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A.N. Hatake Sienna- I didn't mean to sound mean! LOL. I was all hyper when I uploaded it, and I happen to put LOTTS of things in caps when i'm hyper. I meant Thank you very much so, because I hadn't realized it until then, gah, make a fool of myself. I noticed you responded to one of my other stories, Thank you. Your very kind and review a lot. It's nice hearing things from you, and Thank you again for telling me! (Huggles!)
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I darted up in my bed, Itachi-like usual-was already awake, sitting on his bed. I got a pillow and threw it at him, "Don't you ever sleep?"
"You just sleep long, stop complaining." He mumbled as he looked toward me.
My glare sofetened and I wrapped myself around the blanket he had put over me. "Any clue what time it is?" I asked.
"Maybe 10. We need to go." He sighed, rubbing his temples.
"You okay?" I asked, blushing, because that is what a girl would say to her boyfriend.
"It's getting tiring, day after day, yes i'm fine."
"So you saw the scroll too?" I asked as I went to the bathroom, getting-yet again-different clothes, I wonder how they stuff it all in there.
"Hn." He looked at me until I closed the door.
"I can't believe I was the vampire." I changed hurriedly and put my long hair into an enormous bun. I walked out as the door was knocked on and went over to it, I answered to the kind maid and took the food she offered me. After closing the door I sat down and ate. "So whats next on the map?" I asked, eating oatmeal.
Itachi scoffed. "Water country."
"Lets get going...so, do we give the scroll to the Kazekage?" I asked.
"I did it, lets go." I only had time to eat the rest of my oatmeal and brush my teeth before getting out of there.
"This is definately an odd coma." I mumbled as we made our way down the hall that Itachi turned. I'm glad I grabbed the bag because i'm sure we would have forgotten it, as we walked, I slung the bow around my body so I would no longer have to hold it.
Before I could say much Garra stepped in front of us as we were about to exit the double doors. Garra looked upset, I knew exactly why, he grabbed my wrist as I took the bow off of me, he grabbed the bow and let go of my wrist. "This was my mothers." He said and sighed. "I'm gonna miss it." Something told me to accept the gift and not to argue, it really was beautiful, now it held a purple hue with a blue string.
I looked at the bow. "It's very beautiful." I stated.
"It is." He complied. "Your name is Sakura?"
"Yes it is." I said, he grabbed my wrist.
"Do you want this bow?" Garra asked.
He didn't sound like he wanted it, he sounded like he was confirming my information. I glanced at Itachi who was eyeing Garra. "Yes..."
"Hold out your right wrist then," Garra smiled his toothy grin "I won't hurt you, might sting for a minute." His red hair started flying in different directions.
Itachi glared at him, I held out my wrist. "Why?" I asked, Itachi was to my left so I kinda grabbed onto his cloak for support.
"You want the bow." He mumbled and he engraved something on the bow mysteriously. Itachi glared daggers at him.
Garra touched the wrist of my right hand and I gasped, unbelieveable pain seared through my arm for about three seconds, then there was nothing. I hadn't realized, but I gripped Itachi's hand, don't ask how it got there. "Owww, what the heck." I complained.
"Now, get out, I don't like vampires much." Garra complained, but said in a forecful kind tone and I practically sprung out of the building.
Itachi stopped for a moment. "Did you eat?" I asked.
"Yes." Itachi confirmed, he looked at my wrist as I held the bow, I put it up for him to see. It was like he wasn't afraid to touch my wrist, cause that's exactly what he did, I waited for the pain, but nothing came. I looked at the little blue-purple tattoo, a rose-stem and all, forever printed of my wrist. "A rose." He stated.
"Is that bad?" I asked.
Itachi shook his head and lightly brushed his fingers over the tattoo, and let go as we headed down the pathway we came to get here. I hurried after him, in sort of a daze, this was all wierd, but i felt the scrapes upon my legs, how could this be a coma? After much effort, I got to Itachi as we neared the gate, the guards there didn't even look at us as we passed through.
"Slow down, what's wrong?" I asked angrily, he never showed emotion but now, I had a sympathetic look on my face and as he turned, he looked a mixture of sympathetic and confused upon his features.
"What?" He asked.
"Nevermind." I mumbled, walking ahead of him.
He steered me in the right direction but I stayed a goot 5 yards in front of him until we reached a bunch of grass, I didn't even think about sand-snakes. Once I was on the grass, I wanted to drop down and hug the ground, one day and I missed the grass. I waited up for Itachi, he was not a man to look at the ground, but right now he was.
"Ne, Itachi?"
"Hn?" He looked up to my face.
"When you do eventually have children, how many do you want?" I was wondering.
He was caught off guard but did not falter, "I don't know if i'll have any." He sighed.
I missed having a girl around, as we walked, I noticed his hair was a black most girl craved their hair to be, his hair was finer than anyone else's I'd ever seen, including mine that is. As shade of trees consumed us, I know it sounded a bit weird but...
"You know, it's bad for my mental health, you not talking to me..." I said, facing him and walking backwards.
He raised an eyebrow "I answer your questions."
"You never ask any!" I said, flailing my arms and walking backwards.
"Don't walk backwards." He said to me.
"See? Even talking is good." I said.
"Sakura..." He said, "I mean it, stop walking backwards."
I closed my eyes. "Why?" I asked.
