Please be kind and rewind as I do not own the masterpiece called Naruto, just this thing I am calling a plot line.

This is a non-massacre, Itachi and Sakura pairing, if you don't like it please hit the back button as you are in the wrong section of fan fiction. Thank you. I am going to put this under M just to be safe.

Hope you enjoy!

'Inner Sakura'

'Thoughts'

'Other separate comments that you will understand hopefully in the feature. Please just be tolerant. They are going somewhere I promise.'

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Last chapter

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It had been several days now but they were finally in Earth country. They had no problem getting into grass and getting more supplies from different towns and villages along the way. It helped greatly that Itachi had brought along several sealing scrolls with him. Earth was also pretty easy to get into. They were currently running along a mountain pass that lead to a town that was close to the broader between Earth and Rain.

"I'm still not sure about this plan of yours baby cousin. We haven't seen many travelers lately."

"Then perhaps we should be traveling merchants and just forget about the refugee cover" Hana piped in.

"I suppose we could claim it's getting to hard to travel because of the baby."

"I hate you all."

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We …. N…eed….. y…ou… pl…eas…e…

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Two days earlier, at Konohagakure's northern border…

The ground was littered with scrap bits of metal, scorch mark and random weaponry. The vegetation in the area was now looked as if a sever lightning storm had pass through, even though storm season was still officially weeks away.

There were only four roughly dressed males left standing in the middle of a newly formed clearing that could have easily been mistaken as a slaughter house. Inky blood was involuntarily seeping into the clay filled earth and it would be several days before the soil turned back to its natural colour.

"Well, that's the last of them then." the first man spoke a little too loudly for the others taste.

"None have escaped." Came the second man's monotone voice.

"The perimeter is once again secured." Conformed the third male.

There leader spoke lastly. "Anyone hurt?" The rest of the team reported negatively, not that any of them would admit it if they were. "Good, clean up this mess and look for any survivors we can interrogate, I'm going to report to the Hokage. Seal the bodies in this scroll."

With this said, the leader walked away to make his report while the rest of his team earse any trace of their presents in the area.

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Present

Sakura and the rest of her team, who were fully disguised in camouflaged hoods, were a three days run from the boarder between Rock and Grass. Rocks hunter-nins were good, but they were better. When the realized that they were being chased, Itachi ordered everyone to make three banshees of themselves and send two teams in different directions that they were going in. The last team held of the hunter-nins while the real team got the heck out of there before they were seen. They also had to run in a doubling back, zigzag formation over the rocky terrain to hide there tracks. This took a lot of time and energy, but it was worth it if they could avoid confrontation.

But this also left a very cranky team, with very sore feet.

Most of the team was sitting in a cave while Itachi was out putting up a perimeter and setting up traps.

'I think out feet are bleeding. Stupid dry country with there stupid hunter ninjas and there stupid lack of water and the stupid rocks.' 'Wow, your vocabulary is awesome, not!' 'I mean look at that rock over there. It's just sitting there doing nothing but mock us.' 'It is just a rock, they don't mock or do anything at all but rock… stuff... Yeah, too much sun makes brain not work properly.' 'It doesn't look like it has a family, I bet we could ground it into dust and no one would even notice it. Lets do it!' 'No.' 'It would be fun.' 'No, that would be wasting a perfectly good rock.' 'Just imagine what we could do with the rock dust.' '…No… We might need it later for something.' 'What good could that one little rock do?' 'We could throw it at enemy ninjas if we run out of weapons.' 'Our fist would do a better job, besides if all else fails, we can throw Shisui at them. His head is probably almost as hard as Naruto's and Hana would probably pay us big time. Besides throwing him at the enemy will almost certainly get rid of them, they would probably just throw him back and run away as fast as they could.' 'But what good could a pile of rock dust do us?' 'We could put it in Shisui's nose to keep him from snoring.' 'That will only result in him sneezing or choking.' 'We could put it in Itachi-kun shampoo later when he's not looking.' 'It would serve him right for making us pretend we are pregnant, but he would eventually find out and cluster-fuck us on a later date… Wait Itachi-KUN! Where the hell did that come from?' 'Whats wrong with saying Itachi-kun? We add 'kun' to Sasuke's name all the time.' 'Yeah but that was when we thought we were in love with him, or to bug him, or to promise him an extremely painful death if he doesn't bend to our will. None of those reasons apply to Itachi!' 'Fine, you win this battle, I'll drop the 'kun', but I will win this war! Now what else could we do with rock dust…' 'Hmmmm...'

