She needed to calm herself, she thought but how? How could she be calm when trying to explain herself, her past, to criminals who were now important to her. She walked slowly, pacing around the room. She knew they were watching her, specially those red eyes. She finally stopped, she needed to stop acting stupid and just say it.

She sat down in front of them and decided to not look at them, thinking it would be easier. "Two and a half years ago, I did something stupid, I had sex without protection." she started and that got the attention of the organization she now belonged to, "It was only a couple of weeks later when I noticed special changes in my body, and thinking I had caught something during a mission, did a quick check-up, imagine my surprise when I found out I was pregnant. I was so scared." Deidara watched as her eye brows scrunched up and a pained look on her face, he knew about her past, just not with details.

"I had to tell my boyfriend, after all he was the father. And so we decided, well, I decided I'd have my baby, I would never, ever kill such an innocent creature. And so he proposed, I had accepted with hope to start a family, to give a good life to my baby. You know, I always wanted a baby girl," she seemed like she was talking to herself now, "and I got it, I wanted… I loved the baby inside me and I was about six months old when I went to visit my parent's graves, it had been their tenth anniversary death year and Neji went with me, so did his family.

For some reason, his family had accepted me warmly, well, as much as they could, most of them were as cold and cynist as they could be, but they…" she shook her head, and Kisame saw the flicker of pain again, "I was attacked that day, it was actually meant for one of the elders, but instead they got me." her voice was now low, filled with bitterness and pain and sorrow.

"Today… today is, two years ago from today I was attacked and I miscarried Leona." she ended in a whisper and deidara was the first one to get to her, she wiped the tears away and Pein could only watch with anguish, she couldn't perform an abortion because of that. Because of her daughter. He knew that the whole organization would somehow find a respect for her now, she had suffered through so much, just like them.

tears were running silently down her cheeks and she paid no mind to them, even if she wiped them, others would just follow. Itachi watched with a tight jaw, she had never mentioned any of this, but then again… why would she? It was her own right to keep these matters quiet. He watched a bitter smile come to her face, and a gurgle of laugh escaped from her laugh.

"You know, I accepted this mission, and I don't regret it", that earned a shock from all of them, "But I just wished I could have gone to their grave today…" she trailed off and deidara was the first one to kneel beside her, "Hey Sakura-chan, I can go with you if you want, yeah", he offered and her head snapped up. "Will you?" she asked and they could all see her hopeful face, it was hard to say no to such an adorable creature. The missing nin nodded and helped her stand up. "C'mon Sakura-chan, change and we'll go".

Itachi didn't like the way deidara looked at her, and the way Sasori trailed after them was aggravating him too, why had they suddenly gotten feelings for her? She was his, god dammit and they'd need to know that, and thus he walked after them, and waited. Sakura would come out of her room soon and they'd have a little talk.

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She walked in and Dei-chan walked after her, closing the door, she wanted to go, but was unsure if they would go in unseen, after all Neji would be there too, her eyes widened, how stupid of her! Neji couldn't spot her, as far as he knew, she was out in various missions, and she meant to keep it that way. "Maybe I shouldn't go to Konoha, Dei-ch-!" she was cut off by his lips, deidara was kissing her! She pulled away and her look told her off, Deidara was flushing, he bit back the apology, he would not regret kissing her.

He had liked her the minute she had smiled at him, and he found her not only fun, but filled with joy, so much had happened to her and yet she kept on smiling. And he liked that about her very much, but to his displeasure, she backed away and he could see the hurt in her eyes. She did all she could, she ran.

And that's what got him into a very, very messy problem when she ran away from the room, and away from the base, crashing with whoever was in her way, a.k.a. Itachi Uchiha. The afromentioned, saw the hurt and teary eyes that she was using and gave on glare to the flamboyant man in her room, he was touching his lips and that was enough for him.

