Review, favorite and share this story if you like it. I got asked how long this would turn out to be and I suppose 10-12 chapters in total.
Also about the sex scene I depicted previously, I know it was a little too elaborate and OOC for Sakura but I still think it would suffice to place Sakura in a different light from now on. She has moved past Sasuke and prepares to settle down in her life.
A veiled figure stood in the distance of the dark and narrow corridor. Sakura inched closer wanting to see for herself who it was, she recognized the corridor as the one in her house and quickly realized that she was in her house sans the lights. The house had eeriness to it; an inscrutable silence and only the faint noise of dampened muffles could be heard as she stepped closer to the veiled figure standing at the very end of the passage.
When only a few feet away from him, she asked, "Who are you?"
The veiled figure now turned half way around to gape at her presence and spoke, "Are you really asking me that, Sakura?" and with that he pulled the veil off his face to reveal himself.
Sakura stood suspended in her shock as two sets of eyes stares intently at her, one deep red and the other a purple grey with several concentric circles in it. A spinning sharingan now relaxed into position with three tomoe. Sasuke moved closer to Sakura as she faltered in her step and kept taking small steps away from him in absolute fear.
She was dreading this moment more than anything as he paced towards her now and yanked her arm out of his way and pushed her against the wall on his left, his hand fastened to her throat in a deathly grip.
"You have wanted me for so long, so what's the matter now? Why the sudden fear of my presence? Sakura?" He sneered at her, pressing his lips in a scornful grin as he inched his hand up towards her face. His thumb brushed against her lower lips as his face inched closer to hers as her breathing became more rapid.
"Sasuke, wha-what are you doing here?"
"That should be the least of your concerns, Sakura. Aren't you going to jump into my arms and ask me to be yours?" he asked her diabolically.
"Sasuke? I-I still haven't for-forgotten everything you did to me. Why would I want you to be with me when I can't even forgive you" she said more confidently now. He placed his thumb on her cheek and stroked it tenderly and inched even closer, their breath's intermingling and causing Sakura uneasiness. He stopped for nothing even though he sensed her discomfort, inching even closer as their lips met in a tender and soft kiss. She jerked back yet he pressed into her lips softly even as she wanted to break the contact. His hands moved onto her neck, grasping it in a delicate choke as her eyes now closed falling prey to his movements. She gave in to the kiss and pressed against his lips gently feeling the grip of his hand around her neck that squeezed ever so gently. Her breathing quickened as his lips became more fervent and hungry for her, ravaging her soft lips as he sucked on each lip causing her to moan. Her eyes had only opened in slits when suddenly she felt a painful thrust in her abdomen; a searing agony in Sasuke's eyes welcomed her as her eyes met his and lowered to where the shooting pain rose from. Her eyes bored into the sight of his hand holding a sharp kunai thrust into her abdomen as he grinned at her with malevolent thoughts. Her eyes widened and teared up as he twisted the kunai into her abdomen deeply earning a loud screech of pain and she fumbled in her step and grasped his chest with her hand. He watched her clumsily grasp for him as she fell to her knees, his hand now holding the blood-soaked kunai, watching her with a vicious grin.
She slumped onto the floor in a puddle of blood that oozed from the wound as she gasped for air and hit her arms here and there flailing towards the figure standing over her. Her senses all came to a shut as she choked and felt her body dilapidate due to the blood loss. Her eyes closing into thin slits as she watched the last of Sasuke walk out of her house closing the door behind him.
Sakura woke up from the nasty dream with her arms grasping her stomach in an almost delusional paranoia as her lungs sucked every ounce of breath. Her eyes hovered around the room seeking for Sasuke immediately realizing she was only dreaming. She quickly noticed the man sleeping beside her, Yumire; who was now half awake from her frightened pants as he rubbed his eyes and put one arm on Sakura's shoulder.
"Sakura, are you alright?" He asked with concern.
She turned towards him as he looked at her with worry, "It was only a dream, I am sorry for waking you up" she said as she quickly wrapped the bed sheet over her previously exposed chest. He gaped at the sight of her exposed flesh as he looked into her eyes.
There was a moment of silence before she asked, "I'll go make us some tea and Yakizakana and Natto. Is that okay?"
"Yes of course".
"Oh and if you're wondering, the bathroom is on the right over there. Extra towels and everything are in the cabinets inside. Make yourself at home" she quickly said although she didn't want her guest to become too used to all of this since she hadn't really planned on having him here in the first place.
She grabbed her nightdress from the drawers and slipped it on before pacing towards the kitchen. She grabbed the fridge and flung a bottle out, placing it quickly on her forehead and grasping some much needed air. She had a terrible head ache and she needed to feel better. Pulling a tablet out of the small bowl in the corner of the kitchen she popped it into her mouth gulping it down with water.
Quickly tossing the fish into the pan, she prepared the tea and sweet beans as she felt the presence of someone approaching her. She quickly turned around in fright, as she discovered a drenched Yumire standing in the doorway of the kitchen staring at her while he toweled his hair. He was clad in only a towel as he approached her.
"Umm, that smells good" he said as he placed a kiss on her shoulders and traced her neck with his tongue kissing her cheek.
"Yumire…" her voice trailed off causing Yumire's expectations to meet an end.
