Thanks for reading this far! Here's chapter 3! =)
The boss was very satisfied with our work. He ordered me to rest, since I was the only one to use chakra, and Itachi would start the interogation. I refused, and begged to be part of it. He found my hatred of the younger Uchiha to be amusing, and did not argue with my wish. We went to get some food in us first, Deidara and Kisame were there already scarfing down a couple of burgers. I wonder why an evil lair has a cafeteria? Ah well.
"Hey!" Deidara called to us. We sat with them, I next to Deidara and Itcahi next to Kisame. "I heard that you captured Itachi's kid brother, yeah."
"Yes." I answered, popping a handful of french fries into my mouth. "What about you? What productive mission have you done?"
"No need to be snippy." Kisame teased me. These guys were actually pretty cool. Tobi was dancing on the table across the room, an empty sake bottle in his hands.
"Who said I was being snippy?" I snapped back.
"I did." He retorted. I stuck my food covered tongue out at him, and he cringed back. I swallowed my ABC food and laughed out loud, as did Deidara. That captured the attention of a table of apprentices. I quieted down but kept the wide grin on my face.
"Sakura, please don't act so childish." Itachi said. I groaned my disapproval.
"You're way too serious Itachi! You need to learn to chill sometimes. Yo Tobi! Send over some of that sake!" I had plans, and Itachi needed to lift that world off of his shoulders for it to happen.
"No no!" Tobi tsk-tsked me. "No shakay fur da lil g'rl." He slurred his words.
"It's not for me." I growled back. He shrugged and jumped onto the tables, dancing over to us. He handed me a bottle and went back to entertaining the rest of the Akatsuki members. "You need some of this." I shoved it at Itachi.
"No, I don't drink." He shoved it back.
"That's why you're so boring!" I shoved it at him again.
"I don't care what you think."
"You should! I'm your partner!"
"Even so, your opinion doesn't matter."
"You're such a party pooper!" I settled the bottle on the table and shoved my cheese burger into my mouth so I wouldn't say anything that would anger him. I really shouldn't piss him off or he might refuse to let me help interogate Sasuke Uchiha. Then again, I needed him sensless when events unfolded. Itachi went to get us refills on our drinks, though he had yet to finish his. I looked Kisame in the eye, and rasied my eyebrow. I side-looked at Itachi's drink, he understood. He poured the sake into the cup and sloshed it around a little.
When Itachi came back, Kisame pretended to finish off the sake bottle. He downed his drink and mock wobbled away, Deidara pretending to help srtaighten him. They were at the door when Deidara looked back and winked, then shoved Kisame out the door. I saw Itachi sip his drink, holding my breath when he sniffed the open top of the cup. He just shrugged and guzzled it down. I grinned widly, wiping it off my face when he put his cup down. I saw that he was already effected.
"I don't feel so good." He mumbled. I took the opportunity when he laid his head down on the table and left him there to start the interrogation. It wasn't hard to pursuade the jail gaurd to give me the key to the cells, he was a pervert after all, and I have grown since my days in Konoha. Things have gone just as I wished them too, let's keep our fingers crossed that things progress smoothly.
I clinked open the lock and stared down into the impossibly black eyes of my former obsession. "What, come to make fun of me?" He sneered. I sighed and went in, locking the door behind me. I wasn't scared of Uchiha, he wasn't strong enough to do any damage to me. "Really Sakura, just leave me."
"I'm not the one who runs away." I shot back, sitting in the chair in the corner of the room. "This is interrogation, I ask the questions."
"Oh yes, Great One." His sarcasm was getting on my nerves. "Why don't you go back to my brother's bed and leave me be."
"Who the hell are you!" I snarled, whipping the chair against the wall and shattering it. "What the hell do you know about me? You left! You left me all alone! I got strong, I trained, and I was never able to bring you home. It was Itachi who gave me hope, who welcomed me here and got me settled in! He only handed me over to Deidara for a little while so her could arrange a partner transfer. He actually wanted me! You left me, and he found me! You don't know me, so just keep your mouth shut!" Ahh, that little rant sure took a little tension off of me, but maybe not off of the younger Uchiha.
