A/N: I received a feedback sometime during my sleep hour. Unfortunately I was unable reply to it due to a glitch. Nevertheless, I'm happy to received it. Yes, when Sasori spared her life, he didn't think of saving her because of pity but instead he did it out of admiration. Some part of him also felt like he wasn't done dealing with her yet. So he was interested in finding out more bout her where as that leads to romance eventually. ( # w # )
Chapter 2-Obscure
The whistling of kettle boiling reached the redheaded's ears. He rose from the dining chair toward the stove to turn it off. Holding the kettle's handler, he poured the hot water into two cups and put tea bags in each cup. After five minutes, he stirred the tea-filled cups with a teaspoon as his mind lingered back to the event happened in his room.
"Who...are you?" The sudden question had caught him off guard. He had anticipated other question such as 'why didn't you kill me?' or even death threat like 'Let me go, Akatsuki bastard!' Sasori studied the kunoichi's facial expression to see if she was serious or pretending to not know him. Her big emerald eyes blinked twice, waiting for his answer. He didn't take the pinkette the type to pull funny prank to save herself after witnessing her display of skills in combat. She gripped her apron skirt nervously, still waiting for him to reply.
After waiting for so long and no respond, she looked down in disappointment like a puppy being turned down. "Sasori." The kunoichi's eyes brightened and looked up to see his face. A genuine smile crept to her happy face as she repeated his name with honourific. "Sasori-kun." He remaind rooted to the ground for a while before exiting the room and walked down the hallway to the kitchen.
Breaking his own thought, he stopped stirring and put down the teaspoon on the counter. Later, he moved the cups to join an opened canned food and an apple on the tray. Picking up the tray, he carried it to his room professionally.
Sakura's head jerked up to see Sasori had came back with food. He brought the tray to her and put it on the bed. "That's all I can find." Sasori told her, gesturing her to eat.
Sakura eyed the food on the tray and picked the canned food. "Anmitsu!" Sakura squealed in delight. Her emerald eyes sparkled with joy staring at the canned food as if it was a treasure. "It's one of my favourites!" She stated happily. Sasori quirked an amused brow at her in response. The pinkette's cheeks tinted pinkish realising how childish she sounded like. Trying to hide her embarrassment, she scooped a small portion of Anmitsu with a spoon and shoved it to her mouth.
Sasori sat on the edge of the bed as he stared the girl savoured each spoonful of her food merrily. Poor girl looked like she could cry in joy. "Does it taste good?" The kunoichi paused her eating at his question. "Sasori-kun, have you never tried this?" The puppet master shook his head. Sakura looked at him as if it was something ridiculous. " Do you wanna try? It's good." She invited him as she held the spoon to his face. Sasori pushed away the spoon politely. She felt disappointed but did not pressure it and resumed her eating.
The atmosphere tensed slightly as they both remaind silent. Trying to kill the awkwardness, Sakura struggled to find something to talk about until she remembered the questions she had been meaning to ask before he stepped out the room.
"Wh-where am I by the way?" She stammered a bit as she stared at him. Staring back at her, he opened his mouth to reply her. "Akatsuki base." He said nonchalantly.
Sakura quirked her brows in puzzlement. "Akatsuki? What's that?" Instead of answering her, he changed the topic. "You were injured so I took you back here for better treatment." Puzzled look still plastered on her face as she found her voice to speak. "How did I get injured?" She asked as her eyes travelled to the wound in her abdomen.
Sasori remaind quiet with a passive look on him before he finally spoke again. "From a battle." Her puzzled look replaced with shock and panic. "Battle...!?" She hollered then continued. "What battle? Why would I get into a fight? Is that how I got all these injuries." She waved her free hand then proceeded her talk. " Wow, the person I fought must be insane to injure me this bad." She gave her pretty smile to him. "It's surprising I'm still alive with these wounds. I guess it's all thanks to you."
Sasori was clueless how to answer her so he did what he was best with, stay silent. Losing her appetite, she put back the half-eaten Anmitsu on the tray then grabbed and sipped her tea.
Glancing at the other untouched drink, she invited Sasori to drink. "Why don't you drink with me?" Sasori shooked his head. "I don't drink." Sakura almost spilled her drink but able to control herself. 'This guy is weird. No one can surive without drinking anything.'
The kunoichi turned to see Sasori crossing his arms while absorbed in his deep thought. She took the chance to observe his face. His long lashes matched with his beautiful amber eyes. His nose was thin and beautifully shaped. 'Argh...I'm so jealous. I wish I had his nose.' Further her study of the subject in front of her. 'He's got the cold aura but so far he had been nice to me. Not to mention he's good looking too! And his lips... looked like they needed some ...' Realising her inappropriate trains of thoughts, her cheeks reddened and she slapped herself mentally.
Ignoring her strange behaviour, Sasori began to speak. "Do you not remember anything?" Sakura stopped her inner arguement to see the redheaded with a bored look anticipating her answer. The kunoichi pondered, trying to understand his question.
Seeing her struggling to decipher the meaning of his question, he made the effort to rephrase it more specific. "Do you remember being a shinobi?" He glanced at her who seemed shock, then continued. "You have monstrous strength that can break the earth easily. You're a medic too, you can heal people."
He felt weird having to explain things about herself when he wasn't an expert himself about her life. For kami'sake they were trying to kill each other before! Now they were talking like normal people. Well at least normal in Sasori's opinion.
"No...I don't remember being a shinobi." Sasori contemplated the hopeless girl who was struggling to remember. 'Hopeless. What's the point of bringing her here if she lost her memory. She will be useless to me.' Sasori lost interest and rose from the bed then began to walk away but halted mid-way when she spoke again. "Shinobi...I guess that must be why I have these powers. I thought I'm just a gifted person."
