Hello people. I don't have much to say about this chapter so yeah. I just hope that people don't kill me at the end of it...

And thank you all for those who reviewed! I hit the two hundred mark! I'm happy about that, but I still only got 24 compared to the normal 35-40. So I'm a little bit sad about that. And thank you to my beta reader for fixing my messes. But I really want to thank those who sent in prank ideas I got some really good ones out of it. And as soon as I get to a good place I will try and use them! (Meaning they wont be in this chapter.)

Chapter Eight: Be Mine?

Kagome awoke the next morning completely comfortable. It felt so good to be home in her own bed. Snuggling deeper into her pillow, she noticed how hard it was. When did her pillows get so stiff? A little bit more awake now, she noticed its slight movement. And when did her pillows start breathing?

Kagome's eyes popped open. Snapping her head up so fast that it almost gave her whiplash, she looked to see who her pillow was. And there, breathing peacefully in his sleep, was Itachi. He was actually very handsome, she truly noticed for the first time. Now that he wasn't awake and being a jerk, she could really look him over without getting a death glare. He was actually quite attractive, now that she got a good look at him.

Looking out the window, she saw that it was time to get up. Trying to get up to make breakfast, she soon found a slight problem. Itachi had an arm around her waist that was pulling her up into him. Looking at her own position, she noticed that her leg was over his. Carefully removing said limb, she tried to get out of the sticky situation without waking Itachi up. If he knew what position they were in, she wouldn't have that limb for much longer.

When she tried to lift Itachi's arm, she was just pulled closer. Kagome tried again, more slowly this time, but he just tightened his grip. Her face was now one with his chest. It felt like, if he held her any tighter, she might merge with his skin. Not a very pleasant thought, to be honest. Growing quite angry, she tried to rip the offending limb from herself and shove him off. His arm didn't even budge. He had a grip of steel on her, and he wasn't letting go.

"Stop moving," Itachi ordered. "I'm trying to sleep," he mumbled, before snuggling into the nook of her neck. Kagome blushed a deep red. Here was a man that would make any woman's legs turn to jelly by just looking at them, snuggling into her neck, and going to sleep. Somehow, she could now sort of sympathize with what teddy bears must go through. Those poor, poor things.

Kagome tried to move again, but found that she couldn't even budge. The blasted necklace wouldn't let her. He had ordered her to not move, and now she was stuck like this until Itachi woke up. Knowing that struggling against the rosary would do no good, she went back to sleep.

An hour later, Itachi woke feeling more relaxed than he had in years. Pulling the warmth closer, he got ready to actually fully wake up. Slowly blinking the sleep out of his eyes, he looked down to see Kagome snuggling into his chest. She looked so childlike when she was sleeping. She seemed so fragile, as if at the slightest touch she would break. Placing a hand on the top of her head, he started to feel her long, silky black hair. He could get used to waking to this every morning.

Her hair was very nice. She must have brushed it a lot to get it this soft. Now that he looked close, he could see that her hair had an unusual blue tint in it. But feeling the texture, he could tell that it was natural, not dyed. It reminded him of his little brother's hair. He had the same blue tint.

Deciding to play with her a little, he leaned forward to her ear, and whispered in it. "I believe that you were supposed to stay on your side of the bed?" It was true, too. His back was still against the wall. That meant that either he had pulled her to him, or she had come to him.

Kagome's eyes shot open. She tried to get out of the embrace, but, not only did Itachi still have a steel grip on her, the necklace was still activated. Itachi saw the necklace glow when she tried to move. "I would have gladly already left, if it wasn't for you commanding me to stop moving when I tried to get out of your vise-like grip," Kagome bit out.

Itachi smirked at her. "So… I can command you not to move, and you won't be able to stop anything I do to you," Itachi said with a little mischief in his eyes.

Kagome glared at him. What was he getting at? Before she could think of anything to yell at him about letting her go, he swooped down and kissed her on the lips. Kagome's mind went into lock-down. Mr. 'Everyone but me are worth less than the annoying gum on the bottom of my shoe' was kissing her. He was stealing another one of her kisses, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. The worse thing was, even if she could stop it, she wouldn't have.

