Construction and Destruction of A Cherry Blossom

My secret no longer mine

I awoke with bright lights in my face and the pungent smell of a hospital. I knew that my secret was revealed. I just knew it!

"Hey, everyone she's awake!"

Of coarse Naruto is here to tell everyone everything. I was glad to know that I was still alive and not with Orochimaru even though I would eventually end up with him.

"Sakura are you all right?"

That voice I know it, Sasuke?

"Sasuke is that you?"

"Yes, are you okay?"

"Yeah for now anyway."

I couldn't sit up it hurt too much. My head wasn't hurting as bad, but my neck was killing me. I reached over and placed my hand over the mark and felt it burn with my touch.

"Sakura," Sasuke said looking at my hand covering the mark, "Why didn't you tell me?"

I didn't know if he was talking about the mark or the whole Orochimaru thing, so I just sort of winged it.

"Tell you what Sasuke?"

Naruto left to get ramen I assume because I couldn't sense his chakra anywhere. He all ways did put ramen first now that I think of it.

My thoughts were disrupted when Sasuke reached across and took my arm off the mark and placed it back on the bed. Next he walked around to my side with that hideous mark and stopped.

"Sakura take off your shirt I want to see something."

Yeah, I bet you do Sasuke, Who does he think he is telling me to take off my shirt.

"What do you want to see Sasuke?"

He looked in my green pool of eyes and smirked

"Not like that Sakura, I want to see if my theory is true."

Damn him, and his stupid theories, I know that they are true but I still didn't want to show him.

"Sakura if you don't take off your shirt I will."

"The hell you will Sasuke, I'll do it, turn around."

He did as I asked and turned around sighing as he did. I was wearing a red mid drift top with a black pair of pants. I took off my top and placed my hands over my large breasts crisscrossed way so he couldn't see no matter what, and told him to turn around.

His eyes were huge as he saw my topless form sitting there waiting for him.

"Sakura, wow, you are."

"Sasuke, just prove your theory."

He walked over and placed a hand at the back of my neck and bent me over. I knew he saw the cursed mark when he gasped and placed his hand on it, which made me whimper a little.

"Sakura does it still hurt, or does it burn?"

"Both"

"I knew something was wrong with you by the way that every time we would spar you kicked my ass."

"Could you ever think that I did that on my own?"

"No, I wouldn't allow it."

"What scared to admit that I could kick your ass?"

"Sakura, we need to get Kakashi to seal this mark before it spreads any farther."

"That didn't answer my question earlier, but I agree with you, Kakashi needs to look at this mark and seal it like yours."

His hand stiffened up as I mentioned the mark he had, and I could tell I hit a sore spot.

"Sasuke, I'm sorry I didn't-

He looked at me and smirked

"Sakura, it's ok I know how bad it must hurt."

"Really it didn't hurt much, and that surprised me the most. I didn't know that I had received the mark until I was taking a shower and saw it on my neck. I just thought I had neck pains."

"Sasuke, may I ask you a question?"

"As long as it doesn't have anything to do with me going out with you."

"Okay, I wanted to know how you went through the pain of the curse mark."

I was puzzled by the look he was giving me which was that of confusion, and what do you mean. Next Sasuke pulled up a chair and started to explain to me what happened to him.

(In Sasuke's View Of the Curse Mark)

I can't even explain all the pain I was feeling while the mark was taking affect, when it finally stopped I had a dream of me when I was younger talking about the slaughter of my clan, but it turned out to be Orochimaru instead. That's what scared me the most, remembering those events and how my clan looked blood soaked and dead.

After that I gained conscious and saw you, Sakura, on the ground bleeding and beaten up with kunai inside of you. I never want to see that again, by the way, why were you like that Sakura?"

(End Of View)

"Like what, Sasuke?

"Bloody, kunai stuck in you, and hair cut."

"Oh, well the three sound nins were going to kill you, and I was trying to watch over you and Naruto hoping that you would wake up the next morning but sadly yall didn't. When they came and said that they want to take you away from me I couldn't take it, so I fought back with all my strength and was doing really good until the one with the air slice got me and the girl grabbed my hair. The only way out was to slice through my hair, and once I was free I attacked him again and had him on the ground. He finally punched me off and I hit the ground cover in mine and his blood. The next thing I know you were awake and standing with the curse mark spread all around you asking me who hurt me and for me to point them out."

"Sakura, why wouldn't you let them take me? I'm not worth getting bloody and bruised up for."

I put my top back on and placed my hand on his that was laying on the bed and looked into the dark abyss that was his eyes and said before passing out again

"You will never know how much you mean to me, and to have you taken away, killed, or hurt, inflicts the same damage on me."

I hit the pillow and my hand was still on his, I could feel it, and for once he didn't protest and move it. I swear till today that I herd him say this, "Sakura I could say the same thing to you, but for now I will wait until this has passes and my first dream of killing Itachi is done, I just hope you can wait and endure that much pain."

If he only knew what would happen to me in the future he wouldn't do that, and he would stay with me and protect me from the scenes due to come.

