House of Blossom

An: HEY, I see you all reading, and favoring my story. How about you review? PWEASE? A smiley face will do. (Now that I said that all im going to get for the rest of this story is a smiley or frowny face…I can see it.) Anything. AND, thank you to my reviewers.

There isn't a lemon in this one, just a little of fluff and Sasuke bashing, as much as I love looking at his face but he's still a dick ;P Itachi really isn't OOC in this, so not a lot of romance and sweet looks but I was in a down sort of mood. Im terrible at fight scene's I apologize in advance.

Title: Forsaken

Pairing: ItachiXSakura

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Prompt: Blood.

Rating:M-Violence, Angst.

Summary: Wounded by her once love, Sakura is found by Itachi.

Winter, it was the most depressingly lonely season. The small animals and other creatures were scarce to be heard or seen, it was almost disturbing how the hottest nation could turn to snow and freezing temperatures. The green eyed woman hated it, the cold, the absence of life, the annoying crunch under her boots, everything. Narrowing her eyes in distaste at the forced wardrobe change, she adjusted her pink ,turtle neck and scratched her neck, her black jounin pants covered closed toed shoes. Stopping she turned, glancing behind her, eyes darting. The tiniest hint of a chakra presence tickled the edge of her censes. Stepping forward, she closed her eyes, the cold breeze numbing her ears. Searching for the slightest sound she concentrated hard. She flipped gracefully backwards and slid on the cold ground. She stood up, glaring at the shuriken that had embedded itself where she was just standing.

"Show yourself." She stood at her full height now.

A familiar chuckle filled her ears and she clenched her fist as the man stepped into her view. A large black cloak covered his open robe and large purple rope. He looked arrogant as usual, a smirk gracing his handsome features.

"Sasuke."

"Sakura." His onyx eyes gleamed.

"What are you doing here?" Whatever it was, she was positive it was not good.

His eyebrow creased and his eyes became irritated. "Still bossy as usual hm? That's none of you business, I suggest you stay out of my way, I will not hesitate to kill you Sakura."

She hated him. The way he talked to her, the way he said her name, the way he underestimated her. She knew it would lead him to his downfall.

"Arrogant and condescending as usual Sasuke." Her voice was harsh.

"Annoying and weak, Sakura." He shot back quickly.

Slipping on her gloves, she took a defensive stance, her eyes staring straight into his. "I'm not scared of you. You have no idea what I am capable of."

"I have never had the pleasure of defeating you in battle yet, let me guess, Genjutsu? Your weak jutsu cannot defeat my eyes." He smirked, waving her off like she was still a twelve year old.

She could feel her blood pressure rise, as her anger escalated, she would show him, especially when he was laying on the cold snowing ground all the bones broken in his body, she would then kick him in every guys sensitive spot and spit in his face, the arrogant bastard.

Sasuke smirked, and appeared closer to her, he spun quickly and released his leg with practiced ease. Sakura seeing the oncoming attack, stopped it quickly with the aid of her chakra enhanced hand. Retracting quickly Sasuke jumped back a small amount.

"Come at me you weak Kunoichi!"

Finally snapping, she charged at him, her fist clenched and chakra enhanced. She stopped meters from him and slammed her fist into the cold ground as hard as she could, feeling the charka release form her hand in a burst. The earth under them rumbled, hissed and broke apart, the snow flying into the air, along with the black haired missing nin. She smirked and disappeared in a swirl of blossoms, satisfied with the surprised look in his eyes. Appearing behind him , in the air, she swung her leg and bit her lip when his hand came up to block. His arm had no chance against her chakra infused leg, and she snapped through the bone like it was paper. She flipped away form him and landed on the ground, watching him hold his right arm, now useless at his side.

"What's the matter Sasuke-kun?"

Glaring at her, his eyes swirled red angry. Sakura's eyes immediately fell to his nose, fearing to look into his angry ones. He moved so fast, too fast for a human. She was shocked when her head slammed into the ground painfully and she was vaguely aware of the cold snow around her. She made out the hazy figure of Sasuke above her, his red eyes capturing hers. He drew his katana with his left hand and smirked. He brought it down to her shoulder and with a flick of his wrist, her screams permeated the forest.

-V-

Tears dripped from her eyes. She was in so much pain, mentally and physically. He wasn't kidding when he said he would kill her. He made sure that when she died from blood loss, she would be in the most pain possible. He did a right spot on job. Cuts, jabs, and gashes were all over her body. Her tears were hot, but cooled quickly due to the harsh weather, she was not sure what would do her in first, the blood, or the freezing temperatures.

