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I've just decided. My archenemy: the prepositions. Ugh! I hate those mono/disyllabic little words! I think they're my nightmare when it comes to writing XD What else... oh yes! The whole.. groom thing /o/ It's kind of earlier than I thought, but I've decided to give in. Read and you'll find out. But I ask patience please s2.
Oookay then! On with the story!
I don't own any of these characters. Ow..
If the priest carried on with our celebration… "Speak now or forever keep your silence." He would say.
It feels like… you've broken down the church's main door and shouted.
How silly. But how charming that would be. And perhaps you'd win my heart with just that.
But then again, that's just my imagination.
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Masshiro Bride.
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The sun was finally pushed up and tanned the sky. The shadows intensified under the beautiful contrast of orange and every surface facing the magnificent sunset was strongly enlightened and warmed up. It was a cold daybreak however. Traces of smoke still remained, hanging on the air of the sky that soon was starting to gain its light blue color again. Under the whole astonishing scenery, the tiny Konoha citizens and shinobis worked on rebuilding their village.
Slam!
"What do you mean you've lost their sight?!"
It infuriated her. Really. Several long and complete hours tapping her foot on the shinning floor anxiously and rubbing her teeth while waiting for what? For a useless man with a too-good-for-him-Anbu-mask to stand before the (waiting!) Hokage and tell her this. Under her furious frown, there were angry light brown eyes carrying heavy bags.
"The Anbu who saw Uchiha Sasuke said he was too fast to be caught." The man maintained his low voice and was bent down on the floor politely, with one arm crossing his belly
"Oh is that so?"
That surprised tone… they knew what—
SLAM!
--followed it.
"I don't care if he was too fast or not! Why the hell do you think you have elite ranking?!"
"Tsunade-sama, please be aware that I wasn't involved with Uchiha's pers—"
"Silence!"
The Anbu's lid dropped one inch behind the mask and sweat dropped, that Hokage had a nerve. "We can send—"
"Who's in charge of making decisions here?!"
"…"
"Tsunade-sama… what are we going to do now? …The elders want Uchiha Sasuke punished no matter what." Her loyal assistant Shizune murmured behind the governor.
Tsunade bit a red polished fingernail. "…Tch, shit! I don't think I can go against this. … Even if there were very few deaths, they burned more than half of the village down." She frowned, too irritated to possibly think about something. She needed sake. "…Ill send the orders to start searching."
"..What about Naruto and Sakura?"
"We'll search them for now. There'll be no killing orders; I want them captured- that's all. I don't think those two stubborn kids have objections against that."
Shizune nodded at that and wrote down some notes on her clipboard.
"Also.. go check how Yamato is doing with the reconstruction of the houses. Tell me if he needs any help or something."
"Hai, Tsunade-sama!" She quickly exited the office.
"And.. what else..." Tsunade pinched her temple and thought about the situation until she heard a light cough. "Oh, Nara."
The man against the wall, who up till the moment was only wondering if it was allowed to smoke inside the Hokage Tower or not, unglued from the cold surface and stepped closer. "I was really starting to wonder if you had really called me or if it was the secretary's mistake." He bowed shortly.
"Oh, yes forgive me.. I've heard that you were in the building so I wanted to talk with you." The blond said while scratching an eyebrow nervously. "Although I'm a bit busy with all this issue as you can see."
"It's understandable."
"…How is Sakura?"
"…" He closed his eyes. "I haven't talked to her yet. No one actually did, Naruto's still sleeping, Kakashi is helping Yamato and Ino is a bit depressed herself."
"And he?"
Shikamaru smirked. "At the hospital, but indestructible as always."
She smiled uncertain, not fully convinced, but satisfied anyway. "Very well, then. You can go, thank you."
He bowed. "Hai."
...
"What are going to do now?"
"We'll recover."
"Ow man… that's bullshit."
"No it's not! Look at yourself! You look like shit! Sasuke's right! ..We'll have to work on another plan."
"Tch."
"If you just want to pick up a fight, you can damn well go to some alley and do so!"
Sakura didn't open her eyes the minute her consciousness was back again. As a trained kunoichi, she was immediately alerted to her surroundings. It was a quiet place. Too quiet. The air wasn't moist and there wasn't any smell of mold, a clean space. And surely it was day again as small and singing birds made noise outside. That fact itself confused her, where was she?
