The next morning, the rain stopped, and Itachi finally woke up.

She rose up while on the futon, and made a small yawn before noticing that Naruto wasn't beside her.

"He must be on some missions or something" she thought to herself smiling at the thought of him being at work while she was at home reminding her of the fantasies she had with Shisui had times whenever the subject of marriage came up.

Itachi felt a small shiver making her go back under the sheet she shared with Naruto. However, since Naruto wasn't there, she used his pillow but not under her head but between arms as she hugged it as strong as she could making her even more happy.

"This is..."

Itachi heard Naruto's voice from the bathroom making her previous assumption about him being outside, wrong.

She stood up, and went to Naruto leaving the futon, but the sheets were still wrapped around her.

She opened the door and saw Naruto holding something that made her loosen her grip over what is keeping her warm at the moment making the sheets fall down on the floor.

"Why are these..."

Naruto turned around to Itachi.

"What are these stained?"

A few minutes ago, before Itachi woke up, Naruto woke up and went to brush his teeth. He didnt want to upset her sleep so he didnt intend on making breakfast.

He saw the clothes she came in last night. He first put her kimono in the dirty pile to washed and then her other and last item of clothing which were her panties.

Itachi's breath became discontinues, her heart speed up a bit, and her pupils became smaller. She thought the rain would clean all the evidence of last night but her panties were hiden better than her kimono.

Naruto immediately noticed this sudden change in her composer over her clothes and concluded she didn't want to talk about it. No,he noticed she was afraid, but he didn't like seeing her like that and wanted to do anything in to avoid that site of her.

"Li... listen, if you don't want to talk about it, forget it!" smiled Naruto trying to comfort Itachi and snap her out of her current state. He also realized that she didnt just want to stay the night with him. She wanted to live with him. Even though, Naruto did want it, he didnt want her to live with him because she was forced to.

Upon hearing those words, her heart beat retuned to normal followed by her eyes and shakiness relieving Naruto that everything was ok again.

"I will make breakfest, ok?"

Naruto tried to change the subject, and walked pass Itachi until he was behind her.

"Wait..."

She said prompting Naruto to stop as he turned around to face her back still wearing only his shirt making him blush at the view he had from her back.

"We do many things... as ninjas. We kill... we torture... we steel from others... and we get information in many way possible..."

"What... do you mean?"

"It's just that what we do... changes us. Stuff like societal values or rules might not hold as much importance as they used to."

Itachi clutched her hand close to her chest and began shaking again.

"These... 'values' or rules... they dont matter anymore to us aince we dont apply them on others except for us. We become desensitized... and we... we... we..."

Suddenly, images of her time with her clan, with her little brother she loved so much, and with her as a ninja rushed through her mind. Each memory would come and she would remember that it was all a lie she convinced her self were real.

"WAS NONE OF IT WAS REAL?! !" screamed Itachi before crying and falling on her knees. That last night, SHE made the decision to destroy all of that. It was HER choice to agree to Sasuke's deal.

"I... I LOST AL-" Itachi was cut when she felt something wrap over her waste.

"Huh?!"

It was Naruto's arms and body which caught her by surprise as he hugged her from behind.

"Whatever you did last night..." Naruto tightened his grasp over her and smiled.

"I forgive you".

"You..." was all Itachi could respond with. All she could do was stare at his blue eyes and that cheesy dumb smile of his. It indeed looked dumb, but for her, it was the most beautiful thing she could see at that time.

She held Naruto's arms around her and drew them even tighter on her body as she began crying again.

"Thanks... Naruto-Kun...".

End of Chapter 12

This chapter was short but I couldn't think of any way to prolong it as much it is. I really wanted to end it woth Itachi thanking Naruto but I didn't want it to go too long since only two things happen here: Itachi wakes up and goes to see Naruto.

Anyway, I hope you like it! :)