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Time is Relevant in a Déjà vu World	By : MistraRose Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Itachi/Sakura Views: 1668 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 2-Gone, but Not Forgotten!

“Ah! Neji, Temari, what did you guys find out?” Sakura
questioned as she greeted her two comrades and looked at them expectantly.

“Nothing much that we didn’t already know from the previous
scouting of their base and the infiltration that Shino’s bugs provided for us.
Guards posted on all sides, four guards on each of the main doors that can only
be opened with a series of complex hand signs.” For demonstration, the brunette
showcased a few of the signs.

“When a door is opened it must be called in, the ninja then
must give a verifying number and then closed within 30 seconds. To be sealed it
must be from the outside in the reverse order of the opening seals used. The
guards change every 15 to 30 minutes and then take the place of one of the
guards on the lookout tower.” It was Temari who now detailed the schedule of
the enemy tower. “The tower can only be entered if you correctly enter the
number sequence the first time, because you’re given no second chance.
However...we did find something that we didn’t know before,” explained Temari
as she placed her hands by the fire to warm them up. Not that it would really
help, but old habits die-hard. Temari looked over at her partner and gave him
the okay to pick-up where she left off.

“What we didn’t know was that they are running out of food
like we thought, but really couldn’t confirm. Soon they’re going to leave since
the food in the area is getting scarce and they don’t want to travel to far in
fear of being killed. Temari and I believe that they only have about enough
food to maybe last a couple more weeks before they leave.” A confident nod from
Temari was added in the sidelines. “One of the guards told another guard that
soon they would be eating less to save more. We should attack soon and before
they move because at least here, we have an advantage over them.” Said Neji as
he placed more wood on the fire to help warm the others and he himself up since
the air was getting cold; autumn was approaching. Neji looked over at the
group’s current leader and appointed Hokage and awaited her decision on their
new information.

The leader looked at her fellow ninja and wished that she
wasn’t in this position. But she wouldn’t let their dead Hokage’s last wish be
unfulfilled. Grasping the necklace resting in her cleavage, she pulled it out
for her to stare at, like many time before, and get lost in the memories
surrounding its history. The memories were anything but sweet, but the necklace
was too important to her teacher and best friend and teammate to just be thrown
away. ‘Why did Naruto have to die, why couldn’t it have been me? He promised
me that he wouldn’t leave me alone, but yet he did. Why!?’ yelled Sakura in
her head as she felt the tears fall down her face. Neji and Temari watched on
in sympathy as the strongest one in the room sped her sadness.

“Naruto, why,” whispered Sakura to herself as the memory of
that night was brought back and it still chilled her blood.

*~*Flashback*~*

Sakura ran down the silent street of Konoha, pumping what
charka she had left into her feet, trying to reach the tower as soon as she
could, before he did.

She would reach it before he did, even if it killed her—and
it probably would, from the blood loss. Hearing a bomb go off in the distance
told her that he was approaching, and fast. Running up the stairs of the tower,
Sakura didn’t even knock as she pushed the door open, causing it to make a
resounding bang against the stone wall. The person she
was seeking looked up from the desk that he was sitting at to look at the
intruder.

The said person was about to make a comment to the pink
haired girl until he saw the look on her face and smelled the blood on her. Her
own blood was flowing slowly through her fingers. The person jumped over the
desk and ran to his best friend and only other living survivor of Team 7.

Naruto pushed Sakura to the chair next to her so that he
could get a look at the wound and start to help her. Allowing his hand to glow
with the healing chakra, he placed it by the wound to start the procedure, only
to get it pushed away. Looking up, Sakura shook her head no, but Naruto
wouldn’t have anything to do with it. Once his mind was made up, no one could
change his mind, except his dead wife. “Let me do this for you, Sakura...or you’ll
die,” said Naruto as he again repeated the steps and started to heal her.

