'thoughts'

"talking"

'inner Ryuu talking'

Sakura woke up feeling slightly sore in her body.

'Where am I?' Sakura looked around and found that she was in a room. It had black walls, a king sized (which she was currently sitting on), a traditional Japanese table (A/N: you know those low ones) with four pillows to sit on and a dresser, everything in black wood except the pillows and the bedclothes who were crimson red. The floor consisted of dark mahogany wood. The room was very simple jet elegant. There were two doors and a window in the room.

'The first door probably leads out while the other door goes to a bathroom.' Sakura thought.

The window was covered by red coloured drapes that reached the floor. The room only had a small candle that was beside her that provided some light.

'Someone must've found me while I was unconscious, but how were they able to touch me?' Sakura wondered.

'I was so drained from breaking the seal that I couldn't keep up the barrier.'

'It's ok. You have done so much, take some rest and recover your strength.'

'Very well, call for me if you need me.'

'I will.'

Sakura opened her eyes (A/N: She always closes her eyes when she talks to Ryuu).

'I'm completely drained of chakra, I just hope I won't need it until I've regained it.'

"You are awake." A cold voice said interrupting her thoughts. Sakura looked to a dark corner in the room and saw a pair of crimson eyes looking at her intently.

"Itachi." Sakura whispered.

"Why have you brought me here?" Itachi got up and walked towards her and stopped when he stood by the end of the bed.

"The same thing as at our last encounter." Itachi replayed in his monotone voice.

Flashback

"Good evening Sakura." Itachi spoke calmly

"How do you know my name and what do you want?" Sakura asked suspiciously.

He started to walk towards her and for every step he took she took one step back.

"I have my sources and as for why I'm here I want to ask you some questions." He said in his cold voice.

"What if I don't want to answer your questions?" Sakura asked. Just then she felt the cold cave wall against her back.

'Shit!' She cursed inwardly.

Itachi walked really close until his mouth was by her ear and he whispered:

"You don't have a choice."

End of flashback

"What kind of questions?" Sakura asked. Itachi was quiet for a while, carefully choosing his words.

"What have you done to make Konoha lock you up in the prison mansion?"

Sakura snorted.

"I have betrayed Konoha by becoming stronger using…" Sakura paused for a minute.

"..forbidden ways." Itachi knew she wouldn't tell him anything more so he proceeded to the next question.

"How come you can restore your chakra?" Sakura stiffened slightly.

"None of your business." Sakura said casually. In a flash Sakura was pinned to the floor by her hands and feet. She looked up only to be met by crimson red eyes.

"Get off!" Sakura said angrily.

"Not until you answer my question." Itachi answered coolly.

"I guess will just lay here forever then." Sakura said. Itachi could feel himself become slightly aggravated by the pink haired woman.

"You will answer my question." Itachi said firmly.

"No I won't." Sakura determinately stated. And the staring contest was ON! About five minutes later their staring contest was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"What is it?" Itachi asked slightly irritated.

"Leader has sent a message for you." A voice replayed from the other side of the door that Sakura recognized as Kisame's. Wordlessly Itachi stepped away from Sakura and walked over to the door but before stepping out he turned around and gave one last glance before saying.

"We will continue this later." And he closed the door. Sakura closed her eyes and sighed as she rubbed her temples.

'I have to try to come up with something believable as to why I restored my chakra reserves, I can't just say that "the creature that I share a soul with lend it to me."' Suddenly Sakura felt a chakra in the room. Her eyes shoot open and she looked around. Her eyes stopped by a figure leaning against the door.

"Who's there?" She asked.

"Such a beauty…" Sakura heard him (by the sound of his voice) whisper.

"Show yourself!" Sakura demanded.

The figure pushed him of the door and came into the light. It was a man with dark brown hair tied in a low ponytail, ice blue eyes and a scar on his left cheek, quite handsome. He was wearing the Akatsuki cloak.

"What are you doing here?" Sakura asked. He gave a small chuckle.

"I came here to see the shinobi that Itachi brought back." He walked over to Sakura who was sitting on the floor and crouched down in front of her, Sakura followed his movements carefully. He reached out and caressed her cheek.

"Who would've thought it would be a kunochi and such a beautiful at that." Sakura could clearly see lust in his eyes, it disgusted her. She slapped his hand away.

"Well this kunochi doesn't like other people touching her." Sakura stated while standing up and moving towards the bathroom but was stopped by a hand gripping her wrist. Sakura turned around and came face to face with the same man.

'Is he deaf or something?' Sakura wondered. Sakura punched with him with her free hand in the chest, hard, making him stumble backwards and realising his grip on her wrist. Sakura then continued towards the bathroom.

'I sooo need a bath.' But her plans were cut short when she was pinned to the wall.

"And fiery to." The same man said. He lowered his lips to her ear.

"I like it." He whispered. Sakura could feel her anger rising.

'He is just like SO asking to be beaten into a bloody pulp.' Sakura raised her leg to knee him but just as she was about to beat the living daylights out of this guy he was pulled away from her and thrown into the wall on the opposite side of the room. Sakura saw Itachi standing in front of him holding him up by his throat.

