Sweet Sensations
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Her hand, gently took hold of his much larger one. His face held certainty and Sakura's held nothing but hope... hope that all the past events had been some kind of a nightmare and that Itachi had never lost his memory in the first place.
"Did I give you this?" He asked in confusion.
Letting her hand back to the comfortable bed, Sakura parted her lips.
"Yes, you did Itachi..."
He looked away sheepishly as he replied truthfully.
"I can barely remember doing so, though..."
Stopping himself from finishing off the sentence, the Uchiha left the bed, left Sakura to lie in bed full of questions. He did however take one last look at the kunoichi before disappearing out the door and around a corner, back into the recovery chamber...
Sakura on the other hand, she wanted to run after him and embrace him so terribly, but her heart twinged with sadness, as if something were piercing it from the inside and making her bleed...
Is Itachi beginning to regain his memories?
I want to know...
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Chapter 21: Truth Revealed
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Her mind worked overtime than every before. Sakura let her legs hang off the edge of her bed, in the room that Itachi and she shared. Or used to... Brushing her pink bangs out of her eyes, the kunoichi let a sigh escape her lips.
She had gotten herself into something that she now couldn't escape. Or even dream of doing so... First, she had been raped by Itachi when she hardly new him. Then when she had thought that finally she had fallen in love, Sasuke had to come along and take her back to Konohagakure and away from Itachi... Not to mention that Mayou had joined Akatsuki and was having somewhat of an affair with Itachi. And the worst of all things happened not too long ago, Itachi had supposedly been killed trying to protect her...
Of course he was back now, but lost all his memories due to the amnesia he was experiencing... On top of that, she was pregnant with his child for God sakes! And he can't even remember a single thing about their relationship!
Did I make a bad choice from the beginning?
Even though I told myself that it was no mistake!!!
Everything up to this point happened for a reason...
But... now I'm wondering if fate doesn't want us together...
Maybe we really are too different...?
Hopping off the large bed, Sakura dressed herself in her purple yukata, securing the silk sash around her waist to keep the robe closed. Her eyes were void of any emotion whatsoever... Sakura's lips formed a faint smile as she suppressed the sudden urge to vomit. A hand was clamped over her mouth to prevent throw up from escaping her...
The queasiness soon subsiding, Sakura removed the hand from her mouth and exited her room only to make it to the kitchen were Mayou and Deidara were conversing with each other.
"So you told him everything!?!" Deidara asked once again.
Nodding her head, Mayou's one eye caught sigh of Sakura entering the kitchen and sitting across from Deidara and herself. Grabbing an apple from a nearby fruit bowl, Sakura began to slowly eat the red apple until only the core was left and soon after thrown into the garbage can.
"What are you guys talking about?" She asked quite cheerfully.
Sitting back in his chair, Deidara parted his lips and spoke.
"Oh nothing Sakura-chan..."
A smile graced her lips as the rosette haired kunoichi stood from her seat and walked out into the narrow corridor; Kisame had said a quick hello before walking towards the outside training grounds and taking out a few shuriken to start off with.
As she moved towards her room, Sakura couldn't help but stare at the closed door of the recovery room with saddened eyes rimmed with tears.
Itachi-kun...
The tips of her slim fingers grazed the wooden door and quickly, Sakura pulled away as if she had been burned by it. She placed her hand by her shattered heart and listened to the beating of her heart...
Pushing the door open, Sakura peered into the bright room and found a sleeping Itachi with the covers up to his chin. His body trembled as she touched his cheek, he still had the fever from a few days ago and to top it all off he was sweating like crazy.
Finding a cloth, Sakura went and soaked it with cool water. Walking back towards Itachi's bedside, the kunoichi placed the small cloth on his feverish forehead and watched as his expression changed dramatically.
"S... Sakura-chan..." He said in a hoarse whisper.
She couldn't believe her ears! Itachi had just spoken her name! Even though he was dreaming of course... For some odd reason, Sakura felt as if her heart had skipped a beat when she heard Itachi say her name...
It was like she was dreaming! Nothing felt real anymore... Though, somehow, just hearing Itachi say her name made her realize that she was not dreaming... She was fully awake...
