Rated T: - Chapter 2
- Anti-Sakura
Disclaimer:I DO NOT OWN Naruto or any of the characters, or the settings, or dattebayo included, Masashi Kishimoto does. (Or Cherrios)
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Leave It To Kakashi
He could feel the warm breathe of Sasuke against his cheek. He opened his eyes slowly and saw Sasuke's face so close to his. The sunlight was creeping slowly into the room indicating morning.
Naruto moved closer and closed the gap between their lips. He could feel Sasuke returning the kiss, when they broke apart he looked up into the dreamy eyes of Sasuke.
"Morning" he whispered. "Mmm" was Naruto's reply. "What, I don't get a good morning in reply anymore?" "I gave you a morning kiss" still their voices were calm and in whispers.
"I was asleep I didn't get to enjoy it as much" "Oh really, well what about this" His voice rising a little. Naruto pushed Sasuke onto his back and initiated a long and passionate kiss on his lips.
The door burst open suddenly just as they were starting to get carried away.
"Morning guys! I made breakfast…!" Itachi had appeared in the doorway but in their surprise at being so rudely interrupted Sasuke who had switched positions with Naruto had rolled off onto the floor taking the sheets and Naruto with him.
"Why didn't you knock!" came a muffled yell from the pile of sheets on the floor.
"Well, I didn't think you two would be dressed in so little as you are and I was trying to save you some convenience by making you breakfast"
Sasuke's head appeared he had an expression that was a mixture of embarrassment and anger. "Will you just get out!"
"I made breakfast, you will eat it" "Whatever just get out!" Itachi left the room taking a remote with him.
'That got him back. I didn't sleep at all last night, the volume was so loud. But he can't turn the volume up without this' He held the remote in his hands before throwing it out the window.
Sasuke and Naruto sat at the table a while later only to find that the breakfast Itachi had made consisted of a note and three Cherrios.
The note explained how he had left the house to see people about business and how there was no cereal left and that Naruto and Sasuke could share the Cherrios which he had apparently found under the mat of Naruto's front door.
"Want to go get some ramen?" "Right behind you there"
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Sakura yawned and stretched. She looked around to see if her conscience was around. 'Something is different, other than the fact I'm in my room, I felt like my conscience was real some how'
She stood up and opened the door to her balcony. She sighed before catching site of Sasuke and Naruto heading towards the ramen shop.
She went back into the house and ran down the stairs tripping on the last one and crashing into Itachi.
"Ooh, conscience you came back!" "Are you stupid? I am not your conscience!" She was about to fling her arms around him but found herself in a black and white environment.
"This is reality, you will feel pain, for an hour or so until you realise this is reality." Itachi's voice could be heard everywhere as if he was talking into a loud speaker.
"Huh? Where'd you go? I can't see you" "That's the point!" Itachi's black and white image appeared. "Ahhh, there you are!" she headed towards the figure in front of her.
She screamed as she felt a cold blade ran past her shoulder slicing a few strands of her hair. Then the image of Sasuke appeared continuously choosing Naruto over her and telling her how much he loved Naruto more than her.
This happened repeatedly over and over until the hour was up and she cried out stop. "Do you see now? This reality"
"So …so you really are Uchiha Itachi, master of torture" The environment around her changed back into a colourful display of happiness.
She sounded upset and alone. "I know I said I love Sasuke-kun…but this has made me realise something…I don't love Sasuke-kun because…I…I love you more!"
Itachi couldn't hide the disgust or surprise in his emotion. Why was she so clueless? Why didn't she get the fact that neither he nor Sasuke liked her?
"I don't know why I bothered damaging my eyes for you"
"I know why…it's because you love me too!" She closed her eyes beaming up at him, she felt a cold draft and saw that he had vanished.
"Huh? Itachi? Where'd you go?"
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Inside the ramen shop Sasuke and Naruto were digging into a steaming bowl of ramen. They would have bought two bowls but they hadn't taken enough money with them.
Itachi had left Sakura standing there as he quickly made his escape. 'I want to go home! I want to get away! Kisame where are you when I want someone to yell at!?'
He was getting frustrated now, Sakura had been happy to pull out a kunai on him when they first met, but now she was following him and making weird gestures towards him.
"Hey Sasuke, what do you want to do now?" "We could go watch a movie" Sasuke realizing he had no money added "We need to go home and get money first"
They were excited about going to a movie together without Itachi, Sakura or Kakashi there to over see them. However when they got home they remembered the DVD they had watched the night before.
