First and foremost I would like to thank no.1 for pointing out my P.O.V. mistake in the last chapter. It was a silly mistake from simply not proof reading. Many thanks my friend!

Now down to business! This chapter for the first time will give you a view inside of itachi's mind! Yup ladies and gents, we get to see inner Itachi make his debut. It will go back to Sakura but inner Itachi had a little spotlight in here today! Loving and appreciating the reviews and follows! Much appreciated. Enjoy and let me know what you think! You guys and gals are the best!

Oh and unfortunately I still do not own Naruto...sad face... : (

Itachi grunted with irritation as he examined the extent of his head wound in the bathroom mirror. He had been genuinely and utterly shocked when the pink haired kunoichi head-butted him, although he would never reveal that to her.

Grabbing a dry cloth from the edge of the sink, he ran it under warm water and tenderly blotted the open cut at the edge of his hairline.

This girl was turning out to be more than Itachi had originally bargained for.

"How could such a tiny female be so brilliantly irritating?" he thought to himself.

On one hand Itachi was infuriated beyond words, yet at the same time this tiny pink haired girl sparked an intense curiosity inside of him. Her strength and resilience intrigued him and he found himself wanting to see more. How far could he push her before she broke and submitted? Itachi found himself genuinely interested in discovering the answer to this question.

He had never planned on violating the girl like he did, he had lost his composure when she had mentioned his blindness and that is what infuriated him. This girl somehow had the ability to evoke emotion out of him and that made Itachi feel extremely vulnerable.

The one thing the pink haired kunoichi did not know is that Itachi was having a battle with his inner self. He found himself regretting the rape the instant it was over.

NO! Itachi Uchiha regrets nothing. We do not apologizing for anything. We are never sorry.

Itachi closed his onyx eyes, gripping each side of the sink tightly with his hands as he refocused his thoughts.

A few moments later his eyes shot open, once again revealing a fiery crimson.

"I regret nothing." He told himself aloud.

Hours had passed after Itachi had left and I still hadn't moved from the position I was in when he left me.

I lay on my side in a fetal position still crying.

I hadn't cried this much since Sasuke left the left the village five years ago. I couldn't stop the tears from flowing, all I could think about was I had lost my virginity, in the worst way, to the worst person, and that my dreams of saving myself for Sasuke were gone and I hadn't any say in the matter, whatsoever.

Stop crying Sakura.

I ignored my inner self, I wanted to cry and I deserved to do so as long as I wanted.

He's winning this way you know?

I don't care.

Yes you do. Don't lie.

Go away.

Submission by Humiliation, that's what he wanted right? It looks like he's gotten exactly that.

I don't care anymore, it's useless. It's been almost a week and no one has found me yet. I don't even know where I am and Itachi won't leave me alone until I heal his eyes.

Then heal them.

Are you crazy?! Why would I heal his eyes after what he's done?

If you continue to sit here and cry, he's already won. The smart thing to do would be to stop crying, get up and heal his eyes. Fighting by being defiant isn't going to work in this situation. Use your head, Sakura.

I immediately stopped crying.

Heal his eyes, gather information from the inside, and then when you get the chance to, run. You know the leaf will never stop looking for you. It may take them some time but they will find you. So in the meantime do what is smart.

I got off the bed, stood up and dressed myself, dried my tears and thanked my inner self for bringing me back.

When Itachi returned I would heal his eyes.

I was laying on the bed resting my eyes when there was a knock on my door.

"Pinky I brought you some food, yeah." Deidara's voice said from the other side of the door.

I walked over to the door, opening it to a smiling Deidera.

"My name is Sakura not pinky." I corrected him.

His smile faded into utter shock as he took in my appearance. I'd forgotten that I never bothered to clean myself up after Itachi's attack.

"Itachi, yeah?" he asked.

I decide I would keep the rape between me and Itachi, I didn't want something like that to be known to anyone else, ever.

"We had a bit of a disagreement, but I'm fine." I lied.

"That's one hell of a disagreement." He responded.

I said nothing.

Breaking the awkward silence Deidera handed me a tray with bread, fresh fruit, and a piping hot bowl of ramen.

"Naruto…." I whispered ramen instantly made me think of him and I felt the already empty void inside of my grow deeper at the thought of my best friend.

"The Jinchuriki?" Deidera asked.

I suddenly burst into tears while holding the tray of food in my hands.

"Uhh….Sakura?! Uh…do you not like ramen, yeah? Why are you crying?" Deidra was wide eyed and frantic, obviously confused and caught off guard by my outburst.

I continued to stand there crying over a bowl of ramen noodles, looking like a complete idiot.

"Hey, could you stop that, yeah? I don't need Itachi thinking I did something to you. Would you stop crying already! I'll get you something else to eat if noodles make you that upset." He pleaded.

