優しい両手十

Sakura wake up

No let me have more sleep.

It's morning.

Hmm…who cares if its morning? Let me sleep some more, okaasan.

Get up.

Why should I?

Your teammates are on their way. Okiro!

Huh? Teammates. What the heck are you talking about? Naruto?

…

Fine! I give up. I'm waking already. I don't think I could sleep anymore if I wanted to anyhow.

Ooh! Nothing beats a good stretch when a person wakes up. Now it's time to view Mr. Sunshine.

Okay…maybe it's a mistake to open my eyes now. Here I thought I was dreaming. But my worse nightmare is here to greet me straight in the face.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"

Ow, my back hurts, must have back into the wall too much. Geez Sakura, you should know better than to act like a scary cat just because a handsome Uchiha decides to wake you up this morning.

Look, now he's staring at me like I did something wrong already (duh Sakura, you just yelled at his face). Or maybe it's my creative imagination, with him and all, I don't really think I'm far off, but something tells me he's about to scold me.

Wait. Why is it that I know that?

I'm reading into his action too much. I really should stop doing that.

"Hn, you should work more with your awareness skills and sensing chakra."

The nerve, my sensing skill and awareness skill is totally fine, huff! Not like I could throw the words at his face, but at least I could scowl all I want. I don't think he would notice anyway.

I made no reply to his comment, or for the latter insult. It sure didn't sound like one, but it might as well be one, grr…

"Hn. You should get dress, Naruto-kun and your teammates are approaching." He said apathetically like he didn't care otherwise if they're here or not, but then why should he. I don't even know why he bothers to wake me up.

Oh, right, I remember, Kisame's wonderful idea of cracking the great Itachi.

Sorry fish head, it didn't work. As you can see nothing fazes Uchiha Itachi, not even a kunoichi dress in his clothes that are much too big for that said kunoichi fazes Itachi. Heck I'm his fiancé here, and nope, did not work. Good luck with your next operation fish brain.

So back to the apathetic message and my lack of response, since I obviously still feel insulted for my lack in sensing chakra and awareness, as he blatantly put it earlier.

"Unless of course you want them to see you at your current state, be my guest," he continued. Hold on, is that an amuse glint in his eyes? Why would he be amused? As far as I know there's nothing to be amuse about wearing his clothes and just wakening up so suddenly. Unless…

With the possibility that I could have a droll in my mouth, I wipe it unconsciously. Unaware that Itachi had approach where I was. And to my dismay I haven't left the corner at all. I still sat there, my back tightly pressed to the wall.

My face must be beat red at the moment. Why oh why am I so nervous and angry that I didn't notice that I'm acting like a cornered mouse.

Oh great. I must be too shock out of my mind to land myself in such a position without even noticing it.

It's a good thing I slept fully clothed, regardless if it's all his clothes. Which I assume it is, but who the heck am I kidding anyway, it is his room. The room screamed Itachi everywhere. Organized drawers, organize boxes, organize weapons, organized everything. Yup, it is his room.

Huh!? When did he get this close?

Kuso! I should really stop letting my mind fly all over the place.

Sakura this is a good time to stop daydreaming. Hello! Moshi moshi! This is Itachi we're taking about, there is no way that he would corner you in his own bed. Nope, flat chance.

"What are you doing?" kuso did I say that one out loud? I must have had.

"…" no answer, I should have seen that coming, Sakura no baka.

"Ano…" god this is so uncomfortable, can't you just answer my bloody question.

Hey Inner if you still happen to be there, now would be a good time to do your out of spur comments! Preparedly in Itachi's face too!

Who the heck am I kidding? That Inner self of mines only shows herself when she's not needed. But how do I get myself out of this situation.

I feel like a trapped mouse. No, not that it's like that anymore, it's for real, I am trap.

He is too close for my comfort. Tasukete. Somebody help me!

"You are frightened." He stated, I was about to deny it but when I opened my eyes and catch his eyes directly looking at mines, I froze. I didn't know how to respond, and even if I do deny it, what good will it do? He knows the truth.

Silence. Why is it that it is always silence that I have for this man? Did he really scare me that much?

Come to think of it, he's not that scary, once I get over his cocoon of quietness, and also the shock of whenever he finally does talk (quite rarely too).

And now that I know that he's not that scary, why is it that I'm hesitant? Why am I so hesitant that he's too close to me? Am I that embarrassed?

