Jealousy and love

Chapter 14: Just friends? "Speaking" 'Thinking'

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Itachi just stood there, waiting for her to talk.

"I, I need to talk to you" He noticed the way her voice shivered slightly. He already had a suspicion of what she wanted to talk to him about. "Hn, alright" Itachi stepped inside his room. The little pinkette following him closely behind.

Once they stood in the middle of the room, her hand reached for his, by he made no movement to take her hand in his.

"Thought so" She sounded so depressed, for a brief second, he thought he could see tears in her eyes.

There was quiet for a moment… then.

"Itachi. Do you even love me a little bit?" That was not the question he had been expecting. He looked shocked at her, but she wasn't even looking at him. Now, he could also see the tears streaming down her face.

"Why would you say something like that?" His voice was still emotionless like his face, though there was a little hidden softness in his eyes.

"Sakura" He reached out for her. To hold her, feel her warmth. He wanted to tell her how much he loved her, adored her. But something kept him from doing so. As if all his caring emotions had been removed.

Just when he finally was able to raise a hand towards her, it was to late.

She brushed past him, slamming the door shut behind her when she left the room.

The snow was falling rapidly outside the window. Sakura starred out into the dark night, only illuminated by the moon, making it possible to see the falling snow. It had been two days since she had spoken to Itachi, and since then, she had stayed in her room, not even leaning to eat. Sometimes she could feel his chakra outside her door, but she ignored it.
She looked forward to the other member's return, so she wouldn't be alone with Itachi.
She didn't believe it was the end of them, but she couldn't handle his change in behavior. She missed the old Itachi, the one who invited her over to meet his parents, the Itachi who teased his brother, without limits. She missed the way he would kiss her when he returned from a mission.
Sakura really didn't want to end things with Itachi, but he had changed so much in the short time they had been in the Akatsuki, and honestly, she was afraid that he had changed too much.

There was a knock on her door.
"Come in"

"Sakura" Emerald eyes met onyx eyes.
She hesitated for a moment.

"Itachi" She didn't know what to feel, or do right now. He looked so different form the last time they had talked.
"Sakura, I-" Itachi closed his eyes shortly before opening them again. "-I'm sorry, I really am. It's just… I don't know why I acted the way I did, but I'm hoping that you can forgive me. It's just, I need a friend right now… Just a friend"
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Sakura couldn't respond. Had Itachi just broke up with her!

"Itachi, I don't think I understand… Are you breaking up with me?" She tried to maintain a strong voice, but the words came out as a soft whisper.
"I'm sorry, Sakura" He didn't look her in the eyes as he leaned forward to kiss her cheek one last time, before walking out the door.

Sakura couldn't move. No words in the entire world could describe the pain she felt inside. It was like flames were filling her entire body.

After all she had done for him. This was the way he thanked her.

She had left her village for him.

She had loved him with all her heart and soul.

Sakura slowly fell to her knees. Tears were streaming freely down her face. It felt like she had no control of her body.
She wanted to hate him.

She wanted to run after him so she could smash his face into the ground.

She whished she could make him feel the pain she was feeling in her heart right now.

But she knew she couldn't. Because even though he within ten seconds had dragged her through hell, she just couldn't hate him.

The scary truth was she still loved him.

And for that, she hated herself. Why did her heart have to hold on to him so hard?

Slowly, she dragged herself to the bed, refusing to sleep on the floor.

Her head had barely touched the pillow before she fell asleep.

Who knew it would be so exhausting to deal with the emotions after a breakup?

Luckily for Sakura she didn't dream that night.

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16 hours after Sakura woke up, slowly. Looking like she had a really bad cold. Her eyes were red and glassy, and very red noses, making her look like Rudolph the reindeer.

With determination, Sakura headed to the bathroom with one goal in her mind. Erase all evidence that she had cried half the night in her sleep.

One hour later, she came out of the bathroom. Freshly showered and looking much better than she had when she woke up.

Slowly Sakura opened the door to the hallway. Stepping out of her room, she spotted Deidara further down the hallway, walking towards the kitchen.
She hadn't seen the other members in a long time, about three or four days.

Seeing Deidara actually made her mood slightly better. He reminded her of Naruto in some ways. The blue eyes, blond hair, the goofy attitude.

"Hi, Deidara!" Sakura called out, easily catching up with him. When Deidara saw Sakura coming towards him, he smiled at her.
"Hello Sakura-chan"

Together they walked into the kitchen aerie. None of the other members were there yet, it was still pretty early in the morning.

Sitting down at the table, Sakura and Deidara started talking.
"So, when did you return from your mission?"
"Last night. It was a boring mission, didn't get to blow anything up. Sasori-danna and I just had to pick up a scroll for Pein-" "-and then he sends Itachi and Kisame out on the fun missions" The blond muttered the last part so low that Sakura almost couldn't hear it. Almost.

"Itachi and Kisame are on a mission?"
"Yeah, they left just when we got back" Deidara pouted and muttered something about Itachi and Kisame always getting the good missions.

"Oh"
Sakura felt kind of relived, that meant she wouldn't have to deal with seeing Itachi today.

Deciding it was time to make breakfast, Sakura got up from her seat, and started finding all the ingredients.
Soon after the, whole hideout was filled with the sent of pancakes. One after one, the Akatsuki members entered the kitchen, even Pein came out from his office, which was really rare for him to do, to find the food already on the table.

After the last pancake was eaten, Sakura was left with the dishes.
'Typical' 'I get to do all the cooking and cleaning because I'm a woman. Too bad Konan is on a mission then-'

"Sakura" Said woman turned around to find Pein standing behind her.
"Yes, Pein?" She looked at him nervously, she hadn't really spoken to him since she joined the Akatsuki, and she was rather scared of him.
"Come to my office as soon as your done" With those words he just turned around and left.

Finishing the dishes, Sakura made her way to Pein's office. On her way there, she nearly stumbled in to Hidan, if it hadn't been for her good reflects, she would have ended on-top of Hidan on the floor, and that was something she sorely didn't want to happen. So after quickly greeting Hidan, she rushed down the hallway, towards Pein's office, hearing Hidan shouting something about her having a 'damn fine ass' in the background.

Finally, Sakura reached her destination. Knocking on the door, she waited for an answer.
"Enter"
Sakura frowned slightly as she stepped into a utterly dark room.

"Pein? Are you in here?"
Nothing. No answer.

Suddenly, the door slammed close, and a soft sound of a click was heard.

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I am so, so sorry that i took so long to upload this chapter, I kind of lost the inspiration for a little while. But now I'm back and ready for writing a whole lot of new chapters! :D
I hope you enjoyed this chapter!:)
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Also, I am considering to make this a PeinxSakuraxItachi story or a DeidaraxSakuraxItachi story, but tell me what you think about that, because it is your opinion that matters the most to me!:D