'thoughts'

"talking"

'inner Ryuu talking'

Sakura woke up at six am as usual and as soon as she had opened her eyes she just wanted to go back to sleep again.

'I hate this day.' Sakura thought as she got out of bed and went into the shower.

'Today it is exactly two years since they died.' Sakura thought as she stood in the shower. When she came out she put on a black dress that came to her knees and a little over her elbows. She let her hair hang loose around her. She walked into her kitchen and took the red roses she had bought the previous day at the Yamanaka flower shop and proceeded to walk out of her apartment and into streets of Konoha. The streets were empty because it still was only seven in the morning, but just a couple of blocks away Sasuke was taking a walk.

'How could I get Sakura to restore the Uchiha-clan with me? I mean she made it quite clear that she hates me.' Sasuke sighed.

'This makes everything much harder. I guess I just have to find a way to "persuade" her but how?' Sasuke was interrupted in his train of thoughts when he saw something pink walk into the graveyard.

'Sakura? What is she doing there?' Sasuke quickly hid his charka and silently followed her into the graveyard and to two graves under a cherry blossom tree.

'I forgot her parents were dead.' Sasuke continued to watch her from his position in a tree.

Sakura knelt in front of the Haruno graves and lied down the roses.

"Hi oka-san, oto-san." Sakura whispered quietly while running a hand over the two names graved into the dark stone.

'Has it really been two years since you left, have I really been living alone for two years?' Sakura questioned.

Ryuu appeared around her.

'You have changed a lot over the two years. You have become much stronger and wiser and I couldn't be more proud over you.'

Sakura gave a small smile.

'Thank you Ryuu…'

Sasuke couldn't believe his eyes.

'What is that?' He turned on his Sharingan and his eyes widened.

'They share the same chakra! I have only seen this in one other person, Naruto. So that must mean Sakura is sharing her soul with that creature!' Suddenly a smile came to his lips.

'Just what I needed.' Sasuke silently left and sprinted of towards the Hokage tower.

Sakura quickly turned around but only saw the empty graveyard.

'I thought I sensed someone, must've been my imagination.' Ryuu retreated back inside her and Sakura stood up an turned to go back home, but before going through the gates she looked back once more towards her parents graves before turning around and going back home.

It didn't take long for Sakura to walk home and she soon stood by her front door and was just about to open it when she felt two chakras behind her. She turned around and saw two Anbu.

'Shikamaru? Lee?' Sakura wondered

"What is it?" Sakura asked firmly. Just as she had asked that she felt someone slightly pushing her pressure points. She from the corner of her eye it was another Anbu.

'Tenten?'

"What is the meaning of this?" Sakura asked annoyed.

"We have orders from the Hokage to retrieve Sakura Haruno." Shikamaru said while binding her feet and hands with charka rope.

Sakura couldn't do anything to stop him because if she did the slightest move to escape Tenten, who stood behind her, would press her pressure points and her heart would stop.

Sakura was confused.

'What is happening here? If Tsunade-sama wanted to see me she could've just said so?' Lee picked her up and took her to Tsunade's office. They appeared in Tsunade's office seconds later. Tsunade was standing by her desk, her back facing them. Lee threw Sakura onto the floor before disappearing.

"What is the meaning of this Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked. Tsunade turned around and Sakura could see anger, hurt and betrayal playing in her eyes.

"Sakura how could you." Tsuande said in a low voice.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked confused.

"HOW COULD YOU FUSE WITH A DEMON?" Tsunade screamed. Sakura's eyes widened before she shifted her eyes onto the floor.

"You know?" Sakura asked quietly.

"Hai I do and I am very disappointed in you. You of all people should know better!"

"How did you find-" Sakura saw something move in the corner of the room and shifted her gaze and saw Sasuke with a smirk on his face. Then everything became clear to her.

'That presence I felt in the graveyard it was Sasuke!' Sakura thought.

'He must've seen me this morning and followed me and then saw Ryuu.' Sakura cursed at her recklessness.

"I should sentence you to death for your tertiary but if Naruto ever found out he might leave and we can't risk that so therefore…" Tsunade closed her eyes and took a deep breath and the spoke in a harsh tone:

"Sakura Haruno, first Anbu in command. I hereby sentence you to live in complete isolation for the rest of your life because of treason." Sakura's eyes widened.

'Treason?!'

"You are to be stripped from all your ninja rankings and are never to perform jutsus anymore."

Tsunade started performing hand seals and Sakura quickly noticed what jutsu she was going to use.

"Tsunade-sama…" Sakura began but was cut short when pain shot trough her body, Tsunade was sealing her charka. The pain became too big and Sakura collapsed. The same tree Anbu appeared beside Sakura's unconscious body.

"Take her away." Tsunade commanded sternly and watched the Anbu disappear with her now ex-student, she then turned her attention to Sasuke.

"Thank you Sasuke, without your help we would never have discovered Sakura's treason, you have a right to some kind of payment." Tsunade said sitting down in her chair.