“Better me then you, Naruto. He’s coming and you’re going to
need all the chakra that you can get when facing him. He came with a small army
that has already made us lose another quarter of Konoha to him. He killed
Tenten, and Shino’s bugs were keeping them busy along with Kiba and Akamaru to
allow me enough time to get to you. We are awaiting your orders, Lord Hokage,
and will do as you say,” Sakura informed as she bowed her head to show respect
to her leader. Neji, who had come in during the middle of her conversation also
bowed his head to his leader and family.

Naruto looked up once he got the blood to stop flowing, but
not enough to fully close the wound. He walked over to his desk and looked out
at the burning fires that were spreading throughout more of the village that
they had lost to Sound and him. Looking away from the fires to face the Hokage
Mountain that now held the six
faces of the Leaf Village
leaders, and knew it was time for a very important decision. Turning around to
face his friends: one, his family and the other, his successor to his title,
Naruto reached behind him to give one of them his gift, but a heavy burden.
Taking off the First’s necklace, the necklace given to him by the past fifth
Hokage, that now was passed on to him, and now he was passing it to the soon to
be new leader of Leaf.

Walking towards his friends he started to speak, “with Neji
and the spirits of our deceased leaders, friends, and family as my witness, I
now name Sakura Haruno as my successor,” and placed the necklace around her
neck.

To say Sakura was shocked would be an understatement. The
new Hokage just looked back at Naruto, expecting him to say that he was joking,
but she could see that he wasn’t. Naruto’s face was set in the face that he
normally wore when he faced battles or made a promise that he always kept.

“Naruto, I can’t! Besides.... the title is yours, and no one
else’s,” Sakura refused as she started to take the necklace off of her neck,
and give it back to its owner. With the jewelry half way off from around her
neck, her action was stopped by Naruto’s hand. He took her fingers and made
them drop the necklace back towards its resting place; in between her breasts, like
it did for her mentor.

“No Sakura, I’m passing it on to you, in case there is ever
a time that I will die and what’s left of us will need a leader to turn to.
Please Sakura, I have never asked anything big from you since I asked you to
help me ask Hinata out on a date. Please just this once, can you please not
throw a fit and just accept the title,” Naruto pleaded as he looked at Sakura’s
face and waited for a reply. When he saw her shoulders slouch and her fingers
grasp the necklace, he knew that he had finally won an argument with her. Too
bad his victory couldn’t be savored longer.

“Get down, both of you!” yelled Neji as he ran and grabbed
Sakura’s arm and pulled her away from the wall. Sakura gripped Naruto’s arm in
the progress to bring him with her. An explosion shook the Hokage tower and the
outer most walls facing the mountain were blown in.

Neji being closer to Sakura covered her with his body, and
Naruto used his body to cover them both as the debris flew into the office. The
three turned around from the other side of the desk to see the crumpled remains
of a ninja’s body mixed with the rubble. Neji, still holding Sakura behind him,
looked around Naruto’s tense shoulders to see who else was in the opening, but
he already knew one of them because of their chakra signature. Looking as the
other ninjas beside their leader had Neji cringing a little on the inside,
because each one hadn’t even tapped into their second stage of power and they
were out numbered 10 to 3.

Sakura looked around Neji’s shoulders and tried to identify
the remains of the ninja to determine whether it was a friend or foe. Not
really getting an idea from the quick assessment, she turned her head to face
the front only to bite her tongue to stop the bile from rising. In the Sound
leader's hand, grasped in his fingers, was the decapitated head of Kiba
Inuzuka. Kiba’s eyes were opened in shock and a quarter of his lower left jaw
was burned to the point where you could see the bone. The Inuzuka’s face was
bloody and bruised beyond belief; Sakura had to grasp Neji’s elbow and turn
away to stop the tears from leaking from her eyes. She wouldn’t remember Kiba
this way; she would always see him as a man who enjoyed his life, before the
war and his death.

But wait, where was his companion, Akamaru? Turning her head
back to face the enemy she looked among them to see if one of them was holding
the bloody carcass of Akamaru. Not finding anything made Sakura feel a little
better, until she saw the smirk on the leader’s face.

