Of Love and Betrayal

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto; I’m just totally obsessed with it!

Summary: Sakura is now 22 and has become a strong woman in her own right; she is now setting her sights on becoming part of ANBU! Can she get through the brutal training Tsunade assigns her? And will she be able to overcome the traumatizing events in her past? Kakashi, now 32, has spent the last 5 years regretting the events of the past, but with Sakura’s help will he be able to overcome his guilt and learn to love again?

Chapter Title: Of Anger and Despair

Oooooo5 year’s earlieroooooO

A faint dripping broke through the deep haze that had settled in her head. Slowly Sakura cracks her eyes open and peer at her surroundings.
She appeared to be in a small dark room, a torch that hung by a wooden door was the only lighting in the room.
The quivering of the flame kept casting shadows around the room, but Sakura was not fooled by the shadows, she knew she was not alone.
She tried to move her hands and legs but they were tied to what appeared to be a medical bed. Her eyes widened slightly as she realized the predicament she was in.
‘Where the hell am I, and how did I get here?’
She remembered being on a D class mission to bring a specially made medicine to an elderly couple who lived on the outskirts of Konoha. She had made it to the cabin and she remembered leaving but after that things become hazy.
She remembered feeling someone watching her and then she turned and everything went black.
She winced slightly when she felt the pain radiating from the side of her head, as if the memory caused the pain to come back.
Inner Sakura fumed, those cowards they couldn’t even face me, and instead they had to hit me unconscious!
Sakura’s head whipped around when she heard a scraping noise to her right. A pale thin face appeared out of the shadows.
‘Orochimaru!’
“Hello Sakura.” Sakura shuddered as his slimy voice slid over her skin. He chuckled.
“I see you remember me…”
He stepped fully out of the shadows and up to her bed. He slid a long bony finger down the side of her cheek. Sakura sharply pulled her face away from his touch which caused him to smirk evilly.
“I see you do not like my touch, well lucky for you I have other plans for you.”
He smiled then, enough to show his gleaming teeth, causing the hairs on the back of her neck to stand on end.
Orochimaru turned from her and looked expectantly towards the shadows of the room.
“Sasuke come here.”
At his words Sakura’s eyes widen and follow Orochimaru’s gaze to where Sasuke was slowly stepping out into the quivering light.
“Sasuke!” She cried happily, but her smile soon disappeared when she caught the look in his eyes.
His black eyes were blank and icy. When she had said his name he had glanced at her briefly but in that glance she had seen no recognition of her what so ever.
‘Sasuke…. What has he done to you…’
“Sasuke are you loyal to me?”
Sasuke did not reply but he nodded his head slightly.
“I want you to prove to me that you have given up your past and that you are solely loyal too me… I’m giving her to you to do what you like; my only wish is to see that she is tortured.”
Orochimaru then glances at Sakura one last time and then turns and heads out the door, leaving her alone with Sasuke. As soon as he closes the door Sasuke turns toward Sakura and she see’s his eyes travel from her own eyes down the length of her body to her feet. She shudders at the look she see’s in his eyes.
“Sasuke you’re not going to listen to him right? You know me; remember I’m Sakura, your teammate? I love you…” she ended on a whisper.
Sasuke snickers and slowly walks up to the bed she is tied to.
“You love me? Tell me Sakura would you love me still if I tortured you? Or better yet if I took you against your will?” when she didn’t respond he smirked.
“That’s what I thought, you don’t love me, you only loved the idea of being with me.” He said slowly as he slid a finger down her cheek.
He then took that same hand and slid his fingers gently through her pink hair.
“You have become so beautiful since I last saw you…”
He drew his hand away from her and gazed down at her with a smoldering look, a look that held a terrifying truth.
“Sasuke you don’t have to do this, you can just let me go and we can go back to Konoha together, I’m sure everyone will be happy to see you again…”
“Shut up! Are you still so naive? I don’t want to go back, all I want is more power and I can’t get that in Konoha!” he spit out, his face twisting into a cruel sneer.
“But I will allow myself this one last pleasure from Konoha…”
He reached his hand to her pink top and curled his fingers around the fabric and roughly tugged, easily ripping the fabric open revealing her to his hungry eyes.
As Sasuke continued to rip her clothing from her body Sakura silently watches as the face she once loved with her whole heart, twisted cruelly into a shadow of its former glory.
‘Sasuke…how could you?’
Her emerald eyes, full of anguish, slowly closed as glistening tears slid down her cheeks.

