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Chapter 2 – Suspicions

The next morning Sakura woke up feeling extremely exhausted, it felt as if someone had drained nearly all of her chakra to the point she felt nauseous. Her body felt stiff and sore in some places and when she looked around, she understood that it was most likely due to the reason that the pink haired woman found herself lying on the cold, hard floor of her apartment.

Sakura sighed as she stood up, somewhere deep in her mind the girl still thought that whatever that has happened last the night was a just fruit of her own delusional fantasies or just a plain surrealistic nightmare. Yes, a very obvious nightmare that had her waking up in the middle of her room, on the goddamn floor feeling like a total piece of shit.

She literally felt cursed, she knew it wasn't a genjutsu as she couldn't dispel it in her dream, and she for sure knew it wasn't a dream as the pain she felt was way too realistic, it burned through her like a wildfire in the forest, leaving just black ashes behind. She shook her head standing up. She had to think logically and find an explanation to what happened, it would be dumb to expect there wasn't a deeper meaning behind all of this, truth or not she will have to find all of that out by herself.

Sakura took a deep sigh, she thought about everything that was currently boiling in her head like a volcano, ready to erupt at any second. She took a seat on her bed, her long pale fingers reaching up to caress the middle of her forehead, she couldn't feel anything, but she knew the rhombus figure was engraved there, presumably forever or until she finds a way to get rid of it. And as much as her cynic self preferred to believe that everything that happened last night was just some nonsense, she knew that wasn't the case. The diamond shaped seal on her forehead seemed to prove everything otherwise, it was there to prove her that everything she'd seen was indeed truth.

The long haired female frowned, nothing was going her way recently, it seemed like frustration might quickly become a part of her life, rather than an emotion that fades away eventually. She didn't know anything about the thing that was sitting on the top of her forehead, the unknown force, a voice from her dreams said that she had to experience some type of the emotions that could either be desire, love or lust. Nothing made sense and she found herself getting worked up again, greeting her dainty teeth while gazing intensely at her own palms.

Nothing made sense, but the diamond shaped figure was one thing that gave her a clue, at least that's what she thought. She quickly came up with the conclusion, that the seal on her forehead might be connected to the power she was supposed to unlock. To do that she had to meet certain amount of conditions, presumably the ones that were mentioned previously by the mysterious voices. It also probably meant that her kekkei genkai was meant to be triggered by certain emotions, which made her feel uncomfortable.

Emotions that could trigger a kekkei genkai… That seemed like a really familiar concept, one she had heard previously. She knew that the only clan in the whole leaf village that had knowledge of this concept were the Uchiha clan. She almost cursed inwardly at her bad luck. From her experience and having Uchiha Sasuke as her teammate she was aware of his glorious Sharingan abilities, the secret trait that was passed from generation to generation in the Uchiha clan to keep it pure.

Sakura could only recall hearing Sasuke telling someone, which was presumably Kakashi or Naruto that his own clan dōjutsu could be unlocked due to intensified feelings. It was a start, a thread that she could pull in hopes of getting more information that could help her.

Without a second thought the exhausted pink haired medic grabbed a pair of clothes that were messily hanging on her chair and changed from her nightwear completely.

As she had a whole day ahead with the intent of investigation on Uchiha, Sakura decided that putting her pale locks into a low ponytail would be more than acceptable, given her daily routine. Taking a few clips that were laying on her dusty desk she clipped away the stray pieces of her hair from her face and walked to the direction of her bathroom in order to brush her teeth.

After a few minutes she found herself out in the busy streets of Konoha. She had to think of a plan, of one that could help her gain some insight about the Uchiha clan's dojutsu.

Everything was just rushing into her head like a fresh stream of river, but she had to think of a reasonable approach first. She knew Uchihas weren't the friendliest people in the world, especially given her past experiences with Sasuke. The goddamn Uchiha brat was probably the worst out of them all!

She knew that asking about their dōjutsu could cause some serious suspicions. It's not every day that you would just decide to go and randomly ask a person about its clans most treasured possesion. Sharingan was the most important trait of the Uchiha alongside with their fire jutsus, it was something that was really precious to their clan and they weren't about to go and let outsiders know all of the secrets of their ancient ability.

She needed to somehow gain more information, but she didn't know many other Uchihas apart from Sasuke and his older brother, which the latter she barely even knew in person, but he seemed like a better option out of two. She took a deep sigh again. Everything in her life just became big mess overnight and she couldn't think of a plan giving her a good enough reason to approach either of the Uchihas without appearing overly suspicious. Moreover, none of them were overly too friendly and that wasn't helping her situation at all, those men won't say more than what needs to be said.

