A.N. YAY! so, this is the first actual test! excited? You better be! read the chapter already!

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A few strands of hair stuck to my face as I woke up, Waking up seemed to be a routine at this time. My stomach retched for food, I opened my eyes to see legs Indian style. I noticed my head was laying on a single leg and my hand was poised more-so towards the end of a thigh, I jerked up, sitting straight, Itachi looked at me funny.

"Sorry." I said, being able to think was grateful.

"We've got to leave." He said in a whisper.

I stood up and pulled my messy hair into a pony-tail. "Okay, can we just get something to eat?" I asked, holding my stomach with my hand.

"Hn." He pointed to the back-pack.

I walked over there lazily, I can't believe I fell asleep on him! "Sorry, I don't usually fall asleep on people or wake up on them," I reached inside the bag and pulled out a piece of fruit and a sandwich we bought yesterday. "Well, did I talk in my sleep?" That had been a childhood habit.

"Hn." I turned and walked over to him, hopefully he didn't see the alarm in my eyes.

"Really?" I coughed, almost bypassing him and running into a tree.

"Hn."

"About what?" I expected at least a three syllable answer or higher.

"Mumbled." He turned to me. Two...damn...SYLLABLES!

"Aren't you hungry?" I asked.

"We don't feed every single second we need it." He blinked.

"I can see that." I pointed to my arm, sarcastically.

"I won't feed on you." I knew what he meant.

"I know," I bit into the apple.

Itachi stood up, probably stiff from me, I felt bad. Being so dumb like that, at least he didn't kill her. Itachi walked over to me and reached out to grab something off my head. I looked up to him. "Leaf." He let the green leaf fall to the ground.

"I have a question," I said.

"Okay." He looked at me, stepping back from the closeness, I blushed.

"Why isn't it considered littering to drop a leaf when it is for paper, technically they are apart of the same thing." I pointed out.

He mumbled and finally said. "I wouldn't know. How do you some up with the questions?"

I stood up and threw the scraps of my apple when I was done and threw on the back-pack. "Shall we?" Ignoring him.

"Hn."

We started off walking in silence. I watched my surroundings "Why did you tell me to watch my surroundings that one day?" I asked.

"Monster was in the area." He looked at me. "Did you see it?" He asked.

I nodded. "Before we met the red-head."

"Anytime after?" He must've knew now that he'd have to ask to get answers.

"No." I pulled my pony-tail over my right shoulder.

We started walking after we took care of our needs and nothing but silence fell, then we saw the gates of the Sand village, it was getting sandier by the minute, suddenly I missed the forest to death. It was not late, but I could feel myself getting tired, I needed to ask the Sand-man for the scroll so I could get home, so I just sucked it up.

I grabbed Itachi's arm and he whipped his head around to look at me. "Sorry," I pulled my hand from him. "Sand-snake." I mumbled.

"Do you mind?" He asked, holding out his hand.

"What?" I asked. I grabbed his hand, he held it slightly, as if he could grab me in time if I was sucked down by quicksand...

"Don't take it personally." He said. "Quicksand." He mumbled as he directed me behind him and put my hands onto his waist, luckily he was smart enough to manuver the backpack to where it didn't hit me in the face. "You can't see where it is."

"Couldn't I just walk beside you?" I said coolly.

"Sand snakes tend to at the sides of someone." Was all he said as we were off again. "One slithered up my leg last time."

I giggled, then my face fell, It felt oddly right laughing without Sasuke... but what if..."So, is Sasuke-" I felt him tense up. "Never min-"

"He still died." Itachi let out a big breath.

"I'm sorry, it was really-"

"It's okay." Itachi focused on the path before him, and not the sandy one. So when he was here, there was always someone out of the picture when he ouched the scroll, if he played a big part in Sakura's life...

"Ne, Itachi? When we get there...Will they just let us in?" I asked, who couldn't be curious about that?

"Hn" Itachi said.

"No! why talk then give me a one-syllable word?" I complained.

Itachi sighed. "I do not know."

We were less than 50 meters for the gate, the guards were already eyeing us. "Wait...does 'hn' mean yes or I don't know?!" Geez!

"Hush." Normally I would think that it would be odd to say hush comming from Itachi, apparently not.

Against my better judgement, I stayed quiet, his hands were still smooth and over mine until we stepped up to the guards and the long sandy-like alleyway that led to the village, then Itachi let go of my hands, but not quite letting them fall, they went to my sides.

"Do you have papers?" One guard asked, clipboard in his hand.

"No, this was unexpected." Itachi said firmly.

"Well we can't just let you in." The guard sighed.

"We need to talk to the Kazekage." Itachi looked irritated, I looked at the guard and back at Itachi.

"Doesn't everyone?" The guard looked irritable too.

A whistle was made by another guard, everyone looked to that guard, he looked up, we followed his gaze to the top of a building. I had good sight so I looked up with ease and there stood someone in power. The man smiled, turned and walked away. Itachi nearly scowled when we looked back at the guard. The guard had withdrew a katana, Itachi didn't hesitate for his. Itachi handed me the backpack, which I put on and looked at Itachi for answer. Itachi was focused on the guard. One swift movement and itachi had grabbed my wrist and started running into the Sand village, I looked back to see the guard on the ground on his knees, Itachi did that?

