Author's Note: Hi again! Thanks to all of those who reviewed the last chapter and asked me to continue! I'm glad that you liked it! I think this story is a lot of fun to write so I am going to continue it. Anyways, here's chapter two! I worked really hard on it so I hope that you like it!

Chapter Two
Into The Dark

"Hello Sasuke," Sakura greeted her voice strong. Not knowing exactly what to say after that, she fell into an awkward silence.

'Maybe this was a mistake,' she thought, looking down at her feet starting to feel uncomfortable. 'I shouldn't have come.'

"Is 'hello' all you came to say?" she heard Sasuke ask, snapping her out of her thoughts. She glanced back up at him and saw that he was still facing away from her, continuing to stare at the opposite wall instead.

Unconsciously, she moved towards the cell's bars, wanting to see more of him.

"Do you know about your sentence?" she inquired quietly. "That you are to be executed."

"How dull," Sasuke sighed. "I already know."

Sakura felt a little bit of anger flare alive in her with his last comment about her bring boring and it wasn't helping any that he was still facing away form her. "I may be boring but is that wall so much more interesting than me?" she snapped out.

He turned to face her then and she had to try hard not to let out a gasp. His eyes looked absolutely menacing, like he would love to be on the side of bars that she was on just so he could snap her and break her in two.

She didn't let that stop her though. She couldn't.

'This isn't the boy that you once knew,' she had to remind herself. 'That boy is dead and replaced by this dangerous one standing before you. He might have once used to protect you from being hurt by others but now he wouldn't hesitate to kill you himself. Don't trust him at all. Don't let him get under your skin.'

Even though she told herself that, she couldn't look him in the eyes. Instead, she decided to focus on his cell. She didn't understand how people could live in it. It was disgusting as far from she could see. The only thing in it was a bed that had ripped sheets and had probably never been washed once in their life. The floor seemed cleaner in her opinion then the actual bed.

"Like my accommodations?" Sasuke scoffed, noticing the disgusted look on her face.

She looked back at him, finally daring to meet his eyes again. "I think it's perfect for someone like you."

He studied her for a moment before saying, "You've changed."

Now it was Sakura's turn to scoff. "What?" Did you think that I'd be that silly little weak and hopeless girl who chased after you? After all that you've done, of course I've changed. You have no affect on me anymore and you don't scare me."

"Such boring talk," was all Sasuke said to her small outburst as he leaned against the wall looking uninterested.

The way that he was acting made her feel inferior to him and it pissed her off even more.

"You're such an asshole!" she screamed. "You have no right to act like you're above me! Someone rotting in such a disgusting place like this isn't allowed that right."

All the anger and hatred against him that she had been holding inside of her had started to leak out and she was no where near done with him.

"You're not even stronger than Naruto," she taunted. "He brought you down and dragged your sorry ass back here. Face it! You're the weak one. So don't you-

Suddenly, his hand snapped out through the bars faster than she could see and she felt his fingers wrap around her neck squeezing slightly. He brought her even closer to the bars and he himself leaned closer to her.

"Even behind these bars I can kill you," he whispered threateningly to her. "Remember that."

With that, he pushed her away sending her stumbling back and coughing for air. She looked up at him to see that he was back to leaning against the wall, like nothing had just happened between them, only now, he was slightly smirking.

Sakura had to suppress a slight shiver that tried to run up her spine and she made sure this time, to stand out of his reaching distance, not wanting to repeat what had just transpired. If it did, she knew that Sasuke would probably not let go and would just kill her. She traced her neck where he had held her, slight bruises already starting to form there in the shapes of fingers.

'Idiot!' she screamed at herself in her mind. 'You should of known better than to stand so close and even more, you let him touch you. After all of your training, you should know better than this. Coming here was a mistake. '

"I'm going," she told him, suddenly wanting to be as far away from and the cursed prison. "This will be the last time that you ever see me. I just wanted to say goodbye."

She turned away from him and started for the exit.

"How strange," she heard Sasuke say when she was about ten feet away and she stopped in her tracks to glance back at him.

When he didn't elaborate on what was strange she could resist asking, "What's so strange?"

"You say that I have no affect on you yet you still came to see me."

She froze at those words, knowing that he was right, but not wanting to believe it.

