Rated T: - Chapter 3

- Anti-Sakura

Disclaimer:I DO NOT OWN Naruto or any of the characters, or the settings, or dattebayo included, Masashi Kishimoto does.

I decided to add another chapter because it was fun to write so here it is.

Itachi planned on making a clean get away, but someone doesn't give up and he has to think fast in order to get out of the situation.

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Didn't You Learn Anything?

Falling onto a nearby bench Sakura stared at the spot where Kakashi had just been. He hadn't been talking about Naruto instead he had defined her as the nuisance.

'I don't understand even Kakashi-sensei thought I was annoying, even more so than Naruto. I haven't felt this bad since Sasuke told me I was worse than Naruto. I should find them and tell them I'm sorry'

She rubbed away the tears forming in her eyes as she stood up from the bench. "I need to find them and tell them I'm sorry" she put on a brave face but was short lived when she burst into tears again.

"I can't do it! I can't stop being annoying and a nuisance because I feel so alone"

A noise distracted her and caught her attention. Five leaves were in a pile on the bench behind her, they hadn't been there earlier.

Now beginning to get a little frightened she peered into the hedge where the leaves had presumably come from and thought she saw a face.

Stepping further into the bush meant that she didn't notice the dark shadow moving hurriedly past her. It was apparent that the figure was trying to leave the village by taking the main street to the Konoha gates.

"Must have been my imagination, I'd better get home it's quite dark now" she headed down the way that the figure had gone because it was the easiest way to get to her home. There was likely to be more people on the main street than down an alley.

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"Finally, I can leave this village and get back to the Akatski hideout" muttering under his breath, his cloak flowing from the gentle breeze his hat in one hand.

The moonlight highlighted the scratches on his forehead protector.

Hearing voices in the background Itachi dropped everything he was holding to conceal himself behind a tree, using a genjutsu he was able to remain hidden.

Sakura passed him, and he could see the tears rolling down her cheeks she saw the straw hat that Itachi had worn when she had first met him, on the floor.

She picked it up off the floor and looked around before claiming it as her own. She held it close as the tears started to fall again.

"When are you going to stop crying?" realising it was only Sakura and not a jonin he stepped out of his own genjutsu.

"Itachi! Is it really you this time!?" throwing his hat away she ran and hugged him before he had chance to make any sudden movement.

"Get of me!"

"Itachi, I'm so sorry for being a nuisance to you I really am…it's just I feel so alone now that Sasuke and Naruto are together and Ino has Shikamaru" mumbling into his cloak once again.

"Why don't you find someone your own age?" he didn't mean to snap at her but he wanted her to let go.

"I've already had this conversation, but I don't know I've just fallen for you"

"This is only because you can't have Sasuke isn't it?"

"Maybe so, but I do feel like I love you"

"I can't help that! Let go! My partner is waiting for me and by now I think he's bored" he was now struggling to get loose.

"You have a partner, like Sasuke and Naruto?" her eyes brimmed with shinny tears.

"Yes, but in a way no"

"So then take me with you! We could be together and then I and your partner can be friends!"

"Sakura, we are two different people and can not work as a whole. I am an evil S-rank criminal I'm feared by a lot as I have already said, but you, people find you annoying and a joke."

"Please…I'll do anything to be with you! I'll even fight you right here and right now" breaking away a trembling hand brought out a kunai.

'Not this again, I have a long journey and I would preferably like to get to my destination without having to take breaks along the way'

He motioned for her to put the kunai down and stand in front of him. After doing so he placed her hands on her face.

"I'll admit you have determination in your eyes but you also show signs of weakness. When you stop crying for other people then you'll understand who you are"

She drew in closer so that she was hugging his waist. His hands still on her face he inclined his head forwards slowly. Looking into his sparkling red eyes she felt lost and not alone.

She too inclined her head upwards, until she met his lips at first touch she saw the pale face of Itachi disappear only to be replaced by the shadow of his image.

"It ends now" her eyes jammed shut and she expected her back to impact with the floor as she fell backwards, instead she felt the cold sensation of the cobbled floor.

Itachi had only used his eyes for a few minutes but he was already feeling the after effects. Letting her slide gracefully from his grip before guiding her to the floor he made his way to the entrance.

Without a second glance he left.

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The phone rang and both Naruto and Sasuke who had been happily dreaming woke with more than just a start.

Sasuke had been curled up against Naruto, but as soon as the phone had rung he had be thrown off the edge of the bed again.

Naruto didn't seem to be fully awake and rolled over onto his stomach.

"Wake up loser!" Sasuke clambered back onto the bed. "Mmm?"

