Painful Change

"Please forgive me Sakura, my love." Itachi breathed out while he released his power and looked over to Sakuno. She had only ever seen him once in his true state, when his power was completely let out. It had been one day, about a week after she had met her master and when he had shown her what he was capable of that she had found a new found respect for him.

"Master." she breathed out, knowing full well what he'd need from her. To turn a mortal into an immortal. The vampires blood animal needed to make a blood oath to whomever their master was going to turn and in turn the blood animal needed to offer his or her own blood before the vampire did.

"I will owe you my life after this Sakuno." he said, raw emotion in his every word.

"No master, I live to serve you." and with that she exposed her own energy, standing in her true form and walking over to her master. Both of them could feel the entire Uchiha compound go silent, freeze at the immense amount of power being released. They knew of only one Uchiha who had that kind of power and only one blood animal capable of increasing that power.

"Ready?" Itachi asked, moving a strand of Sakura's hair and tucking it behind her ear before clearing her neck.

"Hai." she said while looking down at Sakura as well. Soon she would no longer simply answer to Itachi but to Sakura as well, she would be responsible for two lives, to eternal, irreplaceable lives. Once Itachi saw that she was a tear slid off his face as he placed a gentle kiss upon Sakura's neck.

"I love you." and with that he bit down, taking in her blood, drinking the life force within her. Instantly he could feel her power, her healing power wake, trying it's best to heal not only herself but his body and mind as well. Once he had taken what was needed he allowed Sakuno to lick her wound, drinking some of Sakura's blood.

"From blood to blood I waken the..." Sakuno started while changing into her "human" form and slitting her wrist. Instantly blood began to flow, she offered it to Sakura. "I bind my self to masters oeuvre." she said as soon as Sakura's lips hungry wrapped around her wrist taking in her blood. Once done Sakuno pulled away, allowing her master to walk forward with his own wrist cut up.

"What's mine is yours, from blood to blood I waken thee." and with that she took his hand and drank his blood, sucking on it, taking in what she now needed, what she would forever crave.

In Sakura's mind

Everything had gone so dark all of a sudden. The last thing Sakura could remember was watching as Shizune broke down in tears before suddenly running at her, her eyes afraid, worried and most of all amazed at what was happening. However before Sakura had the chance to turn around and see, to watch what it was that was happening something, someone hit her on the head and she was out cold, forced into the darkness she now stood in. There was no pain, no feeling, so real sensations and yet Sakura could see feel cold, could feel the pain her body was in while unable to heal.

She fought frantically to escape, to heal her own body and yet no matter how much, how hard she tried there was no healing. Tears started to fall down her face then, she stared to panic. Itachi, Itachi would know how to save her but she had no idea how to call him from where ever she was. Then, all of a sudden there was a sinister laugh and she could feel Kabuto close, hew as watching her, eyeing her and stalking her like a predator would it's prey.

"Come out!" she called out, anger in her voice.

"Little hunter, what have you done? You've killed your friend Shizune and now your out to kill your little girl." his voice was taunting, mocking and worse of all so real Sakura was no longer sure if she was still dreaming or if what he was saying was true. No, no there's no way it is, was all Sakura though over and over again and yet every time she told her self no, the more she tried to convince her self the more doubt began to build at the back her of mind.

"No! Your lying!" Sakura scram, hoping that along with her voice, her scream came conviction and truth.

"Look at what you've done if you don't believe me." the mocking voice said before laughing out. Sakura wasn't sure what to do then. There was darkness all around her and then all of a sudden there Shizune was, on the floor, bleeding and burning from the inside out.

"Why....Sakura..." she barely spoke. Tears were never ending in her eyes again and when she tried to run over to Shizune, Sakura was shocked to find that she had her weapon in hand. She had long ago hid it, the sliver blossom, the killing blade to all of the immortal and yet there it was. In her hands and soaked with Shizune's blood. Instantly she let it go, the silver katana dropping to the floor and making a loud clanking noise before it hit the floor.