I looked away from the bowl of ramen at a wide eyed Deidera. His hands were stretched out towards me as if he was trying to soothe me from a distance, and his eyebrows were pinched together in distress. He looked like he was standing in a long line at a public bathroom, barely holding it in while he desperately waited for a free stall to open.

My crying transformed into laughter as I observed his pitiful expression.

At the sound of my laughter his mouth dropped open and I knew he was convinced I was utterly insane.

"Did Itachi bang you across the head in there, yeah?" he asked warily.

I gathered myself as my laughter began to subside and apologized.

"I'm sorry, I do like ramen. It just reminded me of my best friend from back home. And no I'm not crazy, it's just your face, you looked so nervous when I was crying." I giggled again.

His lips formed into a frown "Glad I could give you a good laugh."

I covered my mouth with my hand to stop myself from laughing again.

"Thank you, Deidera." I said.

He raised an eyebrow "Uh, for what?"

"That's the first time I've genuinely laughed and enjoyed it since I've been here."

Regardless if he was an Akatskui member or not, he was the only one here who hadn't tried to hurt me nor had he any interest in doing so. I decided to take advantage of that.

"Hey Deidera? Is there anywhere I could maybe, bathe myself'?" I asked.

I wanted so desperately to wash away the feel of Itachi's lips on my mouth and body on top of mine.

"Yeah there's a bath right down the hall here" he pointed.

I started off towards the bathroom but was stopped by Deidera suddenly appearing before me.

"Woah, wait a second there. I can't just let you go off by yourself. How do I know you wont try to run? Itachi would kill me if he found out I let you roam around alone." He put a hand on my shoulder nudging me backwards.

I frowned.

Deidera contemplated for a moment before saying "I'll come with you and wait outside the door."

"No way." I didn't want any man standing on the other side of the door when I was naked and vulnerable.

"I either come with you or you continue to smell." He stood firm on his proposition.

I sighed and rolled my jade eyes "Fine, but don't try anything." I warned

I set the tray of food into my bedroom and took off down the hall with Deidera towards the bathroom.

"I'll wait out here, make it quick" he said.

I made sure I ran my bath piping hot, it would be good for my soreness. I slowly eased myself into the water and winced at the burning sensation I felt as the hot water came into contact with my parts. I could have easily healed myself but I knew that I needed all my chakra for Itachi's eyes.

I slowly eased the rest of my body into the bath and rested my head on the back of the tub. It felt so good.

I wouldn't stay in here long, I didn't want to have Deidera standing out there waiting too long. He was nice enough to let me do this after all.

A few minutes into my bath I overheard talking outside of the door.

"What are you doing?" his cool voice asked.

Shit! Itachi!

"Just waiting for Kisame to get out of the bathroom, yeah." He lied.

Silence.

"Interesting, I just passed Kisame at the training grounds on my way over here." He challenged Deidera's lie.

"She was all covered in blood and smelled, she need to bathe." He explained sounding irritated.

The bathroom door burst open.

"Out, now." He demanded.

I sat there frozen.

"Kunoichi…" he warned.

I mustered up the courage to speak.

"As soon as you close the door I will." I was glad my voice made me sound firm and stern instead of betraying me and letting my fear show.

"It's nothing I haven't seen today already, get out of the tub now. I wont say it again." He warned.

Great, I knew Deidera heard that last statement. So much for keeping my rape under the rug.

I stood grabbing the towel off of the side of the tub wrapping myself within in it. In the blink of an eye Itachi was at the side of the tub, his hand wrapped around my arm.

As I stepped out of the tub he pulled me along by my arm into the hallway.

"My clothes!" I yelled at him as I yanked my arm away from him, unsuccessfully breaking his grip.

"You won't need them." He said calmly.

A sickness marinated within my stomach and I began to cry.

"Stop crying." He ordered as he pulled me further down the hall.

"No! Don't!" I fought him trying desperately to break his strong grip as the tears streamed down my face.

My punches and yanking did not phase him. I began to scream at the top of my lungs like a mad woman the closer we approached to my bedroom.

"Kunoichi…."

I continued to scream and cry louder and louder giving myself a headache.

"Sakura!" he roared as he forced my back against the wall.

Stunned at the sound of my name coming from his mouth I silenced my screams staring at him with wide jade eyes.

"Stop. Screaming." His voice returned to its normal calm tone. "I am not going to hurt you." He reassured me.

Standing face to face, he gazed upon me a little longer making sure I was finished with my episode before releasing my arm.

"Don't you have somewhere to be" he asked still staring at me.

Confused for a moment I realized he was speaking to Deidera, who was standing down the hall wide eyed with his mouth hanging open.

Deidera had never heard Itachi raise his voice. Hell even when Itachi was fuming with anger, he never broke his cool calm and collected demeanor.

" This was certainly a rare sight to see" he thought to himself.

Heeding Itachi's warning to leave, Deidera took off down the hall in the opposite direction recalling Itachi's previous words "It's nothing I haven't seen today already."

