Supposedly 1sentence drabbles. I got it from some fics (who said its from LJ - so credits there) and I wanted to try them out. Tried for sentences, got paragraphs. Meh, I'm pathetic. Some are normal. Some are for canon. Some are in the Epitome universe. Some are crack. Whatever I can think of first.
Damn, I really wanted to finish this before Christmas. Ran into a few problems so…yeah.
Warnings: May be OOC (No, not may be, its definitely OOC). And its fluffy. Is all.
Pairings: ItaHina
Disclaimer: Not mine.
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Comfort
Being a ninja was a harsh, merciless and often brutal lifestyle, especially when born heir to a powerful clan. Having someone who understands, Itachi and Hinata agree, was an immeasurable comfort.
Kiss
Itachi was one of Konoha's finest shinobi so there was no way that first kiss was an accident, no matter how it looked like (all the kisses afterwards were definitely deliberate).
Soft
Her voice was soft. He rarely spoke. They never minded the silence.
Pain
His clan was dead at his hands. Sasuke was severely traumatized. Everything he had – his pride, his brother's love, his bonds, his existence – was gone.
Uchiha Itachi leaves Konoha without a backwards glance, chucking the ANBU armor on his way.
Potatoes
Summer in Konoha meant heat waves that brought in a spirit of lethargy that affected even the most elite of ninjas. Hinata really hated this kind of lazy day. Honestly, a house full of genius ninjas – Itachi (man of the house), Neji (who visited so often he might as well move in) and Sasuke (freeloading brother) – and not one of them would budge to help her with dinner. What couch potatoes.
Rain
It rains everyday in Amegakure. The falling droplets and rhythmic sound of water pounding on pavement always tempted Itachi to reflect. It seems that rain marks every significant event in his life. Even the night he'd fled Konoha, a light shower had fallen, helping hide his tracks from the ANBU. That is why he always minds the weather.
Itachi will make sure it is cloudy when Sasuke finds him. He knows, for certain, it will rain when he dies. A lonely, lovely rain that will make his peace with this world.
Chocolate
Itachi surreptitiously peered down the hallway, all senses on high alert. Coast clear. After checking once more if his disguise was intact, he sprinted down the corridor, peeked outside, stealthily sneaked past the entrance where his brother was being mobbed and finally reached his sanctuary in the trees. He took off the hat and glasses and made his way to where she was sitting.
Okay, Itachi, act cool. He nonchalantly plopped down on the seat beside her and waited.
After an eternity, "Um…ano…Uchiha-sempai?" The girl's face was very red as she struggled to maintain eye contact. He grunted to show he was listening.
"Um…p-please accept t-this!" She bowed very low and held out a small package of chocolate. "Ah… y-you d-don't have to if you don't l-like it… But N-naruto-kun and Kiba-kun and even N-neji-niisan say they were good and, um, ah…" her eyes darted away in mortification as she ran out of things to say.
Itachi chuckled. Of course – of all the girls in school, his crush would be the one to hesitate giving him chocolate on Valentines Day. He didn't know whether to be amused or disappointed.
Happiness
Life after the massacre was hell – hated by his beloved brother, hunted by his village, being an outcast even among missing nins – nonetheless, Itachi found reasons to be happy. He was still alive. Sasuke was safe. His village was safe. Pein still wasn't suspecting him. He grins wryly to himself.
Telephone
Letters were always too slow in coming and so easily intercepted.
Ears
Unlike other Jounin-sensei, Itachi did not need to drag his team by the ears to discipline them. They were that respectful (afraid) of him.
Name
Uchiha Hinata. Uchiha Hinata. Uchiha. Hinata. Itachi and Hinata. ItaHina.
It fit so well.
In the dead of the night Sasuke and Hinata meet at the memorial. They carve Itachi's name on the monument.
Sensual
Hiashi and Neji and the rest of the Hyuuga would have had a fit if they ever heard him call their most highly prized Jyuuken technique sensual. So it was a good thing only Hinata made it so.
Death
Itachi remembers being thirteen and in ANBU – porcelain masks, commanding people twice as old as himself, moonless nights and rooms that reek of death. It was not quite different from Akatsuki.
