A/N So I'm really stoked about the number of people favoriting the story. Every time the number goes up my confidence just boosts a tad more. Though reviews are equally, if not, nicer (: And for everyone this is probably going to have fluff and Itachi is out of character but alas this is my story! .

The training is sort of going to be skimped on in order to move the story along to where I want it to be. Sorry my faithful readers .

Disclaimer: Don't own. Maybe one day in the distant future. XP

Recap

"Ne, I wouldn't use stunning as an adjective to describe a male Sakura-chan" He said in a velvety smooth voice. Her blush increased ten-fold and noticed his leering gaze and then his thoughts entered her brain. "She looks cute when she blushes" Sakura smirked and called out in a sing song voice, "Ne Itachi if you wanted me to blush you could of just said so" She teased.

His look was of complete and utter shock for a moment until he regained his composure and "hn'ed". This was going to be the start of an interesting training session.

Itachi's smirk was grinding on Sakura's last nerve, and the fact they could read each others thoughts and feelings didn't help. They continued to dodge each others move's and analyze each others thoughts. Sakura couldn't help but let a devilish smile grace her features and she did a series of handsigns. All of a sudden Itachi could not hear what Sakura was planning anymore, yet she continued to hear his thoughts.

"Damn" He growled out and then a strange sight unfolded before him. Sakura was crouched down and two dragons seemingly burst from her perfect skin. His sharigan caught it and threw the dragon into another dimenson. Both parties were panting and collapsed at the same time.

"You did good Haruno-san" Itachi whispered.

"Quit the formalities, you can pretty much read my thoughts that entitles some sort of closeness" Sakura replied hotly.

"As you wish Sakura-chan" He lightly teased. A miniscule smile spread across his delicate features as he watched her cheeks redden with embarassment.

"You look quite beautiful when you blush" He offhandly said. Shocked that he even confessed that he waited for her reaction.

"Thanks, I can't say you look bad yourself Itachi-kun" Sakura replied using Itachi's earlier joke against him. He chuckled lightly and rolled over to face Sakura. He noticed stray hairs sticking to sweat on her forehead and decided to brush them out of her face. His hand lingered in a light caress on her cheek. Both parties continued to lean in when loud crash was heard. The crash brought both shinobi back to their senses as they quickly pulled apart.

"SAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKURA-CHAN, Tobi has missed you! He's been a good boy on a mission. Though he missed his bestfriend dearly" Tobi screeched as he grabbed Sakura into one of his infamous bear hugs.

"Let her go Tobi, un. She needs to breathe, yea" Deidara replied looking bored.

Itachi cleared his throat and forcefully grabbed Sakura's hand and pulled her out of the room. She obeidently followed until they entered the Uchicha's bedroom. Once he slammed the door closed he looked down and kissed her. She was in shock by his actions but quickly melted in the kiss. She had never felt like this when anybody else kissed her. She was lightheaded and her lips had a tingling sensation and left her with a lopsided smile. Immeadiately after the kiss though, Sakura clutched her head in pain as an unfamilar flashback hit her.

(Flashback)

"Who could ever love someone as weird and disgusting as you" a young eight year old boy sneered at the rosette girl. Sakura whimpered as she was being surronded by the group of kids that had a vicious killing of a sudden an ten year old boy walked up to the scene. He had witnessed the poor girl cowering in the playground and decided to stop it at once. For some unknown reason his heart dropped into his stomach thinking about how these children were so incredibly cruel to this little angel. As the leader of the group raised a kunai and aimed for the girl's heart and a gruff voice ordered the assault off. Sakura looked up fearful it was a stronger kid wanting to hurt her more until she realized the boy was her saviour. The kids recognized the boy as the youngest memeber of Anbu and qucikly scattered.

"What is your name girl?" Itachi questioned.

"My n-naame is Sakkk-uura Hhhharunnno" Sakura stuttered as she feared he'd beat her once he knew her name.

"Why that is a beautiful name, it suits you." He said with a small smile.

Her eyes widened not used to hearing compliments, "You think so?"

"Of course, I wouldn't say anything I don't mean" He replied honestly.

