Previously:
'He would not treat her like a praised possession, because she wasn't, he didn't care for her, he didn't need her, he would just treat her like how he treated everyone else,' he kept on muttering to himself in his mind.
Okay, so this part was INTENTIONALLY supposed to be on the last chapter, but I dragged the other one too long, so here it is!! Major SasuxSaku part in it I know, I know, you're all like; FINALLY!! And I agree, it took WAAYYY too long for my SasuxSaku phase to kick in, so I'm happy it did.
Sakura jolted up-right at in the morning. She had been comfortable in her previous position but knew that it didn't feel right, before she fell asleep, she was sitting against a tree, wasn't she? How did she get here?
"It must've been a dream…" Sakura muttered under her breath, but it seemed to REAL.
A chirp caught her attention and she swiveled around to face a cute innocent little bird. She laughed lightly, knowing now that it wasn't a dream.
Sakura glanced out of her window in her room and saw how early it was. It looked so nice out, she smiled brightly, deciding to change her outfit, rummaging through her wardrobe, she slipped off her cloak, which fell on the floor, and slipped on a bright pink sundress.
"Today, I feel so happy." She murmured to no one in particular, still smiling brightly.
Walking up, she cupped the bird in her hand, cradling it. Picking herself up, she walked out of the Akatsuki hideout, the dew from the very high grass was wetting the hem of her sundress but she didn't seem to mind. It was very early, apparently. Looking at the sun and thinking upon instinct, she guessed it was around 7 in the morning.
She laughed innocently as she twirled around in her dress and wandered aimlessly in the morning. She suddenly found out where she was and smiled faintly. There was a large boulder and a stream running beautifully next to it. The sound of water trickling by and the sway of the trees around was so enchanting.
Sitting on the boulder, she began to wonder why she wanted to kill herself in the first place. She had so much to live for, and especially to try and kill herself in such a innocent place. She shouldn't have tried to spill her blood and tainted this place, it deserved so much more.
"Oh! Sorry, honey." Sakura said, suddenly realizing that she had a companion with her. She took out the bird and put it on her lap, where it looked at her with its large cute beady black eyes, curiously.
She laughed again and petted it on the head. Putting her hand, finger extended, near the chick, she waited for it to move. It got the idea and jumped on her finger.
Sakura moved her hand up so she could see the bird. Her finger was in a perch position as it started to groom its feathers.
Once it was done, it started to chirp and sing a beautiful song. When it was done, Sakura said quietly to it, "that was beautiful, it's quite a shame that you have no family anymore. You deserved so much better." Kissing it on its head.
Deidara came behind her and said "Sakura, what are you doing her so early?"
Sakura turned around and smiled, "I just got up, so I decided to go for a walk. Today feels like such a nice and elated day."
Deidara gaped in awe. She looked like a goddess right there, sitting on a boulder, with the water stream in the background, letting the light penetrate it and making it glint, just like her pearly white teeth. Her hair was glossy pink, matching her sundress and her smile was genuine, eyes flickering with happiness. The bird seemed to think so too, as it chirped happily perched on her finger. Deidara thought she truly looked like a deity of nature right there.
"Oh, and who do we have here, un?" He said, gesturing to the bird.
"Oh, I was sitting on a tree yesterday and I saw this bird, hurt and abandoned from its family, so I healed it, and was just about to let it go." Sakura said, smiling and petting the bird fondly.
"Deidara, want to hold it?" Sakura said happily.
"Uh, I don't think that's such a good idea."
"Why not?" Sakura asked, a little disappointed.
"It's because my hands might eat it…" Deidara answered, a little embarrassed.
Sakura laughed so hard that she collapsed off the rock and was on the grassy ground. Wiping the tears of happiness and laughter away she replied, "I guess you're right, but that's so sweet of you to think of the bird that way." Sakura said, admiration for him, evident in her eyes.
"You're such a good friend, I don't' know what I'd do here without you."
"Speaking of which, I hate to break the happy moment, but did you talk to Itachi?"
Sakura sighed and her face became filled with weariness. Deidara's face fell at this, he always wanted Sakura to smile, to be happy, seeing her like this killed him inside.
"I didn't, I couldn't find him. Do you think he'd be trying to avoid me?" Sakura wondered.
"It's a possibility. So why are you in such a good mood today?" Deidara asked, really wanting to change her mood to a joyful one.
Her face lit up immediately, and it seemed like Deidara did a good job making her cheerful. "I woke up and thought, isn't it a great day out? The Akatsuki cloak is nice and comfortable, but there are times where I think that something more plain and pretty are in order once in a while."
"Well you certainly look pretty today." Deidara replied, happy that she looked so pleased and happy that he said so.
She took the bird and kissed it one more time, before saying goodbye, lifting it in the air. It spread its wings and flew in the air, chirping happily, as if saying a 'thank you' of its own.
