Naruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Dedication: Sara, because people are being stupid and stealing her stories!

PS: Stitch, this story is like totally for you!

Love lying, enticing, bare grace misery; crowning the moment, bare grace misery. This is what I am, bare grace for the end of days! – Nightwish

“Sakura-san!”

Haruno Sakura turned at the panic shout of her name. The pinkette’s eyes grew wide when she saw Fuyumi with Hibiki, run towards her.

“What happened?” Sakura asked, her hands glowing with green medicinal chakra, as Fuyumi laid Hibiki down on the ground.

“We go ambushed by Akatsuki,” Fuyumi held Hibiki’s hand.

“You! Take care of this patient!” Sakura shouted, pointing at a random nurse.

“Right away, Haruno-san,” the nurse said, taking Sakura’s place.

“Fuyumi, follow me,” the chuunin stood up and led the ANBU kunoichi to the Hokage’s Tower. Fuyumi glanced back at Hibiki before staring at the back of Sakura’s head.

Sakura nodded to the ANBU guards before knocking on the door to Tsunade’s office. “Enter!” Tsunade shouted. Sakura opened the door and lead Fuyumi inside.

“Sakura…Fuyumi?” Tsuande raised and eyebrow. She had too much on her plate right now, but she was sincerely glad Naruto was back.

“Tsunade-sama…we…we were ambushed by Akatsuki, the mission was a failure,” Fuyumi hung her head, “Akinori Shunsuke and Inuzuka Hana were our only casualities, and Hibiki is wounded,” Fuyumi said.

“Wait….Hana’s dead?” Sakura asked, wondering how Kiba would take the news of his sister’s death.

“I don’t know. I never actually saw her body. I know she used her Garoga jutsu right before I had to retreat with Hibiki,” Fuyumi muttered.

“But Akinori is dead, correct?” Tsuande asked.

“Yes,” Fuyumi said.

“Hana will be labled MIA with the high possibility over being alive, and Sakura, keep this under wraps, I don’t want Kiba to find out. I will inform him when I feel he’s ready to handle it and we have more information and who we are up against,” Tsunade said.

“Understand, Tsunade-shishou,” Sakura nodded.

“Same goes for you Fuyumi,” Tsunade eyed the ANBU agent.

“Hai,” Fuyumi nodded.

“Now, both of you, go,” Tsunade waved her hand.

“What about a search and rescue party for Hana?” Fuyumi asked.

“Later,” Tsunade sighed.

“C’mon,” Sakura muttered.

Hana woke up and instantly felt dirty. She began rubbing her arms and legs in an effort to feel clean but failed. “Did he rape me?” Hana whispered allowed to herself. “No…he just trapped me in that accursed genjutsu and…ugh,” she shuddered, not wanting to think about that anymore than she had to. Getting off of the bed Hana made her way to the bathroom, which was conviently located at the opposite side of the room, facing the door; to take a shower.

The warm water was oddly welcoming to Hana even though it stung her wounds, the pain that went along with it was a happy relief. The rather ordinary scent of the soap was a huge comfort and the cascading water washed away the invisible grime. She may have not been physically raped, but she knew her mind was violated and that would be something she’ll never forgive or forget.

Hana stepped out of the room dressed only in a towel, her brown hair cascading down her shoulders and dripping onto the floor. She looked around and noticed that her own clothes and mysterious vanished and instead there was a plain navy blue yukata. Grumbling, Hana slipped into the only piece of clothing avable to her, the yukata, and furiously tied her wet brown hair into a ponytail, before heading towards the door.

“Where do you think you’re going?” a soft voice asked. Hana whipped around to glower at her captor.

“What does it look like? I’m leaving then getting my dogs and getting out of this hellhole,” Hana growled, squaring her shoulders. She will not show fear before him, even if her heart was pounding against her ribs.

Itachi flicked his lips into something of an amused smirk. “That yukata looks lovely on you,” he whispered softly, in a manner a lover may complement their special someone.

“Don’t think flattery will get you anywhere with me Uchiha!” Hana snapped.

“I was merely stating a fact, Hana,” Itachi began circling her and she had to aldmit that she was slightly unnerved by the action.

“What do you want?” Hana growled.

“I want many things,” Itachi looked at her, his blank face speaking volumes with his eyes.

“You bastard!” Hana growled.

“Hn,” he blinked.