"Whats your name?" Sakura asked tentatively not wanting to scare off a potential friend.

"Itachi Uchicha"The said boy replied coolly.

After that incident the two children had been inseperable except whenever Sakura had academy or Itachi had a mission.

-One year later-

"Sakura-chan, I'm getting ready to do something truly evil and I need you to know something before I do" Itachi murmured as he looked at his pinkhaired companion.

"What Itachi-kun" Sakura asked innocently.

"I want you to know that I love you, but I've been assigned a mission that will force me to leave after it is completed. You need to know I'm going to come back for you one day so we can get married" He said in a rushed manner.

"Then, I'll wait for you no matter what. Then we'll get married." She said smiling softly as she gazed into his eyes.

"I'm leaving for now, but I need you to know I love you" He said.

"Then until we see each other again, I love you too Itachi-kun" Sakura said with tears in her eyes. He leaned forward down to kiss her forehead and disappeared to his home.

(Reality)

"Itachi, do you remember what you promised before you left Kohona" Sakura whispered.

"Hai, I can't forget an important promise like that" He replied softly looking for any sort of response in her jewel colored eyes.

"They must of put a restrictive barrier around thos memories, but I remember. I remember now" She said mostly to reassure herself.

"Well, how do the memories make you feel" Itachi asked, bracing himself for rejection.

"They make me want to be with you even more, Itachi-kun" She whispered.

Itachi had a look of pure happiness that only Sakura ever got to see and he leaned down and once again captured her lips.-

-At Kohona's Gates-

"Ne, Teme isn't it nice to be back home! I can't wait to see Sakura and have team 7 reunited. You better believe it" Naruto said excitedly.

"Hn" was Sasuke's only reply. Though deep down he was excited to see his sister figure as well. She was the only girl that with boy felt a somewhat deep connection with. He also new their perverted sensei missed her as well. She was the glue that help their little family together.

Once the trio reached the gate an Anbu immeadiately recognized them and bowed to Naruto.

"Welcome home, Hokage-sama" The Anbu politely said.

"WHAAAA? What happened to granny-chan?" Naruto questioned highly confused by the Anbu's actions

"Hokage-sama, Tsuande was killed while you were away. According to the substitute Hokage it was her apprentice that turned on her and killed her" He said solemnly.

"Thats a lie" Sasuke seethed. He had been there when Tsuande was injured and assumed she made it back to Kohona for treatment. "Orochimaru killed her, she died protecting Sakura" He spat out.

Naruto and Kakashi's eyes narrowed dangerously at the turn of events. Clearly Sakura did not stay in Kohona fearing for her safety. The Anbu quivered in fear as he felt the hate radiating off the three powerful male shinobi in front of him.

"Take us to where this substitute is" Naruto snarled out.

The Anbu obliged and took them to the hokage tower and they entered the building.

"Why, it's so wondeful for you to return Naruto-san. You can now properly take your role as Hokage" an unfamilar male smiled towards the group.

"My first act as hokage is to punish you of treason. The punishment is death" Naruto spat out. He didn't care to deal with formalities. This man had destroyed his teammates life and potentially put her in danger. Both Sasuke and Kakashi went to apprehend the sub as he then transformed into a log and sucessfully escaped.

"Damn it!" Naruto yelled as he slammed his fist into the table

-A few miles from Kohona-

"Everything is set in place" Sneered the man in cloak with familar red clouds.

"We'll take down both Kohona and the Akatsuki with just one girl" the other chuckled darkly.

"Yea, one blossom to take down to great powers, but I must head back to base to finish stage two of our plans" He smiled and bowed graciously to his leader.

"Don't fail me now" And with that said disappeared to his own hideout.

Cliffhanger... MUHAHAHA. Just kidding but I hope this chapter makes you excited for upcoming ones. I orginally planned for Kohona Nine to be evil but I just can't picture team 7 as remotely evil "/ So, I'm going to make their roles super useful.

And I hope the minor fluff was to each reader's liking. I hoped that could help explain there intense attraction to each other.

So, hit that review button and make me a happy authoress. (: