"Sakura, WAIT!" was all Sakura heard as she raced for Sasuke's room. She didnt bother to take the elevator, that would waste too much time. She ran to the staircase on the other side of the hospital, separate from the ones that the doctors and nurses were running up. She didnt stop, she just kept running. A disadvantage of going up this staircase, was that she was farther away from Sasukes room. But she didnt care. She had to get up there.

She ran up to the third floor, not even pausing to catch her breath. She ran straight for Sasukes room, who had a couple nurses running in. When she reached the door, she slung it open and stepped inside. Doctors and nurses were surrounding the Uchiha, she couldn't even see Sasuke.

"Sasuke!" Sakura screamed, running through two nurses, one who held an IV. She could see him now, but barley. Someone had stripped Sasukes shirt off, and they began to give him CPR.

A nurse grabbed Sakura's elbow. "You cannot be in here! We need you to leave, now." she said as calmly as possible, but her tone was tense. Everyone in the room was tense. Sasuke Uchiha, younger brother of the legendary Itachi Uchiha, was on the verge of dying. They were determined to save him.

"Sasuke!" Sakura yelled again, ignoring the small nurse that was pulling on her elbow.

"You have to leave, you cannot be here!"

"Let me go!" Sakura screamed, pushing the nurse off of her. "Sasuke! Stay with me! Please!" she called over the mess of rushing doctors and nurses.

"Get that girl out of here!" The doctor yelled who was doing CPR on Sasuke.

Another nurse came and grabbed Sakura's other arm. "You have to leave! This is not allowed"-

"Sasuke! I love you so much!" Sakura screamed, tears beginning to flow down her cheeks. "Please don't leave me!"

A doctor moved aside to grab something, and thats when Sakura saw Sasukes face. It was pale. Paler than usual, and he looked cold. He looked absolutely lifeless. Then she heard the worst words she had ever heard.

"His heart has stopped! We need to pump him!"

Sakura's heart sank. Her knees began to buckle, and she fell on the ground. The nurses almost came along with her, but they stood firmly.

"Security!" one of them yelled. Sakura didnt even know which one it was that yelled. All she could hear over and over again, was the words that repeated in her mind.

"His heart has stopped."

Suddenly, Sakura was lifted straight off of the ground. She was grabbed from the waist, and her back was facing the person who had lifted her. She could tell it was a man and his arm was very muscular. The man was huge.

He began to take her out of the room. Tears flew down Sakura's cheeks as she looked at Sasukes lifeless body. "Clear!" the doctor screamed, as a wave of electricity flowed through Sasukes body. His body shook. Sakura's heart scorched with pain.

"Sasuke!" she screamed as she was taken out of the room, the door shut behind her.

After she couldnt see Sasuke anymore, her mind went blank. Her heart sank. It felt like someone had taken a knife and literally stabbed it in there. Stabbed it in there and is twisting it. She loved Sasuke, she didnt understand why this was happening. She so badly hated herself. She was the reason Sasuke was dying. If he had never gotten in front of her, if she would have at least tried to push him out of the way...

"Sakura!" her thoughts were interrupted. She hadn't even noticed Naruto running towards her and the mystery man. He ran all the way up to her and held his arms out for her. Without hesitation, the man handed her over to Naruto, who held her bridal style. "Sakura, are you alright?" he asked, looking down at her.

"She saw Sasuke Uchiha," the man replied. Now that Sakura could get a good look at him, she noticed he was a very hefty security guard. His eyes were saddened. "He is dying."

A single tear escaped her eye. "Sasuke..." she mumbled, she felt on the verge of passing out.

"Take her." the security guard said to Naruto. "She needs you." then he turned around and began to walk away. Naruto held her tightly against his chest, as he began carrying her to the end of the hallway. At the end of the hallway, there was two single chairs that sat by a window. Naruto sat her down in one gently.

"Sakura?" Naruto said, as he took a seat in the chair next to her. Naruto put his arm around Sakura's shoulders. "Sakura?"

Sakura shook his arm off and pulled her knees into the chair. She shoved her face into her knees, and wrapped her arms around her legs. She began to cry harder than she had before. Naruto was speechless, and didnt know what to say or do. He awkwardly looked to the ground.

"I saw him, Naruto..." Sakura spoke through sobs. "He is dying...hes not going to make it..."

"Don't say that, Sakura," Naruto said, his body tensing up at her words. Naruto knew more than anyone, that Sasuke was going to die anyway. He knew it the moment that the doctors had said that he would not be coming out of his coma. But, even knowing this, he refused to be down in front of Sakura, and even through this, he would remain strong for her...even though his best friend was dying. He sniffed, holding back tears of his own. "Im sure...he'll be fine..." he lied.

"Don't lie to me, Naruto..." Sakura snapped at him through her sobs. "I cant live in a fantasy anymore...he is going to die...he is..." she continued. "He is...hes already dead. Hes been dead for the last few months...its false hope."

