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Chapter Nine

Emotions/Jealousy

Sakura slowly opened her eyes. She was still on her floor, next to the door. She sat up. She was still wearing her robe. She sat there a moment, she felt sick. She decided to get up and find something to eat. She opened her door, and peered into the hallway. She walked out into the clear hallway, and into the kitchen. Deidara was rummaging through the fridge and didn't notice her. "Good morning, Deidara."

Sakura grabbed his attention. "Good morning. Sit down, Sakura-chan. I'll make us some breakfast, yeah."

Sakura didn't object. She quickly sat down. "When did you and Sharkface get back?" She asked with a smile.

"This morning, yeah." Deidara said while pulling out some eggs. "Kisame is sleeping." He began to cook the eggs. "Do you want to train later?" He asked, as he scrambled the eggs.

Sakura smirked. "I'm surprised you aren't tired of being beat, Deidara." She giggled jokingly.

Deidara laughed, "You know you only beat me because I was going easy on you."

"Is that so?" Sakura asked curiously, as Deidara placed a plate in front of her.

Deidara turned off the stove. "Yeah, I was only going about fifty percent on you." He brought the pan over to Sakura's plate, and poured some eggs.

Sakura stabbed her eggs, and roughly bit it off the fork. "I somehow doubt you did, but we'll see after breakfast, ne?"

"Yes, we will." He said, as he sat next to her with a plate of his own.

"Thanks, for breakfast Deidara." She pause, and smiled, "Too bad I'm going to have to beat it out of you."

"You keep wishing, yeah." He said as he took a bite of eggs.

"Just make sure you don't go "easy" on me this time." Sakura said, with an amused smile on her face.

Deidara laughed, "I don't intend to."

Suddenly Itachi walked into the room. Deidara noticed Sakura become really quiet. "Oi, Itachi, Sakura and I are going to fight later. You should come watch. That way we have a witness."

Itachi almost glared at Deidara. "I have no intention of watching Sakura-san beat you to a pulp."

Deidara crossed his arms against his chest. "She has yet to beat me, Itachi."

Itachi looked amused. "Perhaps."

Deidara glared at him.

"If she wanted a real challenge, she'd go against Kisame. Instead of beating you over and over again."

Deidara stood up, "You shouldn't be so full of yourself, Itachi. You probably couldn't even beat me."

Itachi glared at Deidara, "You should stop trying to show off in front of Sakura-san. She obviously has no affection for you. And as for your ridiculous comment, if you really wish to die, then by all means, lets go outside."

Deidara attempted to punch Itachi, but Sakura was faster. She jumped in front of Itachi, and came into contact with Deidara's fist. Deidara gasped, and Itachi's eyes widened slightly, for only a moment.

Sakura exhaled. Her eyes narrowed, as she looked up at Deidara. A trail of blood dripped down the corner of her mouth. "This needs to stop." Sakura said as she clenched her fist. "I don't know what just got into you two, but it needs to stop." Sakura said with force.

Deidara looked as if he was in a state of shock. "S-Sakura-san…" He paused, "I-I-I'm sorry."

Itachi smirked, "You see what happens when you let your feelings get in the way."

Deidara sent an intense glare toward Itachi. "At least I have feelings, yeah."

Itachi returned a glare. "Sakura-san." Itachi spoke, breaking Sakura's concentration.

Sakura turned to Itachi. Itachi gently whipped the blood from her mouth. "Perhaps, you would like to tell Deidara otherwise."

Sakura knew what he was talking about. She suddenly had a flashback, of her memory.

Itachi lowered his head in shame and quickly loosened his grip. "Please forgive me." He whispered in her ear. Even lower he whispered, "Remember that I love you."

Sakura fell to the ground, "I love you." She managed to whisper before falling unconscious.

Sakura didn't know what to say. She was silent. "Itachi…"

Itachi leaned closely in and whispered into Sakura's ear, "Tell him. Tell him how I care. If you don't, I'll show him."

Sakura looked up into Itachi's eyes. Her jade orbs met his sharingan. They seemed soft.

"Sakura-san…" She heard Deidara growl.

Sakura waited a moment before turning away from Itachi. "Deidara-san, no one is heartless. Not even Itachi…-san"

Deidara couldn't believe what Sakura was saying. He was speechless. His fists clenched tightly. "I don't believe it, Sakura-chan. How could you say that?"

"You still don't believe me, Deidara?" Itachi asked. "Then I guess, I'll have to demonstrate." He suddenly turned Sakura around and kissed her passionately. Sakura was stiff, at first, but quickly began to enjoy it. She felt Itachi pull her body closer to his, and she let her body rest against his until they were abruptly torn apart.