I smelled tomato soup being made, and my stomach was growling like a monster. I could sit up finally, and saw that I wasn't in the hospital anymore, this place looked like Sasuke's house. I knew it was as soon as I saw the picture of team seven we took not only but months ago before the exams.

Sasuke wasn't in the room and I didn't sense his chakra signature, so I picked up the photo and looked at it more carefully. Naruto stood there glancing at Sasuke with his arms crossed and Kakashi's hand on his yellow spiky hair.

I was between them smiling a huge grin with my hands clenched in fists near my mouth. As I looked at the photo that I held, it dawned on me that team seven would break apart, and Naruto would fulfill his dream of being Hokage, and Sasuke would find Itachi to kill him. But what happens to me? What do I do? Where will I end up, not in ANBU, all I was good at is chakra control, and my mind. I was the smartest konouchi in the village.

Then I moved my green emerald eyes to Sasuke. He had a scowl on his face looking at the camera. Kakashi' s hand was on his head too. His black hair was being squished in the back, so he didn't' look like a chicken ass hair.

I started laughing when I realized this fact, I didn't hear when Sasuke came back in the room and was at my side.

"What's so funny Sakura?"

I dropped the picture and let a little scream escape my small rosey lips. After I re composed my self I picked it back up and pointed to his picture.

"That's what you were laughing at?"

"Yes, did you ever notice that your hair doesn't look like a chickens ass in this picture?'

"Yes, I have, but did you notice that you're blushing?"

"No, am I?"

"Do you mean now, or in the photo?"

I turned away from him, so he wouldn't see my blush that I just now felt creeping across my face like a caterpillar. When I was with him I always blush, no matter what.

"Sakura, its fine your blush is what I'm use to seeing on your face when your around me."

I glanced back at him with this face of confusion, and disappointment.

"What's wrong Sakura?"

"I was wondering where we are now?"

"The Uchiha compound. I knew you wouldn't like it because it's too deserted."

"NO, Sasuke I love it, just you and me in the famous Uchiha compound, by the way, how long am I staying?"

"Sakura, you're not staying here," My face dropped as he said this and my heart sank back into my stomach, "You're living here with me."

Huh, I'm what, living with Sasuke Uchiha! OMG!

"Are you serious, I'm living with you, what room will I stay in?"

"This one."

"But where will you stay?"

"In here with you."

"Sasuke, why, why be so nice to me now?"

"Sakura, its complicated we'll talk about this in the morning, and Kakashi said there is no training tomorrow so sleep in."

He got up and took off his shirt and got in the bed laying next to me. I on the other hand took the tomato soup he had made earlier and ate in silence. When I was finished I put the bowl back on the table and laid down beside Sasuke's warm body.

The bed was cold on my side, but Sasuke's was warm. I closed my eyes letting sleep take over my body, when two arms came around me and pulled me into the warmth.

I whispered very softly

"Thank you."

In return I herd, "Your welcome." Next to my ear and realized that he was holding my body up against his, and my head was against his bare chest.

While we slept I felt his hand glide down to my small waist and wrap it self around it. I didn't know if I was supposed to touch him or not, so I did the only thing that was natural, I placed both of my hand around his waist and nuzzled closer to him.

"Sakura, that tickles."

I didn't know he had woken up, and it startled me.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have."

I took my hand away from around him to only have him put them back.

"When you're not beside me it's cold. I hate the cold."

I blushed at the comment and drew designs on his stomach with my fingers, he laughed a little when I reached a tickle spot.

"You know Sakura, you are very noisy at night."

"What do you mean Sasuke?"

"Well, you talk in your sleep."

"I do, what did I say?"

"Your were talking about the time when we were younger and in the academy. Do you remember that day that Naruto made us do transformation jutsu because he ran away? After me and you completed ours you walked over to Ino and talked. I went over to a chair and sat waiting for class to be over."

"Yes I remember why?"

"Well that conversation you had with Ino you just repeated."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to talk in my sleep. Did you listen to what I was saying?"

"Yes, and some of it was funny, I never knew you felt like that about me though?"

I thought back to the conversation I had with Ino and what was said.

(Flash Back to Ino/Sakura talk)

Ino: So Sakura I see you like Sasuke?

Sakura: No I don't like Sasuke, besides he would never notice a girl like me anyway, he's always quiet and I think he wants to be left alone.

Ino: At least go talk to him one day Sakura, no girl can resist Sasuke

Sakura: That may be true that no girl can resist the charms of Sasuke Uchiha, but I bet that he gets tired of all of ya'll bugging him, I know I would.

Ino: I think that you love him Sakura.

Sakura Ino, that's what I think too, I think I'm in love with him.

Ino: So you admit you like him?

Sakura: NO, I love him.

Ino: Well, so do I

Sakura: You will grow to love someone else, not Sasuke.

Ino: what makes you say that?

Sakura: Because I love Sasuke more than life itself, if he died then so would I because a life with out him isn't worth living.

(END OF CONVERSATION)

"You must think that I am crazy for saying that Sasuke."

I glanced up in his black eyes and saw him watching me, "Sakura I will never be mad at you. Who knew that you knew me so well back then?"

"I still feel the same Sasuke."

"But I don't, I think that I might feel the way you do about me to you."

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