Hello again! Stupid internet and not having it! Otherwise you all know I would have more chapters up by now! I know you all want to kill me for taking so long! I is sorry! Forgive me please! In the mean time while you forgive me, take a break at glaring at the screen, and read the chapter ne? :D

Part one of a two part chapter, if that makes sense :D.

Kyo~

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Chapter nineteen: How far you'll go...

" I don't understand." Saku sighed and rubbed a hand over his face.

" Which part? The part where I said I wanted to train with you, or the part where I told you I wanted to train with you?" Saku asked his ANBU partner Neji Hyuuga. She stood in the Hyuuga compound's garden. Saku had sought her out, but he was long over due for this. He was done being treated like he was nothing but a medic, that he didn't deserve his place on the team, that he didn't get where he was the same way she did, by skill as a Shinobi. He had been through too much crap lately, and he wanted desperately to get back on missions, which meant they had to work better together, which meant either Neji had to change her whole opinion of him, or he had to prove his worth the old fashioned way, through showing her in battle, since they weren't allowed on missions, sparing against her would do perfectly.

He needed away from the village and the stress of finding a lover in a months time and being intimate with her in that short time. He needed to think about who it would be, who could even want him so quickly, who he liked himself, and the such. He had to take his relationship, whatever one there was, with Itachi slowly, the look on her face when he had kissed her kept replaying. He wanted desperately to feel her body against his and taste her on his tongue again. To feel the soft press of her lips against his own. He wanted to smell her scent on his skin again and again.

It hurt him physically to not get her, to not have her though he wanted her more then he ever wanted anyone in his life. He loved her and never felt such a strong feeling before in his life. What he felt for Shisui was different by far, it was now mixed with pain and regret, betrayal and anger. He felt lust toward Shisui for sure, he had saw her as his as well, but had he loved her? Perhaps he had, but it wasn't the same way he did Itachi.

Of course you can never love two people the exact same way regardless. Saku however was getting off topic again, all he needed was for a lover that would end up his wife one day soon, and that he had to bed before the month was threw, he knew of no one he could take to bed that fast other then Shisui, and she was off limits now thanks to Ino's revenge stunt. He honestly was at a loss. He had to find three lover, Itachi would be one of them or he would not have any at all, he was still down two lovers. If he was a different man he would take Shikamaru as his in revenge of his own for Ino's crap, but he cared far more about Shikamaru then he did revenge on the pain in the ass Ino.

Saku was still trying to get her out of being with him. He had to do this, didn't mean Shika had to ruin her life and future being with him as well. He knew Temari had the hots for her, knew that Shikamaru kind of liked Temari, if just a little. Saku wanted Shika to be happy, and if she was happy with Temari all the better, but he wanted her to have the right to choose who she was with, not be forced like he was being. He had a choice as well, but he had to be quick about it, and finding lovers wasn't exactly the easiest thing ever to do in a month, let alone such a short amount of time, let alone with his time limit as it was.

He however needed a least a week, just one week away to think of this from the outside, on a mission. If he was on a mission it would be easier to see this from a different point of view almost like he was on the outside looking into someone else's problem. He couldn't think about this easily. Thus if he wanted a mission, he had to be where he was now, trying to get Neji to spar and thus realize his skills and stop treating him like a worthless medic and start treating him like a respectable partner. Once that happened the Itachi would allow them on missions again, he had to however do this in a day and get sent on a mission that lasted no longer then a week to be able to get back in time, and find and bed a lover in two weeks after.

Not one of his brightest plans ever, but if he didn't do it he would sit around here for a week confused and frustrated, at least this way he killed a few birds with one large bolder. He just hoped this wasn't a waste of time. Neji wasn't exactly the easier person, let alone when it came to his skills. After all they'd been partners years and he expected her to change her views in a day? Maybe he was the insane one? Maybe the stress was affecting his mind? He didn't doubt it, but that wasn't the point. He had to do this. He needed it for more then his sanity.

