A/N: Sasuke Uchiha is a bit OOC in this story but you will find out why at the end of the story. Read & Review:]

Chapter 4: Embarrassing

"I forgot to kiss you" and he pressed his lips in a chaste kiss that soon enough deepened. Sakura felt really good under his touch and under his protection, but there was something that was bothering her to eternity; Orochimaru. That pale faced man who knows nothing else but hunger for power and murderous intents. And still the same question I asked over and over again. Is he a Serpent or human? Though the answer is pretty clear, there's nothing human about him.

They both parted for air and Sasuke let Sakura get up and go to the bathroom to fresh up. While Sakura was in the bathroom, Sasuke was lying on the bed with his feet dangling off the bed. He was so deep in thought that he became oblivious of the outside world.

'I hope my cherry blossom is going to be safe. Oh what have I done? I endangered my cherry blossom but I will protect her and I will kill Orochimaru if I have to. Sasuke what happened to you? You lost your mind over a girl? But wait it's not just any girl it's your cherry blossom.' Sasuke was struggling with his new and old self. 'How could it be? The little annoying cry baby Sakura had grown into a beautiful, independent, fearless woman. She changed completely, she used to be a quitter, a cry baby and now…now she's fighting in the first rows and doing missions on her own. I've seen her fight before when we were twelve and I've seen her now; Sakura fight's like an animal now, she fights like me and Naruto. She's a real ninja now.'

Sasuke was still deep in thought that he was oblivious to Sakura's presence in the room. She stood there with a towel covering her damp body and her pink hair was wet loose to the side. She coughed so he became aware of her presence. He snapped out of the daydreaming and jumped out of the bed.

His eyes almost popped out when he saw Sakura in a towel. He wanted to speak but he couldn't get the words out of his mouth. He felt something in his stomach when he saw her like that and he couldn't contain all the things that popped on his mind

"Um…Sasuke, would you be so kind to leave this room while I get dressed?" she said with a pleading voice. Sasuke didn't answer he just looked all over her body, from head to toe.

"Um...Sasuke?" she asked him again. "SASUKE" she yelled this time and made him jump in shock. She put on a sweet innocent face and said "Would you be so kind to leave this room while I get dressed?" she said with a sweet tone and even blinked innocently at him to enhance the impression.

Sasuke looked at her in bewilderment and said "Uh…oh yeah sorry. You distracted me. I'll be on my way" a huge grin was plastered all over his beautiful face."I'll be right out side. Call me when you're done" and he left the room until she got dressed. Before getting dressed Sakura clutched the clothes and she trailed off in thought about Konoha.

The streets of Konoha seemed empty. Naruto was sitting at Ichiraku ramen thinking about the past when he, sakura and Sasuke were coming here after a hard training. The tears were prickling in his eyes when he thought about how long sakura was gone. It had been a week since she went on the mission and ever since she went on the stupid mission, Naruto didn't do anything except walk around Konoha and drink sake at ichiraku's. Tsunade, Kakashi and Shizune started to worry about him though none of them knew why he was acting so strangely. "She's only on mission" They all thought whenever they saw Naruto sad.

"Granny, do you think Sakura will come back?" he asked her with sorrow evident in his voice.

"Naruto I know you're concerned but you have nothing to worry about. She's only on mission. Sakura will be back before you even knowing it." Tsunade was trying to comfort him.

"I know she's only on mission but I can't help this feeling of anxiety like something bad happened to her."

"Naruto, don't worry she'll be fine. You know I bet she's already in Kumogakure."

If only they knew…

When sakura snapped out of the deep thought she was into she remembered that she was supposed to get dressed. She took the clothes and to her surprise she actually liked the clothes. They consisted: read and white tank top, with beige skirt ripped on the sides and black shorts. She hurried to get dressed only for not wanting to keep Sasuke waiting. When she got dressed she opened the door slightly and whispered "I'm ready".

Sasuke flew in the room and the sight of sakura wearing a rather short skirt that perfectly showed her womanly curves and her red and white tank top that covered a pair of perfectly grown and shaped breasts certainly took him aback. He couldn't quite believe how delicately and womanly Sakura had blossomed. The woman with pink hair and emerald eyes, with a sand figure and curves that most of the women in the village could not be proud of having was certainly not his former crybaby teammate.

