Itachi hadn't much been paying attention to what Sakura had been saying, despite fully noticing her longing gazes and stolen glances at him every now and again. They might have been something that others would have deemed rude, but to him they were just natural for a young woman of her age. She was ripe, tight and she seemed the type to be very interested in children, meaning that a suitor like him would catch her eye. that much was understood, and he did not think any less of her for it. After all, the sexual response of a young woman was typically one of burning desire that clouded their thoughts and helped them to make poor decisions in the heat of the moment. He'd used it to his advantage against the enemy on more than one occasion, after all, for he was well aware that he possessed his grandfather's sharp features and lean body structure that most women found appealing.<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4d4dff">"I cannot be sure with that woman."</span>, Itachi said all of a sudden as he took a glass of water that one of the young, female helpers brought to him. He sipped it sparingly and gulped down what he'd decided to take in before he sighed lightly and enjoyed the cool sting that ran through his core. Water was a healing thing, after all, and all that he would drink unless he was in the mood for a stiff drink that would ease any troubled or stressful thoughts that may have been lingering.<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4d4dff">"She's always out and about, buying up some expensive pottery or furnishings to distract her. I swear she's more careful than I have ever been because I never seem to notice when she's gone or when she returns."</span>, he told her, suggesting to Sakura that his mother was well occupied and probably just out shopping, while making the slightest of jokes that she was more fleet footed than Itachi himself.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4d4dff">"She'll be back and join us for dinner, and if not then she'll stay with my Aunt and Uncle across town for the night."</span>, he said, certain that his mother would take care of herself. There was no need to worry with that woman. She was more than capable of handling he and Sasuke, and so he had to imagine that she would be just fine on her own.