" Why would I want to spar with you?" Neji asked in turn. Saku sighed and ran a hand sharply through his pink hair.

" I don't know, perhaps because I'm sick and tired of you treating me like I'm worthless, or maybe because I desperately want out of the damn village for a mission that we won't get until you change your ignorant views about me being nothing more then a medic." Saku hissed eyes burning in frustrated anger. Neji's silver eyes had widened and she looked a little stunned at his outburst.

She seemed at a loss for words for a very long time, the time it took for Saku to take a few breaths and calm down a tad. He was frustrated beyond believe. He could only take so much before he goes insane, snaps, or does something drastic, like lose his mind and run around Konoha in his skivvies yelling about magical rainbows or something. He had enough of all this crap, if he wanted to stay sane he needed to man up and stop beating around the bush about things. He needed to stop being so kind to every one. He needed to learn to speak, to say no, if he had learned all this before he could have saved him and Shika the trouble from the start. He wasn't someone to be walked over dammit!

" Alright." Neji said breaking Saku out of his thoughts. He blinked at her silver eyes. She still seemed confused, startled, and a little puzzled, but she at least agreed. He sighed in relief and then nodded. It was a start at least. That's all he wanted really. That and for all this mess to be over.

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Itachi wasn't sure what to think about what happened a few days ago with Sakura Haruno at the hospital. She wasn't sure what she felt either. She wasn't all that sure of anything anymore. It felt like a part of her world just tilted on it's axle and she was sliding into a black hole of insanity and bemusement.

It was just a jutsu, it's not like they had a intercourse or anything. They were just kisses, it's nothing to ponder about. He was drugged after all, it wasn't really him, he wasn't in his right mind. She was just conveniently there. Sakura trusted her above all others at the bar that night...

Even she knew these were all excuses, and not even good ones at that.

She needed time to think about things, try to sort and puzzle them out on her own time, then go see Sakura. However it never works out how she plans anymore, not since this trouble with Sakura and Shisui happened. So here she faced Sakura Haruno and Neji Hyuuga standing together in front of her desk at the ANBU H.Q. They both were in ANBU uniform and stood with hands behind their back, spine straight, and eyes straight ahead looking at her. Waiting for her to respond to the information they had just presented to her.

" You want a mission out of the village for a week." Itachi repeated a little unsure if she had heard right. Sakura nodded, and Neji glanced his way unsure. Itachi found that mighty curious. Had Sakura finally set Neji into place? Told off his teammate?

" Your still on suspension Sakura, besides even if I had such a mission, I could not necessarily put the two of you on it." Itachi said with a small frown as she glanced between the two partners. Saku frowned as well.

" I think you'll find our team skills have improved Captain." Saku said simply. Itachi's brows shot up in mild surprise.

" Is that so?" She said glancing from the pink haired ANBU to the brown haired ANBU standing side by side easily.

" It is. We have been spending time together socially and now sparing together. I think we should be tested with a mission like the one we asked for. It will give us time to spend alone on the job to better our skills." Neji said and looked to Saku again as if wondering if she said it right. Itachi frown. There was something very odd about this...but if they were desperate for a mission, she would give them one. After all it was about time they were back on active duty anyway, the missions were starting to back up.

" Alright, I have a mission I can send you on for a week, try not to mess it up." Itachi said with a soft sigh and a shake of head to them both. Saku grinned at her, making her stomach do a weird sort of flip, while Neji looked a tad relieved as well to be given the mission for whatever reason.

" Dismissed." She said after tossing them the mission details. The two departed quickly leaving her alone with her mountains of paperwork again.

This could be the time Itachi needed to collect her thoughts about Sakura and all the mess he created for her. A week was a long time to think, and perhaps there was more then one reason he needed away himself. Maybe he needed to collect himself as well, or perhaps he just needed away on a mission since the stress of the mission, for the Hokage to find three lovers, maybe wearing heavily on him. Maybe too heavily.

