A/N: I want to thank Rikku92 for the awesome and speedy beta and here's the next chapter!
Itachi could feel the blood-lust radiating from the Uchiha compound from the border of Konoha and he knew exactly who it was coming from. Sakura had taken it badly. He couldn't say he was surprised, but he was definitely not looking forward to facing her at the moment.
But he might as well get it over and done with...
Sakura stormed into her house and glared at the pictures of her with Itachi in disgust. How could she smile so happily when she was with that snake?
She stopped herself before she broke the pictures and turned her anger to Kumiko. How could she embarrass her like that? Why didn't she show up? Where did she go?
What if they're right? one side of her brain asked while another side said, But that would mean she's crazy!
"What if I am crazy?" she asked herself. "What if that power of suggestion crap is true? What if I've been hallucinating all this time?" She slammed a fist into the wall, just shy of punching a hole into it. She fell to her knees and cried.
She was crazy, wasn't she?
Then, she heard a voice behind her, "Sakura?"
She whirled around to find Kumiko. Her eyes widened and she couldn't help but take a step back in surprise.
"I am terribly sorry I didn't get here sooner," she told Sakura, smiling apologetically. "I got a little caught up in something."
"It would've been nice if you'd showed up about thirty minutes ago," Sakura told the old lady. "Now everybody thinks I'm crazy."
"Well, I'm very sorry about that," she apologized.
"Sorry doesn't help my situation!"
"Sakura...?" Sakura turned to Itachi who just walked into the room, looking at her curiously. "Who are you talking to?"
"To—" She turned to point at Kumiko, but she was nowhere to be found. "Not again!" She reluctantly turned to Itachi and said, "She was right there! The lady who grants my wishes!"
"Sakura, maybe you should get some rest?"
"No! Everybody thinks I'm crazy when I'm not!" she yelled angrily. "Watch! Kumiko, come out!" Nothing happened. "Kumiko... Come out!!" Still nothing. "COME OUT!" she screamed.
Itachi took her shoulders and told her, "Calm down, Sakura."
"No, you all think I'm crazy!" she cried, tears welling in her eyes.
Itachi pulled her to his chest and whispered in her hair, "I don't think you're crazy", while she pounded her fists against his chest.
Once she calmed down, she cried in his chest as he tried to soothe her. What was happening to her? Was she crazy? Confused? Or was Kumiko real? She didn't know anymore.
A/N: ... She's crazy, right? Say yes so I can get Itachi! XD