Forgiveness Chapter 1

"Sa-ah… Sasuke! Please… Stop… Please." The blonde haired girl pleaded.

Her boyfriend, Uchiha Sasuke, couldn't hear what she was saying. They were drunk; he was more wasted than his girlfriend. Earlier that night, the couple went to an innocent birthday party for a friend. There were no booze or drugs and the like allowed at the party. They were only 13 after all; giving such an under aged group of people alcohol was beyond illegal and immoral. However, someone had managed to spike the fruit punch bowl with a colourless, odourless and tasteless alcohol, very strong alcohol, most probably Russian Vodka. Naturally, things went downhill from there.

"Sasuke… Ah… Please… Don't do this… Stop… Please." She pleaded once more, trying her hardest to pry her boyfriend off of her.

Sasuke's drunken selective hearing only heard "Sasuke… Ah… Please… Don't stop… Please." So he kept going, peeling her clothes off her. He never even noticed the tears streaming down her face. His mind was hazy and full of lust. It was the first time he was drunk, he never even knew the punch was spiked so he had constant refills during the party. His girlfriend noticed after half a cup and stopped drinking it; her low alcohol tolerance didn't help.

"Shina…" He purred at her as he prepared to enter her.

"AAH!" She cried as he entered her roughly, she could feel herself bleeding down there; it was their first time. Tears continued to pour down her tanned cheeks.

He misheard her cry of pain for pleasure and kept thrusting into her until he finally came in her. His exhaustion claimed him into deep sleep as soon as he took himself out of her, rolling himself onto the bed, laying his body beside her and wrapping his arm around her bare waist. He was so out of it and so completely smashed that he didn't notice she had cried herself to sleep.

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The next morning

Sasuke had left early since he had morning soccer practice, being captain required him to be even earlier than the other team members. He woke up to Shina's back spooned against his chest, his arm still wrapped around her waist. He didn't even want to get up, unfortunately for him, duty calls.

"I love you, Shina." He whispered in her ear. He kissed her temple before he got up to leave for practice.

When Sasuke had left his bedroom and Shina heard the car engine running, she opened her eyes. Her once bright and full-of-life azure eyes lost all its shine and became dull. She had to practically drag herself to the bathroom to take her shower. She silently turned the shower on and stepped into the cubicle. She started to wash herself thoroughly. Once she had finished washing herself, she completely broke down and started crying; she leaned against the cool tiled wall and slid down as she continued to sob, hugging her knees to her chest.

Itachi was silently walking down the hallways, clad in his school uniform. The seventeen year old reached his younger brother's room to fetch Shina so they could go to school together. Sasuke had come to him before he left this morning to ask Itachi to send Shina to school since they went to the same college, Itachi was in the high school division and the couple were in the junior high division. Itachi knocked on the door and called out to her.

"Shi-chan?" He knocked once more after not getting any response. He felt something was wrong. Shina never slept in, especially during school days.

Itachi sighed as he knocked for the third time without getting any reply. He finally opened the door slowly and peeked in to see if she was there. He could hear the shower running, he sighed again in relief. He looked to the bed and something had caught his eyes. He slowly walked up to the empty bed. He was beyond shocked to see what the white sheets were soiled in. It can't be…

He slowly walked to the closed bathroom door and started knocking it. He knew that the showers weren't loud enough to drown out the sounds of someone knocking on the door. He started to panic a little when he received no response after 10 minutes of constant knocking and shouting.

"SHINA!! ARE YOU IN THERE? SHINA!!" He pounded on the door. He decided, he was going in, something was definitely wrong. Before he went in, he grabbed a large towel and a bathrobe. He took a deep breath and entered the bathroom. He could hear sobbing beyond the sound of the shower.

"Shina?" He called out.

No response.

"Shina?!" He called out louder.

He slowly walked up to the shower cubicle and was shocked to see her sobbing and hugging her legs so tightly to her chest. He turned off the shower. He slowly kneeled to her eye level.

"Shina." He called her softly.

She slowly lifted her head to look at him as her sobbing died down, and an emotionless expression arose on her face. Her expression was heart breaking for Itachi to see. Never in his whole life has he ever seen her that sad, that being said, Itachi was the one who practically raised her and Sasuke since their parents were always busy doing business.

"Shina, come on, get up, you're going to get sick if you stay here like this." He said softly to her as he wrapped the towel around her and helped her up. Once she got up on her feet, he threw the bathrobe around her to cover her up and tied the strap securely on the front.

"Come on, let's get your uniform, okay?"

She gave him no reply. As he started to walk and his hold of her began to loosen, she collapsed again, but he caught her before she fell to the ground. He wordlessly lifted her bridal style to carry her back to the bedroom. Once he reached the bed, he set her down gently. He sat beside her lying body and stoked her wet blonde locks in a soothing motion.