It was time she pay attention to her friends. Mainly two of them that were at odds. This entire mess started when Sakura and Shisui had their outs, if she rekindled their friendship, then maybe it would help, maybe they would get together and then Sakura's stress over hurriedly finding three lovers would be less if he had one already.

Of course there was the problem of sorting through the problems they created, stretching the rift between them, and mending it. She wasn't sure she could even get across the rift, let alone fix it, but the sooner they were friends again, the sooner things would be back to normal for all of them.

Maybe then Sakura would forget about her, and stay with Shisui. Itachi wasn't all that sure she liked the type of things Sakura stirred in her. These new things she never before felt, she wanted them to stop.

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Two days later in Lightning...

" I told you we should have asked for directions." Neji muttered as Saku rubbed the back of his head as he looked at yet another fork in the forest path. Saku turned his jade eyes to his teammate with a fierce glare.

" We're ANBU Neji, not travelers, we should know where we're going, we shouldn't even be lost in the first place!" He hissed the last with a growl for good measure. Neji sighed and rubbed a hand over her silver pupil-less eyes.

" What does the scroll say about where we need to go?" She asked with a shake of head, obviously put out with his lack of directional skills. He tossed up his hands and turned quickly to face his partner.

" Look it isn't my fault we got lost! Itachi's directions are vague at best! What on earth is ' right beyond the giant tree' going to help us find in a forest! There are bloody giant trees everywhere!" He cursed Their ANBU Captain some more and then kicked a tree with a scowl. Neji sighed again.

This is what she got for agreeing to go on a mission with him. Maybe she should have taken a few more days on leave from missions, even though the staying in the village doing nothing, was driving her mad, at least is wasn't half as frustrating as being alone with the pink haired lunatic right across the small clearing from her.

" Your the idiot who's in love with the crazy directionally challenged ANBU captain of ours, shouldn't you be more forgiving of her craziness?" Neji muttered, unfortunately Saku heard this and flinched. He gave her another glare.

" She's not crazy...just anti-social, and she may be bad at directions, but she's a fine captain, so leave her out of this." Neji gave him a good 'WTF' look.

" Your the one who brought her up in the first place!" She said with a scowl of her own to match his.

" Are you lost children?" A soft voice asked.

" Your the one complaining about being lost in the first place!" Saku said back with a growl, nose to nose with Neji now, not sure when he had stomped up to her.

" Children?" The voice asked hesitantly.

" We. Are. LOST!" She said with a hiss through bared teeth.

" Um...Children?" The voice said with a wave of hand to get their attention. Saku jerked his eyes to the old elderly woman leaning on a cane with a confused and concerned look on her weathered face.

" Oh, sorry. Can we help you?" Saku asked walking over with a concerned look of his own. The old woman shook her head, sending braided white hair from over her shoulder to down her back.

" I wish to ask you the same children. Are you lost by chance?" She asked with a small smile.

" Yes." Neji said at the same time Saku said, " No." They looked at each other sending the other a glare.

" Yes, well...if your in so need of directions simply ask, I am on my way to the village just beyond the giant tree a few miles beyond." She said. Neji and Saku gave the old woman a 'WTF' look in turn.

" Giant tree?" Saku muttered puzzled.

" Oh yes dear, it's the biggest in the forest, it marks the entrance to the hidden village." Saku face palmed, Neji rolled her eyes.

" I see. Then will you be requiring assistance, since we are obviously going the same way?" Saku asked with a smile. The old woman smiled kindly.

" I am an old woman, but not unable. I am fine on my own, but if you wish me to guide you there, I shall take you along." Neji piped up a agreement before Saku could say anything at all.

So they all set off Saku and Neji following the old woman at a slower pace then they would have on their own due to the elderly woman.

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Konoha:

" I see your talking to yourself again Tsuna, what is it this time? Someone stole your Sake? Or are you contemplating world domination?" Jiraiya asked as she jumped through the window. Tsunade glanced at the woman with a roll of amber eyes.

