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

Chapter 38

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You opened your eyes hearing someone's voice, looking around, you found that your patient had woke up, staring at you with his blue eyes and a strange but cute look on his face.
"Who are you?!", he repeated his previous queation, slowly sitting up in his place.
"My name is [name], I came here to heal you", you said with a little smile, noticing the confused look on his face as he started to rub his forehead with his regenerated hand, the medicine worked perfectly, he doesn't even notice a difference.
"Heal me? Yeah...I was injured because Sasori didn't cooperate with me and those bastards took the chance then...hey wait, you healed me?!", he exclaimed, looking at you again.

"Yes, you're totally fine now, just make sure you don't get hurt again", you said kindly, seeing the small pink color that spread all over his cheeks.
"Well, thank you...I appreciate it", he said, still looking at you as if he was searching for something in your features. To the blond, it has been a while since anyone had showed any kindness or gentleness and care toward him, or even a nice little smile.
"Well since you're okay, I guess it's my time to leave", you said standing up grabbing your things ready to go, just when you exited the door, you found Konan there.
"My work here is done, I have to leave now", you said as she nodded then held a wad of cash for you. "We appreciate what you did for Deidara", she said while you just looked at the money for a while, then accepted them.
"Itachi will accompany you back, again we thank you for your help", she said as she then entered the blond's room to check on him and explain to him what happened.

You found yourself face to face with him again. You were still upset with him, after what happened by the tree, and then acting all cool and indifferent about it, then refusing to tell you what happened to the Uchihas as if he doesn't consider you an Uchiha, and still acting all kind and nice towards you...
You didn't say anything to him, you just walked passed him silently heading to the staircase leading up as he followed after you, arriving to the wooden door on the top, you let him open it, as you then headed out with him.

It was a silent walk, you didn't want to start a pointless conversation with him. Why bothering? If all he is gonna say is that you shouldn't question these stuff. He noticed that you were disappointed, looking at you noticing how you kept a distance between you and him, and how you walked in a hurry, as if trying to reach your destination as soon as possible and get rid of him.

"It's fine now, I will continue on my own from here on", you said when you arrived to the meadow where he 'kidnapped' you, you stopped in your tracks and turned back to him, he didn't say anything, he only took a few more steps before you stopped him.

"Stop", you said firmly, causing him to stop walking and look at you.

"You took me from here, and now I'm back, that's it. You can leave now", you said noticing the emotionless look on his face as he just remained silent. He started to walk to you, making you feel a little uncomfortable and confused, and confused, he then grabbed your wrist and pushed your sleeve up exposing your dear bracelet.

"[Name], it would be safer for you to hide this", he said as you looked at the shiny jewelry on your wrist then back at him.
"And why? Or shouldn't I ask this too, Uchiha?", you asked with a cold voice looking at him in the eye.
"You will put yourself in danger. Many people will try to get to you, and well, I don't think they would have good intentions", he said as you snatched your hand from his.

"Well, if you quit talking mysteriously and just let me know what's really going on, tell me about the clan and these 'bad guys' that might hurt me and why, then I will be really thankful for you!!", you said clutching your hands into fists with a pout, causing a faint smile to appear on his face, making you even more worked up.
"And what's so funny?!", you asked him through gritted teeth, yet he didn't say anything. He just lifted his hand up, gently tapping your forehead with his two fingers as his smile grew even bigger.
"H-Hey!! What's this now?!", you asked, placing your hand on the spot he tapped with his fingers as he just looked at you for a while then said: "just be careful [name]".

You didn't say anything, you just huffed then turned around and start leaving. He stood there watching you going, his smile soon fading away and turning into a sad expression while seeing you leave.
You stopped after a while, and turned around to take one last look at him, but he was no longer there.

It was already night, you were at home with lady Noriko after dinner sipping some tea and talking about your sudden and unexpected 'mission'. You have told her everything you have passed through, everything you have encountered and how you had a rare chance to get to the tree and see it and obtain that rare medicine from it, of course without getting into some 'deep details'.
"And what about him? I mean Itachi?", she asked you after a while as you finished telling her what happened. You remained silent for a bit as you thought of him, should you tell her? Is it okay? Tell her that you are...

"...he was...nice to me and very caring...", you said looking at the tea in your cup, what could he be doing right now?
"TThat's relieving, I guess we were just over worried about the whole Uchiha clan thing, he doesn't seem to care or maybe he haven't even noticed that you are one", she said smiling at you, trying to comfort you about it.

 You just lifted your head up to her and said in a calm voice:"no, he knows everything m'lady, he called me [name] Uchiha", the old lady gasped, as you then continued:"I didn't deny it, I questioned him about what happened and why did he do that, but he avoided to answer, even though I tried hard, but it wasn't hard enough I guess"

She looked at you with worry in her eyes, so there is no need to hide things or pretend that you don't know anything anymore, everything is clear, he knows exactly who you are and where do you live, if he ever wanted to harm you, it will he hard to resist...he is Uchiha...Itachi

"Did he try something? Hurt you or menace you?", she asked holding your hand in hers.

"No, actually he said it clearly that he...has no intentions to hurt me, he had even told me to hide the bracelet so that I don't attract enemies", you said with a sigh, putting your cup down, then added in a low voice looking at her: "he kissed me..."

"Oh my! [name]! Are you...okay? Did he force you? Threatened you?...[name]?! why are you crying?!..", she was confused seeing your tears starting to slide down your cheeks one by one as she then hugged you, stroking your back gently trying to calm you down, and comfort you.
"[name] sweetheart calm down! You're safe now, he can't get to you here"

"No, that's not the reason...it's just that...", you trailed off, pulling back from her embrace and wiping the remaining of your tears trying to stop tearing up, "he didn't force me or anything...I don't know why but I didn't even try to stop it, whenever he is close I get a strange but beautiful feeling in my stomach, I blush as I admit how handsome he is...I feel like I'm under a spell...I want to stay close to him, talk to him, and spend time with him...I don't know what's gotten into me, I have never felt something like this towards someone else before...", you trialed off, saying things you have been denying for a while now, things you never thought you'd have the courage to admit.

"[name]...I think...you have feelings for him...", she said putting her hand on your shoulder, as you just looked at your bracelet then back at her:"I don't know...I liked him a bit when he first came here...I then totally forgot about him for a while, especially during my journey to the hidden villages, but seeing him again, knowing the truth about him, I thought I would hate him but his gentless and caring side got me off guard...I'm totally...", you trailed off letting out a sigh, blaming him inside your heart for the pain he caused you, pain of love.
"Maybe if you stay away from him for a while you will forget, that's probably just because you have been close to him for a couple of days while you haven't been with someone else before", she said, worry clear on her face.

"Maybe...", you said with a small smile trying to hide your sadness, you were just having a curious interest in him until he brought all those feelings out of you suddenly...