Chapter 1

!I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE NARUTO CHARACTERS!

"When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred."

-Madara Uchiha

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"I-Itachi what do you mean."

"I told you my plan once, I am not going to repeat it. Someone might be listening," Itachi says looking at me, and I look up at him one last time.

He placed his cold hand on my cheek, I could tell even under that cold expression he was sad underneath.

"Yumi, can you take care of him once I leave." I look down from where we were standing to see his younger brother.

"I will try but he may not trust me," I say and he shakes his head

"He knows that you are a good friend of mine and part of our clan."

"Yea, but he-"

"Don't worry things will fall into place. You are like a younger sister I never had."

Ouch, friend zoned.

"Yea, but he may not feel the same," I say and he removes his hand from my cheek and pulls me into an embrace

"Yumi, just trust me." He says and I grip onto his shirt

"But do you have to do this," I mumble, and he just holds me tighter

"I will come back for you one day, I just need to know Sasuke is safe." He says letting me go, and I already miss his warmth

"Don't take forever," I say and he just nods.

"I guess this is goodbye-"

"For now." I cut him off and he just nods.

We just stand there for a second, because deep down neither of us wants to leave each other.

Right, when he was about to leave, I begin to feel my feet move and I do something I would never imagine doing.

I cupped his cheeks and kissed him.

I was surprised at first when he wrapped his arm around my waist and began to kiss me back.

'Is this a dream?' I thought while we began to separate

"I will be waiting," I say and I feel something cold run down my neck. Turns out I'm crying.

Itachi just chuckled and wiped my tears away, and I looked up into his cold eyes almost getting lost.

"Don't cry." He said softly.

I nod and began to step away from him.

"I should go before I keep you any longer," I say and he just nods

"Until then." He says

"Until then," I repeat and just like the wind he disappears, and I break down in tears.

I cried that night long and hard, knowing from this day on nothing will ever be the same.

And as much as I will want to keep these feelings I know just like fruits, with time they will expire.

Even if I don't want them to.

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-A few days later-

"Yumi, are you sure you can take care of such a young boy?" The 3rd Hokage asks me and I nod.

"He is the only one left of my clan, not only can I help him train, I will be close, like family."

The Hokage nodded "we can try this idea out for a couple of weeks and see how it goes."

I smile brightly and a depressed Sasuke walks in.

"Sasuke?" And once I say his name, he comes running towards me and bear hugs me.

"Why did he have to do it? Why did he have to kill everyone?" I hear his sobs and suddenly tears begin to roll down my cheeks as well.

"I don't know, I wish I knew too."

Soon after he calms down, we start walking towards my place.

"You trained with Itachi, didn't you?" Sasuke asks me out of nowhere while we were walking.

"Yes, I did why?"

"Can you train me? I want to be stronger than him so one day I can beat him." Sasuke says and I nod

'Everything is going to Itachi's plan so far.' I think while I decided to Sasuke how I and Itachi trained

"It sounds like fun," Sasuke said and smiled, and nod in response to him

"Didn't he train with you?" I ask and he lowers his head

"Once or twice, and then when I asked him to help me train, he would flick me in the forehead and say 'I'm sorry Sasuke ' he tried imitating Itachi, and I giggled

" He always would talk about you," I say and Sasuke looks up at me

"R-really?" He says and I nod

"Of how far you have come, and how he knows you can become stronger than him one day," I say and Sasuke looks forward staring off into the distance

"Did you know he was going to do it?" Sasuke speaks and I can hear hate in his voice

"If I did I would have stopped, kill him even. Why would you thin! I knew?" I lied, knowing good well he was going to do it, and something deep down hurt because I knew.

"He loved you, so I thought he might have told you something." He says

"He loved me? You make it sound like he is dead.

"He became dead in my heart when he killed our clan." His hands were balls of fists, then he looked over at me and glared

"And why would you care if he still loved you or not, he would have killed you if you weren't out on a mission." Sasuke hisses and looks away from me as he began to cry

"Sasuke..." I say softly, as I wrap my arms around him.

I laid my chin on his shoulder, and he just gripped o to my wrists as he cried.

"Yumi-" I heard softly, but it wasn't Sasuke voice, it was a voice I knew way too well. Sasuke didn't notice so I began to look around, without trying to alarm him.

When I looked on top of a building I saw his shadow just a bit, but enough for my heart to start racing.

'Itachi.' I thought while Sasuke began to wipe his tears.

"Let's go inside," I say just realizing that we were still outside and Sasuke just nodded as he followed me inside my small home.