(T-T) Black: that wasn't very nice, if you don't wanna read it you don't have to, but just cuz you don't like it you don't have to hurt my feelings with it. This is my first Naruto fanfic, and it hurts when ppl just spit out my ideas because the couple paring doesn't appeal to them. ;; it's not like I'm pointing a gun to your head and telling you to read it. bows but thank you for wasting your time on it. ' I hope you get to reading this if you bother.
Poker Face
Sakura walked through the woods, holding her shoulder slightly. Tears in her eyes as she thought about what had happened, she didn't mean to get in his way, just that after yesterday she thought that maybe Sasuke would like her justa bit more because of what went between them.
She chuckled slightly.
'How could I have been so stupid?' She thought and looked up at the sky, the sun shining off of her heavenly features, the wind moving her hair in slow circles. 'I thought that maybe if I was that type of girl Sasuke would like me.' She thought with a sigh.
As she walked along the path she heard footsteps behind her. "?" She didn't turn but noticed the paces, slow a relaxed, secure. She gave out a small chuckle. 'Couldn't be Sasuke.' She thought and continued to walk, her form slouching slightly. "What do you want?" She asked, not pausing from her easy pace through the woods.
"What do you think I'm after?" Asked a voice that she was unaware of, making her stiffen. "....." Her eyes went wide. The person behind her smiled widely. "You know who I am, although I don't think we've properly met, and have we?" A male voice came through her, her form went stiff.
She felt his touch on her shoulder as she turned, she didn't face him, kept her head low. "I don't know you." She spoke. He reached under her chin and dragged her up, her eyes averted to the side, she refused to face him. "What is this? Being so rude as to not look me in the eyes when being introduced? Is this how a young lady is supposed to act?" Asked the young man.
Sakura turned her eyes to him; she saw the look on his face. A handsome smile, he was beautiful, his skin was slightly darker than hers, but slightly. His eyes held that same dark looming glow that another person close to her held, the hair style.......
"Itachi....Uchiha...." She said without thinking. he then gave her a warm smile. "Ah, so I see you know me." He spoke and released her. "You and my brother are an item, are you not?" He asked, she was shocked to have such a normal conversation with the man who Sasuke was hunting down so ruthlessly. Sasuke hated this man with all of his being, so much that he had shunned her many times, training, trampling over any one, any girls heart just to get stronger. Even if it meant rejecting and hurting others... and she was no different from anyone else, she was no different.
"My reputation follows me then, so you must be Sakura. They say Sasuke and you are close friends." He spoke, the smile never leaving his face. Sakura stood up straight, refusing to look him in the eyes as she turned away, not facing him. "That's a lie.." She spoke out with difficulty.
"Sasuke doesn't like anyone; he has no friends because he takes friendship as a weakness, something that his enemies can use against him..." She spoke and turned to him, looking him in the eyes. "Something you can use against him. " She spoke and reached her hand and gently grazed it over her chest. "I consider myself an acquaintance of his, someone that he talks to. His teammate." She spoke and faced Itachi taking on a fighting stance.
"It would do you well to stay away form him if you want to live." She spoke and kept her eyes at his feet, keeping close watch of them as he quickly moved behind her, making her turn as well, following his movements, he noticed that he couldn't shake off her eyes from his feet, but seeing the woman that his younger brother was being with made him wonder if Sasuke was in any way attracted to her, she was a beautiful woman.
"Tell me, has he ever kissed you?" He asked suddenly.
Her cheeks flamed. "It isn't any of your business what we do nor is it of mine what he does in his free time." She spoke making him stop suddenly. "He hasn't then..." he spoke to her. She didn't say anything and lowered her head a notch, covering her blush from his eyes.
"Tell me.. you love him don't you?" He spoke and reached to her so fast that she was on the floor before she could think. "HEY-" A hand covered her own as he forced her eyes to watch his. She was trapped, like a butterfly in a web that he had woven himself.
"....." She said nothing and looked at him, her eyes wide, boring into his. 'How can you love someone who doesn't even know you're there?' She thought as she noticed his look soften, she couldn't read his expression, but she remembered his power, Kakashi-sensei had warned her before when she use to visit him and help him and Tsunade-sama learn the techniques needed to heal people around the village.
He recognized her look, and then looked to the side. "Sasuke will never love you, he will keep searching for me, and he won't stop until I die by his hand." He spoke and looked to her, his hand caressing her cheek. "I plan to take away everything that he cares about the most." He said looking at her, his eyes seemed almost, adoring.
