Difficult Engagements

Chapter 3

Naruto's POV

I look around; I'm in the garden, with Itachi. The flowers are in full bloom right now.

It's been a few months since our first meeting, we settled in a bit of a routine. He's gone for a few weeks at a time, then here with me for about a week. Splitting his time between working with my father and spending time with me.

It's nice when he's here.

He seems stressed this time, his body is so tense.

The first thing I do is rub the scent glands in my wrist over his chest slowly moving them to his neck. Resting on there a little longer than anywhere else. Finally moving up to his face, rubbing lightly on his cheeks. That should help.

"What's that for?"

"You're stressed."

He softly chuckles, "I'm fine, Naruto-kun."

Liar.

"How has life been?" He casually says to me trying to change the subject.

All my days are the same. Nothing exciting ever really happens, so I don't even know why he asks. I guess he just wants to be polite or he doesn't want to talk to me about what's going on. He at least seems more relaxed now.

"I guess it's been alright. Yours?"

"I went to the Water Country for diplomatic reasons," he stresses the word diplomatic. He must have been doing something dangerous there and doesn't want me to be worried for him.

"I wish I could do that." or literally anything.

"It's not as exciting as it may seem. Besides, you have to be in the castle, safe. You could lose your life out there." I know Itachi is only worried for me and my wellbeing but when he starts talking like that I feel like it's my father. I'm not as weak as everyone thinks I am.

"Oh, I brought you a gift." Itachi held out a scroll, he often gave me gifts like this when he got back from foreign places "It's from my trip to Kirigakure, I thought you would like it. I can show you more about it during our outing today."

I smile at this information, I love learning how to fight from Itachi. He has been helping me learn ever since we met. My dad wouldn't allow me to learn. He thinks my place was in the bed, instead of the battlefield. It's why Itachi keeps my training secret.

I took the simple looking scroll that Itachi held out for me. When I leaned over to take it, Itachi leaned in to kiss me on the forehead. I blushed so deeply, I just can't help it.

Itachi escorted me out of the castle walls and far into the woods. I don't get followed by guards as long as he's with me. I started to read what was on the scroll when we got far enough away. I'm a really fast learner, at least when Itachi is my teacher.

He dropped his bag down next to a tree, "Check in there."

I look in the bag, there's a pair of pants that seem to be my size and a basic t-shirt. I almost want to cry at this, "Are you sure?"

"Well you can't train in that." He mentions my dress.

"I guess you're right," I rub the back of my head. I look around, wondering where to change.

"Embarrassed to change infront of me?" He jokes. I am, but I don't want him to know that. "It's okay."

I start reaching for the buttons on the back of my dress. They are so small how does anyone do this?

My hands keep fumbling around trying to pull up the fabric more to get more grip on the buttons. I'm usually dressed in these by someone else. It's more frustrating knowing he's watching me fail a simple task.

Itachi chuckled and covered my hands with his, "I can help."

I drop the fabric from my hands. He's so close to me. He turns me around and unbuttons my dress slowly. He takes his time with each button, more air hits my back with each one. I've never been more aware of someone undressing me before. When he gets to the bottom of the row of buttons my entire back is exposed to him.

Itachi's hand moves up my back to my shoulder. Grabbing both sides he pulls the dress off my body and pools it at my feet. The air feels cold, goosebumps start covering up my body.

My bare back gets pressed against his chest. His head resting in between my neck and shoulder blade. Hands move down my bare body… I'm almost completely naked in these woods.

"What's that?" The breath from his words hit my neck. He tapps the mark on my stomach.

"I don't know." I start to cover it a bit with my hands, "No one will tell me."

"Hm." I can tell he's thinking to himself. "Why don't you finish getting dressed then."

He's watching me so aggressively while I put on the clothes. These clothes are a lot easier to get into, they are just simple black Uchiha work out pants and a navy blue top with a wide collar. Why can't all clothes be made like this. Instead of those monstrosities I was supposed to wear day in and day out.

I took what little information I got from the scrolls on my way here and got into a fighting position. "You ready?"

"You sure you want to start without warming up first? Or even finishing the scroll." He jokes around.

"What are you scared to lose to me?" I joke back, I know I won't win, I'm still just learning. It's just fun to trash talk him a bit.

He smirks. It's so fucking sexy. He gets into a defensive position.

I lunge forward trying to make a few strikes on him, but nothing lands. He just keeps backing away dodging each one. Fuck, he's so cocky. I take out one of the kunai attached to my leg holster to give my strikes more reach.

He takes out one as well, pairing each attempted slice with it. On the last one he manages to cut my arm.

Blood leaks from the wound on my arm that he made with the kunai. My Chakra starts pouring out of my wound healing me almost instantly and creating a protective barrier around my fist. I didn't learn this. Why does this feel so second nature to me?

He looks shocked at this, I take this as an opening and instantly strike his face. In that moment he instinctively kicks out and launches me towards the nearest tree.

My instinct takes over, it almost feels like there's another person controlling my body for a second. I curve my body back a second before hitting the tree, spreading the chakra to both hands. I use it to break the impact of the hit to the tree and bounce off. The tree splits in half in the exact place of impact where I bounced off.

Itachi looks at me almost scared. What did I do?

I look down at my hands covered in red chakra. They don't look like mine. They don't look so far away. I start shaking, there's a large pain in my head and stomach. I feel sick. I need to throw up.

"I'm sorry." I say while I clutch my head and stomach. The chakra dissipates into the air wildly. Everything feels weird.

