Chapter 3

Sakura sighed of boredom. She looked at the snow falling down on the other side of the window. She lifted her hand and pressed it against the cold glass as if it was containing some short of truth. Her hot breath misted it. She drew a small sakura flower on the little spot and sighed again. A week had passed since she moved in this large room. She hadn't bathed nor changed clothes and felt really dirty. Nothing really interesting happened after that. Itachi came twice a day to give her food and always said the same "Don't leave this room." before walking out. She turned her head to gaze at the massive wooden door behind her. Was it locked? What if it wasn't?

She stood up and jumped off the window frame where she had been sitting for almost and hour and headed to the door. She encircled the handle with her delicate fingers and turned it slowly.

"It's unlocked! What do I do?" She wondered a little bit surprised. Did it mean she could leave the room? Would she be attacked by some Akatsuki members? Maybe she could fall into a deadly trap or a powerful genjutsu? What to do? Would Itachi sense her leaving the bedroom?

"Who cares? I have to get out of this place before I go crazy!" She slowly opened the door and carefully scanned the corridor. "Nobody in sight!" She putted one foot on the cold polished floor of the passage and the next thing she knew, she was pinned against it. Itachi was holding her firm against the floor with is body pressed against hers and looked very unpleased.

"I thought I told you many times not to leave this room?" He scolded her, his red sharingans piercing trough her emerald eyes.

"I-I know…I just needed to get some air and… can you please get off me!" She scolded back while creasing her eyes in accusation. He stared at her.

"Are you giving me orders kunoichi?"

"No it's just-"

"You are quite cheeky. I think it's time for me to help you to remember your place medic." He said while activating his mangekyou sharingan. She turned her head aside and closed her eyes immediately feeling the fear raise within her. He locked her chin into a firm grip to force her to look at him.

"Open your eyes." He ordered. But she refused to. She did not want to suffer like Sasuke did. He was so broken when they brought him back to the hospital. He was so full of rage and hatred that he threw the plate containing the apple she had sliced for him on the floor. She did not want to see what he saw that day. His grip around her chin tightened.

"ugh… please…" she begged. " I don't want to see what he saw that day…" He stared at her pained face for a moment. Was she talking of Sasuke? Did she saw him when he had used his mangekyou on him a few years ago?

"What is that thing you don't want to see kunoichi? He asked in a low tone. She opened one eye cautiously and looked at his pale lips.

"The unknown fears I own…" She replied still gazing at his lips. He lifted her chin up and she caught his eyes with her opened one.

"Then don't disappoint me again." His grip on her chin loosened and he let go of her. He lifted himself up and walked pass her. "Don't you dare leaving this room again. I won't be so clement if there is a next time." He closed the door behind him. She was alone. Again. Maybe it was kind of odd but deep inside her she wished he would have stayed. She felt so lonely lately. She stood up and walked back to the window. She pressed her hands flat against the window and sighed heavily.

"I am caged"
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"How long are you going to wait before using her? I don't know how long I will be able to restrain myself from killing her. It would be very satisfying." grumbled Kisame. He had some short of perverted devilish grin on his face. Itachi did not want to know what was on his mind right now.

"You will have to be patient because I will need her assistance for at least six or seven months. So until there, I don't want to see a cut on her, is that clear Kisame?" He warned with red glowing eyes. Kisame nodded in frustration. He stood up and walked until he reached the door frame.

"You are lucky he isn't here, cause she would beg to be killed right now." He said still looking before him. "You know he would like to add her to his inventory so, when he comes back tomorrow, make sure he doesn't feel her presence." Itachi nodded in silence and Kisame finally left.
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"Cold… the wind is cold… am I… back home?"

Sakura creaked open an eye and looked around her. It was probably midnight judging by the darkness filling the place. She felt a soft but freezing breeze on her porcelain tainted skin and it made her shiver a bit. She stood up tiredly and walked to the large window. The curtains blew violently against the window frame. Sakura leaned on her toes and pushed her petite body up to look outside. Except the menacing black clouds and the strong blowing wind, there was nothing she could see nor feel outside. She leaned back on her feet and closed the shutters. When she turned around she met too red glowing orbs staring at her from the other side of the room. She just stared back. She did not know why but she expected him to be there. Maybe the noise of the shutters hurting the window frame woke him up.

"Yes…?" she hissed seeing that he was not going to talk. She sighed loudly at his lack of response and walked back to her bed. She turned around to see that he now sat down on the floor his back leaning against the wall. She slipped back under the warm blankets, her back facing him and closed her eyes, pretending to be unaffected by his presence. After two minutes she looked behind to see that he was still staring at her. She sighed again and rolled on her side to face him.

"Look, if you thought I was trying to escape you are mistaking. I was just closing the shutters because it felt cold in here." She mumbled. Itachi stood up in a sleepy way and it was then she noticed his clothes. He was not wearing his usual Akatsuki cloak but only a long black t-shirt and a pair of black pants. He didn't even were his forehead-protector. Sakura decided that he looked younger this way, perhaps a little more friendly.

He headed toward the bed and sat on its hedge beside Sakura's covered thighs. He looked at her in a strange manner. His eyes had someway softened. Still staring at her, he lifted his hand and stroked her hair gently.

"I know."

He stood up and skirted the bed. She watched him walk to the other side of her bed with wide-eyes. He then sat down on it and slipped under the covers, leaving a decent space between them, before closing his eyes. Sakura looked at him in a shocked way.

"Just what the hell do you think you're doing?" She hissed a bit angry at his action. He rolled on his side facing her but his eyes remained closed.

"I am actually trying to sleep."

