She awoke in the infirmary again with Itachi in the bed beside her.
"Sakura, you're awake," Tsunade stated.
Sakura looked at her sadly. "Even around people like me, I still can't be normal."
Tsunade sighed. "It's okay. Your power just lashed out when Itachi forced you into the corner."
"Is everyone okay?" Sakura asked.
Tsunade nodded. "Your healing really helped. Itachi is the only one still unsconscious. We don't know what will happen to him. It seems he's stuck in the Tsukiyomi."
Sakura gasped. Suddenly, two people barged into the room.
"Itachi-chan!" A woman cried out as she moved to him.
"This is the girl?" The other person, a man asked, eyes turning red.
Tsunade stood firmly between Sakura and the Uchiha family.
"Fugaku, calm down. I'm sure Itachi will be fine."
"Do you know what shame my clan will face when it gets out that Itachi's Tsukiyomi was defeated by a girl with pink hair!?" He shouted.
Sakura's scared eyes narrowed angrily.
"Who cares about shame when your son is on that bed, perhaps stuck in a coma forever!" Sakura yelled at him.
"How dare such trash like you speak to me like that!?" Fugaku bellowed.
Sakura stood from the bed and grabbed him by the shirt and lifted him up with her strength.
"Your son is fighting for his life and you're worried about shame!" Sakura hissed. "The only trash I see here is you."
Fugaku's hands lit up with flames. Before he could burn her, Sakura punched him in the face, sending him through a wall.
"Fugaku!" Mikoto called.
She looked at Sakura.
"At least you care about your son," Sakura muttered as she walked to Itachi.
'Inner, you're going to help him. Is that understood?' Sakura snapped.
'Sure, why not? We owe it to him now after punching his dad through a wall.'
Sakura giggled before she released Inner and followed her into Itachi's mind.
Sakura found herself in the ruins of the Tsukiyomi. Sakura stood side by side with her Inner. While Sakura was coloured white with black outlines, Inner was black with white outlines.
"Damn, Inner."
"In my defence, I had to give everything I had to break out of the hold Tsukiyomi had on your mind. This is the outcome though."
They walked around.
"Can you fix it?" Sakura asked.
Inner Sakura looked around with a frown. "Yes but I'll need to use my powers to do so. That means we'll have a bond with Itachi that'll be unbreakable since I'll be woven into his mind."
Sakura nodded. "Do it. I'll look for Itachi."
Inner Sakura turned into mist and dissolved, becoming one with Tsukiyomi. Sakura looked around, searching for Itachi. Then she looked down and gasped. She could see something underwater, trapped beneath the glass floor. Sakura dropped to her knees.
"Itachi!" Sakura called.
Itachi's eyes were shut and she didn't know how long he could stay down there.
"Itachi!" Sakura called again but he still didn't respond.
She pounded on the glass. Because this was still the Tsukiyomi, she didn't have her monstrous strength. She smashed on the glass until her hands were hurting. She made a small hole and tore at it, slicing her hands open. She reached in and grabbed Itachi, slicing her arm open in the process. She was careful making sure he stayed away from the sharp edges. She brought him to the surface. She checked for breathing and found nothing. She placed him down and performed CPR. He coughed up blood but didn't wake up. Sakura looked up and noticed the missing moon. That was his mind.
"Inner, the moon!" Sakura yelled.
"I know," was Inner's disembodied voice. "But I need to repair the Tsukiyomi first."
"Okay," Sakura breathed.
She held onto Itachi tightly. "You know, you really pissed Inner off with calling her a fraud," Sakura spoke. "She hates being called weak or anything similar. She's only helping me help you because we kind of, sort of, punched your dad through a wall."
Inner snorted from around the world and Sakura smiled weakly.
"So in return, we're restoring your mind and Tsukiyomi. Things kind of went haywire back in the classroom. Inner broke away from me and started attacking everyone in the room. It took a while but she finally went back into my head."
"Done," Inner announced. "All that's left is the moon. Go on and give him a kiss to wake him, Saki."
Sakura blushed. "Piss off, Inner. Just do it."
Inner laughed and the moon was restored. Sakura looked up at the moon, noticing it was a pure white moon instead of the black one it was before. Sakura felt Itachi stir and looked down at Itachi. His eyes opened, revealing scarlet eyes before Sakura and Inner let him wake up.
Sakura opened her eyes to find her hands cut up and bleeding. Tsunade was healing them as Mikoto watched. Then Itachi woke up. Sakura felt a little light headed and laid down when Tsunade moved to Itachi.
"Oh, Itachi!" Mikoto cried. "I thought we'd lost you!"
'I'm glad he's better,' Sakura thought to herself. 'You did a good job, Inner.'
'I know.'
Itachi's head snapped up and he looked at Sakura.
'Why is he looking at me like that?' Sakura asked Inner.
'Probably because he can read our thoughts now.'
Sakura froze and looked at him with wide eyes.
'What is the meaning of this?' Itachi's voice vibrated throughout Sakura's head.
'Inner, are you fucking kidding me!?' Sakura snapped at Inner.
'Both of you, calm down. It's one of the side-effects of healing his mind.'
Many things ran through Sakura's mind but it was cut short when Fugaku re-entered the infirmary. He growled as his eyes locked on Sakura. Her eyes widened as she dodged under his strikes like it was a dance.
"You're welcome, Itachi. Bye!" She called quickly before darting out of the room, laughing.
Sakura went to her class.
'Does that mean I'll hear his thoughts as well as you, Inner?' Sakura asked.
'Yup.'
'Fan-fucking-tastic.'