Chapter 20
A Different Reason
Sakura opened her jade eyes to see the portrait smiling back at her. She sat up the blankets falling neatly around her petite frame. "Good morning Itachi-kun" sakura announced, her eyes closed as she stretched inside the bed. She opened her eyes to see that she was all alone, in an empty room once again. She looked to her left, the portrait. "I guess I'm not really all alone." She said aloud as she smiled gracefully in the portraits direction.
"No you're not all alone" Sakura turned to the open bathroom door with an emerging Itachi figure. His hair was lying loosely around his shoulders and sakura found herself staring in awe at how shiny and beautiful it looked. "Sakura" he said looking confused at her, she was daydreaming in his direction. "Ok?" he spoke before he moved to the dark corner of his room once again. He placed a small black blanket down and then straightened up and put his long hair back into his normal pony tail. Sakura found herself watching Itachi's every action.
She was just completely mesmerised, the fact that he was a mass murderer, and at times a hired assassin. Yet he had the most perfect, gleaming hair. Itachi sighed "here's some clean clothes put them on and meet me outside when you ready." He sighed once more. "And don't go doing that to my bathroom again" he turned and look at the open bathroom door the mirror was shining directly at him. "And if I don't get an answer when I call your name three times I'm coming in." Itachi's face was stern and his voice was commanding 'he seems really serious', Sakura thought as she watched his dark red eyes shining back into hers.
Itachi felt like he was babysitting his younger brother again. Sakura nodded her head still in a daze. Itachi made his way to the door and turned just before he was about to leave. "And hurry up ok?" He asked, staring right back at her. Sakura instantly broke out of her daydream and smiled sweetly back at Itachi.
"Ok Itachi- kun" She said before she herd the door click, an indication that Itachi was gone for good, or jus for now. Sakura stood up from the bed and made her way to the clothes. There was a long black shirt and a pair of black trousers. The shirt had a small Uchiha crest embroidered into the back, this made Sakura think. She was Sure that these clothes belonged to the Uchiha Clan and that meant they where either Itachi's or Sasuke's, she doubted that it was anyone else's. But either way they were warm, clean and at the present time not much else really mattered.
Sakura made her way into Itachi's bathroom. She was slightly curious of the state she had left it in the day before. Sakura slowly opened the door to see the bathroom really…. Clean! She was in utter shock at the fact that it had been cleaned so consistently and almost sparkled on her entrance. A smile grazed her features, 'I wonder if Itachi did this,' she thought as she clicked the door closed and started to change.
Sakura slipped on the large black shirt it reached her knee's so if she had some tights she could wear it as a dress. She pulled on the black trousers as well and made her way to the bathroom mirror. Somehow she didn't look like herself the dark colours clashed terribly against her pale skin and her long pink lying loosely around her shoulders; it seemed a complete mess up to Itachi's. She wondered how Itachi could wear suck dark colours and look like a ghost even thought he was paler than her. Sakura slowly sat on the floor her feet where so cold against the white tiles it was as if she was standing on ice. Sakura reached over to her old ANBU jacket and once again tore a small piece of fabric off. Sakura wrapped it neatly around her petite foot and then turned to get yet more cloth when a shimmering light caught her attention beside her own ANBU jacket. She looked confused for a moment and then she just shrugged it off and made her way closer to. Whatever was lying on the floor?
Taking whatever was shinning in the palm of her hand, she felt tears brimming in her eyes as she held on to the piece of metal tighter. The locket. The one thing that, he had given to her. Brocken, into lots of little pieces and one was there in the palm of her hand. A sudden amount of pain caused sakura to drop the small piece of metal onto the floor, Sakura looked at her hand there was a small gash where the piece of metal had been. A sad smile found it's was onto her features. "I guess you don't want to stay with me either," She spoke. Somehow she whished that Sasuke's voice would come and reassure her that he was coming soon, but alas it never came.
"SAKURA!!" shouted and angry looking Uchiha as he smashed through the bathroom door, it wasn't Sasuke but the only other Uchiha known on this earth. His usually Unfatigues face seemed to be full of emotion, for a change. He started down onto sakura towering over her; the steam was almost visible that steam might come out of his ears. Her head was lowered her pink hair caressing her face. Sakura's Hair was like a place where any moment she could hide at times, Hide her away from awaiting eyes that would dwell on her. "Sakura" Itachi calls again his voice sounded more subtle, as he moved closer to her. Sakura emerged her head away from its pink cavern a confused look on her face.
'Why dose he seem so different all of a sudden' sakura thought until she felt a small amount of pressure on her hand. She looked to see pale fingers on her own; she looked up the see the once again unfatigued Itachi, staring down at her hand. A small piece of cloth at the ready. 'He much had pulled it off my ANBU jacket,' Sakura sighed 'their will be nothing left of it soon' "where did you get this?" Itachi asked his commanding voice was returning instead of his calm one. To sakura she felt relieved. Knowing that he could be real person at times, sometimes even more so than his brother. "I cut it on a piece of …"
Sakura was cut off by again another demand. "Pass me those scissors!" Sakura looked at him dumbfounded. She slowly picked them up and passed them to Itachi. She watched in curiosity as she saw Itachi waver. "Can you do it?" He asked, his human side slowly returning sakura's face didn't change she was utterly confused 'what does he mean' she thought. Itachi sighed and placed the scissors in sakura's gashed hand. He curved her fingers around the scissor's letting the blade being the only thing exposed, he wrapped his own fingers around sakura's and clutched tight. He closed his eyes but he held out his other hand it shook slightly. He was shaking over Sakura's hand to; she was surprised to see him so shook up. 'Didn't he slay his own family, how at all can he be so nervous by just holding a pair of scissors.'
Sakura started blankly at him still wondering what he was planning, in a swift movement he stabbed the scissors into his own hand and then he let go of Sakura's hand he still was shaking. "What did you do that for?" sakura asked, she didn't think that Itachi was idiotic, but why would he stab his hand for no reason at all. "For this." he moved his own hand to where the small piece of cloth stood on the floor. In front of them both, he clutched it into his Bleeding hand and watched as small black swirls realised from the small cloth. A bright orange light came out. It was almost blinding but then everything when back to normal, shortly after. Well relatively normal.
Itachi smirked, his black hair covering half of his face. Sakura felt some anger take over. "And you did that for??" Itachi sighed and wrapped the small piece of cloth around his own hand. "What you didn't want to be bandage buddies?" he said the sarcasm dripping from his comment. Sakura huffed and turned away from the smirking Uchiha. 'But I did it for a whole different reason' Itachi thought as he watched sakura's hair fall down her back. A rare smile found its way onto his features. 'Yes a different reason' he thought.
A pretty long one fore all of you
Well thank you for taking the time to wait for me to update sorry it's been a while!
Ive tried to edit it a bit is it any better than normal tell me ??
But I've tried my best with this chapter I know it's a bit repetitive but what the hell. I think the next chapter might be a Sasuke chapter but I'm not sure yet. I would also like to say thank you to all my readers if I wouldn't have had the inspiration y you reading the first few chapters I probably wouldn't post many more. But even if only one person read my story I would be thankful for them as I am thankful for everyone of you who is reading my story and as well as future readers.
Anyway thanks for reading.