"Sakura, I want to know what last night was all about?" he asked disgruntled.
"Yumire, it…it was irrational of us to have engaged in all of that. I am sorry if my actions misled your feelings in anyway" she quickly turned around to hide the guilt in her eyes. Yumire stood there, confused as he retracted his arms from her body and fell at a loss for words.
"So that was only a one night stand?" he asked rather frustrated and saddened.
"I hate to say so, but yes" she was serving the food onto two plates as she answered and quickly poured the tea into a ceramic kettle as she brought two glasses and the plates to the table behind her. She quickly turned to look at him as she noted the disappointment in his eyes, she stepped forwards laying a gentle kiss on his cheek, "Let's eat?"
He followed suit and sat down as she poured him some tea. They both ate in sheer silence.
It had been three days. Three days of overtime shifts. Three days of piled up paperwork that underwent scrutiny. Three days of back to back treatment of patients and rigorous surgeries. Sakura was exhausted as she made her way home after sifting through all the paper work and realized she was done for the night. It was already 12 AM and she felt she was at the end of her wits. She trudged down the road towards her home realizing the only thing that could comfort her at this point of time would be warm glass of sake.
She walked into the bar as the door made a jingle as she peered into the crowd, realizing there was none. Only a handful of souls sat in different booths and a couple of people at the bar stools were there to greet her presence. She walked towards the bar tender and spoke, "A warm glass of sake please".
"Make that two!" a voice came from behind her as she turned around to see who it was. Tsunade made her way to a bar stool beside Sakura as she sat and looked at her in joy. "Tsunade-sama!"
"Aye aye! I know what you're thinking. What is the old lady doing here when she should be resting at home since she retired? Well the old lady needs a drink from time to time now doesn't she?" she said with delight.
"Ha ha I was only wondering why you were here so late at night. Nothing else. You obviously should be enjoying your retirement as you please" she said swiftly
"Hmm is that right. Well, how are things at the hospital?"
"Things can get worked up sometimes. Paper work piles up like never before. I have a strange feeling that we might have to digitalize a lot of records to minimize on all the paper consumption and to make things simpler since there is no counterbalance between what goes on paper and what stays in digital confines. It can get frustrating sometimes which is why, sometimes I need this" she said as she cast the glass of sake in the air.
"Well I am glad you are getting the hang of being the Head of the hospital. It surely is a huge responsibility. Soon even Naruto will be prepared for his turn at being Hokage; you both have certainly made so much growth. Although, Sasuke..." she finished with a tentative pause.
"I wonder what he plans on doing" she finished.
"Well as long as he's being no trouble I believe he's doing us all a favor" Sakura ended her statement sarcastically. A faint expression of disbelief struck on Tsunade's face as she stared into Sakura's emerald eyes wondering how someone who admired her team mate with such love was now merely repulsed by their mention.
"Whatever happened to your liking for him?" she finally asked.
"I grew up, shishou. I realized there are more important things than just fawning over a boy after all the hateful things he had done" Sakura stated.
A long pause in their conversation led to Sakura asked the bar tender for another serving of the drink to which he turned around and looked at her.
"Of course ma'am, and would you like my head on a spike along with that?"
Sakura raised her eyes to meet his before realizing his ever so familiar voice; Sasuke's onyx eye stared into her with a drive to yank her head off her body. She quickly got off her stool and tossed the glass in her hand at him breaking her out of her delusion.
Tsunade stared at her dubiously as she looked back and forth between Sakura and the bar tender. The bar tender clearly shocked look dead pan at Sakura.
"I-I am s-so sorry!" she exclaimed upon realizing her fault and immediately looked at her teacher, "I must leave, I am sorry about that" she finished after grabbing some money from her pocket and placing it on the counter and fleeted towards the door.
Tsunade stared at her student walking away in clear shock as she reckoned what got Sakura in such a state in the first place. She finished her drink and placed money at the counter and rose from her seat, leaving the bar. As she walked outside in hopes of catching her student, she realized she was standing in an empty street. Sakura was long gone.
Sakura reached her apartment and jabbed the keys into the keyhole yanking her door open quickly shoving her bag and belongings onto the couch. Her breathing has become staggered as she raced into the room, ripping her clothes off her body feeling the sudden heat emitting from her body. It was as though her skin was boiling and screaming to be soothed. She stepped out of her skirt and clad in only in her underwear, she paced into her bathroom and stood in front of the mirror staring at her reflection. Her emerald orbs were protruding out of her lids and she was almost losing color from her face. She immediately drew the cabinet behind the mirror open and pulled two pill boxes out closing the cabinet.
She flung the pills onto her palm and tossed it into her mouth dragging a glass towards the tap and gulping it all down before calming down. Her arms were splayed onto the sink as she filled her lungs with air. As she raised her face towards the mirror her heart broke its rhythm and plummeted as she saw the image in her mirror growing darker and darker. A man quickly grabbed her back and her shoulder and punctured her neck with a sharp dagger as he stared intently into her giant orbs; her scream filling the foreign noise in her bathroom as she collapsed onto the floor and watched his presence scatter into black smoke.
Review, fav and write to me about any themes you feel I should go along with. Thank you for all the response! And yes Sasuke is coming back real soon… read on to know more J