Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Menagerie – A Collection of Naruto Shorts ❯ Protecting Sasuke: Sakura & Itachi ( Chapter 3 )

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Menagerie - A Collection of Naruto Shorts

Story Three - Protecting Sasuke: Itachi & Sakura

By - Wicked Innuendo

"You fucking bitch," his voice shifts from passive to quasi growl.  Uchiha Itachi's slim fingers touch the base of his throat, his fingertips skim over the warm liquid of the flowing cut, mindful that his necklace is absent. 

Her attack had been lightning fast, one moment she was before him, slashing at his chest with the edge of her kunai and then she was above him in the temporary sanctuary of the massive oak.

"It's not mortal," she yells from her perch in the tree.  He detects the slight waver in her voice, she fears him, yet continues to hold her ground.  "if you see to it soon enough," she steadies her voice and directs her fierce green eyes at his hands, avoiding his lethal crimson gaze.

Itachi bends to retrieves his broken chain, surveying the damage that this slip of a pink haired Kunoichi managed to accomplish.   Sharingan afire, he looks for the half alive form of his younger brother.  He had been in the midst of ridding himself of the worthless upstart and then she was there, blocking the would be fatal strike, like some hell bent Valkyrie claiming her warrior prize.  

Through genjutsu and hastily placed camouflage, Itachi sees him.  Sasuke's breaths are shallow and Itachi knows that it will take minimal effort to end his weaker sibling.  Sakura's eyes follow Itachi's line of sight to the incapacitated body of her former team mate.  Sakura jumps from the tree, landing gracefully between Itachi and the younger Uchiha. 

"My blade was laced with toxin," Kunai raised, stance wide, Sakura defends her childhood crush.  "The poison's reversible, if you leave now and walk to the neighboring village, the antidote is available there."

He's upon her, fingers wrapped around her neck, making it nearly impossible to breathe.  "Chakra use and fast movements will hasten the poison through your bloodstream, leave us and live," she barely manages to choke out.

He drops her to the ground, feeling the dizzying nausea of the poison, not ready to die just yet.

"I should kill you," he sneers, less than pleased with his current predicament.

"That would ensure your death, I won't die so easily," she rises to her feet in a defensive stance.

"This isn't over kunoichi," he backs away, wondering the identity of this woman that would put her life on the line to save his brother.  Sakura watches Itachi retreat, she breathes a sigh of relief and rushes to Sasuke's side to heal his wounds.