"Sakura!" Luna shouted out as he saw the girl lying on the grass. She ran up to her and tried to touch her but I didn't work, she was in the Pensieve, they wouldn't even be able to hear her if she shouted with all her might. Luna was in a state of shock until she saw how her friend breathed faintly, she was alive! Luna smiled from relieve, of course she should know that Sakura couldn't be dead, she has seen her in the future.

Luna quickly got to her feet and scanned the surrounding area with the typical dazed look in her eyes. She couldn't see anyone near, there were only trees. Sakura would, she knew, not be able to live much longer with those wounds, though she didn't know how long Sakura had been there. She could bleed to death any minute now. She wanted to know who the person to save her friend was.

But no one came, Luna waited and waited, after some time she went back to check if Sakura was still breathing. Gladly she was, though much paler than before, she was losing too much blood.

"What are you doing here?" A dark voice asked and Luna jumped up and quickly looked behind her from where the voice had come from. She hadn't heard anyone approach or seen anyone from when she was standing watch. However, that wasn't what made her surprised, what made her stand there starring in chock was because she clearly knew the person who was now standing right in front of her.

"Professor Uchiha…!" Luna said in a loud whisper. She was confused, why was he here and how did he get here without her hearing him? He strode past her to take a closer look at the pink-haired child in the grass.

"Why aren't you answering me?" Itachi asked Sakura who was lying right in front of him. She didn't move, Luna couldn't really understand that he thought that Sakura would be able to hear him when she was unconscious.

Then suddenly Sakura opened what Luna expected was to be her bright green eyes filled with life, but what she saw was a pair of completely empty and dull eyes. It didn't seem as she was seeing anything in front of her, and Luna couldn't resist but also notice how extremely sad she somehow seemed to be.

Even though it must defiantly be Sakura in bone as well as flesh in front of her, it just wasn't Sakura. It couldn't be, this person was just too pitiful.

"I told you to wake up, didn't I? Don't fall into the darkness you've trapped yourself in." Itachi said in a soft and quite bored tone. She barely glanced at him though seemed to notices that he had started to talk to her. "I'm not going to help you if you're going to continue like you're doing now, at least try to look at me and hear me out."

This time Sakura closed her eyes and her dirty hair cover her face. Luna didn't understand anything of this, why was professor Uchiha so different compared to his usual self, the person that smiled at all the students during any kind of circumstances? Also… Sakura, this just couldn't be the right thing.

Suddenly Itachi had grabbed Sakura by her cheeks simply with his right hand in order for her to look at him, he hold tight and his face showed the fist emotion during this whole time, disgust. Sakuras tears started pouring down from her petrified eyes, though she didn't make an attempt to get away from his grip.

"If I never awake… will I ever see the ones I love again? Will I?" Sakura asked in a hopeless and tearful whisper. "Will you be by my side forever? I just don't want to be alone…"

Sakura was now crying hopelessly as his grip had since long ago let her go as he now let her hug him tightly, crying and crying.

"What is happening here?" Luna asked herself as she saw Sakura crying while embracing the now emotionless Itachi. Did she already know him? 'Just what is happening here actually?'

Itachi starred into the air somewhere before himself, it was hard to tell if he was serious or just bored by the look on his face, though none of them where really true. The right word would probably be, contemplative…

As Itachi slowly closed his eyes as though defeated, Luna could feel as though she was sucked away from the present memory in front of her and suddenly stood in what seemed to be a worn out training ground.



"What is this place…?" Luna asked herself while slowly looking around. Everything was quite used, even the ground had no trace of grass left on it. Then she heard a sound from behind her.

"I can't do it! You make it seem so simple!" Luna recognized Sakura's irritated voice immediately and as she turned around Sakura, as she expected, stood there with a grumpy face. Though, as Luna had both expected and not expected, Itachi stood there beside her, sighing. However, Luna was most wondering over what they were discussing than who was where at the moment. "Just show me again! One more time!"

"I've already showed you a dozen of times, will you ever get it right? Put more energy into it, otherwise you'll only waste chakra."

"Chakra…?"

"Yeah yeah I'm doing that, however, it still won't work." Sakura and Itachi were standing in a clearing, or should one say, Sakura was walking in a circle starring at her right hand while Itachi was leaning against a tree. Sakura gave Itachi a couple of death-glares while walking her circle, though Itachi pretended he didn't notice."I'm never good at ninjutsus, just too many hand seals!"

