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A/N: Wow all those wonderful reviews were Unexpected… hehe. Thank you so much to those who reviewed, I will try to update as much as I can as soon as I can. If I do review it will probably be up from 1pm-9pm eastern standard time. After 9, don't expect it until the next day. Because of the wonderful encouragement, here is another chapter!

Chapter 2

Sakura opened her eyes to a dark room. She was lying on a large bed with black sheets and a black comforter. There were no windows and she could smell earth all around her, and she figured she was underground. She tried to sit up, only to be brought back down by the pain in her side. Usually pain had no effect on her, but because she still hadn't regained any chakra, the pain seemed to be intensified.

She went over what had happened in her mind, but none of it made sense. Itachi and Kisame, two Akatsuki S-Class criminals, who have no problem with murder and mass destruction, saved her from someone she once thought of as a friend.

As all the confusing information flooded her brain, she realized that she was probably being held captive by someone. Her eyes wandered to the closed door where she sensed someone standing outside of it.

'Probably a guard.' She thought. 'How do I get into these situations? I should have been paying more attention, and my guard was let down when I saw Sasuke. He betrayed the village; I shouldn't have trusted him not to hurt me for a moment. This is all my fault.'

Just as Sakura was concluding her self bashing, the door unlocked and someone walked in.

Itachi thought hard about the strange feelings, not daring to confide in anyone that he actually HAD feelings to begin with. The pink haired medic was resting in his room in the underground base he shared with some of the other Akatsuki members. She had lost a lot of blood, and it was necessary for him to donate his own blood to keep her alive. The medic that treated the Akatsuki members was mystified when he was summoned to treat a beautiful young woman instead of the battle hardened, mostly psychotic criminals he was used to. He felt the moment she woke, his senses being on high alert.

Kisame looked at the Uchiha uneasily. Since he had fought his brother, Itachi had been acting very unlike himself. Usually he was quiet, reserved and extremely polite, unless you made him mad. Kisame had never before witnessed the side of Itachi he was seeing now. He noticed Itachi tense and then move quickly up the stairs to the room where the girl was being held. Kisame shook his head in disbelief at what he was witnessing. He looked over to the blonde mad bomber in the corner and decided to ask him if he had noticed anything strange.

"Itachi is acting strange, yeah. I've never seen him show such a flurry of emotion, going from anger, to tense worry, to having a sadistic look on his face; its strange, yeah." Deidara looked to the stairs where the dark haired Uchiha had just walked up. Kisame nodded and warned Deidara to keep clear of Itachi for a while, or at least until the girl was gone or dead.

Itachi walked in the room slowly, as if not sure he wanted to go in, but not being able to wait to enter. He narrowed his eyes at the thoughts in his head and looked over to the small woman laying in his bed. She was obviously in pain, but was putting on a brave face to not show any fear. Itachi smirked and moved over to the bed, sitting on the edge, looking away from the girl.

"Where am I?" She asked shakily, pain coming though in her voice.

"Safe, for now." He answered calmly, never looking at her.

"Did you kill Sasuke?" She asked after a pause. There was neither condemnation nor hope in her voice, but it was as if she was asking what the time was. Itachi did turn to face her at that, his Sharingan turned off.

"No." He said simply. Sakura gulped and tried to sit up, only to be pushed back down gently by Itachi. Sakura panicked slightly at the feeling of being held down, but Itachi's voice broke her out of her fright.

"Be still, your injuries have not yet healed. It will take a few days to regain your chakra, so don't leave this room until I give you permission." Sakura calmed down and laid back. She huffed at being ordered to stay put, but being a medic she knew the importance of resting after being injured.

"You will not talk to anyone unless I say you can, and if anyone tries to touch you… they will die." His voice got dark, looking at her like a predator. She felt her heart beat speed up at his words, and nodded to appease the psychopathic murderer.

"Why are you keeping me?" She asked curiously.

"My Sharingan is making me blind, you will heal my eyes." He explained, standing up and moving towards the door.

"What if I wont?" she asked quietly.

