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A/N: I'm so sorry people, I decided that I really needed to update, considering I said reviewing would help me update faster, so although it's rather short, it does hold vital information to the story, so here's chapter 4. And THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS I GOT! They made me really happy, all 18 reviews for chapter 3.

Reflections of a Broken Kunoichi: Chapter 4

by: Mitsurufangirl009

ReCap on Last Chapter

"Now Sasuke-kun, let's have a training session, one-on-one. You try to kill me, and I try to kill you. No holding back and no mercy. Got it?" she smarted off, a sadistic grin spreading across her face. Before he could ever voice his objection, Sakura charged him, aiming for his chest with kunai, but she disappeared before she attacked. Sasuke, from habit, began to use his sharingan.

"You won't win with that Sasuke-kun!" her voice chanted, but it was echoed almost like she was everywhere around him.

"Sakura, stop this!" he pleaded, he didn't want to hurt her anymore: physically or emotionally.

"Here!" she yelled as she came out of one of the trees, but Sasuke caught her wrist that had the hand holding the kunai attached to it all before she could strike. She gasped, dropping her guard for a mere second, but that was all he needed to knock her unconscious. He carried her bridal style all the way to her, or at least for the time being, their house.

The moon shone through the balcony curtains, letting a cool breeze flow the dark room. Sakura awoke as she felt the refreshing air caressed her face and her emerald eyes opened. She sat up confused as to where she was for a moment, the memories of her rather short fight with Sasuke returned to her as she looked around at the familiar room. Naruto had been there again as blood had been on her windowsill as she'd left and the room had a clean scent to it instead of the decaying one that made her vomit occasionally. She glanced at the clock beside her bed that flashed the dreadful fluorescent green numbers that told her it was around midnight. She was about to get up and go walking like she semi-normally did when she couldn't sleep. That was until she caught a glimpse of black hair near the floor. She threw back the covers and tentatively put a foot on the ground. It suddenly hit her that she was no longer wearing her shoes anymore, of course it wasn't hard to figure out that Sasuke had probably taken them off for her as she'd been unconscious.

"Sasuke-kun…" she whispered longingly, she almost wanted to him to embrace her and shower her with affection, but with as much trouble and pain as she'd been put through because of him, she couldn't allow herself to do such. Besides, rule twenty-five of conduct: Shinobi must never show their emotions ((me: or something to that effect, I can't remember it fully)), right? Right. And she would not be the weak little girl she'd been at twelve years old. He was sleeping soundly on the futon he'd from his home, his even breathing calmed her slightly as she took in the image of her childhood crush. The moonlight shone on his relaxed face with his shaggy black hair framing his pale white face perfectly. She smiled a little as she remembered the kiss he'd given her, it was true that she was furious for the extremely rude act, but the fact was…she really did still love him, she just refused to accept it. He still the heartthrob he was as a genin, and at the age of eighteen, he was no different; at least through her eyes he was the same cold-hearted, arrogant, and quick-tempered boy she'd fawned over. But the old Sasuke-kun wouldn't ever even thought of saving her from something so weak, much less kiss her; reality was beginning to dawn on Sakura rather harshly, and Sakura scoffed and glared at the floor at this thought. She wasn't happy with this reality; therefore, she wouldn't live with it. Suicide wasn't an option any longer; the pain she'd been through was agonizing and thwarted in the end. She needed something that would just take her away from Konoha's reality.

"Fine then, I may not be able to kill myself, but if I can get far enough away from Konoha, it shouldn't be too hard to find someone or something willing to kill." She whispered to herself, brushing a pink strand of hair behind her ear.

She slowly put both feet on the floor and stood up, being as silent as she could with creaking floorboards. She took a step towards the balcony and looked back at Sasuke to see if he'd been awoken by the noise, if he caught her, she wasn't ever going to get away. She began walking, taking slow and small steps as to not to wake the sleeping male. She sighed as she finally made it past Sasuke and was only about five steps towards the balcony where she'd finally be free. It was then that something, more specifically someone, grasped her ankle, she let out a high pitched squeak and turned around slowly to find out what the offending object that had stopped her was. She looked down only to see Sasuke's onyx eyes staring at her, his hand grasping her ankle.

"You are a jonin, aren't you? If you're going to run away, act like one, or else acting like a genin fresh out of the academy will get you caught." He stated boldly. She sighed, her anger and determination dwindling rapidly.

"You need sleep, Sakura, go back to bed." He stated, yawning slightly at the end of the sentence. She cursed under her breath.

"Gurg- it's not like I'll sleep anyways, you take the bed, you really look uncomfortable on the futon." She said sweetly, hoping her plan would work, but the possibility it would slip by Sasuke was rather slim.

"Nice try, Sakura-chan, it's not going to work, though. You would wait until I went to sleep on the bed and you would be closest to the balcony, I'm tried, not stupid." He said coolly. Sakura's shoulders sagged slightly.

"Well, I was honestly trying to be nice and give you the bed, it just had an…alternative motive…behind it."

"I won't unless you're right beside me, got it?" he asked rather sternly. Sakura pondered this for a moment, she didn't want Sasuke to be uncomfortable, she really was honest about that part, but she didn't technically want to be "sleeping" with him, nor did she like the idea of being caught again by the Uchiha Genius. The temptation would be too great if she just went back to bed, and it left her with only one option and one answer.

"Fine." He waited until she made towards the bed to release her ankle, Sasuke slowly got up from the futon and got on the bed with her, she being the farthest from the balcony opening. She was facing the clock, oh the dreadful clock with its flashing green numbers of doom! She sighed knowing that sleep was futile with events of the past three days replaying in her head. She suddenly felt something warm wrap around her waist and pull her close. Sasuke's arm was wrapped her with his head nestled right next to her ear. His warm breath tickled her ear as she gasped at the warmth that had encircled her.

"Sleep," he ordered, "You won't be going anywhere until morning." He whispered, she shivered from the feeling of his breath on her ear and felt him tighten his grip around her waist and then slacken, proving he wasn't going to let go. She smiled gently to herself as she closed her eyes and slowly fell into a fitful sleep in Sasuke's arms. Sasuke stared at the kunoichi in his arms, a small smirk playing on his lips, as he himself began to enter the wonderful of sleep.

Unbeknownst to either of them, a figure watched through blood red eyes through the side of the balcony. The figure smiled maliciously as the cool wind brought cherry blossoms fluttering around his head, he grabbed at one, inhaling the lovely sweet scent before crushing the flower in his palm and letting it be taken by the wind, "Soon little brother, soon you will be crushed." The figure laughed as he disappeared into the night, the beginnings of a plan forming in his twisted mind.

A/N: I'm going to apologize ahead of time, I'm really sorry if my story only gets worse from here, because I am fairly new to Naruto, and I don't really know much about Itachi other than the fact that he murdered his own family, is Sasuke's older brother, and is apart of the Akatsuki, which I don't what is. So… that being said, if anyone is willing to give me some information about Itachi and the Akatsuki, I would really appreciate it. Please Review! I really hope to update soon, but no promises.