Deidara's stomach growled and Sakura laughed at him.
"I haven't eaten yet." Deidara mumbled, a little embarrassed.
"Neither have I, let's go get something to eat." Sakura suggested, brightly.
They walked back into the Akatsuki hideout, all the way talking and Sakura skipping joyfully the whole way.
When they got to the kitchen, Sakura immediately started to cook, making bacon and eggs for everyone in the Akatsuki.
As if the food beckoned them, the rest of the Akatsuki members made their way to the kitchen.
They all got there (except for Itachi) at the same time, and when they did, they momentarily forgot about the food.
They were gaping at a very pretty, bright and joyful Sakura. She turned off the range, taking off her apron and swiveling around.
"Wow…" Kisame spoke out, barely audible.
"Holy crap, she's hot." Hidan said.
"Tobi thinks you're very pretty! Sakura-chan." He said happily, flailing his arms around in exaggeration.
Sakura laughed as crystal clear as the same day she was with Deidara from before, if not more. She was radiant, the sun going through the window shone directly on her, as a coincidence.
"Hey guys, are you just going to stand there or what?! I made food for all of you guys for the first time, and you're just going to stand there?!" Sakura yelled out, with mock sadness and anger.
Everyone quickly gathered to the table and dug in. The smell of the food was good, but the food tasted even better.
When they finished eating, Sakura grabbed the dishes and put them near the sink, "I'll clean up breakfast, but first!" Sakura shouted out with enthusiasm while going to Deidara and hugging him, with a giant bear hug.
All of the Akatsuki members were in shock because they had not really known that Sakura would ever hug Deidara. They weren't around when they did.
Deidara was a little shocked that she did it in front of the other members, so he only half hugged her back. She broke the hug only to hug Kisame. Now THIS was a shocker.
She went and skipped to Tobi, giving him a hug as well, which he gladly returned, saying "Tobi is a GOOD boy!"
She hugged Hidan full on, which he was too shocked to even start swearing at this thing. You see, it was against his religion to hug other people.
She went around, hugging each of the members of the Akatsuki and saying "I love you guys, you're my really good friends!" Smiling really wide.
Practically bouncing to the sink, she started washing the dishes, humming a tuneless song, but it was very nice and soft.
The members who were there filed out into the living room, still in great shock.
Tobi was the first to talk and said "Sakura-san is a very nice girl, Tobi thinks."
"For once, I agree with Tobi, and damn! She's hot." Kisame said.
"She…HUGGED…me." Zetsu stated, very much in shock.
"Well…she could've been going through her 'phase'" Hidan suggested.
"Hmm, that would make sense, Kakuzu muttered while thinking, but then why wear the dress?"
Tobi was listening in and jumped up and down, "Ooh! Ooh! What 'phase'? I wanna know!!"
"Well…"Hidan started, "Girls have these times that come called periods-okay, I can't handle this, someone else take over."
"It's when females go through a phase called a period, as Hidan stated, and it makes women go through mood swings as one of their symptoms." Zetsu finished.
"Symptoms! Is it a disease?! Oh no! Tobi doesn't want Sakura-chan to die from a disease!!" Tobi wailed, while the other members hit themselves with the wall.
Everyone was thinking of what was possibly happening to Sakura, so it fell silent throughout the room.
Even Deidara thought something was much different with Sakura, she had never hugged any of the other members of the Akatsuki, let alone hug him in front of the others. Was she feeling delusional?
Hidan just stood there thinking, until all of a sudden yelled, "FUCK!! Hugging is against my religion, now I need to sacrifice 10 cows to please jashin." While walking out of the room, muttering all the way.
"Well, let's think of the positive side, at least Itachi wasn't there." Kakuzu stated.
"Yeah, I agree." Kisame said while shuddering, "That wouldn't be pretty…I mean, Sakura hugging THE Itachi? He'd probably maim her!"
Sakura finished the dishes and stopped. She went to sleep leaning against a tree…right? Then how'd she get back to her room…?
Someone must have brought her there, but who? She only really befriended herself with the other members like…10 minutes ago, so she only logically thought it could be someone who remotely knew her. It could be Deidara, or…shit. Itachi. No, he wouldn't do that, would he?!
'Wait!' Sakura thought. 'It couldn't have been Deidara, he asked this morning why the bird was there. If he really was there, he'd have known about the bird.' She was mentally hitting herself in a wall, it had to be Itachi.
But now was a good enough reason to go up to him, she guessed, suddenly feeling happy again.
