Corrupted Blossom
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Leaving the once white towel where it was, Sakura stumbled into the bathroom and hurriedly turned the taps on only to take another shower after her previous one. Her inner thighs ached from the experience they had to go through a few hours ago...
Making sure that there was no trace of blood left on her body, Sakura exited the bathroom and quickly grabbed the towel and threw it into the hamper. The young assassin ran her fingers through her wet matted hair and gave out a long shaky sigh...
I should have finished the job while I had the chance...
Look what happened due to it...
"Well... next time you're not going to get away..." She said to herself as she looked at her reflection in the mirror and narrowed her eyes.
I've had enough of this nice act!
Its time to let the real Sakura out!
Balling a fist, Sakura turned on her heel and walked into the living room, only to fall asleep on the black leather couch while watching TV.
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Chapter 7: Remorse
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Walking into the school building, Sakura rolled her eyes as she saw Yamanaka Ino head in her direction and wave at her eagerly. The smile on her face was fast to fade because when Sakura opened her mouth, Ino was sure as hell shocked...
"What!?!" Sakura nearly screamed.
Taken aback by Sakura's moody attitude towards her instead of her saying a quiet hello and smiling back just as much as Ino did...
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, it seems..." Ino teased.
Placing a hand on her hip, Sakura fought against the urge to just punch Ino's cherry face and stomp all over her until she begged for mercy...
"Whatever..." Was all she said before walking away from the blonde woman.
Following behind Sakura, Ino and her walked into class together and were greeted by a very ticked Ms.Anko who eyed both girls...
"Homework girls..." The teacher said as she stuck out her hand.
Shit! Because of Itachi I didn't get any of my math homework done!
Turning her head away as Ino gave Ms.Anko the homework she had finished, Sakura parted her lips as soon as Ms.Anko was about to speak.
"I didn't finish it."
Growling with annoyance, Ms.Anko let a smirk play on her lips as she placed both hands on her hips and began to walk towards her desk.
"Well then... I guess you'll be spending time with me in detention."
Everyone eyes were on Sakura as she dismissed the issue as if it were nothing and took her seat in front of Yamanaka Ino. Casting her thought to be finest student a cold glare, Ms.Anko went right to the subject and assigned the class 2 pages of homework for the night.
Great even more homework...
Standing from her seat, Sakura headed over to her class with Hinata who met her by the door with Uzumaki Naruto who smiled happily. Sakura on the other hand rushed right past the two like she hadn't even noticed them there and went into the class to take her seat.
"Looks like someone is in a bad mood... "Naruto mused.
Nodding her head slowly, Hinata followed her boyfriend into the class room where Hatake Kakashi was grading a few papers. His gaze lingered on Naruto's arm which was wrapped around Hinata's waist and pulled her close to him.
"Naruto..." The teacher said in a warning tone.
Moving away from the blonde haired male, Hinata took her seat next to Sakura and flashed her warm smile which to her surprise she didn't return like she usually did. Kakashi had spent the entire morning thinking of any possible project and came up with only one...
"I will pair you all up and the partners will have to write a 500 word essay on one another!"
Everyone in the entire room sweat dropped and a few even laughed a little. Kakashi grabbed a list he had made and began to read out the partners for the assignment... He was down to his last 4 and knew that two of the four pairings were not going to be very pleased...
"Last but not least, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto."
Sakura's eye seemed to twitch as she slowly turned her head in Naruto's direction. He waved at her and gave her a sheepish smile, though Sakura was much louder about the pair up...
"Sensei, are you serious about me having to work with that... that... baka!?!"
Kakashi threw the hysterical woman a questioning glance as he checked over the list and smiled happily at his star student.
"Yup..."
Wanting to pull out her hair, Sakura forced herself to calm down as Kakashi got everyone to sit with their partners and begin with the essay on one another.
"Lets see?" Naruto started.
"You're loud, crazy and have major mood swings."
Narrowing her eyes at the blonde haired male, Sakura shot back at him fiercely...
"Your annoying, over confident and a total baka!"
This caught everyone's attention as the two began to bicker and argue about each other. Sakura seemed to have won because he was cowering behind his desk as Sakura raised her fist and attempted to hit him over the head.
