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Chapter 5 – Itachi's Chapter (Part 2)

When Sasuke and Sakura walked through the door they were both drenched from the sudden rain that they walked home in. Mother immediately went to cover them with towels and bid them to quickly change out of their wet clothes into dry ones. I took a seat at the dinner table where the food was waiting.

"Itachi-nii-san, you won't believe what happened to me today," Sakura whispered when she took her sat beside me.

"What happened?"

"A boy asked me to be his girlfriend."

For some reason I did not like this. "Who asked you?"

"Who asked Sakura what?" Of course Mikoto entered into the room. Sakura blushed.

"A boy asked me to be his girlfriend today," Sakura repeated. I could see the slight moment of horror in my mother's face when Sakura said that.

"Really? Who asked you?" She tried to play it cool.

"A boy in my martial arts class. His name is Rock Lee," she revealed.

"What did you tell him?" Mikoto asked trying hard to mask her fear.

"No, of course," Sakura laughed as if there was any other type of answer to give him.

"Well, good," Mikoto beamed the called for Sasuke to hurry up and come down for dinner.

"Is Oji-san working late tonight?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, so we're eating without him," Mikoto answered, "Sasuke!"

"I'm coming," He came down the stairs slowly and took his seat across from me. After serving and blessing the food the questions flew about how everyone's day was. Sasuke won his baseball game, I did surgery, mother cleaned and Sakura has martial arts practice.

"What are your plans for tomorrow?" Mother asked Sasuke.

"Probably hang out with Naruto," He shrugged.

"What about you Sakura?"

"I don't know. All my friends are busy," She sighed.

"I'm free tomorrow and it's supposed to be nice after tonight's storm. Want to go to the beach?" I offered a solution to her lonely Saturday.

"That'd be fun!" She smiled at me.

"I want to go too!" Mikoto invited herself, "It can be a family outing. Fugaku can get work off and you can just bring Naruto along, Sasuke."

Sasuke groaned and kept eating. I wanted to groan as well since now everyone was going to the beach.

"This will be so much f-ah!" Sakura yelped when thunder crashed in her sentence. He grabbed my arm.

"Still scared of thunder?" Sasuke snorted. She blushed in her embarrassment. Moments like that make me want to smack Sasuke sometimes.

"I'm finished," Sasuke finished his food quickly as usual and took his plate to the kitchen before returning to his room.

"He's just like his father," Mikoto sighed and kept eating.

When dinner was finished, Sakura and I went to the living room to watch TV while Mikoto went to pick out what she was going to wear to the beach. Each time the thunder crashed Sakura would scoot closer and closer to me till finally I just wrapped her up in my arms.

"Why does thunder scare me so much?" She sighed defeated. I only shrugged which made her sigh more.

"I'm such a baby…" She leaned her head against my chest.

"A baby?"

"Yeah. I mean I'm still scared of thunder and I dress like one and I look like one."

"Who says you dress and look like a baby?"

"The girls at school and they're right. I wear whatever Mama picks out and I have a dish board chest."

"You look cute in the clothes you wear and you're still going through puberty. Some people are just late bloomers," I offered some encouragement.

"I feel like I'll never bloom," She only sighed more.

"You will and you'll have guys banging down the door to see you."

"I just want Sasuke-kun," She muttered. I didn't know what to say to her. I couldn't promise that Sasuke would love her one day. With how things were going, he may never love.

"Nii-san, can I borrow your-" Sasuke entered the living room and stopped when he saw us.

"Borrow my?"

"Borrow your copy of Treasure Island. I need it for class," Sasuke finished his request.

"Sure. Go ahead and get it. I'm just going to finish this movie."

"Okay," He left us. What Sakura and I didn't know was that the movie went on a bit longer than we planned and she fell asleep on me. I knew with all the thunder she would probably wake up and come into my room so I skipped her having to sneak in and put her in my room. I crawled into bed with her. She immediately clung to me in her sleep. With her there in my arm I could not help thinking how Sasuke was an idiot for liking Sakura. She was kind, smart and loved him. She was pretty and would only get prettier with age. Why did he have to reject her and make her feel so insecure? If I were him I would go ahead and cement our relationship so when we were older we would definitely be together. I mean even with her being all awkward now a guy has already asked her to be his girlfriend. Sasuke was going to lose her to someone and regret it for forever. He would definitely regret it.

When the morning came I stilled had Sakura imprisoned my arms. She was still sleeping and I had to wake her up.

"Sakura, wake up," I nudged her. She only groaned.

"Sakura," I nudged her again. She groaned with mouth open only for her bad breath to hit me.

"Sakura!" I pinched her back.

"Ouch!" She pushed out of my arms, "Oh, good morning, Itachi-nii-san."

"We got to get ready for the beach," I reminded her. She nodded and left my room. We all packed, ate, picked up Naruto and made it to the beach. What a very exciting day we had there…