The atmosphere in the cave when Itachi returned was off to him. He expected his team to be near the collapsing point, especially Sakura considering this was her first ANBU mission ever and with his team no less. Even some more seasonal ANBU members had troubles keeping up with him.

He did not expect to see Sakura sitting there, glaring at a boulder half his size, and muttering about how rocks were stupid and should die a painful death.

Itachi glanced at the other two members of the team only to see them on the brink of passing out. He could hardly blame them; even he was tired after running so much.

"Sakura, I will take first watch. Go a head and get some sleep."

"I'm fine."

'Right, Shisui and Hana are already pasted put and your rights as rain' Itachi thought to himself.

"Go to sleep. That is an order Sakura. You can take third watch."

Sakura unrolled her bed roll and settled in for as much rest as she could get. The last this she did before she fell asleep was muttered the word "prick".

No one but Itachi noticed that the cave was one boulder short when they set out in the morning.

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"Sound is getting braver and more daring by the day. I don't like it!" Tsunade was standing by the window of her offices with a newly received report in her hand.

"My master wishes for further orders." Came a rough voice from the dog summon in the middle of the office floor.

"It's too early to move against Sound yet. We don't know there full strength or if they have another attack planned yet. No, I know he will attack again, just not when. We need to get some more information on what the snake's up to."

Walking to her desk, the Fifth Hokage sat down and pulled out a bottle of sake from her locked door. Pouring herself a glass, Tsunade downed it quickly and place the glass on her desk.

"How many were there again?"

"Twelve."

"Have Kakashi seal the bodies and bring them back. We will see what the twisted snake has been up to lately with his experiments."

The small hound disappeared with a puff of smoke.

"Just great, I got my people messing around with the Akatsuki and Orochimaru decides to go on the move again. Damn bastard."

Downing the rest of the sake in one go, Tsunade let out a long sigh and leaned back in her chair.

Oink, OINK!

"My Lady, I have some more paper work for you!"

'Ah crap.'

Quickly hiding any and every trace that she had been slacking off, Tsunade quickly made it look like she had been working as Shizune came into the office followed by her beloved pink pig.

"ARE YOU FEELING ALRIGHT TSUNADA?" Shizune shrieked, barely keeping a hold of the pile of paper work in her arms.

"Yes I am! Why would you ask such a silly question?" The honey eye woman responded wearily.

"Wow you're up and doing work?"

"Of course, it's my job! What else would I be doing?" Tsunade was really becoming agitated with her niece and her need to be at her all the time. So what if she drank too much or slept the afternoon away or pushed as much work as she could onto her two apprentices….

"Well it's just usually sleeping or drunk by now. I am so happy to see that I am rubbing off on you! We might even get a head of the paper work; you are only two months behind after all!"

'Annoying brat, just go away I'm tired. What what's that my foot just hit? Shit, it's the sake glass! It must have dell off the desk and rolled under it.'

Walking over to the desk, Shizune placed the paper work on the desk and turned to walk out of the door. She didn't notice that Tsunade was a little more tense the normal.

Sniff, sniff, sniff, oink.

'Go away Tonton, are you trying to get me in trouble? Go on, go out the door! I'll give you a treat if you just go away!'

"Come on Tonton, it's time for your bath." Looking back, Shizune notice that the little pig was sniffing at something under the desk.

'I Swear pig, if you get me into trouble!'

"Hey what do you have there Tonton?"

Picking up the glass, Shizune held it up and saw that there was fresh sake still in it.

"Tsunade what is this doing under your desk?"

"Sakura must have left it there before she left for her last mission." Tsunade lied quickly.

'So busted.'

"Sakura left some days ago and this is FRESH!"

'Yup, I am 100 percent busted. Crapppppppyyyyyyyyyyy day!'

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It was midday in the miserable land that Sakura had the luxury of traveling through. Her Captain had ever so graciously let them rest after kicking them out of bed before dawn. They were now sharing lunch.

"We are going to have to travel quickly to the next town and gather more supplies for our cover." Itachi said as he finished his rations.

"The best way to do that would be to travel through the main roads." Shisui piped in.

"That has greater risk to it. We don't know who will be on those roads, or whom watching them." Hana added her two scents in.

"It would still be the quickest, but what's the plan if we get separated?" Sakura asked.

"Make your way to this town. It is about a day travel from this location. If someone does not show up within thirty hours of the separation, then we send the dogs to track them. Agreed?"

"Agreed."

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"Man what a drag. How did I get stuck with this?"

