Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ AB Type ❯ Trapped ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

"Today we will train"

That was the irrefutable statement of the Uchiha genius, that's how he started today, very early in the morning.

Sakura couldn't believe it. He had woke her up at five in the morning, just to train?
Dammit, she was angry.
If there was one thing that really pissed her off, it was to be awake
And this ogre did exactly that.
"You awoke very forcible today, Itachi san", she said while collecting her weapons to clean them.

And above all, clean?? What kind of training is that?
'I'll kill you, I'll kill you...' she repeated in her head, while looking with her death glare at how the subject of all her hatred sat just three meters from her, peacefully mediating.

He appeared to be concentrating, but she was sure he was alert, even to the flight of one bee.
She leaned on some bamboo and closed her eyes. She really needed to sleep.

'Continue your task, for your own good', she said to herself.

That's how the minutes passed and became hours, and there she was, still cleaning and sharpening their weapons. By the time she had finished, the sun was high above their heads, fortunately the high trees around them, offered a good protection against the sunlight.

She exhaled. She was tired of doing nothing, so she stretched out and then stood up.

“I’m going to the river", she said. He said nothing in return, so she just assumed he hadn't heard her. Even through it was very unlikely.

After taking a few steps, she soon got lost amidst the tall sticks of bamboo. The green scenery was somewhat relaxing, and only now, that she was alone and out of sight of the terrible Uchiha, she could feel it completely.

She inhaled the scent of the forest, and at the distance she could hear the river that she was walking to.

It was hardly noon and she was already feeling pretty tired. But maybe a day in this forest wasn't a bad idea after all. She was enjoying it now.

The thin river formed a little hidden pond. She noticed how clean the water seemed and drank a little. It was refreshing. She wanted to bath in there. No one would see her, right?

She took the chance and undressed herself. Even if the weather was hot as ever, the water was actually cold. She felt the sudden reaction of her body with the drastic change of temperature.

"Ahh! So nice!” she exclaimed.

Sakura let her mind travel around freely, forgetting about the lack of food, the weather, Konoha and Sasuke.
And that she needed to dye her hair because her true color was starting to show. Of course it was easier to use genjutsu, but that was futile against Itachi.
There was a village not too far away from here. Maybe she could do it there.

The cold water was soothing her ankle a little. She had tripped a few days ago, when they were running from the group of Hunter-nin that wanted to catch them.

On that day, the clones successfully delivered the scroll and they were able to move off of the city.
At the exit the hunters were waiting for them. An ambush.

From that point on, about a week had passed. Itachi was delaying their chasing of the kyuubi...
Kyuubi? come on Sakura! He is Naruto.

Yeah, of the chasing of Naruto, and he still hadn't given her a convincing reason for that. Maybe it was because he suspected something.

He was pretty keen; sometimes it was difficult for her to escape his questioning. But it wasn't the interrogation or his questions the thing that scared her.

He could read her every action with ease. There was no way for her to know what he was thinking, and now that he was suspicious, she had to act with double caution.
Think thrice before saying something or even taking a step.

Sakura got out of the pond and dressed herself. Then, she started her journey back to the camp.
When she arrived, she was surprised by Itachi, who was standing straight, staring at her, much like a wife waiting for her husband who arrived late in the night at home.
The situation seemed quite funny in her head, so she just smiled.

"Mia-san, I want to ask you something", Itachi started. His blank stare was there as always, but she was getting used to it. She almost didn't mind.
If it wasn't for the almost...

"Sure, what is it?” she said all too casual. She walked up to him and sat relaxed next to a thick stick of green bamboo. While he remained standing.

"How much control do you have over your sharingan?"
Interesting...

"Why would I tell you? Who knows what you could do with that information?", she tried. He definitely had something up his sleeve.

"I could help you with that.” he simply said.
Come on, you can give better excuses!

"I have poor control of it if you must to know. I have a few genjutsu but only one is really powerful", she decided to please his curiosity and see how far she could play this game.

"The one you used to kill Orochimaru", he stated.
"Yes"
"Close your eyes", he commanded. She looked at him with a confused expression, but she just complied.

'I can't believe I'm trusting you this much already', she said inwardly, impressed at her obedience.

"Think of something you hate"
'Oh, that's easy...Sasuke'

She replayed the scene of his departure, the day she confessed. Then, when he almost killed her. When he left again. All the pain she suffered because of him.
But strangely, she couldn't feel hate for Sasuke as she wished to. She felt something that was way more painful.

She felt hate for herself.

Of course, Sharingan appeared immediately.

"Do you feel the strain in your head?"
"Yes"
"Focus it on your eyes"

She did as he said, and suddenly felt as if her eyes were on fire.
"Hold the chakra there"
'Dammit, this hurts!' inner Sakura screamed. She started to cry and that served a little to ease her pain.
"Now, visualize your chakra channels. Try to control the flow of Chakra in them."
"It hurts!” she groaned.

She had to do it. Uchiha Itachi himself was teaching her how to use her Sharingan, something he was the master of. She couldn't lose this chance. She needed to do it perfectly.
'But I don't have Uchiha eyes...’ Sakura remembered. How was she supposed to use this doujutsu if she only had the half of what was needed?
'Relax, Sakura...you can do it. This is your chance.'
Slowly, the tension started to disappear, her channels were getting used to this big amount of chakra flowing to her eyes.

