Chapter 4 – Bad to Worse
It had been one month and Sakura was yet to crack under the torture. Itachi had been doing the majority of the torture, even though by using his Mangekyou it was making his eyes worse.
I was in charge of keeping her alive but I am not too good on healing other people, I can bring myself back from the brink of death but I can only heal some injuries of others. I went into the room where Sakura was being kept between torture sessions with a tray of food and water. I placed it in front of her and sat down eating a bar of chocolate. I had put a bar on her tray so I didn't make her jealous.
"Can you heal my big brother yet?" I asked with my mouth full of chocolate. "He is really sore... and I can't heal him..."
"No..." Sakura snorted, "I don't understand you..."
"What do you mean?" I asked,
"You act all innocent but you're not..." Sakura snapped, "You have no enemies my ass... You're just as bad as those murderers... And you think you're free willed...? No... they are using you..."
"What?" I gaped and dropped my chocolate bar. "No... that's..."
"It's obvious..." Sakura replied, "Itachi is a cold blooded killer and for whatever use you are to them, it is the only thing keeping you alive. The second they don't need you they will kill you..."
"No way..." I cried and stood up, "They wouldn't do that... Big Brother wouldn't let them..."
"Itachi isn't your big brother and he doesn't think of you as a sister... you are a tool to them..." Sakura replied darkly.
"Not true!" I cried out and ran out of them room with the door slamming shut behind me. Before I could get even a meter away from the door I slammed right into Itachi.
"What is wrong Nai?" Itachi asked as I buried my face into his coat. "Why are you crying?"
"Because you don't like me..." I replied and went to run away from him but he held me to him.
"Excuse me?"
"Sakura said you were using me... that you didn't think of me as a sister... and she said I was as bad as a murderer... She called us all murderers..."
"I wouldn't dream of using you." Itachi raised an eyebrow, "You know if you wanted to leave you can... No one is forcing you to stay here..."
"So you don't want me here?"
"If you left Nai I would feel compelled to leave with you..." Itachi replied, "Do not listen to anything that stupid girl says... She knows nothing."
"But..."
"But nothing..." Itachi replied. "Go see Kisame, he has brought food here... I will talk to our prisoner..."
"Ok." I smiled and wiped away my tears. I hugged Itachi and ran to the kitchen area.
Itachi opened the door to the room Sakura was in and turned the lights up. Sakura stared into his red eyes which pretty much screamed rage.
"How dare you tell her those lies!" Itachi snapped at Sakura and kicked her. Sakura went flying into the wall and with a pained expression she looked up at the looming Itachi.
"So the great Itachi does have emotion...?" Sakura retorted. "It's the truth though... I can't imagine someone like you feeling emotion for someone else..."
"Well you thought wrong." Itachi replied and kicked her face into the wall. "The honest truth is that I think of Nai as my little sister... she has no obligations to this group, she helps here and there but she can leave when she wants... If she left I would leave too..."
"So what?" Sakura snorted and wiped her bloody nose, "You really do love her like a sister...? What about Sasuke... you know...? Your real sibling..."
"He is nothing but a weak and pathetic boy..." Itachi replied, "Too controlled by his emotion to think properly..."
"And Nai?"
"May have her emotions to guide her but she knows what is best to her... she does not hate people... She finds it hard to think of people as enemies..." Itachi replied. "She is incredibly powerful but she cannot access that power until she is older... Until then... I look after her."
After are severely brutal beating from Itachi, Sakura was beginning to wish she kept her mouth shut. She was just sick of the treatment, she didn't deserve it but she believed the only way to make amends was to do something that all her morals told her not to do.
I slowly entered the room where Sakura was, it had been two days since she lied to me about Itachi and the Akatsuki but I was ok with bringing her food. I put the tray down and turned to leave.
"Nai..." Sakura's voice said softly.
"Yeah?" I whispered back.
"I'm sorry..." She apologised. I turned around in confusion and waited for her to continue. "What I said... I shouldn't have... I... I am just stupid... I am sick of this crap and I had to vent somehow... You seemed like an easy target."
"Oh..." I replied. Is that a bad thing? I was still confused...
"To say sorry..." Sakura continued. "If you get your leader to allow me to rebuild my chakra to heal myself properly... and enough to heal others... I will heal your big brother..."
"You will?" I asked in excitement, "No joke..."
"Cross my heart." Sakura reached up and did a cross over her heart. "Will you accept my apology?"
"YES!" I cheered and hugged her. I think I hurt her accidently but she brushed it off. I ran out of the room but this time smiling brightly. I smashed into Itachi (yet again) and he saw the massive smile on my face.
"And what happened this time?"
"AS AN APOLOGY..."
"Inside voice..."
I took a deep breath, "As an apology Sakura said she will heal you... But we have to lay off hurting her and let her regain chakra to heal herself as well as you..."
