Yo! I know it's been a while but my new fic Challenge takes work! I'm working on that plus my internet was off a while and I got things to do peoples! Okay yeah excuses but at least I update every few months or at least weeks. Probably months but my Challenge fanfic is every week an update so if you get tired of these fics never being updated go to Challenge and I promise an update every week ne? So don't say I never gave you guys nothing ne?

Itachi: You sound like a parent talking to your kids.

Kyo: Well my stories are like kids. I raised them and brought them up.

Itachi: you know your crazy right?

Kyo: I've been told that.

Itachi: of course you have.

Kyo: Your crazy too so join in on the insanity baby.

Itachi: Don't ever call me that again.

Kyo: You like it you know you do.

Itachi: Not by a male I don't.

Kyo: Sakura then?

Itachi: …..

Kyo: We shall test that later! No moving on!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto only the idea for this story. I don't profit in anyway except in pleasure of writing. I do not get money only reviews (hopefully)

Chapter eight recap:

' Uchiha why were you naked in Sakura-chan's office? Yeah." Deidara asked as if nonchalantly but his voice held the promise of danger.

Itachi stiffened at this news and Sasuke saw it from the corner of his eyes.

" I...fell. Sakura cut my clothes off to check for wounds." He explained though was embarrassed to say he fell in front of anyone let alone his elder brother.

" Just remember she is not yours kid, yeah." Deidara said to Sasuke. Regardless of Sasuke being not much younger he called him kid.

Itachi scoffed in his corner of the house and it drew everyone left in the room's attention to him.

" She does not belong to anyone." Itachi said with only a slight bit of annoyance.

Deidara glared and Itachi glared back, well sort of. Sasuke was just confused. If he didn't know Itachi he would say he were jealous, but he did know his brother and he couldn't be. Itachi had never taken interest in anyone male or female before, so why was Sakura any different? The male couldn't even see her beauty though that wasn't all she had to offer of course.

Naruto felt the air in the room get colder and thicker. Deidara and Itachi and even a mussing Sasuke watched each other. It felt like a war had just started.

Sakura-chan sure is popular. Naruto thought looking between the three men left in the room

End recap:

Chapter nine: Fool

Neji wondered what hit him. He didn't remember anything past watching Sakura's house and Hinata asking to take the shift, and then he refused It got fuzzy after that and he couldn't remember anything clearly. He wondered why and what was he doing in a bed? And why did he feel like someone crushed him under a house?

He blinked open silver eyes looking up at a pair of very nice breasts. He flushed a little. What were those doing in his line of vision? Then he saw the pink locks float down as the woman leaned over him looking at something above him obviously.

The woman was obviously Sakura the Hokage, but why was she leaning over him in her hospital garb? Why was she leaning over him? Why was he in a bed? When did he breasts get so big? Maybe that last thought was unnecessary, but still.

She moved away slightly and looked down at him. Her eyes were jade and dark as if sleep had not been something she had gotten in a while. She looked so tired and was that relief in her eyes? What happened?As if answering his silent question she answered.

" Hyuuga welcome back to the living world. You had a fever that almost defeated you for good. Be sure never to push yourself again or the next fever you get will be your last." She didn't sound mad, but her words seemed to be hitting that they should be said in a angry tone. She just looked too relieved to be angry.

The living world? Had he died? How? A fever? When did that happen? How could a fever get the better of an Hyuuga? Impossible.

She sighed and moved away from him so he had to move into a sitting position to see her at all. He felt like crap but he was alive and he assumed since that had been an issue before he was glad he was.

Kakashi was sitting against the window asleep. He had never really seen Kakashi sleep so it was a little odd. Why was he here? Sakura's uncanny ability to answer his silent questions was great because she again answered as if she had been in his mind listening.

" Kakashi was the one to hold you down when you became deleterious and tried to kill Naruto. Be glad he helped you or you might be in prison." he winced slightly. Okay he would be sure to always listen to Sakura now. He wasn't sure what happened exactly because he was slightly confused but he would be sure to thank Kakashi when he saw him next right now he wanted to sleep some more.

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As Neji fell asleep Sakura sighed. It had been two days and nights since he had the fever, since they brought him here. His fever had just broken last night around ten. She was so glad he was alive. His fever had almost been so high that he wouldn't have lived, but thankfully it had come down at the last minute. She was sure he would die.

She had never been so happy to see the Hyuuga open his eyes.