"What happened?"

"…"

"Was it Sasuke?"

"…"

"Shi-chan, I've never seen you this down. Did something happen between you and Sasuke?"

She turned to see his face and her eyes began to water again.

"Please don't tell anyone."

"I won't, I promise. But please tell me what's going on?"

"…"

"Did you two have sex last night?"

"…" She nodded.

"It was your first time, yes?"

"…" She nodded.

"Did you not want it?"

"…" She nodded.

She slowly sat up as she put her arms through the sleeves of the robe. She leaned forward and rested her forehead on his shoulder.

"We went to Neji's birthday party last night. Someone had spiked the punch bowl. No one noticed. Sasuke drank quite a lot of it; he didn't know it had alcohol. He started kissing me and taking off my clothes when we reached the bedroom. He was completely wasted. He couldn't hear me telling him to stop. He…" She trailed off as she started crying again.

Itachi stroked her hair and rubbed her back in soothing circles, hushing her. "It's okay, I'm here. I'm sorry by foolish little brother did this to you."

"Please don't tell him. Please don't tell anyone."

"Ssshh… I won't tell anyone unless you want me to. It's going to be alright. Ssshh…" He reassured her.

She kept crying on his shoulder for another five minutes before she finally stopped.

"Are you okay now?"

She nodded as she kept her forehead rested on his shoulder.

"Do you want to skip school today?"

She shook her head.

"If you don't feel up to it, you can stay here."

"No. If I don't go, he'll think something's wrong."

"Don't do this just because you feel obliged to go."

"I love him, Tachi-nii. What he did was a misunderstanding on his part. I'm okay now." She said as she lifted her head from his shoulder and gave him a genuine smile.

He wiped the tears that stained her cheeks, "If you don't feel well, tell me and I'm drive you home okay?"

"Un." She nodded.

"Alright, go get changed, and dry your hair. I don't want you to get sick."

"Yes mom." She smiled as she rolled her eyes.

"Hey, I'm only thinking of your wellbeing. Now hurry up and get ready, we're going to be late." He smiled as he ruffled her shoulder-length honey blonde hair and got up from the bedside. "I have to change my blazer too, since it got flooded." He smirked.

She stuck out her tongue at him and laughed. He smiled back at her. At least she's back to normal now.

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School

Shina got in class just in time for first period. She quietly took her seat, unaware of her boyfriend's strange gaze at her from the back of the class room.

The two hour lesson begun and ended dully, most of the students were already asleep five minutes into the lesson. Whoever thought that World History for a double period, first thing on a Monday morning was a good idea is a complete and total moron.

After the bell rung, indicating first break, most students bolted out of the room. Sasuke sauntered towards Shina, who was writing the important points into her study notes, and he sat in the empty chair in front of her. She looked up to see him less than 10 centimeters away from her face and smiled.

"Hey."

"Hey." He replied her, pecking her quickly on the lips before continuing. "Sorry I couldn't sleep in with you this morning."

"It's fine. Duty calls right?" She smirked. "Besides, it's my turn tomorrow morning."

"Are you alright?"

"Huh?"

"I noticed you were slightly out of it just now."

Crap, he noticed. She smirked and rolled her eyes at him, "First of all, it's World History, first thing on a Monday morning, AND it was a double period; of course I was out of it. Not as much as other people though. Ino was out like a light bulb in less than 5 minutes into the lesson. Secondly, I'm just tired from yesterday. I think I even have a slight hangover, despite only drinking like one cup of that stuff." She made a disgusted face at the mention of alcohol, "I swear I will never drink alcohol ever again. I don't know why people are so obsessed with it. It burns your throat and makes it dry. I don't see why that's considered enjoyable." She chuckled.

"Hn." He smirked. "About last night… Did you… uh… enjoy it?"

She looked slightly taken aback, "Well…"

"I know first times are supposed to be painful."

"It was. Extremely."

He instantly stiffened at her statement. He was shocked; his already pale face became whiter than a sheet.

"But I'm glad it was you." She continued. Giving him a genuine smile. Even though I wasn't ready nor was I completely willing to give it up when we were drunk. She leaned forwards and gave him a gentle kiss and began packing up her books.

His face loosened up, a smile tugging at his face slightly, it was so inconspicuous that no one but Shina noticed it.

"Come on, let's go grab a soda." She stood up and held out a hand for him to take.

He smirked again and took her hand, leading them out of the classroom. Neither of them noticed a pair of green eyes glaring at them.

