Series: Touch

Author: Juniper11

Pairing: ItaSakuSasuKaka

"My initial idea was to have you stop circulating your chakra and die that way however that's no longer an option since somehow your body isn't…going to allow that to happen. What we have to do first is essentially kill you."

Sakura sat on the couch in her living with her elbow resting on her thigh and her palm cupping her face. They had moved to her living room shortly after she had agreed to hearing Kakashi out. She forced herself to keep a distinct amount of distance between them because in all honesty she wanted no distance at all. She wanted to curl her body around them and make sure that she didn't know where they ended and she began.

Sakura curbed her mind from her wandering thoughts seeming as though they were dangerous and something in Kakashi's eye dared her to make her thoughts a reality so she allowed her mind to blank and forced herself to truly listen to his words. It wasn't long after that she realized Kakashi had just said that he was going to have to kill her to save her life. The situation smacked of irony and she honestly couldn't believe she was sitting calmly while they talked about ways to kill her. Maybe her brain was damaged or maybe she was just loosing it. Regardless, the whole situation was surreal.

"She could overdose." Sasuke suggested which Itachi quickly negated.

"We don't want to do anything that would harm her body in the future."

"If we're bringing her back it shouldn't matter." Sasuke countered.

"Yes, and we want it to make bringing her back as easy as possible. It should be like she just went to sleep and we're shaking her awake."

"…smother her?" Sasuke said a bit hesitantly and met Sakura's eyes briefly before looking away.

"And are you going to do it?" Kakashi asked his whole tone of voice saying there was no way in hell he was going to hold a pillow over Sakura's head and watch as she struggled for air.

"Then the two of you come up with something if you're going to reject my every idea."

Itachi turned to Sakura speaking to her for the first time since they left her bedroom. "How susceptible are you to genjutsu?"

Sasuke answered for her, "She's not. Not really. She has two Sharingan wielders on her team and even before that she good at recognizing it."

Sakura bit her lip surprised that Sasuke had even noticed her abilities. He typically ignored her, was rude to her, and treated her like she was barely a friend. Maybe she meant a little more to Sasuke than what she originally thought.

"So you'd recognize it but that essentially doesn't matter. I propose putting her under genjutsu so that she doesn't know what method we use."

"No. She'd be worried about what was happening around her. She'd dispel the jutsu out of pure panic." Kakashi stated.

"She won't." Itachi said looking it to Sakura's eyes. "I'll make sure of it."

When someone says they're going to do something to make you not worry about someone else trying to kill you it kind of makes you nervous. They wouldn't tell her when they were going to 'off' her and it had her a little on edge. Especially since she didn't know if they were really going to be able to bring her back. It wasn't like they could do a test run on someone else. She constantly felt like she was watching her back because they were always there…looking over her shoulder…waiting for the chance to kill her.

It was scary, especially when you knew that Uchiha Itachi, prize ninja of Konoha, virtual stranger to Haruno Sakura, had something to do with it.

However, when they did kill her it was an experience that she'd never, ever regret.