Chapter 3-Her smile

Sasuke couldn't explain in words how he felt holding her in his arms and knowing she was safe, knowing that no more harm can come her way.

As soon as he entered his room though cradling her fragile broken body in his arms, he felt stupid. So very very stupid.

He stood at the door way staring into his room, not knowing where to start. His room looked like it was hit by some kind of natural disaster. His bed lay broken into pieces by the wall he had thrown it at and his mattress was dirty, dirtier than probably Naruto's. It had broken pieces of wood stuck to it and he could see the dust bunnies floating off of it even in this dark room.

He stepped into his room and closed the door shut with his foot and laid her down on the floor gently making sure she won't be in pain.

He quickly went near his broken bed and fished out the mattress hitting it against the floor from one side to get the dust and the wood out. He dropped it down in the middle of the room and pushed it to the back wall. He took a pure white sheet from the small drawer in one corner of the room and laid it on the mattress and changed the pillow case as well, because she couldn't possibly put her head on something as filthy as that, and dropped it on the mattress. He looked at the make shift bed and found it good enough to lay her down for the time being. He hurried to her laid down body in the corner of his room and picked her up. He very gently laid her down on the mattress, her pink hair splaying all over his pillow as he did so.

He looked over her body again, eyes moving from her head to her toes and back up again inspecting any of her injuries. He knew her arm was broken from the way it was swelling fast. She had additional cuts on her and her neck has a bruise that perfectly aligns with a big hand print. He gritted his teeth in anger having a strange urge to punch something…hard.

Her beautiful porcelain skin was dirty and covered in cuts and bruises that Sasuke wanted to disappear off her skin. 'I should've gotten there sooner.' He thought wanting to hit himself for not accepting the job Orochimaru had given him in the first place.

He knew, now that the drug was wearing off of her system, she would be able to heal herself after resting and he would be with her after that so he didn't have worry about anyone else laying a finger on her. 'She'll be fine.' He told himself in an attempt to calm his nerves.

He sat down on the ground beside her head, resting his back on the wall waiting for her to arouse.

He was beginning to get worried as the clock on the wall in front of him ticked and she had yet to wake up even after 4 long hours of unconsciousness.

He would stop all his movements, even his breathing, once in a while to make sure she was breathing. Each time he let out as sigh of relief when her chest would rise and fall slowly indicating to him that she was in fact alive. Then he would lean his head against the wall and stare up at the ceiling waiting for her eyes to open and for him to once again be able to see her beautiful emerald eyes that would shine every time she looked at him again.

He hadn't realized he too had fallen asleep until he heard a knock on his door echoing throughout the quiet room. He stared at the door for a moment before pulling himself up from the ground and walking towards it. He opened it to find Kabuto standing on the other side impatiently tapping his left foot on the ground.

"Lord Orochimaru wants to know what happened to the prisoner." Kabuto said annoyed that he of all people had to come to Sasuke's door step.

"She's still unconscious. I'll be keeping her here." Sasuke replied coldly making sure the door remained half closed while the other half was blocked by his body making sure Sakura's unconscious form is completely obscured from Kabuto's view.

"Oh! Trying something new this time Sasuke?" Kabuto said smirking all the while pushing his glasses up with his index finger. Apparently this son of a bitch has as death wish.

Sasuke glared at him wanting nothing more than to squeeze his neck between his fingers. 'Oh how wonderful would that feel!' Sasuke thought sadistically.

"Send dinner to my room." Sasuke growled and slammed the door shut making the whole room shudder under the impact.

He kept his left hand on the door and bowed his head down trying to even out his breathing to make his anger go away. 'Why do people keep talking about Sakura like that?' he thought making a fist with his right hand clenching it had making it knuckles turn white.

"Hm…" Sasuke heard and immediately tuned around facing Sakura's direction. He waited to make sure he hadn't been imagining things out of desperation.

When she didn't move or make a noise for the next couple of minutes he closed his eyes and sighed in disappointment.

"OW!" she cried out in pain suddenly and Sasuke was by her side as soon as the sound escaped her lips.

She had rolled down on her side and accidently leaned on the broken arm. 'Of course she couldn't remember it was broken.' He thought as she held her broken arm in her right hand.

Her eyes were shot open immediately as the pain engulfed her. Sasuke watched her blink in surprise as he peered into her face sitting on his knees beside mattress.

Her eyes came to rest on his anxiously awaiting face and she blinked another few times. Then she narrowed her eyebrows and shifted her head to face him completely.

"Sasuke?...What are you doing in my room?" she croaked out, having not spoken for a long time and from screaming her lungs out.

Sasuke wanted to laugh, both because of her complete cluelessness and because he was so relieved that she has woken up. He was beginning to worry and he didn't know any medical ninjutsu to heal her if she didn't wake up for longer than that.

Instead, he sat down crossed legged beside the mattress since his legs were staring to fall asleep and crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"Actually, you are in MY room." He told her watching the priceless expression take place on her face. Her eyes widened showing him more of her beautiful emerald eyes that he has almost forgotten and shot up from the bed and cried out in pain from the head rush as well as the pain from her arm.

She closed her eyes and rubbed her index and thumb finger on her forehead letting her broken arm hang limply on her lap.

She sighed heavily slumping her shoulders and Sasuke could only guess why and his guess was that events from the last two days have caught up with her.

She opened her eyes and quietly started healing her broken arm. Sasuke watched her hand emanate a bright green light as she let it flow into her skin.

"Sasuke?" she said, not looking at him but looking at the green light flowing from her hand just as Sasuke was.

He looked up as she said his name, breaking his heart a little at the painful way his name rolled off her tongue. No longer was her voice bright and cheery as she said his name, like in their genin days when she used to say it at least ten to twenty times a day.

"What are you going to do to me?" she asked her voice breaking a little at the pain of having to even ask a question like that from a person she trusted her life with when they were younger.

He stared at her face as she stared at her hands. 'What does she think I would do?' Sasuke thought annoyed at the thought that Sakura was thinking he was actually capable of hurting her.

He didn't answer her question until she was done healing her arm. He watched the green chakra disappear off her hands and she moved her arm a little to test her work.

She continued to stare at her lap while he watched her intently.

"I'm going to take you home." He finally answered evenly.

"Really?" she asked with wide eyes, her face now looking at him, finally.

He nodded his head once and watched her chapped lips turn into a smile. A familiar smile that made his heart flutter, that made his stomach do a flip inside, that made his heart beat loudly making him aware that he actually had a heart.

This was the smile she would always give him and only him, he couldn't believe she had saved it for all these years and he was oddly relieved that she did.

He decided then and there as she continued to tend to her other injuries, the smile still intact on her perfect lips, that he would definitely take her home… and he would most definitely save that smile.


I know this chapter wasn't all that great but it'll get better (I hope). Anyway I wanted to ask you guys for any advice you could give me. Is the story running smoothly? What can I improve so that you guys can enjoy it more? These kinds of things. You guys can answer after the story is done too. It's not that long, just 8 chapters. Review if you can so I know you guys are enjoying it as much as I enjoy writing it. Thank you :D

And I know Sasuke is super OOC in this but I can't write him to romantic and keep him in character, it's so difficult. He's such as idiot. Anyway, thanks again. Have an awesome day.