I'm SO sorry for not updating sooner, it was just that I had so many tests for the past months...

GAK!! I'm also running out of ideas to write for this story...T.T Please give me ideas... Anyways...I was scared of the popularity of this story...It isn't that good to begin with... There are some parts where it's absolutely confusing (even to me), so I'll have to go back to that... I've also realized that some other parts of this story drags on and on about nothing...T.T. That's not good...I might just have to start the WHOLE darn fanfic. over again V.V;;

I was also pretty sure that I left my chapter planner for this story somewhere in my writing notebook, but it's gone...So I've lost what I was trying to write for this chappie...

LASTLY, you guys are awesome! HAHA!! 10 reviews in the last chapter! It doesn't seem much to you fabulous writers out there, but to me, it's everything! D I live for reviews... Which is not good...

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Chapter 5: I dunno

He smirked, but he was questioning himself. Was Sakura actually that strong? Itachi must have planned something, for he would surely know that this girl was no match for him... Had he trained her? There were so many questions, and so little time, so little he knew...

She threw kunais at him lazily, a lazy smile plastered to her face. She dodged the rain of kunais that came tumbling back at her with ease. He knew that this was not the Sakura he knew...Surely she wasn't that strong was she? Itachi had so little time to train her...

Then he remembered...Her monstrous strength...The one used to pound Naruto to the ground. Poo.

Just then, it seemed like she read his mind. Sakura quickly gathered chakra to her fists and punched the leaf-covered ground of the forest sanctuary. Damn. He tried to jump before the ground caved, but...He was fast, but the ground was faster. He quickly was down to the ground. Sakura had taken the advantage to run at him, chakra-infused fist heading toward him at an amazing speed, a speed that he thought only he had accomplished!

His eyes widened as he jumped to his feet, nimbly leaping off the ground only to have her strike up at his leg. She missed. Phew.

...Suddenly. It hit him...He knew what he had to do now...It wasn't just a battle, it was his fight to prove himself...To her? ..Or his brother? Sasuke's onyx eyes hardened into a determined glare...Itachi narrowed his eyes, 'My foolish little brother maybe has finally found my true intention...' He smiled softly (much unknown to ANYONE), and started to walk away. It was not like Sasuke would KNOW that he was gone...

The younger Uchiha suddenly grabbed the rose-haired princess' thin wrist and pulled her toward him, a rash movement. Her emerald pools widened as he pulled her close to him and zipped up the space between them with a soft kiss...Her mind was in shock, the genjutsu had not prepared her for this! What was a mind-controlled girl got to do in this place??? Of course...

Deep in Sakura's mind...

She was sprawled on the black floor (was it really a floor?) of her dark mind...Everywhere she saw behind fluttering lashes were pools of darkness, seemingly forever surrounding her crippled form...Inner Sakura, where did she go in this genjutsu? Was this even her own mind? Nothing...She remembered nothing of herself...Nothing...Blank...zip..Nadda... Floating in nothingness, she laughs in anguish, who was she!?! Where was she? And how did she get here? Forms of smoky grayness rounded her day and night, forever reaching out to touch her, taking more of her soul away... She once remembered...Who she was...Was it...Chiru...Or something like that...Chiru Chika, Chirae...Chira?

Another ghastly form was reaching out its wing toward her, she shivered, afraid...A sudden warmness hit her face...What was it? Oh...So warm...Her lips, sighing, catching in the warm presence in her mouth...Where...Was...It? Hmmm...

She wrapped her arms around the warm air...Yes...The blackness is fading...The ghosts are gone...Now all that haunted her was her memories...Where were they?...Who was the presence? What was the presence? What did it mean? Was she going to get out of here?...Was she finally going to escape from her prison!?!

He had realized that she had slowly started to return his kiss...He was blushing for god's sake! He could feel the warmth on his cheeks, making him tingle in excitement. Was she finally coming around? Then he felt her arms around him, and his arms? Awkward, still on her wrists, he gently wrapped his arms around her thin waist (was everything about her thin?)... Sasuke barely noticed that his brother was gone...All that was in his mind, was: Sakura. That was her...His angel...He couldn't let her go...He couldn't get revenge with her still holding on to him, not letting him go into the grasps of evil once again...

