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"Why should I be fair to those who lie, cheat, steal, and kill… all those deeds you had it coming, after all bad karma."

A small chuckle echoed, "Witty." Another screech of a chair and pounding footsteps.

Sakura kept her cool façade, though her adrenaline was pounding and her hands sweating. A big hand clasped her soft and delicate neck, "Obviously you don't understand the gravity of the situation."

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Sakura's breath hitched in her throat as she took her own hand to his and peeled it off her neck.

"Then show it to me." She whispered. Her throat burned from the air that scorched her lungs.

Immediately Leaders hand shot out and grasped Sakura's hair, "This is the gravity of the situation." He spoke gravely as a kunai was pushed to her pressure point, his arm wrapping around her neck to reach the area.

She quickly focused the little chakra she had to her teeth and bit down on his arm. She spun around, ignoring the long shallow cut across her neck as she did so and kicked out her legs, causing the vile man to fall to his knees. She began to snatch the kunai from the man but he elbowed her in the mouth and grabbed her throat once more.

He pushed the kunai to her stomach until it bled slightly.

"Never do that again." HE threw her to Itachi who caught her easily as she struggled, "You're a prisoner until you join, and at the end of every week you deny becoming one of us, someone you know and love will die. Oh yes, and Sakura, enjoy your stay"

Sakura gritted her teeth as Itachi tossed her over his shoulder. Each rough step that he took shook her. Another bruise for every minute that I'm with you…

Carelessly she was tossed onto her bed. She sighed as she hit her pillows and finally the black engulfed her.

"DO you remember me?" Itachi whispered silently, but he never realized what she had replied in her sleep, "Yes I do, Itachi-kun."

Sakura limped through the trees, trying to find him.

"Itachi…Itachi…" She panted, her breath hard from pushing herself beyond her limits.

She fell onto her knees so close to the gate, "Itachi…" She whispered as she fell face first into the mud.

She cried tearlessly as it seemed, for the falling rain mixed with her tears, and drowned out her voice. "Itachi." She squirmed in the mud, uncomfortable, the water and dirt seeping through her clothing and the grime and dust tangling her hair.

She pounded her fist against a sharp rock and whimpered as blood ran free, "Itachi…"

"You really should be back at the hospital."

Sakura turned around quickly to see him behind her, "Itachi!" She jumped and grabbed onto his leg and whimpered as he took her injured hand.

"Don't leave…please."

The boy bent down, face to face to the rosette haired girl. "I have to, but don't worry that man wont ever hurt you."

"I don't care, don't leave." She cried.

"Why aren't you in the hospital."

"I-I ran away…"

"Why?"

"To find you.." Sakura whimpered.

Itachi smiled lightly in a shocked way, touched for the first time by this girls innocence.

"You really should go back and have your hand fixed."

Sakura shook her head, "Don't leave…"

"I must."

"Why?"

" I cant say."

Sakura's grip tightened around the boys leg.

"Can-can I come with you?"

"No…"

She cried harder until her chin was picked up, she opened her eyes and looked into the boys onyx eyes.

"Your eyes are beautiful." She whispered, not audible with the rain pounding on the ground.

"Listen closely, Cherry Blossom, I promise I will never forget you."

And with that black engulfed her, and thirty-six hours later she woke up in a warm white room with bandages wrapped her hand and a single pink rose on the table beside her and a torn piece of paper reading, 'never forget…'

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