"Good evening, Sakura. No problem coming here I guess?" Itachi asked.
"Good evening… No, no problems at all. Except the fact that I am sure that someone saw me go in here, a guy named Harry Potter and he is listening to us right now." Sakura said but Itachi only continued reading. "Come on! You're so boring, I can never fool you, I swear that you are the most boring person of everyone I have ever met in my whole life..."
"You have to become better at lying to me, whenever you say something like that you have a special tone in your voice that makes me understand that you're lying." Itachi said and looked in her green eyes. "However, I know that Harry did follow you here so to that point you didn't lie but he isn't listening. I wonder how he reacted when he discovered that you lied to him about going somewhere else."
Sakura suddenly found the floor very interesting to look at. I knew he was following me from the start and I knew that he would probably hate me after he found out but it's best like this, now he'll put some distance between us and he won't see me as a friend so we'll both have it a lot easier when I am to kill him.
"You really are evil, giving him hope then just throwing it all away in a cold way like this."
"I can't have him believe that I care about him, As you said before; I have to put some distance between us or else I will start considering him as a friend. I don't know how it is to actually kill a friend, the whole meaning of a friend is actually a mystery to me."
"That's not unusual when one's an S-class criminal like us. We don't show emotions, feelings as well as emotions are dangerous, it might take our life one day. One day we will hesitate to kill and in that way we will lose our own life's."
"But I want to know, maybe it's because I'm not that old yet but I wish I could think as you. However, the worst thing is that you say those things yet you still have me here. For someone like you, my strength is nothing yet you still seem to care about me. It seems so needless, such a wast."
"You know what I have noticed during our time here?" Itachi asked and Sakura shook her head. "You have become more open, we talk more than we argue here. I don't know if it's the mission, the potter boy or that you've started to open yourself a little. It's actually kind of nice, not arguing all the time."
"So now there are both good and bad points about changing myself? It was you who said that I should stop considering these people as my friends! You always talk in riddles and talk as if you knew everything, changing your opinion all the time." Sakura said with a frown. It feels really horrible to start arguing right after he said that but he should make up his mind for once. I can't continue listening as if it didn't bother me anymore.
"I haven't said that I've change my option, I really think it's good that you've been able to become this good friends with the Potter boy and his friend but I also think that it's a bad intention to become so used to them so that you'll have hard to kill them in the end of this mission. The whole thing is to act as if you actually believe them and trust them, even though it can be hard."
"Can be hard?! I'm not an actor, I can deceive people I don't know and kill without a second thought about it but this is the first time I actually have felt like this on a mission! I don't know what to do, I'm really trying and listening to your orders but you just can't take both sides like that! It's so hard to see what you really are after and where your real opinion is!" Sakura shouted out at him in confusion but still he didn't change his expression, that expression that said nothing, The expression that made no one able to figure out what he was thinking about. That expression that Sakura hated the most.
"I'm going to sleep." Sakura said in a sigh as Itachi didn't answer. "I suspect you have to work a while longer so I'm just going to shut up so that you can concentrate."
Sakura lay down on Itachis bed and starred up at the ceiling. Arguing with him once again, it felt so wrong now compared to the other times they've argued. Like she has done something wrong, something terribly wrong.
"Good night, my dear cherry blossom." Itachi said and my his voice Sakura slowly fell in a deep sleep, a dream surrounded by darkness.
The next day Sakura woke up early, the sun was shining but it was still only morning, breakfast wouldn't be until about half an hour. She looked around only to find Itachi asleep by his desk, he must have worked till late. Sakura stood up and looked at Itachi's papers, it's wasn't what she had thought it would be. It wasn't work for the school he was sleeping on, it was Akatsuki information and lists on people that would have to be killed. It made Sakura think back on the time when she and Itachi when on assassination missions, killing some leader of a village or some other political person. She wished that she was on that kind of mission now, if she was then she wouldn't have any problem at all. Everything would go as planned and before the person even had seen her face the target would be dead.