A dark dove flies toward the darkness of the dead forest, all is silent...Glittering yellow eyes stare out from the bushes, but the dove doesn't notice...It flies on... A voice fills the valley, his brother's voice...Drives him on...The snake shoots out from the bush, glittering purple scales shining in the dim light...Blood.

The dove cries out as the snake starts wrapping its coils around him. Dark feathers fly in the air... Suddenly, a creamy hand lashes out at the snake, tears it away from the dove, and throws it away..Far away... Arms gently take the hurt dove from the ground, nestling him in a crook of an arm. It was her. Worried forest eyes, gazing at him. Gently. Her fingers delicately takes his broken wing, and splinters it...Saved.

He was the dove, the vulnerable creature. He needed her to complete him... Perfection.

What was this? His little brother had finally discovered life? His foolish little brother...Finally realizing that the meaning of his life did not, was not supposed to be the goal of killing him, Itachi. Did his foolish little brother even know that he could never defeat his beloved older brother?

Itachi glanced back one last time with crimson eyes. Turning his eyes silently toward the dark woods that awaited him, he walked away from Sasuke... The woods, the serene woods, were the only family he knew of now...They were the only things that would welcome him with open arms...Or branches for this matter... He walked away from his last living relative.

Sasuke gently pulled away from Sakura. As soon as he let go of her hands, she rubbed her forehead, moaning slightly. This was it. He hoped that the genjutsu was gone. He could only hope now...By the way...Where was Itachi? He glanced around, his brother was long gone from view... The onyx haired boy-man..Guy no longed felt the seering hatred and pain toward his older sibling. There was only sadness and loss there now. Grief for the idol of an older brother he had hated, and the loss of one good friend.

His attention was reverted back to the pretty girl in front of him once again. She blinked her forest eyes and looked at him, "Who are you?"

...And this was what he had feared. Yes, the Tsukuyomi no longer had an affect on her, but her memories? What happened to them? He could only smile at her, just a bit bitter and said, "I'm Uchiha Sasuke. I'm your teammate." She slowly smiled unsurely at him, "And who am I?"

"You're a...Friend of mine. You're Haruno Sakura, a ninja of the Village Hidden in Leaves." he answered her.

So that's what happened. He answered a few of her questions as best as he could there. After a while, she looked quite blank. She kicked the dirt with her sandal, her eyes focused on the ground. There was an awkward silence now that there was nothing really to say between them. He sighed and quietly said, "Come on. We have to go make a camp somewhere. We can head for Konoha tomorrow. You'll feel better then." He lead her away from the clearing, back into the woods, back toward the path that had let him to her.

'What's going to happen now? She can't remember anything or anyone... So this is all that's left between us now, Sakura?' he asked himself. Sasuke's eyes were an hard onyx, he couldn't believe it. What was going to happen? She had forgotten everything, how can they help her now? Her life was a stranger to her now. Sakura...She doesn't know..She shouldn't remember the pain I brought onto her... Maybe...This time..Maybe this time, he could make things better for him now... He could...And he would be darned if he wouldn't try!

Looking back, Uchiha Sasuke found that his pink-haired teammate was looking around the woods, her eyes lost, her movements showed that she was not comfortable. He stopped, she didn't notice... He watched her look at the world. Sakura's eyes, portrayed everything she felt. She was lost in this world, just like a puppy dropped in the middle of a road, with no where to go. He smiled slightly as she bumped into him.

"I-I'm so sorry, Sasuke!" she gasped, as she bowed and said her sorries. He gently said yes I know..This is totally OOC, but LIVE WITH IT, "Hm..Come on."

And once again, they started toward the road. They were going to rewalk the steps of their relationship together. That was his goal now. He would make life better for Sakura, the second time around. He would. He would...

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I'm so sorry that this chapter was so short. I just couldn't think of anything for a while. I PROMISE the next chapter will be a semi-long one! I have ..Some ideas of how to write it... YOU GUYS ARE SO WONDERFUL!! Already 40 something reviews!?! Come on, make Aizy happy with reviews and you guys will get...Better chapters?...cough

Oh, and, I just didn't have the heart to make Itachi-kun die so... Ya...T.T

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