Hi Guys! I guess I have more time on my hands than usual. I wrote another chapter. Trigger in this chapter for Rape. I have realized as I read other stories that I really should have been putting this in the chapters as I worked my way though. I hope you guys enjoy the story and if you like, let me know what you think. I am debating getting someone to read my chapters before I post them to make them better since I do know that typos happen that I do not catch. If you happen to be interested let me know! I don't own Naruto!

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Sakura woke up a day or so later in extreme pain. Her neck was physically killing her. She got up and looked around. Itachi was nowhere to be found. She looked down at her arms and saw that she was not chained up but there was an iv in her arm. Shizune must have noticed her fluids were low. She went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Her neck was bandaged up, and she could not remember why. She pulled her hair all the way up into a clip and removed the bandage. Underneath it was a red and angry burn. It was swollen and bleeding in some places. She couldn't even tell what it was.

"I see you have woken up." Itachi's voice startled her.

"What the hell is this!" Sakura screamed at him.

"I marked you. No man will ever touch you again once that heals up. It might take a while though. I have decided to let it heal naturally. No one will ever mistake you for anything other than my property now." He smirked as he leaned against the doorway.

"You have got to be kidding me. Itachi! You….You…you asshole! I can't believe you. What have you done… This…..This is not okay. I have behaved as much as I was able to protect those, I loved but this is too far. I can tell this burn is going to scar." Sakura yelled at him as she marched toward him.

Sakura threw a chakra filled punch into his shoulder in rage. Itachi made no move to dodge it and when it hit, nothing happened. Her punch had no effect on him. He smirked and grabbed her by the neck and threw her across the room. Sakura landed on her feet after two backflips and slid against the wall. She pushed off and kicked at his feet in an attempt to take him down. This time she was rewarded with a thunk as he hit the ground. She grabbed the chains that Itachi had been using to keep her locked up and stood over him. Looking down at him she smirked. She had him where she wanted it. She loaded her hand with chakra and aimed for his head. All of a sudden, everything changed.

The world went blurry and when it came back to normal her hands were tied behind her back and sitting on Itachi's lap on his bed. It had all been a genjutsu. Sakura could not even tell when it had begun as it was such a smooth transition.

"That was not very nice Sakura. Trying to hurt me like that. Do you know what that ha earned you?" Itachi said as he threw her onto his bed.

"Itachi. I was angry. It won't happen again." Sakura told him as she tried to get back up.

"It most defiantly won't. I am going to make sure of that." He said menacingly.

Sakura watched as Itachi took off his jacket, his shirt following suit. The now topless Itachi grabbed hold of her by her roped hands and pulled her over his lap. She could feel that he was pissed.

"I really did try hard to avoid this Sakura. You just seem to like to do things the hard way. You just have to fight me. Thing is, I enjoy the fight. I like inflicting pain on you. It's so delicious to hear your screams of agony. I enjoy the process of breaking you." He said as he grabbed at the tie of her robe Shizune had put her in after healing her.

He tugged it hard and grabbed her face. He could see the fear in her eyes as he wrapped the fabric around her mouth in order to gag her screams. Her robe flowed open in the absence of something holding it together and revealed everything to his eyes. Itachi smirked and opened the robe so that more of her was shown to him. Under it, she had on only a pair of black lace underwear. He heard her whimper and he pulled her further over his lap and gave her bottom a firm spank. He followed it with several more until her skin changed from the light ivory that it had been to a bright and angry red color and Sakura had stopped squirming.

He used his left hand and pushed her face into the mattress firmly and used his other hand to test the waters and see what was going on between her legs. Taking one of his fingers, he slipped it between her legs and under her black lacy underwear and found that she had become somewhat slick. Smirking he inserted his finger and watched her squirm and whimper. He could hear her trying to get the gag out from her mouth.

"Sakura. Stop moving." Itachi ordered as he continued to pump her with his finger.

She kept trying to get away from him and he pushed another two fingers into her. Stretching her this way and that to make sure that he would be able to slide right in. He could hear Sakura crying in the background of his mind. He removed his fingers and heard her sigh. Using a kunai, he cut the ropes holding her arms behind her back and pulled the robe the rest of the way off. He threw her onto the bed and stood over her.

"Get on your hands and knees."

Sakura reached up to remove the gag only to have Itachi glower at her and raise his hand. Obediently Sakura put her hand back down and looked at him in fear.

