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Chapter 1

slack-jawed cheese hugger

She had been so strong.

why is it so,

that when

you fail to be strong

others finally realize

how much you really meant?

I think this is a nice poem that fits Sakura perfectly! Thanks for the review!

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Chapter 2

slack-jawed cheese hugger

there was but a sound

and the flower

was knocked off her pedastal

so easily

because

she weighed

so little . . .

even the strong ones

can be

worn down

compleatly

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Sakura's head was throbbing with pain when she woke up, and her eyes were sensitive to the light. She remembered what happened with Itachi perfectly. It didn't surprise her that she recognized the room as a hotel room. Sakura's emerald orbs looked around the room, taking in her surroundings. The room was rather small, and just a bedroom. Hm Itachi actually went for a double room. she thought with a smirk. She was laying on a queen sized bed with turquoise silk sheets. There was a window to her right with a balcony and white cotton drapes that were billowing in the breeze, the open doors were allowing in. The sea was close. The hotel was on a beach front. In front of her was a brown oak dresser with a TV on it, the remote sitting beside it. There was a night table beside her with a small lamp, and she could heat the rough husky voices of men in the other room behind the closed door. Pulling herself from the bed, her sore legs protesting her weight, she padded over to the door and opened it. Itachi was the only one she knew, but there were five other men in the room. They all looked up at her as she walked out of the bedroom. Six pairs of eyes followed her as she walked over to the bathroom. Sakura slowly closed the door behind her and slumped down on the floor. The fear had finally taken a hold of her body. She though that maybe she could get away from just Itachi, but so many men. There was just no way a genin like her was going to be able to get away from all of them.

A rapping came to the door and Sakura nearly jumped out of her skin. "Sakura." a voice called. She didn't recognize it, and the fear took a stronger hold over her body.

"W-what?" Sakura asked cursing herself for her shaky voice.

"Come out." well wasn't he demanding? Sakura heard him walk away form the door, and she rose on shaky legs and opened the door. All of the men were sitting on a couch in front of a tall table, and Itachi was no longer in the room. "Come here." he said gesturing towards the table with his hand. He was tall with blue skin and he looked like a shark. Sakura swallowed down the bile that was threatening to come up and she had a hollow feeling. Slowly she walked over so she was standing between the shark man and the table. He moved swiftly as he lifted her up and placed her on the table.

"What are you doing?" she asked as a masked man with a black leather bag stood and walked towards her.

"Kunoichi, you are injured and need to be healed." the masked man mumbled. He reached for the zipper on her dress.

Out of fear, and not wanting to be undressed by a man in front of four other men, she pulled away and fell of the back of the table. When she landed on the floor she let out a cry of pain, and she could feel the sore muscles stiffen, and the injuries on her belly and legs re-open. Sakura kept her eyes closed, expecting to be striven by one of them, but nothing came. Sakura cracked one eye open and all of the men were staring past her.

Itachi heard the girl cry out and for a reason he couldn't understand he ran out the door to find her on the ground, and there was the smell of fresh blood in the air. Without a word he walked forward and beant down to pick her up. She tensed at his touch, but he lifted her right up. She was belemically light. "Kakuzu, give me the bag." he said not even looking down at the girl in his arms. The masked man handed him the black leather bag and Itachi snatched it form him and took it along with the cherry blossom into the room she had woken up in.

Closing the door behind him Itachi flipped the light on and placed the cherry blossom on the table, witch the television was resting on. She watched him with apple-green eyes. "What happened?" he asked pulling out the things he would need for her wounds.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want that man to undress me in front of them." the cherry blossom's voice was shaky and he could see the tears in her eyes. A hot blooded rage went through him, and this only pushed his anger more. Why was one ingsinifcant kunoichi bringing so much emotion form him?

"Are you covered under your dress?" he asked looking into her emerald eyes. Bad idea. He immediately looked away and placed the supplies on the table beside her.

"Yes."

"Okay." he said moving so he was standing in front of her. His hand slowly moved up and took hold of her zipper. The cherry blossom tensed up, and for some untold reason, a compassionate feeling came out. "Shh." he leaned in and brushed his nose against her jaw line. "I'm not going to hurt you." he whispered taking in a deep breath. Her sent flooded his nose and he wanted more. Itachi pulled away, trying not to make her afraid again. He was perplexed at why he was acting like this. He pulled the zipper down and brushed the material off her shoulders. She was wearing black bindings, and dark green spandex-like shorts. He resisted the urge to reach our and stroke the creamy white skin of her thigh with his finer tips.

Her injuries were almost worse than he thought. It was amazing that she hadn't died of blood loss, and it was a miracle that the kunai wounds that went deep into her flat belly didn't hit any organs. "What happened to cause these wounds?" he asked. He couldn't help himself. Being around the cherry blossom was doing things to him that he couldn't explain or understand, and it was partially scaring him. He had never felt this way about any female before. If he didn't get away from the cherry blossom soon, he didn't know what was going to happen.

