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It was a restless night.
Sakura couldn't help but to toss and turn in her bed, trying to get to sleep.
She knew something was wrong.
The empty feeling in her heart told her that something had just happened.
She couldn't take it anymore, she jumped out of bed and slipped into her coat.
She had to see him, something did not feel right.
She crept out of the house, silently, as to avoid waking her mother who slept in the room next to hers.
She slipped out of the front door.
The night air was cool as it gently caressed her face.
'I have to see him...,'she thought to herself as she ran towards the Uchiha's house.
The next few scenes were unclear to her.
Sakura remembered walking between houses that were not lit.
She remembered seeing bodies lying on the ground.
She recalled the fear that gripped her heart.
It was not the fear of dying, it was the fear of seeing him among the dead bodies.
Blood coloured the ground, it seemed to have covered every household in the neighbourhood.
Sakura ran faster.
'Where is he? Please let him be safe...' she thought to herself as she rushed towrads his house.
The scene that stood before her, made the blood in her veins turn cold.
She saw him holding a katana in his hand which was covered in blood.
She saw him approaching Sasuke who was in front of him.
She saw the dead bodies of their parents lying on the floor.
She tried to move but her body seemed to have a mind of its own.
No matter how hard she tried to run away from this horrifying scene before her, her body wouldn't move a muscle.
Hot tears stung her eyes .
'Why...Itachi? Why?
The rest the incident came in sequences.
She saw Sasuke running away from him.
Itachi soon strolled out in pursuit.
Sakura managed to gain control of her body, she ran out of the house.
And the next thing she knew , Itachi was standing in front of her.
She must have ran quite a distance judging by the change of landscape.
She remembered asking him" Why Itachi? Why..."she asked between sobs.
His usual loving stare was replaced by one she had never encountered from him before.
His eyes were cold and lifeless.
His usual warm demeanor seemed to have vanished, replaced by a dark and forbidding aura.
Where was the Itachi she knew?
The next thing that happened was unknown to her.
She knew that he had done something to her, but what?
What did he do to make her forget everything about him?
Why did he even let her live?
Why did he kill his own clan?
But most importantly, why did he leave her?
Why Itachi?
Why...
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The night sky was covered by the tall growing trees of the forest, except for the occasional glimpse of the moon.
Sakura opened her eyes.
Images around her were a blur but she managed to make out the fire that burned directly oppostie from her.
Sakura watched as the flames danced to the rhythm of the gentle wind that softly blew through the trees.
The orange flames seemed almost lifelike under the twilight sky.
She tried to move but the ache of her arm and leg seemed to have paralysed her to the ground.
" So you're finally awake?" said a dark clad figure as he landed beside her.
Sakura's head shot up to find the source of the voice was none other that the man that had caused her so much pain during the last few months.
"Sasuke?" she asked as she finally managed to sit up against a tree trunk.
"What happened?"she asked him again.
" I saved you ,that's what. Don't you remember what happened?" he asked in his usual cold voice,
not taking his gaze of her.
Recent events soon began playing again in her mind.
' The package..!' she thought in panic.
But she soon realised that it was still in her left vest.
' I hope Ino and the others are safe,' she thought again.
She quickly snapped out of her daze as she was beginning to get a clear picture of what was going on.
1. I'm injured and I suppose I won't be able to defend myself if anyone attacks.
2. I'm sitting here in the middle of, where am I again?Oh yeah, a forest near the village where Ino and the others are.
3. Standing in front of me is the one person that I had a crush on for like what? Years?
4. He is now a sound-nin and I assume the guy who I fought with earlier only I think that it was his kage bushin I was fighting with.
5. He now works for Orochimaru so I assume that he's after the package.
6. Why in the world did he save me?(judging by my bandaged arm and leg) I thought he didn't give a damn about me?
7. I probably wouldn't be able to escape from him, he's much stronger.
8. Why is he looking at me like that?
9. AHhhh! Why is he so damn good looking? I can't believe that I'm falling for my enemy! (ahem)Again.
10. I have to protect the package since it seems to be important.( Well, if Orochimaru wants it, it has to be)
11.I guess I'll try to convince him to come back to Konoha. (not like I haven't tried to stop him from leaving and look at what happened, he left and I was left with a broken heart, not to mention nights of crying)
12. And why is he still looking at me like that?
Sakura finally broke from her thoughts and looked up at Sasuke.
