Sakura walked up the marble staircase; she was tiered after Slughorns little party and the freaking stairs didn't help. Over and over, Sakura wondered why the Gryffindor common room was so high up in this castle. But at least she didn't have to mingle with half-drunk eighty year old wizards anymore. As she entered the common room, everyone it seemed had already gone to bed. Maybe it was quite late after all, that would explain the strange feeling she had of waking up instead of going to sleep. She was just about to collapse on the sofa in front of the still gently burning fireplace, but noticed that a boy with jet-black hair and a lightning scar on his forehead was sitting there, sleeping.

"Harry?" Sakura called out and he slowly opened his eyes. It took a while for him to understand where he was, then he saw Sakura kneeing down in front of him, starring. "You shouldn't sleep here, why are you here anyway?"

Harry smiled at her and sat up straight as Sakura sat down beside him. "I was studying while waiting for you and Ron to get back." Harry said and yawned. "When Ron came back I decided to wait up for you a while longer, it seemed like I fell asleep."

Sakura smiled back at him and he blushed. He loved it when she smiled at him, one of her smiles that was only for him and no one else. Not professor Uchiha, not Ron or Hermione, for him and him alone. It made him feel so warm inside, he wanted to hold her tightly and never see her break for she was like glass.

"Why are you back so late? Did something happen?" Harry asked as he put on a serious face. Sakura looked at him with a surprised expression.

"Nothing happened, I just mingled and talked at the party. Then Itachi told me to get some sleep." Sakura said and Harry twitched at the mention of his name. What did she see in that guy actually, his fake smile and his perfect personality. Sakura didn't seem like the person who would fall for some like that. There was so much he didn't know about her, still he was only known her for about over two month. Everything about her was all a mystery.

"Well then, what about we get some sleep before the sun rises." Harry said and stood up. "Goodnight."

Sakura walked into the bedroom that she was sharing with Hermione and some other girls, they where all sound asleep. Sakura though over the possibility of maybe going out to train in the forbidden forest but decided against it as she noticed that it was clearly to late for that. It was already four in the morning, in a couple of hours Sakura had to get up and go to her classes. She quickly changed her cloths and sat down on her four poster bed. It was still soft, too classy for her liking. But just this once, she should try and sleep in a normal bed. And before she knew it, she fell asleep and entered a dream world like no other.

Sakura woke up; the bright sunlight was shining up the room as it passed trough the windows. Where am I? She sat up and looked around, noticing that she was in her bedroom. The other girls had already gone it seemed as their beds where empty. Oh yeah, I decided to sleep here for once… What's the time...? Sakura stood up in her pyjamas and looked out the window. It was eleven thirty, around lunch time. Friday, she has missed two lessons.

Sakura yawned and changed cloths into her school uniform that she still wears against her own will. She silently walked down to the common room to find it entirely empty. Not a big surprise there, it wasn't lunch time for about ten minutes. She got down to the great hall about fifteen minutes later after combing her hair and waiting for the staircases to stop moving around so she could get somewhere. When she entered the great hall she saw Harry and Ron already sitting by the Gryffindor table, stuffing their faces with food.

"Good morning…" Sakura said and sat down beside them and they looked at her with surprised expressions.

"What are you doing here? Aren't you sick or something?" Harry asked and Sakura frowned.

"Not as far as I know, who told you that?"

"The girls that you're sharing room with told us. They tried to wake you up but you just gave them an evil glare and went back to sleep. They seemed terrified as they came to the first class. But if you weren't sick, then why weren't you at the first two lessons?" Ron said as he took another chicken wing.

"I overslept, the freaking party held me up late." Sakura said and took a bite from Harry's chilli con carne. Harry and Ron starred at her as she placed Harry's spoon back on his plate. "What?"

"First… Why did you eat my chilli con carne? And second… Since when did you start eating anything that wasn't rice?"

"I don't know, I felt like it. It was the same with my decision to actually sleep in my bed for once. Is it really that strange, I mean common, I went to England and then I should try to at least eat some of your food right." Sakura said as she stole one of Ron's chicken wings but threw it away as fast as she tasted it. "And what's wrong with people and chicken, I swear that everyone seems to like chicken except me."

"You eat chicken in Japan too?"