It disturbed him, no, Itachi Uchiha did not worry about petty things such as Sakura Haruno, even though she was his lover, and he felt an inexplicable tug at his chest whenever he saw the tears, no, that was probably indigestion or some other illness, she'd have to take care of it. Later. When they were alone in her room, the light only being candles and he would kiss her and make her moan and breath heavily while watching from under hi-

He pushed the thoughts for later, Sakura was running away and even though he felt like going with her, he would not chase. Itachi Uchiha was never a man of chasing. Even if it was her they were speaking of, she was just… a friend? No, no one was a friend of his, but that would be resolved later, now he had important matters In his hands, she had left her Akatsuki cloak behind and so he had to go after her, and he found it extremely annoying when Sasori followed, trailed by Deidara and Kisame.

She was not far in front of them, and her direction was clear as crystal, he knew were she would go: Konoha's graveyard, but the question was, would it be the private one on the outsides of Konoha, or would it be the public one? By her speed and direction, he made an accurate note she was heading towards the private, because he would never guess, guessing was for the weak and stupid who were not sure. And Itachi Uchiha always knew.

His eyes narrowed when he felt her stop, something had caught her attention and he was already disliking whoever it was. He blinked, when had he become so.. Possessive with her? He knew better than that, but the answer came to him and he cursed himself for not being to stop those feelings before… he was indeed infatuated with Sakura Haruno.

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She smiled, Juugo? Could it be him? But she frowned when she felt the concealed chakra around him, it was hidden but it was there, and there was more than one! An ambush! She rushed to where he was, and there he was, in the middle of a space, his eyes focused on a small bird, she concealed her chakra like a professional and waited, whoever dared to hurt him would suffer the consequences.

Suddenly, he looked up and pinned her down with one calm stare. He knew she was there and so she walked out, "Hello Sakura-san", he said and she smiled warmly at him, she neared him and felt one of the concealed chakras flare, "Hi Juugo, how are you doing today?" she asked and the questioned man could only think she was very kind, no one really bothered to ask him on an usual basis.

"I'm well, and you, Sakura-san?" she frowned and sighed, he looked at her so calmly it was impossible to feel agitated, "I… I'm not doing as well as I hoped, you see, I'm on my way to visit loved ones." that was all it took, and she saw the mark on his neck, she gently touched it, "Does it still hurt?" she was about to start giving him some warm chakra of hers to ease the pain when she hear a swoosh! through the trees and before she could move, a huge sword was coming her way, she didn't move, instead she lifter her hand and caught it with no problems, but the scowl on her face told her impatience for such toys.

She looked carefully at the sword, "I guess they're finally stopped being cautious", she whispered and with one push, the sword was into the earth, it was heavy as it was but with that little push, it would be very hard to pull out of the hard earth. She blinked slowly, and a small sigh was heard, "Three of them, two males, one female, apparently the one who threw this… toy at me is now hiding behind me and will attack in no less than a few seconds", and she had been right, to Juugo's surprise. Suigetsu attacked the small woman and she didn't even dodge, but Juugo was feeling unseasy about this, Sakura-san was a nice person.

"Suigetsu-san, please don't attack her anymore", he said and Sakura blinked, "You know this man, Juugo-san?" she asked and said man nodded, beside him, he was… distinguished. Sharp teeth, silvery hair but he was young, strong even, and for some reason, he grinned at her. "What a pretty girl here, Juugo, is she like your secret fucking buddy or something?" he said and Sakura refrained from punching him, he was Juugo's friend, and she would be respectful.

"I believe you should respect Juugo-san more, and no, I'm just his friend," she felt Dei-chan's hidden chakra signature, and Sasori's, Itachi's and finally Kisame's too. She smiled, "I have to go, but my guess is that we'll see each other again," she kissed Juugo's cheek and waved bye as she ran off. Unknown to her, that little kiss had sparked many reactions in varied males, all within range of Juugo, poor innocent Juugo.

One of them was Deidara, who just watched in awe as Sakura skipped not towards them, but to Konoha, smart girl, he thought. In case they followed her, she would not lead them to us. Unlike Deidara's complimentary thoughts, Kisame was amused and on contrary to that, Itachi did not like it. At all.

But unaware to all of them, there was one more man who felt the need to smack Juugo's calm face, even though he was his teammate. And that was Sasuke Uchiha, who had just seen her little innocent exchange and her power. Sakura was also causing him distress, and he didn't like it either.