"Consider it done..." A voice said from behind me. It was the leader but it was a hologram of him. "Tell her I will give her a week to recover with no chakra draining and then she is to go to work. Ask her what she needs for this..."
"Ok." I cheered and ran off to tell the others. Itachi stood there and shook his head. He made his way back the way he came to follow me.
Sakura had recovered in four days and she was at full chakra so she was able to begin with Itachi's treatment.
"Where is Nai?" Sakura asked Itachi as she entered his room.
"Mission with Sasori." Itachi replied, "Back in eight days..."
"Right..." Sakura replied and put the notepad that she had requested on his desk and had Itachi lay down on his bed. "So..." Sakura hummed, "Turn off the Sharingon so I can see the damage..." He complied with her wish and she began to pulse her chakra through his temples to his eyes. "Fuck..."
"What?" Itachi asked.
"How much can you see?" Sakura asked and looked into his eyes. "You are practically fully blind..."
"Not much..." Itachi replied, "Black patches in my vision..."
"More than that I would say." Sakura replied. "Ok so this is going to take at least a week... From now on until tomorrow at this time no using the Sharingan... AT ALL!"
"Yes Doctor." Itachi replied sarcastically. Sakura pulled back in surprise. "What?"
"To be perfectly honest I didn't see you using sarcasm... Or having emotion..."
"Sakura I am a human being... Of course I have emotion..."
"You just don't show it often."
"Indeed." Itachi sat up and walked Sakura back to her room. "You can leave your room whenever you want but try to escape and..."
"I wont." Sakura said bluntly. "I cannot go back of what I said to Nai... I promised her..."
"Good then." He replied and left her alone.
It had been six days and Sakura was just about done with fixing Itachi's eyes to perfect vision and perfectly healed eyes.
"So what is wrong with my eyes?" Itachi asked Sakura as she wrote something down in her book.
"Your Mangekyou pushes extra chakra through your optical nerve... the amount of chakra is too much for the optical nerve... The Mangekyou isn't meant to be used all the time like you use it... So it is paying a heavy toll... I can create a serum eye drop to heal the effects if it was to occur again but I doubt it will happen again for a long time..."
"Intriguing..." Itachi replied.
"So Itachi..." Sakura began, "How is it that you can love Nai but no one else...?"
"Who says I cannot love anyone else?" Itachi replied,
"Another presumption..." Sakura sighed, "You are so hard to read..."
"That's the idea." Itachi shrugged. "And why do you ask this?"
"Curiosity..." Sakura shrugged. "I have been looking at your eyes for six days straight... Did you know you have blue in your eyes...?" Sakura stopped and sat back. "Wow that was cheesy..."
"No I didn't..." Itachi hummed and looked up at Sakura. "Nice to know..." Sakura began to lean closer to Itachi, she was mesmerised by his eyes but at the same time she was curious to know what would happen.
Before she could even comprehend Itachi had raised his head, their lips met and she could feel his tongue against her bottom lip asking for entrance, she obliged instantly. They began to kiss passionately but it was put to a halt nearly instantly as the door opened loudly.
Itachi sat up in annoyance but calmed down because he noticed who it was.
"HIYA!" I shouted and jumped onto the bed. "What did I miss?"
"He can see clearly now." Sakura shrugged and stood up.
"And apparently I have blue in my eyes..." Itachi shrugged.
"WOW!" I shouted and pinned him down so I could put my face right above his to stare into his eyes. "I never noticed..."
Too busy staring into Itachi's eyes I failed to notice Sakura leaving the room. Just as the door opened I jumped off the bed to tackle Sakura in a hug.
"Hello to you to Nai." Sakura laughed,
"Thank you so much for healing him!" I cheered and then pouted. "Oh no..."
"What is it?" Itachi asked as he stood up.
"I forgot to give you the message..." I gaped and made a whining sound. "Leader wants a meeting with us..."
"What?" Itachi asked.
We rushed to the meeting room where Leader was waiting in hologram form. The other members were in there too.
"I'm so sorry we are late." I cried, "I forgot... I found out Itachi is healed... and he has blue in his eyes..."
"Hm." The Leader replied. "This meeting is concerning Sakura..."
"What about me?" Sakura asked and sat next to Itachi.
"We are extending an invite to you to join our organisation..." He replied, "Your thoughts?"
Sakura stood up and began to pace. She seemed to have millions of things going through her mind and after at least ten minutes she turned to the Leader.
"During my time here..." Sakura hummed, "I have become a traitor... by healing Itachi... I have befriended the most adorable little one and I do not want to leave her..." Sakura began to pace and finally she sat back down. "I cannot return to Konoha... After doing what I have done here..." Sakura paused again...
(*Insert suspenseful music... XD*)
"I will join..."
Dun dun duuuuuuuuuun!