"Hey Naruto, we have the house to ourselves why don't we finish watching this movie?"
"Ok, er…where did you put the remote last night?" They rummaged through draws and boxes turning over chairs and the bed.
"Naruto, you loser! Where did you put it? Without the remote we can't change the volume, it's not loud enough"
At mid afternoon they still hadn't found the remote. "Ok lets take the DVD to my place and watch it there" "Let's do that then"
Leaving the room in the mess that they had created they exited the building and Sasuke locked the door.
"Do you have a DVD player?" "Of course, it's in my closet I was saving it so that we could watch movies together but we were always round yours so I didn't get to use it"
They climbed the steps to Naruto's apartment. "Naruto, where did you find your keys? Doesn't Itachi still have them?"
"Nah, I pinched them of his coffee table this morning, he complains about my apartment being a mess, well at least its nice and bright and not bleak and black" He opened the door and the two stepped inside.
"Do you smell that? Smells like cherry blossoms, hey look the floors clean! Maybe Itachi cleaned it for me"
They went on into the main part of the apartment. In the bathroom the tub was full of hot soapy bubbles that lay like icing on a cake.
The kitchen was set up for a dinner between two people with a candle in the middle. The biggest surprise was waiting for them in the bedroom.
Naruto opened the door and walked straight in, Sakura was lying on his bed holding the elder Uchiha. He was completely out of it and was snoring in the pink genin's arms.
"Naruto! Sasuke-kun!" she gasped "It's not what you think!"
"Sakura! What are you doing here!?"
"I was following him and well he started running and ran after him in pursuit but then he collapsed at the foot of the stairs, I thought he had fallen down I mean I couldn't just leave him there"
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other.
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What really happened – Flashback
Itachi was exhausted he had been moving very fast and was heading further away from his pursuer. It didn't help that he hadn't gotten any sleep the previous night due to the volume from the bedroom next door.
Using his eyes even for a few minutes took a big strain on his strength, he had to find somewhere to stay and rest, fast.
He looked in the direction of Naruto's apartment. 'She'd never go there, she made it out that she hates Naruto!'
He eventually reached the steps heading up to the next block of apartments. "Itachi!" He thought he had been caught out.
"Why did he leave me? Never mind I'll guess I'll go see what Naruto and Sasuke-kun are doing"
He frantically scrambled around on the floor trying to find the spare key that he had also found with the Cherrios under Naruto's door mat.
He felt something cold and pulled it out to the light, it glistened, reflecting the sun rays. Itachi lay in front of the door, the floor was nice and comfy, and he was lying in the area warmed by the sun.
"Huh? Itachi? Itachi! I found you! I found you!" He couldn't remember anything, all he could see was darkness and he heard Sakura next to him she sounded worried. "You know if you sleep outside you'll get sunburnt"
Sakura had taken Itachi inside using all the strength she could muster to pick him up. Using the key Itachi had found earlier, she was able to let them in.
Itachi had been right about Naruto's apartment being messy. After putting Itachi onto the single bed in the other room she set to work making the apartment feel more comfortable.
She ran back to the room after hearing a clunk. Upon entry she saw Itachi lying on the floor. His strength hadn't got back to him yet and so he was still resting, instead he had just turned over in his sleep.
She smiled before pulling him back onto the bed beside her. She held him close to her heart, not only to prevent him from falling off again but because she was finally in kissing distance of an Uchiha.
Beforehand she had found Naruto's DVD player and had set it up ready for when Itachi woke. She didn't think Naruto would return anytime soon and till he did she sat there stroking Itachi's hair.
End of Flashback
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"Ok, whatever, if he's here with you at least we can have us time at my house now"
"Sasuke did you forget why we came here?" Naruto reminded him about the DVD player. They plucked the remote out of Sakura's hands before unplugging the DVD player.
"Hey! I was watching that!" Sakura yelled angrily
"Well you're not anymore, here Naruto take it" Sasuke handed the device to Naruto who walked through into the kitchen.
"Is that…my…my last pot of ramen!" Sasuke went out into the kitchen as Naruto dropped the DVD player.
"SAKURA! What did you do!? Naruto howled over the pot of ramen that had been tipped down the sink.
Sakura called from the room and a furious Naruto stomped back inside.
