Another for you guys!
Disclaimer: I suppose since these are required, I must say, "I do not own anything of this fic but the idea!"
b e l l f l o w e r — VI
"If you yearn to be alone no longer, leave from this place."
Kikyou frowned at him. "If only it were that simple."
"And why is it not?" asked Itachi in an indicipherable tone.
"I… This duty, bequeathed to me, is mine to uphold."
"Although your happiness lies just in the reach of your fingertips?"
Chuckling bitterly to herself, Kikyou chided, "You are a cruel man, teasing me of such unattainable things. Have you no shame?"
Itachi regarded her with a ghost of a smile tugging at his lips.
"We are not unlike," he confessed.