I'm wondering how many people are frustrated with me because I haven't updated my other stores. One Word. College. I promise to update this story every week. I want to make myself a better writer, and the only way to do that is to get writing. So please read and review : )

Disclaimer: I own nothing except this plot. I wish I owned Itachi and Sakura though.

Summary: Her mission was supposed to be easy when she suddenly was taken away from her team by two men in black cloaks covered in red clouds. The man with red eyes wanted her. He wanted to break her. ItaSaku

Breathe

Chapter 1

Carefully, she stepped on to the tree branch five feet away from her captain. He was scoping the area, checking for any intruders. The medic in her was worried for what was waiting for her. Her other teammate stood by her side, patient for what the captain would decide.

"Fox, Monkey, we will camp here for the night," their captain ordered. The two nodded. The three of them settled in an isolated area. The man behind the fox mask was decided to take the first shift.

The fox, the monkey, and the cat had been running for thirty-two hours straight, finally complying with the need for a bit of rest. The monkey put her hand in her kunai pouch and pulled out soldier pills, plopping them into her mouth. The cat proceeded to lay his head on the log and get some shut eyes.

Their mission was to get the monkey to the Sand Village and heal others who needed her help. The ones who needed her help were ambushed on a mission, forced to stop in the Sand until further notice. Their leader suggested the monkey to go with the fox and the cat in fear that the monkey will be harmed. If any harm came to the monkey, the Fire Village would be out a medic, a very good medic who had surpassed the leader who ordered them.

The monkey rested on the ground for a little bit, keeping her senses up a bit in case her other teammate should somehow fall asleep. The fox wasn't very reliable when it came to running for a long time. Though he was more mature than he used to be, he still was a bit careless in his actions. His carelessness was why he had yet to become an ANBU captain.

The cat was out quickly. He reflected why he had the cat mask. He was agile and sneaky, but he was fast to sleep when he got the chance.

The fox kept watch for two hours, noticing nothing out of the ordinary. He made the switch with the monkey, heading right for slumber. The monkey watched her surroundings. They had no sleep for thirty-two hours and only receiving two was taking its toll on her.

The monkey checked her medical supply in her head. Her old team leader from seven years ago had been injured along with a boy that was once in love with her and a girl who loved the fox. The report explained that the three had been ambushed an Akatsuki member. Their mission was to escort the advisors from Konoha to the Sand Village. Luckily, none of the advisors had been hurt. The girl who loved the fox could heal some wounds but not as extensively as the monkey.

Then the monkey felt it. She sensed a chakra running towards them. She shook the fox and the cat awake. They felt it too. There were two chakra signals now. They had hidden their chakra well, but the monkey had developed a skill over the years to detect any chakra, even hidden chakra. They prepared themselves. The monkey charged up her fists with chakra. The cat pulled out his katana. The fox held two kunai, one in each hand.

The two people coming for them finally appeared. The monkey resisted gasping when she saw the cloaks on the two men. Both of them wore black cloaks with red clouds. One had blue skin, and the other had the famous Uchiha Sharingan. The five stared at each other, waiting for one of them to make the first move. The monkey knew she had to protect herself. She was needed in the Sand Village, so no harm was to come to her.

Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame stood before them. No doubt they had some part in the attack on the team in the Sand Village. "Hello, little ANBU!" Kisame exclaimed, pointing his sword at them.

"Remember the mission, Kisame," Itachi reminded, eyeing the three ANBU in front of him. He analyzed each mask, taking in the animals. He stared at their hair: blond, brown, and pink. The pink had caught his eye. The five ninjas were waiting for the other to attack to give them reason to start attacking.

"Fox, monkey," the cat called to his fellow companions. At that instant, all five attacked each other at once. The monkey and the fox settled on the weasel, lunging for him as he did in turn at the monkey. The cat chose to fight the fish. The fox and monkey worked together avoiding the Uchiha's eyes. The cat wondered to himself why the pair is here fighting the three of them. Could they be after the fox, or do they intend to stop them from completing the mission?

The cat dodged the sword that the blue fish possessed. The Samehada was a weapon that could suck the chakra out of him if it got close enough. The cat leapt up in the air, throwing a few shuriken at Kisame. He quickly dodged, thrusting the Samehada at the cat. They were playing a game of cat and fish.

The fox and the monkey tackled the weasel but missed. The monkey stomped on the ground and caused a crater. The weasel jumped out of the way before he could get caught up in the debris. He was instantly behind the monkey, grasping on the back of her neck. The monkey disappeared and appeared to his side, lunging at him with her fist. The fox was nowhere to be seen. Then he ran out with a ball of air in hand, preparing to hit the weasel with it.

"Rasengan," the fox cried, thrusting it at the Uchiha. The weasel caught both their wrists and kicked the fox towards the tree, while pushing the monkey onto the ground. The monkey kicked up with chakra in her feet, but he avoided it and pulled her mask off in the process.