"You kind of mess up with the dragon and the horse, you switch between them too fast and somewhat make a mix of them two. They don't even look alike, try again." Itachi said, then looking down at the dirt. "If you get it right we can go eat lunch somewhere where the grass still grows."

"Is that supposed to be some sort of price? 'Cas you know, it isn't really working." Sakura said with a sigh, she stopped in her tracks and sat down on the ground. "I'll never get this done so then I'll never get any food."

"You're just too negative, get your lazy-ass off the ground and try again or I'll go away and leave you here."

"No, no, stay! I'll get it right, I promise!" Sakura said in haste. Quickly she started doing things with her hands that Luna just couldn't understand. She made, what Luna guessed they had called hand seals, them so fast that Luna couldn't see what it was she was doing. Suddenly Luna could feel a burst of energy around Sakura and herself, however, it disappeared as soon as it came.

"You're doing it wrong!" Itachi shouted. "slowly try doing it again, you're doing something wrong with the dragon and horse part. Just, take it slowly and don't try to mess thing up this time."

"I'm not doing it on purpose! Here I'm trying my best but still you only insult me!"

"You're not trying your best, I'm not insulting you, I'm helping you. You have good chakra control but it won't help you as long as you can't get the seals right."

"Then stop fussing and I'll maybe get it right for once!"

"Do you want help or not? I told you that I'd train you but if you're going to complain like this every time then I might as well stop." Sakura gave Itachi a glare before standing up properly and slowly doing the same hand seals as before, though this time Luna could actually see her hand seals, however, to her it looked as if Sakura was simply doing random things with her hands. "Right there, you're making you mistake there, and you keep forgetting to put in the rat in the beginning.

"I know it's a pretty hard ninjutsu but even in the more simple ones you make a mistake or two. Not only with the hand seals but with the timing, the amount of energy you put into leaning this is sure enough equal to zero."

"Is not! I want to learn!" Sakura shouted out at him in rage.

"That's just the amount of energy I want you to put down into learning these things, not standing here shouting out all that energy."

"You live to make my life miserable… I just know it."

"As long as you get what I'm meaning."

"Yeah yeah I understand…"

"Then let's eat some lunch so you'll get it right next time. You'll get good at these things soon enough, it'll just take time to get it in one's head." Itachi mentioned as they started walking away, Luna following them, trying to figure out what it was they were doing. The burst of energy that Sakura let out without using a wand was like nothing she ever seen or felt before.

"Maybe it was some kind of magic after all, I'm just being paranoid." Luna said under her breath. "But they seem strangely close to each other, they couldn't have become so close in the time they've 

known each other. From how I see it, it should only have been a couple of days since they first met in that first memory. Why do I get this feeling that there's just something wrong with all this. Why doesn't she have any memories in here that's before all this happened? Why was she all beaten up and how did Itachi know she was there?"

Luna watched professor Uchiha and Sakura from afar as they sat in a grassy area only a little bit away from the training grounds, they were eating something that looked like rice formed into a little triangle. They were talking but for once Luna wasn't in the mood to listen, she wanted to get back to the real world, however, her curiosity got the best of her. She wanted to know what these two people she thought she knew were up to. Sakura and Itachi seemed to have a nice time as Sakura let out a laugh from time to time, Itachi didn't even smile bit Luna could somewhat feel that he was far from a foul mood."

"Shall we go try again now that you've gotten yourself together again?" Itachi said as he stood up. Sakura smiled back at him and nodded.

When they were all back in the training grounds Sakura put her hands together in what Luna guessed was another hand seal, however, as Sakura stood there she didn't change seal and energy was slowly coming from her. Then suddenly Sakura started masking different hand seals so fast that Luna once again couldn't see them. Sakura said something that Luna couldn't hear, however, as soon as Sakura closed her mouth again. Luna's eyes widened and she fell backwards, starring in fear at Sakura, this was no magic.

A/N: Hard chapter to write, sorry. Also, I haven't really been home at all very much, when I thought I would be home I either met up with friends or played games : This is one of the worst chapters I've written, I find it hard to with Luna because her personality is as it is. It's quite the boring chapter too, though, believe me, it had to be done. Quite important (sigh)

So! Now that that's over I'll get to write the more "interesting" scenes (yey). The story is starting to come to its end but there are still about 5-6 chapter left I think. Nah… I could make it 4-5.

Anyway, one week left of my summer vacation and I'll be writing during most of it. However, I can't promise much, I have another story that I have a lot of problems with right now so…

Please leave a review, just don't be pissed be me if I don't answer them all. Mjao…

With Love
Neko-chan