In the dark you are the one I see 17
Luna opened her eyes, she was sweating and breathing hard, she could see the Gryffindor common room's ceiling before her. After rubbing her eyes, hoping that all the things she just had seen was a simple dream. However, as she saw the pensive on the table beside her she knew that that wasn't the case.
"What did you see in the memories I so stupidly left on the table beside you?" A sharp voice asked from the shadows, Sakura sat there on a couch. Luna just starred at her, she was afraid, Sakura's murderous eyes made Luna's whole body petrified. This girl with the sweetest fake personality was so much more frightening than anything Luna has seen in her suddenly too short life. Much more than the death eaters she had faced last year.
"I-I didn't see anything!" Luna managed to say, her voice was trembling as much as her thoughts.
"Don't lie to me Luna, I know what you saw in there, and I'm not talking about my failures." Sakura said, the tone in her voice was unexpectedly smooth and unnerving. "Just tell me…"
"P-Please… Please, don't hurt me… I don't want to die…" Luna shuttered, she could feel how her cheeks where dripping wet from her tears that she hadn't noticed had fallen.
Sakura tilted her head to her left, she had a questionable look on her face. "Kill you?" She leaned closer to Luna. "Why Luna, if you tell anyone about this, then killing you is defiantly an understatement."
Luna shivered, she wanted to run out from the room but Sakura's shining green eyes where piercing her to the floor.
"You want to life Luna?" Luna nodded hastily, her long dirty-blond hair getting in her face. "Then I will grant you that simple request if you tell me what you saw."
Luna couldn't believe her ears, her life was going to be sparred! "Hurry before I change my mind-"
"I-I saw you, you where lying on the ground, unconscious… Then professor Uchiha came… He- he helped you."
"Did you see anything about before I was there?"
"…No, that was the only thing in that memory that I saw. Then I was warped into another memory-"
"Did you notice anything strange? Did the pensive work as it should?"
"T-The pensive worked as it should, as far as I know. Though…"
"Though what?"
"I just found it strange that that you where lying there, how he found you and how he suddenly made you somewhat change…"
"Change? What do you mean?" Sakura asked, her eyes sharpened.
"Well… When he took a grip of your jaw, you… You somewhat changed, you started talking, you started showing emotions more. Most of all though, you suddenly seemed so attached to him…"
Sakura starred at Luna for a while in silence, Luna gazed back uncertainly, hoping that she still would let her go.
"Thanks Luna…" Sakura got out her wand from one of her pockets and pointed it at Luna. Luna, starred at it, wasn't she going to let me go? She thought. "I only said that I wouldn't kill you Luna, don't' get fooled my words."
"No, please!"
"Obliviate!" Sakura said and Luna fell unconscious back to the floor. Sakura sighed and laid Luna down on the couch where she was sitting before going up to her own room to get some rest. Of course, she took her pensive with her. She put it in her trunk, and to be on the safe side she casted the Colloportus spell upon it.
The next day when Sakura woke up and went down to the Gryffindor common room, Luna was gone. She had probably woken up before the Gryffindors and gone to her own house, or to breakfast. Which reminded Sakura that she was starving, she met Ron, Harry and Hermione on the way down to the great hall, they didn't mention anything about Luna so everything was probably ok.
"It's soon Halloween, I wonder what's going to happen this year…" Harry asked, mostly to himself.
"Don't even joke about that, Harry." Ron said, seemed he wasn't so interested in such things at the moment. "I swear this Halloween is gonna be the worst of 'em all…"
"Nah, I think it'll be fine, I've never celebrated Halloween before so…" Sakura said, she was thinking of skeletons and pumpkins. Just like she's heard from others.
"Well Halloween's loads of fun! If you don't have a troll trying to kill Hermione or having the ministry trying to kill a Hippogriff... But if we don't mention those thing then we may be able to get this Halloween as Halloween should be."
Sakura frowned inside, If they only knew…I hope they get to enjoy the day to the fullest before I have to do what I do best.
"So, Sakura, are you staying here in Hogwarts during winter holidays or are you going home?" Hermione asked, her tone was bitter but at least she was talking to her.
"Well… Really, I think it depends. Are you staying?"
"No, me and Harry will be going home to Ron during Christmas so." Sakura looked down at the floor in front of her. No you won't, not really at least I must confess…
"Oh, how nice, do you always go there?"
"Sometimes, oh wonderful, we're here!" Hermione said, in a little happier tone as the four of them entered the great hall and made their way to the Gryffindor table. The room was full of talk and laughter that would fill ones soul somewhat with joy. Or irritation, as in Sakura's case, she was used to the peacefulness of the woods or the smaller villages. But she didn't really care right at the moment.
It didn't seem to matter how much Sakura tried to put it in the back of her mind, it always popped back up as soon as it could, the thing Luna had said the night before. There was only one solution for it all, she knew, because she had mastered that for quite a while. But it didn't seem to matter how much it was pointing to being true, it all just seemed just too impossible for Sakura to understand.
"Are you feeling alright? You seem kind of out if it today." Ron said, making Harry give Sakura a concerned gaze.
"No, I'm fine. I'm a little tiered, that's all." Sakura said and gave them a sweet smile.
"Are you sure?"
"…Yeah"
Later that day, after all their classes, Sakura went over to Itachi's office. He was, as usual, behind his desk that had the normal huge pile of paperwork. He looked up at her as she closed the door after her.
"Hi…" Sakura said as she walked up to him. "What're you doing?"
"Nothing special, I'm just checking some tests in defense against the dark arts that I had today with the second years…" Itachi answered with an oblivious tone in his voice. "Did you get your pensive yet?"
"Pensive…? Oh, yeah! Well yes, I got I yesterday evening." Sakura said, trying to smile. However, Itachi easily saw trough her bluff.
"Who are you trying to fool with that extremely fake smile of yours?"
"You, obviously…" Sakura answered and there was a long silence.
"…You really just are stupid aren't you?"Itachi said more as a statement than an actual question. Sakura let out a laugh. "This means you probably have no intention to answer my question, huh? Anyway, it's good you came, I was going to tell you earlier but my memory seems to have failed me. I'll be gone a while from this day on."
"Gone? Where are you going?"
"I'm going back home for a couple of days, Akatsuki business, they need me there."
"But, there're just a few days left before Halloween!"
"Yeah, I know, I'll be here the day before or on Halloween. So there won't be a problem."
"Ok, when are you leaving? I mean, I know today, but, when?"
"In an hour or so, I'm leaving due a close relative's death, that's what the others think."
"Oh, I'll keep that in mind…"
"So, What did you come here for?" Itachi asked and Sakura hesitated for a second, what was I thinking, I can't just go up to him like this and ask him…
"No… it was nothing, just wanted to see you." Sakura answered and quickly made her way to his door. "Have a good trip, I'll be waiting for your return."
A/N: See this as an extra-chapter for chapter 16, just because this took me like no time at all to write and because I really disliked the last chapter... I should have had this in the last one maybe but oh well, who cares. I just find everything easier to write when I write as usual, like here in Hogwarts (lol).
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With Love
Neko-chan
Ps: chapter 16 was as boring to write as to read, as I said, it had to be done. So please, don't mention it being boring because I know very well it is. As well as: OMFG THIS CHAPER IS SHORT!!... I mean… Duh, of course it's short, that's why I made it an extra-chapter.