"He was here twice and you didn't bother to say or do anything!"

Anko flinched; the walls seemed to rattle as Orochimaru continued to yell at her. Sasuke was in the corner of the bedroom; Anko didn't know if he was enjoying her defeat or if he actually felt sorry for her.

"Look he-"

"Don't say another word." Orochimaru snarled. He looked at Sasuke "Sasuke leave us, I want to talk to Anko alone for a moment."

Sasuke nodded and left solemnly.

'Guess he didn't want any witnesses.' Anko thought worriedly.

She and Orochimaru sat in silence for a few moments. He was trying to calm down but each time he thought about that man….that creature being in his house, the urge to break Anko in half grew. But, he couldn't kill her just yet; he still had plans for her, questions that needed to be answered.

"Anko," Orochimaru started calmly.

Anko eyed him suspiciously "Hmm?"

The snake sannin hid a smile behind his hands "Do you feel guilty about killing Itachi?"

Anko's entire body jolted forward. She gulped and made herself calm down.

'…Yes….'

"I…no. No I don't. What happened happened, it can't be changed." She said finally.

"Oh." Orochimaru said casually. "Then you may go back to bed then."

Anko nodded, she would do anything to get away from the subject; she had had enough of Itachi for one day. She still felt Orochimaru's eyes on her back as she situated herself.

"You'll enter a guilt trip eventully." He said

'Too late!'Itachi laughed.

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The next morning

Sasuke gritted his teeth as he dodged Orochimaru's hits and throws. He felt Anko's presentence behind him and it was driving him crazy. He wanted to jump out of the arena and grab her by the throat and pull out her esophagus. Crazy bitch, having one of those Akatsuki in their hideout, God knows what he did. Not to mention waking him up to the point where he couldn't get back to sleep that night. She would regret that.

Sasuke grabbed Orochimarus' wrist and twisted it so that they were closer. "I need to be excused." He said in an urgent whisper. He threw Orochimaru off before questions could be asked. The young Uchiha dashed out of the arena to where he knew Anko was but skid to a halt when he saw the upper arena was vacant. Ankos' chakra was disappearing right in front of him.

'Where did that damn woman go?'

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Fear. Pain. Want. Need. So many emotions to learn at one time.

Anko was standing on the damaged roof of Orochimarus' hideout, cold wind blow over her hair and face; she barely felt it though because Itachis' ice old hands were roaming her body. She was too shocked to try and make him stop or breathe, all she could do was stare ahead, shake, and listen.

"Anko, I want you to do something for me."

Anko shuddered as one of his cut up hands ran over her jaw "You WILL do this for me, won't you?" He sounded so innocent….

"What do you want me to do?" she sobbed quietly. She felt him smirk against her neck and something warm trickled down her neck, she was pretty sure that it was blood.

"Kill Orochimaru."

"But…"

His dry finger skin dug into her throat, not in an abusive way but more of a soothing/ this is not your choice way.

"Kill Orochimaru."

"But…I….Itachi, I don't want to."

He slipped something into her hand. "I'm sorry that this hurts you Anko, but this is the only way."

A violent shiver ran through Anko as the wind picked up again; it was strong enough to bring her to her knees.Itachis' voice faded as she fell. She looked at the object that Itachi had given her. It was his heart, still beating.

"Please Anko…..do this for me. Anko…..Anko?"

"ANKO!"

Anko jerked up as a hard shoe hit her side. "Will you wake up already?"

She looked around franticly but there was nothing to be frantic about. Other than she and Sasuke, the roof was completely deserted. As she stood, she caught a glimps of gray storm clouds rolling in. How ironic, there was a storm raging inside her and there was one brewing above her.

She looked at the Uchiha warily "Was that really necessary?" she groaned.

"Come with me." He replied. He walked off the roof, looking back only once to make sure she was following.

Anko sighed and stood "Now what does he want?" She knew going with him would lead to another fight but denying him would be just as dangerous. She reluctantly followed him back into the hideout, the Hell hole that held too many horrors.

As the two silently made their way down the never ending corridors, Ankos' brain began making small connections and firing signals. She was walking with Itachi's brother!

Anko gasped when that thought entered her head; Sasuke looked back at her but turned away when he saw that she was fine. "I need to show you something." He said. They rounded a corner and wound up in front of the autopsy room, much to Anko's displeasure.

Sasuke opened the large metal door and waited for her to enter but Anko shook her head and stepped away.

He growled and held his hand out. "Come on." He ordered

"I'm not going back in there." She insisted.

Sasuke stared at her coldly for a moment, his black eyes digging past her brown ones. Suddenly he grabbed her arm and pulled her forward "I said come on."

