But when you told me the whole story I felt like throwing up

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Itachi's POV
It had been a while since I last spoke to her.
The last time being when she tried to kiss me, in anbu training grounds, just two days after my wife and best friend Shisui confronted her and I.
Of course I told the lonely anbu that I couldn't be with her due to my wife's pregnancy.
The worst part was that I secretly hoped that in the near future me and the lonely anbu could be together.

But when my younger brother Sasuke told me the truth about the lonely anbu.... I felt like throwing up.

The anbu wasn't who she claimed to be. My brother's girlfriend had finally revealed the lonely anbu's identity. Her name wasn't Lily. She just used that named as manipulation to make my young daughter believe they shared the same name and therefore had something in common.

The lonely anbu was someone I used to love. A ghost from the past.
Someone I rather pretend that they are still dead than ruin the fond memory I have of them due to all the crazy shit they've been doing.

But I cannot pretend that Valentina.....that woman is dead. Not after she took my daughter.

I found the hidden small house she was living in. A small house hidden deep in the woods. Once I knocked on the old wooden door, her arms were all around me. My neck. Her lips on mine.

"Itachi, my love. I knew you'd come!" Her eyes showed overjoyed for the first time in her miserable anbu life. She had been expecting me. I had made her wait for so long.

"Don't get confused. I'm only here for my daughter. I feel nothing for you." I told her coldly as I entered the house scanning for signs of my daughter.

"Itachi, how can you say that to me?? I am pregnant with your baby-"

"Don't say stuff like that!" I covered her mouth and pinned her against the wall. I've had enough of her. And I could never forgive her for manipulating Obito into letting Hidan and my wife go into anbu missions together just to make me jealous and doubt my wife's loyalty.

She freed herself with a strength I didn't know she had.

"Itachi-kun, please! I love you." She kissed me again and I couldn't help but remember all the good memories I had with her when I loved her. But that was years ago. When she wasn't a maniac.

"I don't love you."

"But Itachi-kun...." She showed me her left hand and on her right finger was the Akatsuki ring I gave her years ago. "You told me I was your wife. That you would love me until the day that you died."

I stayed quiet remembering the day I gave her my ring. My silence made her eyes flicker with hope. She held my hands and I felt my stomach drop.

"I'm sorry about what happened to you . I really am. But I don't love you anymore." I couldn't forgive everything she did. How she tried to destroy my family.

Out of nowhere she let go of my hands and slammed her head against the wall.

I quickly grabbed her arm and placed my hand behind her head to prevent her from hurting herself.

"Daddy, what's going on?" My daughter peeked from the stairs. Her face revealed confusion at the scene that was quickly unfolding between me and the wreck anbu.

"Sweetie, we have to go home." I let go of the anbu and carried my daughter in my arms. It had been a little more than a week since she had gone missing. I should of known she was here all along.

"Itachi-kun, please don't take her. I can be a good mother to her. I've raised her as my own before I travelled back in time." The lonely anbu once again began rambling nonsense, quickly rushing after me as I walked to the front door carrying my daughter. "We can all be a family. You, me, Lily-Chan and our baby-"

"Daddy, I don't want to leave her side. She's like my older sister!" My daughter began to cry.

"Don't say that! Your family is me, your mom, your uncles and grandparents! That woman is nothing to you!" I scolded my daughter. I was fed up because the wreck had completely brainwashed my daughter. Had created a fake attachment with my daughter to get back to me.

"Itachi-kun!" The wreck screamed at me. I turned to look at her. I don't know why.
We were both standing outside the house now. A few feet from the wooden front door. The wind blowing hard revealed her face. And in her appearance I tried to find the girl I used to be in love with years ago.

But the lonely anbu standing before me resembled my wife more than what she resembled herself.
"Itachi-kun, if you walk away from me I promise you that I will kill myself!" She cried in pain. Her voice breaking and once again the wind blew a little too hard causing her dark long hair to cover her face.

"Do whatever you want." I forced myself to give her my back and continue to walk away. Silently thanking the wind for blowing too strong. So strong that it drowned her cries and begs. So strong that her hair was in the way and I'll never know what expression she made when I told her those cold words.