Hello! Hope you guys like this chapter. Thanks to FMAandWolf'sRain, Xing Xing-chan, and The Screcrows's Weasel for reviewing. Please review the sooner you review the sooner I update and the more reviews I get the longer the chapters will be. Also please give me your opinions on some things that I have been suggested. I don't agree with all of them, but if you like the ideas tell me and I'll do them.

1. Have Rei die though I won't say who will kill her and have Itachi take revenge.

2. Have Rei get seriously injured and Itachi get revenge.

3. Have a lemon. (Not my idea, not good at them.)

4. Have Rei getting captured.

Please tell me what you think. Now, on with the story!

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Chapter Twenty-one

Rei was sitting with Itachi on a hill. He had taken her outside as she had been indoors for two days. They were just looking out into the distance glad to be together again. He looked at her and couldn't help but smile at how calm she looked. She looked so mature now, yet she still held some of the features from when she was still a young girl. He reminded himself that she was still a young girl, she was after all no more than seventeen and he himself was just eighteen. Still, she retained that innocent and pure appearance that he liked.

As he looked at her he remembered something.

"Rei."

"Yes, Itachi."

"There's something that I forgot to give you."

She looked at him with a puzzled expression as he took something out. He opened his hand and she saw that it was the necklace that he had given her a long time ago on her birthday. He handed it to her and as she held it in her hand he could see the melancholy in her eyes as she looked at it. He knew that she was thinking about the past and once again felt bad for what he had done, but reminded himself that it had to be done.

"Itachi, how did this happen?" She said quietly.

He looked at her with a mixture of puzzlement and surprise.

"How did what happen?"

"How did we isolate ourselves from each other? It hasn't been that long since you gave me this, since I was so close to you, yet I feel like you're so far away from me and I can never reach you. I feel like you've left and I fear that you won't come back to me. We're so different now, things are so different now and though I want things to be back to normal I'm not sure they can be. I'm not sure if we can ever pick up where we left off no matter how much I want it to."

"Rei, that's not true. I know that we can get things back to normal. I want to fix things and I'll do whatever I can to make sure that we stay together."

"Itachi, you know as well as I do that we can't get things back to normal not after what you did. I know that you still have some feelings for me, but I doubt that what you feel is truly love. I'm not sure of what I feel towards you either. There's a part of me that still wants to be with you, but there's another part that can never forgive you for what you did. I want to forgive you, but I can't."

"Rei, what I have towards you aren't just feelings. I love you. I know that what I did upset you and I understand that it will take you time to get over it and I'll give you all the time you need, but just try to give me another chance."

She didn't look at him, she couldn't. She loved him, but at that moment she couldn't trust her feelings. She sighed and looked at the necklace that she was holding.

"I wish it was that easy."

She stood up and walked away leaving the necklace on the spot where she had been sitting. Itachi sat there looking out into the distance. He took the necklace and frowned as he looked at it. He hated that necklace for it represented his weakness and what he had lost. He wanted to crush it, but wouldn't dare as it was the only thing he had to remind him of the one he loved, the one who rejected him, the one who was the object of both his misery and affection. He sighed and stood up to go back to the headquarters.

Rei and Itachi went back to the head quarters without speaking. Itachi was starting to wonder if having gone back for Rei had been the right thing. He knew that she missed her home and that she was also worried about his brother, but he needed to see her. He needed her to be there with him, for without her he was just an empty remnant, a shadow of what he once was. He had missed her. No other woman could ever take her place. When he traveled with Kisame he had run into many women that would have loved to sleep with him, but he had always scorned them and seen them as inferior, pathetic creatures compared to what he had lost.

He had spent countless nights thinking about Rei. During his travels he had always carried the necklace he had given her and often at night he would look at it and think about her. He remembered that when Kisame first saw the necklace while they were out on a mission he had mocked him. After Itachi had almost killed him Kisame had never dared to make fun of him. In fact, after that everyone in the organization had learned to respect him.

He looked at her and the look in her eyes was enough to make him look away. They were clouded with pain, sorrow, confusion. He couldn't stand to look at her when she was in so much pain. The fact that he was the cause of her anguish only made things worst. He had to do something.

He looked around and saw that no one was there. Itachi pushed her against the wall and kissed her gently yet passionately. She was surprised and tried to get away, but he held her tightly. He broke the kiss and looked into her eyes, but not with the Sharingan, not with those eyes that she had seen the night it all began.

"I love you and even if you never forgive me I always will. I don't care how long I have to wait for you, but I'm ready to wait for the rest of my life if that's how long it takes for you to forgive me."

She looked at him and was at a loss for words. He let her go and began to walk to his room. She stood there trying to take in what had just happened.

"I love you too." She whispered before going after him.

End Chapter Twenty-one

Hope you guys liked it and review. The sooner you review the sooner I update and the more reviews I get the longer the chapters will be. Tell me what you think about the ideas people gave me. Also I might go on a hiatus so that I can think of more stuff for this story although I'm not sure yet. Sayonara!