What had he wanted? Naruto? To get his revenge on Konoha? She was unsure but she wished she could have stopped him. She would have given anything to kill him.

Her hands glowed green and her hazy mind tried to heal her most serious wounds. She groaned in pain as the muscle started to sew together, light headed, her head began to swim.

-V-

The sight before him was disturbing, and wrong. Blood spattered against the pure white snow, and his red eyes looked at the woman lying in the middle of the pool. Itachi thought It was quite beautiful how her pink hair and the blood clashed around her with the snow, her pale face angelic and her lips a slight hue of blue.

"What have you done Sasuke?"

He walked to the girl, he recognized as the woman who used to be on his little brothers team. He never thought Sasuke would go this far. Her hazy dull green eyes slowly opened.

"Sasuke…?" He had come back to finish her off.

"Not quite." His voice was low and cold.

Her eyes closed once more and she shakily took a breath. She groaned and twitched as she felt his cold chakra bite into her skin.

"Do not move."

"Oh god, stop, it hurts." She pleaded.

He did not say anything as he hastily patched the wounds the best he could. Her bleeding now temporarily stopped he gently picked the woman up and treaded back through the snow, his mind trying to find reason why Sasuke would do this.

"Where are you taking me?"

"To an inn, so you can properly heal your wounds. No doubt if you do not, the infection will kill you."

She was unsure that she could trust the man, fearing that this would be that last day of her life. Her mind reasoned with her that she would already be dead if it was not for him finding her. If he wanted her dead, he would have left her in the snow. Her body felt like it was floating and she let her head fall against his chest and her eyes fluttered closed.

"Do you wish to die? Open your eyes." He shook her awake.

Forcing her eyes open, she knew that if she fell asleep, she would not wake up. Determined to live through this she stared hazily into the road ahead.

-V-

"What the hell?" Kisame's voice was loud, and it made her head pound even more that it already did.

"It is of no concern to you Kisame. Move." He sat up from the bed and watched as Itachi placed the woman on the bed.

"Heal yourself kunoichi." Bracing herself against her headboard of the bed she began to slowly stitch muscle and skin together. She heard the water turn on in what she presumed a nasty grubby bathroom.

"That's a nasty lookin' scar your going to have princess."

She glared at him, and started in the half healed gash in her shoulder. Her hands shaking, and numb making it hard to feel around the muscle. Sure enough, she knew that there would be a large scar. She frowned, always knowing that she would look at it and remember him and what he did to her.

Itachi walked back into small room and glanced at her wounds. Now mended together he knew she was now in no real danger besides pneumonia. Tossing her his cloak, her sat down in a chair.

"You need to warm up more, so you can get in the hot water. You will go into shock if you get into it now."

Kisame looked at his partner and smirked. What was Itachi doing? Saving pretty Kunoichi form the leaf was not an everyday occurrence. Kisame opened his mouth to ask when his partners glare stopped him. He shrugged and leaned back in the rickety wooden chair, deciding to let it play out.

Slipping the cloak on, she sighed silently as the warmth surrounded her. She inhaled deeply and vaguely could smell his light scent. Her eyes closed, and she leaned her head back, the emotions of the day rushing to her quickly. Heart aching she opened her eyes and swallowed back the tears. "Why did you help me."

"Sasuke has to be stopped, sweat heart. He's already killed Deidara, the more allies we have the better shot we have." Kisame smirked at her.

She fell silent, she knew that he was telling her the truth, she was unaware that he had killed Deidara. Also she knew that he and Itachi would indeed need more than just them to kill Sasuke and his team, she then remembered that Karin was in a holding cell at Konoha waiting for her trial. She shook her head and forced the memories from her mind.

"Why don't you get more Akatsuki?"

"It had grown corrupt. That is all you need to know." Itachi glanced in her direction.

"You sure are chatty for someone who almost died." Kisame laughed loudly.

Irritated, she quieted down. She began thinking about the man who saved her. She glanced his direction through her hair, he looked tired. She moved to the side of the bed.

"Itachi, if you are tired…"

"I am fine, go wash up."

Standing she walked into the small bathroom, his cloak still wrapped around her. She shut the door quietly and stripped it off and folded it on the sink. Throwing her tattered clothes in the floor she hissed as her smaller wounds touched the hot water. She sunk all the way in and leaned back, feeling the lump form in her throat.

Tears dripped from her eyes and she shook her head. She was so stupid to think that Sasuke would ever come back, to the village, to his team, to her. Finally it was sinking into her head that he was not the old Sasuke she fell in love with. Remembering when she almost left her village to follow him, she became disgusted with herself. Letting the tears fall she wiped her heart clean from the man names Sasuke forever.

This time, she would kill him. She would not hesitate.

-V-

"Interesting little girl." Kisame smirked.

"You would do best not to anger her."

Kisame looked at his partner and shook his head as Itachi sat on the bed and leaned back and closed his eyes. Kisame knew that he was in pain, and that he was partially blind. Deciding against suggesting he make the girl heal his eyes, he picked up his large sword and started to stroke and clean it.

Minutes flew by and he stood up and knocked on the door to the bathroom. "Hey pinky, did you drown?"

"Im almost done, I don't have any clothes…"

"Who needs clothes?" He laughed, and he felt Itachi's glare on his back.

He turned and went to his large bag, but stopped when the girl walked out, her hair dripping and Itachi's cloak around her and zipped up. Her creamy neck was visible and Kisame licked his lips, seeing her tattered clothes in her hand.

A pair of folded black clothes were handed to her by Itachi, who went back to lie down on the bed. She silently walked back into the bathroom and changed into the plain black shirt and a pair of sweat pants. She brushed her hair out with her fingers and looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes were puffy and red, and her cheeks were swollen, obvious signs of her pain. She walked out with the cloak in her hands and laid it in the back of a chair gently.

Looking at the man she walked to the edge of the bed. Kisame stopped cleaning and looked at her curiously. She extender two finger from each hand and gently placed them on his temples. His eyes opened and swirled. Her chakra invaded his eyes like a cooling balm and he made a small noise of relief. She closed her eyes and concentrated on healing the torn muscles, and slowly reducing the amount of scar tissue he had built up making him partially blind.

Several long moments passed as she stopped and removed her fingers. "That should provide you with some relief until I have enough chakra to finish."

His eyes flashed for a second and they turned back to their onyx color and she peered into their depths. He looked at her, hiding his shock. Everything was so much clearer and bright. He looked at the girl, able to take in her fully now. Now more beautiful than the blurred image he once saw.

He laid back and closed his eyes once more and she assumed he fell asleep. "Tomorrow we will begin to hunt Sasuke."

She knew what she would have to do to stop the man. Konoha could not know about this, Naruto would hear and run to her aid and get himself killed by Sasuke. She sat down next to the large blue man, resigning to the fact that she would be turning her back her village for Sasuke, this time under a different circumstance.

-V-

Her mind swirled as she transported into the realm of Tsukuyomi and felt herself pressed against the large wooden cross. Sasuke stood in front of her angrily.

"Why wont you die?" He screamed and thrust his sword into her stomach.

Refusing to scream she bit her lip as blood dripped out of her mouth. "Is that all you got? You stab like a pussy."

"How did you survive the last time Sakura?" He angrily paced back and forth.

Sakura then smirked and the image of his brother invaded her mind, and she felt hope surge through her, he would break her from this torture.

"Itachi saved me."

"What?" His voice was loud and stabbed her again in the leg.

He looked up then suddenly, seeing the sky crack and shatter as she was pulled from his jutsu and back to reality. Her eyes opened and saw Itachi standing in front of her now.

"Kisame?" She was in the large man's arms.

"There ya go sweetheart." He placed her onto the ground.

She stood in front of the now two remaining members of team Taka. Suigetsu smirked at Kisame and crossed his arms.

"Samehada, how nice to see you again, this time you'll leave with me!"

Kisame snorted arrogantly and raised it "This time I will kill you kid."

Sakura stood next to Itachi now, and looked on at Sasuke. "An alliance with my brother now Sakura? Your so desperate to get me back aren't you?"

"I am not here to get you back Sasuke. I am here to help Itachi kill you."

He thought he would never hear her say those words to him. Maybe kill him yes, he deserved it after everything he had put her through, but not with his brother. She knew how much that he hated him.

Sasuke opened his mouth to speak again but was silenced. "Do not say another word to her."

