His Captive

Sakura breathed heavily, on the pavement, spitting out blood. All her body hurt, but more hurt her mind. She was in a cage now. A cold wet dark cage or cellar. She couldn't make out.

Total deadly silence. A chain was tied around her ankle, so tight that left bloody marks on her skin.

She rubbed the pavement under her, the stone cold surface with her hand, trying to hold back her tears. But then she broke, when violent thoughts of the massacre popped back in her head. She had passed out for three days, she could tell by the starving feeling in her stomach that couldn't go away. So persistent, almost as much as her sad thoughts and nightmares on the massacre. She had been having nightmares all the days she slept, not even a second of serenity in the cruel reality that she couldn't avoid. All was finished, devastated.

Sasuke had come back from the sound village, having killed his brother Itachi, successfully. But it seemed as it wasn't enough for him, so he accepted Orochimaru's deal to ravage Konoha.

And so they did, unexpectedly, after years of not seeing him, he came back with an army of assassin ninjas, twisted mentally each one of them, that killed for the joy of it and the control it gave upon them. And every single one dead, Kakashi, died, Ten Ten died, they cut her head off.

Some few escaped, among them Naruto. Would he come back to save her? Only a crazy man would come back to that darkness. No she didn't want him to come back. She was finished. He had another chance to live and he needed to grab it this time.

She would rather kill herself now, rather than keep on living in this nightmare. Who could imagine what those crazy ass psycho monsters would do to her. And Sasuke! That traitor! She hated him now with all her heart. How could he have done this to them? Had he changed so much? If there is hell, then he belonged in it, and not just belongs but he was the demon himself! She started hitting her fists on the ground, pathetically angry as she had no strength to pull herself up, she stayed there, crying and sobbing so hard she felt her heart was going to break, that she couldn't handle her violent reaction on her own body.

She lied on the ground again, her blood brushing over the cold flat stones, the cold made her shiver but she wasn't shocked by its touch, her body had been used to it all these days now, when she was sleeping on it, while her body was deciding if it would either give in on her wounds and gift her death or punish her with life and bring her back to the cold painful reality.

She was crying, screaming in emotional pain, muttering words she had no idea she knew, cursing and crying crying…mostly crying desperately, wishing this was all a bad lie, a stupid bad joke, a nightmare she was going to soon wake up from. But no, her body passed out again on her, and she laid completely weak on the ground, tears still rolling down from her closed eyes, mixing with her blood on the floor, forming little watery blood lakes. You couldn't tell the color of her clothes anymore, all you saw was red... Only the area under her eyes was clean of blood, due to the non ceasing flow of hot tears on her facial skin.

Orochimaru gave a cold glare at Sasuke.

''What are we going to do with the pink haired girl? Killing her would relieve us from her burden. She is so unimportant the the word burden even compliments her.' he said in a bored tone contradicting himself.' I still can't think of the reason behind your insisting into keeping her as a prisoner, Sasuke-kun.''He said ironically, but really wondering why he would ever ask such a thing. He never seemed to care for his ex teammates why would he now?

Sasuke turned and looked at him, smirking.

''Did you forget Naruto and some others escaped? Naruto mainly. He is strong. And he will try to come back. I know he never gives up. He will come back to take her. And so, we will be able to trap him and kill him. It will be my ideal chance to get rid of all of them once and for good.''Sasuke smirked and Orochimaru grinned as he expected such an answer.

Sasuke didn't really had only such intentions, the reasons he kept Sakura, along with that was that he was trying to feel ok with whatever he had done. And Sakura maybe would help him get rid of his regrets, it would take time, but she had told him many years ago when he left that she loved him. And she still did. He could tell just by the look she had given him when they met at the massacre, fighting against each other, but then he chose to let her and ran away to fight others, not wanting to be the one to inflict serious damage on her.

