Haunted
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"For fucks sake, Forehead," Ino seethed. "Go talk to him." With a sharp nudge to Sakura's side, the drink in her hand went careening to the ground and shattered beautifully, capturing the attention of everyone within a five-foot radius. Including the man in question.
Her face burned. Sakura turned. "I hate you so goddamn much." But the blonde just shrugged, turning around to sip her sake, and flirt with the bartender.
Another bartender came around and helped clean up the mess, brushing off Sakura's pleas of apology for how clumsy she was. She didn't need to look up to know that he was looking at her still. She winced as a sharp piece of glass slit open her finger.
She ducked out to the bathroom, running it under cold water and bracing herself against the sink. She was right. Her face was cherry-red. She moaned, head hanging in defeat.
"Ino, why the fuck do you think I can just 'go up and talk' to Itachi Uchiha, of ALL people?" She dried her hands off, muttering angrily to herself. "He's a fucking god, and I'm just some paper ninja that barely passed the practicals."
She threw open the door and ran straight into the Uchiha God.
"Fuck me." She breathed, looking up at him. He raised an eyebrow and her words caught up with her head. "I-I mean, uh… s-sorry," she slipped past him.
"You're… Sakura Haruno, right?" He asked, leaning against the door-frame. She turned around reluctantly, and grimaced. "My brother mentions you sometimes."
She laughed awkwardly, winging her hands together. "P-probably bad things, right? He thinks I'm kinda useless."
Itachi cocked his head to the side, a confused look on his face. "Didn't you punch straight through a mountain on a mission in Kiri?"
She couldn't stop the blush that crept up her neck. "A-ah, yeah. I did." Oh Gods, now he's going to tell me how unattractive that is in a woman. Great going, Sakura.
Instead, he laughed. A soft kind that melted her heart. "That's pretty amazing, Haruno-san." His gaze flittered from her face to something behind her. "Sorry, I have to get going." He moved, but stopped at her side, leaning to whisper in her ear. "Since your friend has been pushing you to talk to me for the last couple weeks, maybe this will give her something to talk about."
He walked away and Sakura shivered violently.
"Bye, Haruno-san." She heard him call out leaving behind one (1) weak-kneed pink-haired kunoichi and one (1) smirking and amused blonde.
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A/N: I'm having some serious writers block on my other stories, so I'm going to publish a bunch of one-shot drabbles of Itachi and Sakura I have lingering in my documents.