The Sound leader tossed the head of Kiba at Naruto’s feet
and laughed when the said head exploded on impact with the ground. The explosion
destroyed what was left of the head and launched blood, matter, bone, and kunai
at the ninja. The human matter covered the Leaf leader and his two friends, but
they were able block the close range kunai headed towards them. This was to be
expected since they were three of the ninjas to be feared in the Leaf village,
yet it did not mean they were no allowed to cringe at the horrible act. The
Sound leader’s eyes glowed with the taste of despair in the air and the stench
of blood covering the once proud Leaf village leader. He had finally breached
the defenses of the final obstacles in his conquest for total dominance. Now he
could finally claim what was rightfully his, and what should have been many
years ago.

Naruto was watching the people in front of him, and knew
that they would be attacking soon; the leader always loved toying with his
prey’s minds first, and then go in for the kill. He was about to defend when he
felt a familiar chakra signature of one of his ninja coming up the steps behind
them. The leader ordered his troops to attack when the familiar attacked those
who had killed his master.

Akamaru ran through the debris of his once beautiful home to
the Hokage tower, where the smell of his master’s blood was the strongest. All
he wanted to do was commit suicide to join his master, but he knew that he
wouldn’t be pleased if he left without putting up a fight. Strengthening his
resolves to follow his master’s last wish, he pushed himself faster, jumping
the steps four at a time, disguising his scent and masking his chakra.

Finally reaching the top, where he was behind three ally
ninja’s backs he lowered his body to the ground and attacked his enemies.
Extending his claws, he ran them down two of the ninja's faces, ripping at their
flesh and causing blood to spatter. The enemies crumpled to the ground with
screams piercing the air. It was time to battle, but with his master dead
Akamaru took to the next person that was closest to him; that being Sakura.

While Sakura did not hold a bond to Akamaru like Kiba did,
she did hold a special bond with him that only they could understand. Amongst
the chaos and bloodshed they watched each other's back, while one attacked the
other would defend; they made the perfect team. While watching Akamaru's white
pelt, Sakura looked for her other teammates and found both of them in heavy
battle with the enemy.

Shifting her eyes from them, she focused in on the enemies
surrounding them and changed positions with Akamaru. Surrounding her hands in
green chakra she used the scalpel technique to cut the artery of her enemies so
hopefully they would not rise again. Just as she and Akamaru were about to
finish the last of their enemies, she heard a familiar scream pierced the
silent but metallic filled air. Punching her enemy in the face and shattering
the bones, she turned just in time to see Naruto getting pierced in the chest
with the technique that she had just been using moments before.

Sakura, not even sensing the last enemy behind her, would
have been pierced in the heart, had it not been for Akamaru’s quick thinking as
his mouth snared the enemy's throat. With all of the other enemies dead except
for the leader of the Hidden Sound, Sakura ran blindly to avenge her fallen
comrade and leader. She summoned chakra to her fist and hit the ground where
the enemy once stood. The leader now stood only a couple feet from her with a
mocking smirk upon his scarred face.

Feeling Akamaru near her back, she focused in on the medical
help that her leader desperately needed. Upon looking at the severities of the
wounds with her charka, she knew there was little that she could possibly do
for him. Even with surpassing her teacher, the damage was too great, and it did
not help especially with this particular enemy’s knowledge of the body.

The Hidden Sound
Village leader looked on in glee as
he watched the medical kunoichi try to save her pathetic leader, with her
attempts being in vain. He had finally accomplished another one of his goals. Now
all he had to do was squash the rest of the Will of Fire’s leaf ninjas and take
over this dying village, so that it would prosper under his hands.

The village and its ninjas would be nothing without its
leader to guide them. “The Land of Fire
will fall to my hand, like it should have done two years ago,” pledged the
Sound Leader. Turning his back on his opponents, the leader disappeared to join
his army in crushing the rest of the village. If the leader had only stuck
around, he would have known that the Hokage had already chosen his successor.

