Chapter 23

All he wanted was a friend

Last time….

"Wait!!" she screamed…

All the people on the panel turned to look at her. But she had a determined look on her face that wasn't going to fade if it had Sasuke involved. "Where is he!" she screamed again her teeth kept firmly together.

"Itachi," the man called before heading out of the door. "You can't walk away from me!" she screamed "do you know who I am" the people on the panel looked at each other. Itachi came behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Ok sakura calm down" he called and tried to push her gently off of the stage and out of the main room.

"Do you know who I am?" sakura questioned as she looked slightly angrily at all the members of akatsuki's faces. A faint "Uchiha Sakura" was herd and that just sent her in over drive. "Uchiha." She muttered, "UCHIHA. Do you think I am an Uchiha" She screeched. "Ok sakura calm down" Itachi said again trying to push her off the stage but to no avail. She prided his hand off her shoulder and turned to face him. "You made them think that I was one of you. I'm not a murder of someone who lives for revenge." She picked up her hand and drove it around Itachi's throat. His eyes widened in surprise. He coughed spitting out a small amount of blood, and sent sakura a glare.

"What was that for?" he questioned, prying sakura's fingers away from his throat. She punched him hard in the stomach the green chakra emitting from her hand. "That's for calling me and Uchiha." She muttered and moved away slightly standing back from Itachi. He regained his composure quickly and moved to the steps but first she raised her head and looked him straight into the eye and slapped him across the cheek. "And that's for bringing me here." She said slightly louder this time thought. Itachi clutched his now painful cheek and stared at her.

She looked back into his eyes her they had softened and so had her facial features. "And this is for looking after me" she called in an angelic like voice. She moved her hand to his forehead and placed it there for a little while. Again green chakra emitted from her hand. She smiled weakly as the slowly bruising on his face slowly disappeared to nothing. She moved closer to his cheek and kissed it lightly. A small "thank you" she whispered before Turing and walking away out of the sight of the Uchiha. Out of the sight of anyone in that hall she just went back to her room. He head held low her pink hair covering her face.

She clicked open the door. The dark colours there instead of the pastel colours she had at home. She rested her head on the back of the door. It was closed now. The actions of the whole day played around in her head going round and round. She just wanted to be out of here home, With Naruto Kakashi and …Sasuke. An image of him popped into her head. The last time they met each other, in the park. The moonlight surrounding them, in her head it seemed so romantic but at the time. It just seemed to be like one big blur. She couldn't remember much of that night anymore. However she dearly wished she would. That was the first time she had seen him in more than 3 years. Had is been that long.

Itachi stood outside her room. A slight blush on his cheeks, he felt somewhat strange different. He put it down to the fact that he wasn't around people very often. Well he couldn't really count Kisame as a person more as just his team mate the person he was assigned to. But her, she was a real person she had a normal life up until when he had come and got her. He was regretting messing up this girl's life but of course he would never show it.

He knocked lightly on the door hoping to get a response. He did, sort of, she just clicked open the handle and moved to lean on the other door. He came inside the silence surrounding them both. He clicked the door closed and came and sat next to her. "What's wrong sakura?" he asked fairly gently for himself, he found himself quite intrigued that he could be so concerned at times.

"Why did you call me an Uchiha? I'm nothing like you or Sasuke for that matter." She said quietly he face still didn't turn as she just stared straight ahead into the darkness of her own room. "You right your nothing like me," He called. She turned to look at him. A silent tear fell down her face. "Or my brother." He finished. She looked at him. He seemed too sincere about it as well. "So why did you?" she asked again she seemed to be questioning him a lot lately.

Itachi copied her earlier actions and stared into the darkness of the room. "You have the same qualities of my mother. Uchiha Mikoto" he called a rare smile almost forming on his lips. He turned to look at her. "Beauty, Elegance and most of all Kindness." He pushed a lock of hair away from her face and showed her a very sincere smile.

She was sure that he was serious. He would never just smile to anyone. He turned and looked at his hand. There was the make do bandage wrapped neatly round his hand. He unravelled it revealing a gash into his hand, followed by some dried up blood. He unreeled the small piece of cloth again and something seemed to shine. He turned to sakura her eyes widened as he pulled out a shining piece of gold.

But it was completely identical to the locket that Sasuke had given her. "Your blood and my blood. When an Uchiha's blood is mixed with someone else's it can do things that you can't imagine." He looked up to her and pulled out a chain from his pocket. "May I?" he asked she nodded politely. Itachi moved to his feet and placed the locket around her neck. "It didn't take that much time to reform." He told her and he moved back to where he was sitting earlier. He sat down on his knees and once again looked off into her room.

Sakura stared at the locket around her neck. She felt strange 'why he would do something like this for her. Why was he telling her about his family? Why? Why? Why?' she mentally thought. She looked down on the locket. The gold designing intrigued her. 'He isn't that bad after all' she thought as she looked over to Itachi.

There was a deep sigh "I think I'm ready to tell you now" he called. She looked up at him a confused expression on her face. "I'm ready to tell you what happened. Why it happened and When it happened." He chorused. "I don't understand Itachi-kun what are you on about?" he gave a deep sigh and cleared his throat. "I will tell you about the Uchiha Massacre." Sakura's eye's widened in disbelief. "What" she muttered utter surprise taking over her. "You can clear the air between me and my brother only you." He told her. She looked at him still utterly confused. "Why me?" she asked. "Because I realised something today. Something that my brother has that I don't" she looked at him dumbfounded. 'Someone who cares for him' he answered mentally. "A friend" he told her. She looked at him in utter shock. 'All he wanted was a friend' she thought and just stared as Itachi's head dropped to look at the floor.

He took in a deep breath. "It all happened when Sasuke was 7 years old I was a little older than 13…..