Category: Anime

Series: Naruto

Title: First Impressions

Pairing: ItaSaku

Rating: Mature (Just to be on the safe side)

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, music, or series used to inspire this work.

A/N: Hey so some good news... new chapter! And some not so good news... I'm leaving for vacation on Saturday and won't be back for about a week so no updates until I get back. If I decide to bring my laptop with me I will try to type up some chapters in the mean time, but they won't get uploaded till I get back. Until then enjoy this chapter.

Fanfic Spotlight: If you like this story. Go read Code Hanami by pyxislynx. The first chapter of the story inpired me to write this one. I spoke with ehr and borrowed her perfect set up to begin my story. Credit for my first chapter goes to her. But seriously go read it. LoL!

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Chapter Two: Hot Prick

He is hot.

Sakura was walking to a large table where her new ANBU team sat. She currently had her jaw on the floor because of the sight in front of her.

"Pick your jaw up off the damn floor Sakura!" Sakura's inner was yelling at her to stop looking like such a fool, but she wasn't paying attention to her right now. Sakura couldn't stop looking at her new Captain dressed in a dark suit.

Well, damn. She had expected the formal clothing. It was no big deal ... on Shisui and Genma. For some bizarre reason their attire didn't make her stare like a fool.

"I call walking Sakura home tonight." Shisui said with a wink, while he and Genma started cat calling. Itachi silenced them with a quick glance.

"Come on baby cousin, don't tell me you honestly think that dress doesn't look good on our new teammate?" Shisui wagged his eye brows suggestively at Itachi.

"Great first impression." Her inner chided. Sakura automatically felt embarrassed. She was nineteen now and had a killer body or at least that's what her friend Ino and the psychopathic S-Class criminals who she was forced to seduce during missions told her. The pinkette recalled her blonde friend throwing the little black dress at her and threatening to set her up on another blind date if she didn't wear it.

"That is not what we are here to discuss." Itachi coolly stated. "We must work out a schedule. Haruno, sit."

Sakura snapped her jaw shut in that instant. "Ouch hot guy is a prick." Sakura let the thought cross her mind before sitting her self at the table. She did not appreciate her new Captain barking orders at her like some dog, but she figured it would be more intelligent to obey now and test the boundaries later.

"I apologize for my baby cousin, his sperm count is extremely low, so he sometimes says things like that because he really-"

"You will first spar Genma, second Shisui, and lastly myself. This cannot take take weeks to complete because we will need a fourth member to complete our team as soon as possible. I expect nothing less than diligence and effort." Shusui's teasing comment was cut off by Itachi as he explained to Sakura the expectations.

Sakura nodded assertively with a flash of determination in her eyes. She was definitely going to do this right. Then maybe her pompous, emotionless, commanding, hot, delicious, err, Captain would treat her with a little more respect. She was by far a very hard worker. She has memorized volumes and volumes of medical information alone. Which is not including her knowledge on various types of fighting techniques and weapons. She would show him.

For now she just had to focus on not giving Shisui or Genma the chance to walk her home.

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"I can always kiss it and make it feel better."

"Cute, but stay the hell away from me."

"You're as feisty as a little lion cub."

"I hope you swallow that senbon."

Sakua's sparring sessions with Genma had began. They had been practicing all morning and half way through the afternoon. She was gaining knowledge about his weapon fighting style. His favorite move was clearly deflecting weapons with that damn senbon in his mouth. He would spit it out and use it as a projectile to deflect all the weapons she furiously threw at him.

"Let's take a break, come on late lunch. My treat. It's a date." Genma said with a lazy smile.

"I'm not stopping until I win one spar dammit!" Sakura was currently healing up some of her deep scrapes and scratches inflicted by the carefree nin in front of her. The sparring was not only to accustom herself with her new teammates, but with the faster pace. The incredibly faster pace that is.

"Suit yourself." He said as he laid down in the grass.

"Genma... You better get up."

"And what exactly are you going to do if I don't?"

Sakura smirked. She taught Naruto and Sasuke well, there was no reason why she couldn't teach Genma why he should listen to her.

The minute Genma felt her surge of chakra and the loud rumbling of the ground, he knew he definitely wouldn't be getting his lunch date anytime soon.

"I can do this. I can do this!" The four word phrase became Sakura's catch phrase as she pushed and pushed to stay focused and not think about the pain in her stressed muscles and the ripped surface of her skin. Genma was nice enough to stop at times to ask if she needed a break, but she refused. She wanted to land the one hit. She needed to do this, to prove that she was capable.

Sakura threw her body forward as she threw kunais with exploding tags at her target, with her aiming entirely off as he propelled a shuriken to deflect each one causing smoke to rise in dark puffs from the now sizzling grass.

Now was her chance. With the cover of confusion she charged him with a swift kick that he easily blocked with his arm. She sent a punch to the face that was deflected with a kunai.

Sweat poured down Sakura's ivory face, stinging her determined green eyes. She was so close now, he could not use weapons in such a close range any longer. Strictly taijutsu which was what she was best at.

The pink haired kunoichi summoned all of the chakra she could muster to her fist as she lunged at him.

"Sorry, way to predictable Sakura." Genma stated as he jumped back. A slight scuffle was heard, but as the smoke cleared from the earlier exploding tags Genma was caught with a kunai against his throat that a clone Sakura was holding.

"Wait, what was that Genma? Oh you know that thing you said about being way to predictable?" Sakura smirked in victory. She let her clone disappear with a "pop" and began to look him over for any pulled muscles or injuries.

She summoned the clone with the cover of the smoke and controlled the chakra exerted from the clone, so Genma would fall into her trap. Her chakra enhanced punches were definitely predictable and it worked as the perfect distraction.