"Follow the order given to you girl. If I have to ask again, it will go somewhere that you really don't want it going." Itachi growled as he freed his member for her to see.

He watched as tears filled her eyes and she followed his command. She got on her hands and knees and turned away from him. He got on the bed and pushed her head down into the pillows and ripped her underwear off and slammed in. The scream that resonated in the room even muffled by the gag was still loud enough it startled a bird from a nearby tree. He continued to pump into her despite the pleas that he assumed were coming out of her gagged mouth. He could tell she had been a virgin because of the blood that came from her as he pumped into and out of her. He held her face down and slammed into her harder and harder until he eventually came inside of her.

Sakura had gone quite long since the beginning of this punishment. Simply whimpering as he pounded into her body. He pulled out and left her there to clean up in the bathroom. When Itachi had returned from the bathroom Sakura had barely moved from where he had left her. He grabbed a bucket from the bathroom and filled it with warm water and grabbed a rag.

"Sakura. I am sorry it had to be this way, but you knew what was promised if you disobeyed my rules. I'm going to clean you up now and put you into a tub to finish up the rest of it while I have the sheets changed. From now on, you will be sleeping in my bed." Itachi said as he grabbed her gingerly and moved her to where he could start cleaning up the blood.

Sakura looked at him as he gave her a sponge bath and pulled down the gag.

"I can't believe you…" Was all she said as she passed out in his arms.

"Good lord. Women are so troublesome." Itachi responded as he finished up.

He grabbed the makeshift gag and pulled it off of her. It had really aggravated her burn and now that was also bleeding. The burn would no longer be able to heal up without getting an infection. He pulled her into his lap and took her legs in his right arm. Getting up he could really see the damage he had done. However, that did not matter. Soon enough she would be able to see what she truly was. His, to do with as he pleased as well as a weapon to take out his brother. He walked her over to the bathroom and used his foot to push open the door and laid her in the tub. He turned on the water and set it so it was very warm. He needed her ready to move tomorrow by mid-day. He left her there for a brief moment and told his guards that he needed Shizune. He then went back into the bathroom and waited. He wanted to make sure that Sakura did not drown while she was waiting. The water flowed all around the body of the young girl. Not much younger than himself at the moment.

Her body showed the vestiges of the time spent with him now. Crooked lines of scars down her back, the mark he had burned into her neck and now, she was beginning to bruise from what she had just endured. He could see his handprint around the back of her neck where it wasn't burned. He noticed that the water had now covered most of her body and he turned off the facet. He sat there waiting until a few more minutes later Shizune knocked on the bathroom door.

"You called for me?" She asked sleepily.

"Yes. Heal everything. Her burn included. Then make sure to wash her down. I am going to bed. Please try your best to keep quiet. I have had a rather long day with her." He said as he left the room.

"Sakura….. What a crappy hand you have been dealt with. I know that you are awake there. Let's talk." Shizune said as she began her work.

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The three men sat around the campfire late at night talking.

"Tell me about the status of the village. Everything I will need to know." Sasuke asked as he nibbled on his food.

"The village is in shambles. Teams that have been working together for years have been torn apart, the hospital is without both of its heads, people are being interrogated. It's absolute chaos. He's been keeping Sakura at his side most of the time. I know they are retrofitting a house in the Uchiha district to house him. I am very sure that he will be taking her there as well. There are rumors that he is working on a jutsu to take her chakra permanently from her. I doubt that though, he seems to have other plans. Naruto is also being kept very close to the breast of the Akatsuki." Kakashi reported.

"Okay. Where are they now?"

"When we left, they were getting ready to go somewhere but that location is unknown to me. I sent Pakkun to follow. He has yet to report back to me his knowledge. They were going to be there a while from what I understood. TenTen was able to get me this information as she saw them roll out with Sakura in a wagon." Kakashi said.

"I see. And you. Sai. Do you have anything useful to report?" Sakura said as he narrowed his eyes.

"No. Unfortunate that I have been locked away in interrogation for the last week or so that this has all been going down. Itachi understands I am not attached to much of anyone and he has been using me to root out those that are not loyal to him. In reality, anyone I find to be loyal to him is the ones I have turned in. He will catch on eventually though. He is not stupid." Sai responded as he began to paint.

"The heck is up with this guy? Painting at a time like this?" Sasuke said as he stood up and looked away from the fire.

"It's how I connect with the world. For me, it is as therapeutic as it is necessary. I am sorry if I have offended you asshole-san." Sai said with his fake smile.

