Hi people! Thank you for the previous reviews by the way. Sorry that I didn't update yesterday. We were given this math set from our club that will help us with exams. Our math teacher made a deal that I couldn't refuse. (he said that if we finish all the problems which is lik 300 the next day then we get 8 hundreds!) so here is the next chapter and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't even know what this means but I don't own Naruto.

" Blah" some one talking.

'Blah' some one thinking.

Here is the next xhapter! Enjoy!


Sasuke and Sai made it to the nearest village. It seemed some what familiar. 'Why is this place familiar?' Sasuke thought. 'I couldn't have possibly been here.' he looked around. There were little people walking around. Stores seemed to have covers and all. There was a gust of wind and some thing got into Sasuke and Sai's eyes. 'What the hell!' they both thought. (I would say WTH for short.)

"What are you doing here?" they heard. The wind along with the sand stopped. The two opened their eyes to see a green eyed, red haired, tattoo on the head, tall guy. Who was this gut? You guess. "Well?" he asked.

"You answer Uchiha," Sai said. 'Coward.' Sasuke thought. "It seems as if you know him."

"I do," he said. Sasuke walked up to the man. "It's nice to see you after a while, Gaara." Gaara stared at Sasuke. He seemed to be taller. (This Gaara just to tell ya!) He still had the gourd on his back and had those piercing green eyes with black outlining on them.

"Uchiha Sasuke," Gaara said. "What brings you here?" Gaara had a much peaceful voice. He just waited for answers. After all, he was just protecting a village.

"We're here looking for some one," Sasuke said. Gaara rose a brow. 'Is this a mission or some sort?' he thought.

"Who?" Gaara asked. "I may be able to help since I know every one in this village." Sai stood in front of Sasuke. 'We have to find her.' he thought. 'There's no stopping Itachi and you never know what he could do to her!'

"Haruno Sakura," Sai said. Gaara thought for a moment. 'She sounds quite familiar.' he thought. Then it hit him. 'Wait! She was that pink haired girl before in the exams! And then she went in front of Sasuke when I was about to attack him.'

"Rings any bell?" Sasuke asked. 'Maybe he saw her.' Sasuke thought.

"Yes it does," Gaara said. "If I do remember correctly, she was in your team and in the exams. She was also the one who went in front of you when I was about to attack you." Sasuke nodded.

"You hit the jackpot," he said. "Have you seen her?" Sasuke asked. Sai stood and just watched all of this. 'I'm lost.' he thought. 'I don't know who the hell Gaara is and I don't know what their talking about exams!' his mind was ranting on what was going on. Finally it came to a conclusion. 'I'm lost.' he thought.

"No," Gaara said. "Though there is a chance she might have been here during the night. I only arrived here this morning." Sasuke bit his lip. 'Not good.' he thought. 'How are we gonna find Itachi and Sakura now?' Gaara stared at Sasuke's expression. He then looked at Sai. "Is this your stalker?" he asked. Sai felt a twitch appear.

"No," Sai said. "I'm Sai, Sakura's best friend. I'm also looking for her with this dickless wonder."

"Is she missing?" Gaara asked. 'Why would she leave?' Gaara thought. 'She doesn't seem to be the type who would run away any way.'

"No," Sasuke said. "She was kidnaped by Itachi Uchiha." some thing clicked in Gaara's mind. 'How did this end up to be?' he thought. 'Why would Itachi take her any way?'

"Why?" Gaara asked.

"She made a deal with him," Sasuke said. Gaara rose a brow. "She said that if he would stop hurting her parents then she would do any thing for him. He agreed but the next day her parents tried to kill her and Itachi came back and knocked them all out. Then, when Sakura woke up, her parents were gone." Gaara looked down at the ground. 'I can't imagine how much torture she went through.' he thought. 'She isn't free like those two or me. She is bound to some one who can torture her. Yet she still lives but why?'

"I understand," Gaara said. "I guess I have no choice but too help." Sasuke and Sai looked at him.

"Are you sure?" Sai asked. "Don't you have to guard the village?" Gaara nodded.

"But I can ask Temari and Kankuro (Don't know how to spell his name. Can some one please tell me?)to do that." Sasuke nodded. "First," Gaara said. "We have to see them." Sasuke and Sai nodded and they all went to a house.


