(Cherry blossoms)

Chapter 2

'From the rain I'll come'

'From the rain I'll come' Naruto shot strait up in bed. Itachi's words still swirled around in his head. Naruto looked over at the window that the wind blew open. He glared at it, it had woke him up and he was mad at it. Naruto got up and looked out. It was pouring down rain. Naruto just shrugged and closed the windows.

He started to make his way back to his bed when he felt a cool breath on the back of his neck. Naruto stopped and shivered. He slowly turned and looked behind him and…… there was nothing there. Naruto rubbed the back of his head and sighed.

"looking for someone?" a voice asked.

Naruto jumped and turned toward his bed and saw a black figure sitting on his bed. The figure moved to the side and turned on the lamp that was beside the bed. Naruto gasped.

"Itachi-sama?" the blond asked amazed.

Itachi just smiled. Naruto walked over to the bed and sat down beside Itachi. And Itachi pulled Naruto onto his lap and held him close. Naruto sighed happily as he wrapped his arms around Itachi.

"I must leave before dawn." Itachi whispered as he kissed the edge of Naruto's ear.

Naruto pulled away from him.

"What do you mean?"

"I must go to battle."

Naruto held on tighter to Itachi. He knew all about the battle but he didn't think that Itachi would be apart of it. But alas he knew he could not stop him. But he wanted to. Naruto putt's his face in Itachi's neck.

"If I told you that I wanted you to stay would you?" Naruto asked.

"I'm afraid not." Itachi replied.

"I thought so." Naruto sighs.

Itachi holds Naruto close.

"We have tonight. And to night I will be with you and you with me." Itachi said.

"I'll always be by your side."

Itachi stands up and lays Naruto down onto the bed and climbs up over him and kisses him on the lips.

"Tonight I will show you how much I love you." Itachi said as he petted Naruto's face.

And that's what they did. They made love. There was so much love in it Naruto couldn't help but cry. Itachi had wiped the tears away. They were together and that's all that they cared about. As long as they had each other they could do anything.

Naruto woke when he felt Itachi sit up. Naruto leans up and puts his hand on Itachi's bare back. Itachi turns and grabs Naruto's hand.

"It's almost dawn?" Naruto guessed.

Itachi nodded and sat down on the bed. Naruto crawled over and laid beside him. Itachi petted Naruto's hair.

"Please promise me that you'll come back." Naruto said as he grabbed Itachi's hand.

Itachi squeezed Naruto's hand. He didn't know if he would be able to come back. No one knew who was going to win this battle. All Itachi knew was that he had to go into battle. He had to protect Naruto and everyone else. Even his baby brother.

"Naruto…" Itachi started without looking at him. "Would you like to know my story?"

"If you would like to tell me I'll listen." Naruto said.

Itachi keeps looking out the window.

"Then I shall tell you…"

_________________________________Itachi's story________________________

"It was the year 982. I was 18 and Sasuke was 15, the same age as you. It was on an stormy summer day. My father came home from being away at sea. But it was weird. He didn't have any fish with him and his clothes were all torn. My mother just thought that he was in a ship wreck and god had let him live, so she cleaned him up and made him a huge dinner. But he didn't eat. There was tones of food and yet he just sat there staring at my mom like she was a piece of meat."

"And of course I didn't know at the time that he had already tried to bite mother. But after dinner Sasuke told me that our mother was acting really strange. I went to our parents room to ask him about it when I saw him draining my mother of blood. He let the lifeless body fall to the ground when he saw me. He ran for me and I tried to run away but he was faster than I. He knocked me to the ground and tried to bite me and I fought as hard as I could. But he caught my hands and held them above my head."

"He looked down at me and said, 'Your going to die or I could just make you a span of the devil like my self? What do you think Itachi? Should I?' I fought against him and told him, 'I'd rather die than join you.' He got mad at me and bite my neck."

"I still remember the pain." Itachi shudders. "He drained me of almost all of my blood and then cut his wrist and forced me to drink his blood. I knew I was screaming but I couldn't really hear it. After a while I just laid there hoping I'd die but my heart just stopped. And I was still alive in a way."

"When I opened my eyes I saw my father and heard the blood in him that he had taken from my mother and I pounced on him and drank all of his blood. When I realized what I did and jumped off of him and looked at him. He just smiled at me and said, 'that's my boy.' I cut his head off after that."

"But right when I did that Sasuke had walked in and saw the sword in my hand and our mother and father on the floor dead. He had thought that I killed them both. He ran out and screamed that he 'was going to tell every one every thing' that I had done. I was scared so I ran after him and killed everyone that he had tried to talk to. In the end I ended up killing everyone in our clan."

"I tried to tell Sasuke but he wouldn't listen so I changed him so if he told anyone they'd kill him too. But he didn't tell anyone. The leader knows that Sasuke is a vampire. And to this day he still thinks that I killed both of our parents and he wont listen to the truth. The Leader of this village wont even let me tell my story. They don't care, all of them want me dead. They want Sasuke so they have a secret weapon but he doesn't even know how to use his powers. And they wont let me teach him."

__________________End of story_________________________________________

Naruto looks up at him.

"I'm so sorry Itachi." Naruto said as he started to cry.

"Why are you sorry?"

"Because you had to go through so much pain."

Itachi picked Naruto up and sat him on his lap. Naruto wrapped his arms around Itachi's neck and cried into his neck.

"Naruto, It's not your fault. You couldn't have caused any thing."

"Yes but I just……I don't want you to hurt."

Itachi hugged him closer to his body.

"But if it hadn't have happened I wouldn't be here with you."

Naruto stopped crying and nodded. He knew it was true. Even though he wanted to go back in time and help Itachi, Naruto knew he was happy that Itachi was here.

"Naruto, ………It's time." Itachi said.

Naruto nodded and let Itachi pick him up and lay him in the bed. Itachi put his clothes on and turned back to Naruto. Naruto was trying really hard not to cry. Itachi's face held a sad emotion in it when he saw Naruto trying not to cry. Itachi petted Naruto's face one last time.

Itachi bent down and kissed Naruto one last time.

"I'll try to write to you." Itachi replied as he walked over to the window.

"Come back to me." Naruto said.

"I'll try."

He looked one last time at Naruto and jumped out the window. As soon as Naruto was sure Itachi had left. He finally let his tears fall. Naruto knew that Itachi might not return and that scared him. He didn't want to be alone. Not again.

(A/N: Ok Chapter two, done. Though it's sad…. Now let me see… What to do for the next chapter? *pets a bag of potatoes that has a sticky note that says 'cat'*) (1439 words)