Hi you guys! so, recently i got hooked on Itachi Sakura fics...so i decided to write one of my own. (oh, and by the way, moonlitxshinobi inspired my...) So, depending on how many i receive saying whether you like it or not, will decide whether i update or not. and by the way, chapter 2 is already done! so enjoy and don't forget to read and review!

Chapter 1-Eye for an eye

"S-Sasuke…?" Sakura woke up and looked around. She saw Sasuke sitting next to a window. But other than that, she didn't recognize anything, and she didn't remember how she got there. She was in a large room, it was dimly lit. The only light in it was the light that was shining through a small window. She couldn't really make out what the rest of the room looked like. She noticed that her hair was messed up; she had cuts and bruises here and there. She felt a cold breeze come into the room. She looked back over at the young Uchiha.

"Sasuke? What's going on? What are we doing here?" The Uchiha looked over at Sakura.

"Uh! You're not Sasuke! Y-you're…"

"Uchiha Itachi." Itachi said in a cold tone.

"What's going on? What am I doing here?" Sakura tried to grab her kunai, but stopped when she noticed that her arms were tied behind her back.

"It's no use. You can't escape." Itachi told her, as he turned back towards the window.

"What do you want with me?" Sakura started crying, after she realized how helpless she was. To her surprise, Itachi looked down in shock when he saw her crying. But when he saw that she was watching him, he immediately changed his facial expression back to how it normally was; cold and expressionless.

"You're my bait." He replied.

"You're bait…?" She asked him.

"Yes, you're my bait. I need to get the weakling younger brother of mine to come out from his safe little hiding spot." Itachi explained to her.

"What do you mean by that?" Sakura asked him.

"Well you see, after one of our battles, we lost plenty of Akatsuki members. We have to make up for the loss of number, and some baka decided that I should go and persuade Sasuke to join us. So, that's why I am here." Itachi told her. That comment made Sakura mad.

"So you're using me for your own personal problems! Problems that have to do with you getting Sasuke to join you!" Sakura was doing all that she could to get out of the chakra binds that were holding her. "Even if you wanted to, you couldn't persuade him!" Sakura tried to wiggle her hands out of the binds. During this whole scene, she started crying harder and harder.

Why is she doing this? She is only hurting herself!

"Oh, and why is that?" Itachi asked her.

"B-because…he's already, he's already gone to Orochimaru!"

"What!" For the first time, he showed an expression. Furry, and disgust. But he immediately went back to his normal expressionless self.

Sakura was trying to get free for several minutes, and Itachi just sat and watched her struggle. (Although he was trying to pretend that he wasn't.) Finally after ten minutes time, Sakura had gotten cuts on her wrists. The rope of chakra was beginning to cut deeply into them. Her blood was beginning to flow everywhere. Finally Itachi couldn't stand it anymore.

"Sakura, stop." Itachi walked over to her. He saw that as he got closer to her, the expression on her face began to show pure terror.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you." He said as he leaned over and grabbed her wrists. He loosened up the chakra, and began to heal her wounds. He noticed that she was watching him intently. Sakura looked up at him with a determined looked on her face.

"Please don't take Sasuke." She told him.

"Sakura, I unfortunately I can't go back empty handed. I have to take him."

"Please! Don't go after Sasuke. I'll do anything. I will even stay here as a hostage for as long as you want, or I will take his place…but don't go after him. I couldn't bear to see him leave me again." Itachi watched as she slumped over and cried with her pink hair hanging in front of her eyes.

"Okay Sakura, I promise, I won't take Sasuke. But in return, you need to make me a promise." Itachi looked down at her.

"W-what is it…?" She asked him.

"Just like what you said, Sakura, if I don't take Sasuke, then I will have to take you in his place."

"Okay. I will take Sasuke's place." Sakura said through tears.

Later that day-

Itachi had unbound Sakura, and he had started to get their things packed. While he was packing he saw Sakura sitting where he had been sitting; next to the window.

"I-Itachi…will w-we be traveling in this snow storm?" Sakura asked him. Itachi could tell that even though she was now part of the 'team' she was still scared of him.

"Yes. We need to get back to the others as soon as possible." Itachi had said in his usual expressionless tone.

When they had walked out of the shack that they were in, Sakura ran into a blue skinned man, who was tall and from the sight of him, very strong.

