Previously:
Itachi whispered in her ear "You still haven't quite controlled your power."
"Yes, Itachi-sempai, I know, it's just that it was so hard to control it this time." She said, stressing the "this time" to make Itachi know that she lost control because of fighting Sasuke.
Itachi thought about it, and then finally decided his decision on what to do next. "Sakura, we're leaving, we both know what your Inner Sakura strength does to you later on." (A/N don't worry if you don't understand right away, I'll explain in more detail later.)
"Understood" Sakura said, as she got up with Itachi's help, as they slowly got up and started to leave a very confused Sasuke there alone.
"Wait!" Sasuke screamed.
"What the hell is going on?!?!!?" He demanded.
They both ignored him, and left him on the ground, wondering what just happened.
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A special Thank you to Sakura4eva and UchihaSakuraXItachi for commenting through every chapter and giving good critique, I'm also glad that you like the story so much.
WARNING! For the couple of chapters, there might be more Itachi and Sakura moments, but there will be more Sasuke and Sakura moment's in the future too, so don't worry! Lol, have fun reading then, btw, I don't' really like this chapter, I think I'm hitting a writers block pretty soon…sad. T.T
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They only started walking away from Sasuke, towards their destination, the Jinchuuriki, and that was 5 minutes ago. Sakura was already panting and out of breathe. It was because of her using her inner Sakura, that she was so fatigued.
Sakura gasped when she started falling, half from exhaustion, half from the slippery soil under her feet. In the forest, moss was coated everywhere.
Itachi, noticing her fall, caught her just before she hit the ground. Sakura still panting, muttered a 'thank you'. She started blushing at the fact that he caught her from her clumsiness and that they were so close. Itachi smirked at her shyness and said in a quiet voice "Lean on me for support until we get to a shelter."
Blushing even more furiously, she gripped his shoulder while he slung his hand, wrapping it around her waist.
'Omg! Why am I blushing? He's my Sempai, nothing else, arrgh! If only I could stop blushing, it's so embarrassing!' Sakura thought.
'Ahhh, but you're blushing for a reason, it's because of 2 reasons, one, you think he's hot, 2 because you like him, and 3, because he's sooo freaking sexy!' Inner Sakura told her.
'I can find many problems with that, you said only 2 reasons and stated 3, and NO! I don't' think he's hot, OR sexy for that matter, and I don't have a crush on him. How could I? I mean, if I did, this could end up like what happened with Sasuke…' Sakura said in her mind.
Itachi could see something was bothering her, and honestly, something was bothering him too. What was this feeling? Every time he was around Sakura, he would feel…things he had never with anyone else before, emotions like over-protectiveness, kindness, and, but it couldn't be…was it…love?
'You damn right it is! Took you long enough to figure that out.' Inner Itachi said. (Lol, XD yes, I know, inner Itachi, should I continue with having an Inner Itachi or not? Please answer in a review, because I don't know what I should do.)
'…' Itachi thought.
'What? Anyways, enough about your awkwardness, tell her how you feel!' Inner Itachi demanded.
'What?!?!?! Are you insane? I have something called pride, I'm not just going to say that, do you know how bad that will make me look?' Itachi yelled, there was no way in hell he was going to say that.
'You're hopeless, fine, I'm not going to force you to do it right now, but just be warned…You're going to have to do it sooner or later, I mean, think of it this way, if you shut your tramp, what will happen when your prance-y little brother comes and claims your girl.' Inner Itachi said, making a good point.
'Hn, you have a point, but she's not my "girl"-and get out of my head!' Itachi said, shooing him out.
'AAHH! Fine, but I'll be back! And I'll make sure you DO say that you love her, to Sakura!' Inner Itachi screamed before he popped out of his head.
'Ughh, took long enough for him to leave.' Itachi thought. They kept on walking for a couple more minutes.
"Ughh" Sakura grunted, she couldn't' take more of this, curse Sasuke! She lost control over her anger and made Inner Sakura come out. She was in a tired state because of him!
Feeling a little drowsy, she asked Itachi "Um, can we take a break for a while?"
Itachi replied shortly, "alright."
As she sat down, she cursed Sasuke, and as Itachi sat down beside her, he thought of how he should tell her, this definitely wasn't going to be easy for him.
