Shisui winced, trying to not move his jaw but failing miserably, seeing as he could not sit still for more than five minutes before getting restless. He was a man of action and hated being quiet and staying put.

Sakura smirked satisfied at seeing his discomfort.

However her amusement vanished when the Uchiha suddenly tried to poke his jaw. Letting out a frustrated sigh she slapped his hand away earning herself a disgruntled noise seeing as he was incapable of speaking at the moment, thus rendering the normally bubbly colonel to a sulking little baby that was only able to communicate through gurgled noises.

"Stop touching your jaw, you'll only worsen it."

If he could speak he would have told her that it was already broken and that it had been her handiwork.

She frowned still miffed at the fact that she had to heal him. For punishment. As that ass of a General had put it with an amused spark clearly showing on his usually stoic face. She grumbled unhappily thinking about at his expression while Shisui sweat dropped at her attitude. She ignored him in favor of healing his broken bones, knowing very well that she had had luck; punching a colonel through the air in front of half the military and healing said colonel as punishment was nothing. She could faintly remember how Naruto had to sleep outside the tent even tough it had rained just for speaking badly about the General. She knew exactly that the only reason she was not kicked out of the base was because Itachi and Sasori themselves had wanted to beat that idiot and had fully understood her actions and reasons. So she was mildly punished by healing him having to put her pride down and treat that idiot that had so shamelessly played her for a fool.

"aaah!"
An infuriated growl woke her from her musings, and she realized she had put a little bit to much pressure into her fingertips while letting her chakra flow steadily into his body mending the bones again.

She rolled her eyes clearly having no sympathy for him.

"Stop whining, you earned it yourself after all."

His eyes gave her the most pitiful look she had ever seen, making her frown and click her tongue in annoyance, but inwardly she was starting to melt. Damn those Uchiha! They were to good looking and Shisui was no exception, his bright personality giving him an even more unique charm.

After she felt that the bone was mended she pulled her hands back and let him move his jaw back and forth, a positively surprised looks on his face.

"Wow Sakura-chan, I don't feel anything at all!"

She grinned satisfaction and a warm feeling spreading through her like every time she accomplished a healing successfully even the most mundane ones, she was always proud and happy when she was able to help people.

Shisui suddenly sprang to his feet making her remember how tall he was. She seemed to only meet tall people here. Turning around she took the clipboard and scribbles something on it ignoring the sulking Uchiha.

"Aww Sakura-chan please don't be mad anymore, I just wanted to rile Itachis feathers a bit. You know he's always so stoic I just couldn't resist the urge to make a little bit of fun of him. I swear my cute little baby cousin is much to uptight for his own good."

She fought the laughter that was slowly bubbling up but Shisui was just to funny, he was gesticulating dramatically as if he was exasperated by his cousin of course his description of Itachi being his 'cute little baby cousin' was just as hilarious, as she had to imagine Itachi being his usual stoic self while Shisui was gushing over him as if he was a little baby. She was certainly curious if he also called Itachi by that adorable name when he was in his presence. Surely Itachi would not be pleased to be called that.

"AAah I see a little smile, so you're not angry with me? Please don't be, I wouldn't want my little baby cousins future bride to be angry with me-"

"Future what?"

Sakura gave him flabbergasted looks completely loosing her calm when she heard as what he had called her.

Shisui smirked obviously amused by her reaction.

"I've never seen my baby cousin react in such a way when it came to a woman. He must surely like you."

Shisui wagged his eyebrows at her and grinned like a mad dog obviously gleeful at the idea of Itachi having found somebody for himself.

Sakura shook her head exasperated, why was everybody trying to make her see how unusual the General behaved or how lucky she was blablabla… it was giving her a headache. She did not care if the Uchiha would walk on his hands from now on or fall on his knees declaring world peace or whatever, she didn't need or want any attention from the General in any sort of way. The fact that she had lost her virginity to him was already making her miserable enough, even if she had to admit that he had made her feel good-

Anyway, immediately throwing any thoughts about that night to the back of her mind where she locked them up, she gave Shisui a hard look.

"I don't know to what delusional conclusions you've come but let me clear one thing, I am not a future bride of anyone here nor the mindless girlfriend nor do I belong to anyone, so whatever idiotic ideas you have in your head get 'em out!"

