Chapter 1 : Distant hearts

It was a nice and hot today, almost seeming to perfect as the wind blew just right, not enough to drive you crazy but also not so little you were waiting for it and it never came. It seemed the birds were extra happy on this particular day as they chirped amongst their self's in an unknown language to humans. The day was SO perfect in fact, that it had a pink haired beauty wondering why she was currently sitting in her dorm room watching it all go by before her eyes. Said pinkette was now currently facing her best friend wondering what the hell was going through his mind.

' He must be INSANE if he's really considering sitting on his ass all day an watch this once in a life time perfect day go by, not to mention its FRIDAY!'

The craziness of what she was thinking forced her to vocalize her thoughts.

"Sasuke, all jokes aside, are you really about to stay inside on this perfect day? PLEASE tell me your joking, because I can think of about 20 things off the top of my head right now that we could be doing!"

At this, said boy looked up from the book he was reading to stare blankly at his best friend with the most serious of looks. "Sakura, I've already told you, if you want to do something today, then go do it because I don't want to leave the dorms."

'That's the biggest lie I've ever told, I'm about ready to jump out the window to get outside…'

To which he then looked longingly towards the windows to the dorm. A frown marred Sakura's pretty face as she thought over what Sasuke had told her.

" I know you've said that already, but I'VE told YOU that I don't want to go out without you today. Besides, its not like I really know anybody…"

Sakura said whispering the last part, as she looked away from Sasuke's intense glare. He looked at her with annoyance shinning in his eyes as he noticed where the conversation was once again leading.

"Sakura, I've already told you to stop playing the guilt trip shit with me because it doesn't work anymore, and quite frankly, i'm tired of hearing it." ' Please just leave so that I can go out with Ino…"

Sakura looked back at Sasuke with a shocked expression across her face.

"You think this is about guilt trips? Sasuke! How can you be so damn rude?! I DON'T KNOW ANYONE HERE in case you forgot that tiny detail, so please just shove it with all the guilt tri-"

"You know what SAKURA, I'VE CAME TO A CONCLUSION. YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE, STAY HERE ALL DAY FOR ALL I CARE, I'M LEAVING!"and with that Sasuke was out the door, slamming it behind himself as he left. Sakura's jade green orbs grew big in disbelief, before slow, silent tears rolled down her face.

'Why is he so angry lately?... it's like he cant stand me, or he wants to get away from me any way he can…'

As Sakura pondered over that, Sasuke was outside the dorm room on the ground, with his hands buried into his scalp.

'I cant believe that I just did that to Sakura!...She must think that I hate her….can Ino really be worth all of this?...'

Sasuke definitely knew the answer to that question was a big, fat NO, but none the less he stood, making his way to the stairs, giving one last glance at his dorm room, before leaving.

Sakura furiously wiped away her tears, before walking towards the window again and looking out. It was such a beautiful day out that she would have to go by herself. She couldn't waste this day, no matter how much she thought it would be better to go with her best friend. "I guess that's the end of the discussion…" Sakura walked over to their joined kitchen to grab her keys off the small hook rack above the light switch, before heading out the door herself. As she made her way outside, she faintly heard high pitched giggling, in fact, it was all too familiar 'high pitched giggling.'

As she rounded a corner of the building she was passing, she got a clear view of the show in front of her. Sasuke was standing around with Ino latched to his side, and a couple of his best friends, who she recognized as Naruto, Neji, Kiba, and Kabuto, along with their girlfriends Hinata, Tenten, Kiba was by himself (surprisingly), and Karin. They all looked to be having a perfect time, and looked as if they were getting ready to get into their cars, so Sakura slowly walked back around the corner she came from, so as not to be seen.

'Its obvious that they didn't want me there, otherwise they would have invited me…or at least Sasuke would have…"

She could hear the group talking clearly, and decided to listen until they left so that she could get to her car. Of course, Ino and her demanding annoying voice broke the chain of people with her stuck up attitude.

" Ohhhhhh SASUKE! I'm sooo glad you ditched that reject you call a friend, to be with me today!" To which she latched even harder to his waist.

Sakura's eyes grew wide as she listened to Ino talk. ' H-he ditched m-me? To hang o-out with INO?!'Sakura couldn't bear to hear any more of the conversation, so she hurried and took a sync route to her car, which would give them plenty of time to leave. Sakura left in such a rush that she didn't even catch Sasuke's response.

" Ino. I won't tell you this again. If you aren't saying anything true or worth listening to, then keep sakura's name OUT of your mouth!" At that he snatched his arm away from Ino and proceeded to get to his car.

"Are you guys coming or not!" Everybody jumped at his angry powerful voice and scrambled to their appropriate cars. Ino huffed dramatically, not understanding why he was defending the ugly, nobody-of-a-girl, when he had someone as beautiful and important as her. None the less she put a smile back on her face, and happily walked to the passengers side of Sasuke;s car. Once she was in the car the group of people sped off.

Sakura walked down the path towards her car after noticing them leave, and slowly put her stuff in the back, not in much of a mood to be outside anymore, but forced herself knowing she would regret it if she went back inside.

