Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Ironic Love - A Tale of Forsaken Love ❯ The Ring ( Chapter 1 )

The two red crimson eyes were only there for a split second, she knew that she was being watched. Sakura over the past 3 years grew more courageous, she no longer had the pathetic `fan-girl' crush on Sasuke. People were surprised when they realized the truth. But none could blame her. Sakura removed her robe and stepped into a shower, decorated with a silk blue curtain, that was surrounded by bright white tiles. She turned the knob which squeaked often. She rinsed her hair clean, and began to reach for the shampoo. She didn't even bother to look where she was placing her hand. She touched something metal. She took it in her hand and realized it was a ring.

 

“Hmm… I don't remember placing this here.. I'll ask Kakashi-Sensei when I catch up with the team”. She looked confused. This wasn't a ordinary ring. Her newfound curiosity made her stare at the ring for quite some while. Finally she began to apply the shampoo to her hair. She washed the shampoo out and rinsed her body off. She turned the water knob to the left to shut it off. She got out, and dried off with her towel. As she was drying her hair with the hair dryer. She looked over at the bathroom counter to see that the ring was gone. She began to suspect something…So oblivious she was to the dangers that was yet to come…

 

Sakura confused asked herself, “Where did that ring go…”. Inner Sakura began to convince her that there may be someone in the house.. so she rushed out, and got her clothes on, she then patrolled around the house and she walked down the main hall way and into the kitchen.

 

There was the ring laying there on the floor…

 

“Okay, who is there..?” Sakura asked, very impatiently.

 

She began to hear strange voices coming from the direction of the ring, she walked up to the ring, bent over and picked it up, the ring was very hot. She yelled in pain and investigated her hand, and found that there was a little burn there in the palm of her hand.

 

The ring began to speak…

 

“Outcomes…” the ring said once.

“Outcomes…” it said again.

“Outcomes…” a third time, and then it stopped.

 

When she looked up, she saw the door to the back garden opened, she saw a shadow walk by. She immediately knew someone or something was trying to get into her mind…

 

“Allright, I cannot get scared, it's just Sasuke trying to scare me.. No.. it can't be.. he's too serious.. Maybe it's Naruto. But I don't remember him dressing in black.

“You fool, this entity does not know you..” inner Sakura suggested..”It's not that hard, you have to use common sense…”. Sakura sighed to the fact that listening to herself once in a while may be useful.

 

Sakura marched into the wine colored living room, with beige curtains and picked up her katana, inside of the holster she began to lift the shiny blade up towards the sky.. she noticed that the blade was dull… and If this entity proposes to be a threat, she would be in trouble.

 

“What am I do to do..?” she questioned herself.

 

“CHOP, KILL, KILL, CHOP” inner Sakura pleaded.

 

“Maybe it is a bad idea after all to listen to Inner Sakura…”. Sakura sighed as she walked back into the kitchen and into the back yard.

 

She looked over to her shed that held her gardening tools. The shadow entity was on top of her house, watching. Poor Sakura was ever so oblivious.

 

“I know your out there shadow entity!” she shouted around the house. The scream that she made pierces people's ears like nails on a chalkboard. She walked further and by the shed door was the ring again. She was perplexed to see such a ever so strange ring, laid on the ground. But not by her. She picked up the ring, this time it was cold. She put it on her finger figuring it will give her strength to fight this enemy.

 

The ring started to heat up, Sakura felt that the ring was burning her hand. She dropped her steel katana on the ground, the ring spoke.. “Time, and space I control them…”. The ring's voice was silenced by a scream of pain. Sakura tried to force it off her hand but it was glued to her hand.

 

The shadow entity on the roof jumped down and made a perfect landing next to Sakura.

 

“Hello Sakura…”… the shadowy figure spoke in such a strong voice.

 

“Who are you? What do you want with me?”… Sakura questioned it, while enduring the pain..

 

Sakura couldn't see it very clearly, the ring on her finger made her vision bad and all of that she could see faded into sky.

 

“What is it I want… Hehehe… It is actually simple… Medical-nins are hard to come by around in these parts.” The ring started to lose it's power and the figure began to appear clearly… the figure revealed itself. Sakura couldn't make out his face, but he was wearing a black cape with red clouds, evenly spaced between eachother.

 

“I don't know what you are talking about…” yelled Sakura.