"Oh! Don't you have your own bed for this purpose?"

"The bed you are sleeping in is not yours if that's what you're implying. It belongs to the Akatsuki members so if I want to sleep here I have the right to." He hissed back. She creased her eyes in anger and turned around drawing herself as far as possible from him. She grumbled a bit on her side before quieting down. Itachi couldn't fight back a small smile. She entertained him in such a way. He never saw a girl switching emotions so quickly. He'd been studiying her for a week without her noticing of course and he came to learn a lot about her. The way she walked indicated that she felt shocked of the past events because her step were shaky and unfocused. And the way she played with a strand of her pink hair showed that she was worrying a lot.Sure, showing emotions to everybody meant weakness unless they were some relatives or persons very close to you that would never let people know how you feel. Anyway, this girl was so short tempered that he couldn't wait to see her reaction when he would tell her what he "borrowed" her for. She would surely be so angry at him that fighting back his laugher would be a difficult thing.

"Tomorrow, I'll allow to wash yourself. Just go to the door in front of this room."
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Sakura woke up slowly and noticed that Itachi had left a long time before she awoke because "his" side of the bed was colder than her own. She also noticed that the door was fully opened. Looking carefully into the passage, she stepped outside and ran to the door in front of her. She breathed out loudly leaning against the door she previously locked for safety more than privacy. The bathroom was typically Japanese. There was tiling on the floor and walls with a shower rose on the left one. Next to the shower rose, there was a soak tub and white towels were put on its edge. There was also a large mirror hanging on the wall next to the door. Sakura turned the hot water on and unclothed herself while it was running. She looked at her thin body in the large mirror. She thought her skin looked very pale. "You mean you look like a corpse yeah!" yelled inner-Sakura. She touched her skin where some bruises and cuts were visible.

She slowly entered the water and winced in pain as her wounds burned due to its hotness.

After soaking for about fifteen minutes, she washed herself with an unused soap bare. The sent of the soap remembered her of Itachi. It wasn't scented at all. It just smelled fresh and clean. She could not explain the sent tough. It just smelled like him. Maybe he also used this soap to wash himself she thought vaguely. After washing her short hair she quickly dried herself with the towel and looked around for her clothes. They were nowhere to be found.

"Is that what you are looking for my pretty?"

Sakura gasped in horror as she turned around to see someone standing in front of the door. He held her dirty smelling clothes in his wooden hand.

"You! H-how could it be… it's impossible!" She yelled with a husky voice while holding her towel more tightly.

"So we meet again, little cherry blossom." He chuckled and took a step toward her. She stepped back in fear but she was stopped soon enough. She looked down and saw thin strings rapped around her arms and legs, holding each pairs tightly together. Her towel fell on the floor and her perfect forms were reveled to the intruder. She gasped in shock and tried to free herself from the strings that drove into her tender skin. Blood trickles ran down on her nude body but she kept wriggling. Her wet hair was sticking on her neck and forehead.

"Let me go!" She yelled in despair. The men lifted his hand and a string encircled her delicate neck. Some blood trickled down her neck to her collar bone. He licked his lips before leaning down to the base of her neck. Sakura froze when she felt his cold tongue lick the blood all the way from her collard bone to her throat. She shivered in disgust. He lifted his head to look into her eyes and licked his lower lips.

"Delectable." He grinned before leaning down again.

"Let her go Sasori." The said man turned around and glared at the new intruder.

"Is it yours Itachi?" He spat nonchalantly.

"Don't touch her again. She'll be useless if you torn-up her mind." He replied as nonchalantly as the other missing-nin. Sasori turned back to Sakura and leaned until his lips touched her ear.

"You must be very skilled if he forbids me to taste you" his lips brushed against her ear and she shivered in disgust when she heard the word "taste".

"I said don't break her." Itachi hissed a little bit annoyed. Sasori let go of Sakura and she dropped harshly on the wet floor. She breathed heavily and tried to hide her body as much as she could with her small hands. Sasori made his way to the door and stopped when he reached Itachi.

"Let me know when you are done playing with your new toy." He said before exiting. Itachi did as if he didn't hear and walked to Sakura who was bleeding and trembling of fear. She evaded his eyes and crawled back on the cold and wet floor until she hit the tub. Itachi took off his cloak and covered her shaking form before taking her bride-style.

She trembled even more when he entered the room she had been staying in and closed the door with his foot. When he walked toward the bed she started to wriggle violently in his arms while letting small gasps escape her lips. He putted her on the bed and reached for something in his pocket while he sat beside her. Her eyes followed his movement carefully. When he took it out of his pocket she saw it was holding a white handkerchief. His hand reached for her bleeding throat and he wiped away the small dribble. It was so delicate, the motion made by his long fingers covered by the soft material felt like a caress on her injured skin. He moved down to her fragile collar bone. She closed her eyes as she felt his hot palm brush slightly against her bare skin. He stopped at the edge of her shoulder and looked at her before taking off of her arm the dark cloak. He took her arm with his other hand and slid the handkerchief slowly from her shoulder to her frail wrist. His hand slid from her under-arm to her wrist. He closed his fingers around it noticing how small it was. He then stoked the back of her hand gently with his thumb. She shivered at the touch. She opened her eyes and lifted her head to look into his glowing orbs. He looked at her hand and putted it down on her thigh before wiping her other side. When he was done with her arms and neck he looked at her legs and back into her eyes.

"Wipe you legs and I will bring you some clothes." She followed his retreating figure with her eyes and shook her head. She looked at her legs, moved the cloak and started to heal the cuts with her green glowing hands. "what's with him..."

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