Chapter 3

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

"There's only one thing that can heal the heart... only one... it's love, Gaara."

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"Yumi, why can't you just accept the fact that I love you?" Itachi breathed out as if he just got done running.

"Itachi, you have changed, I-I don't know if I love you anymore..." I say trailing off and looking down at my feet

He lifted my chin up, so I could look up at his cold expression. "Look me in the eye and tell me you don't love me."

I looked at him as if I was trying to decide.

"I-"

-

"Shut your alarm clock off." I heard a yell then a pillow being thrown at me

My hand search for the alarm clock, while I kept my eyes closed

"Where is it," I say opening my eyes to be met with the morning sun

I quickly picked up the fallen alarm clock and turned it off.

"I'm going for a walk," I say walking into the woods hoping to see Itachi again so I can apologize

"Yumi?" I hear a questioning voice and I turn to see the same cold eyes looking down at me

"Itachi, I'm sorry," I said and he raised an eyebrow

"Apology accepted? What are you sorry for?"

"If I would have accepted your apology from the start we would not be in this mess," I say and Itachi rubs the back of his neck

"I'm sorry too, I was being too overly confident like as if nothing changed. I didn't take you feeling into consideration." He said and I smiled gently

"Times flies..." I say and he glances at me

"And people change.."

"I know, again I was being overconfident..."

"Because I kissed you the last time we saw each other?" I say and he just nods

"Why did you kiss me that day...if you-"

"It's not that I didn't like you then, its then fact I might not like you now," I say and he sighs

Itachi looked down at the ground, becoming his usual nontalkive self

"The reason Itachi I said I don't know if I could do it no more, was because I felt like a complete stranger to you. Like just a childhood sweetheart. That's all I am going to be, I'm only 11 and your 13 we still have chances to explore the world and the people."

I went on and on about the weird things people could do and see, but in the middle of one of my sentences he cut me off.

"Yumi, those things do sound great and all but they won't as great without you. When your not around things are boring, I miss our morning training sesion and our late at night dinners because we were training. I miss the memories and I miss you." He says and each memory pops into my head

I sigh and look back down at the ground. "We should take time to realize who we really are, before..." I say rubbing my wrists as the memories from last night flow into my head

"We are still young, and I need to work on my training anyways..." I say trailing off trying not to sound rude

"I understand.."

I flash him a small smile

"Just take care of Sasuke... Don't let any feelings towards me affect him, and I will come back in a couple of years. Then we can make our decision then." He says and with that, he disappears, which may be the best so lingering feeling don't mess up our decision

I walk back to camp, which is already packed up

"Ready, Yumi?"

I nod in response while catching up with them.

"Yumi, did you get bitten by something?" My teammate, who spilt me and Itachi up last night says with a smirk

"I don't know, just leave me alone, Aaron," I say rubbing my neck, and I felt someone move my hand away from my neck

"Is it serious?" Our medical specialist, Hana, says.

"I don't think so-" I say walking away from her before she could see anything.

"Let me check, I don't want one of the last Uchiha to die," Hana says trying to get me, but I runoff

"See you at the village!" I say waving my hand in the air, as I ran

'Maybe I should mark you. So nobody can use you instead.' I thought while I touched my neck

'So nobody can use you instead.'

So is this love or am I falling into one of his plans?

"But why me?" I say then fall into a daze, while I walk.

-

"Sasuke, I'm home." I say walking inside our small apartment, but there was no answer

"Sasuke?" I say, a little more worried than before while I walk towards his room

His room was empty, all of his stuff was there but he was not.

"Sasuke?" I say looking out the window

I began to walk a little bit faster, as I neared the academy

"Sasuke?" I say again when I finally see him

He was working with his aim with shurikens, I was just relieved to see him

'Don't let him fall into darkness.' Itachi's words ringed through my ears

"I need to get him out of my head, I have been thinking about too much." I say softly to myself before walking towards Sasuke

"Hey Sasuke, let's go get dinner," I say when I get a couple of feet away from him

He glanced my way and didn't say anything, and forced back on his training

"Sasuke?" I say getting closer to him, and he backs away and pulls out a Kanai Knife like if he was preparing for battle

"You knew didn't you?" He hissed, like as if he was holding back his tears

"What do you mean..." I say softly, not moving

"You know what I mean, you helped him kill our clan!"

"Why would I help him? I told you if I knew what he was going to do I would have stopped him, then if it cost me my life." I yell

"It's all a lie!" He yells charging at me, and before the kunai knife could hit my skin, I reached my hand out taking the full blow of Knife with the skin in between my thumb and pointer finger

I felt the sharp pain in my hand, I whined in pain for a second, but then wrapped my fingers around his hand, and pulled him into am embrace

"Sasuke, why can't you trust me." I said in pain, not because of my hand, but because my heart was in more pain.

I felt him wrap his free arm around me

"I-Im sorry."

'Who knew both brothers would apologize to me in one day.' I thought, trying to hold in my chuckle

"Sasuke, why did you think I helped Itachi..."

"Because that is what Aaron said...."

"What?"