Pressure. That same, sickeningly deep and pulsating pressure she was all too familiar with. How did things end up like this? Why did she let him touch her the way he does? She felt butterflies swarm through her stomach as she matched his rhythmic pattern. Her time—the same, endless pattern she fell into every night—was coming to an end.

Tori moaned her pleasures as the man above her slammed into her frame. His cold, dark eyes bore deep into her soul. She could feel his gaze wandering all over her bare, vulnerable body. The same it did every night.

The man pulled away from the small teenaged girl, his business finished for the night. Watery blue eyes opened slowly to lock with the coal black of their partners. He leaned back and gazed out the window at the full moon whose light penetrated the small, dark room. Tori sat up slowly, wary of this break in the usual pattern.

"How is it…" Tori heard her partner begin. "… that something as simple as the moon…" He glanced in her direction. "could illuminate all the emotion in your eyes as it does?" Tori frowned. He rarely spoke to her during their nightly encounters. What brought this on?

"Sasuke…" she heard herself say softly. Her dark red hair glistened a beautiful auburn as she moved further into the light, her eyes never losing their moonlit twinkle. Sasuke watched her body gracefully slide closer to his, a suffocating pain clenching at his heart. His face twisted in displeasure, the moonlight making it look all the more contorted. Tori blinked at him, scared. "Sasuke, what's the matter?"

The raven-haired boy shifted his gaze away from Tori, sadness plaguing his mind. She placed her hand on his, the softness of the touch sending shivers down Sasuke's spine. His behavior worried the bright-eyed girl. It was her first view of Sasuke's human side—the side that could feel and reflect—and it scared her. He looked at her once more.

"All these years… In all these four years of relentless pain I've caused you," Sasuke began slowly. "… seeing you now, in the light of the moon, makes me wonder how I could hurt something so beautiful."


It's short, I know. I wrote it as a quick story to throw at my friend Tori because she was writing smutty stories about me and Itachi. It's nothing special, but she liked it, so I thought I may as well show the rest of the world.

Comments are welcome, flames are not.

Yeah, I know. THIS is all I could come up with throughout this year LOL