Shisui chuckled amused at the stubbornness of the little spitfire. Itachi sure had chosen a strong willed one who seemed unshakable when it came to her stubbornness.

"We'll see Sakura-chan."

She glared at him opening her mind to give him a piece of her mind but was interrupted when the door was slammed open.

"Are you finished?"

Sasoris would have probably made anyone shit their pants but Shisui could only grin brightly ignoring the killing intent directed at him.

"Yeah Sakura-chan has healed me perfectly, she's such an angel!"
Sasoris eyes narrowed in warning. He went up to his sister putting a hand on her soft pink head, never taking his hateful glare off Shisui.

"Stop acting so familiar with my sister, you pedophilic creep."

"Hey who're you calling a creep, puppet boy!"

Sakura rolled her eyes at the childish behavior of the two, shrugging Sasoris hand away before leaving the room, which was getting stuffy with killing intent. She was greeted with the sight of Kakuzu who was leaning against the wall opposite of her, steaming coffee mug in hand.

"Well kitten you're getting more and more interesting by the day, now you're punching people through the air."

He grinned at her and she had to smile slightly, his relaxed and laid back attitude was making her calm slightly, she had been rather tense since the moment the chakras of the three highest men in the military had flared up in that tent. One moment she had been enjoying the rest of the evening with friends and the next she had a General tangled in her hair before everything escalated. She groaned inwardly at the thought of the soldiers who had witnessed her punching a colonel through the air, she hoped nobody would resent her for her lack of respect or anything.

"Relax kitten, nobody's gonna chop your head off, Shisui had that punch coming for him, he never knows when to stop with his stupid jokes, as he calls his shitty attitude. If anything I'd say you've gained some respect."

She smiled at him, knowing he was trying to cheer her up and even being successful.

"Go get some sleep, I'm gonna chase out these two idiots-" he pointed behind her to Sasori and Shisui who were apparently now immersed in a glaring contest, not noticing that they were now alone in the room, "-and then I'm gonna close up, so get some rest you'll need it tomorrow."

She nodded and surprising him with a quick tight hug before running off laughing and screaming thank you while ignoring his embarrassed exclamations.

He grunted after she was out of sight clearly not having expected a hug from her she really was worming her way into the list of people he cherished. Such a unique girl with superb chakra control and seemingly endless knowledge in medicine and a overly too big heart, making her a gentle person which could turn into a ferocious little spitfire when provoked to. Not to mention the way she was punching people. He absolutely loved the way she had sent that idiot sailing through the air.

He couldn't wait to see such a scene again, knowing the short temper the little kitten had he was sure he didn't have to wait to long.

Sakura le out a relieved sigh when she finally arrived at her tent, she was tired and worn out because of all the things that had happened today, all she wanted was to fall into her somewhat comfy makeshift bed.

However as she entered the shared tent she was surprised to find someone other than the General already there.

"…Kaka-sensei?"

She blinked at the man who had not changed one bit since the last time she had seen him.

Kakashis one visible eyes was crinkling showing that he was currently smiling under the mask that he always wore. He raised a hand in a lazy wave.

"Yo Sakura, long time no see."

Indeed they had not seen each other since she had graduated together with Sasuke and Naruto from the academy. At that time he had still been a retired military captain who was teaching academy students. Seeing him now in regular captain vest, khaki green with many hidden pockets, and in full gear, dirtied, and she was sure she saw one or three red dots here and there, probably blood and probably not his.

She stepped into the tent eyeing her old sensei from head to toe, searching for injuries but finding nothing at first glance. "You're injured?"
His grin widened if possible stepping up to her and rubbing her hair, ignoring the protest he got.

"Nope not a scratch. I heard you're staying now at the military base."

She gave him the evil eye while trying to repair the mess he had made of her hair before giving up with a tired sigh.

"Yeah and I see you're on active duty again."

He clearly heard her unhappy underlying tone but ignored it, shrugging in response before a happy smile appeared again.

"The boys must be happy to see you again. Have you already met them."

Sakura nodded a happy smile spreading over her face, despite her tiredness.

"Yeah they're still the same but they've grown taller."

Kakashi chuckled at her pout but before he could say any more the third person in the tent, who had been silent until now chose to remind them that he was still here.

