Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

'Thoughts'

Emphasized words

'Inner Sakura'

"Talking

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Chapter Six

'Okay Sakura, calm yourself down. From that extra training you should be ready…' Sakura said to herself.

Her heart was beating uncontrollably fast. What if someone laughed at her like her traumatic experience she had those years ago? 'No, be optimistic… optimistic…' she reminded herself despite her fear.

She readied herself and walked to the dance floor. Orochimaru played the cassette and the music starts.

Estuans interius, ira vehementi…

Oh no, it seems that extra training didn't really help.

She fell right after the first sentence, but she used it as a part of the dancing, to not humiliate herself again. After that, she stood up and began moving with the rhythm. Inside she was really nervous and afraid. Just moving one hand for the dance irked her so much.

Her nervous face is shown but her voice doesn't show any, fortunately. And again, in the part of veni, veni, venias she fell. This one cannot be replaced with an act so Tsunade gestured her friend to stop the cassette.

Sakura looked shocked with the sudden stop, but stood up right away. Nervousness is eating her…

"It's okay Sakura. Now please go back to your seat."

After taking her seat she heard a giggle. Obvious enough, it's from Sakiko. She was happy that she failed in the middle.

"Okay then Prince, please give your opinion about their dances."

Itachi stood up lazily and began to speak.

"First of all, I would like to thank you for your hard work in trying to impress me, but unfortunately no one earned the first place to me. All of your dances are all the same to me." He said and then sat down again.

"Ahem… okay, now, oh yes!" Tsunade said, suddenly she remembered something important.

"My, stupid me I didn't tell this at the beginning…" Tsunade mumbled to herself.

"Alright girls, I forgot to announce, that this selection is using the elimination system."

WHAAT and WHYY were heard.

"You see, it would be hard to choose if all five stay here, so Itachi-san will eliminate one of you after each test. The total tests here are four."

The girls mumbled either 'Oh no…' or chit chatting of what they should do not to make themselves be eliminated.

"After the first test, Itachi-san will eliminate one of you and the eliminated one must go home immediately. Oh, and after lunch later, please go to the auditorium for the third try's explanation."

The girls nodded and Tsunade dismissed them.

"Since when did you make that rule?" Itachi asked Tsunade.

"Well, last night I talked about it with Jiraiya and Orochimaru and they agreed. Besides, it's better for you, in my opinion, hehehe…" Tsunade said with a sheepish grin.

"It's alright. Perhaps you are right." Itachi said and left the room.

Orochimaru, who's finished with the boom box, started pulling fainted Jiraiya and walked out with Tsunade.

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"You know, perhaps we should play rivaling now, Mitsuru." Sakiko said.

"Guess you're right. In here there is only win or lose."

"Well even if one of us did win, we'd stay friends anyways, hahaha!" Sakiko said.

"You're right." Mitsuru smiled. She always liked being with her, she was always loyal to her friends.

"Hey, Rika-chan, can I go over to your room? I'm bored."

"Sure thing."

"What about you, Rinka-chan? Want to join?"

"Uh… I guess not. Sorry."

"That's okay!"

Sakura then followed Rika. Waiting for them to disappear from the sight, Rinka suddenly asked Mitsuru and Sakiko.

"Erm… Hatsune-san and Shirou-san, could you tell me the details of what I… sorry, eavesdropped the other day?"

"That's okay, Satsuma-san. Well, it's all true, considering from how she did in the ballroom earlier, right?"

Rinka nodded. "Well then, may I ask you something?"

"Y-Yes?"

"I see that now you seldom talk to Sakura-san, and a jealous expression is plastered in your face, why is that?"

Rinka twitched, and nodded. "Umm… I saw her with Itachi-san, and they looked like close friends. I'm just… jealous. I never had the courage to even look at him. I just… don't want her to be close to him!"

"Well, I feel the same as you do. I feel jealous too, especially when she tries to flirt. She's a whore." She said with a disdainful face.

"I guess you're right, but with this… I just can't stay friends with her. But I don't know what to say, so I kept quiet and well… acted."

"Why don't you be with us?" Mitsuru offered.

"W-What?"

"Besides, you wouldn't have to feel those pressures that are burdening you any more. And we all hate her for being a bitch."

"I guess you're right. Alright then."

Mitsuru and Sakiko welcomed their new company and asked if Rinka wanted to join them exploring the gardens.

"Um, no thanks. I'll just head back to my room." Rinka replied.

"Alright then, see you later!" Sakiko said waving goodbye, which Rinka replied with a goodbye wave too.

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Inside Rika's room, Sakura was happily looking at the magazines Rika brought from her house while Rika was watering her pot plant. They had showered after the dance because today's weather is quite hot.

"Ne, Rika-chan?"

"Yes?"

"Why do you bother bringing a pot plant to a selection?"

"It's from my late mother."

"S-sorry if I reminded you—"

"It's okay, Sakura." Rika said with a sincere smile on her face.

"If you say so… okay then… so, you bring it every time you go outside town?"

"Yes. I just don't trust other people to take care of it because it's the last present I got from my mother."

