And we reach the end of the fic! I am so sad! But proud to get it done! FINALLY! Look forward to the sequel though! I will eventually get it started and posted lol. Thank you all for reading the fic through! I hope you read the sequel as well! Only more epicness on the way! Bless your faces! We depart Tobuscus style XDD

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Chapter ten: When we stand... together.

He was drunk, he knew it, he just didn't want to admit it. He hadn't wanted to drink this much, but Naruto the dobe, challenged him, and he couldn't lose. Of course Naruto could take alcohol better because of Kyuubi inside him, Sasuke however couldn't hold his alcohol worth the dang. Maybe that was how he ended up on the floor of the bar staring up at Naruto and Kiba who were grinning down at him with similar expressions. How had he gotten down here?

" I'll call Sakura." Kiba said with a drunken slur. Naruto's face darkened at Sakura's name. Raw hunger flashed across his face as well as pain. Sasuke frowned. Maybe he really didn't understand how hurt Naruto was from Sakura breaking things off with him. Maybe he would never understand but he knew Sakura also didn't like Naruto going and treating her like he use to after all they had obviously been through together.

Kiba walked off and Naruto pulled Sasuke to his feet. He swayed and blacked out a moment, when he came to it was to be slapped. He jerked and growled a curse at who ever slapped him. He was shocked to see Sakura's beautiful jade eyes, and silky skin from inches away. Her lips were pursed and her pink brows drawn down in slight annoyance, slight worry. Her mouth looked inviting despite her annoyance. He leaned forward in her arms and kissed her again. He had liked it the first time, and why wasn't he allowed to kiss her anyway?

She stiffened. There was a muttered curse, then a choked gasp, and then Sakura took a step backward calmly and he swayed and fell backwards landing in someones arms. He peeked back and his eyes narrowed then widened when his eyes met the Sharingan of his brother. His brother looked displeased and just as annoyed as Sakura had. Why was his brother here?

" Nii-chan." Itachi blinked down at him and then dropped him on the floor. He landed hard. Someone laughed, and Sakura slapped Itachi on the shoulder. His brother looked over at the pink haired angel.

" Itachi! Don't drop him." Itachi gave her a look. Sakura blushed faintly. Sasuke growled at that blush. He wanted to take her into his arms and...and...and what? And whatever came after that. He just needed her in his arms. Sakura looked down at him and shook her head.

" He's being strange." Itachi said softly. Sakura scoffed at his brother.

" He's drunk of course he's weird. You think it's normal for him to kiss me?" She asked hand on hip. Itachi blinked at her and then looked away as if he had thought that was normal. She slapped him on the shoulder again. He made a face at her.

" Pick him back up this instant Uchiha Itachi, or I'll put you over my knee and spank your sexy ass." Itachi looked a little surprised and then uncomfortable and then just unsure. Maybe unsure if he wanted to test that out or not. Sasuke would like to test it out if it was himself if Sakura was spanking his, not his brother,...wait. No...that's not what he wanted to think about. Bad thoughts. Bad thoughts.

His brother finally grunted and lifted him up and over his shoulder. His brother winced. Sasuke didn't know why.

" Thank you, now lets get him home before he throws up on you." Sakura said shaking her head. He could tell because even up side down and over his brothers shoulder he could see Sakura. He let his head thump down on his brothers back. He was at least warm. Itachi walked out of the bar with Sakura at his side. Sasuke watched her hips sway as she walked. He reached to touch but couldn't quite reach her.

" What was with the wince back there?" Sakura asked his brother. Sasuke felt his brother stiffen at the question. Oh wow, he could tell his brothers reaction to something. Maybe he should just touch him more often then. Wait...no. That wasn't what he wanted to do at all. He would so never drink again.

" 'Chi-chan?" His brother jerked but kept walking. What the hell? A nickname like that for his brother? Was that a normal thing or did she just start doing that?

" He's aroused... against my chest." Sakura made a strangled sort of sound and then burst into laughter Sasuke had never heard from her. She almost fell into a fit of laughter and giggling so hard tears streamed down her face. Itachi made a distressed sort of sound.

" It's not funny 'Kura-kun." Itachi said in a mocking sort of way the nickname. She stopped laughing and looked over at him with narrowed eyes.

" Don't call me such weird names." She said standing and brushing wrinkles out of her clothes. Itachi sighed.

" Then please refrain from calling me strange names as well." She snorted and they continued walking.

" Well it's cute, besides... it amuses me. Anyway though back to Sasuke. Just ignore it. It's not like he's aroused because of you." Itachi made a distressed sort of sound again.

" It doesn't matter it's...still against me." Sakura sighed.

" You want me to carry him?" She asked. Itachi stiffened.

