Long overdue, I know. and I apologize
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Sakura had never felt this way before.
The feeling was amazing, soft, an oh such wonderful feeling and knowing she had done something forbidden only served to the purpose in exciting her further.
She pushed herself on onto one elbow and gazed at his face. His arms were behind his head and his eyes turned to watch her. She leaned over him and let herself look at him for the first time.
His features were perfect. She smiled softly in the glow of the aftermath and idly let her hand push back his bangs with affectionate eyes.
She could care less that she had slept with someone she had met only thrice. Only care was apparent in her gesture. She pushed herself fully on top of him, letting her hands wander at his sides.
Her eyes caught sight of something
Something that made her heart stop beating.
Something that made her pull her hand back sharply.
Three black tomoes on his shoulders.
He bore the markings of the cursed seal.
She knew everything about that. Those unfortunate humans had been turned to something so monstrous. And humans who had once felt feelings of love and compassion turned to the feeling of nothingness. Her instructor had warned her of these. They were demons.
Uncaring, stoic, beautiful, and dangerous demons who could no longer feel.
He watched the shock pass across her face. Her eyes had widened and her mouth formed a small o. He searched her face slowly as if analyzing her next movement.
"Y-You are a demon, are you not?" Her voice was frail and thin as it escaped her lips. She drew back and stood. He stood as well sighing wearily, not answering.
She took a small step back and another and another. Her naked back hit a tree. She opened her mouth to speak a spell to save her from demonic destruction, but he cut her off by disappearing. In the blink of an eye, he had disappeared.
She felt her heart beat fast and fear grew in her as she remembered her instructor's words. "Demon's have the ability to seduce…they move in the blink of an eye…dangerously beautiful creatures…no longer have the ability to feel…do not give into one for they show no mercy."
She had to disappear fast, grabbing her robe, she tied it around her body, "Pe-" She felt him behind her and she froze.
"Leaving so soon?" he mocked. He knew the consequences of an angel sleeping with one from the underworld, "I can't imagine your Council members proud of your actions."
Her anger flared as she hardened her eyes, "I have no reason to stay." He knew who she was and yet he took something so innocent and pure from her.
"Ouch," she heard the scorn in his voice and she closed her eyes. Her mind thought of everything: the consequences of interacting with a demon-no only did she talk with him, she was involved in sexual intimacy. "Three times we have met and you don't see a reason to stay?'
His mocking tone shamed her. She had fallen for a trap so obvious. Her eyes steeled and she turned around to face him, bearing no arms, completely vulnerable. "Please do not consider yourself a friend to me," she scoffed, "you are no friend; you have no desire to be a friend."
"You cat like you know everything," he said lazily running his finger down his arm. She slapped his hand away.
"I do not know what you have done to make me sleep with you, but do not think I had done so willingly." It just had to be the truth; she would never have done something so irrational.
He chuckled, "I had done nothing to you," he shrugged, "it was of your own choice you decided to reveal yourself to me. Your friends up there," he nodded up towards the skies, "think you are capable of it too, they have placed a tracer on you."
She narrowed her eyes, reaching up to slap him "Why, you-"
He grabbed a hold of her arms and held them besides her head in a tight grip, "Surprised? You call yourself an angel and yet you lie to yourself. Do not think I didn't see the way your eyes lusted for me. I saw the dark in your eyes; you too know it exists in you."
She was speechless and could do nothing but keep her eyes narrowed in anger. She spoke quietly, "You talk as if you know me, but you do not. I am an Angel. I come from purity and truth. My only journey is of that. You were a mistake. They," she jerked her head up, "trust me."
He laughed, "You have caught yourself in a mistake that you cannot erase."
She stopped short and looked him in the eyes, "Watch me."
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The council was angry.
Haruno Sakura stood before them defeated and disheveled. She had failed to retrieve the soul-she had lost it. The elders rubbed their eyes tiredly and looked at her stubborn eyes, different to the defeated posture. "Sakura," the eldest lady spoke, "you have failed, you know this," she stated, as her eyes pierced into the emerald eyes.
Sakura nodded, "I apologize, but I have tried my hardest, in vain, to find the soul, I fear it has been lost for good." She stood with her arms crossed behind her back. The sleeves of her robe slipped, revealing creamy shoulders. The elders took notice of this.
"Ahem." The male, cleared his throat in discomfort. Sakura followed the eyes of the elder and yanked the robe into place.
"What shall we do with you?" muttered the lady, "what shall we…" Her voice quieted and turned towards the door Sakura had entered time ago. Sakura hesitated turning, feeling the murderous aura of an angered man.
The door slammed open, the mahogany doors decorated with intricate natural designs banged against the wall.
With anger worthy of murder, eyes full of distaste, mouth twisted in a frown, fists balled, eyebrows furrowed, Hyuga Neji stormed in. "Out," he barked through gritted teeth to the council members. They dared not disobey and scrambled out one by one, muttering to this unusual behavior.