He was accustomed to the annoyance that Sakura's presence used to arouse that he slightly began to miss it. He shook his head in denial because he knew that Sakura could never annoy him and that he cared for her much more than before.

It would be the simple to truth to say that Sasuke changed 180 degrees in the past three years and that he cared for the cherry blossom more than he acknowledged. He snapped out of his thoughts and came back to the real world were he stared at Sakura for god knows how long. After understanding the situation he got slightly afraid that Sakura was parading across the room with her normal appearance and a roof hopping ninja or better said spy could see her.

His fear was justified taken in consideration that they were indeed in the middle of the sound village. He sprang at Sakura, knocking her down on the floor. They were hidden from the window on one of the sides of the bed so nobody could see this petite pinkette.

Her two emerald orbs widened in shock at what just happened. Sasuke was on top of her pinning her body down to the floor. They felt someone's chakra but Sakura was preoccupied with this so she simply disregarded the fact. Sasuke on the other hand was well aware of the fact, but still didn't move away from her.

"Mask your self." He hissed at her. She looked at him questioningly but complied without a single word said. Sasuke moved a bit giving her space to make the hand signs though he still got her pinned down to the floor. She did the hand signs dog-tiger-boar and said "Henge no Jutsu" reappearing as the brown haired girl from before. Sasuke lowered himself on top of her still pinning her down. Sakura looked at him puzzled and just when she wanted to speak up, Sasuke's lips pressed on hers. Just when Sasuke pressed his lips over hers the door opened and Kabuto-orochimaru's right hand-smirked at the sight.

Sasuke stopped kissing Sakura or better said Hitomi and turned to Kabuto with a death glare.

"What do you want?"He hissed at him. A growl escaped from his throat. The white haired man bowed to Sasuke.

"I'm sorry Sasuke-sama, I didn't know that you were…busy" he smirked and said the word 'busy' with amusement in his voice. Sasuke was trying to suppress a growl but he couldn't help it anymore.

"Get the hell out" Sasuke growled. The white haired man blinked and then continued staring at Hitomi eyeing her figure-as much as he could see with Sasuke on top of her-and licked his bottom lip. Sasuke was furious. He was going crazy with rage when he saw this action from Kabuto.

He immediately activated his sharingan and turned his head enough so that Kabuto could see his crimson eyes as well as the rage that flashed across his face. Sasuke gritted his teeth and his hands clenched into fists lying on both sides of Hitomi's brown head.

"I said, Get. The. Hell. Out." he said each word as a sentence emphasizing every single word through his clenched teeth. Kabuto afraid of what might happen turned around and left the room saying one single word "certainly". The devilish smirk on his face never faded away.

Both Sakura and Sasuke felt relieved once the repulsive white haired man left the room. Sakura looked at Sasuke, once again trying to get an answer from him without talking, from a simple reason that she couldn't manage to get her voice to come out. Sasuke recognized her puzzled look but he couldn't answer her now. Not when the coast was not clear. Not when sound Nins were in their proximity. So he put his finger on his mouth, telling her that they couldn't speak now. Sasuke's head was turned to the door as if he was expecting some one to come, or listening to a very important conversation.

After a while he turned to look at sakura hurrying to give her the long-awaited answer.

"We should be fine for now. Kabuto has a habit of entering without knocking, I swear I'm gonna kill him. For that and for looking at you" Sasuke gritted his teeth and his hands clenched into fists again. A soon as he calmed down his hands unclenched from what seemed very painful fists. "Sorry I threw you on the floor like that, I hope I didn't hurt you, but you weren't being careful. You were parading in the room with your pink locks, very pretty pink locks." He smirked devilishly and said the last part with a seductive voice.

"Now stay here in the room until I come back. Don't come out under any circumstances. Got it?"Sakura simply nodded. Her facial puzzled expression still hadn't changed. She looked at Sasuke sheepishly as he laughed.

"What's so funny?" she asked him mildly.

"Nothing." he laughed again and left the room. Sakura didn't know what to do so she stayed in the room as told and just casually lied on the bed. She had nothing to do so she started playing with her hair. She twirled a streak of golden-brown hair between her fingers watching the texture of it.