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1 Week Later

After School

Shina was waiting outside the school gates for Sasuke to finish the student council meeting since he was the president. She had been waiting for close to an hour now since she herself was dismissed from basketball practice. Student council meetings never took this long before and from what she could see, the school was practically empty. She even swore that she saw some of the council members on their way home when she got out of the school gym. The wind was picking up and she finally decided to go in and check on what was taking so long.

She walked down the hallway towards the student council meeting room. She was about to open the door when she looked through the small window of the door. Her whole body froze when she finally realized what she saw. She staggered backwards a little as her eyes started tearing up.

No, it can't be.

A tear slid down her tanned cheeks as she saw Sasuke and his council assistant making out quite heavily on the large mahogany table. Their hair was messy and clothes disheveled. Shina couldn't believe her eyes; they had just made love… well, more like drunken, inexperienced, slightly non-consented sex just a week ago, and now he was already cheating on her. So he only used her, the whole of the two years they've been dating just to get her body.

She was angry. She was devastated. She wanted to get out of here, now. She bolted out of the school building as fast as she could, crying all the way to the car that had been waiting for them outside.

Once she got to the car, she asked the chauffeur to call up another car to pick Sasuke up because he was held up. She took out her phone and began to dial the number.

"Hello?" The person on the other line greeted.

"Father, I accept your proposition." She said in a dead tone.

"How come you suddenly want to go? I thought…"

"I've changed my mind." She quickly interrupted. "I wish to depart tonight."

"WHAT?! Why are you in such a rush?"

"I'm in no particular rush, but I would like to get there as soon as possible so I don't miss out on anything important, I thought you told me orientation starts in two days."

"But…"

"I believe you have everything ready father?"

"Yes, it is. Shina darling, are you sure you want to do this?"

"Yes I am father."

"Alright, your plane departs at 6. I'll have the maids pack your belongings."

"Thank you father." She ended the phone call.

At the Namikaze manor, one Namikaze Minato was completely bewildered by the phone call he just received from his only daughter. She was so adamant that she didn't want to leave to study in Oxford for three years, and now she suddenly want to leave, and it was TONIGHT that she wanted to leave too. She even called him father. FATHER!! She NEVER called him father. She always called him daddy or dad at most, but NEVER father. He knew there was something fishy going on, but he was most definitely sure that even if there was something wrong, Shina would never tell him until it was unavoidable. The blond haired man sighed deeply. Why do I have to have such a strong willed daughter? He shook his head and chuckled at his daughter's antics. This ought to be interesting.

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Meanwhile…

In the student council meeting room, if one could hear what went on inside, one could hear shouts of protest. Sasuke was straddled by his pink-haired, green-eyed assistant and rendered immobile on the large meeting table.

"SAKURA! GET THE HELL OFF ME!" He pushed her off his body, panting in frustration and anger.

"But Sasuke-kun, I love you so much. How much persuasion do you need for you to realize that?" She whined.

"I already told you, I don't love you like that. You're only like a sister to me. I already have a girlfriend." He tried to explain.

"She's not right for you. She doesn't know you like I do."

"What are you talking about? She's your best friend. She's also MY best friend before we started dating. I've been dating her for TWO YEARS!"

"SO WHAT?!

"What do you mean 'so what'? I don't love you! How many times must I tell you that?"

"She will hurt you! I know she will. She is not dedicated to you like you are to her. Have you even heard her say that she loves you back?!"

Sasuke was taken aback at Sakura's last comment. It's true, she never said it back.

Sakura smirked at her triumph. Looks like I hit the jackpot. "What I said is true, isn't it? She never said it back, and you're supposed to be the one that is emotionally detached in your relationship, yet she is the one who can't tell you that she loves you back."

"T-That's not true!" He tried to argue back. "She does love me back!"

"Oh yeah? So why has she been ignoring you for the past week? Why does she try to avoid you when it's possible?" She taunted.

His stunned face turned to anger. "You know Sakura, I know you are very stalker-ish. I never dismissed you like the rest of my fan girls, even if you are the president of the cult."

"The fan club is NOT a cult! Besides, all this time you've paid attention to me! That just goes to show that you do feel the same way that I do for you!" She shrieked, her voice raising a whole octave. She grabbed onto his biceps.

"Oh yes, it's not a cult, just a stalker gathering. Do you want to know why I never dismissed you? It's because you're my girlfriend's best friend. I know that if I shoved you off like the rest of my stalkers, it would hurt Shina's feelings. So I did it for her, not you. Don't give yourself so much credit." He shrugged her off and stalked angrily out the door, leaving behind the pinkette to wallow in her misery of rejection.

Once he was clearly out the door, the door shut slowly. Her cries turned into maniacal laughter. I will definitely win you over Sasuke-kun. You belong to me! Not her! I will have you no matter who I must hurt. That's a promise.