Turning my attention back to Itachi ( who was still staring at me) I met his crimson gaze head on. Staring back at him just as intensely as he stared into mine.

"Are you finished?" he asked.

"Yes" I responded.

Pulling his stare away from me he nudged me forward as we continued on to my room. He stopped me at the door.

"There's a fresh change of clothes inside. You have three minutes before I come in"

Turning the door knob I entered my room to find a pair of navy slacks and a mesh shirt folded neatly at the foot of my bed.

"He must have come to drop of fresh clothes and noticed I wasn't in here" I thought to myself. " He probably thought I ran for it. That's why he was so angry he wasn't going to rape me."

I quickly changed into my fresh clothes noticing they fit me better than the ones before. They couldn't have been Itchai's clothes, there was no doubt that they were smaller. I quickly brushed my long pink hair out as best as I could with my fingers, seeing as I had no brush before Itachi entered the room.

"We will begin now" he said walking past me to sit on my bed.

I hesitated before approaching him and dragging a chair next to the bedside.

"I need you to lie down" I said.

He did so.

"Close your eyes for me." I ordered.

He stared at me, his eyes remaining open.

I should have known anything that sounded like a demand he was not going to follow.

"Can you please close your eyes?" I rephrased.

He shut his eyes.

My inner self rolled her eyes.

I summoned chakra to my fingertips and reached out to touch his temples as my green glow intensified.

I was stopped by his hand gripping both my wrists.

"If you try anything other than healing my eyes, I will kill you." He warned.

"I have to touch you in order to heal you, if you have a problem with that we can end this now." I said looking him directly in his eyes.

He looked at me expressionless and released his grip on my wrists.

"Proceed" he ordered.

I touched each side of his temples sending my chakra to examine the damage. Immediately I could tell that his regular sharigan was bad but not unfix-able. However I wouldn't be able to tell the true extend of the damage unless he deactivated his sharigan so I could compare his regular sight to the sharigan.

"I need you to deactivate your for me." I said

Nothing.

"…..can you please deactivate you sharigan." I asked again.

His crimson eyes turned into onyx and for just a moment I seen Sasuke in his eyes. I missed these eyes, everyday, always desperately wishing I'd see them again someday soon.

These aren't his eyes. My inner self corrected me.

"Sakura." Itachi's voice pulled me away from my thoughts.

I blushed, embarrassed that I had just been foolishly gazing into his eyes.

"Sorry, I was uh…..can you switch back to your sharigan please?" I quickly changed the subject.

He did so.

"Okay now deactivate it again please."

I asked him to activate and deactivate his sharigan a dozen more times before asking him to sit up.

I walked acorss the room grabbing a book I had found in one of the dresser drawers. Opening it up to the first page I asked Itachi to read the first line.

"The complete guide to gardening." He read aloud.

"Good. Now activate your sharigan and read the next line."

Crimson painted his eyes and he stared at the page squinting before reading "Section one….understanding how to choose the correct…scroll…." He struggled to read the words on the page.

"That says soil, not scroll." I corrected him.

"Do me a favor and activate your mangekyou sharigan."

He glared at me intensely before doing so.

"Read the next line please." I asked

"I cant." He said

"Try." I responded.

"I can't see it."

"You cant see anything at all?" I asked.

"I can see that there is something there, I cant see the definition." He said squinting.

"Interesting…." I said as I ran my chakra through his temples once again.

"Deactivate back to your regular eyes."

Nothing.

"Please…"

After a few more minutes of examination I took my hands from his face.

"It's fixable, but I cannot guarantee that I can fully restore the sight in your eyes if you keep using the mangekyo sharigan. It does a great deal of damage on the nerve endings and your retina, not only are you losing the definition in your sight but you're losing the ability to see light as well. You really shouldn't be walking around with your sharigan activated all the time if you aren't fighting or on a mission. Every time you activate it you will undo any healing I have done." I stood from the chair returning the book to its home in the dresser across the room.

I made my way back over to the bedside.

"I can start the first healing session now but you can't have your sharigan activated during it or after."

"Do whatever is necessary." Was his only response.

Once again I channeled chakra into my fingertips and began the healing process.

I stayed at it consistently for three hours before I felt myself starting to deplete. I removed my hands from his temples.

"That's good enough for today, If I push myself any further it won't be a thorough job and that won't help you any." I slumped back into my chair.

Itachi opened his eyes and sat up, examining the room as if he were seeing things that weren't there before.

He stood from the bed walking towards the door, as he reached for the handle he stopped.

"Deidera will no longer be bringing you food. Kisame or myself will do so from now on."

And then he left the room closing the door behind him with a click.

The next chapter I will be dipping deeper into the plot with Orochimaru and Sasuke. I will still focus on Itachi's plans to have Sakura heal his eyes but I am going to start getting into the other side of the plan he mentioned in chapter 3. Stay tuned things are gonna get real!