Loving the Past

"Talking"

SHOUTING

Thoughts

Summary: sakura is sent to the past and stays the Uchiha's.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto unfortunately. Wish I did but I don't. But I do own this story read and enjoy!

Chapter 7

The girl stepped forward and decided to introduce them. Even though sakura and Itachi knew who they were she thought 'might as well be polite like outo-san taught us or else we might not get dango.'

She made a throaty noise clearing her throat and began to speak, "Ohayou sakura-san, Itachi-san. My name is Subaku no Temari. My brother over there," she pointed to the boy with brown hair, "is Subaku no Kankuro, and my other brother is Subaku no Gaara."

When she was done sakura made an incoherent giggle and Itachi chuckled. He then decided to play along. He kneeled on one knee and held her hand in his and gave it a quick kiss and said, "Hello Temari-chan I am Uchiha Itachi and over there is Sakura Haruno. We will be watching over you today and we both hope you and your brothers enjoy your time here." By the time he was done she was blushing bright pink.

"Okay, Itachi, that's enough, dazzling the poor girl." After Itachi stood up Sakura spoke again to see what they thought of her plans.

"How about we go to the park right now?" Sakura asked. Kankuro had a huge dopey grin on his face, Temari nodded her head excitedly, and Gaara just looked up with wide eyes like he didn't understand.

"Itachi why don't you go ahead with Kankuro and Temari I want to speak with Gaara." Itachi gave her a look saying 'what are you doing?' Sakura shot him a look and a smile saying 'he doesn't have to worry.'

Once they left the room Gaara was looking at the door where his brother and sister just left. He turned back to sakura with questioning eyes and hugged his teddy bear closer. Sakura smiled a disarming smile and kneeled before him to be at eye level with him.

Sakura held out her hand and knowing about how Gaara had no friends decided to let him make his first one. "Gaara don't be scared of me. We're here to help you and today is about what you and your siblings want." Gaara only bit his lip and you could tell he was still worried by the way he looked. "Gaara how about I'll be your friend." His shoulders slowly relaxed as he looked deep into her eyes, and he took sakura's hand she held out.

Inside sakura's head she was practically partying. She got a demon child to trust her when he was in complete solitude most the time and the only person he could trust was his uncle who turned on him.

About five to ten minutes later they arrived at the park. Itachi was sitting on a bench next to the play ground. Sakura let go of Gaara's hand when he spotted the sand box. Temari was on the monkey bars and Kankuro was getting ready to go on the slide.

Sakura walked toward the bench and sat next to Itachi, once she sat down Itachi turned toward her and asked her what had been on his mind when she asked him to leave the room. "What did you talk to Gaara about?" onyx and emerald clashed. When sakura looked right in to she saw true curiosity residing in his eyes.

"…in the report you know how it said he had a demon in him. I'm guessing that he doesn't have many friends. So I decided to be his first friend. No one should have to be burdened with something like that," sakura said.

In reply Itachi only nodded in understanding. They watched the kids play tag on the play ground and just lay on the ground watching the clouds. Around noon they came up to Itachi telling him they were hungry.

"How about we go for some dango," sakura suggested. They began walking down the dirt road to get to the dango shop with Itachi and sakura ahead and the sand siblings behind them. Sakura and Itachi both turned around when they noticed the sand siblings weren't there anymore.

On a tree they just past by was a note held by a kunai. It said

If you want the kids back then there will be a trade. We want the body of Hyuuga Hiashi for the kids. We meet at 12:00 midnight at the abandoned warehouse in konoha. If you ever wish to see the kids bring the body dead. We only want you two to come only and no anbu. If we see them then the children die.

Sakura looked at Itachi when they finished reading the note. He was pissed. No that would be the understatement of the year. He folded the note and placed it in his kunai pouch and said that we should go to the hokage.

Sakura looked at her watch and it was 12:17. They only had about 12 hours before they killed them. They both rushed through the meeting doors and swiftly stood by the hokage.

Itachi bent down and whispered what happened and handed him the paper. The hokage grimace at what he heard and saw still couldn't believe this was happening.

