Second Chance (An Itachi Uchiha Love Story)

Treatment

It's been about a week later now. Everything had gone mostly well. Hidan refuses to be in the same room as me and Kakuzu is always angry whenever he sees me. On a good note though, I was growing closer to Itachi and was getting to know the true him better as he got to know me. Kisame and I were still close as well, possibly even closer than we were before. It was nice spending my time with them. However, most importantly, Tsunade finally was set to arrive today.

As soon as I woke up, I got dressed in my usual outfit and then headed out to the mansion with the criminals in it. I call them criminals, but most of them stopped being a criminal by the time they died, but whatever. Anyway, as soon as I entered the door, Kisame was there waiting for me.

"What's up, Ki?" I questioned when I saw the worried look on his usually calm face.

"Itachi got worse last night. He coughed up a lot of blood by this morning. There were many coughing fits." Kisame responded simply as he began to walk to where Itachi was. I followed closely and was beginning to worry more than I'd been worrying before. What if Itachi got so sick we couldn't save him? However, my thoughts of doom were broken by hearing Itachi coughing. Kisame and I quickly rushed into the living room, which was where Itachi was now and made our way to his side. A few other Akatsuki were in there as well. They were Obito, Nagato, and Konan and they all looked very worried about Itachi.

"Itachi..." I muttered as I put my hand on his back to try to heal him somewhat. I just wanted to try to take some of the pain away and relieve some of the strain on his body, and it seemed to work, as his coughing slowed down to nothing, faster than usual. "Itachi, just hold on, Tsunade will be here soon." I looked at him with worried eyes and he just looked back up at me with pain in his eyes.

"Tsunade is here now." Came Sakura's voice from behind Kisame. I turned to see Sakura standing in the doorway, with Tsunade standing behind her. She still looked young, as expected and she had a look of disgust when she looked at me. I instantly stood up and took a step away from Itachi. I was now standing next to Kisame, who looked at me with confusion. I just shook my head and watched as Tsunade moved to Itachi.

"Can you move to the infirmary?" Tsunade questioned as she reached Itachi. He nodded his head and got up, losing his balance for a moment before standing straight up. Tsunade turned to Sakura and spoke to her this time. "Take me to the infirmary." Sakura just nodded her head and began to walk. I instantly followed them, but Tsunade turned to speak to me. "Stay here."

"No, Itachi is my patient and friend. I'm coming with you. I can be of help, I have medical training as well." I responded strongly but still a little wary. I knew that Tsunade didn't like me one bit. Orochimaru never got her permission to use her DNA to make me. So I was the child she never wanted with the man who used to be her teammate. I was just a bad reminder of the past to her.

"Very well. However, he has to stay here." Tsunade spoke as she looked at Kisame.

"As long as Itachi has proper medical attention, I won't interfere." The large blue man retorted as he looked at the former Hokage. She nodded her head and began to follow Sakura. I walked right next to Itachi, keeping an eye on him.

"Are you alright? Are you sure you can walk all the way there?" I asked him with worry clear in my voice. He simply turned to me and gave me a small smile.

"Don't worry about me, Adryn. I'll be fine." Itachi spoke as he kept the smile on his face.

"You are dying, Itachi, you might not be fine."

"I trust that you all will find a way to cure me." I was a little shocked at that.

"You trust us?"