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Before the Sunset

Story 3

Jealousy

Uchiha Itachi really wanted to cry right now.

For the 3rd time since he was 6 he wanted to cry.

The first time was when Sakura had punched him in the ribs after the first time he met her. He had asked her if she had dyed her hair pink or not, and only realised AFTER she had punched him why his little brother and his team mate were giving tons of warnings behind her back when he had opened his mouth. Ah… Happy days… He was lucky his brother's friend had caught him, otherwise he would have had more injuries. He was healed immediately by Tsunade of course, but after that when she came to apologise, he had said something to make her angry again apparently, but he managed to dodge her next hit as his body remembered the pain of the last blow. He reminded himself not to talk about her hair colour or forehead in front of her ever again, at least not in a negative way.

The second time he wanted to cry was when Tsunade punched him in the ribs after the whole 'injure himself and bug Sakura' plan had failed. Technically, it was Tsunade's own fault that she had been found out in assisting the Uchiha, not his. But he didn't want to argue and be made a month before someone healed his ribs. He managed to recover after a week, Tsunade didn't let any medics go near him and told him to go stuff himself, Sakura wasn't talking to her apparently. All the annoyance at Tsunade vanished though as soon as the medic came on the 6th day, he beamed as he saw the familiar pink hair flash at his house entrance.

Those two events were quite a while ago. Itachi was now living with Sakura, both of them a happy and loving couple.

Unfortunately, that still didn't stop Itachi wanting to cry with fear right now. Cause of course, he had JUST accidently eaten Sakura's cake that she was going to give Ino for her birthday. It wasn't his fault, he thought, the cake was just too tempting and delicious to stop himself from eating it. He had already been stopping himself from giving in for a whole day, and he couldn't hold back after Sakura had gone for a few hours.

It was already noon, and even though Sakura was in the hospital healing people from some emergency, she wouldn't have any time to bake another cake in time. Itachi could cook, but he couldn't cook CAKE. Sakura had used some super yummy recipe (he knew this especially since he gorged the whole thing down) that he didn't know where to find, and he sucked with the oven. Itachi was DEAD.

He tried to calm himself down.

'Calm down Itachi, it's just a cake. Sakura won't kill me.' He tried to convince himself, trying to think positively, but failing. 'Maybe I can run away far enough by the time she gets back home so she won't be able to kill me, I'll just stay in hiding until she calms down.' He gulped at that last thought, he knew if she didn't let her anger out somewhere he might be in hiding for up to 10 years.

He turned to the front door of Sakura's apartment, grabbing his spare key in case she intends to lock him out again like the last time he had pissed her off. His hand reaching the door handle to open it, the door opened on its own, and he was met with happy unknowing emerald eyes. The urge to cry came back again.

"I'm homeeee!" She sang, she had rushed out of the hospital as soon as she could, and couldn't wait to see the look on her lovers face when she came home early. She was surprised to see him in front of the door though, maybe he had known she would come. What a surprise spoiler!

She then looked at him and analyzed his face.

"Hey, you have something on your face." She said, and instinctively licked it off his cheek. As soon as she did though, she froze.

"Itachi…" She started and Itachi stepped back, his face showing utter horror.

"Did you by any chance, eat the cake that I slaved over for hours for Ino?" She asked in an evilly innocent and calm voice. Itachi could only nod in response and put his arms in front of his face, bracing himself for what was about to come flying his way.

Instead of a barrage of fists, all he heard was a disappointed sigh.

He lowered his arms slightly and looked at her. She looked disappointed and tired, not even angry anymore… Just upset. Strangely enough, he could tell what she was thinking. 'Does Itachi do these things on purpose, or does he do them by accident… Maybe we aren't meant to be together after all…' is what she was probably thinking, and Itachi was dead on.

Sakura sighed and walked past him, her shoulders slumped and her vibrant eyes now tired. She walked into the kitchen and went to their spare money jar. Taking out a handful of money, she opened her purse and let the coins slide out of her palm and into her silk purse. Turning around back to Itachi, she didn't even glance at him once as she walked back outside in the direction of the shops.

He wanted to feel relieved that she wasn't angry at him, but he couldn't. Instead, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and it didn't take an idiot to understand why.

He knew she was upset with him, really, really upset with him, but this time it hurt him much more than any punch could. Now he sort of did wish she had just gone and punched him, instead of leaving such a miserable and anxious feeling lingering in his chest.

Sighing, he walked upstairs and sat on the bed, not expecting Sakura to return till at least late in night. Until then, he'd just have to bear waiting.

She couldn't believe it.

She just absolutely couldn't believe it.

He knew that the cake was meant for Ino's birthday, and that she would have baked him one specially if he had just asked. In fact, he could of even eaten it YESTERDAY if he wanted, at least he would have given her another day to bake another one. But no, he decided to eat it right before she was supposed to meet up with Ino, forcing her to buy a different more crappy cake and make up an excuse for Ino.

