Finally, after what seemed like forever the red and black world slowly fades away. Sakura groans opening her eyes to see the blue sky, she looks around, amazed she was awake, and shocked to still be alive, she sits up noticing Itachi standing above her, she knew she wouldn't be able to fight with how exhausted she was.
"Now what?.." Sakura looks down at her hands, barely able to keep her eyes open. Itachi looks down at her, shocked she was still awake.
"You're awake." He doesn't show his surprise as he grips her arm and pulls her to her feet. "I'm taking you to our base," he says before starting to walk in that direction a firm grip on her wrist. After a couple steps her stops and looks at her feeling no resistance from her at all. "Think you can walk?"
Shocked by his question she shakes her head, avoiding eye contact, "I'm amazed I can stand".
He nods and takes some rope from his pack, tying her arms together, "I'm going to have to blindfold you". He takes her headband and fixes it so it's in front of her eyes before lifting her up, putting her arms around his neck so she was dangling on his back. Keeping a steady stream of chackra going to his neck to keep her from choking him, he sets out at a steady pace towards Rain and the Akatsuki base.
As they travel she drifts in and out of consciousness, waking up a few hours later shivering cold. Itachi notices and stops, lifting her arms over his head he takes his cloak off. He puts her back on his back, then puts the cloak back on and keeps going, now about three fourths of the way there. Two more hours pass, she's barely conscious as they reach Rain, Itachi enters and heads towards a tall tower. He travels through a long underwater tunnel to get to the entrance of the base. Identifying himself to the guards they let him pass, and he enters.
The room looks like any normal sitting room would like, the only difference is at that moment it was accuppied by five S-class missing nin. All of which look up as Itachi enters, they greet him in there different ways, mostly low pitched 'hey''s. A blone boy with bangs covering one eye notices Sakura.
"Hey Itachi, who's the bitch, un? I feel like I've seen her somewhere before, yeah", Itachi gives him an annoyed look.
"Haruno Sakura, of Konaha," he responds as he takes his cloak off and lifts Sakura off his back. She sways slightly but catches her balance soon enough. Itachi lifts her headband up and away from her eyes so she can adjust to the light in the room. She squints at first but gets used to it soon enough. The other members watching her, the blonde finally figuring out where he had seen her before.
"You're the bitch who killed Sasori-dono, un!" the blonde glares at her, standing up.
"Correction, I helped kill him, I didn't land the finishing blow" she looks at him calmly.
"Diadara calm down will ya?" A tall blue shark like man says from his seat on the couch.
"Yeah, you bastard, you made me lose count" another one of the men says from his seat at the table, piles of money on it, and a small stack in his hand, he was glaring daggers at Diadara.
"Guys quite down, I'm trying to pray here!" A silver haired man says from a corner of the room, but once he sees Sakura he stands up. Approaching she and Itachi he grins, "Well well, what do we have here? Itachi are you finally taking my advice?" he wriggles an eyebrow in a suggestive manor.
"No Hiden I am not," Itachi looks at him, "she is just another prisoner"
"It's a shame, she looks exotic, can I have a go at her? You know how I love exotic girls" Hiden looks Sakura up and down.
"Touch me and you'll lose your head" She glare at him.
"Ooh! a feisty one aren't you," He smirks, "I like that in a girl, it means they can put up a fight"
"Sakura is not to be another one of you're girls Hiden, she is my prisoner and if you touch her you will have me to deal with" he glares daggers at him, "why don't you go back to praying, seeing as that's what you always tend to be doing"
Hiden glares back at Itachi, "Fine I will" he says and goes back to where he had been sitting.
Itachi takes Sakura's arm and leads her out of the room and up a set of stairs.
"Thank you for that," Sakura says fallowing his lead, keeping up with his long strides as they reach a circular room doors all around with another staircase going up across from the one they came up. Itachi leads her to one of the doors and opens it for her, letting her go in first.
"You're welcome," he closes the door, "Hiden is a womanizer, that's really all I can describe him as".
Sakura laughs lightly at that, "He definitively seemed like one". She looks around the room, a couch against one wall, with a dresser and desk on another, and a twin sized bed on the wall with the door. Bookcases lined the fourth wall of the room full of books.
"Can you maybe untie my hands now?" She looks over at him, "please?"
"I can, though I'm going to have to drain your chackra first," He performs a couple seals and hold her hands between his. She could feel a slight tingling sensation as a seal is forming on both her wrists, limiting how much chackra she can use. Sakura feels the chackra draining from her, making her feel tired, she yawns as Itachi cuts the ropes.
"Tired?" he smirks, looking down at her.
"I'm still tired from before, add the depleted chackra and I'm back to how tired I was back in that clearing" she says yawning again.
"Makes sense," He nods, "then maybe you should sleep?"
"That sounds like a really good idea," she goes to the couch to lay down.
"You can have the bed if you want, it's a lot more comfortable then that couch," he watches her as she lays on the couch.
"It's okay, the bed is yours I'd feel bad in taking it," she turns around to get more comfortable and was soon fast asleep.
Itachi watches her for a little bit, before going to his desk to write a report about his scouting mission. In writing it he excludes ever running into Sakura, once done he climbs into bed and is soon fast asleep.