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A/N: Thank you everyone for the reviews! Now I bring you Hana chapter 4! Enjoy!~
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Sasuke left Tsunade's medicinal shop, slamming the door, which caused many people to stare at him in confusion and suspicion. Why was it his responsibility to help out this human girl he doesn't even know? He was aggravated at the fact that it was his second day here and he was already entangled in the problems of humans. Sasuke just started glaring at everyone that was staring at him. A little girl ran behind her mother in fear.
"Mommy that man is scary" a littler girl said to her mother. The mother whispered to her daughter.
"It's alright sweetie, he won't hurt you, he's is probably just having a bad day." The girl's mother reassured her.
Sasuke heard the conversation from afar and walked towards the mother and her child and they froze in place when he approached them. He first glanced at the mother and then kneeled down to the girl and looked into her fearful light blue eyes.
"Your mother is right, I'm just having...a bad day" Sasuke whispered purposely scaring the girl. The little girl started crying and her mother grabbed her away from Sasuke.
"Get away from my daughter you monster!" The mother yelled.
"Hn." Sasuke stood back up. "Humans."
Naruto finally caught up to Sasuke and left the shop after talking to Tsunade.
"Hey Sasuke let's go!" Naruto called out. Sasuke took one last look at the mother and child and turned around and followed Naruto.
"Why was that girl crying?" Naruto asked.
"No idea." Sasuke answered with a smirk.
Sasuke and Naruto were making their way down the road to the building that leads to the underground dungeons, where criminals, from small time offenders like stealing to big time offenders such as murderers/corrupt officials. It was already late afternoon, so the streets were getting quieter now. Sasuke spotted a guard from the palace up ahead but dressed a bit differently, heading their way. Naruto flinched when he saw the silvered haired man, he was his father's personal guard and only meant one thing, his father found out about the incident earlier.
"Aw crap." Naruto gulped stiffening.
"Hm?" Sasuke looked at Naruto with a questioning look on his face. The silvered haired man approached them.
"Yo! Naruto, your father needs you back home and your mother is worried about you" the man said.
"Come on Kakashi, we need to get Sakura out of jail!" Naruto said trying to persuade Kakashi.
"No can do Naruto, your father wants to have a word with you now." Kakashi said with a smile, he looked over at Sasuke.
"Your friend, Sasuke can surely handle himself" Sasuke looked at Kakashi in surprise.
"How does he know who I am?" Sasuke thought immediately.
"Oh, I'm the King's personal body guard, I know who everyone is, Sasuke of the Uchiha Clan." Kakashi smile as he grabbed Naruto's arm and started chanting something and a white circle appeared under him and Naruto.
"Man, Kakashi I hate it when you use Teleportation magic, I always get nauseous afterwards." Naruto complained holding on to Hinata's basket full of cookies tightly against his chest.
"Sorry Sasuke, looks like you need to get her out yourself, see you when you get back!" with that Naruto and Kakashi disappeared in thin air and Sasuke was alone.
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Sakura was laying on her back on a wooden bed hanging off the wall. The cell was poorly lit, a mere candle hanging on the wall outside her cell, black iron bars to prevent her from escaping. The cell reeked of feces and stale urine from previous prisoners. Sakura remained calm and still since this was an environment she was already accustomed to years ago before she met Tsunade. She turned to her side and curled up into a ball as memories returned to her as she fell asleep.
Dream Flashback
A 12 year old Sakura is blindfolded, gagged and restrained, all she can hear are the voices of the men who kidnapped her from her foster home. Their voices quietly echoed and she heard water as the men walked."We must be in the underground tunnels", she wanted to go back to her home with her foster parents, Cain and Susana. She started to cry softly. What was going to happen to her? Were they going to kill her? Rape her? Sakura was being carried on a large bulky man's shoulders to prevent her from escaping.
" Hey, are you sure she's the right girl? I don't want to be arrested again for kidnapping the wrong kid." A man grumbled.
"Do you know anyone else with hair as pink as hers? She's the right kid stupid, now hurry up, we don't wont to keep him waiting." Said the man carrying her.
