Chapter 11
The first thing Itachi did when they rounded the corner was hug his wife, lovingly, he had missed her and that blinding devotion, it helped that she could heal his eyes easily. He looked her over there was something different it was in her smell in her eyes he tried to look for the difference and immediately she picked up on what was on his mind. He had missed that. She took one of his hands in her own and put it to her flat belly, "Say hello to our first child, daddy." 'Daddy' the word had a new ring to it, it warmed him. He enveloped her in his arms, she was his only weakness and he was her most important person, it made for a deadly combination. Now she was carrying his child which made her twice, no a million times more important then she was before.
She was the light that brought him peace, the one person who fixed what he had broken, she was his miracle. He smiled for the first time in a long time and kissed her on the forehead and lead her by the hand to his rooms, he wasn't lying when he had said they had a lot of catching up to do.
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Sakura was happy in his presence it was so soothing it could put a rabid bear to sleep, she curled into his chest, on the bed reveling in the reunite. Oh how she loved her husband, it eliminated the regretful thoughts of leaving the soul society, in which she already had a plan to get back to. She would relay it to him when they fell asleep in their dream state she would tell him to avoid being overheard.
She grasped his shirt and smelled in his intoxicating scent how she had missed him before she had found out about her kualian powers she had never thought she would ever fall in love. She never thought that it would be possible, that she would feel affection toward another that was more then friendship, not after Sasuke. Itachi was the one who had healed her, the one who had accepted her, and she was tied to him with an unbreakable steel cable. Itachi shifted and put his face to her stomach she knew he was wondering if her would feel their child shift she felt the urge to laugh, he was surprisingly naive sometimes which made things very refreshing.
She pulled her fingers through his hair choosing not to say anything. It didn't do to hurt a man's pride and naivete after all when that happened they were no better then children. She just had to look at Naruto to see that. She closed her eyes and put up her wards if anyone chose to get even remotely close in their direction she would see them in her minds eye soon enough, She snuggled into Itachi's chest feeling his warmth, "Sleep." He commanded his own little lullaby and she closed her eyes and slept slipping into her dream state where they could talk all they wanted and more.
She sat within her mind and set up her wards which were a bit like the computers in Konoha. One , a schematics of the Heuco Mundo palace with the Chakra signals of the residents that resonated it would go off when one came within a few feet of their door. She had summoned one of her spirit foxes to keep watch. While she had the works of her plans made out on another screen, this was her mind a place where she could manipulate the world. She was close to Itachi allowing her to talk to him within dreams. Moments later after she had set… Imagined up a suitable setting for their meeting, Itachi arrived.
When he did she hugged him and sat him down, "Those women better no be one of your lovers Itachi you know what I'll do to them if they are." She said it in an almost relishing voice. Itachi sipped at his tea and smiled, "Don't worry they aren't any better then the ones in Konoha in fact I think they're worse." Sakura felt relief there was no way anyone was getting to her Itachi. "How long since you knew?"
She knew he was referring to the baby, "A couple weeks but I wasn't sure, when I probed a couple days ago I knew and I came to you, sorry it took so long. The Soul Society is a paper work nightmare like Konoha I couldn't get free. And I couldn't sleep well enough to dream and tell you. I don't want to be away from you like that anymore." She went into his lap healing steadily from when she was away from him he hugged her around the waist she knew he didn't like that she had gotten skinnier, she knew he would probably force feed her later.
She looked to the screen and took it in one of her hands and handed it to him, it was back to business, "I need to take you back to the Soul Society I don't want to raise our child here." Itachi nodded in agreement she went over the plan with him but she knew it would only send him over there was only so much she could do she had complied evidence to safely put him over there without too much of a hassle. She knew they wouldn't like him off the bat after all no one really naturally like Itachi he was too anti social. But she knew that she would follow him to the ends of the earth.
She only had a few days to send him over she had learned how to send other people back to the real world she already had a scroll drawn up of instructions for Itachi that she would slip him later. For Keisuki Urihara, he would help her husband she had it signed and everything she had gotten all of Itachi's paperwork done before she had done anything. If it was one thing prepared for anything is what she was and right now she was ready to live in enemy territory without Itachi's support, she would survive it all just for him and she would follow him to the ends of the earth even if others wouldn't approve.
