Sasuke walked into Sakura's apartment. What the hell did I do? he asked himself.
Unfortunately "he" answered. Oh, it's quite simple really, YOU SOUNDED JUDGEMENTAL, BAKA-TEME! You probably made her feel like you didn't like it.
I thought I got rid of you… Sasuke thought.
Stupid, you can't get rid of a part of yourself, no matter how hard you try. You can repress it, but it always remains, that's how the memory jutsu you learned from Orochimaru works, remember?
Yeah, I remember, but I wish I didn't. Sasuke mumbled.
He walked upstairs. He could feel her chakra signature in her room, so he walked in to apologize, but he found her sleeping instead. As he was about to close the door behind him, he heard a startled gasp and turned around as her chakra flared. What he saw wasn't an angry, awake, Sakura, instead he found a sleeping Sakura with a scrunched up forehead.
She's having a bad dream…he thought to himself. Wait, what do I care?
You should care, because you know it and I know it, his inner said.
Know what? he asked.
If you don't know, I am not telling, and with that, his inner stalked over to the only non-emo place in Sasuke's mind: the Not-emo corner, which was about the size of a nickel.
Sasuke sighed as Sakura bit her lip and nearly screamed, he couldn't just leave her like that. She looked as if she were having a very vivid nightmare, and he would never be able to handle it if he woke up to hear her crying. He sat on the edge of her bed and rubbed her back, since she had rolled over onto her stomach.
"Shhh…" he said, still rubbing her back. As if sensing him there, Sakura reached up and pulled him down to hug him, still sound asleep. How am I supposed to get out of this? he asked himself.
Don't, just enjoy it while it lasts, his inner piped up.
I don't believe that is an option, Baka. Sasuke answered, but as he tried to comfort the now crying and asleep Sakura, he couldn't help but let his eyes drift closed. His dreams were filled of Sakura, sweet and caring, and how she smelled, which he had not even noticed until he was stuck in a position that made it hard not to notice.
..,,::;;//++in Sakura's dream++\\;;::,,..
She was running along with the rest of her squad, just a few steps behind the slowest of the others, she was, after all, the newest member. She looked ahead of her, at the back of the person in front of her's mask through the eyes of her own mask. She didn't know exactly what to expect of the upcoming mission.
"It really is more of a battle, part of a war than anything else, Sakura," Tsunade had warned her. More of a war could mean many things. All she knew was that her team was assigned to help in this "battle" against Sound.
She came into the clearing and came face to face with not only the Sound army, but a few members of the Akatsuki. She took off into the midst of the battle. As she was facing one nin, her kunai in a power struggle against the opponents, she heard a deep voice say, "Don't worry about her, I will take care of her,"
She turned around, and for a moment thought she saw Sasuke with his Sharingan on, but no, the person she was now facing was far worse than Sasuke, she was facing his older brother, Uchiha Itachi.
The murderer of the entire Uchiha clan.
Just as these thoughts were put through her head, she was pulled into the realm where Itachi ruled, his Mangekyou showing her things as he wanted her to see them, not as they actually were. She was chained to the third Hokage's nose and was overlooking the village being torn apart.
"This won't work on me, Itachi," she said, "you have to make an image convincing enough for me to believe it."
Next he tried the 72 hours of pain, that didn't work either, she knew how to shut off the pain receptors in the brain so that they could only receive signals, not send them.
She thought she was out of it finally. She was fighting with him.
Ha, she thought, now he realizes, that I am not affected by his Tsukiyomi.
But as she fought the older brother, the younger appeared between two bodies, and he came charging at her, ignoring his older brother until later, after all, at the moment, they had a common threat to dispose of.
As Itachi went to go fight elsewhere, Sasuke and Sakura went at it, Sakura drawing her Katana blade.
"I despise you," Sasuke said between blows. "You were too weak to protect yourself multiple times."
