Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Remember You, Remember Me ❯ Capture ( Prologue )

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And yes this is the same story that posted on ff.net under my trailsofblood handle there…

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Remember You, Remember Me
Prologue: Capture
By: PsychoStatic



This was the end, she was finally going to die. After all those years running and hiding they had finally been able to keep up with her pace. She had run herself to exhaustion and beyond and yet they never fell more than a mile behind. She knew she had no chance of escape, maybe if she had stopped running an hour ago and attacked before she was on the brink of collapse she might have had a chance.

That wasn’t on option though, she could never hurt her pursuers, her friends. Well, they were her friends before this whole thing began. They had grown together, laughed together, cried together and shared the same losses. They were her hunters now, charged by her village to have her head and remove the threat to their precious village. Would her ex-friends even hesitate a moment before taking her life? Feel a single moment of regret? Feel guilt about their task? Feel anything?

Somehow she doubted it.

She had made so many mistakes in so little time that she could never forgive herself let alone expect others to forgive her. The last 4 years seemed to blur together to make up nothing but error upon error. Every way she turned it was as if she was betraying someone else. The kunoichi smirked. She's never made a mistake in her life, everything seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

Maybe if she kept telling herself that...

Shaking her head the ninja turned her attention back to the situation at hand. She could feel the presence of her company land in the branches of the trees behind her. She found herself unconsciously pushing her body against the rough bark of her own hiding spot. She knew it was useless, they already knew where she was, yet she still slowed her racing heart and forced her gasping breaths to come more even and quiet.

She could feel their bodies strategically positioning themselves in case she tried to make a break for it. She almost laughed at them, they had to know the reason she stopped was not because she thought she could hide from their superior senses. Letting her head loll to the side she allowed her eye lids to slip shut.

What were they going to charge her with? Attempting to kill a fellow shinobi? Going AWOL on her village? Murder of 3 ANBU squads? Joining the Akatsuki? Running wild with Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame? Ok the last two she didn’t really have a justification for they were just something to do with her time as a Nukenin.

The thought of the two murderous shinobi brought a ghost smile to her pale face. Once someone took the time to break the shell surrounding the mysterious men they were actually quite nice, decent human beings. Well, that is, if you look beyond the fact that they were both cold blooded murderers. Then again what would the world consider her now?

'I wonder what those boys are doing right now. I bet they're both sitting around their fire debating who’s fingernails were longer or something equally as stupid.' The thought made her start to laugh. She must have sounded insane to her pursuers but at the moment she didn’t care. Here she was in the last moments of her life and in her mind she had an image of the dreaded Akatsuki members sitting side by side looking at their fingers like a couple of obsessed females.

As her laughter died down she couldn’t help but feel slightly annoyed. What were those idiots doing behind her scratching their ass’s? They hadn't spoken, they hadn’t moved, hell, she wouldn’t be surprised if they hadn’t blinked for fear of missing her either. Were they just going to stand there all day or make a move on her?

"You're tired. We've got you surrounded, there's no use even trying to run any further." 'Spoke too soon.' She knew that voice, always practical and emotionally challenged Hyuuga Neji. Why he felt the need to state the obvious was beyond her.

"Just surrender now, it will be easier on all of us." Ah, Naruto. Always loud and always energetic. His voice was clam now and betrayed none of his emotions. 'Guess he's grown up.'

A quiet voice whispered something that the kunoichi didn’t catch, but the voice was definitely familiar. So Konohagakure had sent Hyuuga Neji, Uzumaki Naruto, and Hyuuga Hinata to come and take care of her? A bunch of kids. Neji was the only one out of his teens and just barely at that. Who else did they send to remove the threat of her existence? Kiba? Lee? Shino? Maybe Ino?

"Put your hands where they are visible, and I promise you will not be harmed. You will be taken back to Konohagakure to be questioned before your fate is decided. This is your last chance Sakura." Of course, Kakashi. They couldn’t have sent someone she didn’t know, no that would be too easy on her.

