He betrayed you, didn't he? And if I'm not mistaken, you still care for him." Then he began to pace around me.
"Today is your lucky day. If you join us, you can take your revenge, and Sasuke will be yours."
"I don't trust you." I said. But then I thought about how badly I wanted to see Sasuke again...
I really didn't want to do this, but I felt as if I had no choice. But just to be sure, I had to ask what would happen if I refused Itachi's offer.
"And what if I said 'no'?" I asked.
"You die," said Itachi as if death was no big deal at all. I had to make a decision, whether I liked it or not. It was either death or live the life of a criminal, and I really didn't want to die.
"I'll join you," I said bowing my head down in shame.
"You've made an excellent choice," said Itachi as he made a slash through my headband with a kunai. So now, whether I liked it or not...I was now a missing-nin, and a class-S criminal in everyone's bingo books.
"Let's go," said Itachi's partner. We followed him and traveled endlessly for almost two days without stopping. Eventually we stopped at a small waterfall. I followed Itachi and his partner along the edge of the water hole. The rocks weren't that stable, but I kept going. They went behind the waterfall into a cave and I followed them in.
We traveled for what seemed like ages along strange mysterious passages until we came out the back of the cave. There was a thick forest surrounded by dark pine trees, and it was so dark not one ounce of light made it to the floor of the forest.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Shut up bitch," said the shark man.
"Excuse me? But I have a name! My name is Sakura Haruno and you will not call me a bitch!" I shouted.
"Keep your voices down," said Itachi. "And Kisame..."
"What now?"
"Speak again and I will kill you," he said as we continued walking. Kisame obeyed him and I didn't speak for the next few hours. The forest kept getting darker, (not that it wasn't dark enough already!) and we started heading up a mountain. I was wondering why we were climbing up the mountain; there was nothing there at the top! Or was there?
"We're here," said Itachi walking forward to a small clearing. He dug through several inches of dirt until a small symbol appeared. He tapped on it three times and we disappered underground into the mountain. I don't exactly know how many feet down we went, but it seemed like an eternity! We stopped moving and hit rock bottom.
"This is it," said Itachi. "Your new home now," he said motioning for me to follow him. He opened a wooden door and inside was an over decorated room with red carpeting and black marble floors. The place was completely spotless!
Then I heard a scream.
"What was that?" I said looking around the room.
"Relax, it only...her."
"Her who?" I asked. An older girl with blonde hair and a tan came out of one of the doors wearing a pink skimpy outfit.
"Itachi my love! You came back!" she said throwing herself all over him. Kisame began to laugh, and I just stood there wondering what the heck was going on.
"Who's that?" I asked Kisame.
"Wow, you're dumber than I expected. That's Mai, the annoying bitch who cooks our food," he said glaring at her.
"What?" Mai let go of Itachi, and then she looked at me.
"Who's that ugly girl with the big forehead?"
'That evil bitch! No one makes fun of my forehead.'
Itachi sighed.
"This...is Sakura, our newest member."
"Hmph. She's definitely not a looker, but I hope she knows enough to STAY AWAY FROM MY ITACHI!" she said directly to me.
"You can have him...I'm not interested in him," I said. Itachi pushed Mai off him and had me follow him upstairs.
"I'll see you tonight!" she said waving to him. He just ignored her.
"Is she your girlfriend or something?" I asked.
"No."
"Then why did she say she was meeting you tonight?"
"Look, she's not my girlfriend. She's just some girl that I slept with once, and now she won't leave me alone."
"You slept with that ugly bimbo?" I said. Itachi ignored me and stopped in front of the door. He knocked on the door.
"Come in," said a voice. There was a tall man looking out the window. He turned around and it was a man with spiky orange hair and tons of piercings standing before me.
"Did you get the kyuubi?" he asked.
"No, but I got the next best thing. This girl here is the kyuubi's friend," said Itachi pushing me forward.
"What do you want with Naruto?" I asked him.
"It is simple. We need the kyuubi to take over the world."
"What are you going to do to him?" I said with anger in my voice.
"We are going to extract the kyuubi from him. Fortunately he won't survive." Pein turned around and then he spoke again. "Now on to more current matters...let's discuss you being a part of this organization. Do you want power? Or perhaps it is something else you require?"
"I joined this organization so I could save Sasuke from Orochimaru," I said.
"Interesting. Well as long as you are here, you will follow my orders and do exactly as I say. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes."
"Itachi, show Sakura to her room." Itachi nodded and I followed him out of the office.
'What have I gotten myself into now?' I wondered.
'Aw, why such a stick in the mud? You'll get to see Sasuke again. Heck, if I were you I would do Itachi instead!'
'Shut up! Nobody asked you. Besides, you are me.' Inner Sakura never knows when to be quiet!
I followed Itachi down a long hall until we stopped in front of another door.
"This is your room," he said opening the door. The walls had fancy wallpaper with a red carpet and a large bed near the window. There was also a golden chandelier hanging from the ceiling and a small couch. There was also a small closet and inside were my new robes. I took them out of the closet and looked at them. They were black with red clouds, just like everyone else's.
"What's this other door right here?" I asked.
"The bathroom," he said taking a seat on the couch. I went inside the bathroom with my robes, and it was average sized and everything was white. I put on the fishnet shirt, a shirt over it, a pair of shorts, and fishnets underneath. There were also several bottles of purple nail polish in the cabinet. I took one out and I painted my fingernails and my toes with an dark purple shade.
I went back into my room to find Itachi was still there.
"What are you still doing here?" I asked him.
"I guess Leader-sama forgot to mention that we're sharing a room."
"What? There's no way I'm sharing a room with you!" I shouted.
