Deal with the Devil!
„SASUKE-KUN!"
The hand, covered in light blue, bright flashes, paused.
Paused at the sound of her voice.
The head with the black, spiky hair, turned.
Met pale pink hair. Emerald green eyes. Shock and Disbelief. Her.
"…Sakura."
While her voice bright, loud, emotions virtually flooding, remained his own dark, quiet and empty.
Untouched
Raised eyebrows, a suspicious expression.
That was all she got from him.
"What do you want from me."
A look into his cool, dark eyes and she knew what she wanted.
Warmth, Joy, Life, Light, Love.
A gleam in those dead, black holes, any point of light.
Light, that was gone long ago.
"SASUKE-KUN! I WILL FOLLOW YOU! I WILL LEAVE KONOHA!"
She had said it. With such a determination and willpower, only she could have said it. She. Sakura Haruno.
He kept silent. Narrowed his eyes to slits. Looked at her closely, closer. Tried to break the glass behind these green mirrors.
Glass, behind one may find lying and betrayal.
He didn't trust her…
The realization hit her hard, knocked her mentally over.
If he didn't trust her, he wouldn't take her with him. If he didn't take her with him, her plan would be doomed to fail. And that from the start.
"You wouldn't gain anything by following me. What are you really plotting?"
Her face changed at his question. Got more pleading, was begging for understanding, for simply placing his trust in her. Just like her voice did.
"I don't plot anything. It's just that..i've always regretted not having gone with you, back then, when you left Konoha."
Now it was his expression that changed. Appeared more interested, curious, maybe even..softer?
She couldn't really describe it.
But it encouraged her.
Aroused flames, meant to set him on fire.
Her strength, her will, her loyalty, all these advantages had to be burned into him.
Had to convince him. Him. Sasuke Uchiha.
She had to flare.
"I will do whatever you want me to. I don't want to keep on regretting.".
"Do you know…what I want?"
"That doesn't matter. I will do whatever you sa-!"
"I want to destroy Konoha. That is what I want!"
Her flames froze. Died. Formed the cold ash deep within her heart.
"Would you really betray Konoha for me?"
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"Would you?"
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"Yes…I would."
Sweat ran down her forehead. Dropped on the bedrock. Silently. Like the pearls of tears.
"Then..prove it to me!"
There was something challenging in his look, somewhat playful.
Just as if his coldly calculating eyes could exactly estimate when she would leave the field and why.
An only game.
Full of cruel rules.
With her as the pawn.
"There's only one possibility to prove your loyalty."
Dark eyes searched for hers, detained her.
"Form an alliance of blood with me. If i die, you will die with me."
Alliance of blood. A hidden contract with a pure bond.
An alliance between two persons, who won't exist without the other one.
A risky game where there is no winner or loser.
Both win and live. Or both loose and die. Fair-Game.
Wasn't it?
Did he really want to take the risk to die by depending on her?
Now, where dying would be out of the question?
"Can you not do it?"
No, she couldn't.
And that was exactly what he wanted to hear.
He didn't want to take her with him. In no way.
He just wanted to test how far she truly would go. For him.
How long their little game would last.
Till death.
He doubted.
And that's why he wanted an alliance of blood. A contract of death. With the certainty that she never would sign it...
"Yes, i can!"
Surprise on his face.
The secret proof that she must have been right.
He never had intended to really bond with her.
Never thought she really could be so stupid to want it.
"Come!"
Slow, careful movements.
Every step forward should be another step backwards.
Back to her old life. Back to Konoha.
A wishful thinking.
Had she already done a way too many steps forward.
Come…
Dark and harsh his voice, pushing her faster and faster. To him. Straight into the arms of the devil.
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"Reach out!"
He was standing right in front of her.
Holding the kunai tightly in his hands, pointing the top halfway down.
He seemed to be waiting.
Probably for her retreat.
She looked at him. Searched for his eyes and opened her fist.
Bringing out a bloodied palm.
"You did.."
Yes, she did.
Having dug her nails into her skin until she felt blood running.
"Now you don't have to dirty your kunai anymore, Sasuke-kun"
He broke the contact.
Looked down at his closed hand.
Opened it.
Blood.
As with her.
With the difference that he hadn't caused the wounds himself.
"Sasuke..is that really your own blood?"
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"Yes, it is!"
"How can you be so su..-"
Her words cut the air.
And with them the kunai, that now touched his hand.
Breaking through.
Letting blood flow down.
His blood.
"Because I AM sure!"
He didn't hesitate no longer.
Crossed his fingertips, ready to perform the jutsu of the everlasting alliance.
Releasing bright-shining energy.
In such a fast and smooth way impossible for her to follow.
He gave her a nod. The start signal.
The indirect demand to leave Konoha and her former life once and for all.
Because that's what would happen.
A single touch of his palm would turn her into somebody she never wanted to become. Into a traitor, avenger. To someone like him.
She still could go
Her hand, shaking, trembling slowly reaching forward.
Straight towards his own.
She still could turn around
Coming closer and closer her fingertips reached for the shining energy. The created jutsu of his blood.
She paused just before her middle finger could have touched his skin.
But it was too late
Her hand hit forward, grabbed his and squeezed.
Strong and unbending.
Blood mixed with blood, melt together, soaked into open wounds, into the other flesh.
It didn't hurt. It was warm, pleasant, nice.
"If you had hesitated just a little bit longer, i would have killed you."
The glowing energy faded with his lips falling silent.
Together with that warm feeling inside.
It was done.
The Deal with the Devil.