Seducing Sasuke

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Chapter Two

Sasuke wasn't a patient person. He especially wasn't patient where Karin was concerned. She was always around him. Never left his side, unless he ordered her away. She acted as if she was his girlfriend or something, which he had made clear that she indeed was not.

Still she clung to him, like an unwanted shadow. If he didn't find her abilities useful, he would have sent her away. Or killed her, which he often considered doing.

To make matters worse, his second-in-command, Suigetsu, often taunted him each time Karin so much as breathed his name. He found this cat and dog chase hilarious. Sometimes he doubted his state of sanity because he didn't know why he chose those idiots to be in his team.

It was twilight, by the time they decided to make their camp for the night. Jugo and Suigetsu were setting up their tents while Karin builds the fire to prepare something for them to eat. Sasuke, on the other hand, decided to go on a walk. He needed to get away for a while.

"Sasuke, where are you going? Dinner is almost ready." Karin announced, breaking him out of his thoughts.

"I'm going for a walk. I want to survey the area; see if there is a river or lake nearby to replenish or water supply and clean up. I'll be back soon." he said, his voice uninviting.

Karin, oblivious asked," Do you want me to go with you. It'll be better. Two is better than one. It'll be romantic."

Sensing a double meaning to her words, he shook his head, as she got up from the log she had been sitting on and began to walk over to him. Behind her, Sasuke could see Suigetsu, trying not to laugh.

"No, Karin, stay here." he spoke obviously annoyed at the red headed girl. She was irritating and he knew that looking for a source of water was the last thing on her mind. Why wouldn't she take a hint and get it through her head that he wasn't interested.

"But, Sasuke, we could cover more ground that way." she said, her voice whiny and her lips set in a pout. He just about had it with her.

"What part of no don't you get, Karin? I am going and you're staying. Got that or do I have to spell it out for you." he retorted, slipping as much venom in his voice as he could. Karin stopped in her tracks, obviously shocked by how he spoke to her.

He slipped away before she could compose herself and come after him. She was getting on his last nerve. She overwhelmed him sometimes. Often he found himself imagining himself strangling her.

Running helped him clear his mind. Lately, his mind had been plagued by a strange longing for his former life, before it became so complicated. He often wondered how his life would be like if he stayed in Konoha. He quickly
banished the thought and focused on his task.

With luck on his side, for once, he comes across a river a distance away from camp. This was good because right now he wanted to be as far away from his comrades as he could for a while.

The river is not that big and leads to a lake. To his surprise he also discovers a hot spring, something that he was not expecting to find. A rock formation splits it in half creating a wall of sorts.

Kneeling down, he puts a hand in to check the waters temperature and appears satisfied with it. He strips and immerses himself in the water. The water washes away days of grime that had collected on his body.

Allowing himself to relax for a while, his thoughts begin to drift towards a more dangerous route that involves a single person.

Sakura Haruno, the pink haired girl that more often than not plagued his every thought and dreams. His former teammate who he'd left behind when he turned his back on Konoha and became a rogue. He tried to keep her out of his mind but that proved futile.

He tried to compare her to Karin as a way to keep her off his mind but he knew that no other woman could compare to her. Where Karin was loud and tomboyish; Sakura was more gentle and feminine. Sakura was everything that Karin was not.

'Stop thinking about her, Uchiha.' he thought, while trying to find something else to think about but even he knew that it was pointless. His thoughts kept returning to her. Part of him wished she was there.

Unwillingly, he imagines her, just mere inches from him. In his mind, he pulls her into a passionate kiss, her body pressed against his, with only the water covering them.

"'She is way out of your league." He scolded himself and forced himself from the thoughts that floated in the forefront of his mind. "Besides she's probably with someone else. She had to have moved on with her life. Maybe she accepted Naruto."

The very thought of her in Naruto or any other man's arms stirs feelings of immense jealousy in his heart. He didn't know why he felt that way about Sakura, seeing as he'd never thought of her before this past year.

She had been weak and the last time he saw her he had almost killed her. But now, if the rumors he had heard were true, she was not the same girl that had a crush on him when they were genin. She was stronger. She had become a jonin and was the best medic in all of Konoha, having surpassed Tsunade, which was saying something. Tsunade was or had been the best medic in all of the Five nations.

Finally, he managed to force himself out of the water and dressed. He'd been away from camp too long and had to go back before his team killed each other or worse yet, Karin coming to look for him. Banishing Sakura from his head, he began to make his way back the way he came from. But little did he know is that she is more closer than he thinks.