Itachi's Promise: Chapter Four

Rubbing his shoulder as he sat up Itachi noticed the familiar surroundings of his home; he would have sighed if it wasn't for that someone could hear him. He had no clue who was home or where they were, yeah, he could have easily located them be chakra but he couldn't be bothered. From all that happened yesterday Itachi just wanted to escape, how the hell was he going to going to get a sharingan never mind a second level one.

"Itachi, breakfast is ready," His mother called from downstairs, Itachi pulled himself out of bed and began walking slowly towards the kitchen.

Reaching the kitchen Itachi took his seat at the table beside his dad, across from his mum and diagonal from his little brother. Usually Sakura sat next to him, but Itachi guessed she wasn't up yet from all that happened yesterday.

"What are you doing today, son?" Itachi's father asked, Itachi turned to look at his father.

"I'm going out with Sakura; we are headed to our favourite park?" Itachi answered.

"Who's Sakura?" His mother asked happily, Itachi turned towards his mother blinking and confused.

"Sakura Haruno the baby I found a few years ago," Itachi answered, his mother looked at him confused and turned towards her husband.

"Son, you never found a baby," Fugaku told Itachi, Itachi froze looking down at his food.

"Can I be excused, I don't feel very well?" Itachi asked, his parents nodded and he dashed upstairs into Sakura's room.

It was painted a light blue with a queen bed resting against the back wall; Itachi shook his head and looked around the room.

"Hey kid, what's wrong?" Kisame asked jumping in through the window.

"Where is Sakura? This is her room, why is it changed? Why can't anyone remember her?" Itachi asked, continuously looking around the room hoping this was a very bad joke.

"You made a deal with Madara, that Sakura never remembers anything. She is still in the village, but nowhere near her. The chances of any Uchiha running into her is so slim it's not funny, she with the civilians but she will be trained as a ninja and she will become one of the strongest eventually," Kisame answered, Itachi fell to his knees he couldn't believe he was hearing this.

Sakura had been taken away from him; No one else remembered her. The girl that made Itachi and the girl that kept him busy for days on end, now she was gone and Itachi had to learn to live without her from the first in nearly three years. Itachi had to train alone, study alone, eat alone and kept himself busy alone.

"Little Uchiha, she will be safe," Kisame told Itachi, Itachi shook his head.

"Not without me she won't, I looked after and protected her since she was a baby. I can't just suddenly deal with her just vanishing," Itachi replied, Kisame sighed and held his hand out to Itachi.

"If I show you she is safe, will you promise to never approach her again?" Kisame asked, Itachi nodded and took Kisame's much larger.

Disappearing in a cloud of smoke Itachi remembered this time to not breath until the smoke had cleared, they appeared on a high room probably two to three stories up in the air. Looking across the open space to the building before them, the light was on and a couple stood nearby the window holding a sleeping pink haired toddler. Itachi's heart skipped a beat as he saw her cute sleeping form. He couldn't believe how beautiful she looked after only not seeing her for half a day; for Itachi her Sakura's beauty shined so brightly. Her jade gemmed eyes shined like nothing in the moonlight. She pink hair, so different, so special and so Sakura. Everything about her in Itachi's eyes was perfect, she was perfect. He had wondered for many days if everyone else saw her like that; if everyone else thought she was perfect or was it just him?

"She is perfect and forever be," Itachi said, Kisame watched the much smaller ninja turn towards him and nod in agreement that it was time to go.

"Itachi, she…" Kisame began before Itachi cut him off.

"She is safe and that's all that matters," Itachi told Kisame, even if Itachi was younger, weak and still a child he was a smart one.

"She will always remember you in the back of her brain, she is too young for Madara to erase her memory after all," Kisame said, Itachi's eyes widened ever so slightly as he looked back towards the window.

"She won't remember, she too young," Itachi replied in return, knowing that Sakura would remember and she will figure it out it is only a matter of time hopefully after it's too late.

"Tell Madara I will have a plan to him by the end of the week," Itachi said, jumping from the current roof top and on to another and running back towards home.

"He's not happy," Kisame told Madara as he stepped from the shadows.

"He will be fine, he wanted to keep her safe so that's what I'm doing," Madara replied.

"If you don't mind me asked, how are civilians going to protect her?" Kisame questioned.

"They aren't civilians; they are Anbu level ninja trained in Amegakure who are said to be killed in action. They will protect her from everything until she is genin and then they will leave her, she will survive and she will make her way back to Itachi," Madara answered, Kisame turned towards his leader and thought for a second before speaking.

"Why would she need to find her way back to Itachi?" Kisame asked.

"Because he was the one that rescued her, he was the one she trusts the most and he was the one to fall so deeply in love with her. Without her he will be nothing but a cold, emotionless shell," Madara answered.

A silence came over to two strong ninja as they watched Sakura through the window; she was still asleep and would be until morning.

"Watch him, protect him, stay out of sight," Madara ordered, stepping back into the shadows and disappearing.

Kisame sighed and began jumping from roof to roof in the direction Itachi had been headed.

To be continued... any suggestions please review.

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