As I contemplate horribly scarring Itachi x Sakura scenarios, I find myself wondering what - exactly - brings people to this pairing.
Is it because he's hot and she's the only girl you can stand?
Is it because he's hot and uh, he's hot?
Is it because Sasuke's an idiot but Itachi is cool?
Is it because you hate canon pairings in general?
Is it because you giggle in your corner thinking of all the squick you secretly love to read?
Obviously there are probably more reasons that that, many of which probably surround the fact that Itachi is just plain hot, but I'm far too lazy to think up real and legitimate ones beyond those.
Personally, I love the versatility. Sure, you can go for hazy-dazy romance with pretty euphemisms and prose (honestly, I don't see Itachi much for romance and roses; but, whatever, he doesn't
have much of a canon personality to go on besides kill kill maim maim fantasize over Sasuke), but you can also go for that gory arm-torn-off insanity bit, which is admittedly far too fun to write. You can easily swing in some action/adventure or politics, considering
his their characters. You can twiddle with prettiness and bows and general crack. You can have pwp, because he's hot and does plot
really matter when it comes to naked Itachi? No? I didn't think so.
And here comes my deep horrible secret, omg: I am, however, bored with the entire "OH I HEAL YOUR EYES LOLZ LET'S HAVE SEX" line of Itachi/Sakura fiction. I'd instead prefer some sort of reason for her to be touching his thigh when she's healing him. Preferably a lot. But, whatever, I'll go to my pervert corner. :D
Yeah. So. Thoughts? Idle pondering? Sexy Itachi pics? Give me something to do, I'm bored.
Considering this is the pairing that brought
riza and I to our mutual loverespectgigglefest relationship, I figured I should ponder upon it and bother people, especially since she keeps encouraging me to write mentally scarring Itachi/Sakura Itachi+Sakura Itachi and some part of Sakura fic.