A grin appeared on Sasuke's face, then spread to a smile and then finally his loud laugh echoed the clearing. Itachi glanced at Sakura and nodded. She watched as he appeared in front of Sasuke, how dodged and jumped into the air followed by Itachi. Sasuke frowned as his brother grabbed at his throat and started to fall back to the ground. A loud scream caught his attention as the ground below him cracked and fell apart, now with no where to go he felt himself slam into a tree. He used his speed and quickly moved from the tree as Itachi's large fire ball slammed into it.

Narrowing his eyes at the pair he drew his sword and his eyes flashed and swirled angrily. Everything had happened so fast, Mangekyo versus Mangekyo. Feeling useless, Sakura stepped behind Itachi.

"Amaterasu!" Sakura disappeared in a flurry of cherry blossoms, knowing the jutsu Sasuke just cast. She remained hidden as Itachi quelled the black flames around him with his own sharingan.

Feeling his eyes blur once again form his prolonged use of mangekyo, Itachi knew he had to stop Sasuke now. Fast hand seals only caught by Sasuke's eyes flashed and Itachi's cool voice reached her ears.

"Susanoo, Awaken." A large skeleton appeared behind Itachi ,slowly mending and transforming adding muscle and skin to the bones.

"Sakura." She knew that this was her chance. She knew that if she stalled Sasuke long enough Itachi could build Susanoo.

She jumped form her tree and infused her leg in chakra. Dodging her quickly, Sasuke grabbed her leg and threw her into the ground. She groaned and rolled over. He stepped by her and started to head toward his brother. She grabbed his ankle his her chakra enhanced grip and snapped it quickly, making sure to make it broken beyond repair. She then flicked her wrist and slammed the man into the floor.

Sakura glanced at Itachi to see blood dripping from his eyes as the red aura started to manifest itself into its final and humanoid form. She pushed herself off of the ground and saw Sasuke teleport in front of her. She raised her fist, but was quickly blocked and he picked her up by her neck.

"How dare you try to stop me." He squeezed harder and she gripped his hands and started to squeeze. He dropped her then and kicked her in the stomach as hard as he could. The breath left her body at an alarming rate and she doubled over in pain, feeling her ribs shatter and blood gurgle into her throat. She gasped and gagged on the blood as it spilled out of her mouth and burning pain radiated through her body. She fell to her back then, the blood gurgling audible in her throat. Raising his sword he plunged it down. Closing her eyes she waited for the blow.

A gush of wind made her open her eyes and she blinked the tears away as Samehada appeared above her.

'Kisame. Thank you.'

"You have no manners brat." He spoke to Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at the man and then his eyes darted to the fallen body of Suigetsu and he smirked.

"Go to Itachi, princess." She rolled away from his slowly, the pain intensifying as she moved to Itachi.

Time stopped as she made it half way to Itachi she felt the cold steel of the sword bite into her back and slide into her body and out through her stomach. The same path the sword Sasori used. Sasuke smirked and watched as she fell to her knees. Tears welled up in her eyes and she fell, felling the blood pool around her. Hearing Sasuke groan she knew Kisame had landed a blow on the man.

She looked at Sasuke then, knowing he had used his Mangekyo to precisely throw his sword to hit her in a vital spot. She slowly pulled herself up and crawled her way to Itachi who had now finished and was anchored to the ground by his Susanoo. She watched as more blood dripped, it looked like he was crying blood.

She reached up to him then and smiled, choking on her own blood. "Stop it, heal yourself!" He bit out loudly as she approached him.

Catching Sasuke's attention he watched angrily as she raised her hands and they glowed green. His eyes widened as he realized that she was healing his eyes instead of her own wound.

"You will be the one to kill him, not me." She peered into his eyes for the first time.

Using the last of her chakra she fully healed his eyes, and fell to the ground unconscious. A bright light consumed the clearing as Itachi's Susanoo launched a large stream of light toward Sasuke, and everything fell silent.

-V-

She was sure she was dead, the pain had vanished and she was floating peacefully. Mangekyo eyes caught her attention and she looked into them full on. They swirled and she smiled and closed her eyes, thinking of the man.

She opened her eyes then and looked around startled. She was lying on a bed in a small room. She glanced around to the corner and she felt tears drip from her eyes. Samehada sat neat and clean in the corner, the old bandage's now replaced. She let out a small wail and more tears dripped form her eyes. Had they done it?

"Sweetheart?" Kisame's face appeared above her. "Your awake!" He gasped.

The door opened then and Itachi walked into the room, his onyx eyes taking in the scene. He walked over to the bed and looked down upon the newly awake woman.

"Sakura…thank you."