Fours a Crowd

Chapter I

Keira's POV:

My story starts when I was born in the Land of Apples. I wasn't supposed to be born. My parents didn't want a seccond child, infact they didn't want children in genral. We just happened to be born in the most unwanted times. My brother, Hotoka was nine when I was born, he wasn't too thrilled that I was alive either. One day when I was five years old, my parents said they were going on a mission with Hotoka. I was guliable to belive them. After three days of being alone, someone came to my rescue. His name was was Kenta Okayama. He was a good friend of my parents, but much nicer than they were. He was like my uncle. He knew they'd abandod me sometime soon and decicded he wanted a daughter.

I lived at the Okayama residence in Kohona. It was nice and I made some friends there. I trained at the academy every day. That's when I met my crush, Itachi. He was at the top of his class and he was good looking too. But I had a feeling he had no intrest in me. I sat behind him in class and day dreamed about him. When I was nine I developed courage to talk to him. Although he didn't talk much, he was very nice. We were like best friends. At the age of tweleve, something horrible happened after something good happened. I was finally a chunin. But the day that happened all of Itachi;s clan was dead. I didn't know who killed them or if Itachi knew. That's when he told me. We were standing outside his house. He told me he killed them. I was in shock. He told me he had to for the sake of the family. Which made me feel even worse is that he was leaving the village. Before he left, he kissed me and said, "thank you, Keira. You mean a lot to me." Then he left.

I was depressed since that day. But one thing glowed in my mind. He said that I ment a lot to him, but the question is why leave? I'm now sixteen and part of the ANBU, just like Itachi was. I wanted to be in his level to be with him, but none of my effort paid off since he left. Since then I've been friends with one of my teammates, Arata. He is kinda like an older brother except he is very femine. Arata has been trying to get Itachi out of my mind. Sometimes it works, other times I go into deep depression. I've been crazy to think to go after him, but I don't know where he is.

Arata and I were planning on getting some dango today. Dango wasn't my favorite, but I still enjoyed it. As I was walking to the dango place to meet Arata, I overhear Kakashi talking to Kurenai and Asuma about some type of danger in our village. No one has harmed our village in I don't know how long. Since the Kyuubi attacked mabey. Arata spots me and I wave to him. I still had a worried look on my face. "You okay, Keira?" Arata asks me. "Yeah I'm fine. I just overheard Kakashi saying something about danger in our village." I say. "Mabey we should keep a look out then, make sure he is telling the truth." He says. "The dango can wait."

Ten minutes and me and Arata don't see anything suspicious. Everyone is doing their everyday routine. But looks can be deciving. Then again Kohona is pretty big. After a few hours we call it quits, nothing was wrong, everyone was fine, except for Kakashi. I spot Kakashi passed out and Gai was carrying him to the infermery. "What happened to him?" I ask. "Some unexpected vistors attacked Kakashi. They put him under a crazy genjutsu." Gai answered. "Could it be?" I ask wondering if it was Itachi. "Yes, but I'm afraid he is different now." Gai said. "How different?" I ask. "Well for one thing he is after tailed jinchurki and second he is part of the akatsuki." He answered. "I'm going after him!" I say in run into a random direction. "Dammit, I knew this would happen." Gai said under his breath. Most of the people in Kohona knew about Itachi's relationship with me.

I wasn't sure where he was, but I knew he was after Jinchurki host. I knew one in the village. His name was Naruto and he was tweleve. If Itachi is after Naruto, then I must follow Naruto in order to find Itachi. I see Naruto and his trainer, Jiraya in the exit of the village. I have to follow them without looking suspicious, so I hide in various areas. 'Why are they going outside the village?' I ponder.

After a few hours of traveling we stop at some minor village. Jiraya goes off with some woman who looked thirty years younger than him. Naruto goes off and enjoys a fair that is going on. I need a way to blend in without looking suspicious. I used my transformation jutsu to look like one of the locals. I was a chubby brunette with big brown eyes and glasses dressed in a yukata. It felt ackward looking like this, since I'm so skinny. I followed Naruto around the fair and he never noticed.

Naruto checked into a motel room that was somewhat empty. I changed back to my regular look, and not that other person I was earlier and check in the room next to him. I'm thinking to myself, "I'm crazy, I should go home!' But I want to be reunited with Itachi again at the same time. The walls weren't the quietist, you can almost hear every conversation that goes on. I hear Naruto's voice talking to a monotone dark voice, which sounded like no other. I open the door to see if it was him. It was, but Gai was right, he was part of the akatsuki now. Either give up my village or my love. Love is impossible to give up, but I can't go chasing after him now. Naruto will see me, and who knows what he might do to bring me back.

No one ever saw me, but I watched a whole battle between Naruto, Sasuke, and Jiraya versus Itachi and some blue guy. He wasn't human, but what was he? Sasuke ends up with some fractured bones, and Naruto and Jiraya try to send him back to the village, but can't. Luckily Gai comes crashing in and takes Sasuke back to Kohona. As everyone leaves the hallway, I decide this is my chance to go after Itachi before its too late.

I've been on Itachi's tail for about a few hours and hasn't reconigzed me. I try calling to him but he can't hear me.

Itachi's POV:

After battling a bunch of Kohona ninjas, I decided it was time to retreat. But after two hours of traveling I feel as if there is someone following me, someone fimilar. "Kisame, go on ahead, I'll catch up later." I command. "Whats going on?" Kisame asks. "Theres another one, you continue walking, I'll take care of it." I say. "But if you use you mange-" "I know what I said, now go!" I say. I turn to see who it was. She had blue eyes and short brown hair that went to her ear lobe. She was wearing an orange track shirt and blue pants. I've seen her before, but where? I throw a kunai at her to get her off my tail. She dodges instantly and then gets closer (in normal talking distance) and says, "You obvoisly forgotten who I am, Itachi-Kun."

Keira's POV:

"You obviously forgotten who I am, Itachi-Kun." I say. His emotion dosen't change so I wasn't sure if he seriously forgotten, or he wasn't happy to see me. "Okayama Keira." He said. He did remember! "What are you doing here?" he asks, trying to get rid of me. "I wanna be with you again! I miss you. Life's no fun without you." I say. He still is emotionless. "Keira, I can't live in Kohona anymore." He said. "I know you can't that's why I wanted to follow you!" I begged him. "You can't, you'll get hurt." He said. "I'm a big girl, I can handle myself." I said. Then he came closer and put his hand on my cheek, his lips brushed across mine. I blush. When he pulls away he says, "Go home, Keira." "No, I won't! I want to be with you! You said I mean a lot to you. And then you left, so I kept thinking about that day and then I relized you really care for me. And I care about you!" I say, a few tears rolled down my eyes. "Fine, you can come. But when you die,I will say I told you so." He said. I knew my speech touched him.

We caught up to the blue non human guy. "Kisame, this is Keira Okayama. Don't hurt her or you'll be dead, got it?" Itachi said. "Why? Is she your girlfriend? You know Pein dosen't like us having women around in the base." Kisame said. "No, but she is one of my good friends and she refuses to go home." Itachi said. He kissed me twice and I'm only a good friend? I don't know if I should be angry or happy. "She must really like you then." Kisame said. "Shut it, Kisame. She could be for the akatsuki, mabey not. But she isn't she'll need a good way how to convince Pein to let her stay."