The Haruno was trying to calm her heart beats down as she remembered everything that had happened before someone hit her on the nape. The unfamiliar voices coming from another room weren't helping her. She was lying down on something smooth and soft, it intrigued her.
A bed.
Her elongated lashes lifted so slowly that they trembled while doing so. She could see her own hand lazily resting beside her head. Her ring finger twitched quickly and she made a fist.
Should she move? Should she wait?
When the door opened, she made up her mind: wait. Her hand loosened again and her lids dropped. The door was closed but she could still feel the other presence inside the room. And unfortunately she knew who it was.
Wait.
wait...
wait..
"Stop faking it."
...
Hearing his voice, his breathing, hearing his plain presence, made she wonder how this was happening, if this was real. Plenty had been the times when Sakura had imagined those possible situations in which they would finally meet again.. after so many years. And she would imagine how looking at his eyes, how feeling that odd sensation of realizing that they would be standing above the same soil, how breathing the same air as him or wondering how was the image she would be producing on him... felt.
Yet none of those imaginary (and silly, now she remembers) situations got close to this... And painfully enough, this was the thick and tense air she was sharing with him, those were the insane, cold, black eyes which were looking at her, and that was the horrible, disgusting and crushing sensation she felt of being inside the same place as him, standing above the same soil... and away from everything she wanted. Captured.
And she was... she was the innocent Sakura who believed in fate. Living life in the impression of being a puppet under fate's hands. Now she found herself denying it strongly as it showed her this cruel reality. How much hate and loneliness have filled his heart? How far would the man she used to love reach, now taking her as a hostage? Were all those years really in vain? Everything they made until now... did it have sense? She found the years being separated from him longer and more memorable than the ones when team seven was a family. It crushed her. Konoha, Sasuke.
"..Sasuke...?" She barely whispered.
He narrowed his eyes. Her chakra was--
Tuck.
The tip of a kunai pierced the wooden wall next to the raven's head; he had dodged it by moving his neck to the side without agitation.
"What the fuck!" The pinkette screamed angrily.
"..." The silence was tortuous. "Shut up, Sakura."
"Shut up. Shut up?" She had an angry smile on her face. "Are you kidding me?! You expect me to shut up when you burned our, our, village and... kidnapped me?! What the fuck Sasuke!"
"Sakura. If you don't shut your mouth I'll tie you up and cover your mouth."
It could be difficult not to blush when Sasuke said those words, but Sakura easily managed. "..." Her mouth closed but her expression was still showing her obvious irritation.
"Listen to me instead." He was frowning as if he didn't understand the situation either. --which, indeed. "You'll stay here -- let me finish- ... and obey. I'll let you go out, but you won't be able to escape -so don't try it."
"Why are you doing this?" She asked after a sharp breath.
"I don't need to tell you that."
"THAT'S—"
"Drop..." He lifted a hand and closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down. "-it. You'll stay here as I say. And that's it."
"…"
The Uchiha ignored the face Sakura was giving him and proceeded to take the kunai out of the wall and throw it back to the pink haired. She grabbed it, still glaring at him.
"Now stop looking at me like that and change."
Sakura looked at the foot of the bed and saw some clothes there. She then turned her face to Sasuke.
"No."
And Sasuke only looked blankly at her.
"I'm not changing."
"Don't start—"
"At least give me the rights to be dressed as I please!!" She breathed hard. "Since you've got me freaking kidnapped for no reason! On my wedding day!!"
Did she have to remind him that again and again? He thought while activating his angry but harmless Sharingan.
..She wasn't doing that. He was.
"Although, you know. I don't really need to be dressed like the woman of my groom." She breathed in, full of herself and at the same time not knowing who she was talking to, him or herself. "I am married, no matter how much you interrupted my ceremony."
He ignored her earlier words. "No… reason, you say? Do you know how much trouble you've caused me? Sakura?" He looked angry, in his cool but scary way.
"What are you saying?! I wish I had stoppe—
But then she blinked while frowning, confused. ..Why weren't they in Konoha? Did it mean that they were indeed stopped but escaped? What he said next, however, distracted her from those thoughts.
"I don't care if it was your wedding day. I don't. Neither do I care about what you think about us."
"…"
What else could she say? She knew it was true. The Sharingan was looking right through her and the heart beats sped up.
