Itachi's Promise: Chapter Twenty-Five: Six Years Later

Sakura sat alone, her two teammates and her sensei too busy to notice Sakura watching the three ninja. Sakura sighed as she once again, looked up at the sun again. Yet again the sun still wasn't setting, so Itachi wasn't anywhere nearby.

"Sakura," Naruto called, running towards Sakura and awakening her from her thoughts on Itachi.

"Yeah," Sakura replied.

"You going to train?" Naruto asked, grabbing Sakura's arm and pulling her to her feet.

"Naruto, I'm tired," Sakura complained, seconds later Sakura heard Sasuke mumble something about Sakura being weak.

"At least I'm not afraid of my own brother," Sakura replied to Sasuke.

Sasuke growled through his teeth and went to say something, when Sakura turned and walked away.

"See you boys later," Sakura said, waving her team goodbye and walking off to get ready to meet Itachi.

Sakura hadn't seen Itachi in over three months; they had both been very busy with the Akatsuki or Hidden Leaf Village. Sakura changed quickly and ran off to the place, which she was going to meet Itachi. Sakura ran across the rooftops, arriving at the small clearing that Itachi and Sakura were going to meet.

"Your early," Itachi greeted, holding out his arms and waiting for Sakura to run into them.

"Itachi," Sakura whispered, running into Itachi's arms and hugging him tightly as he hugged her.

"Kiss, then talk, then sad goodbyes and kiss again," Kisame said, leaning against a tree and telling Itachi and Sakura what they do almost every time they meet.

Itachi pecked Sakura on the lips and rolled his eyes at Kisame's comment; Sakura rested her arms around Itachi's waist and looked at Kisame and smiled.

"So who have you been killing lately?" Sakura asked, directing the question at Kisame.

"No one too important, mostly small fries," Kisame answered, shrugging his shoulders.

"Kisame, shut up, you will get me in trouble," Itachi ordered.

"Damn right he will, but you will get yourself in more trouble," Sakura said.

"How is my 'asshole' of a little brother?" Itachi asked, looking down at Sakura.

"Still an asshole," Sakura replied, making Itachi and Kisame smile.

"What has he done, this time," Kisame asked.

"He keeps calling me weak and underlining my authority," Sakura answered, Kisame smirked.

"And I wander where he gets it from," Kisame asked.

"Kisame," Itachi warned, holding his hand over his back pouch.

Kisame held his hands up in surrender and took a step away from Sakura and Itachi.

"Pein wants us to capture the container soon, so I will be coming…home soon," Itachi told Sakura.

"How long?" Sakura asked, hoping that he would be home in a few months but knowing it will likely be a lot longer.

"Two years at the most," Itachi answered, Sakura nodded.

"What are you going to do when you come back?" Sakura asked, Itachi opened his mouth to speak and then stoped and kissed Sakura on the cheek.

"You're leaving," Sakura stated.

"Yes, sorry. Leader wants us back at the base now, something has happened," Itachi answered.

"See you soon?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, as soon as I can," Itachi said, kissing the palm of her hand and disappearing in a pink cloud of smoke along with Kisame.

"See you soon, My Sharingan User," Sakura whispered, her voice disappearing in the wind.

Next Morning

"Sakura, get up," Naruto shouted, banging on Sakura's door at six o'clock in the morning.

"Naruto, she is a girl. She isn't going to be up anytime soon," Sasuke said, leaning against the wall with a bored expression covering his face.

"Naruto, hang on a minute," Sakura called, pulling on her shoes and opening her front door.

"Took you long enough," Sasuke grumped, rolling his eyes as he turned his attention almost completely away from Sakura.

"Naruto, Sasuke, what a pleasure to see you. What do you want?" Sakura asked, tightening the pouch that was strapped to her leg.

"Training, did you forget?" Naruto asked.

"No, I didn't forget. I just had a long night," Sakura answered.

"Yeah, she was too busy reading about jutsus she could never use," Sasuke mumbled.

"Naruto, let's go," Sakura ordered.

Naruto followed Sakura across the rooftops and Sasuke followed his two teammates, Sakura headed through the village towards a training ground that Sakura knew for a fact would be empty. Sakura landed in the entrance of the Uchiha compound and Sasuke tried to hide a growl under his breath. Sakura lead the two boys through the Uchiha compound, to the largest training ground. Sakura walked to the opposite end of the training ground and fell into a defence position.

"Try and beat me," Sakura ordered, having a hand on her leg pouch.

Sasuke ran quickly towards Sakura and Naruto ran after him. Sakura dodged the multiply kunai and stars that were thrown her way. Sakura dodged a swung from Sasuke's blade and let her green chakra cover her hands. Sakura struck the back of Naruto's neck, effectively knocking Naruto out. Sakura pulled a kunai from her pouch and blocking Sasuke's blade, a scream escaped Sakura's lip as Sasuke's blade clipped her upper arm. Sakura jumped back away from Sasuke and took another kunai from her pouch.

"Come on, Sasuke attack," Sakura ordered.

Sasuke jumped forward, once again swinging his blade. Sakura jumped to the side and blocked Sasuke's blade with her kunai. Sasuke pushed down harder on his blade and Sakura in turn pushed harder on her kunai. Within seconds Sakura turned the tables on Sasuke and had him flat on his back with his sword across the training grounds and Naruto stilled passed out cold.

"It was a lucky move," Sasuke said.

"Really, just like when I kicked your ass yesterday and the day before that and the day before that," Sakura said, flipping up away from Sasuke and standing a few meters away from Sasuke.

"Sakura," Someone called, Sakura froze and looked towards the forest.

To Be Continued...Please Comment.