Sakura mouthed an 'o'. She had never had a very precious someone to her since she never went to a public school or a private one, but she home schooled. Her parents often go abroad for work, so she is not especially close with anyone.

"You don't have any precious someone?" Rika asked politely.

"Erm… no… I always have school at home, so I don't have any."

"I know you'll find him or her someday. Everybody will." Rika smiled.

"Thank you." Sakura smiled back at her.

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Lunch went on as usual, and afterwards they all went to the auditorium for the third try's explanation. Itachi refused to come there because he wanted to read his perverted book.

"Okay girls, time for explanation!" Tsunade said happily.

"The third try of impressing our Prince here, is doing anything you want except what you have done for the first and second tries. He will be spending time with you all according to the schedule we had planned. After that, the first elimination will begin."

"Any questions?"

The girls shook their heads in response.

"The activities will begin tomorrow, and also, be sure to put your alarm at five thirty and come to the garden after you've finished taking a bath!"

The girls nodded and Tsunade dismissed them. Meanwhile, Itachi is…

"Hmm… this book is absolutely awesome. I should ask Kakashi to send me more." Itachi said rubbing his slightly hardened member, result of reading the perverted book.

Just as he finished reading his temporary roommate came in.

'She came just at the right time.' Itachi thought and looked at her.

Sakura noticed this but ignored. Soon after the look on his eyes was filled with lust, so she burst out angrily.

"Stop staring at me!"

"Why?"

"Don't you know it makes me uneasy?"

"You look unusually sexy today, my slave." He said in a sarcastic voice.

POP and sweat drop. 'Something smells fishy. Since when he was the flirtatious type?' Sakura thought.

'KYAAAA! ITACHI-SAMA!!' Inner Sakura squealed hearing the praise coming out from Itachi's mouth.

"What the hell's gotten into you?" Sakura asked with one raised brow.

Itachi stood up from the bed and approached Sakura. "Nothing's gotten into me." He said cupping her cheeks. She blushed and slapped his hands instantly.

"What the hell? Are you an impostor of Itachi? Go away!"

"I'm real, Sakura. I'm not sick or whatever. Perhaps it should be me who's asking what's gotten into you."

"You never flirt!" Sakura shouted.

"Oh, I just need a 'release' after reading. I want you to satisfy me."

'WHAT DID HE SAY?' Sakura's head boomed.

Sakura began imagining things…

'KYAA! What are you going to do, you pervert!'

'Don't worry, it's not going to hurt.'

'Not going to hurt my ASS! I won't ever do that!'

'Oh, but you have to.'

'KYAAA! Lemme go! Lemme go you perverted ass-bastard!'

Okay, the end of Sakura's imagination. 'No, he's not going to! I'm not going to lose my virginity at this young age!' Sakura mentally screamed to herself while shaking her head like a crazy girl.

As if he's reading her mind, he said with a smirk, "Don't worry, my slave. I won't go so far until that stage."

"Are you a psychic?" Sakura asked.

"No."

Silence…

Moments later…

Sakura is struggling very hard to let go of herself from Itachi.

"I SAID NO! THAT'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT TOO YOU KNO—" Itachi shut her mouth with a gentle kiss to prevent misunderstandings caused by a loud scream.

"Don't shout too loud, slave."

Sakura's face became red, and then puffed and then blew smoke like a train's chimney.

"I just asked you to undress your upper cloth. That is better, cause I won't rape you."

"SAME THING! You're invading my body privacy!" Sakura said, closing her nearly open upper body part with her unbuttoned clothes.

"You're such a hard rock to crack, okay then, what about a deal?"

"What deal?"

"If you let me see your upper body, I'll reduce the number of activities you are obliged to do everyday."

"WHAT!"

"Think about it."

'No… if I let him see, it would seem like I'm selling my body to him… NO! Even though the prize is quite appealing, decreased number of obligations I have to do everyday…' Sakura thought, without realizing Itachi stole a chance of hugging her from behind.

"So, what do you want?" Itachi said nuzzling her neck with butterfly kisses.

"If I agree, what activity that you will reduce?"

"Massaging my back."

Sakura felt quite disappointed, why didn't he choose the bathroom thing activity? Massaging is better than washing his body! (For Sakura)

Finally, she gave up before he gives her even worse options. He's kind enough just to ask for the upper side. If he was evil, he would tell her to strip not ask her to strip.

"On one condition, you cannot see but you can touch me, but don't wander off to the lower part."

"Fine by me." He said and closed his eyes.

'He is so troublesome.' Sakura thought.

'HEY! No one insults Itachi-sama!' Inner Sakura said angrily.

'Yeah, yeah…' Sakura said to her inner self.

Sakura unbuttoned her top shyly, since she has no experience in showing her body to an opposite gender. Sakura then leaned onto him and was caught in his embrace.

Itachi began to plant kisses on her neck again, but this time there's a little touching on certain areas, but no lower parts as she had said.

"Enough?" Sakura asked in a whisper.

"I guess that should be enough." Itachi said and opened his eyes.