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In Tsunade’s office ten pairs of eyes watched intently as Tsunade began to describe there upcoming mission.
“As most of you already know Sakura has gone missing and to our known intelligence it was a Sound Nin that took her while she was on a mission four days ago. This mission is a rescue mission and while we are rescuing Sakura we are to destroy the sound village once and for all.” Tsunade paused while her honey brown eyes scanned the group of ninja in front of her.
“This is an S class mission and all of us here might not make it back so I want you all to take the night for yourself; you are all to meet me and Jiriaya at the Konoha gates a dawn.”
At the mention of her and Jiriaya’s involvement many of the ninja’s exchanged bewildered looks.
Tsunade sighed, “I will be heading this mission as well as Jiriaya, she is my student and very dear to me. I intend to retrieve her at all costs… You have your orders you are now dismissed!”
“Hai!”
Each ninja brought there closed fists to there chest and then filed out of the room.
Once they had left, Tsunade leaned back in her chair and turned to Shizune who stood beside her.
“Shizune while I’m gone I want you to be in charge.”
“Of course, Tsunade-sama I wish you the best of luck on this mission, the out come will affect a lot of people in this village.”
Tsunade sighed and rubbed her temple, “Yes I know I just hope she is still alive and okay.”
“So do I.”
They both turned to gaze out the window at the village below that sparkled in the setting sun.

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“Neji, Kiba, Genma, Kurenai, Lee, Asuma, and Ibiki, I want you all to head to the main village and take care of all the sound ninja there, once your finished with them burn there bodies and the rest of the village to the ground!” Tsunade whispered into the microphone.
“Hai!”
The seven ninja mentioned took off to her right and disappeared into the forest, heading towards the main village. Her honey brown eyes sweep the clearing in front of her, searching for any possible traps.
She looks to her right and left where Naruto, Kakashi, and Jiriaya still remain hidden, masking their chakras. She makes a slight hand motion, signaling to them that they were to follow her.
Just before he goes to move, Kakashi bites his thumb and slams his bloodied hand onto the tree branch.
“Kuchiyose no Jutsu!”
A small poof and out of the smoke that appeared sat Pakuun. The little pug yawned slightly and then lifted his droopy eyes to look up at Kakashi.
“Pakuun I want you to go around the clearing keeping to the woods and sneak into that opening and find Sakura, make sure to leave a trail behind so I can follow you.”
The small dog glances across the field to the door.
“Hai!”
Just as suddenly as he had appeared the little pug disappears in a puff of smoke.
Tsunade smiles her approval and then turns her attention back to the field.
‘This seems too easy, and if we go out into that clearing we will be open to any attack…’
As if reading her mind, Jiriaya forms a set of seals and whispers a jutsu to her left. She looks back out to the clearing just in time to see a deep mist begin to form, effectively providing covering for them to sneak up to the underground lair.
She glances back at Jiriaya and smiles in thanks, and then they disappear from the trees and move quickly through the mist, making there way to the opening under the giant tree ahead of them.
Just before they make it to the opening Tsunade stops short, causing the other’s behind her to stop as well. She narrows her eyes and jumps back just as a Senbon lands in the patch of grass she had been just seconds earlier.
Beside her Kakashi lifts his head band to uncover his Sharingan and forms a seal that releases the Jutsu he had just done. The mist clears to reveal three familiar faces just three yards in front of them.
“Tsunade what a nice surprise, you actually found it fit to come out from behind your little walls.” Orochimaru sneers with a false cheerfulness.
A small vein in her forehead starts to tick as his words cause her blood to boil in anger.
“I don’t think you should be talking, Orochimaru.”
Orochimaru snickers, while his reptilian eyes sweep over the three ninja’s behind her.
“So you have decided to visit as well Jiriaya…”
Jiriaya just smirks and slowly pulls out a kunai from his pouch. In a blink of an eye both Tsunade and Jiriaya take off towards Orochimaru. At the same time Naruto heads towards Sasuke and Kakashi towards Kabuto.

