This is a version that was corrected by a beta-reader for me by ViOlEt-KAt. I think she did an excellent job. All those annoying little mistakes should be fixed now!

HarmonyRose

Diclaimer: Do you think I'd be writing this if I actually owned Naruto?

One Petite Kunoichi

Itachi Uchiha, soon to become the head of the Uchiha clan, walked down the street in deep thought. The council demanded that Itachi marry in order to become the leader of his clan. They had offered many suggestions on women he might want to consider as future spouses. Most of them had been fan girls of either Sasuke or himself and he had rejected them all the moment he had heard their names. Others that weren't fan girls didn't seem plausible, like the Hyuuga heiress. Although, from what he'd seen of the girl, she was quiet and gentle, it would be easy to live with her, if not rather boring. He didn't think that marrying the Hyuuga's heiress would go over very well with their elders anyway.

Besides she was with that loudmouth blonde that was Sasuke's best friend, Naruto Uzumaki. He didn't need more family trouble. The council had also suggested lots of non-kunoichi and he had flat-out rejected those. He didn't want that much of a difference in the level of his spouse's and his skill. He didn't want to accidentally hurt or scare her when he was angry. When it came down to it, Itachi had not been willing to marry any of those women and he didn't know exactly what he wanted from a wife. He felt like he was way over his head.

Suddenly, he heard someone muttering to themselves, something about idiotic teammates, he looked up just as he collided into the woman he had heard muttering. Both of them fell backward, and Itachi being the first to get up, offers his hand to the woman. She took his hand and he helped her up like a gentleman, steeling himself for the sickly, gushing praise that normally came from females when they realized who he was. His eyes widened when all she did was smile at him politely, and apologize, "Thank-you Uchiha-san and sorry about crashing into you, I'm a little perturbed at your brother, so if you'll excuse me." He didn't let go though.

"It's no problem…" he trailed off so she would insert her name, he was interested now. Itachi's eyes swept over her, she was wearing a rather nice kimono that was a muted green, matching her emerald eyes.

Her long pink hair spilled over her shoulders and well down her back, helping to frame her heart-shaped face.

"Haruno Sakura," the lady said flipping some of her long hair out of her face.

"It is my fault I wasn't paying attention, I was… preoccupied. I apologized, Sakura-san," he said struggling a little with his pride, but he admitted to himself that it really was his fault.

"I should have been paying more attention too. Gomen, I must leave now," and with that Sakura proceeded quickly down the path that her teammates had presumably taken a few minutes earlier.

Itachi turned around after she was out of sight and headed back to the most direct path of the Uchiha complex. He went straight to the council building. He knew that those foolish councilmen would still be there, they always were. Itachi walked in calmly and the room quieted abruptly. He asked the nearest councilman in a stoic voice, "What do you know about Haruno Sakura? I want all the information you have in my study in thirty minutes." With that said he swiftly turned and walked to his study. As soon as he left he heard all the noise and excited chatter begin at once.

Once in his richly colored study he sat on his desk chair and waited… rather impatiently. Normally, Itachi was a very composed individual and he berated himself for becoming impatient. He didn't show any outward displays of impatience as he always was stoic. Though in his mind, he was becoming agitated that the information wasn't with him yet. When the messenger of the council came in with the information, he dismissed him quickly and sat down to begin to read Sakura Haruno's file.

The first page contained her picture and others had her records. She was three to four years younger than he was. The next sentence was the most surprising though, she was his brother's teammate and he knew that they were all ANBU. Apparently, from her file she possessed medical training directly from Tsunade, with inhuman strength, intelligence, chakra control, genjutsu, and taijutsu skills to top it all off. She looked so petite and unpretentious and not at all like she possessed the skills and traits to be an ANBU. This only served to intrigue Itachi more. Her personality was apparently non-aggressive unless provoked and she worked in the hospital when wasn't on missions.

Itachi skimmed over the rest, because most of the other stuff was about her family and the various missions she had completed. Her profile was perfect. She was a strong ninja, highly respected, came from a good family, was passionate, but still polite, and wasn't a fan girl. She was perfect candidate to become his wife and he was going to make sure she would be.

Later that evening…

Sasuke walked into the Uchiha living room, with Naruto lethargically trailing after him. Itachi noticed that they were both thoroughly bruised and beaten. He questioned them out of courtesy to find why they were hurt so badly, "What happened to you?"

"Naruto's staying the night because we made our teammate, Sakura, angry at us," answered Sasuke still panting a little as if he'd run to Suna nonstop and back.

"What did you two do that she beat you both up that badly! He asked raising a brow, genuinely intrigued now that his Sakura was involved.

This time Naruto answered not quite as out of breath, "Teme and I just wanted to play a joke on her, so teme pretended to propose to her. He did it at that really fancy restaurant near the Hokage's office, and made her dress up nicely, so that it looked authentic. Then over dessert he stood in front of her and bent down on one knee. It was hilarious you should have seen her face. Her eyes were huge and she got really nervous all of the sudden, trying to dig her way out of the situation by explaining to Sasuke that she didn't feel that way about him. Then she said that it would be better if he found someone more worthy of his attention. She stuttered a little too, trying to not hurt his feelings. Then Sasuke had to ruin it with that stupid Uchiha smirk. She got angry at him when she realized he wasn't serious and figured that I'd put him up to it. Then she chases after us and just when we thought we were safe, she finds us, drags us to the training grounds, and pulverizes us both. Then she refused to heal us after she almost killed us."

Naruto pouted a little, but it was an odd sight because his face was swollen and his mouth muscles refused to do what he wanted. In the end it contorted so much that it ended up looking more like a grimace than anything. Itachi did something Sasuke rarely ever heard, he laughed. Sasuke was appalled. He didn't want his big brother to think he was weak. "Hn, you should try fighting her if you think she's weak, especially when she is angry," the mighty Sasuke Uchiha shuddered a little at the thought of the wrath of his petite, pink-haired teammate.

Itachi smirked, eyes glittering with a hint of mirth, "Maybe I will since you will be in no condition to spar tomorrow, as is our morning ritual."

This would fit into his plans perfectly.