“You raped me!” Hana shouted as she trembled. She felt like crying and ripping him to pieces at the same time.

“If I raped you, would I be admiring how comely that yukata clings to your curves if I’ve already have tasted of you?” Itachi asked.

“I…Yes!” Hana shouted.

“I didn’t rape you,” Itachi repeated. “I merely trapped you in Tsukuyomi,” he finished.

“How do I know you aren’t lying?” Hana asked.

“I am a criminal, but I’m a man of my word,” Itachi looked at her pointedly.

“I know you are lying! So just admit it to my face damn it!” Hana shouted.

“Hn,” Itachi stared at her apathetically.

“Stop staring at me!” Hana screamed.

Itachi blinked before pinning her against he wall. “Is this what you want?” Itachi pressed his body against hers. “You want me to admit to kissing you? To admiring a fine example of the female creature? Because I will, if that is what you want,” he whispered into her ear. Hana growled struggling against his grip. “I told you last time, struggling just arouses me,” he smirked. “So continue, and I may just commit the crime you accuse me of,” Itachi looked at her.

“Let go of me Itachi!” Hana growled.

“Hn,” he blinked, not letting go of her.

“Let me go, please!” Hana panted.

“Begging doesn’t work.”

“Damn it! Just let go!”

“Are you scared?” he asked.

“What?” Hana looked at him, of course she was scared, what person in their right mind wouldn’t be scared in a situation like this. “No, I’m not scared,” Hana replied. Itachi leaned close, a soft dark chuckle escaped his lips.

“Liar,” he breathed. Hana’s eyes grew wide and she shook.

“I’m not afraid,” Hana repeated, silently glade her voice didn’t shake.

“Yes. You are, you are remembering that night, when you were almost dishonored and if it weren’t for me, well,” Itachi pulled away slightly and gave a wicked smirk. “You want me to protect you, to save you, like I did so long ago, no?”

“Hn,” Hana looked away.

“The bitter painful truth is Hana, that I’m not going to save you, that night was a brief moment of weakness, that never happened again,” Itachi released her. Hana ran to the bed and hugged herself, trying to put a shield between her and Itachi.

“I hate you,” Hana hissed.

“You hate me? Understandable,” Itachi nodded.

“Why? Why did you kill your clan? Don’t you regret doing that to your little brother?” Hana asked, trying to change the subject matter.

“No,” Itachi shook his head.

“I don’t believe you! You… have to have regretted killing your own parents!” Hana pointed out.

“I don’t regret anything Hana,” Itachi said.

“Well, then, I guess you are more than happy that they are dead! And if you had to do it again you would!”

Itachi did’t even think, he just swiftly back handed her with all the force he could muster. The stinging blow caused Hana’s head to snap in the opposite direction. Hana gasped, and touched her cheek, touching the oozing blood.

“You bastard!” Hana whispered savagely, when she realized he had hit her with his left hand. She got up and ran from the room and Itachi did nothing to stop her. He looked briefly at his hands before sighing.

Hana didn’t know how many corners she turned down but shen she felt that she was far away from Itachi only then did she stop. She sat down and hugged her knees, before sobbing. Hana didn’t bother wondering why he could slap her and not even care; this was Uchiha Itachi, the heartless murderer of the Uchiha clan, of course he wouldn’t care about some weak Inuzuka woman. “You okay, un?”

Hana looked up to see a blond teenager in an Akatsuki cloak. Hana was surprised he looked so young and dare she say, innocent. She knew she and Itachi were the same age, but she would’ve never guessed this boy was a member of the Akatsuki. “I’m fine,” Hana looked away.

“Then why arre you crying, yeah?” he asked.

“I’m just…stressed that’s all,” Hana hugged her knees tighter.

“Deidara,” he said suddenly.

“Excuse me?” Hana stared into his blue eyes. Eyes just like Naruto’s. I wonder if they sparkle when he smiles? Hana thought.

“My name is Deidara, yeah,” Deidara said.

“Oh, Inuzuka Hana,” she replied smiling a little bit.

“Pleasure, hm,” he nodded.

“Yes, pleasure,” Hana agreed.

“So, why were you not crying, un?” Deidara asked

“I…I thought I knew someone but it turns out I didn’t,” Hana looked away.

“Lemme guess, Uchiha, yeah?” Deidara’s eyes narrowed.