She tucked the male in then walked to Kakashi and laid a blanket on him as well then poofed home. Hopefully no one killed anyone while she was away. And hopefully the elders didn't act on a plan to kill any of them. When she appeared in her front room she didn't know what to expect but a perfectly quiet house was not it.

The house was silent except for a grunting coming from a spare room of hers. She wasn't sure she wanted to find out what the cause of it was since it sounded...well you can imagine. But she was curious so sue her. So as she tiptoed to the room the sounds got louder and the more her mind wondered to what could be causing the sounds or rather who and why.

Of course her imagination went wild and yet she still didn't imagine what really was going on in the room so walking in and finding Deidara and Itachi sitting on a bed. ( XD) Also Sasuke tied to a chair in front of said bed, was not what she expected.

The tape over Sasuke's mouth was black and it had been on there for who knew how long. The rope tying him to the chair must be laced with chakra for the male not to be able to get free earlier.

Deidara looked surprised to see her, and Itachi tensed. They both sort of looked like a kid with their hand caught in a cookie jar and it would have been comical if Sasuke had not been tied to a chair for who knew how long. Okay it was still a little funny.

She scowled at the two men on the bed and went to untie Sasuke. He looked so relieved to see her that it was slightly comical as well. She did not laugh though. She was too tired. So after untying him and then stepping out of the way when he lunged at Deidara with killing intent, she went to go to bed, of course Itachi followed for some reason. She wasn't sure why it was ' of course' but it just was. Maybe he missed her she wasn't sure.

While Deidara was most likely being killed by Sasuke, Itachi followed her closely his hand hovering over her back as if to guide himself in the hall as well as be able to follow her. When she entered her bed room he spoke.

" How is the Hyuuga?" He asked his voice was a little rough, but it still surprised her. It did because she had not heard it in two days. She didn't realize she missed Itachi and Deidara even Sasuke before now.

" Sleeping for now, Kakashi is with him. Where is Naruto?" She asked because the blond baka should have stayed with Itachi and Deidara at all times since Kakashi was with her and she asked for one of them to be at her house with them ( Itachi and Deidara) protecting them at all times.

" He is sleeping. There has been no trouble." She was relived, and she didn't bring up the question of why Sasuke was tied up or how long he had been, she just undressed and walked to the bathroom that connected to her room. She wasn't worried even if Itachi could see her.

He followed her like a puppy, but she didn't mind. When the water started he was slightly surprised, as if he hadn't realized she was going to shower. Though he didn't walk back out, either because he didn't want to look like a fool feeling around the walls to find his way out or because he thought it fair since she stayed in the bathroom with him when he showered. Either way she didn't care he was there.

" What's been going on here?" She asked while washing her hair. The water felt good after not bathing in two days. She was busy after all taking care of Hyuuga Neji.

" Nothing exciting." She wondered what he considered exciting considering Sasuke was tied up. You never know with 'The' Uchiha Itachi however.

While she showered he leaned against the wall waiting for her. She finished said shower dried herself, then wrapped the towel around her body and walked out. Itachi against followed her keeping a hand below her back but not really touching her. Hovering.

After dressing she collapsed onto her bed and he hesitantly sat at her hip. He had never sat on her bed before, he didn't hate it.

They sat in silence and he wondered if she fell asleep while he sat there, but when she spoke he knew differently. Her voice was very quiet, but it seemed loud in the once silence of the room.

" I missed you Itachi." He looked over at her, even if he couldn't see, he could picture her the way he saw her in his mind. Of course he could never be sure she looked like what he imagined her too. He knew she had pink hair from his hazy memory of her in earlier years, but he didn't know how she had grown into a woman. Then she had been, but a girl then.

He couldn't really picture her with womanly curves or with so much beauty men looked more then twice, he couldn't even picture it. He just saw in his mind a girl with long pink hair and pale skin. With determined jade eyes that saw through you not at you. Seeing into the distant future. A promising one or a challenging one he hadn't been sure then but now he knew perhaps it was both.

He might always picture her as the small female. Regardless of knowing she wasn't the same in appearance or mind ( Height maybe XD). He had felt those new curves on numerous occasion, but he just couldn't picture it in his mind. He accepted he may never see again, but what he didn't want to accept was that he would never see her. He so badly wanted to. He wanted to see her through his own eyes.