Sakura also realised that Sasuke, most likely would be the last person that would willingly tell her more in depth about the Sharingan. She might be doomed at this point.

This situation was really testing her patience and to be honest it seemed that her best option was to go with Itachi rather than Sasuke, from what she knew he was a really indulgent person and in most cases if she would find a good enough reason to get away with her questions he wouldn't question her as much as Sasuke.

That deemed to be the best idea Sakura could come up with so she decided to act upon it. Taking a good look at the street she was in she walked to the nearest corner she could find. She took a deep breath and made a few seals with her hands. She closed her eyes and focused, she had to find Itachi and she hoped that he was somewhere within the borders of the village and not out for a mission, she knew he was a member of Anbu, and Anbu were rarely around.

She thanked the god she worked as a medic, her perfect chakra control allowing her to sense even the slightest of chakra presences, and she was glad that she did several medical examinations on Itachi during the last few years, she could recognise his chakra.

After finding his chakra in one of the training grounds near the forest a small smirk made its way towards her lips. Although, she couldn't help but notice another unfamiliar source of chakra that was around the same level as Itachi's, if not stronger. She pushed the random thoughts aside. That's not the reason she was coming to see Itachi-san. All that mattered was that she was able to find him. She wasn't Hokage's apprentice without a reason! Shannaro!

After quite some time she finally made her way to the Konoha training grounds, it wasn't the biggest training ground she had ever seen but it seemed that for Itachi and his mysterious companion it deemed to be more than enough.

After observing her surroundings for a couple of more minutes she decided that it would be best if she would just take another step and approach the older man herself.

As she was making her way to Itachi she noticed the mysterious presence that she felt earlier when she scanned the area for Itachi-san, the other man was standing near the Uchiha Itachi, presumably talking about something she couldn't hear.

Sakura took a good look at the unfamiliar man, he had dark, unruly curly hair. She took a glance into his eyes and immediately those eyes stood up above everything else, being a sweltering combination of bonfire and darkness, stealing the coruscation of a rough black sapphire gemstone, so indescribable beautiful but so incredibly unimpassioned. She gulped nervously as she noticed him wearing the same type of shirt that Itachi was wearing as well, black in colour with a high collared neck and she could swear she saw a glimpse of the Uchiha crest on his back as well. Was he one of the Itachi's and Sasuke's relatives?

Too many thoughts rushed through her head at once regarding the mysterious man and all she could do was just try and show them away, out of her head. She gulped and took a look at Itachi who seemed to be moving towards her instead.

"Sakura-san?" He looked at her, confusion clearly written all over his stoic features as she gulped again, she didn't even know how to start a conversation with him goddammit! From the look he was giving her she could tell that he was a bit curious as to why she was here.

She couldn't help but feel herself flush a little bit, embarrassment dusting her cheeks lightly as she felt four pairs of the same stone cold onyx eyes pinning her down with the most intense gazes.

"Hello Itachi-san, please excuse me for interrupting with your training schedule!" She said lightly her voice nearly a chirp as she tried lighten up the mood by trying to get herself rid of those intense stares she was getting.

She tilted her head to the side, once again observing the other man that was standing near Itachi-san. Their gazes met for a brief second and she noticed the intense look of his eyes that still pinned her almost uncomfortably. As she moved a bit closer to two men she observed the unknown man's features more up close noticing how handsome he truly was, soft, curly black hair that was short and disheveled due to the training; eyes that seemed to be gleaming with mischief and spontaneity; a smile that could make anyone spill their secrets willingly. He was a full Uchiha, but from what she could tell already he had none of the characteristics that seemed to dominate the famous clan. All she could just think of is that he just seemed…a bit different from the others?

"Ah, don't worry Sakura-san, you haven't interrupted anything, we were nearly finished anyways." She heard Itachi's velvet timbre as his hand effortlessly motioned to the other man near him. "What brings you here?" He couldn't help but ask her this question as never in his life has Haruno Sakura approached him personally aside from the medical examinations she would do once every six months. He figured she didn't have anything to do with a possible Anbu mission as the Hokage would would never send her own apprentice out of the way to look for Anbu and get them to come over to her office for a mission briefing, her apprentice was known to be quite a busy person just like Hokage herself. At this point he was quite curious.

"Oh right, I have something I want to talk to you about." She said while nervously scratching the back of her head, her habit was probably even more embarrassing than the words coming out of her mouth. A habit she stole from Naruto unknowingly. She couldn't help but flush a bit more as she registered the continuous intense stares she was receiving from the two horribly handsome males. It seemed that her confidence made its way out throughout the window. Fuck those perfect Uchiha genes!

"Itachi-chan I've never seen you talking to a girl in such familiar way" The other guy said while smirking, making the best out of the situation by teasing the longer haired Uchiha.