“Yes, Itachi,” Hana nodded in agreement and to her surprise, Deidara sat down next to her.

“I completely understand. The Uchiha, they think they are so high and mighty just because they have the Sharingan, ha!” Deidara sneered.

“I know, the Inuzuka don’t have a kekkei genkai, we use our dogs, but the Hyuga and the Uchiha still look down upon us,” Hana placed her head on her knees and looked at Deidara. “Its not fair, I wish I had a kekkei gankai,” Hana sighed.

“Nah, kekkei genkai just make you an arrogant prick, like Uchiha,” Deidara looked at Hana, “and you are too beautiful to be an arrogant prick, yeah,” Deidara said. Hana blushed slightly.

“You flatter me, Deidara-san,” Hana mumbled.

“It’s not flattery when it’s the truth,” Deidara pointed out.

“You!”

Deidara and Hana looked up at the harsh voice. Hana gulped when she saw that is Itachi. “Uchiha,” Deidara stiood up. “We were just talking about you, yeah,” Deidara placed his hands on his hips.

“Hn,” Itachi looked at Deidara once before grabbing Hana by her arm and yanking her to her feet.

“Ow! Let go of me you bastard!” Hana pounded Itachi’s hand, but he only tightened his grip on her. “You’re able to talk! Use words! Communicate!” Hana struggled against Itachi’s vice grip.

“Hey, let go of her Uchiha!” Deidara shouted. Itachi turned his Sharingan eyes onto Deidara.

“You have no authority over me Deidara. What I do with my little pet is my business and not yours,” Itachi said evenly.

“It becomes my business when I find her crying in the hallway, yeah! What if Hidan came along? You know how he is, un,” Deidara pointed out. If Itachi was shocked by those words, he didn’t show it.

“Hn,” he turned, Hana still protesting against it and left. Deidara stood watching them leave.

“You shouldn’t concern yourself with the doings of Uchiha Itachi,” Sasori said. Deidara glanced at his partner.

“Did you see how he was treating her!? He was treating her like chattel!” Deidara shouted.

“And like he said, its his business not yours,” Sasori calmly replied. Deidara snorted. “Anyways, Leader-sama has assigned us a mission,” Sasori said, looking bored.

“When do we leave?” Deidara asked.

“Tomorrow,” Sasori walked off. “Oh, and Deidara,” he called. Deidara looked over at the puppetmaster. “Forget about Itachi’s little pet, you don’t ant to get him riled up,” he added before disappearing down a hall.

Itachi tossed Hana rather rudely onto the bed. “Argh!” Hana charged at the Uchiha, but he ducked her first punch and caught her second before kicking her in the gut, sending her flying across the room. She hit the wall with a soft thump, and groaned before getting up and grabbing a kunai before charging at Itachi. She swiped at him, but he dodged and easily disarmed her, and held the kunai to her throat. “You seem to have recovered your strength,” Itachi said coolly.

Hana growled.

“Now, stay here,” Itachi dropped the kunai and headed towards the door. Hana stooped and grabbed the forgotten weapon only to toss it at the back of Itachi’s head. The kunai embedded itself into the back of Itachi’s skull; Hana smirked and headed towards the door, but was stopped when a hand grabbed her wrist. Hana looked over her shoulder at Itachi.

“Let me go!” Hana growled.

“Hn,” Itachi didn’t move.

“Don’t you regret anything? Don’t you regret holding me against me will? Keeping me prisoner? I was your friend! You teammate!”

“I don’t feel regret,” he told her calmly. Hana blinked.

“You really are a sick bastard,” Hana growled.

“Hn,” Itachi simply blinked and pulled her into his chest. “Stay here and be a good dog,” he whispered.

“Over my dead body!” Hana shouted.

“That can be arranged very easily,” Itachi replied. Hana narrowed her eyes.

“You wouldn’t!” Han breathed.

“Hn,” Itachi let her go. “Stay,” he commanded and left the room. Hana pouted as she sat on the bed, her arms crossed over her chest, plotting was to kill the Uchiha. The door opened a few minutes later and three bodies clamoured into the room. Hana looked up when she saw her three dogs.

“Ichi! Ni! San!” she hugged them, the Haimarou Sankyoudai whined as they sniffed and licked Hana’s hands and face. She looked up at the door but she was alone in the room, she smiled and went back to her dogs.