"No, it's fine. Kakashi. One of your dogs is on his way in. I think it's Pakkun."

No sooner had he said is did the small brown dog crash through the underbrush of a holly bush and run up to Kakashi.

"What have we got Pakkun? Did you find her?" Kakashi asked as he gave the dog a little water in a bowl.

"They have her at a compound that is about 40 clicks southeast from here. Kakashi. It's covered in the smell of her blood. When I did arrive, Sakura was screaming. Kakashi, he is hurting that poor girl." Pakkun said between laps of water.

Kakashi watched as Sasuke went ridged and his eyes faired to red.

"What is security like? How many guards are on her? Is Itachi always with her? Tell me everything." Sasuke muttered at the small dog.

"It's very heavy on the security. Most of the men from the Akatsuki are there. A few women too. I know that Shizune is there. I could smell her in most of the same spots as Sakura. I assume he is using her to keep Sakura healthy. He called for her right after Sakura stopped screaming last night. When Itachi is not with her there are anywhere between 4 to 6 men guarding her. It varies with no particular pattern. They watch in 4-hour shifts. Itachi spends a great deal of time with her, though I can't tell you how much because there wasn't enough time to get the schedule down. It looks like whatever he did to her last night put her out for a while so the schedule has been light. When he leaves Shizune comes in and takes care of her. That is all I can report." Pakkun said as he sat near the fire drying off as he had run into a storm on the way back.

"Thank you. Please let the others know I will be calling on them soon." Kakashi said as he poofed Pakkun out of the realm.

"What are we going to do? There is no way that we would be able to get her out of the hot spring with that many guards." Sai said sullenly.

"I have a feeling that the sand village may be able to help out there. We should pay them a visit. Sasuke it may be hard for you to enter that village. How is your genjutsu?" Kakashi responded.

He responded with a simple change in appearance and he cut his chakra. He looked nothing like Sasuke and he even smelt like a civilian.

"Alright then. In the morning we head to Sand for assistance. I think Garra will be none too pleased and will help greatly in her rescue" Kakashi said as he took the first watch shift.

The others then settled into sleep for the upcoming journey.

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Three more days had passed since Itachi had raped Sakura. Shizune had healed her up good and proper but after Sakura told her what had been done to her she had passed out into a coma. She was now hooked up to a few different iv's to keep her alive. Itachi had been in and out during this time with meetings and several other visiting dignitaries. Every time he would come in the room he would hound Shizune about the fact that Sakura had yet to wake. On the fourth day, Shizune was in the middle of changing her iv bags when Sakura's emerald green eyes opened.

"Sakura! You're awake! I am so relieved. How are you feeling?" Shizune said as soon as she noticed.

"I am very tired. How long have I been out?" Sakura asked as she sat up.

"It's been four very long days. Itachi has been getting more and more agitated with every day that you were out. As if you or I could have changed the circumstances." Shizune said as she handed Sakura a cup of water.

"I see. Help me up. I'd like to get dressed into something…. That was not ripped off my body by an asshole." Sakura laughed as she grabbed Shizue's hand.

"okay. But you are still on bed rest until I clear you. Got it?"

"Yup. I would be saying the very same." Sakura agreed.

The two women worked together to get Sakura into a simple floor-length red dress with her clan logo on it. It was a simple silky dress that had sleeves that came down off her shoulders and were wide near her hands. Bell sleeves were the technical name for it. She had bought this dress to celebrate her 18th birthday. One that she had never been able to celebrate as Itachi had taken over the village 3 days before it. She looked herself over and sat on Itachi's bed. Not 10 minutes later did Itachi walk into the room.

"You are awake. When the guards said you were, I did not believe it. You were in a coma for a long time. How are you feeling?" Itachi said as he walked forward.

"Fine. I am very tired though. Even if I did just sleep for several days. I feel a little weak as well. As if I have been in a massive battle." Sakura said as she took her time getting up.

"Leave us," Itachi ordered Shizune.

Sakura watched as she left and then refocused her eyes onto Itachi. Only she found him much closer to her than he had been. He grabbed her face and tilted it up to look into her eyes.

"Has your attitude been adjusted appropriately yet? Or is there more work I need to do." He asked.

Sakura simply looked into his eyes. The fire still there but it was fainter. He could see that he had broken her part of the way. There was still a little bit of something left there. Not for long though.

"I would not know. When are we going to go home?" Sakura asked with a bit of spite in her voice.

