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Chapter 26

" The girls told me about you and my brother." Itachi said as soon as the girl was near enough to hear him. She had not long pink hair and bangs, surrounding her heart-shaped face. Her eyes' color was the same as an emerald's and her lips were naturally reddish, she wasn't wearing was utterly gorgeous, no second opinion about that, and for a part of the second, Itachi felt some kind of jealousy run through him, but he reminded himself that she was with his brother, and , hell, she was too young. That helped him a bit.

" Yes..." she said and clenched her fists nervously and Itachi couldn't help but laugh.

" Don't feel awkward, please, it makes me feel somehow guilty."

" I don't feel awkward...I'm just anxious. Why did you call me?" the girl asked and looked the Uchiha right in the eyes.

" That's good to know..." Itachi murmered. " I didn't get the chance to properly introduce myself to you. Neither did you. And it was rather painful to understand from other people, that my brother has finally found somebody. I would have preferred if he had told me himself."

" So we're here to introduce ourselves?" Sakura asked and a bright smile rose upon her face.

" Well, I guess it is desirable to introduce ourselves as the people we truly are..."

The rosette looked confused at him.

" I am not sure I understand, Itachi-san..."

" Itachi, just Itachi. I don't need formalities, Sakura." he said and turned around trying to sort out his thought properly. " I believe you were in my brother's team, right?"

" Yes, but..."

" He was your friend?"

" Of course, but how does..."

" And you missed him when he left for the Sound?"

Silence. Itachi turned around and faced the girl. She seemed sad.

" 'Miss' is not enough to describe even a part of what I was feeling."

" Why?"

Sakura clenched her fists again, this time-angry.

" You ask me why? Are you trying to somehow torture me? Hurt me? Because, I'm telling you, it won't work."

" No, no!" Itachi's eyes widened." Is that what it seemed like? I didn't mean to, sorry. I was just trying to understand."

" I can tell you everything." Sakura said a bit calmer.

" Would you, now?" Itachi smiled at her to only receive an ice-cold-glare.

" I would, but I believe that I'm not the one that should tell you. You must talk with Sasuke about this. I don't really know the full story either."

" I am not talking about Sasuke's past, or for the reasons he left Konoha. That doesn't matter now. I want to know how you felt about that. I want to know how you felt about him. How you feel about him. And you're the only one who can tell me that."

Itachi and Sakura's eyes met again. She then sat on a large branch on the ground. Itachi smirked.

" I can't describe you with words how I felt when he left three years ago. You know, I was probably his biggest fan at the time and being with the famous Uchiha Sasuke in a team was a huge opportunity for me. But he was so...distant. He was always speaking of his dream to kill you..." Sakura snorted ironically and Itachi trembled. " And when he left, he...I..I don't know. Maybe 'heartbroken' isn't a proper word, since every part of my soul was crashed. With him leaving to fulfill his dream, my dream was gone. He was gone."

" Was it really that important?"

Sakura ignored Itachi's question and continued. " And when he came here, in the caste...I felt like I had a reason to live again. I had a chance to fulfill my was back. And he was different. He had opened himself for the world, whether it was much or little, it was a difference. And as we spent time together, I realized that my dream was surpassing my previous one. When I was little I was dreaming of him taking interest in me, of asking me on a date or something like that. But when he did and everything was perfect, my dreams grew to the impossible. I was dreaming of more, although I had what I previously wished for. And to my surprise I got more and more and more of him...I still do...and I love it."

Itachi was looking at her with that poker-face, that Sasuke used sometimes too.

" I never thought that somebody would love my brother that much, except for me."

" You don't know how much I love him. How much Naruto loves him. He had us all the time. Naruto had never stopped trying to return him back home. But I stopped. Because I was weak, compared to them. But now, that he's here, I feel like I have all the power in the world. " Sakura whispered and then laughed "I'm getting too dramatic, right?"

" No, that's the perfect amount of drama in this case." Itachi grinned and the rosette laughed again.

" What about you, Itachi. He's really worried." Sakura shook her head. " He doesn't want to let you go to Konoha on your own. He's afraid that he'll lose you again. It's so obvious..."

" Is he?" Itachi smiled sadly. " I can't help it. I have to prove my innocence and I have to speak to the elders about it. They're the one that are pulling the strings."

" Here, take this." Sakura handed Itachi a scroll. " Give this to Tsunade-sama. I'm her apprentice."

" You're the Hokage's apprentice...impressive." Itachi took the scroll and looked at it. " What does it say?"

" It's my point of view about you. I've known her for years and while she trained me I got to know her better than most people. Tsunade-sama's always been on my side, well, most of the times, and I'm sure that if you earn her trust, you'll have no problems at all."

" But even the Hokage can't argue with the elders.."

Sakura just snorted mockingly.

" She almost beat them up once when it came to Naruto. They somehow fear her. I do too, in fact. Everybody does. She could be rather...scary."

" Beat them up?" Itachi laughed a little. " My, Konoha has changed, since I left..."

" Indeed.'' Sakura nodded. " But is it for good?"

" Chill, teme!" Naruto said and looked at Sasuke's face. No bruises, no wounds, nothing. " You bastard, you made her heal you!"

