Chapter 21: Why?

Sasuke eyed his brother who still had his katana in his hand, grabbing Sakura swiftly he disappeared out of sight. Itachi gave a slight grunt in annoyance as he moved towards the woods. “Just like playing hide and seek…” Itachi reminded himself with a little confidence in his voice.

Sasuke laid Sakura against a tree, they were high up in a tree covered by and surrounded by more trees.
“Why?” Sasuke asked her again. Sakura eyed the chain around his neck. She saw her pendant hanging from him.  She tried reaching for it. Sasuke pulled away quickly as he could, thinking that she was up to her childish acts when they were younger.
“Sasuke” she tried getting to him. “Is that my pendant?”
“No…” Sasuke retorted. “We shouldn’t worry about these things…I’m more concern about you…..”
“But” Sakura wasn’t able to finish her sentence when Sasuke’s lips had touched hers.
‘Just to make her shut up for now’ Sasuke thought. Sakura’s emerald colour eyes, after the kiss they had shared she gently caressed his cheek.

Neji arrived back to Konoha, coming through the gates he heard someone spoke his name. “Oi Hyuuga weren’t you with the Uchiha and the Cherry?” Kotetsu stated.
“Where are they?” Izumo continued on. Neji ignored them and continued walking to give the mission reports to Tsunade.
“Hard ass” Kotetsu muttered under his breath. Neji payed no attention to it and kept walking.

Minutes went by, Silence was in the air. Sakura had already started healing herself, with the help of Sasuke. His hands were overlapping on top of hers as the massive amount of Chakra flowed within her to the wound that her hand was hovering over. Sakura let out a tiny grunt of pain, Sasuke was more focused on the correct Chakra movement. “Nearly done” Sakura reassured him. His eyes watching the slowly closed wound, Sakura removed her hand over the wound whilst Sasuke did the same. She gave a slight smile. Sasuke too returned the sweet smile she gave to him, with an infamous Uchiha smirk. Sakura got a little closer to him this time, their noses touching each other; they could hear each other’s breathing movements.

Itachi took the time to find his brother, checking each time, his sharingan fully activated and ready for the showdown of his life. He still had his brother’s katana in his hand.  Itachi was well on his way searching for his brother on foot. He knew that by jumping from tree to tree Sasuke would pick up the signal and beats of each thud that came in contact with his foot causing him to move away by the second Itachi had gotten close. Itachi was slicing down branches that were in his way. Making it clearer for him to see into the distance and find his little brother to end the rivalry that had been happening for almost a half of his sibling’s life.

Sakura let out a little smile had what Sasuke was doing; He was staring right into her emerald eyes, almost like he was lost in them.
“Sasuke?” She broke the silence between them. Sasuke gave a slight smirk, as he continued to stare at her curious emerald eyes. Sakura heard a series of trees that she swore was hitting the ground hard, twigs snapping into two. “Sasuke?” She tried getting the shinobi’s attention.
“What?” Sasuke asked her again. This time his eyes adverting from hers and removing his forehead from the rosette hair kunochi.
“Did you hear that?” She asked him again. Sasuke looked around closely.
“What do you mean…….I don’t…hear” Sasuke was cut off when his saw his brother, his own katana in his brother’s hand. Sasuke quickly grabbed Sakura, bridal style and carried her away hopefully to a safer place. Itachi managed to wield the sword and create a slight wound on his little’s brother’s shoulder. Sasuke let out a grunt of pain. He managed to land safely on a tree branch. Itachi was now on the forest ground waiting for his brother to come down.