I am sorry that I haven't updated in while. I've been really sick and throwing up. Also school has been ending, so I had to say goodbyes. Sakura meets Itachi, Yay!!!!!!!! Please tell me if I miss any important spelling. But please, no flames.

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Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Sakura would not be obsessed with pink.

'Sakura's thoughts'

'Inner Sakura's thoughts'

'Flashback'

Sakura forced chakra into the soles of her feet and began to run. She sped down the dirt trail towards the forest. She observed the passing trees and wildlife quickly passing by her. After a few hours she felt a flurry of chakra's coming from the north.

Sakura emerged from the forest into a clearing. It was littered with shinobi. Three Akatsuki robes flew from place to place as it rained shinobi. Sakura swiftly, but silently entered the clearing to do her work. She went from ninja to ninja, doing her best to lessen the seriousness of their wounds. While doing so she began to wonder why the Akatsuki were even there. Then it clicked in Sakura's mind.

'They're trying to draw Naruto-kun! If they get rid of enough shinobi, Tsunade-shishou will eventually have to send Naruto-kun.' Sakura thought.

Sakura calculated the chances of her getting any ninja back to Konoha. Let's just say they weren't something to smile about.

'There are too many injured! It's no use.' Sakura thought frantically.

The ratio of shinobi injured to shinobi healed was much larger. Sakura contemplated her next action.

'You could run away. . .' Inner Sakura suggested. 'Hell no! That's cowardly and disgraceful!!!' Sakura argued back to her Inner-self. 'It's better than dying. Do not forget what Tsunade-shishou said' Inner Sakura reminded her. 'Tsunade-shishou's not here.' Sakura thought to her Inner-self.

Sakura had decided. She was going to fight. She didn't care whether or not Inner Sakura agreed, or if Tsunade would be angry at her for not following orders. Sakura knew she probably couldn't kill an Akatsuki on her own; no matter how strong she was. But who said she couldn't be a distraction?

Sakura chose the robe closest to her, and went for it. She let out a barrage of kurni knives, as the robe turned in her direction. It swished to the left a little as the kurni brushed passed the robe. Sakura hopped onto a tree branch to get in close range of her enemy. At that distance she could see the robe bearer.

He had long blonde hair in a ponytail. Like how Ino's used to be. He also had blue eyes. The man was very androgynous. But she could see it was a man. He had this really annoyed expression on his face. Not mad, just annoyed. He looked an awful lot like Naruto.

"Deidara-san." Sakura stated with a slight smirk. She'd read about him in Kakashi's Bingo book. Deidara's annoyed expression turned into a wide, idiotic smile like Naruto's. They both took a fighting stance. Sakura made the first move. She didn't care if it wasn't ninja like. She lunged towards the tree branch Deidara was on with shuriken on hand. Sakura threw them at Deidara. He dodged them with ease. He appeared behind Sakura and stabbed her in the back with a kurni knife.

Poof. It was only a shadow clone. Deidara cursed as he felt a presence behind him. Sakura kicked him and he broke through the branch, and fell about fifty feet to the ground. She stepped onto another branch when she attracted a second robes attention. As she turned around it jumped in her direction. As it began closing space between them she could make out that person's appearance.

He was about seven feet tall and had sharp teeth. He also had a blue face with small black pupils. The man's resemblance to a shark would scare any normal person. As he perched on a branch a few yards away from Sakura, he pulled out a huge sword with wrappings all over it. Kisame. Sakura had also read about Kisame in Kakashi's Bingo book.

Kisame bounced from branch to branch until he was within striking distance of Sakura. He slashed his bandaged sword at Sakura. She jumped up to dodge it and landed on his sword. She lunged forward to punch Kisame in the face. Too late, Kisame pulled the sword up with so much force he flipped Sakura like a pancake on a frying pan. She slammed into a tree.

"I guess Kisame-san's a little harder to keep up with than Deidara-san. Man that sucks. . ." Sakura said coughing, as blood splattered onto the tree. She shifted her eyes for a moment realizing the last robe was still jumping around. Killing shinobi as it did. It wasn't even acknowledging that she and its comrades were fighting.

Sakura quickly returned her attention to Kisame. He wasn't there. He was in the clearing with Deidara and the third Akatsuki robe. They appeared to be telling the third robe something.

'He must be the leader. . .' Sakura thought to herself.

Sakura silently stood up from her seated position on the tree trunk. She concealed her chakra and went to find a proper hiding place closest to the robes. There was some thin canopy over half the clearing, so she hung from the vines in the canopy. Sakura heard intervals of words come form Deidara and Kisame.

"Naruto—Kyuubi—Pink—Friend."

It was kept to a mumble. The three robes turned to her direction. Under the shadows of the canopy she could see three pairs of eyes shifting to her position. Two wide blue eyes looked at her as if surprised. Two big white eyes with black pupils were glaring violently at her. Two narrowed crimson eyes stared at her with no emotion whatsoever.

'Wonder who that is. . .' Sakura thought offhandedly.

She shook her head to regain focus. 'They can't see us . . . can they?' Inner Sakura began to get nervous. Sakura climbed from the vines to a tree. She crouched down, ready to go back to Konoha, but became frozen with fear. Her eyes widened as she fixated her stare on the black sandaled feet with purple nail polish on them. Sakura felt a hand grasp the neck of her shirt, as she was lifted off the ground to eye level of the three Akatsuki.

Sakura snapped out of her stare when her stomach growled for food. As she shifted her wide gaze she saw: Deidara with his idiotic smile, Kisame chuckling, then to the man holding her up. He had ebony colored hair that made you wonder if it was as soft as it looked. It was long and most of it was drawn back in a neat ponytail with a red rubber band. His eyes were hypnotic. They were such a beautiful shade of crimson, with three little black flame tips around the iris. They held no emotion at all. He had very feminine lashes, enough to make a girl jealous. The man also had a line trialing down from each eye. Obvious signs of some sleepless nights.

"You are the Kyuubi's comrade." The ebony haired man had a very professional tone even if it didn't have much volume.

"What if I am?" Sakura spat venomously in his face.

Everything went black. He reminded her a lot of Sasuke. So much it made her sad all over again. Especially those eyes. Those apathetic eyes. The last thing she saw before it all went black.

Chapter 3! Yay!!!

My friend said the action was choppy, tell me if you think it is and I'll fix it!

I have my 4th chapter written in pencil and I'll type it soon.

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Ja ne!