An: I'M SO SORRY!!!! I know I've been gone! Please don't kill me!

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Akatsuki Sakura Uchiha

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Kaitlin Murasaki

"Sasuke! Sasuke! Are you okay?"

slowly Sasuke's eyes adjusted and he blearily looked up to see the pink hair of his annoying teammate. But something has changed, Sasuke felt as though a great deal of time has passed and something was wrong..... something with his brother...but Sasuke was no longer mad, he was more confused, hurt and empty when he thought of Itachi rather then a piercing rage and the feeling of he must have revenge.

"Sasuke, can you hear me? Hello? you need to wake up it is very important!"

"Saukra... shut up! And you better put that nurses outfit back before all of us get in trouble." was that just him or as his voice a little deeper?

" For your information I am a nurse! A lot has changed since you left the village Sasuke!"

" What are you talking about? I never left and the hospitable doesn't hire kids"

Sasuke kept having a harder time opening his eyes after each blink and this puzzling talk coupled with the fact he felt he should remember something he just doesn't wore his out so this time he gladly accepted the warm darkness of unconsciousness.

" So he has no memory?"

"No tsunade sama he claims it is still after the chuin exams"

"And he could of helped us so much... well do you have an extra room?"

"Yes I do after my sister got married. She finally let me escape her perfect, manicured, tweezer wielding, shopping disordered hands"

" Okay you will be removed from active nurse duty to keep watch over Sasuke uchia, many of our people may not trust that he is harmless so don't let him out of your sight and if it doesn't distress him try to make him remember okay?"

"Hai may I go home? It's been a long hard day."

"you may leave"

Saukra poofed off.

"We have ANOTHER being to take care of??!! Isn't stray cats enough?"

Too tired to talk Saukra just collected her newest charge and went home where Itachi was waiting.

"okay Sasuke-kitty I'm going to leave the window open for you k? You seem well enough healed and I can tell you aren't a house kitty okay?"

Itachi only purred under her smooth stroking hands.

Sasuke was sleeping in the next room having taken an immediate dislike to the changing size cat.

Sakura was able to find nothing out from him so she brewed a potion that would make him sleep soundly in case he remembered in the middle of the night and freaked out.

"Night night kitty"

Itachi grew and grew silent as a shadow he moved from cat to human, keeping his ears and tail as his preference. The moment he was human he knew. Oh he knew, he'd imprinted on his short term owner, the very scent of her in his higher senses made him give a low rumbling sound deep in his chest, the human equivalent of a purr.

Drawing a deep breath Itachi memorized her scent, wondered why his pure human litter mate was there and snuck out of konaha.

"Sakura..... Do you like me?"

Two weeks after finding her pet gone Sasuke had finally gotten to go home and as she dropped him off he asked her THIS??

Sighing and reminding herself what he'd just gone through Sakura gritted her teeth and answered " of course Sasuke, we work great as a team and get along well. We are friends." The last part was said grudging.

"But I didn't mean like that! I mean like... like do you......like me?"

The last part was delivered with a bright red blush and lowered eyes.

"Oh" As the years had passed Sakura had realized her crush was just the lure of a brooding untouchable boy, now that was gone she found Sasuke a bit clingy and desperate.

"Sasuke I'm sorry I don't like you like that. Just friends?" As his face fell she felt her old 12 year old addiction sucking at her, telling her to stay, to make everything better.

"Okay... Well... ok bye" Sasuke ran into his new home tears streaming down his face.

As Saukra was pulled to the bar she was protesting loudly that her birthday was no big deal that she DID NOT want a drink among other things but she was ignored.

"Come on forehead! Just a small drink..."

Knowing that it would be fruitless to struggle Sakura was lead to her doom.

Two hours later we would find Sakura laying in street drunk off her feet.

When Itachi smelt her scent he thought it was as though it were another dream, tormenting him. but the smell was very real and his eyes fell upon her still body, his ears upon her heart beat and his mind near drunk after being kept away from his imprintee for too long and finally being reunited.

She was his, that was plain. But why did males keep coming near her? He had clearly left his scent claiming her as his property only, yet they still came until Itachi felt like killing them all. Just to protect her.

Deciding the only way to protect her was to keep her near him at all times, that she stole him away and kept him to make him happy, put a collar on him and let her human friends paw at him was her sign of love. Itachi scooped Saukra up.

The last thing she saw was gentle hand pressing a point on her neck to knock her out Saukra was whisked out of her home.

An/ ok! super hard chapter to write is up! Please review I am tired beyond belief!

REVIEW!!!! Before I send Kakuzu after your poor piggy bank! BEWARE