Months went past and soon summer and autum were gone.

Sakuras relationship with Itachi was going well. Life was the same as before except Itachi slept in her room and every so often they would visit the orchard. The pair of men continued to train and spar against each other and Sakura improving themselves and the younger woman. Sakura had never been happier.

One day Deidra and Tobi came back.

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"Someones coming" Kisame said looking up from where Sakura was fixing his leg.
Sakura also looked up and using the senses she had been developing fixed on where the noise was coming from.
"Nearly there" she heard someone say in a low voice.
Suddenly Deidara and Tobi appeared crashing through the clearing edge.
Deidara didnt look well at all. Tobi was suporting the tall blonde man who was pale, gasping, his eyes glazed over.
Sakura ran over and took him. She lifted him into the house Tobi following behind.
"What happened Tobi-san" she said removing Deidara's outter clothing
"You sure got him out of his clothes quick" came the reply.
Sakuras outrage left her speechless "What?"
About to reply Tobi was cut off by Itachi who was leant against the wall "Answer her question, master will not be pleased if Deidara dies"
"We were attacked, Deidara was fine until we started walking, there were some shurikan in his leg, they were covered in a kind of black ooze"
"Poison" Sakura said checking the sweating man "Why is it always poison?" She said to herself, to Tobi and Itachi she said "Please leave, I want to concentrate" Itachi grabbed Tobi and walked him from the room.

"Deidara?" Sakura asked wiping his brow "Can you hear me?"
He mumbled in his fever and Sakura leant forward to hear him "Sasori..." he breathed "...please dont die...I need you...please" Sakura put her hand over her mouth.
Sasori, a name she never wanted to hear again, someone Deidara had apparently been in love with. Sakura pushed down her emotions and concentraited, the poison was bad something only a very healed medic-nin would have been able to heal. It was a trick one, meant for the healer to think most harm had occured at the heart and therefore healing that first, when in fact the real harm was in the kidneys and liver. Sakura felt sweat covering her now as she focused.
Finally Sakura could do no more, she felt herself slipping from her kneeling position onto the floor. (heh that rhymes)
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She felt someone kneeling beside her causing the surface she was on to move.
"Sakura-chan..." came a gentle voice "Sakura" it repeated with compassion
With a strain Sakura opened her eyes to find them met with two red and black ones, they faded to black as he smiled.
"Itachi-kun?" she said using the suffix unthinkingly
He looked puzzled at the term but he decided to think on it later "Deidara is awake"
She paused a moment testing her body and chakra reserves, she was in better condition than she thought "How long have i been out?" she asked
"About 2 days" he replied helping her up.
"Okay" she said heading for the door, Itachi pulled her back and briefly kissed her
"Don't be so hard on yourself" he said kindly
"Ano...i have to be" she replied i need to tell Deidara i killed Sasori...she thought inwardly sighing at the prospect
Deidara was indeed up and he greeted Sakura cheerfully "Hey Sakura you saved me yeah!"
"Hai Deidara" Sakura replied sitting down "How do you feel?"
"Great! They wouldnt let me get up till you did yeah"
"Well you can get up if you feel upto it" Sakura said with a forced smile, Deidara noticed and frowned
"You dont seem happy yeah"
"Deidara...did you know you were muttering in your fever"