"Aren't you leaving?" Sasuke asked, turning away from her.

"Fuck you!" Sakura yelled before starting to run down the hall. The same man from one of the cells whistled at her again but this time, she didn't shoot him a glare since she was too much in a hurry to get out of there. She took the stairs two at a time and didn't even bother to slow down after she pushed the door open to see the guard from before still standing there. He started to ask her what was wrong, was already gone, not wanting to deal with him.

She didn't want to stop running until she was home, far away from Sasuke, the boy who no matter how much she worked and tried to deny it was still her one weakness.

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Sakura sat on her bed in her pajamas, hugging her knees to her chest and resting her head on top of them. The day that she had been having seemed like the longest one in her life and her only wish right now was that it would end as soon as possible. She found that her wish wouldn't be fulfilled as the phone on the desk next to her bed started to ring. Sighing, she reached out and snatched it up.

"Hello?"

"Sakura-san! Is that you?" asked a frantic voice that she instantly recognized as Shizune's. That wasn't the only thing she could hear. In the background, the sound of people shouting and banging things was all around.

"Yes, it's me. What's wrong?"

She'd never heard Shizune sound so distressed before and it was starting to even unsettle her a bit.

"It's Uchiha Sasuke," she heard Shizune say. "He's escaped."

"What!?" Sakura jumped out of her bed, holding the phone as it could get to her ear. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "What do you mean he's escaped?"

"We found a hole blown through the wall of his cell and all of the guards who were watching him were killed."

"H-How is this possible?" Sakura choked out. The thing was that is wasn't. Sasuke had had absolutely no chakra in his system and since he was a high risk criminal, there were top ninjas posted as guards 24/7 to watch him. Nothing like this had ever happened before. "How could he of escaped?"

"I don't know but it's worse than that. Uchiha Itachi has been-

Suddenly the phone went dead in her hand and the lights above her shut off with a slight popping noise.

"Hello?" Sakura asked into the phone. "Hello?"

There was no response.

Slamming down her phone, she walked over to the window to peer out, wondering if it was a blackout, but she could see all the other buildings that lined the street had their lights one. It was just her place which meant something was definitely wrong. A banging noise from outside her bedroom door in the hallway caused her to run over to her bed and snatch the kunai knife she always had hidden there in case of emergences. Another banging noise came, this time louder and closer to her door.

There was someone in her apartment and she had a pretty good idea who.

It was him. It was Sasuke.

She figured he'd probably come to finish her off because of before.

She listened hard but there were no more banging noises. The only thing that she could hear was the sound of her heartbeat pounding in her ears, but she knew better than to let her guard down. Just because the noises stopped didn't meant the person still wasn't there.

She walked quietly over to her bedroom door, taking a deep calming breath and readying herself to attack anyone if it came to that before swinging the door wide open to find no one there. .

Slowly, she stepped out of her room, walking towards the nearest door in the hall which led to a closet. She swung the door wide open but once again, it was empty. She repeated the process, opening all the doors along the hall expecting to see Sasuke hiding there but never finding anybody.

She tightened her grip on her kunai, wanting to know what the hell was going in her apartment. It was like the power going out and the banging noises had been done by a ghost, but she knew that if Sasuke could escape from the prison, he could easily hide in her house, just waiting to attack her.

"Come on out Sasuke," she shouted. "I know you're here."

She held her breath, waiting for something to happen, but nothing did.

Leaving the hallway, she walked into her kitchen checking to see if he was in there. He wasn't. The only thing that she saw out of the ordinary was that the window above the sink was open.

She stared at it, her heart starting to pound even more. She was so sure it hadn't been that way when she had gone into her room. In fact, all the time she lived in the apartment, she never had bothered to open that window once.

Walking over to investigate it, she shut it tight and locked it.

"You shouldn't let your guard down," a deep voice said from behind her, but before she had a chance to react, she felt someone hit her pressure point in the back of her neck, knocking her out and sending her into darkness.

Another cliffie for ya. So who do you think knocked out Sakura?? Thanks for reading! Please review!

Oh! And also, for any Izumo and Kotestu fans out there, the gaurds at the prison who were killed were not them. I know that sometimes they are at the prison cause they're shown there in one of the filler episodes there but I think that those two guys are too cool to kill off.