Disclaimer: No Naruto. Everything goes to Kishimoto(rola)
A/N: We summarise: Itachi wants Mangekyou eyes. Itachi needs to kill his best friend and and a yet not existing girlfriend to get them. Itachi meets Shuiro, a member of his former Ninja-group. Hum. I wonder what he has in mind lol
Who wants some romance?? Ah, you. Yeeeah, there you go :D
They had gone for a walk through the meadows. Itachi hadn't talked that much, just asked from time to time. She wasn't a great talker either, so they had spent most of time in silence – and it had never been an uncomfortable one, though.
"You're having any further plans for today?" She asked as Konohagakure came in sight again. Blankely he looked at her. "Not a lot of clouds today. I think there will be a really nice sunset. And at night a bright moon - Even starlit, if the wind keeps on blowing like this. Maybe there are shooting stars!"
His mien didn't give a hint, what he thought about it. Impassive he glared at her for seconds, looked away then and nooded eventually.
"You're often doing this?"
"Too often", She exhaled. "Sometimes I forget how tired I am and fell asleep there above",
"Above?"
"We have a lattice in our garden. It's strong enough to carry me – and I guess the two of us, too. We would be totally uninterrupted. Well except my mother comes, she's the only one who knows about this place", He nodded lost in thought and followed her through the streets. Her house looked like all the others – just the lattice in the garden was uncommon. Flowerranks made their way along the netting to the ceiling. He recognised her routine to go up there, as she climbed it without any effort.
He followed her above. Automatically he cowered down in a shielding position and looked down to the main street. There was a pretty good sight without being recognised – the top of the lattice was hidden behind a blooming Sakuratree.
"We can stalk people, too, if you like to", She whispering grinning and laid down beside him. For the first time he nitted his brows. A little wrinkle showed up in between. As he recognised her peaceful smile, it disappeared again.
"No. Sunset is fine with me", He responded and rolled over. Together they laid down against the roof. They had a really good sight to the mountains in the distance, which seemed to pull the sun to themselves. For a while they just watched how the colours changed continuously.
"This is it", She murmered all of a sudden. "I love this moment… when the colours are too good to be true",
"Hn?" He responded irritated. With one arm behind her head, she pointed at the sky: "It's the exactly right incidence of light. The rose, the bright red and the indigo shades are so soft as if they were drawn – and the same time they seem so real. I look at this and I just feel… happy. Colours really influence the mind…" She mused in a low voice.
"Colours?"
"Ah come on. You know that we are responsive to colours. No? But we are. Maybe you have a colour too, that gives you this one certain feeling. This… comforting feeling", It made him thoughtful – not for the first time, since he had gone for a walk with her.
Somehow she always mentioned little, tiny things, he didn't pay even the slightest amout of attention. He took them for granted. Who cared about the sunset – as far as he knew, there was one each evening, so what? And though. As he laid there and looked at the sky, there was a weird feeling coming up in him. He couldn't figure it out, what unsettled him even more. On the outside he didn't even bat an eyelid.
"What will you do in the future?" He asked after a while.
"Become a med-nin",
"Med-nin? Why?"
"I'm not a fighter", He turned his head to face her. There was this slight smile on her lips that always made her appear warm-hearted and friendly. "I didn't really understand the principles… so I think it's better to do something else. To heal people sounds good",
"What principles?" She finally responded his glare. Her smile faded with his expression.
"The principle to fulfil missions. I don't get why I shall fight against other people – or even kill them",
He could just agree. After all that he had seen, he didn't get the sense of it, too. But soon he wouldn't have to deal with such things anymore anyway. Soon the peace of the country would be safed – and his doom with it.
"Sanosuke is always saying – Just the strong survive. But being strong is relative, isn't it? You can be strong, but there's surely someone who's stronger than you. There's always someone, who's stronger, faster and more intelligent. And though some people survive – and I don't think those are the strongest, fastes and most intelligent ones",
"And who survives then?" He asked quietly.
"Those who don't clich too hard on their lives", She closed her eyes and smiled at him. He couldn't hold it back. It twitched in the corner of his mouth – he had to smile, too. Synchronically they turned to the sunset again.
The same principles, he thought. Though their fighting natures were so different. She had never been a great fighter, indeed. To be exactly, she had never fought, when it was not totally necessary and even then, just with the slightest amount of effort. It was her Uchiha-gene that made her superior against the others, even without much training.
He wanted to be like her. No needless fighting. No needless blood spilling. That's the way it was supposed to be.
Covered in silence and the night, they laid beside each other and looked up to the stars. Itachi thought about the following weeks. He had to meet Madara and eventually get a date. His father and some others already got suspicious of him. At the latest when they found out about his double-role, he had to kill them all.
But he wouldn't let it get that far. Everything had to go after plan and because of this-
"Ah, there is one!" Shuiro jerked him out of his thoughts. He still saw the glimming of the tail of a dying shooting star. "There! Another one!" Suddenly there was one after another. Shuiro breathed impressed beside him. He was shortly carried away, too. For the first time he was aware of the stars above him and there different nuances of light. "Can you see the star signs?" She asked after the last one.
"You?" He responded.
"Yeah! Look – there is the Scorpio to the left",
"Where?" He tried to follow her pointing fingers. After a short glare at her relaxed being, he got closer to her. Their heads almost touched, but she didn't seem to notice anyway - instead she kept on pointing at the sky. "And this is the Cancer-sign. I know, you need some fantasy to see it. And this would be the Taurus sign – and this star by the way is the Venus. She's called the morning and the evening star. Funny, huh?"
"And what is your star sign?"
"Cancer. Twentythird of June. Yours?" She looked at him, the scars on his cheeks were clearly visible.
"Gemini. Ninth of June",
"Ah, Gemini is here!" She traced the constellation with her fingers. "They're two people, who hold onto each other. Can you see it? And this star underneath – this is Saturn. Don't be misled by the low light – the planet is a hell of a thing!"
"You know a lot about this",
"That's what people mostly do, when they're interested in something", She shrugged. "Sometimes I try to find my own constellations in the stars. Wait…" She scanned the sky with her finger, as if it was a plain map. "Here! When you connect this star, with this and this…" He followed the movements of her fingers, realised how the invisible lines formed themselves to two signs. "Then there goes my name!"
He starred above. The two Kanji-signs lightened up in front of his inner eyes. Shuiro. The signs were red. Blood red. Mangekyou red.
"I will go home now", He sat up abruptly. She rose surprised.
"Did I say something wrong?"
"No – I just need to go now",
"Alright, then… goodbye...?" She watched him standing up and looking for hold in the lattice. With his head still above the top, he held still. His sight was on her – the caring, warm written all over her face, her fragile body, the Uchiha-typical black eyes.
"Good night, Shuiro", He had gotten carried away again. Slightly shaking his head, he jumped the last bit to the ground. As he went home, he could feel her look on his back.
But he knew, what he had to do – and there was nothing that could hold him back.
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A/N: Hum, seems Itachi was THOUGH shortly held back! – or why does he have to remind himself? +gg+
Preview aka Itachi's get-a-girlfriend-check-list:
Going on a date – check
Playing hard to get – check-ehehe
Inviting her for dinner – still to do
Kissing or whatsoever – still to do
Kill and get her eyes, bwahahaha – still to do