Hi everyone! I am so sorry for the late update! So I will stop talking now and let you read the next chapter of my story. By the way I was to lazy to replay to the reviews I have received so I just wanted to thank everyone who reviewed! Love you all!! ;)

Chapter 13

Sakura followed him silently, not wanting to cause any sound inside of this mysterious floor he had directed her in. She hadn't really been able to remember how many times they had climbed stairs, had gone downstairs again, turned right or left hand side or even passed several different secret passages. She had already figured that he wanted to confuse her with disorientating her so that she would lower her guard. Even inside of this really big house was no possibility that there could be some place so far away from the entrance door- they have been walking for about 15 minutes already.

She finally sighed. She had had enough mind-playing games for the last seventeen years so she really didn't need this right now. "Gosh darn it, Itachi! Just lead the damn way to him and stop fooling around!" the pink haired girl hissed annoyed.

The sharingan user immediately stopped and turned around to face her. He had a contemplating look on his face and after a few seconds of observing her he said: "Ya know. Leader-sama told me to delay our arriving. So I thought it would be a good idea just to go for a little walk inside of your new home. But-"

Before he could finish his sentence he vanished into thin air. Sakura tensed immediately but even thought she reacted promptly she was still too slow. He had reappeared behind her and captured her with his arms, all within one blink of an eye.

"What the hell?!" Sakura gasped as soon as he had thrown her against the closest wall to his left side. Before she could spit different things into his face he leaned forward and captured her lips in a demanding kiss. His lips felt cold against her warm ones. He had positioned his one hand next to her face while the other one secured her hands so that she wasn't able to hit him. "Nngh!" she made as soon as she could feel his tong searching for a small spot to enter her mouth. She struggled against him. Finally she reacted vigorously, so that she would stop being like wax inside of his murderous fingers any longer.

Lifting both of her legs in order to pull a stunt and hit him really hard she could feel him leaving her tickling lips again and stepping a few steps backwards until he touched the other wall of the floor. He obviously had respect for her fists.

"What the hell?!" she shouted at him enraged as she rubbed her aching wrists. Itachi just shrugged his shoulders blankly and then licked his lips as if to savour her taste on his lips. That made her shudder really hard. "You didn't want to go for a walk so I thought you would enjoy some different activities."

She made a face at him and lifted herself from the cold floor again. While she had struggled against him and lifted her legs she had depended on his securing hands-so as soon as he jerked back she fell to the ground very ungraceful. But right at that point of time she didn't gave a damn about it.

Suddenly Itachi went rigid and put a hand on his temple. "What-" Sakura started but was interrupted as soon as Itachi lifted his other hand and signed her to stop talking. She crossed her arms in front of her chest and kind of pouted, but kept her mouth shut nonetheless.

Trying not to look at him in order to avoid a penetrating glance, she observed her surroundings. Unfortunately there wasn't much to look at except for crumbling and blank stonewalls. Their current position was inside of an obviously old secret passage which they had entered after pushing a hidden button inside of a bookcase. She had jerked back as soon as she had noticed a small hole forming inside of the wall which led them inside of said passage. It wasn't like it had been her first time to discover a secret entrance but she was quite nervous and overreacted by every sound she heard or thing she saw.

She cautiously lifted the fingertips of her right hand towards her lips and touched them carefully as if the were still burning from the kiss she had just received. In contrast to the secret passage thing the kiss had been her very first -she could feel tears burning in her eyes and quickly turned around as if she would want to observe an especially large hole inside of a wall. She would never allow him to see what he was able to do to her and how much he affected her feelings and her thoughts.

She had once dreamed of the perfect first kiss with her prince charming. She laughed softly at the memory.

Flashback

"Hey, Ino?" little Sakura addressed her best friend. "Is there a boy you like?" They were sitting in the middle of a beautiful flower field during a wonderful spring day. "Ano..."" Ino started as she hugged her knees to bring her legs closer to her body. Little Sakura didn't know that that gesture was made due to insecurity. She just couldn't imagine the fair girl to be shy-she was some kind of hero and idol to her. So Sakura quickly copied her position and laid her head on her knees. "I guess..." Ino finally said.

The pink haired girl squeaked excitedly and nudged her best friend. "Tell me, tell me!" she demanded "I don't think you know him... His father is a very good friend of mine and they often come over to have dinner together with our family."

"Oh..." she little girl made, kind of disappointed. But she was quickly in a good mood again and started to pepper little Ino with questions. "What is he like? How old is he?" Ino laughed softly and again she did something to overplay her uncertainty. Pulling out a beautiful yellow flower from the soft earth she inhaled the sweet scent of it and started to pluck the petals one by one.

"Well..." she started again "he's about our age I guess." Then she smiled dreamily. "He's kind of lazy and sometimes he behaves like a jerk." (You know who I am talking about? I guess so ;)

"Uh…" her shy friend made. "I see..." Shaking her pink hair as if to get ride of the not so nice images of Ino's crush she asked slyly." So…did you already kiss him?" The fair girl started to turn red what made Sakura giggle softly. "Not yet. I want to have a romantic first kiss you know. And I want to be happy when I remember it." The flower had lost every single one of his pretty petals during the talk of the two girls and Ino let it fall to the ground without really noticing it.