" She did it on her own free will...and don't tell me to chill!" Sasuke cursed and kicked the leg of the bed, breaking it.

" You're gonna sleep on that one!" Shikamaru said and Sasuke shot him a glare.

" What are the talking about?! What does he want with her?"

Sasuke's imagination was running wild. First he saw Itachi stabbing the rosette with a kunai, then he saw him kissing her...he shook his head. No, that won't happen.

" Sasuke, you don't have to worry!" Ino said and patted his shoulder. " I know that you are anxious, but you have to trust them!"

" Don't act like you're not curious..."

" I am, I admit it, but I don't freak out like you..." Ino chuckled and pushed herself into Kiba's tight embrace. " That's so untypical for you, Sasuke Uchiha, so not like you...there must be something! Have you finally slept together?"

The Uchiha didn't answer, he just turned around and broke the other leg of the bed. Ino gasped.

" Oh my God! You did...I can't believe this! Kiba, KIBA, can you believe this?! He just admitted!" the blonde was freaking out, jumping around happily, enthusiastically.

" I never said anything!" Sasuke said.

" Well, exactly!" Ino said and poked his chest with her forefinger " That's because you are you! Oooh, that girl has some explanation to do when she comes here!"

" What do I have too explain? And why are all of you in our room?"

Everybody turned to see Sakura entering. Ino escaped from KIba and ran towards the rosette.

" Please explain, why didn't you tell me that you slept with Sasuke!"

" That she...what?!" Itachi entered the room just after Sakura. He looked accusingly at his little brother, whose eyes were glued to Sakura's.

" Aww, shiiit!" Naruto sang and tightened his grip around Hinata, ready to watch the upcoming show.

" I never said anything like that!" Sasuke snapped at Ino, as soon as Sakura was in his arms again.

" Oh, please! Just look at yourselves! When I asked you, you said nothing! And when I asked her, she blushed! You liars..." Ino said while laughing. Itachi, on the other hand, seemed angry.

" Sasuke..." the younger Uchiha caught the glare of his brother. His eyes were red. 'Shit' Sasuke thought.

" Don't you dare entering my head!" he snarled at his brother and pushed Sakura behind his back, activating his own Sharingan. " And why are you all suddenly so curious about my private life?! It's none of your business what I do, or who I do it with!"

" Sasuke no baka! Is that how Kaa-sama and Too-sama raised you? You are so disgraceful!" Itachi said.

" Do not jump to conclusions!" Sasuke screamed at his brother. " The truth is...we did nothing!"

Sakura shot him a glare. Happily nobody saw her, as they were focused on the brothers. She smirked.

" And if you don't believe me, ask Kakashi!" Sasuke said and deactivated his Kekkei Genkai.

" Is it true?" Itachi turned to Sakura and she blushed again.

" Y-yes, Itachi! Don't...humiliate us like that." she said and they thought that her voice was shaking in light anger, when it was actually trembling from the laughter she tried to keep in. The elder Uchiha narrowed his red eyes at the teens and then they turned back to onyx.

" Gomen." he said and narrowed his eyes at Ino, who snorted.

" Yeah right...come on Kiba, let's go somewhere where we can have fun!" she said and pulled Kiba by his arm.

" W-what?!"

Shikamaru, Sai, Lee, Neji and Hinata smirked. Naruto grinned.

" Ne, Hinata..."

" Don't you even think about it!" Neji interrupted his sentence and that caused everybody, except for Naruto and Hinata, to laugh even harder.

" It's strange, isn't it?" Dumbledore asked the three ninja before him.

" What do you mean, Dumbledore-sama?" Kakashi asked.

" I mean, they aren't doing anything since the...event on the bridge. What do you think that Voldemort and Ourochemarou are planning to do? Do you think that I should hire more ninja from other Element countries?"

Jiraya laughed.

" It's Orochimaru. You should stop with that English accent thing of yours! And no, you don't have to worry, Dumbledore, we're enough. But you should be aware, that soon I'll leave. But I'll leave my apprentice, as well as the apprentices of the other two sannins. You also have Kakashi, yamato and the others, don't underestimate the Konoha shinobi."

It sounded a little like a threat, but Dumbledore nodded. Kakashi didn't have anything else to say, so he just continued reading his book.

" If you say that I have no reason to be afraid, I trust you...but just be cautious while I'm gone, OK?"

This time, the ninja nodded.

" By the way, Kakashi, I always see you with those books, you never stop reading them. I'm quite a passionate reader myself, I'd enjoy to see them, if you don't mind. Recently I'm out of anything interesting to keep myself entertained with. So would you mind...?"

" No, not at all...Jiraya here is the author. There you go..." Kakashi handed the old man the book he was reading and he accepted it.

Jiraya grinned.

" It's the best story about love and passion, you'd love it!" the sannin said at his new reader.

Yamato snorted and looked at his elders incredulously.

'At least I get to get out of this place, away from them for a while...thank god!'

Hope you liked it, I don't even know why I wrote this chapter, I was in that kind of mood, so I hope you'll excuse me if it didn't meet your expectations.

However, review, share ideas, I love you :P

Have a nice weekend! :)