Haruno Sakura was under the monkey mask. Her eyes widened that her mask was stolen. She immediately stood up, powering her chakra fists and running at Itachi with full force. The fox recovered himself and called out, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Thirty clones appeared all intent on attacking the Uchiha. All but two lunged at him. Sakura's fist was again caught by the Uchiha. She disappeared as twenty-eight clones descended on him. They all carried their own individual Rasengan. A few trees fell around them. Itachi continued to avoid all the hits.

Sakura gathered chakra in her hands. Her hands glowed blue this time. She brought her hand downs on him like a knife as he appeared in front of her. He was hit. Sakura had severed a few of his muscles. Itachi ignored the pain, grabbing the girl and throwing her against a tree.

Kisame had knocked out the cat successfully, removing his mask. He had drained him of most of his chakra. The lack of sleep had gotten to the cat.

Hyuuga Neji lay on the ground unconscious. He had failed in bringing down Kisame. Kisame focused his sights on the fox, taking out all of his clones. "Rasenshuriken!" the two remaining copies of the fox exclaimed, running for the one who had defeated his comrade. Kisame decided to only avoid the attack by a couple of inches, hitting the two foxes with his sword.

Sakura kicked Itachi away from her by a few feet. She looked away from his eyes. Right now, she wished she had perfected the jutsu she had been working on. For now, she was just going to have to use it as well as she could. She disappeared into the trees with the Uchiha watching her. She moved from side, starting to focus chakra into her eyes. She prepared a huge amount of chakra. It almost functioned like the Byuukagan, but it had its own effects. She had molded it so genjutsu would fail to work on her while using this technique.

Using her new technique that she had yet to name, she quickly went for Uchiha. The technique she developed also allowed her to detect any moves made. He moved out of the way, and she punched him in the shoulder with huge strength. He glared at her, quickly noticing that she was making eye contact with him but that it had no effect on her. He also noted the huge amount of chakra pulsing into her eyes. They were glowing green right now, but he knew it would not last for very long. This jutsu was still young and not yet controllable enough.

All it would take was a little distraction to stop the flow of chakra to her eyes. He blew a fire ball at her, and she somersaulted away, quickly getting back on her feet. Her chakra was now dwindling as her new eyes took its toll on her.

Sakura heard the fox yell out as he hit the floor all bloodied up. She punched the ground. The two Akatsuki avoided that attack, focusing on her now that her teammates were out. Itachi kicked at her. Sakura avoided it, only to get hit in the back with the Samehada. It sucked chakra out of her, enough so that her eyes could no longer perform the jutsu. Blood trickled down her back. She moved out of the way of Kisame's punch. She was suddenly slammed into a tree, a hand on her neck. She shut her eyes, fearing the one who caught was going to use his genjutsu on her.

"Little pink ANBU is scared, Itachi." Kisame chuckled at Sakura's trying to avoid the Uchiha's eyes.

"Kill the Hyuuga over there," Itachi ordered. This caused Sakura to snap her eyes open.

"No!" Sakura looked into Itachi's eyes without realizing it.

"Mangekyo Sharingan." She had been tricked into looking into his eyes. She felt herself black out in that instant. The blue fish grinned at their success. Itachi handed Sakura over to Kisame. Kisame threw Sakura onto his shoulder.

"No, Sakura!" the fox exclaimed. Itachi stepped on the fox's stomach as he struggled to get up.

"It's not your turn yet, little fox. We'll be back for you soon," Itachi told the worried fox. He kicked off the mask. Uzumaki Naruto looked over at the blue fish who now had his sister. His chakra had been drained by that Samehada. The only way he could get more chakra is if he broke the new seal that the Hokage had placed on his nine-tailed fox, but he knew he could possibly kill Sakura in the process. His nine-tailed fox had reached eight tails the last time he lost control. "You'll never see her again, Kyuubi. If you ever do, then you'll see a broken girl," Itachi remarked. He was just trying to anger the blond haired boy. The boy looked up into Itachi's eyes, trapped by his gaze.

"Sakura," Naruto whispered, falling into the effect of Mangekyo Sharingan. The blue fish roared into laughter.

"Hn," Itachi replied, giving his comrade a look that said to get moving.

The fox and the cat found unconscious a few hours later by a group of gennin and there jounin leader. The jounin was shocked that the two ANBU had been knocked out. She placed a hand on the Hyuuga, healing his wounds with the healing she knew.

"Kyou, Sen, Yuuki, the mission is cancelled for now. Our main objective is to get these two ninjas back to Konoha," the jounin leader ordered.

"But Ino-sensei, we got to go escort someone," the one called Kyou replied. Ino shook her head at them.

"We'll have the Hokage send out a replacement. It's more important that we bring them back to the village," the jounin sensei replied. She walked over to the blonde boy lying on the ground. She healed his major wounds as best as she could. She noticed him struggling and whimpering. He was under a powerful genjutsu. The other boy groaned as he woke up.