"What are you doing in my room Koichi?" Itachi asked in a dangerous low voice.

"I-I just came to see the s-shinobi you brought back." He choked out.

"You know you are not allowed into my room."

"Gomenasai Itachi-san."

"Hn." Was Itachi's only replay as he let go of Koichi's throat.

"If I find you in my room again without my permission I will kill you. Understood?"

"Hai Itachi-san" Koichi replayed rubbing his soar throat.

"Good now leave." Koichi walked towards the door and walked out, but before he closed the door he sent a glare towards Itachi. When the door close Itachi turned towards Sakura.

"What were you doing with him?" Itachi asked. Sakura's eyes threatened to bulge out.

"What did I do? He was the one who sneaked in while I was resting and pinned me to a wall!" Sakura argued. Itachi raised an elegant eyebrow.

"And you just let him?" Itachi questioned.

"I was just about to beat the crap out of him when you came." Sakura said calmly.

"I noticed." Itachi said. Sakura sent a glare towards him.

"Why do you care anyway?"

"I don't."

"Good then stop asking." Itachi stared at her for a while then without warning he disappeared and reappeared in front of her and pinned her to the bed.

"What are you doing?" Sakura asked getting pretty fed up with being pinned all the time.

"Taking up from where we left."

"In that case we should be lying on the floor." Sakura remarked sarcastically. Itachi smirked.

'Shouldn't have said that.' Sakura thought before she was pulled to the floor.

THUMP!

'Ouch!' Sakura thought.

"Now tell me how you are able to restore your chakra reserves." Itachi more ordered then questioned.

"No."

Itachi got so close so their noses were touching.

"If you don't answer my question I will start to punish you every time you don't answer." He said, his lips brushing over hers every time he spoke. Sakura wasn't stupid she knew that when he said he would 'punish' her he didn't mean just beat her but also sexually abuse her if not even rape her.

'I have to come up with something.'

"I used a jutsu." She said after a while of thinking.

"There is no such jutsu." Itachi said, eyeing her suspiciously

"Yes there is. I developed one a couple of years ago."

"Prove it." He stepped away from her. She got up and closed her eyes and did 60 hand seals very fast. When she had done the last sign she was enveloped in a green light and her chakra reserves started refilling and moments later they were full. When they were full Sakura opened her eyes and looked at Itachi.

"Good enough for you?" Sakura asked.

Itachi had followed the whole process with his sharingan.

'She uses the life force from her surroundings such as plants and trees and turns it into chakra. It is a very complicated process and the jutsu is hard to perform and it requires almost perfect chakra control but it is very effective.'

"Hn." Itachi said before he walked over to her and did some hand seals and put his left hand onto her shoulder and drained her chakra again. Sakura suddenly felt a little dizzy.

'What's happening?' The next thing she knew everything went black.

Itachi saw her sway a little before falling. He held out his arms and caught her.

'She must've been exhausted.' He lifted her up bridal style that was when he noticed how light she was.

'She is under nursed. Apparently she didn't get enough to eat at the mansion.' He brought her to the bed and laid her down, before leaving her to rest.

'I have to see to that she gets some food.

Later that evening

Sakura woke up a couple of hour's later only one thing on her mind.

'I need a bath, badly!' Sakura slowly got up from the bed and made her way into the bathroom. She locked the door and poured up a hot bath.

When the warm water hit Sakura's skin she couldn't help but sigh.

'I haven't had a proper bath for months seeing there was no tub in the mansion, but that even if there would have been one I would still not have used it, I could just as well write 'take me Sasuke!' on my forehead and it would have the same affect.' Sakura shrugged. Then she remembered the whole thing about Itachi and her performing the chakra restoring jutsu or as Sakura had named it 'Natural rebirth'. (A/N: I know kinda' crappy but it was a last minute thing)

'Finally that jutsu I developed two years came in handy.'

After a while of soaking Sakura washed her hair and body before stepping out of the tub and drying herself of with a towel she found hanging on the wall and wrapping it around her small frame. She looked at her old green dress that was lying on the floor. It was torn and dirty.

'I need new clothes.' She concluded. She sensed for any chakras in the room and when she found none she walked inside to go look for some clothes. She saw a purple bundle of cloth on the table. She walked over to it and saw that it was a kimono.

'Itachi must've gotten it.' Sakura took it and went back inside the bathroom and put it on. It fitted her perfectly. It was a dark purple colour and had cranes painted on it and it reached the floor. It had a grey obi to go with it.

'It is beautiful.' Sakura tucked her oka-sans necklace inside her yukata then she put her now lower back length hair in a high ponytail with a black ribbon she had found among the clothing. When she was ready she walked out of the bathroom and put her old dress in the trash. Just then the door opened and Kisame came in with a tray of food.

"Hello Sakura-san! I have some food for ya.' Sakura was dumbstruck for a while because of the kindness he showed.

"Thank you."

Kisame put down the tray on the table. Sakura sat down in front of it. There was sushi, a small bowl with rice and some sauce.

"I made it myself." Kisame proudly admitted. Sakura's eyes threatened to bulge out.

"I never saw you as a cooking type of man." Sakura admitted.