After a while passed, Itachi got up, "Sakura, we should head out now….Sakura?" as he looked to her. Her chest was moving up and down while she turned around to face him in her sleep. Itachi inwardly smiled, as he picked her up bridal style quietly, making sure not to disturb her sleep, and headed in the Jinchuriki's direction.
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He was at the mist village, where he said he'd meet Naruto and Kakashi. When He finished bandaging himself properly, he waited at the front entrance of the village for them to arrive.
Naruto quickly noticed him, and shouted "HEEYYY, TEEMMME!!!" making really big, odd signs with his hands so Sasuke would see him.
"Tsh." Sasuke muttered, seeing Naruto as loud as ever, walking towards them.
Kakashi and the backup (consisting of Ino, Shikamaru, Shino and Hinata) were there also, just standing behind Naruto, slightly edging a little further from him though. Ino whispered to a woman near him, "Don't worry, we don't know him." But Kakashi was observing Sasuke's state, he noticed Sasuke some pain when he walked. In the back of his head, he had many questions to ask Sasuke, one including, where was Sakura?
Naruto gasped, noticing Sasuke was kind of limping towards him, half clutching his stomach, he asked "Hey, teme, why are you clutching your stomach? Do you have a stomach ache or something?" (A/N he can't tell that Sasuke has a wound because his shirt is covering it. It's not like he'd walk around without a shirt, right? But it'd be hot if he did XD)
"Hn" he replied, turning his head to Kakashi "We need to talk." Kakashi looked at him, he had a few questions he wanted answered, "agreed" he said, as they pulled around the corner, leaving the leaf shinobi to wander around the country. Naruto yelled before they left that they would meet at the restaurant that they passed by before they got there.
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LET THE INTEROGATION BEGIN!
Kakashi: What happened, I want to know EXACTLY what happened, where's Sakura?
Sasuke: Calm down Godzilla (Ahh, didn't know what else he should've said XD) I saw Sakura, but…she's changed. I mean, she tried to hit me, ME! Never would've seen that coming.
Kakashi: You didn't, right? You were too distracted about that, that you got a hit in the stomach, am I right?
Sasuke:….hn….
Kakashi: sigh, oh well. It's fine anyways, Ino can-
Sasuke: WHAT!?!!?!? NO! I will not suffer from a fan girl…ever! She'll try and pounce on me again! shudder (ahh! No offence to any InoSasu fans ;)
Kakashi, It's fine, she's now going out with Shikamaru now, You sure missed a lot while you were gone, well I was trying to say that Ino can heal you. So what's new with Sakura then?
Sasuke: She had this weird power, her eyes got a little misty, not like crying misty, but her eyes just…changed…she got this huge burst of chakra then, she pinned me to a tree, I would've been dead if…
Kakashi: Yes…?
Sasuke: ahem, a certain…person that has the same last name as I do, put his hand on her shoulder and she immediately went back to her regular way, but she was really tired after. I heard them saying that 'she's still not used to it' or something.
Kakashi: let's go to the restaurant, they must be waiting there by now.
Sasuke: Hn,
(After the restaurant)
"Aaannnnd, done! Well Sasuke, you're fully healed now." Ino said, happily, her chakra control was getting better and better everyday, and her healing powers were getting better too.
Sasuke just said a quick "Hn" and an even quieter thank you. He didn't even think that Ino heard it.
"Hmmm, It's raining." Kakashi muttered, more to himself than anyone else.
Sasuke, feeling a little gloomy because of the rain, but more of the fact that he let Sakura go, decided that he'd go for a quick walk. "Kakashi, I'm going for a walk in the forest, I want to camp out tonight, don't get a room for me tonight." And with that, he walked out of the restaurant, and out of the village, through the forest, wandering aimlessly.
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"Ughh" Sakura groaned, noticing that she was lying on a cold stone ground. "Where am I…?"She asked no one in particular, while trying to get up, but soon gasping as a huge surge of pain that went through her body. A hand suddenly gently secured her body from falling and gently eased her down. It was Itachi.
"Your fight with Sasuke and using inner Sakura has made your body very weak, it would be best if you don't move today, your body needs to recover." Itachi murmured in her ear.
