Hanging On

She stared at him.

He's odd, she concluded, an odd subject who's dreams tastes yummy. With that thought the girl smiled wide, revealing two rows of sharp teeth. The pink haired, green-eyed girl floated next to the bed of a man. His long hair fanned out beneath him, as he laid completely still in his bed, his lean frame was still dressed in the black and red-cloud cloak he usually wore.

The girled stretched before crossing her legs, and sighing loudly. 'Your dreams are the best.' She mused staring down at the man. She'd been following him for some time now, lingering the in the dark corners of his life.

That's what Dream-Eaters did though, follow in the darkness and wait till their prey fell asleep.

"I hate it when you don't dream." She groaned leaning over him, her pink hair falling in jagged strands over his face. "It almost makes me want to leave.." She smiled. "Almost." Thats when his eyes snapped open though, and his hands shot out, capturing her throat in one swift movement.

Her mouth opened in a silent scream as he pinned her to the floor. His red eyes spun wildly as she stared up at him, and she shut her jaw, smiling wide once more.

"Well this is a pleasant surprise." The girl phased through him and stood up in front of him. The man sprang to his feet as well, glaring at her as she watched his pupils form a pin-wheel. "What an odd shape." She sang as she tilted her head to the side.

"Who are you." He spoke and she shivered at the sound of his voice.

"Sakura," She extended her hand. "You're Itachi Uchiha correct?" He stared at her hand before she retracted it. "I guess i have to tell you what i am now huh?" He rose a brow, and his blank features didn't change as she floated once more, crossing her legs and resting her elbows on her knees. Thin wirey wings appeared from her shoulder blades and her eyes glowed eeriely green. "I am a Dream-Eater."

He blinked, glaring. Sakura groaned and leaned forward.

"I've been following you since you joined the ANBU in Konoha." His glare hardened. "And you stupid eye-tricks don't work on me." Itachi didn't shut off his Sharingan though, making her irritated. "I'm not here to hurt you!"

"Then why are you following me?" Sakura smiled wider, and tilted her head.

"Your dreams are... intriging." He rose brow. "Did you know human's have the capability of seeing the future? It only happens when you sleep though, but even then your mind is so jumbled with a bunch of other nonsense that human's usually don't see it."

"And if a human gets close to seeing the future?" He asked, leaning against the wall.

"That's where we step in." Standing on solid ground again, she did an exaggerate mock-bow, pink hair flipping with her. "We are the Dream-Eaters, here to end your vision-like dreams in an abrupt way, or make them too hazy to see."

"Why are you telling me this?" He asked carefully as she sat on his bed.

"Like i said before your dreams are intruiging, plus they're yummy." She licked her lips and he decided to sit across from her then. "If i leave you, they another Dream-Eater will come in my place and they might not be so nice. They could steal all of your dreams, and memories sometimes, leaving you mentally blind." Sakura frowned. "At least i let you see some of your vision to warn you." She scowled and rapped her fingers against her knee.

"You care?" Her face flamed red, and she scoffed.

"No!" Sakura hissed as he smirked. "Maybe... I've seen what you've done, how you've become, i know why you do the things you do, and i find it noble. Not many people would give up so much for one place." His expression fell blank and masked when she spoke, making her frown. "I figured, giving you some type of warning would reward you."

"I don't need a reward." Sakura's frown deeepened. "What happens if humans see their whole future." The girl's face fell blank, green eyes glowing with such intensity he had to look away from time-to-time.

"They go mad. Thinking they're God; humans' cannot handle what the future holds, so many deaths' and stages of sadness that they go through. It happened to me." His eyes widened a fraction.

"You were human?" She nodded, green eyes wide at his question.

"Long ago, i went mad, and became this." Sakura gestured to herself. "Becoming a Dream-Eater is a great honor. I had a choice whether to pass on or help make sure it never happened to anyone else." She smiled wide. "Obviously i chose the latter." Itachi nodded, taking in all this information, when yet another question popped into his mind.

"Does Pein...?" Sakura giggled loudly and nodded wildly.

"He has two Dream-Eaters following him." She pressed her tiny hands to her mouth in sheer glee. "He's an odd one indeed, i almost became his Dream-Eater till i found you."

"I've seen you before.. back then." He stated and she nodded, cheerful expression falling.

"I accidently appeared in your dream, your vision, of your clans massacre that you would commit months later." Sakura blushed at the memory and she took his hand in hers meekly. "I'm sorry that i held you."

It was true, in all the madness and chaos she was there. Pink haired and green eyed, dressed in a bright red kimono, watching him in the shadows of his nightmare. When he'd arrived at the front steps of his home she appeared in front of him and cover his eyes with her hands.
"Don't look." She whispered, his eyes closing and the noise drowning into nothing around him. "It'll be alright Itachi, i promise." And he'd collapsed into her arms, somehow finding himself laying down with his head in her lap while she whispered sweet nothings that made the nightmare dull and become foggy.

"You were there." Itachi stated once more as they pulled out of the memory she showed him.

"I wasn't supposed to be, i was still trying to figure out my abilities when it happened." Sakura's face was still red. Itachi stayed silent and she bit her lip before shutting her eyes tightly. "I will follow you till you die, you know that right?"

"Why?"

"You've come too close to knowing your future, i cannot have you find out and go mad. You're too good of a person." She placed her hand on his knees and leaned forward, lips hovering over his. "And i'm sorry but i cannot have you remember this either."

Sakura kissed him fiercely, using the collar of his shirt to tug him towards her, before his eyes slid shut and he fell limp in her arms.

"This will be nothing but a dream." The girl whispered.

Itachi awoke with a start, grey eyes wide while he breathed heavily. He sat there for a long time, staring at his hands in his lap, till his partner knocked on his door saying that they had to leave for a mission in an hour. Grudgingly, Itachi went to shower, and then dressed in clean clothes once more. He stared at the dark corner in his room for a long time, the echo of words spoken by a light voice burned in his mind.

Smirking, he pulled his coat on, lingering in the doorway before sighing. "Follow me till i die, huh?" And with that, he left.

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Sakura scowled in her corner, until she smiled wide and giggled.

wrote this very late at night, so please excuse all of the errors.

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