"Yeah me too." Sakura agreed with her best friend. "I want to find my prince charming and kiss him and live happily together with him for the rest of my life" She sighed dreamily. Ino chuckled softly and glanced at her friend. "Yes, me too. And then we will go shopping together and take a walk with our children and play with them." They both giggled and looked at each other happily. "I hope so." Sakura stated and stretched her legs again. They had fallen asleep during their talk and due to the uncomfortable position she had forced them to be in.

End Flashback

She had been so caught up in her thought that she hadn't noticed Itachi walking the short distance towards her. When he coughed directly next to her ear in order to get her attention she quickly spun around. Itachi didn't bother to ask her what was wrong. Instead of that he simply said: "I received a message from leader-sama. He wants us to meet him now." Sakura nodded, trying to overplay her insecurity like Ino once did. Itachi looked at her for a short moment with a contemplating look but then turned around and continued walking. The cherry-haired girl relaxed visually and then followed silently, thinking about Itachi's strange behaviour earlier. He laid his hand on his skull and then said he had received a message from leader-sama. I wonder how they can talk to each other across the building. Maybe some sort of strange jutsu?I could simply ask him…

"Um..."She cautiously mumbled. He didn't react. "Ahem!" she tried again, noticeable louder. Still no reaction. "Gosh, Itachi!! Stop ignoring me!" she all but shouted.

He turned slowly around to face her.

And she couldn't believe her eyes. He was listening to a pink IPod!

(Na, just kidding! Back to the real story! ;) )

He turned slowly around to face her. If looks could kill Sakura would have died there and then. "What?" he hissed annoyed. "Uh..." she mumbled meekly and gulped.

Gosh, girl! Stop stuttering around already. She scolded herself.

Sakura straightened up what caused Itachi to raise an eyebrow. "I wanted to ask you how you can receive a message from leader-sama even though he is not even here." she confidently stated.

After a few moments of silence he finally answered; "It is called telepathy. Leader-sama invented a special jutsu so every Akatsuki could use it to communicate with the others."

Sakura looked at him blankly, not sure if she could really believe that. During her career as a medic she had received much knowledge of jutsus but she was pretty sure that she had never heard of anything like that. "Yeah, right…" she just said, kind of annoy that he played her for a sucker. "I will show you." Itachi said moments before he laid his hands on his temples again and closed his eyes. Suddenly she heard a voice inside of her head. You believe me now? Jerking back due to the simple fact that Itachi had entered her mind she crushed against the hard wall. Hissing slightly because of the impact she concentrated at the quiet voice inside of her head. And then smirked. Well, let's see what Inner-Me will do to him…

And said creature emerged out of one of the dark corners inside of her mind and went straight for Itachi's physical projection that had already formed in her head. Hey, sucker! Inner-Sakura shouted cockily. Itachi jerked his head around and looked at her, totally surprised. What the hell- he started to say but was interrupted immediately. Shut up and stop playing with my mind! Then she smirked evilly. But tit for tat, right? She griped his arm and then shouted into his projected ear: Get the hell out of my head! That's my stomping ground!!

She could immediately feel something rushing out of her head and couldn't help but smirk as soon as Itachi removed his hands from his temples and held it over the ear Inner-Sakura had shouted in only seconds before.

"Well, that was Inner-Me for you!" she stated gleefully.

Itachi just snorted and said: "Just wanted to answer your question. You didn't have to free this silly thing you have inside of your head!"

Silly thing? I will show him who the silly dude here is! Hell yeah!

Sakura ignored the voice and sighed softly. She had needed weeks of therapy with Tsunade to get ride of this 'mental disorder'. At least her teacher called it like that when she first told her about the voice in her head. And now she was outside again. But maybe it wasn't that bad at all. At least she could talk to someone during her stay in the lonely basement even thought it would be just herself.

Oh how nice…Just me! Inner-Sakura stated ironically.

Shut up! She thought annoyed. Oh, she really hadn't missed her once.

Itachi meanwhile had removed his hand from his most likely aching or even deaf ear and started walking towards a small door a few meters away. She followed him again, still arguing with the annoying voice in her head and passed the door he opened for her without sparing him a single glance.

"Ahem…" Itachi made surprisingly civilly. "What?!" she snapped at him, having been torn away from an argument with Inner-Sakura. "Sakura, meet leader-sama." She spun around and faced a darkish person sitting on some kind of throne. Oh crap, talk about a good first impression…For once, the voice in her head just agreed with her thoughts.

So I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Again, I am sorry for the late update but I was really busy and I just had no ideas what to write. And before I post bullshit I just waited until I got some sort of inspiration ;)

I talked about making another story and received an idea of a vampire fic. Actually I love vampires so I was totally agreeing until I tried to write the first chapter. I really suck at writing vampire fics…

Well, then I thought about making Sakura going to high school and living with her mother and her mother falls in love with Sasuke's and Itachi's father. Then they have to move and she lives with them in a house and goes to a new high school where Naruto and Ino and etc. are, too. What do you think of this idea? Please tell me! ;)

By the way here are the votes so far:

SakuraXItachi: 32 Whoa I think we have got the winner…

SaiXSakuraXNeji: 13

DeidaraXSakura: 4

NejiXSakura: 11

SaiXSakura: 1

SasukeXSakura: 1

SakuraXNobody: 4