"…Were you planning..?" Her voice died, but she gulped her fear down. "Were you planning to kill people? …back then?"
Once more, Sasuke narrowed his eyes. When he did so, the commas on his eyes spun one time around his pupil and stood still again.
"..Were you planning.. to kill me?" She whispered. "Kakashi? ...Naru..to?"
"Are you going to throw things at me again if I tell you? I don't have time for this."
"…" She lowered her head. "…Why? Sasuke…"
He left the room and didn't bother to close the door, leaving it semi-opened. Act that -from Sakura's view- showed the total confidence the bastard always had, what surely maintained that damned chicken-ass hair of his up.
Cruel person.
"…damn you!" If anger and might, she threw the shinobi weapon again.
TUCK!
Her green eyes watched how the sunlight hit the blade of the kunai on the wall and made it shine brightly, indicating that it was very well sharp. She wanted to break something, wanted that someone yelled at her so she could yell back and louder, wanted to spread wings and shield inside them. So she stayed on the bed, not knowing what to do but keeping her hands pressed against the mattress. The minutes passed, and she now and then looked at the place where she last saw Sasuke; the voices had stopped.
Sakura approached the door, carefully, quietly. Her chin was tilted and her eyes alert. Her bare feet touched the floor between tiptoes, and her hands were gripping her large skirt so it wouldn't make noise either. She knew the opened door was possibly an invitation to a trap, but even though, it was a tempting invitation. Getting out of that place was no doubt the first thing to do now.
The tip of her left toes tapped the floor of the hallway a couple of times before she fully stood above it. Her face maintained its suspicious look, and she lifted her chin to look around.
"…!!" Sakura almost yelped.
The end of the hallway faced the dinning room, where the entire team was sitting and having a reunion. To her horror, the four members were looking at her, and surely they had watched her since she stepped out of the leader's room.
"…" She glared at them and tensed her shoulders. Sadly, it was the only thing to do that occurred to her.
They continued to look at the papers all sprawled through the wooden surface of the table and the pink haired couldn't help feeling slightly insulted. She was their hostage, wasn't she? She was supposed to be inside a locked place... but then she mentally shook her head, it was not the time to think such stupid things.
"We can't use the same method twice." The man with white hair said.
As they kept murmuring things, the captured bride slowly made her way to where they were sitting. She watched how the only woman looked at her unfriendly and then continued to pay attention to the speaker. Sakura, then, passed by them and while doing so she made sure that her back wouldn't face the interesting table or any of those four, so she encircled the table.
The Haruno was confused once the hand behind her back touched the knob of the front door. Her slender fingers clumsily wrapped around it and she twisted it. Opened. ..Was all this a genjutsu? She wondered while the door moved behind her, but she didn't unglue her eyes from the concentrated team. ..No, if it were a genjutsu, it would have probably ended there. And Sasuke wouldn't simply waste his chakra to trick her, and less if he had been battling in Konoha.
Her body jumped when she stepped on the cold, cold grass of the ground, and she shivered lightly, it was so cold outside. But it was outside. One pink and delicate eyebrow raised and she didn't understand anymore. She took some more steps backwards, and seeing that the people inside the house were so focused on what they were discussing about made a little voice inside her head scream that she ought to listen to what they were saying, that it was probably about Konoha.
... She wouldn't stay there any longer.
Sakura spun around quickly and as soon as she turned her back to the hideout, she ran as fast as her legs –and dress- allowed her to. And then she was really confused when she saw trees, birds, green, green and green. It was a forest, one of the plenty that existed, but the house—that old, abandoned-looking house where they were hiding— had an ample space for itself, so she found herself heading towards a labyrinth of several trees and shades.
"What's going on?" She thought.
Inside the house and dinning room, Sasuke raised an eyebrow but his eyes were closed and serene.
"..Juugo."
"Hahah.." Suigetsu was already laughing.
Juugo looked outside and snapped his fingers.
…
"…?"
She saw a bird flying toward her.
"…?!"
And it was followed by a huge group of many other birds. The pink haired crossed her arms in front of her face to shield from the flapping and the peaks. When she opened one eye, she would have sworn that the ends of her hair had lifted up for what it was in front of her was a huge centipede.
…
…
"Noo!!! Go away!!!"
