Chapter 3

"A-Akatsuki !?" Ino gasped.

"What's this? No happiness at all to see us?" Deidara made a sad face looking at Ino."Oh well, it's not like it matter, as you will soon be on your way to graveyard. Huh? What's that behind you?"

"N-Nothing." Ino stepped in front of the bed so that no one could see Sakura's face.

"Such long pink hair. Huh? Pink?" Deidara took a short glance at Tobi and returned his attention back to the girls. "Step aside blondie." Kisame ordered.

"N-No. I am not goint to let you hurt Sakura." even though Ino was shiverring she could not let them do anything to her friend.

"If you don't step aside we'll kill you. So which one do you prefer?" this time Sasori was the one to speak. Itachi and Tobi kept silent as they watched Ino protect Sakura from their view.

"Then I would rather die fighting than let you touch Sakura." After saying this a short while no one said anything. 1 second later a strong blow threw Ino out of the way straight to the wall. It hurt like hell being thrown away like that and she thought that she had no chance of resisting them.

"Stay...away from her." Ino attempted to get up from the ground but in vain.

"Is this the one Itachi?" Tobi asked looking at him.

"Hn...Haruno Sakura, a kunoichi from Village of the Leaf." Itachi said bored. "The other one must be Ino Yamanaka. From what I know she can control one's body. As for Sakura I haven't noticed any special abilities beside healing."

"Well at least she's pretty, just like the blondie there."

"Please...don't hurt...Sakura." with this Ino fainted and fell on the ground.

"Meh...No worries blondie. No one is going to hurt you." With a smile on his face Deidara picked Ino and Kisame took Sakura. Only a few seconds later after Kisame picked Sakura, he felt Samehada quite happy.

"Huh? What the actual..." Kisame said.

"What is it?" Tobi asked.

"Samehada quite likes this girl. I mean it is quite taken with her chakra. As if she's a vesel full of chakra. Hey Itachi...Are you sure she doesn't have some kind of special abilities?" Kisame looked at Itachi's bored face.

"Nothing that I know about." Itachi continued his walk ahead with the other members through the dark corridor until they reached a circular room leading to 7 other doors.

"Itachi, can I have a word with you?" Tobi asked.

"Hn..." his reply said enough that he was not really in the mood to talk about anything.

"Meet me in 10 minutes outside."

"Should we tag along also?" Sasori looked at Tobi with a questioning look.

"No. I want to talk only to Itachi."

"Alrighty, then I am going now. See ya later." he give a short sign to the others and left.

"Ok. So what should I do about this one here? Should I take her to the prison chamber?" Kisame asked.

"No. Take her to Itachi's wing. She will be staying there for a while. Deidara, you get the other at your place. And be on watch. We don't want any unwanted guests."

"Roger. Going now." Deidara and Kisame disappeared at the same time in thin air.

"Alright. Let's walk for a bit." Tobi continued and Itachi following along.

"Hn..."

"Do you know them?" Tobi's question came out of the blue.

"Not much. The blonde one I recall she was in Asuma's team. The other, she was with my brother in the same team. Kakashi's. She's also...the one who killed Sasuke. Talking about this, she has his sharingan."

"W-What?" Itachi didn't know he got Tobi by surprise.

"The Sharingan cannot be taken just as easily. You have to be an Uchiha to be able to have it. Any other person having it, it would be a strain on the eyes. Maybe that's why she had fallen."

"Hn..."

"So? What do you plan on doing with her?"

"She's called death upon herself."

"I thought you would say that. But let her live a few more days. We're in need of her medical powers."

Itachi kept staring at Tobi for quite a long while, when he decided to accept his deal.

"She will live. But only until I say so."

"Alright. Dismissed then." Itachi gave Tobi a nod and left the hall. On his way to his side of the hideout he kept recalling the latest events. Itachi arrived at his place and was about to enter his room when he saw Kisame getting out.

"She's still unconscious, but don't let your guard down." Itachi spared Kisame a short glance before entering his room.

"Oh well. Who am I talking to? See you in a few days. I've got a personal mission I gotta take care of."

Itachi entered the room only to find the pink haired kunoichi laid on his bed resting without a clue that he was there staring at her. He could kill her any moment but he didn't. It was his choice to let her live for a while longer. Maybe he would find out why she would kill the one she liked for so many years. Itachi found himself walking towards the desk near the window to write a message to someone.