"Where?" the ANBU captain asked, looking at his surroundings. He noticed the two gennin standing over him. "Yuuki, Kyou, what are you doing here?" He recognized from whenever he and Konoha 11 would get together for drinks. They were Ino's students. Remembering that, he saw a blonde haired woman kneeling over his fox teammate, her hands glowing with a light green color. He started to recollect his memory, swiftly sitting up.

"Neji, don't get up so fast! You're wounded!" Ino scolded at him. "What happened?"

"We were ambushed." He tried to remember his mission and who had done it. It was coming to him slowly. Ino went back over to him, checking if he opened any wounds. "It was Akatsuki!" This shocked Ino to actually jump at the name. He looked around him, seeing the remnants of the battle. He saw the large craters. "No," he whispered.

"What, Neji-san?" Ino asked, staring at him. He scanned the battlefield and saw it. The monkey mask almost buried into the ground.

"Sakura, where is she?" Neji questioned, giving a look of worry to the mask on the ground. Ino quivered. She hadn't seen her pink haired friend here. Neji activated his Byuukagan with the little chakra he had, scanning for any trace of her chakra.

Nothing, he couldn't find anything. "Neji, where's Sakura-chan?" Neji shook his head at Ino's question.

"Yuuki! Kyou! Sen! We must get to the Sand village now!" Ino barked. She picked up Naruto in her arms. She had enough strength to carry him. Maybe Naruto would know what happened. "Can you walk, Neji?" Ino asked. The Hyuuga nodded in return, limping a little bit as they started to run to the Sand village. The Sand Village was much closer right now than the Konoha village was.

'Please be safe, Sakura-chan,' Ino prayed. She would send a bird to Konoha informing them of what happened once she got to the Sand Village.

A silver haired ANBU began to wake up from the genjutsu he was under. He scanned the room he was in, seeing the limp bodies of his two teammates. A woman wearing a white coat was looking them over, checking for any more wounds on them.

He was in a hospital. He hated hospitals. The only hospital he would go to would be the one his pink haired ex-student worked at. He heard the two doors to the room slam open, making him go into ninja mode. He and his two fellow ANBU still wore their masks as part of ANBU regulations. They were to remain anonymous at all costs. A brown haired Hyuuga collapsed onto the bed next to the silver haired's female teammate. Seeing the Hyuuga made him think that he had been sent here on a mission. Then he saw blonde haired woman walk in, placing one of his former students onto the bed next to him.

"Ino-san, what happened?" the silver haired ANBU asked.

"Ka-… Wolf-san, these two were ambushed," Ino replied. He noticed the choke in her voice. There was something else he wasn't telling her. The Hyuuga next to his female teammate looked at him. He was hiding something as well.

"By who?" Wolf questioned, expecting them to answer as he snapped at them.

"Akatsuki." Wolf shook at that answer. That was who had attacked his team before he fell under a genjutsu. The two were still hiding something from him.

"What else?" His voice startled them. They looked away, quickly. Ino's three gennin walked into the room, coming to see their jounin sensei.

"Bakas, you need to wait in the waiting room. This is grown up business," she told them. They scowled and quickly left the room. The blonde jounin walked to the doctor who was looking over the girl with the white fox mask. "I'll help. I have medical experience as well." The doctor was relieved that she wasn't the only one here who would be working on the five people restricted to the beds.

"Ino, Neji, you're avoiding my question. What else?" He was now worried for what they were going to say.

"Our mission was to guard our medic-nin while she came here to heal you three," Neji told him quietly afraid anyone else was listening.

"Please tell me the medic-nin was Ino. Please tell me it was her." He looked at his former student who lay on the bed next to him. He heard his whimpers, recognizing it to be the genjutsu he had been under. Neji swallowed the lump in his throat. "Were they after Naruto?" Neji said nothing. He did not want to answer. "Tell me!" A sense of panic echoed in the tone. He cared for his former students more than anyone else.

"Sakura was the medic-nin. When we came to, she was nowhere to be seen." The wolf yelled out, ripping the IV out of his arm, running for the door, only to be stopped by Neji and Ino with brute force.

"Sakura!" the wolf screamed out into the hallway. Tears were streaming under the wolf's mask.

Jade eyes opened. She shuddered at the genjutsu she had been under. It was so lifelike. Her friends would constantly stab her over and over. It felt weeks.

She coughed at the humid air in the room. She felt drained, most of her chakra gone. Her memory was blank as to what could have happened. It took some time for it all to come back to her. By the time it did, she hadn't hear a door open and shut. She felt around in the dark. She was on a bed with a blanket draped over her. She could tell the room was small. She put a little bit of chakra into her eyes so that she could see in the dark. The pink haired girl then detected the man standing in the corner of the room.

"Hello, kounichi." The man began to walk towards her. His eyes glowed red in the dark. She feared this man now that she was weak.

"Itachi," she recognized.

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