" That blasted ex-apprentice of mine has talked Itachi Uchiha into giving him a week long mission out of the village. How does he expect to find a woman in a month when he's out of the village wasting time!" Jiraiya frowned softly her full lips stretching into almost a pouting frown.

" I hardly think completing a mission for the village sake is wasting time Tsuna." She commented pointing out with a quick flash of bright teeth. Tsunade rolled his eyes.

" You know what I mean! He's on a mission when he needs to be finding a lover, does he honestly think he can find a lover in a two weeks? He's wasting time being out on a mission and not seducing some Kunoichi into being his lover and eventual wife."

Jiraiya smiled at the Hokage and her old teammate.

" Have you ever thought maybe he just wants to get away for a while Tsuna? You and the Elders are putting a lot of pressure on the kid, he's not thinking about finding a lover when he's so damn stressed about finding a lover." Tsunade sighed and rubbed a hand over her tired amber eyes.

" Your right, maybe it's a good thing he's getting away, but a mission isn't exactly the best place to go and come down from any stress." He pointed out.

" He just wants his mind on something else for a change and that will lower his frustrations on finding a lover in a few weeks." Jiraiya pointed out. Tsunade nodded.

" I'm sure your right." He said shaking his head.

" Besides think of it this way, he's going to be alone for a week with Neji Hyuuga, maybe they'll get over their differences and he finds that lover he needs in her." Tsunade who was trying to take a calming drink of Sake, spewed it out at those words. He wiped his mouth and looked at her in shock.

" The Hyuuga?! Are you kidding!? You know how much Sakura dislikes her! He'd rather cut his own manhood off then shove it in her!" Jiraiya grinned lecherously.

" Oooh Tsuna, I like it when you talk dirty!" Jiraiya said with a breathless leer, then added more with a smirk.

" Besides...you know what they say about your enemies, keep them close and all that, and everyone likes a little angry sex! Think of all the anger and hate they can turn into passion! Ooooh that's going in the book!" She pulled out a pen and paper and began scribbling away as she leaned on the window ledge. Tsunade opened his mouth then closed it with a shake of his head and a snort.

" I don't know about you sometimes 'Raiya really. I just hope your wrong this time. I would hate to think of what the Hyuuga clan plans to do and the trouble they'd make. The Hyuuga's would never allow Saku to be with a Uchiha if he's with a woman of their clan, especially when it's Hiashi's niece we're talking about. That could cause a lot of trouble for Sakura when he plans to be with the Uchiha clan's heiress." Tsunade pointed out with a deep frown.

" The kids not a fool, he'll be fine Tsuna! Give him more faith!" Jiraiya said then grinned as she continued to scribble words down. Tsunade looked at his old friend and then out the window beyond her. He really wished he had more faith in Sakura, but sadly he knew all to well how difficult the Elders were, they wouldn't give him more time. So he had to hope Sakura knew what he was doing.

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Konoha, bar:

" Usually you don't want to come with me anywhere cousin, especially when I go bar hopping for a lover." Shisui pointed out to her younger cousin, who was sitting next to her at said bar. Itachi glanced her way then stirred the tea she was drinking.

" What's wrong?" Shisui asked taking a drink of her alcoholic drink and looking around the bar, finding nothing interesting and then looking to her cousin instead. Itachi frowned and looked around the bar as well, for different reasons. She was trying to think of a way to broach the subject without upsetting her cousin, tact with personal questions, was not her forte, not at all.

" Do you love Sakura?" The choke on beverage and look of amazed shock on her cousin's face proved her point about being terrible at asking such personally, delicate, questions. She sighed and took a small sip of tea allowing Shisui to recover her shock.

" That's a little out of the blue cousin. What brought this on?" Especially when Itachi had never asked much of anything of her cousin, never such personal things, and never about any of her love, or sex, life. Itachi frowned.

" You seemed...seem, distraught, as much, or more than, Sakura is, about the issues between you and he." Shisui frowned deeper and turned her eyes downward to her drink with a crease in her brows.

