Title: Dessert of the Day
Author: paws-bells
Beta-ed by: MelissaRose85
Characters/Pairing: Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Itachi
Type: One Shot/Drabble Collection (InComplete)
Genre: Romance/General/Humor
Word Count: 1284
Rating: T (Contains content not suitable for children)
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-san.
Summary: Random ItaSaku drabbles/onesies featuring various universes and various storylines for your reading pleasure. Chapters may or may not be interconnected.
Created on: 11/04/14
Completed on: 11/04/14
Chapter Last Revised on: 18/06/14
Prompt: Fantasy AU. Undead!Itachi on date with Sakura
This was by far the most awkward date that Sakura had ever been to.
The location was also rather alarming, all dark and gloomy and nothing like the cute, charming cafes with their delicious specialty desserts that she usually preferred to frequent. She also felt completely out of place in this oppressive and gothic tavern; her bright, colorful Magical Girl outfit with its dazzling jewels and elaborate, flashy design as well as her cotton candy pink hair really stuck out like a sore thumb when compared to the other patrons, who were all in dull colors and were either hooded or dressed so inconspicuously that she might as well have been a bird of paradise stranded in the middle of a murder of crows.
Her date, on the other hand, looked perfectly at home amongst the dismal backdrop, as could be expected from an infamous line of powerful Necromancers. Dressed in unrelieved black from head to toe, the heir to the Uchiha guild was a picture of austere aristocracy, his inhumanly handsome, alabaster features and glowing, crimson eyes marking him as a member of the undead, which made this appointment an even stranger one. The both of them made a rather odd sight sitting across from each other and sharing a meal in dead silence (pun unintended) – Magical Girls and Necromancers were hardly the most common combination, after all, if there ever was one. Sakura was not unfamiliar to his kind though, since one of her best friend also happened to be the younger brother of this man whom she was currently on a date with, though not for the first time, the pink haired female silently lamented her bad luck for landing herself in this awkward situation as well as her general inability to say 'no' to the request of her closest friend.
The young woman still had no idea why such a powerful mage of the dark occult would request her presence seemingly out of the blue. Even though she had known Sasuke since she was little, Sakura did not have much contact with the rest of his Necromancer clan at all, and had therefore been taken by surprise when the spikey haired Uchiha had come to her a few days ago without their other best friend, the famous protector of the realms, the Sun Knight Uzumaki Naruto, gruffly convincing her to accept an invitation from his aniki. So now here she was, daintily but determinedly chowing her way through a rather unappetizing slab of cold meat pie, bound by common courtesy to finish her food, even as her companion for the evening just sat there and watched her intently like one would a bug under a magnifying glass, his long, narrow fingers interlaced on the table before him, barely even touching the goblet of red wine that he had ordered.
At long last, Sakura managed to choke down her dinner, and when she finally set down her fork and dinner knife in relief, her date finally stirred, lifting that uncannily sharp, acutely intelligent gaze of his to meet her wary emerald one.
"Would you like more?" he asked quietly, and her eyes widened slightly in alarm. Taking a hasty sip of water from the glass before her, she quickly shook her head, waving a hand in front of her for extra emphasis.
"No, thank you! I'm, uh, very full already, Uchiha-san," she swiftly demurred. Changing the subject before he could insist, she blurted out. "Will you not eat as well?"
The lean, wiry male shook his head once in negative. "I do not consume the same food as you; I apologize for the discourtesy."
Right. The most formidable members of the undead did not require frequent sustenance, and when they did, human food provided little nourishment beyond the basic enjoyment of taste, and what truly sustained them was something else altogether. Powerful emotions. Pain. Despair. Fear. Terror.
Sakura shuddered inwardly as she remembered this sobering fact. Usually Sasuke would deign to partake in meals with her and Naruto, but she had to remind herself that she was not dealing with the younger brother right now, but the older one whom she knew next to nothing about.
"It's alright. I understand." There was an awkward pause (at least on her side) as she tried to figure out just what was going on here. For the life of her, she still did not have a clue what this meeting was supposed to be about, and so far, the intimidating raven haired man was keeping a closed mouth on the subject as well. Sakura had no intention of wasting the rest of the evening sitting about in awkward silence while suffering the (increasingly exasperating) scrutiny of the Necromancer though.
"…Uchiha-san," she uttered slowly at last. "Can you at least tell me what I'm supposed to be doing here? Sasuke informed me that everything would make sense when you arrive, but I'm afraid that I'm still pretty much in the dark here."
Itachi silently studied the pretty young woman for a while longer. There was no other way to say it, and so he did not even try.
"It has been decided by the Uchiha guild that you will be my wife," he commented as calmly as though they were only discussing the weather. "Therefore I'll be courting you henceforth until you agree to marry me."
He probably could have worded it in a less threatening manner and he could have had also let her know the news in a more gentler way, but the Uchiha scion was not exactly thrilled about this situation either, and so the faster he could get it over with, the better.
Sakura's mouth had fallen so wide open that flies could have flown in before she could close it again. The Magical Girl was frozen with shock. "Wait; what?!" At the moment, she was more stunned than agitated, though the latter was slowly overtaking the former and it showed on her frowning, perplexed features. "Is this a joke…?"
"I don't make jokes," he replied stoically in response to her stumped demeanor. "This is part of an agreement between your guild and mine. The strongest of your kind will be joined to the strongest of mine by the bond of marriage. You are the most promising member of your generation, and I am the next in line to lead my clan. This contract has been bound in blood, and your head of guild has also agreed to it."
"What agreement? And marriage?!" Sakura blurted out in disbelief, starting to scowl mulishly and disagreeably as well. "W-Well! I'm not going to just blindly believe whatever you say! Are you a lunatic?!"
He tactfully ignored her spluttering insult. "You are free to consult your Guild mistress. Tsunade-sama is fully aware of the details and I'm sure that she will be more than happy to clarify your doubts."
He made the whole thing sound like some kind of simple business transaction, and Sakura could feel her temper rising even further. All semblance of ladylike sweetness and polite civility promptly flew right out of the window.
"No! NO WAY IN HELL," the feisty pink haired female snapped loudly at last, so agitated that she was starting to glow a bit with her powers and she was even going so far as to make a huge 'X' sign with her arms, as if doing her best to ward off the devil. The other patrons were all turning around to stare at the spectacle.
"I'm not marrying you even if you kneel on the floor and beg, Uchiha-san, and just for the record, this was the lousiest date I've ever had the misfortune of going on!"
::owari::
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