"Well now you know." He said grinning.

"Mind if I test it. It's a habit" Sakura asked.

"Not at all." Kisame said a little interested in how she was going to test it seeing she had no chakra. Sakura held her hand in front or her and a small black bottle materialized.

"How'd you do that?" Kisame asked impressed.

"I used a kind of teleporting jutsu that requires no chakra." Kisame nodded. Sakura took her chop sticks and took a piece of rice and dipped it in the sauce before putting one drop on it from the bottle. Nothing happened so Sakura started eating.

"Sakura-san, how come you were so under nursed?" Kisame asked.

"The food I got at the mansion was almost always poisoned or drugged, the later was more common. I couldn't eat it but I would die if I didn't get food so I ate only small portions of the food, so small so that the drugs or poison didn't affect me."

Kisame nodded.

"Kisame-san, what do you know about Koichi?" Sakura asked after a while of silence.

"I heard about his little 'visit' so I guess it's only fair you get to know about him." Kisame shifted himself so that he was in a more comfortable position.

"Koichi Tatsyo, he came to Akatsuki about a year and a half ago. He was an Anbu from cloud country. He became a missing-nin when he killed one of council members and the council member's wife and two children, his reasons are unknown. He has had at least two partners but because of his indifference in his partners health he has gotten both of them killed, his current partner is Zetsu since five months. I have never seen him in action but I have heard that his skills almost match Itachi's, key word almost." Sakura nodded silently. When Sakura had eaten her food she thanked Kisame and he got up made a move to take the tray but stopped mid-step.

"I almost forgot." He said reaching inside his cloak.

"Here." He said as he held a flute black with gold embroidery in his hand.

"No I can't accept such a gift. You don't even know if I can play." Sakura argued.

"Do you?"

"Well, yes but…" Kisame interrupted her.

"Good then take it. I can't play anyway so I have no use for it." He said shoving it into her hands. Sakura gracefully stood up and walked over to Kisame and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"Thank you." Kisame just grinned and took the tray and left. Sakura traced her fingers over the flute.

'It's beautiful.' Sakura put it inside her sleeve.

'I'll play on it sometime.' Just then Itachi came in.

"I take it Kisame gave you some food?" Itachi said.

"Hai he did." Itachi nodded.

"We will leave for the Akatsuki headquarters early tomorrow."

Itachi informed before going to the bathroom. Sakura walked over to the window and pulled the drapes slightly apart. It was pitch black outside.

Sakura closed the drapes again and looked around the room and came to the conclusion that ….

'…there is only one bed.' Sakura closed her eyes and sighed.

'I am for sure NOT going to sleep on the floor and if I know Itachi neither will he so that leaves only one option, sleep beside Itachi.' Sakura groaned.

'Can't anything go my way for once? Well Itachi has his honour so he won't try anything, I think.' Sakura decided to sleep in the bed so she took of her upper yukata leaving her in her under yukata. She then sat down on the right side of the bed and removed her ribbon, making her hair spill out over her shoulders and a little over the bed. She was combing it with her fingers when the bathroom door opened and reviled a shirtless Itachi, he walked ovet to the other side of the bed. When Sakura was satisfied with her hair she laid down with her back facing him. She felt his questioning gaze on her.

"Don't get any ideas. I just want to get a good night sleep, but let me warn you that if you try anything you will get two pairs of black eyes instead of one." Sakura then drew the blanket up to her nose and closed her eyes. She felt the bed shift when Itachi sat down and heard the rustling of sheets before she fell into a dreamless sleep.

In the middle of the night Itachi woke up feeling something warm against his chest. (A/N: He is a light sleeper.) He looked down and saw Sakura. She had cuddled up to him in her sleep. He couldn't help but smirk.

'Who said I should leave her alone?' He then noticed how cold she was. So he took their blankets and wrapped them over the both of them before placing his arms around her small frame to keep her warm.

'Why does she feel so right in my arms?' He wondered before he fell into a light slumber.

A/N: Chapter 6 is up!

Thank you for all the reviews thank you, thank you, thank you I WUV U ALL!!

I know that last part was kinda cheesy but I couldn't help myself. xD

I still haven't decide if I will change the rating to M but if I do I will clearly mark the M parts so those who don't want to read it can skip it, k'?

I got a review from Icecream Skittles Addict saying she/he would like me to write the next chapter to his/her birthday on the 30th, of course I couldn't say no so here you go Icecream Skittles Addict and happy birthday:D.

I have gotten much good feedback and questions and I am soo happy xD!

So here to answer your questions:

XXfirefoxXX: Thank you, I am glad you like it :D

Otaku Addicted Dweeb: Well I guess it kinda' was an early Christmas present :D

The Assassin of the Night : I thought about giving him four legs at first but I then changed it because he has such a huge body so I thought he might need a couple of more legs… :)

softball91: Well the prison mansion is like a total secret, hidden place whom not even Sakura who was first captain in command had seen before, so the people of Konoha didn't know anything about the place and those Anbu's who were at the mansion didn't know what had happened in Konoha, I hope it answers your question and thank you for your comments, they mean a lot :D

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