FORWORD: This is the sequel to unexplained attraction

Chapter 1

Rolling over quietly trying not to wake the woman lying next to him, he sat on the edge of the bed. It wasn't that sasuke cared about whether he woke her or not, he just didn't want to have to talk to her. Grabbing his pants and pulling them on, he silently walked to the bathroom. Shutting the door behind him he turned on the light and stood before the sink. Leaning over her turned on the cold water to splash his face and wake him up a bit. Running a hand trough his thick dark hair he stood up and looked at the reflection in the mirror, disgust meeting him as he saw the reflection of his own eyes.

It had been two months since he had found itachi and sakura together. Two months since Karin had thrown that kunai. Two months since he'd started sleeping with her.

He didn't particularly like Karin, in fact he had wanted to hate and blame her for itachi's death for taking it away from him. But he had seen the direction that kunai had been headed, she had aimed for sakura. None of them would have guessed that itachi would move to save her like that, and why? What for? The situation between the two of them had been clear, he had seen sakura's feelings written all over her face, the guilt she felt for betraying him. But itachi! Sasuke thought that he knew his brother, that he knew he was a heartless killer, who didn't care about anything other than gaining power. But why had he given his life for sakura? Had she meant that much to him?

Angry he removed his pants and stepped under the shower, turning it on he let the cool water rush over him cooling him down. Reaching for the soap he began scrubbing away the stench of Karin from his body. Karin! That had been interesting turn of events to say the least.

He'd always rejected Karin, hating her for the way she always threw herself at him. Never concentrating on missions, she was more concerned with trying to catch his eye than paying attention to the task at hand. It had really aggravated him, pissed him off. But after they had returned home he had been so filled with rage that he'd grabbed Karin and dragged her to her room. He remembered how scared she'd been thinking that he was going to punish her for killing itachi, but when she realised what was happening she had been more than happy to oblige.

He had wanted to hurt sakura the way she had hurt him, to lash out at her. But she was gone and Karin was there and she was willing. He had thought that by sleeping with her he would somehow feel better, that knowing that this would hurt sakura if she knew would make him feel some sense of revenge. But it didn't! All it did was make him feel disgusted with himself, and what for? It wasn't like sakura knew that he was sleeping with Karin, it served no purpose!

Turning off the tap he stepped out and began drying himself off.

Knock! Knock!

"Sasuke do you want me to join you" came Karin's whiny voice from the other side of the door.

"NO!" he said quickly pulling his pants back on

"Oh come on! You know you want me to. That's why your here in the first place isn't it?"

"Go away Karin!" he said his voice deadly

"Why should I leave? This is my room remember?"

"Well if you don't leave, this room won't belong to anyone! Understand?" he threatened letting all his hate for her fill his voice

"You're so nasty to me" he heard her say as she as she walked away from the door.

Listening, he waited till she was gone before leaving the bathroom. Walking over to the bed he picked up his shirt and tied it around himself. This had to stop! For two months he had been hoping that this would be enough, but it wasn't. He hated sakura for everything that she had done to him, for betraying him with itachi. She had taken away his purpose in life. All his rage and need for vengeance was still there, his hatred for itachi but he couldn't do anything about it. His chance for revenge had been unfairly taken away, and what was worse was he was now questioning the character of his brother; it had always been so easy to hate itachi knowing that he was a monster. But his actions towards sakura had shown something else, something that he didn't understand.

For two months he had dwelled on this and no matter which way he looked at it, it always came back to sakura! It was her fault! Walking out the door he shut it behind him and headed outside. There was only one thing left to do; he had to go back to the leaf village! He was going to deal with sakura one way or the other!