'It seems like Sakura is the best in Chakra control here, at this point she has more chances to become Hokage', Kakashi said looking at Naruto.
'And the Uchiha clan doesn't seem so great nowadays', he continued teasing the two boys.
'Stop it already, Kakashi sensei!’ she screamed.

Yes, of course she could do it.
Suddenly she opened her eyes and a bright red Sharingan shone in all its splendor.
She smiled when she realized she had controlled it. She felt so proud.

"Good, now, you will be like this until the sun goes down", he finished, feeling satisfied. She had learned it quite fast. She had great control over her stamina and chakra, which was useful from every point he could see.

"What?!” she didn't know if she could handle this stress for so long. She could faint, or end up blind, or just loose her ability with doujutsu. It was dangerous. But she needed to take the risk.

After all, she wasn't the thirteen-year-old Sakura anymore.
She was Gennosuke Mia. She could do it perfectly.
Mia sat down, directing all her concentration to her eyes. If she was going to be stuck like this the whole day, then the best option was to meditate.
'Concentrate, relax your eyes, breath in, breath out...'

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"Kakashi", the deep voice of the young Uchiha sounded in the night, calling the attention of his former sensei.
"Ah! Sasuke, how have you been?” Kakashi responded lightly. He wasn't in the mood to argue.

"I need to ask you something"
"Go on"
"What happened to Sakura? where is she?"

Kakashi's mood suddenly dropped until it touched the ground. A terrible sorrow fell on his shoulders and made him want to punch the kid that stood before him to death.

"She left on a mission", he said, trying to conceal his pain.
"How long?” Sasuke kept pushing the matter.
"I don't know, I quit counting the months a long time ago", he replied. His gaze lost in the ground.
"What was her mission about?"
"She didn't tell anybody"

Both men fell silent. There were many things they didn't know, and that left them both a bitter flavor.

"Ok" Sasuke said and left to ponder certain facts.

For a reason, he couldn't take off of his mind those green eyes turning to red. He usually calmed his conscience telling himself that it had been only a bad dream. But it kept bothering him; it haunted him every day, in every moment. Even if his life had turned to be a continuous torture, even if his desire of revenge had grown twice and more, those eyes were the only thing he could think about.
He didn't want to think it was her.
And what he could have caused to her with his blood.

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Fist up, and then down to his stomach, at the same time a kick was being thrown to his side.
A clone.
Behind? no, down on the earth.
A jutsu?
She is getting quite fast.

"Don't move", her voice was heard from behind him. The very tip of her kunai ready to pierce his flesh as if it was butter.

'I'm not that easy', he smirked.

Now he was behind her and her kunai buried in a cloud of smoke left by his clone.
She moved fast to catch his fist and finally win this spar, but the kunai Itachi was holding didn't move, and it pierced on her back.

He saw her blood running bit by bit as she turned around and punched him hard on the cheek. He stepped backwards because of the strength she put on that blow. That gave her time to put in practice what he had been teaching her.

She met his gaze. sharingan against sharingan. She tried to use a genjutsu, but was easily countered by Itachi's.

She ran to him and then divided herself in three shadow clones, all of them throwing kunai’s at the Uchiha genius. Sakura used a fire jutsu to distract him from the real her. Then an earth element jutsu to make a cell around them with the trees.

She disappeared and the real Mia was left outside the wooden cell.
Itachi wasn't there either, but got trapped in the mud she created. When he released himself from it, he was met with the intensity of Mia's sharingan.
In a second he forgot everything;

his name,

his body,

his power.

But he wasn't stupid at all. He completely turned it the other way around and this time was Mia the one trapped in his Genjutsu.
"You have improved", his voice echoed in the world she was trapped in.
"Of course, now release me, you won", she said a little bit annoyed. She wasn't a person who liked losing.
Itachi's figure materialized next to her.

"What makes you think I'm going to do so?", he whispered. She turned her head to the side to look at Itachi, but he had already disappeared and now was behind her.

She felt him grab her arms and secure them behind her back. His body pressing against her. She could feel his chest hard on her back.

"Let me go now, Uchiha", she said dangerously, but not moving.

His head came closer to her ear. He grabbed her arms with one hand. The other, now free, wandered on her waist, delicately tracing an invisible line from her hip up to her ribs.

She moved her head opposite to his, trying to avoid his breath on her neck and the sensation he has provoking in her.

He completely opened his hand and encircled part of her waist, pushing her closer to him.
"You are an Uchiha too. I think I missed someone that night", he whispered in hushed tones next to her ear, inhaling her scent that was a mixture of adrenaline, fear and something else he was getting addicted to.

She felt fear at the meaning of those words. Would he kill her? But she wasn't an Uchiha...
...well, in a way she was. She had their blood.
Sakura was scared, and for the first time, Mia was too.

"You have me...like this...", he murmured, almost inaudible. He spoke so close to her ear that his lower lip brushed past her lobe.
She shivered, delighted by these sensations that were taking over her body.
She moaned slightly and closed her eyes.
When she opened them, she was in the bamboo forest, leaning against a bamboo stick, but the worst thing was,

she was alone.

She looked everywhere around her, but found no Itachi.
What was that?, he trapped her in his world with the Sharingan, she was sure of that.
But his touches...and the way his words came out; slowly and sensually...
"Prepare the fire, I'll go catch some fish.", his voice resounded amidst the forest and came to her like a bad dream.
"...yeah...", she said, too dazed to complain.

'Damn you, Uchihas...'