"We will be here for another week or two. The house will not be finished until then. It is far easier to control you here, where you have no real allies. I am glad you have already dressed, we are needed out in the garden." Itachi said as he pulled her to standing.

"What is in the gardens?" Sakura asked as she followed him out.

"You will see. I think you will like it. Don't fall behind." Itachi said with a smirk.

Obediently. Sakura followed him out into the sunlight. He watched as she enjoyed the feeling of it. Not having really been able to get any on the journey there as she has slept through most of it. Her hair had grown slightly paler as had her skin but she seemed to like being outside never the less.

"Sakura. Get moving. Over to this bench here." Itachi pointed out a lone bench under a tree.

Sakura went and sat at the bench. The creek nearby provided a light trickling that was comforting. Suddenly her vision went black. She grabbed the hands that had covered her eyes and spun around. There in the light stood Ino. She was smiling at Sakura. Itachi watched as the two girls hug each other and fell to their knees.

"You have 3 hours with her. Make every minute count. This is your gift from me. I know you just missed your 18th birthday. Please relax and enjoy yourself." Itachi said as he left, taking the rest of the guards with him.

Sakura then noticed that they were sealed in and had no ability to go anywhere. That said, the two women sat on the bench and hugged again.

"I am so glad you're okay! I was so worried about you. How have you been?" Ino asked Sakura as she handed her a small gift of her own.

"I am okay. It has very much been hard. Itachi keeps me at his side always. It's been rough….." Sakura said as she took the package.

"I know it can't be helped but if he lets me see you again I am here for you. We all miss you so much. How are you holding?" Ino asked as she hugged Ino again.

"I need you to get this message to Kakashi. Tell him that Itachi is taking his time to wine and dine the dignitaries from the surrounding villages. He is using this time to build up an army that he will use to start taking down the other villages. He will be starting with Suna in 3 weeks. Iwa after that in 2 months. Kiri a month after that and last is Kumo. After that, he will take down the Feudal Lords around the countries." Sakura said as quietly and as quickly as she could.

"I am so glad you are doing okay. Open your gift. It was vetted and approved by Itachi earlier when he told me of this meeting. Your original gift was deemed inappropriate so I had to get a new one." Ino said in code to her.

Sakura nodded and opened the small box. Inside sat the most beautiful bracelet. 5 gold thick threads intertwined with each other multiple times in a Grecian design. In each intersection sat either a ruby or an emerald or a Dimond. She looked at it in wonder and placed it on. Immediately a message that had been ingrained into the metal by the maker ran through her mind. Kakashi's voice told her that he was working on getting her out of her predicament. He also told her that all of her friends were safe and were doing healthy. Sakura was soon crying as Naruto's voice took over and he promised her that he was eating properly and that he had even bought some vegetables like she always had in the house. Ino was next, her voice told her that all of the gems held messages for her and they could only be played by her and only heard by her.

"I hope you like it. I know it seems a little opulent, but it was all I could think of." Ino said as she held Sakura who was at this point sobbing in her arms.

"It's the most wonderful thing I have ever received. Thank you."

The hours passed quickly for the girls as they chatted away and had a light snack brought to them by the hostess of the bathhouse. All too soon though, the time was over and Itachi came to collect her.

"Say goodbye Sakura. It's time for Ino to go." He said coldly.

Sakura grabbed hold of Ino and whispered: "Tell him I am okay."

Ino returned the hug and nodded. She then left with the two other members that Itachi had brought with him. He looked down at her and then at her bracelet.

"It took her three times to bring an appropriate gift for your birthday. I couldn't approve anything she brought to me. I also have another gift for you." Itachi said as he sat next to her.

He handed her a black bag that had cherry blossoms printed across it. Inside it sat a beautiful set of hair chopsticks with jade dangling off the ends of them in the shape of Cherry blossoms. She smiled and thanked him. He took them from her and placed them into her hair for her. Grabbing her hand, he pulled her into the compound and into the bedroom they had been sharing.

"Stay here. I will come back for you tomorrow. Food will be brought. Sakura. I am going on a quick mission to grab someone and I will be right back. While I am gone, Shizune will stay with you and you are free to roam the compound. If you wish to go outside let one of the other members know and they will accompany you. Only other members of the Akatsuki are allowed to accompany you out. Please adhere to these rules." Itachi said as he grabbed his pack and left.

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That is, it for now guys! I worked on it little by little.

Please, everyone, stay safe and make sure your elderly neighbors are okay. Check-in with your friends and family too!

-Naeura