Sorry this took a little longer than the others, I'll explain why at the bottom of the story. I hope you enjoy. ^^


Quick recap: "What?" I hear something crash and then I hear something break. I sit strait up and see Itachi had fallen backwards and had knocked something over. "What did you just say?"

Story

"What are you talking about?" I've never seen him so flustered.

"You said you love me." As soon as he said that, I start to feel sick. 'I was talking in my sleep.'

"I have no idea what to say." I say quietly.

"You could tell me if it's true or not."

"I'm not sure. I mean I know my feelings for have changed. But with everything that's happened to me in the last year I just don't know." I found it surprisingly east to talk to him about it. But then again I always find it easy to talk to him. 'I wonder if he'll hate me now.' I watch him get up from his spot on the floor.

"Naruto, I want you to know that I am nothing like Sasuke when it comes to how I treat me lovers." I wanted to believe him, I really did. He slowly walked over to me and sat next to me.

"Do you hate me?" I ask in a small unsure voice. I look over at him and see that he is smiling at me.

"No, quite the opposite." He paused and looked me directly in my eyes, "I love you Naruto." I felt like passing out. 'What am I an Uchiha magnet?'

"How long?"

"I figured it out just a few days ago. I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to scare you off."

"I know I have feelings for you but I just don't know what to do."

"We don't have to do anything for right now." I felt relieved to hear him say that "For now lets agree that we have feelings for each other, and later we will go from there." I smile.

"That you be nice." I yawn.

"I think we should go back to sleep. I'll see you in the morning." He gets up and starts to head for the door I feel the need to do something. Just as he was about to leave I jump up out of bed and run over to him.

"Itachi." I run up to him and wrap my arms around him. At first, he didn't do anything, but after a few seconds, Itachi wraps his arms around me.

We stay there for a few minutes, just to relish in each other's company. 'This feels nice. I wish things could stay like this forever.' I think. When I feel him start to pull away from me, I hang on, I didn't want to let him go, but I had no choice this time.

"What was that for?" He asked softly.

"I felt like it. You're not angry are you?" I ask.

"Why would I be angry?"

"I don't know. I just thought you might be" I look up at him and see that he looked almost happy. I smile at him, and he smiles back.

"You look tired. Let's go to bed." I nod. "Goodnight Naruto." I whisper the same back to him. Before he walked out the door, he surprised me by giving me a kiss on the forehead. I couldn't do anything but watch him walk away. 'What the hell just happened?'

'I believe it's called a kiss, kit.'

'That's not what I meant.'

'Well from what I can tell you two are on your way to dating.'

'I don't think I'm ready for that yet.'

'You should have told him you still only want to be friends.'

'One, I was caught up in the moment,' I go over and sit on the edge of my bed, 'two why do you care?'

'It's entertaining to watch you struggle with certain things, but sometimes you can be real annoying.'

'In other words you're annoyed with my struggle when it comes to relationships.'

'Exactly right, your inner monologue can be annoying when you are trying to figure out what to do, so in stead of listening to you I say what I think. And when I do say what I think you seem to figure out what you think sooner. And when you do that you shut-up sooner.' He doesn't say anymore after that. After a moment of sitting there and replaying everything that had happened in the last thirty minutes I start to feel sleep again. So I crawl to the middle of my bed and lay down, then I pull the covers over me.

'I'll figure out what to do in the morning.' I think as I fall asleep.

When I wake up the next morning, I feel a little different. I feel like I had made a huge mistake last night. 'I'm so stupid. Why did I tell him all that? I know I'll tell him I didn't mean any of it. I'll tell him I was just caught up in the moment.' I smile and get up out of bed, then go get dressed.

I quietly make my way into the kitchen. I get all the things out to get breakfast started.

I feel my self-get really nervous when I hear the kitchen door open. I continue with what I was doing, I act as if I didn't hear him come in. "Morning Naruto." He says as he walks up to me.

"Good morning Itachi." I say casually. He comes up to me and begins to put his arms around me,

"Um, Itachi," I say in a small voice as I back away from him, "I need to talk to you about last night." I don't give him time to say anything, I was already scared that he would be very angry with me, I didn't need the anxiety of hearing his voice right now. "I got caught up in the moment. Look the first time I said 'I love you' I was asleep, I was having a dream."

"Yes, I know…" I cut him off.

"Well everything I said after that was because I was still thinking of the dream… what I mean is that the emotions that Ii was feeling in the dream were still there when I woke up. I'm sorry" He backs away a little, I could see a little bit of sadness in his eyes.

"So, to sum up what you're saying, everything you said last night was a lie." I could tell he was trying to keep his voice calm, and not to let me see that he was really upset about this. I knew he was upset, I mean who wouldn't be upset when the one they love was basically telling them that they didn't love them.

"No, I was caught up in the moment."

"So it was a lie." There were no words to describe the look that had come over his face. He looked angry, sad, and disgusted. I couldn't say anything. I knew that anything I said at this point would only make things worse. After staring at me for a few seconds Itachi finally talks, in a low menacing voice that portrayed every emotion on his face he said, "I don't like being made a fool of." It hurt so much to hear him say that.

"Itachi…" He didn't let me finish.