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Naruto runs towards Sasuke who had pulled out his own set of Kunai, as he runs he forms a set of seals.
“Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!”
At his side five more clones of him appear, each jumping to the side to attack Sasuke from all sides. Sasuke’s icy black eyes light up a bright crimson as he activates his Sharingan. His hands swiftly move in a flurry of hands seals.
“Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!”
From his mouth burst a wall of flame, taking out three of the five shadow clones. Naruto quickly back flips avoiding the burning flames and then pulls a hidden scroll from his back. Unclasping it he unrolls it and performs a set of hand seals, causing the scroll to disappear and in its place a Windmill Shuriken spins in his hand.
“Hmm nice trick.” Sasuke says and then pulls out his own blade and lunges towards Naruto.
Using his shurikan as a blade, Naruto blocks the flurry of attacks. Dropping down to the ground, Naruto sweeps Sasuke’s feet from under him, but Sasuke back flips in mid air and lands gracefully on his feet.
He then lunges at Naruto again, each attacking with there weapons and occasionally there fists. Naruto lands a punch to Sasuke’s chest, causing Sasuke to slide back a couple of yards. As he slides back Sasuke makes a set of hand seals and disappears.
‘Shit where the hell did he go!’
Taking a deep breath he scans the clearing, his shuriken at the ready, making a slow circle. He see’s a small movement to his right and he brings his shurikan up just in time to block a flurry of shurikan aimed at his head.
Sasuke appears from his right and Naruto swiftly turns to block another attack jumping back in the process.
“Stop toying with me Sasuke!” he growls menacingly.
Sasuke lowers his blade and smirks and then he narrows his eyes and performs a seal. A sudden wave of power starts to pulse from him as the curse seal on his neck starts to spread throughout his body. Naruto reaches deep within himself to the steel cage that holds the demon fox within.
‘Hey demon fox don’t just sit around, give me your power!’
Naruto hears a deep amused chuckle from the fox and then he feels the familiar rush of power as the demon allows its fiery chakra to flow through him. Giving a toothy smile he looks up at Sasuke as the red chakra visibly flows around him in a form of a one tailed fox.
As his transformation finishes, Sasuke looks up with black and gold eyes and then in a blink of an eye was gone. Naruto smirked and swiftly turns just in time to catch Sasuke in the chest with a powerful punch, causing him to fly and land in the tree foliage nearby. Naruto quickly follows and throws a kick to his face, but Sasuke blocks the kick and throws Naruto into a tree causing it to splinter. Naruto coughs up blood but he wipes the blood from his mouth and jumps back to the middle of the field.
“Where is Sakura!? I know Orochimaru has her here!” He yells to Sasuke.
“Yea Sakura is here… But I don’t think you’ll like what you find.” Sasuke snickers.
“What do you mean by that? What is wrong with her? What did you do to her?” Naruto screams his chakra going wild around him.
“Let’s just say that if you manage to get to her, she won’t be the same sweet Sakura.” Naruto looked stunned, and then as realization set in his brows furrow and he grits his teeth his blue eyes on fire with anger.
“You’ve turned into a monster just like Orochimaru! The Sasuke I knew died when you decided to join him!” He ground out through clenched teeth.
Sasuke just laughs and then lunges towards Naruto. Naruto forms seals as he jumps back from Sasuke’s attack.
“Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!”
One shadow clone appears next to him and starts to contain the ball of energy that swirls red and blue in Naruto’s hand.
Running towards Sasuke, Naruto disappears from sight and then in a blink of an eye he reappears behind Sasuke.
“Rasengan!” He screams as his hand slams into Sasuke’s back and punctures right through leaving a gaping hole through his stomach.
Keeping his hand through Sasuke’s stomach, Naruto pulls him close.
“I wanted this to end up differently; I will never forgive you for what you’ve done to Sakura… goodbye Sasuke.” Naruto whispers into Sasuke’s ears and then pulls his fist out and lets Sasuke fall to the ground.
As soon as Sasuke falls to the ground unmoving, Naruto releases his chakra and falls to his knees exhausted.
“I’m sorry Sasuke…Sakura,” he whispers before he slowly closes his eyes and passes out.

