Itachi had his hands in her hair running his fingers through it over and over, tugging on it here and there gripping her head, kissing her hard, maddeningly so.

She rubbed against him willingly urging him to do more, to touch her more, to kiss her ...more. He ran his tongue over her lips and she parted them for him. She took his tongue with hers and moaned into his mouth, making him press her further into their bed.

His hands left her hair and came to the front of her shirt tugging at the buttons to remove it from her person. He threw it to the floor as soon as it was undone and asked her," Do you want me Sakura, do you love me?"

"Yes, Itachi." and she reached up and brought his mouth to her again as he took off his shirt. They broke away for him to pull it over his head and she started to untie his pants while he removed his forearm guards and those too got thrown to the floor.

"You need to get out of those pants Mrs. Uchiha," He said to her as she pulled his now loose waisted pants down , bunching them at his hips. He lifted his body and slid them down off his feet as he tugged at her skirt and shorts.

"Mrs. Uchiha?, but we aren't married .' She smiled at him as she spread her hands over his chest feeling his warm skin slide over her now naked body.

"We will be soon, I am the Clan heir, and when we join together, we will be married by Uchiha clan laws." He kissed her then, his tongue pushing past her teeth into her mouth, she moaned and mewled rocking up against his body, it felt so good.

-Finally! Took you guys long enough damn it-

Shut up she told herself, quiet, I want to enjoy this.

Silence.

Itachi ran his hands down the sides of her body moaning and nipping at her lips, her neck then moving down her body to rest his head against her chest in between her naked breasts.

"I love you. I love you Sakura. Don't ever leave me." He looked up to her as she looked down over her chest r, he looked so good there, he belonged there. Her eyes bled red and she gasped. Everything was so clear and...beautiful, he was so handsome. She sighed.

He hugged her and his eyes bled red matching hers as he kissed her breasts one by one taking a nipple into his mouth he sucked it gently caressing her other breast, rubbing his legs against hers.

"I want to taste you Sakura, I want to own you." He moved lower on her body kissing her inch by inch, her tummy, her hip, the inside of her thigh, his hands making little swishing motions back and forth on her inner thighs.

She looked down across the length of her body at him with small mewl and she closed her eyes as he pushed her legs apart with his hands and licked her entrance with his tongue, fingers splayed across her things keeping her legs open for him.

He purred into her as he slid his tongue up inside her, she jerked and moved but he held her firm and kissed her.

"Itachi," she begged, "Please." she moaned.

"Please what," he smiled as he licked her once more and moved his tongue over her clit.

"Please , now, Itachi.' He laughed softly and kissed her one last time moving up over her body, so soft, he said to himself, so beautiful.

His hands were in her hair again and he was kissing her deeply, she could taste herself on his lips and she groaned low and deep. He kneaded her legs open gently, raising up and over her, he lined his member up with her entrance, she raised her ass up to meet him and he slid into her slowly, gasping for air and holding his breath, he stopped just short of her last line of resistance and looked her in the eye, asking. She nodded and he slid into her, breaking the last barrier of their relationship, driving himself home.

A sharp intake of breath and of pain brought him out of his daze and he stopped for a moment and kissed her, she moved against him and he started to move with her. She reached down and green chakra flooded her hand healing herself and easing the pain. He pushed in a little deeper and was rewarded with a small gasp of pleasure. He moved out and in again kissing her though every motion.

She brought her hips up to his with such force his head dropped to her forehead and he groaned loudly. He drew out of her to his tip and then thrust back into her hard, she cried out his name "Itachi," like a curse and bit his neck.

"Sakura." He couldn't hold back anymore, he couldn't be gentle. He wanted to own her, he pulled out and thrust back in over and over bringing her to the edge and backing off to let her fall then lifting her with his arms around her back he flipped her so she was on top of him. He held her by her waist and pushed and pulled her on top of him till she caught her rhythm and moved over him slowly at first then faster as she learned how to move. He lay under her breathing hand gripping the covers rough under his fists as she rode him, her breasts bouncing as she moved, his cock hard deep within her.

