A/N: Itachi x Sakura has become my unfortunate addiction, even if (for non-AU settings) it's pretty much a dark, hopeless pairing. And I told myself I wasn't going to name this after a song... honestly, I feel really lame doing so. But it kind of just popped out at me and was all I could come up with. Not to mention it seems like a fitting title for the pairing in general, even if not the story. Sorry also for the terrible shortness...

Dedicated to Ashlee (UchihaSakuraxItachi), who is my wonderful beta reader for another fic I'm working on.

Demolition Lovers
By Bunny-Chan
11.28.2006

She had given up trying to discern her location long ago, less from hopelessness, and more simply because she had become accustomed to her new "life", if it could even be called such.

Her existence as a kunoichi defending Konohagakure had shattered the moment he took her.

He had stolen her away.
Now she was his.

At first, she had hated them both.
She hated herself being so weak.
She hated him for being so strong.

She had cried, yelling that Naruto or even Sasuke would find her.
But there was no use in arguing the truth revealed by the mangekyou sharingan.
Even if they were only illusions, she knew the truth behind them.

Naruto would be glad to be rid of her.
Sasuke hated her.
No one was coming.
No one cared.

Day after day, she did nothing but sit in the room he had so carefully made for her.
The cherrywood vanity's mirror revealed dead eyes, empty of the determination that had once shone like an emerald fire.

She was still just as beautiful, of course- If she wasn't, he would have disposed of her long ago.

Yes, she was beautiful.
But she was empty.

She sat amidst the pastel pinks, numb to the pain that had once been all she could focus on.

And when he came to her that night, she would give him what he wanted.

It no longer mattered that he didn't love her.
It simply mattered that he wanted her.

Because she knew now that he was the only one who ever would.