I Got Hots For My Rival~ Itachi Modern AU [NWA Winter'14 1st Place] REVISED

Chapter 84

~Anna's POV~

I felt betrayed and angry and sad and whatnot. Of all the things that I thought Itachi might be keeping secret, it had to be this!

He thud closed the closet door and gave me a stern look. I looked at him with equal ferocity, hating him for what he was hiding.

"Explain." I spat before I jumped to wrong conclusions. Sure I was mad at him but I wasn't going to be blinded by it anytime as to not let him give an explanation. Then I can decide what to do. Its only right.

"It doesn't concern you." Ok that did it. Out of the blue, I brought my fist forward and punched him across the face. That was unexpected so it hit but the next few were blocked and the kicks hit some times but most were blocked as well.

"Its my damn life and my damn mistakes! How the fuck am I not concerned?! For once in my wretched existence, I DESERVE AN ANSWER!" Itachi blocked the last punch and pushed me back. I breathed heavily, the activity getting to me, not to mention the toll of sparring with Shisui just hours ago. I fell to my knees and coughed. Itachi took a step forward but I glared at him, "don't take another damn step until you explain to me what the hell is going on!"

"Trust me you don't want to know-"

"Trusting you got me here! Does it look like I want to trust you?" My words broke something in him and he finally thankfully realised that it was wrong whatever he was keeping from me.

"Fine." He took my wrist and forced me to stand up, opened the closet door and stood me there. I scanned my eyes properly at every picture, every tacked note, every thread connecting two spots and every red line following one location to another.

It was a whole networked chart on Jacob's movements and appearance and connections and meetings with people.

But why was it here? Why was HE here?

"Why?" I asked again. He sighed behind me and went to sit on the bed. I stayed to see everything om the wall.

"I heard from Shisui that he told you about the family profession." I stayed quiet. "I took up this assignment of keeping tabs on Jacob as my project for ascending to a permanent member. Wherever he pops up, whoever he meets, I keep an eye on him. Its a bigger task than any before so Shisui is helping me with it. I only took it when he appeared back here-" I tore a paper from behind a photo of Jacob talking on the phone and handed to Itachi. I was right in staying to look. "He still believes that you are dead. We are giving him false information."

"Why haven't you killed him yet?" I asked, finally. I don't know what supressed rage came over me but I grabbed Itachi's collar and yelled, "If you know where he is, why haven't you killed him yet?! Why are you letting him live?! Don't you know how dangerous he is?! Screw me! But he could be killing innocent people! He's a bloody psychopath you know that!"

"We are waiting for the right time-"

"Right time for what? To kill him or to let him kill someone? If you are such a coward to not kill him then arrest him! And do you think you can keeping feeding him lies?! If I know one thing about that bastard, I know that he's playing you!"

All that yelling, all that anger, was what I was told to not do to worsen my heart condition. I clutched my heart in pain and coughed. The pain wouldn't go away so I tried taking control and to calm myself down. Of course Itachi helped me. He always did.

"You get so worked up over everything and with your weakness, I didn't want to put you under the stress of worrying about this too." He explained. "Caring too much is my sin perhaps, but I don't regret it."

I couldn't answer him with my laboured breathing and aching chest but no sooner had I been stabilized, I made my leave. I didn't want to show him my crying face again and right now, I felt like the tears would never stop. Apart from that, that feeling of betrayal still lingered. So I decided that first I would vent all this anger and sadness, then talk to Itachi if I felt like it.

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I didn't talk to Itachi for the whole weekend and when he called, I told him to give me some time to make peace with my thoughts. I didn't go out of the house and even made some excuses so Eric and Max won't have to either. I didn't like the thought of Jake lurking in Konoha again. He could be keeping tabs on the people keeping tabs on him. I felt exposed and unprotected and everywhere felt unsafe.

" Sis, Itachi-nii is here!" Max yelled at my closed room door.

I wiped whatever stray tears there were on my face-I didn't know I could cry for three days straight and not run out-and threw some cold water then went to see what Itachi wanted but as soon as I stepped out of my room I was pushed back in and the door was closed.

" W-what are you doing?"

" Not the correct quest- were you crying?" Itachi asked making me sit on the bed.

"N-no. Some water went in eyes when I was washing my face."

" Ya, I can see that." He rolled his eyes.

" W-what makes you come here? Weren't you mad at me?" I couldn't look him in the eye after what harsh things I said to him that day. This was another reason that I kept my distance.

" I wasn't mad. I knew what that news would do to you." I sniffled. He sat beside me. "And you skipped school today so I am using dropping notes as an excuse."

"Is it...is it safe out?"

"To be honest, I don't know."

"What?"

"These few days, we picked up some spikes in his activity." I stiffened. It reminded me of something that I had forgotten after a good hour of sword fighting.

I stood up to go to my phone, all the while in deep thought. I needed to confirm something. I wanted to be as subtle as possible but my too active mind had blinded me that I walked into the wall.

"Ouf!" I rubbed my forehead and nose.

"Anna." I didn't really hear him, still occupied with my doubts and suspicions. "Anna." The press of fingers on my arm brought me out of it and I looked at Itachi, his eyes boring into mind, searching for something. "What are you hiding?"

"I...I thought it was a dream..." I picked my phone finally and went to the call logs, hoping against everything that I am wrong. My hand was unconsciously clutching on his shirt.

Please let me be wrong. Please.

My knees went weak on me when I saw what I wished not to see. I tried keeping myself composed and went to sit on the bed again.

"Anna-"

"He called me that night.... I thought it was a really real dream... I thought...." I was talking to myself, fear building up again.

"Who called?" I slowly raised my eyes to look at Itachi and they started watering again when I accepted that it was real.

"Jacob."

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