Love Story: ItaTema

Temari set on a chair by the window of her room. She put her hand on her belly, where a new life was forming.

She thought back on her life. It had taken a long time to get to this moment. But it had all been worth it, because she was now happily marry and expecting a baby.

She thought back on the first time she had meet HIM. She had been 11 years old and HE had been about 13 years old. It had happen at one of her father's banquets.

~*Flashback*~

Temari looked at all the people that had attended the banquet. Looking around, that was when she saw him making his way through the crowed to get to her. She noticed that he was the first person she had seen today that was close to her age. He was wearing a formal black and red kimono with a red and white fan on the side. He also had his hair tie in a low ponytail.

"Good Evening, my name is Uchiha, Itachi. I'm sorry if I disturb you but it seemed to me that you need company."

Her heart seemed to take a leap when she heard his voice. For a minute she wondered if she was hallucinating.

"Forgive me. It seems you really don't need company. I'll be going then" Itachi turn to walk the way he had just come from.

"Wait!" Temari protested "Don't go! I'm Temari the eldest daughter of the Kazekage. Nice to meet you Uchiha-san"

"Would you like to go for a walk?"

"Yes"

Itachi offer her his arm and she took it. Both of them left the room in the direction of the garden outside.

They talk for like what it seemed hours. She told him about her brothers and how they annoy her. He in return told her about his brother, Sasuke. She told him about how she wished that all the villages got along so they wouldn't have wars anymore and no more killings.

After a while he confessed that he had approach her because he thought she was cute. She turned red and it made him laugh.

Their time was, however, cut short because her father approached them.

"Uchiha, your father is looking for you." The Kazekage said.

Itachi took Temari's hand and kissed it. "It seems that our time has come to an end. I had a great time talking to you." Then he left.

"Temari"

"Yes Father?"

"I want you to never again go near that boy. Stay away from him"

"But he's my friend…"

"It wasn't a request, it was an order."

"Why?" Asked Temari not understanding why her father wanted her to stay away from her new friend.

"Because he's from the leaf and could be using you to get information, now go to your room!" Temari ran to her room in tears.

The Kazekage return to the banquet not knowing that the Uchiha had heard the conversation that he had just had with his only daughter.

Temari enter her room it tears. She couldn't believe that Itachi would use her to get information out of her. He was so nice to her, it just couldn't be true.

She found a note on her bed and read it.

'Meet me in the back garden'

Itachi

She hesitated for a minute. What if it was a trap? But that thought was soon out of her mind because she knew Itachi couldn't be bad. So sneaking out her window and she when to meet up with him.

"You came" Itachi said

"Yeah you told me to"

"So you don't believe what your father told you about me?"

"No"

"Good because I could never do anything to hurt you"

"Really?"

"Yeah" he said "I have to leave after the banquet today"

"No!"

"I have too. But don't worry I'll came back to see you"

"You Promise?"

"I promise"

Itachi lean down and kiss her cheek. Then he was gone before she could even blink.

***

Six months pass and there was no sign of Itachi. Temari felt sad but she knew that something must've happen to him if he hadn't come back and see her in almost half a year.

One night, when she was getting ready for bed, she heard a sound from outside her window on the balcony. She opened the door slowly to find none other than Itachi there sitting on the floor with some blood on him. Any other girl would have screamed after seeing blood, but not her. She was used to it. Living with a brother like Gaara it did that to you.

She helped him inside and let him sit on her bed. She too set on the bed.

"Itachi…you ok…"

"I'm sorry…" he said not looking at her. "I did something… horrible…"

"W-what did you do?"

"I can't tell you…because I don't want you to hate me too…."

"I would never hate you, Itachi"

Temari made him get comfortable with his head on her lap.

"That's what you say now but what about when you find out? Will you hate me then?"

"I promise I won't hate you. I'm sure you had your resends for doing what you did"

"I did"

There was a long silence, where she wondered what he had done that made him like this. He was nothing like he had six months ago. She knew that whatever he had done had hurt him a lot.

"Temari, could you just hold me…just for a little while.."

"Sure"

She stroked his hair making her hands dirty with blood and dirt but she didn't care because she knew that this was what he needed at this moment.

When she woke up the next morning she was alone. Itachi was nowhere to be seen. All that he had left behind was a note with a golden color flower on top of it. Looking closer she notes it was a chrysanthemum.

'I'll be back one day. Wait for me. It may not be tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year, but I will see each other again. I promise.'

Itachi

Water drops fell on the paper and she notice that they were her tears. She was crying because beep down she knew that she wasn't going to see him for a while. This time it was going to be much, much longer than six months.

In fact it was going to be five long years until they meet again…