The Price Of Loving Him... (Itachi x reader)

Chapter 4

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"there are lots of new informations!!", you exclaimed as you were reading one of the old books lady Noriko gave to you, the one about medical ninjutsu.
You've been studying it for hours, but you couldn't even stop to take a break, it was addicting. It was talking about medical ninjustsu, a special type of ninjutsu, a branch of medical science you haven't studied before, the technics, the herbs...everything was new to you, a whole new world had opened to you... jutsu, the art shinobis use to fight, Chakra, seals, hand signs...

Being the nerd you have always been, you knew you will catch up to all these informations in no time. You found yourself wanting to learn more about all these things, therefore, you needed more books and training, but books like these can't be found in here, and also, no one here can teach you, it wasn't one of lady Noriko's specialties.

The hidden villages...

The hidden sand village, the hidden stone village, the hidden leaf village, the hidden mist village...and more other hidden villages located in the five great nations. These are where you can find these kind of things you want to learn about.
Yet, you weren't sure you are ready to go there for learning, you haven't left the village alone before. You have no experience in fighting or protecting yourself against shinobis in case they attacked you, which is pretty common there, since there are lots of rogue ninjas and bandits there. Being the pretty young lady you are, you would make a potential goal for them.
You thought about lady Noriko as well, she would be alone until you're back, she had never let you leave the village alone before, even when you go out of it, you're either with her or with some friends and company, and you weren't allowed to go too far away.

"Alright Itachi, I will go take a look around, then I will be waiting for you at our meeting point", Kisame said, as he started walking away carrying his big wrapped sword behind his back.
Itachi looked at the door in front of him, slowly lifting his hand up and knocking gently on the it. It wasn't long before someone slid the door open.
"Hello ma'am", he said in a calm voice, greeting the old lady in front of him.
"Hello son, how can I help you?", lady Noriko said with a gentle smile looking at the Uchiha's face.
"This is the house of curer, lady Noriko, right?", he asked, letting her know he needs some medical help.
"Yes that's me, come in son, please", she said, moving out of the way to let him in.

Itachi was sitting on a pillow on the floor around the table with a cup of tea in front of him, while lady Noriko sat across from him having a little chat with him to know more about his health problem, this was how lady Noriko used to be always, trying to be nice and welcoming to passerbys and wayfarers.
"Okay son, I see you came from a distant place to see me...but, it's not me who is going to heal you", she said with an eye-closed smile resting her hands in her lap. The Uchiha seemed to be a little surprised unexpecting this, and maybe he didn't like to hear this after coming all the way here , he came specifically for her, not someone else...

"Why?", he asked calmly.
"My daughter here had surpassed me, I'm sure she will take really good care of you, of course if you're okay with that", she said, taking a sip from her cup of tea.
He remained silent, thinking about it for a little while. After getting all the way here he can't just go look for someone else now, he has no more time left, also the only other one he knows who can help him is lady Tsunade and he absolutely can't go see her, so the best thing to do for now is to just accept her offer, after all, the girl who's gonna check on him is lady Noriko's student...
"Okay, I agree", he said in a monotone voice as Noriko nodded at him and excused herself then left the reception room for a while.

"Of course! I will do my best. Where is he now m'lady?", you said, closing one of your books, putting it aside then standing up fixing your clothes.
"He is down in the reception room, [name], let's not keep him waiting for long", she said with a smile walking out of your room in steady steps as you followed her.

You let out a gasp of surprise once you've stepped inside the reception room and saw him. It's him again! How could it be? Is he following you on purpose? Does it have really something to do with the dream? And your bracelet...could he by chnace know anything about it?!

"[name]? sweetheart?", you snapped out of your little daze as lady Noriko called your name.
'[name]? That's her name...', the Uchiha thought while eyeing you deeply as he stood up.
"I'm sorry sir, we can just start now if you're ready", you said looking at him, noticing his eyes, they are black.
You were now even more confused, did you just imagined them the previous time to be red?!
"Of course, I am ready", he said calmly with a nod.
"Alright then, come with me"