Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad you all liked it. If any of you didn't like it, I sincerely apologize. This is only the second story I've written for and the third story I've written in my life. It's harder than it looks.

Thanks for all your patience with me. Suggestions are always welcomed.

It was their second day of traveling. At the pace they were going, they would reach Grass tomorrow in the afternoon. Having set up camp a while ago, the Akatsuki members had just finished dinner.

"I'm still hungry!!" Kisame whined.

Sakura sighed. "I won't get any sleep with his stomach growling tonight."

"There's an apple tree right there. Go get some to eat," Sakura said.

Kisame turned and saw said apple tree.

"Hey, Pinky, stand under the tree and catch the apples that fall," Kisame said.

"Fine," Sakura said.

The two walked over to the tree and Sakura stood underneath it while Kisame stood by the trunk and started to shake the tree.

By the fire, Itachi watched with a bored expression on his face.

A few minutes later, Sakura arms will practically full of apples, yet Kisame was still shaking the tree.

"Oi! Isn't this enough?!" Sakura asked.

"Just one more apple," Kisame said.

"Just leave it," Sakura replied.

"No, I won't be full," Kisame responded.

Just as Sakura was about to retort that one apple hardly made a difference, the apple fell…right onto Sakura's head. Since the apple had fallen from a tall branch, it hit her head rather hard, though she showed no sign of pain.

Kisame had a look of disbelief on his face. Itachi had no expression on his face, but his eyes held a look of amusement. Sakura's face was blank.

Suddenly, Kisame blankly said, "It fell on your head." Not a moment after, he started laughing. Sakura glared at him and started to advance on him. Kisame walked backwards and his back was against a tree. Sakura was about six feet in front of him.

"Now, now, Pinky, it was an accident," Kisame started.

Sakura ignores him and exclaimed, "It fell?! That's all you can say?!"

"No!" Kisame replied, "I said it fell on your head."

Sakura had a murderous look on her face and just as she was about to gut him and serve him to the fishes in the stream nearby, Itachi interrupts, "Enough. Kisame, you have first watch."

With those words said, Itachi leaned up against a tree and closed his eyes. Sakura also went to a nearby tree, but before she went to sleep, she checked to make sure the apple hadn't done any damage. After making sure that there wasn't more than just a bump, Sakura closed her eyes and fell asleep within minutes.

A seven year old girl with pink hair was running after a group of children her age. She had been eating a bowl of strawberries when a boy had grabbed it. The boy was Sasuke. He and some other kids teased her about her hair color and her big forehead. She had wanted to cry, but remembered her mother telling her to ignore it. They'll leave her alone if she did.

So, following her mother's advice, the little girl ignored them and continued to enjoy her tasty treat.

However, it seemed that Sasuke didn't like to be ignored. He grabbed her bowl of strawberries and ran, the rest of the group following him.

Sakura had also given chase. She wanted her strawberries!

Sasuke stopped running somewhere in the forest. Sakura finally caught up, panting.

"Ha ha, look at her! She can't even keep up! So pathetic," a boy remarked.

Sakura ignored him and looked at Sasuke. "Please give me back my strawberries," she said.

"Hmm, what if I don't want to? What if I decide to leave on one of the branches of these trees?" Sasuke asked a cruel smirk on his face.

"Please, give it back," Sakura pleaded, hoping that he wouldn't put it in a tree.

Sasuke seemed to think for a second before his face became a cruel smirk. He leapt up onto a small branch and continued to go higher until he was about thirty feet above the ground. Setting the bowl of strawberries on the branch he was standing on, he slowly made his decent to the ground; jumping down on one branch, then to the other.

Sasuke sneered before he said, "You want it so bad, go get it!" With that, he and the rest left, laughing.

Sakura felt like crying, but she held her tears back. She was a big girl now and would not cry, but a tear slide down her cheek. She wiped it away and tried to jump on the branches like Sasuke did.

She didn't succeed. It was too high for her. Since Sasuke was taller than her by a few inches, he could reach them easily, but Sakura was short and could barely touch the branch with her fingertips when she jumped.

After a few more failed attempts, Sakura opted to climb the tree. She managed to climb ten feet before stopping to regain some of her breath. Looking up, she saw the bowl of strawberries twenty feet up.

She continued to climb.

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Itachi had just returned from a mission when he saw his younger brother and his friends running out of the forest. They seemed to be laughing.

Paying it no mind, he continued on his way to give the Hokage his report.

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Itachi walked out of the Hokage's office. He was walking towards his house and was about to turn a corner when he heard the voice of his brother say, "I bet she's still in the forest. She's so stupid."

Itachi was curious as to what his brother was talking about. Deciding to find out, he headed towards the forest.

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Sakura panted. She had finally reached the branch. Now, all she had to do was crawl towards the bowl of strawberries, grabbed it and jump down the branches. It was easier said that done.

Summing up her courage, Sakura started to crawl, all the while chanting, "I will not look down," in her head.

Just as she grabbed the bowl of strawberries, she felt and heard the branch crack. Trying her best to get off the branch, Sakura felt the branch snap. Sakura screamed.

Her face was going to meet the ground and no one was around to save her. Closing her eyes, Sakura briefly prayed to whatever God was out there to save her.

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Itachi had been in the forest for a few minutes at most when he spotted something pink and it was moving. Deciding to get closer, he saw it was a little girl. She was reaching for a bowl, and had just grabbed it when the branch broke.

He ran towards her…and reached her just in time.

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Sakura opened her eyes. She didn't feel her face connect with the ground, but a pair of arms cradling her. Looking up, she saw crimson eyes. After staring at her savior's eyes for a moment, she felt herself being set down on the ground.

She looked up again and saw that this person resembled Sasuke.

"Thank you," she said a smile on her face "I'm Haruno, Sakura. What's your name?"

The boy looked at her smiling face for a brief moment before responding, "Uchiha, Itachi."

Sakura woke up to someone shaking her shoulder. She looked up into crimson eyes.

It was Itachi.

"Yes?" Sakura asked.

"It's your watch," Itachi told her.

"Okay."

Itachi returned to the tree he had been sleeping against while Sakura went to sit on a high branch in a tree.

"What was that dream just now? I remember that day, but I don't remember Itachi. I thought I climbed down that tree myself. How does Itachi fit it? Everything went as I remembered except the parts of Itachi and me falling from the tree. Could that dream have been what actually happened? If it was, is it a memory of mine?" Sakura wondered. She turned her head to the side and found herself facing Itachi. His eyes were closed and he looked to be asleep.

"I wonder if I should ask him if he remembers saving a younger me. If it's true, I don't even think he'll remember me. If it's not true, he'll probably just look at me and think I'm crazy. Seriously, who would go up to an S-class criminal and ask, 'Hi, I was just wondering if you remembered saving me when I was seven? You know, when I was falling from a tree and about to land smack on my face?' God, that sounds so retarded, but I want to know if it really was a memory. Would he even answer me? This is giving me a headac-"

"Oi!" Kisame shouted.

Sakura jumped at the sound. She was about to turn and yell at Kisame, but realized that she wasn't very stable on the branch. Trying to catch herself before she fell on the ground, Sakura summoned chakra to her hands, hoping to grab onto something.

She did, but the speed of her fall was too great. Her hand slipped off the branch and she continued to fall. Looking around frantically, she saw nothing else to hold onto. Closing her eyes, she braced herself for the incoming greeting with the ground.

"Great! My face is going to be implanted in the ground!" Sakura thought, as she continued to fall.

Well there's another chapter done. I'm so sorry I haven't updated sooner. I had to babysit and I start school soon. I hope this chapter was okay.

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