Sakura just nodded, looking at her surroundings, she seemed to be in a cave, it was raining out. But Sakura was trying to think what exactly happened, she remembered walking with Itachi, in the direction of the jinnchuuriki they were supposed to capture, resting…and then what?
Itachi, sensing her confusion, filled her in. "We were resting, and then you fell asleep from exhaustion, so I carried you, but then it started to rain, so, instead of following the Jinchuuriki, it was wiser to find cover."
Sakura started blushing, luckily it was quite dark out, so you couldn't tell that she was though. 'Itachi was carrying me?!?!?! Ahh, he must think I'm pathetic. She suddenly remembered what she was going to ask before she started having a major blushing problem. "Um, Itachi-senpai, where are we anyways?"
"We aren't that far from the mist village, the rain came before I could get a good distance. But we since we aren't as close as planned on to the Jinchuuriki, we should head out, the beginning of tomorrow. Hopefully the rain will lets up by then. We should reach our destination in about a couple day walk before we get there."
Sakura nodded in agreement.
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Walking around, the forest, he remembered the time he ran out of Konoha. He really was taking the easy way out, looking back. He could remember what Naruto said, 'what do you think you're doing to Sakura? How do you think she felt?' (A/N ahh, don't think he really said that, but you get my drift hopefully) The moment he saw her next, he promised he'd make a genuine apology and tell her how he REALLY felt about her, that he…l-lo-lo-
'Ahh, you're pathetic, can't even say I LOVE you, in your own head, how do you think you'll be able to say it out loud? I'll see you do that, when the moon turns blue, when Kakashi stops reading Icha Icha books, when Lee stops his weird…spirit of youth thing, when cows learn how to fly, get my drift yet?' Inner Sasuke said with a smirk.
'Yeah, yeah, I get your drift, YOU think it will never happen, but I'M sure I'll be able to do it." Sasuke said with a triumphant look (Err, in his head, I guess…)
'Hmm, 2 things, one, you and I are technically the same person, so that makes your whole first confident line not work, second,…wanna bet on that?' Inner Sasuke said.
'What do we bet? If I gave you something, I'd be giving it to myself'
'Ahhh, but what about this, if you lose, I'll admit defeat and will give you a whole weeks rest of no nagging…BUT! If I win, then you have to wear a tutu and sing the, my little pony theme song, and prance around over ALL of Konoha.' Inner Sasuke said evilly, 'MUA HA HA HA!'
'Noooo! You know I have something called PRIDE! Uchiha's just don't do that.'
'Mua ha! That's what makes it so much more…FUUNNN' Inner Sasuke said, saying the fun longer and more evil, holding a flashlight to his face to accentuate the evilness in him.
'…Fine, Uchiha's aren't chicken either, so I can win the bet, AND I accept this stupid bet' Sasuke said boldly, though he didn't feel very bold in himself.
'Aha's, I'd like to see you succeed in this, the chances of you saying I LOVE YOU to Sakura, is highly doubtable. You and I BOTH know that…' He said before he left his conscious.
Sasuke shuddered, not at the cold of the night, but more of the fact that he might have to wear a TUTU! Dance around and sing that horrid song. Until he felt a faint presence around him, focusing his attention to the faint chakra sense whose it was, he stood there in the rain, and then he noticed that it was ….Sakura!
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Ahh, well I thought that I was going to get to "the part" but I guess I couldn't. It'll just have to wait for chapter 5. I got a little carried away with the bet thing XD I didn't even think of it till now! Ahh, sorry for the lateness, I was just too busy with Christmas, and then I was going to study for my exams, but I'll finish 2 chapters (my goal, this counts as one) before my exams.
I hope that the fact that I drone on stories didn't bore you to death ; probably because of the fact that I'm in a little slump, but it's at least a little longer…anyways, KEEP UPDATED! Because, you'll NEVER guess what's going to happen on chapter 5!
I don't own Naruto, lol, are you crazy? Like I'd actually own it.
PS! I'm definitely putting Deidara in the story, so…Don't' get your undies in a twist! Bwa ha! Tell me if you think I should or can improve on anything, it would be much appreciated. I hope I didn't put too much things in brackets…