" I... it's just when you chase someone for a few years intent to make them your lover and they keep refusing...you form a kind of attachment is all. I didn't think anything of sleeping with his best friend because he didn't seem to want to be with me anyway, and I've slept with so many other men I didn't think this one would much matter, of course I was flat off my ass drunk too, so that could be a factor." Shisui said with a sigh.

" I don't know why Sakura is upset, it can't be because he actually wanted me, I doubt it at least, or else surely he would have said...or done at least, something. No...for years he didn't say anything so he must not care. I figure he's just distant because I am." Shisui said shaking her head. Because really if she would have even thought she had a chance with Saku, she would never have slept with another man ever again.

She wanted to refuse she did love Saku, more so when she didn't even know if it was true or not. How could someone who knew nothing but lust, know anything of love, but perhaps it was more then just attachment, maybe it was something greater. However she would lie about it countless times, more so when it was Itachi asking about it.

After all, despite what her and Saku did or did not have before the incident, Saku loved Itachi, and if Itachi suspected Shisui loved him, she would never consider Saku as anything more then a friend. No...she would never be honest with Itachi about that matter, for Saku's sake in the very least.

" Why stay distant at all then?" Itachi asked, oblivious to Shisui's thoughts. Shisui frowned a tad more and glanced around the bar again while looking around she spoke a tad hesitantly. Which wasn't like her at all, thought lately she wasn't like herself regardless.

" Uncertainty. I've always flirted and touched Sakura, now I can't, to him I'm his best friends girl, or rather his ex-best friend's girl. I ruined their friendship, I'm unsure he even wants me around him, let alone back to they way it was. Honestly I'm not sure it can ever go back to the old times." She said a tad sadly. Almost forlorn. Itachi frowned.

Shisui wasn't being very forthcoming in the least, and Itachi wasn't sure how to continue, if there was even a way to return them to normal, perhaps she was talking to the wrong person about this. It was obvious Shisui wasn't the one who was going to cross the rift between her and Sakura, so when Sakura returned she would have to face up to the challenge and ask Sakura himself about the situation.

She wasn't sure what to expect with that. Sakura was the first friend outside of family, AKA: Shisui, she's ever made and or had. She wasn't entirely sure why they were friends, she made no effort, but it was just Sakura seemed to take a liking to her, never bothered with things others hated or feared about her. It was as if he was immune to things the others were not. Their friendship confused her almost as much as the situation between Sakura and Shisui did.

" I see." Itachi said because she wasn't sure how else to talk of the problem, so she just stopped talking about it all together.

" Why so curious suddenly about Sakura and I anyway?" Shisui asked with a small frown of confusion. Which was what Itachi had tired to avoid all together, Shisui asking that question, however she knew it would come up. Shisui may act like a fool, but she was nothing even close.

" Curiosity simply. I wished to know. I do not want you both at war with each other if it can be helped." She said easily, quickly. Shisui rose a black brow and tilted her head in slight puzzlement.

" So we're not going to talk about what happened after Sakura kissed you in this very bar, or where the two of you went after?" Shisui asked with a devious look in her eyes that twinkled almost in amusement at her cousin's expense. Itachi flinched before she could stop it, which was better then blushing again, as bizarre as that experience had been the first time.

" The hospital, he seemed to have been drugged with something." Itachi said trying not to recall the jutsu she had learned by Sakura using on her, her first ever pleasure, or the fact she returned pleasure to him multiple times. She closed her eyes quickly and shook her head a tiny bit to clear the images of Sakura's naked manhood kicking in his hand as he released his seed into the sample jars.

" You make it seem boring but the look on your face just now and the flinch when I asked, says something different. Did he kiss you again?" Itachi blinked almost startled eyes at her cousin.

" Yes, many other times while there at the hospital, as well as when I walked him home." She said before she thought about it. She figured a half truth was better then the whole truth. She sighed soundlessly once it was out of her mouth because the look of pure devious delight on her cousin's face was pure trouble.

