A/N—Omg, I love the song Suicide by Rihanna! I'm going to use some of the lyrics inside the story.

Chapter 9

The Monster Inside

Pein cocked his head around to the source of the boulder moving. Someone had returned. He sighed in annoyance, It doesn't take 30 minutes to get food! Deidara is never getting food again! He thought. As he neared to the living room, he didn't face Deidara with take-out boxes but Itachi and his little Sakura. His Rinnengan eyes widened in surprise and happiness as Sakura slowly smiled. She squirmed off Itachi's back as she ran to Pein. He opened his arms as he embraced Sakura in a tight hug.

"Welcome back home, blossom." Pein whispered into Sakura's pink silky hair. As he let go of her, he scanned her for injuries and turned to Itachi. "Good job, she's not hurt so I won't have your head…today. And good job for finishing the mission rapidly." He said. Itachi fidgeted under the leader's glare as he relaxed at his rare compliment.

"I'm going to go change out of my clothes, 'kay Itachi?" she said as she ran up to Itachi and lightly kissed him on his lips as she dashed off into the hallway to her room. "Don't forget to rest your legs after all that running." She yelled as her voice trailed off. Itachi slowly looked at the agitated leader. Pein was very protective over his "daughter" and when she kissed him, he could tell something had changed between them and he tried to keep himself from tearing the man's head off.

"Don't hurt her or she will be the last thing you see." Pein said in a strained voice. As he strolled back to his office, a string of curse words left Pein's mouth. Itachi smirked as Sakura walked out in a short black tank top and pink shorts. The boulder opened once again and revealed a Deidara with take-out boxes in his hands. He was grumbling to himself about him having to do all the work as he saw Sakura. The blonde dropped the food and tackled Sakura into a vice-grip hug.

"You're back! It was so boring without you, yeah." Deidara cried. Sakura tried to smile due to the lack of air Deidara was preventing her from getting. Her face started to turn blue like Kisame before Itachi kicked Deidara off and he landed beside the wall. Itachi grabbed Sakura off the floor and put his arms around her waist as he rest his chin on her head.

"Back off, she's mine." Itachi growled slowly as he tilted her head back to kiss him. Deidara gaped at the two. Itachi, the stoic and emo bastard is dating that beautiful outgoing blossom?! He thought. Deidara picked up the food boxes angrily as he dropped them on the table and stormed off to his room. Sakura giggled lightly and went to go eat. Everyone came out the room and welcomed home Sakura and started to eat.

"Wanna go train outside later, blossom?" Itachi suggested as the other members choked on the food. Pein twitched in anger as he unconsciously snapped his chopsticks.

"Sure." She replied as she finished eating and went to go get her weapons.

"No way, so you and the little innocent pinkette are a thing now? If she still is innocent, you know what I mean?" Kisame said jokingly, nudging Itachi playfully. Pein's eye twitched and he quickly left the table as he repressed himself from turning the members inside out, slowly and painfully. Itachi grunted as a reply as he excused himself from the table.

Everywhere is still, Everything is restless in my heart

Hate the way this feels, suddenly I'm scared to be apart

The Training grounds

"You sure you want to do this? I don't want to heal a broken rib cage afterwards." Sakura said mockingly as she slid on her black gloves. The other members had gathered to watch the sparring match. Itachi smirked at her confidence as his coal black orbs swiveled into a dangerous but mesmerizing Sharringan. "Hey, that's cheating!" Sakura pouted.

"Uchiha's don't play fair." Itachi taunted. Sakura scoffed and and smirked.

"Harunos don't either." She said slyly as her emerald orbs melted into a first stage Rinnengan and then a full Rinnengan like Peins. Itachi gaped at her newly found power and Pein smirked.

"Ok, that's not even fair. You can't win against a Rinnengan!" Itachi said playfully. (A/N—Rinnengan gives the user the ability to manipulate attractive and repulsive forces, mechanized armor, limbs, and weaponry, ability to remove a soul or read minds, summon variety of creatures, absorb ninjustu, control the King of Hell, and rule over life and death.) As Sakura was about to flash-step in front of Itachi, but she doubled over in pain. Pein thought that it was just because of using the Rinnengan for the first time but her pain looked different. Itachi noticed it was like the time she met Orochimaru and ran over to check on her. Her Rinnengan had faded away and into red as the apple-green color flickered. She groaned and fell to her knees. Itachi felt so helpless since he had no idea what was happening. The members had flashed to the field to check on Sakura. Sakura stumbling backwards and she sputtered out in a weak voice,

"S-Stay aw-away, I don't want to—kill you! I will kill you!" a deep voice emerged from her as the malice in the voice rung out. Sakura held her head and screamed in agony. Black wings were slowly materializing in her shoulder blades. Tears flowed out of the red eyes as Sakura tried to push the monster back in…

In Sakura's mind (A/N- bold is the monster and normal is Sakura)

Come on, release the seal and let me destroy these wimps!