"Sakura"-

"Don't you get it?" Sakura yelled, sitting up from her knees. "Sasuke is going to die! Stop living in a universe where he will live! Just give up, Naruto!"

"No!" Naruto yelled back, not meaning to be so firm. This caught Sakura by surprise. Not many times in her life had Naruto been firm with her. "Sakura, im trying to be strong...for you! How can I help you if I just burst into tears right now? I cant! Its already killing me enough to see you so upset...you're my best friend other than Sasuke! I hate seeing you like this!" Naruto ranted.

"Naruto, im sorry that I'm hurting you, but I love Sasuke! I cant help it!" Sakura cried back.

"I know, I understand, I do, Sakura...I just..." Naruto trailed off.

"He is trying to be strong for your benefit." A familiar voice came from an unknown place. Naruto and Sakura gasped as they looked around the hallway.

They didn't look for long, because soon the person whos voice it belonged to, appeared right before them. Of course the familiar voice belonged to Itachi, Sakura felt a shutter go down her spine.

Itachi was dressed in an ANBU outfit. He must have gotten back from a short mission. He held his animal-like mask in his right hand and his sharingan was ablaze. His sharingan met with Sakura's emerald for a quick moment, until Sakura looked away. She shoved her face back down into her knees, and Itachi's focus flicked over to Naruto's. He let out a silent sigh, one that only he could hear himself. Naruto tried to lighten up a little, as he sighed a sigh of his own.

"Itachi," Naruto said quietly. "You've already heard, huh?"

"I have," Itachi nodded looking towards the ground. "Word travels fast...almost too fast, its almost frightening." he said with a small smirk, trying to lighten up the mood, having Sakura in mind when he said it. She gave no response to him, she just continued to sob to herself quietly.

"ANBU?" Naruto asked, his eyes flickering to Sakura and back to him.

"One of the doctors told an ANBU. The ANBU reported to me immediately." he said calmly. "I came as soon as I heard."

"We were just about to leave, then..." Naruto trailed off. "You know."

Itachi nodded simply. He looked at Sakura once again. "Their not letting people in?" he asked, the question was directed to Naruto. Naruto shook his head slowly while looking at the ground. Itachi sighed a sigh that was audible to everyone now. "I see."

"How can you be so calm about all this?" Sakura finally screamed, jerking her head up to face Itachi. She was staring right into his sharingan, but she didnt care. Her eyes were foggy from tears. "Your only brother is dying...the only member of your family left...how are you so calm?"

"There is no reason to freak out," Itachi answered calmly. "If I freaked out, then it would only add stress onto other people...such as you."

"What?" Sakura asked angrily.

"I can see you are greatly hurt by this and very stressed...if I was to freak out, then it would only add stress onto you...I don't want to do that." Itachi replied back as calmly as possible.

"Are you saying that you don't care that Sasuke Is dying?"

"Not at all," Itachi replied. "In fact, I can almost guarantee that im hurting far more than you are...I just choose to show it in a different fashion."

"By standing there with a pathetic smirk on your face, by standing there trying to "lighten up the mood"? Thats how you show your hurting?"

"To be fair, I was trying to lighten everything up for you, Sakura. I was thinking of your benefit."

"Well stop it, because your only making things worse!" Sakura snapped.

"Sakura, hes just trying to help"- Naruto began but got cut off by the angry pinkette.

"Shut up, Naruto! The only thing that he could possibly help out with, is helping me go to an early grave!" Sakura screamed, jabbing her finger in his direction.

"Why are you acting like this?" Naruto asked jumping out of his seat. "You and Itachi got along so well!"

"Because he's ruined everything!" Sakura yelled, jumping out of her own seat. Naruto stepped in-between Itachi and Sakura, just to try and avoid a bickering fight, since he knew she wouldnt dare strike him. "You've ruined everything!" she yelled, tears flowing down her cheeks. Itachi's expression did not change, he simply remained as calm as possible.

"Sakura, what are you TALKING about?" Naruto asked, completely confused with what she was talking about.

Sakura was about to go on another rant, when all of a sudden, her vision became darkened. Her hearing began to go out and she couldn't hear anything Naruto began to say to her. She just saw his lips moving. She looked past Naruto, and saw Itachi, who's eyes were staring at her, not so calm now. She suddenly couldn't stand straight anymore, and she saw Itachi shove Naruto to the side, and grabbed her as she was falling. He picked her up into his arms and looked down at her, and began to yell her name, although she couldn't hear him.

And then she slowly passed out.

Authors note: so, that chapter was pretty intense, huh? Well, have no fear, this IS a ItaSaku story just like I promised...I know the way things are going pretty "bad" for the couple right now, but things will clear up ;) I believe in happy endings! :D review! No flames :)