Okay, so Slyvia is here again,

Well, i'm really excited about this story, it's probably going to be just a few chapters, i just wanted a changed from the same old Itachi kidnapping Sakura thing, even though i have another story like that! Ha oh well. Itachi is oc again, just to point that out before someone angry reviews! LOL

Here's the next chapter! Thanks for my reviewers I really appreciate it! Read and REVIEW please again!

"Welcome home," she whispered as his strong arms massaged her waist.

"You weren't at the gate," he stated.

"I wasn't feeling good," she lied.

He knew she wasn't being truthful: it was the same excuse she gave every time. He realized she didn't want to see the shinobi returning, it pained her too much. Each time a squad returned she hoped to see her perverted sensei and cold teamate walk through the gate.

He accepted it.

"Are you hungry?" she asked.

"No," he replied turning her around in his arms, "you've been crying," he frowned as he wiped her tears from under her eyes.

She looked down at his feet and placed her hands over his, "Do you know what today is?"

Itachi tilted his head, "What?"

"It's been three years," she whispered.

He nodded; it had been three years today that Sasuke and Kakashi had been killed.

"Sakura, you can't blame yourself for what happened," he raised her face.

"I'm a medic," she glared, "I should've been able to heal them."

"Stop it," he frowned, "you can't keep doing this to yourself. It wasn't your fault."

"Yes it was," she repeated, "yes it was."

She felt guilty. How could they be dead when she was alive? They didn't deserve to die. She thought that Tsunade's guidance and teachings would prevent her from being a nuisance and burden to her team but, it didn't. When it came down to it, she couldn't heal her friends. She couldn't save the lives she loved so much,

"No," Itachi jerked her face, "it wasn't. Do you think this is what they would've wanted?"

"….?" Sakura stared up into his dark eyes.

"Do you think they want you to be this unhappy?" he asked.

She couldn't respond. She was shocked, Itachi never said this to her on the anniversary of their deaths. Usually he would nod and take her into his arms, letting her cry until she fell asleep. It was normal and she didn't like his change.

"You're dishonouring them by blaming yourself," he stated, slightly glaring, "they died protecting you and Naruto, they died because they loved you."

"Don't let that sacrifice be in vain," he continued, clenching her shoulders.

She stayed silent.

She shook in his hold, how was she supposed to fix this? How could she go on?

"Sakura, why can't you see that?"

"You don't understand," she growled as she pulled herself away from him, "you could never understand!"

"Why?" he shot back, "then make me understand!"

"They were my teamates!" she screamed, "they weren't supposed to die! They weren't supposed to!"

Itachi stared at her; her usually cold jade eyes glowed with rage and anger.

"Sakura," he whispered as he inched closer to her.

"I don't deserve-"

"Sakura, stop it," Itachi said as he reached out his hand to touch her face.

"Leave me alone," she snarled, "just stay away from me!"

"Stop it," Itachi growled, "just stop it."

"No! Just shut up!" she screamed.

"Why do you keep doing this to yourself?" he grabbed her shoulders and shook her, "Why?"

"….I….do….I don't know," she stuttered, slightly afraid.

Usually Itachi was stoic and calm by nature, he never showed anger or malice towards anyone, even an enemy. She was scared, he never reacted like that when she would cry before, why was he doing it now? Why did he even care?

"They wouldn't want you to live like this," he shook her again; "they loved you enough to save you."

"No," she cleched her eyes shut, "I was just a burden, if I hadn't-"

"No you weren't," Itachi glared, "Sakura snap out of it!"

"Let me go," she cried in his arms as he held her at arms length.

"No," he growled, "not until you listen."

"Why do you care?" Sakura snapped back, "They didn't mean anything to you! They-"

Itachi's eyes narrowed as he brought his hand quickly across her face, slapping her across the cheek and letting her tumbling down to the ground. A small trail of blood ran from the cornor of her mouth as she glared up at him.

'What have I done?' he wondered.

He knew she didn't mean what she said, her outbursts only happened one day a year. This day and it was this day that he had had enough. He couldn't stand the way she stopped living when they died, as if she was eager to join them. If she really wanted to so bad, it would be easy for her to slit her throat or jump from Konoha bridge but, that would be too easy. He knew she was punishing herself. Every mission he came back from he could tell.

He was the only person who made her live, and in a way, she hated him for it.

Sakura's eyes widened.

"Sakura," Itachi rushed over to her side, pulling her body close to his, "I'm sorr-"

"Let me go!" she screamed, thrashing in his arms.

"Sakura," he trembled, afraid that he had lost her, "I didn't mean to-"

"Stay away from me!" she screamed, her eyes shaking with fear as she pushed him away, "Get away from me!"