"W-What...W-Where..." Sakura was mumbling as she began to woke up. Itachi only spared him a short glance then he returned back to his message. He summoned a crow and whispered something to it before it flew on the window.

"Where...am I?" She asked around.

"My room." Itachi's voice sounded in darkenss.

"Your...what?" Sakura without minding the pain in her body, she jumped in bed holding her left side with her hand as she kept watching Itachi.

"Do you always ask a lot of questions?"

"What...Where is Ino?" Sakura was being carefull not to let herself show emotions. She didn't want Itachi to believe she feared him, as it was the pure truth.

"She's with Deidara." Itachi answered before he finally looked at her.

"If he touches any string of hair of hers, you are all going to die by my hands." Sakura was trying to warn him, but she noticed it didn't work on him. As soon as she said this, Itachi disappeared and reappeared behind her holding a kunai at her throat.

"You're not really in place to warn anyone Haruno." he said in a rough voice.

"It's been a long time since I was last called that." Sakura answered with a low voice not wanting Itachi to hear. However he heard.

"You're now living only because of Tobi. If it wasn't for him to let you live a little while longer, you wouldn't be here now. So try to behave."

"You might as well kill me now. It doesn't matter if I live or die." Sakura looked straight into Itachi's eyes and held his stare for a good minute without any of them saying anything. It was as if he was trying to read her mind but he couldn't. "And I am not weak. Keep that in mind."

"You're the same Haruno Sakura. The weak little girl between Naruto and Sasuke always the one left behind." these words stirred some old memories in Sakura's mind making her think about the old times.

"It's true that I have always been trying to calm the spirits between the two of them and I always felt left behind."

"Even when Sasuke abandoned you to pursue his want for power to defeat me?"

"Even then. But I was the one who let him leave, without moving an inch to stop him. Because I knew that he would not come back to me if you were still alive. However I still tried to somehow make him understand some facts that he didn't know about. For example the truth behind the murder of Uchiha Clan." the last statement made Itachi take a step back pulling his kunai from her throat.

"What do you mean?"

"This was my plan all along. To get into Akatsuki and have a talk with you. If it meant making you think that you're capturing me for real for being weak, then I did it. Though I didn't want to get Ino involved. But I want to make things right. So...if you release Ino I will stay here however much you want me to. My freedom for Ino's." Itachi looked at her as if he was just splashed with cold water.

"And what makes you think that we'll release both of you?"

"Because Itachi, I can always escape from here, but I don't want anything to happen to Ino. She's my best friend. So release her, and I will stay here instead of her."

"What reassurance do I have that you will not escape afterwards?"

"Because once I make a promise then I stand by my word. I am not going to run away or anything of the sort. Itachi, I will also tell you why I killed Sasuke." when Sakura made the last statement she felt a kind of pain she never felt before. "But you have to believe me. I need you to believe me."

"Maybe in death. But not even there." after his answer Sakura knew that she couldn't hope to gain his thrust.

"Very well Itachi. As you wish. I guess then this is the end of discussion." Sakura knew when she was defeated in an argument and let the subject off. She also noticed that her chakra was low when she saw the string of chakra going from her to Itachi. "So you are planning to let me die now?"

"Not yet. Just wondering how much chakra you have left."

"I will never be left without chakra. It is in my blood that chakra is reffiling every second never depletting."

Sakura went towards the wall near the door and leaned on the wall and almost fell asleep when she heard the sound of his voice.

"You can take the bed if you want. You're going to freeze to death down there." A few seconds passed and Sakura was long asleep. Itachi decided that it was also a long day for him and he fell asleep instantly in his bed. A few hours later he could hear some murmurs from the door side. He noticed it was Sakura mumbling in her sleep.

"Wait...Don't leave me alone...here..." Itachi waited until he thought she would stop mumbling, when he noticed that she was sweating. He went towards the door and touched her face with the back of his palm. She was burning up as she was having a very high fever. At one point Itachi also thought that she might have been dead from the fever, that high it was. He picked her up and put her on the bed. He removed the string of chakra made to keep hers low so that she wouldn't have enough to attack him when he slept.

"Itachi...Understand..." when he heard his name, Itachi thought about what she could be reffering to in her nightmare.

"What is there to understand?" he asked himself. A small tear rolled on Sakura's cheek as she seemed to fall out of her nightmare and her breath began to be regulate itself. "Still you're the one who killed him. So you will suffer." Itachi whispered.

Chapter 3 is up I finished it yey What do you think about it?