Most people were unaware of his enjoyment of reading
Ch. 1
Of Books, Pink Haired Book Spoilers, Tornado Warnings and Never Ending Holes.
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto everything would be screwed up. Read and that will be obvious.
Most people were unaware of his enjoyment of reading. After all, they would think, "He's Itachi Uchiha. What need would he have for books?" Well, actually, even though he had no need for them, they were enjoyable and on days when he had nothing to do, he went to the bookstore near where he and Kisame stayed.
Everything was as it usually was. The books were piled on shelves, in a completely unnatural order. The bookkeeper was clearly much unorganized the majority of the time. Dust lined the shelves so thickly one could scrape a layer off with their fingers and more would still be there, but all in all, Itachi liked it. Maybe it was because it was so isolated. Maybe it was because no one wants to go to an old run down bookshop, therefore he could be alone. But whatever the reason, he didn't mind it here. There was an always lit fireplace in the corner, and a comfy armchair.
However, on this particular day, to his great surprise there was a girl, with PINK HAIR sitting there, giggling, twirling her hair and reading some book entitled, "The Year of Secret Assignments." It looked like a girly book, especially by the cover and the description. Fortunately, she wasn't paying a lick of attention to him. He walked over to the shelf, and picked up the book, "The Book Thief," which so far was pretty good, and started to read where he'd left off. That was when the pink haired girl looked up.
"You know everyone dies at the end of that book, right?" she asked. "Are you sure you want to read it?" So now she had spoiled it. Itachi was pretty pissed.
"Hn…" he sighed. He could have killed or mortally wounded her for that, but it wasn't worth it. He was on the page where the narrator gave it away anyhow. Instead he just turned his head up, activated his Sharingan and glared at her. Seeing his face made her look as timid as a mouse and he began to wonder if she had a clue who he was.
Meanwhile, inside Sakura's head (A/N: I assumed you readers should know that was Sakura) she was screaming for dear life. Her inner sounded something like this at the moment.
"Holy shit! It's Sasuke's brother! Crap! What am I going to do! He'll kill me!"
Itachi was finally kind of sick of her freaked expression and said, "Obviously you know you I am."
"You think?!" Sakura asked, still in utter and complete terror.
"So it would only be polite to introduce yourself as well," Itachi reminded her.
"Oh," Sakura remembered. "I…uh…Sakura Haruno," she said as quickly as possible, turning back to her book.
All of a sudden, the radio beeped on. It was one of those incredibly annoying Weather Updates. It was something along the lines of this: "All residents of this area take cover now. A Tornado has just touched down north of here and is heading in our direction!" Well, that was just lovely. Sakura screamed. Itachi didn't really see any need to panic but instead he just ran over to the cellar door, lifted the hatch and pulled the door open.
"I'd get in if I was you," he said, "and it would only be right to let you go first, as you are the lady." Sakura was freaked about having to hide from a storm in a cellar with ITACHI UCHIHA but, it was her only hope. It was either him or the storm. She didn't know exactly which one was better. They were probably about equal. She rushed in, praying that she'd come out alive and well, ready to complete her mission with Naruto and Kakashi. Itachi followed after her, with a flashlight in hand. He closed the door, and total darkness followed. Sakura considered screaming again, but he turned on the flashlight, so she felt a bit better. But suddenly, she looked down and didn't feel so hot anymore. It was a never ending precipice. Sakura grabbed on to the ladder for dear life.
"You aren't intending to go any further?" Itachi questioned her.
"You haven't looked down," she shot back, irritated. "There is a hole that looks like it never ends."
"All holes end," Itachi replied.
"Fine," Sakura hissed angrily. Whatever she did at the moment, she'd be in distress anyway, so she decided to let go. He did too, a few seconds afterward, but she was very frustrated to learn that she was in fact right. It did seem never ending. She was falling forever and there wasn't a damn thing she could do about it. But then again, Sasuke's brother was too, so that brought a little happiness to what she was convinced would be her last few moments of life. She smiled, closed her eyes, and allowed herself to slowly lose consciousness.
A/N: I've been wanting to write an ItaSaku for a while but I really couldn't think of how. I suppose this crazy fantasy adventure thing is going to have to suffice.
