"Are you ready?" Itachi asked looking over his shoulder at Sakura. They were positioned in a field with enemy ninja all around them. The time had come for the battle, and Sakura had spent a great deal of time planning for this night. She was hidden in the tall grass, it was her job to watch the guy's backs, and make sure she healed them when they needed it. Sakura desperately wanted to be out on the field fighting along with Itachi, but Sasuke was here, and there were a few Konoha nin as well. Somehow Tsunade had found out about this little meeting and had sent some of Konoha's finest. All together there in that little field was Kakashi, Naruto, Kiba and Akumaru, Neji and Tenten from Konoha. Sasuke, Orochimaru, Kabuto, and a whole horde of Sound Nin. Itachi, Kisame, Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, and Hidan. Sakura crouched low and nodded to Itachi. He nodded and looked back out at the two opposing teams.

It was unclear who moved first but soon everyone was engaged in a fight of some kind. Sasuke found Itachi right away. "Today will be the day you die." Sasuke sneered.

"Not today little brother." Itachi said swinging his sword. Sasuke parried, and jumped out of the way. Itachi smirked and faked a right before slicing Sasuke's left arm. "Concentration is key, little brother." Itachi taunted. He knew how to make Sasuke mess up, all he had to do was make him angry.

A little farther down the battle field Sasori and Deidara were taking out sound nin and trying to keep Kiba and Akumaru away from them. Deidara let out a bomb and blew the remaining sound nin away. "What now Danna?" he asked.

"I don't know, I guess we take out the Konoha fleas." Sasori said with a small smiled as they turned on Kiba and Akumaru.

Neji, Tenten, and Kakashi were holding off Kakuzu, Hidan, and Kisame, and Naruto was trying to get at Itachi.

"Naruto what are you doing here?" Sasuke asked.

"I could ask you the same thing." Naruto snapped looking at Itachi. "Where's Sakura Chan?" he asked.

"Don't worry about the blossom, she's safe." Itachi said a possessiveness overtaking him.

"I swear if you touched her . . ."

"You'll what?" Itachi asked. "Kill me? Honestly Sasuke come up with something a little better than that." Itachi snapped. Sasuke's rage got at him again and he charged at Itachi who dodged. They were pushing him too far back, too close to Sakura, but if with both Sasuke and Naruto coming at him he couldn't get on the offensive.

Sakura knew things were getting bad. Kisame had been hurt and had retreated to the covering to get healed. "How bad is it?" he asked.

"The wound's deep, but you'll live." Sakura said finishing off his wound.

Kakashi knew that there was someone healing the ones who were injured, because they always went to the same place, and they were always coming back out, moving like they had never been hurt. "Naruto, twenty yards into the bushes, one of them is hiding, I'll leave them to you." Kakashi said before he moved out of the way.

Naruto nodded and looked over to where Kakashi had seen the one that was hiding. He could sense someone there for sure. Leaving Sasuke and Itachi to fight, he sent a doppelganger towards the person from the front, while he went to the back.

"Kesu." Sakura said when she realized what was going on. She jumped up to the tree branches above her, and she moved across the tree branches, but Naruto knew, he kept following her. Oh this cant end good. Naruto followed the cloaked figure, he couldn't believe what he saw. He could have sworn pink hair, and that only made him more determined to catch this person. Seeking power form the nine tailed fox Naruto leaped into the air and tackled the person to the ground, right in the middle of the filed. Naruto shook his head and looked down at the person beneath him.

"S-Sakura Chan?" he asked.

Busted Inner Sakura said disappearing from Sakura's mind. Everyone in the field had seemed to stop what they were doing, especially the two brothers.

Naruto climbed off of Sakura and just stared at her. "Hello Naruto." She said looking at the ground.

Itachi didn't wait for anyone to ask questions, he moved to her side and wrapped an arm around her waist. "What's going on here?" Sasuke asked.

"Nothing you need to worry about, Sasuke." Sakura said. "I can handle Kakashi and Naruto, I'll leave Sasuke to you." She said kissing his cheek. Itachi nodded and released her waist. Sakura turned and faced Naruto and Kakashi.

"Sakura, what are you doing?" Naruto asked. "We're your friends; you don't want to fight us."

"You're wrong Naruto." Sakura said shaking her head. Sakura faced off and went on the attack. She threw a punch at Kakashi who caught it; she buried her right foot in the ground, and grabbed the hand that was holding her fist before swinging him around and into a tree. She turned to Naruto and slowly approached him. With a round house to his kneed Naruto fell to the ground, he didn't even try to fight back. "Fight me Naruto." She demanded.

"I wont fight you Sakura." He said shaking his head.

"Fine." Sakura turned her back on Naruto and went back to fighting Kakashi.

Itachi and Sasuke's blades clashed against each other as the two brothers fought. "What did you do to Sakura?" Sasuke asked as he lunged at Itachi, only to be blocked and thrown to the ground.

"Nothing she didn't want me to do." Itachi said looking down at Sasuke. "And now I'm going to kill you, for what you did to her." Itachi snapped. He lunged over at Sasuke and sliced over his arm. Sasuke yelped and jumped out of the way. With a fierce glare he sent snakes out in an attempt to grab his brother's sword, Itachi merely cut their heads off.

The fighting went on, until it was only the Konoha nin versus the Akatsuki and Sasuke. The Akatsuki, including Sakura, were all forced into the middle with the Konoha nin and Sasuke surrounding them. Sakura looked over at Itachi and gave a smirk. "Now?" she asked.

"Now." Itachi nodded.

Sakura smiled and formed the seal of the tiger. Mind and Body Transfer Jutsu. she thought. Sakura astro projected herself into the body of Kiba, Akumaru, Tenten, and Neji, before she caused them to sleep. She then pulled herself back into her own body and looked over at Itachi. "Your turn." She said with a smile.

Itachi nodded and lunged after Kakashi who had been looking at Kiba, trying to find the reason for the collapsing. Itachi's blade sliced deep into his back before he pulled it out and tossed it to Sakura. Sakura caught the blade and spun in a circle before her body and the sword became naught but a cloud of pedals. She danced her way around Naruto and split the tendons in his feet before throwing the blade back to Itachi who used the hilt to knock Sasuke out.

Sakura smiled over at Itachi as he walked over to her. "Well it looks like we won." She said as he slid his arm around her waist.

"For now, but now that Konoha knows you're alive we may have to be more careful." Itachi said as they disappeared into the woods.