Well if he expected her to make an excuse to Ino saying he DIDN'T eat it, stuff him!

She marched to Ino's house early without a cake in her hand, and stormed into her room, seeing Ino still trying to decide which outfit she would wear.

Slowly, Ino managed to calm Sakura down, feeling somewhat sad for her pink haired best friend when she heard what had happened.

"Shhh Sakura, calm down. Maybe it's something in their Uchiha blood, he IS the older brother of Sasuke you know." She comforted, rubbing an annoyed Sakura's back. Sakura was so angry and frustrated she was on the verge of crying. In fact, she did.

"I just don't see why…" She sighed, "Maybe he just doesn't love me as much as I love him. Maybe we aren't supposed to be together Ino, it feels like whatever he does wrong is on purpose against me. Like that time he accidently set our dinner on fire, twice. Or like that time he accidently agreed to a mission right before we were supposed to be meeting up with my parents."

Ino didn't like where this was going. Even though Sakura was only talking about the bad things that had happened, she knew that Sakura was so happy with Itachi, and she probably wouldn't be any happier with anyone else. But Sakura was really upset about this, so it should be up to her to help things run smoothly.

"Ne ne, Sakura." She whispered excitingly, shifting her eyes to the windows and door, acting as if someone could be spying. Her acting worked, Sakura was interested now, "How about we test to see if Itachi does love you or not. Which of course he does." She added rushedly. Sakura didn't know what Ino had in mind, but she was interested to say the least.

"As long as it doesn't end up like the time you tried to hook me up with that crazy drug addict from that book store across the street…" She said, shuddering at the memories.

"It's not my fault, I didn't know he was one of those pervert type people…"

"Ino, hes a BOOK STORE PERSON. Not saying they're all bad but, HE WANTED ME TO STRIP DOWN NUDE LIKE IN HIS MAGAZINE!"

"Ah… Yeah.. I remember now… Don't worry, it won't end up like that… I promise… I think…" Sakura looked at her blonde friend, and sighed in defeat.

"Fine, you can help me. But only if you forgive me for not being able to bring your cake. And it doesn't involve me trying to seduce him." Sakura had said the last part jokingly, but she gaped at Ino as she had cursed under her breath. She obviously DID want her to try to seduce the mighty Uchiha.

"Kay, first thing we have to do is…" Ino trailed off.

Itachi sighed.

He looked at the clock dismally and it read 0:14 a.m. Groaning into the palms of his hands, he let a muffled agonised scream exit his throat.

Suddenly, he heard a soft click of the door, and his heart jumped as he saw her. She didn't look so upset right now, in fact, if Itachi could tell properly she looked pretty happy to extent.

He was about to speak, he was about to apologise, to say sorry for eating her cake and causing her trouble with her best friend, but she started talking first as she grabbed a pouch from her bed drawer.

"I'll see you soon, I'm gonna hang out a bit more with my friends. See you soon!" She said, not even looking at him. She had left as quickly as she had appeared, and left an even greater cloud of agony over Itachi's head.

Sighing again, he knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep without her, especially with this emotional distress in his hands. Thinking it was a smart thing to do, he cast a sleeping jutsu on himself, making sure he'd sleep for at least 5 hours before waking up, hopefully next to a sleeping Sakura.

He woke up at about 6 a.m. but found the rest of the bed empty. Disappointed and glum he got dressed in casual clothes, he disdained wearing the jounin vest since Sakura laughed once at the sight of him in a green puffy vest.

Not bothering to eat breakfast, he put on his shoes to take a walk around the village.

Walking slowly amongst the morning dew, he yawned as he entered the early market streets, the stalls buzzing noisily with people already trying to get the best bargains.

He was passing one particular café that was already being queued for by a ton of people ready to get their breakfasts, when he noticed a flash of pink sitting on a table with a guy he didn't know.

Sharingan activated.

He looked at the guy. The guy had long brown hair, in fact if he didn't see the outwardly open yukata type shirt he wore, he would have thought he was a girl. The man had silver eyes, and his own narrowed as he recognised that trait being of a Hyuuga.

His eyes shifted slightly to the right, looking at Sakura's happy and energetic expression as she talked about something not important to the man sitting next to her. She didn't seem to have noticed him glaring at them yet, but her company did. The Hyuuga glanced in his direction, making dangerous eye contact with the Uchiha, then laughed through his nose and turned his attention back to Sakura.

Itachi's eyes narrowed at the Hyuuga's rude actions and he felt the edges of his lips twitch as he formed an evil smile.

Since Sakura hadn't noticed him yet, he'd use that to his advantage. Forming a quick seal with his hands, he turned smirking as he heard screams from behind him. His smirk widened as he could tell the Hyuuga was glaring at him with anger, so annoyed that he even had a murderous aura around him. He turned around once more to see his handiwork, and sniggered as he saw loads of spaghetti and meatballs drizzled all over the Hyuuga's head, then quickly left the scene.