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Kakashi had just finished Kabuto off when he saw both his former students fall to the ground on his right.
“Naruto!” he cries and quickly goes to Naruto and turns him over, his eye searching for an injury. Not finding one he puts two fingers to his neck and sighs, relieved to find a strong pulse there.
‘He just fainted from using too much chakra.’
His one eye drifted to the other person lying on the ground.
‘Sasuke… I’m so sorry I failed you.’
He then stood and turned to look at the battle that was still raging between the legendary three senin on the other side of the clearing. He silently picks up Naruto and gently puts him on a bush nearby safely out of reach from the on going battle. Then he turns and goes inside the door looking for the trail Pakuun left behind. Finding a small wire on the ground he quickly follows it through the maze like tunnels.
Finally he reaches a wooden door and he opens it and goes inside. What he found would haunt him for many years to come.
Sakura was tied hands and feet to the medic bed in the middle of the room. Her usual pink clothing she always wore was ripped open down the middle and she had long gashes down her body. All the skin that was visible to him, which was quite a lot, was covered with black and blue bruises.
At the sound of the door opening Sakura’s eyes had fearfully wiped around to the man standing at the door. When she realizes who is standing there she gives a small cry of relief as clear tears start to stream down her cheeks.
Kakashi quickly undoes the clasps that hold Sakura’s limbs captive and tries to cover her body with her ripped clothing.
“Sakura can you hear me?”
He reached his hands to brush her wet hair off of her face but she flinched at his touch which caused him to pull away as if he was burned. His one visible eye grew dark with pain as he gently pulls her shaking body into his embrace and turns to Pakuun.
“Thank you for your help old friend.”
“Your welcome… take care of her.” Pakuun replied before he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Kakashi turns with Sakura securely in his arms and makes his way back through the tunnel until he arrives back into the clearing. One look around and he knows the battle was over.
Tsunade and Jiriaya were wearily walking back towards the spot where he had left Naruto earlier. He made his way over to them and when Tsunade saw who he held in his arms she hurried to him, her eyes filling with tears as she witnesses the appearance of her beloved student.
“Oh my Kami, Sakura!” she exclaimed as she brushes Sakura’s hair back.
“What happened to you? What did they do?”
Sakura looked at her blankly and did not answer. Tsunade told Kakashi to put her down and then she leaned over her and laid her hands over Sakura’s body. Her hands start to glow green as Tsunade uses what little chakra she has left to heal the open wounds and the many bruises on Sakura’s body. When she heals as much as she can she turns to Kakashi, who was watching intently.
“Kakashi go ahead of us and take her as quickly as you can back to Konoha, she needs medical attention as soon as possible.”
“Hai, I will go as fast as I can.” Kakashi replies and picks Sakura back up, turns and jumps into the forest taking off back towards Konoha.
Just as Kakashi leaves, the rest of the leaf ninja appear from the forest.
“Hokage, the sound village is destroyed and all its ninja are defeated.” Genma states.
“Good finally we are done with this horrible village, lets go home.”

