Disclaimer: Do not own Naruto. If I did, Itachi would be alive and be with Sakura instead of Sasuke. A lot of OOCness. So be warned. Edited on Feb. 12, 2011.

A lone figure was flashing through the trees so fast, it was a blur. You could only see a quick flash of pink. Sakura Haruno, Konoha's Cherry Blossom and ANBU Captain, was very pissed. The twenty-five year old kunoichi was wondering just where her teammates got to. I mean she leaves them for a few minutes then they disappear.

'Why the hell can't they stay in one freaking spot? I mean really, I leave them for a few to take a bath in the spring. When I come back, they're gone. And I told them to stay there. Goes to show that boys don't freaking listen at all.'

"When a find those dumb asses, I am going to beat them senseless." Sakura mumbled under her breath and yet praying those morons didn't get killed or captured by some missing-nin.

All of a sudden, a kunai comes streaking out of the trees. Sakura dodged the missile and landed on the forest floor, with kunai in her hands. In a blur of red and black came two figures. Who turned out to be Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha.

'Oh goody, missing-nin. Just what I need.'Sakura thought sarcastically, then yelled out "What do you want Akatsuki?"

"Oh nothing really Pinky, we just got your boys." Kisame Hoshigaki said

'Great. I just love it when I am right. Not.'Sakura thought agitated

"Haruno, come quietly and we will bring you to them." Itachi, who had been quiet all this time, finally spoke. "No harm will come to you or them if you cooperate."

Sakura was contemplating this, then nodded and said "I will go with you." Being the Hokage's apprentice has given her special access to confidential information. She knows about why Itachi killed the clan. It was orders from the village she loved dearly. At first when she read the file, she couldn't believe Konoha would do something like that but she kind of could also. All villages had their own dirty little secrets. But it was better if she didn't tell Itachi that, yet because she doesn't know how he would react to that she knows.

'God, what a drag.'

Itachi thinking that she would refuse was mildly surprised at this, but did not show it. "Very well, we shall show you where we have them. Follow us." He said. Then leaped up into the trees followed closely behind Kisame and Sakura right on his heels. It didn't take very long to get where the boys were. In a small cave by the very stream where Sakura bathed not to long before. Itachi walked in and glanced behind to see that Kisame and Sakura followed him, and then placed a genjustu over the place so they wouldn't get interrupted. Sakura felt the genjustu being cast but didn't say anything.

"Your friends were not harmed," Itachi said and pointed towards two squirming boys, two very pissed of squirming boys, who were surprised then knocked out before they could do anything. "We caught them by surprise." Then strides over to get the gag that was in Naruto and Sai's mouth.

When Itachi took the gag out of Naruto's mouth, he started cussing up a storm. "You bastard, I am go-," Itachi put the gag back into his mouth. Sai didn't say a thing, just sat up and glared at both Kisame and Itachi. "So what happens now?" asks Sakura and looks up at a Itachi with a pleading in her eyes to go check on her teammates. Itachi nods at her and she goes over to the two bound boys. Her medical chakra quickly scans the two for injuries, when she finds none, she leans back on her heels, waiting for Itachi to answer her question.

"We will stay here for tonight, and then we will let you go tomorrow." Itachi said in way of an answer, and then went to go start a fire. Kisame went out to get something to eat. Not a couple minutes later they got a fire going with some fish eat.

"You're not that bad of a cook, shark-face." Sakura said by way of a compliment to Kisame, who laughed and didn't care about being called that and said "Well kitten, none of the others can cook worth a damn and its either Tobi or me who's cooking is decent enough."

It was silent after a little bit then Itachi couldn't take it anymore and asked "Haruno, why did you come with us? You could have just fought." Sakura stopped eating and thought for a moment, then said "I trust you." All of the males in the cave were surprised that she said something like that. She said she trusted a man who killed his entire clan, ruined his little brothers' life, and tries to kill her best friend and brother. What the hell is she thinking?

"Hn."

Itachi goes to sit by the cave entrance and watch for trouble, and think about what Sakura said. She said she trusts him, which is unusual, because she should hate for what he has done. But she said she trusts him. 'Damn that girl, I think I am starting to like her, maybe even love her.'

Sakura watched Itachi for a little bit, then went and laid down by her teammates.

Next Day

Sakura woke up and saw that both Itachi and Kisame were gone. By her side, to her a utter disbelief was a folded piece of paper and by the paper was a red rose. She slowly picked up the piece of paper and opened and what it said was:

Sakura-

I know that you know why I killed my clan. I took Naruto-kun and Sai-san because I wanted to see you and figure you out. I still cannot. You are hard to read. We will see each other again. Count on it.

Itachi

Sakura was looking forward to it.

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