Chapter 18: Time

Running through the woods, Sasuke knew where he had to go. He ran as fast as his feet could take him…he knew the answer to his questions. All this was leading him up to one person that he despised the most, the person that had taken everything he had every come close too.

Sakura stayed in the run-down cell crying her eyes out. It was the worst situation that she had ever been in. Bars made of heavy unbreakable material. No chakra, Sakura had no Chakra left, for the hours that she had been in the cell she had been healing herself, trying to close the big ones and small ones. The constant dripping of water that had appeared and was starting to annoy her. She felt weak, un-able to do anything, she felt fragile and insignificant in the world.

Minute by minute, hour by hour, Itachi waited patiently for the arrival of his brother. He could feel it in his blood the anticipation that had taken over him. It was how he planned it since the day he wiped out the whole clan, and Sasuke played it like a puppet on a string, a smirk came to the side of his lip as he thought of what he was going to do with his measly little brother and the girl he desired.

Sasuke was running through the woods, this was it.
‘The final showdown between the Uchihas’ he though ‘finally…..’ his now clean katana was present on his back as he ran the final distance towards the Akatsuki lair.

Kisame was outside, sitting on a nearby rock that was present. He was outside keeping guard and taking out any unwanted intruders he knew who to destroy and not to destroy. His sword by his side as he eyes nearly all the possible entries of the forest.

Sasuke could pin-point the exact location of the lair, the trails that his brother had told all him all the necessary details. The path of blood had guided him. Stopping, he bent down and gazed at the blood that had stained the forest pathway. He knew who was leading him; he knew who the blood had belonged too.
‘Sakura’ he arose to his full height and continued on.

Itachi arose from his bed as he made his way to the dudgeons below the lair. A small chuckle of delight could have been heard from him as he came closer to the blossom’s cell.

Sakura was terrified she heard the same familiar haunting footsteps that haunted her from previous nights. Itachi came by his red blooded eyes glaring at her. He opened the cell and walked to the pink haired kunochi, he knew she had been crying for the duration that she had been here. His cold hands touched hers, Sakura felt the touch it was cold, yet different. It wasn’t like Sasuke’s touch, she missed him, she missed Sasuke, his eyes, his courage, his determination everything…she loved everything about that young Uchiha. She slapped the elder’s hand away. To Itachi he was getting angrier by the minute he needed this girl for his plan towards his brother to go to work.
“Go away!” Sakura demanded. Her tears had stained her once pink delicate cheeks, scars on her arms, her hair all dirty and soggy. “Go away” she kept repeating to the Uchiha. Itachi glared at her. Grabbing her arm even tighter.
“I don’t care about your little needs….I’m in control now not you” Itachi said hastily. Grabbing her tight by the arm he dragged her out of the cell. Sakura screamed and tried to fight for her freedom.
“Let me go!” she demanded from the elder. Itachi was now playing attention to a something that the kunochi had said, he didn’t want to let her go, she was part of his plan, a plan that he had prepared the day the Uchiha clan was wiped out.

Sasuke had arrived, he stopped to a halt when he saw the Kisame at the entrance, guarding.
“What have we here?” Kisame asked, as he arose to his full height, grabbed his sword and grinned dangerously at the young Uchiha. No answer came from the young one. Just a smirk that crossed his lip. Sasuke grabbed his katana from his back and wielding it infront of the Human like shark.
“Where’s Sakura?” he asked, eagerly, he wanted to know where the cherry blossom was located. He wanted her in his arms.

Itachi had stepped out of the lair still dragging Sakura. Stepping out into the sunlight that came out of the clouds. Sasuke took a sight at seeing all the tear stains on her cheeks, all the blood on her arms, and legs.  His crimson red eyes adverted to his elder brother, Itachi. Seeing his brother make him pull in the infamous Uchiha smirk.