Soooooooooooooooorrrrry! School's keeping me sooooooo busy! Sorry x 1000000000000000!
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Akatsuki headquarters? That meant…
"You…" Sakura whispered slowly. "Joined… you-your… bro-brother?" She was having trouble breathing…
"Yes, he did. I convinced him," A deep, drawling voice came into Sakura's ears. Sakura opened her eyes slowly, and saw a man. She knew who this man was, obviously, because he practically just told her right then and there. Uchiha, Itachi. Sasuke's older brother. She had always pictured him like the villains on television. But, if Sakura had past him on the street, she was pretty sure she wouldn't have guessed that he was the one that had slaughtered all of the Uchihas, save one.
"You…" Sakura growled the best she could. "Why…"
"Why?" Itachi asked. "Why what? Why did he join me? Why are you here?" He laughed darkly. "I can tell you an answer for both of those questions, but, perhaps, Sasuke…?"
"Oh, no, you're a much better storyteller than me," Sasuke laughed. "Also a far better liar."
"True, but I wouldn't lie to a sweet girl like this, so, I guess I'll tell her the truth," Itachi sat beside Sakura. He grabbed her wrists and held them against her back to hold her down because she had started getting up. "For one, Sasuke joined me because he gave up on Orochimaru-sama and realized that he could never beat me. And two, we want you here for some," Itachi leaned down low and hissed into Sakura's ear. "Entertainment."
Sakura's eyes grew large at the word, and she started struggling. "No!" Sakura screamed. Itachi placed his other hand over her mouth and she continued screaming, but hardly any sound came out. She tried shaking her head, but Itachi held it still with his hand over her mouth.
"He could release you, but you'll have nowhere to go, and no one can hear you now, so give up bitch," Sasuke snarled.
Itachi glanced at Sasuke to silence him. "So, Sakura, I'm going to release your mouth, but when I do, promise not to scream?" Itachi whispered. Sakura nodded frantically. She couldn't breath; his hand was starting to cover her nose as well as her mouth. "Good, because if you do… Well, I dare not say."
Sakura closed her eyes tight and Itachi removed his hand. She held back the instinct of screaming until her throat and lungs bled. She kept her eyes closed as though having them closed would make the Uchiha brothers disappear.
"Well, Sakura, it looks like you're starting to cave in," Itachi clicked his tongue. "Tsunade-sama would not be happy with you, now would she?"
Sakura whimpered quietly.
"Aww, Princess," Sasuke snickered. "Are you starting to feel alone?"
Sakura buried her head in the pillow, and thought about Naruto. God, I just want to be back home, safe and comfortable… Maybe on the phone with Ino or Naruto… I just wanna go back home!
"Sakura," Itachi pushed his strong hand under her jaw, and lifted her head so she was looking into his eyes. Sakura tried resisting, but in a few moments, resisting seemed impossible because his Sharingan had captured her, and she went completely limp. "Oh, so this Uzumaki is now your current love interest. Isn't he the nine-tails? A taste for the wild side, I guess? Tsk tsk. And I thought Sasuke still held your heart. Brother, I guess you weren't good enough for… this…"
Sasuke's eyes flashed. "Naruto?" He growled.
Itachi turned around to his younger brother and said slowly, "This little girl completely forgot about you. How does that make you feel?"
"Well, let's just say Sakura won't forget me after this," Sasuke laughed silkily.
Sakura snapped out of her trance at what he said, and in Itachi's loosened grip, jumped up and ran for the door. Sasuke was so surprised that the Sharingan hadn't held her in a trance that he didn't catch her as she ran by him.
Oh Gods oh Gods oh Gods oh Gods… How do I get out of here?
'He could release you, but you'll have nowhere to go, and no one can hear you now, so give up bitch.' The words echoed in her mind, and she shuddered at the thought of being stuck here forevermore.
Sakura ran as fast as she could when she heard the youngest Uchiha curse under his breath and give chase. She turned a corner, glancing back to see where he was. She ran into something solid. Something very solid.