Sakura looked at the sleeping Itachi for a while but finally left his office to get her books from the Gryffindor common room before the lessons would start. She was walking the corridor as she heard someone run behind her, as if the person was trying to catch up with her.
"Sakura!" the voice shouted after her, she stopped and saw that the person who was running after her was no other than Harry, the person she least wanted to meet. "Wait, I have to talk with you!"
"What is it?" Sakura said, trying to act as usual as possible. She still hadn't talked with his since what happened the night before. She was really sure that he wouldn't even try to talk with her from now on. Still, there he stood in front of her.
"I wanted to tell you something, can we go somewhere that no one can hear us, it's kind of embarrassing actually." Harry said and blushed. Sakura starred at him, what was so important to tell her that no one else could hear? Was it about the night before?
"Sure, lets go outside, I'm sure that no one even bothers about going outside in this rainy weather." Sakura suggested.
They stood in silence outside, it was raining but neither Harry or Sakura seemed to care at all. They where under the shelter of a tree but it only hindered the rain to drench them a little bit, if they where going to stand there in over five minutes they where sure to be soaked.
"eh... I just wanted to tell you that I followed you yesterday... You must really be angry with me right now because of that and I'm really sorry but I was positive that you were going to see professor Uchiha, and it seemed that I was right." Harry started, he was sure that Sakura would be angry at him but she only looked at him with a gaze that told him to continue. "What I'm going to tell you is really stupid and unnecessary but I just feel that I have to tell you. When you where over at professor Uchihas office yesterday and I followed I noticed that I have to tell you this in order for you to fully understand."
"What is it you have to tell me? Is it something important?" Sakura asked with a concerned tone in her voice. Harry gazed at her, she was really one of the most beautiful woman he knew. Her bright pink hair was soaked and her perfectly green eyes where shining brightly. From the first day he met her he noticed that there was something special about this girl. As if she would change his whole fate, she was a mystery herself and Harry knew that he wouldn't probably ever be able to understand her fully. "Is something wrong?"
"no... nothings wrong, You don't have to worry about that...It's just that, I-I think I really like you..." Harry mumbled the last part and looked down at the wet grass.
"Well we're friends right, I like you too." Sakura said, she knew what he meant but she really didn't imagine that he would tell her that now. He was supposed to hate her, loath her by now, she lied to him. Yet it only gave him strength to confess his feeling. What am I going to do...
"It's not like that!" Harry said and his blush deepened. "I like you more that a friend, much more. This is really embarrassing... I've fallen in love with you. Ever since the first day we met at the train I knew that there was something special about you and even though I probably didn't notice it then... I loved you all this time more that you could imagine. You are special to me..." Harry said with a higher and more confident tone as he looked in her eyes.
"I... I really don't know what to say, it's not as if I dislike you or anything... It's just that, I love Itachi and I don't want to lose him... I mean, you're a swell guy and my beast friend here but I just don't think this'll work out..." Sakura said. "I'm sorry..." after a horrible silent pause Sakura simply turned around and walked inside the castle again without giving him a second glance. She felt like she wanted to cry as she saw Harry's crushed expression, she couldn't stand looking at him when he wasn't smiling like it was her fault.
Harry already knew that she would say that, he didn't know why he even bothered with confessing in the first place. He knew about her engagement, that she didn't like him and that he would never be able to beat professor Uchiha. Yet here he stood, the rain was falling on his black hair. He knew a charm that would dry him up but he didn't want to, the rain was so refreshing as it slowly drenched him. He looked up at the sky, dark clouds where covering the skies but at the horizon he could see the sun shining brightly.
"I knew this would happen, there's nothing to sulk about. I'm still her friend right, As long as she's happy I'm happy. Nothing can change that. These cloudy skied won't push me down for I know that above them the sun is shining, waiting to bring out a smile on the people's faces." Harry said to himself and smiled at the sky.
Quickly he ran inside as he dried himself with the charm he knew, he could see Sakura walking in the corridor alone. She seemed sad, it was his fault that she didn't smile right now and the thought stabbed his heart. He just wanted her to smile, show her bright face that was always so full of energy.
