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Chapter Three: Pink Meets Black
Sakura was sitting on a rock in the Akatsuki training ground just staring at a butterfly fluttering around. She was just zoning out, in her own little world. Sakura held out her finger towards the butterfly and it gracefully landed on it.
Sakura felt a presence behind her, and heard the soft footsteps of somebody landing on the rock. She looked up only to see long black hair tied into a low ponytail and onyx eyes staring down at her.
"What are you doing?" Itachi asked looking at the butterfly resting on Sakura's finger.
"Nothing. Just thinking. " Sakura replied.
It's been almost a week since Sakura had accepted Pein's offer and she has become quite comfortable with the men.
Itachi sat down next to Sakura. He enjoyed her presence, she wasn't annoying like Tobi but knew how to defend herself and stand her ground when Hidan and Kisame started picking on her and was incredibly strong along with a fantastic medical nin.
To his surprise Sakura reached over and grabbed his hand that was resting on his knee and brought it up so that he had to hold it out in front of him.
"Now don't move." Sakura whispered
Unknowing by Itachi, another butterfly had found its way over to the two ninja and was fluttering around his head. Itachi did as he was told and didn't move his finger. Eventually the butterfly landed gracefully on his finger.
Sakura giggled and though to herself, the quietest and probably the most deadliest of the Akatsuki members was holding a butterfly!
"What's so funny?" Itachi said as he peeked over at the pinkette.
"You! Hahaha! The great and fearful Itachi Uchiha is holding a butterfly! Hahaha!" Sakura said with a big smile on her face
Itachi let a small smile creep onto his face but it did not go unoticed by Sakura.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" Tobi cried as he ran into said pinkette's room.
Sakura turned around ready to punch Tobi in the face for interrupting her peace and quiet but was shocked to see that his arm had a huge gash and was bleeding like crazy.
"Oh my god Tobi what happened?!" Sakura yelled as she ran up to Tobi to investigate his arm.
"Tobi was playing with Hidan's scythe and...and...Tobi cut his arm!" Tobi said as he winced from the pain.
Sakura led Tobi to her bed and sat him down. She slowly peeled his shirt away from the wound only to see that the gash was deep. Sakura kneeled down between Tobi's legs and let his arm come across to rest on his lap.
Sakura placed her hands gently on the gash, Tobi's eyes got wide as Sakura's hands began to glow a soft green. His eyes got even wider when he felt the pain of the cut slowly melt away and the gash slowly start to close.
Within a few minutes Sakura stood up with a smile on her face, and admired her work on Tobi. The masked man looked from his arm up to Sakura and back to his arm again.
Tobi stood up and took a few steps towards the pinkette. He noticed a stray strand of hair covering her eyes. Tobi reached his hand up and gracefully tucked the hair behind Sakura's ear. This sudden burst of affection brought a slight red tint to Sakura's cheeks.
To add more of a surprise Tobi leaned down close to Sakura, and whispered in her ear,
"Thank you my sweet cherry blossom."
With that Tobi cooly walked out from Sakura's room leaving her standing there stunned.
~Not to happy with this chapter but oh well. Hope you like chapter 3! :) ~