Hey, it was her first real kiss. And it was with a hot guy that would make any girl turn to a puddle of goo. Then she remembered his personality. Yeah, that part sucked. He really needed to work on it. Like asking before kissing a girl. Then it really clicked in her mind. Her warden was kissing her. No longer enjoying the kiss as much as before, she started to get angry. He had no right to kiss her like this! And as soon as it was done, she was going to let him have it.

Itachi pulled away from her lips. That felt good. And it shut her up very quickly. When he saw she was going to start yelling, his attention switched to her lips. Then, without realizing what he was doing, he had started kissing her again. She was still just lying there, too shocked to move. He smirked at her expression.

She wasn't expecting that again so soon. Did she mention that he was a good kisser? Not that she had much experience in the area, this being her first proper experience kissing but dang, she was pretty sure that he was good.

Itachi started to get up, and Kagome snapped out of her daze. Getting angry, she opened her mouth to yell at him.

"Go get breakfast ready; I'm sure you are late as it is," Itachi said. He watched as she got out of bed, and left the room against her will, still in her PJ's.

Itachi waited until after Kagome was gone to get out a clean set of clothes and make his way to the Hot Springs.

With Kagome

To say that Kagome was ticked off would be an understatement. She was furious enough to rip off heads. How dare he kiss her! Was it a habit of his to kiss her when she couldn't do anything or something? That was now three, repeat three kisses he had stolen!

Walking into the kitchen, she took out some eggs from the refrigerator. Finding a bowl, she mixed the eggs with some other ingredients to make everyone omelets.

Then he'd had the nerve to tell her that she was late, and needed to get breakfast, like it was her fault she couldn't do it sooner! Oh, she was going to kill that man!

Whisking at the eggs furiously, she didn't notice when Kisame walked into the kitchen. Getting the bright idea to spook her, he snuck up behind her, and poked her on both sides of her waist. She jumped and, turning around, hit him in the face with an egg-goop-covered, miko-charged whisk.

Kisame fell to the ground holding his now slimy cheek. 'That had to burn worse than acid.' Kagome, seeing Kisame slowly getting his face purified, ran over to him. Charging her hand with healing energy, she stopped the purification, and started to heal the damage.

"Don't do that, Kisame; my powers could really hurt you," she said angrily, but still concerned. She grabbed a rag from the counter and wiped the egg off his face.

"What's the matter with you? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?" Kisame asked jokingly. When he saw her tense, he knew he hit a nerve.

"Yes! And that stupid egomaniac will pay for what he did!" Kagome said with a vengeance, before going back to beating the eggs. Kisame, seeing his food in danger, tried to calm her down.

"What man? What did he do?" Kisame asked as he started his instant coffee. After it was done, he turned his attention to her. He was pretty sure he knew who it was, but he needed to get the facts right if his food was to survive.

Kagome turned around, and he could see the wrath burning in her eyes. He was just happy it wasn't directed at him. "First!" She held up a finger. "Any reasonable gentleman would offer the bed for a lady and sleep on the floor. He refuses to give me the bed, and then orders me to sleep in the same one he's in. We make the agreement to stay on opposite sides of the bed and he agrees. Second!" she held up another finger. "I wake up in a death grip, and he refuses to let go. Then, when I try to get out of it, he orders me to not move, and goes back to sleep! Third!" Three fingers now. "He wakes up telling me how I'm on his side, and then he finds I can't move, and he smirks! Smirks! And if that wasn't bad enough, he kisses me!" Kisame spit the coffee all over.

"H… HE KISSED YOU!" Kisame exclaimed. He knew that Kagome was a nice, attractive girl and all, but Itachi? Did Itachi even like girls? Then, thinking about all the alone time he spent on missions with Itachi, he hoped so.

"Yes! Then, when I was about to yell at him, he does it again! That makes it the THIRD kiss he's stolen from me! Then, as if nothing had happened, he ordered me to leave and to start breakfast!" Kagome shouted. Kisame was still having a hard time taking in Itachi kissing someone.

Deidara walked into the room. Looking over at a choking Kisame and a furious Kagome, he asked what anyone would ask. "What's up, Un?"