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Konoha, flower shop:

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The flower shop's sign read closed, for good reason as the shop owners son took a brunet on the shops counter. The cash register dinging constantly as buttons was pressed by a pair of flushed breasts with each thrust from the blond at her back. His long blond hair swung lose down his pounding hips. The blonds one hand firmly holding the woman by the hair, and the other on the counter's edge in a tight grip.

His harsh panting growing more ragged each hard almost brutal thrust, the woman's pleading for release boarding on mindless cries. Finally after the harsh actions of this intercourse, the woman screamed as she clamped her inner walls down in climax, her scream echoing around the beautiful flowers decorating the shop.

The man jerked in her body, to thrust more, but the woman was far too tight for anymore movement inside, he had to wait until she loosened to pulled his pulsing, almost purple red, erection out. It pulsed hard, wanting desperately release.

" Your done? But you didn't even cum." The woman complained with a gasp as he let her hair go and roughly pulled away with a angry scowl as he took himself in hand and rubbed desperately. She watched him with part lust, part bemusement.

He pumped himself hard, but despite his thrusting hips at his ministrations he didn't find his release. He cursed and pulled his pants on angrily then walked out of the flower shop, leaving the naked woman to leave and dress alone, without another word to his lover.

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Ino Yamanaka wasn't sure why, but for some reason...call it a curse, he surely did, no matter how much stimulation, or sex, he engaged in. He could not find release. He could get erect easily, as easily as ever, he just couldn't complete the pleasure of his own. He was getting more restless, more frustrated, more annoyed, and slowly going mad. Someone addicted to sex, yet unable to complete the process no matter how much sex he had? What kind of cruel punishment was that!?

It was time to go to the hospital, surely something was seriously wrong, he couldn't stand this another minute. He was just glad Saku was on a mission so he didn't have to run into the bastard at the hospital.

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End chapter:

:D Happy I finally got another chapter up?! Or are you more happy I finally had more naughty naughty in the fic after so many chapters?! XDD

Well as for Ino, is this poetic justice...or perhaps something in his subconscious permitting him from finding pleasure? :D

Well after much hate mail, and complaints about my decision I have to say I'm pretty happy about deciding to have Shisui with Saku in the end as the last lover. It's not as if I strictly made my own decisions throughout the entire fic anyway, you all chose Neji as his second lover despite the fact I wanted Shika to be the second, and I'm not changing that. Besides if I wouldn't have done this who knows what would happen, most likely stay writer blocked and never finish this fic. So if anything else be happy I'm at least working on new chapters!

If your upset about ShisuiXSaku in this fic, then I'm sorry for your loss, if your upset yet your sticking around to read this till the end, then your pretty cool and I thank you for allowing me to do it the way I wanted to.

Thankx for sticking with me guys this far.

Well no more voting really for Sakura's lovers since they're already decided, but keep voting for who you want with other characters! Especially Sasuke! I feel bad for leaving her alone!

Besides all that, you can all take a guess at who Saku's first lover is going to be between Neji, Itachi, and Shisui ne? Just to give you guess something to think about while I get the next chapter up lol.

As I said, I'm sorry it's been so long, on top of working, and family troubles, I still do not have any internet so I have to travel to my cousin's house just to post these chapters and it's such a pain to do so in the first place, but I do so just for you guys. Believe me when I say I am honestly working on my other fic's, especially the older ones that I keep you guys waiting on! I promise to get them updated soon!

Give me time, I'm only one person with many different fic's and a life of my own outside fanfic. I have so little time to write, and so little ideas to work with as of late, so I'm a little out of sorts. Forgive me for that!

Any comments? Questions? 'WTF's? If so review! If not...review anyway!

Kyo~

P.S I'll try to answer your reviews and PM's as quick as I can, but as I said...a little difficult, but I'll try my best to get them read and replied to! Thankx for your patience in all this guys. It's appreciated truly.