Fast to act, Kakashi gripped his student's wrist and held her back from lashing out angrily at the blonde haired male. Silently thanking is teacher, Naruto took in a deep breath of relief and sat in his chair.
"Calm down Sakura." Kakashi ordered sternly.
Tugging her wrist free of Kakashi's grip, Sakura also took her seat and crossed one leg over the other, as if that would calm the anger fueling inside of her. Throwing Naruto a sideways glance, Kakashi dismissed the class for lunch and he as well left.
"I'm telling you guys, Sakura has totally lost it!" Yamanaka explained to a few people.
"I could hear her screaming at poor Naruto from her English class..."
Gulping down a lump in her throat, Ino continued...
"I have no idea what's going... Oh? Hi Sakura..." Ino said quickly.
The assassin flashed her a deadly smirk before seating herself beside Tenten who eyed her suspiciously and moved away from her a fraction.
"Did you see the way she looked at me? Oh kami-sama she's going to kill me!" Ino whispered.
Shikamaru did his best to calm the blonde haired woman but to no avail, he was surprised that she wasn't breathing into a paper bag at the moment- oh wait she was, Ino took in deep breaths and breathed out slowly.
"This is so troublesome..." He said as he took the paper bag away from Ino.
In turn, she narrowed his eyes at him and began to slowly eat her lunch as well as keep a watchful eye on Sakura who seemed to have gotten even more moody since the morning...
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By the end of the day, Sakura was in a small room with only a few other people inside. She was slouched in her chair; her arms crossed over her chest as she rolled her eyes at Ms.Anko and looked at the clock.
Only fifteen minutes left to go...
She had spent the entire detention finishing up on her 3 pages of math homework and had just recently handed them all to Ms.Anko who didn't seem pleased at all. Now she had nothing to do, but watch as the minutes ticked by ever so slowly and torture her all the more...
"Okay you troublemakers! You can all go home now!" She announced loudly.
Being first to leave the room, Sakura walked out of the class and down a hallway. The day had been tiresome, especially for everyone around her... The assassin turned a corner and out the school from the front doors.
She was halfway down the school steps, though a familiar voice stopped her in her tracks. Turning around, Sakura saw Uchiha Sasuke walking towards her, he took long strides and Sakura noticed that he looked a little tired at the moment...
"Why are you still at school?" He asked.
"Why are you still at school?" She shot back which surprised Sasuke to no extent.
He shoved his hands into his pant pockets as he replied casually.
"Soccer practice... now you?"
Turning on her heel, Sakura began to walk away but Sasuke placed a hand on her shoulder making her stop once again.
"Leave me alone!" She said, yelling a bit at the last word.
Taken aback by her sudden outburst, Sasuke removed his hand from her shoulder and took a step back away from the pink haired assassin.
"It was just a question. Calm down..." He said in a playful tone.
Wanting to test her patience, Sasuke watched as Sakura began to walk away and run up from behind her and went to tackle her to the floor, but failed miserably...
Sakura back flipped over the Uchiha and landed gracefully behind him as Sasuke met the ground beneath him with a grunt...
How the hell was she able to do that!?!
Sakura walked past Sasuke and turned her car on as she drove out of the school parking lot and towards her house. Upon entering, Sakura threw her backpack to the floor and proceeded upstairs and into her bedroom.
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Uchiha Sasuke was still dumbfounded five minutes later, by Sakura being able to dodge him so easily, let alone do a back flip... And that just made him all the more suspiscious as to what she was hiding...
"Who are you really, Sakura?" He said to himself as he entered his car and drove home.
Tonight's the night I'm going to finally find out...
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As Sakura exited the shower and pulled on a fresh pair of underwear and bra, she sat on her bed with a brush in hand as she began to work through her tangles and sorted through the many thoughts inside her head.
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Uchiha Sasuke stood by Sakura's front door; he jiggled the knob and figured that it was left unlocked. Silently he entered her home and began to travel around the first floor where he found absolutely nothing but normal things...
Though when he reached up stairs he left in a hurry with a pink blush shading his face... As Haruno Sakura had been clad in nothing but her undergarments, she hopped off the bed and turned on the radio as music began to fill the quiet room.
Sasuke peered into the room and had to hold in a gasp as he looked at a practically naked Haruno Sakura continuing to comb her long pink tendrils of hair. He dearly hoped that Sakura hadn't noticed him or he would never be able to live it down...
