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Pairing: ItaSaku

Italics-Thoughts or flashbacks or possibly song lyrics

Bold-Inner Sakura

Summary: Haruno Sakura goes undercover as ANBU Ishida Yume to get closer to Uchiha Itachi of the infamous Akatsuki. But how will Itachi act around Yume? And more importantly, how will he react when he finds out that Yume is really his brother's former teammate? ItaSaku.

'Anata Wa…?'

'And You Are…?'

By: Shadowsakura321

He knew Deidara was there. He just didn't care. Just acknowledged. So when Itachi stepped out, Deidara shouldn't have been that surprised. Itachi hit Deidara's neck pressure point. A curse echoed threw out the hall. Deidara slumped down to the cold ground. Red eyes looked unemotionally at his slumped figure, his blonde hair covering his face and bright blue eyes.

The metal tray clattered to the ground as the wooden chopsticks rolled of the tray and onto the tile.

The white ramen bowl broke, sending shards and pieces of glass out flying. The steaming ramen noodles and soup fell out of the bowl. Itachi vanished, going to find Sakura.

They needed to talk.

She had the vial. She had informed Konoha. Now what? Just leave? Sakura sleepily rolled over on her bed and stared at the plain ceiling. Slowly, she stretched her hand out to grab something on the night stand near her bed. The stand was dark cedar with an emblem of three triangles lined up next to each other, a line going threw. Sakura opened the little container that held the things inside of it.

A sad smile crossed her face.

'I'm not needed anymore' 'The mission is complete'

'They will never get Naruto-kun and even if they get his blood, they will never get mine'

Tears formed in her eyes. 'NANI?' 'I can't believe your going to do this!'

'It's for the best…'

Sakura sensed Itachi's chakra coming towards her. Footsteps echoed the quiet halls, gradually getting louder and louder. Itachi opened the door to find Sakura asleep, an unreadable expression crossing her face. Itachi quirked an eyebrow.

He couldn't hear her breathing. Rushing over, Itachi rolled Sakura over on her stomach. To any other person, it would look like she was just napping. The blanket covering every inch of her, the curtains pulled down so she could sleep better. But to a shinobi…

Itachi pressed two fingers against her temple in her neck. He moved his body closer. Crash! Something glass fell to the ground. Itachi's red eyes traveled down. It was a small, oval-shaped glass container with an opening side. It was in pieces, with three little things spilled out nearby. Itachi barely had the chance to stop his eyes from widening.

Pills.

Neji and Sasuke were competing to see who would get to the Cloud first. They passed each other in the treetops, annoying their comrades. Temari wanted to take out her huge fan and swish them all the way to Konoha were Sasuke would be bombarded with questions and Tsunade would deal with an angry Neji. They would send each other nasty glares every few minutes. Oddly, the two prodigies cared about one girl.

Sakura.

She had melted their hearts and was kind. Pretty, short-tempered, and even scary sometimes. But she always offered a kind heart. Uchiha Itachi and the Akatsuki were fearful people. Hyuga or Uchiha: they wouldn't know what to do if something had happened to Sakura. Also, they wouldn't be that surprised if Naruto and Gaara would transform into Shukaku and Kyuubi.

Everyone cared about Sakura.

Sasuke clenched his fists as Neji passed him, sending a cold breeze his way. The darkening sky was getting a dark blue as the stars were coming out. The ferns and shrubs swayed in the wind. Sasuke saw a squirrel scurry up into a tree. "How close are we by the Cloud?" Sasuke hissed to Shikamaru. Shikamaru looked at his surroundings. "We're close, about only another four hours" he replied. Naruto punched a fist in the air.

"Yeah!" "We can go rescue Sakura-chan and I'll show everyone how powerful and strong I am!" Naruto boasted. Next to him, Hinata blushed while Temari rolled her eyes. Sasuke looked back and couldn't help but smirk. Something's really never changed.

'Sasuke-kun!'

'Yeah, Sasuke-kun show them!'

'I…I-I was wondering i-if I could sit n-next to you…'

'Welcome back Sasuke-kun!!!'

'You taught me that solitude was painful!'

Sasuke gritted his teeth together and forced himself to go faster. White eyes looked back to see Sasuke gaining speed. Neji smirked. Sasuke didn't know that Sakura now liked him. Sasuke and Sakura were over.

"Sasuke-teme, wait for me!!!" Naruto wailed, jumping over a thicket of leaves and branches. Neji whizzed past the stumps and trees. His hands were clenched. He had finally found someone to love. Someone to care about.