"Sakura, I'm close, are you, can you, how can I make you come." He gasped trying to hold onto his sanity.

She slid off of him and kissed his cheek, he leaned over her taking her by the legs and pulling her to the end of the bed, "Bend over wife' and she bent over the end of the bed, before she could even lay her chest on the bed he was inside her, her legs spread wide taking him in deeper and deeper, she cried out in pleasure as he leaned over the back of her biting her neck.

'Itachi I'm coming, Itachi." She mewled over and over whispering his name. He smiled and grit his teeth at the same time. "So beautiful, so beautiful and mine, mine." He thrust into her hard and came , once then twice into her gripping her ass as he stayed locked inside of her, slowly stepping back and climbing back into their bed dragging her on top of him, they lay there spent, sweat slick on their bodies.

Her head rested against his chest, his arms enveloped her.

"Wife." He whispered to her, his chin resting on the top of her head, her hair spilling over his chest sticking to his face.

"Husband." She curled her fingers into his and brought his hand to tuck beneath her chin and kissed it.

"I love you."

Itachi came to a stop just outside of Amegakure, The Village Hidden by Rain as the sun was rising. Sakura stopped beside him and they looked at the village together.

"Welcome home Sakura." He smiled at her.

"Fucking hell." The words cracked in his head and his voice cracked as they came out of bloodied lips.

Kakashi hurt all over. His arm was broken he thought has he lay crumpled on his side in a very uncomfortable imitation of a crappy rock garden. Red, everything was tinted red. Concussion? Probably. He didn't move.

Ragged breathing met his ears and he tried to zone in on it, Sasuke?

"Sasuke." Kakashi called out for the boy. "Sasuke?"

"Ka...Kakashi." Sasuke groaned, "My eyes. He took...my eyes." Sasuke said weakly.

"Naruto ?" Kakashi said, "Why would…"

"Itachi, Itachi took my eyes." Sasuke said and coughed, a gurgly weak wet cough. He has blood in his lungs. "He took my eyes and he took Sakura, Kakashi, go , you have to get her back."

"When, do you know how long?" Kakashi asked

No answer. Kakashi listened , was Sasuke breathing? Shit. Sakura. Fucking Itachi! He had tried to warn her. Damn damn damn!

Where did Naruto go?

Get up you old dog, get up, you have to get to Sasuke, he yelled at himself, you have to get to Sakura, she is in danger, get up! He couldn't move. Fucking hell, not again. He was going to lose everyone he loved all over again.

Itachi led her to a bridge leading to the main part of the village. It was raining. He held his hand up to a post and his ring glowed crimson and he motioned her through the rail. "I had to unlock it for you to enter." He took her hand and they walked across the bridge.

"We will be going to the tallest tower, it is where Leader Sama lives, he will want to meet you right away." Itachi said to her smiling.

"The leader of the Akatsuki?" Sakura's eyes went wide.

"Yes" he smiled at her, "Don't worry, he will welcome you, you are amazing and strong, how could he not want you to join us." He led them across the village to a very tall dark and rusty tower.

"You said it was too soon for me to join though." She was a bit nervous.

"With Sasuke's eyes, it is time. You are ready now, we are ready." He kissed her hand. "I will not be parted from you again." They walked up the steps of the tower together and went inside.

"Haruno San, it is a pleasure to meet you in person at last." Pein's deep voice flooded over her.

-He is strong, not as strong as Itachi, but very strong-

"The pleasure is mine Pein Sama." Sakura bowed formally to him

He smiled at the respectful gesture.

"Itachi San will be your mentor as you are both from Konoha and will explain to you the rules and the ways of our organization but first, we must test your skills." Pein said , purple ringed eyes of the rinnegan fixed on her green ones.

"Leader Sama, Haruno San has recently acquired the eyes of my deceased younger brother Uchiha Sasuke. She will need time to adjust to their power and make it her own. She has also developed...two new tomes, due to her own attributes in combination to the Mangekyo sharingan of my brothers." Itachi told him with pride clear in his voice.