"What?" he asked looking panicked "Its okay, i mean you didnt say any Akatsuki secrets...but theres something we need to discuss" She looked at her feet, Deidara was going to hate her after this, possibly want to kill her.
"Ano...what did i say yeah?"
"You spoke about Sasori..." His eyes flew wide from pain and panick "And how you cared for him"
To his shock Sakura fell to her knees beside his bed "Please Deidara, don't hate me...I had to do it"
Deidara was utterly confused, "You...didnt tell the others yeah"
Sakura looked up "Tell them what?"
"That I'm gay yeah"
"Oh Deidara" she said her eyes filling with tears "I'm not sorry, but, but it was me who killed him"
His blood ran cold "You're the one who killed Sasori?" he wasnt thinking and had her against the wall.
She didnt speak only was still her hands grabbing his arm as he held her there by the throat. Tears running down from her eyes.
Finally the red faded from his vision and he realised what he was doing. He dropped her and she landed on the floor looking up at him.
"Deidara?" she asked queitly looking at his bowed head
"I cannot speak to you presently Medic-san yeah" he said turning and leaving.
Sakura watched him leave tears flowing. She put her head on her knees curled up.
Itachi stood watching from Sakura's doorway. He had wanted to defend Sakura but had decided to let fate decide. Not anymore.
"Shhh" said a voice enveloping her in a hug "Its okay"
Sakura cried.
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Deidara came back in the late afternoon and walked straight into Sakuras room.
She jumped when he slammed her door. Looking around from some notes she was making. "Deidara-san?" She asked quietly
"Sakura...I over-reacted, you killed him when he was trying to kill you yeah, there was nothing you could have done, I forgive you yeah" the S-ranked criminal turned to leave.
"Deidara?"
"Yeah"
"Are you crying?" Sakura stood up as the man sniffed. "Deidara..."
"We used to talk about art alot" he said not facing her "hours we'd argue, which was greater, instantanious or everlasting" He faced her now tears falling down his cheeks "He was supposed to last forever! it was me who was meant to be gone in an instant!"
"Deidara!" Sakura said embracing him in a hug, his tears seeped into her shoulder. "Hush"
"He could never love me back anyway Sakura...he didnt have any emotions, but he said if he had it would have been me"
"Dont worry Deidara one day you'll find another..." seeing Tobi peer in she changed her sentence "Person to love"
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"ha" Tobi said walking upto Kisame and Itachi who were sat outside resing after a spar "Looks like Sakura and Deidara have a thing going on"
"Hn" came Itachis neutral reply
Kisame didnt say anything choosing to let Itachi deal with the situation.
"Aw sorry Itachi did you want her?" Tobi said mockingly "Well personally I think she's gonna work her way through us"
Kisame looked at Itachi who shook his head, baring his teeth to the seemingly uncaring Uchiha Kisame left and jumped into the river.
"Whats up with him? Did she sleep with him and then go for Deidara?" Tobi said not noting how Itachi's eyes went from black to sharagan.
"Tobi" He said
"Yeh?" When Tobi met his eyes Itachi spoke rather than trapping him and torturing him "Sakura is my, lets say girlfriend, do not speak about her like that"
"O,or what? you'll beat me up?" Tobi said bravely
Itachi gave him a predatory grin "No, she will"
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Tobi and Deidara were soon gone again on another mission.
"How come you guys never go on missions?" Sakura asked one day as she hung out laundry.
"We are on a mission" Kisame said shivering sligtly in the icy morning air
"oh?"
"Yeah, we're making sure you dont get into trouble"
"I see" Sakura said
"Plus keeping you company"
Sakura grinned "And catching dinner..."
"Yeah and catching dinner" Kisame said not really listening
"Go get it then!" Sakura replied shutting the door in his face
"AWW!"
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Sakura stood staring. The world she had been watching and living in was gone. Whiteness now covered the whole area, Sakura couldnt even see the stream.
With a frown Sakura looked for Kisame, Itachi she had left in bed snuggling down complaining about the cold. There were no footprints leading from where she figured the stream was, no one was asleep inside on the spare beds.
"KISAMEEEEE!" Sakura yelled.
There was no answer, with a sigh she jumped down finding to her shock the snow was nearly waist high. Quickly she pumped Chakra to her extremities to ward off the cold and walked to the stream, trying to sense Kisame's Chakra.
Finally she sensed it and frowned it was coming from underneath the snow and was horribly weak. She began to dig not believing what she was sensing.
she hit the ice quickly and wiped snow away not being able to see though the opaque surface. She searched for Kisame through the frozen water.
Suddenly a blackened hand hit the ice below her barely even cracking the surface. Sakura, about to hit the ice realised that if she did the sharps would crush or run Kisame through killing him.
She needed to melt the ice, and there was only one fire user she knew "ITACHI!" she screamed
He appeared almost instantly bare from the waist up holding a katana. Seeing no immediate threat he looked at her panick striken face with concern. Then he spotted what was below her.
"Kisame!" he snapped. Seeing him forming seals with his hands Sakura hastily moved "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" he cried forcing a fireball directly onto the ice. With a gush of steam it melted allowing a twitching Kisame to the surface.
He was almost completely black from frostbite the only parts of him that were his usuall blue were the areas around his heart and gills. He flopped like a fish gasping in pain.
Itachi picked him up running to the treehouse. Sakura quickly followed grabbing the mans Katana on the way.
"Sakura, heal him!" Itachi ordered which riled Sakrua, she bit back a harsh reply realising that this was how he showed he was worried, Kisame could be classed as the mans best friend after all.
"Itachi, get the blankets from the beds and pile them up here, fill the hot water bottles from my room and boil the kettle, make us all a hot drink" she ordered before kneeling beside Kisame in what she now thought of as her healing pose.
Kisame had very bad frost bite and she needed to rid his body of ice that had formed in the viens, capillaries and artheries before anything else. Otherwise when the body tried to pump blood the ice would cut the walls and cause internal bleeding.
Sakura looked at the clock on the wall i have less than five minutes to do this she thought right Sakura - you CAN save him! she said looking at Kisame's form. She stopped his heart.
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Sorry Kisame :'(