Chapter 2
Sakura groaned, rolling to the side and feeling the pleasurable ache that throbs through out her body.
The imprints of the Uchiha still clung to her; his heady masculine scent, his unique taste mingling with sake, and the erotic marks that he had made to her newly sullied body.
She had gone too far.
Her plans of simply kissing him had escalated to something more than mere brushing of lips. The dull but distinct ache between her thighs reminded her that all of it was not a dream.
The love bites and tender bruises from Itachi's passionate and frenzied love making still marred her creamy white skin. Her face was profuse with color as she buried her nose onto her pillow, grimacing as she tried to erase the memories of last night from her mind.
It was hopeless as she still recalled how Itachi had felt and tasted when she had succumb to his vigorous ardor.
She could forget him; every inch of him that she had touched and tasted.
Itachi was her first; the first man to have ever touch her in the most intimate and erotic way.
Though the possibilities of doing it again with him was zero to one.
Itachi would never touch her again once he knew the truth and more reason for her to avoid him.
Drawing close contact with him would be dangerous. The experimental pills that she had taken was only to disguise her features and stature but the all the miniscule things like taste and scent could not be altered.
Now that she had left the evidence of virginity with him, Itachi was bound to notice that the Shinji that he made passionate love was not the same woman.
Sakura was grateful that she had sneak out from the room before Itachi had woken up. Physical exhaustion and the effects of the sake had made the Uchiha lax and Sakura had slipped from the club before the pills had worn off.
Aching and immensely gratified, Sakura had gone to her apartment and gained the sleep she needed after Itachi had exhausted her past her bearing.
Lying on the bed with her face still flushed, she contemplated whether to attend their team meeting.
Itachi had asked the team to meet him at the number 12 training grounds. That was 4 days ago, where she had been busy plotting how to kiss Itachi with the use of her newly developed pills.
She had first experimented with it when she had gone out for a walk, disguised as a blue haired woman that she copied from a traveler. The disguised did not last for about two hours and Sakura had tried to improve the time span of the pills.
Then after that, she had taken a copy from Itachi's favored woman, Shinji. Since she had known Itachi's schedule by heart, it was not difficult for her to procure Shinji's DNA, which would be used to make a pill.
Sakura was obsessed with Uchiha Itachi. How much? Well, she has to say that she was crazy about him that she had went through all the research of how to seduce hot men. And with a few experimental innuendos and suggestive kisses here and there, Sakura thought that she was ready to face Itachi and make him fall madly in love with her.
But all of it was worthless since Itachi had remained unmoved by her boldness. She knew that it had got to with their current relationship. He was her teacher while she was his student; meaning off limits.
However when the day Itachi had saved her life, she hadn't expected that her opinions of him would change drastically. Sakura became his devoted admirer and had keep on following him like some deranged fan girl.
She worship the path he walks on and she would gladly die for him is he asks her to, that how she was obsessed with him.
But everyone knows that she only fancies herself in love with the Uchiha heir.
Sakura did not mind them because she knew deep down that this was not only an obsession, but love.
Love that she had tried many times to deny but she had simply give in countless of times.
She was crazy in love with him.
And what happen between them last night seems to have affected her way of thinking because she couldn't stop herself from replaying the night in her mind.
Itachi was a passionate lover.
He touch like a man deprived of warmth.
He kisses like man starving.
And made love like a man in love with a frenzied passion that she had never seen before; never encountered from any man but him.
Though she could tell what he had though of her when she given herself to him. Yet she wasn't sure if she wanted to find out.
For fear of being discovered, Sakura decided to keep away from him for awhile.
She was not going to the team meeting today and she would avoid him for the next couple of days before she was certain that he had already forgotten about the woman.
But Itachi's photographic memory made her doubt.
Even a sniff of her scent would evoke Itachi's long term memory and she would be in serious trouble.
Itachi would never forgive her for deceiving him like that and her hopes of making him fall in love with her would be ruined.
Sakura would have to make the best choice and that was to erase the traces of the woman.
She would change her scent. She would replace her soup for a new one and since she was sure that Itachi would never kissed her. She doesn't need to change anything that she eats. Mango caramel was still her favorite.
Once she had gotten her plans settled, Sakura tried to assure herself that Itachi would never discover the truth.
Regretting of what she had done was already too late but she couldn't help herself. Sakura should have known better than to have stayed longer in Itachi's embrace. She had already foreseen where the heated kiss was leading but she was lost.
She had been tempted and had easily given in.
The next time if it ever happens again, Sakura would be prepared though she was sure that it would never happen again.
It was for the best that Itachi never knows.
Once the cat is out of the bag, Itachi would lose his trust in her and would lose her chance for gaining Itachi's interest.
Itachi would not take her deception too well and she would be damped sooner before she could even admit that she loves him.
"Where's Sakura?" Itachi asked, gazing enigmatically from between the two of his former students.
Uchiha Sasuke shrugged his shoulders apathetically while Uzumaki Naruto just shook his head.
"She hasn't arrived yet," Naruto replied, equally puzzled at Sakura's unusual lateness; Sakura had never been late or even been absent from one of their meeting. All of which had got to do with their team Captain. Sakura had never been discreet about her feelings towards the older Uchiha and had shown it many times even when they were present.
Itachi was thoughtful.