Suigetsu grinned widely. "She sure has lungs to shout like that huh? Looks like someone knows your name…" He couldn't help saying while they heard some curses being directed to the raven haired sitting by the head of the table. "Hahah! That was so fun!"
"…Hn."
*-*-*-
"Owf!"
Was the sound that escaped her mouth when she was rudely thrown to the couch, her skirt sprawling all over it.
Sasuke was looking down on her. She noticed how his chin was lightly tilted up and it angered her more.
"Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't be able to escape?"
"…"
"If you obey I'll ask Suigetsu to take a walk with you."
"I'm not a puppy." She said while forcing her trembling fists down to the soft surface. She wanted to rip the Uchiha in half with her glare.
"…" His blank stare frustrated her. "Then use these." He threw a pair of slippers to the floor in front of her. "To cover your bare feet."
"…"
He seemed to have ignored her angry face once more as he looked at the clock that set up in the kitchen's wall. "Juugo, Karin. We have to go."
"Yes." Both answered at the same time from the table where they had been talking moments ago.
In a quick swish, they were gone. And it remained a heavy silence,
Why.. why do they leave me here alone again? Why.. such self-confidence? Am I so.. weak?--
Until Sakura heard the toilet flushing somewhere.
"Ahhr.. Eh? They're gone already?" Suigetsu asked while appearing on the living room while scratching his head with a hand that hadn't been washed. "..Am I here alone with the princess?"
"…"
"..Eh, don't worry. They just went to do the monthly purchases."
"…"
She was there, sitting on the couch in a tense position, with her back arched and her fists tight against her knees. Her weird pink hair was covering her face and her chin was down. Suigetsu's mouth dropped until it almost touched his chin. Now what?
"..Hey, why haven't you chan—Woah!"
She passed by him running fast and hit his arm with her elbow.
"O-ouch?!" Was that strength? "Hey!" He turned around and could just catch a hint of pink locks entering Sasuke's room.
Slam!
"…" And there he was alone again in the cold living room. "..I knew it. Any Sasuke's acquaintance has to be weird."
...
Standing there, the blond shinobi felt less miserable. This neighborhood hadn't been touched by the flames of the other night, so there were no burnt down houses and scalded trees. When Naruto had woken up on a hospital bed that afternoon, he couldn't help feeling all the blame weighing on his back. He had been right in front of the enemy and yet unable to do something other than being lamely defeated in less than a minute.
He could still remember, and feel… the face of the ex team seven's member. All the hate and sorrow inside such small yet threatening eyes. What happened to him? Why did he want Konoha's disgrace?! His teeth clenched tightly. The first thing he did after being sent out from the Hospital was to look for Sakura.
His reddish knuckles lightly hit the wooden door of a pink house, knocking.
"Sakura-chan?"
…
He tried again. "Open up, it's me." His voice transmitted his concern.
…
…Naruto frowned. He gathered air to his lungs and sighed loudly, silencing it with an annoyed pout. Maybe she's gone to the Hosp—
The door opened.
"…Naruto?"
She looked like hell.
"Sakura-chan…" And suddenly he didn't know what to say anymore. "..um,"
She blinked, not in a cute way.
"D'you wanna go for some ramen?" He grinned widely and placed his hands behind his nape. Ramen was like a drug to team seven, it made them forget everything and feel great about it.
She smiled but shook her head slowly. "Thanks, but I'll pass." She opened the door a little wider and clasped her hands lightly on its edge, leaning her body against her left hip.
They stood in silence. The birds then took the chance to chirp since the silence took over the neighborhood; a huge and thick cloud covered the sun for a minute, shadowing everything so lightly in grey shades. When it finished passing by, Naruto noticed that there were some tears contouring Sakura's green eyes as the sunlight slowly illuminated her face again.
"…Sakura-chan." The Uzumaki's face was serene. "You do know who—"
"..Do you want to come in?" She friendly invited. "I have some tea prepared."
Naruto's hands slowly dropped from his nape and he looked firmly at her before nodding. "…okay."
And he stepped into the house he had thought he'd never have to enter again.
*-*-*-
"Isn't Yamato-san exhausted by now?" Sakura said while serving tea for the tenth time now. "I can still hear the sound of wood from here, he hasn't stopped since morning."
"Oh, yeah, he's amazing." Naruto grinned and took the cup made of ceramic. "Everyone's making a huge effort."
