Spiritist | Itachi Uchiha

Chapter 9

She was moving faster every time.

Itachi noticed it right away, as he began to try harder to keep up with her movements. He couldn't play with her anymore, Kaede had learned quickly enough to be a serious opponent.

However the Uchiha continued to advance, straining his ears to be able to hear the Tomioka's light feet barely touching the branches of the trees, and dodging all the kunai that she threw at him with almost millimeter precision. She was getting closer to him, and Itachi gave in to the temptation of letting her caught him.

Then, without warning, Kaede appeared right behind him like a ghost, and grabbed him tightly without hesitation. But she miscalculated. When the girl already had her opponent in her arms, she realized that both of them were practically in the air, without any tree or a point of support around them, and their bodies fell heavily due to a huge and aggressive embankment.

The two teenagers were rolling violently, almost fatally, through the vegetation, panting at the same time, but even in those extreme conditions, Kaede did not loosen her grip on him. She kept Itachi close to her at all time, like a cheetah falling with its jaw anchored to her moose.

Neither of them could calculate how many minutes they were like this, but by the time they reached solid ground both had almost serious injuries.

Kaede was the one who fell on top of Itachi, and her knees collided on either side of his body with one last final gasp. She buried the last kunai she had left very close to his face and remained static there, with her own very close to his, while they both tried to catch their breath with labored breaths that mixed with each other.

Finally Tomioka straightened her torso, directed both hands towards Itachi's throat and lightly pressed under his jaw with her thumbs. They were both covered in open wounds and blood, but she ignored it with a triumphant smile on her lips.

"You're mine," she whispered.

Itachi continued to look at her for a few seconds, with darkened eyes that seemed to dare her to do something more.

"What a scandalous and inelegant way to trap me," he replied, his tone low and serious. "It doesn't do you any good to get it if you also run out of air."

"I didn't count on the slope." Kaede looked up, her breathing now much more regulated. "We could have died over there."

"We could, but that's nothing for us."

Kaede looked down at him again, finding his eyes still locked on her.

"Why are you looking at me like that, do you like what you see?" She joked. "Do you have any kind of fetish for being captured?"

"Why you ask? Are you interested in my fetishes, perhaps?"

Kaede's smile widened even further and she let out a nasal laugh.

"Oh, so you just like what you see."

Itachi sat up, and Tomioka sat astride him. The teenager's gaze didn't waver even when their noses touched, not even when she felt his bulge right under her body. However, the tint on her cheeks gave her away immediately.

"Yes, I like it," the Uchiha admitted without any shame.

Kaede brought her lips together, continuing to look directly at him. However, Itachi managed to surprise her when she leaned close to her ear and whispered:

"Because you are in a Genjutsu."

Before the Tomioka could get frustrated, her visual plane changed completely.

Now the two were at the starting point, right at the mouth of a tiny Iron Country village where they had begun their training.

Kaede was bent over on the ground, completely tied before the Uchiha's jovial gaze, and, although they still psychologically felt the damage from the long fall, neither of them had a single trace of blood.