"Yeah, we do and it's hell I swear. I mean, fish tastes sooo much better than freaking chicken. But wherever we go somewhere to eat then it's always chicken or ramen, I can gladly eat ramen but chicken!" Sakura said and gave the chicken an evil glare.

"What's ramen?"

"Noodles but better than yours. You people can't do noodles at all." Sakura continued.

"We call it pasta here and it isn't the same as noodles. Noodles can be made of rice or egg or something like that while pasta is flour, eggs and water. You really can't anything can you?" Sakura heard a voice say from behind her. She turned around and saw Hermione stand there with a triumphed smile.

"Oh hi Hermione. I didn't see you there, why don't you sit down and eat with us?" Sakura said and gave room for Hermione in between herself and Harry. However, Hermione only stood there with her expression now in a deep frown.

"I only came here because you where making such a racket about some chicken. Also, you call that eating? I would have called that stealing food from your… 'friends'." Hermione said with an a-matter-of-fact tone in her voice and looked down at Harry and Ron with a disgusted gaze.

"Hermione!" Harry said and stood up but Sakura shut him up by holding up her hand. Everyone in the hall suddenly seemed very interested in this conversation as they even turned around to be able to watch them. Sakura pushed down Harry on the bench again and stood up in his place. Hermione almost backed as she saw Sakuras expression, anyone who knew what she was would have run away by now but Hermione didn't run. Instead she was just about to say something again but Sakura beat her to it.

"Don't mess with me you bitch!" Sakura shouted and made even the teachers look at them. Sakura didn't know why but when Hermione talked bad about Harry and Ron it made her boil inside, she really wanted to kill this girl. No, she was going to kill this girl if someone didn't stop her here. "What do you know about friends huh!? Bad-talk me and I still want to be your friend but I swear that if you ever talk to Harry and Ron like that again, I'm going to freaking kill you! You bitch!!"

Harry stood up again to try and stop them but both Hermione and Sakura have him a you-stay-out-of-this glare that made him fall back down once again. They could see the headmaster make his was towards them but Sakura didn't care at all.

"Don't call me a bitch you fucking whore! Someone like you wouldn't even be able to give me a scar; you can't even do a proper spell!" Hermione continued as Sakura snapped at last. But before Sakura could get out a kunai from under her skirt, a long man with black hair took a firm grip of her arms and put them behind her head so that she could move.

"Stop this now!" Itachi said but didn't let go of Sakuras arms. "I'm so sorry headmaster, I don't know what flew into them al of a sudden."

"I'll tell you what flew into us, Itachi." Sakura said as she had a sadistic glare that was starring right at Hermione. "It's called the lust of wanting to feel the taste of her blood and with that I have to kill this girl here. Or do you have a better suggestion?"

"Sorry Sakura." Itachi said and hit her, making her faint. He held her in his arms and looked down at Hermione. "Same to you don't ever let me see you do something like this again."

With that he turned to the headmaster who had made it there right after Itachi. "I'm sorry headmaster; I'm going to take Sakura here to my office. She has been avoiding taking her medicine which probably is the reason why she is like this today." Itachi said in a polite voice and turned around to take her to his office when the headmaster nodded. Harry got up, this time he didn't get pushed down again to his relief, and ran to Itachi.

"I'm going to! I want to see how Sakura feels when she wakes up…" Harry said and Itachi barley looked at him.

"Shouldn't you take care of Miss Granger? Aren't you friends, or is Sakura more important?" Itachi said in a sigh as they made their way up the marble stair case.

"Hermione is my precious friend but so is also Sakura. However, I want to thank Sakura for seeing us as such good friends. She shouldn't have made Hermione so angry; it could have ended with some serious injuries." Harry said, not knowing why he was telling professor Uchiha this because he still hated this man who was holding Sakura as she was unconscious so tightly.

"Sakura really sees you and the red haired boy as real friends you know. I haven't seen her want to protect someone like this in a very long time." Itachi said as he gazed down at the pink haired Akatsuki member. "You should take care of her as she goes here in Hogwarts for I cannot always be here by her side."

Harry looked up at his Defence against the dark arts teacher, why did he want someone who he knew liked his fiancée to take care if her? "Do you really love Sakura?" Those last words came out of Harry's mouth against his will as he thought over what he just had said. It must have sounded really rude.