And of course, Uchiha Itachi had to be associated with her.

Kisame and Sasori were looking over Itachi's shoulder. Deidara fearfully looked at the cold figure of Sakura. Sweet, nice, powerful…suicidal?? Deidara bit his lip and pressed an ice pack tighter on his forehead. After he had woken up, there was a throbbing pain in his head.

Two medic-nins rushed into the room. One pressed his hands together and put them on Sakura's cold forehead. A light blue chakra emitted from his hands. The other one was quickly mixing things together in a little vial.

Sasori watched with curiosity as the medic-nin threw in a little green powder. "What is that?" he asked. The nin looked up and held up the vial. A clear liquid was inside. "It looks useless but when drunk; it sends electric shock waves up into the heart, trying to get it to start again" "Still no pulse" the other medic-nin said frantically, putting two fingers on Sakura's neck.

The last medic nin quickly finished stirring the white liquid. "Open her mouth" he ordered to Itachi. Uchiha Itachi wasn't a man to play with. Still, he gently pried Sakura's lips apart. A weird feeling crossed him. Really. Weird. The medic-nin put some medicine in Sakura's mouth. They waited for about two minutes. The medic put two fingers again on Sakura's neck.

His face was grim. "I'm sorry" he said. Deidara peered over Itachi, the ice pack slipping from his hands. He gulped.

"Yume-chan…yeah?"

"Byakugan!"

Veins appeared along the sides of Neji's pale face as light lavender, possibly pure white eyes hardened. Past trees, shrubs, shops and basically the whole Cloud, Neji saw a huge building, camouflaged in the thicket of bushes. Neji sensed Sakura's faint chakra coming from the fort. "She's on the outskirts of the Cloud" he said. "Just like the last fort" Temari whispered.

Shikamaru nodded "yeah, remember this is the Akatsuki" "From what I heard from Hokage-sama, she says that they are trying to do something very powerful and very dangerous" he said. Naruto looked over at Shikamaru.

His blue eyes shone with interest. "Shikamaru, what exactly did Tsunade-baachan tell you?" he questioned. Everyone looked at the Team captain. Shikamaru sighed. "All she said was that it was something very special and deadly" "If the Akatsuki would succeed, then the five shinobi nations would perish" Hinata shuddered. What power.

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, annoyed. "Damn troublesome criminals" he muttered. Shikamaru barely dodged the iron fan that was coming his way.

"Stop!" Neji yelled. Every shinobi skidded to a stop, their chakra sticking to the branches, making their feet stick to the bottom. Naruto wobbled on a thin branch. Hinata gently but firmly grasped his arm, a small smile plastered on her face.

"What-t i-is it Neji-niisan?" Hinata asked.

Sasuke activated his Sharingan. Glassy black eyes turned a dark red with spinning commas. He reached for his Kusanagi sword. "I have no time for this…" he hissed. Temari stepped back, her eyes wide with alert and fear. "Nani?!" "How did they find us?" she cried. About ten ninja's-all clad in white, purple and black surrounded them in the trees and on the ground. The same symbol was sketched across their headbands.

In the middle of the group knelt a man. Silver hair was pulled behind his back. He got up and smiled. "Hello, Sasuke-kun…" Kabuto whispered, smirking and pushing up his glasses.

Tsunade looked at the ANBU kneeling on the ground in front of her. "Any news from Nara Shikamaru's team?" she demanded. The ANBU solemnly shook his head. "No Hokage-sama but we have received news from sand shinobi that the team has picked up Uchiha Sasuke" Tsunade slammed her fists on the table. "What?" "He is a missing-nin of Konoha!" she said. The ANBU nodded "hai Hokage-sama"

"Temari-sama of Suna called in saying that they found Uchiha Sasuke lying in rubble"

"Apparently, when the group got to the Akatsuki hideout in the Sand, everyone was already gone, leaving a torn apart fort and a nearly dead Sasuke" he said.

Tsunade nodded. "And Sakura…?" she whispered. The ANBU's eyes were downcast. Every shinobi admired the great Haruno Sakura. She was the spirit of the ANBU department. "There has been no further news about Sakura-hime, Hokage-sama" the ANBU said quietly. Tsunade shut her eyes. "Thank you" she replied.

"You may go now"

The ANBU nodded and put his index and middle finger together. He was gone in a puff of smoke. Tsunade reached for the next sake bottle in the closet. To her dismay, they were already empty. "Shizune!" Tsunade yelled. Shizune walked into the room, headfirst with papers. "Yes Tsunade-sama" she asked wearily. Nervously, she looked at Tsunade. Her chakra was fierce.