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She hoped through tree branches and she reached her place, the private graveyard that only some of Konoha got the chance to bury their loved ones in. and she was one of them, she did quick seals and her body slowly became invisible, only those with special traits as the Sharingan would see her, and with that, she walked slowly, hell even respectful to those buried under the 6 feet she was now standing on, she stopped in front of her daughter's grave, she knelt down and just stared.

And that's just how Itachi saw her when he arrived at the decaying and yet beautiful graveyard. He almost regretted coming because it was an invasion of privacy, but then again, note the almost, after all he did not regret much. Specially carrying her back to the base after she had passed out after three hours of crying silently in front of Leona's and her parent's grave.

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He watched in some musing of his own as Suigetsu continued to struggle with the sword embedded into the ground, and he said continued because he had been trying so for half an hour now, and it was pissing him off.

"Just get the fucking sword out, Suigetsu." What could that little girl, no, scratch that, woman, yes, she had matured and he could see it, how old was she now? Twenty maybe? He thought so, because he had turned twenty himself not long ago, not that his current teammates knew of it. He glared at nothing, why had she kissed Juugo? And why did he seem so calm about it? He would never let any of this bother him if not for the fact that Juugo was being useless at the time, just sitting there, looking at the direction in which Sakura had ran off an hour or so ago. She wasn't the same girl who had confessed to him, she wasn't the same weak girl who needed his protection, she had no ties on him now. And for some reason, he felt like extra weight was on his shoulders, guilt and his own curiousness some of it.

He motioned for Karin to help Suigetsu, and with some reluctance she did, because he asked, he had learnt that even though she was a good chakra tracer, she was a big fan girl . And while he hated that, he would use it at his advantage now, she would start a fight with Suigetsu and that would give him the perfect opportunity of speaking briefly to Juugo. He walked to him and just stared down at him, he was looking different today, "How do you know her?" he asked, there was no point in hiding his interest and Juugo knew it.

"Miss Sakura helped me not too long ago, she said she was my friend and that, she said she cared", Juugo's calm face erupted into a small frown, "I thought I would never see miss Sakura again", Sasuke didn't like that, he just left and scouted the area, trying to distract himself from his wondering thoughts, why was she all the way here? Wasn't she supposed to be in Konoha…?

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She scowled in her sleep, and the warmth that he was providing was pulling away, she fisted her hands on his cloak and he just looked down on her, she was still in his arms even though they had arrived about ten minutes ago. She had been so fragile, and this was the woman who had managed to lure him into traps, he had been defeated by the very same girl who was now sleeping in his arms, on his bed.

He looked down on her again, his Sharingan eyes capturing every single detail, from the small freckle on the side of her right eye, to the very green color of those mentioned, her small nose held elegance and innocence, she was in a way, beautiful. She was like a doll, a fragile glass doll who would be tainted by his hands.

He pursed his lips at that one, she was more than tainted, he had thought about the matter for a while now, and even though she was so mad, he didn't blame her. Everyone in this organization had a past, they had something they had been trying to hide. And her secret was just as painful as the others, but he still couldn't believe this was the very same girl who had bared a child. She looked too angelical.

Her nose rubbed against his cloak and she frowned, he let her go just enough time to pull of the aforementioned piece of clothing and he just remained in a net shirt with a black and simple shirt on it. She cuddled to him and his hand automatically went to her pink tresses. One would think that in such organization, a beauty like this would not exist, and yet there she was.

Just resting like a child in its mothers arms, and he pulled her closer, if she was going to sleep, mind as well he should too. He accommodated her as carefully as he could on the side of his bed while he did the same. She ended up turning around and hiding her face in his chest, he blinked. No other woman had ever done that, he wouldn't lie, he hadn't been too innocent himself, but she looked so precious to him now, he promised himself he would take care of her.

Itachi Uchiha had just found someone worth the while, and he wasn't going to let go as easily as the others. He smirked as his own lips kissed the top of her head, he chuckled, she had no idea what she had gotten into.