She had been stabbed. Blood trickled down the side of her face. She couldn't move, was she tied down? Her head was pounding and her abdomen hurt. Oh right, she had been stabbed. Probably in the abdomen she thought as pain shot through her sides, down her legs.

Her head wouldn't lift when she had tried to lift it, again she couldn't move, why. Her eyes closed, she tried to channel her chakra to her abdomen, to heal the wound she couldn't see through her torn and bloody clothes. It popped and fizzled out. Damn. Chakra cuffs, she could feel it now. When she had tried to channel her chakra she felt it move and then evaporate at the juncture of hand and wrist.

-He knew...Itachi knew.-

Traitor. He had to be a traitor. Her head wouldn't stop pounding, she felt dizzy and cold. Excessive blood loss her clinical mind told her.

-You let him in your bed, you let him fuck you senseless, touch you, kiss you...that traitor-

Move, she tried to will her body into motion. Move! Nothing happened. Shisui. Sasuke. Be alive. She tried to shake her head, she was blacking out, stay awake, she tried to, darkness fell around her to the sound of a door opening close by. Blackness took her.

-Flashback to the previous day-

The hawk circled overhead, dove toward Shisui's head and dropped a scroll into his hand then flew away. Shisui opened the scroll. His eyes narrowed and he sighed looking up to Sasuke and Sakura. "Danzo Shimura is dead. Decapitated in his home."

"A councilman decapitated in his own home, hum, well he did run root, and we all know it wasn't disbanded like it was supposed to be. Seems he wasn't happy keeping that very limited amount of power after all." Sakura hummed. She had known the former Root leader didn't like taking a backseat to Saratobi or the new Senju Hokage. It had only been a matter of time before he was eliminated. But who, who did it?

"Does it say by whom?" She asked Shisui.

"No." Shisui frowned at the scroll in his hand, clenched it tight and his eyes spun red, anger flaring.

"What?" Sasuke was watching his cousin through his Ferret mask.

"Everyone will be under suspicion now, all Anbu, the Hokage." Sakura answered Sasuke but was looking at Shisui.

Mongoose looked at Wolverine, Wolverine looked at Mongoose and nodded. Later their eyes said. They would talk later.

That's when they heard the voices.

"I don't see why we have to go looking for them, reports say they are looking for us yeah." A man's voice could be heard in the forest to their left.

All three leapt to the branches above and concealed their chakra signatures.

Two men came into view. One was blonde with long hair, looked about Sakura's age. The other shorter, red hair, looked young, maybe 16 years old. Both had on the tell tale black cloaks with red clouds, Akatsuki robes.

"I hate waiting, who knows when they will get around to finding us." The redhead drawled while flicking a nonexistent speck of dust from his cloak.

The blonde rolled his eyes, "This is a waste of time, why are we out here looking for some stupid chick when we could be home, I have a masterpeice just waiting to be finished! I don't want to be out here looking for some short tempered, pink haired medic yeah!"

Sakura tensed in the tree, they were looking for her specifically? She felt the weight of Sasuke's stare and turned toward him. He purposefully widened his eyes at her and she shook her head, no, she hadn't known they were after her. She looked over at Shisui, his face was grim and his jaw was set, had he known?

Before she could give the signal to retreat Shishui disappeared, he had used his body flicker and had put two cuts into the blonde before she could move. Sasuke dropped down beside the redhead and was thrown back by some invisible line, arms flung wide, shit she thought, he can't brace himself for the fall. She teleported to his side and caught him, dropping him to his feet she teleported to Shisui.

"What the fuck ." Was all she got out before a stream of senbon were shot her way, Shisui and her teleported to Sasuke, "Let's go, we aren't staying."

An explosion from above drew their attention, Shisui and Sasuke were blown up and away from her, Shisui tried to flicker away with Sasuke in his grip but invisible strings pulled his leg and threw them both off to the side.

Sakura heard groans, they were injured? She moved in a crouch coming up behind the redhead. Stepping to the side drew her katana and cut the now visible chakra strings, more groans, she turned flipped and was caught in the abdomen with a kunai, she dropped. Her hand glowed green to heal her wound but before she could even lower her arm to the bleeding she was hit with several flashes of lights, an explosion? Again? She thought as she hit the floor, her eyes closed.

-End Flashback-

Slap. Slap. Slap.

"Ungh, stop." Sakura was coming to.

"Wake up Sakura."

"Itachi?" Her eyes flew open and looked into the eyes of Itachi Uchiha, her ex lover. "What the hell, where am I?"

"You are in one of the Uchiha Safehouses." He leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "I told you I wanted to abort this mission, you forced me to do this." and he walked out of the room closing the door behind him.