Here it is: Chapter 7. Of course, I'm really sorry for not updating but I'm bad with transitions, and I mean really bad. I started this chapter totally differently when I first tried to write it and after a page and a half it really sucked. I left it for a few weeks and came back, deleted everything and started over. And now on to the disclaimer. So, as much as I hate to do this… I don't own Naruto. Who would've guessed?
Ch. 7
"Wha….Where…HUH?" Sakura shrieked as she woke up, for, after acknowledging her surroundings she noted immediately that they weren't the same as that night. In fact, she was in some bedroom in….she glanced out the window; "WOODLAND PARADISE??"
Meanwhile, Itachi was eating breakfast with the two fairies he met the day before. (A/N: Yes, I was being serious about fairies to let you know.)
"Was that….Sakura?" he asked, putting down a forkful of pancake. (And I might add that the fairies also eat pancakes.)
The first fairy, Koby, replied saying, "I think it is. She's probably a bit overwhelmed by the location."
The second fairy, Koen, added "Especially since I'm sure she wasn't expecting this. Should we…?"
"No," Itachi told them. "I'll go get her."
He rushed up the stairs and opened the door to find… "ITACHI! OUT!! I'M GETTING DRESSED!" They both stood there for a moment in silence, until Sakura, turning a shade of beet red said, "OUT!" Itachi, a bit freaked by being yelled at by an angry woman, closed the door, and walked out. He could hear Sakura cursing from behind the door.
Once he got downstairs Koby piped up and asked, "What was that about?"
"Uh…nothing," Itachi said, and sat down to eat more pancakes.
A few minutes later Sakura ran downstairs, flustered.
"Okay…" she said, glancing over at Itachi and turning red again. "What is this all about and mostly, why are we in a woodland paradise?"
"Well," Itachi began, "I meant to explain this to you earlier but you were kind of…yeah….but anyway, last night I was still awake and these guys found us and offered to take us here where no one can follow us."
"So, we're stuck here for a while?" Sakura asked. Itachi nodded. "And what are they?" Sakura asked, gesturing to Koby and Koen.
"Us?" they asked. "Well, we're fairies."
"Fairies?" Sakura asked, confused. "But I was awfully sure that fairies were small and had little adorable wings."
"Why does everyone seem to think that fairies have to be small?" Koby asked.
"It's really very annoying," Koen added.
"Oh. I'm sorry," Sakura told them. "Really. I just didn't know is all. Oh my God! Are those…pancakes??"
"Yup!" said Koby.
"Must have…." Sakura said, over and over very possessively. Then she spotted another breakfast time wonder. "N…no way. COFFEEEEE!!"
"I think she's happy," Koen said. "Hey, Koby, what time is it?"
"7:30," Koby mumbled. "I guess we better go to work."
"Work?" Sakura asked quizzically.
"Yeah," Koen told her. "We're teachers."
"Teachers?? Wait. Hold up. I didn't know that fairies had schools," Sakura said.
"Just because we aren't people doesn't mean we don't need to learn," Koby added.
"But you don't mean you're leaving me here…alone with…with…"
"Well, yeah," Koen said. "When we get back, Koby and I will show you two around the place. But, seriously, right now, if we don't leave, we'll be late."
Grabbing briefcases, the two fairies rand out of the house, in quite a hurry.
Once they had gone, Sakura turned toward Itachi.
"You got us here… in fairyland?"
"Well, they found me," he said, "So really, that was them, not me who got us here."
"But still…" Sakura said. "That might be so but you agreed to come."
"Yes," Itachi admitted. "It seemed like the sensible choice."
Without warning, Sakura's face lit up, she rushed over to Itachi and hugged him tightly.
"Thank god for sensible choices," she said, the smile never leaving her face.
All Itachi could say was, "I think you're suffocating me."
"Oh, sorry," Sakura muttered sheepishly. "I just sometimes get overexcited about random things."
"Well, that's not what I mean't," Itachi said. "I was just trying to say that if you wanted to suffocate me, you could find a better way."
"Like what?" asked a puzzled Sakura.
"This," Itachi replied.
He took a brisk step toward her and cupped her face in his hands. Then, he pulled it lightly toward him and brushed his lips against hers. Sakura stood there, immobilized. Her eyes widened as Itachi continued to kiss her. For a moment, Sakura was wondering if she really was imagining all of this. It seemed too unreal. But then again, if it was happening, she ought to enjoy it, shouldn't she? Feeling a bit less stiff, Sakura began to respond. Her hands slid up to his hair and she felt each soft strand.
This continued for a few more seconds until they broke apart, gasping for breath.
"What…was… that?" asked Sakura, still stunned. She stopped to catch her breath.
"Next time you want to suffocate me, try that instead," Itachi told her.
"This is…." Sakura began, "I mean….you….me….uh….It's weird. Well, I can't quite explain yet. Give me a minute."
Sakura ran off to the sink, filled herself a glass of water and gulped it down in a mere second. Then she went back.