These "wimps" are my family and I will not do such thing!

They are holding you back from power. We can kill them and extract their power and rule the world!

Akuma! (The monster's name since I think that means devil in Japanese) You must be idiotic to think that I would agree to that. I will never let you destroy the ones close to me.

Haha! You think I was asking for acceptance? I will destroy you and take over your body! And finally, I can wreck havoc among this wretched world.

Hmph, you always underestimate me. I will use every ounce of my strength to keep you here and I will demolish you when I get the chance to. I will even kill myself to keep you from coming out to hurt my loved ones. Sakura made rapid hand signs and sighed. She put in all her chakra on this justu and concentrated. She jumped up and slammed her palm onto the seal, holding Akuma. The seal started to grow as a burning sensation kept the monster from coming out.

You bitch! You are making a mistake! This is a powerful justu that just might take your life! When the seal wears off, I will, and I repeat, will demolish you!

Sakura gasped as she went unconscious, murmuring to herself, I'm sorry Itachi that we couldn't be together for long.

Back to Reality!

It had been minutes since Sakura had moved and now, her black devilish wings were shriveling and retracting while the blood thirsty eyes returned to sea foam green. Everyone sighed in relief but Itachi took a sharp intake of his breath as her eyelids shut her eyes from the world. She swayed and fell down when Itachi caught her.

"Sakura? Are you okay? Sakura? SAKURA?!" Itachi yelled in anxiety. He shook her angrily as Pein rushed over.

"Honey? Please wake up, we all are waiting for you." Pein pleaded. Itachi used his Sharringan to look inside. Her chakra flow was so slow and empty, it looked like she was already dead. He tried to pump chakra through her but her entries were blocked somehow.

"Sakura?" Itachi managed to choke out between sobs, "Don't give up on me now. My life just started and I can't live without you!" All the other member stared in grief and confusion; they had no idea how to react when their precious little blossom had withered. Sakura opened her eyes but only in her mind. She could see what was going on outside and her heart broke when he heard Itachi scream those heartfelt words. She yelled,

"I'm still alive! I love you Itachi!" But it looked like none of them heard her. How could she see them but they couldn't hear her. Sakura plopped down and cried in despair.

Outside, Itachi buried his head on her stomach as Pein narrowed his eyes, trying to keep his emotions stable. Itachi quietly whispered as he lifted Sakura up,

"I'm going to bring her to her room." He walked out of the training room as he left the other members in sorrow and wonder.

Itachi set Sakura down gently on her bed. He sat down beside her and stroked her hair. "Don't leave me so soon. I'll be back to check on you, I promise." He said as he kissed her pale cold lips and somberly walked out the room. The one thing he cared about in his "new" life might be gone. He walked ouside and punched a tree till it made a crater. He panted with anger and burned up half the forest. Suddenly, a small tinkling voice shook Itachi's head, Don't do this, don't worry. I'm still alive Itachi blinked furiously as he heard the voice. Had he gone crazy already?! But somehow, the voice calmed him down as he walked back to the hideout.

Pein put his head in his hands. His daughter was now half dead and he couldn't do anything. Even with the power of the Rinnengan, he couldn't bring back Sakura. Something menacing was blocking his way before he could even reach her essence. It was the first time in a long period of his life that he was worried about someone. He grabbed a pen and started finishing the large pile of paperwork to keep his mind off the situation but even after an hour and half of work, he couldn't deny how worried he was.

The days are dark when you're not around; the air is getting hard to breath

It had already been a week since that incident and Sakura still hadn't stirred. All the member checked on her but she never improved. Itachi visited every night and his heart broke a little every time, seeing his prized jewel so weak and vulnerable to death. He combed through her very light pink hair and slowly got off the bed. He walked to the door and cast one last glance at her before he shut the door…

A/N—Hey guys! I know it's kinda a sad chapter since I based it off the awesome song, suicide. Hope you guys liked it and thx for reading.

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-Darkblossom19