Kisame pointed a finger at Kagome. "ITACHI KISSED KAGOME!" Deidara's jaw dropped. Looking over at Kagome, and seeing her not denying it but looking extremely furious, he became enraged. Itachi was already trying to claim Kagome.

Suddenly, Kisame had a wicked smile. "So, Kagome…" She looked at him. "What was it like to live every fangirl's dream?"

Kagome turned beet red. "SHOCK!!" Kisame became a twitching form on the ground. Kagome went back to making (beating) omelets.

Deidara walked over to him, and started to poke him with a wooden spoon from the counter. So this is what Kagome could do, huh? Yeah, that is one piece of jewelry he could do without.

"Deidara, go wait in the dinning room; your omelet should be ready soon. Oh, and could you drag Kisame out there, too?" Kagome asked nicely. It wouldn't do any good to take her anger out on people who didn't cause it she decided. Deidara stopped poking Kisame's unconscious and twitching form, and nodded. He definitely didn't want to get on Kagome's bad side.

Kagome went back to making breakfast for everyone. Well, except for Sasori, because he didn't need to eat food. What does he need to stay alive? Oil? She would have to ask him about it later, but only if she had Deidara or Kisame with her while she asked. Even though she hated Itachi's guts, she wasn't stupid. If he said that little boy would try and make her into a puppet given the chance, then she would take his word on it until further notice.

As the she let the omelets cook, she thought over this new world she was in. From what she could see of the run-down town, it appeared to have technology, but not to the point of being more advanced than her own world was. Then, it had the benefits of the feudal era that she loved - the clean air, the forest and trees everywhere - but without demons trying to eat her every ten minutes. Maybe this new world wasn't so bad.

Seeing the first omelet was done, Kagome took it off and started on the next one. She hoped that some of the other members would be coming back to base soon. She'd like to meet them while people she already knew were still here, so she wouldn't have to face them alone. Not that she minded meeting new people or was shy. Far from it. She just… didn't feel that comfortable meeting a bunch of psychopathic killers by herself. She didn't think anyone would, in her shoes.

Finishing the second omelet, she started on the third. Today, she was going to find out what there was to do around this place. She couldn't go out without someone with her, and the only ones she trusted were Kisame and Deidara. She trusted Itachi to a degree, but if he told her to do something, then she would have to do it.

Thinking of which, she was starting to think that she may have a way around the blasted necklace. She would have to try it out later in the day, and follow the command given anyway, to not let him know about it so that she could have the element of surprise. It would be priceless to see the look on his face when he realizes that he couldn't control her anymore.

Finishing up cooking, she brought one plate to Leader's door. Kagome knocked once, said "Food," in a clear voice, and left the tray outside the door. She didn't want to bother him. She would come to pick up the tray after breakfast was over.

Going back to the kitchen, she picked up the plate of omelets in one hand and the others' plates and forks in the other hand. Walking to the dinning room, she saw Kisame and Deidara talking while waiting for their food.

Smiling, she placed the omelets on the table, and passed out the plates, setting one aside for Itachi. Not stopping their conversation, the two men each grabbed an omelet and started eating.

"This is really good, Un!" Deidara complimented Kagome's cooking after a second of the food being in his mouth.

"Yeah. You did a great job Kagome; this taste delicious," Kisame agreed.

Kagome beamed with pride. Omelets were her specialty. Inuyasha never complimented her cooking except for when she made instant ramen, and he mostly complained the whole three minutes it took to cook. It felt good to have someone notice her hard work for once.

Dishing herself out, she started on her omelet. When she was halfway done, she heard the dinning room door open. Looking up, she met eyes with Itachi, his wet hair fresh from the shower. Itachi held her gaze until she broke it off and turned back to her food.

Kagome glimpsed, out of the corner of her eye, Itachi pulling out the seat next to her. Without a word, he dished himself an omelet and started eating.

Kagome felt an uneasy silence brake out at the table. Looking around, she could see Deidara full-out glaring at Itachi.

Itachi noticed Deidara's glare and ignored it. When he saw Deidara clinch his fist, he mentally smirked. So Deidara knew about the kiss, did he? He looked over at Kisame to see him looking at him knowingly. Kagome must have told them what happened this morning. That was okay, he decided; it just showed the others who she belonged to. If he had told them, they wouldn't have believed it nearly as much as coming from an angry Kagome's mouth.

