When Sakura trained, she never fully concentrated on the task before her, her mind always wandered; that had been one of the few things Orochimaru could never get out of her, although it didn't worry him much since she did everything perfectly anyways.

Sakura thought, and Sakura pondered, she made plans and evaluated everything.

She knew the time would come soon to meet her old friends, two years had already passed since the day Orochimaru gave her a new path, and since her training was pretty easy, she found herself daydreaming often.

Sakura imagined grins and welcome hugs, and unsuspicious greetings on fake happy faces wearing fake happy smiles.

And then, she remembered the night she realized no one really cared, no one really noticed, and she would sternly shake herself and start working harder, until her body gave out from exhaustion. When that happened, Orochimaru always came to pick her up himself, and as he laid her on her bed, and tucked the sheets around her, he always smirked when he saw the quite not happy grimace on Sakura's tainted lips.

As he stole one kiss from those lips, and let slip a little more darkness inside her mind, he knew well what his little puppet would dream of.

Sakura dreamt of red eyes going squish under her strong hands, of tanned supple skin ripped from a whiskered face, of silver hair falling from scorched skin, of blond hair ripped from the scalp and pearly white eyes gazing emptily back at her.

Sakura dreamt of everyone and everything in Konoha, and the next morning she realized she no longer felt guilty from the dreams her master put in her head.

She had learned quite a few amusing ideas from them after all.

Squish, squish.

I have been bitten by the Sakura bug! I think I'll write a couple more of this kind of dark fanfics until I've completely healed!

So, by now Sakura's pretty much becoming tainted with Orochimaru's spookiness and evil…fuck-a-deedle-doo, give her a break, the guy can be very convincing, what with his whole makeup fetish and purple assbow.

Also, I think many of you might think Sakura is in a relationship with the snake guy or something.

HA! He wishes!

I wrote it wanting Sakura to see Orochimaru as her savior and only that!

Also, I think the guy is kind of asexual, but he likes to touch and hug and do stuff with his evil minions but it never means he actualle cares for them .

Guess Oro' is a touchy-feely kind of guy after all!