Ino-chan always tells me that she likes men that take the initiative, but among other things she likes being the boss out of the two. I would never understand her preference in a man, but is this what she meant by initiative, being cornered at the most embarrassing moments in time?

How exactly will she becomes the boss out of the two in these kinds of situations?

'By throwing herself at the man and making the first move, duh'

Great, and just when I think that you're gone, you're back…

…

Moshi moshi.

And just like that you disappear, not even a comment on how to get myself out of this situation, thanks a lot Inner. I swear I could hear 'you're welcome' too. Or maybe I'm just that paranoid.

I really wish that I am a part of the wall, so that it could swallow me whole, and take me away from this situation.

"Hn." He grabbed my hands and placed an elegant looking comb in it. I just stared like a dummy that didn't know what's going on. But the comb was absolutely gorgeous. It had Sakura petals design on it.

"For me?" I asked looking at his crimson orbs. I didn't even notice he had sharingan on at all, except for this moment. Why does he have the need to have it on at all times is a mystery that I won't ever know, and I don't think anyone would either. But I'll make sure I asked him in the near future why he keeps them on. For all I know, it's bad for his eyes, since Kakashi-sensei pointed them out ages ago. And what Kakashi-sensei usually says is to be taken to a high esteem. He has, after all, the sharingan as well, albeit not naturally, but it's better to speak from experience, right? Though I'm not sure it is wise to speak of sharingan's only weakness so open, even if it was just Naruto, Chiyo-baasan, and me there to hear it. Excluding Itachi since apparently, he was a clone jutsu.

He didn't reply or answer my question but he was about to get of the bed and far away from me when the shoji screen doors burst open revealing a cheerful blond, smiling happily.

"SAKURA-CHAN, it's time to wake up un," the long haired blond greeted, but I think he misunderstood the position that Itachi and I'm in for intimacy, since he shut the screen door once, and then open it again for clarification.

I just stared at his confusion with my own, after his third attempt to open then shut the door made of wood and paper, Itachi was long gone besides me and stop Deidara's attempt at even closing the door again, and made his own exit.

"Ano sa, Sakura-chan, I'm sorry I interrupted. I should have known that you two would want a start at building the Uchiha clan that soon un. Heck fish-chan should have mentioned that Itachi went to wake you up; and that…"

"It's alright Deidara-kun, besides it's not what it looks like," I smiled. Honestly he reminds me a lot of Naruto, but unlike Naruto, he has this aura that speaks volumes of mess-with-me-and-I'll-trash-you-good. Though Naruto is just as capable as him in beating the crap out of anyone, Naruto is probably less violent in his everyday life than Deidara-kun.

"Oh, so it wasn't like that. Phew…but it never strike me that you are a wedding first type of woman, Sakura-chan, un" he replied smirking.

I didn't reply, and even before I could Deidara-kun already made a turn to leave me alone.

"By the way, Sakura-chan, Itachi's clothes looks good on you, un" before I could even manage to blush, Deidara-kun was long gone.

Funny that you would mention that Deidara-kun, but it's true, I am that sort of woman, the type of woman that would marry first before doing anything serious. I manage to wait for Sasuke-kun for so long, so what difference does a few more years make. Except I'm not really waiting for Sasuke-kun at all, somewhere deep inside of me, I already gave up waiting for him a long time ago, I just didn't felt compel to start seeing people and throw myself at each relationship I could get a hold on.

Phew, that was a total weird way of waking up, but I feel better now. My heart is finally slowing down its rate a bit compared to earlier. I don't think I'd like to wake up the same way, ever, again. But I probably should get used to it.

It's not that bad. I mean at least he's good looking right?

How vain can I get?

Kuso. I should really get dress. Itachi-san mentioned that Naruto and my friends are coming.

"SAKURAAAA-CHAAAAAAAN." The unmistaken sound of Naruto's yell was probably enough to wake the Uchiha's dead, that idiot, he can't be quiet even if his life depended on it.

I suppose I better beat Deidara-kun or Kisame from opening the door and giving them their casual greeting, if they have one, that is.

"Fox-grinning loud mouth," Kisame beat me at opening the door, he looked extremely annoyed. So I decided to just look at how everything would proceed just behind Kisame instead.

"Oi, its fish skin, is Sakura here yet? I went to her apartment and she wasn't there" Naruto replied smiling at Kisame.