"Sooo," Kisame tried to break the deadly silence that had settled. "What are your plans for today, Kagome?" he asked.

Kagome smiled thankfully at him for breaking the silence. "I'm not really sure. I was going to organize the kitchen to my liking, since I'm the one who's going to be using it the most. After that, I was going to see what there is to do for fun around here. Do either of you know anything fun to do here?" Kagome asked Deidara and Kisame, ignoring Itachi, before taking a bite out of her omelet.

Deidara saw she was still mad at Itachi, and looked smugly over at him. It looked like she didn't really even like Itachi. He would defiantly have the advantage in this silent war over Kagome.

"Well, there isn't really that much to do at base. There's a T.V. in the living room, we have a hot springs, and then there's the training area. Besides that, there isn't much to do here. Whenever we're at base, it usually isn't for a very long time, and then it's to rest up for another mission," Kisame said with a shrug, and went back to eating his breakfast.

Kagome's shoulders slumped. There was almost nothing to do here. She was never one for much T.V., and she probably wouldn't really get most of the programs here anyway. Then there was the hot springs. She could spend time there, but not even she could spend all of her free time in one. She guessed she could spend her time training, but that would only keep her occupied for so long. Things would get boring here very fast for her. She was used to wide open spaces, and constant walking, and meeting new people. She didn't even know if there were any other females that she would be able to talk to here.

"You could always help me sculpt, yeah," Deidara added helpfully.

Kagome gave him a hundred-watt smile. "I think I'll take you up on that offer, thanks."

"No problem, yeah." Deidara smiled back. Itachi glared at him, which just made Deidara smile wider. "Would you like to help me after you're done doing dishes, yeah?" Deidara inquired.

"Sure."

Everyone finished eating, and Kagome gathered up the plates. Placing them in the sink, she went to get Leader's plate. It was empty and once again sitting outside his door. Kagome briefly wondered if he ever got out of that office. Deciding to think about it later, she picked up the plate and went back to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Coming back into the kitchen, she saw Itachi waiting by the sink. He looked unemotional as usual, just standing there leaning up against the counter, waiting for her to speak first and acknowledge his presence.

Furrowing her eyebrows slightly, she walked up to the sink and turned on the water, completely ignoring him. He may want to talk to her, but she didn't want to even see him. She was still ticked off about this morning. Just who did he think he was? Did he think that he was the king of the world? Well, news flash to him, he wasn't! She had made sure of it, and even asked Kisame how the government worked here. He didn't give her too much information, but enough to know that Itachi most certainly wasn't king, not even close.

When the sink filled to where she wanted it, she stopped the water and started to rinse the majority of the remaining food off one of the dishes, then put it in the side with the water. She repeated this process several times before Itachi spoke up.

He couldn't believe the nerve of this woman! Just who did she think she was, ignoring him like that? He was Itachi Uchiha! He could kill her with nothing more than a lazy flick of his wrist! He was the head of the Uchiha clan! Even if he did destroy the clan, he was still the head and he deserved some respect, dang it!

"Kagome," Itachi said coldly. She continued to do the dishes and ignore him. He slightly furrowed his brows. She was dismissing his presence, again. "Kagome," he said in a more demanding tone. She didn't even pause in her work. Itachi's fists clenched. Fine, he would do it the hard way.

Itachi's hand shot out and grabbed her chin, forcing it to turn to him, and he was met with a glare. "What?" she spat out like venom, hoping that the words would somehow bite him or something if she said them meanly enough. "Don't you have some ninja stuff or something to do?" she mocked.

Itachi met her glare with one of his own. "You will answer me when I call you," Itachi demanded. He briefly noticed the back of her necklace glow before fading back to normal.

"Why should I? I can ignore you if I want to," Kagome snapped at him.

"You will answer me when I call you. You will not ignore me when I demand your attention." Itachi stated it so that no room was left for augment.

"Just watch me." She snapped her chin out of his grip, and went back to doing dishes.

Itachi's Sharingan activated from his anger. "Look at me, Kagome," he demanded. He saw Kagome fight to not look at him, but eventually she had to listen.