"…" The pinkette looked away. "Tsunade didn't let me help." She said with that annoyed tone of hers. "She said that I needed to rest today, I feel really useless now."
"Hmm.. it's true."
"…"
"..T-that you need to rest! You're not useless Sakura-chan. I heard you saved a lot of people during the incident!" He explained.
"..Still."
"Baa-chan told me the same, that I needed to rest! Yet she's always asking for our help when possible."
"..So she talked to you too."
"…" He looked away. "Yeah."
They already knew of the persecution of Sasuke's team.
"..And you won't rest at all." She continued, however.
Naruto smiled and his face sympathetically resembled a fox. "Of course I'll help everyone."
They laughed lowly.
"And how is Lee?"
"…" Sakura rested her chin on her hand and bit her pinky lightly. ". ..It's weird, I thought he would be able to regain consciousness by today." And then she frowned sadly. "I'm going to visit him again, later."
"…Sakura-chan.." Naruto's voice came out hoarsely. "I'm sorry…"
"..Please don't say it. You don't have anything to do with—"
"I saw him."
And he miserably watched how her green eyes widened and how her small jaw fell lightly and he tightened his fist.
"I.. saw him." He repeated. "I could have.. stopped him." Naruto closed his eyes and lowered his head. "But.. I just fell. It was the only thing I've done. Lose myself and fall."
He opened his mouth, but closed it again as she didn't say anything to retort what he had said.
"I-I'm sorry."
"..It wasn't your fault.. Naruto."
The blond lifted his chin to look at her when he heard a sob. Her hand was now covering her eyes.
"It.. was meant to be like that."
"…" He stood up and sat next to his sobbing friend on the other couch. Naruto gripped her arms caringly and she hugged him. "Sakura-chan… be strong.." He returned the embrace tightly. "Everyone's safe.. okay? We'll overcome this together.."
She opened her mouth to let some screams out. "Why did it turn like this?!"
He muffled her cry, but what she said next crippled his heart.
"Sasukeee!"
Naruto continued to hold her until the sun swapped back to the horizon on her window.
...
"I'll proceed with the plan now."
Suigetsu nodded, but then pouted. "Are you sure you wanna go by yourself?"
"..Aa."
The white haired man who was inside the house glanced above the raven's shoulder and his eyes just spotted darkness and trees. The Uchiha was standing one step outside the house's front door; his face was enlightened by the lights coming from inside the simple hideout and his back was covered by his own shadow.
"Let me guess. You want us to babysit the princess."
"…" He paused for a moment there. "Just don't let her do something extravagant." The 'shark-face' lightly shook his head at that, who understood that guy?
"Y'know, I think you've seriously broke the lady's little heart. Kidnapping a person during her wedding, man that's cold. Is night already and she hasn't gone out of your room yet."
"…" He wanted to shove something uncomfortably big inside that mouth with irregular teeth.
And he couldn't say it. He could open his mouth, could think about the words, prepare his tongue, yet not say it.
I'll take her with me.
Once the door was closed, his whole body was covered by the darkness of the night and the moon made sure that he wasn't fully engulfed by it. Sasuke turned around.
"…It's getting cold."
…
The Uchiha got closer to the depths of the forest, his Sharingan shone when the strong moonlight stopped enveloping his face. He did that quick trick he had learned of swirling the tomoes and continued to advance.
After one hour of walking, the cold had made his large and slim hands sleep on his sides and freeze, so it took a couple of more slow steps for the raven to finally take his arms from the cape that was covering his shoulders and body to curve his large and pale fingers around the hood. With a quick nod of his wrists, the hood covered his head and reached the tip of his nose, leaving his mouth with parted purple lips bare.
His strange chakra that could be seen as an odd mixture of dark blue, red and purple retracted to his body, sliding slowly like a snake crawling to its cave and hiding. His chin lifted, and he could see the lights of Konohagakure.
"…"
With only one jump, he landed on a tree branch, so quietly and lightly that one couldn't tell if he used strength to jump so high or not. The night was his accomplice, hiding him between the leaves and matching with his eyes, hair and cape perfectly. From that angle, he could see the bamboo and wooden-made fortress of Konoha and the few houses that were near the entrance.
There were guards on the main gate. Four, down and planted on the floor, and three high above, inside little chambers of the towers that connected to the big wall that protected the currently recovering village. He was sure there were more.
