AN: I can't believe I did it again…I started on another fic…oops? I don't want to look at my first Naruto fic…it was a disaster though I hope I could save it somehow since it IS the first fic I've ever done. First attempt at Itasaku and second at a Naruto fic.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

'Inner Sakura'

Chapter 1

By Chance

It wasn't supposed to be like this- to become like this.

It was just wrong.

It was definitely not something Fate had planned-

Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Itachi were not meant to be.

But Chance had interfered.

By Chance they had met under an entirely different circumstance originally set by Fate.

Uchiha Itachi was supposed to die that day by the hands of Uchiha Sasuke.

And Haruno Sakura was not supposed to stumble upon the dying Uchiha clan murderer but the battle itself.

Truths and Lies were supposed to die with the Akatsuki member, creating another missing page in history.

All of Fate's careful plans were falling apart piece by piece.

Their lives were not meant to be so intertwined…

…just as Konoha was never ever meant to ally itself with Akatsuki.

The apprentice of the current Hokage was presently 'not in her right fucking mind' as her alter ego had so kindly put it.

Nope definitely not.

She was just completely out of her mind.

Sometimes she questioned her own sanity.

Really, who else in their right mind would carry a seriously injured unconscious S-class criminal- an Akatsuki member no less- to a shelter nearby.

Did she mention that it wasn't just any Akatsuki member who wouldn't hesitate to kill her in a second flat?

No?

Well this particular Akatsuki member was a traitor of Konoha-

The Uchiha Clan murderer-

The brother of her first crush-

The goddamned Uchiha Itachi.

'Probably literally too.' Sakura mused.

For a guy as slight as he was compared to his partner Kisame, he was really heavy. The fact that he was much taller than her did not help either. To a spectator, the sight of her carrying- or rather dragging- one of the most dangerous criminals must be hilarious-

Else her inner self would not be rolling on the floor of her mind with laughter.

Soon she arrived to a small shelter in the forest made up of slabs of stone and wood which she had used a few days ago when she left Konoha for Suna. There were no traces of anyone using this place other than herself a few days prior. Sakura paused and gently laid the heavily injured man down in the shelter before examining to his wounds which she had already stopped the bleeding. Forming a scalpel with chakra, she sliced through the ruined mesh top with practiced ease and further examined the gaping hole slightly below his shoulder.

Sakura winced.

Though not because of the extent of the damage thanks to the fact that she was very used to mending near severed limbs and stuffing innards back into people. Her reaction had stemmed from the cause of it. There was no mistaking it- judging from how the flesh had tore.

Chidori

Sakura bit her lip in uncertainty.

It seemed that she caught herself in a situation that no existence would ever want to be in.

But does this mean Sasuke had won?

Was he returning to Konoha this very moment?

Possibilities swarmed in Sakura's head.

A cough and a splatter of blood snapped Sakura out of her thoughts and into her medic mode. As Sakura swiftly gathered chakra into her hands to heal Itachi she froze.

Was this wise?

Getting involved with a sibling fight is ugly.

And coming in between two S-class criminals' battle is unquestionably dangerous.

Then won't that make being caught in a two S-class traitors' sibling feud be downright suicidal?

She had already impulsively temporary stopped him from bleeding to death and carried him all the way into a shelter.

If she healed him then Sasuke would not have succeeded in his revenge as he believed he had.

'Pft! Serves him right! He should have finished him off completely instead of doing a half assed job.'

Sakura blinked at her Inner's comment before responding incredulously back for what she was suggesting.

'You think I should heal him?!'

'No, we're just going to let him die after dragging his sorry ass all the way here.' Inner Sakura retorted sarcastically.

'His comrades would find him!'

'Yeah, find his corpse you mean.'

Outer Sakura spluttered, but her alter ego was right, judging from his injuries, the amount he had bled and will bleed, chances are that Itachi would be very dead by the time his Samehada wielding Akatsuki partner finds him.

'I'll get branded as a traitor!'

'So you're going to watch him die?'

'Well I-'

'You know, he's more useful to us alive than he is dead.'

'Wha-what do you mean?!'

'I'll tell you after you healed him.'

'No, I ca-'

'Quickly I think he'd stopped breathing!'

'Wha-'

Sakura's hand automatically flew to Itachi's neck to check his pulse.

"Shit!"

Panicking at the fading pulse, Sakura threw all logic out of the window and gave into her instinct as a medic. She gathered her chakra in her hands and began healing the very wanted criminal in the bingo book, starting with the wound inflicted by Chidori before moving onto his almost severed arm and other injuries.

After two hours of non-stop healing she made a fire and gathered some water from a nearby stream to clean off the dried blood before bandaging Itachi's wounds, then covered him with his cloak which she had found along with his straw hat when she went back to attempt to track Sasuke's trail.

"Great, just great. Sasuke is going to hate me and kill me." Sakura muttered solemnly.

'Come on! Look on the bright side, now you won't have a guilty conscience of letting him die!' Inner Sakura chirped.

'Yes, now I have a guilty conscience of betrayal to Konoha and Sasuke- that's just loads better.' Sakura shot back dripping in sarcasm.

'And adding to that, Sasuke is going to kill me. Aren't I just thrilled.'

'Che, it'll be fine.'

'Fine?'

'I'll be fine?!'

'I'll be dead!'

'Sasuke's going to kill me- provided that Uchiha Itachi doesn't kill me first when he wakes up!'

If Sakura wasn't busy arguing with her inner self, she would have notice that as if on cue, Uchiha Itachi had cracked his onyx eyes open and squinted at her direction to see a blur of pink, red and a pair of white stretch from her back before blacking out.

"Wi...wings?"

Sakura snapped her attention to Itachi who was now oblivious to the world.

'What?'

'It's nothing, for a second I thought he was awake.'

'Nah he's out like a light. Too much blood loss. It won't matter, he'll be delirious if he wakes up now- especially with that fever. Not to mention weak. We could so take him! Hell Yeah! If he tries anyth-'

Sakura sighed tiredly at the endless energy her alter ego possess which just reminded her of Naruto. So much energy and that overconfident attitude.

'-ould punch hi-'

'What did you mean when you said 'he's more useful to us alive'?'

'That errr…I was just trying to persuade you?'

'If I remember correctly you were quite persistent in taking him with me when we found him even though you acted like it was me who insisted to take him along.'

'Really? Well you must have wanted to after all- I am you and you are me- we are one.'

'Sometimes I wonder if you are actually part of me.'

'That's cruel! Of course I am!'

Sakura sighed in resignation.

"I can't believe I've been talking, arguing and asking the voice in my head. Now I'm listening to the very same voice to take Itachi with me-" Sakura's jaw dropped as she finally comprehended what her inner self had intended her to do all along. She felt her alter ego smiled mysteriously at her realization before swiftly retreated to the back of her mind not giving a chance of being bombarded with the outer Sakura's disbelief.

'Wait! Stop- you want me to take him back to Konoha with me?!'

Meanwhile Fate pondered how it had occurred.

Haruno Sakura was supposed to arrive at the battle- not the aftermath.

Chance could not have dictated the child's arrival to the scene.

It was all about the timing of her journey from Suna to the border of the Fire Country.

Timing.

Fate turned grim.

How annoying.

Time had once again sided with Chance.

Yufvin-valentine

AN: This is my first attempt at Itasaku…pretty pathetic? I know. Feedback would be appreciated as are ideas for the storyline. I hope you enjoyed reading it.