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Roxanne was standing there, still captured by the blue light. Her eyes were a new intense shade of blue.

"You're lying!" She screamed at him. Itachi watched in horror as her strength increased with her rise in anger. He had made the mistake of creating her. He had made the mistake of using her. He had made the mistake of killing her on the inside. He was going to get everything he deserved.

"R-Roxanne, you d-don't u-u-understand how much I-I did for you," Itachi said, working on lying his way out of the situation.

The light around him grew darker while the color of her eyes changed from their usual blue to a dark blood red. He cringed slightly from fear alone.

"It's weird isn't it? You always knew this is what it'd come down to. I was always stronger, but you thought you'd control it. How'd that work out for you?" Roxanne asked the twitching Uchiha.

"I-I know. I'm s-sorry. I-I l-l…" Itachi's eyes widened, "I love you." His words were few, but so powerfully forced out they sang through her head. Her hands quickly made a few hand signs and a bright light lashed out at Itachi.

He was dead within a matter of seconds.

Roxanne dropped to her knees as the light faded away. She looked toward the sky, her eyes searching for something desperately among the clouds. She felt cold tears running down her cheek.

"I-I couldn't save you Shino. I should have never accepted any missions I was given. I thought… I thought you'd be like the rest, but you weren't. You were the most amazing thing," tears seeped through her hallowed heart, "and I'll never forget you.

I'm sorry." She said to seemingly no one. She looked up at the sky for a few more moments before looking over at the dead body of Itachi.

"As for you, Father. You I'm not proud of, I can't be for you killed him. You killed the greatest person with the biggest heart," Roxanne said as her body began to shake feverishly. Roxanne began to think back at everything she had accomplished, but it didn't take long before she found herself remembering everything about Shino she'd miss.

"I miss you Shino," Roxanne said, her head in its classic downward expression.

"Why?" A voice asked from nowhere. Roxanne turned to see the voice she thought was so familiar to her.

"I'm going insane, I almost thought Shino was there right behind me, but I guess I just wish he wasn't gone because of Itachi," Roxanne said as her once excited face turned to the sulking one once again.

"W-what?" Roxanne stammered out as a pair of strong arms pulled her backward. She tried to turn but she was too drained to muster up the strength.

"You might have been working to kill me, but I guess there's just some missions you have to fail," The voice said. Roxanne continued crying as she felt the strong arms continue to hold her still.

"Sasuke might be a little bit angry that you killed his brother, but we don't have to tell him," It said once again.

"H-how are you still alive?" Roxanne asked, the tears changed to tears of joy and happiness, but mostly confusion.

"Itachi never was able to kill me, he tried to show me your death continuously but he couldn't really keep a hold of me. Plus the fact that I had a clone there was a plus," Shino said. He pulled Roxanne in closer and hugged her to his body.

"Don't ever do this to me again, cause if you do I'll kill you for real," Roxanne told Shino as she lightly touched his cheek. He wiped his hand against her cheek too, taking the tears along with it.

"You couldn't if you tried, could you?" Shino asked, nuzzling her face against hers. She giggled lightly and turned around to meet him face to face.

"I really couldn't, and I'm sorry Shino I really am. I thought that…" Roxanne started as the tears began to flow again.

"Roxanne, I knew from the moment that bug landed on you. It might have known faster than you thought, but for some reason, having you around was just too much fun for me to miss a minute of," Shino said as Roxanne gasped in shock.

"You're worse than me," Roxanne said as she looked at Itachi's dead body once more.

"I-I think I'm finally free from Him," Roxanne said. Shino looked at her with a look of agreement. He looked at her honestly and sincerely.

"You've been free, you just needed to open your own cage," Shino said. Roxanne looked back at him and found herself not wanting to leave where she was.

"You're right, I was freed, but not until I met my person to have and to hold forever. Shino, I want to stay, but only if you'll let me," Roxanne said, looking in her eyes.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Shino said as the two sat there in a blissful silence. She looked out over the trees and realized that she hadn't noticed anything other than Shino in her time there. Now, she'd have the unlimited amount of time to see everything about a normal country she'd never seen before.