He knew she would probably hate him for some time after everything he had done. But he always thought she was too weak, too emotional, and too nice to keep hating someone for too long. And when that moment came, he could turn to her. They were so different, and he secretly wanted so bad a piece of her inner serenity, her power to forgive, he needed it because he felt like this would be the only way to become stronger. And he had realized all that the moment after he had killed Itachi, with his blood running on his hands, as he laid on the ground lifeless, dead. But he would never allow anyone to think that he felt even a tiny little bit of concern for her. That would be like convicting both of them. Orochimaru would use her to threaten Sasuke, and moreover, his pride couldn't take such a hit: he, a dark great ninja, so powerful and so ruthless, to care about a stupid little innocent ninja like her. No, he wouldn't accept it. So the motives he had into capturing Naruto also helped him in keeping secretive his other ones. He didn't want to kill Naruto, even he wasn't so mean. He would try though to find away to keep him away from him forever. And he still had some time to think, seeing as Naruto being severely hurt from the battle and the shock wouldn't turn back anytime soon.

Orochimaru noticed Sasuke's weird silence and smirked teasingly.

''What could this ingenious dark mind be thinking at this moment?' he said ironically which made Sasuke snap out and calmly turn to him, giving him a hostile look.

''Nothing of your business, Orochimaru.''He said.

The man ignored his rude reply; he was used to his rebellious attitude by time and had learnt to not let him get to his arrogant self deceives.

''Is the girl still alive? Maybe she would be useful in the harem, in the meantime we are waiting for the orange foxy to come back and save her pretty but weakling skin.' he said with greediness in his eyes. In the reality, he was testing Sasuke for some reaction.

A wrinkle of wrath winked in Sasuke's eyes as he fast regained his cold and calm stoicness and gave the man an insulting look.

''Don't you dare touch a hair out of her head. None will, at least not before we have Naruto in our hands. Bringing her in social contact with others, would only create problems in our plans. Women are very sneaky.' he said knowing his excuse sounded realistic enough to keep Orochimaru out of his plans for the time being.

Orochimaru smirked, trying to hide his defeated frown, and he succeeded very well regaining his arrogant attitude.

''Fine, I suppose you know something more than me about her….''he pronounced the last word in a small teasing hint that made Sasuke give him a double cold stare.

He sighed and walked away. No matter how hard Orochimaru tried, he wouldn't succeed into breaking inside his psychological walls.

One of the ninja teammates of the sound village looked at Sasuke and gave him an arrogant glare.

'''The pink haired wench has been starved for three days. If you still insist on keeping her dead ass on our expense, you'd better make sure she lives cause I am not going to do it.' he said as he slowed his steps for Sasuke's answer.

''Let it on me. I will be the only one she will have to base on.' he said not in the mood to fight with that moron for something so clear to him.

The other dark ninja smirked and walked away grunting, he hated Sasuke, as almost everyone in their team cause he was much stronger than everyone. They feared and hated him in the same time. But they didn't mind provoking him, since they knew his self control was too high to let him get in trouble with Orochimaru for stupid fights.

Sasuke gave a hating look at the ninja who moved away with his back turned on him and stood outside Sakura''s cell, not sure if he wanted to look at what had remained of her right now. Or her reaction if she was still alive. He took a deep breath. A little emotional girl couldn't bring him down. She was the vulnerable one here, he kept reminding to himself.

A servant passed by, handing soup to the prisoners. Sasuke looked at him and dragged a plate violently out of his hands.

''I will take care of this one.' he said and nodded him agressively to keep on in to the other cellars. The man quickly vanished behind the corridor, carrying the food to the other section of the dungeons, where the rest of the cellars were.

Sasuke slowly put out the key to her cellar, that he had managed to grab earlier on his way to the dungeons.

He opened the door slowly, peeking in carefully, but there was no light, the little window was too small to let enough light come in, he opened the door wider, Sakura was chained and too weak to move, he thought, so he didn't have to fear for some abrupt attack from her part.

Light was shed into the cellar. He didn't look just in yet. He walked close to the nearest candle and with a match he light it, and placed in on the small table at the corner of the cellar, he headed back to the door and closed it, slipping the keys in his pockets.

