Cherry: Here's the 3rd chapter!
Itachi: ...You dishonor Uchiha Code...
Cherry: Why? What did I do?
Itachi: You made me care.
Cherry: Awww.
Disclaimer: Just read!
Chapter 3
Itachi and I headed back to base. The training was hard, but I was glad to have beaten him. When we got back we headed to the kitchen for a quick thing to eat. "So Itachi... I did pretty good... Right?" I asked.
He looked at me quizzically and just made a slow nod, as he exited the room. I stared at his retreating form and sighed. He barely talks. But when he does, he's either threatening someone or being a smartass. I sat on the counter of the kitchen and laid my head against the side of the refrigerator.
"Seiko." I heard a female voice and looked to see Konan with a worried look on your face. "You okay?" I nodded and sighed loudly, jumping down to meet with her.
"It just feels like Itachi doesn't want to talk to me." Konan looked at me and laughed slightly.
"You think Itachi doesn't talk to you? I've never seen him talk that much to anyone. Consider yourself special." My eyes widened in shock. "He's just acting cold because he doesn't want to get close to you."
"He doesn't want to get close to me...?" I thought for a moment then smirk. "I could make this kinda fun... I'm going to make it so that it's hard for him not to be my 'friend'." I said then smiled.
*
I really have no idea how I'm going to get close to Itachi. He's like an icebox that you can't force open. And I doubt he'll open himself up willingly, since he is of course a cold-hearted Uchiha. Only time will tell... And it doesn't help that he's nothing like the other guys... They can easily crumble in my hand but Itachi... He just won't break. What will I do...? I grabbed an apple from the fridge and left the kitchen.
Just then I saw Kisame enter the kitchen. I handed him an apple, which he took with a smile.
"Say Kisame, wanna spar for a bit?" Maybe I can get some info about Itachi through Kisame. He is his partner after all. I took a bite in my apple and Kisame smirked.
"You think your tough enough to fight me." He looked down at me from his birds' eye view. "And a little bit skinny too. You should eat more." I rolled my eyes and placed a hand on my hip.
"Is that a challenge?"
"It sure is." Kisame said smirking. I sighed and we appeared in the training ground, which was still in ruins. Kisame's eyes went wide. "What happened here?" He asked.
"Oh, Itachi and I trained. I actually beat him." I said smiling a fake smile. He looked at me as If I'd grown several heads.
"You're telling me, that you beat Itachi? Itachi Uchiha? And you're still alive?" Kisame took a step back when I nodded triumphantly. "Alright then. I'm not killing myself fighting you. See ya." He was about to form a transportation jutsu when I appeared in front him yelling 'Wait'.
"Okay maybe I exaggerated. All he did was train me." The fear in Kisame's face wore off and he ran a hand through his hair.
"But you beat him during training. This could mean only 2 things. That you actually tough enough to beat Itachi – which I highly doubt because Itachi's never has been beaten before. Or..." Kisame leaned down to whisper to me. "That he considers you special enough to keep alive." And with that he made the kanji and disappeared, leaving me to think about what he said.
I sat down on one of the fallen trees and thought. "Itachi cares enough to keep me alive... He talks to me more than anyone before... He's one of the few who actually doesn't think I'm eye candy... He's actually pretty nice to me... Maybe it really is possible that he doesn't want me dead...." I thought out loud.
"Are you implying that I have slight feelings for you?" The deep voice made me jump and turn around. And of course I was met with the smirking face of Itachi Uchiha. I blushed slightly, cursing in my head for being so stupid.
"Uhh, I don't know what you're talking about." I folded my arms, hoping that he didn't hear everything I said. He gave me an amused look. Why was this so funny to him!?
"Sure you don't. I'll be a fool if I let myself become attached to you." Itachi made a step closer to me. "Looks like I'm an idiot then." And he disappeared.
I looked around. "Itachi...?" He said that he would be a fool if he let himself get attached to me... Then he said that he must be an idiot... Does that mean that.... He loves me? I thought. I let out a sigh and appeared back at the base. No way, he doesn't love me. But he probably likes me.
Walking back in my room, I noticed that there was a note on our bed. Whoa, did I just say 'our bed'? Oh Kami, I'm definitely going crazy if I think I have feelings of him. I picked up the note and read it out loud. "Go see Pein. We might have a mission." Slightly scared at the thought of possibly being killed on a mission, I walked down the hall and to Pein's office. Before I could even raise my hand to knock, Pein yelled 'Come In'.
