Sorry to all my readers that I haven't been able to update once a week as I would've liked. I've just been really busy with a lot of things even though it is still summer.
But I hope you guys like this chapter and make sure to review at the end! Sorry if it's so short again!
The Uchiha female turned towards everyone else and said, "Maybe Lord Hokage knows that there's something else in this book. We should ask him as soon as we get a chance."
"That would be the next best thing…..he probably knows a lot more than we do. But at the moment he's tied up with meetings with the council in a nearby town in order to instate a new treaty. He won't be back; the earliest, I heard would be about four days." Said Kakashi.
"Then until then, we have to just wait it out until he comes back." Said Katara as she gently put the mysterious green covered book on the table.
Chapter 8: An Unfortunate Meeting
"That would be the best thing to do. As for now, we just need to wait and be cautious." the silver-haired Jounin said as he was leaning against the living room wall.
"What do you mean by being cautious, Kakashi?" asked the heiress as she turned to look at her sensei and met up with his eye.
"Just be careful....I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen, and it's just another moment in time before it happens, Katara." answered Kakashi.
With a confused look on her face she quickly replied back with, "Umm........okay." and then rapidly went back to look at the book, while she waited for anyone else to break the silence. As she she looked around the whole room with her navy eyes, she noticed that everyone had the same expression as Kakashi had in his eye. As she turned to have her gaze reach the older Uchiha's eyes, she realized he had the same look too. As she braced herself for everyone's warnings of being careful, she patiently waited for someone to say something.
After a few more moments, the Uchiha heiress heard Itachi say something aloud, and with that she slowly turned towards him to hear what he wouls say; "For now, we can all leave and just wait to see what happens. I'm sure Katara doesn't want to hear everyone's concerns." the Uchiha had said and form the corner of her eyes, Katara couldn've sworn that he gave her a small smile. She in turn also gave him a smile as she was relieved that he was able to stop everyone else from saying anything more to her.
"Alright then, since we're not needed here, we'll all leave then." stated Sasuke as he got up from his seat and headed towards the door. After a few momre moments, every else followed his example, but as the heiress watched them leave, she still saw the concerned look in their eyes.
As the last of her guests was about to leave, Katara swiftly got up from her seat and walked towards the door with her guest. She slowly turned the knob of the door for the older Uchiha and as she watched him step outside and face his back towards her, she quickly said, "Arigatou, Itachi-kun...." as she smiled at the end.
The black-haired male turned towards the heiress and with a smile and shine in his eyes, he turned towards her and replied with, "No problem." And with that, in less than a second later, he disappeared in the flash as the Uchiha heiress stood there a bit dazed.
As she slowly closed the door of her apartment, she quickly leaned her back against the doorframe as she tried to slow down her heart rate. Just looking into his eyes, the Uchiha heiress couldn't help but blush and as she put her hand on her chest, she felt her heart beat rapidly from just being in his presence.
Her heartbeat returned back to its calm rate after a few minutes and as she came back to sit down on her couch, she tried to get her thoughts of Itachi out of her mind while looking through the thick, green book again. But as she continued to search through the book, one thing she found out for sure was that she just couldn't stop thinking about the Uchiha.
As the darkness of the night approached the sky, the Uchiha heiress was found to be getting ready to join her Hyuuga friend at a new restaurant spot.
Getting ready for her meeting with the Hyuuga, the heiress quickly ran to the shower, and removed her clothing. As her ivory skin hit the warm water of the shower, she was glad to feel so relaxed as she got rid of all of her tension inside her. After about another 3 hours of looking through the book, Katara couldn't find anymore news and as a result, she had been stressed and tense. As the Uchiha lathered and rinsed shampoo from her hair, she quickly got out from the shower and stepped out into the nice, cool air of her bathroom. As she wiggled her toes against the soft rug underneath her feet, she swiftly wrapped a towel around her form and exited as she went up to her closet to choose an outfit.
Standing in front of her medium-sized, wooden closet, she quickly scanned each piece of clothing, until her eye caught a slight tinge of blue. As she picked up the dress, she knew that this was going to be the dress to wear for her night out with Keiko. The dress a strapless, deep blue colored dress and as Katara looked at it over again, she was excited to wear it out as she also rushed to get out silver heels to match.