Sasuke moved away from the entrance –ever so quietly and professionally well hidden- and ran, rounding the wall for some minutes until he jumped to the surface of the thick wall, silent as a cat. His red eyes narrowed as he saw the village just a few meters away from him. Something was wrong, that was too easy.
Space and time became black and every outline of chakra and solidity was traced by phosphorescent light, the view provided by his Sharingan. He scanned the houses, saw families happily having dinner; scanned the old trees which were full of healthy chakra; scanned the burnt houses, and the insects.
One in particular.
A tiny bug slowly approached him, flapping its wing so quickly that he could only see a blur of light. But even as the insect had been flying so excitedly until the moment, it froze when tried to cross the fortress and fell somewhere, electrocuted and dead. Before it landed on the ground, the Uchiha was already looking straight, with his eyes black once again.
"A... barrier."
Ch-ch-ch-chchchchc
Maybe his chidori was stronger than a bug.
Cchhhiiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuu!!!—
*-*-*-
Cling! A needle hit the metallic surface of a medicine tray and sounded sharply.
"They have an entire… fortress there."
"…Caught?"
"…"
Karin simply rolled her eyes as the Uchiha continued to grossly "heal" his wounds. God, even her who was accustomed to those things had to turn her head away, didn't it hurt? And couldn't he be a little neater while cleaning his wounds? There was blood everywhere! It was a bit disgusting (and sexy, sure), but of course he didn't care about her comfort and continued to stain everything.
"You know, Sasuke-kun, it's a bit rude for a gentleman to do this in front of a woman."
"Go somewhere else."
"Ugh.."
Men.
"Um, Karin, Sasuke."
The redheaded raised her chin from the hand resting on the armrest of the hard couch and looked at Juugo, who was wiping his hands.
"Come on." He simply said.
Sasuke silently stood up from the other couch while slipping his sleeves up again and left the metallic tray with red –once white- small towels, needles and other first-aid elements there. The corner of Karin's mouth curved downwards as she looked at the mess.
Suigetsu appeared with a happy face and humming and blinked when saw his leader passing by him. He then grinned.
"Hey Sasuke! How—"
The raven simply showed him the several cuts and wounds that promised permanent scars on his arm and looked at him.
"…Oh. Man.." Still, he grinned. "Well, we're even now!" And he showed his injured arm too.
Karin rolled her eyes. Men…
"We'll talk about this later. Suigetsu… call her."
"Piece of cake!" He tried to say in English.
"Do you want to enter there alone?"
"..Can I?"
"Of course." Naruto smiled. "I'll be seeing Kakashi meanwhile, it's already night and I haven't seen him."
Sakura nodded and smiled too.
"Ja."
"Un."
When the pink haired entered, she placed her coat on a chair and sat on it. She inspected the man lying on the hospital bed and tried to clear her thoughts.
It was so difficult.
That woman had such a twisted mind. Between smiles, cries, feelings, pains, memories. It sounded like any person's head. But so much twisted.
"…"
The pinkette sighed and opened a book, now and then looking at his face calmly.
...
She was so angry.
No, angry was short. She was furious.
Who the fuck did they think they were? What the hell were human rights for?!
As she continued to hear the chopsticks touching the bottom of each bowl, her rage increased.
They were… having dinner.
And she had been forced to be watching them doing so.
The redhead looked a bit annoyed, but was eating silently. She was receiving smug smirks from the shark teethed man, and the orange haired big man on her side was acting as if she wasn't that at all, simply eating. And of course she didn't even want to see how Sasuke-san was; she didn't feel like seeing his face at the moment.
"You should eat something, you're awfully skinny." The shark teethed pointed at her with his chopsticks and talked with his mouth full.
Sakura simply moved her bowl one centimeter away with the tip of her left hand's fingers.
Karin tapped the table with the tip of her chopsticks and raised one eyebrow. "Juugo spent a great deal of time cooking this, y'know girl?"
Sakura glared. "You dare to speak to me like that? I've spent the whole day preparing myself for my wedding and I don't see any of you apologizing."
"OE. You wait one minute there, pinky!" Karin adjusted her glasses, already frustrated. "That wasn't part of—"
"Karin."
"…"
"It's okay, really."
