38. Bright
She sat in the flower shop wondering what the hell had just happened. She had been telling Itachi about some obnoxious woman that came into the shop earlier in the day when she realized he wasn't really paying much attention to her. He usually was a good listener even if she was talking about ridiculous things such as this so she asked him if he was alright, seeing as he could have possibly been traumatized by the event that happened on their mission to Kirigakure last week.
"I'm just thinking about something important." he replied to her. She jokingly wondered to herself what could have possibly been more important than her experience with a rude customer but, she suddenly realized he had been staring at her pretty intensely. It unnerved her a little bit if she was being honest.
"What is it?" she asked, voice slightly shaky from being under his stare. She jolted at the feeling of his hand suddenly resting on her cheek, she felt dizzy all of the sudden and her eyelids felt too heavy to keep open.
"I've just realized something I should have done a long time ago." he moved closer and kissed her, she would have been shocked if she hadn't wanted this to happen for as long as she did. Her mind completely blanked as he kissed her, unable to think of what was going on after he pulled back from her.
He was about to tell her something that she desperately wanted to hear when he was ever so rudely interrupted by one of the Hokage's messengers. He left her sitting there in confusion trying to process what had brought that on in the first place.
Her constant mental denial of anything ever happening between them romantically had been thrown for a loop as she sat there overwhelmed by the tingling sensation he had left on her lips. She hadn't known what he was about to say to her but she suddenly had this vision of a bright, happy future with him.
She sat there a little bit longer before closing shop prematurely and dashing to Sakura's home to tell her about what just happened.