" No. I don't want my brother and his arousal anywhere near you." Itachi admitted and Sasuke stiffened at the same time Sakura stopped walking. Itachi paused a few steps ahead and looked back at her. She looked surprised. Sasuke wondered why she was surprised, because Itachi never made her think he wanted her, or liked her in anyway, or because that sounded almost jealous of him?

" Well now." Sakura said with a soft smile. She looked a little embarrassed which Sasuke had never seen from her, not that look.

" You should keep your cousin and his arousal away from me as well." Sakura said with a sudden smile. Itachi huffed. They started walking again.

" That is simply impossible." Sakura laughed softly.

" You think?" Itachi chuckled a little.

" Yes."

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Sakura felt an odd sort of warmth when Itachi had told her he didn't want his brother aroused around her. It made her heart skip a beat. A weird sort of reaction if ever she had one. She had to cover that feeling with a joke though and she had. He took the bait, but they both knew something had been revealed at that moment.

Itachi did like her in a different way they just as a friend, and Sakura did like Itachi, maybe in the same way. She just wasn't sure what to do about it. Itachi she would marry when the time came, but she had never thought of actually doing anything with him until after they were married. Maybe that was why she kept away from him more or less. Maybe...maybe.

She glanced back at Sasuke on his brothers back. Now what to do with that one.

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" I think it is time you tell me the truth about things Sakura." The pink haired medical Kunoichi looked up into Sharingan eyes. Familiar and dark. Serious and dangerous. She didn't feel fear as she looked into the Sharingan. She didn't feel the fear people felt when faced with this Kekkei genkai. She felt no fear.

" Why do you think I have lied to you?" She asked the Uchiha across from her at her kitchen table. His little brother rested in her bed unconscious upstairs. Itachi's eyes were the scarlet of his Sharingan but he didn't plan on using it on her. He had been a fool to miss things like this. He had not thought much about what was going on before, he made assumptions and they had all been wrong.

How did he know she was hiding things? How did he know she was lying? The more time he spent around her, the more time he could see it like a shadow at her back. He could see it. He could feel it. He needed to understand it.

Sakura was the puzzle and he had thought he had at least figured out she was a difficult one to master, he didn't however think that she was missing puzzle pieces, hiding them, keeping them away from everyone, and locking them up for no one to ever get a hold of. He however finally realized it.

" It doesn't matter why you did lie. Just tell me what you lied about." Itachi said. If they were to be married she needed to trust him. With everything not just somethings. He had an idea what she was lying about, but he needed to be right, and he didn't know if he was right, thus he came to simply ask her outright.

" Tenten and Hinata asked me to do favors for them. Hinata wanted Naruto, who was already my lover, and Tenten wanted me to test Neji. She wanted him, but he would never want her, so she wanted to make sure he couldn't be seduced and taken away from her before she could sway him. I Seduced Neji because Tenten asked me to." Itachi blinked once, twice, then frowned. He linked all that together.

" You were sleeping with Naruto Uzumaki already, as your lover, why did you push him to the Hyuuga?" Sakura sighed she ran a hand through her bangs then covered her eyes with the same hand.

" I started changing when I started to get serious about being a Kunoichi, when I trained instead of spend time with friends. When I realized it, I had already lost all my female friends. I wanted to gain a little companionship back, and so I tried to make it up to them. They knew I changed and asked me for help because I was close to the men they wanted. Neji I was in ANBU with and Tenten obviously realized that I would never love Neji or at least I was loyal enough that even if I did fall in love with him I would keep to my word." Sakura shook her head maybe in anger maybe pain he didn't know.

" The Hyuuga?" Itachi asked softly. She flinched and removed her hand to look at him with dark eyes. She may not have loved Neji but she didn't like hurting him, and she had loved Naruto. He had seen that first hand, so why had she given him up to another woman?

" Hinata has always had her eye on Naruto ever since we were children. I knew that I would never keep him anyway. I guess I had just been hoping that I could." She shook her head. Were those tears in her eyes.

" Naruto and I had become lovers when we were younger. With the hormones and everything one night he had come to me after a long mission and we went out drinking together we weren't drunk enough to make any mistake about the matter at hand, but we did sleep together. At first it was just a one night thing, but then he came back another night, and another and then it became a habit and by that time I realized I didn't mind it. But by that time I knew that I belonged to the Uchiha clan and I could never be with him in any other way then that. I couldn't marry him and I couldn't even allow anyone else to find out about it." She shook her head a little harsher this time. She was angry at herself he could tell.

" I knew that I would be an Uchiha, but I fought it mentally a long time. I realized I would have to give him up, but I didn't much think about it until Hinata asked me to set her and Naruto up. Then I knew not only did I have to give him up, but I would have to give him to Hinata." She bit her lip until he was afraid it would bleed but it didn't. She wasn't looking at him any more.