' Okay, I'll handle things one at a time,'she said to herself.
"Sasuke why are you staring at me like that?" she asked him.
' Great Sakura! Of all the things you could have asked you had to ask that!' her inner mind shouted at her.
"Like what? " he asked clearly amused.
"Like you haven't eaten in days and I happen to be the only thing around to eat,"she answered him.
He chuckled and seemed to eye her with a slight smirk.
" Sasuke what do you want?"she asked him in a serious tone.
"What do you think I want Sakura?" he asked her smirking a little more.
' He's toying with me,' Sakura thought to herself.
She decided not to push it any further.
" Why did you save me Sasuke?" she asked him again.
" I owed you one, for the time you saved me from getting hit by Gaara(for those who don't know, it's in the anime),'he said to her.
" Now we're even,"he said to her again.
" Are you going to hurt me again now since we're even? I assume that you're after the package,"she said to him eyeing him suspiciously.
" And I guess you probably know that I have it,"she said again this time sounding serious.
Sasuke chuckled a little.
" Same old Sakura, always getting the facts first,"he said with an amused grin.
"I won't hurt you Sakura. Just give me the package, then I'll leave,"he said to her as he took a few steps forward.
" You know I won't give it to you without a fight," she said to him as she stood up, the tree supporting her weight.
' She's changed, a few months ago, she would have given anything to me willingly,' Sasuke thought to himself.
Sakura nearly fell back unto the ground as one of her legs gave way but she managed to keep herself standing.
Sasuke wanted to rush to her side to support her but he kept himself in line.
He wouldn't give in to these damn feelings, especially not in front of her.
These feelings would make him weak, so he had decided to ignore anything that involved a relationship whether frienship or somthing else.
All he wanted to do was to kill his brother!
He was an avenger, hate and strenght was the only thing he needed.
" Don't bother fighting Sakura, you're too weak to. I could just easily take it from you,"he said to her coming closer still.
" Then why didn't you take it while I was sleeping,"she asked him, he was only inches away from her and she could almost feel his breath on her bare neck.
" It's in your left vest that you always keep hidden. I'm sure you didn't want to me to sexually harass you while you were sleeping did you?" he whispered into her ear.
Sakura felt her heart beat quicken, why did his voice always have to intrigue her this way?
He was pratically pinning her against the tree, she had nowhere to run this time.
"Sakura, I don't want to hurt you,"he whispered again into her ear.
Months ago she would have given anything to be in a situation like this.
I mean what would you do if the person you had a crush on for years had pinned you to a tree and was now whispering in his bedroom voice( well, i assumed it's that )to you and you are only milimitres apart?
Blush? Freak out? Fall head over heels again? These were the many questions that went through Sakura's head.
But...something did not feel right.
Months ago she might have done all three at once but now it felt so different.
Only one image entered her mind...Itachi...
She had to find him, she did not care if it would mean her dying in the process, but she just had to...
She had to find out...What happened? Why did he do it?
She knew that it couldn't possibly be because he wanted to test his strenght and taking it out on his family or simply to see if he could do it.
If all of her dreams were what really happened when she was younger, then she knew that there was surely more to it than meets the eye.
"Sasuke...,"Sakura said to the figure in front of her( milimetres to be exact.
" I'm not giving it to you without a fight,"she said to him again.
Sasuke seemed surprised at her reaction.
' She really has changed,' he thought to himself again.
Sasuke soon snapped out of his thoughts as he sensed someone approaching.
He moved away from Sakura and picked up a kunai.
Sakura sensed the chakura too and decided that the owner of the chakura must be a relatively strong ninja.
The chakura was strong and the owner must be purposely not hiding his chakura to alert them that he was coming.
"Itachi...," Sasuke growled after activating his sharingan.His voice poured with pure venom.
' How 'lucky' of me. Two Uchiha's in the same place,' she mentally sighed.
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