"Oh god....Shizune..." she cried out, trying to will the power to heal, to gather it in her hands and work toward Shizune's wounds only to be surrounded by a gust of wind. Sakura panicked instantly, she wasn't an offensiver user, she never had been. Her family's blood line power came to her in a healing form, not a destructive one. Instantly she jumped back and away from Shizune, all the while the pain in her heart breaking her mind even more. She had always been able to help those in need, she had always been able to heal and give life! ...Not take it way, break apart of destroy it. Shizune's grunts of pain made things all the more worse. How had this happened? How had she suddenly summoned the Silver Blossom and slain her friend, her teachers assistant? What of Lady Tsunade? She thought franticly only to be met with a sinister laugh yet again.

"Don't you remember? You handed her over to Lord Orochimaru, you allowed him to take her for her blood and rule as the next vampire lord." Kabuto said, again his voice taunting and mocking.

"No!...I would never!" Sakura scram out, her power increasing and causing the wind around her to pick it's pace up while the earth and the plants all around her suddenly began to move, to protect her and ready for battle.

"But you did, see..." he said and just like before a body suddenly appeared. Although this wasn't Shizune's this was someone she cared about too. Lady Tsunade lay on the ground, her wrist dripping with blood. Her eyes looked hurt, angry and most of all they power, the life in them was quickly fading.

"No!....Please god....no..." she cried out, her tone of voice broken. There was no way this was real, it had to be a dream, some sort of horrifying nightmare! Soon Sakura found her self in a corner, watching from a distance as Shizune and Lady Tsunade died slowly, painfully and how there was no longer anything she could do about it. The tears never stopped falling, they created a never ending stream. Then, just when she thought it was the end of it, just when she thought she would get a break from the voice it started to laugh. Suddenly images of Sakura slaying, striking and cutting Shiuzne up. Images of her turning Lady Tsunade over to that snake with a grin on her face kept playing over and over in her mind.

"Stop...stop it..." she started to plea softly at first but the more she saw, the more real it all seemed. How would Itachi lover her now, how would he, could he marry a murdering woman like her self. Then, all of a sudden the worst of all the images pressented its self. It was a vision, the image of her striking out at Itachi and her daughter with the Silver Blossom. The blade was glowing full of power, ready to kill any immortal being.

"That's right, you killed them. They are no more." Kabuto taunted, his laugher mocking and sinister. All the while causing Sakura to break even more. She started to shake her head furiously then, trying to get the images all out of her mind. There was not way she had killed them, it was impossible that she killed the love of her life or the daughter they had conceived, there was just no way in hell.

"No...stop it!" she yelled, causing a large ball of fire to appear and suddenly attack Kabuto. He wasn't hit but his laughter fuled her anger then.

"What's wrong? Denying what you did? Why?" he questioned her, willing the images all back into place while laughing. Then, just as he was about to show Sakura just how she had killed, slain both the love of her life and the daughter they had his power was being bound, held back and forced out of her mind. "What the hell?" he questioned before looking down at his prey. Meanwhile Sakura started to feel a large burning sensation in the back of her throat, her body freezing over and pain, a large amount of pain surged through her body. No longer were her screams screams of sorrow and rage but of pure pain. It felt like a flame was devouring her body, as if though it was a great freezing flame taking her whole.

"What...what's happening?" she called out, the images, bodies of Shizune and Lady Tsunade suddenly gone. "It hurts..." she could barely speak out. The darkness wasn't cold anymore and suddenly she was aware of the fact that it had all been a dream, a sort of jutsu, a medical technique to break some mental down.

"My lady, you will be fine." suddenly came Sakuno's voice before her appearance. She looked sad, worried and troubled all at the same time.

"What...how....Sakuno..." Sakura tried to speak, to question the tiger but the pain was just too much. She took in a sharp breath of air, suddenly her body going still and unable to move.

"It'll be alright my lady, you will heal shortly." she said while walking over to Sakura's frozen form and wrapping her body around her, providing warmth.

"Itachi....where....."

"He is safe my lady." she answered, purring. Sakura all the while could feel her body changing, and her power increasing. Finally when the pain reaching it's peak and Sakura could take no more everything suddenly went numb. She could feel nothing, no pain, to cold, no heat, nothing. It was as if she no longer had a body.

"Sakuno, tell me they're safe." she finally managed to speak out clearly.

"Hai." however was all she said before disappearing.