Kisame grunted then replied, "she's here, but I'd have to ask Itachi if she's awake or not." Naruto looked at Kisame dumbfounded, probably asking himself why Kisame has to ask Itachi, but before Naruto gets any ideas, and goes kyuubi mode and try to beat Kisame's grin to a pulp, I decided to interrupt.

"Naruto, there you are, I'd really appreciate your help, since this shark is too lazy to lift a finger that doesn't include sake." I smiled at him. I left Itachi's gift in his room since I didn't want it to get dirty while cleaning this hell hole. I made sure that I fix my hair before running out, I just have to live the embarrassment of wearing Itachi's clothes for now.

"Sakura-chan, there you are, Hinata would come by to help later, since she said she'd make our lunch for all of us." Naruto said smiling happily, his mouth is probably drooling for Hinata's homemade meal.

"Let's get started cleaning Naruto."

"O leave it to me ttebayo, we'll clean Uchiha compound together."

Minna-san he

It's been such a long, LONG, time. I really apologize for all the waiting, there's a good reason for that, but I might as well just leave the excuses to rot in the cabinet and just start updating like the old times. I'm not planning on abandoning this story yet, even though I haven't updated for four months already due to excuses that I just said I will save for myself.

This chapter is not beta, and to those that offered to be a beta, I hope the offer still stands, since I have some serious apology making to do to the one that I have already asked to beta for me. I feel really horrible for all the waiting, even though there was absolutely nothing I could have done to update this story for the past four months. I might update like crazy for the next two weeks, but that's just because I already have the next seven chapters done already beforehand four months ago, and the update speed might slow down afterwards due to some plot checking that I need to do, to make sure I followed my original plans.

I appreciate all the feedback from everyone too, even though I wasn't updating the story for months, some of you still reviewed, even though I wasn't aware of it until yesterday. Thank you so much.

AoiTsubasa yori

Review Replies

I don't usually do this, but I feel I owe everyone that did review an apology so I'll do it.

Sw33t.stuff.sakura: Yes, it's true that there's too little ItaSaku so far, but that will change after a few chapters or so. Thanks for reviewing, it made me really happy.

Mesoke: I'm glad that you're enjoying my story, and I hope that I haven't stretch your patients too much because it's going to take a while to get the whole story done at the rate I'm going.

Hakumay: Don't worry about ranting, I rant a lot too, and 'believe it' really does strike my nerves whenever I hear it from the TV.

Goatis:

Wow, I never thought there will be someone that would beat the length of the usual review I give around! I'm really happy for the long review and I wanted you to know that your questions are all appreciated and I will answer some of them for you too while I'm at it, I'm sure everyone would like to know the same thing anyway.

Sasuke will make an appearance somewhere down the road, he'll be mention in a few chapters but otherwise he won't make an appearance until much later. As for showing up with a team or so, I haven't really decided yet, since I haven't develop Orochimaru's role in this story yet.

As for why I didn't include a marriage in Deidara's and Kisame's oath scroll, well, it's not that I haven't thought about it, it's just that I need the focus to stay with Sakura and Itachi even though I make chapters that's in the POV of Deidara and Kisame. Though you did have a valid point about Deidara, I rather just want him to develop his love interest on his own, which it just might. Maybe. I like your idea about Deidara and Yamanaka Ino, since I haven't consider pairing him up with someone else, I will consider it.

As for more alone time for Itasaku, don't worry they'll get it.

Thank you for your wonderful suggestion, I really appreciate it.

Narutogirl777: I'll try to update sooner, but I can't make any promises that it'll always be soon.

Evilmuffin: I'm praying to all the deity in the world that your not bald yet, I don't want to have a reviewer's condition in my conscience. It's been two months since you reviewed, how many hair can you pull out in a day O.o. Anyways I'll try not making you wait for two months from now on, since I can't promise that I'm going to update every week, I'll just promise not to make you wait THAT long again.

Maddie: I'm sorry about all the tenses mixing up, my teacher had mention that it will be a problem if I choose to write it in first POV's instead of third, which I'm so use to do. This is the first time I've ever done this style and I wasn't really being careful enough.

Jes148: I'm glad you like my creativity.

A.Fang: Sakura will remember eventually, but she might not remember it on her own. It's a bit confusing now, but it will be clear later on. And you now know the answer to your second question from this chap.

I know I haven't gotten everyone from chapter 9 I might do it on the next, next, chapter again. Well on to the next chapter which is already uploaded. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving Day yesterday.