I shared the bed with Itachi and had to fight myself from getting to close to him. I wanted to cuddle up next to him, I got so use to being like that with Sasuke that I couldn't sleep without feeling someone's arms wrapped around me. It bugged me a lot, I started crying silently so I wouldn't wake Itachi. At one point of the night he turned off and was facing me, our bodies were really close to each other. I could hear small snores from him and his face looked so peaceful sleeping.

I sighed and then turned over. I couldn't see his face, every time I looked at him, he reminded me of Sasuke. Well, he's older so I guess I should saw that Sasuke reminds me of Itachi. Either way, it still hurt knowing that Itachi is Sasuke's brother and I'm sleeping next to him!

"Ino," The way he said my name made me jump. I wasn't expecting him to be up. I turned over to look at him and his eyes were staring right at me. "Is something the matter?"

"Everything is fine, why do you ask?" My voice cracked. "I'm fine,"

"No you're not." I tried avoiding his eyes but he grabbed my face and turned it back towards him.

"I'm fine, Itachi." I slapped his hand away and turned my back to him. He sighed and then my body was shoved down, I was laying on my back and Itachi was hovering over me. "Get off of me." I struggled to get him off. "Get off!" I cried out.

"Not until you tell me what happened with you and Sasuke."

"He tried to hit me so I ran! Now get off, you weigh a lot more than you look!" He slowly got off and laid on the side of me, he was quiet, maybe a little stunned. "I didn't want to say anything, you made me." I tried to sit up but he held me back down. "Itachi,"

"I'm sorry for my brother's actions. I'm sorry for all of this Ino. I think it's about time I tell you what really happened that caused you to go into your coma." Itachi sat and then sighed.

The room was dark and the only light that could be seen was very dim and coming from the dark curtains on the window. I reached out for Itachi's hand and held it and I moved closer to him, close enough to rest my head on his shoulder and run my fingers through his loose hair.

"Ino, Sasuke was not a very good boyfriend to you; but you loved him. None of us knew why, we never really questioned it. You were happy, and that's all that really matter to any of us. But then Sakura started to get jealous, jealous that you had gotten Sasuke; that he somehow choose you over her. She cut off your friendship with her, she did it out of spite. She thought you were going to leave Sasuke but you didn't. She was angry with you and tried everything to get back at you, she tried spreading lies about both of you, she even tried to sleep with Sasuke at one point but you found out. She had gotten him drunk and taken him back to her house, someone called you and told you what had happened, you were with Akria and me at the time, and you ran out of the house, angry, ready to kill." I shifted on the bed. My heart started to hurt, it was tight and felt empty. Itachi must have noticed my sudden change in attitude, he snaked his arm over my shoulder and pulled me into him. "When you got to Sakura's you found them both naked on her bed. You ran out, crying and Sasuke realized what he was doing and then ran after you leaving Sakura alone."

"I can't believe she, she would do something like that to me." I started to tear up but I held it back.

"Akria and I went running after you but we somehow lost you. You were drunk too, we had all been drinking, so Akria was scared that something might happen to you. We ran everywhere looking for you but had no idea where you were. Sasuke had found you, you were at a park hiding behind a bush. You looked like trash, you were full of dirt and your eyes were bloodshot from crying so much. He scared you really bad, you were screaming for him to let go and not to hurt you."

"So that dream I had was actually a memory?"

"What?" I didn't realize I had said that out loud. I looked at him and shook my head. I took in a deep breath and a tear ran down my cheek. I turned away so Itachi didn't have to see me cry, I felt so betrayed, hurt and discouraged. So many emotions at once that I couldn't even handle it. "Ino,"

"No, keep going on with the story."

"After that you became really sectioned off, with everyone. You never got to talk to Sakura because she left and you didn't talk to Sasuke for days, almost a whole month. You were so depressed and we hated see you like that. It even got to the point where you started hurting yourself because you had no one to talk too. When all of us found about what you had been doing to yourself, we tried to help you. Akria tried the most because she went through the same thing before we met." I ran my fingertips over the scars that were on my thigh. "That's when you and Akria got really close; and then you got back with Sasuke. But this time he had changed, he started to drink more and come home late. He would be angry at you a lot, and you were go crying to Akria about it and she would tell me. I would try to talk to him about it but he would just blow me off. Things had finally settled down after a while when the paparazzi started hearing about all the drama. But that peacefulness didn't last too long, Akria's family life started going downhill and she became depressed, we would try to help her but nothing worked. She lost her mother when she was very young and her father had gotten deathly sick, he passed away with cause Akira to be like that. We ended what we had because she couldn't handle a relationship, I left for a while out of town to get away, and the day I came back you and her were drinking, she saw me and ran. You ran after her, it was raining and you couldn't even see what in front of you." My chest started to tighten, knowing what was coming next.

A flash came to me, like lightening. I was running, yelling out for Akria. I had no idea where she had gone, it was dark and raining. I was scared, and then I heard a crash. I ran as fast as I could to where it came from, and when I saw broke me. I fell to my knees, yelled out and cried. Itachi ran up next to me and fell down too, yelled, it was terrifying to hear him like that. I slowly tried to stand up and walk towards the accident. The person in the car walked out and repeatedly started saying he was sorry, he didn't see her. I blocked him out after the second sorry, I grabbed Akria's hand. She was still alive, barely breathing.

A few hours later I was at a hospital with Itachi waiting, we were both soaking wet and my eyes hurt from the crying. The doctor showed up and told us to follow him. 'Her condition is really bad, but with expert help there is a chance she will still make it.' He told us. 'What do you mean a chance? How big of a chance are you talking about here?' Itachi asked him. He was scared I could see it in his face, no he was terrified for his life. The doctor didn't answer him. 'That's my girlfriend in there we're talking about. How big or small of a chance does she have!?' I held onto his arm. His eye were watery with anger and he was shaking; but the doctor just walked away. Itachi let out a frustrated groan and hit the wall next him with his fist.

We waited a whole day before the doctor finally came back to talk to us and not with good new either, I could tell by his face expression. I started to cry and Itachi put his arm around me, trying to comfort me the best way he could. She didn't make it, her injures were too severe for her body to handle. I fell down, my knee were weak and I couldn't hold myself up. Itachi had to sit down and he stared mindlessly at the floor. It hadn't hit him yet, and I don't think it was anything time soon.

When I came back from my daze Itachi just looked at me and I started crying again.

"I remembered everything that happened that day." I told him between my sobs.

"Do you remember anything else after that day?"

"No, but please keep going. I'm listening."

"If you say so; after her death, you became depressed again and Sasuke got worse with his drinking. He started to hit you, and call you worthless. You couldn't take it anymore, he drove you to the point to where you wanted to kill yourself, and you tried but failed which caused you to go into your coma. I didn't find out about anything that happened until after you got into. I hated Sasuke, and he didn't care on bit about what happened. Every day I would go and check on you, I would go to your house and take care of things. Sasuke, he just got drunk all the time and then one day he started talking trash about you in public when I was around and we got into fight, this wasn't ever long ago."

"I-I, everything hurts Itachi, I don't know what to do." My moved my head to his shoulder and ran his fingers through my hair. "I can't go back to him."