Itachi stood straight up and let the hokage contemplate. It wasn't like Itachi couldn't handle the nins he could. But this involved a hyuuga's dead body that they wanted.

Sarutobi inhaled a big breath and told the Kazekage what had happened. The Kazekage bang a fist on the meeting room table and started to order his guards around telling him what he wanted done to retrieve his children back.

Itachi broke in and said in a calm voice, "you can't just have your men attack them. They want a body from the Hyuuga clan. Otherwise your children will be dead." He said the last sentence in a flat voice.

The hokage finally spoke up again. "We will be heading towards the Hyuuga compound and speak with them." He turned away from the Kazekage and spoke directly at them both saying, "You will come with us to the abandoned factory later and also sakura." He turned back to the Kazekage and said, "We will have two anbu squads surrounding the building and we will have to talk to the Hyuuga's main house. You are dismissed. Come back at 10:00."

They both left the meeting room just wandering on an empty path towards the forest. Sakura noticed that Itachi's hands were curled up in tight fist making his hands white and his face looked impassive as ever. She gently placed a hand on his arm that it made him stop in his tracks and look at her.

"It's my entire fault," Itachi whispered.

Sakura snake her arms around him and said, "no its not. If I was paying more attention I would have known. . ." sakura trailed off when realization hit her.

She looked him in the eye And said, "In the park when they went to play hide and seek they were out of our eye sight. That must have been when they switched the kids. You were in the bathroom so you couldn't have known."

A moment of silence passed through them as quick as it came. Sakura looked up and asked, "What do we do now?"

Itachi looked back and said. "We wait until its time to meet to hokage but we need to get everything ready before we meet the nins at the factory."

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It was a few minutes before ten when Itachi and sakura decided to leave the house.

They were both armed and ready to go to the ware house. Itachi wore his normal clothes with as many weapons as possible shoved into his pouch. Sakura wore her normal clothes too with weapons in one pouch and medical supplies in the other. She twisted her hair into a bun with senbons sticking out.

They quietly walked out the door jumping roof top to roof top barely touching the roof when they jumped. They were trying their hardest to reach the tower to meet the hokage before they went to the warehouse.

Itachi was anxious as hell to beat the crap out of those guys. In his mind he's trying to make up for his mistake earlier. Just because the, kids went out of his eye sight and for less than a few minutes.

Sakura on the other hand was slightly nervous. She doesn't want to look weak in front of Itachi but in her mind she keeps repeating 'you were trained by Tsunade and kakashi everything will be fine' like a mantra over and over in her head.

Sakura looked around and finally let reality set in. she was in the past somewhere she didn't belong. She belongs in her time but she doesn't want to go. She enjoys this Itachi and a happy Sasuke. She's happy here more so than in her time

There was nothing left for her there. Naruto is gone with jiraiya, Sasuke is with Orochimaru, and kakashi is on missions all the time. The only people there are tenten, Ino, and Hinata. She also has her sensei Tsunade who will always hold a special place in her heart but she wasn't as happy there as she is here. The difference is there's no Itachi her thoughts whispered to her.

They reached the tower and went inside the hokage's office. There were eight anbu and a medic waiting for their instructions. The hokage stood up and cleared his throat.

"You will be retrieving the kazekage's children. Itachi and sakura will bring in the body and rest it on the floor. You will be going in first at 11:45. The rest will be waiting outside as back up. I want no screw ups. Is that understood?" there were a series of hai's and nods coming from the anbu.

After Itachi and sakura got their directions they waited outside in the hallway. Sakura was the first to break the unbearable silence. "Itachi-kun I feel horrible. I can't believe I let this happen to them," she said quietly.

Itachi slightly shook his head enough for it to be noticeable to sakura and said, "Don't feel bad. We will get them back tonight don't worry about that. We will."

Sakura looked up at him and said soft, "alright."

The clock said thirty minutes before midnight. They were off to the abandoned warehouses.

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Rachel: hi! Sorry it came late. I thought I had a beta and then that person bailed on me so whatever. And I'm sorry if there are errors I just thought that I should probably just post this. I hope you like it! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!