Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Wake Me Up Inside ❯ Homesick ( Chapter 11 )

Wake Me Up Inside - Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Kit.

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Itachi slowly advanced on Sasuke laying on the ground, and Sakura who was thrown over him. He raised the kunai to kill them, but then felt two small hands slip around his waist. A voice - Kit. "Don't kill them."

Itachi froze. What was Kit doing? He could easily slit her throat in one go, and she decided to hug him. He growled and threw her off; she landed somewhere he couldn't see at the moment. If he didn't, he would certainly do something he would regret instead. He slipped the kunai back into his holder from where it came from and turned, walking away. "Leave now."

Sakura raised herself up and stared at Itachi. "Why?" He continued walking, ignoring her question. "Why didn't you kill Sasuke-kun?"

Itachi still ignored her and walked past Kit, into the building, with one glance thrown back at Kit. She crawled over to Sakura, and knelt down beside Sasuke. "Is he okay?"

Sakura shook him, getting no response. "He's not moving!"

Kakashi stepped out of the bushes with Naruto, and walked over to Sasuke. "Let's get him back to Hokage-sama fast."

Kit stood up with Sakura. Sakura seemed to snap out of something and looked at Kit. "Hey, you can talk!"

Kit smiled. "Yeah. Well. I found that out a week ago."

Sakura laughed. "Come back with us."

Her face suddenly darkened. "I'm - I'm going home."

"How?" Sakura inquired.

"I don't know. I'm going to talk to the woman who's been visiting me."

"Woman?"

"I can't explain." Kit said.

"Sakura-chan! Come on!" Naruto yelled.

Sakura turned back to Kit and gave her a hesitant hug. "I'll see you then. Later, that is. If you come back."

Kit smiled. "Thanks." she paused. "Don't tell Naruto, `kay?"

"Why not?"

"Just - don't. Don't tell Sasuke or Kakashi either."

"Right. Bye." Sakura said, taking one last glance at Kit and then leaping off after her team.

Kit stared after Sakura. She had a very good point. How was she ever going to get home? It wasn't as if she could really call the woman or anything. Kit brightened, remembering her book the strange woman had given her. Reading always helped her calm down. She opened her book to the last page she had left off at, sat down, and started reading.

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The angel flew towards the hole in the clouds, just managing to squeeze through, and appeared on the other side of the cloud. It was peaceful here, with no sounds, and no people. You couldn't even hear the screaming on the other side. Kitty sunk to her knees and grabbed the cloud, turning it every which way.

"Why won't you move! Mother! MOTHER!" she screamed.

The cloud refused to move, and Kitty closed her eyes and her shoulders dropped. A single burning tear ran down her right cheek, many more behind it. She covered her face with her hands and sobbed. `What would they do to Mother?'she thought. `Would they really kill her?' No. She's a legend. They won't kill her.

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Kit stopped reading the book at that point, as the sky was growing dark and she needed to get to sleep. The next day she would find that woman, and as long as she was going to sleep, then she might dream. Ironic, how she had been trying to avoid the dreams, and then now was when she needed to dream the most. She would find the woman and ask her how to get home. Kit nodded to herself, and then got up and walked inside.

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Itachi watched from the window in the building. They hadn't noticed him yet, but maybe she would tell that Sakura girl about something he needed to know. After all, this Kit girl was just a tool, wasn't she?

Not.

He shook his head, and felt like slamming himself into the wall a good hundred times. He had fallen in love with her. `How could I be so fucking stupid!' Itachi sighed, and then turned to the window, hoping to catch more of Kit and Sakura's conversation.

A laugh floated in, less musical than Kit's, so obviously Sakura's. "Come back with us."

There was a short pause, and then Kit's voice. "I'm - I'm going home."

"How?"

"I don't know. I'm going to talk to the woman who's been visiting me."

"Woman?"

"I can't explain."

"Sakura-chan! Come on!" Naruto yelled, his voice barely loud enough for Itachi to hear.

Sakura's voice again. "I'll see you then. Later, that is. If you come back."

"Thanks."

Itachi sighed. He did know this was going to happen, that she would want to leave him, and yet he still managed to get close enough to love her. He would have to get far away, and fast. He headed back to his room, noticing Kit's closed door. `She already fell asleep. But how would she - ' Itachi stopped. Kit had been telling him about wierd dreams and how a woman always was visiting her.

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"Go back inside."

"I can't." Itachi looked at her curiously. "I can't go back inside. Everything is becoming so clear now, Itachi-san!" she smiled. "Look up there! She's the woman in my dreams that I've been having!"

Itachi looked but saw no one. He looked back down at her and raised an eyebrow skeptically. "There's no one there."

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Kit was going home through her dreams. Her dreams. Those two words echoed through his mind, threatening to destroy everything precious to him. His precious person. He had a precious person, just like you were supposed to have. Now, why didn't he feel better. Now he felt scared. It was something just out of control, and he was used to having everything in his control. He sighed and walked to his own room, taking off his cloak and sat, musing on a wooden chair.

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Kit stopped outside her door and then glanced to Itachi's. She had better say goodbye, after all this man was the man she loved, and had been, well, kind to her in her eyes. She stopped outside his door and knocked twice, the signal she had been taught.

"Come in." came the deep-voiced reply.

Kit stepped in, shutting the door behind her. Itachi got out of his chair, and Kit walked up to him. "Itachi-san, I'm going home."

Itachi paused. He knew this had been coming. "Why?"

"Because I miss my home."

"No, I mean why would you go home? You have everything here, and you want to leave?"

"I'll be back!" Kit said, starting to get frustrated. Why wouldn't he let her leave?

"How?"

"I don't know." Kit said. "I'm leaving tommorow."

"Fine."

Kit stepped back, as if she'd been slapped. His tone had cut through her like a hot knife through butter, rendering her almost depressed. It echoed in her ears, wach time it playing out, she was drifting farther and farther away, and she wanted to go back. She set her lips in a straight, firm line, and turned around. He wanted to play that way, then. Well, she would go along, and never come back. After all, they were going to use her for some experiment or something, right? She walked briskly towards the door, and opened it.

"Oyasumi, Itachi."

Itachi blanched. "Wait, I - "

His voice was cut off with the harshly slamming door. She had dropped the honorific. Itachi sighed and turned around. His temper was showing again, and he didn't like it. It made him seem vulnerable, almost weak. He mentally shuddered. He couldn't be weak. No matter. When Kit left, all the feeling's would disappear. But -

He didn't want her to leave him.

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Kit collapsed on her bed, and buried her face in the pillow. She sighed. This was bound to happen, and who was she to try and change fate? It wasn't right. Kit turned over on her side. `Stupid Itachi.' She closed her eyes, and one lone tear crept down her face, and she slept.

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AN: I am so sorry for the wait, and there might be another one. For all of you who bother to read the ANs, I actually got three more projects, even though it's the end of school. The teachers decided that if we [the students] do the projects, then our mark stays the same. If we don't, our mark drops. It's really complicated, but I might have to take another week off. My graduation is on the 22nd, so in exactly a week. Then I can update all I want. I'm probably aiming for around 15-20 chapters, maybe longer. I keep saying, I'm amazed at how long I kept this fic up. I'm trying to write it before I get bored of it! ^__^ Thanks to all my reviewers, and for those of you who haven't reviewed, please review!