"I-Itachi?" I mumbled, I knew he wouldn't answer, his crimson red eyes were focused on the guards comming to him.

As we finished through the alleyway and into the village, he stopped, guards surrounded us, then all charged at him, I grabbed a kunai as fast as I could and the one grabbed me from behind, by the mouth and ribs. I instictively stabbed the man or woman in the neck and they fell, I looked over at Itachi to see him piled by guards, in a spiral motion, he moved swiftly and gracefully and fended them off to where the other guards thought this was pointless and ran. Itachi looked at me, blood may have been worn on him, but not his blood and not much, for someone so lithe, he was very graceful.

Itachi came over. "Is this the same as last time?" I asked, panicky.

"Hn." Once he got his breathing composed, he looked up to my worried face. "I won't die."

I looked down. "Yeah, but..."

Itachi put his katana away and grabbed my hand for a slight moment to let me know where he was going, I followed him, no one adorned the street as of now. A guard came with his katana withdrew. "The Kazekage..." The guard pointed his katana in a direction. It was a little bit of a walk to the building he pointed in, but we knew we'd make it.

The guard muttered and walked past us, towards the alley of sand.

"Itachi, why would they attack us if we didn't do anything?" I asked, I wish I could stop with the questions, but I couldn't.

"It's their way of nature" He commented, I followed him in silence to where the guard pointed. I looked around but saw nothing but sand and shops abandoned from Itachi and I, woah...wait a second, did I actually kill as person, panic welled up in me.

"I killed someone." I broke the silence.

Itachi stopped and turned around "It's nature, you can't prevent it. You did it out of self defence, hn?"

The 'hn's bothered me, but the question didn't "Yes...I just hope i'm in a coma."

Itachi sighed. "Hn." The as we got up to the doors. "Be careful"

Well, thats easy when you don't know what about, Itachi pushed the door in and we came to a dimly lit area with a bunch of walls before us. There was one opening, it kind of looked like a maze, this whole place was dimly lit by torches on the walls, it was a huge place, not nessesarily height, but the length and width were phonomenal, I know I saw it from outside, but inside was a different matter.

"Welcome." My head darted towards the voice, It was this Kazekage man that Itachi warned me of. He stood on a wall before us and bared his teeth. "I would like you better if you hadn't killed my guards, Itachi." How he knew his name, I didn't know. "She was the only one who hadn't killed anyone, i'm suprised he survived little girl, you cut his neck pretty deep."

The weight lifted off my chest and a new pain resided...Itachi, wouldn't he feel bad.

"Well my lab rats," The man jumped off as wall somewhere I didn't know and at the opening of the wall he walked out...oh god...a maze? you've got to be joking. "What do you need this time?" He leaned against the wall, facing us.

"The scroll." Itachi stated.

"For her?" He asked the obvious.

"Hn" Itachi glared.

The Kazekage swept his hand through his hair, "Well I have to give it to you, but no one ever said anything about being dead or alive." He smirked, smirked! The senile bastard, so he was going to trap us in a maze and see if we live or die? "I'm a little short on time, which makes you a little short on time...Which means," The Kazekage whistled. "You'll have to do it now."

A man, stealthy and all, came out with a bow and handed it to my dumbly and walked back out, he just whistled to people?! They came at his every order?!

"That bow, it is very strong, was my mothers, if you lose it, i'll kill you. It holds no arrows, you just have to think about it, if you survive, you may keep it." He smiled his toothy grin and stared walking towards us. "Don't try anything stupid, he knows." The redhead looked at Itachi and walked past us.

"When this is done," I smirked. "I'm going to have a little talk with you." I said and the redhead turned around and smirked.

"If it ever happens. You have three hours or i'll kill you.The Kazekage turned. "Starting now." And he exited.

"Damn." Itachi sighed. "Okay, plan." Itachi closed his eyes for a moment.

A howl inside the maze startled Sakura, "They have animals in there?!" I looked wideeyed at Itachi.

"Hn, let me see you shoot the bow." Itachi same up to her, it was a beutiful bow and blue it was, a cyan almost and at least Sakura could hold it right.

"There's nothing to shoot at." I mumbled.

Just then, a giant centepede like creature crawled from the wall, along the wall. He pointed to the creature. "Aim, shoot."

"I can't! what do I think of?!" The creature lifted off the wall, inspecting them. It hissed, it shocked Sakura, but she was thinking...'Kill the creature!' She pointed, no ammunition? How do they...Oh god! it was ready to attack! Itachi was becoming ready to pull his katana out. The creature hissed and flew off the wall towards them. Sakura hastily glared and put her left index and middle finger in the shape you would regularly hold a bow and she plucked the bow string with her ring finger and a vibrant light shot from the bow and into the creature, all of the sudden, a hiss of agony formed from the creture and it it disspeared and blood was left on the floor in its place. I gasped, I did that? I panted and went wide eyed.

