Just a little snippet on how it could have gone at the VotE.
Title: Persuasion
Author: desolate butterfly
Genre: pre-smut? angst? YOU BE THE JUDGE.
Threesome: NaruSakuSasu
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sasuke gets walled by Sakura while Naruto watches and then joins in. Yay!
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"This isn't going to work," Sasuke said, flatly.
Naruto scowled, eyes narrowing...reddening.
"And why the hell not?" he asked, taking a step closer. "We love you. You love us. Why can't it work?"
"Because it can't." Sasuke's jaw clenched painfully. "And who said I love you deadweights anyway?"
Naruto's lips twitched upwards into a snarl at the word 'deadweight' and a sudden flare of chakra made Sakura's eyes widen in alarm. She looked nervously between the two of them, remembering Naruto's plea for her not to come between them in a fight ever again after the first time.
"You don't have to say it, asswipe," Naruto scoffed. "It's written all over your stupid face."
"It figures you'd still be too dumb to read correctly, usuratonkachi."
"What was that?"
Sasuke's eyes closed briefly. When they opened again, they gleamed red and his face was a perfect blank expression. He lifted his chin.
"This is childish. It won't work. I'm not coming with you so just give up."
The weight of the chakra building in Naruto almost pressed the air from Sakura's lungs. She hesitated a second...two.
I never made any promises, Naruto.
Sasuke had turned to leave but quickly froze in place as a pair of slim arms wrapped around him. There was a strangled gasp from Naruto, but he ignored that, trying hard, instead, to quell the impulse to strike out at the hands folding into his shirt.
"...Sakura. Don't."
She gripped him harder, and Sasuke felt the familiarity of the position, except something was off.
'No tears. She's not crying.'
"Sasuke." Her fingers tucked into the fabric on his sleeves and at his hips as she turned him around. He refused to look at her face as she slowly backed him into the rockface, her hands going for his chin.
"Don't do this," she said, as he focused on her right earlobe. "Don't shut us out. Aren't we a team?"
"Not anymore," Sasuke replied, his voice gentle. "I don't need you."
Her eyes closed, still dry, as she tilted her head towards him.
"We need you," she whispered back, brushing her lips softly against his.
He did not stop her, neither did he kiss her back. And when Naruto came to wrap his own arms around her, to push her closer into Sasuke, to push Sasuke closer into the hard wall of rock behind him, he did not resist that either.
If it felt good, it didn't mean anything to Sasuke. Even when Sakura's dry eyes looked pleadingly to him as Naruto bit at her shoulder, her hands sliding down inside his shirt, flitting nervously across his waist. Even when Naruto grabbed Sasuke by the hair in a movement that was definitely not gentle, exposing his neck so that Sakura could bestow her tiny kisses and licks, forcing his head back with a possessive growl.
Even then it didn't matter. Sasuke still wasn't coming home.
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fin.
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