His crimson orbs opened and he focused on the one figure in the room. There she was again, in all her beauty, staring at him with those captivating emerald eyes of hers. Batting her long thick lashes at him, looking so innocent...
A light blush covered the crests of his cheeks as the Akatsuki member got into a sitting position and looked at the young woman by his bedside. A look of concern etched its way onto her façade and her brows knitted together.
"How are you feeling Itachi?" She asked intently.
Looking at his folded hands, Itachi gave out a disgruntled sigh as he looked at the wet cloth in his lap.
"My head still hurts, but other than that I'm fine..."
Showing her famous smile to him, Sakura was about to leave the room. Instead Itachi had called her back, as if he were pleading her...
"Sakura-san... Can you stay?" He asked childishly.
Nodding her head, Sakura pulled up a chair and sat by the Uchiha's bedside. For some reason, to Sakura this felt as if Itachi had never lost his memories in the first place and everything had gone back to normal... The way things were suppose to be in the first place.
Handing him a few pills for the headache Itachi was experiencing, Sakura filled a glass with crystal clear water and watched as he swallowed the pill with a mouthful of cool water. Taking the empty glass from him, Sakura placed it on the wooden bedside table and went back to conversing with Itachi.
He had actually laughed a couple of times when Sakura would tell him about her past and the many stupid things one of her very good friends had done countless times. Of course the person she was speaking of was the one and only Uzumaki Naruto from the hidden leaf village of Konohagakure.
That name?
Why do I suddenly feel as if I've heard it before?
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"Remember Kisame... were here for one reason only..." The Uchiha said casually.
"To retrieve the Kyubi inside that Uzumaki kid."
Both men nodded their heads as they ventured off towards the front gates of a large village known as Konoha. The location of the nine-tailed fox known as Kyubi...
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Shaking his head vigorously, Itachi began to rub his temples as a new found headache settled in and made him lie back down as Sakura placed the still cold cloth on his forehead. His eyes soon found comfort in looking at the woman's bulging stomach. His eyes softened at the thought of the child she was carrying was truly his...
Was she being truthful?
Or simply playing with my emotions?
"Is there anything else you need Itachi?" The kunoichi asked kindly.
Shaking his head, Sakura settled in the chair and subconsciously began to toy with the locket Itachi had given her a while back. She found peace when she trailed her index finger along the silver heart...
The emotions building up inside of her threatened to escape from her the longer she endured being in the same room with Itachi who had amnesia. It was too much for her broken heart bear any longer, she felt the need to crack...
Just as his crimson eyes closed, Sakura let out a small sob and took her hand away from the silver necklace as she covered her mouth with both hands. Unwanted tears were begging to be let to fall from being held in for far too long.
As soon as she thought that Itachi had fallen asleep, Sakura tightly shut her emerald orbs and let a river of tears trail down her cheeks and drip off her chin. Her shoulders shook from the amount of crying she was doing.
I promised myself that I would not cry!
It just worries everyone around me...
But this pain... It hurts too much to fight back against it...
I should accept it for once...
She could feel the child inside her womb kick against the walls of her stomach. The child that Itachi and she had created together.
She could feel her name being faintly called out. Her head snapped up and she was now looking into a pair of crimson eyes. They seemed to be full of concern. Concern for the immense pain she was going through at the moment...
"Sakura-chan, please don't cry..."
She could stop the tears from falling. Too many things were swirling around inside her head at that very minute that nothing she was telling herself to do was working. She had wanted to leave the room and not disrupt Itachi with her crying, but she stayed glued to the chair.
Mayou's words began to repeat inside his head while he looked at a crying Sakura.
This is eating her up inside...
Remember that.
A gasp left Itachi's throat as he held his head with both hands and shook it violently. The headache had just gotten worse and continued to escalade with each and every passing minute.
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Sakura...
"Aishiteru."
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Maybe as lovers?
As if they needed each other...
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Both had taught each other to love once again.
Nothing would tear them apart ever again...
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His head was pounding at that moment. The moment all these flashbacks began to flood his already throbbing head and made it hurt all the more... It was as if he were looking into a pair of crimson eyes... Like his own reflection? They seemed to sooth the pain in his head and cool his fever down by a little bit...
Sakura...
My sweet cherry blossom...
