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Chapter 31 – Itachi's Chapter (Part 5)

My plan backfired. It was such a great plan too. I would kiss Sakura while she was sleeping next to Sasuke. He would see it and get angry and thus show he had feelings for Sakura, but, no, he was completely out when I did the kiss and Sakura was the one awake. I didn't know she was awake. I thought she hadn't known and so we could have gone on with our lives but she was awake. Then she confronted me. When she did, I heard someone outside of the room. I thought it was Sasuke so I started to tell Sakura I loved her. I did love Sakura. She was a sister to me. Sometimes my mind did wonder what it would be like to be with Sakura. She was beautiful and kindhearted. I bet she would be like Mikoto and be a cute little housewife who would take care of our little children and greet me with a kiss when I would come home. We were used to sleeping with each other and her lips were very soft…but she and I weren't meant to be together!

I thought telling her that I loved her would cause a reaction to come out of Sasuke. It didn't because it wasn't Sasuke outside the door. I felt terrible for lying to Sakura and for making her feel violated. So I moved out. I kind of hoped that moving out would bring the two closer together. Without me in the picture they would spend more time together. Did that happen? According to Mikoto it did not.

I was beginning to miss Sakura. She was my little sister figure and best friend. When I saw her I apologized and said what I could so we could hang out again. Another plan came to mind. If I still made the romantic overtones to her via staring at her and such, maybe Sasuke would get jealous or she would say something and then he would get jealous. Neither happened. Why was getting Sasuke and Sakura together so hard? They were meant to be together. They were born to be together!

It was December and nothing had changed between them. I was so mad. I had hung mistletoe up everywhere with Mikoto and Mebuki but whenever Sakura ended up under the mistletoe Kizashi would swoop in to kiss Sakura on the cheek or Sasuke wouldn't be around. If Sasuke ended up under it he wouldn't acknowledge it even when Mikoto pointed it out to him.

We were sitting all together in the living room opening presents. It was Sasuke's turn. Again Sakura went all out buying him a baseball signed by his favorite baseball player. He didn't hug her or anything. He just said, "Thank you." He was so aggravating.

Sakura began opening her presents. She got the usual gifts from our parents and I bought her tickets to a play that she had been dying to see. She grabbed Sasuke's gift and opened it excitedly. I would have smacked him if it was Katsuyu again.

Sakura's eyes watered. She lifted up a hairbrush. It was a beautiful silver hairbrush.

"It's beautiful," She sniffled with a smile. She hugged Sasuke who just took it. She held the brush to her chest while our parents went to get ready for dinner and I cleaned up the trash with Sasuke. Sakura just sat holding the brush close. She started crying.

"Why are you crying?" I asked when I went up to her.

"It's so beautiful but I don't have my long hair anymore to use it on," She sobbed a little. It was true that her hair had hardly grown since it had been cut in the spring. It might have grown an inch or maybe two at the most.

"Don't cry over it, Sakura. Hair grows back and you can use on it then," I tried to encourage her. She nodded and went outside to put her gifts away in her house. The onetime Sasuke got a nice present, it had to be one that made Sakura cry from a negative experience. Sasuke. Sasuke. Sasuke.

Christmas went on and when the night was drawing to a close Kizashi, Mebuki, Mikoto and Fugaku had fallen asleep on the big couch while watching Christmas movies. We younger folks left the adults in peace and went out the backyard to watch the fireworks people were shooting off for Christmas. I saw Sakura scoot closer and closer to Sasuke as the fireworks went on but he didn't seem to notice. I excused myself into the house under the pretense of getting a blanket but I actually was watching them from a back window. I wanted to see if Sasuke would make a move or even if Sakura would. I saw her turn to him and say something. He looked down at her and said something back. I wanted to know what they were saying. She said something else then he did then her again. There was a pause then Sakura leaned her head against him. He didn't move which surprised me. She must have said something because Sasuke stepped away from her suddenly. He said something with a slight glare. What were they saying! I cracked open the window to see if I could hear them.

"It's not nonsense. I really do love you, Sasuke-kun." She was confessing!

He glared at her.

"You don't really love me," He snarled.

"But I do!"

"Really? Why? Why do you love me? Give me a reason why you love me that is not based on my looks, intelligence or physical abilities. Give me a single reason."

"I love you because..." She paused

"You only love me because that is what our parents want you to do. You just want to make our parents happy and you find me attractive and intelligent. Those are the only reasons you say you love me."

"You're wrong."

"I'm wrong?" He scoffed.

"I only paused because I was trying to just pick out just one reason I love you. I don't love you just because it is what our parents want. I don't love you just for your brain. I don't just love you for your physical abilities or looks. I love you for your heart," She touched his chest.

He did not remove her hand. Sakura continued.

"I love you for having integrity in every aspect of your life. When you say you will do something you do it. I love you for your temperance in stressful situations and your clear thinking. I love you for your generosity and compassion that you have shown on many occasions when you think no one is watching. I love you for your sensitivity to others such as myself. I love you for your loyalty to your family and friends. I love you for your determination to be the best you can be. I love you for your very odd sense of humor that makes me laugh. I love that you actually think my dad's jokes are funny when they really are not. Even though I can list all these reasons to love you, I don't really think I should have to have a reason to love you. People don't need reasons to love people. People need reasons to hate people. I have many reasons to hate you but I don't. I love you but it is mutual love that makes a relationship. I know you may not love me now but one day you might. My feelings for you won't change. So I'll wait for you, Sasuke-kun. I'll wait. Love is patient after all."

"Sakura," He pulled her hand away and stared at her. She did not look away from him. My heart pounded. What was he going to say? Would he confess his feelings?

"You're annoying," He stated coldly and walked away from her. He went into the house and up to his room where he locked the door. I watched as Sakura sighed and sat on the ground. I couldn't go out to her or she would know I was watching them. She wasn't crying. She was just watching the fireworks. I eventually came out with a blanket. I wrapped us up in the blanket so we could be warm.

"I told Sasuke-kun that I loved him," She informed me, "Like that I really loved him."

"What did he say?" I asked. She trembled.

"You're annoying," She quoted him. I looked to her and saw she had some tears rolling down now but she was still smiling, "I guess I am annoying."

"You're not annoying," I tried to console her.

"I am. I'm always just shoving my affections on him. I really am annoying."

"Sakura-"

"I think I'm going to go to bed now. Merry Christmas, Itachi," She patted my arm and left me. I wanted to punch Sasuke. He totally broke her heart. Why couldn't he have said something different?