Disclaimer: Naruto and it's characters are owned by Masashi Kishimoto. Only this story I own.

To my friends in FEU - IARFA… especially to Diana, Marru and Vargy.

For fostering my creativity. =)

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Chapter 1

The One and Only

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Sakura stepped into the clearing. The freezing autumn leaves tattered beneath her feet. Twilight had fallen, though the storm was dying away, the woods were getting colder. But Sakura doesn't care. She didn't feel the cold. Neither did she mind the dark.

Grasping a good amount of melting snow in her hand, she looked at it sadly. She remembered how she and her friends used to play snow balls but it is very impossible now to happen. She frowned deeper. No one in her village saw her smile again since the Konohagakure was seized and her friends were not here. Her sensei, their hokage was held captive and her best friend and teammate ever since was killed by extracting the kyuubi from his body. All hopes of the future Konoha suddenly turned into dust.

Sakura sensed a strong chakra nearby. She focused her chakra to her pupils, gathering up tiny particles of light that would have been invisible to an ordinary ninja. But she is an exceptional; she is a good controller of chakra. Sakura could see a figure standing on the other side of the swamp quite clearly.

The figure had long sleek ebony hair tied behind, which the wind blew gracefully. He was tall and has lean muscles. Though Sakura couldn't see his face, she somehow knew his eyes were crimson as blood.

Sakura just stared. He is calm and his face was stoic like all the Uchiha were. He and Sakura locked in a stare match until one of them started to talk.

"Home," Itachi said calmly.

It's time for Sakura to go home and here he was, fetching her. Sakura doesn't have any complains when it comes to his obligation as her husband. He always make sure that he has enough time for her even though he had other obligations as hokage of their village.

Making sure I won't fled this rotten village huh, she thought.

"My heart and soul," she started. "My whole being tells me, my home is not here anymore. I don't have home now." She said bitterly as she looked away from him.

He stared at her a moment, little did she know the undeniable pain in her eyes pinched his heart.

Like a strike of a thunderbolt, he appeared behind her. "It's cold out here."

He grabbed the melting snow in her now freezing hand and threw it away. Then he abruptly held her on her shoulders and forced her to face him.

His eyes-his mesmerizing crimson eyes!

The next thing she knew, she fainted and she was drifted to another dimension-Itachi's world. He carried her back to their home. As he reached their bedroom, he laid his wife in their large futon. He lied down next to her and soon after, he followed his beautiful wife in their own dreamland.

Sakura…

She was lying on a white field, everything was white even the tree trunks and branches. She's wearing a very soft white dress that suits her pink hair. She is ethereally beautiful even her eyes were closed. Then again, the place was echoing with a familiar voice calling her name.

Sakura…

She slowly responded to it. Opening her eyes slowly; pupils adjusting to the light. Emerald eyes met crimson eyes. He was hovering above her. Making her gasp to the closeness of their faces.

Itachi…

Hearing her saying his name is a tickle to his senses. He smiled, a genuine smile.

What have I told you my Sakura…?

She decided to pressed her lips harder. Not wanting to give him answer that would surely satisfy him.

So stubborn, he thought and smiled wickedly and it brings shivers to her whole body.

He pressed his body to hers. She winced at his heaviness.

She's pushing him so hard. Struggling with all the strength she could muster. Afraid of the warmth, the new sensations he brings to her.

Get off…

She said helplessly. But suddenly she stopped. Realizing they were in his world. She was just wasting her effort to escape from his hold.

Have you forgot the agreement we made in our marriage?

She glared at him.

No, Itachi… I still remember…

Good. 'cause if you break your vow to our agreement…

He closed his eyes as he stopped then reopening them.

You know the consequences my wife…

She knew her husband well. He don't break his word.

The consequences will be the lives of her friends. She knew Itachi's own ANBU squad can hunt down her friends. And the fact that her sensei was still held captive by her husband's superior.

She closed her eyes.

Itachi… why me? I don't deserve such this…

A tear escaped from the corner of her eye slipping freely down her flawless cheek.

And he licked it then smiled at her.

I hate you, Uchiha Itachi… Just kill me like you did on your entire clan, Sasuke and Naruto!

Hn. Can't. Your beauty will be put into waste my wife…

His eyes widened with fury, like an animal bloodlust. The pupils contracted and spinned to vicious dots.

I won't let you go away… You're mine, Uchiha Sakura!

Itachi leaned down slowly to her face and claimed her lips.

Konohagakure was seized completely when their hokage, Tsunade was defeated and locked in a chamber nobody knows. While the other shinobis who survived in the tragic war of the five great shinobi nations fled the Konoha but they oath to return someday and will reclaim their village from the one and only immortal and powerful shinobi…

Uchiha Madara.

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A/N: The story was short. I know. I've finished this in just 2 hours. Promise the story will be longer next time! :)

Madara meets Sakura (accidentally!) Watch out for the next chapter! ^_^

Everytime you make a review in my story, it encourages me to write a paragraph for the next chapter. So please, review! ;) Ja ne!

~Juana Mari

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