"Stop complaining. You can have the couch." I sighed and then I heard my stomach growl. I hadn't eaten anything in over a day.
"Is there a dining room around here?" I asked. Itachi got up.
"Follow me." I followed Itachi downstairs through a dark hall.
Then Itachi disappeared and everything became darker. The blood began to pour from the ceiling, and the screams began to get even louder than before.
"No! I have to get out of here!" I shouted I kept running and running, and the light wasn't getting any closer. Then I heard that same voice again:
"Come to me..."
"Who are you?"
"Come to me...my love..."
I was so confused and frightened, but I kept going to the point where I was sprinting. Then there was a flash of white light and there was the shadow standing there again.
The shadow moved closer.
I reached out to touch the shadow and then...
I felt a splash of cold water on my face.
"What the hell?" Itachi was looking down at me and Kisame was holding an empty bucket, which I assumed had water in it.
"Wha...what happened?" I asked.
"You passed out," said Itachi.
"Oh." I got up and wiped the water off my face with the sleeve of my cloak.
"Exactly what were you dreaming about?" said Itachi looking at me with that scary glare in his eyes.
'Should I tell him about the dream? I didn't think he'd understand.'
"I don't remember...something about blood..." Itachi and Kisame both looked at me strangely. Then Itachi picked me up so I was hanging over his shoulder.
"Put me down!" I said kicking him.
"You're obviously not well," he said as we walked down the stairs. When we got the dining room, Itachi set me down in one of the chairs next to a couple of guys I've never seen before. But the person I was sitting next to was a blonde girl, which made me feel a bit better about so few girls being around here.
"Hey there, so...are you new here, un?" I nodded. "So, what's your name," she said leaning in.
"Sakura." This girl was really weird. "Uh...could you back away a few feet?" I asked nicely.
"What's wrong Sakura? Afraid?" she asked me.
"Uh...its not that. Its just that...I'm not into girls."
"Is that so?" The girl kept leaning in.
"Can't you take a hint? I'm not gay!" I shouted.
"Deidara? What the hell are you doing now?" A man with red hair came in the room and glared at Deidara.
"Sasori-danna, I was just being nice to the new girl," said Deidara backing away.
"You'll have to excuse him, he's not well."
"He? You mean...she's a guy?" Deidara's face turned red and he got angry.
"What did you think I was? I'm not some prissy girl!" he shouted.
"I'm sorry...you're not a prissy girl." I paused for a few seconds. "I think you're a transvestite!" I shouted.
Sasori started laughing until Itachi came back in the room.
"Oh. I see you've met Deidara and Sasori." Then Kisame came back into the room followed by some weird guy wearing a mask and a tall guy with white hair. The guy with the white hair sat down next to me.
"Um...hi," I said. "My name is Sakura, what's yours?"
"I am Hidan," he said. Then he took out some weird symbol from around his neck and started chanting.
"Uh...what are you doing?"
"This is part of my religion, Jashin." he said.
"What religion is that?" I asked.
"One that will cleanse and dispose of all heathens. Anything less than destruction is a sin, and if you don't like it you can go to hell!"
"Right... and what's with you?" I asked the guy in the mask.
"That's Kakuzu, he's in charge of the money," said Kisame sitting down on the other end of the table. Kakuzu just glared at me, and made a motion that he wanted to slit my throat.
"He probably wants to kill you," said Sasori wiping what appeared to be blood on his hands.
"Only if she takes any of my money," he said harshly.
"Is fucking money all you care about?" shouted Hidan.
"I wouldn't talk if I were you Hidan, unless you wish to die."
"Are you fucking stupid? I'm immortal I can't die!"
"Is that blood?" I asked pointing to Sasori's hands. He just hid his hands under the table.
"He's been busy making puppets, yeah," said Deidara.
"Okay, that's enough! I don't even want to know what you do around here," I said shaking.
"Oh, so you don't want to know that I make clay sculptures in my free time, yeah?" he asked me.
"Is that why you have mouths on your hands?" I asked him.
"They have many 'other' uses as well," he said grinning.
"I really don't want to know..." I said. Then the silence was interrupted by a loud scream.
"Hi!" Mai came out of the kitchen with everyone's food. All the guys quickly turned their attention away from me and towards her and her skimpy outfit. She put down several plates for everyone and all the guys started eating.
"Oh, here's yours," she said pretending not to notice me. It was okay...that's all I can say. Then I saw Itachi coming out of the kitchen buttoning his cloak.
"What were you doing in there now?" I asked him.
"It's none of your concern," he said ignoring me.
"He was probably fooling around with Mai again," said Deidara staring at Mai.
"That bimbo? Ew." Itachi sat down next to Kakuzu and continued to ignore everyone as they ate. Then I heard a weird rumbling sound, and a strange plant popped up from the floor.
"What is that?" I said wondering what would pop up through the ground like that.
"Zetsu's back," said Sasori.
"Zetsu?" I looked over at the plant. The leaves separated to reveal a guy with a black and white face with green hair and yellow eyes. And I thought the other guys were scary enough.
"I caught some rabbits outside," he said holding up several dead rabbits.
"You can have them," said Hidan. "No one here wants to eat fucking rotten rodents." Zetsu ignored him and then he looked at me.
"You! Who are you?"
"I'm...Sakura."
"She's new," said Deidara grinning.
"She looks tasty," said Zetsu looking at me. I just hid under my cloak and ignored all of these guys. I couldn't understand why the Pein would have all of these weirdos in his organization, but then again, I also couldn't understand why Naruto was such an idiot either...
Poor Sakura! How in the world will she survive?
Hope you liked the story so far.