Note: I know this seems really confusing right now but I'm going to try and put a lot of little puzzle pieces into this chapter so pay close attention to every little bit of things people say and they think!...don't own Naruto….:*(

Walking back to our group wasn't what I planned it to be. We had recently gotten a new member to the Akatsuki and he had his nose in everyone's business.

Not the best way to make friends in this group.

His name was Richard. He liked to call him-self a ladies man but none of the women in our group enjoyed his company at all. He was more than just slapped and punched. Oh no, the women in our group were much more blood thirsty then just doing that. I'm still shocked at how he keeps trying.

I slowly walked over to our leader. He stayed in the shadows so no one can see his face but I knew him far too well. We are family of course. He could sense Sakura's need to be drained just as much as I could. I hate to say it but he just has more control over that then I do.

Just one look into my eyes and he knew just what I had been up too.

"Have fun on your little walk Itachi?"

I only nodded. I didn't need to explain anything to him.

"Let's move forward then."

Richard stood up and walked over to our leader. He winked at two females on the way.

"Are we there yet?"

I tilted my head to the side…..really?...you're going to ask a childish question like that when you just joined one of the most feared and deadliest groups in the whole world?

"Almost there. We should make it right before the storm starts."

A storm? I hadn't taken notice to the wet feeling in the air before. I looked up at the dark grey sky as I heard it rumble. This would be quite a storm and since it was so ready to pour on us it only meant one thing.

We're almost there.

I hadn't sensed a 'need' like that in far to long.

I walked away from our group and that creep Karin.

As soon as Oroachimaru told everyone that my family was like what human call "vampires" she had been begging me to drink from her every fucking second of every fucking day!

I had given up blood the same time I left the Leaf Village. I don't need it to survive on like the fairytales say today. I could be in any kind of condition, even on my death bed, and if I drank blood I would be put at full strength, and it would heal any wounds I had gotten no matter how bad they were.

I didn't want to depend on blood for my strength. I needed to be able to become strong without it but if I was around her it would be impossible for me. The way her body would burn for me would just drive me crazy with need. If things were different I would have brought her with me when I left the Leaf Village. I had decided a long time ago that she would help me restore my clan.

I slowly felt the need to drain the heat nearby fade. It slowly reduced as my heart beat did. I stopped in my tracks and closed my eyes as I felt the relief of calm rush over me. I looked up at the sky as it began to rumble and wind started blowing.

I knew were that feeling had come from. Had she learned to control it and suppress that heat? She must of. So my leaving had made us both stronger.

I grinned and started to move forward without my group. I had only been running for ten minutes when a huge gate and fence came into view. It was old and made of black metal that looped and moved around gracefully to make the grand gate.

Then I saw her.

Sakura.

She huffed and puffed as she walked straight up to the gate. I couldn't feel any other chakra nearby. She must have come alone, but why would she do that?

I couldn't help but to study the way time had changed her body. She looked like a women now instead of that small helpless girl she was before. She had a perfect hourglass figure and she had regrown her hair out till it reached the bottom of her back.

She wore a small red top that was a belly shirt. In the front there was a white circle that had no cloth on the inside and shown a lot of her cleavage. A little bit south of that she had on small black shorts, and after the valley of her long beautiful smooth legs she had on red high heels…..high heels?...how was she running in those?

I looked up at Sakura's face and saw that she looked very confused. She was looking up at the top of the gate. I fallowed her gaze and made the same face she did. In all the twist and turns of the metal at the very top of the gate there was a circle and inside that circle was a music note.

Were in the Land of Thunder, we're not anywhere near the Sound Village. I lost train of thought when I heard a loud squeaking noise. Sakura had pushed one of the double doors to the gate open just enough so she could get through. I walked as she moved into the gated area and then waited till she was far enough inside that she would not notice me.

I got down out of my hiding place and moved to the gate. I put my hand on the door to push it open some more but it wouldn't budge. I tried harder and the gate almost seemed to be moving towards me rather than away. I stopped pushing and pushed my body to fit through the small slit there was left.

Inside the gate was a tall dark castle. It looked as if no one had lived in it for years. There was a lake in front of the house and a bridge that went over it. As I walked onto the bridge Sakura looked at my direction as she heard my footsteps on the wood.

As we made eye connection a look of pure terror pasted over her face. I wounded what she was looking at behind me to make her look that way. I turned my head to the side and looked behind me but nothing was there.

Then it hit me like a sack of bricks smacking me in the face. She was scared of me. I turned back to see Sakura knocking on the door and trying her best to wait patiently for someone ANYONE to answer the door.

I started to walk towards her and I could feel her body react to my presents. My body became hotter and hotter with every step I took towards her. We never broke eye connection.