He wanted to know, he wanted so badly to see her. Not to be so weak in her eyes. To be a real man. Someone who could protect her instead of the other way around. Someone to be at her side and not behind her in the shadows. He wanted to be someone to be looked up to not down on.

He wanted to be... He frowned. What did he want? Could it be possible that he was just using Sakura as someone to fill that place his mother had left? Was that the reason he liked Sakura so much? Was it because she remind him or his mother? Or was it because she was the only person who accepted him, the only one who really under stood. Who didn't take one look and condemn him? Was it that reason? Or was it something else all together that made him like her so. To respect her.

What did he want from her? Was it respect as well? To be her equal? To be a good person in her eyes? To be a man? To get her to love him? Stop...what was that last thought? Love? Did he want her to love him? What ever for? She surely didn't want a blind man as a mate. Wait just there... how did he get from love to mate? Maybe he was just tired. Could be it.

He didn't sleep well at night, not with out her. He frowned even more. Why was he so obsessed? He had never been like this before he met her. Before any of this. Why was he different? Why did this woman rule his mind and being. Was it because she helped him so much? Was it because he was always with her? No because when she was gone he missed her. He thought of her.

Something must be terribly wrong with him to be thinking so oddly. Why hadn't he realized this before? Why was he feeling these things? Thinking these things? Wanting these things?

Love? That word had never been in his mind or vocabulary before he met her, before he went blind. Perhaps it was because he was blind he was becoming a sentimental fool. That very well could be the reason. Or perhaps it was because he was blind that he wasn't such a fool. What ever the reason why did he feel this way?

Besides all of this, Sakura would never love him because not only was he not worthy of it but because she had that blond moron Deidara. Besides he knew his younger brother Sasuke must like her as well. Or was starting to. He could tell by how his brother acted out in front of her. To show off. To prove himself. He was blind, but he was no fool. That's right. He was not a fool.

He could hear the deep breathing of the girl who always caught his attention. She was asleep this time for real. He could tell. So he tempted something he never had before now. Not when he was in his right mind at least. He brushed his hand onto her. He roamed feeling her body. Not in a perverted way but as if to read the way her body changed because he knew he would never see her with eyes, so he would use his fingers to feel her, to see with his mind what she looked like through touch.

Of course this also meant touching every curve and every place he said he would not on a woman. Even innocent places like her cheek, her arm, a knee felt wrong, felt so ...naughty. Yet he didn't stop he couldn't. She was so soft and never touching anyone this much he was in need of actual contact with a human. Never touching a woman at all had him slightly embarrassed when he came to brush a hand on the out side of her breasts, on the swoop of her thigh, the dip in her stomach. He wondered why he blushed, but knew it was some how related to touching her.

She always made him do weird things. Things he had never even thought of doing before. Never dreamed of even. She was changing him, for better or worse he didn't know, but perhaps for the better. He hoped at least, because he didn't think touching her, or thinking about her could ever be bad.

When he got a picture of her body in his mind he stopped roaming her body with a touch and let it run up and down her leg. It was the closest to his own body with out having to move and or accidentally hit her, while trying to touch her arm, and wake her up.

He just wanted to feel her for a little more. Her skin that was soft under his calloused fingers. Skin that he knew was as pale as cream and guessed would taste just as sweet.

He wasn't about to question the crazy thoughts any more. He knew his reason now for thinking these things and maybe he wasn't ready to admit it to himself just yet, but he wasn't about to remove his hand from touching something he may never get to touch so much again.

He just wondered if he could be the type of man to let the person he had an interest in go off with some blond moron who was not only a pervert, but had mouths in his hands. Itachi didn't even want to begin to think of all the places those ' mouths' touched on her, licked on her. He grimaced wanting nothing more then to scrub her body down to remove that touch. He wanted the only one to ever touch her to be him, but he knew it would never happen.

Not with that blond idiot around that is. He however might be able to take care of that problem, the only problem there really was, was of course having her fall in love with him. She trusted him at least and she cared about him, but there was a huge difference in caring for someone and loving them, that he knew.

So the real problem was that, but the real question was this: How would he get her to love him?

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Weird place to end a chapter but I'm in a weird mood in the first place, so sorry if this chapter was crazy weird and off subject and random, because It's bed time and I'm tired. Besides I just winged this chapter since I knew I needed to update something ya know? So I never got time to reread so if there are mistakes you can point them out in a review, but I will likely not care. Later.

kyo