As we left off, Sakura happened to be in danger when she came home from trick or treating with Ino and her new friends. Let's see what happens...

Sakura No Akuma

Itachi, Haku, Kisame, and Deidara had come from their night out at the bar. Since Sakura was out with Ino, they didn't have to worry about her at the moment.

"I wonder how many heads our little princess is turning tonight." Kisame said as he exited the carriage first.

"She looked good." Deidara commented softly, coming out second.

"I'm worried. What if someone pulls moves on her!" Haku cried out. The master of the mansion came out last as he glared at his friends' comments.

"I'll kill them." Itachi said darkly as he walked to the doors were the butler opened the door for them. The moment all four entered the mansion, a loud scream was heard. The scream sounded familiar, too familiar. Their stomachs did flips, but not for a good reason.

"Sakura!" They said as they ran towards the direction of the scream. Itachi's eyes narrowed when they noticed a puppet at the end of the hall. Its back was turned to them. A large black portal was behind it.

"Hey!" Kisame called out to the puppet. Itachi's eyes grew red when he saw Sakura knocked out in its arms as it turned to face them.

"Ah, Itachi, Kisame, Haku, and Deidara! My master apologizes for not seeing you in person. Now if you excuse me, I shall be leaving." The puppet said as it was getting ready to leave with the portal.

"Like hell you will!" Deidara growled as he lunged for the puppet. He was met with the floor as he had fell face first. "Damn it!" Deidara said as he banged his right fist on the floor.

"This is bad!" Haku said. "Who would have taken Sakura-sama?"

"There's only two possibilities. It's either Kankuro or worse…." Kisame said.

"Sasori-danna…" Deidara frowned. "If it's him, we have no time to waste. The moment he sees Sakura, he'll want her…" He said carefully, looking at Itachi who had yet to say something. "…then his collection will be complete. Sakura, of course, will be his star masterpiece…his human puppet."

"The King must have ordered it." Kisame growled. It was a dreadful silence between them as Haku, Kisame, and Deidara looked at Itachi, who had just pounded his fist at the wall.

"If he touched even a strand of her hair, I will kill him and then kill the King myself. Family or not." Itachi growled as he walked away. The other three was left shivering in fear.

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Sakura's green eyes widened at the collection of puppets around the room. She had awakened a couple minutes ago to see herself in a new room. She was placed on a soft bed. Trying not to panic, she checked around the surrounding.

"Good to see you're awake." A dark voice said. Sakura narrowed her eyes as she saw someone come out of the shadows. The man had red hair and auburn eyes.

"Who are you?" Sakura asked as she backed away from the stranger.

"Sasori." He said. "So you're the famous human that Itachi took in. I was wondering why he continued to stay up there. You truly are a work of art. I've never met someone with soft pink hair such as yours and mesmerizing green eyes. You are the perfect epitome. You are perfect…" Sakura froze as the guy appeared in front of her as he stroked her cheek. "…for my collection."

Sakura gasped as she felt herself being pushed back on the bed she was on. She snapped her eyes shut as she felt Sasori's hot breath on her ear. "Let's begin, shall we?

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"What are we going to do?" Deidara asked pissed off. He was currently pacing around the common room as Haku was silent on the couch.

"We're going down to the underworld." Kisame said as he entered the room. Itachi was silently behind him. Itachi created a portal on the floor as each demon entered. They all found themselves met with the red sky and black clouds. They made it.

"We can't let them know Itachi came back." Haku spoke up. "We need to disguise ourselves!" He was ignored as three angry demons headed towards where they believed Sasori would be with Sakura.

Deidara had led them into the castle. They ran down and headed underground to where Sasori's quarters were. They were met with tall dark doors. Kisame was about to break the door but Itachi had burned it down.

"Sasori!" Itachi growled darkly. "Where is-"

Itachi stopped in sentence as he saw what was in front of him. His blood turned cold as he found it hard to breathe. He felt like someone just took his heart if he had one and ripped it to shreds. His whole body began to shake uncontrollably. Kisame and Deidara entered and grew awfully still. Haku took in the scene in front of him as he fell to his knees. They were too late.

Sasori had turned from his finished puppet as he took in the expression of his guest.

"You didn't…" Kisame tried to speak as he gripped onto his sword in anger.

Sasori looked at his puppet. The soft pink hair was curled and half up. Cold viridian eyes stared back at him. The puppet had freshly painted pink lips and rosy cheeks to enhance her beauty. Standing before him was his brand new puppet…Sakura.

"Do you like? Fine art is something wonderful that is left long into the future…eternal beauty, don't you think Deidara?" Sasori asked as he stroked the cold cheek of his puppet.

Deidara glared at him as he took a step forward. Just seeing the puppet in his grasp was enough to make him want to blow something up, most likely the fucking castle they were in. "Fine art is the beauty of that single fleeting moment of explosion."

"Tch." Sasori said getting up. "Still the same I see."

"What is that?" Itachi finally spoke. His eyes bloody red. The sign that he was truly pissed off.

"What does it look like?" Sasori asked. "It's a puppet of Sakura. Such a beautiful girl, she is. Don't worry, I treated her gently. The moment I saw her, I knew she would be perfect for my collec-"Sasori was cut off when Itachi had pushed him against the wall in such a speed he could not believe. Itachi's hands were clutched harshly around his neck, with every ill will to break it. Sasori had let go of the Sakura puppet in shock as it fell to the ground.

Haku immediately grabbed her and pulled it close to his chest. His long raven hair showered over the puppet. He was trembling with anger and sadness. How dare he do this to sweet Sakura?

