Chapter 21- Home

"Welcome back Ichigo! How was your trip?" Yuzu asked eagerly as he had joined the three of us at the dinner table.

"I would have rather stayed home. Dad out late again?" He asked, scooting into the table as I handed him the main dish, to get his share from it.

"Yeah." Karin responded. After he nodded in thanks to me and after Karin's response, it was silent for a moment. I had nothing to say really. It was a pretty normal night but the thought kept coming back into my head, the thought that Sasuke was worried about me. I must have given it away that something was wrong. Sasuke didn't let much go over his head so if I had said something that had bothered him, looking back now, it wasn't a shock that he had done something about it. To send Itachi here though.

"Everything alright Sakura?" I lifted my head at the sound of Yuzu's worry and gave a smile, followed by a nod of my head.

"Mhm, just thinking about finals is all." I lied.

"You will do great!" Yuzu said confidently. I gave her an even bigger, truthful, smile and nodded at her reassurance. I looked back down at my plate and took another bite of my rice as my mind wandered off again, unaware of the glance Ichigo had given me. What was I going to do if Ichigo found out? Uryuu knows, for the most part and Rukia is defiantly questioning it. It would cause so much worry and such a big mess. I poked at my chicken with narrowed eyes. He would understand right? That Grimmjow had stayed here at the clinic, I mean, it couldn't be helped. He had to stay here. When my thought process had disappeared, I lifted my head and smiled at them, realizing I was full off of nothing. I guess everything I was thinking of made me loose my appetite.

"I uhm, I guess I am not that hungry." I stood up and went to take my plate.

"I'll put it away" Yuzu said to me. I held the edges of my plate, having yet to lift it from the table, I looked at her.

"Yuzu, are you sure?" I asked. She smiled and waved her hand at me.

"Of course! Go shower and get some rest okay. I bet these times are hard for you" She said warmingly. My heart sank a little. I felt bad I was lying but I really was upset, either it be over the finals or over everything else, a bath sounded nice. She wouldn't let me clean up after myself anyway at this point. I nodded and released my plate and walked from the table and to the room, where I prepared myself for a shower.

"He sent Itachi..." I said as I laid in bed, my head resting on the towel laid over my pillow, protecting it from my wet hair as I held the phone to my ear.

"Itachi?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, and he brought the whole gang with him, caused a bit of a scene" I threw my free arm over my eyes as I spoke.

"Sasuke is very cautious. For him to go to that length isn't really surprising" He said through the phone.

"Yeah but...The last thing I want is for you guys to worry about me.." I paused as he listened. "I know you guys have busy lifes and..."

"We are always going to worry about you Sakura." He chuckled "You're you, it's hard NOT to worry"

"Well, I just hope this puts your guys' minds at ease" I said, sitting up.

"Yeah well, If Itachi says everything is okay, there's no reason for us NOT to believe him so why are you worrying?" He asked. I took the towel and hung it over the back of the desk chair, next to the bed.

"I don't know" I said softly.

"Cheer up. Go to bed okay?"

"Alright. Thank you Naruto" I smiled.

"Anytime." And at his last word, I heard a click. I closed the phone and set it on the desk before laying on my back on the provided bed.

"Almost there, Allllmooooost" I held my hands out in front of my cautiously as I walked with the blindfold over my eyes to block out my vision. With Yuzu leading me and Isshin leading her, I was excited to see what they had to show me. We had walked out of the house and downstairs and that was all I got from where we were going. She stopped me but I still had my hands out, slightly, in fear something might run into me. "Okay! Are you ready?" Isshin asked I nodded and the darkness that my eyes once had seen, was blinded by the white light from the sun. I rubbed my eyes with my hands to correct my vision and looked up. We were outside, out back, behind the house/clinic and the first thing I had seen was the large shed that was used as a storage unit but it wasn't like before. The outside was super clean, like it was brand new. I know what you are imagining, that the type of shed I am talking about is the one where the walls were made of that weird thin metal material. Not this one, this shed was build from wood, out it was anyway. Now it stood strong and sturdy and the walls on the outside, and probably inside, were pure, thick concrete walls. It had an actual roof over it, instead of that wood made roof with a ton of cracks in it.

I looked behind me after stepping up. I looked to Ichigo, who stood with his hands in his pockets and a soft smile on his face. I turned to Isshin who had two thumbs up and was so eager for me to go in. Karin was standing there with her hand on her hip and a smile on her face too. Yuzu was clapping and bouncing in excitement for me. I turned back to the tiny house like shed and walked to the door and upon opening it my eyes widened. The concrete floor from before was now carpet and the holly walls from the old wood was no longer there, the whole thing was ventilated and closed in. There was a tiny window on the opposite side of the room that was decorated with sheer, pink curtains. The whole shed was decorated as a room, with a bed, a desk, a wardrobe closet in the corner that was white with pink colored trim and painted cherry blossoms along the corners. Everything was white and pink. I had an extension cord that led from my room, to the house. One of the plugs was to a lamp that would light my room when it was dark.

"You like it?!" Yuzu shouted with a giggle. I felt my eyes water as I bit my lip with a nod. I turned to Isshin, who was standing in the room as well, and went to hug him. He giggled and hugged me back.

"Is this why...you wouldn't be upstairs at night...why you missed so many home cooked meals?" I asked hesitantly. He paused, refusing to say anything so Yuzu answered for him.

"Yes! He did this at night so it was less likely for you to hear him building while you were sleeping! And remember when Karin and I left that weekend? We actually went shopping for decorations for your room!" She clapped. I stepped away and looked at them.

"We stayed home from school that Monday so we can bring em in while you weren't there."Karin mumbled.

"We didn't do all of it. Remember when I said we can fix one of the rooms in the clinic to be yours?" Isshin asked. I nodded. "Ichigo was the one who suggested the shed, he was the one who bought all the stuff needed, he wanted to work on it himself but you would find out faster that way then if we told you I was out working. He wanted to keep it a secret" I looked to Ichigo and walked to him with a smile.

"It wasn't only my idea. We figured you would feel much more at home if you-" I didn't let him finish, I clinged tightly to Ichigo in a hug with the biggest smile ever, unaware of the picture that was taken.

"Stupid..." I mumbled.

"Hmm?"

"I...I already feel at home when I am with you Ichigo." he smiled and before I knew it, he wrapped his arms around me, returning the hug.