The 2nd chapter. Hope you like it!

Disclaimer: Truly unnecessary, but I don't own any of Masashi's characters.

Chapter 2

"Alright. It's Monday so Itachi and Deidara have kitchen duty." Konan declared while the sound of heavy laughter and a heavy grown from Deidara. I chuckled and excused myself from the table. Right before I was about to reach for my plate and put it in the sink, a masculine hand touched it first and picked it up. I followed the hand to Itachi unsurprisingly and we shared one glance as he turned to wash the rest of the dishes. What did I get myself into? I left the kitchen and went back to Itachi's room, to explore.

I was going through his room. It was dark, something that I liked. I was never a fan of bright colours so I was glad that the walls were black. I went over to the only bed and sighed. 'Great, I have to share a bed with a guy... At least he isn't as perverted as Hidan.' I thought running my hand over the covers.

"Having fun?" Itachi's deep voice startled me as I jumped and fell backwards on the bed. I groaned in disgust, slowly getting up.

"Do you love to annoy me?" Itachi made a hn noise and I noticed the clothing in his hand.

"Konan said to give these to you. Personally, I think you would look better in one of my shirts than this." I felt a slight blush rush to my cheeks as I took the clothes from Itachi, unfolding the garment to see a long Akatsuki cloak, and an extra sleeping shirt.

"Give her my thanks." I grinned at the garment and made my index finger turn to a claw, ripping the cloak at least a foot from the bottom.

"I really hate things that go past my knees, the only thing I don't mind are pants." I said, explaining why I had cut off the part of the cloak.

"You know, we're going to have to make sleeping arrangements..." I said looking at the bed. "I was thinking maybe you could sleep on the floor." I said semi seriously. He chuckled and rose an eyebrow.

"You think I'm going to sleep on the floor of my own room?" He chuckled again and went to his drawer to take out his sleep clothes. I pouted and stormed into the bathroom carrying the shirt Konan gave to me. I took a shower, leaving my shirt on the toilet. After I was done, I walked out the shower to realize I had no towel.

"Itachi-san, can you please hand me a towel." I heard shuffling around the room and I opened the door slightly, my hand covering my chest. He handed me the towel without sneaking a peak at me, something of which I would appreciate him for later.

I dried off and got dressed. I sighed and put my hair in a braid. I walked out of the bathroom and saw Itachi lying down and reading. I raised an eyebrow. "What are you reading?" I asked. Itachi looked up from his book. "It's just about old folklore." He said.

"About?" I questioned as sitting next to him in the bed and crossing my legs. He slightly smirked as he sat up too.

"It's about a young girl who grows flowers in her mothers garden. Because her mother died, she feels afraid to leave her town. A young man starts to visit her and they become friends. Soon he tells her that he wants to travel the world and that he wants her to come with him." I didn't notice I was leaning forward slightly in anticipation. He continued, "She refuses and he thinks that she doesn't care about him, so he leaves. Days later, the girl leaves her house, realizing that she can't live without him and she spends years looking for him, only to realize that he died right after he left her. She sadly finishes his travels in memory of him."

I was in shock while he just stared at my expression. "That's really sad." He closed the book and placed it on his nightstand.

"Well, don't dwell on it. It's just a story."

I scratched behind my neck. "I know but I like books, they are so interesting that I get hooked... So... I get to sleep in the bed... right?" I asked quietly. He looked at me oddly.

"Sleep wherever you want. But I'm sleeping in my bed." And at that he pulled back the covers and fell asleep on his back. I stared at his sleeping face for a few more seconds, wondering how a beautiful face could be so evil. He must have been through hell. I slowly got off the bed, uses my senses to make no sound as I got off the bed. Opening the window slightly and sat on the windowsill, letting my legs dangle off while I grabbed the sturdy frame and admired the scene before me. It was of the few days where it was raining in this town and the sky had partially cleared to see the bright moon and seemed to stare at me. I stared back and that's when I began to think at how much my life is really going to change. New friends, new occupation and now I was practically a S-class ninja since I willingly joined the Akatsuki, not that I had the choice of course. And then there were the friends that I left behind, well whatever type of friends they were, I would still miss them. But I can't help but thinking – Was it really a misunderstanding that they didn't take Gaara instead?

Sweeping my legs back over the window and closing it, I joined Itachi on the bed, laying on the side and falling asleep to Itachi's breathing.

I woke up to Itachi's arm wrapped around my waist. I could tell that it was an accident since he was still fast asleep. Great, Uchiha has his arm around me and I can't get out of bed... I thought. I tried to move his arm but he only hugged me tighter. Shit... Couldn't really blame the guy since my face was buried in his chest, which was probably my fault. I sighed.

"Itachi-san." I spoke as he immediately opened his eyes and looked down at me. He smirked at me, his face inches away from mine.

"Hn, I would love to wake up like this every morning." I scoffed as he let go of me and stretched. He looked out the window and then back at me. I imagine how I must look right now, my hair tussled around the sheets, my eyes hazy from sleep and my arms at my sides. "Good thing you chose to sleep in my bed. You look very vulnerable right now." I shivered at the thought of waking up in Hidan's bed and being possibly attack. Itachi chuckled at my expression, as he got out of bed.

"Get ready. Today, we train." He said as he walked off into the bathroom.

I watched him enter the bathroom. I waited so I could get dressed in there where there was no possible way of intrusion. After a few minutes Itachi walked out dressed and everything. I grabbed my clothes and walked in to get dressed. I was glad that there was a lock on the door. I got dressed and ran my fingers through my hair to fix it from its messy state. I sighed and got out of the bathroom to a waiting Itachi.