He was jealous of course, he could openly admit it, but he was definitely sure that Sakura would never cheat on him, but that didn't mean he couldn't have some fun right? As long as Sakura didn't realise it was him who did it to her friend, he was safe.

Of course, he would ask her where she had been later on in the day when he had a chance, or maybe in a few days after she had forgiven him. IF she forgave him that was.

Sighing, he decided to watch Sakura's day go by in the shadows, he had nothing else to do and he really wanted to find a chance where he could properly apologise for the eaten cake.

That day had gone by slowly, really, really slowly.

After the Hyuuga scene, Itachi watched in mortification as Sakura left him to hang out with some other guy and his dog in a park. Then after that, she went to a Yakiniku barbecue restaurant for lunch with some fat guy and a guy he recognised as another jounin called Shikamaru. After lunch she gone training with this guy with a bowl cut haircut and thick bushy eyebrows for about 2 hours, before going back home to take a shower. Before he could catch up with her after she got out of the shower, she was already leaving to go to a ramen shop called Ichiraku's, and saw her eat out with his little brother and his blonde team mate.

During all of that, he threw several sticks in the park for the dog to catch, trying to separate Sakura and Kiba, but it ended up with them running together and having more fun than just walking slowly.

At the Yakiniku restaurant he tried luring the Chouji out with junk food, but it didn't work since Shikamaru had already brought him a whole bag of junk food.

With the training he didn't even bother trying with Lee, he was at a point where he was asking himself why Sakura would choose a guy in a spandex green suit over him to spend time with.

By the time she had gone to see Naruto and Sasuke, he kind of gave up and went home, tired from all the trailing and meddling he did that day. He decided to lie in bed for the rest of the night and sulked.

Itachi heard someone, or some people, walk through the front door. He heard two pairs of feet, though one of them sounded like they were being dragged. Worried, he walked down the stairs to the entrance and saw his little brother supporting a VERY drunk Sakura. Itachi opened him mouth to speak but closed it shut after he found he had nothing to say.

"Sorry, I couldn't stop her. She drunk a bit too much whilst we were hanging out in a bar." Sasuke said as he passed her gently to Itachi. Itachi slowly reached out for her and pulled her into his arms, his left arm sweeping her under her knees so she was carried bridal style. He thanked Sasuke politely and turned to leave.

"She's really upset you know." He heard from behind him, making him turn around slowly again.

"On the verge of tears I think, she was shouting it really loudly when she was drunk." He continued, watching his older brother hunch his shoulders slightly.

"Mah, don't worry. It's Sakura in the end, she'll forgive you soon, she'll probably even forget what she was angry with you about. It WAS just a cake right?" He offered, trying his best to comfort his brother. Not that he specifically liked his brother, just that it was really scary for him to see his brother so upset. All he got back was a sombre 'Un'.

Turning back around to put Sakura to bed, Itachi gave a slight bow before walking up the stairs. Sasuke knew the way out without him having to escort him a metre away from where they were standing.

Walking up the stairs he paid attention to her soft breathing, and the subtle creaks of the floorboards as he stepped on the wood.

Entering their room he placed her slowly onto the bed, sitting next to her. He watched her carefully as she opened her eyes slowly.

"Nnnmmnm…" She whimpered, her head obviously hurting. He didn't know how he could help her other than by getting her some aspirin, so he stood up to look for some. Suddenly, he got pulled down, and found himself be straddled by his drunken patient. He looked confusedly at his captor and saw her smirk playfully.

Suddenly, her smirk turned into an angry frown as she sat down on his legs and crossed her arms.

"What's the point in even trying to seduce you anyway… You don't even like me!" She blurted out randomly out of nowhere, successfully confusing the Uchiha. All he did was let out a muddled "Huh?"

"Bah, even though I tried to even get you to get jealous with all those guys, you still don't care!" She continued, getting more upset by the second.

"Hey wait…" He tried to cut in. She didn't let him though.

"ARGHHH! I knew it! I should have stuck with Sasuke after a- MMMPHFFFFH!" She got cut short before she could finished, her screams of protest muffled by his lips. After a while she started kissing him back, when he then drew back from.

"You were saying?" He asked cooly, before pulling her down for another passionate kiss. She kissed him back eagerly, pulling the hair tie away from his hair. Just as her hands reached for his shirt, he pulled back again but flipped her over so he was the one on top this time. He smirked at his victory as he tied her hands together behind her back, and slid off the bed to go downstairs to get some aspirin. Laughing even more as Sakura yelled at him furiously from the bedroom, he made a mental note that he'd continue what they were doing soon… Very, very soon.

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A hint for the next story~

Ever wondered what happened when Sakura went round the Uchiha Compound after she was going out with Itachi for the first time ever? Find out next time in...

BEFORE THE SUNSET