"Pein-sama." I walked into the room and bowed slightly to him. He motioned for me to sit down and began with the plans.
"Akatsuki needs to strengthen our bonds with our alliances, since Konoha has been spreading a bad name of us. Itachi, Kisame and yourself will visit the Waterfall village and steal a couple scrolls, just so they know to depend on us. Now, you are required to go on the mission, but you shouldn't fight in any battles. Akatuski moves as a unit, and you may be used to fighting alone, so use an invisibility jutsu and don't fight." I just looked at him.
"So you only want me to observe?"
Pein nodded. I blinked "Okay.." I stood up. "Then I'll go get ready..." I left his office and went to my room... which I happened to share with Itachi. I'm beginning to like that idea more than I should.
*
We headed out the next day, deciding to travel by night. The trip itself was painful in a sense because whenever I tried to talk to Itachi, he would respond with one word replies, a 'hn' or with nothing at all, leaving me to chat with Kisame.
I sighed and walked in between the two of them. "Man, you guys are less talkative than Gaara, and he hardly talks..." I muttered.
Just then I felt the wind get knocked out of me, as I was pushed quickly to the ground. Several kunai flew over my head, and I looked to see Itachi as he caught one of him. Before I could think about what had happened, Kisame and Itachi stood in front of me, in defensive stances. I stood up, a little stunned and I felt foreign chakra come closer and closer to us.
"Seiko!" Kisame yelled as he formed a jutsu, a body of water, the size of a lake fired straight-ahead, making the enemy ninja change course. The hunter nin grew closer and even though they came in large numbers, half were burned alive by Itachi's jutsu and another good few drowned in Kisame's wave. I turned around to see about 20 ninjas coming form our behind. Using my invisibility jutsu, I disappeared.
'Pein told me to use a invisibility jutsu, he didn't say I can't fight.'
When I was out of sight I quickly formed hand signs. 'Light Style: White Tigers Revenge!' Three white tigers appeared from chakra and ran at the ninja, taking out most of them. The few that remained kept coming. I took out kunai with paper bombs attached to them. I threw the kunai at the enemies and the bombs went off, taking out the rest.
Kisame and Itachi appeared beside me, telling me to run as we raced through the forrest. 10 minutes later, and with a panting girl in tow, we stopped to rest. Itachi was pacing and Kisame was sitting against a bark.
"You were supposed to stay invisible." Itachi harshly said to me as he paced the ground, surely uprooting all the grass in the area. I gave him a confused look.
"I'm So-?"
"No." He interrupted me and massaged his temples. Kisame laughed while I shrunk in my corner against a tree, wondering why he was so concerned.
Meanwhile in Suna.
"Temari, what happened!? Weren't there jounin keeping an eye on her!?" Kankuro asked. He was extremely concerned because he didn't want to get shit from Gaara.
"There were Jounin standing right outside her bedroom door! It's not my fault that there weren't any outside her window!" Temari snapped back.
Gaara paced around the room. "We have to find a way to get her back. If she were to join sides with the Akatsuki the whole country will be in danger. She's stronger than you two think." He said.
Temari and Kankuro both looked at Gaara with that kind of apologetic look. Before they could even start saying they're 'sorry's', he threw his hands in the air.
"Don't even try to tell me that there is no way we can get her back." His hand rose and sand slowly started to seep onto it. "She is a shinobi to Sand and its our job to keep her safe."
"But Gaara." Temaru tried taking a step toward her younger brother but was stopped with sand started to spread onto the floor.
"I want the best search teams." The anger slowly started retreating a lot with the sand. "In fact, I think its about time we ask Konoha for help."
Kankuro nodded. "I'll go tell the messengers to send a hawk to tell Konoha the news." Kankuro said running off.
"And I'll go and get our best tracker nin." Temari said taking off, not wanting to be near an angry Gaara.
Gaara watched his siblings run off and out of the room. Gazing out of his window, he watched as all of the authority figures have empties into the streets, trying to calm down the villagers. He sighed, resting his forehead in his hand.
"Kazekage. All of this unnecessary stress." He cracked a slightly smirk when a dear friend popped into mind. "Naruto, you have no idea what your getting yourself into."