"Has she." Pein's gaze did not waver from her face but seemed to intensify greatly, she felt a weight fall on her, as if her chakra was being analyzed.

She tilted her head to the side and gazed back at him, just as intensely, focusing her chakra on him and pushing his back away from her.

He smiled and inclined his head to her.

She nodded and smiled back.

"We will test you in a weeks time Haruno San. I am..looking forward to it." Pein inclined his head once more.

They had been dismissed.

Itachi led her down the hallway to the stairs and out of the tower.

"We will be in a different tower by the park. For now, we will stay in separate rooms. I do not think it wise to let them know we are married yet. Let them get to know you, respect your skill then , in time we can tell them." He said.

"I understand." She nodded, it made sense. This was all new to her, she trusted him.

They went into a tower by the park like he had said, it was nice and not at all what she had expected. They had come off the street into the main lobby. There were rich dark red carpets on the floors and strange pictures on the walls in frames. A grand stairway led up to the second floor.

"Your rooms will be on this floor to the left and mine are to the right." He walked her to the left. Off the grand stairway there was a small sitting area with a small table and two chairs, a few bookshelves with books and a big oak door at the opposite entrance from where they stood.

Through the oak door were her private rooms he explained. It was an open floor plan, she had a small breakfast nook with a mini fridge, sink and single person hotpot, it was very luxurious and she smiled. A large comfortable futon sat on a raised platform across from a huge window that took up most of the wall and the bathroom to the right.

She went to the bathroom door and slid it open to find an old style bamboo round bath with bucket and dipper, a sink and modern toilet.

"This is amazing Itachi." She smiled at him.

"It is the nicer of the two rooms. I moved out of this one about 2 years ago when I considered you joining me here. I , wanted it to be ready for you, when you came." He blushed...Uchiha Itachi was blushing at her! It was adorable.

"You had planned on me coming to be with you, 2 years ago? " She stared at him.

" You thought I was a crow." he pointed out.

"It just seems unreal, being here with you. Finding out Naruto is a traitor. Sasuke...his eyes, my new eyes and Kakashi." She looked down at her hands and bit her lip.

Itachi's eyes had hardened when she had said Kakashi's name.

"It will take some getting used to but I think you could be very happy here, with me." He tried to calm down, this was a shock for her, so much had changed so suddenly. He needed to be understanding and supportive.

"I have to write my report, please, go explore the tower, the other member's rooms are higher up but in the basement there is a common room with a television and a kitchen area. Explore the city but wear this when you go out." He handed her a wrapped package.

She took it from him and untied the string, the paper slipped away to reveal a black cloak with a high collar, red clouds outlined in white adorned it.

"Welcome to the Akatsuki." He kissed her then, softly and drew back hesitantly. "I will be back in a few hours. If you need me, if something should happen use this."

A small storage scroll was placed in her hand and she looked at it puzzled.

"Open it, you will know what it means. I will see you later." he gave her another small kiss and left the room.

Sakura stood in the middle of her new room. It felt like a dream, like she was asleep and would wake up at any moment to find this was a dream, she would wake to find herself in bed at the inn , Sasuke sleeping next to her on his side of the bed, alive.

"Sasuke, I'm so sorry. Kakashi, where are you?" She sat on the floor in the middle of the room, she wasn't crying she was just stunned, a little shocked.

"Sakura?" A voice called to her from her new room's door. She turned to look over her shoulder, "Deidara" She smiled.

"Sakura!" He walked into her room looking around.

"Wow, fancy, how the hell did you get such a nice room so soon yeah?" He hugged her.

"Itachi showed me to it" She said.

"It used to be his room, Leader Sama gave him a really nice room because he is Uchiha Itachi yeah, but then 2 years ago he moves out into the storage room. We all thought he had lost his mind, till he started renovating this one. Told us you would come eventually hey. Never knew it was this nice though!" He gave her an odd look.

"What" she asked him.

"I didn't expect you to be here, I was surprised when I heard. Did he force you like he did me yeah?" Deidara gave her a sympathetic look.