"I knew I would have to leave him because of the clan, but I didn't want to give him to Hinata. I knew however that if I wanted them as friends I would have to show them I could be a friend. Besides I had knew from the start Hinata loved Naruto." Sakura sighed softly and breathed deeply. She looked into his eyes.

" It wasn't worth it at all by the way. I rather have never had either of them as a lover. I hurt them both and myself in the process. I do regret it, but I wish I didn't have to." She admitted. He understood that. He just wished his family wasn't forcing her into their clan like this. Even if he refused to marry her, Sakura would still be given to someone else, either his brother or his cousin. He was the less evil there. Sakura knew it as well. She had after all accepted that she would be an Uchiha one way or another she never tried to stop it.

" Why didn't you go to Sasuke if you wanted to experiment sexually with someone?" Sakura went tense all over. Itachi was surprised as well. He looked around Sakura to the door way. His cousin stood looking as displeased as Itachi had ever seen him.

" Is it because he rejected you when you were younger? Or was it because you didn't want to get involved with an Uchiha until you were forced to?" Sakura was so tense Itachi wondered if she was even breathing.

" Is that why you keep refusing me then? Because you don't want to be with an Uchiha until your forced or is it because you actually love Sasuke still?" Sakura turned hard jade eyes to his cousin so quickly Itachi almost didn't noticing that she had thrown a kunai at him. His cousin of course caught it before it hit him.

" Shut your mouth Shisui. Don't bring that into this. I didn't have sex with you because I knew it would be a bad idea to start with. I knew I would be marring Itachi, and I didn't touch Sasuke because I knew that. Do you think I would do something like that to my future husband? Sleep with his cousin and his little brother? Mikoto and Fugaku trusted me enough for that. Do you think Mikoto would have allowed Sasuke to come here and sleep over so much unless she trusted I wouldn't 'corrupt' her son?" Itachi tensed. Shisui looked pissed.

" Is that the only reason?" he asked. Itachi felt almost like he was missing something. When had Shisui gotten involved? Wait...Neji had said she had another lover. He had thought it was Sasuke at first but had it really been Shisui? But according to the conversation now, Shisui wasn't actually a lover after all.

" You know it is." She said with venom.

" Then you wouldn't mind if Sasuke did get married to some other woman?" Sakura scoffed.

" No." She said truthfully.

" Sasuke wouldn't allow it anyway, but it's his decision. I accepted my fate, and I knew that when Sasuke rejected me when we were children that that was the end of it. I moved on. Sasuke didn't. I'm not at fault for that."

" So now we've deducted this has nothing to do with Sasuke, and that you had all the lovers you did because of the two Kunoichi, then did you just let me fall for you for no reason?" Shisui asked. Itachi stiffened. Well he had thought Shisui loved Sakura, as a sister, since he had taken such care of her, Shisui had never made a sexual move toward her and always touched her as if she would break, and so why would Itachi think his cousin loved her in any other way then innocently, yet Shisui was saying her loved her...in a lover sort of way? Itachi looked to Sakura...did she know that?

Sakura's eye twitched.

" I told you I didn't keep Uchiha lovers." She said, and she had.

" You still let me sleep in your bed." Itachi looked between the two feeling like he should maybe leave, this was a conversation between them, he had no part in this.

" Because I wanted the comfort of having someone sleep in my bed that didn't judge me, or expect anything. I guess I was wrong to assume you would be alright with just sleeping, not touching." She said with pain in her voice.

" You can't expect me not to want to touch you Sakura, I love you." He immediately shut his mouth and looked as shocked as she did. Itachi frowned. Had his cousin just confessed his love to his to be wife? Of course he already knew Shisui loved her, he had just said such, but saying 'I love you' was a whole different thing completely.

Sakura looked less angry and more pained now. She placed her palm over her eyes and took deep breaths, maybe trying to calm herself and not say something she would regret. When she removed her hand she no longer looked so troubled.

" Damn it Shisui." She said and her voice was hard, angry, even if her face gave nothing of that away, her voice had and she realized it. She shook her head and pressed her lips tight together.

" Sorry." Shisui said with a wince. Itachi was unsure what had just happened, it seemed something really bad had happened, but he wasn't sure what exactly.

" I take it back." Shisui said rubbing a hand over his face in stress. Sakura snorted.

" It doesn't matter if you do or not Shisui. I told you like I told Neji and Naruto, not to ever say that to me. No one ever listens." She shook her head.

" Cousin you look confused." Shisui said as Sakura went to her counter and started making tea, maybe to get her emotions together for a moment. Shisui took a seat on the table next to Itachi, not at, on top of the table.

" Perhaps. It is interesting to see things come together, but yes I am puzzled by this." Itachi admitted.

