Little Miss Seductress
Chapter Twenty Three:: The Honest Truth From A Dishonest Playboy
Created By: Tenshi-Chan008
Continued By:: Riz-I

A/N: It's another short one. But this one and the one before it kind of tie in. So...consider it a two-parter if you will. Fanfiction is letting me log-in again, so it's all good. And I'll be able to continue updating regularly. Thanks for reading everyone. Hope you're still enjoying it. Drop a review and let me know ^_^

Sakura stumbled back to the beach. She had left Itachi standing by the pool. What he had just told her- it shouldn't have affected her the way it had- but it did.

"Where the hell have you been?!" Sasuke came and grabbed her shoulders, feeling her tense in his grip, he let go and bent his head so that he could properly look into her eyes. Seeing her hesitating flickering glances, he became concerned. He grabbed her wrist and began dragging her towards the trees. "NO!" She shouted, seeing that Sasuke was taking her towards the lake. "Not there."

Sasuke nodded curtly and then began walking in the opposite direction.

They arrived at a clearing near the west side of the beach and here Sasuke let Sakura go. "Speak." He ordered.

Sakura looked up into those deep, black pools that were her fiance's eyes… "Why didn't you tell me about her?" she whispered.

Sasuke froze. His barrier; the one he had dropped for the girl he thought he could trust, shot straight up. "Who?" he said, his voice ice cold.

"Kari-"

"Don't!" He stopped her. "Say her name in front of me. Ever."

"But you-"

"She betrayed me."

"But-"

"LET ME SPEAK!" Sasuke's eyes were flashing. Sakura's silence was instantaneous. Sasuke visibly calmed himself down. 'Don't hurt her.' The sentence kept spinning around his head, trying furiously to keep him sane. "She," he spoke, his voice void of all emotion, "Betrayed me. And that's something I don't forgive."

"She loved you!"

"She used me!"

"... Wh-what?"

Sasuke smirked. "Itachi didn't tell you that part, did he?" Sasuke watched closely for her reaction. 'Just there. She widened her eyes. Itachi… I'll kill him.' "Actually," Sasuke began circling Sakura. "What did he tell you?"

"Karin loved you. And you left her because your disgusting ego and attitude wouldn't let you stay faithful to just one girl." It was Sakura's turn to smirk. "And yet I'm engaged to you… Who's to say you won't leave me tomorrow for, I don't know- a fangirl?!"

"Sakura." Sasuke lowered his head and, had they not been on a deserted island, Sakura would have had to strain to hear what Sasuke said next. "I thought you knew me."

And he made to walk away.

But Sakura wasn't somebody you could just, walk away from. She ran after him, grabbed his shoulder, spun him around and pushed him down into the sand. She floored him and then straddled him so he couldn't escape. She ripped the sleeve of her cardigan, messed up her hair and then leaned her head down and began to kiss him. 'This always works. I just never thought I'd have to use it with Sasuke…' She kissed him passionately and then worked her way down his neck, planting soft kisses on his neck that made him purr. 'And now for the climax…' She thought grimly. She offered her neck to him and let him leave small hickeys trailing from her neck down to her chest. She undid the top button of her shorts and then ran her hands through her hair again. And then suddenly, she sat up.

She ran the back of her hand over her mouth, smearing what was left of her lip gloss across her face. Tears were flowing, on demand, down her cheeks… smudging what was left of last night's mascara and eyeliner.

Even in the eyes of Sasuke, she looked awful…

And then her eyes narrowed and a glint appeared in them. "Now then, Sasuke." She snarled. "You tell me everything. Or I go back there and tell everybody you just raped me." Sasuke looked at her body. If she had come to see him looking like that and told him she'd been raped- he'd believe her.

And if she told his friends that he had done it. Or his brother.

Sasuke knew they all believed him capable of doing something like that.

And, loyalty or no loyalty, they'd kill him.

If Ten-Ten didn't do it first.

Sakura got off him and crossed her legs and her arms expectantly. Sasuke groaned and sat up. "Karin- was different." He began. "She was a transfer too. She wasn't beautiful. Not like you." He shook his head to himself. "It was more- she was the type who you couldn't forget. Her hair, her eyes… she was just. Different. I tried to play her because that's just who I was. I tried to play you at the beginning. But Karin- she didn't give in. She wasn't like the others. I always felt that, somehow, I was the one being played."

"And we all know how much that turns you on."Sakura scowled, glancing down at her hickeys.