For the first time today, Itachi looked down at Harry and met his eyes. It was first then Harry noticed that Itachi's night black eyes had for a second a shade of red, what did that mean? Was he angry or what?

"I do, with all my heart. That's why I don't want you to take her away from me. However, I would rather have her well being than her herself if that was the case." Itachi said and Harry starred at him. Was he stupid or just plain crazy?

They entered Itachi's office in silence and Itachi placed Sakura on his bed. Itachi waved his wand and two chairs popped into the room. There they sat in continued silence, the only sound was the sound of the clock on Itachi's wall that ticked and ticked. Harry had almost forgotten why he was here in the first place as Sakura started to wake up. It was then Harry could see the change in Itachi's eyes, they where dull and the usual black as she still was unconscious but now he seemed to have a little glint of hope and happiness as she opened her eyed completely. Quickly he took out a small pill from his pocket and gave it to Sakura before she could say a word to either of them.

"-Wha…" Sakura got out but quickly noticed that the pill was an energy pill that would make her think, react and move faster. She gave Itachi a glare before swallowing the pill without water or anything.

"How are you feeling?" Sakura heard a voice ask, and then she noticed the black haired wizard sitting on a chair beside Itachi. He seemed worried so Sakura gave him a bright smile.

"I'm fine thank you, just a little tired." Sakura answered. "By the way, why are you here?"

"I just wanted to thank you for standing up for us in the great hall. Even though it was kind of reckless." Harry said in a slight blush. "This probably sounds really strange… However, now I know that you're feeling well I probably should go down and go to our next lesson. I'll take notes for you so that you know what it was about."

"Thank you Harry, I'll see if I make it to the last lesson. If not, we'll meet in the common room before dinner, right?" Sakura said and Harry nodded before standing up and leaving the room. It was against his will to leave her there in the same room as professor Uchiha. However, in the same time, it was as though he couldn't stand being there for his heat started beating so hard every time she smiled or just said his name. "Oh, and Harry… I just wanted to mention that Hermione didn't mean anything against you or Ron. She really does want you two as her friends again."

Harry nodded and closed the door after him and as Itachi and Sakura couldn't hear him anymore, they looked at each other. "Why the hell did you hit me!?" Sakura shouted, she was outraged and wanted to hit him as hard as she could. But she knew that he would only doge.

"You where about to kill that girl."

"No I wasn't…"

"Yes you where! If I hadn't stopped you then both of us would have one dead girl, one Harry Potter boy to kill and one failed mission. You should be happy that I was there in order to stop you." Itachi said, Sakura could hear that he was angry but she didn't care. "This mission is making you soft. If it wasn't for the fact that this is a very important mission, I would have you gone back to Japan and abandon this mission."

"You wouldn't…!" Sakura shouted, now she was getting angry too.

"You are getting too soft! If this continues, you will see this Harry boy as much more than just a mission and you will never be able to kill him. Even if I where the one to kill him then you wouldn't be able to stand it and try to stop me with everything you've got." Sakura starred at her fiancée, she was getting too soft?

"I don't get soft! I don't ever see other people than you as someone important! I never have and I never will!" Sakura shouted but Itachi starred at her and activated his sharingan, he was serous now. "I'm not afraid of you or your sharingan, I'm not as strong as you but I know that I can not feel anything about Harry other than my will to kill him."

"You're lying, he is you precious friend now. Something you never knew someone could be to you. I don't have 'friends', the only kind of 'friend' I had was a person I killed in order to obtain the mangekyou sharingan." Itachi said and Sakura starred at him. Is he talking about his past? Until now… He has never talked about it before, but why now? Is this really so important.

"Itachi…"

"Friends make you weak. Friends are nothing but a burden."

"Then what about love? Am I your burden too?" Sakura asked but Itachi shook his head.

"No, someone like you can't compare to a burden. You are special; you are my only and dear cherry blossom." Itachi said with a serious expression. "I don't want you to suffer from the loss of someone you care about, which is the reason why you should avoid making bonds with these people who we soon have to kill."

