Hey guys!!! i finally got this story up to scratch... sorry that there is no one shot like i promised you guys... i am working on it, but it needs a whole lot of touching up, as it sounds wayyyyyyyyy too much like my depressing ending of Rain... sad, but true... so i got this one out for you guys...

Itachi and Sakura one...!!! and a bit of Sasgay, as i like to call him... no offense to any Sasuke fans... i just don't get why he had to go out and be an ass...

any who, here it is, hope you guys like it!!! inspiration hit me while i was sitting in my room, reading, and listening to the rain on the roof, and here is what i vomited out... with a few ajustments here and there... and alot tidier and nicer than my description of how it just came out of my un... whats that word, meaning that you had looked through it, and made sure that it was ok to say, or write... i cant remember the word... and it is annoying me... it means like... i dont know, its what people who have big mouths say, normally just after they had said something, straight from their brain, to the world, with out any thought... grrr... i will remember it... as soon as i have finished this...

stupid brain meltdowns.

anywho, enjoy, and read and review!!!

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Rain poured down from the heavens, the skies above a dark, looming purple colour, as the grey slashes of rain cut down at the trees, the wind gusting through their branches, whipping the falling, ripped leaves from their places and spiralling to the earth below. Thunder snarled overhead, and lighting flashed, lighting the horizon in a flash of white, before the next growl of thunder rumbled across the sky.

A lone figure sprinted through the trees, her coat flying in the wind, as it tried to take it off of her body. The figure cursed, pulling the dark material closer, and darting under a large bough, just as another roar of thunder sounded, and a bright, blazing bolt of lighting stabbed at the taller reaches of the forest, forking off to try and get another place, before fading from the figure's eyes, leaving bright spots in the place of the white light.

Soaking wet, and shivering from the cold, the single body flung herself under a tree in the hollow of its roots. She coughed, and then sneezed, murmuring to herself angrily.

"They sent me out, in this God-forsaken weather, to take a stupid effing package to a rich snobby asshole, who can't summon enough energy to get off his fat ass and travel to Konoha to get it… bloody… damn… stupid… hate this… typical…" she muttered, smoothing back her dark, almost red locks, and squeezing them out to get out the water that was dripping from her. She did the same to her clothes, including the saturated coat that she had wrapped around her shoulders.

She coughed again, looking out into the pouring rain with apprehension. She knew that she could not afford to take a break, if her village want the alliance with a powerful war lord from Rain. The country was well named, for as soon as Sakura had passed over the border line, the sky had gotten darker, and grey clouds, fat with water, had come rolling in from the south, bringing with it a cold wind, and freezing temperatures.

Forget it was summer, bring on the winter storms. Instead of the storm being a fast moving, fiery light show of lighting and sunshine, it was a damp, slow moving winter storm, complete with the doom and gloom look, and it also seemed that the weather had set in for a while, maybe a few days, at the least.

She coughed one last time, looking at the semi dry ground with longing, before throwing herself back out into the open, where the force of nature was waiting.

What a fun first solo mission it was turning out to be.

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cough cough... for those of you who did not realise, yes, that was sarcasm.

sakura is NOT enjoying her mission. what she does not know, is that it will get worse...