A/N: Hi guys! Here's the second chapter of Ashen Heart! I know this was a slow update… -.-" But I was… busy? Heh heh… Okay, not really. I would have posted it earlier but my freaking internet has serious problems… /

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Alright! That was way too long! On with the story!

Chapter 2: Easy Acquaintance

"Who is she?"

"Whoever she is… she has a Konoha head protector and an Akatsuki ring."

"You don't think she's a missing-nin from Konoha? But I've never seen her in Akatsuki…"

"Neither have I…"

The voices... make them stop! I groaned and rubbed my eyes. I blinked up into the canopy of leaves. The sun shone through, making little dancing patterns on the grassy floor. Then suddenly my vision turned red.

"WAAA!"

I was now staring into the crimson eyes of none other than Uchiha Itachi. I'm not kidding… he's leaning over me right now, making me feel very, very uncomfortable.

"Who are you?" he asked.

I gulped and answered, "Suki…"

"Suki?" he raised an eyebrow. "Where are you from?"

"Konoha," I said without thinking.

I mentally smacked myself. Itachi stared into my eyes, as if trying to find a shred of evidence in my soul that I was lying. He finally got up and walked away. I sighed in relief and sat up as well. He began talking with the blue… skin… I stared. It was… weird. He actually did look like a freaking shark! That is so unnatural. No, this whole thing is unnatural. I am too shocked for words…

I looked around and found my bag beside me. I grabbed it and quickly looked through it, sighing in relief that the two hadn't looked through it. I looked at what I had brought with me and found some necessities and random things. Well, I guess that's good enough…

The sun was setting and I soon began to wonder what the two S-rank criminals were going to do with me. They were still conversing amongst themselves in hushed whispers. My mind wandered back to my mother's note. It had said about finding my true self once I met him. What 'him'? Itachi? Kisame? Or someone else? And what did she meant 'true self'? This is so confusing…

"Hey, Suki-san…"

I turned to face Kisame who had spoken to me. Itachi had walked away to lean on a tree. A sharp pain seared through the back of my neck and I winced. A hand went up to my throat immediately and I found that it had been bandaged. I inwardly frowned at it.

"What happened to you back there?" Kisame continued to ask.

I looked up in puzzlement before answering, "I don't know."

I could feel Itachi's cold gaze on me and I was determined not to look at him. Kisame started a little fire in greeting to the setting sun. I began to stare off at the danfing flames until Itachi's voice snapped me from my reverie.

"We're turning in for the night," he said. "We'll start at the break of dawn."

Kisame nodded and took out a blanket. He then laid on the soft grass and immediately fell into a deep sleep. I watched as Itachi sat down against the tree and closed his eyes. I clutched the blanket that was on me and I knew it was his. It couldn't be anyone else's. Biting my lower lip, I mustered the courage to get up and walk towards him. Red eyes opened upon detecting my presence.

"It's yours, right?" I said, handing him the blanket without looking at him.

"I don't need it," he told me.

I blinked and looked at him, "But it's cold!"

"You use it," he said, closing his eyes once more.

I frowned and dropped the blanket on him. His eyes opened and removed the blanket off him. I hurriedly grabbed my bag and went to a far tree, curling myself in its knotted roots. Itachi approached me and threw the blanket at me. I frowned and threw it back, knowing very well I could get my ass kicked for it.

"Why won't you just use it!" he snapped angrily at me.

"I doubt I'll be able to sleep tonight," I told him.

"Just use it," he said, wrapping it around me. "I won't take no for an answer."

"But-!"

"Do it or I'll throw you off a cliff," he said, walking back to his spot.

Despite the little threat, I refused to use it. I waited until he was really asleep before carefully covering him with the blanket. I went back to my spot and got out my music player. I closed my eyes as the familiar tunes of my favorite song began playing in my ears. I don't want to think about my current situation aymore. It was hard to believe it, let alone think about it calmly. I'm surprised I'm not freaking out yet.

I looked up at the crescent moon above me. It was still early and I wasn't used to sleeping this early either. A breeze blew by and hugged my knees to my chin. I was half-hoping that I would wake from this dream soon. Consciousness began to slip away from me as I felt myself falling into the depths of my subconscious dreams.

It was a deathly silent night. The moon was full and the houses were dark. It was unnatural for everyone to be asleep so early. I walked down the deserted street. Turning around a corner, I saw blood. Me eyes widened. It was like a battlefield. I ran across the street of bodies to the house I was supposed to be visiting.

A scream shot through the air as I entered it. I gulped as realization of whom that voice belonged to set in. Halfway in, the person I had been looking for came running in my direction. A horror filled look in his eyes. He grabbed my hand and I ran after him.

"No, please don't kill us!" he shouted all the way.

We stopped in the middle of the street at what was before us. Emotionless black eyes stared at us.

"You are not an Uchiha. Please stand back," he said to me.

"You-"

"I have no intentions of killing you. Nor have I ever… that's why I killed Shisui instead of you…"

I tried to call his name but my voice was stuck in my throat. Tears ran down my cheeks and I fell to the ground.

I woke up to the first rays of sunlight. I rubbed my eyes sleepily and thought back of what I had dreamt of. It was all hazy to me now… but this feeling… even upon waking…

Itachi stirred and frowned at me for giving him his blanket back again.

It was a lonely feeling… a feeling of sadness that woke me up.

-END OF CHAPTER 2-

Hehe! Well, what do you guys think? Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking when I was writing this story! I had to edit some parts coz I thought it sounded stupid… / Anyways…

D.A: REVIEWS PLEASE! Or Naruto gets it! (holds kunai to Naruto's neck)

Naruto: EEEEEEPPP! (starts making lots of noise)

D.A: (locks him up in the closet again) Say bye-bye now, Sasuke!

Sasuke: … (glares) this is getting old…

D.A: Be quiet.