"We're over!" Itachi growled over Yuki unnecessary yells of outrage.
"But Itachi-kun!" she insisted.
He growled again. "You've done nothing but drive me mad," he said dangerously, eyes momentarily flashing red. "And now you cheat? There MUST have been a reason to why I didn't want to have sex with you!"
"Is it because I'm ugly? Or is it because of that whore of yours, Sakura?" Yuki said. "I needed it."
"So you thought it would be a brilliant idea to do it behind my back?" Receiving no response, Itachi continued. "With my friend? And you call Sakura a whore! Gosh, I can't believe I sacrificed the friendship with her for you! You disgust me!" Itachi finished, leaving the café in which everything happened in a huff. His coffee was long forgotten.
Damn your scholarship to New York, Sakura, Itachi thought sourly, I fucking need you here.
Itachi POV
I grabbed the phone tightly in my hands and formed her number.
Hey there Delilah
"Hey there… Sakura…"
"Itachi? What the~?"
What's it like in New York City?
"So how's New York?"
"It's fine… I guess…"
I heard the rest of the sentence. It would be better with you here.
I'm a thousand miles away
"Sakura, I miss you," I say suddenly.
She sounds surprised. "Don't you have, you know, Yuki?"
"She cheated."
"Oh. I'm sorry, I really am."
But girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true
Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice, it's my disguise
I'm by your side
I realized she didn't say she missed me back.
"So… Do you have a boyfriend or something?"
Silence. "Yeah."
"Oh. Cool."
I know how she felt when I started dating Yuki.
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me
Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me, girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good
"Sakura, I'm sorry I laughed at you when you described your perfect wedding and life."
Hey there Delilah
"It's… okay, I guess."
I've got so much left to say
"Sakura, what happened to us?"
"You." Click.
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all
A few days passed since I talked to Sakura. My mother and brother always look so bloody sympathetic, it's driving me crazy! I can't take it anymore! Sakura, she should be mine.
"She's not an object, aniki," Sasuke said quietly. "You know, you broke her heart. She's right to make the conversations awkward."
When Sasuke said that, Mother smiled at him. Father gave him a proud look.
"My boy," Father said. "if you love this girl so much, chase her." He shared a meaningful look with Mother. "Chase her like I did with your Mother. It'll work out."
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
The plane is leaving in a few minutes, and I'm scared. Like I've never been before. Not because it's a plane – god knows on how many planes I was on at my life – I'm afraid because I don't know what to expect. I always know what to expect. It's not right.
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
The flight was over too soon.
Deidara called – he laughed at me. I could hear Madara and Kisame laughing, too.
Idiots.
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
The only one that felt like this- or was supposed to have felt like – was Madara with his fiancé, Kina. "You should know better, Madara," I say quietly into the phone.
Silence at the other end. "I do," he sighed finally. "But… she has a boyfriend. Give up."
"Never," I said.
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
"Hey, Sakura!" I say into the phone just as she answers.
"Itachi," she responds finally. "Hello."
"Where are you?"
She's confused. "Sorry?"
I laugh. The sound is strange. "Where are you right now?"
"Oh. I'm on Broadway with a friend. I think you know her. Hinata Hyuuga?"
My smile stretches into a grin. Easy. "Yeah. Well, I gotta go… bye!"
I snap my phone shut before she has the chance to say something else.
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame
I find her at M&Ms Store. I couldn't miss that bright pink hair, even through the thick window separating us. Grinning, I run in the store.
Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
…My God, she's beautiful. She's wearing a pretty, blood red dress contrasting with her hair and black Converse.
"Sakura!" I yell over dozens of voices. Her head is turning.
I need to see her eyes.
You'll know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This one's for you
Beautiful, my Inner mind supplies. She's absolutely, stunningly breathtaking.
I have to remind myself she's not mine.
Her emerald eyes widen at the sight of me. "Itachi," she gasps, and it takes all my control not to rush to her and grab her in my arms.
"I missed you," I repeat what I had said a week before.
This time, she answers. "So did I."
"I won't leave you again."
She smiles. "I know," Sakura says before placing a small, hesitant kiss to my lips.
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.