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

Chapter 9

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"[name], you seem happy, what is it dear?", you looked at lady Noriko hearing her voice, seeing her smiling at you.
"My bracelet...I've got it back!", you said excitedly, showing her the bracelet as she gasped, looking at it
"How?", she asked.
"He gave it to me, Itachi found it!", you said with a giggle, still looking happily at your dear bracelet.
"That's great, but...how did he know it belongs to you?", she asked confused.
"Well the other day when I lost it, it was because I accidently bumped into him. I didn't notice I lost my bracelet until I came back home, when I went back to look for it, it was no longer there, now I know it was him who took it", you explained.
"I see...", she muttered as she thought about it for a while.

"He asked me what the symbol on it means, and I told him that it connects me to my parents and origins", you said with a smile looking at the familiar fire fan adorning your wrist.
'He asked?', she thought to herself, a slightly worried expression appeared on her face.
"Sweetheart? Did you ask him about his full name?", she asked in a voice that caught your attention, she sounded pretty concerned.
"Yes, he said his name is Itachi Uchiha if I'm not mistaken. Is there something wrong my lady?"
'Just as I expected...', she thought to herself feeling extreme worry, then looked at you and put a fake smile on her face and said: "no sweetheart, come on, we have lot of work to do".

Lady Noriko couldn't stop thinking that day about him. What does he want from [name]? Lady Noriko knows very well that the Uchiha clan, a very powerful and famous clan of the hidden leaf village has been slaughtered in a single night years ago a while after [name]'s parents passed away. There was only one Uchiha survivor who must be younger than this Itachi for sure, his younger brother, so that mean Itachi himself is the one who did the crime. [Name] is an Uchiha too, but no one knows about her, well at least until Itachi figured it out. Did he just know this by accident or is he really after her now? Why would he tell her his full name that simply? To test her? If he wanted to kill her he could have a perfect opportunity to do so when they went to get the herbs in the forest, why he didn't? He actually seems a very good mannered and a nice young man...but still...he is extremely dangerous...

"My lady? Are you okay?", you asked Noriko with a worried voice noticing that she has been in a deep thinking since this morning.
"No sweetheart, don't worry, I'm fine. Let's see the next patient", she said with a fake smile on her face, you just nodded and told the next one to enter the examination room as you two have been working at the village's hospital.

It was already evening, you put your book down as you heard lady Noriko calling you for dinner. You got up and walked downstairs to the kitchen as you then started eating. You have been thinking about it for a while, and it seems a good opportunity to tell her what you're planning to do.

"My lady, I wanna talk to you about something", you said after dinner, as you were just sipping tea and chatting.
"Yes sweetheart?", she replied with a smile, still can't stop about Itachi's sudden appearance in your life...
You hesitated for a while but then decided to just let her know.
"I'm planning to leave the village to study for a while", you said, unsure of her reaction.
"Study what sweetheart?", she said, putting her cup down.
"Ninjutsu, more precisely medical ninjutsu, and other medical things aren't available in our village", you said, hoping she'd accept.

Things are speeding up, first Itachi and now she wants to leave the village for studying? Ninjutsu??!! Which means a direct interaction with ninjas?
She was about to say no, a definite no, but then she remembered...what your parents had told her when they left you with her for the last time...

"Where do you wanna go exactly?", she asked, your face brightened up, you can't believe it!
"I heard of the hidden leaf village and the hidden sand village and others, but these two I mentioned interest me the most", you replied.
"But sweetheart, the way there isn't safe. I can't risk to let you put yourself in danger", she said, looking at her cup of tea thinking.
"I'm not little anymore, I can defend myself! I can rely on myself and I-", you said with a cute look of determination on your face, surprisingly, you were cut off by lady Noriko's chuckle.

"Okay sweetheart, I know you're a big girl now. Well, fortunately, there is actually a group of traders going to the hidden leaf in two weeks, some of them are close and trusted friends of mine, I guess I can tell them to take you there with them", she said seeing your smile getting bigger.
"R-Really?!! Thank you!! I promise you I will be safe and get back as soon as possible!!", you said with a big smile hugging her as she hugged you back with a chuckle.

"Once you reach the village, you can ask the leader of the village to make trustful people accompany you when you want to get back, of course in exchange for money. That's part of their jobs, since they know very well it can be dangerous to walk out the village alone", she said kindly.
"Thank you my lady", you thanked her again as she just smiled, she will miss you a lot during this period of time..

"Finally, I have one condition to let you go, dear", she said and you looked at her with determination, yet, you were a bit afraid of what she is gonna say next.
"Yes my lady?"
"You will give me your bracelet to keep it with me here until you're back".
For a while, it seemed weird to ask you this, but as you thought about it, you could say she asked this because she wanted something from you to remember you, and also, because she knows how the bracelet is dear to you so you'd be back for it for sure.
"Of course my lady, I will give it to you when I'm leaving", you replied confidently looking at the bracelet on your wrist.

The reason she asked you this was different. She knows how risky it is to have something that relates you to the Uchiha clan while you're out there especially in the hidden leaf village...where the tragedy happened. They think there is no one alive from that clan except those two brothers, and things better stay the way it is, so you don't get in much trouble.
"Alright, we should go sleep now, we will talk more tomorrow", she said, getting up and walking to her room as you wished her a goodnight and she did the same.