Katara quickly managed to dry her hair within a few minutes and as she quickly slipped into her dress and put on her heels, she made it just on time as she heard the doorbell ring. As she walked towards the door, her heels slowly clicked onto the floor. As Katara straightened her dress, she gave a big sigh, opened the door, and met up with her Hyuuga friend in a one-strapped, light lavendar dress.
"Ready to go, Kay?" asked the white-eyed girl as she stood outside.
"Of course, Keiko!" exclaimed the Uchiha as she quickly joined her friend outside, locked her apartment door, and both the Hyuuga and Uchiha headed out for a night of fun.
As the night passed on, Keiko and Katara continued to hang out and talk over dinner at the new restaurant famous for exotic foods. And as they left the restaurant, they found that they lost track of time as it was already very late at night and barely anyone was outside; they made their way towards Katara's apartment but as they headed towards an empty alley, they both couldn't help but feel a bit scared.
The Uchiha heiress suddenly felt an unfamiliar chakra presence and turned around to see an older women with orange hair with intense red-orange eyes. (Tayuya)
As Keiko and Katara met up face to face with one of the Sound Five, in her mind, Keiko knew that they had to find a way out. Without any other thought in mind, the Hyuuga quickly took her friend's hand in hers and ran towards the opposite side, hoping that Orochimaru's minion wouldn't catch up. Keiko looked behind her shoulder and saw that the strange female was nowhere in site and as she turned around, she was shocked to see Tayuya in front of them. As the sound kunoichi stared menacingly at them, both girls knew that they had no choice but to fight her. The sound kunoichi quickly took out a flute and as they were about to ask the other what was going to happening, they felt three other unfamiliar presences near them. Turning around, both girls saw that Tayuya's flute had somehow summoned up three grotesque-looking monsters that were obviously not normal size, but monumental. Playing another note from her flute, one of the monsters swung viciously at the Hyuuga and Uchiha. Both managed to jump out of the way as the hit clearly made a huge crater in the ground. From the corner of her eyes, Katara saw that each note the flute-user used, caused one of the three monsters to attack them. At that moment, Katara knew that they were both in trouble as long as she had her flute. She also knew that it would cause a lot more trouble since the three goons would protect her as well.
'Well, hopefully one of us could distract her long enough to get that flute.' Thought the Uchiha as she dodged another blow. The sound nin continued on with her flute-playing for a long period of time; each time both girls would manage to dodge, but as Katara examined her friend's condition, she realized that she was close to exhaustion and running out of chakra. As Katara evaded another blow from one of the monsters, she looked in terror as she saw that Keiko was directly hit on the head and knocked unconscious. The Uchiha quickly rushed over there to provide any medical assistance possible. The Uchiha princess checked over Keiko for any serious injuries but only found that the bump on her head could possibly cause a concussion. Katara was worried and knew that she had to get her friend away from Tayuya and straight to a hospital. Katara was just about to leave carrying her friend until she was suddenly stopped by a huge blow to the gut, which caused her to let go of her friend. She was suddenly pushed into the opposing wall as she felt one of the monster's arm grasp around her body. Katara struggled to get out of its grasp and as she tried her best, she was unsuccessful. From the corner of her eye, she saw that Tayuya was slowly approaching her, flute in hand. The Uchiha heiress knew that the sound nin was just about to finish the job as she held up her flute, ready to blow the final note.
'This is it, I guess. I'm sorry.' Thought the Uchiha as she saw Tayuya slowly blow into her flute.
From out of nowhere, the beast let go of her as she saw that something had made Tayuya stop from completing the final blow. From closer inspection, Katara slowly made her way away from the monster, and looked at Tayuya's current state. She noticed that only one person she knew would use shadows to keep someone still.
"Shikamaru!" the Uchiha said as she saw that it was him holding onto his jutsu. "How did you get here?" questioned the Uchiha as she stood behind him with Keiko in hand.
"Itachi told us." The shadow-user said as the Uchiha male stepped out of the darkness along with Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi.