The door shut behind the Council softly and Sakura bowed her head in respect murmuring, "Neji-sama." She straightened her back, the gown on her body rustling at her movement. Neji looked her in the eyes for a moment.
She cowered on the inside. He had never looked at her this way; there was much hate and spite in his white eyes. His eyes searched hers for an answer and she found that she could not provide the wanted; she began again, "Ne-"
SLAP!
The sound of a slap echoed through the empty hall.
Her head turned at the force; her mind blanked at the impact; her cheeks held the red mark of his hand print; her eyes were wide; her mouth was parted. She turned her head back slowly with hesitation and confusion, "Nej-"
"Do not utter your confusion! Do not act as if you have no idea of your wrongdoing!" he thundered. The words bounced off the walls, echoing. Sakura cringed and hung her head in shame.
"I know whose company it was that kept you late! I can smell the scent of a man all over you. I knew I was right to keep a tracker on you!"
So it was true. What the bastard had said was true. Her anger flared, "With all due respect, you had no right to do so!"
"I had every right to do so! I am your captain and it is my duty to make sure my subordinates stay in line!" He moved closer to her and gripped the back of her head in a bruising grip. His hands tightened around her hair and she winced as tears lined her eyes frp, the pain, "You broke the code, Haruno, do not let me catch you doing that again." He tore his hands away. He turned his back on her and strode off angrily.
Sakura blinked back the tears and held her head high as the Council members came back in with a stern visage. There was no way they had not heard the conversation with Neji.
They frowned at her and she felt an extreme rush of guilt. Her heart clenched. She felt inferior and her face hung down now. She could not look them in the eye. The rebellious feeling she had held before was now diminished. Neji was right. She was a disappointment.
"Sakura…" it was Tsunade who spoke this time and Sakura bit the inside of her lip as she looked up at her former master. There was so much disappointment in those wizened eyes, "I am ashamed to have been your teacher."
Sakura's eyes widened as she crumpled to the ground on her knees. Never had she been told this. It hurt. A part of her heart had torn into pieces. The woman who had brought her up, taught her to live, was disappointed in her. She had been the perfect student-she was the favorite, the one the others had envied because of her close relations with the Lady. She had made no mistakes and now it all came crashing down.
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From the looks she received, she knew word had spread. They all knew what she had done. Akito, the one who had fancied her once before, the one whose cheeks had born a flushed red at her arrival, scoffed at her, turning away muttering, "Whore."
The lights of the buildings shimmered and she heard the whispers talking about her. They made way for her, scared to touch her in fear of a disease passing on. She would have laughed at this once upon a time, but now that the damage was done, shame was all she felt.
The tears lining her eyes did not go away. She trudged through the alley avoiding the people, stepping over the fallen trees. Her eyes didn't look up from the ground as the elderly lady spit at her feet when she opened the gates to her housing.
The ANBU Angels sneered at her, the males asking if she would open her legs for them. A tear fell from her eye. She looked up too late and couldn't stop from running into Neji. She fell to the ground, landing on her butt. She looked up in anticipation, hoping for some acknowledgement. She had disappointed him so badly. "Ne-" He stepped past her, ignoring the laughs from the rookie ANBU members.
She pulled herself up and glared at the ANBU who said, "Neji-san, do not waste your time on her!" The ANBU, she had been on good terms with, looked at her with upraised, amused eyes, "Oh? Do you have something to say?"
She continued to glare at the man, unable to say anything in response. "What's this? Cat got your tongue? Or is it cock?" A few of the ANBU laughed while some looked at him as if he had gone too far. He didn't stop there. Laughing mockingly he drawled, "What's this? Not enough cock for you? Shall I offer you mine?"
She couldn't help it. She raised her hand to slap him.
"Haruno," a hand grabbing hers restrained it. She turned to yell at the one holding her back. It was Neji. The yell died in her throat as she opened her mouth, "Did you not hear what he said?" she uttered pathetically.
Neji looked at her with cold eyes, "I did and you deserved every bit of it." He let go of her hands and left saying, "Haruno, you have been stripped of your ANBU status, do not come to my meetings until you have attained the honor to come back."
She gasped and even the room went in shock. To be stripped of your status was the most possible way to degrade an Angel.
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She reached her room and cried, bawled, sobbed into her pillow. It would do no good, letting the others know how much pain this caused her. Her door opened and she didn't bother to look up.
"Sakura-san?" It was Hinata's quiet voice.
"Please do not use that honorific with me. I do not deserve it," she mumbled into her pillow.
There was a pause and Sakura could hear the hesitancy in Hinata's voice, "A-Are you okay?"
She could have laughed. Did her sullen voice not state clearly, "I am not okay?"
Due to respect for Hyuga heiress, she whispered quietly, "No, I am not okay…I have to undo my mistake."
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