As I stepped onto the bottom step of the stoop in front of an old wooden double door to the castle Sakura said the first words she had spoken to me in a long time.

"Stay. Away. From. Me."

She spat every word out with so much venom and hatred that it made me stop in my tracks. I recalled what Sakura's voice use too be like. So sweat and angel like. It was calming and informative all at the same time.

The tone she used with me now was hard to describe, so forceful and cruel but still beautiful and enchanting.

"Why are you here?"

I spoke low and harsh. She had no reason to be so upset with me. I might have left her behind in the Leaf Village that one painful night but she knew why. She also knew I would have come back for her in the end. That's if I didn't die in the battle with my brother of course.

"Don't speak to me either you low life bastard."

I got sick of her attitude real fast and walked up the stairs towards her. I tried my hardest to put her blood out of my mind. It was right next to impossible. Instead of backing away from me like I assumed she would she didn't move. She watched me climb the steps and watch me very carefully.

Then my senses went crazy. I couldn't control myself. I could smell blood. I could smell her blood. My eyes fallowed my nose to Sakura's neck. I hadn't noticed before but she had a red scarf on around it. I reached towards her to remove it as an instinct. My mind ran wild as I graved an end of the scarf and started to unwrap it.

I looked up into her eyes and they were closed tightly. She couldn't fight me off because her body didn't want me to stop touching her but by the look on her face I could tell her mind wanted me to stop.

Fully removing the scarf I let it fall to the ground as I examined her neck. Bite marks and scars covered almost every inch of it. Blood was coming out of a bite mark that had been recently done.

I didn't know what to think. I only just got angry and I could feel my own blood starting to boil.

It wasn't till I went to ask Sakura about the marks did I relieve how close I had leaned into her neck, and that it had begun to pour. I was inches away from her freshly opened wound and we were both soaked already. Lucky for both of us, the rain was washing away a lot of the fresh blood now so I wouldn't be tempted as much.

I jumped back to the bottom of the steps and looked her in the eyes with pure rage.

"Who did this to you!"

She looked at me in the eyes with just as much rage on her face as mine. A flash of lighting and a crash of thunder later and she finally spoke to me.

"Like you fucking care…"

She turned her back to me just as the door cracked open. It made a loud creaking sound that seemed to echo threw out the whole house. An elderly man in a black suit stood at the door.

"Lady Sakura. Master Sasuke. We have been expecting you. Come in."

Sakura bowed to the man and quickly picked up her scarf and wrapped it back around her neck. She moved into the house and out of the rain.

I walked in after her. As Sakura and I moved to the center of the front room the front door slammed and it made Sakura jump close to me as she graved my sleeve.

When she noticed it was only the old man closing the door she took a breath of relief and then noticed that she was hooked onto my shirt.

Her body began to burn and she let go of me but didn't move away.

She couldn't, and I knew why.

So she hadn't learned to control her cravings for me.

Then how did she…

My heart was racing so fast I thought I was about to pass out. This whole encounter with Sasuke was the last thing I needed.

The old man that had let us in turned to us as he stared at me and looked me straight in the eyes.

"Shall I lead you to your rooms?"

Just then someone knocked on the door. Sasuke stiffened next to me. We both knew who was about to walk through that door.

I guess Sasuke felt like he needed to protect me because he stepped in front of me and hid me behind him as the old man went back to the door and opened it.

Members of the Akatsuki flowed into the room. They all had black hoods on so they didn't get wet in the rain. A flash of lighting lit up the room just as he walked in. I knew it was him just by the way he made my body feel.

I couldn't hold back. I needed somewhere I could feel safe and I didn't with Sasuke but with him I knew nothing could harm me.

I pushed Sasuke out of my way and I almost ran up to him. Thunder cracked as soon as I left Sasuke's grasp.

He put down his hood as I approached him and he opened one of him arms. I nestled myself in on his right side and looked up at him as he looked at Sasuke.

I didn't want to look at him. I knew he was going to be angry. No, angry isn't good enough. He was going to hate me, loath me for the rest of my life. He might never talk to me again.

"Shall I show you your rooms as the others arrive?"

The old man questioned. The leader of the Akatsuki jumped right in.

"Yes. Yes. Yes. We wish to rest from our long journey."

The old man led everyone up the stairs, but Sasuke didn't move. I was staring at his feet the whole time. Itachi didn't move either. I figured that they were doing the famous Uchiha glair back and forth at each other.

"Will you wait for the others?"

The old man yelled down the steps. I knew neither of the boys was capable of words at the moment so I looked up and spoke.

"Yes, we will wait for the others."

Itachi's grip around me tightened as the group had left to find their rooms.

I lowered my eyes back to Sasuke's feet as Itachi broke the silence.

