The Answer

Prologue


He was very attractive. She knew this even through the dim late-afternoon light, knew this even as she pondered how wrong it was. There was something about his eyes, some sort of hidden honesty and surrender that drew her in. He was the sort of man she'd expect to help her with her groceries, or treat her to dinner though she didn't know him.

But she did know this man. He was not some kind stranger or a friendly suitor. –He was Uchiha Itachi, and he offered no explanation, no ill greeting, as he killed her teammates.

She ran through the foliage quickly as she could, leaping over the fallen bodies of her comrades and shying from the Uchiha's eyes, but soon, not ten minutes into her escape, his infamous illusion caught up, and then she knew. Then she knew, their meeting was not about chance or misfortune …It was about Sasuke.


TBC during or before April.