Chapter Three: The Black Mistletoe

Noelle smiled to herself as she heard Rose and Sasori make their exit off stage into his bedroom. Everyone was happy, Saara had Deidara and Rose had Sasori. And Noelle had…what?

She stopped smiling and stood up straight from leaning against the wall outside, where the snow blew even more furiously than it had before. She was on the outside of Itachi’s wall of his room, he just had to ask for the windowless room. Noelle sighed, letting the snow slow itself.

Itachi never showed his emotions. Only once, and yes once, had Noelle seen him smile.

He had walking, oblivious to everything it had seemed, and walked straight into her. When she fell, he swooped her up and smiled an apology and continued. Noelle still feels the spots on her skin where he’d helped her from falling too badly, it almost burned.

Noelle kicked a little of the snow before melting it and splashing it against the wall where she thought his window would be. All of a sudden she had the urge just to let herself fall into the winter’s gift. As she fell she watched the full moon above her, the clouds swarming around it almost.

In a heartbeat she got right back up. With her vision Noelle swore she saw a figure watching her before turning the corner into the cabin. Just as quickly she started fast walking back into the cabin, watching everything around her at once.

Noelle skipped through the open door, she swirled the frozen snow on her clothes into water in case of a fight should happen. All of a sudden the fire lit up, standing over it was Itachi. His shadow loomed over Noelle, she could feel his chakra settling, not wanting to fight.

She threw the water back outside and started walking toward Itachi. When she stood beside him, she noticed that he was slouching. His gaze was dull while he looked into the fire.

“Itachi…” Noelle whispered.

Itachi turned to face her, staring her down with no emotion.

“Itachi?” she gasped.

Still no reply.

Noelle began to get angry at the no response. She began to throw her arms up to hit him in the chest, but he caught them just as quickly. She made no sound as their noses almost touched. He just stared into her eyes, expecting something.

For what had seemed like hours, they just stared into each others’ eyes with intensity.

But after a moment, Itachi slowly dropped her hands from his chest and took Noelle into a soft, gentle kiss. They pulled away, only to come back quickly. He grabbed her from around the waist as she swarmed her hands through his hair, pulling him deeper into the kiss. As they did this, Noelle bumped into the coffee table making it crash to the floor.

Deidara and Saara came out of the nearby bedroom to investigate.

“Hey is everything alright un?” Deidara asked.

Both immediately realized they had intruded. Deidara and Saara both started to blush furiously.

Still kissing, Noelle waved her hand, splashing what water that had formed from the air at their faces, blinding them. Saara stumbled into Deidara pushing them back into the room. Once they left, Itachi and Noelle broke the kiss.

Itachi looked up and with his sharingan, formed a flaming, black mistletoe. Noelle looked at him in awe as he smiled. She leaned against his chest, only to be swooped up again and carried onto the couch to lay with him by the dying fire.

Sorry if there were any grammar issues, I typed this REALLY fast....Two days tops which was about three hours prob. All of the story IS by me, picture and Mashashi Kishimoto's characters aren't.