 

[The Akatsuki warrior knelt down beside her and whispered… “You will have to realize it sooner of later, I am giving you a chance to join us.. If you say a word of this to anyone, we will kill your friends”… the Akatsuki man threatened.

 

“I will never join you, I'm not scared of you.” Sakura replied bravely.

 

“You will be soon brave Sakura”. And with that the Akatsuki figure smirked and vanished into thin air… along with the ring.

 

Sakura's back yard was open to the busy streets of Leaf Village. Naruto and Sasuke usually come by every morning to visit her. But normally earlier when a mission is to go ahead during the day.

 

“Who was that man.. from the Akatsuki… The only member from the Akatsuki I know is Itachi Uchiha… but he wouldn't act like that..I wonder…” As she thought of who it could be she was interrupted by the sound of a walking pumpkin and a raven haired boy. “SAKURA!!!” the walking talking pumpkin called out.

 

“Huh?” was all Sakura had to say.

 

When Sakura looked up towards the sky she saw the sun blinded her vision of Naruto and Sasuke.

 

“Uh Sakura what are you doing lying down in the grass?” Naruto questioned.

 

“Oh uh.. I was sleep walking..” She nervously chuckeled.

 

“Hn.” Was All Sasuke had to say.

 

After a awkward silence, Naruto began to but in.

 

Naruto jumped in the air and screamed “RAMEN TIME, RAMEN TIME”.

 

“Will you stop fucking shouting so early in the morning Naruto?” Sasuke who appeared to be annoyed by the pumpkin.

 

“Jeez by, I didn't mean to, you know how the oozing noodles…”

 

Sasuke interrupted “…melt in your mouth like hot oozing goodness, You say the same thing everyday.

 

Sakura looked up at the boys she just laughed at the scene of the 2 guys arguing. She looked at the burns on her finger and her palm. “Why did I put the ring on my finger…” she asked herself.

 

“What ring?” Sasuke asked.

 

“Oh uhh.. the ring in my jewelry case, the one that Lee gave me… Hahahah”. She tried to keep things calm, without anyone knowing what was really going on, however Sasuke was suspicious. “Hn, alright Sakura.” Naruto was busy thinking about Ramen to even think about the present.

 

Sakura was getting up.

 

“Need any help” Sasuke asked as he offered his hand to Sakura.

 

“Ya thanks”. Sakura said.

 

She grabbed his hand and they stood up. Sasuke was looking very annoyed by Naruto, who kept constantly shouting “RAMEN” like a retard who just popped out of a UFO.

 

“Can we get this retard inside somewhere, he's embarrassing me..” Sasuke whispered to Sakura. Sakura immediately got over her daze reminiscing

of the past.

 

“Huh oh ya..sure”. She began to lead them inside her house.

 

It was hours before the mission, so they decided to lounge around for a while.

 

“Naruto”.. Sasuke engaged in conversation with Naruto.

 

“What?” The pumpkin asked.

 

“Ramen is for a couple of hours, there's no need to rush for a bunch of noodles.” Sasuke replied.

 

“But I can't wait till then, How can you just say a bunch of noodles, There's pizza noodles, chicken noodles, Beef noodles, vegetable noodles…” Naruto kept going on about the types of noodles that Ramen came in. As Sasuke began to regret saying that to him he looked over at Sakura, who was staring at her knees while sitting on the sofa, Sasuke noticed she looked like she was in need for help.

 

“Sakura.. are you all right?” Sasuke asked again.

 

“I guess…”. She couldn't really tell them what happened earlier on today, if she told them, the man from the Akatsuki will surely be ready to assassinate them. “It's nothing, just had a bad nightmare..” you probably wouldn't understand it.

 

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F lash Back

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Sakura was walking through the park, 2 years ago, all alone by a cherry blossom tree, wondering why Sasuke was not returning her love. A shadow entity appeared out of no where, and greeted her, she could not remember his face, the man became violent as he asked her questions, she seemed to think that he had a mental illness. During their conversation he knocked her off the bench, and got on top of her back.

 

“NO, Please don't!” Sakura was knew she was about to be raped.

 

“I think I will” Said the attacker, he began to pull down Sakura's pants. When suddenly he was attacked by a shuriken. The man was injured and he ran way into the dusk.