"Naru-chan!" my partner shouts and instantly is over to me. "It's okay, you're okay."

I faded away for a while.

When I get back to consciousness I don't know how much time has passed, but it's still daylight. I'm resting against a tree in the clearing. I'm back in my old clothes. I look over to Itachi and he seems very deep in thought.

"I'm sorry," I whisper out. I don't know if I want him to hear me.

He looked at me and smiled, "I am okay. I was more worried about you."

"I'm fine!" I try to reassure him.

"That is a very complex movie, not in anything I have ever given you. How did you learn it?" His voice sounds so scared. My head starts to hurt again.

"I.. I… don't know." I think he can tell that question made me foggy again.

"It is okay. I think we are done for the day. I have to take you back soon." He says. I'm so disappointed I missed a whole day training with him.

"Yeah, I guess…. Are you okay." I make sure I really didn't hurt him.

"I am perfectly fine, Naruto-kun." His face is close to mine now.

I take a moment before slowly leaning into it. He starts to lean in closing his eyes. I closed my eyes just as our lips connected. He started to kiss me, so I did my best to kiss back. He pushed into me slightly, opening his mouth so I did the same. He then pushed his tongue into my mouth.

I pull away for a second to breathe. Itachi is still hovering over top of me. His body was fully straddling mine. He looks down at me, again connecting our lips. He puts his hands around the back of my head pulling me closer into the kiss.

His hands start to wander around my body some more.

"Zabuza-san are we lost again?" a voice asked out in the distance and stopped everything we were doing.

"No, I am sure we are going the right way now, Haku-kun." The stronger of the two voices answered back.

The two of them entered the clearing that Itachi and I were just having our intimate situation in. The person who is most likely Zabuza looked fierce, his muscles rippling, a strong musk smell of sweat and salt water. His companion was completely the opposite, very docile looking. Soft honey brown eyes, long flowing black hair, and a very petite body frame.

The boy who just asked the question smiled at me.

"Excuse me, but could you tell us the way to The Fire Country's Castle?" He says in such a soft voice. He's so pretty.

"Yes it is just about a mile the way you are going." Itachi didn't even ask who these people where they could be people sent to attack the castle. I hope he wasn't careless.

"I told you we were going the right way." Zabuza grimaced at his partners asking for help.

"Thank you very much!" Haku directs at us.

The two left the clearing, Itachi is still on top of me, I ask "Do you think they are far enough away now?"

He deeply chuckled with a smirk, "For what?"

His hand slipping up my skirt. Not wanting to be out done I wrap my legs around his waist pulling him closer.

"Oh, I don't know…" I try to say koily, pressing my body against his.

"You don't? Such a pity. I was so curious about what we could be doing right now." His hand that was still on the back of my head pushed me towards him. We continued like that for what felt like hours, but I knew it wasn't. We had to get back to my home shortly.

I sigh. I don't want to ever leave here. We have to, we can't just run away and hide forever.

"I think after today we should slow down your training." He says to me, after a kiss.

"Oh?" no… I don't want to stop training with him.

"I am just worried about you." he says… does he see me like everyone else does? "Your chakra control is too unstable, and I worry about-"

"It's time to go, I don't want to be late." I cut him off. I don't want to hear any more of this right now.

"Yeah." He understands what I'm doing.

Once at the castle, Itachi maintains the right amount of distance from me. He did not want rumors to start about us doing things we shouldn't do just yet. Itachi and I walked through the main room of the building. That's where we saw the two we met earlier today talking to my parents.

"It's nice to see you two are finally home. Naruto." My father said.

A Few Weeks Later

I'm in my room alone. It's a few days before I start my next heat cycle. I'm having such a hard time controlling my chakra. I think that's why.

I keep reading the last scroll I got from Itachi, trying to learn as much as I can. These are supposed to be supplements for knowledge. It's so hard to learn without having that base knowledge.

"I have something I need to talk to you about." My dad said as he entered my room.

I quickly try to hide what I was just reading. If my dad found out I was reading a fighting scroll he would have to tell father.

"What is it?"

"Well, you're about to get your heat soon right?"

"Yeah, I know." I lean over hoping the books and scrolls can't be seen. This wasn't my first one, I know how they usually are. It's not a big deal.

"I have a few questions for you. Does Itachi treat you well?" my dad asks, he is usually the one concerned with my well being.

"Yeah, of course he does."

"That's good. Are you in love with him?"

"I don't know yet. We kinda just met and I know he's going to be my husband one day so it makes the whole thing awkward. My goal is to fall in love with him. It's just hard to know if I'm actually feeling it or just projecting you know?" My dad smiled so warmly when he heard me say that.

"I understand. It's a hard situation to be in." My dad looked down for a second then he looked back up at me, with a fake smile plastered on his face. "Now you have to remember you can't go too far this time. You have to be very careful about that. There's a chance you get pregnant before you're officially together. That would not look good for any one."

"Pregnancy itself is a mixed blessing, you'll realize why later on in life. When you have your own. At least you're with someone who cares for you." My dad looked down with the same sad expression on his face when he said.

He has unshed tears trapped in his darker blue eyes. He took a deep breath and smiled. He looked me straight in the eyes, stud up and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

"Naru-chan I need to go now. Just make sure that Itachi doesn't take it too far." he quickly left the room.

He acts odd sometimes, I know he cares. It's just weird. I try to get back to learning chakra control from these scrolls.