So they had finally figured it out huh? All those ANBU she killed, all the drug dealers, all the Akatsuki marks, all that blood that stained her hands, it was all the blood of strangers. Tsunade had finally figured out that she didn’t have the will power to kill those she had grown up with, those she had once loved like family. If she had just sent people she didn’t know....

'Damnit! Damn that whole god forsaken village to hell!' Continuing her rant she spun around the tree to face her assailants. She crossed her arms over her head and let her hands hang down on either side. She scrunched her nose and let out a strangled cough. Man, she seriously needed a shower.

Yep, there they were evenly spaced out in a semi-circle around her. Basic strategic procedure, easy to circumvent if motivated. Weak but effective when the target is fatigued. No chance of success if the target still has strength left in them or is overly motivated. Sakura, at this point in time had neither but after spending so long as an assassin she couldn’t help but notice every detail.

They stood before her in their tight fitting black ANBU uniforms, painted masks secured snugly to the sides of their heads leaving their faces visible to her. Neji and Naruto stood to either side of her a few meters off. Two powerhouses poised and ready for any escape attempt she might make while Hinata and Kakashi stood in front of her. Did they think that if she were going to try to escape she would attempt to run right through them? Idiots.

Sighing heavily she offered her ex-village mates a condescending smirk. They were tired too. They tried to hide it but she had been trained by some of the most fearsome ninja known to the world. They way Kakashi's head dipped slightly with every breath, the way Naruto's shoulders were too relaxed in their sockets, even the way Neji's posture was slouched just the tiniest bit. It would be an interesting fight to say the least.

"Having troubles keeping up boys, you look beat." Her voice startled them, she knew it would. Her voice had deepened since she had last spoken to the foursome and she refused to let it betray any emotions. Everything had changed about her since her last encounter with these people. Sakura had grown into her body and was no longer lanky and underdeveloped. Well toned muscles splashed across every inch of her taut flesh and her breasts, while not overly large like Tsunade's, were ample enough to attack the attention of men wherever she traveled. Pink hair that was once vibrant and bright had dulled to a soft, less noticeable, pastel color. Her green eyes had darkend to a hard, dusky forest green color under perfectly arched eyebrows.

She was like a cat, the perfect picture of stealth. A black fishnet shirt clung tight to her skin, ending just above her navel and spilling over her shoulders before stopping above her elbows. Her solid black bra was clearly defined against her pale creamy skin under the transparent shirt. Comfortably fitting black pants hung seductively low on her hips and made no sound as the twilight wind gently tore at the fabric. To top her already threatening stature off a katana was splayed across her back and jutted out behind her left shoulder held in place by a few loops of chakra around the scabbard.

She was definitely a deadly individual.

The ANBU unit made no reply as she fluidly shifted her weight from side to side in an enticing dance to keep her blood moving in her veins. Lifting an eyebrow she let her arms fall to her sides and stopped her movements. What were the idiots going to do, stand there staring while she fell asleep on her feet?

Kakashi shifted his weight into a more relaxed pose though his muscles stayed tensed under his uniform. "Haruno Sakura, under the order of Tsunade, Godaime Hokage of Konohagakure, you are to be apprehended and brought back to the village by whatever means necessary. You can either come willingly or we will resort to force, either way you are coming back to Konoha with us."

Sakura laughed. "If I was going to go back willingly don’t you think I would have walked through Konoha's gates of my own free will years ago?" She watched all their muscles tighten instinctively for a moment before continuing. "Never-the-less if it means the difference between walking on my own two feet with at least a shred of pride still intact or being carried like some errant child, I choose the former. I will accompany you back to Konohagakure without struggle." 'For the moment at least.'

"Pretty words." Was the only reply she got from Kakashi as he motioned Neji forward. She knew what was coming, it was the reason they brought the Hyuugas' with other than to use their Byakugan to find her and keep her in sight. Neji was going to close her tenketsu's so she will be unable to perform any jutsus.

