Chapter 10 The Dream

Sasuke laid Sakura down on her bed. She was fast asleep and who could blame her, she had been drinking and had screamed the hell out of her lungs.

Sasuke looked down at Sakura's form. He took this time to actually look at how beautiful she was. 'How could I have missed this?' Sasuke thought to himself.

Sakura hair was draping across her face, she had grown into her forehead giving her face an angelic look to it and her lips were fuller. He watched as her chest rose slowly up and down. Her breasts were round and the perfect size, everything was perfect about her.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…. don't…please…don't, please stop" Sakura whispered in her sleep, tears started pouring down her angel-like face.

She was having a nightmare and it pained him to see her cry.

"Itachi STOP!!!" Sakura screamed.

Sasuke growled in anger and started shaking her awake. Why was she having a dream about his brother? She had never met him… had she?

"Sakura, Sakura, wake up!!"

Sakura saw Itachi advancing toward her, he was getting closer and closer. "Sakura, Sakura, wake up!!" Itachi said except it wasn't his voice. It was sasuke's.

Sakura woke up staring into onyx eyes and thought they were Itachi's. She jumped and rolled off her bed, yelling in pain because of her ankle.

"Sakura, it's me"

Sakura recognized the voice as Sasuke's and settled down. She gathered some chakra into her hand and healed her ankle. Tiredly she pulled herself up onto the bed again. She had only gained a small amount of chakra back and was completely exhausted now.

"Tell me what happened" She heard sasuke's voice. His voice was cold and demanding once again. Not like before. "Sakura, why did you say my brothers name?"

"It was just a nightmare, it's nothing to worry about." She said staring at the design on the comforter. Her mind wandered back to the dream and tears started to well up in her eyes.

Sasuke wasn't going to push the subject. It was just a dream no a big deal. He started to get up, but with the moonlights help coming through the window he caught a glimpse of Sakura's eyes. They were gleaming, indicating that she was holding back tears. Sasuke decided that he had to find out what was wrong if she was about to shed tears.

"Sakura, anything that involves my brother, involves me." he said sitting back down beside her.

She thought about the dream once more, trying to decide if she should tell him or not. Sakura pulled her head up and looked out the window. It was dark with only the moon as light. A few stars twinkled at her and she heard a few crickets singing.

"I was in Konoha, on top of the Hokage Mountain. I was looking at the moon, it looked reddish, not it's usual color. I jumped of the mountain and when I landed I was in a house. I walked down a dark hall that had hundreds of doors, but they were all locked. I didn't try opening them but I just knew they were," Sakura paused for a second still looking out the window, "I finally came to the end of the hallway and there was a huge burgundy door, I opened it a found a women and man in their late 30's laying on the floor covered in their own blood. I started to back up but found that I couldn't move. I was chained to the wall. That's when I saw a pair of red eyes advancing toward me. At first I thought they were yours. I called out your name and then he appeared right in front of me." Sakura lowered her head to the bed again. "Itachi said never to say your name again, h-he started striping me of my clothes and said that this was my punishment. I told h-him I was s-s-sorry and t-t-to stop but he didn't. I-I yelled at him to stop. Before I woke up I heard him say 'I'll see you there soon, Sakura." Sakura concluded her dream and wiped a few tears away.

"I'm so pathetic, I shouldn't be shedding tears over a stupid dream." Sakura laughed at herself. She stood up and went to get a Kleenex from her dresser.

"Sakura, I'm leaving." Sasuke said nonchalantly heading for the door.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"Out of Konoha, and don't follow me."

"Why…why are you---I see,I'm still weak and annoying aren't I?" Sakura questioned him with a bewildered expression. "You just said those things to get me off your back." Sakura looked at Sasuke who was facing away from her.

Sasuke pondered about what he was doing. 'Should I leave right now or wait till morning?' Sasuke thought. 'If I leave right now I'll be abl--,'

"I can't believe I left Nej--,"

Sasuke crashed his lips onto hers, "Don't you even think that for a second." Sasuke said after releasing from the kiss.

"Why shouldn't I think that?" Sakura pushed herself away from him. "You say you love me and then all of a sudden you want to leave," Sakura's raised her voice. "Neji would never have done this."

"Please, don't say his name again," Sasuke embraced her. "I don't want any other man to touch you why'll I'm gone." He said quietly, holding her close to him.

"Why won't you tell be why you're going." Sakura struggled in his hold.

"I have to kill Itachi before he gets to you." Sasuke said, feeling her stop struggling he loosened his hold on her. "You said that in your dream he said 'I'll see you there soon Sakura' those are the exact same words Kabuto said before he died. I think he was making a plan with the akatsuki." Sasuke paused.

"I don't get what you mean,… you think the akatsuki want something to do with me?" Sakura asked slightly confused.

"Everyone knows that Itachi is losing his eye sight, and the Akatsuki probably know you've surpassed Tsunade in medical skills. I think he may want you to heal his eyes." Sasuke said releasing her from his grip and looking into her jade eyes.

"I don't want to lose you, Sasuke." Sakura said looking back into his onyx ones.

"You finally said my name." Sasuke said giving Sakura a smile. She didn't smile back.

"Don't leave please." Sakura pleaded.

"I didn't spend all that time with Orochimaru for nothing," Sasuke looked at Sakura "I'm leaving in the morning, and you're not coming with me." He added quickly seeing that she might want to go with him.

Sakura looked away, her hands were shaking and sweaty. A thought struck her, she quickly spoke her mind. "You'll be come a missing nin again. The hokage won't let you back in a second time."

"I've already asked for permission, she said whenever I'm ready I can go." Sasuke said.

Sakura was beat, she didn't know what to do. Sasuke may be stronger than he was before, but she wasn't stupid she knew of Itachi Uchiha's history and what he had done. Killing a whole clan that was very powerful, meant he was more powerful than all of them combined. Deciding she couldn't do anything else to change his mind she turned and ran.

Sasuke saw her run for the door, he went to grab her wrist but missed 'shit' he mentally cursed himself.

Sakura opened the door and started running, she didn't know where she was going she just had to get away. 'What am I doing?' Sakura thought to herself.

'You're running away.' Inner Sakura stated simply.

'I know that, but why?'

'You're running away because you can't bear to see Sasuke leave you again.'

'Why are you always right, don't answer that.' Sakura kept running. She could feel Sasuke catching up to her. She knew she couldn't outrun him. She may be fast, but she was still out of chakra.

"Sakura, just stop!!" Sasuke yelled ahead of him.

Sakura kept running, even though she knew the answer. She didn't want to face it. All of a sudden a branch broke beneath her feet. She felt herself plummeting to the ground, before she hit the ground she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist.

OK here's chapter 10. I'm so happy i really liked this chapter. And just a hint (Who caught Sakura, might not be who you think) that probably gave it away, but anyways. What did you think. I hope you loved it, cuz i know i did. if you don't understand anything about the story just tell me because i reread my whole story and some parts seem kind of confusing to me if i look at it from a readers point of view. Unless i'm just confusing myself by trying to look at it from a readers point of view. Well RxR and ttyl tata for now.

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