"We failed you Sakura-sama…" Haku whispered. Kisame turned to look at the doll and grew more angrily. Sasori will pay.

Itachi stared at Sasori's cold eyes with such hatred. For a split second, he looked at the puppet in Haku's arms. Sakura was like this because of him. It was his fault. He brought this upon her.

I'm so sorry my cherry blossom

"Don't fuck with me!" Itachi shouted as he grabbed Sasori's neck and slammed him to the floor. "How dare you turn Sakura into a puppet? Bastard, I'll fucking kill you."

"What are you talking about? I didn't turn her into a puppet." Sasori said narrowing his eyes.

"Excuse me?" a voice interrupted the men in the room.

"Temari." Sasori said calmly as if Itachi was never hovering over him with his hands around his neck.

"Hello cousin." Temari said. "Do you mind if I take Sakura shopping? She's just the cutest thing I've ever seen!" Temari soon noticed the people in the room. Her teal eyes widened with surprise. "Itachi Uchiha is back?"

"Where's Sakura?" Itachi asked as he felt his anger slowly fade away.

"She's playing puppets with Kankuro." Temari smiled.

"Has Gaara met her yet?" Sasori asked as Itachi finally let go of his throat.

"Not yet. I wasn't sure if I should. He's still unstable around people besides us." Temari answered.

"Take us to her." Haku said. Temari nodded as she led the men to a room. There, they saw Sakura perfectly fine and having fun with Kankuro, who was showing her tricks with the puppets.

"Sakura-chan!" Deidara called out as he pulled her into a hug. "You had us worried!"

"You aren't hurt are you?" Haku asked checking Sakura.

"This bastard didn't do anything to you, right?" Kisame asked pointed his sword at Sasori, who frowned.

She shook her head. "Sasori was so nice. He made a puppet of me and I helped him make it." She grinned.

Itachi walked up to her as he fell to his knees and pulled Sakura away from Deidara, who smiled knowingly.

"I-Itachi…" Sakura began to say as she blushed.

"Don't go off with strangers, you idiot!" Itachi growled as he knocked Sakura's head. Sakura's eyes got watery as she touched his face with such tenderness.

"Are you okay?" She asked. Itachi just nodded as he rested his forehead on her shoulder. "Let's go back."

"You're not coming back?" Kankuro asked.

"Tell the King this, if he wants me back, he should see me in person and leave Sakura out of this." Itachi said giving everyone in the room a deadly glare. Carrying Sakura in his arms, he grew his wings and flew out the window in the room. The others followed suit.

"He seems to be more relaxed than the last time I saw him." Temari smiled.

"I don't blame him. Sakura even made Sasori smile and that's hard to do." Kankuro said as the siblings looked at their older cousin. He was looking at his Sakura doll with gentleness as he left for his room.

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Itachi woke up late in the afternoon the next day. The guys had stayed up drinking to relax the ordeal they dealt with earlier. It goes to show that Sakura meant a lot to them. Speaking of Sakura, he was surprised that Sakura hadn't been in his bed like usual. Paranoid, he got up and stalked to her bedroom, where he heard her laughing and talking to someone. Opening the door, he was shocked to see Sasori playing puppets with Sakura.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Haku screamed. It seemed like he was going to check up on Sakura as well.

Sasori brought Sakura onto his lap as he petted her. "I came to see Sakura." He said calmly.

"You already have that puppet of her. Isn't that good enough for you?" Itachi growled. Sasori smirked.

"The original is better." Sasori said as he moved his face closer to Sakura's, as if he was going to kiss her. Acting quickly, Itachi grabbed Sakura from his lap and held her close to him.

"Leave!" Itachi ordered.

"I have permission to stay up here like Deidara and Kisame. It's to watch over you." Sasori smirked. "If there's something that bugs me, I have the right to eliminate it. So treat me gently. But I had to bring someone. He'll be coming in later. So-"

Itachi's left eyebrow twitched with annoyance as he tune him out. Great more people! What's next, that annoying cousin of his is going to come as well?

"Where's Deidara-sempai?" An overly-excited voice said. "Oh! Who is the girl! Tobi thinks she's pretty! Hi, I'm Tobi!"

"Man, that drinking contest I had with Kisame is screwing with my mind." Deidara said tiredly as he came into Sakura's room as well. "I swore I just heard Tobi's annoying voice right now."

"Hi Deidara-sempai!" Tobi said as he glomped Deidara. "I missed you!"

Deidara's mouth dropped as he pushed Tobi to the floor and began to strangle him between his legs. "What the fuck are you doing here?"

"The king ordered Sasori-sempai and Tobi to watch over you guys. The King said he'll meet with all of us soon!" Tobi said. "He's very excited to see you Itachi-sempai. He said he was very sad when you left before he had the chance to see you. To be honest, Tobi thinks he's jealous because he can't compete with someone as cute as Sakura-chan!" Tobi had removed himself from Deidara's deadly lock as he lifted Sakura up in the air and spun her around. She just laughed which brought the demons out of their bad moods.

"Can they stay here, Itachi? They're really nice people." Sakura grinned. Itachi sighed. The things he do to have Sakura smile.

"Fine." Itachi grumbled.

"Whipped." Sasori commented. Itachi turned and glared at the puppet master.

Sakura looked at her expanding family with a smile. Days here in the mansion were just getting more exciting.

Sigh, more ItaSaku. Ive been reading fics about ItaSaku and DeiSaku recently. THERE SHOULD BE MORE STORIES OF THEM! *Cough* um, well i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as I had writing it. Please review everyone.

-Kumiko