Sasuke and Sakura walked down the decorated halls, munching happily on the onigiri.

"You'll sleep in the room next to mine." Sasuke mumbled over a face full of rice.

Sakura nodded and took another bite, in the slave house they were given only cold rice that stuck together and was difficult to keep down, this food was gourmet for her.

Sasuke stopped in from of a single sliding door. The rice paper was tinted slightly green and there were veins painted intricately in brown.

Sasuke slid the door open and allowed the girl to enter before him.

Sakura gasped. The room's walls were painted a mint green. A small shikibuton* was folded up and placed under the two large windows. The walls were, like Itachi's, covered in shelves.

"Is there any subject that you find interesting?" Sasuke asked.

"Ne, I'm into medicine, we had few books but they were all on healing." Sakura said peering out of one of the windows, the view was amazing!

Sasuke walked over to the only space that wasn't covered and called for her to come over to him.

He placed the onigiri in his mouth and used both hands to pry open a compartment on the wall.

"This is a closet, there are some blankets folded up and some clothing that my Oka-san will help you mend or let out." Sasuke explained after removing the onigiri.

Sakura nodded mutely and entered the closet; she finished off the last of her snack and pulled a large pink blanket into her arms.

"I'll come and get you later; the bathroom is across the hall." Sasuke said, stepping out and sliding the door shut behind him.

Sakura sighed and unfolded the shikibuton it was actually quite a bit larger then it looked when it was folded up.

Sakura arranged the few pillows that she'd also found in the closet and curled up underneath the warm blanket the sun yawned across the floor and the smell of flowers invaded her senses, she was asleep in seconds.


Mikoto and Itachi sat in the dining room; they were kneeling across the table from Uchiha Fugaku.

Mikoto slid the papers over to him and nodded for him to read them.

Fugaku grabbed the papers and read through them swiftly. His face steadily became paler.

"My son Sasuke has bought a female slave?!" He threw the papers down in disgust.

"He's only 5 years old Fugaku he didn't buy her for such intimate reasons." Mikoto said, disgusted that her husband would jump to such a conclusion.

Fugaku grunted and scanned over the papers again.

"She's a Haruno?" his eyebrows rose and he smirked.

"The Haruno families Kekkei Genkai is very powerful, we can train her as a bodyguard." Fugaku said this with all the importance in the world.

Itachi fell back slightly his eyes widened, he'd gone through his father's training and Sakura wouldn't survive it. He almost didn't make it.

Mikoto stood and exited the room, leaving behind and angry aura.

"I'll train her." Itachi said at last, he stood and looked his father defiantly in the eye and exited the room.


Sakura woke up in her room, the sun had set hours ago and she was hungry again.

Sakura opened her door quietly and ran into the bathroom across the hall, she opened a drawer and groped around until she'd found the matches.

Sakura lit a few of the candles and relieved herself, she blew out all but one single candle, she watched the flame and became entranced in it's very being, it danced and sang for her, she reached her hand out and held her palm in it.

Sakura drew away her hand a few moments later and stared at her hand, the flames had left soot and a scar.

Sakura drew up chakra and healed the wound swiftly; she ran her hand under the warm water to clear her hand of the ash.

Sakura blew out the last candle and slid open the door. She walked down the hall until she came to Itachi's room, then she found her way to the kitchen from there on.

When Sakura entered Itachi was talking to an older version of himself.

Sakura bowed in respect when the older man turned t look at her.

"Hello." She whispered.

She looked up when the man approached her. His face seemed kind but his eyes were angry.

"Welcome to the Uchiha compound I'm Uchiha Fugaku." He said extending a hand.

Sakura took the hand gently and pulled back a few steps.

"Do you know where Sasuke-sama is?" She asked the floor capturing her attention.

"I think he went outside to train." Itachi said pointing to the door.

Sakura nodded and smiled.

She ran out the door toward the dull thud of kunai and senbon on wood.

Sakura watched as Sasuke threw weapons in every direction, each one hitting the mark perfectly.

"S-sasuke-sama." She stuttered and tried again, officially catching his attention and distracting him.

The weapons he had just thrown came hurling at her. Sakura smiled and weaved smoothly in and out of the weapons, catching each one deafly in her hands.

Sakura smiled and took them over to Sasuke, she handed them to him. He didn't notice the senbon that she slid up the sleeve of her dress.

"How'd you do that?" He asked pocketing the weapons.

"In the cages we had to learn to dodge the stuff that people would throw at us. Normally the people who came were ninja." Sakura smiled sadly and fingered the necklace at her throat.

Sasuke smiled and handed her a kunai.

"Try throwing this at the target." Sasuke said kindly, trying to distract her.

Sakura flicked her wrist and the kunai thudded into the bulls-eye.

Sasuke was shocked, never had he expected her to get it on the first try.

Sasuke kept handing her weapons and instructed her on their use and how to care for them.

They spent the rest of the day training together and Sasuke finally admitted that she was almost ready to spar him.

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