He was speachless for a little bit, as was I, then he finally spoke. WHne he spoke, it was filled with the pain of longing, and he was 100% sincere. "Sakura . . . I've missed you." He whispered. My breath studdered. "You don't know how broken I've been without you. I wanted to come home to you, but I couldn't. If I had come home and started a relationship with you, Itachi would surely have taken you away from me. I wanted to kill him before I came back for you, but then I find that you and him are so close. How do you think that makes me feel, Sakura? I hate it! I don't want him anywhere near you! Sakura, you used to think that I didn't like you, and I used to scoff on the inside at the thought. You didn't know how much effort it took to ignore you, how many times I wanted to be there for you, to comfort you, but I couldn't. I couldn't risk Itachi discovering my feelings for you. I knew that it was the only way to keep you safe. Sakua, please don't do this to me."
"And Karin?" I asked, my voice shaking from his confession. So many times I wanted to do the same, but could never work up enough nerve. How easy it seemed for him! Why was everything easy for him. Oh! My question.
"What about Karin? She works alongside me, and nothing more. I love you, Sakura." I ran to the door, fiddling with the lock. "Sakura! Please, don't run away from me! I don't want to be without you again!" I slammed the door shut on his protests and locked it. I ran out and threw the keys at the gaurd and kept running until I was out in the light rain, outside of the base. How was I to deal with this?
I was in trouble. I knew it right from the start, when I started my stupid plot. That stupid plot, ending in failure. I wanted to scare the younger Uchiha, to make him see that I'm not the same fangirl I used to be, and yet I recieved a late confession. Maybe if he had told me of his feelings before he left, before he ignored me and treated me like I had the plague, maybe none of this bull poopie would have happened!
Now I had to deal with the wrath of a drunk Itachi, great. He was waiting for me in front of the door of my room, garing at my approach. "Think you're funny, huh?" I rolled my eyes and pushed him away from my door so I could unlock it. "Think you can get me drunk, then what? Rape me?"
I laughed. "You wish." It was silent as I put the key in the lock and opened the door. I turned to face him.
"Sometimes, yeah." My eyes widened at his revelation. "Sakura, do you know how long I have been watching you? Since before I murdered my clan. You were always such an akward young girl, not so brave as to speak up for yourself, yet always so protective of your friends. I started to watch because you amused me, then emotions grew inside me, what I knew to be love. My friends would laugh at me because I stared at you so longingly, and I always shut them up. You were mine, I felt as though that were true. Then Sasuke came home from school one day and revealed his crush on you to me an our parents, it nearly killed me to have to listen to him describe you, to say how much he wated to meet you and be your friend, then grow up and marry you. I wanted to kill him that day, more than I wanted anything before."
"But you killed your family, not Sasuke." I pointed out.
"I killed them to kill him. My clan was useless to me anyway, and I didn't want any of them revealing the emotions he had for you. They wouldn't tell you how he felt, and he was too crushed over the murders to say anything himself. His eagerness to get revenage against me was a plus, because he was so distrated to tell you how he truely felt about you. I've done so much for you, and yet you only showed an interest for him."
"I didn't know." I whispered.
"I know you didn't, but now you do." He walked away and I slinked into my room. I plopped down on my mattress. Great. Now I have to deal with both Uhiha brothers, both of whom loved me. Damn, this is a nightmare!
Okay! Thanks for reading up til now! And I'll try to get chapters up as often as I can but I have no internet at home so the only chance I have is to get them on when I go to the library. Please be patient with me, I really am trying hard! =( But anyway, be sure to review, for your reviews are like oxygen to me, I live for them. Oh, and I'll try to make the chapters longer, cause I noticed that they're pretty short, huh? =)