Well, let's keep it short since I know you're all dying to know how Sasuke died. Enjoy, and thankyou Takara Makoto and Hentai goddess. You two have given me the most helpful reviews I could ask for.

This was the point when her mind would be weakest, and she would be more likely to talk. Forming handseals, he placed his hands at the side of her temples. She whimpered softly, but continued in her sleeping. Then she started thrashing. Holding her down, the Uchiha whispered in her ear. "Tell me where Sasuke Uchia is…"

She continued to thrash against his grip, but then stilled as he completed his question. Tears streamed down her cheeks like tiny crystals. "He's dead…" she said softly, unable to lie in her sleep as the glistening tears spilled from her eyes. "I killed him."

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Itachi froze, his chrisom eyes narrowing at the information. It was utterly impossible that this girl had killed his younger brother. Because Sasuke harbored a hate that made him impossible to predict, and drove him to ever get stronger. How could such a weakling of an ANBU kill one of the Uchiha's most promising fighters? Espcecially when Itachi had only narrowly escaped their last encounter.

"How?" He asked pressing his hands slightly tighter to the sides of her forehead as he closed his eyes, getting the visual that was running through her mind. "Show me."

"No."

Drawing his chakra levels higher, the Uchiha invaded her mind further. "Show me."

"No!"

She spoke as though frightened, her mind refused to allow him to push that far in. Mentally, she was blocking it by instinct as much as will. Something in that fight she had locked away, and he knew that she would not dare bring it up. Because it scared her; it was a darker memory. He could read it in the stream of emotions passing into his mind from hers. Deciding to change tactics, Itachi carefully soothed her with a soft Leaf village lullaby that he played into her mind, calming her. Whispering softly to her, he asked, "Why don't you want to show me?"

"Because I don't want to think about it," Sakura replied softly, still tense, but calmer. "It was horrible…"

Her mind flashed to the event and Itachi sat back to watch with interest.

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Staring at the blackened bodies of her comrades, Sakura felt horror unlike any other as she felt her throat constrict. No, it wasn't possible. But as she stared at Kakashi's broken, bloody form, she could not deny that it was true. The village was burning, black smoke pouring into a bright red sky. Screams sounded through out it's depths, like rattling sirens that she could not shut out. Her eyes ran over the scene, taking in each face. Kiba, crouched protectively over a shuddering Hinata. Gai's limp form, cradled by a weeping Lee. Shino laying face down in a pool of blood. Shikamaru, with Temari at his side, both slaughtered but unified in death. Kakashi had thrown himself in front of her and died from the blast. They had all survived the Akatsuki takeover… only to be subject to this. Her apocalypse had finally comet true as her heart shattered into millions of pieces, and the pain consumed her until there was nothing left but wrath.

The bitter green eyes feel tears slowly trail down her cheeks as her hands ball into fists. Her lips drew in a thin line as she stared at the apathetic red swirling eyes before her. Anger unlike any rage she had known swelled up in her chest as she wheedled to stare fearlessly into the depths. "You bastard," she screamed hatefully. "You knew they would be here… and that's what you wanted. You wanted to kill them all!"

"No," Sasuke replied, an evil smile in his cold gaze. "I wanted to show you what happens when you let down your guard. I know that you won't be any problem Sakura. And after all the hardship you and that baka, Naruto, caused me, I thought you deserved to be broken too before I put an end to your misery."

Fire welled in her bright green eyes and silence hung ominously as she stared at him. A chilling breeze swept through the decimated area, stirring the blackened leaves and one unscathed cherry blossom into the wind so that they swirled. "How dare you." She whispered as her anger turned to ice. Her chakra pulsed through her like a living force that moved at her slightest thought. And then, beyond her will, it began to spread.

Like thousands of petals, it hovered in the air around them. Glowing like shimmering glitter, it seemed to sear everything like a demented fire. Her mind did not need to think as she set her body onto instinct and launched forward to attack with a heavy fist. Yet as her mind perceived it, the shimmering petals slashed forward.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed, his Sharigan attempting to assess what this mass was. It moved unlike anything he had seen, moving dangerously, sharply without reason. It was too random for him to track as he watched her emerald eyes narrow. But he did know one thing. This was her ability, her kekkei genkai. As it slashed for him, Sasuke quickly used his speed to sidestep the attack as well as avoid her fist and then began parrying her offensive combos. He had underestimated her speed.

Despite her instinct fighting, her mind knew that her control of the petals would increase. Kakashi had informed her of the Floras Sakura's abilities, but he had only been able to force her into its state once. It required the freezing ultimatum of anger that now resided in her heart, and the once carefree kunoichi had never had it within her to go after her sensei with full power. The man before her was a different story.

Her petals were mentally manipulated, and could be changed to be slashing or burning depending on how her emotions were played. Striking out a sweeping low kick, Sakura drew the petals in a shield like box around her to block Sasuke's strike for her head. Static shocked her painfully, but she ignored it as she focused. Stabbing forward with a poisoned senbon, she neatly flipped to avoid a crackling fist. Drawing back a heavier blow, she kicked for his side before twisting into a whirl wind combination she had learned from Lee. Twisting the final kick, she realized too late the charged chakra with in his fist. Pulling the petals in to form a shield around her, Sakrua threw up a hasty guard. As the petals shatter from an impact of a crackling chidori, Sakura sidestepped, only to be hit heavily. Flying back to strike a wall, she nursed her side as she stared at the red eyes. She guessed he could not put her within Tsukuyomi. Now with his eyes so drained.

But yet a dark world begins to over take her vision and the sky darkens until a black moon hangs in the air. And then all she could see was the faces of her loved ones as he brought them down one by one in slow motion. Everything seemed as though it were happening over and over. Yet she was powerless, and with each strike to her friends she felt the pain resound within her own body. The blood would drown her.

Her hatred though, builds until it consumes her. No… she thinks furiously. I will not die to him! The will to live consumed her thoughts until there was nothing left of her mind focused. He was going to die for what he had done to the others, for what he had done to her. With a scream of hatred, Sakura feels her chakra levels explode within her wrath. Then the red world shatters around her to reveal Sasuke. And before she can recall the thought, Sakura sends the flurry of petals slashing around him in a violent whirlwind.

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Itachi gently soothed the sobbing kunoichi as he shifted the thoughts away, storing them deeply in her forgotten childhood, where they would never be recalled. He had seen enough. Yet his calm stoic nature had been shaken. For intruding so deeply into her mind had drawn up forgotten emotions of empathy and concern. Those of his past… one so similar to her own. For they had both lost everything; the only difference was that he had gained something in return. And she had not.

Stroking her hair until she quieted, Itachi draped a blanket around her sleeping figure before walking over to his own bed and falling into a deep sleep.

The hours felt like minutes, and Itachi's energy had barely been disturbed when he was alerted to a commotion in the hideout. His door burst open as Kisame appeared, out of breath and sporting a heavy slash to the right arm. "She's gone…"

"Yichi?" Itachi questioned, immediately alert.

"Yes and no," Hidan panted coming in the door right after the shark man. "Both her and the pink haired bitch are gone."

"She is probably in the hideout," Itachi replied, still calm as he got to his feet.

"That may fucking well be. But we have searched fucking everywhere for the bitches and they are gone."

For once in his life, Itachi allowed himself to borrow from Hidan's language. "Shit."

So... what happened to Sakura? lol R&R