"He forced you? No, he didn't force me, I came. After, after what happened to my village and Sasuke and I came with him." She ended lamely.

"You okay? I was there, I saw that crazy Nine tails attack you and your team. I tried to help you but I got pulled away by Kisame, he said Itachi was coming for you, to help you yeah." Deidara was watching her in that way he did sometimes. Sakura had figured out it meant he was thinking, trying to figure something out.

"Kisame? Hoshigaki? The Shark nin?" She asked.

"Yeah him hey, decent guy. He is Itachi's partner. Want to meet him?" Deidara asked her smiling.

"Uh sure." She said, smiling back at him.

"But Deidara," she said before he could turn all the way around," Do you know why I am here, what Pein Sama wants me here for?" She asked him.

"Leader Sama, don't call him Pein Sama, he will get mad. I don't know for sure. Itachi was very adamant about you coming through, he said that you had to join us for everything to work." Deidara shrugged.

"Pein Sama didn't mind my calling him that, and for what to work?" She asked.

Deidara's eyes widened ..."You, called him Pein and her didn't kill you or hurt you , or at least yell at you?"

"Uh no?" She said.

"Wow, they must really want you here. I don't know for what though sorry Sakura." He went to grab her hand and she pulled back. He looked at her a bit surprised.

"Oh, did he tell you not to make friends with me?" He asked her.

"No, it's not that just.' She looked down at her hands by reflex.

He sighed and lifted her chin with his finger, "Stop doing that yeah, look at me, what did he say?" His eyes were concerned.

"He didn't tell me anything, honest, just, I don't think it is a good idea." She said, Itachi had told her not to tell anyone they were married yet.

"I know I really wanted you to come and join us, but I feel like, you didn't really want to come now that you are here?" He looked at her his finger still on her face.

"No, I want to be here, it is, I'll just, I'll get used to it." She tried to smile at him and pulled her face back.

"Let's go see who is home and I will introduce you." Deidara took her hand and dragged her out of her room.

They made their way down stairs to where Itachi had told her is a common room, kinda like a living room. There was a large TV in the middle of the largest wall, two overstuffed couches in front of it in an "L" shape. A long breakfast counter ran along the kitchen separating it from the rest of the room, there were coffee tables, end tables and a shogi board in the corner. A big dining room table took up the far left wall by the kitchen.

Deidara and her entered the room and everyone in it comically stopped what they were doing and stared at her. She let go of Deidara's hand and stood there for a moment.

"Uh, Hi." She waved...like an idiot on the first day of a new school.

"Hi indeed." Sasori looked up from the large dining room table where he seemed to have been cutting up several human hands. "Nice to see you again Sakura."

"Fresh fish!" Yelled a tall man in the corner drinking a beer. "Who is this hot thing huh? Nice fucking ass on her, come here baby let me see you." He wolf whistled at her

"Back off Hidan, behave yourself." A beautiful solemn looking woman told him as she walked over to Sakura and Deidara.

"I am Khonan, Sakura. Welcome." She bowed slightly.

"It is a great pleasure for me to be here" Sakura bowed back no less formal than the bow she gave Pein upon her arrival.

Khonan smiled a little smile and gestured toward the kitchen, "Are you hungry? I have just made cookies, would you like one?"

"Oh please!" Sakura smiled widely and followed her.

"I want one too yeah." Deaidara followed them

"Make your own then." Khonan told him." It is Sakura's first day, she gets cookies, you don't."

Khonan shooed him away and he went to sit on the couch and picked up the TV remote.

"Can I have a fuckin cookie? I didn't get any on my first day." The one called Hidan cussed out.

"No." Khonan didn't even look up from the cookie tray as she replied to him. She handed Saura two cookies in a napkin and winked at her. Sakura smiled at her. She liked this Khonan.

"Milk?" Khonan asked her.

"Allow me to get it for us." Sakura put her cookies down and went to the fridge to get the milk and searched the cupboards for the glasses.

Khonan nodded in approval at her initiative.

