Chapter Four
Itachi woke with a start as he heard a stick snap from someone stepping on it somewhere. Quickly he jumped up and kunai in hand his eyes turned red. He'd find whoever it was with his sharingan. He moved to the mouth of the cave and looked around himself. He started to smile because he suddenly knew who it was the stepped on the stick.
"You can come out now Kakashi." He said to a tree.
Kakashi suddenly jumped down and scoffed at Itachi. "How is that you always know that I'm here?" He asked.
"My sharingan."
"Of course Itachi. Why do I keep forgetting when you tell me every time I see you?"
"Well then this time you should actually remember as I don't plan on repeating myself about again if I have told you so many times." He look closely at Kakashi and asked him, "Did you go to see Sakura?"
Kakashi nodded and replied, "I rubbed her belly with a cream that will help with her cravings and morning sickness. Plus she's most likely asleep on the couch right now."
"Good. Thank you Kakashi."
"By the way Sasuke was there when I got there."
"Where?"
"At your house. He was with Sakura."
"WHAT!!!!!?"
"Don't worry nothing happened Itachi. Actually he was there on my doing."
"What?" Itachi asked meekly.
"I attacked him and injured his arm pretty badly. He went to get healed by Sakura. I hoped they would talk out their issues and they did. Sasuke is going to leave her alone about you and only see her when he needs to or when they go on a mission together. Which won't be until Sakura has the baby."
Itachi let out a long breath which he didn't know he had been holding. "Thank you again Kakashi."
"Your welcome." Kakashi said his uncovered eye showing that he was smiling. "So to get to the reason why I followed you. Naruto told me to ask you if, and these are his exact words, if I could be of any assistance." Kakashi said with a hint of laughter in his voice.
Itachi turned away from him and smiled. Naruto was worried that Itachi wouldn't come back with out help. He was worried about Sakura, and how much hurt her heart could take. Itachi turned back to Kakashi and said simply "There is only one thing I'd like you to do for me."
"Name it Itachi."
"Take care of Sakura. You can't help me on this mission. I need to do this alone."
"May I ask why you choose to do this mission when you have a future wife and a baby on the way at home?" Kakashi said. "Are you really doing this to avenge your brother?"
Itachi decided that it was time he told Kakashi the truth. "Do you remember when I saved Sasuke from Orochimaru?" Kakashi nodded. "Well Sakura came with me and Naruto that time. Now you know that Sakura has an inner self." Once again Kakashi nodded. "Well Sakura inner had gotten really pissed at one point and the "outer" or real Sakura was what you could say asleep. Orochimaru saw this and used it against Sakura. Almost killing her. I don't exactly know how all I remember is her screaming. That was the first time I ever feared for someone else's life. Naruto got to her before me and said something in her ear. I don't know what, but it might just have saved her. Because she stopped screaming straight away. Then she and Naruto join hands and Naruto's nine tails fire and Sakura's healing light came from their hands which then built a cage type thing around Orochimaru. That's how we got Sasuke back." Kakashi again nodded, as this new information was told to him. "I'm doing this mission to get back at Orochimaru for whatever he did to Sakura. When we got out of there and made camp for the first night we had to tie Sasuke up so he couldn't get away. I also had to break one of his arms so he couldn't form hand seals. But that night I cried Kakashi, for the first time in my life I cried, and it was Sakura that found me. We talked and she comforted me, and I told her about why I was crying. That when she was hurting I wanted to die to save her. Every night on the way back to Konoha, she and I talked. The day we got back to Konoha we left Sasuke at the hospital, and Sakura invited me back to her place. She asked me to tell her exactly what had happened to her in Orochimaru lair, because she couldn't remember. So I told her all I could. Exactly what I told you. After that she kept inviting me around."
"And then you two fell in love. Or at least she fell in love with you. You already loved her. Am I right?" Kakashi said. Itachi just nodded.
"Please Kakashi. Just look out for her. I'd die if something happened to her." Itachi begged.
"I'll take care of her Itachi. You just take care of yourself. Because if you don't come back she'll die. She's already had too much heartache."
Itachi nodded. He stared at the empty space where Kakashi had been. Kakashi had already headed back to Konoha. He and Itachi never said goodbye. Itachi turned back to the cave and went back inside for a bit more sleep, though he knew he'd be awake for the rest of the night.