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Chapter 3: Sakura Meets Kisame

Sakura walked with her heavy basket of herbs for Tsunade. She glanced over hearing Orochimaru scream for Sasuke.

"Your brother is being very oblivious again and went on a dango date with that Kisame guy yesterday," he said as she paused to see where the conversation was going.

'Who's he,' she wondered.

She had been out of the village for several weeks to collect all the rare medical herbs she brought back. Sasuke glared at the male in front of him.

"Him being so powerful but so oblivious is terrible. Tell you what. Help me get his body and I'll put the power to good use and be your big brother instead," he offered.

"HOW ABOUT I JUST KILL YOU INSTEAD," Sasuke roared kicking and punching at him as Orochimaru screamed wildly.

"I'm sick of hearing you trying to steal his body. Die," Shisui deadpanned popping out of thin air and upper cutting him into the heavens.

"I hate him," Sasuke seethed.

"Sakura let me carry that," Itachi said appearing and stealing the basket from her.

"Itachi I had to tap into," she said and then the ground dented when he toppled with a cute started squeal and the basket hit the earth first. "They're extremely rare and heavy. I had to use charka to even carry them. It's no problem let me," she finished as he gaped at the basket.

"No! It goes against my principles," he said tapping into his chakra and lifting it. "Lead the way."

"If you insist," she said smiling and guided him along and started chattering about the weeks she spent finding the herbs and picking them then carrying them.

"Fishy," Itachi cheered after ten minutes.

"Fishy," she questioned peering to where he was looking. "That's a shark," she screeched at the sight of the huge muscular male.

"Fishy," Itachi insisted. "He's cute."

"Well he's sexy if that's what you mean but…."

"CUTE! Like a gold fish," Itachi corrected.

Sakura facepalmed. Itachi always found giant freaks of nature cute. She was starting to question his sanity.

"Weasel-chan," the man smiled walking over and patting his head.

"Hold this," Itachi said mischievously.

"Ok," Kisame said obliviously taking the basket as Sakura was about to warn him.

He grunted but held it casually using no chakra at all except in his feet to keep the ground from breaking under him from the weight. Itachi stared at him a long moment then started pushing on it trying to add weight to it with cute angry little noises. Kisame laughed letting him try to make it too heavy for him. Even letting him climb onto the basket and jump up and down on it. Sakura watched them in amusement. Kisame was teasing Itachi about being light as a feather and to give up while Itachi kept bouncing on it trying to make Kisame faulter with the basket. He gave up after a couple of minutes.

"Dummy. Stupid fishy," he pouted.

"That's rude," Kisame laughed.

"Itachi-kun now that you're done harassing him," Sakura started.

"HA," Kisame cheered glad someone agreed with him that what Itachi was doing was harassing.

"PLAYING," Itachi cried at the same time.

"Whatever you want to call it Itachi-kun. Introduce us," she smiled.

"Right. Kisame this is Sakura. Sasuke's true love though he denies it because he's shy," Itachi smiled. "Sakura this is Kisame. But you should call him fishy as well because it's a cuter name for him," he said pointing at the male.

"Nice to meet you Kisame! I'm glad you made friends with Itachi," she smiled. "Any friend of his is a friend of mine. Come talk to me anytime. Also, let's set up a time to have lunch. I'd love to hear all about how Itachi forced himself into your life."

"Hey," Itachi frowned.

"Oh you know you do that when you meet people you like. But we wouldn't have it any other way. You're the light of our day," she laughed.

"Hmmmmm. I guess I'll let your comment slide," Itachi decided after a moment of eyeing her.

"I'd love to. He's made my life more hectic but more entertaining all the same. I like it when he's around. I enjoy it very much," Kisame admitted.

"A-A-Anyways. We got to deliver the herbs now or you might get in trouble," Itachi said to Sakura cheeks dusting with pink. "Fishy give me the basket back," he demanded forcing his blush to disappear as Sakura giggled.

"Nope," he said smirking and looked at Sakura. "Lead the way. I don't want the weasel throwing out his back or you to get hurt carrying this," he smiled.

"Thank you," she laughed leading the way and he followed her.

They chattered to each other sharing joke and teasing each other as Itachi followed them. They were getting along like old friends and he liked that. Though he felt a little left out when he could never jump into the conversation. He started sulking cutely behind them with his arms crossed and a pout on his face. He wasn't paying attention when he tripped over a rock and went tumbling forward. A hand caught his arm and kept him from falling.

"Careful," Kisame chided balancing the basket on one arm gripping his arm with his free hand. "Quit sulking or you'll hurt yourself," he teased giving his arm and affectionate squeeze.

Itachi was too cute getting all jealous like that. Itachi and Sakura gaped at him.

"What?"

They pounced over him and started bouncing on the basket.

"YOU HAVE TO BE CHEATING! NO ONE IS THAT STRONG," they roared as he carried them casually with people staring at the huge blue ninja carrying a basket that had two other ninjas bouncing on it. "FREAK OF NATURE," they accused when he got to where Tsunade was.

"He truly is," she deadpanned as Kisame started laughing.

They had to put the thing in special containment so it wouldn't crash through the floor from the weight. The basket was made of the same material at the containing space that being the only reason it didn't break from the weight.

"What type of herbs weigh that much anyways," Itachi pondered.

"Life saving ones. Now shush and out of my medical office all of you," Tsunade chided.

"Wanna go eat dinner," Sakura asked the pair.

"And eat dango for dessert," Itachi cheered.

"Of course," Sakura laughed.

"How do you not get cavities," Kisame laughed.

"Because I brush my teeth really well so they can be in perfect condition to eat all the dango I want," Itachi explained.

"That's some reason you got there," Sakura and Kisame sweat dropped simultaneously.

He grinned at them and led the way to a restaurant he liked. After Kisame offered walking them both home his arms around their shoulders casually. He felt a dangerous aura suddenly and was kicked extremely hard in the back sending him skidding across the ground. Sasuke sneered at him.

"Don't touch her pervert," he snarled as Itachi knelt by Kisame poking him to see if he was alive.

"Sasuke-kun!"

"Come on. I'll take you home. As your team mate it's my job. Don't let giant freaks touch you so casually you're still a girl," he growled taking her wrist and storming off with her.

She followed him flustered and confused.

"Fishy are you dead," Itachi asked curiously as he kept poking him.

"Don't worry about it," Shisui said appearing and tossing him over a shoulder and walked away from Kisame.

"But the fishy," Itachi protested with a whine reaching out toward him with a hand but was ignored and carried away by his over protective big brother figure.

"I knew playing dead would keep me from getting further injured," Kisame said sitting up when they were gone. "I better apologize to Itachi though. He seemed concerned," he sweat dropped. "He'll probably make me buy him dango."

He started walking for his home when he heard a whoosh and someone landed in his arms.

"Shisui is so mean! Comfort me Kisame," Orochimaru cried trying to hug him.

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME," Kisame said punching him sending him crashing against a tree and breaking it from the force. "AND STAY AWAY FROM ITACHI AS WELL," he barked as he stormed away from the creepy man.

"So mean," he whined into the night air.

I'm back! I'm going to try to focus on this story this week since it was severely neglected for a while. Keep your eyes out! Thank you for being patient!