"Just shut-up." He says as he walked out of the room. I felt like throwing -up, I felt like screaming and crying, I felt like going after him and telling him that I'm afraid and that he can't leave me. But I didn't do anything I just stood there staring at the door that Itachi had just walked through. "What did I just do?" After a few more seconds, I go and put all the stuff for breakfast away. I knew neither of us was going to eat this morning.

Once everything was put back in to place, I go back to my room and lay back down.

After laying there for I don't know how long I hear Itachi knock on my door. I jump up and run the few steps to my door. "Itachi-san…" I stop, he looks as angry as he did this morning.

"There are a couple people here to see you." He says in a monotone voice.

"Oh okay." I follow him down the hallway and into the sitting room. When I walked in, I was surprised by who I was witting there. "Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-chan, what are you doing?"

"We came to see if you were all right to come home." Kakashi-sensei said. I could tell Sakura wanted to give me a hug.

"Sakura-chan, come here." She slowly got up and slowly walked towards me. When she stopped, she stopped quite a way a ways from me. I ran up to her, picked her up, and gave her a big hug.

"Naruto?" She asked once I put her down. I thought you didn't want people to touch you."

"I didn't." I say as I walk over to Kakashi. He too gave me a hug.

"I'm glad to see you're doing better." I could tell he was smiling behind his mask.

"It's all thanks to Itachi-san." I look over at him with a big smile. "Right Itachi-san?"

"What ever." He says with a hint of bitterness in his voice. He starts to walk out.

"Itachi, what's wrong?" Kakashi quickly asks him.

"Nothing." He walks out slamming the door behind him. The both look at me.

"Naruto what happened?" Sakura asks. I sigh and go to sit down.

"It's kind of a long story." Kakashi sits down next to me while Sakura moves to take the seat across from me. They obviously wanted me to tell them everything that has gone on. "Well you see…"

Fifteen minutes later, I told them everything that had happened between Itachi and me. While I was talking Sakura would be changing emotions constantly, one moment she would be smiling and happy the next she would be angry. I was beginning to think that she was bipolar or something like that. When I was completely done talking there was silence, I guess neither of them really knew what to say. Kakashi was the first one to speak.

"Naruto, you're letting fear get in the way of your happiness."

"No I'm not." I said quickly.

"Naruto, you're afraid of Itachi turning out to be like Sasuke…"

"Just shut-up." I cut him off I was becoming angry quickly.

"So you push him away…" He continued as if I didn't say anything.

"No I don't" I knew what he was doing. He was trying to get me to admit something that wasn't true. 'It isn't true right?' Once again, he continued as if I hadn't said a word.

"And once you've pushed him away you start to feel alone and depressed…"

'No, No, No! It's not true!" I screamed in my head. 'He has the right to his own life. Who am I to hold him down? He deserves someone who isn't broken.' I watched as Sakura got up and left the room, she couldn't watch this any more.

"You think he deserves better…" That's what broke me. I could feel myself wanting to cry and scream to the high havens that I was worth nothing now.

"Just shut-up! Why would he want some one that's been beaten and raped? Someone who is nothing more than a broken toy. The only reason someone would want someone like that is because they want to pike up where the other one left off!" I was screaming and crying. I also wasn't watching what I was saying. I hunched over, I couldn't stand to look at Kakashi right now.

"Naruto, Sasuke raped you?" I sit back up and look directly at Kakashi. "You never told me that." He sounded a little hurt. And the fact that he sounded hurt I began to feel bad for not being completely open about everything to him.

"I didn't want to."

"Does Itachi know?"

"Yeah." I still had tears running down my face, but I was calmer now than what I was a few seconds ago. I feel Kakashi put his arms around and pull me to him. If felt like a father's comforting hold, or at least what I imagine one would feel like. I turn so that I could cry on his shoulder. I thought I heard the door open, but I come to the conclusion that I was hearing things that was happing else where in the building. After a minute of just sitting there in his arms, I talk. "I really do like him a lot." It was a simple sentence that had a lot of meaning to it.

"I know." It was a simple reply that also had a lot of meaning in it. At least to me it did. We sit in silence some more while I calm down entirely. Once I stop crying I pull away from him. I pick a random place for us to start talking.

"I've been talking to him about everything that happened between Sasuke and me."

"That shows that at some level you trust him."

"I know I just don't want him to turn in to Sasuke."

"I thought I told you that I will never turn in to Sasuke." I look over Kakashi's shoulder and see that Itachi and Sakura were leading against the doorframe. "I apologize, I'm not perfect, but that's no excuse for the way I treated you this morning." I was so happy to hear those words that without thinking I ran up to him and wrapped my arms around him.

"You can't ever leave me." I whisper and I feel him put his arm around me.

"I won't. There is not a force alive that could ever make me leave you." I feel new tears running down my face, not because I'm sad, but because I'm happy. I'm happy to feel him holding me safely in his arms. I'm happy to hear his voice reassuring me that everything is going to work out. Our happy moment is interrupted when Kakashi spoke.

"You still didn't tell us if you want to come back home."

"As if you have to ask. Of course I want to come home." I say as I pull away from Itachi. "You want to go home too, right?" He hesitates for a moment. Then answers.

"Of course."


Like I said at the top I would explain why this one took a couple extra days. You see I'm losing my motivation to write. I really don't know why but I am. Sorry if that seems vague but its all I got for now. I really hope that you liked this chapter, please, please tell me what you think. The reviews I get are what keep me going so please review, ^^. Until next time, bye-bye.