I don't own Naruto and characters etc.

I do own this story so please don't copy it exactly, but you're welcome to as many of my ideas as you like.

With the greatly apreciated permission of BlackElement7, CrimsonSakuratree I begin writing what I hope will be an amazing Story! (Check out their stories (my inspiration): Not Weak!, Untold Secrets).

Warning: This'll be my first story when i use Sakura's inner... so beware of my inability!

Chapter 4 -

Sakura was stepping out of the shower when the front door opened and Itachi stepped in.

"You should've knocked!" She called from the bathroom, a little flustered.

'I don't think he should've knocked at all... In fact, he should come in here too!!!'

'Don't even go there.'

'I'm just saying, he's gorgeous and a total bad boy-'

'Do you even hear yourself?!'

'You mean, don't we hear us?'

'Don't do that!'

'Do what?'

'Confuse me like that.'

'Not like I have to try.'

'You better have disappeared by the time I count to 3 or-'

'Or what?'

'Or else!'

'Or else what?'

'1, 2... 3! finally, some peace.'

Sakura came out of her daze to discover having subconciously walked out into the living room in little more than than a towel.

"Sakura-chan, is phazing out like that something you do on purpose or is it like a nervous habit?" Itachi asked, trying to resist the temptaion to lower his eyes to the substancial shape of everything he couldn't see.

"Ahh!! Sorry! Sorry! I didn't realise..." Sakura choked, running to her room.

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Sakura had soon finished dressing in some pajama pants and a comfortable tank top, before reappearing in the living room.

"Sakura." Itachi sounded quite serious. "Your chakra seemed almost twice as powerful when you were phazed out. Is it possible you know why that might be?"

Sakura's head drooped and her shoulders sank as she miandered over to sit next to Itachi on the couch.

"I have another me. Another entire facet to my mind. She is the inner me, the more upfront, ambitious and in most cases, more hormonal me."

"A split personality?" He asked, smirking slightly at the last thing she'd said.

"Almost, but not quite. We are one in the same, but she is stronger than I am. I am however, able to supress her the majority of the time. In the past she has taken over my body for short periods of time, switching control. When she is in power, I am stronger and more outgoing and my outer voice is in her head tell her my thoughts. When I phaze out like that it's usually because we're conversing or in an argument. Though, she is there all the time, I can force to the corners of my mind in order to focus."

"I see, and when would she usually come out?" Itachi continued to interregate a rather nervous Sakura.

"Talk in my head or take control of my body?" She asked.

"Both."

"She talks to me mainly when i'm angry, stressed or disspirited. And of course when I see hot guys...And she only takes over my body if I'm asleep and need to wake up, or if I give her permission to take over in order to achieve her strength. Which is generally when I'm angry or depressed." Sakura said everything as though she'd rehearsed the speech over and over in her head.

"Who knows about your inner?" Itachi asked, exhaling heavily.

"No-one, no-one'd listen when I told them, and because they're always protecting me, I never get to let her out." Sakura said lowely.

"Could you let her out for me? I want to see her." He said plainly.

"Okay, but most of the things she says are her opinions, not mine!" She said, envisaging this as an entirely terrible idea.

He smirked.

Sakura placed her hands together and mumbled an 'Inner release!'

Sakura's eyes closed and when she opened tem they were a silvery white.

Aswell as that she was wearing different clothes and had the words Inner-chan on her forehead.

Her entire body, excluding her shoulders, upper arms, face, head, hands and between below her ribs and above her hips, was wrapped in a layer of pale pink bandages.

Her hair now reached her ankles and was entwined with multiple strips of red ribbon.

She wore a mesh mid-drift top, a white skirt that reached only just past the start of her thighs, a pair of black ninja boots and fingerless gloves.

Her eyes danced up and down Itachi's form, reaching a hand to wrap around his neck.

"Hello gorgeous, Saku-chan can't stop me now." She said leaning in Itachi's neck.

At first he stood wondering if moving would really be such a good idea, or if just enjoying this would be wiser...

His thoughts were confirmed when he saw Sakura phaze back out.

'So Sakura-chan, though powerless, experiences whatever her inner does while in control.'

In that case It'd probly be better not to take advantage of the eager inner.

"Could I have the normal Sakura back now please?" He asked, his voice hitching occasionally.

"Aww, am I making you nervous Itachi-kun?" Sakura was saying before there was a flash and there stood the usual Sakura, clearly having a rather heated discussion with her inner at the moment.

He waved his hands infront of her face and she responded by nodding at him.

"I'm fine, just a little tired. Time for bed?" She asked him, yawning.

"Hn." He said, reminding her of his brother.

She lead him towards her bedroom.

Sakura slipped into the left side of the bed and murmered a 'Goodnight Itachi-kun' before her breathing slowed.

Itachi watched her chest rise and fall and the way her eye-lashes flickered.

He got into the other side of the bed and had closed his eyes when he felt a small and cold form press into his side.

He wrapped his arms around her and held her closer.

"Goodnight Sakura-chan, both of you." He breathed out before falling into unconciousness.