Neji, with his byakugan still activated, scouted the
surrounding area for any hostile chakra—finding none he nodded his head to the
medic. Sakura, seeing Neji's nod, continued to try and ease her leader’s pain.
“Naruto, you can't leave me, you promised me we'd always be together!” sobbed
Sakura as tears rolled down her face, mixing with his tears running down his
blood stained face. Sakura looked at the extensive damage that had been done to
his chest. She knew just by looking that his lungs had to be filling up with
blood and his heart was slowing. The nine tailed fox did not have enough chakra
to revive its host and heal the wounds the body had sustained; this time the
fox child and demon would die.

“To trust the necklace…” Naruto was gasping for air, “in the
hands of future Hokage…” coughing up blood, “is what Tsunade would
have…”coughing up more blood where breathing was becoming hard “wanted and so
do I," gasped Naruto as even more blood flowed from his mouth. Naruto was
not stupid.... he knew he had very little time left in this life, but his only
regret would have be that he did not take the bastard with him.

Summoning the rest of his strength, he wanted to deliver his
last speech to her without pause. He wanted and hoped her last memories of him
would be of him being strong and not broken like he was now. Naruto silently
pleaded to the fox to allow him a few moments without pain, so that he could
say his last words. Expecting no response, he was surprised when his last wish
was granted.

"Sakura, I know you will make a great Hokage, and will
do this village proud. I’m sorry that I am leaving you such a mess, but I know
you will prevail in the end, because that is your nature.” Looking deeply in
her eyes, Naruto gave a small grin. “Take the gifts that have been given to you
by your friends and avenge their death since I could not. Do not forget that as
long as one ninja is still alive, the Will of Fire will still burn in the
Village Hidden in the Leaves,” Naruto whispered as his body was beginning to be
overcome by the pain and was finally shutting down. His time was drawing near.
Raising his bloody hand to Sakura’s face; he rested it upon her cheek to try
and dry her tears, but all he did was smear blood on her cheek. With Sakura
there, he could feel the soul of his wife and his brother surrounding him as he
welcomed the darkness that was starting to cloud his closing eyes. Looking into
Sakura’s eyes he let himself be taken by their love for him, and had to smile
his cocky smile. With his sister by his side, he breathed in his last breath
and surrendered to his injuries.

Sakura, feeling his heart slowing to a stop, could only hold
him closer to her body, and cry from the pain filling up her heart. Feeling a
hand on her shoulder, she didn’t need to look up to know who was comforting her
and who had laid his head by Naruto’s head. Each person or dog in that room was
silently weeping from the lost of their leader, but most of all, their best
friend. When his heart finally stopped, Sakura felt a sudden jolt of chakra run
through her hands up to the clear diamond on her forehead, filling some of its
endless reservoir. Sakura was astonished, she knew this chakra; it was the nine
tails. Even in death, he could somehow put a small smile on her face, and felt
blessed for his gift.

Closing her eyes after saying a prayer, she was helped to
her feet by Neji, who knew what she would have to do. With the two behind her,
she looked down one last time at his face and formed the hand signs of her
other brother's signature jutsu. With the jutsu performed, the three left to
gather the rest of the surviving ninja, and then retreat and regroup. With the
Hokage tower behind her she looked back one last time to see the black flames
overtaking the whole building. Knowing that they had lost a battle, she did
know that the bastard wouldn’t be using the corpse of their leader in his next
battle, like he did with Ino and Gaara’s. It was a small victory in their
favor.

They would win the
war.

*~*End of
Flashback*~*

Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she knew it was time
that they reclaimed what was once lost to them and avenge their deaths.
Clearing her vision and drying her tears, she gathered her thoughts to answer
his question. The time was finally right for them to strike, and they would
with the same force. It was time for all hell to break loose. Standing up from
her sitting position, she looked at the ninjas left under her command and her
current family, and told them what they longed to hear.

“Ok team, this time... we end the war. We’re going hunting,”
Sakura ordered firmly like her mentor would as she turned around to start
preparing for their last attack, and finally bring justice to the fallen.

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