AN: Okay, here's chapter two. I apologise for any grammatical mistake in the last and this chapter- as I had already mentioned in my profile, I want to give my friend a rest from her dissertations before she betas my chapters. Anyway, I present to you- Chapter two.

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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

'Inner Sakura'

Chapter 2

Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire

Chance grinned at his latest mischief.

Fate's plans were like dominos.

When one falls forward, the rest follow.

Of course, the damage depends on which domino he had picked.

And being Chance who loves to rile Fate up-

-he had chosen the one which altered everything in Fate's original plan.

And like many times before, Time had sided with him.

There was no doubt that Fate was fuming right now.

If only he could see his expression right now without endangering his own life.

Sakura had been calling out to her inner self for the past hour using every method she could think of-

From meditating to simply screeching obscenities at her before finally giving up as the silence ensued. Sakura was positive that her inner self was laughing at all her feeble attempts in whichever corner of her mind she was hiding in.

Frustrated at the lack of response, the pink haired kunoichi drew her attention back to the elder Uchiha who she sat quite a distance away from.

Just how in the world was she going to take him back to Konoha?

'Lug him like an over sized doll again with his dangling feet hitting every branch she jump from and to?'

Sakura snorted at the thought.

Of course, that was only IF she was actually taking him back with her...

A big fat IF!

Can you see the upper casing of the vowel and the consonant?

And even IF she got him back to Konoha then what?

Hand him over to the ANBU or to Shishou just to be executed after all of her hard work of healing him?

Hiding him in her house was definitely out of the question- she was not going that far for him. Healing him had already left her with a guilty feeling of betrayal to her village and Sasuke.

'If Sasuke found out, he will definitely Chidori me- not just once but a few more times.'

Sakura moaned tiredly at the thought. It was too late to regret, what had been done, was done- as in over, finished.

'But that doesn't mean I can't mule over it again and ag-'

Crack!

Her head instinctively snapped towards the sound which interrupted her thoughts.

"What do we have here? Hey there pretty little thing." the intruder smiled creepily at her.

Sakura shuddered at both his smile and the sound of his voice, it sounded so-

'-so slimy.'

She then berated herself for letting her guard down and not securing the area with traps beforehand.

Well, wasn't this just peachy?

Groaning softly, Sakura stood up.

She really didn't have the stamina to deal with this right now- she was absolutely exhausted.

'Maybe this is some kind of punishment for hiding Shishou's sake.' Sakura humoured tiredly.

As he got closer, a few more people appeared- surrounding her and Itachi.

Six of them.

A slash across the forehead protectors.

All missing nins from mist.

"Good afternoon gentlemen, what brings you here?" Sakura asked with forced politeness.

"I'm afraid little miss, that is our question- what brings you here?" Sakura bristled slightly at the patronising 'little' he seemed to insist on addressing her with.

"I'm afraid I don't see that it's any of your business." she mimicked him.

"Actually it is. you see, this is our land, our hideout, our territory- ours." he gestured around him.

"Yours?" she raised a brow at him.

"Yes, therefore you my dear, are trespassing."

"Really? Well then, I apologise most sincerely for intruding. I shall take my leave now and let you gentlemen carry on with whatever business you need to attend to." smiling a fake smile at him she made a move towards Itachi's direction but stopped abruptly as the surrounding nins began slowly advancing on her.

The rogue she had been conversing with raised his hand. When the other nins stopped their movements immediately without protest or question, it confirmed her suspicions that he was the leader of this pact of rogues.

"Sorry, but we simply can't let you leave without you compensating for trespassing my dear."

"How unfortunate, but please refrain yourself from calling me 'your dear' and could you back off to that side."

"Why? Uncomfortable because I'm too handsome for you my dear?" he grinned at her moving even closer to her.

'Who on earth in their right mind would think you're handsome?!'

'Wait- I'm not in my right and I still find you incredibly repulsive! Plus the fact that I could smell your disgusting odour even at this distance!'

Feeling extremely nauseated she backed a step and retorted.

'Handsome? Not at all, it's because you stink.' Sakura scrunched up her nose to emphasizing her point before gathering chakra in her fist and swiped at him in the face to send him flying back.

However, she was shocked to find him still standing in front of her grunting and clutching his face instead of crashing into the bushes or a tree.

"You bitch!" he snarled and struck her

Too shocked to react she didn't have time to brace herself before she was sent skidding across the ground.

"Bitch, think you're so witty eh?" he spat out some blood and sneered at her.

As she tried to get up, a wave of dizziness washed over her.

'Damn! I'm too low on stamina to produce chakra. At this rate I'll faint.'

As if on cue, black dots threatened to consume her vision. Sakura clutched her head and blinked a few times before concentrated on forcing herself to stand up

"Heh. Judging from your lack of skills and that injured man over there, you're a medic aren't you, you little bitch?"

"Medic nins are always so weak and sissy. Isn't that right boss?" one the nin at the side smirked.

Twitch

'Lack of skills?! Weak and sissy?! You bastards, I'll show you how lack of skills, weak and sissy medic nins are!'

Before she can act on her thoughts, one of them closest to her patient caught her attention.

"What happened to this dude? Couldn't handle a few flying kunai and shuriken? Or a few punches and kicks?" he snickered and a few joined him.

Sakura merely snorted at him for thinking that the Uchiha prodigy can't handle something like that.

