Disclaimer: Jasu, Kaiz, Hoshimi, Kyo are mine
Naruto charatcers are Kishi's
Yin is Arya's


Chapter 6:

Bonding... Sort of

The hot water ran down her back as she stood in the shower, enjoying its warmth. Letting out a sigh, she leaned against the tile in the bathroom. This was her kind of thing. A warm shower to sooth her. Just what she needed. Smiling to herself, she closed her light blue eyes and let herself relax to and extent. She couldn't foget that she was in a shared bathroom with Itachi. He could come in at anytime, if he wanted to atleast. Opening her eyes, she stared unseeingly at the ground, thinking about some of the things Itachi had said. He said he wouldn't rape her, but so far, she hadn't earned his trust so she didn't think she could believe him. He also said there would be consequences if she wasn't pregnant by the time her time limit up. That made her stomache twist at the thought.

Shaking her head, she cleared her mind at the onimous thoughts. No need to think too hard about it. Silently, she turned off the water. It was quiet now, something that never suited her, even when she was on a mission. It made her jumpy and paranoid. After drying off, she grabbed her clothes and threw them on. These were some of her favorite colthes. They were loose and baggy and very comfortable. Exiting the bathroom, she let her dirty clothes fall onto the small pile of hers and Itachi's clothes that had piled up. Internally she snorted. He better not expect her to clean his clothes while she stayed here.

Her long wet hair fell into her face again and she made a face. It was time to find a hair tie. Even if it was Itachi's. Riefulling through his stuff carefully, she finally found one among others. Smiling in triumph, she stood up and closed the drawer. Behind her, a lazy, but amused cold voice called out quietly, "You do know you could've asked for one instead of stealing one of mine." She froze. Damn. Turning around slowly, she glanced at Itachi.

He was sprawled on the bed lazily, clad only in sweats. Blinking in surprise at the view, she shook her head responding, "I didn't think you would get me anything." Cautiously, she let her light blue eyes wander up to meet his onyx ones. It was too awkward to stare at his naked chest. Walking forward, she sat down on the bed, by his legs. Tieing her hair up, she shook her head, satisfied with the fact that most of her hair stayed out of her face.

"You shouldn't assume things about me that you don't know."

Shrugging, she silently agreed with him. When people automatically assumed something is got on her nerves. Only if the person knew her well enough did she appriciate the fact that they were trying to understand what was wrong or if she wanted something or not. Making sure not to touch him, she turned herself on the bed so she could look at him if she needed to. Staring down at the ground, she started to think about a couple of things. Like she tended to do, Jasumin soon became unaware of Itachi's presense.

Light blue eyes narrowed in thought. There must be a way out of here. Even if it wasn't as bad as it could be, she still would rather be in Suna with her friends and Kyo. Closing her eyes, she started to think of ways to get out. Deidara could help, but he probably wouldn't. He had said that he couldn't interfere with the other members' business. Being near all the Akatsuki would make it hard to get away. Especially with Itachi as a living shadow.

It wouldn't be impossible to escape, just exteremely hard. There was also a possiblity of her friends knowing by now. Mei could easily tell if she had willingly or not. She would defenitly tell Kyo that she hadn't left willingly. The question was, did they know who took her? Could they find the scent again? Groaning quietly to herself, the raven-hair girl let out a loud sigh. She knew that everyone back at Suna knew by now that she was missing, but for now, she knew she was alone, fighting for her innocence.

Unknowingly to her, Itachi watched her with great intrest. This female was intresting to say atleast. Jasumin was like most females, angry, stubborn, and many other things that made her a typical woman. There were things though, that made her different from other women. Like the fact that she was more spirited than others and that there was something about her that just seemed different. A flicker of amusement flashed quickly across his eyes when she groaned in frustration. About what, he didn't know, but he did have a few guesses.

Slowly, after an hour, she started to come back to present, blinking in surprise, Jasumin glanced over at Itachi. Eyes narrowing slightly, she asked acidly, "Are you just going to sit there and stare at me all day or are you actually going to do something?"

Slight amusement passed through Itachi's onyx eyes before he pushed himself into a sitting position. It surprised her because his face was extremely close to hers. Forcing herself not to flinch away from him, she stared at him challengingly. Even after the consequences of slapping him before, she wouldn't hesitate now if he tried anything funny. After a moment he finally spoke, "Am I making you nervous?"

