(Warning: Chapter with lemon. You've been warned. This isnt rated T to M on FF.net for nothing.)

Chapter 10

“Neh neh, Shino!” “Quiet, Naruto!” “But-” “Quiet!!!”

The Akatsuki guy was gone. Shino looked around, alerted. ‘Now we’re in trouble…’ He thought. He stared at Naruto. “What?”

“I need to pee…” Naruto said slowly, smiling embarrassed. Shino sighed. “Why are you telling? Just go.” Quickly, Naruto left. ‘And he wants to become Hokage? Don’t think so.’ Shino thought. He send some bugs to search for the man again and waited for Naruto to come back.

But he didn’t.

Shino crawled to the spot where he last saw his teammate. “Naruto?” He asked quietly. No answer. “Naruto…!” He said again, this time a little louder.

Shino suddenly turned around quickly and dodged the upcoming katana. The man they had followed had attacked him. Shino jumped up to attack him when the man turned in Naruto. Shino sighed annoyed. “Naruto! Stop this and become serious!” Naruto sighed as well. “Those Akatsuki are already gone! The others told me. I had to come and pick you up.” Naruto grinned. “I just wanted to scare you, that’s all, hahaha!”

“Naruto, you almost killed me.” Shino said, while he turned around. “It was really-”

Naruto quickly knocked Shino out. Surprised, Shino fell down on the ground and became unconscious. Naruto poofed to turn back into Itachi.

“Idiot…” He mumbled, before he walked off.

- - - - - -

“Seems like you didn’t need my help in the end, yeah.” Said Deidara when Itachi came up to him. Itachi nodded and pulled his hat more over his for-him-useless eyes. “Took them all down?”

“Yup. That Hyuuga kunoichi and your little brother, yeah.” Deidara smiled. “Sasuke was pretty attached to Sakura-san. He looked in love, you know, yeah.”

It was quiet for a while.

“I don’t care about the crushes my brother has.” Itachi said emotionless, but it was actually killing him. Sakura had liked Sasuke for a long time, and although she was with him now, maybe she’d go to his annoying little brother when she heard he loved her now.

Deidara scratched his head. “Itachi.” He started. “She would be a total idiot if she left you for that, yeah. And she’s not an idiot. She’s a very cleaver girl which loves you very much, yeah.”

Itachi turned around and looked to his fellow Akatsuki. “And why are you sure. Tell me that.” Itachi said cold. Deidara grinned a little. “Itachi, you know much about fighting, yeah, but you don’t know anything about love.”

- - - - - -

Sakura saw Itachi and Deidara walking towards her. She got out of the tree and looked at them.

“Don’t look at us like that, yeah.” Deidara said offended. “We didn’t kill any of your friends, yeah!”

Itachi said nothing. He just stared at the numb body from his brother.

“It doesn’t matter anymore.” Sakura said, and turned to Itachi. “Can we go? …Please?” Itachi nodded and ripped his gaze away from Sasuke. He would ask her later.

Deidara smiled happy and started walking, into the forest. Itachi and Sakura followed, walking beside each other.

“Always look at the briiiight side of life! Shala, sha la la la la la la!” Sang Deidara.

Itachi looked at Sakura. She gave a quick smile back.

Deidara was in a good mood, but they weren’t.

“…I-… Itachi… Is something bothering you?” Sakura asked, not too loud. Itachi shook his head and kept staring in front of him. “…Itachi…” She said again. Slowly, he looked back at her. She smiled. “Please… Tell me.”

Itachi wasn’t planning to tell her. Not now, anyway. But those pretty jade-green eyes were so… wonderful. Itachi sighed in mind. She had just done it again.

“It’s… Sasuke.” Itachi said slowly. Sakura’s look changed immediately. “…What about him?” She asked after a while. Itachi opened his mouth and closed it again. Deidara was listening and he knew it.

“I’ll tell you tonight.”

- - - - - -

Kurenai almost tripped over something when she came back for her team. When she looked down, she saw two feet stick out from under a shrub. They wore the blue sandals, and were small and female.

Carefully, Kurenai took the ankles and pulled Hinata out of the bush. “Hinata!?” She said surprised. “Hinata, wake up! Hinata!!”