"I told you don't do that!" Temari yelled. She smacked Kankuro with the nearest thing she could find. That thing turned out to be a big book which Gaara used for people's names and addresses. To put short, she hit him with an address book.

"OWW!" Kankuro yelled. "You don't have to hit me! All you can do is yell!"

"And yet that doesn't work!" Temari yelled. She sighed and jumped on the couch. "Another village to protect for no reason. Why do we do this any way?"

"Because Gaara wants to and we have to help him out and every thing." Temari nodded. 'We're all like brothers and sisters.' she thought. 'So I guess it's natural to look after each other.'

"Temari, Kankuro," they heard. The two turned around to see Gaara and Sasuke with Sai standing at the entrance.

"Who are they?" Temari asked.

"Sasuke Uchiha and his stalker friend Sai," Gaara said. A vein popped in Sai's head. 'Stalker?' he thought. 'Does evert one have to think that!'

"Uchiha!" Temari said surprised. "It's been a while. What brings him here?" she asked. Kankuro looked at him with complete interest.

"They are looking for Haruno Sakura," Gaara said. Kankuro stared dreamily at the ceiling. 'Those beautiful pink locks.' he thought. 'Emerald eyes and that body! If she was lost I would find her till the end!' Sasuke glared at Kankuro. 'Ho-ho!' he thought. 'I have the Uchiha as my rival! This will be interesting.' (I know that he sounds kind of like Lee but be happy that he doesn't give a 'youthful' speech.) "I'm gonna go with them so watch the village." Temari stood up.

"Wait a minute!" she yelled out. Gaara stared at her. "Why do I have too watch the village! Kankuro can handle it just fine by himself!"

"Eh?" Kankuro asked. "Why me all of a sudden?"

"Because unlike you," she said. "I have a life and business to take care of!" Gaara let out a sigh.

"What business?" he asked. "If it has some thing to do with a man then don't even think about it." Temari pouted.

"Don't think of me that way Gaara-kun!"she said. She added the kun just to tease. "I have to deal with some thing more important."

"Like what?" he asked. "That time of the year already?" Temari grew red s a tomato. Gaara smirked. He won. 'I knew I shouldn't have hung out with guy this long!' she thought. Temari played with one of her pony tails.

"So what if it is?" she asked. "It's my business now I have to go!" with those words she disappeared with a 'poof.' Gaara turned to Kankuro and he nodded.

"I'll look over Gaara," he said. Gaara walked to out of the door.

"Well?" he asked. "Are we going or not?" Sai and Sasuke walked down with him.

"May I ask some thing?" Sai asked. Gaara gave a small nod. "What's with it with the gourd?"

"The sand," Gaara answered. 'Eh?' Sai thought. "I control it and the gourd is filled with sand." (Am I right about it?) Sai nodded and understood.


Sakura felt some one enter the room. She closed her eyes for a moment. 'I guess I still have to act.' she thought. Sakura opened her eyes. They were dull and unreadable again. She continued to look out of the window. She acted as if she was a doll to be played with.

"Come now cherry blossom," she heard. Sakura turned around and did what she was told. She walked up to Itachi and stood right next to him. "You can sit down now." Sakura obeyed and quickly sat down on the bed.

"Do you need your wounds healed?" she asked with her emotionless voice. He shook his head. "Is there some thing that you need?" he raised his hand and stroked her hair. Sakura hated the feeling but beared it inside.

"It's not that Sakura," he said. "I notice how you act. Around people you never smile and never act like a happy girl. I want you to." Sakura gave a nod.

"All you need to do is ask,"she said. She gave him a beautiful smile. It was fake but she knew that he couldn't tell. She touched his hand that was on her hair and pulled it closer to his face. 'This will be difficult.' she thought. Sakura kissed his palm. "I came here free of choice." her voice was happy even though it was fake. "I just wish too make you happy."

"Aren't you a blooming blossom," Itachi said. "I chose you for a reason, Sakura. You are mine." he kissed her lips. Sakura quickly closed her eyes. ' I have to make it seem real!' she thought. Sakura pulled her tongue into Itachi's mouth. 'Make it seem real!' her mind yelled. She saw him accept as he touched her tongue with his. He wrapped his arms around her slender waist while she put her arms around his neck, eyes still closed. 'He seems to believe me.' she thought. He pushed her down to the bed and pulled back from the kiss, panting. He seemed so much like Sasuke. Her eyes would have believed it was him but her mind was wiser and called put who it was.