Deidara had attacked Itachi. Deidara tried to punch Itachi many different times, but Itachi kept dodging Deidara's attacks. Sakura couldn't believe what was going on. What had she done? Itachi had made his way to the front door, and slipped outside. Deidara furiously followed.

Sakura ran outside. Deidara was already up in the sky, on his clay bird. Itachi was patiently waiting on the ground. He would occasionally dodge one of Deidara's bombs with ease. Sakura ran out to where they were fighting. She stopped suddenly. Where did Itachi go? She wandered, before she felt a pair of hands grab her forearms.

"Sakura-san," Itachi whispered, "forgive me."

Sakura fell to the ground, unconscious. No…

"What did you do to Sakura-chan?" Deidara yelled.

"We wouldn't want her to interfere would we?" Itachi said.

Deidara smirked, "No, we wouldn't."

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Come one, Sakura, wake up! Sakura's conscious urged her. She couldn't open her eyes, and she couldn't hear anything. What happened? She could suddenly hear the noise around her. No! Itachi-san, Deidara, they'll kill each other! I need to stop this. Wake up, Sakura! Her eyes began to flutter opened. A pierce pain shot through her head. She quickly clutched her head with her hand. She looked at the scene before her. Kisame had joined the fight, but he was on the defense. Surely he was trying to calm the two down, it looked like he was trying to pry the two off each other. Deidara looked roughened up, and Itachi didn't even have a scratch on him. Sakura was thankful that Deidara was still alive.

Sakura quickly got up and ran toward Kisame. "Kisame!"

Kisame turned his attention to her, "It's about time Pinky! You've been out nearly three hours." He watched Sakura's eyes widen for a moment, before continuing. "You go after Deidara, and I'll get Itachi."

"Yes." They both ran to their target.

Sakura ran to the treetops, "Deidara!" She had caught his eye. He began to fly to her. When he passed, Sakura jumped onto his clay bird. "Deidara, please stop." She said as she went to touch his hand.

Deidara pulled away. "Why did you let him kiss you?"

"Why do you care? You know that's the reason why he's doing this. He's doing this to get to you!" Sakura yelled as she crossed her arms across her chest.

Deidara didn't say anything, for a moment. Then he suddenly became enraged. "No, Sakura-chan. You don't understand. You didn't even defend me!" He rushed Sakura.

Sakura stumbled back. She stepped too far, and fell off Deidara's clay bird. She screamed as she fell toward the ground. She heard Deidara yell her name. She continued to fall. She could see the ground underneath her. She expected to hit the ground, but instead she landed in Itachi's arms. They both fell to the ground, because of the impact. "Itachi…"

Itachi looked beyond pissed. "Stay here." Itachi ran straight to Deidara.

Sakura watched as Deidara was almost done with making a big clay bomb. Sakura knew Itachi was blinded with anger. Suddenly Deidara dropped the bomb, and Itachi was running right into it.

"Itachi-san!" Sakura ran to Itachi. When she caught up to him, she pushed him to the ground just before deidara's bomb exploded right in front of them. Both Itachi and Sakura flew into the air. Sakura refused to let go of Itachi, but the force slowly forced them apart. The both hit the ground hard, in different directions.

Sakura was barley conscious. She saw a figure stand above her. "Sakura-chan, why?! Why would you do that, you stupid girl?"

Sakura laid on the ground motionless for a moment. It began to rain hard. The thick droplets dropped against her face hard. Sakura weakly said, "Deidara, please, I'm not mad. We'll just say this was training, okay? Just please, please, go away to your room and forget what happened."

Deidara's expression saddened. Another two figures approached Sakura. "You see, Deidara, what happens when your feelings get in the way?"

Deidara glared at Itachi. He was about to say something, but was interrupted by Sakura, "Please, Deidara, just go back. This was training, nothing else. I'll be fine…" Sakura was slipping in and out of consciousness. She felt Deidara's chakra get fainter, before disappearing.

"Pinky, hang in there. You took the entire blow off of Itachi. He's not even scratched." Kisame stated.

Sakura smiled, "I know what I did. I'm a medic-nin. I knew what I was doing." With that last comment she coughed up blood, before slipping unconscious.

Itachi observed Sakura for a moment. She had cuts all over her body; she would need a new robe, because of all the rips and tears. A bruise was already forming where Deidara had hit her before. Surely she had broken a couple bones. Blood covered her body. Itachi carefully picked her up and slung her over his shoulder. He motioned at Kisame to start back to the hideout.

"Well, that was one intense training." Kisame laughed hard.

"Hn." Itachi paused, then smirked, "It barley made me sweat."