"You love him, it's as plain as day. Know this..." He spoke and leaned down to her, his body pressing into hers, her eyes rolling back with remorse...
"He will never love you, he can't have any emotions to anyone.... he's mine. All of him, his mind, his thoughts, his every waking memory and daydream, his dreams and nightmares, mind and body. He trains for me, sweats and bleeds to one day have me defeated." He spoke sending chills up her spine.
"You aren't anything to him." he spoke out again, his voice echoing in her ears. "You never have.... You never will." He spoke, and with that he was gone, leaving her sitting there with a shocked look on her face. "........" Tears came again, stronger than before. 'You're right....'
She thought and looked up at the tree he had jumped on in retreat. "Itachi..... You're right." She spoke and looked away from the spot and picked herself up.
After training, she went back to the Inn they were staying in, currently they were on a mission to deliver a very important letter to the mountains, a Hidden Snow village to the south. It had been a good week in their trip, she was tired and slowly, she was starting to think that her soft and reassuring moments with him, were just a waste of time. 'Maybe it is about time that I find someone else?' She thought and made her way in the Inn, walking past the hot spring that the Inn provided, and up the stairs.
She entered the room in a sigh, it was empty. 'You aren't anything to him.' "tch... Damn... him. What does he know..." She muttered and began to undress, she was angry.. too angry. Before she even began to start to undress she let her hands drop to her sides. She had dreamed about one day being able to stay with him like this, be with him in this way, but now that she could be with Sasuke, after that....scenario with his brother, what should she do? Should she go and tell Sasuke? A sigh left her mouth. 'What good will that do? Not only will he neglect the mission, he might run off and leave her alone again.' She though, her eyes closing.
First wind of his brother and he always chases after him, it's never changed.
She walked to the door once more, she was full of anger once more, anger that she needed to vent. She hated this, feeling this way. Maybe... Sasuke wasn't really a person that she could help, no matter how hard she tried to make it out that way... maybe it just wasn't meant to be. Yet another sigh escaped her lips.
"Sakura?" Spoke a voice behind her as she closed the door behind her, she tuned to the person behind her. As she expected it was Sasuke, surprised that he said anything shook it off quickly and recovered, she still remembered the shove earlier, and didn't have the patience to deal with him at the moment. She shook her head and walked off without saying a word.
'Is the still angry with what I did to her?' He thought as he watched her walk off limply, she had refused to look at him, as if the thought or sight of him hurt her, it didn't matter to him whether she was angry or not, it didn't matter to him if she wouldn't come back or not, he didn't care about her, he didn't. He shrugged it off and reached to the doorknob. 'troublesome bit-'
"He came to me." She spoke in a weak voice, one that was barely audible.
".....who came to you?"
She didn't turn around, but had stopped walking. "He asked me if I meant anything to you." She spoke and then looked to him, turning so she could see him with one of her eyes, anger in them.
"....." Shock overwhelmed him, and before she had a chance to continue he took her by the shoulders and shook her. "Where is he!?" She didn't answer till the second shake, the question being amplified by his shouts. "He's gone." She said finally.
He released her as if she was hot ice. Then with an angry turn he walked into the Inn. She said nothing and walked off, she wasn't hungry, wasn't in the mood for anything, she was in shock, emotional shock. Itachi... Sasuke's older brother... she had just met him and now... she had just told him. ' He was right.' She thought seeing him slam the door, not expecting her to follow in after him.
'To be shunned like that...' She thought and reached in her pocket, taking out the letter in her pocket. 'To be ignored by the person you so desperately want to be noticed by.' She thought and walked to the door, turning the knob and finding it locked. "......"
She knocked on the door a few times and then spoke, "I have the letter and I'm going to continue with the mission, goodbye." She said and then took off running, that's what she wanted, it felt right, it felt perfect. To run, to just get away, she needed to run. As she made her way out the window in a leap, distinctly she heard the door open behind her, as if feeling him behind her, she jumped.
Sasuke and Sakura......
She had imagined it like that so many times, so many girly fantasies about him and her, both of them sharing a kiss, a hug, something like lovers would do, something played out in a story.
Tears filled her eyes. 'What a joke.' She thought and landed on one tree branch, then another, then another, and then she was going on, leaving the little town and proceeding on, keeping up the pace. She didn't care if he didn't come with her, she didn't wan tot care anymore, she didn't want to feel this way, not like she did. She wanted her body, her heart to stop thinking about him, because what she felt for him. What she wanted with him.......
Wasn't ever going to happen.
To Be Continued.....