Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Stained Souls ❯ Trust ( Chapter 4 )

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

Trust
In this very moment,
I don't know
what I should trust.
I am caught between,
what I was taught
and what my mind
is telling me at this
very moment in time.
I look into you eyes
and I am instantly
captivated by them.
Should I trust this,
Or should I run.
In this very moment
I don't know
what I should trust.

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"Do you think I really care what the answer is or not," Sakura bit back at the mysterious man before her, her voice was tinged with both fear and strength at the same time. Yea Sakura you show that freak who's boss and who he shouldn't be following, Inner Sakura cheered on. Her brows furrowed nearly glaring at the man, clutching at her Kunai tighter than before. "Just answer the damn question, who the hell are you and why are you following me."

Itachi let out a low chuckle at the display, the pink haired girl that was named, Sakura was putting on. He closed his eyes slowly and opened them once more, as if to regain composure fighting in between showing his impressive Sharigan to the girl or to just lie and give an assumed idenity to her. He nodded to himself making the decision, as he fully opened his eyes to her, still showing the same onyx eyes that he possessed with his Sharigan deactivated. "I am just a friend of Naruto's," he said slowly and his voice wanting to fill the girl with a false confidence, "Naruto-san didn't mention me, I am guessing."

Sakura, something is way off, I mean don't you feel the other chakra, screamed inner Sakura loudly, causing the girl to nod physically. Her eyes squinted at the man and she let out a slow sigh, "no, he hasn't said anything about you at all...yet. Although if you would give me a name I could possibly ask him about you, and your friend."

His eyes widened at the end of her statement, and shook his head, sliently cursing Kisame, for sticking around for so long and not even attempting to mask his massive chakra. Although that was the least of his concerns at the moment, he needed to come up with an name and past that would be believable, and then a name came to him. "Tamanko Hiroshi," he said simply to the girl before him, recalling that was the name of a young man that Naruto had encountered on his journey. "As for the other person following you...I really don't know who or what that could be. I don't see why anyone would pursue a beauty like you, other than to ask for your hand of course."

His words caused Sakura to blush a bit, and then shake her head swiftly, "you still didn't answer my question why you are following me."

"Hn, It was because during the time I spent with Naruto-san, all he could talk about was a vision of beauty with pink hair named Sakura. I guess I just wanted to meet said beauty, without scaring her too much," Itachi said as he looked down at the grass below his feet, trying to find a way to play this role to a tee. "Although I appearently failed my own personal mission."

Suddenly came a rustle in the nearby bushes, as it caught both Itachi and Sakura's attention. He squinted his dark eyes and then took in mind that the one chakra that belong to Kisame was joined by 1, no 2, not 2 but 3 new and very familiar chakras. Biting his lip a bit, he made the quick decision to keep his presense in Konoha a secret still, he bent down and kissed the young Kunoichi on the cheek and sighed, "so sorry to make this little introduction short, but I don't need Naruto-san finding out that I followed him all the way to Konoha to meet the girl of his dreams and steal her from him." With that he jumped off to the tree that he had appeared from when Sakura had foolishly ran into another.

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He had seen a flash of pink run by him, and sensed the chakra that was following her, it took into mind that it was very familiar. Putting down the book that he was going to buy, he quickly left the shop and followed after Sakura to the best of his ability. "There is no way that he could have returned here, not after what happened last time," he said as he continued after Sakura and the other two, knowing that it was Akatsuki memebers, Itachi and Kisame.

He didn't think too much about it at first, the only thing that he could really think about was protecting his young female student. Most senseis wouldn't care so much for their students, especially if the one student was of the opposite gender, but of course Kakashi wasn't most senseis and Sakura wasn't your average student. He ran through the village tracking all of the chakras carefully and took in mind that the moving chakra stopped at the training grounds. He began to creep slowly towards where the running stopped and managed to catch a glance at Sakura immediatly going into her fighting stance and then have a converstation with Itachi, who was now calling himself, "Hiroshi."

Suddenly two other chakras appeared and Kakashi's eyes widened recognizing one of them as the one student that left the village for training. Under his mask, a small smirk formed on his lips, as he knew full well what would happen if Naruto walked into this scene. The smirk disappeared as Itachi both placed his lips on Sakura's cheek and disappeared into the trees. He didn't know what he had felt during the kiss but it was the first time the feeling came to him. He felt a certain anger over what he had just witnessed, but there was no time as Naruto and Sasuke appeared before Sakura and the he felt his feet make him emerge from the bushes.

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Kisame stood by the branch that he was shaking violently to get Itachi's attention as a symbol to get the hell out of there. When the young Uchiha appeared before him, he let out a low growl and punched him quickly in the face, "what the hell are you thinking, Tamanko Hiroshi?!?!" He witnessed the entire exchange between him and the girl and wasn't pleased with the fact that the Haruno girl was still walking, talking, fighting, breathing. If it were Kisame down there the girl would have either been killed to send a message or kidnapped with the ransom being the Kyuubi container himself, Uzumaki Naruto.

"I was thinking, that we could get this girl to trust me enough," Itachi began slowly, not pleased with the fact that Kisame laid a hand on him, or even with that he was in position to explain half of his actions. "Trust us enough to reveal some secrets to the Kyuubi container, so we can capture him with ease."

"Hmph," Kisame said in response, only half of him would accept this as the truth, while the other part of him looked down below at the ninja squad below them. Seeing the concern on each of the young men's face for the young girl, and the one that stood out the most was the other Uchiha male. There was something more there, and that was anger.

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As he and Naruto approached the Training Grounds, Sasuke sensed a very familiar chakra, one that was just like his only stronger. He gritted his teeth as he recognized it as his own brothers, and with that he picked up his own pace. He had left his apartment with Naruto with the intention of fighting the blonde but as he neared their desired destination it was no longer Naruto he wanted to face. Then as he got even closer he to notice to the other chakra, that of a very familiar female ninja, one of the best medic-nins in Konoha, his very own teammate. His eyes widened and he then picked up his pace once more, Sakura, she's in danger.

Through the trees he saw as Itachi disappeared into the trees after placing his vile lips on Sakura's face, he took in mind how she brought her hand to her face and rubbed her cheek slowly. He then jumped from the tree nearest his teammate and appeared next to her and grabbed her hand from her face, "you really shouldn't trust him at all." His eyes had grown darker than before anger and betrayal reflected in them at Sakura.

"W-What are you talking about Sasuke-san," she said in response nervously as her other teammate and sensei appeared from the woods surrounding them. She couldn't help but take in mind the same stern looks on their faces and she shook her head, and pointed off to the trees, "oh him, he isn't any real danger. Actually he is quite the gentleman."

"Sakura," Kakashi said slowly wanting to be the one to reason with the girl. "You really don't know too much about that man, just because he is a gentleman is no reason to go jumping into anything." Appearently Itachi made up some lie about himself that she was believing and Kakashi took that in mind. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed that Sasuke was going to say something in return but he brought a hand in front of the young mans face and shook his head. "Just let her believe what she wants to believe," he said simply.

Sasuke looked up to question Kakashi, but he then nodded in response as he saw Naruto come on to the grounds and he shook his head. He couldn't help but wonder if it was Naruto that caused Itachi wanting to get close to Sakura, and then he looked up into the trees sensing that his brother was still there. "Well it is a good thing that Naruto missed this, or else we'd all be screwed," he said outloud and almost directed towards his brother. With that he turned around and left the grouds, patting Naruto on the shoulder, "so sorry, maybe we should try this battle some other time."