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Sakura stood from the bed as she began to dress into her assassin attire and tie her hair up in a high ponytail so that the hair would not get in her face and mess up her chances to kill Sasuke once and for all...
Her cell phone rang again as she left the house, Itachi's raspy voice on the other end.
"You better not be falling in love with me little ototo, blossom..."
Growling, Sakura replied coldly.
"I'm not! As we speak I'm going over to his house to finish the job!"
He laughed as Sakura spoke and parted his lips.
"Make sure you don't screw this up again, I'm sure you're already aware of the punishment that will follow..."
Clicking the cell phone off, Sakura pocketed it and finally after a long trek, arrived in front of Uchiha Sasuke's house. It was still late in the night and Sakura knew already that he was probably dreaming in his bed, not expecting that tonight would be his final night on earth...
Doing exactly as she had done a few nights ago, Sakura went in through the window and landed on the wooden floor without making a sound. As she entered his room, Sakura was somewhat glad that he was in bed, instead of hiding and calling someone over for help... A sick smirk graced her lips as she neared the sleeping and oblivious Uchiha, the moon reflected off his well sculpted face and made his dark ebony hair shine.
Focus Sakura!
Unsheathing her samurai sword, Sakura raised it over her head and took in a steady breath...
In one swift motion, the sword came down and was thought to end Uchiha Sasuke's life, but now no one was in bed, nothing except a destroyed pillow where her sword ha ripped through...
Gracefully stepping out of the way of Sasuke's foot aimed at her back, Sakura gripped the hilt of the samurai sword tightly and gritted her teeth in annoyance.
"Why don't you just accept your fate already...?" The assassin said calmly as she inched towards the Uchiha.
He smirked and got into a fighting position, ready for any attacks she would throw his way...
"And why don't you just give up...?"
Running at him, Sakura swung her sword carelessly, wanting so badly to kill Sasuke while he was still standing. He must have gotten faster, because not one did he get hit! As Sakura felt a fist collide with her shoulder, she jumped backwards to avoid more of his attacks...
This time it was Sasuke who ran at her, Sakura ducked low and tried to trip him from below, but the Uchiha calculated her every move and jumped into the air while bring his foot down against the side of Sakura's face...
Hitting the ground hard, the assassin groaned and searched for her sword that she had clumsily dropped while falling to the floor beneath her. This time it was her who had the sword against her neck, with one move she would surely die...
"Bastard..." She breathed.
Reaching for the silk material that hid her true face from the world, Sasuke gasped loudly when the assassin had turned the tables and had the long, deadly sword pointing at him. She cut his arm which made Sasuke limp over and hold the bleeding flesh...
She tightly gripped the hilt of the sword in her hand and counted to five in her head. Sakura tilted the sword to the side and sprang out from the shadows she was hidden in.
Faltering from killing the youngest Uchiha, the assassin stepped back with wide emerald eyes as she gave out a shriek and fell to the floor beneath her, breathing in and out deeply...
It was already too late; her mother turned her head and was only given a short amount of time to widen her brown eyes.
Dropping the samurai sword, Sakura looked at her hands covered in blood and then over to where Sasuke was, only to find someone else bleeding to death on the floor. It was a woman, her long pink hair was stained in her very own crimson blood, pooling around her head like a bloody halo...
Her body fell lifelessly to the floor, blood dripped from the sword which ended her life. It was a clean cut running from one side of her throat to the other. Her mouth was ajar, as if she were going to say something.
"M... Mom..." She said quietly.
Sakura could hardly hear her own breathing from the immense amount of beating her heart was doing at the moment. Though, the longer she looked at the bloody body of her mother... The person she had killed along with her father! And for what!?! Pain and resentment!
Holding her pounding head, Sakura gave out cries of agony screaming words that were barely audible to Uchiha Sasuke's ears as he watched her as if she were crazy...
What the hell is going on?
Her father's back was turned to her and he seemed to be looking over documents. Her feet made no sound as she walked towards the oblivious male. Her father hadn't seen it coming until the sharp blade made contact with his throat and nearly severed his head.
The young assassin watched as her parents lay lifelessly on the wooden floor. Everything seemed to have shifted and changed at that exact moment, all except for Sasuke who watched in absolute confusion as Sakura thrashed her head from side to side...