She started off skipping towards his room, then slowly making it turn to a speed walk. She slowed down a little more, to a walk, her heart racing a little faster. Now butterflies were fluttering in her stomach, her heart pounding in her, as she slowly made her way to his door. Her hand turned around so her knuckles were facing the door. Bracing herself, telling herself to get a grip, she took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
She heard a muffled "Come in" and she opened the door. His room was fully painted black, and there was a candle lit, as Itachi sat on his bed, reading a book. He put it down and turned to see the person. He was shocked inside, but he showed no emotion on the outside, he had been trained for this, to lock his emotions, they were just distractions, things that got in the way, the only one that mattered was Hate, yes…hate, not love, hate.
He was shocked because of many reasons, one starting as she was in a dress, not only that, a PINK dress, matching her pink hair, and her pink flushed cheeks, at which he smirked at. He was shocked because she was in his room, what gave her the courage to go in here? Everyone knew it spelled doom. He was shocked because she was breathing a little too fast, was he making her nervous? He was shocked because HE was feeling a little uneasy as well, which made no sense whatsoever. He was supposed to never feel flustered, always in control, so why was she making his heart rate speed up? Why was it so damn hot in the room too? Why had he chosen the only room in the Akatsuki hideout cave to NOT have any windows?
It felt like eternity before Itachi said in a cold voice "Yes? What do you want here?"
"I, um, well, you see…"
"Continue." Itachi encouraged because at this rate, it would take forever.
She sighed, as she made her way towards his bed, at which he raised one of his eyebrows at, but didn't say anything. She sat down on his bed, at which NO ONE else had done, and worse, he was LETTING her do so.
"Itachi, first, I want to say thank you for putting me back in my room from last night." Her face was really red, and she rubbed her hand subconsciously over the nape of her neck, which was a big distraction, but he refused to look there. He had pride, after all.
"Hn."
He heard her mutter under her breath "Dammit, is that the Uchiha's favourite word?"
"Hn." He replied.
Sakura took a deep breath, and continued, "and also I just want to say, that I might…ahem, like you…" she whispered out and then squinting her eyes.
'See? It wasn't THAT hard, now was it?' Inner Sakura cheerfully said.
'Where have you been throughout this whole time? And yes! It was extremely hard.' Sakura muttered.
"Open your eyes." Itachi quietly murmured.
She did so and saw his eyes for the first time, he had deactivated Sharingran and was staring at her green eyes. She was entranced with the void of black, how it engulfed her, it was so pure.
She moved closer to him, shifting to him, and was now practically in her lap. Itachi wasn't complaining and let her do so.
She slowly moved her face closer to his and kissed him gently on the lips. He kissed back softly, she was so surprised at how gentle he was and seemed that the tough exterior was a cover-up of how gentle he was inside.
He moved his hand and squeezed her thigh, letting her gasp. He used this opportunity to dive his tongue in her mouth as she moaned in it.
What am I doing?! Itachi scolded himself mentally, You said to HATE, why are you letting someone get close to you, when you know they're going to be taken away from before?! LET GO OF HER, before it's too late, you'll get attached, is that what you want? To love? You want to hate!! Let go, let go! LET GO!
Itachi broke the kiss and said quietly, "Don't love me…"
Sakura was shocked, "What?!"
"Don't love me." Itachi repeated, more clearly now.
"Why not? Do you not love me back?" Sakura asked, on the verge of tears.
"It's not like that…"
"Then how IS it?! TELL ME!" Sakura yelled at him, this time she really was crying, and she let the fall from her eyes. She didn't get it, why was he pushing her away? Maybe she was wrong, maybe he wasn't meant for her.
"Stay away from me, don't love me, forget about me." Itachi stressed out, it came out painfully, but it was the only way.
Sakura sobbed, and quietly whispered out, "I just don't get you…" before she ran out of his room.
When she ran out, it hurt much more than the acid that was on him from their last mission, it hurt a lot more than him leaving Konoha, it hurt more than him killing his clan, it hurt more than leaving Sasuke alone, it hurt more than killing his best friend, because, to him, Sakura seemed like his everything.
Hmm, very sentimental and dramatic. Also…I'M SOOO SORRY!! T.T I was TRYING to put the SasuxSaku part in this, but I kind of stretched this chapter out too!! ugh. So this chapter and the last one, was done in less than 4 hours in a row, and I STILL didn't get to 'that' part… well, it's now DEFINITELY going to be in the next one, sigh. But it might take a while before I update. Sigh, I definitely have to stop stretching out my chapters…
I hope that no one knows what's going to happen next, but it seems a little obvious of what will. But I want to surprise you!! Because I've been thinking of what will happen.
QUESTION!! Should I change the rating on this fanfic? Yes or no, because it works either way for me.
ALSO!! I made a mistake, I found out like…halfway through the chapter, Tobi wasn't really supposed to be in this fanfic, because Sakura was Sasori's replacement, but oh well! He seemed so fit into the part, that I couldn't take him out of it.