Yes. Her name was Shisui.
Lol. Yeah. Itachi x brother figure ships are popular with trolls.
I've heard that in the original Japanese, it's more steering towards a man then a woman. Just what 've been told, though.
Probably Deidara. Or Kisame. Both had a thing for him.
OT: On a serious note, the general consensus the Japanese have is that it was just some girl he'd have an arranged marriage with in the future, but that he wasn't too well acquainted with due to spending so much time on his duties.
However, there was a question from a 2012 RTN interview that involved this.
Q: Did Itachi have someone special, like a girlfriend?
A: Ehhhh? I think he did, he was quite popular with girls when he lived in Konoha.
Given Kishimoto's light-hearted answer, he likely forgot that he ever wrote in the "lover" bit and it was just a plot device to make Itachi's story more tragic. Only thing that is confirmed is that in Kishimoto's head-canon, Itachi had fangirls. Or at least did. Becoming a mass murderer and joining Akatsuki likely scared them off.
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