Sakura crept towards him and sat down in his lap. They looked each other in the eyes; he had inactivated his sharingan some time ago so once again she was looking into his jet black eyes. She wanted to sit here in his lap for the rest of her life. It felt so warm, just like the day that he had found her. It must have been around one and a half years ago. She hadn't known anything, she couldn't speak nor could she fight. Itachi had been the one to help her, he had taught her everything over again. Making her strong enough to join the Akatsuki within two months. Genjutsu, taijutsu, Ninjutsu and medical jutsu, she mastered them all. Of course, medical jutsu came of itself somehow; Itachi only taught her the basics. The only one Sakura ever has trusted in her short life, that is Itachi. She never thought of ever seeing someone other than him as a special person, for no one has ever seen her more than a tool. No one, except Itachi…

"Sakura?" Sakura looked up at Itachi and blinked. "Can't you stay here today?" He asked and hugged her more tightly. He smiled but didn't seem really happy at the same time.

"But I said to Harry that I would meet him in the common room before we go eat dinner, I should hold my promise. But you don't want me to go right?" Sakura said and hugged him putting her head on his shoulders. "I want to stay here but I have to go soon, I promise that I won't snap again. If you want, I can come back here later, I just don't want to be alone tonight. It feels like a storm is coming and it's coming for us. You can feel it too right? We should be on our guard the next few days."

"As expected, you felt it too. I don't want you to sleep on a couch in the common room this night so you should come over here. I don't want anything to happen to you, and I've told you that quite many timed now so I hope that I don't have to tell you again."

"Yeah… I know. Then I'll come later after dinner?" Sakura asked and Itachi nodded.

Itachi let go of Sakura, she stood up then walked to the door. She placed her tiny hand on the cold doorknob and faced Itachi again with a smile. "You know…. I'm very happy that you concern yourself about me. For to me you are very special too."

"You've been watching too much old movies, is what I would say but I think that deserves a smile at least." Itachi said and gave the promised smiled while Sakura let out a laugh. "Oh well, off you go now and you might make it to the last lesson before it ends."

Sakura nodded and walked out from Itachi's office, closing the door after herself. Making Itachi remember that he himself had a lesson in about five minutes and he hadn't finished preparing. He simply sighed and picked out a book from one of his shelves and started looking up something that seemed interesting.

Sakura ran down the marble staircase, down to the transfiguration classroom. When she came in, she immediately sat down beside Harry and Ron by their table. No one seemed to notice her as both her friends jumped when she sat down.

"Sakura!" Ron shouted out as she placed her transfiguration notebook on the table. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be resting?"

It was first now that professor McGonagall turned to them and saw that Sakura had arrived. "Miss Haruno! Surely you should be in bed, I heard of what happened in the great hall during lunch!"

"Oh it's alright, Itachi helped me and I feel well so there's no actual reason for me to be in bed right at the moment when I could be here." Sakura said in a sigh.

"Such irresponsibility! You should go up to the hospital wing right this moment!" Professor McGonagall said in a furious voice making the whole class almost shake in fear. However, Sakura only sat there, reading trough her notebook.

"I said that I'm fine, this has happened to me a lot of times so I know what I can handle and what I can not."

"Professor… You should let her stay. I'm sure that if she says so then she feels perfectly alright." Harry said, Ron and Sakura nodded.

"Well… Alright, you may stay but if I find you complaining or feeling ill then I'll send you right to the hospital wing. And you probably won't be leaving there for some time." Professor McGonagall said.

"Sure, let say that." Sakura said and professor McGonagall continued helping one of the other students.

"You really sure that you should be here?" Harry asked, concern in his in the tone of his voice. It seemed it was so often he had that. "I mean… sure, I helped you right now but that doesn't mean I didn't really meant what I said."

"Oh don't sweat over it, I really feel fine. If I didn't… I am quite sure that I would have told you or stayed in bed." Sakura said. Well… Actually, I wouldn't have told you if that was the case either but they don't really need to know that now do they. "Changing the topic, when does this lesson end? It's not as if I want it to end soon but I can't change the fact that I'm starving"

"The lesson ends in about fifteen minutes." Ron answered and turned back his attention to their assignment that should be finished by the end of the lesson. "Does anyone know how to actually turn this painting into a horse fish?"