He looked at me with the shortened and re-made cloak [that I turned into a dress] and started walking out of room, expecting me to follow. We walked down the hall and through the doors which of course were opened by a special handsign, one of which I wont be taught to until I am trusted enough. We ran toward the training grounds, which was a secluded part of the woods with a clearing. Itachi dug his hand in his cloak and handed me back my katana.

"Okay. Show me what you can do with your sword." He backed away at least 50 feet. Hm, he's a long distance fighter. Well too bad that I'm a short. I crouched and ran my chakra through my sword, charging toward him before I disappeared in front of him and swung at him from behind. Him always being one step ahead of me, dodged my attack and again appeared a distance away from me. I got an annoyed look on my face and wondered how I was supposed to beat him if my sword needs to be in range of him and he's faster than anyone I've seen.

Hm.... I thought. I glanced at the area around me trying to figure out a good attack. I did a hand sign behind my back and created clones that hid in the trees and bushes. I did what I did earlier. I ran at Itachi and appeared behind him. This time when he appeared at a distance my clones had him surrounded, all of them pointing their katana's at him. "What do you think?" I asked.

He smirked at me before he disappeared, and I gasped as I felt his breath behind me and a sharp kunai inches from my throat. "This time, attack me and not a clone of mine." I sighed loudly as I backed further into Itachi, pushing his arm away from in front of my neck and turned around to him.

"Your impossible." I stated as I tried kicking him in the stomach, only to have him grab my foot and throw me aside. My hair turned white as I transformed and I landed on all fours. He shook his head though slightly impressed.

"The point is for you to learn how to fight without your power. Turn back." I turned back and groaned as I sat, cross-legged, trying to figure out how I was going to do this.

I bit my thumbnail and thought about attacks I could use. "Hey am I loud to use jutsu other than the clone jutsu?" I asked looking at him.

He nodded. "Use whatever you think will help you win, you're just not aloud to use your demon."

Understanding what the rules were I stood up and put my katana aside. I quickly did hand signs. 'Light Style: White Tigers Revenge!' I thought. Three white tigers formed out of chakra and ran at Itachi. Cornering him into a tree.

He escaped just as I thought as I surprised him and aimed a punch to his stomach, giving him a second time to dodge. Dodge he did, but not before the chakra radiating from my hand grazed his cloak, leaving a tear in it. His eyebrow raised and he actually took out his kunai this time. "Hn, good job. You didn't inflict any real damage, but if you studied pressure points that hit would have been a fatal blow." Wow, didn't know that. "Now try again."

I went to roundhouse kick him, chakra surrounding my foot. He knew better and dodged it instead of blocking it. I quickly took out a kunai and ran at him. My chakra left burning patches in the grass for every step I took. I cart wheeled around him and took my chance to kick him in the shoulder.

I smirked and looked into his eyes as he made a handsign and he dispersed into a cloud of birds. My eyes widened in shock as I looked around, the forest scene changing and dark red clouds covering the sky. Is this some sort of genjutsu? I quickly made a hand sign making a clone, forcing the clone to force its chakra into my body, breaking me free of the illusion but collapsed on the force it had on my body.

"What. Was that?" Itachi stood the same place he was when I was about to kick him and he say down.

"Genjutsu. One of the powers my sharingan has." I stared into his eyes, realizing how dangerous those pretty eyes are. "The only way to avoid is to not look at my eyes or my hands." I threw my hands up in frustration.

"Ugh! You're impossible! How can I beat you if you keep dodging or blocking my attacks!? And it doesn't help if you put me in genjutsus all the time!" I said frustrated, I could feel my nails growing to claws from anger. Itachi looked down at me emotionlessly.

"You need to control your anger, if you can't your demon will easily take over and most likely kill you." Itachi said.

I sighed. "It's not easy controlling my anger when I can't even touch you. The only damage I did was tearing your cloak slightly..." I said sounding like I had given up. He shrugged and turned his head to face the trees.

"Give up already? Because if Pein thinks your useless then he will kill you. So try again. Plan even further ahead this time." He held his hand out and I angrily took it as he pulled me up. And I jumped into the trees, disappearing and masking my chakra as I watched Itachi stand in the center of the clearing, waiting for my attack. I cut most the trees in half and kept them together with strong chakra strings and made a handsign, making 3 clones. They immediately started charging towards Itachi, kunai's at hand and staring at his feet. He attacked all 23 of them, making them poof, letting the smoke cover him in all sides. I harshly pulled at the trees, letting them fall, to which he dodged and landed on top the fallen bark. I sent chakra waves through the trees, making them explode the bark and slightly injure Itachi in his side before he can get out of the area. That's when I appeared behind him with a kunai poking his back. My chakra holding both of his hands together and with me panting heavily.

"Gotcha." I strengthened the amount of chakra holding his hands down and he just bowed his head.

"Good. Your learning. You win this round." And I let him go from my chakra prisonment and took the kunai off his back. He looked around at the forest that I basically destroyed and chuckled lightly. "Hn, And you seem to destroy your surroundings too."

I sighed and scratched the back of my neck. "Yeah, I don't usually destroy area's like this. I just had to do whatever it took to beat you... I don't want to get killed by Pein-sama..." I said, playing with a bit of my hair nervously. "Maybe we should head back to the base... And I'm guessing you want my katana back..."

A laugh erupted from his throat as he smirked with his eyes looking at me slyly.

"Of course. Your gonna need it to fend off the perverts." I groaned and stormed out of the training grounds. "Seiko, you're going the wrong way." My eyes opened wide as I heard him say my name for the first time. And strangely, I liked the way it sounded from him.