It was cold and damp in the tunnels, Sakura can feel it on her skin. Moments later she felt warmth return to her body again and she smelled food. Sakura can feel herself being put in a chair and all her restraints removed. Her vision was blurry at first after being blindfolded for so long but as her eyes adjusted she saw she was in a brightly lit dinning room with all kinds of food in front of her. She saw the two men who took her leave out the door quickly and the only other person left in the room with her, was an odd looking man sitting across from her. He had long black hair, with very pale skin and golden eyes with slits in them, like a snake and he gave off a dangerous aura around him. Both his arms were on the table, both hands intertwined with each other, his chin resting on them.
"You must be hungry child, go on eat, I know you haven't eaten all day" He said in a raspy voice.
"Where am I?! Where are my parents?! When they find out I'm gone you'll be in big trouble!" Sakura threatened.
"Now, my sweet flower, your foster parents are the ones who sold you to me" The man answered.
"S-sold me?.." Sakura sat there in shock.
"Yes my dear, after they found out your little secret they didn't hesitate to contact me" the man said.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" Sakura demanded.
"There's no need to yell child, I am Orochimaru, a simple doctor and scientist. he replied in a calm voice.
"And I know the fact that you are a tainted. A half-breed." Orochimaru said.
"What..how did they find out..?" Sakura whispered to herself.
"Your foster mother saw you accidentally cut yourself with a kitchen knife and saw your wound heal instantly."
Sakura was suddenly struck with a wave of betrayal and anger.
"I thought...they wanted me, I thought they loved me.. I lived with them for 4 years..." Sakura said to herself she started crying.
"Please don't cry child, may I ask you your name?" Orochimaru asked.
"M-my n-n-name is S-Sakura" she said in between sniffles.
"What a pretty name dear, ah you must be hungry, food always cheers everyone up"
Sakura looked at the table, on it were plates with roasted chicken, a whole pig, stew, a basket full of bread, fruits and cake, enough food to feed a party. Sakura was very hungry too and her mouth began to water at the sight of the feast.
"I'm sorry, but I don't think I can eat all of this sir." Sakura said.
"Don't worry about it Sakura, just eat what you can, you need to regain your strength." Orochimaru said with a small smile on his face.
Sakura ate in silence and she looked at Orochimaru who only had a glass of purple liquid. He was watching her eat. Sakura finished eating and drank some water.
"Are you going to sell me to another person now that you know what I am?" Sakura questioned.
"Oh course not my sweet flower" Orochimaru said.
Sakura was starting to get sleepy and her vision started to blur.
"I won't ever let you go child" Orochimaru said with a light chuckle.
Darkness overcame Sakura.
3 years later..
Sakura was strapped to a metal table, medical equipment all around the room, jars of preserved organs stacked neatly behind glass shelves, books of notes sit neatly on top of a metal table next to her. A door opened and Orochimaru walked in dressed in all white with a white face mask on and took a seat next to Sakura with a scalpel in one hand.
"How are you today my flower?" Orochimaru politely asked.
"Go to Hell." Sakura cursed.
"Now, that is not proper language for a young lady such as yourself" Orochimaru scolded.
"Just get on with it already." Sakura said without emotion.
"Don't forget it is I, who took you in, fed you, gave you a roof over your head and in return you help me with my research. We talked about this already before Sakura. Humans need this medical knowledge for the future." Orochimaru explained.
"Whatever." Sakura stared at the ceiling holding back her tears and felt the blade slice through her arm.
"You never cease to amaze me on how quickly you heal my flower" Orochimaru said as he started to dig deeper into her arm and then reached for the bone saw.
Sakura was back in her room with a bandaged arm after the "research" Orochimaru conducted. Her room had stone walls without windows, a messy bed in the corner and a dresser with a mirror, she looked at herself in the mirror and touched her face and clawed at her cheek until her cheek bleed. Like always a faint green light glows around the wound and heals it right away.
"Why...why am I like this?!... WHY?!" Sakura yelled at herself in the mirror. She looked on her dresser and saw her locket, she picked it up and opened it and glared at the photos with hatred and threw it with all the strength she had across the room hitting the wall. Sakura broke down and slide down against the dresser to the floor and cried softly.
"Why...did I have to be...both?" Sakura whispered.
"I hate who I am."
End of Dream Flashback
Sasuke entered the building and walked up to the guards that stood in front of the entrance door to the dungeons, they both eyed Sasuke with great suspicion.
"Hold! What business do you have here elf?" A guard said with disdain in his voice.