Slowly, the girl came by. “Where’s Sasuke? What happened?” Kurenai asked. “…I… I don’t know…” Hinata whispered. “We’ll have to find him. Naruto and Shino were searching for the both of you, too.” Kurenai helped Hinata up. “Kurenai-sensei… What about… Sakura?” Hinata asked carefully. Slowly, Kurenai shook her head.

- - - - - -

“Oi, Sasuke! Wake up!” Roughly, someone woke the younger Uchiha. Sasuke opened his eyes and saw it was night already. Naruto’s head was only an inch away from Sasuke’s face. “You’re awake?” “WHAA!!”

Sasuke rolled away from Naruto and jumped up. “Don’t move so much around, you’ll get this huge headache.” Naruto complained. He raised his eyebrows. “Or weren’t you knocked out on the head like the rest was?”

Sasuke wanted to scold at Naruto and tell him that of course he was, because or else he wouldn’t be lying on the ground, when he noticed his head didn’t hurt anymore at all. Shino and Naruto seemed to both have a wound on their head, but Sasuke had nothing.

“…Sasuke?” Asked Shino in his not-asking way. Sasuke shook his head and turned around.

The only option left was that his wound was healed. Probably by a pro.

Probably by her.

“Hinata-chan! You’re alright!!” Sasuke heard Naruto scream. He turned back and saw Hinata and Kurenai walk up to them.

Naruto ran towards Hinata and as hyperactive he was, he flung his arms around her. Hinata blushed madly. “N-Naruto-kun…” “I was so worried about you Hinata-chan! But actually I had no reason to since you’re an awesome fighter!” Hinata became even more red after his words. “Naruto, you’re choking her.” Kurenai said, smiling. Naruto let go of Hinata and blushed a little while grinning.

Sasuke sighed. What an idiot.

“Kurenai-sensei.” Said Shino. “What about Sakura?”

Kurenai’s smile faded. Hinata looked down to her feet and Naruto and Sasuke stared at them. “They went…” Kurenai said sadly. Naruto stared angry to the sky and made his hands to fists. “K’soh… I hoped-” “We don’t get anywhere with just hoping.” Sasuke suddenly said. He stared at the cabin.

“Lets investigate this.”

- - - - - -

Kisame watched the five walk up to the cabin. He knew that the others had left, so that wasn’t the problem. But he didn’t really trusted them if it went about packing their stuff, or his stuff. Did they pack everything? What if they had left something important? Maybe they had forget his most precious thing in life…

Kisame approached the cabin from the other side and looked into his room through the window. He saw it was almost empty now. His goldfish, Mister Tinkles, was gone. He sighed in relief. Thank God.

- - - - - -

Sasuke was the one who slowly pushed the door open after Shino was able to unlock it. The five shinobi slowly stepped inside. It was very dark inside the hallway. Naruto was sure he heard a rat run off at the sound of the door opening.

“Nothing more than doors…” Hinata whispered. Kurenai nodded. “Be careful with checking.” She said. “There might be a trap on it.”

Everyone went his own way then. Shino found a weapon room. Sasuke saw a room with totally nothing in it. Hinata came in the kitchen. Kurenai found the bathroom and Naruto ended up in a cellar. “Clear.” “Clear.” “C- Clear…” “Clear.” “Clear!”

Sasuke closed the door behind him and opened an other. He entered a dark room. No windows. The closet was open, and empty. The candles were only small stumps, and on the red chair next to the bed was a matchbox. Sasuke walked up to it and lit a candle next to the bed, so his vision was better.

- - - - - -

“It’s been some long years since my family died.” Itachi started. He and Sakura were lying on their back in his bed. Itachi and Deidara actually planned on sharing a room so Sakura had more privacy, but Sakura had quickly said that perhaps that wasn’t so save, so maybe Itachi had to stay in her room and then when Kisame came, he could sleep in the room from Deidara. Luckily, Deidara didn’t suspect anything strange from it and had agreed.

They were in bed already for quite a long time, in their pyjamas. Well, pyjamas… Sakura wore her underwear and a shirt, and he wore a boxer and a fishnet shirt.