The lazy ninja was making his way to a restaurant for some dinner when a runner came up demanding that he go and get his female teammate. Apparently the last time the chunin met Ino, she had been not to kind to him. Ino claimed he dragged her away from a incredible hot hunk just to do, in what Ino's mind, was below her. So now Shikamaru was dragging his feet down the street to his teammate's house.

Climbing up the steps to her house, the young man took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Who is it and what do you want?" Came a yell from within.

'Great, sounded like she was in the living room. I'm doomed.' Anyone who knew Ino well would know that if she didn't come right to the door, it meant that she was doing incredible girly things and its best not to disturb her. Unless of course, you to where from the rookie 9 and of the female gender.

"It's me, they need you in interrogation." 'Troublesome women.'

Opening the door Ino poked her head out. "Can't someone else take care of it?"

"Apparently not."

"Fine but you have to look after Stormy."

"MMEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!"

Looking down, Shikamaru saw the black cat glaring up at him.

"You know that cat hates males."

"MEERRRRRRRNNNN!"

"Yes, well you would too if Naruto sat on you or if your fur on your tail was set on fire or if you where manhandled by an emotionalist artist."

All Ino received was a blank stare from the Nara.

"HIIIISSSSSSSSSKKK!"

"Fine, I'll take him with me."

Picking up the cat and grabbing her long black coat, Ino exited her home and locked the door behind her.

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The room was as dark as the night before the red dawn. It was large, damp and smelled of sweat, blood and urine. No sound penetrated the solid walls.

The only thing the young ninja could see was a mirror directly to his right.

He was sore, bloody and bruised. His hands were bound behind his back and his feet were tied to the legs of the old wooden chair his buttock was currently sitting in.

'What's going on? Why am I here? What happened to the rest of my men? The last I remember was being attacked…..'

There was a flicker and then a flash of light in front of him. Temporally blinded by the light, he didn't notice the hard wood teacher's desk, or the high back chair, until a sharp squeak of the turning chair gave it away.

Blinking repeatedly the ninja saw a beautiful woman with long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. She was wearing a purple shirt and skirt with a long black trench coat. She also had a black cat sitting on her lap.

"MMEEEERRRRRNNNNNNMM"

The women picked up her long fingered hand and ran it down the cats back. This seemed to calm the cat a little, although his tail kept twitching.

"Someone has been a bad, bad boy Stormy. What should we do to punish him? Hmmmm what's that Storm? Pull out his fingernails?" Picking up the cat and snuggling him into her neck the woman began to coo him softly.

"What do you want?" Growled the tied up man.

Ino stopped hugging the cat and placed him on her lap. Rubbing his belly, the woman turned her gaze to the only man in the room. "What is Sound doing within our boarders?"

"I'll never tell you, you Leaf TRASH!"

"!"

Removing the Storm's claws from her leg, Ino glared at the enemy ninja. "Hey now, we could do this the hard way or I could let Storm tear out your eyes. You see he doesn't like males very much."

"MMMMERRRRRRNNNNNNN!"

The Sound ninja looked at the hissing cat as it jumped up onto the table and started passing on it. It was then that he realized that the woman had a small red leash on the cat.

'Damn woman, damn cat.'

"I tire of this. You will tell me what I want to know!"

"I can't!" the young ninja could feel that his wounds had open up again

"Fine have it your way!" Lifting up her hands, Ino began to form the seals for her new jetus. It would allow her to, not only take over his body and mind, but also take control of all of his functions, including his memories.

The man's body before her went slack as the jetus took affect.

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'"Wh…en… w…il…l s…h..e wa…ke up La..dy Ts...? I …do no..t …kn..ow ..h..ow much …lon…ger …Itachi can …take this. He does not… sleep… or eat properly. I am …s…o…. worry about him… and…. R…ingo. I k…now… she misses… Sakura just as mu…ch as he does."'

'"It …depends on the dam….age her ..brain re…cei…ved. We won't know… the full extent… until she wakes…. And no I can't just wa…ke her up. It might do… more damage to… her if we try and force… her. Let her heal, I'm…. sure she will wa…ke when she is ready. She might ev...en be awar...e of her sur..rou...nd...ing...s. Al…thou…gh ….I must say, I didn't know… Itachi could be such a good ….'daddy'."'

'"You should…. have seen him w…he…n m...y ba...by boy …w..a..s b…o…rn. Opps, pl…e…a..se… do…n…ot ..t..e.l.l… hi…m I sai…d t…h..at ab…out… hi…m!"'

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Yeah sorry for that last part…. Okay maybe not so much…. =/_\=