Sakura sat there chatting with Khonan for a little bit with Sasori saying an odd word here and there, Hidan cursing every chance he got and Deidara waving his arms around enthusiastically as he talked. Sakura smiled to herself, it was like a big extended family. An extended family of highly trained, dangerous, blood thirsty missing nin.

Kisame wasn't there she was told and the other members were out. It seemed that their time was their own if they were on missions, they could go anywhere they pleased do whatever they liked as long as it didn't interfere with the groups main objective.

"What is the main objective?" Sakura asked Khonan.

"I believe Pein Sama will be informing you of that as well as the role he wishes you to play in it after your skills tests in a week." She told her.

Sakura nodded," okay, sounds good."

"I think I am going to go back to my room and, well, I don't have any clothes to unpack, " She laughed a little but frowned a bit. "I only have my gear and a few civilian clothes."

"Let's go shopping tomorrow." Khonan smiled at her. "It is nice to have another woman in our group."

"I wanna go hey!" Deidara called over to them from the couch.

"No." Khonan said

Sakura chuckled, yes, she liked Khonan.

"Thank you for the cookies they were delicious, you are a very good cook. Maybe you could teach me if we get time, I am a terrible cook." Sakura smiled at her.

"I would...like that." Khonan actually smiled brightly at that.

Sakura waved goodbye to the room and made her way back to her room. As she came up the stairs turning to her door she could sense someone sitting in her little nook area with the two chairs and the book shelves.

She slowly and quietly walked around the corner and he came into view. He had on the cloak like the others but he had a bright orange mask over his face with only one eye hole. He was swinging his feet back and forth like a small child and she couldn't help but smile.

"Hi there." She greeted him, his back was to her, she didn't want to startle him.

"Oh so pretty!' Came the childish voice from behind the mask.

"Such a pretty kunoichi! Oh pink so pink!" He jumped from the chair and collided with her pushing her back up against the wall by the opposite chair.

Pinning her up against the wall with his body he played with her hair, "So pretty!" He rubbed his masked face against hers.

"Um, I'm sorry but could you please give me some space, this is very inappropriate." She tried to gently push him off her but he didn't move...at all. Shit, he was strong, all muscle.

-he is not who he appears to be, something is off about him, there is something dark in him, be careful-

"OH! I'm so sorry!, " He leapt back and away from her.

She blinked, so fast! He moved so fast!

Her eyes widened.

"I'm Tobi Kun." He swung his arms back and forth as though he was unable to sit still and pointed to his nose, well, where his nose would be if he wasn't wearing a mask.

"I am pleased to meet you Tobi Kun, I am Haruno Sakura, I hope we can be friends." She reached a hand out to him for a hand shake.

He grabbed her hand and dragged her into her bedroom skipping.

"Yes let's be friends Sakura Chan!' He let go of her hand skipping around her room again.

She made her way over to the window to look out and turned when she felt him behind her. His body was inches from hers, she could feel the heat of him seeping through her clothes.

"Tobi Kun?" She licked her lips.

His one eye followed the movement.

"What are you doing Tobi Kun?"

"Playing.' His voice had changed. It was deeper, not like a child, it was low and deep and dangerous.

She tried to step to the side to move away from him but he pressed his hands up onto the glass on either side of her blocking her escape.

"Don't you want to play with me? Or do you only play with Itachi?" He breathed the words into her neck, hot against her skin.

When had he? What is going on?

"Itachi?" She whispered, she didn't know if she had said his name as a question or a plea.

"Will you let me kiss you, touch you, lick you like he does. I could make you moan louder than him, want me to show you my dear?" He took his hand from the window and grabbed her around the waist throwing her onto the bed and climbing on top of her.

-Oh fuck no man! Get the fuck off of me now!-

She infused her hands with chakra and launched him across the room. He hit the wall but instead of going through it he kicked off of it and was back to the bed before she could stand up.

"You like to play rough, careful darling, I might like it a little too much." He grabbed her by the hair and bent her neck back and kissed her so hard that she tasted blood.

"You might think you belong to Itachi but you really belong to me."

Her head snapped back up and he was gone.

"What the hell." She said to no one.