Let my Weakness Strengthen Me Chapter 4, a naruto fanfic

Part 2

Chapter four

Time skip 1/5: She's finished

I do not own Naruto…, …if I do so help me God

She smirked as she swung her leg across herself, chopping the tree in half with brute strength. Up from behind the trunk Itachi stood up, jabbing a kunai in her direction. Slyly she did a quick back flip, kicking the weapon from his hand.

Itachi fell backwards into the ground and reappeared behind Sakura. Carefully she jabbed her elbow backwards and extending the rest of her arm, quickly scratching the side of Itachi's arm, causing little blood to flow.

She spun around, his apprentice, her hair flipped around her head sending the sweet smell of Strawberry in the air. Forming hand seal to fast for the naked eye to see she whispered a faint, 'dirt clutch' she stuck her own hand deep into the stone, her wrist down not visible.

Quickly fist and hands sprung the ground Itachi stood on, snapping away at his ankles.

Two fists held the missing nin firmly to the ground as the pink haired kunoichi blew raging flames at him, but when the flames cleared along with the smoke, all there was, was charred wood.

A heavy breath steamed the girls neck, Itachi's lips wavering slightly at her skin.

Fluidly she spun around, thrusting a kunai at the nin, effortful he stopped the kunai and placed her own weapon at her neck

"We're done with training today Sakura." He sighed, dropping her weapon.

She bowed slightly to him, "Thank you sensei."

The man smirked slightly when he pulled her body to his, shock evident on her blushing face. "What did I say about calling my sensei?" He spoke into the crook of her sweaty neck, tasting the salt on her skin.

"T-thank you I-Itachi-k-kun." She stuttered out, her blush extending to her hairlines. It was just something about him, the way he held her, the way he touched her, the way he looked at her…

"Do not thank me Sakura-chan." He purred, giving her a slight peck on the nose.

It was early in their relationship, they each remembered the day it was announced, they were pretending to be engaged for political reasons, that night was a celebration. Sakura got drunk and told him she loved him, he was surprised to say the least, but he complied and told her he loved her too…

A disappointed sigh exited her pink lips as Itachi went back into teacher mode.

"Your taijutsu has increased exponentially… your brute strength almost equivalent to my own… your jutsu needs work and you still have much work to do in genjutsu, but that will be easy. You have a natural talent for that… After we perfect those we will be moving to the moon country. There is someone I want you to meet there…"

Sakura cocked her head to look at him, his face was stern and looking past her, as if he knew he wouldn't be able to stand to keep it a secret if he looked in her eyes.

"Itachi-kun?" Sakura pondered as they walked side by side to there cottage.

"Yes."

Sakura kept quiet to think of what she was going to say. She was terrified of what she wanted to say, so she just kept walking, listening to the birds chirp and the villagers chatter among themselves.

The villagers were used to them coming back and forth, walking throughout the village many times, sometimes running the borders of the town hundreds of times a day. And they didn't mind.

Occasionally they would stop and stare at the two strange people but that was only when one was injured.

So Sakura walked in silence trying how to word what she wanted to say, and Itachi waited, knowing she would talk once she was ready.

"Do you love me?"

Itachi stopped at her timid voice, the beautiful voice that was just above a whisper.

The man stopped in front of the doorstep to the house, slowly turning towards the girl.

"Sakura…" He sighed.

The girl nodded curtly, not allowing any tears to escape as she was about to walk inside of the small house and to the confides of her room before she began to cry.

Itachi took hold of her shoulders strongly, placing a soft and warm kiss on her forehead and both cheeks before hungrily attacking her lips. Slowly he lifted himself off of her.

"Yes."

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He jumped. The blonde haired boy jumped from tree limb to tree limb, as he had been doing for one year, but now it was routine.

Sai would wake everyone up, Naruto would rush everyone to get ready fro the days travel. Kakashi would be as quiet as ever. Jiraiya would be silent and watching, and Ino, Sakura's replacement, would be loud and slow. They would run and track Sasuke for hours on end, until Ino would collapse, then the reluctant Kakashi would carry her for another few hours.

The five would travel for twenty-four hours and rest for nine, but no matter Kakashi was always quiet, with no book in his pocket, just a grimace on his face.

"N-Naruto… can we stop for today…" Ino gasped for air. Her face was red and sweaty. Her clothing limp and dirty on her curvy frame.

"We've only been traveling for two hours Ino, we barely made a dent into what we usually do." Naruto replied, with determination in his husky voice as he only increased his speed.

"If I was Sakura…"

Naruto stopped and glared dangerously at Ino.

"If you were Sakura… what?"

"Forehead wouldn't have survived the first month let alone and entire year of this… and If I were her you would have gladly stopped by now!" The blonde stated snobbishly.

Naruto let out a rippling growl as her smashed into Ino, pinning her to a tree and holding her neck with his hand.

"How dare you talk about her like that."

The girl on the team coughed quietly as everyone stopped to watch, Kakashi stepped forward, placing a hand on the containers shoulder.

"Calm down Naruto. Ino is right anyways."

Naruto flared again, slamming Kakashi against the tree trunk also.

"How can you say that about your own student. Call her weak? You don't know anything about her… she is one of the strongest people I know."

Kakashi sighed as he pried Naruto's hand off of him.

"Sakura was and is and always will be weak. She doesn't have what it takes to become a decent shinobi."

"You… you don't know anything about her." Naruto looked away from the silver haired man.

"Sakura… the weak one huh? Did you know that her parents died after the second day that she became a genin. Did you know that when Sasuke left she didn't shed a single tear? Did you know that she has more brute strength than I do when Kyuubi is charging me? Did you know that she supports herself… and did you know that through all of that she comes to training every day with a smile on her face and never lets any of it out? She was and is the strongest person I know and when she comes back I'm positive that she'll be so strong that not even the blindest man can think she's weak." Naruto turned his back on them and began to run ten times quicker than before, leaving the rest of his team in dust, pondering how he knew all of this… but then in the end Jiraiya knew how… oh yes Jiraiya knew… he thought as a smirk played at the white haired beasts lips.

A/N: Okay you know the drill 12 reviews w00t