Then he turned, and he saw her. She was looking at him, silent. Tears running down her eyes but her look was neutral. More like she was trying to make out who he was.

She was in such a mess. Blood all around her, dark bags under her eyes, exhausted from the lack of food and water.

He looked the plate at his hands. This time would probably be the best to feed that organism.

She was still looking at him, and then he came closer. He thought her vision must have been blurry for not recognizing him.

He knelt down next to her, she was sitting on her knees but you could feel she would let herself fall from time to time. Just like a wreck.

''Sakura…''he whispered softly, pointing out the plate he was holding to her.

She snapped out of her confusion in the sound of her name. She looked in his eyes, deeply, questioning. Then suddenly he saw her glare changing, becoming one of terror and hate. Fright and shock. Trauma .He couldn't prevent the two light blue veins that showed themselves over his right eye, under his pretty pale skin on the look she gave him.

She started screaming and he wondered where she could find all the strength to be vocal when she was in that situation. She screamed in fear, in terror, in shock, in anger. So many negative feelings, he feared she had gone insane.

He tried to calm her down, as the plate almost dropped from his hands. He let it on the table and walked to the door.

''Sakura, please, calm down. You are safe now. I won't let anything happen to you.' he told her trying to reassure her. And indeed he didn't intend to let anyone kill her as long as he was around.

She kept on screaming, going mad. Sasuke felt sad, yet he had to do something, he didn't want to let others think he didn't have the situation under control.

He did a jutsu move on her, which made her faint on the pavement. But he took care to not hurt her. Silence, again.

He waited some minutes, watching her sleep then he crawled next to her, moving her bloody hair out of her dirty face.

He felt bad but tried to suppress this feeling on him. His fingers ran over her wet skin, it felt like she had been crying for ages.

''She is weak.' he thought.

It was the first time in so much time, that he could touch her again, and this time none was around to interrupt them…or him at least.

She suddenly opened her eyes, looking at him and instantly tried to push herself back.

She felt her bones cringing. She couldn't. But she didn't scream this time, she didn't want him to put her to sleep again, as she didn't trust herself with him, not anymore, never again.

She looked at him for a while, and then she looked down on her folded knees.

He was close at her, only two breaths away and she could feel his hot breath on her skin, how much she wished she could fall in his arms and cry. But a cruel monster like him didn't deserve her forgiveness.

As Sasuke was looking at her cold as ever always, she observed his characteristics closer now.

He had become more handsome since when he left their village, in the massacre she didn't have much time to study him, nor something like that interested her at that time.

She noticed his lips, they felt magnetizing, dragging her on them, but no she had to forget what she had felt once for him, and he was dead for her. His skin so pale under the candle light, even if it was morning. His eyes, she looked in his eyes and saw he was observing her too, in a mysterious dark way.

''How much you have changed.' she said and she didn't mean in appearance.

''Same for you.' he said softly, baring moving his lips to form the phrases.

''What will you do to me?' she asked finally getting her grip back to her current situation.

''For the time being, I do not intend to kill you. Or hurt you. You can feel safe.' he said.

''Safe? In your hands? Never!' she said and gave him a hatred glare.

''You don't have to believe me. Either way, you have no control over your fate right now, so you will see you have no choice.' he said moving slightly closer to her. Now his breath could feel more on her skin, she couldn't help but feel scared on the inside, why was he approaching her so much?

He snapped out of her hypnotizing scent. Even though she smelt like blood and fight, her sweet scent could still be sniffed onto the air close to her.

He showed her the plate he had beside him now. He dragged it in front of her knees.

The whole image felt like Sakura was a dog offered a plate to chew and eat.

Sakura looked at the plate, then slapped his hands, making half of the liquid spill away.

He gave her a surprised look.

''You need to eat this. You have been without water or food for days.' he said.

''I am surprised you remembered.' she said sarcastically which showed Sasuke how bitter she felt for his betrayal on the team.

''I am not going to leave from here unless you eat.' he repeated coldly. His statement was simple, dry and had a hint of absolute in it.

