Chapter 16: Sleep Over

Sakura had been cleaning the apartment the second she came home from teaching the hip hop students the new dance routine, she wanted everything to be perfect.

She had the pizza in the oven and the ice cream in the freezer...she never would have thought Itachi's favorite ice cream would be Strawberry...being friends with Sasuke had it's advantages.

She walked up to her room and grabbed all the horror movies she had along with her pillow, blanket, and stuffed lion, Taro.

She was looking through her movies when a quiet knock came from the front door, she smiled and ran to it.

"Am I early?" Itachi asked smiling, a large backpack swung over his shoulder, she was surprised to see he was holding a medium light gray, stuffed bear.

"Is that Mr. Snuggles?" She asked as he entered into her apartment.

"It is...I named him when I was four." He said defending his pride.

She walked back to the couch and pick up her lion. "This is Taro, I named him when I was six."

Itachi smiled and nodded. "It's nice to meet you Taro."

She giggled and smiled up at him when the oven's timer went off. "Oh, make your self at home, pizza's done!" She ran into the kitchen and opened the oven pulling the pizza out and site on the counter to cool.

When she walked back into the living Itachi was looking through her movies, he had a couple of them sitting aside. "Which one do you want to see first?" Sakura asked.

"Well, 'The Descant' looks interesting, and 'Friday the 13th'."

Sakura kneeled down beside him in front of the TV. "Which one do you want to see first?"

He thought for a moment. "The Descant." He nodded towards it the one she had picked up.

Sakura nodded and put it in her DVD player, as it started playing she ran into the kitchen and grabbed two plates of pizza and ran back into the living room, plopping on the couch beside Itachi and handed him his plate.

-With Itachi-

The pizza was good, the movie was creepy, and Sakura would squeak every now and then hiding her eyes in Itachi's side...he decided he liked this movie.

He smiled when he knew the creepy part was coming up and right when the creature popped out of nowhere he grabbed Sakura's shoulder, scaring the crap out of her.

-With Sakura-

Sakura screamed and smacked Itachi. "You jerk, that was so not funny!" She scolded as she stood and dished up the ice cream.

She love the look of surprise on his face when his noticed it us his favorite kind, Sakura smiled at him. "I never would have guest your favorite ice cream was strawberry." Sakura giggled.

Itachi's face turned a very light shade of pink. "I just like the flavor." He said quietly.

Sakura reached up and pecked him on the check. "I love strawberry!" She then turned her attention back to the movie.

Itachi smiled and watched the movie, eating strawberry ice cream.

(A few hour later)

Sakura was dousing while Itachi watched 'My Bloody Valentine.' Itachi smiled down at the pink hair women of his dreams, she was cuddling up into his side, his arm wrapped around her shoulders. Itachi couldn't help but think, 'I could get used to this!' He found he was slowly starting to really like this girl, though he would never say it out loud, he was falling head over heels in love with her.

Sakura stirred and it looked like she was reaching for something, Itachi grabbed her stuffed lion and handed it to her, she took it and cuddled with it as well as himself.

After the movie was over Itachi grabbed the remotes beside him and turned everything off, he carefully pulled Sakura's light green blanket over her shoulder and covered up with his own dark gray blanket he had stuffed into his large backpack, feeling her warm body cuddled into his lolled him to sleep.

(The Next Morning With Sakura)

Sakura was the first to wake, she was so warm she didn't want to wake up...not yet, but she had to make breakfast for Itachi and herself. Sakura stretched and slowly stood, trying not to jostle a sleeping Itachi to much, she stood in front of him, he looked so peaceful and he had Mr. Snuggles in his arms...Sakura smiled and silently ran into her room and grabbed her burgundy camera and snapped a few shots of him. Slowly walked into the kitchen and started making scrambled eggs and strawberry pancakes.

-With Itachi-

He felt colder and the smell of eggs was in the air, mixed with the smell of strawberry's. He opened his to find Sakura gone. He stretched, stood, and looked in the kitchen to find Sakura cooking something in a pain. "Good morning." Itachi called to her.

Sakura turned and smiled. "Good morning Itachi, breakfast is done." She set something on a plate and set it on the table that seated two. Itachi sat down with across from Sakura and smiled, she had made strawberry pancakes with scrambled eggs.

Itachi took his fork and cut a piece of it off, chewing slowly then swallowed. "These are amazing!"

Sakura blushed and grabbed some syrup out of the fridge then sat down. "Thanks."

It was silent for awhile while they ate. "Do you have any planes today?" Itachi asked, breaking the silents.

Sakura thought for a minute. "Not really, ballet is tomorrow, why?"

Itachi shrugged. "Just thinking of what I'll make for our dinner tonight, I stayed here, now you get to stay the night at my house...and after ballet practice, we'll go to the beach." He said taking another bite of egg.

Sakura laughed. "Okay!" She smiled and continuing to eat her breakfast, every now and then sneaking a glance at Itachi...she would never admit it but she was starting to love this tall, graceful, broad shouldered Uchiha male.