“I felt alive when killing them. I felt… happy, seeing them being ripped away from life. Since those were the people who had taken mine.”

Sakura stared at Itachi’s face. His eyes were focused on the sealing.

“I did leave Sasuke alive. He hadn’t done anything to me. And he was scared, and weak. So I decided to leave him behind, and I left.”

Itachi paused for a while, and Sakura stayed silent.

“But after a while, I started to feel lonely again. First I was lonely because the people around me only cared for my skills, but then I was lonely because I didn’t have any people around anymore. The Akatsuki members weren’t the same. And then you came.”

She held her breath and listened closely. If she missed a part of this she would kill herself.

“You really confused me. You gave me this feeling I had never had. The feeling someone cared about me… And that I cared… We were the same, both hurt by the ones we wanted to love. But then… Today, Sasuke came… And Deidara said it himself… ‘Sasuke was pretty attached to Sakura-san… He looked in love…’ It felt like a sword, stinging into my body… Because… What if you would still love him, and he would finally love you back? Would you leave and go to Konoha?”

Sakura figured out that Itachi must be really jealous. Maybe scared. He didn’t want to lose her. He absolutely didn’t.

That was when she started to smile.

“Foolish Itachi…” She whispered on his neck. “I did love him, and perhaps, I still do… But I wouldn’t leave you for anything in the world…”

Itachi didn’t even show the tiniest hint to show he was happy with her words. If this was her first meeting with him, she couldn’t have a clue about what he was thinking, or how he felt. But Sakura just knew he was happy. She could feel it.

She took his chin and made him look at her. “I love you more than anything, Uchiha Itachi…” She whispered. He kissed her short. “I love you more than more than anything, Haruno Sakura…” Itachi breathed on her lips. She shivered. He stared to suck on her upper lip and soon, they were french kissing. After a while, she felt his hands take the shirt she was wearing and he shoved it up.

The last – and only time, Itachi had gone so far, was when Deidara had came running in their room. A nervous feeling came in her lower stomach when Itachi removed her shirt and kissed her again. Sakura kept her eyes closed and stayed kissing him, but really didn’t know what to do. ‘Go for it!!’ Inner Sakura suddenly screamed. Sakura hadn’t heard her inner self for quiet a while, but she seemed to be totally back. ‘He loves us, we love him, he needs us, we need him, what is stopping you!?’ ‘I- I don’t know… It suddenly seems so scary!’

She felt Itachi’s weight on her and it ripped her from her thoughts. He was on top of her now, his body pinned against hers. He removed his own fishnet shirt and started to lick her ear. From her ear shell he went down and nibbled her ear. Sakura let out a slight moan and wrapped her arms around her neck. Itachi let his hands stroke her stomach and breast before he slid between her shoulder blades and started to fuss with her bra to unhook it.

Again, Sakura was trying to hide her complete panic attack. She felt her bra lose its grip and before she knew it, he dumped it next to the bed, on their shirts.

His hands stroked her breasts really caring. He didn’t rush, it didn’t hurt… He was being really kind. When feeling his soft, sweet touch, Sakura’s nervous feeling just ebbed away.

Itachi knew she wasn’t nervous anymore. His hands shoved down to her panties and removed them. After that, he removed his own boxers.

He kissed her the most sweet, passionate and caring ever. She answered his, enjoying how his tongue explored her mouth.

Then, he entered her body.

- - - - - -

Kisame finally arrived at the inn. He was tired and wanted to talk to his fish. And then he wanted to sleep. Of course.

He walked in and without even asking, the man behind the bar told the rooms from the others. While giving a slice nod as a thanks, he walked up the stairs behind the bar and found himself in dark the hallway. Only a few oil-lamps had been lit. Counting the numbers on the doors, Kisame searched for the numbers 21 and 22.

He entered room 21 and met a loud snoring sound. While focusing his eyes, he saw Deidara in a bed, asleep, his mouth a little open. He even saw a little drool in the corner of his mouth.

“Eww… Gross…” Kisame mumbled to himself. He saw the other bed was empty. He threw off his cloak and got in bed. He immediately fell asleep.

Kisame didn’t even know how lucky he was he hadn’t tried room 22.