' I will not let them ruin my perfect day!'

With that thought she hopped in, and decided to change her course from a day shopping to a day at the beach.

When she got there, there was of course a bunch of kids running around and adults watching them carefully, but also enjoying their self's as well. It was perfect for her. A nice place to hang out alone, or to meet new people, who knew?

Sakura walked until she found a nice spot on the sand, and set her stuff out. She had a lounging chair that had an umbrella connected so in case she decided that she didn't want a tan, she'd be protected. Sakura slipped off her shorts and tank top, leaving her only in her two piece red swim suit. Nothing to unique about it, all though the top part tied at her neck and the bottoms tied at both sides of her hips, showing of her curvaceous body. Sakura sat on the beach chair before reaching into her bag and pulling out her sunscreen, and proceeded to lotion up every inch of skin she could reach.

After about 20 minutes of facing her front, she readied to turn over, but as she tried to lotion her back, she struggled bad. It must have been real bad because she eventually caught someones eye.

"Excuse me, but are you in need of assistance?"

Sakura froze her two minute battle to look up at the person who had addressed her. 'Oh My God HE'S HOT!' Said guy stood there in all of his handsome glory, staring at her with what appeared bored eyes, but had a glint of amusement in them. He stood about 5'11 at least and when she realized she had just been staring at him she blushed and stared hard at the ground. " Oh..umm…that's nice of you to offer sir…but i'm fine really. And besides, I don't know you so that would be kind of ack…ward…" Sakura' s words trailed off as the man moved closer to her and gently yanked the bottle from her hands.

"Nonsense, I wouldn't forgive myself if I walked by knowing there's a beautiful girl in need of some assistance. Besides, I have nothing to do, and if you don't mind, I'd enjoy some company."

With that, the still nameless guy gently pushed on my back so that I was now laying on my stomach. "I really appreciate the help Mr…?" " Pardon my rudeness, my name is Itachi, Uchiha Itachi…and what is the beautiful name of the girl who's agreed to share my company this wonderful afternoon?" Sakura blushed once again at the comment he gave her before muttering out a quick 'Sakura Haruno.' "Aa. A beautiful name indeed, as I predicted."

Sakura laid there for a moment wondering if this was such a good idea or not, before she suddenly felt warm hands massaging her back. She almost let out a squeak, but after a few moments she was soon being hypnotized by the caress of his hands. She let out a disappointed groan when he finished, which earned her a small chuckle. After her brain-turned-mush started to function again, she suddenly remembered something that she had shoved to the back of her brain previously when the massage started. " Umm Itachi?...You said that your last name was Uchiha right?...Does that mean that you have a bro-" " Brother? Why yes in fact, I do. A younger one named Sasuke. I'm presuming that you know of him?"

Sakura looked up at him and nodded, not knowing how she could of missed the similarities between the two earlier. You could definitely tell them apart where as Sasuke still had that bad boy look to him, Itachi had a mature, sexiness to him. Sasuke's hair was a midnight black, almost blue, while Itachi was a rich deep shade of brown. Itachi's hair also was pretty long going to an inch past his shoulders and tied at the low end, where as Sasuke's hair was spiked up in the back like a chickens butt. Plus the deep lines on Itachi's face, there was no way you could know both boys and not tell that they were at least related. Sakura thought that after her scrutinization of him, she probably owed an explanation about knowing his brother. "Yea, umm we live together in the Konoha University dorms a few miles back. Strange though, in the time that I've known him, he's never told me about having a brother…" Sakura trailed off there seeing Itachi close his eye's as a sad smile crossed his beautiful face. "I'm not surprised about that. Sasuke and myself haven't gotten along with each other in about 5 years now… enough on old times though, he has talked about you, that is, he's mentioned knowing someone with pink hair, but he never told me your name. Something about secrets and what not."

Itachi then shook his head as if to discard such trivial thoughts from entering his head. Sakura looked thoughtful for a moment before coming to a conclusion on something.

"Actually Itachi, we don't get along as great as we used to either…ever since we moved to the dorms, we've been pretty distant, friendship wise. I don't know how much longer we'll be roomies…" Itachi looked up at her, before standing and dusting himself off. "I wouldn't think to much into it Sakura, that's just how he is sometimes." He looked at his watch."Well Sakura, I thank you once again for keeping me company today, but I really must be going." He reached into his bag and scribbled on something, before she heard paper ripping, and a small piece of folded paper was being dropped beside her. "It was nice meeting you Sakura, I'll be seeing you around sometime." With that, he walked off leaving Sakura dazed. She looked down at the paper, before slowly picking it up and reading it.

'Call me sometime, 892-1089, Itachi'

Sakura stared down at the paper and she swore her heart started beating faster. 'He wants m-me to call h-him?" Who knew this day would turn out so perfect? She sure hadn't!

Ok end first chappie, I hoped everyone enjoyed it, i'm looking for about 4 reviews telling me if I should continue or if there's a way to better my story. All feedback is appreciated, so have at it!