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"Aniki?" A confused Sasuke's voice was heard by the two. When he continued to stare at the two they realised they were still entangled and Sasuke had realised that-

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They were following him. From the minute he had woken up that day, Sasuke had felt like he was being watched closely. While this wasn't out of the ordinary for him (his fan girls really needed to get a life), this wasn't quite the same. Today the guards had informed him that the fan girl situation had been taken care of by his brother and he trusted his Aniki.

As he stepped out of his house that day to go to the park to meet with Naruto, he could see someone from the corner of his eyes. For a moment he thought he recognised the person but pushed the thought out of his head. Of all people, why would Itachi be following him?

Barely a few minutes later he stood watching his brother consoling a girl in a wide brimmed hat with dark sunglasses falling off her nose and crying her (pretty) jade eyes out.

He didn't know which bit was more shocking, that his brother was sitting in front of him with a crying girl in his arms or that he had been following him.

"Why were you following me?" he said suspiciously.

"Um I –we're-ugh" Flustered, Sakura did a very good impression of Hinata.

"We're dating." Itachi said calmly.

"WHAT?" The response came from both Sakura and Sasuke .Sakura caught on.

"Yeah we're here on a date."

"That doesn't quite explain why you're following me."Sasuke said in a strained voice. While most would have noticed the older Uchiha rather than the tiny pinkette, Sasuke seemed to be giving his almost undivided attention to Sakura.

She faked a sigh and began to lie with a level of skill neither of the Uchihas knew she had.

"When my friends heard I was dating the older brother of the famous Sasuke Uchiha, they dared me to follow you around."

Somehow Sasuke didn't quite believe it.

"Really?" Scepticism dripped from every syllable of the word.

"Yes well they heard great things about your skills of detection, one of them was a fan girl you see and she was fascinated by how you always seemed to know when they were around. So she bet me that I wouldn't be able to follow you around without being caught. And now I have to tell her I lost the bet." She concluded in a sullen tone.

"Aniki?" Sasuke turned to his brother questioning his presence. While the story seemed plausible enough (she did look familiar after all), he wasn't quite sure what to make of it.

"Hn." Was all the older Uchiha had to say. Of course Sasuke being well versed in the secret language of the Uchihas knew what this Hn meant.

'Someone had to make sure she didn't get herself killed.'

"Okay. I'm leaving now." Saying that he turned away and walked away a bit before turning back hesitantly. "Just... don't start following me again."

Unsure of how he was supposed to act around his brother when in the presence of Sakura, he left still confused at the events in the day. She reminded him of someone. If only he could remember who.

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"That was good acting. I'm surprised."

"Because clearly your opinion means the world to me." Sakura sighed. If only Itachi wasn't immune to spells.

"Alright so what to do now? Following him again is out of question."

"Hn. What would you normally do?"

How often do you meet a person who works for a God by matchmaking Itachi thought to himself. Curiosity seared through his mind, and he was overcome by the desire to understand just how Sakura worked normally.

"Well normally I'd construct a history of the person and on basis of instances in his life where a connection with someone else is demonstrated I would try to find someone like that I guess. When things are difficult I usually use a program to calculate the probability of a relationship working out by giving their characteristics, habits etc assigned probabilities."

"And if that doesn't work out?"

"Then well I- "she began blushing. It was an embarrassing way to work after all. Not to mention crude and unscientific. But then again love never was an exact science.

"Then you?"

She coughed lightly and the blush didn't leave her face as she continued. "Then I find the anime character that the person resembles the most and on basis of who they are like I would base the kind of person I need to set them up with."

A smile tugged at Itachi's lips. Under that moody yet logical exterior was an anime fanatic. Who would have guessed?

"So I suppose we construct the history then. Go about the assignment as you would with others."

"Yes but you're immune to spells! So we can't go into his past and check out the actual history! And I'm scared of your mommy!"

He stared at her like she was an idiot and she continued to stare back with a distressed expression that wouldn't have been amiss on a child whose candy had just been stolen.

"I'm his older brother. I lived in his history."Sakura's face brightened again and Itachi felt the tug on his lips. It seemed that no matter whether she was angry, crying or happy, she still made him want to smile more than he probably had in his entire life.

"Okay then we shall go to my house and you can read up on my old notes so you have an understanding of how to go about actually constructing the history. I'll get started on what I know."

An hour later Itachi and Sakura sat in the garden outside her house. He had just finished reading her notes regarding her forty-nine cases so far and come to a conclusion.

"You like this."

"What?" The way she tilted her head reminded Itachi of a small child and the smile grew just that little bit bigger.

"You like this job of finding people their perfect soul mate."

"What makes you think that?"She said with a snort. This job had taken up two years of her life so far. She was lucky to be a genius otherwise she'd be running out of time to build her life. Thank God for an eidetic memory!

"I've seen the notes you've made on your other assignments. You don't need to do all that. All you really need to do is find someone compatible with them so that they'd be content. But you try to make them happy, not just satisfied."

A small yet comfortable silence overtook them as Sakura remembered just why, no matter how much energy and life it sucked out of her, she'd do this all over again if she needed to.

"My mother was married to another guy before she met my Dad you know.

It was an arranged marriage, by the town's matchmaker. They had never met each other until the wedding day. The first few months they seemed to be happy and then things went downhill. He was beating her on a regular basis and torturing her. One time he locked her up in the house and lit a fire outside the door .All the windows and everything was shut and she was running out of oxygen.

Tsunade was to find the one for my father. She had been considering my mother as a candidate but then she got married. And while Cupid doesn't really mind the whole falling in love with someone while you're still married scenario as long as the married ones aren't in love, we have rules because none of the other Gods or Goddesses should be offended by our decisions and Hera most definitely would have had a problem with that.

But then Tsunade managed to find a loophole. She left an anonymous tip to the police about what that horrid man was doing and when they came to investigate, they found my mother passed out from lack of oxygen and that guy was still saying he had every right to do what he wanted because he owned her even as they were arresting him for attempted murder."

Itachi looked at the girl who knew too much and was far too mature for her age. The glazed look never left her eyes as she continued her story.

"My Dad was the EMT who had been called to revive my Mom. She says she woke up took a big deep breath of air and then she saw Dad for the first time and was promptly breathless all over again." Sakura giggled and a small shine came to her eyes.

"That's why I want to do my job well. To be someone else's miracle like Tsunade was my Mom's and by proxy mine. Because I wouldn't be here if it weren't for her."

"And then where would my Otouto be." He joked weakly still reeling from the

"Playing basketball with you for the rest of his life probably. Seriously though has he ever had a crush on anyone? Ever? Shown any human being in this Earth any special attention? Other than Naruto who's already taken so even if Sasuke was in love with him I wouldn't be able to do anything."

"Well there was this one girl..."

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