I AM ASHAMED OF MY KINKS! ;< This is gonna be painful…

She sat there alone on the edge of a stream, fingering at muddy pebbles that left their grime on her tips. What time was it now? That was what Haruno Sakura wondered, as her head perked up to search her woody surroundings. He had said 8 p.m. & now it was 9. Did such a man not even care to honor the promise of time to a woman? 

“I’m not late, if that is what you’re thinking,” came an eerily calm voice out from the swaying shadow of trees behind. 

“No,” she softly whispered, rising to her feet as the excitement did so in her heart. “I knew you were there…watching me, as you always have, Itachi-san.”

Footsteps as hushed as a lonely gust of trailing wind, he stepped out in front of her & brought her into his arms. Sakura breathed in the scent of wild grasses & smoke that clung to the fibers of the infamous Akatsuki cloak that shrouded his body.

“I’ve missed you,” she breathed, curling her fingers against his chest.

“I believe it is I, who missed you the most,” whispered Itachi.