"Shisui, Sakura-san is Sasuke's teammate." He said while glaring back at the curly haired man.

"Woah alright, relax Tachi-chan." He said with his hands up in the air trying to avoid the anger of his younger cousin, still a mischief grin was plastered all over Shisui's face.

Shisui couldn't help but take a sneaky look at the pink haired woman that was talking to Itachi. She was quite an exotic catch, he thought to himself. Long pink hair was resting in a low ponytail on her back and it somewhat reminded him of a bubble gum, he instantly felt sweet in his mouth and the contrast of her fair skin didn't help his thoughts at all.

With expertise eye movements he turned his attention to her big jade green eyes that reminded him of those of a cat, big and green, with an elegant line of black over them. Her lips were full and pouty, with a shimmer of rosy pink colour, that was the same colour as her cheeks that were a bit flush and he decided that it was probably due to all of running she had to make in order to reach the training grounds. Moreover, he couldn't help but appreciate a nice round rear that she had as well, and even more he decided that he wouldn't mind taking a chance of squeezing it in his palm. Sasuke was a goddamn lucky bastard and Itachi could be included in as well... Although, Shisui came up with the conclusion that the girl had probably wanted to confess to his cousin and to be honest he couldn't be happier, his cousin really needed to let some of the steam off, a girl like her would do just fine.

After a couple of moments Itachi seemed to react to whatever the pink haired beauty said.

"That's not a problem at all Sakura-san, would you like to talk in private?" Itachi said while giving Shisui a glare, Shisui knew that Itachi wanted him to get the fuck out, but there was no way he would just get out that easily. Instead he will wait and see what his cousin and Sasuke's little teammate will be up to. There is no way he will miss a rare sight of his cousin with a girl, and a pretty one nonetheless, he was almost jealous!

"Alright, I'll see you later then Tachi-chan." He said while patting Itachi's shoulder a couple of times. "It was nice to meet you as well, Sakura-san." He sending the younger woman a smirk, his eyes travelled all over her body one last time and with that he knew that it was time to let his cousin do the job. He noticed her blushing and he couldn't help but smirk again, that woman did really have a pretty face. Sadly she was probably head over heels for Itachi, standing here and blushing like a school girl there were no other reasons for her to make such reactions. For a brief moment Shisui felt as if the thought of the two of them being together didn't really sit well with him. He tried to brush those thoughts aside and took his leave rather quickly taking no time in making its way towards a good hiding spot.

Both Sakura's and Itachi's gazes seemed to accompany Shisui's disapearing form until it was completely out of their sight and they turned back to each other.

"What did you want to talk about Sakura-san?" Itachi went straight to the matter, his curiosity nearly seeking through.

"I don't want to look suspicious or anything, but you are really the only person that I could ask about this. And Sasuke-kun is an ass, I don't have to deal with him." Her voice came out soft as she pouted on during her last sentence, the image looked almost humorous in Itachi's head.

Itachi frowned a bit, clearly having no clue what she is talking about, as much as the conversation about his brother seemed funny there was clearly something that was more imporant.

"I have some questions about the Sharingan" She said while giving him a look in the eyes. He noticed that her eyes were pleading and he couldn't help but give her a soft look as well, she almost looked like a small kitten.

"Carry on." He said without thinking twice, his voice more serious now.

"Well I have heard that Sharingan can be awakened due to the feeling of intensified emotions. Is that true?" Sakura decided to start with easier question first, although she wasn't really sure what else she could ask, all she really needed was this piece of information.

Itachi looked at Sakura and thought for a bit, his face stoic, but his mind felt a bit puzzled.

"Yes that's true." He said without having anything to add.

Sakura gulped, another question left her mouth. "What kind of emotions or feelings usually help your clan members to unlock their Sharingan?" She asked nervously. Shit, she probably looked suspicious already.

Itachi blinked twice, he wasn't sure why Sakura was asking these kind of questions but for some reason he decided to answer this one as well, surely the pink haired medic meant no harm, after all she looked after his brother for so many years and always took good care of him as well.

"Most of the time it is caused by a deep feeling of sorrow such as feeling of loss, in rare cases anger can also advance the Sharingan further." He licked his lips, wetting his mouth. "Any particular reason you need this information? Or is there something bothering you Sakura-san?" Itachi raised a brow looking at the pink haired medic, something didn't sit well with him, but he didn't know what it was, a feeling of precaution perhaps.

"Oh, about that, it's just that Tsunade shisou is doing a report that involves bits and pieces of information about Sharingan, something related to the blindness caused by it and since I'm working a lot more at the hospital and laboratory now, she has asked me to clear some things out, just to be sure that the current information we have is correct before we proceed with any further research on the illness." Sakura had no idea as to why she lied and that was probably the worst excuse she could come up with, she hoped it was believable, after all she went into detail as well.

