-1Warnings: rated M for language violence and sexy situations ; )

Hello my faithful readers!!! Just a heads up here: any fanart, or anything like that is more than welcome!! TORTURE, TORTURE, TORTURE!!! Well since most all of my reviews have said 'thumbs up' for the torture scene so…those with a weak stomach should leave the computer screen.

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Sakura held up the senbon with shaky fingers and walked over to stand beside the man. He was strapped to a stone table. He looked to be about in his mid thirties, slightly balding, looked like a family man. Perfect.

He gazed at her with forlorn brown eyes. "Please let me go…I have nothing to offer you people." his voice came out as a mere rasp.

She leaned against the table casually and flipped the senbon every which way with her skilled fingers. "Oh but I think you do have something to offer us." He looked away, a tell tale sign he was holding back. "Like what?"

"Information." The man flinched. "I already told that blue man with the gills, I don't know anything about those masked ninja you keep talking about!"

As he shouted the last words she smoothly drove the long needle into the groove of his bone, right under his wrist. The man howled in pain. Sakura swallowed hard.

It was sick what she was doing, and still, she could do much worse to this man. "Are you sure about that?" A shudder rippled through the mans muscle system. Her medic's eyes picked up everything about his body. The calluses on his hands indicated he was a farmer, his tendons had recently been strained, so he had most likely been plowing. Most likely they would be tender.

He started to pant and said, "I truly know nothing!"

Sakura crossed her arms and started to fiddle with another senbon. "Why do you insist on holding back? I want to get this done quickly."

He moved his head to look at her. "Are you going to kill me?"

Was that a note of hope in his voice?

"I wouldn't dream of it." Sakura hated the menace that dripped of her words. Still she ignored herself and drove the senbon sideways through his Achilles tendon. He screamed in pain and writhed against this constraints. She looked him over. Only two senbon in his flesh and already he was squirming like a child. He would be easy to break.

She pulled out a kunai and calmly wedged it into his elbow joint. Blood started to seep around the wound as her efforts were awarded with another blood-curdling howl.

"Where did you see them?"

"I didn't!"

"Why do you keep on holding this back?"

Beads of sweat popped up on his wrinkled forehead. "I have my reasons."

Sakura cocked her head to the side and looked at the thick crimson liquid pooled around his restrained body and dripped ominously to the stone floor.

Another senbon sank into his knee, effectively striking the jangle of nerves there. He convulsed and panted heavily.

"And what would those reasons be?"

"I would tell you why?"

Her response was another kunai in his opposite elbow. More blood began to drip around him and he screamed again. "Do you really need an answer form me?"

"I--would l--like one y--yes ."

She grabbed another kunai and carved a complicated pattern into the bare skin on his chest. He screamed, and the blood began to flow. "Well, I rather need this answer."

The kunai plunged into the rib right under his lungs. He convulsed again, and his eyes rolled back into his head. "My--son." he croaked.

Sakura tossed a kunai into the air and caught it. "What about him?"

He coughed and a spurt of blood flecked her arm. "He's with…ANBU."

"Ah I see, and where did you last see him?"

"Why--do you--c-care?"

"I have my reasons." His eyes widened in panic and he struggled against the restraints, gasping in pain as the weapons lodged in his flesh shifted with him. "Your not after him are you?"

"No, tell me where he is."

He paused. Sakura plunged the kunai into his other knee. He screamed. "I-In a town…I don't know where, but its called, Araki Town."

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"Tsunade-sama, the hunter-nin located the missing squads position, and…"

The blonde haired honey-eyed woman nervously cracked her knuckles. "And what, Shizune?"

"They…they…"

Tsunade's eye twitched and the meek brunette shrank back against the door frame. "Don't beat around the bush dammit!"

"Well, the bodies , of Arachi Hanabo and…Churiki Yuki were found…they had been stabbed once each through the heart…they died instantly."

Shizune just managed to dodge the chair thrown in her general direction. "AND WHAT ABOUT SAKURA?"

"T-they don't know Hokage-sama! The only sign of her was a huge crack in the earth, but then…nothing!"

"I WANT HER FOUND!"

"I know Tsunade-sama! I have already dispatched four squads of hunter-nin, and three of ANBU!"

The furious blonde slammed her fist down onto her desk and the poor wooden structure collapsed to splinters.

"Get Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto in here now."

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Itachi watched her closely as she stepped out of the room and calmly wiped her bloodied hands on a towel. She looked calm cool and collected. Not like the girl who threw a fit at the mere prospect of torturing this man. After the screams he just heard from the room, he might have suspected an expert had just set to work. But this was not the case. She was a naive little girl who had gotten in way over her head by joining the Akatsuki. He knew the kunoichi wouldn't last long here. Most likely she would go crawling back to her village after a month or so. Right now she looked sick and pale.

The Uchiha smirked. "Well?"

"Araki Town."

He nodded and strode off in the opposite direction, but could still here the retching noises as she threw up the remains of the strawberry he knew she had eaten.

Well indulgence has its prices…as does selling your soul to the metaphorical Devil… I wonder if this girl can pay the price?

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Well how was it? Torturous enough for you? I hope so because I'm neglecting my homework for this! So please review and tell me if I'm doing alright so far!