"I thought I told you not to move?" The familiar drawling voice said to her, sounding slightly amused. "Well, well, well, now you're going to have to be punished."
Sakura looked up, and saw her worst nightmare. She turned to run the other way, but Sasuke was standing there, smiling.
"No, oh Gods, please, no," Sakura looked around for a way to escape. "Please, d-don't… I'll do… A-anything… Just… Please… D-don't h-hurt me…"
"Anything you say?" Sasuke smiled darkly. "Well, brother, this should be interesting…"
"No, nothing like that Sasuke," Itachi commanded.
Sakura felt hands like iron grab her from behind and turn her so she was once again facing Itachi. "I don't think Tsunade-sama would appreciate you begging for your life, either."
"B-but… Sasuke…" Sakura pleaded quietly, not really knowing why. "Sasuke-kun, please… Don't… Don't do this…"
"It should be me you're more worried about, since I'm the one that has got you…" Itachi smiled as he brought Sakura closer to him. "Since I'm the one that's going to kill you…" He breathed into her ear.
Sakura closed her eyes in slight frustration. Shut up, Itachi, she thought.
She opened her eyes again, fire burning within. She felt braver than she did before. Fine, if no one's going to save me, I'll save myself… Well… I think I can…
She looked into Itachi's eyes. Big mistake.
"No," She gasped as she saw the blood red Sharingan change.
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Sakura looked at her hands. She was younger, much younger. She sort of recognized where she was. She might have been…
"Hey, Sakura-chan!" A very familiar voice called to her.
"I-Ino-chan?" Sakura said turning around. Ino ran towards her, her hand raised in a wave.
"Hey, hey Sakura! Guess what?" Ino said, joining her friend. They started to walk to nowhere in particular.
Sakura blinked. What just happened? Where was she? "Um, w-what?"
"I…" Ino didn't finish. Instead she drew in a sharp breath, and stopped walking.
"What's the matter, Ino?" Sakura asked, stopping as well and turning towards her friend. "In… INO! NO!"
Ino grasped the end of a katana that was through her stomach. She was squeezing it so hard that her hands were getting cut up.
"INO!" Sakura screamed as she ran towards her. Ino pushed the katana backwards, and it fell with a clang to the ground. "I-Ino?" Sakura grabbed her friend as she fell forwards. Ino disappeared… So did everything else. Sakura felt like she was floating around in absolute nothingness. "Ino?" She called out. "Hello?" What's happening?
"Good question," A voice answered. "I'd be careful if I were you. I can hear everything you think and see. Everything you do. There's no escaping me. No escaping this."
Sakura's eyes closed. She felt tired, but she didn't want to fall asleep. Her brain wouldn't let her. She had too much adrenaline running through her blood and her instincts were screaming at her to do a million things at once.
"I control time and space and even mass. I control everything where you are right now," The voice continued. It started to piss Sakura off. Does it look like I care at all? She thought. "Not really," The voice answered. "You're trapped. Trapped in my mind game, and not only do I control time, space and mass, I can also control," Sakura shivered as the voice sounded as though it were getting closer and closer to her ear. "You."
'Aww, c'mon,' A faint voice interrupted. 'Itachi, I wanna play with her too.'
Sakura felt as though someone had pushed her in her chest very, very hard. She felt as though they had pushed her into the wall and she fell to the ground.
"You had your fun, now I get to do it my way," Sasuke's face appeared in front of Sakura.
She closed her eyes, exhausted. For some reason all that GenJutsu had drained most of her Chakra, even all her reserves.
"Aww, look Itachi, the poor girl's almost drained completely," Sakura felt Sasuke's hand grab her hair and make her head point upwards. "I could," He put his nail on her throat and slowly dragged it across. "Cut her. Slowly. Sweetly," She could feel, smell, taste his cold breath on her face. It was almost vibrating with excitement. "Right here. Can I, Itachi? Could I just cut her? Make her bleed, the red pour on the bed and soak it. Make her white and weak… weaker…"
Sakura heard a small laugh. "Fine, do what you want, but don't kill her, or you'll find yourself having the same fate."
