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Taint Me
Chapter 4
Last chapter…
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The fast treading of feet and an all too familiar voice caused the sleeping pinkette to stir uncomfortably in her sleep. Rolling against the surface of where she laid, she was relieved to hear the tack-tacking of shoes coming to a halt.
A warm pair of hands then lifted her from her place of rest, but Sakura still refused to awake from her slumber. She was dreaming sweetly, right next to her Sasuke. Smiling unconsciously, the kunoichi nestled her face against the warm arms of her carrier.
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"Sakura," said a stern voice. "You need to wake up,"
The sound of the fifth Hokage's voice roused Sakura with an alarming start. Her head met with a steel-cold hand that had slapped against her forehead. The kunoichi's eyes met with those of liquid amber, studying her with a measurable amount of concern. She did not like the look etched on the woman's face. Where was Sasuke?
Where was she?
"Naruto found you on the bench near the gates to the village's entrance," Tsunade said, reading the questions in her eyes. "You were unconscious. Almost gone for a week… I'm surprised you made it back here alive, Sakura,"
"But I…" Sakura stammered, trying hard to disengage a plausible dream from reality. "I didn't come back…I was with Sasuke."
The ageless woman only gave the girl a small frown. "I'm sorry, dear. It seems that ANBU was unable to track him. We're going to regroup a team and form a search party soon,"
"A search party?" the girl repeated. "I want to go too—"
"Not at all," the Hokage replied. "You need to rest. You've been through a lot. More than I can probably imagine,"
As far as Sakura could remember, this was all very true. She couldn't even fathom herself how much of it had been real. With a wary sigh, the kunoichi watched the blonde head for the door, but then turn back as if she'd forgotten something.
"Oh, here," she said, picking up an article of dark material. Sakura hadn't noticed it draped across the top of the chair near her bedside until Tsunade made a point to move it. "Naruto said he found this covering you when he discovered you sleeping outside. Can't really say for sure where it came from. Honestly…"
The woman tossed the dark covering onto the pinkette's lap then, and promptly left the room to leave Sakura to her silence.
"What's this?" Sakura mumbled to herself, smoothing the material over with both hands. There seemed to be something stitched onto the underside; one single thing. And it appeared to be…circular.
Flipping the afghan over with both hands, the kunoichi felt a slight pang in her right shoulder, but ignored it. A rather captivating and familiar scent traveled through her sense and her eyes stared down to behold a corresponding patch.
The Uchiha clan symbol.
Sakura smiled, pressing the quilt to her cheek. It was at that moment, when she was overtaken by sadness at the gain and loss of someone she loved, that she knew.
She was tainted.
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A/N: Well, there you have it SasuSaku lovers. I did it. And you know what…I freakin' enjoyed it. With that done, I will now resume my current, full-length story, 'Between Live and Living' which has about ten more or so chapter to go. Guh…I will do it! -.-;
Well, I hope you enjoyed!
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