"As I said before," she said. "I only wish for you to be happy." it was finished by another kiss that Itachi gave to Sakura.


"So where do you think she would be?" Gaara asked. Sasuke thought for the moment. "It's obvious that she is with the Atikutsu (That's how you spell it?)

"Probably in some forest," Sasuke said. "One big and were any one can get lost in." Gaara nodded and Sai looked at the map.

"It's hard to say," Sai said. "There are a lot of those types of forests." Sasuke thought for a moment. Then it hit him.

"Is there any forest close to a village that sells weapons supplies and those sorts of things?" he asked. "One vulnerable." Gaara nodded and understood.

"There is," Sai said as he looked at he map. "The water country. The city of Kumagi." (Made it up.) Sasuke thought for a moment.

"We have to get there as soon as possible," he said. Gaara nodded.

"I have an idea," he said. The two looked at him, waiting to continue. "We can use the sand to transport at the water country but I can't put it in the precise area." Sasuke nodded.

"That's fine," he said. "As long as we get there." Sai gave a nod as well. "So I guess we're using your sand to get there Gaara."

"Alright," he said. "We'll go in two hours. I have to have enough sand in my gourd to transport us." Sai and Sasuke nodded. Gaara disappeared in a small wind tornado.


"Tell me again," Sai said. "How did he get into this?" Sasuke shook his head.

"He wanted to help us," Sasuke said. "And he is very helpful so shut the fuck up if you don't like it."

"It seems that some one shoved a pole up your ass," Sai said. Sasuke glared. 'Fucking stalker.' he thought. 'Dickless wonder.' sasuke settled by walking in the corner of the forest. He needed to relax.

"So," he said to himself. "I guess I can finally see her." sasuke felt a smile tug on his lips. An actual smile he hasn't shown ever since he was a child. 'After all those long years.' he thought. 'I finally realize how it feels to love.'

"She did this all for me," he said. "She protected me back there just so I can live. Sakura held on to those feelings of hers and never seemed to let girl." that small tug disappeared. "And yet I treated her horribly. Her smile, her shining green eyes, I seemed to break those easily. And then she just be with me no matter what. How can I treat her that badly when she did nothing bad at all?" Sasuke looked at his hands. "She confessed to me and all I muttered was a small 'thank you'. I just leave her on that cold bench and she still waited for me!" he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. "I break her every day and just leave her and yet she still helps me, protects me," his voice grew into a whisper." loves me.


Sakura closed her eyes. She felt Itachi wrap his arms around her waist. Inside, she felt like crying. 'I wish Sasuke would hold me like this.' she thought. Her shoulders slumped a bit. 'Yet I know he won't.' She felt Itachi's breath on her neck. (I swear they didn't do any thing but kiss!) He pulled her even closer. She shut her eyes even harder. 'I feel so much pain!' she thought. 'Just once, just one embrace. Even if I have to sacrifice my life for this.'

"Sakura," Itachi said. She turned around and met onyx eyes.

"Yes Itachi-kun?" she asked. He put one hand on the back of her head. "Is some thing wrong?"

"No,"he said. "Of your decision?"

"What do you mean Itachi-kun?" she asked.

"I mean the fact of being with me," he said. 'There was a choice!' she thought. "In then end you will be with me but I can take of that I can take off the chakra control or I can keep it on. That all matters by trust."

"It is your decision Itachi-kun," Sakura said. 'Is he catching on?' she thought.

"A fine answer," Itachi said. He put a hand on her chin and lifted her face up. "This is why I chose you. You are some one I can trust." he kissed her passionately. 'I never knew he can kiss like that.' she thought. 'Yet I just wish Sasuke would do that for me.'

"Itachi-kun," she said out of their kiss. He stopped and looked at her face.

"What is it cherry blossom?" he asked. 'I have to make him believe!' she thought. 'No matter what that is!'

"I love you," she said. Those words were fake but she knew that he couldn't tell. "I'm your and only yours." he pulled his face closer.