Itachi went wide eyed for a second and blinked "Good, good..." He mumbled, "Let's go."

"You have a plan?"

"Hn" Itachi smirked and within a second, everything became dark as we entered the walls, all of the sudden everything was dimly lit by torches inside this maze and everything on the outside was pitch black. We looked at eachother for a second and itachi reached inside of the backpack until he found something and pulled it out.

"What is it?" I asked, looking up into his eyes.

Itachi looked chocked for a second and then blinked. "A map."

"How do you get a map?! wouldn't he change it?" I asked dumbly.

"Tch, if he had the time." Itachi examined it and I looked around, the walls were like a caves, and the torches beutifully carved. "Okay, lets go." Itachi murmerd.

"You memorized it?!" I freaked out.

"I have good memory, let's hope so anyway." And he had to make me unsure. "Follow me, and try to take care of some of the monsters."

He started to dodge to the right and run, I flew after him of course. I could run for 30 minutes straight non-stop, this running was paced, so I wasn't fazed. As we headed down a long hall, I only glanced back once. As we dodged foward, Itachi stopped short, in a sudden outburst, I heard screams and crying. I gagged and gasped, what was this Garra made of? Was he torturing children? I fought against Itachi, the screams got louder, then I heard a faint 'Mom! Help!' then I heard a growl, scream, then nothing. I finally glanced down at my waist, Itachi was talking to me, I couldn't hear him until the words became clear and I turned around, first, his voice was mute, then it grew louder till he spoke normal.

"-kura? Sakura, it's fake, don't listen." Itachi looked at me and I gasped and coughed. As I finally got my grip on reality, I blinked and looked back into his eyes.

"Itachi? What was that! It was a child!" I tried to pry his arms from around me.

"It's not," He grabbed me firmly against his chest. "Garra does those things to make people run out of time."

I stopped fighting. "What? Why! that's cruel!"

"He's an unfair man Sakura, we've wasted time, let's go." Itachi let go of me as so I wouldn't fall to the ground. He waited another minute as I gathered this into my head and I looked up and composed myself.

"Will that happen again?" I asked.

"I don't know." Itachi sighed.

"Let's go." Itachi started off and I followed. After we dodged to the left, foward, the right, foward, and left again, making sure we didn't go too far foward, we went down a long hall to the left, the torches flickered oddly and then after Itachi pulled his katana out so expertly and swung it so fast I didn't even have time to look before blood was all over the floor, I desperately wanted to know what he had just anihilated, but he didn't stop running. After we dodged left, then foward, then right, then jogged to the right and then faced left and ran foward about 25 feet and went south about the same length. As we dodged right, I started to think, about...Itachi and children. I followed Itachi for about 2 minutes, couldn't get my mind out of thinking too much to even say anything about Itachi, but we stopped and I almost ran into Itachi, again...

It sounded like Itachi hissed. "Get back." He pushed me back, and not in one of the placed a girl liked to be pushed. Finally a flaw! He pushed me back though and he sighed. I pulled out my bow and poised it ready, yeah right...like I could ever hurt a fly. These were monsters though, but how do you know it isn't their nature to feed on humans and what if they were forced here? Lions were made for the wild for a reason...they like meat, humans are meat.

Through the corner of my eye, there was a blur and Itachi had lifted his sword to find a wolfs teeth against the blade, the gnawing did no mercy, then was my time to become busy. I saw a huge moth-like creature, and my head went light and I couldn't breathe. Now I felt like I had no care in the world, like getting stabbed would be painless, but I didn't give in.

"Stay strong." I mumbled to myself and as I tried to pivot, but found I couldn't. These vines were at my feet, tugging me underground, I looked up, wide eyed and swung around with my body and aimed for the moth, one I had a clear shot, I took it, but the damn thing moved! I grumbled and took the shot again, it hit its wing, which was good enough for me, as it sailed downwards, it turned into a sort of dust, now I looked at Itachi. He finally stabbed the wolf enough to get it to disinegrate. "Itachi" I said, he turned to me and I glanced down and he blinked, blinked! "Help me!" I screeched, only because I won't know if the ground is trying to swollow me.

Itachi reached out to me, it was like he couldn't move, I was petrified, and I couldn't hear what he was saying, I looked at his lips. He moved them slowly for me. 'Sh-o' no no, 'shoo' yes, 'my leg.'

"Shoot your leg?" I yelled, unable to know if he was able to hear me. He shook his head, I felt so stupid when I finally had an epiphany, he was stuck too and he said shoot between his legs. As I pulled my bowup to my chest, because by the time I understood him, my knees were underground. I plucked the string and an arrow went flying and finally got to the right place, he hissed and ran towards me with his katana poised to the ground.

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Annnnnnyyywayyyyssss. Summers almost over, i'm really bummed out, only a few weeks left. Summer isn't long enough is it?

Sorry the chapter was short, but our mom accidentally rebooted the whole computer and guess what?! no, she didn't lose my documents, i'm smarter than that, we only have notepad and word!