"I would just want to become Anbu and the one responsible for the guarding of Sakura." Tsunade nodded and started filling-in on some papers.

With Sakura

Sakura woke up with a headache.

'Where am I?' Sakura wondered. She noticed that she was being carried and they were jumping from tree to tree in a high velocity. The Anbu who was carrying her leaped into a clearing with a mansion in the middle.

'What is this place? I have never been here before.' Sakura thought as she was carried inside. They walked through a dark hallway until they came to a double door. Lee brought Sakura inside into the room. It was quite large. It had a window (with a barrier so she couldn't escape), a mirror, a bed, a bathroom and shower and a small table with a vase of flowers. Lee threw her down onto the floor before cutting the ropes and then quickly moving to the room.

"Lee wait, why are you doing this?" Sakura asked. Lee stopped but didn't turn around.

"I haven't done anything wrong; YOU are the one who betrayed Konoha for power." He replayed in a cold tone.

"There is no law against fusing with a demon if there was Naruto would be dead right now." Sakura argued

"Naruto didn't ask to be fused with the Kyuubi and besides he saved Konoha by doing so. You however did it just to obtain power. I never thought you would stoop this low, Haruno." Were Lee's last words before walking out and locking the door. Sakura just sat there on the floor staring at the closed door.

'Am I really that bad? Did I really just fuse with Ryuu to obtain power?' Sakura quickly shook her head when she realised what she had just thought.

'No I did it to never have to see one of my loved ones die without being able to do anything.'

Sakura turned her attention back to the door when she heard it open and saw Sasuke walk in dressed in Anbu clothing. Sakura stood up from the floor and gave a bone chilling glare towards him.

"Hello Sakura." Sasuke said with a hint of joy in his voice.

"What do you want Uchiha? Haven't you already done enough?" Sakura spat angrily. Sasuke just smirked before disappearing and re-appearing behind her. Sakura tried to move away but he was faster due to her weakened state and gripped her wrist.

"Where do you think you are going?" Sasuke asked in a low voice.

"As far away from you I can." Sakura said angrily

"Ne-ne Sakura-chan don't be so hostile." Sasuke said as his smirk grew.

"What do you do want Uchiha?" Sakura said in a hateful tone, wanting to get his ugly face out of her sight as soon as possible.

"I have a proposition for you." Sasuke answered. Sakura just glared at him.

"I could get you out of her and get back all your ninja ranks all I would have to do is tell Tsunade I was put under a genjutsu and I that I really didn't see that creature."

"And what would I have to do for my knight in shining armour in return?" Sakura asked her words dripping with sarcasm. Sasuke lowered his head so he was eye to eye with her.

"All you would have to do would be to become my wife." Sakura knew the hidden meaning to those words.

"And there by become your baby-making-machine? I don't think so. I wouldn't marry you even if my life depended on it." Sakura said angrily and pulled her hand out of his grasp. Sasuke just smirked.

"If you ever want to leave this place you will." He replayed and started walking to the door. Sakura took the vase from the table and threw it at his head but he made it out of the room and the vase hit the now closed door instead. Sakura threw herself onto the bed and for the first time since her parent's death she cried. Her soft sobs the only thing coming from her room. There in the dark room she cried, all alone, with not a single person in the world who cared about her.

'Why does my heart ace so?' Sakura wondered to herself. Ryuu, who had been sealed inside her, could only wait inside his mistress feeling her sorrow, her pain, her feeling of betrayal and hurt. It was killing him inside not being able to comfort her when she needed it the most, so he did the only thing he could do he whispered soothing words to her trying to make her feel better, but Sakura only cried.

Outside it stormed. Thunder cracked, the earth shook, the wind blew hard and bone chilling breaths, so powerful it made many trees fall and the rain came down hard. The elements were to say the least furious for what the people of Konoha had done to their 'child'. It would storm like this for a month, bringing much destruction to Konoha but leaving the manor, were their child was held, alone and untouched.

Tbk… (A/N: Just kidding… :D )

2 months later

Sakura sat by her mirror, staring at her reflection. She was dressed in a forest green spaghetti strapped dress she had bee given when her old one had gotten to dirty. She had now stayed in this room for two months, the only connection to the outside world being a small window. Sakura glanced at the clock.

'Nine pm. That means Sasuke will come soon.' Sakura sighed. Sasuke had been coming to her room night for the time she had been imprisoned and asked the same question and Sakura had answered the same way every time. Sakura got up and walked over to the window and looked at the dark forest surrounding the manor.

'One day he won't leave anymore.' Sakura thought bitterly.

'One day he will take me by force and there will be nothing I could do to stop him.'

'I will not let that happen, you know that.' Ryuu told her.

'But you are sealed.' Sakura said.

'I am working on the 'Snakes grip' seal; it shouldn't take much more time to break it.' Sakura gave a sad smile.

'Let's just hope you manage to break it before Sasuke tries anything.' Sakura thought as she continued to watch the forest.