Sex
So he was ticklish there – Oh my.
Touch
There is only a privileged few who can touch Itachi and not have a kunai shoved into their brains.
Weakness
Itachi couldn't stop himself in time.
"I'm sorry Sasuke, there won't be a next time."
He had to apologize to his brother before he died. That one moment of weakness could have ruined everything.
Tears
Hinata cried herself to sleep for weeks after the Uchiha massacre. Only a few months later, she seemed to be the only who remembered that she too had been close with Sasuke's family, that Itachi had once been her friend.
Speed
Faster! Faster! Faster! His body was quivering with exhaustion as Itachi pushed himself up again, willing his body to transcend its limitations. He was already halfway to mastering the Fourth's teleportation jutsu and he still didn't feel strong enough.
Wind
She was about to leave for a mission in Suna when he first told her he loved her, saying it so softly that she almost missed it.
Freedom
"He lived as a fugitive, a traitor, a criminal, praying for the release of death."
In death, Itachi found the sanctuary for the broken, the home of outcasts, and the peace for all in need of it. He finds his freedom.
Life
"Anata, guess who's going to be a father?"
Jealousy
He would never admit how relieved he was that she'd never been part of his brother's fan club. He's glad when she keeps her hair short when Sakura and Ino and other girls her age grows theirs long just so his brother would notice.
(Why would I like Sasuke-kun? She asks years later, confused. I had you.)
Hands
Itachi had talented hands, whether it be for forming seals, throwing kunai…or something else.
Taste
"Go on, just taste it, it's not like…"
A spike in killing intent.
"…Nii-san's here." Sasuke finished weakly.
He felt himself pale at he stared turned and met Itachi's eyes.
"Sasuke, might I ask why you are trying to intoxicate my team?"
Devotion
Hinata makes a plea to Kami every time Itachi does something dangerous.
Kami, keep him safe. Bring him home.
She prays everyday.
Forever
Itachi will live on (like a link on a chain that goes on and on forever).
Blood
Though no one will ever admit to it, Itachi knows everyone wonders how the two powerful bloodline limits will fuse. Sasuke and Neji are even secretly setting up a betting pool. Bastards.
Hinata is just embarrassed at all the attention they were getting.
Sickness
Disease was eating away at him, zapping him of the strength he needed as his world grew darker due to his fading eyesight. They had never felt they needed a medic-nin in Akatsuki.
Sasuke remarked that it was funny how a mere sickness was enough to bring his great Hokage brother down…especially when it wasn't him who was sick.
Melody
Itachi awkwardly strings along a few notes to resemble a melody his mother used to hum to his baby brother. As he rocks the newborn to sleep, Itachi worries he won't be a good father.
Stars
"Look, Sasuke-kun! So many stars!" Five-year-old Hinata gushed, pointing to the sky.
"There aren't any stars, Hinata-chan!" Sasuke crossed his arms.
"There are too!" Hinata shouted, grabbing Sasuke's head to where she was pointing.
"There are not!" Sasuke growled back, slapping her hand away.
"Itachi-niisan?!" They both turned to him.
"Hinata-chan," Itachi said tiredly, readjusting her. "Neither I nor Sasuke can see past the clouds. You though can see with your Byakugan."
"Oooohhhh," the two youngsters nodded in understanding.
Itachi sighed. He was stuck babysitting his brother and the Hyuuga heiress and – with Hinata in his arms and Sasuke riding piggyback, screaming back and forth to each other – he was getting rather tired.
Home
Itachi feels elated at finally seeing his beloved hidden village again. Konoha may not always love her ninja, but they will always love her.
"Itachi," She sobbed into the darkness, over and over as the rain fell down in buckets around her, punching the training log with every mention of his name. "Why aren't you coming home?!"
Confusion
"You're marrying Hinata – Hyuuga Hinata?! Since when?!"
"Sasuke…" Itachi nearly face-palmed. Did he really want his brother as his best man?
Fear
Fear was Itachi's constant companion and ally. With his tsukiyomi, he was able to take people's fears and nightmares and wield them as weapons. He had no need to break bodies when he could break minds.