He ran to her and walked beside her, she looked at him a little surprised but she saw him smiling towards her. Sakura felt her hear warm up from the ice age that so long has held her heart frozen and smiled back at him. She knew now, a friend is someone like Harry, someone who made one smile by simply being by one's side. Someone who could make one laugh and share troubled times with. Maybe this feeling wasn't so horrible, this was something that Sakura happily could live with if she could. A friend huh... I think I have gained something during this time, however... If one wants something one has to give something too. That's called a even trade, for me to know what a friend is... I have to kill that friend. I will respect that rule, I will be able to kill this man, this friend.
That day, Sakura, Harry and Ron acted as usual. There was nothing special about the whole thing, they had fun together. The lessons where boring as usual but the potions class was the only lesson Sakura payed attention to. The half blood prince was cleaver but not as cleaver as Sakura, they always got excellent marks on their potions now.
"Yeah before when we had professor Snape, you know the man that you met on the Slughorns Slugclub party, potions was seriously the worst lesson next to Divination." Ron said as they left the potions classroom.
"Oh, so then you must be really happy that we have professor Slughorn as this years potions master." Sakura said, I remember who that Snape guy was. It was him who talked with Draco in that room, I should ask Harry what that was about but I doubt he'll tell me.
"Sakura, I'm going to go over to professor Dumbledore's office this evening, I'd like you to join me a short while, it's about what happened on professor Slughorns Slugclub party with Draco and professor Snape. I know you weren't able to hear anything but at least you know that they where in that room at that time and it would help me if I had a witness." Harry said.
"What do you mean witness? He'll believe you right?"
"No... he fully trusts professor Snape, he won't listen to me." Harry said in a irritated voice. "It's been the same since my first year here at Hogwarts."
"Well then, I guess I could go. It's not as if I have anything else to do..." Sakura answered and they entered the great hall to eat dinner. It was soon Halloween, in two weeks. Everyone was talking about it, something has said to happen every Halloween. Sakura has never really celebrated Halloween, I mean Akatsuki is like Halloween itself. Hidan can look like a skeleton and he's immortal, Kakuzu looks kind of like a zombie and has five hearts, Deidara is a before this terrorist bomber, Sasori is a puppet, Zetsu is a cannibal, Kisame is a huge blue fish that walks, Itachi has his mangekyo sharingan that is almost the same as having nightmares. Almost worse than those horror movies that the dead walks or giant spiders kill.
However, no one here knows that such a organization even exists so of course they're looking forward to the scary Holiday. Even the staff seemed to be thinking over what was going to happen this year. Except Itachi who only sat there by the professors table poking on his food. Sakura looked at the headmaster, she never thought of it before but he seemed really old and wise. At least she'll be able to take a look inside his office today so that she knows if there's something interesting to take a look at.
A/N: I thought that I would start making longer chapters but we'll see how long that idea will continue... oh well, chapter 10 is on the internet! I'm sorry but it might take longer time for me to update because of school and the fact that there haven't been any resent Naruto updates from Kishimoto-sama because of the holidays. I seriously need Naruto...
It's soon time for Meuwcon! It's a manga/anime convent in Stockholm (capital of Sweden) and I'm thinking if I should put some time to finish my Cosplay costume (shia-san from pita-ten with her cat-pyjamas). But I'm just to lazy to get it done in time :( Maybe I should just stick to writing fanfictions for the time being.
I got a writing program on my stationary computer so I don't have to steal my mother laptop anymore, my Akatsuki no PC is still being fixed... And I'm was going to go to Germany but my mother changed her mind so I'm going to some other German-speaking-land probably.
So I had a little vote in the last chapter: "am I evil yes or no"... I can clearly say that I didn't get even one "no" vote... everyone who voted said "yes"! Hehehehe... Maybe I should start changing my ways and be nicer... hell no! Well please leave a review and I thank you for reading.
//with love, Neko-chan