"Now that you woke me up I can't sleep" the phone rang again. "Are you going to get that Sasuke?"

"I knew I forgot something" grumbling in his early morning wake he leaned across Naruto and picked up the phone.

"Do have any idea what time it is! Who is this?!" He yelled.

"Sasuke? Keep it down trying to sleep here" Naruto muttered. Sasuke ignored him and instead pushed him off the bed.

"It's me Kakashi. I told Sakura to take a hint and I think she ran away!"

"So? Why did you wake me up to tell me this? She's probably with Itachi somewhere"

"Well I did try calling Naruto but his phone at the other end keeps screeching at me"

"That's because his phone is broken. Can I go back to sleep now?"

"Don't you care that Sakura has gone missing!?"

"As of this moment no"

"Why not!? How could you, did you forget we're a three man no a four man squad"

Naruto had climbed onto the bed again glaring at Sasuke. "Sasuke! I'm going to get you back!" he didn't yell but his volume was not as quiet a whisper.

"Kakashi I've just told you where she is and if I know Itachi she, Naruto! Stop that! I'm on the phone"

"What is going on!? This is serious put Naruto on, he'll listen" all Kakashi heard on the other end of the phone was yelling.

"Naruto! Let go!"

"Give me the phone!"

"Why!"

"Because I can't sleep or…." The phone went dead as Sasuke dropped the phone and it rolled under the bed. Naruto pounced on top of him.

"So who was that?"

"It was Kakashi, apparently Sakura ran off with Itachi"

"Why did he think we'd care? She's with Itachi, it's not like he's going to abandon her in the street"

Sasuke retrieved the phone from under the bed and replaced it onto its stand. They had just settled themselves when it rang again.

"What now?!" they moaned

"WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"

"Take it easy stop yelling the phone went dead and I got worried"

"We're trying to sleep, that means you hang up now before I do!"

"No wait, Gai just told me they found Sakura abandoned in the middle of the street"

"Oh really, that's nice bye" he hung up the phone.

"Finally" Naruto pulled Sasuke back into a hug. "I'll help you sleep if you want" as he kissed Sasuke the phone rang again.

"I'm going to get Kakashi for this!"

"WHAT IS IT NOW!"

"Sasuke stop yelling, it's ok she' fine"

"I don't care! I want to sleep!"

Naruto grabbed the phone out of Sasuke's hand and hung up before throwing it to the far end of the room. "Happy now?"

"No, you broke my phone"

"No I didn't and I'll get you a new one I need one anyway" he pulled Sasuke back into the hug and the both lay down on the pillows.

"At least it's quiet" Sasuke yawned before sighing and snuggled into Naruto

"Sasuke I love you" He would have replied if he hadn't already fallen back to sleep.

Stroking Sasuke's hair he too settled down to sleep, within minutes the two were snoring softly as if the phone incident never existed.

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"Sakura? Sakura are you ok?"

"Kakashi-sensei" Kakashi was sat by her bedside when she woke up.

"What happened? Where did Itachi go?" Sakura was trying to get up but found she was too weak to.

"Don't try to move, I think you passed out and there was no one there to help"

"No Itachi was there he told me that it ends now. What did he mean?"

"I think he meant that you should be yourself and stop trying to get what is out of reach"

"I felt alone and so I sought him out, I feel so stupid now" Kakashi watched as Sakura tried hard not to cry.

"What are you doing? You're not expected to act like a proper shinobi now"

"He said…when I stop crying for others then I will understand who I am"

"Sakura, I think you knew who you were all along but when I said to take the hint I didn't mean that you should change to suit other people. You are you and people will like you better if you are you and not anyone else."

Kakashi got up to leave. "I have to try and ring Sasuke and Naruto again, maybe this time they'll stop yelling down the phone at me"

Sakura began to think. 'I should just be me and not listen to what anyone else says. Starting tomorrow I'm going stop being a nuisance'

Sakura smiled remembering her team mates. They were squad 7 even if two of them spent most of the time together at least all of them had fun on missions.

Kakashi had given up trying to ring them and had gone home. Now both of their phones were screeching at him. "Do I even want to know what they were doing with their phones in order to break them?"

He said goodnight to Sakura and told her tomorrows mission was cancelled in order for her to regain her strength.

Itachi was gone and Sakura was in no fit state to annoy people. Sasuke and Naruto didn't have a care in the world as they lay next to each other lost in a close embrace.

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A\N: Sakura still doesn't get it even after all those hints! Not a long chapter like the others but a good way to finish the story off. So do you think this is a good ending for this fic?

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PS: Kakashi owes Sasuke a new phone.