Long time no see! Well my good readers here's another chapter.

Sakura POV

"What do you mean kid-" Sasuke put his hand over my mouth.

"Sssh." He said releasing my mouth from his grip.

"Why?" I whispered. There was more than one question in that simple statement. He could tell from the look in my eyes. There were three.

"Because…The other wouldn't let me take you willingly without causing a scene. And you and Itachi should be away from each other. He's gonna want to know why you could thwart Tsukiyomi, he'll want to know why and he will take you." He didn't and never will answer the third question.

"Why did you leave?" I thought solemnly.

Sasuke looked at Naruto. Naruto looked like he understood and he mouthed the words:

"You'll be okay." To me and smiled. I tried to smile back but you could tell it was forced. To be truthful, I'm worried about what will come out of this.

Naruto yelled "Now!" And everyone but Sasuke and I attacked Kisame and Naruto himself went for Itachi.

Itachi was trying to look prepared, but he looked flustered. He kept looking at me and Sasuke. Sasuke was performing hand signs as fast as he could.

"Naruto you better come back alive!" I yelled as Sasuke finished his jutsu and turned to grab onto me. It was a transportation jutsu. The last thing I saw before Sasuke and I disappeared was Naruto's thumbs up and the looks on my friends' faces. Shock.

I could see nothing. It was dark. The floor was hard and uneven but we were enclosed. Probably stone. I could feel Sasuke leaning on me. We were holding each other tight. I never wanted to let go. But I could hear voices and I knew Sasuke would let go of me. Light flooded into the room as a door was opened. Three figures came in. Two men and a slut. (AN: Sorry it was a must! :O)

"Sasuke?" One of the guys said.

"Sasuke-kun?!" Twitch.

"Did she just say 'Sasuke-kun?"

"Yeah I think she did."

"Well she's got another thing comin'! US! CHA!"

"Sasuke?" Now that guy sounded worried. He was a bigger guy. I looked around now that there was light. It was a stone room. Nothing in it.

"Sasuke-kun!" The girl said running towards us. She pushed me out of the way. "Are you okay, Sasuke-kun?!" I was stumbling, trying to get my balance back. But of course, I failed. But to my surprise, what met me wasn't the hard ground but a pair of arms pulling me back up.

"That wasn't very nice Karin." The guy who caught me said. He was pale with purple-is white hair, shark teeth, and he had a fine body too. (AN: Was another must. Suigetsu is a babe!) So the slut was Karin. I was trying to get a good view of Sasuke but this Karin was in my way.

"Stuff it Suigetsu!" So this man was Suigetsu.

Painful grunt.

"Sasuke-kun!" Karin screeched in my ear.

"Sasuke!" I said running up to him. He was on his knees and I now saw why they were so worried. He had burns all over his back. I got on my knees next to him and was about to start healing him.

"Go away bitch! Sasuke-kun is mine! I'll help him!" Karin yelled at me squeezing Sasuke harder.

"Ugh." He said from her vice grip. "Karin let me go." He practically growled at her. She looked shocked. She released him and he collapsed in my arms. His eyes and scowl said he was in pain. He gave me a look that said "Heal me already!". I slowly laid him on the ground on his stomach and gathered chakra to my hands. I closed my eyes to concentrate. I let my chakra flow free and I felt Sasuke relax. Karin was mumbling in the corner. Suigetsu settled down on the floor with a grin. The bigger guy didn't move. He was quite.

After about twenty or so minutes I was done. They were bad burns. Very deep and painful looking. I looked at Sasuke trying to tell him I was done but his eyes were closed peacefully so I just watched him for a little bit. He finally noticed my stare and got up.

"Sakura." He said once he was up.

"Yes?" I replied getting up too.

"Follow me."

"Juugo. Go to town and find some food."

"Hai." Juugo said leaving out the door.

"Karin. Suigetsu. You go and scout the forest. No fighting. Any sigh of Itachi and alert me immediately."

"Yea." Suigetsu said leaving. All Karin did was grunt. Sasuke too started walking out the door. So I followed. The hallway was old and decaying. Old vines were growing from god knows where.

"Where are we?" I asked looking at Sasuke. He looked apathetic.

I was looking around more as we walked down the dark corridor. Broken doors, scattered books and strewn on the floor. Broken furniture in the old rooms.

"I wonder how Naruto is doing…"

"He'll be fine."

"What're you talking about?" I said looking away.

"Naruto. He'll be fine. Even if Akatsuki manage to catch him Konoha will go get him back."He said still looking straight ahead. I sighed. He looked at me with a question in his eyes.

"We were late last time. By mere minutes." He looked confused.

"What do you mean 'last time'?"

"You don't know?" He shook his head. "Well too bad." He glared at me. "Fine fine. I'll tell you. Akatsuki got Gaara once. We had been on our way to Suna. Temari had been in Konoha but had left before we did. We got word Gaara fought and lost against Akatsuki. We were rushing over. When we finally caught up to Temari we told her everything but got stuck in a sand storm. We reached Suna the next day." We were still walking but slower. Sasuke looked interested and was listening intently. "Kankuro was in a horrible condition when we got there. After Chio-baa-sama attacked Kakashi-sensei for looking like his dad, I healed Kankuro. Then we made it to the Akatsuki base and they had left Gaara there and Chio-baa-sama revived him. Giving her life for his. That's it."

"Liar."

"Shut up. He doesn't need to know."

"What do you think'll happen when he actually finds out?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Sakura?"

"Huh?" I looked up to see his blazing Sharingan.

"What really happened?"

"I just told you."

"I don't believe you."

"Fine. Don't believe me." Sasuke kept walking further into the dark hallway and I followed.