Chapter 7

Sakura sat on the bed; once again she was by herself. After giving her his ultimatum sasuke had left her to figure out what to do. She knew what she wanted to do, she wanted tell him to get fucked! But that was almost twelve hours ago. What was going on? What was he up to.

Thinking like this isn't helping me she thought standing up, I'm letting my anger get the better of me, there has to be a solution, a way out of this!

Walking to the door for the hundredth time she turned the knob knowing full well that it was locked. She shook the door handle in frustration she wanted to rip the damn thing off its hinges. Taking a step back she tried to calm herself, if only she knew what was on the other side of this door? Then maybe she could formulate some form of escape plan. She stared at the door willing it to give her some idea, just a hint, anything! Suddenly sakura noticed that there was some sort of presence on the other side, there was somebody out there, no! There was more than one. Listening she tried to figure out what was going on, who was out there? It felt like sasuke but not sasuke, it was so weird.

Looking down she could see the door handle moving "it's locked" came the muffled voice from the other side "just punch a damn whole through it for crying out loud, we don't have any time"

Stepping back sakura realised that they were going to smash through the door, she could feel the chakra building on the other side, and it was so familiar.

Smash!!! The door splintered into a thousand pieces

"I think you over done it just a bit kisame" came the deep voice that could only belong to one person, but it wasn't possible he was dead!

Looking through the dust of the smashed door sakura could only just see the faint outline of her rescuers coughing she wiped her eyes to try and get a better look. As everything began to settle down she could finally focus on the two men standing at the door, as she looked to the one on the left she could just make out the outline of a very large and jagged sword. She knew exactly who this man was, but she had never expected to see him again. Not daring to look at the other man she forced herself to a deep breath, she had to be dreaming it was the only explanation.

"Look at me sakura" came that familiar and painful voice

She couldn't, she refused to, this was so cruel, how could this be happening. Finally she had no choice but to face the man standing no more than three feet in front of her holding her breath she could feel her heart pounding if she didn't know better she could have sworn that it was visible through her chest. Starting from the bottom up she could see the familiar black cloak with dark red clouds hiding the body that she knew so well. Avoiding his face she focused on the long silky black hair that hung to his shoulders, this was impossible it had to be somebody else she had seen him die with her own eyes.

His eyes! They could not be replicated, this imposter would not be able to copy them, she thought finally looking at his face. "It can't be..."she whispered staring straight into the fiercest pair of eyes she had ever seen. This man had the sharingan!

"Itachi..." she managed to get out before the darkness consumed her.

"You had us come all this way for this" kisame said pointing to the passed out girl on the floor, "really itachi this does surprise me"

"Enough kisame, we need to get out of here, they will be waking up soon, as it is he is fighting me with everything he has." He said as he scooped sakura into his strong arms

"Fine but how do you suggest we get out of here?" kisame asked looking back towards the way they came "that way is pretty much destroyed"

"I suggest we go up" itachi indicted to the ceiling

"All right step back then" kisame ordered

Itachi did as his comrade said and went to stand against the far wall, "I'm so sorry sakura" he whispered softly as he looked down at her cradled against his chest. Pulling his cloak around her to shield her from the blast, he increased the pressure of the genjutzu against his brother; he should be too weak to follow them for a while after this.

"Ready?" kisame asked

"Ok" he nodded

Releasing his chakra kisame let go of it in one giant swing with his sword.

Crash!!!

Moving as fast as they could through the explosion, itachi shielded sakura from most of the debris. Reaching the surface itachi finally released his brother and the girl that was with him. "Let's move kisame I don't know how long it will take for them to recover, and I would like to be long gone from here before they do, now is not the time for sasuke to meet me in battle."

"Whatever you say itachi, I still don't understand any of this, who is this girl to you anyway? All I know is that she almost got you killed!" kisame asked looking at his friend

Ignoring him itachi took to the trees, he heard kisame sigh when he realised that he wasn't going to get an answer. Shifting sakura slightly he couldn't help but enjoy the feel of holding her again, sasuke was such an idiot sometimes, for almost four days he had held sakura captive and he had done nothing but torture her. He had thought his brother would be stronger than that. He hadn't thought that he would blame sakura for his death; he had thought that he would blame that woman that had been with him.

Itachi looked sadly down at sakura; he had put her in that position, he had hoped that she would be able to get through to his brother, to give him some comfort but instead all he had done was hurt her.

When sakura woke up he was going to have some serious explaining to do. That was if she didn't kill him first!

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