'Home at last!' Sky thought to herself as she entered the front door. "Mom! I'm home." "Okay. I'm heading off to work soon." "Okay." 'Jeez. Not even a welcome home.' She headed up the stairs, eager to come face to face with her "friends" from the Sound who would be waiting in her bedroom as they had been for a few weeks. She found Sasuke sitting at her computer, obviously trying to make sense of an online computer game.
"Where are Orochimaru and Kabuto?" she asked, noticing they weren't in the room. "Out looking for portals." Sky nodded in understanding. They had been searching for portals everyday since the Sound nins had landed in her room. She tossed her backpack in the corner and fell down onto her bed, grateful to be home. "Don't you have homework you could be doing?" Sasuke asked. Sky was still stressed out from school and decided to test her luck against the Uchiha's temper. "Don't you have a life? Oh wait! I know the answer to that one."
In a flash, she found herself pinned to the bed, Sharingan eyes inches from her own. "If you weren't so important I would kill you for your insolence," he said, his voice dangerously low. "Go ahead and kill me. You'll never get revenge on your brother then. You'll be stuck here forever." "You think I don't know that? That's the only reason you're still alive. But when we do find this portal, you won't be needed anymore." He released her and took his seat at the computer, as if the whole exchange hadn't happened.
Sky layed there a few moments longer, aware that she had narrowly escaped dying by the Uchiha's hands. 'And he wonders why I hate him.' She goes over to her bag and picks out the night's homework. As she lies out on the bed she thinks about the past few weeks. 'Ashley would be so jealous if she knew I was spending my nights with the Sound trio, especially Sasuke, though she can have him.' The words on the page started to blur and she found her eyelids growing heavy. Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep on her books.
Sky groaned as she lifted her head. 'Must have fallen asleep.' She looked around her room, noticing that Sasuke was no longer in the room. 'Good riddance.' She sat up and glanced at her clock. It was 10 o'clock. 'I must have been out cold.' She got up from the bed, making no attempt to finish the homework she had barely started. 'I'll work on it in the morning.' She put her books away and headed to the restroom to take a shower. The floorboards were cold underneath her feet and the house was as silent as the grave. 'I wonder where the guys are.' As she reached the end of the hallway, she noticed that the bathroom door was closed. 'I bet Sasuke went in there knowing I still need to take a shower.' "Hey Sasuke, open the door. You can hold it."
The door opened, freeing a cloud of steam that seemed to roll across the landing. And there standing in the doorway was Kabuto Yakushi, dripping wet, long hair cascading down past his shoulders, dressed only in a towel. For a moment, Sky forgot how to breathe. Kabuto leaned casually against the doorframe and said, "What's wrong, Sky? Never seen a guy in a towel before?" He smirked at her for she was unable to hide the blush that lit up her face. "Uhhhh…." She turned away in a flash and said, "Sorry. I was just going to take a shower."
She felt a hand on her shoulder as he leaned in close and pressed his body close to hers. 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' Her thoughts became jumbled and she wasn't sure on how to react. She heard him chuckle. "It seems my touch has a certain affect on you, Sky-chan." She felt his finger trail a path from the back of her wrist up her arm, slowly. She was only subconsciously aware of her heart pounding in her chest. The hand on her shoulder twisted her around and she found herself up against the wall, Kabuto's face only a few inches from hers. His being so close made a dozen sensations rush through her, and she found herself wishing this moment would never end.
"Your heart sure is loud, Sky-chan. I'm not sure it agrees with our actions. Or should I say, my actions." At this he smirked, clearly enjoying the affect he was having on her. "Oh it agrees," she said, breathless. Another smirk. "Really?" he asked, looking highly amused. He reached out and traced her jaw line to her chin, teasingly. She closed her eyes, shivering in delight at his touch.
"Kabuto!" Orochimaru's voice came from the end of the hall. Sky found herself cursing the Snake Sannin for his bad timing. Kabuto backed away, the smile never fading from his lips. "It seems we will have to continue this some other time." With that said, he turned away and went to find his master. Sky stood there on the landing, trying her best to catch her breath. Her thoughts were jumbled, trying to organize themselves. When she felt she had recovered and that she no longer felt her legs were made of Jell-O, she turned and walked back to her room.
When she got there, she collapsed on her bed. 'Not sure I can sleep after that.' Somehow she was able to calm her mind and she drifted off into the deep reaches of sleep. It was no surprise that her dreams that night centered around onyx eyes.