Watching the confused kunoichi from the corner of his eye, he returned to his seat on the bed. "What do you mean by that?"He asked her. Sakura looked into his eyes, feeling discomforted all the sudden. "I don't know...I know I have powers and I guess I know how to use 'em a little but..." Her words hanged as she didn't know how to continue and started fidgeting. Her mind was blurry. It's like she couldn't remember much about herself. 'Who am I really? Think Sakura. Think!' Recalling the dark place with white orbs, her eyes widened. 'It must have something to do with that!'
Sasori tapped his fingers on his knees as he grew impatient. "But what!? Think harder!" Sasori snapped in icy tone. Sakura was shocked and frightened by his sudden change of attitude.
The poor kunoichi backed away while working her mind. "I can't remember alright!" She snapped back at him then continued, "It's all blurry. I'm sorry..." Sakura closed her eyes and placed her palms on her temples and messaged them, trying to get rid of her headache. Her head felt numb and heavy. It was like thousands needles pierced into her brain. Seeing her in pain, forcing her would be futile so he left her alone to attend her headache.
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'Sadist!' Sakura thought to herself with her arms crossed over her developed chest. 'He could at least brought some pain killer pills for me.' The kunoichi glared at Sasori who sat on the chair to his desk, unnoticed of her little act of displeasure. She had just fully recovered from her headache.
The pinkette watched Sasori busied himself working on his puppet on the desk. 'Must be his hobby.' Somehow, she felt guilty being angry with him after he had helped with her injuries. Maybe she had overreacted. 'I still don't know who he is though. What's his relationship with me? For all I know, he could be the one who injured me.' Shooking her head, she resumed her thought, 'Don't be ungrateful Sakura. He wouldn't do that, would he?' That'd be insane afterall. Why would he treated my wounds if he wanted to kill me. That's only something an S-ranked maniac would do. HAHAHA!'
Sasori glanced from the corner of his eye at the pinkette who was stifling her chuckle. It was hard to concentrate his work when he could feel eyes burning holes in the back of his head moments ago and later found the kunoichi grinning to herself.
At that moment, he regretted sparing her life. At least she could have died with honour. 'Dig I fling her with my stinger too hard?' Sighing inwardly, he continued working on his puppet. 'Deidara should be back soon.' He thought as his mind recalled his conversation with Deidara through their rings yesterday.
"Sasori no danna, I won't be returning to base tonight. I gotta find Kakuzu." Deidara spoke, his voice sounded angry but the tone wasn't directed at him. Sasori presumed it had something to do with the Konoha shinobis but asked about it nonetheless. "What happened?" The question obviously spited Deidara as his voice sounded enraged than before. Sasori could picture his brow twitched in annoyance. "It's a long story...yeah!" He was mumbling about something before continuing, "I'll return to base tomorrow yeah. If the rest are there, tell 'em for me." With that, Deidara went off.
The leaf kunoichi eyed the puppets in the room. They were all over the stony walls. Each of them had different size and design. All of them looked creepy and alive for some reasons. The sole thought gave her goosebumps.
Sakura rose from the bed with an arm around her abdomen bearing her pain. Enduring the pains, she walked around to inspect the puppets. Despite the creepy appearance, she admired them. 'Did Sasori made them all?' She wondered, turning to see Sasori installing a puppet limb to its body.
She walked over to him, both hands at her back as she bent down to see his work. She eyed him with awe at his expertise. "Sasori-kun, you're so good. It looks amazing!" She complimented him with a smile on her face.
Sasori paused his work to stare at her.'That smile again. Why does she keep smiling at me?' He frowned then continued working on his art. "Did you make all these puppets?" The pinkette interrupted him. Sasori nodded in response not averting his gaze."Thought so. You're so talented." Praising him again.
It was too peculiar for him to receive those compliments from her, the fact that she didn't acknowledged his art before and instead insulted it.
Interrupting him once again, "Sasori-kun, do we know each other? The kunoichi asked him."What's our relationship?" He halted to meet her curious eyes.
A mischievous thought crossed his mind. He shifted his position to face her better. Afterward, he raised him hands to hold her arms. His action had definitely startled her a bit. The latter soon brought his face closer to her. "Can't you tell? We're husband and wife."
Sakura's face reddened like a tomato, stilled in his grasp. He smirked after getting the reaction he wanted and released her, proceeding his art. "Kidding."He said simply not bothering to look at Sakura who grows red both from blushing and anger."Why you! That was a serious question! Don't kid around!" She yelled as she put her hands on her hip.
Glancing her sideway, he spoke while crossing his arms over his chest. "I thought that's the answer you wanted to hear based on your question." The kunoichi let her arms fall back to her sides and clenched her fists. "That's not what I mean! What I meant was were we acquaintances for you had been the one who found me injured and saved me!" She yelled still clenching her fists. 'How temperamental.' Sasori thought and decided to tease her again. "Maybe next time you can work on wording your questions better?"
Fuming in rage, the kunoichi twirled as she raised her leg in mid air and slammed the ground, cracking it and producing a mini earthquake. Sasori no longer amused, quicken himself to avoid the slam. Puppets hanged on the walls fell to the ground.
Surprised by her own action, Sakura clamped her mouth in fear over the damage she had caused. Sasori reappeared by her side to scold her but halted when he sensed a familiar chakra speeding toward them. In a minute, a figure appeared by the doorway. "What the fuck happened yeah!?"
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Notes: So Sakura only remembers a few things bout herself like her name, favourites, powers as mentioned etc.
Other things not mentioned mean the missing memories bout her especially those precious people in her life including enemies.
I'm sorry to inform that chapter 3 will come out late. I'm having trouble with it. It's killing me waaaahhh. Please stay patient I'll try my best to fulfill your satisfaction. Thank you!