She didn't look away, but narrowed her eyes slightly. Of course he did, but she wasn't ever going to admit that. Staring at him she hissed angerly, "No. I find it rather annoying."

He smirked before leaning in some, trying to get her to pull away. He was close enough that she could feel his nose touching hers and see the almost untraceable streaks off dark blue in his eyes. His deep, lazy voice drawled out again as he continued to stare at her, taking the challenge. "Really now?" She nodded her head, but the movement was fairly small so she woundn't get closer or encourage him even more.

Itachi moved closer to the raven-haired girl, his mouth now by her ear. Stiffening, she refused to pull back, even with him this close. She could feel the warmth coming off of him, but it wasn't soothing, only onimous. Her stomache twisted with nervousness and fear. Having him this close to her was not a good thing. Almost tenderly, she felt him bury his face into the crook of her neck, murmuring, "Are you nervous now?"

She closed her eyes and nodded, trying not to tremble. She didn't like having him this close, it made her feel vunerable. Since he was this close, Itachi could do just about anything he wanted to at the moment. Keeping perfectly still, she murmured quietly, "Hai.. I'm very nervous." He didn't say anything nor did he move. Jasumin shifted slightly, wondering if he was going to move. Finally she spoke, her voice tentaive and quite, "A-aren't you going to move now?"

He didn't say anything, instead he move. It wasn't to pull away, but to pull her closer. Blue eyes widened, Jasumin stiffened even more. She could feel his arms circling her back, pulling her into his lap. Itachi's face was still burried into the crook of her shoulder. Finally she was able to speak, "W-what are you doing?!"

Finally he answered, "You need to learn to trust me you know. For you, letting me be this close seems to be the only way I gain your trust."

Blinking in surprise, she realized he was right. She didn't like it though. Eyeing him suspisiously, she responded warily, "You don't seem like the type that would get all cuddly this easily. Even if you are trying to gain my trust." What she said was true, he never struck her as the type to do this. Eyes narrowing, Jasumin tried to figure out what influenced this. It couldn't be just the fact that he wanted to gain her trust. After a few tense minutes, she started to relax, slowly and warily, wondering if this was a trick.

After a couple of more minutes, Itachi pulled back, watching her reaction with his blank, onyx eyes. Staring at him, she raised an eyes, "Ok... what brought that up? It couldn't just have been because of you wanting to gain my trust."

He didn't answer for a little while, only raising his hand to brush it against her cheek. "The impulse to do it might be because I am midly drunk."

That surprised her, he didn't strike her as the type to drink earlier. "Really now? Why were you drinking?"

"Kisame decided to talk me out. He had just captured his kunoichi and he wanted to celebrate."

"Still, I didn't think of you as the type to drink a lot." Jasumin watched him for any reaction that might come. She couldn't see any though. Not that it was a surprise. Noticing that she was still in his lap, she moved out of it, hoping Itachi wouldn't force her to stay in his lap. He made no move to stop her, his onyx eyes watched her steadily though. Staring at the bed, her hand raised so she could get a lock of hair and play with it. "It's going to take a lot more than cuddling -" using that word for Itachi amused her a little. It was something she had never thought of saying for him. "- to gain my trust."

"Hn."

"You have only a week." Only a week to gain her trust. After a week and some days the chance of getting pregnant was gone for another month.

"I bet I can gain your trust by then."

"I bet you can't." She watched him, Jasumin saw Itachi smirk and instantly became wary.

"I know I can. You let me embrace you earlier, even if you didn't like it. Now, you're somewhat more comfortable with me." He gestured to the fact that she was sitting quite close to him without really seeming bothered. "You trust people too much for your own good."

Lowering her gaze, she agreed with him that she was too trusting. It was one reason why she nearly got herself killed. One reason why her team mates were killed. Refusing to let herself go back to her past, Jasumin raised her light blue eyes to meet his. Raising an eye brow, she eyed him. "How do you know this stuff about me?"

He shrugged once, "Your village doesn't guard the scrolls on ninja as well as they should."

"Damn... You were very thorough about this, werent you?" He nodded once and Jasumin rolled her eyes. "Ok, so you know a lot about me now." She snorted glaring at him. "Where I sleep, what my past is. All my missions, even a little about my personality. You even know that I'm not a strong kunoichi. Why did you choose me?" She stared at him with narrowed eyes. Curiosity burned inside of her. She was truly curious. There was nothing special about her. Nothing at all.

