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Chapter TWO

Sasuke follows Sakura as she skips through the base. He notes the way the prisoners go quiet as she came by and how the shinobi shies away, trying not to be seen.

His eyes narrow just a little when Sakura breaks away from the main paths to the side corridors, humming an unknown tune.

She turns a corner and Sasuke realizes something a moment too late and he is too slow to stop his feet from automatically following.

Or perhaps, she was too fast.

A knee thrusts into his stomach with so much more speed and strength than he had thought possible for a frail looking girl like her and in his split second of shock, an elbow ramms into his neck, pinning him against the wall. A hand snatches his left hand and twists it, pressing it against the wall beside his head so that any movement sends spikes of pain running down his arm.

He had underestimated her. Her bright smile, her pink hair and her sundress had made her look innocent, and for a moment, he had forgotten the blood stains on her clothes had come from the person she had been tearing into when he had arrived, and that nothing was innocent within Orochimaru's base.

Sakura leans into him, so much more closer than what he was comfortable with. However, before he could voice his protests, a spark runs through his body, starting from his neck, where his curse mark was.

It was very different from the usual stabs of pain he had associated with the damn thing that for a moment, Sasuke forgets where he is.

Then he feels Sakura's breath on his neck and he is snapped back to reality. Sasuke chokes out a breath and fixes the girl with a glare. "Let go."

Sakura blinks at him, a giddy expression on her face.

"What?" Sasuke tests the hold on his wrist and has to hold back a wince when Sakura tightens her grip.

He could only remember one other person with so much raw strength.

"They say you come from Konoha."

Sasuke's heart involuntarily jumps and he forces himself to calm down.

Not even Orochimaru suspected anything. There was no way this girl who he had known for half an hour, had figured it out.

"Hn."

Sakura's grin widens. "You have to tell me about this place."

Sasuke had been about to snap that, no, he did not have to tell her anything, but his curiosity gets the better of him. He stops fighting and was both annoyed and impressed when Sakura does not loosen her grip.

"The only times I've been outside was when we were moving bases or on missions." Sakura explains. "But I've never been allowed to wander myself or ask any questions." She looks directly into Sasuke's onyx eyes and he wonders if she just wasn't afraid or simply did not know about his Sharingan. "I want you to tell me about the villages and the people...and everything else out there."

Sasuke scowls deeper. "Let go." He repeats.

Sakura huffs but slowly loosens her hold. Sasuke slips out of her grip and moves back a safe distance.

Sakura's eerie green eyes follows his movements and he has to force himself from freezing on the spot. He finds them familiar, as though he had seen them somewhere, a long time ago. He tells himself that it was impossible.

He would have remembered such striking features.

Instead, he asks, "You go out on missions?"

Sakura's eyes brightened and the moment of familiarity is gone as she once again smiled. "Yup." She skips up to him. "I can do loads of things. Maybe we could spar sometime."

Sasuke finds himself unable to not believe her.

There was a reason she was yet to become a test subject, a reason Orochimaru had kept her.

He watches Sakura turn to wave at some guard and decides that she is too gullible. He is sure that he can extract information from her.

Another thought comes to mind. "Orochimaru is your father?"

Sasuke didn't think the mere name of the Snake Sannin could bring such happiness to someone. Sakura's smile widens and for a split second, Sasuke sees a disgusting smile of bloodlust in its place. Then he feels Sakura once again take his sleeve and the moment is gone.

"He is." She says, as though it was the most normal thing in the world.

Sasuke wonders how many lies she has been fed and how much she truly knows about the snake. He doesn't voice this, however, and instead, he tries a different approach. "And your mother?"

"Oka-sama is sleeping." Sakura says.

"Sleeping?"

Sakura nods. "Yup."

Sasuke wants to ask her what she means but he is interrupted before he can.

Kabuto walks up to them, his usual smile in place. Sasuke immediately sculpts his face into an emotionless mask. Sakura blinks a few times before she smiles at the man. "Hi, Kabuto!"

The bespectacled man nods in greeting. "Orochimaru-sama wants you, Sasuke-kun."

There is something relatively wrong with that statement and Sasuke has to force himself to settle with a scowl.

"Otou-sama?" Sakura leans in. "How 'bout me?"

Kabuto turns to Sakura. "Kimimaro is waiting for you in your room, Sakura-chan." He tells her. "Orochimaru-sama has a job for you."

Sasuke has only ever met the Kaguya once, when he had first come to the base. He files this away.

"Mission?" Sakura asks. "Do I get to see Otou-sama before I leave?"

Kabuto smiles and ruffles her hair. Sasuke wants to tell him to stop tainting her, but he doesn't. He tells himself that it is because it is Kabuto and that he would have done the same for any girl.

Sakura doesn't move away like he wants her to. Instead, she pouts and looks down.

"He might if you finish your mission properly." Kabuto offers.

Sakura hums and thinks this over before she nods. "Okay." She turns to Sasuke and places her hands on her hips. "Visit me when I come back?"

"Hn." Sasuke looks away but Sakura simply smiles.

"I will accompany you." Kabuto tells Sakura. "You should hurry too, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke grunts and turns away.

"Bye Sasuke~"

He risks a glance over his shoulder and sees Sakura waving at him. He tilts his head and walks off.

He tells himself to ignore the unreadable expression on Kabuto's face.


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- Sasori x Sakura, we think.

- High school AU

- They prank someone (Ino?). They knocked her unconscious and dump her in a bathtub full of dye, or something.

- Sakura says something about not really being friends with Ino and the others, and that they only want to be picked to go on an 'adventure', or something.

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NEW STORY:

AND THEY SWORE BENEATH THE FIRE LILIES (Sakura x Neji sibling relationship / Sakura x Multi):

Hyuuga Neji thinks 'Chance' is a stupid word. Such a simple word shouldn't define the power to change one's life. Hyuuga Sakura's world revolved around one person. She knows that once, they've seen the light they could no longer see and heard the song they could no longer hear. The story of a pair of broken siblings unable to escape the fate that has pitted them against the world.


Darque: So, my exam period is starting next week.

Raven: And you are revising?

Darque: Uh...no.

Raven: I kind of expected that.

Darque: Really?

Raven: Yes. And so that you know, I am not praising you.

Darque: Oh...

Raven: But try your best, ye?

Darque: I will, I think.

Raven: :)

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