Chapter Three- Waking
"Thank you." Sasuke said, his mouth so close, she could feel the breath on her ear. The tears streamed down her face. She turned around, Sasuke was there, but Orochimaru was behind him, and snakes were twirled around his body.
"Sasuke-kun!" She called desperately. This is a dream. Her unconscious mind thought hopefully.
"I never have a never will have feelings for you, Sakura. Instead of chasing after me with Naruto, you should be improving your skills. You're worse than Naruto in skills…and you're annoying." His voice echoed in her mind, a new set of tears blurring her vision, Orochimaru smirking in the background.
"Syaonara, Sakura-chan." Sasuke murmured, and the snakes around him shot at her.
Sakura screamed, and she opened her eyes, panting and sweating.
-Itachi's Point of View-
Itachi stared at Sakura as she slept. The glow from the fire illuminated one side of her face, the other in shadow, but the glow also shone off of her tears. She's crying in her sleep. He thought, leaning back against a tree and he deactivated his Sharingan for the night. He had seen this girl before…he didn't know when. He decided to find out. If she was stalking him and Kisame, she must have been assigned to kill him, or something to that extent.
He looked at the girl again. Normally, if he found someone following them like that, he would have killed them instantly, but something about her compelled him to stop. Was it her looks, her bravery to actually follow him? Or was it simply lust, like so many times before? He watched her chest rise and fall, her breathes beginning to become strained and rough.
Standing up, Itachi moved over to where Kisame was leaning against a tree also, his eyes half open. He had woken up as well, replacing himself with a log before Itachi had retrieved her. He woke up fully when Itachi approached.
"Hn?" Kisame mumbled, looking up at Itachi, who's head wasn't very far from his because of his height.
"I'm going to do some research on this girl. I'll be back soon." Itachi said simply and robotically, the blank face he carried so much plastered on his face. He lept into the tree, and then the shadows consumed him.
-Sakura's Point of View-
She glanced around, her eyes cloudy from tears. She looked around, wiping the tears from her eyes. She quickly got out of her stupor when she remembered. Itachi! She panicked, looking around and seeing nothing. Where is he? And where is Kisame?
"Stop moving, if you want to live." A voice said behind her. It wasn't the voice from last night, Itachi's voice.
"Kisame." She said, her voice sounding much braver than she felt.
"Hn, so you know who I am. I think it's rude to know one persons name without them knowing yours, so may I have the pleasure of knowing your name?" he asked, a mocking tone in his voice.
There's no point in hiding your name, Sakura. He already knows who you are! Inner Sakura said, sighing. 'But if I tell him and I escape, they could hunt me down later!' Sakura replied.
"No name that would concern you." Sakura replied, trying to keep a poker face.
"Listen, kunoichi…Itachi told me to watch you, but he didn't say I could not kill you or hurt you." Sakura heard the rustling and clanging of a weapon. "I could and wouldn't even care, what loss is it to us? Also, I want you to tell me why you were following us." Kisame added, the pressure of a kunai threatening her.
"Her name is Haruno, Sakura." A voice replied for her. She glanced over where the voice was and found Itachi, glaring at her while speaking. "She is from Konoha, she was in the Seventh Team with my idiot brother and the kyuubi, their leader Kakashi. She has been trained by the Legendary Sannin Tsunade, and her mission was to retrieve information on the Akatsuki and assassinate us." He continued, a bit of amusement in his voice with the last sentence, but his eye betrayed nothing except annoyance…and a bit of anger.
"The kyuubi, eh?" Kisame said, smirking and staring at the back of Sakura.
Itachi disappeared and reappeared in front of Sakura. His face was so close to hers she could smell the smell of pinetrees mingling with the slight smell of sweat, evidence he had been traveling recently.
"What was Tsunade thinking, sending such a weak kunoichi to defeat us? How long were you following us? A day or two, and you have already been caught and discovered." Itachi taunted, his eyes staring into hers.
Sakura looked away from his vibrant red eyes. She could not look, in case he decided to pull her into another Mangekyou Sharingan. "I was careless. I did not think I would get caught this easily." She replied, lying through her teeth. She wasn't careless, she was hopeless…she did not believe she could do it so God granted her wish and she didn't achieve her mission. She was going to be killed, but at least it was honorable.
"You thought wrong." Kisame said and moved his kunai to plunge it into her throat, when Itachi raised her hand.
"Kisame. I wish to speak privately with you." Itachi said more as a command than a request, moving over to the shade of a nearby tree.
"Don't move, Sakura-chan, we will see you if you do, and you have already experienced how hard it is to escape us." Kisame said, following Itachi's example.
On the outside, Sakura was calm and collected with a straight face betraying nothing and her arms straight down to her side, her eyes staring at the diminishing fire. Inside, her mind was in a panic, her thoughts jumbled and uncollected.
Escape, escape escape! They're underestimating you! Inner Sakura, screamed, making her mind try to move her feet. No! Sakura replied. This is my mission! If they kill me, I might as well deserve it for letting them catch me! If they keep me alive…for whatever reason if I escape later at least by then I could learn more information! She replied, making her decision.
Fine. But you're committing suicide; I hope you know, for both of us! Inner Sakura growled.
-With Itachi & Kisame-
"Why did you stop me!" Kisame asked, his voice angry.
"I stopped you because think of her connections. She was in a group with the kyuubi, and my brother. We could use her as bait. If we let Konoha know that she is in our possession with our knowledge of her mission, the kyubbi will be sure to try to rescue her. He'd do anything to save her, correct? As for my little brother…that's a personal reason." He answered.
Kisame grinned. "Okay. But I'm not doing anything for her. I say, as long as she's in our possession, we make her work."
"No." Itachi replied. "That will increase her longing to escape."
"Fine." Kisame sighed, disappointed. "But I'm not going to wait on her, hand and foot."
Itachi did not reply, instead went over to Sakura. "Sakura, you will be traveling with us. You should get used to us, because you will be seeing a lot of us for a very long time." Itachi told her, his monotonic voice having a hint of challenge in it.
I can play this game. Sakura thought, putting on her straight face. "Fine, I shall. But don't think that this gives you a reason to make me do anything. I'm not a maid and I'm not a pack horse. And I suggest you get used to this face as well." She challenged back.
"Don't speak to me that way, and don't forget who holds the cards here. I can easily dispose of you, but I'm letting you stay." He said, and turned around, beginning to pack up his things.
"We're moving." He said, and Sakura grabbed her bag, and followed Itachi, Kisame behind her.
What have you gotten yourself into, Sakura?
Here's the next chapter, and I tried to make it longer than usual from all the slack from that week or so, but like I told you, Fanfiction was being retarted and not letting me upload any of my stories, so I am so sorry! But thank you for all your reviews, keep on reviewing and I'll keep writing! ;p tee hee.
Also, if any characters are OOC, please tell me and I will try my best to keep them IC! Thanks!
Thanks to: (for reviews)
Fluffy101
Silver-down- (I attempted to make her not angsty but give her a stronger
appearance AND keeping her personality.)
Sakura5584- (Thanks! And yes, it will be a love triangle, but towards the end I think
it will fade to be mostly…someone…..lol)
riyuna16- (Sakura is definitely not killing Itachi! Lmao, there is no possible way she
ever could! That's why she go caught….D)
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