She felt like Itachi would be able to spot her nervousness, even though she tried to keep in under a calm facade, more than so she literally had no idea what else she could ask without revealing her own problem. She really hoped that the older Uchiha would take her excuse as a bait and proceed further without any more questions.

"Anyways, thank you Itachi-san, you really helped m-us a lot!" She said while giving him a nervous grin. "I gotta get back before Tsunade shisou will start to question me! I'm supposed to be at the hospital, working in a lab! See you around Itachi-san." She said smiled softly, her hand waving goodbye as she tried her best to escape from the whole situation.

Itachi couldn't even react clearly before Sakura was out of his sight. He felt a bit suspicious given how nervous she acted even if she tried to remain calm and hide it, but he drop the topic off completely, he hasn't said anything that could affect the clan so he would leave the whole thing as it is for now.

To Itachi it seemed that the pink haired woman was really bothered by something, was there something else she didn't tell him? He's rarely ever saw Sakura-san so nervous so this only raised his suspicions higher. After having a few more thoughts run through his head he decided to forget it, it was none of his business, the information he gave her wasn't any of importance.

He also wasn't surprised to feel Shisui's presence while he was talking with Sakura, the dumb bastard thought he'd be sneaky. Itachi could only sigh at his older cousin's antics.

"Shisui you can come out now." He said annoyed, it seemed that there were no borders for Shisui's curiosity.

Shisui's POV

After taking a few more steps Shisui decided that a nearby bush should do, it was a good spot to peek on his cousin and Sakura-san from quite a close distance. He masked his chakra and smirked, his stupid cousin will be too focused to even notice that someone is watching him! He is about to get embarrassed! Shisui honestly couldn't wait for that moment.

Although Shisui was in a quite close distance he couldn't really hear what they were talking about. He was still too far away. "Tch, annoying." He rolled his eyes and turned on his sharingan. He decided that it would be best to try and read their lips then.

But as soon as Shisui tried to read their lips he was distracted by the way Sakura's pouty lips were moving, he even forgot what he had to do. Those lips were way too distracting and he could only wonder what else he could make them do. He felt blood rush through his veins to his groin instantly. "Shit." He cursed under his breath while watching those two.

His eyes moved from her lips down her body, he couldn't help but notice the way her hips swayed when she moved nervously and he somewhat found himself craving more. She was already imprinted in his sharingan and he wasn't sure how to feel about that. Although seeing his cousin with the pink haired girl didn't leave him satisfied unlike anything else he was far away from being satisfied. A second later he was confused. Just what the heck is going on?

He tried to focus, he tried to push all the thoughts aside and when he finally managed to do that all he understood from their lips was something about sharingan. Shisui instantly frowned. The girl didn't like his cousin? He was sure this was a love confession, how come he was wrong? He took a deep sigh.

The next thought that rushed through his head set an alarm instantly. Just why did she need information about a sharingan? He will have to personally look into this. If Itachi didn't think that was suspicious… well let's just say that Shisui thought otherwise.

Lost in thoughts he didn't even notice how she disappeared from his sight completely. All he heard next was Itachi's voice.

"Shisui you can come out now you know." Itachi said clearly trying to tease the older Uchiha.

"Oii, did you managed to receive your love confession?" He said making its way towards Itachi, a big grin was spreading throughout his face. Acting like he hasn't been spying on his cousin at all, truly remarkable.

Itachi glared at him. Just how dumb can Shisui get sometimes?

"Don't be jealous that you aren't getting any, Shisui-chan." Itachi said, a small smile played on his face. "I bet you might become jealous of my popularity soon." He said while winking at Shisui. It seemed that even a calm and collected person such as Itachi could sometimes become a cheeky bastard with some creative remarks.

"I could snatch that girl of yours right away if I wanted to." He said trying to tease his cousin as well.

Itachi couldn't help but sigh at his cousin. Did he ever get serious, besides the times they were out on the missions? "I bet no one wants an old man like you." Itachi teased further, Shisui asked for it.

Shisui gaped at his cousin in fake surprise. But to think Itachi was calling him old? He was only two years older than him!

"Right, I'll see you later then." Itachi said after a few moments giving Shisui a small wave before disappearing from the training grounds completely in a flock of crows.

After giving himself a couple of minutes Shisui was finally able to re-collect himself. He decided that he would follow the pink haired woman and find out why she was so interested in his family's dōjutsu. If the pinkette wasn't after Itachi there had to be another reason and he will definitely do his best to find out just what kind of intentions she has towards his clan.

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