Chapter 5

"Itachi" growled Naruto as he glared at Akatsuki member as he landed in front of them.

"Where's Gaara?" yelled Naruto angry that Itachi is standing in the way of rescuing his friend.

"You are coming with me Naruto." replied Itachi.

"Like hell he is!" yelled Sakura as she got in front of Naruto in an attempt to protect him from Itachi.

"Yeah you show them Outer! SHANNARO!" said Inner who looked like she was dressed for war.

Right as Itachi started moving, Kakashi appeared from above and started the fight between the two.

When Sakura was about to join in to help her sensei, she noticed that Naruto was not in the fight. When she looked behind her she noticed Naruto standing still like he was frozen in place.

'Of course, how could I forget, the moment Itachi moved his arms was the moment he put Naruto in a genjutsu.' thought Sakura, kicking herself for not realizing sooner.

"Lady Chiyo, help me break Naruto out of the genjutsu." said Sakura as she put her hand on Naruto's right shoulder pouring her chakra into him to break him out of the genjutsu as Lady Chiyo did the same from the opposite side.

A few minutes later, Naruto was broken out of the genjutsu and asked what just happened.

"The moment Itachi moved his arms was the moment he put you in a genjutsu. We have to help Kakashi-sensei." said Sakura as before she and Naruto went to help Kakashi fight Itachi.

"So you managed to get out of the genjutsu I put you in." stated Itachi as he noticed Naruto and Sakura joining their sensei.

"Yeah it helps when you have friends with you." replied Naruto as he brought his hands in front of him putting his fingers into the form of a cross.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

A puff of smoke appeared before quickly disappearing to reveal that Itachi was now surrounded by twenty clones. By an unseen command, the clones all attacked Itachi at the same time. However, before the clones could do a thing, Itachi easily disposed of all the clones without difficulty.

"Please tell me that's not the best you've got Naruto-kun." said Itachi in an almost bored tone.

"Like hell that's the best I've got. I have more where that came from." exclaimed Naruto.

Itachi did not respond as he disappeared from his spot as he dodged a surprise attack from above by Sakura as she caused a crater to form in the spot Itachi once stood.

"Damnit I thought I had him!" cursed Sakura, as she, Naruto, and Kakashi looked to find where Itachi is at.

"You'll have to do better than that if you hope to defeat me." said Itachi as he appeared a few yards away from the group.

"Is that so? Then we'll just have to try even harder!" said a determined Naruto before whispering to Sakura and Kakashi if either of them has a plan.

"I have a plan." said Sakura.

However before she could tell them her plan, Itachi launched a Great Fireball Jutsu at them forcing them to dodge the jutsu and separating them.

Sakura looked from where she landed and noticed that Naruto was next to her and that Kakashi was on the opposite side of where Itachi is at.

"What's your plan Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked not taking his eyes off of Itachi as Kakashi reengaged his fight with him.

"My plan is—" Sakura didn't get a chance to finish as Naruto was knocked a good distance away from her by a flying Kakashi curtesy of Itachi.

"Naruto! Kakashi-sensei!" exclaimed Sakura as she saw that Naruto and Kakashi get up slowly.

"I will not allow you to put this plan of yours into action and nothing you can do will stop me from taking Naruto." stated Itachi as his sharingan took on the shuriken shape of his mangekyou sharingan.

"As I've told you earlier, like hell is Naruto going with you because there is no way I am letting you take him away." said Sakura as she glared into Itachi's mangekyou sharingan eyes.

You foolish little girl, you will not be able to prevent me from taking Naruto as you have recklessly glared into my eyes." stated Itachi

"Tsukuyomi!"

Sakura could have sworn his three mangekyou sharingan was spinning in a blurring circle, but when she focused on Itachi's eyes, she found no such anomaly. She then felt herself tugged from where she was standing and when she looked around, she found herself in a place that was nothing but a red and black merged mist surrounding the circular floor she was in the middle of, disallowing any means of determining distance. When she looked at herself she noticed that her pink hair was black, along with her eyes, and the rest of her was colored between shades of red and white as well as the black.

'Shit I was careless and now I am trapped in Itachi's Tsukuomu Genjutsu!' thought Sakura.

Sakura was broken out of her mentally kicking herself from her carelessness as hundreds of crows start to gather from out of nowhere.. The swarm then began to merge into each other, the flock literally diving into one another, forming what appeared to Sakura a person. Eventually the body of Itachi formed, with only his mangekyou sharingan in color.

"While you are here, you will be unable to help your comrades as I take care of Kakashi Hatake and take Naruto Uzumaki with me to Akastuki and remove the Kyubbi from him." said Itachi casuing Sakura's eye to narrow before she attempted to punch Itachi in the face with a chakra enhanced punch only to realize that she could not move casuing her to panic.

"As long as you are here, you will not be able to move at all. But don't worry; I won't leave you here without something to do. You will be tortured for seventy two hours in this world that only I control, by repeatedly seeing the most tragic moment in your life." stated Itachi before disappearing in a horde of crows leaving Sakura alone.

Sakura wondered what tragic moment she would have to endure, praying it wasn't the one she was thinking of. However, to her horror she was brought into a familiar house causing her to wish she was anywhere but here.

"NO NO NO NO! ANYPLACE BUT THIS!" cried Sakura as tears started to pool in her eyes as she was forced to watch the events that would unfold.


I am soooo sorry for the long wait for an update and I am even more sorry that the chapter is short. I was going to make it longer, but I had figured I had made you guys wait long enough for an update that I figured I would go ahead and post the chapter as it is now. Again I am so sorry that it took so long for an update and I have no excuse as to why it took so long. Please read & review.

NARUSAKU FOREVER!