''Don't waste your time with me. I am not going to eat. I wish you killed me right now. I don't want life without my village. Under the hands of a traitor! What a disgrace! I will starve myself to death!' she said as she noticed Sasuke getting secretly upset with her words.

''You are indeed wasting my time, seeing as you are so weak to believe in human values still. Everything is done for power. That is how it should be.' he said codly while Sakura's eyes got wet again. She knew he was a monster yet every time he showed that face of him on hers, she couldn't help but get hurt of what he had become.

''So stop wasting my time, as you are so kind to notice it and eat your damn food.' he said calm, his eyes on her, now standing slightly away from her.

She gave him a childish look. He loved that innocence in her.

''Make me.' she mumbled smirking, as she found a way to annoy him more.

''And what if I do?''Sasuke said with an ironic slight chuckle, as he knew she was sure he would refuse.

Sakura stayed for some seconds in shock, a reaction that satisfied Sasuke.

''You wouldn't want that.' he told her.' So now be a good girl and eat it all.' he said pushing the plate to her.

She stayed still. He was getting annoyed. Always stubborn.

''Listen, Sakura you have no choice of suffering as a prisoner for the time being, so all you could just try and do is to not starve yourself to death.' he said.

''Do so or I might let as well some of the soldiers outside rape you. I can let you die, but that would seem an ever faster way than starving.' he said sadistically and in frustration in her denial to eat.

Sakura looked up at him in anger and disgust.

''You have no chance! Naruto will come to save me! I know it!' she spitted out in a rebellious loud tone. She knew Naruto was alive, she hadn't seen his body after the massacre was over in the line with the others. Even better, she hoped he was alive.

He looked at her, wondering whether or not he should crack down her last hopes by telling her that her beloved Naruto was dead. How could she know if it was a lie or not? She was closed in a cage for days after all, with no communication with anyone else other the ones he let her with. And passed out.

It would be too mean to do this, but he wanted to crash her down, none would win over him and she wasn't the exception who would oppose to a strong ninja as him. Especially her.

''And what if I told you he was dead?' he said, in a serious face.

''No, you are lying!' she said laugning ironically.

''I didn't see his dead body in the pile. He can't be dead. He escaped and he will come back and save me!' she said but the despair on her voice was in its edge of letting show.

''We did find his body, two days later, by the river in the woods, he had made it to go that far but he gave in his wounds and died in a lake of river.' he said sadistically as he saw Sakura's glare getting blank for some seconds.

He put out of his pockets Naruto's blooded forehead clothing, with the Kohona sign on it. Naruto never put it off. Never. Sasuke put it back in his pocket.

Sakura looked at it with an expression of enormous internal pain on her face.

''No…no…''she mumbled not wanting to believe it. Naruto had fought with a dark ninja on the woods, but before escaping and getting away the vicious ninja had managed to drag his kohona sign of him and kept it for each case, to have something to bring to Orochimaru. And Sasuke had sneaked up on it.

Her hurting mind didn't have an option to think that Sasuke could have made that up, that the brand could just have fallen from Naruto or any other million scenarios, her thoughts after the nightmares were already too negative on this and so it was humanly impossible for her mind to follow a different route at her condition.

She started crying, tears of pain and anger on her face, she kicked the plate with anger on Sasuke's feet who backed away, regretting for what he had just told her.

She let out angered, shocked mumbles, her soul was broken. He could tell. How does victory feel Sasuke? Do you feel like a little God now? No, he felt weak because he had just stepped way way under her very own level.

Sakura looked at herself; she tried biting her wounds, trying to reopen them, to cause herself bleeding and get done with this once and for all.

Sasuke looked at her in terror; he could never imagine a human being was capable of such actions in the name of sadness and pain. Misery? Desperation? He didn't know.

He ran next to her, trying to maintain his cool, but half failing, as he dragged her hands away from her mouth.

''What are you doing, Sakura?''he shouted in a severe tone, grabbing her wrists firmly into his hands and away from her teeth.