"Something on your mind...brother?"

The next thing I knew I was being tossed around like a rag doll. Sasuke graved one of my arms yelling at his older brother but Itachi didn't let me go either.

"What did you do to her you sick bastard?"

They both started pulling on either end of me and it was starting to sting like crazy.

"Everything you failed to do."

The pulling continued until it was a ripping pain I couldn't stand anymore. I yelled out in pain and when both noticed how tight they were holding me they let go. I fell to the floor and clutched my arms.

Both boys kneeled down to see if I was alright but I shrugged both of them off.

"Sakura…"

Sasuke was speaking to me. He was still right next to me when Itachi had gotten up.

"Why him?"

Itachi chucked and stared at his younger brother.

"You know nothing of our people, of our race. You truly are foolish."

Sasuke just looked at me. I was in so much pain at the moment I couldn't even look at him.

"When you left…"

"You do relieve you almost killed her right?"

Itachi jumped in questioning his little brother. Sasuke looked up at him with a questioning face but brought his gaze back to me.

So if he didn't know that he was hurting me should I forgive him for it? Ugh! I was so confused but I decided to still go on with my story.

"When you left I thought the burning would go away with you….but it didn't. A couple weeks after you left the burning slowly built back up again. So I went out looking for you. I ended up passing out somewhere outside the Leaf Village and Naruto brought me back."

Sasuke just continued to stare at me. I noticed how he stiffened when I spoke of Naruto but I pushed it out the side of my mind and went on with the story.

"I started to…bite people…kind of like how you bite me only it wasn't. It made the burning go down some when I felt there blood in my mouth but only a little. It was soon driving me insane and Naruto figured out that something was wrong and demanded that I told him…so I did."

Itachi walked away knowing this story and looked out a window as the storm got more and more

"Naruto and I became a lot closer after that. We told everyone that we were dating so that no one thought much of it when I would ask him to come over my house everyday…and I did…everyday…sometimes twice…Until…Naruto went away on a mission and I couldn't hold on to my sanity anymore. For a week I prayed on different men in the Leaf Village to try and satisfy me. Women just didn't taste right…I was losing my mind. I was in so much pain…that's when Itachi found me."

Sakura turned and faced Itachi as she smiled up at him.

"He saved me from myself."

Itachi put his hand on her shoulder and grinned down at her.

"You give me too much credit my young cherry blossom."

Sasuke shrugged off the 'my' part of that sentence and urged Sakura to go on.

"After Itachi drained me he told me that if I didn't stay with an Uchiha then I was going to go through the same thing over and over again…."

I paused and Itachi got a small smirk on his face.

"So we made a deal….from then on I still drank from Naruto when I really needed it but Itachi always came back to the Leaf to drain me so I wouldn't die."

Just then Naruto busted through the front door, along with most of Oroachimaru's group.

"Geez Naruto you couldn't knock first?"

Ino Pig said as they all almost ran into the front room trying to get away from the storm. As soon as Naruto saw me on the ground he ran over to me and helped me up.

"What did you two monsters do to her?"

He started to get really upset and I knew that was a bad thing so I hugged him and looked him straight in the eyes.

"I'm fine. I promise."

Naruto noticed the red marks on both of Sakura's arms and rubbed them as the old man came back down the steps.

"You all wish to have the ring of wishes?"

"Believe it we do!"

I couldn't help but to smile at Naruto. He was still the same little boy he had always been in some ways.

"I'll show you to your rooms."

Everyone in the room moved to the top of the steps and threw a double door at the top.

Naruto still being upset over the way he found me when he walked in wrapped an arm around my waist like the fake over protective boyfriend he always was.

"Will you two be sharing a room?"

He was looking straight at me and Naruto. I started shaking my head no but Naruto's over protective side could always be accounted on.

"Yes. This is my girlfriend and we normally stay together."

I looked up at him as the old man walked a bit more down the hall.

"Naruto what the fuck are you doing?"

I whispered under my breath as Itachi walked up behind me. He seemed to be blocking Sasuke's view of me but right now I couldn't care less about them two.

"Like I'm going to leave you alone at night with them blood sucking fuckers around."

The old man stopped and looked at us.

"This is a queen sized bed room. Will this fit all our needs?"

Naruto nodded his head yes as he pulled me into the room after him. I turned around at the door way to thank the man.

"Thank you for everything sir."

"It's my job Lady Sakura. Tomorrow morning breakfast will be ready for all of you and the master will join you all then."

I nodded at him in thanks for the information. Tomorrow the games would truly begin the fight for the ring of wishes.

Just as the door closed I noticed two Uchiha boys staring at me just as the door clicked…..how am I ever going to do this?

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