"Okay. If we can sit down, I'll explain better," she told him. They went to the living room and plopped down on the couch. "Now…" Sakura said. "Where should I begin…How about the bookstore? You see, I was absolutely terrified of you in there. My first instinct was to run screaming. Of course, I was too frightened to do even that. But then, we end up whisked away to here and that punch lady made me dance with you and then you seemed like….well, an ordinary person. And now, how shall I put this? We're standing here in and enchanted forest little fairy town making out!!"
"Well, true, you have a point," Itachi agreed. "But you see, here I'm not widely considered a sadistic murderer."
"Actually, I beg to differ," Sakura said. "Think of Mr. Andrews."
"That wasn't murder," Itachi said. "It was self defense. And, if I remember correctly I only tortured Mr. Andrews. You were the one who killed him."
"Because you told me to!" Sakura shot back.
"Well, that still puts us on the same criminal status out here, does it not?" he asked. Sakura had to nod.
"But…." Sakura found herself about to ask the ultimate question. "If we get too attached to each other out here, what happens when we get back?"
"I doubt we'll be back any time soon," Itachi said.
"Crap," Sakura groaned. "But….actually it's not as bad as all that anymore, is it? After all we're out of the stuffy annoying castle and rich people life. Now we're stuck with not so fairy like fairies which is better and we don't have to get pushed around all the time."
"You know you don't have to talk that much," Itachi said gently, placing his index finger on her lips. "Quiet. Can you do that, or do I have to kiss you again?"
Of course, Sakura found staying quiet a bit too difficult and soon piped up again. "I wonder if there's anything interesting in this little house?" she asked. "I'm going to go look around."
"And I think I'll just stay here," Itachi replied.
Sakura got up and stepped on the creaky wooden floorboards because, though she hadn't noticed before, the houses were very much old Victorian style. The staircase was winding and there was the unique smell of wood and dust. She looked out the window. The majority of the other houses were much like that too. "Hm…I wonder what's upstairs?" she asked herself.
After walking up the stairs, she noticed all the bedrooms, the bathroom and nothing that great until…. "Oh, wow. There's another flight of stairs. I'm going up."
At the top, she met the surprise of her life. The room was dusty and full of shelves of books. There were a couple of beanbag chairs. The walls were covered with old oil paintings of waterfalls, mountains, rivers, and all kinds of other scenery.
"Wow," Sakura breathed out silently. There was a notice on the wall. Sakura read it.
"Read with caution," it said. "Some of these books are spell books, and if used improperly, or especially, read aloud, can have some dangerous consequences. All of those are, however labeled for your convenience." It reminded Sakura a bit of the bookstore.
"Yay!" she squeaked, softly. "I wonder what would happen if I read one of those spell books?..." She went over to a shelf and picked up one.
Then she sat down on a beanbag chair, and started reading the introduction.
Is there anything that you can't get enough of? Probably so. That's why we wrote this book! There are various things that have spells that, if used properly can summon whatever that things is whenever you want it, on the spot. Just turn to the massive table of contents, pick out something, and read on!
Sakura was thrilled. She flipped ahead to the table of contents where she immediately found chocolate and turned to its page. Suddenly thinking of Naruto, she wondered if there was one for Ramen. But, for now, chocolate would suffice. She looked at the spell. It said, "Je veux le chocolat." (A/N: Which is actually French for I want chocolate because that was all I could think of. Plus, Sakura doesn't know that, does she?) Sakura tried it a couple times. It felt weird rolling of her tongue, but after a couple of tries, worked successfully, and there, in front of her, was a chocolate bar. Glorious, yummy chocolate. She picked it up and took a bite.
"God, that's good," she sighed. "And, whoa! Hold on, did I just summon chocolate?!"
Sakura continued searching through the book the rest of that entire day, until she had found out how to summon Ramen, in case she ever saw Naruto again, water, Kool-Aid, coffee, pancakes, and pizza, for her lunch. (A/N: of course, I think I'll just make all the spells French.)
Time passed incredibly fast, and before she new it, Koby and Koen were back.
As she heard them call "We're home!" She rushed downstairs.
At the bottom of the steps Sakura ran into both of them and Itachi. They were all looking at her, trying to suppress laughs.
"What?" she asked.
"You have chocolate on your face," Koby said.
"I…Oh," Sakura said. "You guys realize there's a library upstairs with spellbooks and stuff, and you can get as much of all this stuff you want, right?"
"Well, yeah," Koen said. "Only, I didn't realize it exactly worked. It was all in a strange language I couldn't pronounce too well. But it seems you got it to work!"
"What did you do today?" Sakura asked Itachi.
"Sat around," he replied.
"So," Koby asked. "Are we ready for the grand tour?"
"Yeah!" said an energetic Sakura.
"She's hyper," Koen noted. "I think it was all that chocolate."
So, now I'm pleased with it. I know the spell book seems kind of random, but sometimes stuff comes to me that even I don't plan. And I figure, Sakura deserves to be able to do something awesome for once. And as I mentioned before the French was all I could think of. Oh yeah. And EEP! They finally kissed! Reviews would be awesome.