"Stay behind us, Katara." The copy cat ninja said as he stepped forward. The Uchiha quickly listened to her sensei and took herself and Keiko away from the sound kunoichi.
"Hn….seems like you brought from reinforcements." The orange-haired kunoichi said as she was still frozen where she stood.
"You're caught, so you might as well start talking now before we have Itachi use his Sharingan against you." Said Shikamaru
"I don't think so." Said Tayuya as her chakra levels started to rise as a strange mark started coming from her neck. Everyone felt the newly intense rise in her level of chakra and as Shikamaru struggled to have his hold on her, she slowly broke away from his jutsu and escaped.
As she left, everyone heard her say, "I'll be back! And don't worry, I'll bring more company next time!"
Shikamaru has used most of his chakra just to hold her back and as he fell down and rested. As hecontinued to sit down in the ground, he slowly turned around to see if everyone was alright. "Is everyone ok?" questioned the Nara.
"Katara, you ok? That must've been a lot for you." Said the blonde male.
"Yeah, I'm fine Naruto. Thanks. Thank you everyone. But we have to hurry; Keiko, has a concussion and we need to get to the hospital." Answered the Uchiha.
"Alright, let's go." Said Itachi as all six made their way towards the Konoha Hospital in the darkness of the night.
All six shinobi made their way to the hospital in a short amount of time. Katara was the first to demand that someone look after her friend, until Tsunade showed up. The Uchiha quickly explained the situation and with that, the medic took a look at Keiko and sent her to another room, while the other five had to wait outside.
Tsunade quickly left and followed the unconscious Hyuuga as the other medics headed towards another room. Katara was left to sit down and wait in the waiting room with the others, while wondering how trouble always seemed to follow her.
'I can't believe this all happened. I hope she'll be alright.' Thought the Uchiha as she sat down and looked towards the ground.
Uchiha Katara suddenly felt a presence next to her as that person's hand touched her shoulder. She slowly looked up and saw that in Itachi's eyes, there was a look of concern. From the seat that Sasuke took in the corner with Kakashi, Naruto, and Shikamaru, he could see that they both really cared about each other, but he couldn't figure out how they both couldn't see it.
"Are you alright?" questioned the Uchiha.
"Yeah…I'm fine. I was just thinking, I was the main cause to all of this. Keiko is hurt because of me." The Uchiha heiress replied as she clutched her head in frustration.
"Listen, everything is going to be alright." Itachi said as she tipped her chin up into his eyes. "What happened tonight, is going to continue to happen. But what you need to do is just believe in yourself and become stronger. You already are. They're going to be after you soon and we need to think of another plan."
"So what are we going to do now?" questioned Katara.
"All we can do now is hope for the best. We worked it out and it was decided that I would be with you at all times." The Uchiha answered as he embraced her and tried to comfort her.
"Don't worry, Kay, we'll be able to make it through this. I did promise you I would be with you every step of the way!" Naruto said as he went up to the two Uchihas.
Katara giggled at how Naruto could just make her feel so cheerful and slowly got up and gave him a hug. "Of course! Thanks!"
While Katara was busy talking to her best friend, Itachi was slowly watching at how her face and emotions managed to change into a cheerful mood and he couldn't help but feel happy on the inside as well.
"You know, she is becoming stronger everyday. She has what it takes." Said Kakashi as he sat down next to the Uchiha.
"What do you want, Kakashi?" asked Itachi.
"I just wanted to make sure you were fine. You never fell for anyone this hard." Replied the Jounin.
"Hn…" the Uchiha replied.
Out of the blue, Katara suddenly popped out in front of the two older men and said, "Tsunade said that Keiko would be fine! Isn't that great! Itachi, come on, let's go check up on her!" the Uchiha heiress exclaimed as she took hold of the Uchiha male and dragged him into the next room. But the only reason why he was being dragged was because he was stunned and staring at her as she held the smile that he always loved from her.
I hope you liked this chapter. I don't think it came the way I expected it to be, but I think I'm fine with it. But I am definitely looking forward to write up the next chapter!
Look out for the next chapter and I promise you, that it will be longer than this.
Until then, please please please review! Your reviews help motivate me to continued to write and update faster than I usually do.
-Katara