"What do you want? Can't you see I'm trying to work? Or do those pin-wheels you call eyes not work?" Kagome demanded.

"You will talk to me with respect, or I will cut out your tongue," Itachi threatened. She didn't know how true that 'eyes not working' insult was.

Kagome stuck out a finger, and poked him in the chest with each word she said. She started taking a step with each poke. "You can't make me!"

Itachi grabbed her finger. "You need to learn your place."

Kagome narrowed her eyes. What was it with demon-blooded guys saying her place was under them? "I already know my place. Away from you! And if you would kindly let go of my finger, I will gladly get my bag, and go to my place. Far, far away from you!" Kagome started to try to tug her finger out of his grip but to no avail. What was his grip made from? Steel? Titanium, maybe?

Itachi grabbed her wrist, and pulled quickly on it. Kagome, not expecting the sudden tug, fell against Itachi's chest. For the second time that day she noticed just how well built Itachi's chest was. It was rock solid with muscle, but still had a soft outside. Kagome blushed a little from her thoughts.

"Your place is where ever I say it is," Itachi stated coldly. Kagome snapped out of her daze, and started to get mad again. "You are not to leave this base without my permission. And you are to avoid Deidara, and are not to talk to him without my permission. Did I make myself clear?"

"I don't have to listen to you. I'm not your property! I have my own free will, and I can chose to see any person I want too!"

Itachi backhanded her. Kagome felt the sting before she even hit the ground. "You will listen to what I tell you. You belong to me now. You are my property, and you will obey me." Itachi glared at her. The Sharingan was just barely kept at bay. She had been overstepping her bounds for too long now. It was time for her to learn where the line was, and to learn not to cross it.

With that final word, Kagome snapped, and her mind went blank. It was happening again. The only difference this time was that she wouldn't take it. All of her friends had trained her in some shape or form so she could protect herself. She may not be an all-powerful Demon Lord like Sesshomaru, not even a priestess trained with years of experience, but she knew enough to at least try and stop this.

Kagome quickly spun her legs, and knocked Itachi off balance. Itachi steadied himself easily from the unexpected move, and looked over six feet to see that the fingertips on Kagome's right hand were glowing dark blue. He knew that the glow was her miko chi, which she was channeling to get ready for an attack.

Itachi looked at the rosary she had on. It was supposed to stop her from attacking him. Looking closely, he saw that the rosary was slightly shocking her in warning. She didn't show any pain on her face, though. It was a blank mask. Looking at her eyes, he saw how dull they were. Her mind had gone into shut-down for some reason, which meant she wouldn't feel any pain inflicted on her.

Kagome snapped her wrist. A long, dark blue whip formed, trailing around from where her fingers were going down. Kagome lifted the whip, and struck it at Itachi. He dodged with ease. In the back of Kagome's mind, she could feel the voltage go up on the rosary. Ignoring the pain, she started to yell.

"I don't belong to anyone!" She tried to hit him again. "You don't own me! You don't even know me!" Kagome lashed out at him a couple more times.

By now, the other members at base had come to see what the commotion was all about. Kisame was the first in the door, just in time to see Itachi jump right in front of him, before jumping a few feet away. Next thing Kisame knew, a dark blue whip cracked not two inches in front of his feet. The whip quickly changed direction, and slashed after Itachi. Looking at the owner of the whip, he was shocked to see Kagome in a blind rage, and her rosary madly shocking her. The other members watched over his shoulder as Kagome tried to kill Itachi.

Now they could all see how Kagome could kill a demon easily. The power she formed her whip with had them all on edge, and made the hair on the back of their necks stand on end. The only thing that went through their minds beside a long line of colorful curses was that they were all glad she wasn't ticked at them.

Itachi dodged another close hit from the whip. She would make a great sparring partner. But the shock from the necklace couldn't be good for her. She would pass out from the voltage if he didn't stop this soon. She was in a blind rage, and no amount of talking would get her out of it. Whatever he had done to trigger this must be something from her past. It was like she was seeing someone else when she attacked him.

"It's not my fault! It's not my fault!" Kagome screamed at him. Now Itachi knew she must be seeing someone else.

