"Is Sasuke ok?" I asked ignoring Itachi's remark, I could see his eyes narrow in an irritated gesture. "He's alive if that's what you mean." He retorted, what did he expect? I'd only been cleaning up the mess he created by taking care of his younger brother, who by no means was easy. I remember how combative he had been with me, telling me to leave that I had no business taking care of him, how I was not an Uchiha, I snapped when he said the last bit. "Your damn right I'm not an Uchiha, but I'm all you have right now, and you are all I have, so stop trying to act like you're the only one here who has ever felt like they lost everything!" After that he went easier on me, stopped being so argumentative, at least with me. Now I was just happy it was me tied to a tree and not Sasuke, he carried a surname and a lineage, I was merely the half-blooded child of a prostitute, his life held more worth. "Good." I relaxed my body into the ropes, they dug in "Itachi, I cannot fight you or outrun you, please cut me out of these damn ropes." Itachi swiftly dragged a kunai behind you releasing you from the tree you were restrained to. Before I could take my first step I was slammed back into the tree, wincing at the force, I stared at Itachi who was pinning me to the tree with the same kunai now placed to my throat.

"If your going to kill me just do it." I said exhausted, I did not want to be toyed around with, I was in pain and I was tired, and I wanted it to just end already. I had said the same thing the night of the massacre when I had been in a similar state hovering over an unconscious Sasuke. I could see in his eyes the inner turmoil, maybe he wanted to kill me, but had some greater need for me down the road. I felt him lower the kunai, still maintaining the pressure that was keeping me pinned. "If I wanted to kill you, I would have done it back there in front of him." His hot breath in my ear made me shudder, a foreign heat erupted in my groin, I had never been this close to a man, and that's what Itachi had become. I became fully aware of the situation I was in when I felt a hardness in between his legs push into my thigh. "I have a different purpose for you now."

I had walked in on my mother with various men several times, but they were always under a thick tama mat, I could hear them though and was forced to imagine. Other than that, I had no idea what sex was until I met Jirayia-sensei and he showed me his various 'novels', he commented on how I was the only female who had not blushed after the first paragraph. Instead of blushing, I read through them thoroughly. I could have never understood what the big deal was, why someone would pay someone for sex, or why someone would go through the hassle of writing a whole series of books on it. I could not understand until this moment. It hurt at first when he pushed into me, I winced, and he looked pleased that no one else had touched me before. "Good girl." He had muttered a proceeded to move in and out of me at a steady pace, all the while kissing my breasts and neck. I had what the books had described as an orgasm, and not just one but several following, that's when I realized why people love sex. I was panting in exhaustion by the time he released inside of me, and pulled out panting next to me, his Akatsuki jacket draped over the both of us.

"Aren't your worried your partner will come back?" I asked trying to break the awkward silence that had ensued. "He's probably staying at an inn in the closest village, he got the point." Itachi yawned rolling over and pulling me to him possessively. "This is just all very strange to me right now, I want to be mad at you, but something tells me I can't." I muttered staring directly at the man I had once thought I had known, he grinned lightly "Mad? You seemed to be enjoying yourself." I shook my head, "You know what I am talking about." He seemed as though he didn't want to talk about it, strange for an S-Rank criminal, usually they were more eager to tell you about all their gruesome acts.