Doubts of the Heart

A/N: I finally got a new notebook!!! Let the chapters commence I will be posting more frequently so for those of you anxious for more… here it comes!!! My DracoxHermione fanfic has 2 chapters and I could use some reviews. I know I sound like a broken record but fanart is always appreciated. So here is chapter 14… Doubts of the Heart.

Sasuke slowly opened his eyes and rose out of bed. Itachi had told him to stay in Sakura's room since of course… she wasn't there.

He pulled his navy Uchiha t shirt over his head and quickly yanked on his pants. He opened the door and left the room.

He sat lazily on the couch and closed his eyes to calm himself down.

"So, you're Itachi's brother huh?" Tobi asked.

"What's it to you?" Sasuke sneered with his eyes still closed.

"Well for one I have to heal the bastard… and I was just curious. But judging by your attitude I can clearly tell that you are related to Itachi,"

"When will my brother get better?" Sasuke asked.

"In a couple of days, unless you want him healed now, it would drain almost all of my chakra," Tobi explained. "Plus with him out for a while things will be less strict and quiet around here," he smirked as he walked down the hall.

Sasuke opened his eye and peered down the hall to see Tobi being roughly yanked into his brother's room.

"Aaaagh! Hey! What the-!!!" Tobi screamed as the door slammed shut.

He could hear shuffling noises coming from the room and then… silence.

'Did Itachi kill Tobi?' Sasuke thought.

Slowly he walked down the hallway toward Itachi's room.

Opening the door, he was met with Tobi's limp figure being tossed at his feet.

He leaned in front of him to check his pulse… still breathing. He still had some chakra in him but the level of it was dangerously low. Itachi had forced Tobi to pulse enormous amounts of chakra into his body, healing his wound but in return, almost killing Tobi.

He stared at his brother who now stood tall and proud by his bed. He pulled on his cloak and picked Tobi up by the neck and threw his body onto the bed.

Smirking, he turned to meet Sasuke.

"What did you think; that I was just going to wait around for him to heal me on his own sweet time?" he chuckled.

Sasuke laughed lightly at his brother.

"Yeah, you don't seem like the type of person who waits for a person to make up their mind,"

Itachi stood and put on his ring. He then walked past Sasuke and toward the kitchen.

"You hungry?" he asked as they walked down the hallway.

"Yeah,"

They stepped into the room and Itachi tossed him a rice ball.

"Who made these?" Sasuke asked.

"Kisame,"

Sasuke coughed wildly as he choked on his rice ball.

Kisame entered the kitchen and Sasuke chuckled.

"What's so funny Uchiha?" he asked.

Sasuke looked up at him and started to laugh.

Itachi looked at Kisame and smirked.

"He finds it funny that you cook," he said.

Kisame glared at Sasuke.

"So you think it's funny do you?" he asked.

Sasuke broke out into a hysterical laugh.

"For your information Sasuke, the ladies find men who can cook to be very sexy," Kisame said.

"Well that's bullshit," Deidara scoffed as he leaned back in his chair fiddling with a small piece of clay.

"I know who you should ask… Sakura," Kisame said.

"Well she'll be her by tomorrow… isn't that right Sasuke?" Itachi said.

"Yeah… you can ask her tomorrow,"

"Agreed," Kisame grinned.

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Sakura's eyes strayed open.

'Why?' she thought. 'Why did you have to get up?'

Tears found their way back into her eyes.

"I wish I'd never wake up… that way I can't get hurt anymore," she muttered as she clung to her pillow and cried.

Sakura sat there for what seemed like ages.

Rain pattered on her window.

The sky was grey and darkened. The sun was smothered in shadow. The thunder clapped with anger. Sakura sighed in defeat.

'That's the sound of my heart breaking,' she thought. More tears strayed down her pale white cheeks.

More rain pounded on her window and made Sakura cry even harder.

'It's like the weather is how I'm feeling on the inside,' she sobbed.

Slowly she turned her head to look at the sky… it had to be at least three o'clock in the afternoon.

She sighed and decided to go on with her day and life… what was left of it.

Hoisting herself up, she swung her legs to the side of her bed and stumbled out and into the hallway. Finally, making her way into the kitchen she put a pot of water on the stove and started to heat it up for her dinner.

She took her water once it started to boil and pour it into her cup of ramen.

Wrapping herself up tightly in her blanket, she made her way over to her couch and sat down and started to sip her dinner. She sat in the darkness of her apartment as silent tears fell.

After she finished she went into the kitchen and put the cup into the sink. She found herself searching the sky again. Either for answers or the time of day she didn't know… but she was searching for something. It was around 6 o'clock she guessed. The sky had gotten darker than before… night would soon fall.

Trudging down the hallway, she slowly entered her room. She threw her body to the side and collapsed onto the comfortable mattress beneath her.

Tears flooded from her eyes. She couldn't stop.

'Why?' she thought. 'Why does this happen to me! First Ino… and now Itachi! I can't take this anymore!!! I don't want to live! There's no point anymore!' she thought hard as she continued to sob uncontrollably. She felt the urge to throw up as another image of Itachi lying motionless on the ground filled her mind.

He couldn't be dead. She knew he wasn't. She had to trust the feeling in the pit of her stomach that told her he was alive. Her heart trusted that feeling.

'How can I have all of these doubts in my heart?' she thought. 'It's Itachi Uchiha'

Sakura sighed happily as she dreamed of Itachi's face.

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Sasuke arrived in Konoha later that night. The streets were slightly flooded with puddles of all sizes. The sky was just as dark as when he had left the Akatsuki headquarters. Itachi had taken Tobi's mask as Sasori tended to his broken body. It was hot and Sasuke could only see out of his right eye. He roamed the streets for a while and climbed the stairway toward Sakura's apartment.