Itachi quickly blurred behind her. She seemed to know this, and quickly spun to try to hit him and hopefully cut his body in two. But that didn't happen. He blurred again, right before the whip would have touched him, and appeared in front of her. Before she could strike again, he grabbed both of her wrists. But he wasn't expecting the quick knee to the groin that she delivered, or the kick to the stomach that sent him flying into the kitchen wall. That wasn't a move they taught ninjas, but it was still very effective.

Itachi stood back up, and placed on his emotionless mask, but on the inside he was debating on whether or not to forget the current plan and just go back to the original plan of slowly torturing her to death.

After Kagome kneed him, she slowly felt the Jewel waking up. The only reason she had been able to get this far without the Jewel suppressing her powers was that it was asleep. She was lucky that the Jewel was so lazy, because since she had the rosary placed on her, she had shielded her mind from it. At times it had been hard, but after they got to base, the Jewel had eventually stopped trying to pry into her mind.

Itachi suddenly felt the Jewel inside his mind in the middle of his cussing spree. Not that you could tell that from how he looked on the outside. On the outside, he looked perfectly fine, and was glaring at Kagome.

'Yo, what happened while I was asleep? This place looks like crap. So do you at the moment, now that I look at it,' the Jewel, Bob, casually stated.

'That WENCH has been attacking me! She even had the nerve to knee me in the groin! I'm going to KILL the wench!' Itachi screamed at the Jewel in his mind. He wanted to yell his frustrations at someone, why not Bob? It wasn't like it was going to talk to any of the other members, except maybe Leader.

'Ow, that must have hurt. Well, you just need to calm down, and tell me how this all happened,' the Jewel said slowly and like he was talking to a small crying child.

Itachi seriously debated if there was a way to kill a magical marble. 'YOU IDIOT!!' Bob suddenly screamed in his mind after reviewing what had happened. Itachi tried his best not to twitch from all the pain he was in at the moment. 'I thought that you were more intelligent than that! I even had you read her diary so that this could all have been avoided! Do you have ANY idea how bad it is to tell her something like that?! And you BACKHANDED her! What the heck were you thinking?!' the Jewel ranted in his mind. Itachi ignored it. He had to somehow calm Kagome down enough that she would stop being a harm to herself and others.

Now! You need to calm her down now! Much more pressure from that rosary will either snap it or kill her!' the Jewel said frantically.

'Hn.' Itachi put a mind barrier up so he could focus on the task at hand. He saw the Jewel put a block on her powers, and he took his chance. Flipping her onto her back, he pulled Kagome's arms behind her back and pressed one knee onto the middle of her back while the other held down her legs.

"Kagome!" Itachi demanded is a stern tone. "You will cease this nonsense at once!" Kagome started to struggle, and Itachi lifted her arms higher, sending bolts of pain down her arms.

"I HATE you! Why are you doing this to me?! What did I do WRONG?!" Kagome shouted while trying to struggle out of Itachi's grip. Kagome screamed out in pain as the Jewel put more pressure. She was almost to her breaking point.

Itachi decide to take a different approach. Talking sense to her wasn't doing much. She was too far into whatever memories she was having. Pulling out a small bottle of liquid lavender, he rubbed some of the liquid into his palm and rubbed it into his skin on his neck. Relaxing the pressure on her arms a little, he leaned forward until his mouth was right next to her ear. He softly stated her name. "Kagome, you need to calm down." Kagome struggled some more, but not as hard as before. "I'm not going to hurt you. You need to calm down." She still struggled, but he could feel that she was rapidly losing her strength, and was slightly calming down from the smooth and gentler tones of his voice. "Shhh, don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. You just need to calm down." Itachi shifted Kagome so that she was sitting in his lap while he wrapped his legs around her and held her arms crisscrossed so she couldn't lash out again.

Itachi could feel Kagome rapidly calming down. Seeing that his plan was working, he started to slightly rock her back and forth.

The part of Kagome's mind that was still conscious briefly noticed the smell of lavender. She heard someone talking in low tones to calm her down. Stupid monotone voice. Sesshomaru could calm her down with his voice, too, the stupid jerk. Who was it that knew that the smell of lavender and gentle tones calmed her down, anyway? With the last of her strength, Kagome managed to get out a couple of important words.