"It is late, perhaps you should come tomorrow and tell me the rest of your report."

Sakura immediately noticed the underlying sharpness and the way Itachi was looking at her old sensei, as if he was silently communicating.

Kakashi seemed to understand and nodded all happy smiles gone.

"Yes I will find you and then well talk about these matters properly."

The two exchanged looks and Sakura was sure this report was important and probably confidential too. She suddenly wanted to smack herself for intruding upon such an important meeting but let the dismay go, seeing as if was her tent too, the General had probably already expected her.

This thought stopped her for a moment, if he had expected her to come and knew this was not the time and place to discuss this important report why would he do so anyway? Looking at her old sensei she once again noticed that he was still dirtied and bloodied from his mission, so perhaps the General hadn't planned the meeting at all, perhaps he had just returned and wanted to report immediately? What was so important that he had to meet the General in such a rush at this hour? And why take a retired captain for doing a mission whose report was so confidential?

She shook her head trying to loose those thought, she was worried for Kaka-sensei seeing as he was supposed to be retired, even tough the man was still functioning like a well oiled machine he had long been absent from duty.

After he had left not without rubbing her hair one last time and telling her how good it was to have her back with them, she turned to the General, who had been rather quiet for the entire time. His eyes were fixing the floor arms resting on his knees as he was sitting like a statue apparently deep in thoughts.

She frowned and pushed the curtain aside to get to her part of the tent, mulling about the fact that her sensei from the academy was now active again.

She was beginning to change into her nightclothes when the screeching of a chair startled her slightly. Peeking at the other side of the tent from behind her curtain she saw that Itachi had gotten up and had his back turned to her, going through some files that were on his desk.

She frowned seeing that he had no intention of going to bed anytime soon. Trying to ignore the medic instinct that wanted to scold the man but failing miserably she put a larger shirt that almost covered her to her knees on and pushed the curtain somewhat back not intent on giving the General the wrong ideas.

"You should go to sleep. It is not healthy for you nor your eyes to stay up so long."

He turned his head slightly not really looking at her, deep in thoughts.

"hn."

She needed a minute until she understood that he had just ignored her altogether giving her one of those Uchiha words that could not even be considered as words. Gritting her teeth she stomped up to him before slapping her hand on his desk.

This effectively got her his attention.

She fought the urge to blush, as his eyes looked deeply into hers, the sharingan nowhere in sight only those black eyes that seemed so deep and endless.

Pulling herself together she scowled at him.

"I did not heal your eyes which were on the brink of destruction so you can go on and ruin them again! You need to let them rest and appropriate amount of time just as you body has to! So don't ignore me like it's not something important even the mighty General has to rest!"

Her eyes widened a fraction when she finally remembered whom she was speaking to. Coughing awkwardly she took a step back trying to rein her temper.

"I mean you have more responsibilities and more work as General so it is imp- What?!"
The amused sparkle in his eyes made her irritated after she had all but tried to be polite! However it seemed she just served to bring him some sort of entertainment seeing as his eyes shone with mirth.

Sakura scowled almost throwing her arms up in exasperation, turning around and mumbling incoherent things intent on just going back to bed and ignoring all those stupid Uchihas who seemed to be above everything and everyone and who did not listen to their medics who clearly knew better because they all had a giant stick up their-

"Sakura."

She stopped in her tracks and in her mumblings turning around to face the still amused Uchiha and looking at him warily.

"Where are you going."
Blinking she looked behind her then back at him not in the least understanding whatever he meant. While doing so she looked rather cute with that confused look, Itachi mused silently. He got up deciding o listen to his short-tempered medic and go to bed.

However she had never précised that he had to go alone, which he promptly, much to her horror as he suddenly picked her up as if she was nothing at all, reminded her.

"Let me down! What are you doing!"
"Going to bed, with you."

When he put her down she had blushed such an intense red, she slightly looked like a tomato. A very pretty tomato.

"As my medic told me I need to rest so I'm going to sleep."

She glared fiercely at him and he let out a rare chuckled making her scowl at him.

"I'm not sleeping here, with you! I actually want to sleep so let me go to my bed!"
Itachi ignored her and shifted so that he was lying on his side tangling both their legs and his arms around her. She gave a noise of protest and he smiled into her hair.