Ooooooo5 Years LaterooooooO

Sakura marveled at how fast the years had gone by, it seems like just yesterday she had woken up in the hospital, Naruto worriedly looking over her. It had been really nice having him being the first person she saw. It was like waking up from a horrible nightmare and realizing it was just a nightmare.
But what had happened to her five years ago had not been a nightmare, it had truly happened and she was still trying to overcome those traumatizing days.
She had never revealed to anyone, not even Naruto, what had happened during the time she was captured, it was a part of her life that she had put behind a door in her mind that she had locked up a long time ago.
Ever since she had woken up she had vowed that she would never let herself be in that kind of situation again. She would never have to depend on other people to save her, she promised herself that she would become stronger, and that’s exactly what she did. From the minute that she was released from the hospital she started to train with Tsunade, who understood her reasoning behind wanting to become stronger.
Now she was 22 years old and she has grown both physically and mentally. She had become a Jounin at the age of 19 and she has become the second best medical Nin in all of Konoha, only behind Tsunade.
She sighs and picks up her now empty tea cup and brings it to the sink. She turns her cerulean eyes lingering on an old picture of team seven. She remembered when they had taken that picture. It was a happy day. Her eyes drift from Naruto’s smiling face to Kakashi.
‘Kakashi-sensei…’
Ever since she had gotten out of the hospital five years ago she had not spoken a word to her old sensei. The only reason she knew he had visited her in the hospital was due to Naruto. Every time he saw her, she could see the pain in his dark eye, it hurt her that it caused him pain to see her, so they both avoided each other. He was there when she had become Jounin as was Naruto, but after that she only saw glimpses of him, mostly in HQ.
To be honest with herself she really missed her old sensei, but there was just too much pain between them.
Sakura put the picture frame back down on the table, then turns and grabs her Jounin jacket and throws it on as she walks out the door, heading for HQ.
Her relationship with Naruto on the other hand had grown a lot stronger. He was her rock a lot of the times when she just couldn’t deal with the pain alone. She knew that he was the one that had killed Sasuke in the end and she always saw the pain deep in his blue eyes, but just like her, he dealt with the pain and moved on and became a Jounin around the same time she did.
They had tried dating but there was just too much between them so they mutually decided to stay as good friends. With a little help from her, Naruto found out about Hinata’s infatuation with him and they had started dating. They have been married for about a year now and Sakura was truly happy that Naruto had finally found happiness. Naruto had also joined ANBU and became an ANBU captain a couple of months ago. He was well on his way to accomplishing his dream to become Hokage.
Even though they were both very busy, they always found time to at least have dinner with each other once a week to catch up on news in each others lives.
Coming out of her thoughts, Sakura looks up at the familiar red building in front of her. For the past 7 years she has been trained by Tsunade, and with her being her sensei came the privilege of having access of the enormous library. She had spent my hours in that library learning more about her craft, about the history of Konoha and those who lived in it.
Sakura sighs and starts to make her way up to Tsunade’s office, once there she knocks twice.
“Come In.”
Sakura slowly opens the door and walks in. Tsunade looks up and her eyes brighten and she warmly smiles.
“Hi Sakura how are you?”
“I’m doing good; I just wanted to talk to you about a decision I have come to.”
“Yea no problem, go ahead and sit. So what’s going on?”
Sakura took a deep breath and walks to the chair in front of Tsunade’s desk and sits.
“I want to join ANBU.”

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Authors Note:

So this is my first Naruto fic so I hope everyone likes it, I'm totally in love with the Sakura and Kakashi pairing so I got inspired to write a fic about them. So far I have about 8 chapters planned out so ill try to update regularly. Unlike other fics (no offense) I’m not going to have Sakura and Kakashi just fall in love out of the blue it’s going to take time, drama, and a whole lot of heartache.

Well thank you for reading or at least scanning hope you like it!

Next chapter:
Tsunade gives Sakura a rigorous training schedule and Sakura has a rather embarrassing run in with our favorite one-eyed ninja.