Wow, warm fuzzies! You guys are so nice! I've gotten so many kind reviews and I appreciate all the support!

Okay, enough with the sappyness. This chapter only has the people in the Akatsuki. It starts out funny, (Which reminds me. I've gotten enough support on the funnyness, and my writing wouldn't be the same without it, so I have decided to keep the humor!) but there is some definate ItachiXSakura at the end. Don't look ahead, though, it'll ruin it!

So, read on!

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6pm, Akatsuki Hideout

Sakura was getting very bored, being a prisoner of the Akatsuki. All she ever did was look at the ceiling and twiddle her thumbs. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

That's why, when Itachi knocked on her door around dinnertime, she was lying on her bed, reciting all the swear words she knew in alphabetical order. Meh, it entertained her, at least for a short while.

"Let's see… D… Umm... Well, there's damn..."

Knock! Knock!

Sakura jumped up, blushing slightly. When she saw that it was Itachi, she scowled.

"What do you want?" Sakura choked out, staring daggers at the Uchiha.

Itachi, though inwardly dismayed by her hostility, gazed calmly back at the konoichi.

"You will be dinning with us tonight."

Sakura, forgetting to scowl for a moment, gaped at him.

"N-no way!" she sputtered.

"You do not have a choice. Although… I suppose you could eat with Deidara. But I do love your witty conversation," Itachi said dryly.

Sakura realized that he was being sarcastic, but she also recognized the threat behind Itachi's words.

It was no hard choice between Deidara and Itachi. Deidara would probably rape her. Thinking this, Sakura shuddered, and followed Itachi meekly out of the room.

Kisame, Deidara, and Tobi were already seated when prisoner and jailer reached the dinning room.

Sakura sat down next to Kisame, and Itachi sat down next to her, at the head of the table.

Kisame grinned at Sakura.

"Good evening. Hope you like fish," he said warmly. Sakura looked down at her plate. Some sort of fish was delicately arranged with a salad and a dinner roll. There was even wine to drink.

"What's the special occasion?" Sakura asked, bewildered by the elegance of the meal.

"Meh. It was Kisame-sama's turn to cook," Tobi shrugged. "His meals are always delicious, but they're also always fish." He sounded disappointed.

Sakura shot Kisame a sarcastic 'How despicable!' look, who shrugged and grinned widely, showing off his array of impressively sharp teeth.

"Well… Dig in!" Kisame instructed, doing just that.

Later, Tobi would wet the bed thinking about it, and Deidara lost his appetite. Even Kisame never looked at Sakura the same after he saw her eat.

Only Itachi was unaffected, Sakura's rabid display of consumption actually endearing her to him.

It went like this: Sakura would take one look at the food in front of her, and shove it into her mouth like there was no tomorrow. She ate twice as much as Kisame normally did, and that's saying something. I mean, come on. Sakura had sixths.

Deidara remarked (Above the garbage disposal-like roar of Sakura gorging herself.) that she acted as if she hadn't eaten in a week, but really, she hadn't.

After dinner, (Or what could more accurately described as Sakura shoving large quantities of food into her mouth while the Akatsuki watched with disgusted expressions.) the five of them just talked.

Sakura started out by saying she hadn't trained in a while. Deidara leered at her, saying she could train with him, all the while smirking evocatively.

Itachi, who had thoroughly had enough of Deidara hitting on Sakura, threatened to tie his intestines into a knot, while still inside of his digestive track, which effectively killed the somewhat cheerful mood.

Luckily, Tobi was soon drunk, having a low alcohol-tolerance level, and started telling dirty jokes. Sakura found herself blushing quite a few times, but she still laughed along with the others. She almost enjoyed herself.

Sadly, Itachi soon cut her dinner time short and escorted Sakura back to her room.

As he was shutting the door, Sakura said suddenly, "Wait!"

She had to settle something.

Itachi came back in. "What is it?"

Sakura didn't know how else to say it, so she decided to just skip to the point.

"Y-you're Hideo," she stuttered.

Itachi froze. He then shut the door behind him. "Yes," he said simply.

"You lied to me!"

Itachi shook his head. "What did you want me to say? Hello, my name is Uchiha Itachi, and even though I killed your best friend, I still love you?!"

Sakura was stunned. "You love me?" she asked timidly.

"You're so clueless and innocent!" Itachi raised his voice slightly, to his equivalent of yelling.

Sakura shrunk down on the bed.

"I knew that no matter who you were you would hate me if I told you who I was. I knew that no matter what you said you wouldn't love me if you found out. And I knew that no matter what happened we could never be together." Itachi closed his eyes in anguish. "But I couldn't stop myself."

Sakura shook her head. "You knew all that and you still told me you loved me?"

Itachi sat down next to her on the bed. Sakura did not shrink away.

"I was already in too deep. I figured I was going to drown either way."

"Why were you even online that day?" Sakura asked.

Itachi sighed. "Kisame, that bastard, talked me into it. But I never expected that anything could lead to this."

Sakura found herself nodding. She knew all too well how out of hand things had gotten.

The Uchiha genius looked at her. Sakura saw the pain in her eyes and alost felt sorry for him.

"I thought that, eventually, you would see me, the really me from on the computer, but I can see that's impossible. I've done too many wrongs against you to expect forgiveness," Itachi stated, without a trace of self-pity. It was no good feeling sorry for himself.

Sakura leaned closer to him. "All I want is to go home."

"I wish I could take you home." Itachi said wistfully. "But Leader would kill both of us if he found out. You know too much. Moreover, that dirty sneak Deidara would rat me out for sure."

A look of hopelessness glazed Sakura's eyes with tears, and one escaped her will and trickled down her cheek.

"Please… please don't cry." Itachi took her head in his large hands. Sakura looked up. Her heart beating in her chest, she finally saw the man who had told her he loved her.

"I can't bear to see you sad…" Itachi whispered, then, softly, he kissed her cherry-red lips. They tasted sweet and perfect, and Itachi only reluctantly broke the kiss.

"I shouldn't have done that…" he mumbled, and rushed out the door. Before the lock clicked into place, Itachi saw Sakura touch her lips in awe.

"Did he just… kiss me?"

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Yup, it's definately the apocalypse.

So, finally a SakuraXItachi moment. Did you all enjoy it? Well, get the popcorn out, cuz there's plenty where that came from!

Also, I've decided that I'm updating on Mondays and Thursdays. That should keep you demanding readers satisfied, and yet give me enough time to actually write the chapters.

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