"No, wait Sakuno!" she called out only to realize that by screaming she was suddenly really thirsty. Her throat was dry, beyond dry and yet there was a slight burning sensation to it as well.

"It's alright, wake up Sakura. Please." she could suddenly hear Itachi's voice. He sounded so close, to worried and most of all so lost without her.

"Itachi! Itachi where are you?!" she scram, ignoring the burning that seemed to join the thirst in her.

"Close, just open your eyes." he said. Sakura was confused. Her eyes were already open and she couldn't see him anywhere. Then, just as the numbness of her body was gone and she could feel alive, oh so alive again she realized it was in her mind. She remembered everything, Shizune's worried form running to her, to save her from something and then suddenly being hit on the back of the head. Those images, those awful, horrifying images were all a lie. Fake and conjured by the one who wanted nothing more than to destroy her, to get rid of her and get to Izakura. It was that one word, that one thought that caused Sakura's eyes to snap open. The first face she was was Itachi's, she was in his warms and being held tight.

"Itachi....what happened?" she asked, noticing that the burn in the back of her throat was still there.

"Sakura, thank god your alright..." he said while hugging her closer, holding on to her tighter all the while allowing a few tears to spill from his eyes then.

"Itachi, what's wrong."

"Please forgive me Sakura.." he spoke ever so softly before letting her go and presenting her to a mirror. Sakura froze. Her hair, her short pink hair was now at knees length, her once cream tone like skin was now as white as the moon and her deep emerald eyes now held the same black swirls that any member of the Uchiha clan held. She was immortal, she was what Itachi was and now his equal.

"Wha...what happened Itachi? How? When?" she asked. Itachi stood slowly, his head bowed and Sakuno standing in between the two. She would now and forever answer to Itachi and Sakura.

"Kabuto placed a curse, a sort of jutsu on your mind that hasn't been seen in decades. Sakuno noticed it, she told us all what it is and the only options we had....Sakura I'm sorry...." he said, voice soft.

"You...you turned me?"

"Hai my lady he did but only to save you. The mangekyou would have as well but I know as well as master that his mangekyou has never worked on your mind. There was no other way." she said, stepping in and keeping both of her masters safe. Sakura nodded her head slowly, unsure of how to take it all in. Then the burning sensation at the back of her throat returned and she shook her head, almost as if by doing so she'd rid her self of the feeling.

"What is it Sakura?"

"Is this how it feel to be thirsty?" she asked, the feeling new and uncomfortable to her. Itachi smiled sadly. She had not blamed him, had not accused him of turning her into some sort of monster.

"Hai, Sakuno?"

"Hai, I will fetch some blood for us all." and with that she was gone, the barrier still strong and holding.

"If I'm....I'm immortal now then what of Izakura? Has she? Will she?" Sakura started to ask, all the while unsure why he suddenly stood so sadly.

"Sakura, my love, I'm sorry. She's been kidnapped. We don't know if there's been any changes to her." he said, voice even softer.

"What?!" she exclaimed, causing her own power to manifest and the elements to conjure.

"Easy Sakura, your power, you haven't controlled it yet." he said, all the while Sakuno and Pein appearing. The two froze then, Sakura amazed at her power and Itachi at seeing Sakuno arrive with Pein. Had they found something? Had they found her?

"My master, my lady, here." Sakuno said while handing the two a cup of blood before moving to stand in front of them as a guard of sort. She trusted Pein, they all did but the fact that she now had two charges made Sakuno want to question everyone and everything around her just to make sure. Sakura drank down her blood almost as fast as she had received it and thus Itachi gave her his own. He didn't need blood, drinking her blood and completely restored his strength.

"Have you found something?" Itachi asked, instantly stopping Sakura from drinking the blood in her hand and listening.

"Hai, we have my lord and lady." he said, automatically giving Sakura her title. Now that she was immoral and a master healer gave her a title among them and when she'd marry Itachi her title would grow.

"Then speak already, I want my daughter back." Sakura couldn't help but growl out before having to stop and take in a breath. She had always been good at controlling her power, any sort of power given to her, it was like second nature. "Sorry, I'm just worried and freaked. This is all new to me." she said while moving and falling into Itachi's arms, knowing that in his arms she'd be safe, calm and most of all in control of her self while listening to what it is they found about who and why they had captured her daughter.