''Stop it!' he said but now she was trying to bite his hands, to release her.

She couldn't talk, tears running down her desperate lifeless eyes. He had just taken away her only hope of living.

He saw that she wouldn't calm down, so he tried being soft to her.

''Please, Sakura, don't hurt yourself. Stay calm. ''

She looked at him like he was asking her something impossible.

Then he felt her wrists slipping from his hands, his skin had become one with her semi dried blood, she was falling backwards, as her breath had become lighter and she was slowly passing away, fainting, probably the stage before her heart would stop beating, as happens with the severerily traumatized people, some times.

Sasuke lost his cool, and he crawled quickly behind her, dragging her back on his chest, placing her head on his shoulder, he needed to give her something to give her some strength right now.

''Sakura, stay with me.' it sounded as an order but his voice was broken. That's it. She needed water.

He searched in his vest and dragged out a bottle of water. The bottle was almost empty just barely half a glass could be drunk out of it.

He quickly opened it with his teeth and he placed it on Sakura's lips, opening them with his fingers.

He let the water slip in, slowly, careful to make sure she would drink every drop of it. She didn't move her lips, probably already passed away.

He shook her lightly, longing for the water to go down her throat as she was unconsciously drinking it, swallowing it…

She finally opened her eyes weakly, and he tossed the bottle away, softly resting his forehead on hers, sighing in relief.

''You scared me.' he said in a broken voice, but she didn't hear him, she was still regaining her consciousness unable for logical thinking at the moment.

He raised his head from hers but kept holding her, feeling she was too fragile to move her away. He could feel her heartbeat as he now had taken her wrists again in his hands, worrying she would start biting herself again when she recovered totally soon.

It was fast and abnormal. Intense. Like she had been running.

She rested the back of her head on his chest, slowly slipping down.

She could think again now, her mind acted as an emergency for her to survive, without her asking for it, it made her stay silent and calm, unmoving, knowing how she was in Sasuke's arms, well a weird kind of embrace but whatever.

He felt she was almost ready to be left alone. He would come back later with more water and food for her. He wouldn't just let her die. He couldn't find it in him. Not for her. But why? He had no time to think about this; moreover his pride wouldn't let him to answer his own questions that popped out uncontrollably in his head.

He ripped his vest of his tensed shoulders, releasing Sakura's wrists and spread the vest on the floor, some meters away from Sakura's current position, under the window, after letting her down slowly.

She missed the warmth of the body she had felt earlier. She hated herself because that body happened to be Sasuke's.

He turned back to her and slowly picked her up in his arms, bridal style.

''Where are you taking me?' she asked, as the chain on her ankle still had a long way to go before making its presence clear.

''Hn. The floor is too cold, you will catch a cold.' he said.

Why was he taking care of her? He obviously wanted her alive for a reason. But if Naruto was dead, what could that reason be? And was Naruto dead for sure? All these thoughts passed her head as he carried her softly on his arms before letting her down on his vest.

She looked up at him as he was letting her lie down on the soft vest, as her hands let go of his neck that she was holding before to support herself on him.

He brushed her hair out of her eyes and walked to the door fast and cold.

''You won't leave me, Sakura. Not even with death.'' He thought feeling he had won –he didn't know what but he felt like that-and didn't turn to look at her as he said before closing the door behind him:' I will be back.''

All the night Sakura, was trying to break free from her chains, if she was to die from starvation then so let it be but not before she could have her freedom again even if that kind of freedom was to be able to move herself around without any chains restraining her.

Why had he saved her? She didn't care. She hated him. Or not? She couldn't forget the feelings she felt when he held her. But she was too proud to admit them to herself because Sakura Haruno would never love a traitor, the one that killed her friends.

She shooed those thoughts from her mind too fast, trying to focus on her chains. She tried biting them, but with what strength? And even if she did put strength she would never break them just with biting them alone.

She needed something sharp, strong, to cut them or smash them.

She looked the hole in the wall from afar to where the chains resulted and were tied.

