I spent 3 days working on this chapter… I lost the count of how many changes I made in it… anyway… hope you like and please review…
I do not own Naruto… I wish I did…
3 months had passed and the tasks assigned to him until now were cleaning gardens and doing the groceries for some old person.
He was currently walking through the bridge where Team 7 used to meat going home after cleaning he didn't knew whose garden when he saw a flash of pink run in his direction.
"Damn it I'm gonna kill that freak." the pink haired kunoichi swore loudly running some more, she stopped panting in the middle of the bridge right in front of him.
"Since when does she swears??" he thought raising a brow at her, she had her hands in her knees and was panting hard.
"Damn that freak." she muttered after catching her breath and looked up to jump back with a small yelp of surprise.
"Hm… hi Sasuke." she said somehow not at ease.
"Hn." she sweat dropped at his way to talk and rolled her eyes.
"Hm… gotta go." she said but before she started to walk a twirl of ink appeared next to her to reveal Sai.
Chapter 3 – Kaa-chan
"What's taking you so long Ugly?" he asked nonchalantly, she turned to him with a death glare and pointed an accusatory finger at him.
"YOU." she yelled
"What me?" Sai asked with a raised brow.
"I'm gonna kill you." she yelled, he shrugged and started to walk away shoving his hands in his pockets.
"First, you'll have to catch me Hag!" he said calmly and jumped to a tree branch looking at her over his shoulder.
She was red in anger and had a glare that could kill directed at the artist nin, he smirked.
Sasuke was just watching and, once again, being ignored.
"Get your sorry ass back here Sai." she yelled and ran after him, he just started to run away in the trees.
"Told ya Hag, first you'll have to catch me." he yelled over his shoulder.
"You are so DEAD you…" she yelled back, he couldn't hear more of what she said because they were too far away inside the forest.
"Damn her, why does it hurts so much." his inner self whimpered holding where his heart is inside "why does she ignore us and gives all the attention to that idiot? Why can't she act like she used to before?" his inner said as he felt a flinching pain in his heart, something breathtakingly painful.
He walked home with his usual death glare to anyone who dared look at him, but inside, his inner was sitting down against a wall hugging his knees close to his chest whimpering from the pain in his heart, but of course, he ignored.
"Why aren't you saying anything you idiot?" his inner asked in utter anger for him not saying a word the whole way home
"What do you want me to say?" he countered, annoyed.
"What do you mean 'what do you want me to say?'? we have to do something about this, we're Uchiha Sasuke for Kami's sake, we can't lose to a idiot like him." His inner scolded. Sasuke pondered about what his inner said.
"You're right, I'm not gonna lose to that idiot." his inner cheered and together they started to form plans to get their precious blossom back.
He woke up in the morning with the usual beeping sound from the PDA announcing his tasks for the day, he got up and took a shower, tying a towel around his waist he walked back to his room and dressed a pair of black boxers. He put the towel over the bed and grabbed the small gadget to see what he had to do today, by now he was used to do things for the old people of Konoha.
He opened the file with the schedule and read it.
10 a.m.- go to the Hokage's office.
2 p.m. to 6 p.m. - go shopping with Akitake Ami.
"Today's schedule is way too brief, something's up." He said to himself as he dressed a pair of black faded jeans and a black jumper with some tribals over the shoulder and upper chest in the right side in blood red, some black sneakers, a black bracelet with spikes in the right wrist and black fingerless gloves.
He had decided to change his style, since he was putting his plan in action, might as well get some cool clothes, since he didn't had to… he wasn't allowed to be a shinobi, might as well dress normal, like a normal 17 year old would dress.
Almost all his house was liveable… all, except the living room, where the blood stains and body drawings of his parents still were. He didn't mind living in his house, but he couldn't get inside the living room, he couldn't stand being in the living room, he couldn't stand reliving the massacre.
He shoved the PDA in his pocket and left the house, locking the door behind him.
He walked through the busy streets of Konoha to the Hokage tower, he was let in and walked up to the Hokage's office.
He knocked twice and waited, he wasn't about to piss the Hokage off, secretly he thought she was kinda scary when she was pissed. Of course, it was fun pissing the woman sannin off.
"Come in." the Hokage called in a bored tone, he entered and waited in front of her desk for her to speak. She glanced up from her papers.
"You're early." She stated looking back at the paper in his hands, he stayed quiet.
They stayed in silence for a long moment until the door opened, he stayed in the same position, the Hokage looked up and put the papers down.
"Glad you could make it Sakura!" she said, so said walked to her desk and stopped next to him.
"What do you want me to do Tsunade-shisou? I was cleaning up." she said in a bored tone.
"Oh… well, I called you so you can check the seal in his neck." Tsunade leaned her head in Sasuke's direction "And the chakra bind, only you know how to check if the bind's still working." Sakura nodded and turned to Sasuke.
"Come with me." She said quietly and started to walk out of the office, he followed quietly.
They walked through the Hokage tower and entered a small room that looked like an examination room in a hospital.