Sakura looked at her side; the orange haired man was looking down to his food. "It wasn't any sacrifice to cook this. If she doesn't want to eat it's fine."
Suigetsu chuckled and took a huge bite from the beef. "Keep your mouth shut woman, no one asked for your opinion."
Karin dropped her hand holding the chopsticks. "What the hell did you say?"
He grinned; ow, mad already. "Are you deaf now?"
Sakura sighed disinterested, was that really Sasuke's new team? Were they the ones who burned Konoha down? Thinking about that made the emptiness in her stomach turn into an awful wish to vomit. Her throat closed and she didn't want to stay there anymore. Because.. and just because she was an educated woman, she didn't slap her bowl to the floor.
She stood from her chair and withdrew from the area to enter into the only door she knew that had a bedroom on the other side. Of course, it resulted to be Sasuke's room for her happiness.
The pair who had been arguing like no tomorrow shut up and the dark dinning room quieted. Juugo then took Sakura's bowl and dragged it to his front. He took his chopsticks and began to eat it without saying a word.
Karin looked at Sasuke, he seemed thoughtful about something. Better not, but perhaps he was thinking about the girl…
"We'll have to wait for the next attack." The raven interrupted her thoughts and she was then sure, it hadn't been the pink haired girl but that.
"You've had that much of a bad luck?" Suigetsu leaned against the chair again.
"They have some sort of barrier.. protecting the open air," Sasuke leaned forward and placed his chin above his intertwined fingers. "Chidori didn't work." He narrowed his eyes. "And they came to attack me almost instantly."
"I was expecting something like that." Karin said while pulling some red locks above her shoulder. "We're dealing with Konoha here, there were a lot of strong chakras inside the village."
"Sasuke-san…"
They all turned their heads to Juugo, who had just finished his second bowl.
"..May I ask, again, why you've brought the young girl with us?"
And then they turned to their leader again.
"…" He closed his eyes. "I thought that I've made that clear."
"You just said 'it's none of your business' and changed the topic." The white haired lifted his index finger discreetly.
"Is she of any use?" Juugo insisted.
"Yeah, I want to know that too!" And Karin protested.
It was amazing how Taka team knew their leader well enough to know that he wouldn't be mad with that questionnaire because today he was cool.
Sasuke's brow twitched quickly and he opened his eyes, annoyed. "..She's my hostage. It is none of your business." He stood up tiredly. "We'll have to wait some time until the next attack.. They must be waiting for us to make a move soon." And walked away.
...
It was purely hilarious –from Suigetsu's point of view, of course- to see the Uchiha boy being unable to enter his own room, that oh-so-beloved room of his where he spent the whole afternoons and evenings, because of the obviously furious lady inside it. First he walked to the hallway and stopped in front of his room, pausing as if considering to whether entering in or not, then he lifted one hand and almost touched the knob, but his hand froze in place when a loud grunt was heard from the other side of the door. Suigetsu bit his tongue; too good to watch!
Tssss---
"…Did you say something, Suigetsu?" Sasuke's deep voice sounded disturbed.
Karin slapped one palm on her forehead lightly, stupid shark-face.
"Oh, no Sasuke." He bit his tongue to prevent himself for laughing his ass off and then opened his mouth again. "I'm just watching you." He rested his chin on one palm and waved his other hand casually.
"…" Sasuke dropped his hand. "Hn. You're sleeping on the couch tonight."
"What?!"
The raven haired just walked into the room next to his.
"Heeeey, you can't do tha—
Wrek. The lock was twisted.
"…selfish bastard~." The blue haired man scratched his nape.
…
..
"Hey Karin, how about sh—"
A bowl was smashed against his face.
Okay.. nothing happens until now. Well, okay it does but that's just the.. intro? Anyways I'm sorry, it could have been better. But, um.. it was longer xD" I promise that it'll get better, okay? .-. And um, well, the plot kinda changed ist direction didn't it? But I have the plot inside my head and more than 17,000 words so dunworry n.ñ
(Note: Don't kill me about the Lee thing ok?! xD I didn't do it on purpose! *shot*)
And yes, there's been a delay with this chap.. but it's just that sometimes you look at your work and all self-confidence wash away. (also, I don't know what happened to the site but it wouldn't let me post this!) That's me and my lack of experience ^^" But I apologize either way.
Review if you wish, please