She dragged the chains, to check if that tie on the wall was loose enough for freedom or not.

And oh what a surprise, no it wasn't.

It wasn't too tight either, but no way near loose enough to rip it off.

She gave up. She was too tired both emotionally and physically to keep on trying.

She slept on his vest, his mysterious addictive scent tantalizing her.

It was the first night after the massacre that she saw no sign of a nightmare, no dreams, nothing. She had a serene sleep.

She was woken up next day, by Sasuke's voice, he sounded frustrated, and she had no idea why. She felt drowsy but he shook lightly her shoulders, trying to move her away.

''Great. Now you will be sick.' he said in awe, as for the last four hours, light rain drops had been dropping from the window on her.

Sasuke cursed in himself, he thought he had closed that window well before they put her in that cage. It seems as the rain was stronger than the human interventions.

She was still drowsy not understanding what he was asking her to do so she kind of let him help her stand up and grabbed softly her wrist guiding her to the other corner of the room, as her eyes were still half closed.

When Sakura slept, she slept heavily. And that night was no exception.

He turned back and picked up his vest, luckily it wasn't wet, and nor was Sakura, judging by the tiny amount of water drops that had felled on her.

But he still was upset, not letting show out, and he rushed over the corner where she stood, passing the vest over her shoulders and covering her with it.

Ok, now that was enough to make Sakura wake up. Why was he being so caring to her? She looked at him with her open eyes anymore, wondering why.

He stood in front of her, looking at her serious, and secretly mad at her for having slept under rain and nodded to the food he has carried for her.

''Today, there is no way you are getting away with It.' he mumbled but she looked at him codly.

''If I am a waste of time as you said, and if everyone except me is dead, why do you want to keep me alive?' she asked him with a raised brow.

He looked at her, hiding well his blush on her interrogating glare.

''I dont.''he said dryly. ''Orochimaru does. He thinks you could be useful to him for finding the others that escaped like Ino and stupid Lady Tsunade.'' He lied about the second person, he knew she was held captive at the sound village but he needed an excuse…excuse…? He thought blushing even more. For what?

Sakura looked at him and tried to protest.' I won't help. I don't know anything really.' she said in a rather indifferent tone.

''You were never good at lying.' he said in a cold tone.' Now eat your food, no more questions. I am not obliged to answer you. You are the captive here.' he said letting his male ego take over.

Sakura gave him an angry look. If her leader was still out there, that meant there would be a possibility of her being free again. There was again a reason to live for her. But she didn't plan to make it so easy to Sasuke. She would keep the starvation protest till she could get all the info for the others she wanted to. She knew he hadn't told her all the truth. She could feel it behind his dark eyes that were staring at her.

''Are you going to feed me or what?' she said teasingly in a mean way.

''Cause I won't step back on my words.' she said getting amused by his annoyed look.

''I suppose I will.' he said grabbing a loaf of bread and shoving it in her mouth, before she even tried to protest.

She spitted it out, almost drowned by it.

''What the fuck are you doing?' she asked in frustration, since she got the feeling he wouldn't be the only one to be annoyed in this situation anymore.

''Feeding you? And since you don't get it in a kind way, I am trying the more effective one.' he said smirking that he could annoy her back.

He extended his hand to her holding the bread.

''Of course, you can always eat on your own.' he said in an ironic tone.

No she wouldn't step back this time. He could go to hell. He wouldn't win this over her.

''No.' she said stubbornly hitting her foot on the ground like a young spoiled child that rebels against its parents.

Sasuke didn't remove his hand.' You will regret it.' he said smiling lightly.

''I can stand here for hours looking at you getting annoyed, so I don't think so.' she said returning the smile.

Sasuke got mad but retained his cool.

''If you act like a baby, then I have no choice than treating you like one.' he said and thought of a way to annoy her even more.

He cut a piece of the bread and chewed on it, looking at her as if he was showing her the way to eat.

Then he cut another piece and handed it to her, watching ready to burst in laughs her annoyed, humiliated look.