The lesson ended with at least a twenty dead horse fish and some blown up paintings. It was quite easy when one had tried it a couple of times, even Sakura, who only had fifteen minutes to finish the task, had at last done it right. Hermione was the only one who had finished it on her first try, giving Gryffindor ten points. But it seemed that the points weren't the reason why she had tried so hard to do it right. She had looked over at Sakura's table as fast as she had done it, she had had such a superior smile on her lips. However, they soon faded as she saw how Sakura, Ron and Harry where laughing at Ron's blown up squid of all things. Everyone had their attention on Hermione, praising her and clapping her on her elbow. Everyone, except the Sakura, Ron and Harry. She didn't care much about Sakura, but Harry and Ron seemed to not notice Hermione at all. Also, Hermione could easily see how much Harry liked Sakura, not only as a friend.

She had to do something about this, get rid of Sakura somehow. The only thing that stopped her was the lack of a good plan. If only that pink haired girl never had come to Hogwarts, if only Hermione didn't have told her it was alright for her to sit beside them. She tried to not care about this when she had stopped being around them and instead fixed her eyes on professor Uchiha. However, that girl had destroyed her dreams there too, being his fiancée. Hermione's only way out now was to break Sakura somehow, break her dreams just like Sakura had broken hers.

"Sakura! Let's go eat, I'm starving!" Ron complained as Sakura got her books.

"Yeah, I'm also really hungry. Wonder what there is to eat…" Sakura said in a cherry voice as they walked away to the great hall. Even this time, Sakura tasted some of the food that Harry and Ron had placed on their plates, much to their irritation, but it ended with her sticking to the rice in the end. However, Harry was still kind of surprised by her change. Normally people wouldn't think much about the fact that she started eating normal food, but to Harry it was a huge change.

When they got back to the common room it started to get dark outside. I should go over to Itachi's office before curfew. But should I tell Harry and Ron or not? Will they actually let me go…?

"Guys, I got to go to the library before curfew, you can go to bed before me just don't wait up, alright?" Sakura said as they sat in the common room, trying to do their homework. Ron only slightly nodded while trying to understand something that Sakura had answered a long time ago.

"What about your homework?" Harry asked. He was sitting reading his advanced potions making book, more like he was reading all those small notes that the person who owned it before had written. Harry had mentioned before that it belonged to the 'half blood prince', whatever that meant.

"That's that I should be asking, really… Is that book THAT interesting?" Sakura asked with a bored tone in her voice. Harry looked up from the book for what seemed like the first time in hours.

"Do you want me to follow you to the library? It wouldn't be good if you came back late…" Harry started but Sakura only shook her head.

"No… I'll be fine." Sakura said and walked to the door "Just don't wait up for me, ok?" Harry and Ron nodded and Sakura left the common room and walked away down the corridor. There where still some students around but only a few, it was getting even darker. At least the Defence against the Dark arts classroom wasn't so far away from the Gryffindor common room. Sakura went into the DADA classroom, locking the doors after herself, and made her way up to his office where he sat in front of a mountain of papers, writing. He smiled at Sakura as she sat down on a chair next to him.

"Good evening, Sakura. No problem coming here I guess?" Itachi asked.

"Good evening… No, no problems at all. Except the fact that I am sure that someone saw me go in here, a guy named Harry Potter and he is listening to us right now."


A/N: Hello, I am sooooo sorry! I was like: "New years special, I should have it up by… Tuesday" however, my brother bought PlayStation 3 and I have been playing Assassins Creed for days. So I have been playing, hypnotized I tell you, and forgotten all about this. The worst this is, before I started playing, I was only two-three hundred words away from finishing this! I fail!

Putting that aside… As I said before, this is an extra long chapter! I should have been longer but the fact that I haven't been sleeping for two nights in a row somehow destroyed that. So the thing that was supposed to be in this chapter has to wait until the next.

Let us see here… Am I evil? Ending the chapter like that? Yes or no? hahaha Lets vote and we'll see. Also, what is Hermione planning? Will she actually break Sakura who, as Harry mentioned, was like glass (and you know how easily that breaks now don't you). Oh well, stay tune for the next chapter of… Digimon!! Oh… no that's wrong… In the dark you are the one I see! (oh god… how the hell did I come up with that name actually? I mean… In the dark you are the one I see? Come on! How long isn't that!)

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//With Love, Neko-chan