"I was cleaning up, it was out of date and I figured if Itachi is staying here, he might as well eat something decent instead of three week old ramen"
"Sakura! I was preserving it, it was meant to be saved for three weeks! That's why the flavour tastes so rich! I was saving it for mine and Sasukes picnic tomorrow"
Sasuke placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"Naruto. It's ok, let's go" He led Naruto out of the house and down the street towards the Uchiha district.
Naruto was unusually quiet as they reached the front door. "Naruto, relax it was only one pot of ramen and I…"
"But Sasuke that was the ramen …the ramen I wanted to share with you…down the sink…do you even care you're not listening!" he was clearly upset by this ramen incident and not being able to share it with Sasuke.
Sasuke stopped and looked at the tear stained face of Naruto. He drew him into a tight intimate hug.
"Naruto, I love you and seeing you unhappy makes me fell like smushing Sakura into the floor but without her we wouldn't be squad 7. Itachi would be hovering over us all the time when we want to be alone if Sakura hadn't put her claws into him."
"Sasuke…I love you too, but…" Naruto was silenced when Sasuke met his lips and pulled away to kiss his neck. Naruto glanced something under the window ledge
"Sasuke? I think I've found the remote"
They broke apart "Alright Naruto you set the DVD up and I'm going to fix us the ramen I have been saving for you"
"Sasuke" he pulled Sasuke back into a hug "Sasuke, what would I do with out you"
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Itachi began to stir from his slumber. Sitting up his face split into an evil smile. 'Stupid fool! Did she really think I'd let myself get caught that easily' He wasn't in the arms of Sakura, nor was he is Naruto's apartment.
He was lying in his room with the Uchiha crest above his bed with a kunai through the middle. 'It's just lucky that she didn't notice my genjutsu or that the decoy I used was fake'
Sakura who believed the person sleeping peacefully in her arms was Itachi, didn't expect the divine image of him to fade and blur into a defeated guard shinobi.
She screamed and let the body role onto the floor. The guard wasn't affected by the event that just occurred.
Grasping Naruto's broken phone she desperately tried to phone the authorities or even Kakashi. The phone was officially dead.
She crashed out of the apartment shaking in fear and confusion she had to get away from the scene it was too horrible for her to recount the story in her mind.
"Sakura?" Kakashi had caught Sakura as she had bashed into him. "Are you ok? You look different" "Kakashi-sensei it was horrible…me there…and then…a body"
"I think you should calm down first, now what happened?"
"Naruto and Sasuke-kun both ignored me and I met Itachi but I get the feeling that he doesn't like me and but I feel like I like him more than Sasuke-kun! And I…don't know why they are ignoring me! There're playing hard to get aren't they Sensei!"
"Erm…" Kakashi was at a loss for words, how could she not get that they were trying to avoid her? He could see it straight off even before Naruto and Sasuke became a couple.
'I'm going to say it straight because I'm late and because she is so annoying today more so than Naruto"
"Sakura, take the hint, they don't like you in that way and I'm late so see ya"
"Wait! What did you say and what do you mean by it?"
"Sakura I said take the hint, because they don't, like you in that way, and by that I mean it's so obvious that they want to be alone, even my nin-dogs could tell you that"
"Yeah but they're nin-dogs and nin-dogs are really clever" Kakashi slapped a hand to his face.
"Sakura, I know this is hard for you to understand but Sasuke is with Naruto now, they are happy together. Itachi…well Itachi is an S-rank criminal who has more on his mind than an annoying nuisance who could get him arrested"
"Naruto is a nuisance isn't he, always getting in the way by helping but makes things worse" Sakura kept blabbing on.
"Sakura by nuisance I meant you! And now I am officially late so good luck with that and see ya" Kakashi disappeared in a cloud of smoke leaving Sakura standing there speechless.
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Itachi had packed his bags and opened the door to the dark room where Sasuke and Naruto were curled up together watching the DVD and eating ramen.
The room was still as messy as it had been that afternoon.
"Goodbye Sasuke, It's come to my attention that if I don't leave now I will…"
"That's nice"
"I'm trying to give a heartfelt good by here"
"Ssh we can't hear the movie just leave your keys on the table"
"Fine! I'll write lots when Akatski permits me to spend a fortune on stamps" Itachi closed the door and left the building.
"Finally we have the house to ourselves" Naruto gestured to Sasuke.
Sasuke smirked and made the pillow he had been leaning on more comfortable. Naruto snuggled closer to Sasuke and the two ate the ramen as they watched the movie.
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A\N: Here's the second chapter, not as funny as the first chapter but still including ItaSaku and SasuNaru.
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