"KYAAA! Don't look yet you pervert!" Sakura said, slapping Itachi's face.

"Ouch, that hurt."

"Hmph!" Sakura said, looking away with a blush of embarrass. 'Seems like I hit too hard… hopefully he won't get angry…' She thought.

"Oh yeah, what caused you to be like this?" Sakura asked.

"You know we're at about the same age. You know what young men usually have from a sexual point of view. Like manly urges, hormones, wet dreams and whatever. And it's normal for me to be perverted, right?"

Sakura just glared at her master. "Even so, before today, you don't have that kind of manly urges."

"Oh, probably because my butler gave me a perversion virus from this." Itachi said, showing a tiny orange book titled 'ICHA ICHA PARADISE'.

"What is that?"

"You might as well read it, I'm finished already."

Sakura took the book and her face puffed in an instant. Immediately she threw the book but was caught by Itachi.

"Great, so I'm being a place for the release of YOUR manly urges, why not call a whore? They're better for that."

"I just like to play with my slave. That's all." Itachi said, smirking.

POP

"Oh, I see. Thank you for the praise!" Sakura said sarcastically with more veins popping on her forehead.

She then sat on the couch to avoid the bed until nighttime.

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The others?

Sakiko was observing the whole situation with pure jealousy reflected in her hazel orbs.

Mitsuru is reading a fashion book.

Rinka is writing a letter to her parents.

Rika is reading a celebrity gossip magazine.

Sakiko almost destroyed her pencil with a smack on the table because of anger plus jealousy.

"I won't let that bitch win from me again!" Sakiko muttered.

Inside Itachi's room, Sakura is doing her daily service to Itachi in the bathroom with an annoyed expression. After she finished doing that, she immediately took a bath to 'clean' herself.

After she had finished bathing, she went outside and brought a pencil, eraser and a sketchbook to kill time while resting under the banyan tree.

"Ahh… this tree always had a calming power…" Sakura said as she leant to the tree and started drawing.

"Lucky this tree doesn't make me hard on drawing because of lack of light, this tree is really the best!" she mumbled to herself in a singsong voice.

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Dinnertime came and it went on as usual too. The hosts have nothing to say because the try doesn't need any preparations or further explanations. The day went smoothly after that to Sakura, since Itachi wasn't bothering her again.

Tomorrow (Day 6, Saturday)

(A/N: I seldom mentioned the day, so I think I'd better tell it since it might be rather confusing for me or the readers… Also, for the rewritten chapters, I might forget to write it… sorry if I forgot. I'm a lazy bum, and tomorrow I have two exams.)

Even without an alarm, Sakura can wake up early.

"Hoaaahm… It's morning already… I wonder why Tsunade-san told us to wake up at five thirty? Oh well, I should change now." She said as she stood up from the bed to open the curtains before going to the bathroom.

She looked back and saw Itachi's sleeping form. His breathing was steady and his long hair is untied. She blushed a little and then walked to the bathroom to take a bath.

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Itachi woke up shortly after his roommate woke so he has to wait. However, he does not like waiting at all.

"Hey slave! Can't you be faster in taking a bath?"

"Oh shut up! Women take longer time in the bathroom than men, it's a usual thing!"

"What kind of excuse is that? Well, it doesn't matter. Just get the hell out the bathroom this instant! I do not like waiting at all."

"Man, how selfish can my damned master get? Whatever, just at the right time I'm finished." She said and opened the door.

He just walked through the door without saying anything, not even a tease.

POP

"He's so rude, oh damn it… I want this to be over… as soon as possible!" She muttered in a whisper.

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Of course she didn't wait for her roommate and went towards the garden after she went out of the bathroom. When she got there, only Sakiko and Mitsuru are already there, so she just sat without saying anything.

Sakiko whispered to Mitsuru all about the scene she saw yesterday.

"You know Mitsuru, I watched her yesterday, she is such a whore! She is like selling her body to Itachi-san! I just don't understand why Itachi-san wants her disgustingly ugly body. It's so eww!" Sakiko whispered to her friend.

"What did you say? Is that true?"

"Why would I lie? She's moaning while Itachi-san nuzzled her neck and caressing her body. I thought at that moment I saw that I needed a sanitary bag instantly."

"Gross!"

"See what I mean? She's just a whore!"

"You're right."

Just as they ended their conversation, the other girls and Itachi came and the hosts showed up.

"OKAY GIRLS! Let's do a morning exercise!"

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8…

They exercised for about five minutes. Because of the cold air, sweat isn't even going to come out even they exercised.

"AAALLRIGHTT! Now it's my turn!" Jiraiya said, suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

"Let's play a game, called…"

All the presence there put their ears on wanting to know what is he going to say.

"WHO KNOWS ITACHI THE BEST game!"

Itachi's eyes widened. Tsunade and Orochimaru just grinned, since they planned this.

"WHAT THE?" Sakura said confused, and then turned to Itachi. She saw he was wide-eyed and his eyes are directed towards the white-haired old man.

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This chapter is rewritten a little bit. Later chapters need fewer rewritings

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