Her sobbing entered his ears and spiked his senses, making him leave the comfortable bed he was accustomed to and wrap his muscled arms around the broken kunoichi. Her crying ceased as she felt warmth flood throughout her entire body.
Was this for real?
She had no clue...
Sniffling and trying her best to hold back a few sobs, Sakura slowly returned the embrace and buried her face in the crook of his neck. His hand came to stroke her long pink tresses and pull her closer than humanly possible.
All he knew what the he had to be close to her at the moment...
He needed to!
They stayed in that position for a while before Sakura felt the need to sleep to be too overpowering for her to overcome. Though Itachi pulled away slightly and brought his face oh so close to her own tear stained face.
His lips captured her soft ones and instantly a jolt of passion spread through their bodies. Wrapped her arms around his neck and pulling closer, Sakura ran her fingers throughout Itachi's long raven hair.
The kiss soon after ended, but to Sakura it felt like an eternity. The way he kissed her, was like nothing she had ever experienced before in her life. The kiss they shared was chaste but it did hold longing and need...
Looking into each other's eyes, Itachi stumbled backwards and landed on the ground. Having to look up at the beauty that was Haruno Sakura... The eldest Uchiha watched as Sakura's eyes widened a fraction before she knelt beside his fallen form.
"Saku... ra..." His voice was soft.
"Yes!?! Itachi, I'm right here!" She spoke frantically.
Touching the silver necklace, Itachi watched as yet more memories of his past life flooded his vision and he was forced to watch them quickly pass by. His eyes were wide as well, if not, wider than that of Sakura's...
Catching the kunoichi off guard, Itachi embraced her once again. His breath fanned against her neck and his voice was in a hush by her ear as he tried speaking.
"Is it really you Sakura?"
"Y... yes Itachi..." Was her response.
Pulling back, Itachi stared into her emerald eyes.
"What happened and where am I?"
A confused look made itself known on her face as she answered his questions.
"You're in the recovery room..."
A look of shock was evident on his handsome face as he knitted his brows together.
"Why the hell for?" He asked in concern.
"You mean... you don't remember anything?"
He shook his head.
"I thought I was supposed to be dead? After you and Kisame escaped the castle it collapsed on Orochimaru and me..."
Tears blurred her vision as Sakura was faced with the truth! The truth that Itachi had somehow regained his memories! Her heart did a flip in her chest as she squeezed his hand and began explaining everything...
"I found you one day and brought you back to Akatsuki with the help of Kisame."
"After that we found out that you had amnesia and could remember nothing..."
He turned his head away. Itachi knew that deep inside, everything that had happened hurt Sakura and made her cry... He promised long ago that he would never be the reason why she had cried!
Standing from the cold floor, Sakura let her small arms wrap around Itachi's middle form. He pulled her close to him as well and placed kisses along her neck and stopped at her jaw only to softly claim her lips.
Her hands were placed on her stomach and slowly he began to rub her stomach. He could feel a small kick coming from inside her stomach which made him smile into the kiss. Just to know that he would soon have a child made his heart leap...
Pulling away, Itachi interlaced his fingers with Sakura's and both exited the recovery room and walked towards their bedroom. Sakura laid down on the bed and Itachi soon followed after, her head on top his muscled chest until she slowly fell asleep...
"Aishiteru Itachi..." She whispered.
"Aishiteru Sakura-chan..." The eldest Uchiha said while watching her sleeping form.
He too soon found comfort in sleeping with the woman he longed for and closed his crimson eyes only to fall into a deep sleep, with the kunoichi only on his mind...
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Author's Note
Hey! It's me again! Tee hee. How did you like this chappie? I was really excited to have Itachi's memories return and restore peace in Akatsuki once again. Well... this chapter took me a good 2 hours to do, thank God for my I-pod! Were would I be without it? Ummm... Ya I'm gonna make this short and sweet as not to bore the hell out of you with my ranting on. This is important and crucial to this story, so I would be grateful if you would reply. She I add a few extra chapters (like another sequel to this one) with the growing up of Itachi and Sakura's child? I don't know if anyone would like that but only one person has actually replied from the last chapter and I thank them for that. The person has said that yes indeed, I should have like a sequel with their child, now I want to know who else would be interesting in that...?
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