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Sakura: Age 17

Itachi: Age 22

Sasuke: Age 18

Mikoto: Age 35

Tsunade: Age 45

Naruto: Age 18

Hinata: Age 17

First Person View (Sakura's) – Italic Letters

Tsunade speaking/ Memories – Bold Letters

Story Normal Point of View- Normal Letters

Chapter 2: Afternoon Stroll

That was when it finally hit me who he was . . . my heart stopped beating out of fear at that moment when I realized who I was dealing with. My body went numb, and my mind was running a lot of questions. . . I finally had the air and mind power to whisper his name, which brought satisfaction to his face.

"Itachi . . . Price . . . Itachi Uchiha . . ."

Itachi only smirk with satisfaction, but in reality he was beaming with delight in his mind. She did remember. He stood up and headed towards the door, opened it and left.

Sakura heard a click and then silence. He must of have locked the door, Sakura thought, with a grunt she climbed of the bed and began to explore the room. It was a simple room but regardless it was no dungeon. The bed was a simple straw mattress bed that was used on prisoners, and on the left side of the room was a small crate being used as a nightstand and a torn up couch against the wall in the center of the room. There were two small openings in the walls that could be classified as windows. There were also two doors in the room. The one Itachi had walked out of and another unidentified one. Sakura walked up to the door an opened it slowly. The room was dark, moist and small. She reached in and found a candle lit on. On the right side of the small room was a wall torch ready to be lit.

She lifted the lit candle with her small hand and lit the torch up, lighting the entire room revealing a washroom/bathroom; with great disappointment she closed the door. Sakura sighted with defeat; there was no way for her to escape. Slowly she traveled back to the sofa and laid back as she waited for someone to notice she was gone and try to rescue her.

'Like if they would want to rescue you . . . after all you are only a mere peasant girl adopted by a rich powerful queen . . . I am no royalty . . . I have no value' Sakura's face became dark and stiffen with fright. She didn't want to stay in this place . . . she was scared . . . but what scared her the most was that she wasn't afraid of not being rescued she was a afraid of something more dark . . . she was afraid to fall in love with the savage of a man. Before she could shudder in fear she hears the door unlock, and Itachi walked in with a tray of food for her.

She looked up at him with great confusion; for her meal was not dry bread and water. It was three slices of ham, a piece of soft warm bread, and a side bowl of rice and soup. To her delight he brought her a bit of wine to accompany her meal.

"Eat up, were going to go somewhere soon, so hurry up!" Sakura only nodded she was confused she didn't now what to think. Itachi didn't leave like she hoped he stayed there staring at her food. Without a second thought Sakura tried to start a conversation.

"Why did you kidnap me?" No response.

"Where are we?" Again there was no response.

"Itachi . . . have you eaten?" That caught his attention slightly; as he responded a low no. Sakura only nodded and went back to eating. This guy was hopeless; he didn't respond and when he did he did respond he only responded closed answer questions…

'Sigh' he's worst than Sasuke.

"I didn't know it at that time, but as I found out later was that the food he have gave me to eat . . . was his own meal. I was so shocked of course; and the more he was nice to me it made me realize how much I had fallen for the guy, but there was something that completely made me realize how much I really loved him . .."

"What is it Sakura? What happened, what did he do????"

"Well that's easy . . . he recreated the day we got stuck in the woods"

Right after Sakura drank the last of her wine, and chewed the last of her meal; Itachi quickly stood up and began to pull her. He exited the room, holding her hand gently but firmly. They went out the front door of the old abandon cabin and headed towards the woods. Sakura's bare feet felt the difference between the dry wood floors, stone cold floor of the front of the cabin, from the moist, fresh, wet grass. She felt that she dragged for hours until finally he stopped.

Sakura Stared in amazement. The view in front of her was breath-taking. Miles away from her stood a huge waterfall connecting with the river. Along side the waterfall was a Cherry Blossom's groove, and as the wind gently blew towards the east it guided a few pedals into the running river; some even danced gently to the eternal melody that the wind played.

Her gaze quickly switched over the mysterious man that had brought her there. Itachi stood up from the rock he was leaning on and then he quickly removed his cloak and walked towards the river and sat there watching the waterfall in silence. Sakura called out to the man but there was no respond.

"I called out to him a second time. He slightly turned and smiled or smirked at me, with his hand he motioned me to come and sit by him. Now that I that I think about it Tsunade-sama; Itachi was never a man of many words. He always showed his emotions trough words. . ."

"Sakura . . ."

Sakura obeyed his command afraid to deny the criminal; but somehow she knew he wouldn't harm her; and he had proven that more than once to her. Also, although she knew that he was a criminal; she didn't' feel anything; as if he hadn't of killed them.

"This is my favorite thinking place . . ." He whispered as a sat down next to his then he went back to staring at the large body mass of water; deep in tough. 'I wonder what he's thinking off . . .' Sakura sighted . . .

FLASHBACK

"Itachi-san . . . it is quite a coincidence that we are engaged, don't you agree?" Sakura asked as she walked into the forest, ahead of the older Uchiha. He only nodded his head showing a bit of boredom on the conversation.

"I never been into the forest during my afternoon stroll, I'm usually walking trough the over crowded town dressed as a peasant!" Sakura kept on talking and Itachi nodding his head once in a while.

Suddenly he stopped, and looked around his surroundings. He didn't recognize this path in the forest . . .

'Great not again . . . I'm always lost in thought I didn't notice we left the actual path!!!!!!!!' With great dismay he kept fallowing the bubble-gum hair colored woman.

"Look Itachi-san, it's a pond!!!!" Sakura screamed as she ran towards it and sat by the bank with a smile, waving Itachi to come over. He quietly walked towards keeping an eye on her back that he didn't notice the medium size rock. Tripping over it he launched forward pushing the quite princess in the water.

Laughter ran trough the pond as Sakura emerged. By the edge Itachi was laughing softly, cover in dirt. Sakura glared at him and grabbed his shoe pulling him into the small pond as well. Now both were laughing and splashing water at each other; never noticing the sun was slowly setting in the horizon.

(End of FLASHBACK)

He stayed in deep though for well over an hour, until I had a brilliant idea. . . I pushed him into the water. When he emerged he gave me a glare; smiled and pulled in with him. I remember clearly that we played for hours as well. When the sun was completely down he got off the pond and pulled me out with him.

The sun had settled hours ago and the temperature had dropped drastically. When he pulled Sakura out of the pond Itachi walked back to the rock where he had his cloak. He removed his wet shirt and began to dry it. He heard a soft cough, reveling Sakura behind him shivering with cold.

He walked up to me with his cloak in hand. He took of my wet clothes, leaving me in my under garments, then he wrapped me with his cloak. My eyes widen in shock when he picked me up bridal style and slammed his lips into mine. . . I felt my heart would melt. I didn't know why but I enjoyed it and I wished he would have never parted from my lips but he did.

"I think we should go back to the cabin and get changed, Ita-kun . . ." Sakura exclaimed as she blushed madly. Itachi only nodded as he began to walk back to the cabin with the shivering princess in his arms.

"That is my favorite place to think . . . I discovered it back a few years ago." He said softly.

I nodded with a smile and then cuddled into his arms . . . I never felt so comfortable. Sadly the moment had to end. When we arrived at the cabin I began to panic as my eyes gazed upon two shadowy figures standing in the middle of the room. They had a deadly aura around them.

Itachi looked ahead at the figures with a deadly glare, "It's been a while Itachi-san"

To be continued . . .

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