Shattered Fate

Prelude

A knocking at the door, followed by several more taps. Sakura ignored it, her eyes closed. She was flat on her back in bed, her booted feet upon the wall. Only the shift in the wind gave Sakura any warning that another person entered her room.

Thunk.

That was the sound of her kunai burying itself in the wall, a hair's breath from the intruder. "What do you want?" she asked the person, not bothering to open her eyes. She twirled another kunai in her long, slender fingers.

"You could have hit me!" growled out a female voice in annoyance.

"If I really wanted to hit you, you wouldn't be talking. Isn't that right, Karin?" replied Sakura, designing to open her eyes. Not too far from her bed, standing warily was Karin. Her so called 'keeper.' Damn annoyance is what she it. Wish I could kill her and be done with it.

The red-haired woman with the dark glasses glared at her. As usual she wore the shortest, tightest kimono she could get away with without actually exposing herself to the general public. Slut, she thought with disgust.

"Can't you even get out of that damn bed and talk to me properly." Karin whined at her, her hands on her hip. That particular action pulled the neck of her kimono tight across her breasts, showing off their fullness.

"Karin," she said very softly, "if you do not tell me why you are in my room this moment, I swear I will personally cause you as much pain a human body can stand without actually killing you."

Karin swallowed hard, she knew for a fact that Sakura was not joking around. She would actually do it, the cold bitch.

"You have a new assignment." She sniffed arrogantly, trying to mask her fear of this woman.

"Fine. Give me the information and get out." She said her tone voice soft and very lethal. The scroll landed on her bed, and the slamming of a door followed a few seconds later. Cowardly whore, thought Sakura derisively, but easy to manipulate.

Snaking an arm over to where the scroll landed she pulled it over to her and undid the seal. It was from Pain. If Karin was her 'keeper' then Pain was her 'master'. Generally an 'assignment' meant she had to kill someone. Reading the scroll, she was not surprised to find that someone else had to die.

Sakura was an assassin, and a deadly one at that. At the hand of Pain she had learned long ago to shut off any emotion that could be used against her, least she be reminded that failure was not an option.

Finally reading the last of the scroll, her jade eyes widened in surprise at the name that appeared before her. Pain wanted her to kill the heir to the Uchiha.

So it appears my walking corpse has a name. Well Itachi I hope you have enjoyed your life for I am about to end it.