''What are you doing?' she asked him angrily slapping the piece of bread away from his extended hand.

''I know how to eat. But you seem more hungry than me, so I offer you my bites.' she said returning her insult to him.

He gave her an angry look, he was tired, he should be with Orochimaru making plans for the next villages to attack, and not putting up with her acting like a little kid denying its food just cause of its nerves.

He wouldn't leave the room before she would at least get a bite down her stomach; she was trembling from lack of food.

He cursed her inside him.

''Then how about sharing it?' he asked, as he walked close to her, so close that their noses almost touched.

''What…?''she didn't have the time to complete her sentence, as Sasuke placed his right hand on the back of her neck, and dragged her on him, feeling her dried blood on his lips, as his own lips touched on hers, feeling hesitant to do the next move, from the burning feeling he felt on his heart, trying to calm himself down, he slowly opened him mouth but Sakura resisted, knowing what he was trying to do.

He raised his free hand and with his fingers forced her pretty lips to open, and once he had that chance he shoved the chewed food in her with his tongue, making sure she would swallow before he removed himself.

She was blushing madly and he could tell, his chest was touching on hers, but he removed his tongue from her mouth, and his lips from her, giving her space to swallow.

''Swallow it or I will do it again.' he said and she blushed at the thought of finding herself to want him to repeat it.

She felt his eyes looking on her, to make sure if she had swallowed, still breath close to her, she avoided his look as she was blushing terribly, and this time shaking but not from weakness, but from his previous touch, she was trying to think of something smart or sarcastic to say, to create the previous distance between them again but she had lost her words, swallowing like an obedient girl just like he had told her.

''Have you swallowed?' he asked.

She didn't look at him. She nodded. She nodded shyly.

He waited for some seconds to make sure she had swallowed indeed.

Then there it came. She felt a pair of lips pressing onto hers again but this time she opened her mouth before she could realize it and his tongue was in her mouth again, sharing with her another piece of chewed food, his saliva mixed with hers, it felt so nice, as he placed his left hand under her chin, to prevent her from moving away.

She wondered if this could be considered a kiss. One day long ago she had heard at the ninja school that the primitives in order to feed their babies, they did what Sasuke was doing now with her, and that is how kisses evolved from there and after. Such an affectionate move indeed. This time, the kiss –thing lasted longer, she couldn't hold back herself anymore, she wanted him no matter how much she denied it behind that fake mask of hatred that felt more like an obligation to her dead friends than what she how she really felt like at times.

She placed a hand on his neck, clinging on him; her tongue massaging his, his eyes widened and stared at her closed ones, feeling how this had resulted the wrong way. So stupid of him to do this move, didn't he knew Sakura had feelings for him? Or maybe he did want to result that way?

His tongue replied in her playful moves, now pressing his lips harder on hers, unconsciously, the vest fell of Sakura's shoulders and she felt cold again, she moved forward more, and clangs herself on him, trying to maintain his warmth on her body.

He felt weirdly turned on by that, had she forgiven him? He didn't know. He licked her tongue in her mouth, but then as he realized this was wrong, he removed his hand from her, and then pushed her hand that held him down, softly, looking at her with his regained composure, after the mad blushing he had before.

''Have you swallowed now?' he asked leaving a shocked expression on Sakura's face.

Of course, that was typical of him. He was now denying their kiss; he would never have the guts to push his pride away.

Her eyes widened on him, she didn't know whether to feel hurt or angered, and she put on an awkward but cold in the same time face and replied.

''No! Damn your food.' she made a move to spit it away but he pressed his fingers around her mouth and forced it shut, with an expression that gave her cold shivers down her spine.

''Do it.'' it was an order. And so she did. And not only with her food, but with her hurt tears as well.

He was treating her like a baby and no matter how humiliating that was for her, she also felt pleasured in a weird way when their lips touched a few moments ago to feed her.

She swallowed. And the food mixed with his saliva, it felt great going down her throat, a piece of him in her.

When she was done she raised her head to look at him, but he was gone. And the door closed.