I stared at the gravestone, lost in it's eerie beauty, neatly in cursive it read,

Hyuuga Kirei,

loving wife, mother and friend.

Beneath that it read the date of her birth and of her death. I looked up before I could read it, my heart tore at the thought she was gone ...

It's painful..

I miss you..

I stood, and turned away from the gravestone's, trying to focus on the stone walk way, trying to control my racing heart I closed my eye's, and saw shadow's dance just above my eye's.

I opened them slowly, hesitant to know what it was.

Before me, was a man, no not quite a man, a boy, he wasn't very tall but was still around 5'10

He had jet black hair that was long, and gathered in a low ponytail , he was muscular and fit, but had this air of peace and deadly grace that surrounded him, his eye's flashed crimson, before darkening to onyx. He wore a tight sleeveless shirt, that was black and black pant's, he had the traditional ninja vest of any jonin, and wore his forehead protector , proudly, on his back was a katana, suddenly my forehead protector felt heavier then normal, ashamed of my tear's I hid my face behind a curtain of my hair..

" Your father sent me, " The boy murmured gently,

It feel's like I'm breaking..

his voice soft like velvet, and sounded like music to my ear's..

I tilted my head to the side, waiting for him to explain more..

He smirked, " He was in a important business meeting with my father, so he was unable to come collect you, and sent me in his stead."

I nodded , I stood there quietly sobbing before him and his bold stare's..

He surprised me when he walked closer, so we were but a foot apart, and tilted my face, so I was looking at him instead of the ground, cradling my face in his hand's, gently with a feathery touch he wiped away my tear's with his thumb's.

" Do not be ashamed to cry, you miss her?" He murmured stating the last part as more of a question, he turned his gaze from me, to mother's tomb stone behind me..

I'm still unable to forget the pain...

to forget your memory...

I nodded, smiling weakly, " More than words could ever tell.."

He smiled softly, " There is something you want to ask."

My eye's widened slightly, before I regained my composure. " Why do you act as if you care?.. I am nothing to you.."

He clucked his tongue as if to scold me, " But you mean everything to me.. Do you not remember me my fragile nightengale?"

I stared at him for a moment, thinking carefully about what to say next..

" Perhaps... If you tell me your name?"

He smiled again, " As you wish, "

" Uchiha, Uchiha Itachi.." He turned then, to look at the crow's spreading their wings and taking to flight..

His name was familiar, and struck a cord somewhere deep within me..

In my heart, in a place I had locked away so long ago..

(Flashback begin's..)

A five year old me was picking wild flower's , that grew near the play ground, far away from the other children, I hummed the lullaby my mother had always sung to me..

When a little boy with black hair walked up to me, " Have you seen a blonde idiot about yay tall, around her?"

I looked at him in shock, " I -i-i"

He shook his head and cut me with his kunai in his hurry to interrupt me,
" Oh nevermind your useless."

Away he ran grunting something about stupid girl's..

I clutched my arm, biting my lip to hold back the tear's, dizzy from blood loss , I stumbled toward the forrest, I leaned against a tree breathing heavy, I sank to my kneess.. I closed my eye's when a soft breeze startled me. I opened my eye's a before me was Itachi, he smiled worried and took out his med kit from a pouch on his vest, a ambu mask peeking out..

" Who did this to you Hime?" He murmured as he made the hand seal's, and began to heal the seeping gash,

I frowned trying to remember, " He didn't tell me his name... Who are you?"

Itachi smiled, " Uchiha Itachi."

My five year old self stumbled over his name trying to pronounce it correctly, instead I settled with Tachi-kun.

He wrapped my arm tightly but gently then looked at me again,
" Remember me .." He murmured before closing his eye's and pressing his lips to my forehead.

( Flashback ends.)

I giggled beside myself with the irony, " It's really you.." I murmured,

Reaching out to touch his face, when I did he closed his eye's and tilted his face in to my hand as I caressed his cheek...

" I've missed you.." He murmured as he opened his eye's, staring into mine I could see the pain in his eye's.

I smiled brightly, not a fake one, but a smile I reserved for him..

Embrace my damaged heart...

Don't leave me yet..

" I thought you were just a dream, I had forgotten you were real.." I whispered as if telling a secret to a lover.. I smiled sadly.. " These day's have become too much to bear.. I miss those day's, when everything was so simple.."

He chuckled softly, " Don't we all.."

Then he smiled gently " Come , let us find somewhere else to talk"

He looked at the sun in the sky, " I was told to take you where ever you wished for a hour or two then bring you home.."

He sighed as he looked at me again,

" I wish we had more time.."

I shook my head and took his hand, blushing fiercly I dropped it as if it had burned me I stared at the ground, " G-Gomen!"

He chuckled lowly again, I looked up at him, he was smirking, he was amused.

He took my hand and squeezed it gently, to reassure me, " It's alright, I don't mind hime.."

I blushed a deeper red when he called me that before smiling again.

" Come on let us go to our clearing.."

I want to see your smile until the end.. Because it is what lightens up the falling darkness..

We were silent as we walked through the city street's together, still holding each others hands.

It was peacefull, and for the first time since mother's death I felt whole,

We ignored the bold stare's of the onlooking villager's,

When I told Itachi I was embaressed and tried to let go of his hand he only held it tighter.

" They don't matter, nothing matter's.. Only this moment, only the fact we are together.."

I didn't feel embaressed after that..

When we reached the clearing in the middle of the forrest, I sighed happily.

The wild flower's were blooming it looked as it had many year's ago..

He knelt down and picked a pale blue one..

He tucked it behind me ear.. And kissed my forehead, " For the girl I could never forget.."

I blushed at his word's then I realized, the blue flower was a forget me not..

" I remember it, everything.." I murmured as I spun in a slow circle taking everything before taking his hand and leading him out into the grass, to a stone island.

I turned and looked at him hopefully, he smiled knowingly, He picked me up bridal style and leapt on to the island, still holding me, he sat crosslegged, facing the sun, that was just beginning to paint the sky red.

I listened to his heart beat, before pulling away just enough to look at him..

I smiled faintly, " How you carved our name's into this island.. You made it for me, because I was so small I couldn't see the sunset very well, I had wanted to watch it fade over the tree's.."

He chuckled at the memory.." Such a stubborn little girl" He murmured, tucking a lock of hair behind my ear..

And slowly, he pressed his lips to mine, I froze for a moment, before closing my eyes and relaxing .

He smirked, I could feel it, as I returned it,

He pulled away breathing heavily he rested his forehead against mine..

" That was my first kiss.." I murmured in wonder .. I licked my lips, they still tingled and I could still taste him..

He frowned " Are you angry?"

I giggled as I rested my head on his chest again, " No"..

He nodded " Good.."

We were silent again, it wasn't unbearable, but the silence of lover's, we were at peace, content just to be together as we watched the sun disappear and twilight begin around us..

I vowed to myself I would always remember this moment..

Author's Note: Woot! 1,658 word's on the chapter a lone, a new record for me , lol yay! I like this meeting better then the orignal , but please review and tell me if it was mediocre.