"Sit down so I can see it better." She said taking off her fingerless gloves and put some silicon white gloves. He sat down in a stool and just watched her. She walked and stopped standing behind him.
"Where did the ANBU watching you put the chakra bind??" she asked seriously.
"Left upper arm." He stated, she made a few hand seals and rested her palm over his left upper arm, the chakra binding tag the ANBU had put on him came out and she took it and put it away.
"Can I see your seal??" she asked in a steady voice, he glanced at her over his shoulder and then at where his seal was, he nodded and took of his jumper exposing his upper body to her.
She gulped soundlessly seeing his well defined body, everything in the right place. She made a series of complicated hand seals, he couldn't even follow the speed she was making the seals, and then she rested her palms over his bare neck over his seal.
She felt his muscles tense when she put her palms over his seal, but then he relaxed feeling her cool chakra go under his skin, he was secretly enjoying the feeling.
After a few minutes he felt a painful warm feeling on his seal and Sakura stumbled back falling to the floor panting, he turned to look at her holding his neck trying to push the pain away.
She got up still panting, with an unreadable look on her face.
"What hap-"
"Your seal rejected my chakra." She said calmly bringing her hands up in front of her face and examining them.
"Damn it." she muttered under her breath and looked at him.
"It's not a big deal, I've done this before, but your seal's really complex, unlike the others I've worked with." She said quietly taking the gloves off. His eyes widened unnoticeably when he saw her hands, she had some burn marks on her palms. She saw him looking at her hands and inside she smiled.
"He cares." inner Sakura said with a surprised and happy calm voice. She made a couple of simple hand seals and healed her hands.
They stayed silent for a while. She broke the silence.
"Does it hurt? Your seal, I mean." she asked while getting something from a drawer, her back facing him.
"No." he lied in a steady tone. She walked to him and took his hand away from his neck, he turned his face away as she traced the seal with her fingertips.
She released warm soothing chakra to his seal taking the warm pain away and leaving pleasant warmth over the seal.
"Better now?" she asked softly retreating her hand from his neck, but unlike when she was analysing the seal and when she stopped the cool feeling of her chakra went away, this time the pleasant warmth stayed.
Flashback
It was a sunny summer day and Uchiha Mikoto decided to go take a walk with her 10 and 5 years old sons, Itachi and Sasuke.
They were walking next to the lake, Mikoto holding Itachi's right hand and Sasuke's left hand. She walked to a tree and sat underneath letting her sons hand go. She told them they could go play and they did, Itachi walked to the edge of the lake looking at the horizon with mild interest, observing the forest with cautious eyes.
Sasuke followed quietly behind him and stood next to him silent.
After that Itachi sat down under a tree and Sasuke was walking looking at the fishes in the lake, until he tripped and fell on the floor and hit his arm on a pointy rock making blood come out from the wound the rock made.
Itachi looked up at his otouto and got up walking to him. Sasuke had sat up and was looking at his wound sniffing and blinking tears away.
Itachi smiled. "He got hurt but he never cries…" Itachi thought kneeling next to his brother.
"Let's go to kaa-san so she can take care of your wound." Itahi said calmly, Sasuke looked at him with big watery eyes and got up, Itachi did the same and held his otouto's hand while they walked to their kaa-san.
Once they were there Itachi explained what happened, Mikoto nodded and took a small pot out of her pocket, she opened it and spread some ointment in sasuke's arm.
He felt a warm soothing feeling when his mother put the ointment and the pain disappeared.
"Arigatou kaa-chan!!" he said hugging his mother, when he released her he turned to his brother.
"Anou… onii-chan… will you play with me??" he asked timidly. Itachi nodded.
End of Flashback
"Better now?" she asked softly retreating her hand from his neck, but unlike when she was analysing the seal and when she stopped the cool feeling of her chakra went away, this time the pleasant warmth stayed.
He gave a curt nod and she gave a small smile.
"I'm gonna put the chakra binding again 'kay??" she said putting the tag in his arm. He nodded.
"She'll be a good mother some day." He thought to himself as she made some hand seals and the chakra binding tag entered his arm.
"She'll be a good mother for our kids." his inner said dreamily. Sasuke agreed.
They went separate ways after the binding was ready and he walked to Ichiraku so he could eat something.
"I have to do something, I can't loose her too, I just can't…"
"Ohhh, is Mr. Ice Cube feeling something towards the sweet Cherry Blossom??" his inner sneered, he just glared.
"…no… but that's not the point, and instead of pissing me off why don't you think of something useful so we can get our Blossom back you moron." His inner grinned sheepishly.
"But I already have a plan, but before you say anything, why where you saying you can't loose too? Who where you thinking about?" Sasuke sighed at his inner.
"Kami, you're even denser than the dead-last sometimes, you're me you idiot, anyway, she reminds me of kaa-chan." he concluded as he sat on a stool at Ichiraku ordering his food.
There, did you liked it?? I hope you did!!
I know, you probably thought Itachi was kinda OOC, but hey, my fic, and i wanted to make a good flashback! (I also like Itachi so...)
Anyway, review onegai!!
Luv ya all, Kaori-chan!!