He watched her steadily for a couple of moments before replying. "I also know about your clan. There is always a chance our child will get the kekkei genkei from both of us. Though it is a slim chance."

She nodded agreeing then Jasumin realized part of what Itachi had said. "What makes you think we will have a child, much less more than one?"

Itachi shrugged, "I have a hunch." His onyx eyes met hers for a moment, he spoke again, raising his hand to brush against her cheek. "Most of the time my hunches are correct." An amused look passed through his eyes. "I have many hunches about you. We'll just have to see how many or correct."

She rolled her blue eyes and said somewhat playfully somewhat truefully, "You're an arrogant bastard. You know that?"

"Hn."

"You aren't even going to deny it?"

"No."

She let out a sigh "I like it more when you talk. Atleast I don't feel like I'm talking to the wall or something."

His gaze, which had been outside, flickered to her while he smirked. "I'd rather do something else than talk."

It didn't take her very long to figure that one out. She knew several perverts and had been exposed to this kind of thing since she was about 10. Flushing, she narrowed her eyes, "I'm not afaraid to slap you again." Her voice had a hint of playfulness in it, telling him not to take her seriously. Rolling her eyes, Jasumin grumbled to herself about the workings of a guy's mind. They were almost always thinking about sex. Annoying really.

Pushing herself off the bed, she headed to the door, glancing back at Itachi. "I'm going outside to the koi pond." Silently, Jasumin walked out into the dark world. Her gaze traveled around for a moment before she headed to the koi pond. The only light was coming from the cresent moon almost directly head. Somewhat gracefully, she sat down cross legged on the koi pond's shore line. Her illuminated gaze stared at darkness of the water while her fingers gently skimming its surface.

Her mind wandered as she thought about the conversation she had with the S-class criminal. It had been rather intresting and it had surprised her quite a bit to learn just a little more about him. Atleast she knew he wasn't planning on killing her anytime soon. That was always a plus. It ment there was still a chance she would be able to get free from this place. This brought on a new topic in her mind. Would she really be able to betray her village like that?

Probably not.

It was her only chance at living though. Kyo couldn't make it if she died. He was much too independant and she almost always had to drag him to the hospital for one thing or another. Then there was Kaiz and Yasu. They would be pissed if she willingly slept with Uchiha Itachi. Eventually, hopefully, they might be able to forgive her. If she did sleep with him or if she got out of this place. Closing her light blue eyes, she sighed. So much for the birthday party Kyo had been planning for her in two weeks.

That was also something she hadn't really been planning. Jasumin had not wanted to have a kid at the age of nineteen. Before the age of twenty-two for that matter. Sex was fine to her, she couldn't wait to have it, but a kid so young didn't appeal to her. Sure, she loved kids and loved to look after them, but she was easily annoyed and probably couldn't handle having a kid around her a the time at the age. It wouldn't help if she was pratically alone while raising the child either. There was no way to determine if Itachi was going help with raising the child before it was old enough to start training or if he was actually going to help.

Jasumin wasn't thinking too deeply, so she noticed right away when Itachi sat down next to her. Her eyes opened and she glanced at the male next to her. She took her gaze off of him and looked up to the sky, staying silent. Her gaze trailed to the moon as she stared at it for a long time. "It's funny how you always expect something like the moon to be there and then it's suddenly gone. Even though it's gone for atleast a couple of days a month, you get used to having its presence. What if the moon suddenly disappeared? Forever? You'd miss it for a while, but eventually you'd foreget it, only remembering it's gone when you look up into the night time sky to see it's not there."

She could feel his gaze on her, but she didn't move her eyes from the moon. He knew she wasn't talking about the moon, what she was talking about, he didn't know. Slowly, his onyx eyes moved from her and up to the moon. Without speaking, both of them sat there for a while, reflecting on what Jasumin said. The wind started to blow harshly and she shivered from the wind hitting her. The clothes she was wearing didn't suit her for this kind of weather. Scooting closer to Itachi, she pressed her shaking form to the warm body. After a minute or so she curled up closer to him and continued to stare up at the moon, not really wanting to go back inside yet.


Hehe, Ita and Jasu bonding. I know Ita ish ooc, but it's going to have to be like that if the story can be a sucess. Bear with me when it comes to him.

There's a poll in my profile going on right now. I already have a feeling on who ish going win. Anyways Merry Christmas and sorry for having the chapter late. -.-;; I've been very busy wwith school. All the ebil teachers decided to work us until the last minute of the day Thurday.

-Jazzeh