Sakura watched as Neji cautiously advanced on her keeping his bloodline activated to watch for any flares in chakra indicating an oncoming jutsu. He had changed since she had last encountered him 4 years ago upon her departure from the village. Where once a lean muscled 16 year old boy, only an inch or two taller than her, stood was now a bulky 20 year old man who towered a good 6-7 inches over her. She had no doubt that he was stronger than her in brute strength these days but all those muscles deducted points in stealth and agility. Her muscles were specifically trained for a life as a Nukenin and they specialize in the ability to get themselves out of tough situations such as this.

Sakura had no intentions of doing that though.

To say the pain of having your tenketsu's closed was excruciating would be an understatement. Air entered her lungs in painful spiky breaths, her head felt like her brain was trying to push itself out through her hair follicles and the rest of her body felt as if a million dirty fingernails were attempting to rip her flesh from her bones slowly, strip by tiny strip. The whole thing was torture enough to make the strongest man crack.

Fortunately she wasn’t a man, she was a woman. She applauded herself on her restraint from screaming her lungs out but she couldn’t stop her knees from collapsing under her or the pained groan that escaped her clenched jaw and tightly pursed lips. She squeezed her eyes shut and wrapped her arms around herself, biting her short nails into her sides.

Sakura's eyes snapped open when she felt a reassuring hand on her shoulder. Moving her head was a painful task but she did it anyways and was met with the gentle white eyes of Hyuuga Hinata. Her hair had grown, Sakura noticed, and she didn’t look so timid either. A sympathetic smile spread across the young girls face and for some reason Sakura had the urge to smack that smile right back off.

"The pain will go away soon Sakura-san, but it will take a day or two for you tenketsu to reopen." Her voice was soft, smooth and confident not at all like the Hinata she use to know. Giving the girl a once over Sakura filed away all the information for later use, including the ring that adorned her left hand. Just because she was in pain didn’t mean she had to be sloppy in her work, it just meant she had to try harder to focus. An uncomfortably close presence made her snap her head forward just in time to see Naruto reaching over her shoulder for her katana.

"I wouldn’t do that if I were you." Her voice came out hoarse and shaky. Sakura watched the blond hesitate a moment at her words before continuing his reach for her katana. The moment his hand closed around the hilt green and white flames engulfed his hand and sent him rocketing backwards 20 yards into the waiting arms of a tree. She felt the hand of the Hyuuga girl fly off her shoulder as she jumped back a few feet. No matter how she tried she couldn’t keep that cocky smirk from her face. "I told you, you shouldn’t do that dumbass next time listen to me. He's not stupid he knows his master."

Kakashi reached down and hauled Sakura to her feet deciding that if she was well enough to talk then she was also fine enough to stand. Her entire body protested the movement, muscles spasming here and there, shaking like a leaf in a hurricane. Looking at the face of her former teacher she noticed his visible eye was narrowed dangerously. When Kakashi was angry it was a scary thing for all parties involved.

"'He'? What do you mean 'He'?" Sakura didn’t let any of her nervousness show on her face but the tone Kakashi held made her want to cry.

"He has a name but I cant pronounce it so I just call him Darkness. You're an idiot if you think im going to tell you any more than that Hatake-san. Uzumaki-san will be alright as long as he doesn’t try to pull that stunt again, that was a warning of sorts and you only get one." Kakashi stared at her for a few moments before pulling her forward to walk in front of him.

"Neji, carry Naruto until he is able to stand on his own. We're going back to Konohagakure."


Ending Notes: alright kinda sucky and a little lengthy on some of the descriptions but hey that’s what prologues are for, setting the stage. So now for those of you who haven’t quite figured it out Sakura, Naruto, Hinata and the rest are all 19 with the exception of Gai's team who are 20. Sakura has been a nukenin (missing-nin) for 4 years meaning she left Konoha at the age of 15

I don’t know how painful having your tenketsu's forced closed really is but im assuming its pretty damn painful and as you can see im not making Sakura into some super strong macho chick who has no weaknesses and such considering 1.) she can't/won't kill someone who use to be her friend 2.) she does feel pain (getting her tenketsu closed) and 3.) Kakashi scares the living shit out of her.... but she is strong and she does get a kick ass sword named Darkness that you will find out about later on in the story.

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