Somewhere in the forest

Itachi and Kisame were jumping from tree to tree in high speed. Leader had sent them to check up on a rumour about a powerful shinobi being hidden in the forests of Konoha which was quite a job because Konoha had a lot of forests and so far they hadn't got any clues. Itachi was thinking of a certain pink haired kunochi as he was jumping trough the trees.

'I haven't seen her for two months; maybe she is on a mission.' Suddenly his ninja senses kicked in. Itachi and Kisame quickly hid and about five seconds later an Anbu landed on the branch they had just stood on.

'Sasuke?' Itachi wondered. The Anbu, now identified as Sasuke, continued running through the trees.

'I wonder were he is going all alone?' Itachi motioned to Kisame that they should follow him. Kisame nodded and they followed Sasuke at a safe distance. After about 15 minutes of running they came to a clearing with a mansion.

'Ah, the hidden mansion of Konoha, the place were to they bring dangerous criminals when sentenced to life time imprisonment. It hasn't been used for ten years so why is there so much activity here.'

"Kisame, there are six Anbu inside the manor. Keep them distracted while I investigate." Itachi ordered. Kisame disappeared with a grin on his face and moments later exploding sounds could be heard. As expected four of the Anbu ran of into the direction of the explosion. Itachi wasted no time and ran into the mansion. He came to a long dark hallway. On his way down the hallway he was attacked by one of the two Anbu who were still in the mansion, but he was no match for Itachi. Just as he had killed the Anbu he heard a roar. Itachi ran to the place from were he had heard the roar but hid when he felt a charka approach.

Sakura

Sakura heard the door open and close but didn't turn around to see who had entered for she already knew who it was. She heard footsteps approach her. She turned around and saw Sasuke. Sasuke was wearing his Anbu clothing as usual.

"How are you Sakura?" He asked but Sakura didn't answer. In a flash he stood in front of her.

"Don't you have some mist nin to fight instead of coming here?" Sakura asked annoyed. Sasuke gripped her chin in his hand.

"We made peace with mist country a month ago." He said before going back to the matter at hand.

"You know what I will ask you, so what is your answer?"

"No." Sakura said firmly.

"I thought so." Sasuke said smirking before pinning Sakura to the wall. Sakura tried to kick him but he pressed his body against hers.

"Let me go." Sakura said angrily.

"No. I gave you a chance to give yourself freely to me but now my patience is lost and I will have to take you by force." He said as he pushed his lips onto hers in a bruising. Sakura tried to break free but had a hard grip on her chin, preventing her from doing so. Her eyes slightly widened when she felt him move his had to the zipper (sp?) of her dress. Just then Ryuu broke free and pushed Sasuke away so he hit the wall on the other side. Ryuu roared in rage as the walls shook. Sasuke looked at the great dragon in fear. Ryuu bend his head and nuzzled Sakura's cheek in an attempt to assure she was safe. Sakura relaxed knowing Ryuu was there. Ryuu then turned his attention back to the soon-to-be dead man. He sent a wave of chakra towards him that knocked him out.

'Come let's leave. I sense two powerful chakras nearby.' Sakura nodded and Ryuu retreated back inside her and Sakura started running through the hallway towards the exit.

Authors POV

Itachi saw Sakura run past him.

'What is she doing here?' He wondered as he followed her out from the mansion, into the forest and to her secret place.

As soon as she arrived she fell to her knees.

'The seal is not completely broken; it still drains some of my strength. Sakura did some complicated hand seals.

'KAI!' First she started glowing a red light but then it turned into yellow.

'I broke the seal but it left me completely drained.' Was the last thing Sakura thought before she fell unconscious to the ground. Itachi stepped out of the shadows and started walking over to Sakura's unconscious body.

'It seems she is the shinobi we were looking for.' He stopped when he reacted her and knelt down on one knee.

'She broke the 'Snake's grip' seal. No one has ever been able to break it because it requires so much chakra which you usually don't have after being exposed to it.' He 'scanned' her body with his sharingan and found that she was protected by a barrier. A small smirk came to his lips.

'She is full of surprises.' He reached out towards her and to his surprise he found that he could touch her. He quickly lifted her up bridal style, she weighed practically nothing, and started running towards the headquarters. On the way he met Kisame who was covered in blood and apparently had had much fun killing the four Anbu's. Kisame's eyes fell onto the pink-haired girl or woman in Itachi's arms.

"Is she the nin we were sent after?"

Itachi nodded.

"Isn't that the girl we saw two months ago who killed off like 300 nin in no time?"

Itachi nodded again. He looked down onto beautiful her face.

'I wonder what more surprises she has hidden inside her?' A small smirk came to his lips.

'It will be fun to find out.' He thought as Kisame, Itachi and Sakura continued towards the Akatsuki headquarters.

A/N: Phew! Chapter 5 is up! I'm sorry for taking so long to update, but I'll try to update chappie 6 sooner. I might change the raiting to M but I'm not entirely shure, please let me know if you think I should!!

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