"We just finished the second rend of the chunin exams." she squeaked. "I was caught in a fight, and then we had an elimination round yesterday." Itachi couldn't believe what he was hearing. All of this damage in just the second round!

"Did the instructors help you with these?" he asked as he peeled away the bandages that had been carelessly set into place. If this was the work of a medical shinobi, thank Konoha would not last in a time of war.

"No. Ino and Tenten helped me. I healed it the best I could, but I don't have enough knowledge in the medical field."

Itachi looked at the cherry blossom taken aback. As far as he knew genin were not taught medical ninjutsu. When he finally stripped away all of the blood soaked bandages, he was appalled and impressed at what he saw. The wound to her belly was very deep, and it had nicked an organ–but just barley–she had known enough to repair the part that had been damaged. "Are you covered beyond the shorts?" he asked. The cherry blossom shook her head. Itachi stood and walked over to the bed, he swiftly ripped the comforter off and walked back over to her. "Cover yourself with this. I need to look at your leg." the cherry blossom merely nodded at his words and covered herself up to the waits and pulled the end up so it was covering only up to the top of her thigh. When he looked her in the eye he gave her a small nod and reached up the side of her thighs and found the edge of her shorts, and slowly pulled them down. He was careful not to make any sudden moves to scare her. The wound on her leg had ripped through her muscles tearing the nerves. That would have normally made her immobile, and yet she was still moving with speed. "Where did you learn the medical skills to do this? Konoha never taught medical ninjustu to genin at this level."

"We were on a mission in the Hidden Mist, and the woman we were staying with gave me scroll. She said it was a secret and that if I were going to study from it that I should do it in secret. So I would train at night in my bedroom." Sakura said. she remembered Inari's mom giving her the scroll. She said that it would help if they were ever away from a village and needed some kind of medical attention. It really had helped, Sakura didn't like using it on herself, and not being able to use it on Sasuke and Naruto, but if she wouldn't have, not only would she have died, but Naruto and Sasuke would have been forced to leave the chunin exams.

Itachi kept bandaging her wounds, and cleaning them. They stung, but she tried not to show weakness. If Sasuke hated it, and this was his older brother, there was a very good chance Itachi didn't like it either. Sakura was a little bit wary when she was around Itachi. The way he touched her, and spoke to her. It was doing things to her body, Sasuke had never done, no man had ever done. She was afraid that she was possibly under a genjutsu, but she couldn't find anything, and she would not admit that she was falling in love. She could not fall in love with a criminal.

"Anno, Itachi?" she asked. Itachi's eyes flashed to hers once before going back to her stomach wound. "Why did you kidnap me?" she asked. Chances were that if they simply wanted her for torture or rape, then Itachi wouldn't be healing her now.

"You are in the presence of the Akatsuki, an organization made up of male criminals, with the exception of one female member, that no man in the organization has laid eyes on before except for the leader, and of course her partner. In three years time we will begin our search for the Jinchuuriki, there are two you know of. Naruto, and Gaara. In two and a half years, there is a war that is going to be taking place between this organization and the Sound village that is run by a traitor to the Hidden Leaf Village by the name of Orochimaru." Itachi paused for a moment as he started to wind the bandages around Sakura's torso. She watched as his skilled fingers ran along her body, winding the material. "We have been watching the Kyuubi vessel for a while, and in the midst of our surveillance we have come to notice you."

"What? What's so special about me?" Sakura asked interrupting him.

Itachi looked up and gave an irritated look. "You Sakura, have a talent for medical ninjustsu, as you demonstrated here," he said gesturing towards the wound on her stomach, "and you also have developed a strong Genjutsu talent. Also, Deidara and Sasori were watching you for a while, they recognized your chakra signature looks, feels, and acts like that of Slug Queen Tsunade." He said as he tapped up her leg wound. "So we reported this to the leader, and he decided that you would be a very strong asset to have when we face that war in two and a half years, and we will have that time to prepare you." Sakura was of course squirming with questions she wanted to ask the elder Uchiha, but she was scared that if she interrupted him again he might hit her or something.

"So I was sent to kidnap you, and once you were with us, we are supposed to take you to see the Slug Queen, and ask her if she will train you, both in the medical field and in the strength." He began to place the medical equipment in the bag, and Sakura pulled up her shorts. "But if we are delayed a few days, it will make little difference in the end. I have a few things I need to do in town while we are here, and you should rest before we travel, it's a fairly decent way to the village Tsunade likes to hide out in. you can finish getting dressed, and relax, but try not to leave this room. You may find some kindness from me, but with the older men out there, that is not so likely." And with that Itachi walked out the door.

Once he was away from the cherry blossom he felt as if he could breathe again, and his hatred came back. The five men looked up at him as the door to the cherry blossom's room shut. "If any of you touch her while I am gone, you will pay the price." He said, making sure that each of them got the point loud and clear.

"And where are you going Itachi?" Kisame asked, standing up.

Normally Itachi would have told the shark man a lie, or something disturbing, it was fun to watch him squirm with discomfort, but he decided on the truth. "To see an old friend." And with that he walked out of the hotel room, his cloak sweeping behind him.