"Yes-s-s-s," Sasuke hissed, very snake-like.
Sakura felt Sasuke pick her up over his shoulder. Much like a sack of potatoes. Sakura felt a little angry. She didn't like to be treated like food. Even less like a potato, for God's sake!
"Oh, Sakura, you're going to like my chamber of torture, but first I'm going to give you some rest, you don't want to be fighting for your life on empty Chakra levels, do you?" Sasuke threw her down on a bed, and Sakura immediately curled up into a ball. Sasuke threw a thick sheet of some sort of heavy, itchy material over her form. "Sleep. I'll be back."
Sakura gasped at a pain in her thigh.
"Just so you don't escape," Sasuke brought a needle in front of her face. "Muscle relaxant. Nighty-night!"
Sakura fell of a cliff and landed in water. No, not water, wool. Wool. It scratched against her and made her want to scratch everywhere, but she couldn't move. Something was holding her down. Was it the air? She couldn't tell.
She jerked and felt as though she fell back into bed from a great height. She gasped and opened her eyes. She remembered. The muscle relaxant. Sasuke. Itachi. Akatsuki headquarters. She was in big trouble now. Bigger than big. Huge. Gigantic. Hugely gigantic… You get the point.
The room was dark, but with the adrenaline coursing through Sakura's system, dark didn't matter. Getting out mattered. Getting to safety, or at least getting away from those two mattered.
"Sakura, don't move," A familiar voice whispered.
"What the he-"
"No time, just shut up," A girl's voice, but… What the he-
"Hinata?" Sakura breathed.
"I told you to shut up," Sakura could feel Hinata glare at her through the dark.
"Ow, what are you doing?" Sakura nearly yelled.
"Sakura, if you don't shut up, they'll both come and then we'll both die," Hinata hissed with as much ferocity that was possible for her.
Sakura was surprised by the venom in her partner-in-work's voice. She had never heard Hinata talk like that before.
"Hinata, how-how did you…? I mean… when did you…?" Sakura stuttered.
"I just knew okay?" Hinata roughly grabbed Sakura's hand and helped her to her feet.
"How… How?" Sakura asked, amazed that the muscle relaxant wasn't taking affect.
"Well, I just whipped up an antidote just in case, and here you were, poisoned," Hinata led Sakura to a door.
"Poisoned?" Sakura gasped. "But-but Sasuke said…"
"Yeah, notice that? Sasuke said," Hinata shook her head as she checked out the door into the hallway. Sakura heard distant laughing. "And you trust him becaaause…?"
"Oh," Sakura hung her head. She was ashamed to admit it. Hinata was right. Sasuke was away for so long, it was like it wasn't even Sasuke anymore. It was Itachi. Of course it was. Itachi influenced Sasuke since the day he was born.
"C'mon, this way," Hinata pulled Sakura. Sakura didn't know why, but she didn't want to leave.
Sakura pulled back her hand. "W-what?"
"The exit, Sakura, it's over here, c'mon," Hinata grabbed Sakura's arm again and practically dragged her towards the door.
Sakura felt it. Hinata heard it. No. Sensed it. She sensed it before she heard it. Ka-shving.
Sakura fell to the floor, screaming so loud her lungs might bleed, as the tendon in her leg broke apart. Tore apart actually.
"Thought you'd escape, you little whore?" Sasuke's demonic voice growled at them both. Hinata jumped as she turned. The man standing in front of her wasn't Sasuke. It wasn't emo Sasuke who hardly even talked, and when he did it was usually to give someone shit. No. This wasn't Sasuke. It didn't even look like him anymore. This was a soulless individual who had a habit of killing people. "And with your little friend? Itachi! We have another guest! One for the both of us."
This was Satan.
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Okay, I don't mean that last line literally, of course, but yeah…
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