Ok so I haven't done this in a while, but I don't own Naruto or its characters. And yes this is an Itachi and Sakura story.

SPOILER ALERT!! To some extent. Not this chapter, but in the next chapter. Some of it I've picked up reading the manga online at !! They're awesome, go read them if you can! But some Itachi's story is mixed with my personal beliefs. Seeing as how they haven't released all of Itachi's story yet, but they soon will this story will start based on what I know up to chapter 397. So if you're not up to Shippudden you probably won't get the references, but feel free to read it anyway. I hope you do.

I love reviews!! Please review if you read it. It inspires me to write. And credit where credit is due. Reading Blindfolded by Hajnalmadar and Hunter by Zelha inspired this story. Thank you guys!

Sakura awoke drowsy. She remembered Sasuke… He had gone with Orochimaru. Something else… Another explosion. She could sense an extremely powerful chakra signature and then it all went black. Then she woke up and here she was. Her hand went to her throat suddenly realizing it was hard to breathe.

"What?" she murmured, jolting up from the bed she was laying in. Her fingers found the source of restriction. A collar and chain… She tested the length to no avail. Her freedom was no more than a few sparing feet from the headboard. Her heart was racing in her chest. She was less worried about how she'd gotten here, and more about who had captured her. A small click brought her attention to the door. The handle turned and the door opened inward.

"So you're awake then?" a voice said before fully entering the room. A voice that she knew she'd heard, but only recently for the first time. As though in slow motion the man entered the room and closed the door. She saw the Akatsuki cloak and the long black hair of the man it adorned.

"I-I-I-Itachi?" she questioned meekly. He neither confirmed nor denied what they both knew already.

"Would you like some water?" he asked, offering her a glass. She shrunk into the bed's corner. This only forced him to move closer to her.

"What do you want from me?" Sakura asked, keeping her eyes from meeting his.

"I'd like to know what you think you're here for," he mused, sitting on the bed's opposite corner. His hand came out from inside the cloak and undid it so he sat before her in his normal clothes. He had had a mesh shirt on under an outfit much like the one Sasuke had just been wearing, without the rope. She noticed a tattoo on his left arm right below the shoulder. 2 lines circled around each other but didn't touch.

"You were in ANBU?" she asked, tentatively trying to draw the focus away from her. He looked absently at the tattoo.

"The youngest," he replied. "I also made captain in record time," he mused. "However, you have not answered my question Sakura." A sick feeling pulsed through her. Torture her of course, but what if he also meant to… to rape her? Or maybe she was just bait?

"You want Naruto don't you? You knew you could lure him here by-"

"Akatsuki wants Naruto. You asked what I wanted with you," he interrupted. The hairs on the back of her neck were standing on end with fear. She pulled her legs to her chest and looked at the sheets.

"Please… I'm still a virgin…" she begged pathetically, hoping it would change his mind. He was quiet for a moment, just staring at her trembling form. Then he scoffed.

"I have brought you here because you are precious to Sasuke," he revealed. Sakura turned bright red and jerked her head up to meet his gaze. She was taken back to see there was no Sharingan present.

"I think you've made a mistake," she whispered mournfully.

"Oh?" he asked with a keen interest. "Have I?"

"Sasuke… Nothing is precious to him anymore… His only desire is to see you dead by his hand. He's even going to let Orochimaru his body to do it!" she revealed.

"Sakura, you need not worry for Sasuke. He's destined to powerful already. Soon enough he'll see Orochimaru as a mere stepping stone in his quest for power and will crush him as I should have when he tried to take my body," he reassured her. She relaxed a little, only to tense again immediately. Itachi… reassured her? He was even being kind to her… What the hell was going on?"

"It still doesn't explain what you want from me," she stated boldly. He moved across the bed until he was right in front of her.

"I need you to be a vessel, Sakura," he said, moving his hand to the chain.