Sasuke handed the release papers to the guard cool manner. The guard took them and carefully looked over the document and his eyes slightly widen.
"I'm here to retrieve a woman named Sakura, she was arrested earlier this morning." Sasuke said.
The guard double checked the document and signature on the bottom.
"Well I'll be damned, official release papers from the king himself. Been a long time since I've seen one of these. She's the pretty one with the pink hair right?" the guard asked.
"And temper" added Sasuke.
"Alright" the guard unlocked the door and handed Sasuke the key to her cell and her belongings she had with her which was a silver necklace with a locket pendant and a paper list of items. "Last cell on the right, here's a lamp, there isn't much light in the hallway."
"Hn." Sasuke took the lamp and walked through the door.
Something about this place seemed vaguely familiar, Sasuke walked down the hallway in search for Sakura's cell. He can hear all the other people who were kept in the prison, yelling out derogatory names at him, Sasuke didn't care, he just wanted to get this Sakura person out so he can be done with all of this, then he heard something, it sounded like a person crying. He took a couple more steps, the sound was coming from Sakura's cell. He stood in front of her cell and held up the lamp to see better and there was Sakura, with her back faced to him, curled up in a ball on the bed. Sasuke unlocked the door and walked in slowly.
"Hey get up-" Sasuke stopped talking and saw that Sakura was crying in her sleep. Sasuke let out an agitated sigh, he didn't want to startle her so he gently touched on her shoulder and gave her a gentle nudge to wake her up.
"Sakura, wake up." Sasuke said quietly.
The sudden physical contact woke Sakura up right away and went into a defensive position. Once she saw Sasuke, she calmed down a bit and took a deep breath and stood up.
"Your..that guy I punched this morning...heh..sorry about that" Sakura apologized.
Annoyed, Sasuke quickly grabbed Sakura by the wrist and started to drag her out of her cell.
"H-Hey! slow down, what the hell!" Sakura yelled as Sasuke lead her out of the dungeons and out of the building and shoved her belongings back into her possession.
"Geez, what's your problem? You didn't have to drag me out like some kid". Sakura said as she was rubbing her wrist.
"You, you were crying." Sasuke said looking at her.
"I have no idea what you're talking about" Sakura said glaring at Sasuke now.
"I didn't have to get you out of there, I could've just left you there to rot in that cell" Sasuke said in a agitated tone
"Why did you help me get out? Hmm?"
"Yeah, why did I help her? She's the one who punched me, why am I doing this for a human?" Sasuke thought then he heard Sakura sigh.
"Okay look, it's been a rough day for the both of us, I'm sorry for what happened this morning, I let my temper get the better of me, something I apparently I've inherited from my mentor. Sakura looked at Sasuke's face and noticed the area where she hit him was slightly red and starting to swell. Sakura felt guilty and put her hand on Sasuke's cheek. Sasuke tensed up at the sudden contact of her soft hand on his cheek, but he didn't move away. Sasuke looked at Sakura and couldn't help but notice she didn't have any imperfections on her skin, a sharp nose, rosey lips, long eye lashes and stunning green eyes... Sasuke realized what he was doing.
"There, all done" Sakura said proudly."A friend of Naruto is a friend of mine. Speaking of which I never got your name..?"
Sasuke took a quick step back breaking contact between the two.
"Sasuke Uchiha, of the Uchiha Clan."
"I see, my name is-"
"Sakura." Sasuke finished her sentence.
"Well I guess you already knew that since you did bail me out, thanks again Sasuke." Sakura said with a genuine smile. "See you around, I have a feeling that I'm going to see you a lot more now that you're hanging around with Naruto" Sakura said as she turned around heading home. "He's not bad looking for an elf...shit Tsunade!" Sakura started rushing home leaving Sasuke behind, Sasuke just smirked and headed back to his temporary home.
Back in his room Sasuke was laying on his bed relaxed, he brought his hand up to his cheek, much to his surprise his cheek was healed. "How did it manage to heal so fast?" Sasuke closed his eyes, the last thing he thought about before drifting off to sleep, was a certain flower.
Tsunade got all the connections in the city, don't mess with her! haha
I would like to thank everyone again for reading and reviewing Hana. This is my first fanfiction and it makes me feel happy and supported, thank you again! You guys are awesome! :)