Sasuke carried on as if she had not spoken. "She became my favourite toy. I needed her. If she so much as spoke to another guy, I'd lose it. I didn't care who the guy was- it could have been Naruto and I would have punched his lights out… It was a dark time for me. She was like a drug for me. I needed her to function properly- but it wasn't healthy for me. Far from it."

"You… you loved her, didn't you?" Sakura whispered softly, pushing the long bits of Sasuke's fringe behind his ears. He kept his face down as he continued.

"She was my favourite toy. She made me think I was in love to the point where she got me to have sex with her and have it actually mean something."

'Sasuke's not a virgin?' Sakura, noticing Sasuke's lips moving quickly began paying attention again. "--Naruto's fought lots of fights- what he is now, what we all are now… before you four came… we were different... Naruto, Shikamaru, Neji, me… we'd fight any guy who got in our way and sleep with any girl who was available. We just… we weren't good people Sakura. And Karin- I guess I thought she was changing me. I didn't fight anyone if it weren't to do with her. Sex with anyone but her meant nothing. She was always there. She got angry when I fought. I thought she cared." He clenched his fists and his knuckles began to slowly turn white. "Naruto's only ever been close to death once before, Sakura. And it's not a fight he initiated or intended to fight. It was that day… the day I was going to propose to Karin. I know. I was only 15. But I didn't intend to marry her then. I intended to make her mine. She couldn't go anywhere if she was bound to me with a ring. But that day- Naruto came to see me. And he told me that… That Karin was part of some organisation that was working to turn Jurisdiction on its head. 'Hikari' or some shit like that." While Sasuke flexed his hands, Sakura paled. 'What did he just say... he didn't just. No. He couldn't… did he just say… Hikari?'

"It was her job to get rid of me. Of course I knew about these so called 'groups' that were trying to turn Jurisdiction over to the women; but I didn't know they changed their tactics… As far as I know, they used to torture the 'Kings' into giving up… but somebody new has taken over. And their new tactics are to make the King fall in love with them—and then steal their crown. I was this close… this close to killing Naruto. After he told me, I beat him to within an inch of his life and then went to go see Karin."

"Why?!"

"I told you." Sasuke's face was dead-pan. "She was a drug for me. I couldn't function without her. I thought I needed her. I went to her house, knocked on her door and she threw her arms around me. Like nothing had changed. And then she saw my face and she knew- she knew I knew. And the bitch had the nerve to say she was 'in love' with me. And that she wasn't intending to go through with it. And that was it. I was like a master being fooled by its dog. I believed her and I proposed to her… and when Naruto finally got out of Hospital and came back to school, I issued an 'Execution' on him: Anybody found talking to him, helping him, sitting next to him, working with him or communicating with him in any way, shape or form was to be brought immediately to me, Neji or Shikamaru to be beaten to a pulp." Sakura gasped at this. "I'm not proud of it, Sakura. And neither are the other two. But I told you… we were different. And then Itachi found out. Itachi heard her on the phone to somebody saying she would finish what she had started and that she already 'had the King hooked'." Sasuke began shaking, all the old anger returning to him. He visibly calmed himself down and then continued. His voice shook slightly as he did so. "I apologised to Naruto."

"And he forgave you?"

"Naruto doesn't hold grudges. And the apology was in front of the entire school… I guess it didn't hurt I gave him three years' free supply of ramen." Sasuke gave a small grin. Then his face dead-panned again and he finished with. "The Execution was transferred to Karin. Which is why you haven't seen her around."

"She's… she's still at the school?"

"Yes."

"Sasuke. What would you do if anyone were to- betray you again?" Sakura gulped. She knew his answer before he said it.

"I would kill them."

'I need to hide my face. I can't let him see any trace of… of guilt.' And so she kissed him.

Once again.

As though she were drowning in the sea that surrounded them.

And he was her oxygen…

They stopped ten minutes later, both panting slightly. "Sakura. You are not like Karin."

"Wh-what?"

"You wouldn't betray me." 'Sasuke…' "I know you wouldn't." 'Oh Sasuke. I'm so sorry…' "And that's because to me, Sakura, you're not a drug. You're not something I think I need. You're oxygen. I need you. Okay?" He sat up and ran his hands through his hair. "Don't ever make me say that again. I got it off some film I watched ages ago." He flushed bright red. "Now kiss me woman!!"

'Oh Sasuke. Please forgive me.' And with that thought- she did.

A/N: Okay. Next chapter... they're going BACK to the Mainland. Btw... HAVE YOU READ CHAPTER 437 OF THE MANGA?!!!! WHAT THE HELL?!! Kishimoto must die...End of. Anyways, hope you enjoyed it, let me know by reviewing. Thanks everyone!!!