"Please…don't hurt me." Kagome quickly felt her conscious slipping.

Itachi leaned closer to her ear so she could hear him better. "Don't worry, I won't let anything hurt you, Kagome," he whispered in her ear as he rubbed small circles into her back. Kagome let out a sigh of relief as she passed out.

Itachi looked over at the entrance of the kitchen to see all three other members that were at base looking at him in shock and disbelief. Who knew that Itachi could be nice?

Kisame opened his mouth only to snap it shut the next second. This went on for a couple of seconds until he managed to get two words out. "What happened?"

"Something triggered a bad memory for Kagome, and her brain blocked itself and put her body into defensive mode." Itachi explained like it was an everyday thing. Looking down at the heavily breathing Kagome, he could tell she was getting a fever. Feeling her head to make sure, Itachi picked her up bridal style to bring her to a bed.

Getting to the door, he saw that no one had moved. "Do you need something?" Itachi asked emotionlessly.

Deidara looked at Kagome closely and then glared at Itachi. "You slapped her," he said angrily. Kisame looked at Kagome, and then looked to Itachi, shocked.

Itachi glared at Deidara. "And if I did?" he challenged.

"Give her to me. I'll take care of her. You're the one who probably triggered the memory." Deidara was so angry that he dropped his added words.

Itachi glared at him. He couldn't really say anything, because he knew that he was the one to trigger the memory. So, instead, he settled for demanding that they get out of his way. "Move." Itachi looked over at Kisame. "You go and get Konan. Send her to my room." Kisame looked at Itachi's serious face and nodded, before pushing the other two out of his way and heading towards Leader's office. Konan could almost always be found with Leader.

Itachi started to step forward, but Deidara got in his way. "Give me Kagome. If you hit her, you don't deserve her. I will take care of her. You have done enough," Deidara said seriously.

Itachi stood where he was. Then, in a tone that clearly said he'd kill Deidara if he didn't do as Itachi said, he told him to "Get out of the way."

Deidara reached a hand into his clay pouch. He was about to attack Itachi when he felt Leader summoning him. Cursing violently, he glared at Itachi. "This isn't over yet," Deidara stated before storming out of the kitchen.

Sasori looked at him briefly before looking at the girl in his arms. "It will be harder for you to gain her trust now, you know. If that triggered a memory that caused her to go into mental shut-down and defensive mode, then you slapping her will put a natural fear of you in her mind. I don't know what your plans for this girl are, but you should be prepared for a different reaction from her when she awakes," Sasori stated, looking straight in Itachi's eyes. Itachi gave him a solid nod before Sasori turned and walked away.

Itachi looked down at Kagome, and saw how the bruising was forming all across one side of her face. It would take a couple of days, at the least, to heal completely.

Walking down the hall, Itachi could hear Konan fall into step behind him. Coming to the door, he waited for Konan to open it, which she did.

Setting Kagome on the bed, Itachi stepped back so Konan could see what all needed to be done. Setting her medical bag on the floor and closing her eyes, her hands started to glow a light green from her healing chakara. After a couple of minutes, she opened her eyes and looked at Itachi, who was standing a couple of feet away from her.

"She has a high fever and is suffering from dehydration. It's a miracle that she didn't die from the electricity. You will need to give her small sips of water every thirty minutes and replace a wet rag on her forehead. She will also need to take these pills as directed," Konan said, pulling out a pill bottle from her bag.

"Why are you not doing it?" Itachi asked.

"Pein has made it clear to me that you are the one to nurse her back to health, since you are the one who caused her to go into this state," Konan said before closing her bag. Picking it up, she walked out of the room, but right before she closed the door she spoke up. "And Itachi, Pein says if she does not come back to health, you will be receiving harsh punishment." With that said, she completely closed the door behind her.

Itachi watched Kagome start sweating for a second, before walking out of the room to get a bowl and cup of water.

End Chapter

Okay, they are now up to three kisses and a slap. I think it's going pretty good. Please don't throw stuff at me. It's very rude! MumbleStupidNotReviewingJerks.ThrowingStuffAtMeAllTheTime.

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