:D Hey again! I'm in a generous writing mood and it's 12:29am right now. I am really happy people liked that last chapter… I haven't done too much romance latida mushy crap before…
I hope it was good. I think Itachi would be a great lover if he actually had one. He's very devoted, you know?
Anyway, I'll stop talking and start writing the story.

"Wake up," Itachi whispered into Xeala's messy hair, tired of walking and carrying her, definitely not about to keep walking when it was past midnight and sleep is necessary in order to sustain human life, and put her down gently.

"No…It's too early… five more minutes…" Xeala said before curling up to go back to sleep.

"Oh, really? You'd go to sleep rather than sit with me under the stars?" Itachi asked in a placid tone, and Xeala turned to look up at him.

"I'll sit with you if… you stay with me forever."

"You've got a deal." Itachi said, pulling her toward him and breathing in her sweet scent.
(remember Kabuto sniffed her clothes and told Sasuke she smelled like roses and then Sasuke agreed? That was a while ago… but yeah.)

"Thanks," Xeala looked down, secretly clutching his necklace around her neck, and secretly hoping that he could beat the inevitable. He was Itachi, wasn't he? He could do anything! Except beat Xeala in a real fight. Hadn't… hadn't Sasuke… beaten Xeala?
No, no, he cheated. Itachi would have seen around that. It was just Xeala being a klutz. She was a silly girl, it was a silly mistake. "If I got pregnant while I was gone, what would you do?"

"Xeala..." Itachi asked sternly, obviously concerned.

"No, I'm just asking… I got in some trouble and barely got out of it."

"Tell me, then."

So she started.

"Well…when Sasori and Dei were weird and tried to rape me or whatever, they didn't, but I ran off and got sort of lost… I… sorta… found someone's lair-thing…" She paused for a minute, and Itachi took the words out of her mouth.

"…Orochimaru."

"Yeah. His place. I found one of them at least. I was kinda just sitting there and… well… Sasuke found me and I was high on some cannabis so I was completely tripped up… and he kinda kidnapped me." She had blatantly lied to help Itachi think she was really only caught off guard from being high on cannabis.



"…you did cannabis without me?"

"Haha… yeah… but anyway, while I was in there, I woke up and Sasuke was talking to that Kabuto fag and he was like Kabuto I need a lot of booze and for you to leave this room, I've only got a few months left and I'm making my legacy here and shit so I was pretty convinced someone was trying to knock up someone else if you get what I'm saying, so then I flipped on him and took off and eventually found my way out of that horrible place." Without realizing it, Xeala had started shaking involuntarily, and was having a hard time trying to stop.

"Xeala, for you… I will kill him." Itachi's hand found it's way to hers around the necklace, easing her shaking.

All Xeala could think, all she was at that moment, was a question. One she knew the answer to, one she couldn't ask, one that shook her to the very core.

"Can you?"

"Xeala, you okay?"

"I already told you," she lied through her teeth, "I'm fine." She planted a kiss on his lips.

"Good," Itachi said, smirking as he kissed her back and pulled her onto himself.

Haha so how much did I just spoil the plot for you? How much? Totally.

So, review please. I know, I know, it wasn't happy at all. I'm sorry, I'm horribly sorry. Well, it was a little happy. I guess.

(P.S. How uncomfortable would it be to have sex on the ground in the middle of a forest? I'm thinking pretty umcomfortable…)