Sakura pushed past him. She ran quickly through their house, ignoring Itachi's calls behind her. She ran out of their home, disappearing in the night as Itachi looked down at the ground.

The hand that had struck his wife tingled. He had never hurt her or made her angry. He slumped on the ground as he turned his attention to the ring encircling his fourth finger.

He looked down at his wedding band: the symbol of their love. He laughed dryly, 'my love,' he thought.

He didn't know if she loved him, he simply accepted her cool demeanour and indifferent opinion to everything.

'That's how I'm supposed to be,' he thought dryly.

Being with Sakura had changed him. He saw her crumple and die everyday she woke up. He knew when the light burst through their window she would open her eyes brightly, a shadow of her former self, and everyday she thought she would be meeting their late sensei and silent companion at the bridge for morning training. And everyday he saw the light die in her eyes.

He remembered the first couple of mornings they spent together she would dress in her ninja gear and make breakfast, saying she had to leave to meet her team.

Itachi would hold her and tell her there wasn't training that morning. When she tried to pull back he held her tightly. She would fall in his arms as she cried, angry that he had pulled her back from her fantasy world.

'Why did I say those things?' he asked himself, 'I should've just let her cry and let everything go back to the way it was.'

"I don't know what to do anymore," he whispered, "I don't know."

Sakura ran to the memorial stone. The stone where Itachi found her each morning he didn't wake up before her.

Her tears flowed from her eyes as she sunk to the ground, "Why?! Why did you leave me?!" she screamed into the ground, ignoring the pain on the side of her face.

Nothing.

Half heartedly she expected Kakashi and Sasuke to pop out behind the stone, telling her it was all a joke and they were fine.

But nothing happened.

No perverted sensei or bored friend.

Nobody.

"Why? Why'd you leave me?" she whispered again.

"Why are you doing this Sakura?" a voice drawled.

Sakura refused to look up, 'I'm going crazy,' she thought.

"Sakura," another cold voice called.

Again she didn't look up.

"Stop this Sakura," the voice said again, "it's annoying."

Sakura's eyes widened as she looked up to see Sasuke's amused expression and Kakashi's masked face.

"You can't be here," Sakura cried, "you're dead. It's my-"

"Why do you say that?" Kakashi asked, "Why do you keep blaming yourself for this?"

"I couldn't save you, neither of you," she whispered.

Sasuke's eyes flickered, "What?"

"You left me!" she screamed, "You broke our team!"

"You should be here, you should be-"

"Stop it," Sasuke said, "stop it. Stop doing this."

"No," she shook with anger, "this isn't how it's supposed to be! You should be here!"

"It's been three years," Sasuke replied, "Why haven't you accepted it yet?"

Sakura stared into her teamates dark brooding eyes, the same eyes she saw when he died.

"You have to move on Sakura," Sasuke continued, "It's time to-"

"No," she cut him off, "I can't. Not when you aren't here."

"Sakura, why can't you be happy?" Kakashi asked.

"…..I don't know," she replied shaking her head, "I don't know."

……..

"He loves you," Sasuke said.

Sakura stared dumbfounded at him.

"I want you to tell him," Sasuke said, "I know you love him but, he doesn't know."

Sakura shook as Sasuke continued, "I want you to live your life."

Sakura shook her head as tears continued to pour down her face.

"If not for you," Kakashi cut in, "then for us."

Again she shook her head, "I can't, I can't," she cried.

"Why?" Sasuke asked.

"I miss you, I miss you both so much," she cried.

Sasuke lightly smiled, "Sakura, just be happy. That's all we want."

Sakura slowly nodded her head as she cried. She knew she had to accept it, they weren't coming back. Nothing could change that. There wasnt' a miraculous jutsu that she could do or invent to save them. To run back in time and prevent their deaths, no, that was impossible and she knew it. Nothing would bring them back, and she had to accept it.

"It's time to let go Sakura," Kakashi drawled, "You have to let us go."

All they wanted was for her to live. They wanted her to live her life, the life they couldn't. To be happy, that's what they wanted. That's all they ever wanted.

Sakura slowly curled her lips into a teary smile, looking back at them, she knew that now.

"We'll be team again," Sasuke whispered, "someday."

Tears cascaded down her face as Sasuke and Kakashi turned their backs on her, fading into the darkness.

"….goodbye," she whispered as she ran her fingers over their names on the stone.

Okay, so kind of cheasy or whatever, fluffy whatever you want to call it but it needed to be done. Okay so what will Sakura say to Itachi?

What's going to happen next? Do you want to know?

Slyvia :P