Kisame looked at Itachi. “Why did you do that?” he asked. Itachi blinked before heading towards the common area. “If you keep doing things like that people will start to think she’s a weakness they can exploit,” Kisame pointed out. Again, Itachi didn’t answer. “Are you even listening to me?” Kisame asked, trying to ignore the fact that he was sounding an awful lot like his mother.

“I heard you,” Itachi replied.

“And?” Kisame stressed.

“You don’t need to worry about anything,” Itachi said.

“Are you sure?”

“Kisame, she was just my teammate back before I realized how weak my former village is. You have nothing to worry about,” Itachi said.

“Then why didn’t you kill her?” Kisame asked. Itachi didn’t respond.

Ino blinked at Sakura. “What do you mean you know something but can’t tell Kiba?” Ino asked.

“Ino,” Sakura grumbled.

“You should tell him even if Tsunade said no,” Ino began fixing some flowers.

“Ino, its not that simple,” Sakura stressed, wondering why she came to Ino for advice.

“Of course it is, you just walk up to Kiba, tell him what you know and then leave,” Ino looked over at Sakura.

“Easy for you to say, your teacher just smokes, mine is inhumanly strong and has a temper to boot!” Sakura pointed out.

“Sakura, just go and tell Kiba, it’ll make you feel better,” Ino said.

“But what…what if Tsunade finds out?”

“Then you tell her that you couldn’t bare to keep Kiba in the dark about his sister,” Ino shrugged.

“Again, easy for you to say,” Sakura grumbled.

“Listen, do you want me to come with you?” Ino asked.

“You just want to goggle at him!” Sakura pointed out. Ino couldn’t hide her blush, so she turned around quickly, her ponytail flying wildly.

“Not true,” Ino squeaked. “I want to come to give you moral support,” Ino said.

“Moral support my ass,” Sakura grumbled.

“Well, can I come or do you have enough tits to go and do it on your own?”

“I can do it on my own,” Sakura grumbled.

“Good girl,” Ino grinned.

“See ya, Ino-pig,” Sakura left the flower shop.

“Bye Forehead!” Ino called cheerily.

Sakura founded Kiba with his team on their training grouds and Sakura briefly wondered what it would be like for her, if Sasuke had stayed in Konoha.

“Sakura…” Sasuke whispered behind her. Sakura froze, her head rising slightly. “Arigato.”

Sakura shook her head, not wanting to think about that night or why he even thanked her. “Damn him,” she muttered. “Hey,” she waved, putting on a false happy mask.

“Hey,” Kiba and Hinata both nodded.

“Hello, other kunoichi,” Shino muttered. Sakura felt her eye twitch.

“What brings you here, Sakura?” Hinata asked.

“I want to talk to Kiba,” Sakura looked at the Inuzuka boy.

“Shoot,” Kiba placed his hands behind his head.

“Privately,” Sakura eyed Hinata and Shino.

“Oh, Shino-kun…didn’t you want to show me something?” Hinata asked.

“Hn,” Shino walked off with Hinata; Sakura and Kiba watched them go.

“Okay, what do you want to talk to me about?” Kiba asked.

“Kiba…its about your sister,” Sakura looked at her hands.

“What about my sister?”

“I…I know what happened to her. Her squad was ambushed by Akatsuki and, Kiba,” Sakura looked at him, “Hana is MIA.”

And so end chapter 2!

I know I said like all the chapter titles would be by RED…yeah, I changed my mind. So, oh well. I’ll try to get a good chunk of RED songs in here but no promises. Plus, Nightwish is SOOOOO Epic. And I just love them! Squeee!

Itachi didn’t rape Hana. He trapped her in Tsukuyomi and “raped” her there. Okay? So its ALL in HER HEAD!

Don’t worry, there will be ItaHana smut. Lots and lots and lots of it (okay, maybe not THAT much, but a fair amount).

Meh…that’s it. Oh, and yes, there will be SasuSaku and SuiKa. I've figured out (sorta) how to work Team Hebi into it. Who is all opose to Team Konoha (Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Kiba, Naruto and Shino) running into and joining forces with Team Hebi in order to find Itachi and Hana?

Kisame is starting to sound like his mother! I bet his mother was a terror! Heeheehee! Can you just see little Kisame getting chewed out by his mother?!

R’n’R or I’m gonna sacrifice you to Jashin-sama!

DJ