After their plan follow up she nestled into his chest doing a mental check up within her mind she learned how to hide things within her mind while she was Itachi and how to have a thought cover up it made things easier. He didn't know obviously but that didn't matter at this point as long as he was safe and that was all that relly matters.
They spent the dream snuggling and when she awoke after hours of sleeping in deep sleep she had found Itachi holding her around the waist sleeping with his face pressed to her stomach. She smiled and pat his head he was asleep, but steadily she pushed him off she had to confirm some things. She wrote a note but hopefully she would be back in his arms before he woke. She opened the door and kept up the wards, if anyone tried to enter she would be there within a second or two, when Itachi was sleeping he was meant to be sleeping no question about it.
She walked the halls looking and comparing things to her mental map adding the halls that she wasn't able to map out with the chakra, "Isnt it a bit late to be wandering the halls this late at night?" Sakura stiffenned Aizen, she didn't even sense him coming, strange it seemed that even if she was up to par with him in power he might had the significant upper hand. She turned to face him, "Just looking for a kitchen, afterall every good wife cooks for her husband." She said it cooly without feeling, "Afterall it looks like this place hasn't been caring for him as well as I'd like."
He smiled and walked around her like a cat and its cornered prey, "I see." She eyed him warily, then loosing interest she began to walk away. "Where are you going?" he asked her suddenly in front of her, "Didn't I just tell you?" He smirked, "Your interesting." He grabbed her arm stepping closer, she pushed him away with her other hand, "I'm taken, honey, remember one thing about me only Itachi will have me, you will never be in the running." His smile got a bit bigger his eyes flashed she had hit his male ego and interest at the same time a deadly combination.
He leaned in closer and whispered in her ear, "Things can change." He smelled dangerous like the deadly nightshade flower, beautiful, dangerous even in the glasses he would exude this aura of irresistibility. No wonder Hinamori was sucked in there were so may factors that worked in his favor looks, mannerisms, the fact that Hinamori was-still is an innocent sheesh he was a natural break-heart Casanova, just deadlier.
She smirked and tripped him making him slam right on his back. She stradled him and he made no move to push her off he still had that serene smile on his face interested his hair still brushed back, "I don't think so," she said in a second she was off and back on her feet. He smirked and got up from his position slowly, "I'll be sure to change it." She rolled her eyes what was it with this world and their men? What did they not get about a woman being already married? Also what did they not understand about Itachi's super possessiveness that scared the hell out of any man who came near her?
After completing her mental map by sending out a bunch of ink beasts an art that Sai had so kindly taught her how to do she made her way to the kitchen she wasn't joking about making for food for Itachi and it would be a feast of his favorites. She did a kagi-bunshin and began to cook, dango, duck, miso soup, tamagoyaki, and the ever popular onigiri. She packed it all in a basket maybe they could go on a picnic well that is… She felt a wave of nausea swamp her and puked in a nearby sink, the pregnancy seemed to have progressed, she shivered she never had been sick in her life the whole chakra thing and she was good. So this is what it felt like to be sick.
She slumped up against the sink hanging on it coughing, puking even more, talk about morning sickness. Instantly she felt Itachi's presence in the room envelope her in warmth, the wards she had assigned to him disabled looks like she would have to come up with another way to assign wards to him. He held her comfortingly, holding the hair away from her face, ahh he really was the perfect husband. The little light within her grew, "What did I tell you about pushing yourself Sakura?" Between puking she replied, "Just…wanted…to…make…you a….meal." she couldn't get out anymore without upchucking anymore, he sighed and picked her up gently princess style.
"You try to spoil me too much, and now that you carry what's mine its my turn to spoil you." He smiled, ahh how she loved him so, "But you do just by being here with me loving me being with me you've already made me the happiest." Itachi smiled bigger, "I can make you happier." She didn't doubt that after all Itachi could do anything.
