Asking For It

Cold and ashamed, Sakura remained still on the floor. Itachi's words had been absorbed into her brain. The places where he touched her felt broken yet healed. Her inner self had vanished and all that remained, was a fragile naked girl lying on the floor. Itachi, the brother of the man who she used to fantasize over, nearly slaughtered her dignity. Whatever happened her dignity was going to vanish, whatever the result.

For the first time since training to be a ninja, Sakura had felt emotionally, physically and mentally weak. She felt tempted to scream out all of her friend's names, just to receive their help and attention. However, the saddest thing was she knew that no one could hear. They were clueless to the situation.

"Sasuke, Naruto, Ino, Kakashi, Sai, anyone. My friends, please help me!" Sakura began helplessly whispering to herself. Hope was the only thing she had left. Sakura hung onto every feeling of hope she had. Sakura's gut feeling was whenever her friends noticed her disappearance; they will be trying everything they had, just to find her.

"You'll find me right?" Sakura asked crawling herself up in a ball. "Everything is going to be fine!" She exclaimed to herself. "Just like it was before."

The one sad thing was, Sakura didn't really know how good all the things were, until she was separated from them. "Itachi..." she called. "What do you want from me?"

Sakura had started to realise that the akatsuki group had kidnapped her. As Itachi is a member of their group, it had to lead to them. Now, she was wondering why? Sakura was expecting Itachi to arrive again soon. he question was, will Itachi return alone or with someone else? Sakura collected her scattered underwear and in caution, she slipped them both on as she watched her shattered clothes remain still on the floor. Once semi-naked, Sakura decided to put on her ripped red shirt along with the rest of her clothing. "Well," Sakura whispered to herself, "I'd rather look like a tramp then a whore. But I'm neither one of them."

The door had swung wide open. There they were again, his red eyes piercing directly at her face. Itachi was holding a black cloak in his hand. Sakura recognised what the cloak was, the cloak that the Akatsuki clan wore. 'Who was this cloak for?' Sakura wondered. Sakura believed there was absolutely no way that that cloak was for her. First of all, she assumed that none of the group even like her, secondly the rest of them be there as well.

Itachi threw dark cloak over to Sakura. Sakura only stared at the cloak in horror. She may be a part of Akatsuki. If she was, then would that make her a traitor to her friends. 'I must be taking it the wrong way!' Sakura thought. Sakura decided to simply place the cloak on. Without any emotion on what she wanted. The cloak was more presentable then ripped clothes.

"Thanks," Sakura said not even knowing weather she should have said it or not.

"No problem," Itachi replied in the same tone. "So tell me," Itachi demanded. "What do know about my brother?"

Sakura tried to open her mouth. She was starting to feel like a criminal. 'Am I helping the enemy?' she started thinking to herself.

"I will restore my clan and kill a certain man!"

"Well Sasuke wants to restore his clan, and he wanted to kill someone," Sakura remembered looking away from Itachi. Sakura remembered fully what Sasuke said on the day they met Kakashi. "That's what he said, there isn't anything he likes and there are a lot of things he hates."

"Makes sense," Itachi pointed out. "It's quite easy for him to find someone like you annoying."

"I didn't mean to annoy him!" Sakura snapped, her eyes facing Itachi again. "I just wanted to be there for him. I actually wanted to be his girl."

The reaction was somewhat expected from Itachi. He continued watching Sakura's body language and noticed that she started to become scared and shy.

"You know," Sakura continued, "nearly all of the girls of the girls wanted to be with him." Itachi began to look even more interested. "Like I said before, Sasuke was the ideal guy. I even became enemies with my best friend because of him."

"I think I've heard enough now!" Itachi stated. The minute she heard this, Sakura assumed that Itachi was going to realise her and the only reason he wanted her was to get at Sasuke.

"So," Sakura said. "Does this mean I can go?"

"No it doesn't!" Itachi replied sharply grabbing onto Sakura's arm. "It means the conversation is over. Come with me!"

"Where are we going?" Sakura asked curiously.

"To meet our crew!" Itachi announced. Sakura paused her movements. Did this mean she was part of the Akatsuki crew already? Sakura began to hesitate as her confusion grew rapidly and more quicker.

"Our crew..." Sakura mouthed hesitantly.

"Yes," Itachi replied hastily. "Pein is expecting us." Itachi dragged Sakura along by the hand and threw Sakura out of the room. She landed with her face against the wall. She heard the door close and Itachi's quiet footsteps behind her. Along with that, she heard more footsteps becoming louder and closer by the second. Sakura needn't turn around to know who it was. The Akatsuki clan were approaching her.

"Turn around," Itachi whispered to Sakura like a dog. "Be polite, my reputation is on the line too." Sakura realised what Itachi meant was mess this up and die. As Sakura turned around, she saw Pein, Konan, Kisame, Diedara, Tobi, Hidan and Kazuzu starting at her. The silence between everyone made Sakura even more uncomfortable. Pein, the leader of the Akatsuki, stepped up and handshakes Sakura's hand and said. "Welcome to our crew Haruno Sakura."