"Don't worry I'm also intending to sleep. Good night."

And with that the last light went suddenly out engulfing them both in the darkness. Sakura was as tense as she could trying to even her breathing. The hold he had on her would not budge and she sighed tiredly after five minutes of trying to break free. She knew he would not let her go and seeing as she was too tired to give a real fight she just sighed angrily crossing her arms over her chest like a small child would while pouting.

"Only this time!"
She ignored the butterflies in her stomach and the blood that rushed twentyfold back to her cheeks when she heard him give a small laugh that sounded like nothing else she had every heard.

As Itachi was slowly stirring awake, he noticed certain things even before he had really opened his eyes. First he wasn't alone as he could tell by the delicious smell of the female enclosed in his arms, which reminded him that he had for the first time in years slept with a woman without sleeping with her, if you know what I mean. Second he realized that he had slept like a stone while he was usually a very light sleeper he had slept peacefully and without any interruption, which hadn't happened since years. Lastly he could feel by the way Sakuras breath was ghosting over his collarbone, that she had sometime in the night shifted and snuggled closer to him.

He smirked knowing very well that the medic would never be so bold when awake.

He looked down his eyes scanning the peaceful face of his supposed lover who seemed just too stubborn to accept the facts as they were. Sure he could understand that she must be in some sort of inner confusion seeing as she had slept with him, lost her virginity and that to a man she barely knew and even was her superior. The things had progressed perhaps a bit too fast for her, but that was how he was.

That one night had shown him sides of her, he was sure nobody else had seen and if he could help never would. The way she had come alive under him was something, which mesmerized him. He had already brought many women to his bed but never had he enjoyed it to such a degree. She was innocent and inexperienced giving her a certain charm and the fact that she was still furiously blushing every time he looked at her or touched her made him rethink about her under him. It had actually taken him aback how blushingly innocent she still behaved after that night. It surely was refreshing seeing as most women just threw themselves at him. Then there was also the fact that she obviously had no problems speaking her mind and would stand her ground if she thought she was right. Many others were too intimidated by him, yet she stubbornly went against him if needed to. She was beautiful little spitfire that could be gentle at one time and then pummel you to the ground if rubbed the wrong way. Her many different emotions, which were always shown in her eyes were what fascinated him the most. He could read her like an open book, unlike most people around him who had been trained to not show their emotions openly. However she did not even seem to notice or to care, she clearly showed her anger when provoked, blushed when embarrassed and let her eyes sparkle when happy or frown cutely when irritated or confused. She was just everything opposite of what the Uchiha clan always thought and he came to cherish her for who she was.

So it was obvious to him that he was more than just a little bit interested in her, he was entranced and the fact that her presence made him relax enough to sleep like stone showed that he felt comfortable around her, relaxed, even to such a degree that he was able to laugh, something he almost never did.

Maybe for her he was going too fast or had overrun her with his simple declaration of his intention towards her, but that was how he was blunt and to the point, he did not see why he should wait or lose frivolous time when he already knew enough to realize that she was special. The words he had said were not empty either. He knew she was an entrancing vixen and he had no qualm in losing her to someone other because he was too slow to clarify things.

Of course now all he had to do was break that unshakable stubbornness of hers and make her give in to him, the sooner she did the sooner they could life their life how he had imagined, sleeping like this together, every night, having dinner together, kissing her breathless and making sweet sweet love all day.

He smirked looking one last time down at the medic, from whom he had successfully managed to disentangle himself before getting ready for the day. Bending down he placed a soft kiss on the corner of her lips taking a deep breath of her scent with him before leaving the tent, intended of finding that lazy pervert who still had to give his report.

soo yeah there will be a plot don't worry I'm trying not to rush things ^^'

also wanted to thank you all for the nice reviews! I'm so happy for everyone's encouragement and hope you enjoy this little chapter hopefully I'll be able to give you more realllyyy soon :b

as you probably have noticed the first chapter was not as well written or elaborated as the other two that's because at the beginning I just wrote this as some crazy idea, which did not want to leave my head until I had put it down but then I started to invest more time and now that I've gotten some positive feedback I hope I can continue with it and give you guys a good story ;)

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