AN: For those you who wanted a happy ending. I'm such a review whore that I wrote this after reading your reviews. Be happy…or something. Where as the first chapter is tragic and angsty, this chapter is light and kind of happy ish.

Sakura scowled balefully into her fruity midori sour. The damn thing tasted like a jolly rancher but it was the only thing that she could order that wouldn't blow her current cover sky high. She'd recently placed a genjutsu on her obnoxious pink hair and currently her eyes were blue according to their reflection in the nearest drunk next to her. She had been waiting for as long as she could without giving herself away. Where the hell was he? She stirred the toothpick speared with fruit in her drink, swirling the colors. Her eyes lingered towards the door and then returned to her drink. Then she felt it; wasn't disappointed to hear the slam of a door creaking open and shutting with force.

She turned and grinned, glad he didn't disappoint, as those starry red eyes narrowed balefully at her, striding towards her with purpose. He was practically shaking with fury, his chakra an aura of rage about him and his cloak.

She gave him a cat grin, practically licking her lips, as she looked at him. He placed a wad of cash down for the bartender, and yanked her hand, tugging her off the barstool and rather harshly out the door. Sakura tried to grab the drink on her way out and missed, deftly.

"Ow." She murmured, but followed after him. "You want to explain to me what you're doing-"

"What I'm doing? What I'm doing? You fool" He practically snarled as he led her into the alleyway.

Sakura took her hand back, rubbing her wrist. "Well, Yeah" She said with a shrug.

Red Sharingan fixed upon jade with a look that could have leveled Konoha.

"What the hell are you doing? Do you even know what you've done?" He demanded.

"I'm town hopping. What does it look like?" Sakura retorted. He was the one with the Sharingan that could see through everything after all.

"No, you most certainly are not. You are headed back to Konoha. Now." He demanded, grabbing her hand and yanking her out of the alleyway. Sakura dug in her heels, chakra gluing her to the ground.

"No." She said simply.

"Stop being unreasonable. You already injured Anbu members. They were looking for you. I've been looking for you. If you don't arrive in Konoha within the next two days they'll declare you missing."

"So?" Sakura said, shrugging.

"So?! Stop being so childish" Itachi scolded.

"Childish? You asked me to choose. So I did" Sakura snapped, eyes narrowing.

"Giving up your country is not what either of us wanted." Itachi replied steadily.

"Meh, it worked though, didn't it? I told you there was a third way." She grinned, leering.

"Idiot. That's not a way at all. You will be hunted down by Konoha nin and every other country. You're the Godaime's apprentice and as such you've earned quite a reputation for yourself. You'll never be able to see your home, your friends again."

"Most of them are dead anyways." She muttered, scuffing her ninja shoes in the dirt.

"Sakura" Itachi said, grabbing her shoulders, practically shaking her. "If you don't do something, you will never be able to return to Konoha"

"And why's that so bad again?" She replied steadily, though her breathe wreaked of alcohol. She wouldn't be taking this so steadily otherwise.

"Because you won't have a home!" He snapped.

"But I'll get to be with you" She replied. "So tell me again, why it's so bad?" She said, leaning against him contentedly.

Itachi's eye twitched, as he rubbed his forehead.

"We can be together now. I can find a job as a run of the mill hedge witch for some no where town that's never heard of ninja. I can live in the middle of the forest as a hermit healer and if you're very good, you can be my mysterious nightly visitor" She grinned.

"Do you honestly think Konoha will let you go?" Itachi retorted with a snort.

"No, but they wont be able to take me back, if you're with me" She grinned, fingering his Akatsuki cloak.

"You are NOT joining Akatsuki" He replied steadily.

"Why not? You yourself said I had the talent. You were the one who trained me, Baka" She said, kissing his neck affectionately. Her affection turned passionate as Itachi closed his eyes taking a deep breathe.

"And what do you think would happen to Akatsuki for harboring you?" Itachi replied, hands unconsciously lingering on her hips.

"Konoha would have more reason to hate you..er..us?" She replied, jade eyes gleaming.

"Sakura…" He murmured, as she pulled him closer, opening his cloak as she ran her fingers across his chest tantalizingly. "Go home." He told her.

"Why" She pouted.

"Because we've been through this" Itachi replied.

"You're the only one protesting now. If I go home, they won't let me out again. I'll never be able to see you. Is that what you honestly want?" Sakura scowled.

"I want you to be happy." Itachi replied.

"Then why are you pushing me away?" She choked, feeling the tears.

Itachi recoiled. Of all the things about Haruno Sakura, he hated her tears more than anything else.

"You know I desire you, Sakura…. It's that this is going to have…consequences." He strangled out, at as her hands fiddled with the drawstring waist of his pants.

"Stop distracting me." He ordered, pushing her against the alleyway. She grinned, definitely buzzed if not drunk as he looked at her glassy eyes.

"I think you're being a pessimist." She said. "I think, now that Konoha knows about what happened and now that Akatsuki has given up on the jinchuuriki, that you should be a little less paranoid" She said. "My teammates are dead. You're all I've got left."

"And how would Konoha know what happened?" Itachi's eyes narrowed, eyebrow arching.

"Maybe I left a folder for Tsunade before I left" She replied with a grin.

Itachi's eyes narrowed. "I had wanted nothing more to do with Konoha"

"Until you met me. And now I'm no longer a Konoha nin. So really Itachi that leaves the only important question right now" She fingered his necklace, pulling him closer. "and I think you already know the answer. My place or yours?"

Itachi sighed. She half giggled, half snorted.

"Tachi-Kun" She whined.

"How you get yourself into such trouble is simply inconceivable at times" He murmured almost affectionately, as he kissed her hard.

"Mmmm..so when are you going to talk to Pein sama about me?"

"That is a discussion for later" Itachi reprimanded, taking her into his arms, and ninja poofing out of the alleyway.