He entered through the window in hopes that she wouldn't sense him coming in.

Walking down the hallway toward her bedroom he slowly opened her door.

She was sleeping restlessly on her bed. The covers surrounded her body and she was tossing violently.

"No… Sasuke…no…stop…please…Itachi…no…both of you…please…Sasuke…NOOO!!!!" she cried out.

Sasuke felt a wave of pain and guilt wash over him as he heard her cry.

He could see the pain in her face and tears streaming softly down her face as she wept silently.

He took her headband off of her desk and prepared the ropes that he had brought to tie her up.

Sitting down on her bed he took the headband and quickly tied it around her eyes. Surprisingly she stayed calm… as if she was still in her dream.

He started to tie her hands, when suddenly she started to squirm and struggle in his arms.

After a long battle with her he finally had her tied up and had placed a gag into her mouth.

Hoisting her in his arms he slung her over his shoulder and fled the apartment as fast as he could and headed back toward the Akatsuki base.

'Alright Itachi' he thought. 'So far so good'

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The door to Akatsuki slammed. Sasuke stormed into the living room and gently placed Sakura onto the couch and headed toward the darkened hallway. His brother met him and looked at Sakura.

"She's all yours," Sasuke said as he patted him on the shoulder.

Itachi grinned and walked passed him toward the kunoichi sitting on the couch.

She had tears staining her face and she was shaking with fear.

He walked over to the couch and Sakura stood abruptly as she felt the presence of someone in the room with her.

Smirking, he walked around her in a circle.

She could feel the slight breeze he was creating tease her skin.

"W-W-Who's there?" she cried.

Itachi smirked and sat on the couch so her back was facing him. His legs came up and rested on the coffee table. Knocking his legs against hers, he turned her so that she now faced him.

"What the hell is going o-"

Itachi pulled Sakura so she was straddling him. He licked his lips and sinfully nipped her ear.

"You talk too much," he said.

"Wh-"

She was silenced as he kissed her hungrily.

She started to cry again as he started to plant small kisses on her jaw line.

"Take the blindfold off please," she begged.

"But it's so much more fun when you have it on," he growled into her ear.

Without a second thought he threw her over his shoulder and made down the hallway toward his room. Deidara, Sasori, Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu, and Sasuke were standing in the doorway of their rooms watching them.

He walked in and closed the door and set Sakura down on the bed. He put his body on top of hers and kissed her again… hard.

She cried out into his mouth and frantically squirmed under him.

"It's me Sakura," Itachi sighed.

"Ita-" she paused.

"What Sakura... you don't trust me?" he asked.

"How do I know for sure that it's you?"

"What would make you doubt that it isn't?" he replied.

"B-Because… he's dead," she whispered. Her voice was heavy and filled with sadness.

"How can you be sure?" he asked. "You ran off with Itachi's younger brother,"

"I didn't! I had no choice!" she cried.

"Why should I believe you?" he asked. "What did you do after you found out that Itachi was dead?"

"I was home… I couldn't stop crying. I-I wanted to see him. I stumbled into my shower because I had his blood on my hands… But no matter how hard I scrubbed… the blood wouldn't come off," she sobbed.

Itachi just looked at her. He wanted to wrap his arms around her and just hold her. Tell her that she didn't have to feel anymore pain… that he was here and he wasn't going to leave her anymore.

He sat up and watched as she laid there and cried. Tears were falling down passed her headband.

He slowly reached over and wiped away her tears with the pad of his thumb.

He flinched when his cold hand gently rubbed her cheek.

"Who do you think I am if not Itachi?" he asked.

"I…. I think that you could be Sasuke," she replied.

Itachi felt his blood boil. How could she think… no doubt that it wasn't him?

He slowly pulled her up and sat knee to knee with her on the bed. Leaning in, he wrapped his hand around her neck.

He pushed his cloak off of his body and threw it to the floor.

His warm lips touched her ear.

"I'm Sasuke huh?" he asked.

"Y-yes," she said.

"Really?" he replied, nudging her nose lightly with his. "Would Sasuke ever kiss you like this?"

With that he did what he had been craving to do since the living room… he kissed her.

All of Itachi's emotion was poured into this kiss. His anger and rage that she didn't believe it was him. Sadness because she thought that he was dead and grieving when he was right here. Happiness that he was alive and that Sakura was with him again. And lust, for the one woman that cared about him… the only one that he wanted and needed.

Sakura was overwhelmed. His emotion was pouring into her. His mouth would snap at hers hard and angry, but then become soft and light kisses. Suddenly, there was a fire that burst into her as he sinfully delved his tongue into her mouth.

His hand gently cupped her face and he released their lips. Both breathing heavily.

More tears streamed down her face.

"Why?" she sobbed. "You can't be him I…I'd know," she cried.

Itachi just stared at her. Then slowly he ran his hand down her arm and unraveled the bond on her wrists. He gently held her hand and guided it down his stomach and let it rest on top of the bandage covering his stomach.

Sakura gasped.

"I-Itachi? It's you? P-Please… I need to see you… take the blindfold off," she begged.

Itachi obeyed and took off the blindfold.

Sakura continued to sob.

"Please stop crying," he said as he brushed them away lightly.

"Y-You're alive…I knew deep down that you wer-"

Her words faded as he kissed her again.

A/N: Hey everyone…I'm back!!! I have a lot of stuff written in a couple of notebooks… I just have to get around to typing it. Hope you enjoyed the chapter… if you want to draw fanart for this fic. I can also be found on under the same name so… look me up until next time!!!