Using his foot, the missing nin nudged Itachi at the side for a few times to see if he would wake. When there was no sign of consciousness he- without warning- stomped on Itachi's bandaged shoulder.

'Oh no he didn't just do that.'

Even though she healed Itachi's injuries, the flesh were still tender.

Sakura inhaled sharply and held her breath as she saw blood seeping through the bandages.

3...

2...

1...

Exhale

First they showed their butt ugly faces to her-

Then they insult her and her fellow medics-

Now these assholes had the guts to injure her patient.

'There's no way in hell are they getting away scorch free!'

Averting her attention back to the leader who had been observing her reaction the whole time, she slipped her hand into her pouch and took out a soldier pill which she reserved for emergencies and swallowed it.

'These bastards are not worth a soldier pill, they are just bloody lucky that I happened to be low on chakra.'

But just as she was about to turn the tables around and hand their asses back to them-

Thump

All their attentions were directed to the meaty thump and back where Itachi laid.

Blood was instantly drained from Sakura's face. She prayed fervently to all the gods in heaven that she was only hallucinating.

"Katsura! You filthy piece of shit, you killed Katsura!"

Fine. She wasn't hallucinating.

THE Uchiha Itachi was awake and standing.

The five remaining rogues wasted no time to charge at him. One by one, Itachi sliced them with their fallen comrade's blade as they came, it was painfully obvious who the victor would be from the very start despite his weakened state. After all, he was believed to be one of the most deadliest criminal who was even more powerful than the Snake-sanin and not to mention the fact that he had single-handedly massacred the entire Uchiha clan leaving only Sasuke. These missing nins were probably nothing more than annoying ants to him.

Sakura marvelled at his pain tolerance- his features showed no indication that he was in pain- and at how he maintained his composure despite of his heavy blood loss and fever he had still yet to recover from. She watched with morbid fascination as he gracefully painted the forest red.

Even when the last of them dropped like flies she didn't realize.

She was so entranced by the image he painted and his graceful movements that she didn't feel it.

Not until their eyes caught each others'.

Shining emeralds clashed with dark rubies.

The spell was broken.

She did not realize nor felt it- until now.

How dangerous the predicament she was now in-

And how fear was now gripping her heart like a vice.

'I'm going to die.'

Haruno Sakura was now out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Time wondered if this 'mischief' was too much.

After all, screwing up Fate's plan to this extent was a first.

Ironically, there was no time for her to regret.

Like other times before this, Chance and Time anticipated Fate's course of action.

Time could only hope that Fate would not do anything drastic.

Yufvin-valentine

AN: I really don't what to make of this chapter...no inner Sakura I'm afraid, hopefully she'll be back in the next though I really don't know how to go about the next chapter, I'm determine to have Sakura taking him back to Konoha instead of leaving him behind...Ah well, I'll see what if anything's going to inspire me. Also, if anyone could give me pointers on how to be more detailed without being too detailed and disrupt the flow of the story then I'll be very happy and will love them very much! Feedbacks and ideas would be very appreciated. I hope you enjoyed reading it.

Response to reviews:

Weasel-Chan- My first reviewer for this fic! XD I really hope this chapter didn't disappoint you! Thanks for reviewing.

arys- Thanks and err...sorry? As I said in my A/N at the top, I'm giving my friend some time. So please be patient with me for a while. But thanks for the critics!

furryhatlover2543- I'm glad you love my first chapter, I hope this one wasn't disappointing to read.

Cherry Blossom Artist- Yup, bringing Itachi back to Konoha is what I'm intending to do. Though how I'm going to do it is still a mystery- even to me XD

blosom-geisha- Thanks for the idea though as I said above in my A/N I intend to bring Itachi to Konoha but I think Sasuke finding out and getting angry is a good idea. Thanks again!

reitahomoeshi- Well this chapter is longer but unfortunately no inner Sakura. I think she'll be back in the next. I'm glad you liked their interaction.

Demonic Angelz 13- Hehe, I don't know why you didn't think of this either- but that's why I'm writing and you're reviewing :P only joking, you'll think of something. And when you do, tell me! I'll be waiting to read it!

Gblossom21- Thanks, I hope you liked this chapter too. Thank for the review!

Silent Kunoichi aka. Fiona- I can't promise the next chapter will be soon...so please bear with me!

susannajulia -I'll try not to make Itachi too OOC...but sorry, no inner Sakura this chapter, she should be back in the next though. And don't worry Sakura will kicks ass.

BlackElement7- Yup, I'm continuing. Though I can't tell you when the next Chapter will be but I'm aiming for at least once a month...but hopefully twice.

Chaotic Heart- Thanks! Hehe...I'm planning something for them.

jadedjunebug- Suggestions are good! I'm really happy you gave them! Though I'm very determine to take Itachi back to Konoha...arrested? I know...but I need to twist it somehow...Orochimaru...hmmmm but you're right nothing romantic should occur at this stage, it'll be too fast and unbelievable. Thanks again!

Mikomimaru- I don't really know what gave you the idea that it's a oneshot...maybe it's the Fate, Chance and Time thing at both the end and beginning...hmmm...nevermind that, rest assured this is not a oneshot! Thank for reviewing.

SharinganAngel- I'm glad you liked it:D

Hao'sAnjul- Well here's 2nd chapter, disappointment is not intentional :P

free2dream- Lol, you're the 2nd person that got the impression this is a oneshot...maybe it really the Fate, Chance and Time thing...