Arranged Meetings

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Chapter 5

In the morning he would depart ALONE to go find Sakura.

He returned to his apartment and collected a bunch of stuff; extra kunais, some scrolls, maps, clothing, etc.

Itachi was going to pay dearly for talking 'his' Sakura away.

The day after

8:15 am

Konoha forest

Itachi was going at a pretty slow pace, he really didn't want to attract attention. Also, he knew that someone might come after her, after all, not many people could possibly resist the cherry blossom girl with her pink hair and emerald eyes.

He shook his head quickly to get rid of the thoughts and speed up a bit until he found a good location to rest. He wasn't really tired, but he was rather thirsty for some odd reason, so he put her down near a river and went over to its edge.

Sakura, being someone that's good at dealing with genjutsu, had done a quick counter to Itachi's attack, but because of the strength that was put behind the attack, it knocked her unconscious for 5 minutes. Ever since then, she had be pretending to be asleep, while Itachi carried her away, she was trying really hard not to blush, for she really had never been carried bridal style by a guy that wasn't ugly.

She thought now was a better time then ever to get up and creep away, because this was Uchiha Itachi were talking about, and she really wasn't in the mood to die right now.

She slowly lifted herself up, making sure not to catch the attention of a drinking Itachi.

"Kage- " but before she could finish the technique Itachi was in front of her, and grabbed her hand so she couldn't do more seals.

"How long have you been awake?" he asked, staring down at her with those piercing sharingan eyes.

"Uh, eh, a little while." she said making it seem as if she wasn't awake for the 40 minutes of travelling.

He stared at her for one last time before tying her up so she wouldn't try it again. After all, if she had done it twice, what would stop her from trying to escape again.

"Ne Itachi? I'm thirsty can I go over to the water?" she said, it would be kind of funny if she just started wurpling over to the river to get a drink.

"Hn." he said while making a slight nod with his head, but it wasn't really the noticeable.

So Sakura sort of rolled her way there so she could bend over and get a drink of water. Unfortunately she rolled just a bit to far, and went splashing down into the water and started being carried away by the current.

"HELP, SOME BODY HELP ME!" she screamed because I'm not sure if you have every tried swimming while being tied up, but it's seems pretty hard.

Itachi jumped up quickly and chased her down to where the waterfall just happened to be.

Did she do that on purpose?

Does she really want to die that much?

He wondered to himself as he jumped onto a rock in the middle of the river, and grabbed her as she went whizzing by, unfortunately he lost his footing and went into the water also.

SPLASH!

As he fell in he made sure he still was holding onto one of the ropes tied around Sakura.

Sigh

He was lucky enough to grab onto a branch that was hanging out by the waterfall, so they wouldn't fall. He noticed that the ropes that had Sakura tied where slowly breaking under the pressure, soon, very soon it would break and he would lose her down the waterfall.

He couldn't let that happen, he didn't now why but for some reason he didn't want her to die, not as long as he was around.

SNAP!

"HELP!" Sakura screamed falling to her doom.

The bushes near by rustled and out came a shadowy figure who grabbed her just in time and jump to the other side of the waterfall.

Sakura opened her closed eyes to look at who saved her. For some reason, she was really hoped it was Itachi, but she was also praying it wasn't

As her eyes opened she started to see the face of her saviour, and she saw a face that resembled Itachi's.

"Itachi?" she asked questionably,

"Sakura you really have to be more careful," he said, after hearing the voice she saw the face belonged to none other than Uchiha Sasuke.

"SASUKE-KUN!" she yelled getting excited Sasuke had saved her yet again. She quickly hugged him in a tight embrace knowing that Sasuke would save her from Itachi.

Meanwhile holding onto a branch, "Sasuke." Itachi spat as he heard Sakura yelled out his name.

Damn I was hoping I would have more time before someone came.

He jumped down onto the ledge they where on.

Sasuke and Sakura quickly turned their heads to see Itachi standing there.

Sakura looked down at the ground and quickly said something to Itachi.

"Ar. arigoto, Itachi-kun." she said, knowing that he would have saved her but the rock was quite slippery so he fell. If the rope wasn't so weak he probably would of dropped onto this ledge and continued on, but the rope was weak and it broke.

Sasuke looked at Sakura with bewilderment.

Did she just thank Itachi, and call him '-kun'?

She only called him '-kun- ONLY HIM! He started to narrow his eyes, Itachi would pay for kidnapping Sakura, but he really wanted to know why he did it. Itachi wouldn't do something so cowardly as kidnapping someone that was on his team to lure him out.

"Why did you kidnap Sakura?" he asked changing his normal eyes to sharingan.

Itachi really didn't want to tell his brother why, and from looking down at Sakura he could tell the she didn't want him to know either.

"Simple." he replied but didn't finish his sentence with a proper answer.

"Oh ya, and what is it?" Sasuke asked his voice starting to rise a bit, he could feel Sakura stop hugging him and stand up next to him.

"Sasuke-kun." she muttered softly to him, and then she said the one thing in the world that he didn't expect,

"I have to go with Itachi-kun to sort this out. I'm sorry Sasuke-kun but I have to, please don't worry about me and tell my parents that I'm alright, okay?" she said looking up from the ground and walked over to Itachi.

"Sakura you don't have to go with Itachi, you'll probably just get yourself killed." he said quickly trying to convince her not to go with Itachi and to go back with him.

He could tell that Itachi was smirking. He had found yet another thing that made Sasuke weak, and he knew that now that Sakura was going to go with him he would probably kill her just like he did his clan.

But what he wasn't expecting was what he really was going to do with her.

"Gomen Sasuke-kun, but I have to go." Sakura said and continued her way to Itachi.

Itachi smirked at him one last time as Sakura went over to him, and climbed on his back, so that she could keep up.

They hopped off, while Sasuke just stood there with the same expression on his face.

NO YOU BASTARD ITACHI BRING HER BACK RIGHT NOW!

SHE'S MINE NOT YOURS!

MINE!

He screamed to himself on the inside. It was driving his insane, what could they possibly have to sort out? Was he training her or something, he could do that. She didn't have to go to Itachi. Or was it something worse? Far worse?

TBC

Well another chapter, gone, and the story, well it continues on. Hm why did Sakura go with Itachi instead of Sasuke? Well r & r.