"You want to die." He mumbled and grabbed my hands, making me stop.
"I do not, Mr.Vampire sir!" I exclaimed, opening my eyes, I kept walking though.
"No one needs to know that, you know." He grumbled.
"That wasn't an answer." I said.
"Fine." He said, looking in my eyes, for the first time, I think I blushed. I yanked my hands away and faced foward, walking like a normal person.
"How long will it take to get there?" I asked.
"Only after sunrise tomorrow." He said.
"We aren't stopping?" I looked at him like an idiot, forgetting everything that might have made my cheeks turn pink.
"We are." He mumbled. "I mean, when we wake up, we'll be a few miles short of there."
"How do you know everything?" I got bummed out.
He smirked and I went back to facing foward. "I just do."
"So...i'm kinda curious, you were here right?" I asked.
"Hn." He replied.
"So, what are all of the challeges?" I had to be curious, I mean, I want to be prepared, right?
"I hope you still don't believe your in a coma." He muttered. "I did do the maze, and all I remember was that and a ball."
"A ball, as in, dancing ball?" I looked around at the trees.
"Yes. I can't remember the challenge though." He said.
"So, you were in a coma or not?"
"2 months after this, you wake up from a coma." Itachi said, which made me turn to him sharply.
"So, i'm going to be in a coma, whether I like it or not." He passed me and I followed like a puppy.
"Yes." He said. "You might not remember everything."
As I followed, I wondered where he got so very talkative, probably because our lives could end at any second...
We walked in silence for quite a while, I admired the scenery, because everything was so different from the real world, maybe I wasn't in a coma, but if this is all so real, then when I wake up from a coma in 2 months and someodd days, I want proof that I was here, or even that i'm there. Pain was enough, I mean, you can't make people feel pain in a coma right? We stopped briefly for lunch and a small break, neither of us talked as we went and kept going, I had a nasty egg sandwich for lunch with water, that was just fine, it wasn't like I was royal or anything.
We continued walking as the sun was setting and I couldn't believe I barely talked, was I becoming like Itachi? no...he talked, he just really didn't see the point when you had to reason to. "Itachi?" I asked.
"Hm?" It was better than hn.
"How come you don't like talking?" I asked.
"We're almost there, and I don't see the point, it was just something I did with Sasuke." He grimaced and I stopped asking until we got to our destination which was a run down hotel, wooden, which I loved.
We entered and the lady at the front smiled to us. "One room?" she asked nicely, I wish she could come with us.
Before I could answer, Itachi did "Yes please." She handed him a key as he handed over the money, how he got it, I don't know.
I followed Itachi to the room and as we got inside, my stomach growled fiercely. "Do you even have a problem with eating?" I mumbled enough for him to hear.
He shut the door and I noticed one bed, "No," He said simply. "But I am going out to eat."
He looked at me, expecting an answer to an obvious question "No, I don't need anything, I'm going to eat ramen and sleep." He threw me off with the bed thing as he exited. I went to the bed and set the backpack down along with the bow that was around me, grabbing my clothes from inside of it. I hit my head, how does this backpack work! it's like BAM! then all of the sudden there's stuff in it, out of nowhere! I grabbed my clothes and went into the bathroom, stripping down while the water I just turned on, warmed up. I got in the shower and sighed.
'I wonder what they expect me to do tomorrow, I hope i'm ready for it.' I lathered shampoo in my hair and rinsed it out, conditioner was such a pain the the but, I quickly jumped out of the shower for a moment and wrapped a towel around me and went and ran to the backpack, dripping cold, I grabbed a Kunai that Itachi knew how to use expertly and ran to the bathroom again, I went and looked in the foggy mirror and looke at the Kunai and then started cutting my hair to my mid back, I did it cruddily and quickly to where I accidently cut myself, but it wasn't big so I dismissed it and finished with my hair, putting the kunai on the counter and my hair in the wastebasket, then I jumped in the shower. I rinsed off all the extra hair and hurried to wash my body and the rest of my hair. I got out and quickly dried off and got dressed, I noticed the cut on my hand hadn't stopped bleeding, I pulled my har into a pony-tail and went out, bumping into a chest, it was Itachi.
"You okay?" He asked.
I put a puppy-dog face on and handed him the kunai, holding up my cut, "Will you kiss it?"
He had a deadpan look and dragged me to the bed, clearing off the backpack and the bow, making me sit down. I sat down and he looked up at my eyes, kneeling before me.
"It hasn't stopped bleeding." I stated.
"You used a kunai." He stated.
I sighed. "I was only cutting my hair." I knew he knew.
"This will hurt for a second." He grabbed my hand and started sucking the blood, no fangs or anything. I hissed for a second, then there was no pain, and he stopped. He grabbed white bandage and wrapped it around my hand.
"Like, oww, what the heck..." I murmerd. He looked at me, "Yeah, that's right, I know you like that blood, and I am completely aware it was my fault."
He got finished. "Next time you need something sharp, ask me so I can help you."
"Fine," I waved him off and I crawled up the bed and snuggled on one side under the covers. I looked at him "You do sleep, don't you?" I asked.
"Hn." He unlastched his katana and cloak and went into the bathroom. I drifted off to sleep, but before I sleep fully consumed me, I felt Itachi get on the bed, and I fell into an envelope of sleep.