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"I…yes." She turned to begin walking only to have him take her hand….

His grip wasn't tight nor was it demanding in anyway and that was what made it hard for her to pull away from him. Maybe if he had been ruff and demanding then she would have had a chance at resisting him. But no he wasn't any of those things. And it irritated her to death that she couldn't resist him. He started walking treading his fingers lightly through hers -an unbearably intimate act in Sakura's book -but she couldn't bring herself to snatch her hand back from him.

It felt too right to let go. A warmth that she felt far from began to spread throughout her entire body. The moon that hug in a big fat globe behind the trees was a startling color of pale orange, with not a cloud in the sky except for the pin pricks of stars sprinkled across the vast set of the sky. Moonlight fluttered through the leaves and spilled onto them blending with the street lights to cast shadows of their figures.

The Uchiha compound was quite, everyone was settling in for the night ahead and here she was walking in the streets hand-in-hand with a practical stranger. Sakura noticed that they were heading the wrong way and turned to stare at him. "This isn't the way out of the Uchiha compound." She stated in a stoic voice. It didn't do to show emotions around Uchiha Itachi. He was even better at playing stone than his brother.

And true to her words his face betrayed not a single emotion. But that didn't stop her from noticing the way he looked tonight. Dressed in a black baggy pants and a tight black T-shirt Uchiha Itachi was the epitome of good looks and his come-to-bed dark eyes were only adding to the effect that he was having on her right now. It wasn't fair; he didn't have the right to make her feel like this.

"I know it's not but I want to show you something first." He said his voice emotionless as usual. What could he possibly want to show her? It wasn't as if they were buddy-buddies, they had never exchanged more than a handful of words to each other. Other than today of course when he suddenly seemed as if he had discovered talking for the first in all of his twenty-eight years . Damn Uchihas always got on her last nerves.

They walked to the first intersection on the street then Itachi turned right and she followed. After all he was holding her hand. They walked in silence until Sakura could take it no longer. "What was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" She asked desperate to get him to talk. Kami how did they do that? His eyes shifted to the side so that he could see her and Sakura wondered why he didn't turn his entire head until she remembered he was an Uchiha and Uchiha's were stoic people.

They road they were walking on hadn't much houses on the sides of the streets, some were even being built. While others were finished but she could see that no one lived in them yet. Itachi took so long to answer her that she thought he didn't hear her until he said: "It's about my house," and she knew that wasn't what he had wanted to to say. They had stopped walking. Itachi turned her and Sakura;s breath caught at the sight of the two story almost all glass house except for the roof the wooded steps that lead to the first floor gleaming a fresh pine color in the dark.

The glass that was the house's front wall was tinted grey then divided by a broad piece of pine colored wood that separated the bottom flat from the top flat. The first floor she noticed that half the front was the tinted grey glass that the ground floor had as it's front wall and the other half was the pine color wood which then boxed around the entire house only to stop again and leave space for the tinted grey glass on the other side of the house.

It was beautiful. The porch, she noticed was the same pine colored wood which wrapped around the house with a broad deck and a thin banister. "The wiring of the house for electricity is almost done and I want you to help me decorate it. It's a surprise for my wife." Sakura froze at his words. His wife, Sasuke hadn't told her anything about his brother getting married. And if so why did he want her to help him.

She couldn't get raid of that little pain that she felt at his words. Yea sure she liked him but she didn't like him that much. If anything he irritated her more thn she liked him...but still her first crush was getting married... He was now standing behind her with his hands on both of her shoulders. Sakura was shocked at his declaration but still why would Uchiha Itachi want her to help in decorating his house and as a surprise for his wife too?

She was a doctor for crying out loud not an interior designer. He could have asked his mother. Mikoto knew him better that and she was sure the older woman would have been glad to help him with his house, she would have known what his wife liked and disliked she was a doctor not a mind reader. "I.." She trailed off. For all the fight that was in her, she didn't have it in her to say no to him -to anyone as a matter of fact. It was her weak spot.

And she had never grown out of it. "Okay I'll help you..." she agreed reluctantly then for good measures she added: "But only because you're my teammates brother." She didn't want him having any funny ideas. It was bad already that she was slightly crushing on him but it would be worst if he found out and about it, denying him her help would have only given him an hindsight on what was going on in her head and she didn't want that.

"Can we go now?" Sakura asked moving out from under his hands...

Saturday: 10:43 am

Hmm-mm. Nothing beat a day off and a late morning hour in bed, Sakura thought as she rolled over onto her tummy and cuddle her blanket closer. The sun had arisen already but not too high yet; it was just high enough to chase the nights chills away. And right now it was just where the curtains of her bedroom window stood drawn back. Hmm-mm nothing could beat this...

THUD THUD!

Except the beating on her front door. Sluggishly Sakura got up and reluctantly dropping her fluffy white blanket and walked through her bedroom door turned right of the polished hallway through the almost all white living room.

THUD THUD THUD!

The knocking came again. Speeding up Sakura's pace just three thirds of her speed. "Alright, alright I'm coming." She muttered half angrily. Sakura reached the door and instead of peeping through the peephole she just pulled the door open and before she could say "Good morning" of "Hi" . Sasuke marched into her apartment. "What happened between you and Itachi last night?" He demanded.

"Well Good morning to you Uchiha." Sakura muttered not the least bit embarrassed that all she was wearing was her white shorts and a pink top that stopped halfway down her abdomen just below her breast. "What happened with you and my brother last night?" He demanded again following her into the kitchen. Sakura walked over to the island reached for two cups then padded over to the refrigerator and pulled out a box of orange juice then poured two glasses then indicated with her head tipping in the direction of the glass but he didn't move from the doorway.

"I want to know what happened Sakura?" He said this time his eyes flashing red. "Don't take tone with me Uchiha and if you want to know what happened just ask your uptight brother." She said taking another sip of her orange juice. "Ask him." She said glaring at Sasuke, "why he keeps tormenting me every time he comes to the hospital." She turned to put her empty glass in the stainless steel sink.

And then turned back to face a frozen Sasuke. "What's wrong?" She asked moving to get her breakfast started. "How long has your relationship with my brother been going on?" The knife that Sakura had just picked up from the rack fell to the counter with a loud clatter. "What relationship?" Sakura growled angrily. Stunned by the words that had just left her teammate's mouth. How could he say something like that when his brother was getting married?

"Don't give me that innocent look Sakura. What is going on between you and my brother?" Sakura stared at him like he was insane. "There is nothing going on between your brother and I, Uchiha. Besides if there were anything going on between us -which there is not- why would you care?" She asked sweetly, walking around the island and leaning back on both her elbows. He picked up the glass and was sipping the orange juice she had poured a while ago for him .

"Hn." He murmurer and drained the glass then placed it back on the island and turned back to Sakura. "I just wanted to know why my brother and my mother are suddenly planing a wedding and why all of a sudden your name is in it?" He asked staring at a open mouthed Sakura. She knew he was getting married to another woman but why all of a sudden he or rather they were calling her name in it. She felt the blood rush to her head and felt color fill her cheeks in the process.

Why would Sasuke even tell her anything? For all she knew he was trying to torture her as pay back for leaving him with that clingy fan girl that he had to sleep with in order to get raid of her. "Maybe they are just pulling your legs." Sakura said pursing her lips and turning back to her breakfast. "Look I don't know what is going on Sakura but as far as any wedding is concerned, I don't understand why you would have anything to do with it. Especially where my brother is concerned." Sasuke said and turning to walk back out of her apartment.

He made it sound as if she wasn't worth catching the attention of someone like his brother. Did all Uchihas had to make persons who weren't of the same clan feel lower than low? "I told you already Sasuke they're playing with you. Besides i won't marry you either if I had to I would have hung myself. And I'm not just saying that," she shouted after him. Then she paused as if thinking something through and the she raced after him grinning playfully.

"So this whole relationship questioning was just to find out whether or not the two of us were getting married?" Sakura asked and scoffed at him when he didn't answer. He left after that and she had her breakfast. Scrambled eggs and beacon.

Later that day Sakura stopped by Ino and Shikamaru's house. Their kid was out in the front yard playing in her sandbox. "Hey munchkin. Where's your mommy?" Sakura asked while slinging the kid on her hip. Ino and Shikamaru had been married for about two and a half years now. The happy-go-lucky couple had been in love practically since they were babies in diapers. Sakura thought it was romantic but Ino on the other hand thought it was the best thing since the invention of make-up.

Their wedding had been one of the biggest event since Tusnade-sama had become Hokage. Sakura had been Maid-Of-Honour and Choji the Best Man with almost everyone in Konoha had attended to see Konoha's laziest guy marry Konoha's funkiest gal. Sakura walked through the open front door then down the hall to the laundry room where she heard slamming and muttering.

"Why did I ever become a house wife and a nurse?" Ino looked up and asked Sakura as she entered the laundry room. "Because you were in love with your childhood sweetheart. And still is." Sakura supplied. Ino grinned and came over to hug Sakura while she her twelve month old blonde daughter and pulled her nose. "Shikamaru's parents offered to babysit Nirri so that we can go on a mini vacation." Ino told Sakura as they walked into Ino's kitchen. The living room had toys scattered all over the place.

:I think that's great," Sakura said putting Nirri on her highchair and turning back to face Ino with her hands on her hips. "I could have babysit her besides I would be bored on my leave." Sakura said reaching over the granite counter and taking an apple from the plate then proceeding to eat it. "So what have you been doing with your life lately?" Ino asked uncapping a bottle of baby food and walking around the kitchen counter to her baby. Sakura's lips turned down with disapproval. "Nothing much..."

They continued their conversation found out everything that happened during the past couple of weeks. Then Sakura told her that it was time she headed over to her parents she was having dinner with them. They so happened to have something important to tell her. Nothing but shoving more of their damned arguments down her throat about getting married. They never gave up their marriage pep talk...

Saturday 10:15 pm

Itachi stared out his bedroom window up at the fat globe of a moon hanging so brightly in the sky. His bed was just a mattress on the floor of the one flat house that he shared with his parents and his younger brother. The walls that separated his and Sasuke's room were made out of paper with green dragons spitting fire as the designs. There was a sliding door that lead out to a porch that wrapped around the entire house but the sliding door in his bedroom opened up to his mother's garden.

He laid with his hands behind his head, his bangs almost covering his eyes and completely shirtless. Emerald eyes flashed in his mind, almost turning the moon green. He smiled just the briefest lift of his top lip. She had reached the age of marrying since she had turned eighteen but he had given her two years extra time to date. Not that he approved of her dating any man around here especially his pompous brother. But she had surprised him. Instead of the party-till-the-end-of-the-world young adult he had expected, she hadn't wasted time on dating at all.

She had studied and worked from dusk till dawn. Never stopping or giving up on her patients. He was proud of her. Proud to be able to call her his wife in a couple of weeks if not months. The sound in the other room brought him up short. When he heard a bang and a muted cursing Itachi sat up. "Are you alright little brother?" Itachi called out quietly. "Would you care to explain why you and mother are planning a wedding and why Sakura's name is in it?" Sasuke asked as he slid Itachi's bedroom door open and marched in unannounced.

Itachi on the other hand paid him no attention. Seeing that he wasn't getting anyway with Itachi he marched back out the door , slid it shut with a bang then stomped into his own room and shut the door. Itachi grinned. Foolish little brother. Itachi pushed the sheet off his abdomen to reveal khakis trousers, he walked over to his closet and selected a black T-shirt that stretched over the breath of his shoulders then he walked to the sliding door that led into the garden. "Where do you go?" He heard Sasuke's voice and turned to smirk at him.

"Mind your own business, little brother," he said looking over Sasuke's shoulder at the digits on the clock that glowed white in his darkened room. Ten-thirty, it read. Sakura would be long a sleep by now. He thought as he formed the necessary hand signs for his transportation jutsu. He appeared out side her bedroom window. The room was dark but the moon illuminated her small form curled up on the big bed. Itachi eased the window gently open then stepped through landing softly on the carpeted floor.

She stirred and her hair clung to her jaw and her lips with the movement and she clutched her blanket closer. He walked to the bed his eyes never leaving her lips nor did they miss the way her pink eyelashes swept her rose-colored cheeks. The expression on her face was not one of pain but there was anger and sadness in the set of her pink brows. Gently Itachi leaned in to her still form and cleared away the lock of bubble gum hair that had been clinging to her lips He leaned over further and his lips brushed her forehead.

The frown deepened then smoothed away and Itachi trailed his lips down her temple taking in her sweet scent of lilacs mixed with sunshine. As his lips continued to trail down her temples he whispered her name and she smiled, sighing contently as she settled into her pillow. But he wasn't satisfied with that so he continued trailing his lips until they reached the corner of her lips. Her smile deepened highlighting her dimples and he captured her mouth with his. She moaned in pleasure and her hand left the pillow, searching for him.

But he pulled away from her and was out the window in the same instance, her window curtains barely fluttered as he departed. He watched from the shadows as she sat up then touched her lips with her fingers. Then as if she didn't believe something she shook her head and laid back down on her bed. He sigh releasing his pent up frustration of not having her in his arms and the fact that she was going on a dangerous mission he would have to talk to the Hokage... Itachi sighed again then took his regular seat outside her bedroom window and leaned against the wall of her apartment.

Sunday 11:45 am

"You know I can't send you out on that mission." An angry blonde with blue eyes said irritatingly at the man standing in front of her desk. "If you can't assign me to that mission then take her off of it," Uchiha Itachi growled. " You know that's impossible and you also know that no one can stand both Naruto and Sasuke on the same team other than Sakura." Lady-Tusnade, fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village sigh and ran a hand through her hair.

He was being so damn difficult -as all Uchiha behaved. "I don't care. I don't want what's mine in any sort of danger especially not that of the Akasuki." His voice voice was low and threatening. "So you take her off or you put me on." Itachi almost growled at the woman that sat before him. She sigh and ran her hand through her messy blonde hair again. "I suppose I could send Kakashi on another mission and assign you as leader of Team Seven." Tusnade mused to herself. "Okay here's the deal. You replace Kakashi as Team leader but only for this mission. I'll inform Sakura about the change of plan. And please for your own safety as well as mine do not babysit Sakura. She hates it." Tusnade warned and Itachi almost grinned.

Sakura's anger was like that of a kitten compared to his. She tilted her head so she could see the raven haired ninja with mischief dancing in her eyes. "Just when are you going to tie the knot . There are a lot of people -men if you know what I mean -from other countries sending marriage request for Sakura you know." Itachi's brows snapped together and he growled at Tusnade his eyes flashing red and his fist clenched.

"Not to worry we've politely turned them away stating of course that she is already spoken for." Tusnade said with a smile that said you're still below me boy.

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