Chapter Nine: An unexpected guest and confrontation, Good or Bad?

Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto.

"Kakashi get out of my fridge!" The cherry blossom yelled from her garden where she was picking flowers. Sasuke wasn't too far away, swinging on her large swinging bench only a few metres away.

"What do you think, Ino said that soft blues and pinks look good together but do you think a soft yellow would too?" Sakura asked looking at the carnation of flowers in her hand.

"I think that I'm not the type of person that can give flower opinions," Sasuke closed his eyes to bask under the sun, still keeping track of the woman close to him.

"Damn Sakura, I knew agreeing to watch her was a bad idea," His one revealed eye looked around the room and he sighed out of boredom. He flicked through Sakura's to see if any of it appealed to him.

'Hmm… Lame, girly, got it, got it, Yoga music, this one will do,' Kakashi took out an album with dark text and a picture of some animal printed on the cover and chucked it in the stereo.

The ninja suddenly felt a presence and shot up, grabbing a kunai.

The Uchiha watched the woman in the garden curiously. She was humming a melodious tune and would often smile as if she was re visiting memories. Sometimes she'd look up and him and he would smile at her pretty face. She hadn't looked better, beautiful, happy and full of energy.

Her emerald eyes looked at him again and smiled, she looked so much better than she had only six days ago. When she was bloody and broken… He would kill that snake for what he did to her.

Sasuke was caught up in his thoughts about the petal goddess in front of him he didn't notice anybody come in from the side gate.

"H- Help," A voice moaned and spluttered out blood.

Sasuke grabbed Sakura and crushed her into his body as they both looked at the person in front of them.

"Kakashi! Get out here!" Sasuke yelled and the copy-cat ninja came running out.

"Sasuke-kun let go, he needs help!" Sakura protested against the man holding her close.

"No Sakura," He said back and she looked at the bloody man in front of her. He had long raven hair like Sasuke's, he was tall with long dark clothes on and he was maybe twenty five. The man had piercing red blood shot eyes with scars in the corner and also had what looked like a fresh scar on his jaw.

"Please Sasuke-kun, he's going to die," Sakura pleaded again when she looked at all the blood that was spilling on her pavement.

"Let the bastard die, He should be dead anyway," Sasuke said bitterly.

"Sasuke…" The man coughed out and slumped on the ground.

"Itachi, is that you?" Kakashi moved closer to the body and leant down.

"I won't kill her… Please Sasuke… I won't kill her…" Kakashi lifted Itachi's body up and looked at the man that had his brother's only chance for survival in his arms.

"Yes you will as soon as you have enough strength you'll kill her, just like you killed my entire family," Sakura noted that he said my entire family.

"I-I didn't kill our family… Why won't you believe me?"

"Because I saw you with my own eyes, I saw you kill mother and father,"

Itachi looked up at his brother with red eyes, "Don't always believe what you see Sasuke," He said before his eyes rolled back and he blacked out.

"Please Sasuke-kun, I'll be careful," Sakura said to the Uchiha who was deep in thought. His arms tightened around her body.

"If I let you, you aren't to be out of my sight… Okay?" Sasuke looked at his unconscious brother and then down at Sakura.

"Okay, please," He loosened his hold on her slightly before he finally let go…

"He should be fine in a few days," Sakura said after four long hours of healing the unexpected guest. She looked over at Sasuke who had his head in his hands and looked pissed off.

"Sasuke-kun? Are you okay?" Sakura asked putting a hand on his back, instantly feeling him tense.

"No," He said simply. Kakashi saw his queue and left the room.

"Wanna talk about it?" She sat next to him and tried to look under his bangs.

"Not really,"

"Sure?"

"No,"

Sakura giggled and took hold of Sasuke's hand. "Come on," She led Sasuke out into the garden and sat on the swinging chair.

"Now, do you want to talk about it?"

Sasuke sighed, "I don't know what to think anymore."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I don't know what to think anymore, I thought for all this time that Itachi killed everyone but he says he didn't,"

"Oh, I see Sasuke, well didn't you fight him before you found me, what did he say then,"

Sasuke sighed, "He kept saying that he didn't but I didn't listen to him, he didn't try to fight against me. I thought he was being his self… But…"

"But, maybe he was telling the truth,"

Sasuke eyed Sakura and she smiled. "I don't want you getting to close to him Sakura, he still could kill you and the Itachi I knew kills people in a heartbeat."

"I know, don't worry I'll be careful, your such a worrier Sasuke-kun,"

Chapter ten done, Tehe!! Hey, English teacher, this is the story you should be reading, I love this story! Tehe! As for Interesting… Well that's another story…

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