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Chapter 7

Sakura woke to the sounds of birds chirping and sunlight in her eyes. She carefully sat up and took a glance around her. By the look of her surroundings they were somewhere deep in water country. She turned her head to see Itachi looking at her intensely.

"Morning." She said quietly and stood up, taking the cloak with her. She shook it out and folded it neatly. "Where are we going?"

"I am not yet sure. I figure we have about another day or so before the Leader sends out people to capture us, so I figure we should go to a village and lay low." Itachi stood as well and went over to her.

"Which village?" she asked quietly, shuffling the cloak in her arms.

"The one where we would be least expected to go. Sound." Itachi took the cloak from her arms and smirked at her horrified face.

"But… we can't go there!" Sakura sputtered.

"Why can't we?" Itachi asked walking away from her and back to where he was sitting before.

"Because both of us are enemies of Sound." She said slowly, as if talking to a mentally unstable person. Right now, Sakura believed Itachi to be just that.

"No, Itachi of the Akatsuki and Sakura of Konoha are enemies of Sound. Itachi and Sakura, two civilians passing through are not." He smirked at her befuddled expression.

"Okay, say we do pass as civilians, which we probably wont, and we stay in Sound without any trouble, which there will be, how do you know that the Akatsuki wont be expecting us to go there?" Sakura sat on the ground at her last question.

"Because one Akatsuki can get through easily enough, especially one who has the ability to twist minds. If more than one starts filling though town, people will notice and they will fight. That is why we haven't been able to get Orochimaru yet, his guard is tough and they are always on the defensive. As long as we don't make any trouble, we will go by unnoticed." Itachi explained.

"But what about me? How many pink haired girls do you know, because Orochimaru knows precisely one pink haired medic who could heal him quickly." Sakura argued.

"You can use genjutsu can you not? Create a false image of yourself." He reasoned.

"But… well… ugh, as long as you think we can do it, I guess its worth a shot." Sakura said defeated. "But there is one thing that I still don't understand." She looked down to the ground. "Why did you save me a second time?"

"Don't think that is was only for you girl, if it had not benefited me as well you would not be here." He returned to his stoic demeanor.

"Oh, well okay." Sakura said with a blush.

"Stay here, I am going to get something to eat for us. I will know if you try to run, plus you are far behind enemy lines with S-class criminals on your tail so I would advise you not to think about it." He left without hearing anything else she had to say.

She sighed and sat down heavily. She didn't know what was going on with him now. Just when she thought she had him sort of figured out, he did something insanely strange and unlike him and screwed up everything she had figured in the first place. He was hot one moment, wanting to please here and be her night in shining armor and cold the next, either trying to kill her or hurt her emotionally. She was at a loss as to what to think about him now. He had saved her life twice now, and had risked his life to get her out. Sure maybe he did it for his own good, to get away from oppressors, but there was something behind it.

She sat in the same place, thinking about what the hell to think until he retuned with a rabbit for lunch. She gagged at the sight of it, but then realized that it was better than nothing.

"We will leave at nightfall, coming into Sound is easier under the cover of dark. Cook this." He handed her the dead animal.

"Why do you think I can cook? Just because I am a woman…"

"Just shut up and cook it." He said with a smirk and went to sit by a tree. She turned red with anger and thought of a few choice words to call him but then gave up and started working on dinner.

"Don't get used to this." She growled.


A/N: sorry its soo short, I need to get to sleep and wanted to write something before I did. Next chapter will be twice as long I promise!