"Itachi, what is the hag doing out here? I thought that we were going to send a note to Konoha explaining how we had captured her and what we wanted in order for them to get her back!" The blue man had said.

"There has been a change in plans Kisame. We have come to the agreement that she will be one of us, instead of Sasuke." Itachi told him.

"Ha! Someone weak like her?" Kisame said through a laugh. Itachi grabbed Kisame's neck and pinned him up against the side of the shack.

"Are you questioning me?" Itachi said in an expressionless voice.

"N-no Itachi. I'm sorry, that was totally out of line." Kisame tried to convince Itachi.

"Lets get going." Itachi concluded as he let go of Kisame.

Even later-

They had been traveling for over an hour. Sakura was completely exhausted, from traveling into the storm, but she was determined to keep up with Itachi and Kisame. Although, it didn't help that the branches that they were jumping from began to get icy.

Itachi had looked back now and then to check on how Sakura was doing. To him she looked to be doing fine, but he didn't know that it was all for show.

I can make it…this is for Sasuke. She told herself over and over again.

Sakura began to get wobbly, and when she jumped to the next branch, her foot slipped. She fell from a branch that was at least twenty feet off the ground. Itachi looked back just in time, and caught her before she hit the ground. He felt her forehead, and found that she had a high fever, and her body was shaking uncontrollably from shivering.

When Kisame had gotten down to where they were, and he saw the situation, he looked at Itachi with a look of, 'see, you should have listened to me' written all over his face.

"Now what Itachi?" Kisame asked him.

"We stop and wait for her to get better." Kisame was about to argue the situation, but Itachi gave him a look of warning.

"Kisame, lets head to the cabin that we staid in on our way here. If I remember correct, it is only about a mile away." Itachi put Sakura on his back and turned toward the direction of the cabin. Kisame started following Itachi.

"You know that it is out of the way that we need to go, right?" Kisame asked him.

"Kisame, does that really matter? We're ninja, so we can get there in half the time. Besides, we left your precious food there."

"Oh ya…" Kisame remember that they had to leave his bag there so that they didn't have to carry a lot of stuff.

When they got to the cabin, Itachi laid Sakura down and covered her with a blanket. Every once and a while, placing a freshly soaked towel on her forehead, while Kisame was out getting their dinner. When Kisame got back, he began roasting some meat on a fire that Itachi had made.

"Itachi, I just don't get it. Why are you treating her like this?" Kisame asked him.

"Treating her like what?"

"Well you know, like you love her or something." Kisame told him.

"Kisame, it's not how you think it is. I am simply helping her regain her strength. Because if you have forgotten, we have a major battle coming up." Itachi said as he grabbed the meat that Kisame had finished cooking.

"I guess your right. We will need all of the help we can get." Kisame agreed.

"Kisame, it sounds to me like you are calling us weak." Itachi stated plainly.

"Oh no, nothing like that Itachi! It's just, the more fighters we have, the easier and faster the fight will go."

"For once your right, Kisame." Itachi got up to put his plate into the fire, and Kisame did his hardest to hold his furry in from that little insult.

Kisame watched as Itachi sat down next to Sakura. Itachi lifted Sakura's head and placed it on his lap. He then began to feed her little pieces of food.

Itachi, it's obvious that there is something between you two, and I wouldn't be surprised if even you don't know that. I mean, how would you be able to identify that feeling, if you had gone years without showing any of your own feelings at all?

The next night-

"uh…" Sakura woke up. She looked at her surrounding. Everything was blurry. She couldn't make out anything, except for the figure of a man. When things had finally cleared up, she noticed that the man was looking down at her.

"Sasuke…?" Sakura grabbed on to the mans sleeve and buried her face into his muscular arm. Everything was perfect for a moment. Until she looked back up at the young mans face. Itachi. Once again, he had fooled her into thinking that he was Sasuke. this time was different though. Instead of Sakura getting angry like last time, this time she felt alone, depressed and empty. She leaned her head once again on Itachi's arm and cried. She cried while she remembered what had happened and the promise she had made.

Itachi did something that he wouldn't have normally done…no, he didn't do something that he would have normally done. He didn't push Sakura off of him. Instead, he sat there and let her cry and cling to his arm.

Kisame was watching the entire time from the corner.

Itachi, she's changing you…making you weak. I'm going to have to fix that.

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