A small, scary smile appeared on her face. "Please bring in Maito Gai and Rock Lee" she stated.

The smile turned into an angry frown.

"I need to hurt someone"

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Naruto yelled, attacking two ninjas. "Kage bunshin no justu!" Dozens of Naruto clones appeared on the branches, kunai's in hands. Effortlessly, Neji wiped out three of them with his Hakkesho Kaiten. Sharingan blazing, Sasuke fought one shinobi. He dodged the poison needles Kabuto sent at him. "What are you doing?!" he yelled at Kabuto. Kabuto smirked "remember our little deal Sasuke-kun?"

"The three years is basically up"

"We talked saying that if you pretended to be beaten by Itachi and let Shikamaru's team take you in, you would press the little red button on the tracker I put on you"

"That way we would know where you guys were so we could ambush you"

Kabuto's smirk grew wider. "All part of the plan" he stated. Neji growled "Uchiha…" he said murderously.

Sasuke's eyes widened "no, I didn't do anything like that!" he defended.

"BASTARD!" Naruto flew towards him; blue eyes now a fierce red. Naruto punched Sasuke in the stomach. Sasuke went crashing into a tree. "You betrayed us!!" Naruto yelled angrily. The Kyuubi's chakra was now visible. His whiskers were growing out as his voice was getting deeper.

Naruto's face was clouded in rage. Blood ran down from Hinata's shirt. She was slashed with a pointed katana. "Naruto-kun…" she whispered, in fear.

Temari swung her fan back. Large, cold gusts of wind blew straight at the ninja. Shikamaru flew backwards, his arms flailing. He scraped himself as he hit a tree, his arms shooting up for him to grab a branch. He steadied himself from the wind. Temari was in front of him. "The point is for you to get them, not us!" Shikamaru yelled.

Temari ignored him, throwing kunai at the ninja. Temari gasped as her fan went wild. The gusts of wind were getting stronger now, like a hurricane. But they weren't attacking the Sound nin, they were attacking her comrades. "TEMARI!" Tenten screamed as she was flung back into a tree. Temari winced "I don't know how to stop it!" she yelled. Shikamaru braced himself against the trunk of the tree and planted his feet on the branch.

Temari fell to the ground, her fan stopping. They were high up in a tree. It was a tall oak tree with tons of green leaves and branches. Of course, Shikamaru had to be on a branch high up in the tree.

And of course, Temari had to falling from that same branch. If she hit the ground, she would be dead in a matter of seconds. And then, Gaara would kill Shikamaru. Shikamaru quickly preformed some hand seals to grab her with his shadow.

Temari arched her head back. Her fan was on the ground. Tenten groaned as she clutched her throbbing head. Shikamaru hoisted Temari up. He looked into her eyes. They were blank. Completely blank as if she was dead. It was frightening. "She's under a genjutsu!" Shikamaru yelled to Tenten who was trying to get up. A sound ninja sped towards Shikamaru. Shikamaru cursed under his breath.

Suddenly, Hinata was in front of him, kunai in hand. "It's a clone" she whispered to him. She threw the kunai at the fake. It poofed into smoke. "Take care of Temari, I want to go help everyone else" she said. Shikamaru nodded and lay Temari on the branch. She was under a powerful spell so it would take some time. He smiled. "Hinata" he stated. Hinata turned around. "Yes?" she asked.

He grinned "your not stammering anymore" he said. Hinata smiled "Sakura is like my idol and I'm not going to let these ninjas get in my way" she stated boldly.

Blood spurted from Sasuke's mouth. "I'll teach you about betraying us again you bastard!!" Naruto yelled. Neji grabbed Naruto before he could deliver anymore punches or kicks. "We need to kill off these shinobi" "We can worry about Uchiha later" he growled. "We need to get to Sakura"

Naruto felt a soft hand on his shoulder. "Neji-niisan is correct Naruto-kun" Hinata whispered. Naruto nodded and glared at Sasuke.

"You're lucky" he threatened.

The room was an eerie silent. No one dared to speak. Sakura looked as if she was dead, her skin deathly pale. "'I'm sorry?" Kisame repeated. Deidara looked at the medic-nins.

"Is that you could have done, yeah?"

Itachi hid his emotions as usual but felt something strange bubble inside of him. Pain? Regret?

A medic-nin spoke softly as the other one nodded…

"She's dead"

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