"Is she going to attend the meeting?"
"I don't know," Naruto responded when Sasuke did not care to answer his older brother's question; broodingly considering the questions with silent acknowledgment.
"We hadn't seen her since Tuesday." Naruto glance at his other team mate, quietly asking if he had seen her.
Sasuke shook his head in negative.
"Then we have to proceed without her," Itachi said, slightly relieved of the pink haired girl's absence. Sakura had always asked him to have lunch with her every after their training or a team meeting.
Itachi was not in the mood for a woman's flirtation. He had been angry that morning when the woman he had bedded last night had disappeared. He already knew that she wasn't Shinji and he had been frustrated when he had failed to find out the woman's identity before she disappeared.
The scent was vaguely familiar though he could not distinguish from whom it came from.
He had a niggling suspicion that he had known it for quite some time now. But he hadn't care to noticed it.
"Itachi-sensei?" the energetic blonde inquired curiously.
Itachi directed his eyes back towards the two and began to speak to them.
"Our team had been selected to guard the Daimyo of Rain Country."
Both Sasuke and Naruto exchange a look, an interested one from Sasuke while an excited one from the blonde.
Itachi observed their mixed reaction with an indecipherable expression on his face.
"We will be leaving tomorrow morning,"
"Yosh!" Naruto punched his fist in the air, showing his obvious excitement. "We're finally going on a mission. It's been boring staying in Konoha."
Naruto nudged his silent team mate. "Right, teme?"
"Hn," Sasuke responded, glaring at the blonde as he crossed his arms in front of him.
"I've been bored training with you and Sakura," Sasuke bluntly stated while Naruto scowled. "I need a change of scenery than watching you get defeated by me."
"You're going to pay for that, teme." Naruto cracked his fist, ready to prove the Uchiha bastard who's the real boss. "You will be sorry for calling me a loser."
Itachi regarded them stoically. Not moving to stop them.
He turns, deciding to tell them the details by the next morning before they leave for Rain Country. He did not want to sort them out since he was too mentally exhausted to handle two volatile adolescents.
Thinking about the woman had exhausted him and trying to stop Sasuke and Naruto from fighting would take its toll on him.
Itachi began walking away from them but then he remembered something.
"Sakura,"
Inwardly sighing, Itachi turn back.
He didn't want to tell her himself. He knew Sakura would glop him if she had the chance.
"Sasuke," his younger brother was throwing shurikens towards the Naruto's clones when he walked into the battle field.
Sasuke glance at him, showing that he had his attention.
"Tell Sakura about our mission," Itachi watched as Sasuke deflected two of Naruto's shuriken and flipped back to avoid a kick from a clone that Naruto hid from under the ground.
Sasuke nodded his head as he crouched on the ground, taking a kunai from his pouch. Even though Sasuke's eyes were watching his opponent, he had still heard Itachi's command.
"I'll tell her," Sasuke said before running directly forward, throwing the kunai towards the waiting blonde who deflected each of it; an arrogant smile placed on his whiskered face.
Sasuke's hands blurred as he formed a hand seal for a fire released.
"Katon, Gukakyou no jutsu!"
The fire burst out from Sasuke's mouth and headed towards the blonde.
A sound of a soft puff as the clone disappeared mixed with the sound of roaring fire as Sasuke's followed the real Naruto's progress, searing the trees and the bushes.
Itachi was already gone before Sasuke had formed the fire jutsu.
The scent of the woman still bothered him and he tried to remember where he had smelled it.
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The next morning Sakura did not went along with her team, sending Sasuke to report to her team captain of the reason she couldn't come.
Itachi was unusually quite after hearing the news from his younger brother.
"She said that?"
"Hai," Sasuke eyed his brother, finding the indiscernible tension on Itachi's shoulder a little bit unnerving when he had mention Sakura's name. But it went away once he had told him that Sakura would not going come with them.
Itachi had been tensed when Sasuke had found him standing on their garden last night and had felt him moving around the house like a restless man until dawn came.
Sasuke wondered why Itachi couldn't sleep that night and wondered curiously if Itachi's unusual behavior had got something to do with his disappearance the night before.
"Let's go,"
Sasuke gazed after his brother, closely watching him with renewed curiosity.
Something was really bothering his brother that Itachi failed to noticed that his ponytail was coming off loose.
The black ribbon that had been used to secure Itachi's hair was replaced with a new one.
It was a red ribbon that Sasuke found very odd in his older brother's hair.
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Sakura throw herself in the bed with resignation, her eyes closed as she sighed with relief.
She had been grateful that she had a good reason to refuse the team's current mission. Her shishou had told her to work at the hospital last week and she was confident that could still be applied that week since she had many patients to handle.
Three of which still needed her care and she was still working on their diagnosis so she was not allowed to just drop them.
It was good that Itachi hadn't known.
If he had, Itachi would have come knocking at her door and confront her. Since he hadn't done anything of that, Sakura was sure that Itachi still didn't know the truth.
She had already started using a new scented soup and by the time her team arrived, she would smell different and fortunately, she wouldn't be acting weir towards Itachi.
She would have to act like she was over him.
No contact as possible and no interaction.
She wanted to lessen the chance from ever being discovered and for ruining the picture that he had of her; a besotted woman who abundantly threw herself at him and nothing more.
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