"Then you will be of no use to me." He said threateningly. "If you heal my eyes, you will have repaid me for saving your innocence, and I may be persuaded to let you return to your village unharmed. I will give you three days to decide." He said in a more light and less diabolical tone of voice.

She nodded and watched him leave the room, locking the door behind him. She then took a deep, shaky breath. It would be dishonorable not to repay Itachi for saving her, but at the same time she would be aiding her enemy and by healing him it might make him powerful enough to get Naruto. If she didn't heal him, he would surely kill her, but if she did then she would be going home a traitor.

'Seriously, how do I get into these situations?' she thought, resting deeper into the pillow her head was rested on. 'Hmm this pillow smells good, I wonder if this is Itachi's bed.' Her face turned red at the thought and she resolved to not sniff it if it belonged to the enemy. 'A rather hot enemy.' Inner Sakura added. Sakura groaned and lifted herself up to go to the bathroom that was in the room.

After a good forty minutes of maneuvering herself around the room, into the bathroom, and back into bed, she started to think about her friends and how they wouldn't realize she was missing for another week or so. With the thoughts of a worried Naruto and Tsunade in her mind, she drifted off into a restless sleep.

"You are nothing to me, you whore!" Sasuke threw her down to the ground. She cried for him to stop, to remember when they were friends.

"I love you Sasuke!" she screamed with tears in her eyes. Then Suigetsu was on her again, holding her down and trying to undo her clothes.

"C'mon baby, you'll love this!" Suigetsu whispered cruelly in her ear. Sasuke started to laugh as she tried to fight Suigetsu off.

Sakura sat up in bed, covered in sweat and crying. She looked to the far left corner of the room where a figure of a man was sitting in a chair. She got herself under control when she realized that Itachi was moving towards her.

"Nightmare?" Itachi asked softly, taking a seat on the end of her bed. She nodded, wiping the tears from her eyes. "Was it about the idiot?" Itachi asked with a hint of darkness in his voice.

Sakura nodded again. Itachi got up again and went to the chair he was sitting in before and brought it to the side of her bed.

"Sleep now, you will not dream anymore." He said with boredom, getting more comfortable in the chair. She laid back down, more disturbed than anything that he was acting in a manner she thought someone like the great clan murder Itachi would never be acting in. She had heard that he was ruthless, merciless, and over all a bad kind of guy, but saving a girl in the forest and then sitting by her bedside when she had a nightmare just didn't seem right.

She sneaked a glance at Itachi with one eye opened. He looked back at her and raised an eyebrow. She quickly shut her eye and forced herself into a dreamless sleep.

When she woke the next morning, Itachi was gone and there was a small plate of food in the chair that Itachi was sitting in the night before. Sakura smiled in spite of herself at the nice arrangement of fruit and bread on the plate.

Deidara and Kisame watched in awe at the cold hearted Uchiha carefully cutting fruit and bread in a decorative manner and put it on a plate for their prisoner.

"So Itachi, why…" Deidara began but the hard look in Itachi's Sharingan eye made him think twice about finishing the sentence. He took the food and left the room without a word.

"I think Itachi has lost his mind." Kisame whispered carefully. Looking towards the stairs. Deidara nodded gravely and went to perfect his new jutsu.

Sakura ate the food quickly, noticing that the food was all fresh and carefully cut to avoid seeds and pits.

The door opened and Itachi walked in followed by another man who was wearing a medical apron. The man looked nervously at Itachi who nodded tightly. The medic moved towards her bed with a warm smile, which she returned.

"Good morning. Let me check how your injuries are doing, okay?" She nodded and let his chakra into her body, healing the minor wounds quickly and the deeper ones with more caution.

"Well, just keep in bed until your chakra is fully restored. But other than that you will be fine in a few days." He finished re-wrapping her bandages and left under the scrutinizing gaze of Itachi.

Sakura glanced at Itachi with a raised eyebrow; the look he was giving her was something strange, almost primal. He blinked and shook his head, noticing she saw his control loss he left the room quickly.

Itachi pressed his back against the closed door and breathed deeply. There was something strange going on with him and it was making it impossible for him to control his emotions around the girl. She needed to heal his eyes before he lost his mind.

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