Itachi's greatest fear was the possibility that maybe he'd been wrong in teaching Sasuke hatred.
Lightning/Thunder
During their fight, Itachi vaguely wonders how Sasuke's signature move was chidori when, as a child, he'd often come running to Itachi during thunderstorms.
Bonds
Uchiha Fugaku and Hyuuga Hiashi slipped out of the reception surreptitiously, a great feat considering the number of ninja at the event. Once alone, the two men high-fived and did a victory dance that would have made jaws drop.
"Just as planned!"
Market
Although nothing seemed to change between them following Itachi's return to Konoha, everyone soon knew that Hyuuga Hinata was officially off the market.
Technology
"Really, Sasuke… fanfiction?" Itachi quirked a brow at him, his lips almost twitching in amusement.
Sasuke looked mortified as he slammed his laptop screen down. "…just checking the new ItaHina stories." He mumbled once Itachi had gone.
Gift
There really was no point in trying to surprise her husband with a gift. God knows it was impossible in a ninja village. Itachi agrees, adding the fact that she had been Hyuuga, so she can imagine the lengths he had to resort to do the same. (In fact, getting a ring to go with his proposal had required a level of care and attention of an A-class mission.)
Smile
Sasuke could swear he'd never seen his brother make such a goofy face before.
Innocence
At fifteen, Hinata, with her wide eyes and shy demeanor, is a picture of innocence.. But Itachi knows she knows at least thirty different ways to bend a man to her will and twice as many ways to maim him. He taught her these himself.
Completion
He's not there when she makes Chuunin a year after those disastrous first exams. He's somewhere in the Wind country (or Lightning or Earth or Rain or wherever) so he doesn't see her wipe the floor with her opponent from Cloud. He doesn't see how far she, Kiba and Shino had gotten. He doesn't hear the other genin talk about the team the Uchiha Itachi trained. He probably would have been proud.
He's not allowed to be there at her Jounin exam. God knows he won't intervene but then, God also knows that no one's crazy enough to go all out on Hyuuga Hinata in his presence.
Clouds
His first-born has Nara Shikamaru for a Jounin-sensei. Cloud watching, shogi matches and troublesome – Itachi prepares himself.
Sky
Someday, he knows, this little Hyuuga will spread her wings and take over the entire sky.
Heaven
Hinata was his own little precious piece of heaven. His to protect. His to cherish. His to love.
Itachi never realized he was so selfish.
Hell
Itachi remembers being forced to fight in the Third Ninja war – the clash of weapons, blood-red eyes and hundreds of civilians helpless against the onslaught of shinobi. It still makes his blood boil to think about it.
Sun
For her birthday, Itachi gives her sunflowers, not roses, not carnations, sunflowers.
(Later, Ino tells her he actually nearly bought seven different bouquets before reconsidering.)
Moon
They were walking around enjoying the Konoha's Moon festival (supposedly in celebration of the creation of the moon by the Sage of Six Paths) when Sasuke appeared. Sasuke glanced around warily before asking if he could borrow Hinata for a while.
"Sasuke, you should get a girlfriend of your own." Itachi said, slightly annoyed, as he poked his brother with his dango stick. "That way, you wouldn't have to use mine to ward off your fangirls."
Waves
"Come on, Itachi-sensei!" Kiba urged as he put a little more emphasis on his hip movement. "We can't lose to anyone in this!"
Itachi sweatdropped. For the sake of an absolutely perfect C-rank mission for a genin team, that infuriating Hokage had suggested a dance-off. A freaking dance-off.
"Now, sensei! The waves! The Wave!" Kiba shouted as he, Shino and Hinata moved in perfect synchrony.
Hair
Hinata thinks Itachi's long raven hair is beautiful. She fingers a lock of her own in mild amusement and a hint of chagrin. Only Neji's was comparable.
Supernova
Uchiha Itachi was barely in his twenties when he died.
Like a dying star going out with a bang, massive gravity affecting everything in the universe.
He will not realize the expanse of empty space he leaves behind.
Owari
Belated happy holidays everyone! BTW, the new chapter of Naruto (I've been catching up) has me psyched!