She really didn't know what to do. She was bored to the bone but then she remembered what she used to do when she was bored; hand stand. Sakura climbed off the bed and moved to the wall. First she did a two handed handstand but then she switched to just one hand. Her slender legs stretched up and down, left and right.

Then she bent her knees and lowered her legs to the sides, then stretched them back up forming a candlestick. Sakura found this very amusing plus she liked the fact that she was stretching after so long. She bent her knees and pushed one leg to hover in front of her and the other on behind her.

The most interesting part is that Sasuke entered the room just when she was doing the two handed handstand and he watched her the whole time. He admired her slender figure and the way it twisted in the most graceful moves. Sasuke couldn't help but to smirk at the thought of where Sakura's elasticity would come in handy:].

Sakura closed her eyes to meditate but a cough from certain someone made her snap them open. When she saw Sasuke's muscled body upside down she almost fell on her but though she wasn't the best kunoichi in whole Konoha for nothing. She jumped pushing herself from the ground with on hand, did a somersault and landed on her feet in the most graceful way.

"That was fun." He laughed and made sakura throw him a death glare.

"Yeah, right." She huffed in annoyance and Sasuke smirked again.

"I'll go bring you something to eat. I'll be back soon" and he flew out of the room. Sakura rolled her eyes and went back to meditating with a handstand but this time things got a little more interesting. She did a one handed handstand on the tip of a kunai.

Balancing her body's weight on the tip of the kunai was certainly a hard thing to do, but a little help from her perfectly controlled chakra she did it with an ease. She stood there with eyes closed balancing on the tip of the kunai for about 20 minutes or so. After so long she forgot about Sasuke completely and forgot about what he said before he left the room.

She relaxed her muscles and cleared out her mind. Sakura loved to do this and she did it quite a lot, only to clear her mind, cleanse her soul and relax her body. Everything was perfect until Sasuke entered the room and watched sakura's stunt.

He smirked again at the unusualness of his cherry blossom. He finally realized what the thing that attracted him to Sakura was. It was the uniqueness, intrigue and kindness that separated her from all the other girls.

Sasuke finally decided to made his presence known to the brown haired girl (she's still in the disguise as Hitomi Junko). He coughed and nearly brought sakura to a heart attack. When she heard the cough she lost the control of the chakra flowing threw her hand and fell right down. She managed to avoid falling on the kunai with her head, so she turned and managed to fall on her shoulder.

She gasped in pain and twitched on the ground. Sasuke placed the tray of food he was holding on the night table. He appeared beside sakura the same minute. He looked at her with wary eyes and lifted her up in his hands, bridal style. Sasuke laid her on the bed stomach down and slowly took out the kunai. Sakura screamed again and when she got composure she tried to heal it herself.

The wound started healing on its own and Sasuke's eyes widened in shock.

"Um…Sakura, what's happening to your wound?" his tone was skeptic. Sakura even though hurt managed to let out a laugh.

"I'm a medic now. I surpassed even Tsunade." Her voice was low. She was tired out of using so much chakra. She watched the brown streaks of hair turn into the same pink as before. Her sunset tan skin turned to the normal milky white and the emerald eyes, well they stayed the same.

Sasuke was shocked with how much he missed out, though his heart warmed in the instant when the bloody wound disappeared revealing a scar with soft pink flesh around. His hand was gently touching sakura's scar making her shudder under his warm touch.

"Do you always have scars after healing?" his voice was calmed and curious.

"Well, no but I didn't have enough chakra to heal it completely so it's gonna leave a mark. Thank you very much." She said the last part with sarcasm in her voice. Sasuke smirked at her feistiness. He leaned down to whisper in her ear and she could feel his body brush against her back.

"Now you're mine officially." And he gently touched the pink scar on her shoulder as though to show her exactly what he meant. She smiled and yawned involuntarily. Sasuke smiled and covered her with the blankets.

"Sleep tight my cherry blossom. We'll talk when you wake up." And he kissed her forehead. She closed her eyes and before she drifted into slumber the only thing she thought about was this day. First Sasuke saw her in only a towel wrapped around her body, then Kabuto entered without knocking jumping to conclusion about what were Sasuke and her doing there, then Sasuke saw her doing a handstand and saw her as she almost fell, and then He left the room only to come back and see her fall on the tip of a kunai digging it into her shoulder. If there was one word that perfectly described this day then it would have to be…embarrassing.