 

Sakura laid there on the ground crying, she was trying to pull up her pants. The other unknown entity who shot the man with a shuriken walked over to Sakura, their feet by her face, she looked up and saw a familiar face.

 

“Are you okay Sakura?” Ino Yamanaka began to ask.

 

Sakura began to cry more.

 

“Sakura, I won't tell anyone I promise, please tell me your okay.” Ino pleaded.

 

“I'm fine” as she began to wipe away her tears. “Thank you Ino, you came at just the right time. I do not know who that was. But he was scary.”.

 

“Just what were you doing out here, by yourself nearly dark, talking to a stranger?” Ino questioned the miserable pink haired girl.

 

“It was Sasuke…”. She answered completely embarrassed.

 

“Let me guess, he rejected you again. “ Sakura nodded. “Sakura, I am no longer interested in that guy. He is a total asshole if you ask me. He treated me the same way he did to you. Maybe you should forget about him. I moved on, I have a great new boyfriend, Shikamaru… beyond his laziness, he is everything I could ask for in a boyfriend”. Ino tried to comfort her friend, but it did not work.

 

“I know, Ino. I know.” She began to get up.

 

Sakura then walked away slowly into the sunset which felt the gentle leaves of the cherry blossom trees. She walked away crying, then she picked up her pace and ran off to her house.

 

“Sakura, wait..!” Ino shouted trying to get her attention.

 

But to no avail, she just ran off.

 

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End Flashback

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When Sakura came up to the real world, she was still frightened. By what happened earlier today, she wondered if the guy who hurt her would try to do the same thing, and even succeed.

 

“I thought it was all a dream, I thought that this was a dream, and it wasn't and now it has scarred me for life”. Sakura interrupted the conversation between Sasuke and Naruto.

 

They noticed how she felt about this `dream'. Normally she was cherry and she never really was down, instead she sat there, staring at her knees into oblivion. This hasn't happened for 2 years. She thought she blocked it from her memory. But it came back to haunt her due to the recent events of today.

 

Sasuke and Naruto were sat on the couch, Sakura was sat on a single chair. Naruto whispered into Sasuke's ear “What's with her?”. Sasuke just shrugged his shoulders, not really giving a damn. But deep down inside, he did care for her.

 

Suddenly Sasuke's cell phone rings, the ring tone was the Legend of Zelda Theme song. He shuffled around his pockets to look for his cell phone. Which took him a bit. He found the phone and flipped it opened.

 

[On the phone].

 

“Sasuke you need to get down here, you, Naruto and Sakura, something terrible has happened in the Hokage's office. You need to get here now. Do you hear me NOW!.” Kakashi screamed.

 

“Kakashi-sensei just tell me”. Sasuke answered puzzled.

 

“The red eyes are everywhere”. Kakashi replied nervously.

 

“What?” the transmission was cut.

 

Sasuke groaned and laid his phone on the coffee table.

“Sasuke who was that?” Naruto asked.

 

“Kakashi-sensei, he was screaming over the phone, he sounded very nervous, he wants us to get down to town immediately.

 

“Kakashi-sensei, nervous?” mocked Naruto.

 

“That's strange” Sakura butted in.

 

Sasuke thought and he pondered around the room, whether they should go or not. “And Did I mention he was freaked out about some crimson eyes?” Sasuke asked.

 

“Crimson eyes?” Sakura yelled.

 

“You know something about this Sakura?” Sasuke asked suspiciously.

 

“Not really…No”. She said as she looked down at the floor again.

 

“What is the matter with that girl?” Sasuke thought.

 

[A big explosion shook the house].

 

“What the fucking hell?” All shouted in Unison.

 

Sasuke ran over to the window and saw they're was a black Akatsuki demon rider.

 

“Akatsuki scum” Sasuke shook.

 

“Let's go rip his head off, How dare he set foot in Leaf Village, I don't care who he is let's just kill him and get on with it.” Naruto said acting without thinking, how impetuous he was.

 

“Naruto, don't move!” as Sasuke watched the demon rider stare directly at Sakura's house.

 

The demon rider was charging up his chakra to start an attack on the house. As he was charging he got off his horse and walked towards the house, charging his plasma ball to full blast. The demon rider then charged at full speed at the house reading to clash and destroy the house to pieces…

 

[Too be continued].