" She was asked to do things by her old friends, like seduce the Hyuuga, or hand Naruto over to the Hyuuga heiress. However I asked her a favor as well. I asked to stay over. I've never felt comfortable sleeping next to someone I didn't know." Shisui began. Sakura cut in draining her tea and apparently figuring she needed something stronger so she pulled what was left of her Sake and poured a cup downed it then spoke.

" Maybe you should get to know someone before having sex with them then, instead of fucking anything with breasts and vagina." Sakura said harsher then she no doubt wanted, or maybe she said it exactly how she wanted considering she was starting to curse. Itachi's eye twitched at her language but considering everything she dealt with thus far she was entitled.

" At least I don't lie to the people I fuck." Shisui shot back. Sakura stiffened but didn't say apparently what she wanted, only took another shot of Sake.

" I asked and she let me. I knew that I could never be sexual with Sakura, because she told me so. She gave me firm rules since I wanted to come sleep in her bed. I followed them because it was relaxing to sleep next to someone with out fearing you'd get robbed or killed in the process." Shisui said. Itachi rose his brow.

" It worked for a while, of course I knew she had lovers, even knew who they were and knew that it wasn't because she entirely wanted to that she was with them. Knew that even though I wanted her that I couldn't have her because of her rules and you. So I dealt with it for a long time." Shisui shook his head.

" You couldn't expect me to just willingly eventually fall onto your dick Shisui. I do have more restraint then just screwing random men." Sakura said then drained another glass of Sake. Itachi frowned. Usually they were close friends, or at least not this bad, but this was flat out hostility he had never seen from his cousin, or Sakura toward Shisui. At least not in such a serious way.

" I'm sorry your right, you have to have a reason to have sex with someone, you have to be asked to do everything. You can never make a decision for yourself!" The cup broke in Sakura's hand and she didn't seem to even notice it or the blood from a cut the glass had caused.

" My life has never been any of your business Shisui. Leave." Shisui stood turned and walked out with out another word. Obviously he decided either to listen this once, or maybe he had decided that he would do the right thing and leave before something bad happened, like if they argued anymore. Itachi knew they were past the point of saying things they didn't mean in their anger.

Itachi looked toward Sakura and frowned. He hadn't seen his cousin upset like this in a long time. He wasn't sure what was going on between them, if Sakura actually did have feelings for Shisui, like he obviously did her, or if she was just upset from all that had happened. Losing both lovers, a few friends and making her life so much more difficult then it needed to be.

" You shouldn't force yourself to do this for my family Sakura. Your not an Uchiha, you don't have to listen to the clan." Itachi said and stood, not knowing what he would do, but going for the first time with instinct. He could tell she was upset, he was her friend, whether she knew it or not, and he cared about her, whether he liked admitting to that or not.

" I just wanted to make things better for the village. I only ever wanted that. I didn't want... to be alone anymore." Sakura said voice straining to his ears. He could feel her pain through her voice. He approached unsure if he should touch her. He turned her around and saw the tears fill her emerald eyes.

He frowned down at her and her lips quivered before she rushed into his arms and buried her face into his chest as her shoulders shook and she silently cried into his chest arms around him. He wrapped his arms around her tiny body in return, surprised at how small she was, how vulnerable at the moment, another new face. Another puzzle piece discovered.

" I just don't want to be alone." She muttered through her tears against his chest. He held her tighter.

" Alright." Itachi said and by saying it he meant it as a promise. He would make sure she wasn't alone anymore, he would make her laugh more, make her happy. He would do what he could, even if it meant fighting his clan to do it.

" Alright."

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End fic:

Don't worry there will be a sequel! I just could not for the life of me get anymore of this writing out for this book! So I decided enough was enough and figured maybe I could get some writers block out and start a sequel instead of making this a huge fic.

Yes there is some weird crap going down, confusion, a little bit of OOC and a whole bunch of other craps lol. But I hope you at least enjoyed the fic despite the drama and OOC moments!

Review for me! Because god knows I've been writer blocked for my GB for so long now it's ridiculous but maybe I'll make up for it by writing a normal fic! GB is wearing on me lol. I guess after sixteen chapters it's bound to happen XDD The sequel might take a while but I'll get to it lol. Not to worry. I figured getting this first part up was more important then finishing the sequel before posting it lol. Besides this way you guys can give me some reviews and tell me what you think is going to happen and where this fic will take you ne?

Sorry about the language by the way. Usually I hate to write fic's with any cursing, but I figured with such a argument it was necessary besides there is a reason Shisui and Sakura were both very upset. So forgive me! I'll be sure to update the title to the sequel fic on here on this last chapter when I post it ne? In case you don't have me as a Author alert ne?

Well it's be fun! Any questions? Comments? Complaints? 'WTF's? If so review! If not..well heck review anyway! Until the sequel!

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