She struggled against his rough grip for a moment before slinging her free arm right into his jaw. She heard a crack and a cry from him before he released her.

She crawled back until she reached the opposite wall and watched as blood spilled from Sasuke's clamped hand. He looked up and glared at her manically. A grunt of some sort escaped his throat and he staggered towards her.

Anko's eyes widened. The way he was bent over, blood on his hands, that look in his eyes…..he looked just like Itachi.

"You have some hair over your eyes."

His fingers were inches away from her right eyes.

"Let me help you with that."

Sasuke grabbed her bangs and pulled her away from the wall. Anko kept herself from walking in order to slow him down but he was still able to get her the door entrance.

"Sasuke!"

He threw her head first down the steps. She rolled over and over again until she finally stopped on the hard, cold cement floor. Her head was banging and she felt warm blood flow down her cheek. She opened her tired eyes and saw the blurry outline of Sasuke's body. Then the body moved and she was left in the darkness alone with Itachi's corpse somewhere near by.

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Kabuto eyed Sasuke closely as he put the top back on the Morphine. Sasuke's had come to him with a fractured jaw but no explanation of how he had gotten it. Kabuto already had his mind set on Anko but he couldn't be too sure. After all, Sasuke was supposed to train with Orochimaru today, he could have as easily caused Sasuke's injury than anyone else.

"So," Kabuto said as he sat down in front of Sasuke "Was it Orochimaru or Anko?"

Sasuke grabbed Kabuto's wrist and squeezed it, almost to the breaking point. He leveled his face to Kabuto's and growled "If you even dream about this, I will kill and feed your organs to the prisoners downstairs." Sasuke's voice was muffled from the morphine putting his jaw to sleep but he was loud enough to get the message released him with a shove and left the room.

Kabuto rubbed his sore wrist "Defiantly Anko."

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The door to the autopsy room open and Sasuke stepped in. His jaw was burning but he mentally numbed the pain out. "Anko?" he whispered. He received no answer; he knew that she couldn't have gotten out though, that's why he had thrown her down the stairs.

He crept deeper into the room quietly but there was no sign of Anko at all. He searched the wall and felt the light switch. It only stayed on for a moment before blowing out with a loud pop.

He used his shadingun as a last resort. Amazingly enough, there wasn't each a trace of her presence; it was like she had never been in that room.

'Where did she-'

Sasuke was forced to the ground as a heady object slammed against his head. For a moment he was paralyzed, unable to turn and identify the person who had beat him.

Anko dropped the bloody tool tray a bare inch from Sasuke's head. She bent down beside him and whispered "Don't mess with the woman who killed Itachi Uchiha, 'kay?"

She smirked and started to leave.

"It wasn't you."

Anko kept walking but said back to him. "What?"

Sasuke coughed out a small amount of blood "You didn't kill him."

Anko stopped "Who?"

"Itachi. That's why I brought you here, he died of Tuberculosis….he reached his limit, he….." Sasuke was beginning to black out, but the message had been sent. Anko knew the truth.

And she was mad as hell.

If Sasuke were able to see her with his Shardingun, he would see that her chakra was spewing, her face was screw in an impassive haze of lost emotion. Her fist were swelled together tightly, ready to punch something.

Orochimaru.

Sasuke's head was suddenly jerked up from its blood puddle. "Did Orochimaru know?" Anko asked him sinisterly.

"I-" Anko tugged at his hair harder, arching his neck back almost to the breaking point. "Did. He. Know?"

"Y-yes." Sasuke managed to stutter out. He was not afraid of Anko, but he was in so much pain that he would do anything she said. "We found out the day of the autopsy."

Orochimaru. That bastard had been playing her the whole time.

….

"Do you feel guilty about Itachi's death."

She had lied. Killing Itachi and not remembering how had been the most difficult thing she had had to deal with up to this point in her life.

"I want you to do something for me. I want you to kill Orochimaru. I'm sorry that this hurts you Anko but it's the only way. Please Anko…..do this for me."

"I will…..I'm ready."

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Anko practically threw Sasuke's head back down. More blood gushed out as a result.

Sasuke heard the abnormally loud sound of Anko running up the steel steps. "Anko?" he called out. Was she really going to just leave him there?

He heard the door creek as it was opened.

"Anko!"

Her laugh echoed through the room. "Bye Sasuke."

The door slammed with a click; Sasuke was locked away in the dark as Anko had always been.

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Outside the base, the storm clouds were mixing in with the nighttime sky. The storm had erupted. And so did the one in Anko.