"You're absolutely right. That was not predictable at all. You distracting me with your good looks was certainly not expected, but very welcome." Genma slyly stated.

"GENMA!" Sakura yelled and began chasing him around the training ground with a fist full of chakra as his exuberant laughter bounced all around her.

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"So how the hell did you beat Itachi?"

Sakura and Genma were sitting in a diner located near the training fields ordering dinner. He refused to let Sakura go home yet, because he missed lunch and didn't have anytime to track a lady down for dinner, that she would do for tonight. Sakura was about to punch him again, until he burst out laughing and claimed he was just kidding and really wanted to catch up with her.

Sakura lowered her fist, but of course she wrote herself a mental note to teach her new team to not antagonize her so. It was like training cats, you spray them with water when they do something wrong. Same idea, except instead of spraying water on her teammates, she would simply send a well aimed punch at their face and eventually they would learn.

The idea of spraying Itachi with a bottle filled with water made her chuckle while she looked through the menu; however, when she really thought about it she couldn't exactly picture herself punching him in the face either.

"Seriously how the hell did you get through the exam?" Genma asked again after they placed their orders.

"Two words. Dumb luck. I swear some force from above really wanted me to achieve this or I managed to catch him on an off day." Sakura explained.

"Give yourself more credit than that, Sakura. I remember watching you at the chunnin exams years ago. You got a fighting spirit that's hard to shatter. It's evident that you have maintained that energy over the years and utilize it to turn a situation around. Just like what you showed today at the end of our lesson."

"This is why I loved Genma. Flirting is his way to start a conversation, but once you got passed that he was a sincere guy." Sakura thought momentarily. "I never knew him before the chunnin exams and never intended to know him better. He hung around Kakashi quite a bit and ended up in the hospital for three weeks one time because of a broken arm and leg. So we got to bond quite a bit over that time."

That's why she puts up with his ridiculously flirty personality.

"I'm serious. Listen. I aced the written examination, but once the proctor handed me a scroll explaining the last part of the exam. I thought it would be difficult. Extremely difficult, I mean come one, track down an ANBU Captain and take their personal scroll? Once I read that I had to win the scroll over from Itachi Uchiha. I figured there was absolutely no point it trying, because I figured the easiest way to get the scroll would be genjutsu. But, you can't really rely on an Uchiha not sniffing out a genjutsu, so, well, I kind of..."

Genma interrupted her tale to start snorting with laughter. "I repeat, how the hell did you beat Itachi?"

"I snuck into the compound."

"Why not just show up and say you're their to see Sasuke?"

"Because Itachi knew I was after his scroll and what if Sasuke wasn't there? I thought he was still completing his exam. So I snuck in."

"Let me guess the rest... You got in, ran into his room, smothered him with a pillow, and ran the hell out of there."

Sakura threw a glare at Genma before retorting. "Basically, except I did not smother him with a pillow! I attacked when he least expected it. He was sparring with his father outside and I saw the scroll sitting in the grass with water bottles and such-"

"You did not... Really Sakura? You thought it would be that easy?"

"My heart was pounding out of my god damn chest from the adrenaline! I wasn't thinking clearly. How was I supposed to know he had set up traps around it!"

Oh yes, Itachi Uchiha was not to be underestimated. He set up a wonderful trap, that she fell for unfortunately causing her to be thrown into the air as a net surrounded her whole body. She quickly preformed the hand seals to create a medical scalpel, and cut herself free. At that point both Uchiha men were throwing fireballs at her. She grabbed the scroll and began to run. It wasn't unit she managed to make it out of the Uchiha compound that she felt his chakra signature consuming her like the smoke from a fire.

Genma laughed outright at the mental image of Sakura falling for a trap and attempting to out run his ANBU Captain.

"The ass caught up with me and used the sharingan on me at one point, but I managed to escape and run like a bat out of hell."

The man across the table sobered quickly at that statement. "You broke the illusion?"

'Yeah, I just- you know, realized the guy was a dick using his kekai genkai on me and shoved him out of my mind."

Genma just stared. "It all makes sense now... He's pissed at you!"

"Excuse me?" Sakura choked on her tea as she took a sip, almost spitting it out on her new comrade.

"Well, maybe not exactly like that, but I think he's just shocked that you could burst his world like a bubble. He doesn't like being out of control. You put him in such a situation and it made him mad." The weapon nin stated matter of factually.

"Damn male pride. I'm not going to be afraid of him just because I did what I had to do to pass!" Sakura stubbornly said.

"Make sure you remember that during your training time with him."

"Shut up."

Sakura thought about it and refused to let him get to her. She would show him that even though the pink hair was deceiving she was a strong underneath, the underneath.

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A/N: Tada! There's chapter two! I hope you enjoyed it. Please keep reading and reviewing.

Just To Clear The Air: This is not by any means a GenSaku fanfic. They are just good friends. I repeat. Just. Good. Friends. Same goes with Shisui. He's going to become a good friend with Sakura as well.

Apology: I'm sorry there is not much Itachi let alone ItaSaku action. This chapter was mainly to build Genma's relationship and recap how she got through the exam. Next chapter will be about Sakura and Shisui's growing relationship (AS JUST FRIENDS). I'll give you guys a splash of Itachi and his thoughts next chapter, but you won't really see him interact with Sakura a lot until chapter four. That's the way it works out best. Promise.

BTW: I love you guys and appreciate the number of reviews and helpful hints I have received all ready. I apologize for any grammar confusion or spelling mistakes. I do the best I can to re-read my chapters a million and one times before publishing. However, I am human.