"What I expect to hear from you," he said. Sakura wrapped her hands around his neck. "Are those words fake or real?" he asked. 'Do it!' her mind yelled. 'Make him believe!'

"Real and always real," Sakura said. She kissed him soundly and pulled him closer. 'Make him believe. Let him kiss you, look like him and beg for him to be just like that.'


"Are you ready?" Gaara asked. Sai and Sasuke nodded. While Sasuke spent his time talking to himself, Sai, spent his time on the mapping and taking the right equipment. Gaara spent that time taking the right amount of sound he needed.

"Yes," Sasuke said. "Let's go." Gaara closed his green eyes and put his fingers in front of his face. The sand covered the three. Sai looked around while Sasuke seemed cool and calm. 'I'm coming Sakura.' he thought. 'Please forgive me.' Gaara opened his eyes. The sand covered them completely.

"How long will it take?" Sai asked.

"Not long," Gaara said. "Just a couple of minutes." Sai nodded. Sasuke closed his eyes. An image of Sakura popped in his mind. 'I'll be there soon.' he thought. 'Just hold on.' Gaara stared at Sasuke's expression. 'So he really loves her.' Gaara thought. 'I never thought that Sasuke would feel love but I but I'm glad he found it.'

"We have to be careful," Sai said. "According to my planning, there will be alarms and guards. A lot of them. It will be difficult to get through them all." Sasuke listened quietly.

"I can use the sharingun and Gaara can use the sand," Sasuke said. Sai slowly nodded.

"We should use the sand because it is harder to see and much more effective," Sai said. Sasuke nodded and Gaara agreed. "Sasuke, you will go looking for Sakura. I will hold that balless guy off." Sasuke smirked. 'Is there ever an end to his comments? Hopefully one day he can stop calling me a dickless wonder.' he thought. "Remember your stations." Sai looked at Gaara. "If any thing and your done with the guards then help the dickless wonder here ok?" Gaara nodded. "Sasuke," he said. "Try to go as fast as possible. That balless freak is strong so it will take less time. When you get Sakura find Gaara. Then transport your selves to safety."

"And you?" Gaara asked. Sai smirked.

"I'll get back on my own. All we have to do is worry on Sakura's safety."

"Alright," Sasuke said. "Now, let's get on with it." The sand disappeared. They all walked to the forest. Gaara kept all his senses alert while Sasuke was focused on one thing: Sakura. 'I'll save you Sakura.' he thought. 'I promise I can always keep.'

"Here we are," Sai said. "Be on full alert." Sai took out a kunai and so did Sasuke who already activated his sharingun. Gaara already had his sand that could protect him and Sasuke and Sai. Sasuke searched the grounds for any traps.

"There's no traps yet," he said. "We're not around the area." Sai and Gaara nodded.

"We're getting closer," Gaara said. "I can already see the traps through the sand." Sasuke looked around with his red eyes. 'He's right.' Sasuke thought. 'There's a lot of traps already.' Sasuke walked with grace away from each trap.

"Follow my steps," he said to Sai. Gaara was able to float because of the sand. Sai walked through the traps perfectly copying Sasuke's moves.


"Itachi-kun," Sakura said. She got out of bed. He stared at her figure. Through those clothes he could see her curves perfectly. He watched her carefully.

"Yes cherry blossom?" he asked.

"Am I only a doll to you?" she asked. 'Make him believe.' she thought. Inside she knew she couldn't. 'He's Sasuke.' her thoughts said. Sakura looked at him as if he was Sasuke. Her mind was waiting for the answer.

"No," Itachi said. He got out of the bed. Slowly, he walked up behind her. He wrapped his hands around her waist and kissed her neck. "Never will you be." Sakura felt as if it was Sasuke and felt happiness inside. Her body was believing that it was Sasuke. 'Make him believe. He's Sasuke.' she moved back into his chest. "My darling cherry blossom," Itachi said. 'Make him believe.'


So how was this chapter? Please review! This is my last update for the week! I will update next week on monday. ' looks at time' It's 11 and I gotta go to bed. I need to wake up at six and run around and then go to my crazy prison school. Bye for now! Write to you all later!

P.S. I recieved thos 8 hundreds since I worked my ass off on that set and finished it on one day.