Ai (Uchiha Itachi Love Story)

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Third Persons's POV

Two men with black coats covering their entire bodies went inside an authentic japanese cafe. It was a bright and humid summer. The entire world would say that they are crazy, but there's no one inside the cafe. At least no one who cared.

The shorter one asked for a cup of ocha and mochi while the other one only said, "anything cold will do,". Then finally someone talks to other person.
"When will he come?"

It didn't have to be answered because right after he said that, another customers come in. A blue haired man with a big blade and a raven haired man with a fan shaped crest on the back of his shirt. An Uchiha.

"Mask your chakra. He knows you,"

"You should be thankful that this place has two floors. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to watch him this close,"

A small chuckle came out from one of them. "I wasn't trying to watch him."

"Don't fool me, Itachi. I know you do. Anyway, that other guy with him has Zabuza's sword. If he's able to master it, it'll be a bit harder for you to handle them both."

"Don't worry. He wouldn't let anyone interfere. We should go right now."

Ai's POV

The hideout is empty.

This is actually a pretty rare occassion which should have made me happy if I didn't have anything urgent to say to a certain pale and goddamn good looking long haired man. This idiot friend of mine, Uchiha Itachi.

I was out going from one pharmacy to another just to find out that none of them have what I'm looking for. A certain plant, the only one that can cure Itachi's chronic disease.

For the last two months I've been going from town to town with a small tube of blood on my pocket. Because the idiot Uchiha doesn't want to go to the hospital, I came to carry this blood sample for him. Of course, without him knowing about this.

After a couple of weeks from the start of my journey, I've finally got a good news. The disease is curable, but I have to find a certain legendary plant to be made as a medicine. And this plant isn't something easy to find. Well, I wasn't expecting it to be easy but I didn't expect it to be this hard too.

Suddenly the front door opened. Two men with black coats appeared looking like wet cats with their hair soaked in rain. One of them grins as he looks at me. But the other one didn't seem to care and made his way to the stairs.

"Hey! Do I look like a statue to you?" I shouted at him. Let alone answering me, he didn't even flinched at all.

"Spare him for today, Ai. He had a pretty bad day," Kisame stopped me from shouting another words.

I slammed myself to the sofa. Irritated. Well, how can you not be when someone you've been waiting for didn't even care about your presence at all?

Kisame took off his cloak and sat himself across me. "Do you have anything to say to him?"

"You know about his illness, do you?"

"Of course,"

"It's curable. But I haven't found the medicine yet. It's some kind of lege-"

"Legendary plant that is very very hard to find. I know about it too. As a matter of fact, he also knew it and we have found it."

I almost jumped out of the sofa. "What?! Really?! So, has he took the medicine?"

Kisame hissed, "no. He threw it out. It was months ago. He didn't even bother to think twice before he threw it."

His words were like a thunderbolt on top of my head. It's not like I wasn't expecting this. Now that I think about it, it has been 3 years since I saw him and he has already been sick even before that. There's no way that he hasn't found the cure.

"I'll talk to him,"

"You're just wasting your breath. I've said the same thing that you're about to say to him for the last 3 years."

I walked upstairs and found him sitting on the terrace looking at the night view of Amegakure. The wind blew his long hair and covered a part of his face. His eyes were looking far ahead and his left hand was holding onto his chest. He didn't cough, but I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing anymore.

"How are you feeling today?" I asked him.

He looked at me with confusion in his eyes. "Just get to the point. What are you trying to say?" He answered. Coldly.

"I don't understand why are you trying to kill yourself,"

"You don't have to."

"Say, what am I to you exactly?"

His eyes were looking deep into my eyes. They were cold and stoic. But I could see a little bit of sadness deep inside.

"What do you think? Isn't it clear?"

"Nothing is clear, Itachi. That's why I asked you. What am I to you? What do you think of me? What's inside that foolish head of yours? What do you think will become of me if you die?!"

He avoided looking directly into my eyes. I know, I must've looked pretty pathetic. I didn't really think that I would raise my voice like that.

"Why do you care? I don't know. You're not my partner and I don't think of you as a friend. I don't know what to think of you. But I know that you shouldn't be affected by my death. Did you forget that we're both S-ranked criminals? We're also in the most dangerous criminal organization. What do you think I should think of you?"

I didn't expect this at all. I stood there frozen at his words. He's right. I'm no one. He doesn't even consider me as his friend. Who am I exactly? Who am I to ask such a question to him? I just degraded myself in front of him.

He walked inside without even waiting for my answer. I couldn't even move from my place. I could feel some hot liquid slowly going down on my cheeks. This is pretty new. I didn't even shed a tear when I killed my whole family. But today,

I cried.

Itachi's POV

She stood there frozen at my words.

I know I shouldn't have said that. But I don't have long. I really don't and I wish she won't be bothered with my death. I just want to die without leaving anyone brokenhearted because of me. I didn't thought that she'd look around to find a cure for my illness.

Well, this is also my fault. If I didn't get too close to her, I wouldn't have to deal with this right now. Now I have to deal with my little brother and her.

Ai

I never thought that she'd make such a big impact on my life the first time I saw her. But living with her for the last 3 years really took out the worst in me. I never thought that I would feel this way.

I stopped midway from going back into my room. The sound of her sobbing could be heard from here.

She cries.

For the love of my ancestors, I really wished I could run back and hold her in my arms. Telling her that everything will be okay. Wipe out those tears and hug her. But as much as I wished it, I know that I shouldn't. If I do it, everything would be ruined.

I continue my way to my room. Opened the door, closed it. Sat myself on the corner of my bed. Hold my head with the both of my hands. And the thing I least expected finally crashed into me like a sudden thunderbolt. No, for God's sake, it wasn't a sudden. I knew it since a long time ago. I was just trying to deny it with all of my power. I knew it since I first saw those pair of red eyes again after all those years.

I love her