She was in her home!?! As she stood at the bottom of the staircase, her younger self walked through the front door and into her old bedroom. Recalling these events from nearly 2 years ago, Sakura stayed in her spot and watched as everything began to unfold before her eyes...
Her happy mother walked into her house and called out to her only daughter... There was no answer so she began to slowly go up the stairs...
"Mom! Don't go up!" She cried.
Her mother could not here her, and it was at that exact moment that the younger Sakura stepped out of the shadows and murderously slaughtered her mother; her mouth gaped open as she took one last look at her daughter before she died silently...
Maybe I can still save dad!?!
Running into the office her father was usually in, Sakura went to grip his shoulders but her hands went right through his skin. Almost as if she was a ghost!
"Dad, run! Hurry!" She said loudly.
He hadn't heard her and instead kept on reviewing a few paper work... The younger Sakura entered the room, her bloodied sword basking in her mother's blood... Sakura wanted to push the other one away, wanted so desperately for everything to stop and disappear...
To turn back the hands of time...
To erase her foolish mistake and live in peace...
Oxygen halted from entering his lungs as he continued to choke on his own blood before going limp. His dead body was slumped in his work chair and his paper work was now soiled and drabbled with his own blood.
Sasuke sat there on the floor, totally dumbfounded... Racing over to the screaming assassin, he gripped the fallen sword and threw across the room, watching as it slid under his bed... He gripped her shoulders and gave them a shake.
Snapping back to reality, Sakura pulled away from the Uchiha and stood on shaky legs. He stood as well and didn't bother to even attack her when she was most vulnerable...
"Why..." She breathed.
"Why don't you kill me?"
He answered her with a smirk as he parted his lips and spoke in a stern voice.
"It's not in my nature to kill..."
Not in his nature...?
Right then and there, Sakura turned her back to him, walking towards the hallway and opening the window she had entered through. Sasuke was behind her in a moment as he shot her a questioning glance...
"I'm not going to kill you..." She said quietly before jumping out the window.
Sakura didn't care if she left her sword at Sasuke's house. All she wanted to do was get back home and quit the stupid organization that she had joined at such a young age, and for what? Her parents were dead because of her and she had almost killed Uchiha Sasuke!
As she entered her house, Sakura threw all her attire off and pushed them under the bed she slept in. A pair of pajamas adorned her body as she hurried downstairs and locked the front door...
"It's quite simple really, kill you're parents."
When Itachi had said those words back then, she should have done the intelligent thing and ran away from the secret organization known as Akatsuki... But she was so naïve at the time that she killed her parents for respect and power...
Mama and papa forgive me...
Digging into her pockets where her cell phone should have been, Sakura gasped when her pockets were completely empty! Running a hand through her long pink tresses, Sakura let out a disgruntled sigh and let her body hi the soft bed...
I don't care anymore...
Let him figure out that I'm the assassin...
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Still in complete confusion, Uchiha Sasuke stood from his spot. His eyes picked up the object of what seemed to be a cell phone. Holding it in his hand, Sasuke opened it up and watched as a letter appeared on the screen.
Mail?
Clicking a button, a short text message popped up on the screen and Sasuke hastily began to read it, not believing that what he was seeing was real...
Dear Blossom
Have you been successful in the assassination of my little ototo? Don't make me punish you like the last time... I want a full report by tomorrow morning the earliest!
Don't fail me, Sakura.
His eyes widened as he read over the name at the bottom of the text message. Sakura! Placing the cell phone on the night table by his bed, Sasuke ran his fingers through his dark raven hair as he lay in bed and waited for tomorrow to come...
There were still so many questions running around through his head as he tried desperately to fall into a peaceful sleep. He wanted say that what he saw was a lie, but sadly in reality it was all so real...
How could someone so fragile and friendly, really be a trained assassin...
She had deceived everyone from the very beginning and made them believe that she was someone she wasn't...
Deception...
As Sasuke went over the previous events, he became all the more determined. His eyes filled with a foreign feeling that he hadn't felt in such a long time... The coldness that he had thought left him long ago, gradually returned that night...
When his brother, Uchiha Itachi murdered their entire clan 11 years ago... After that incident, Itachi had suddenly disappeared and left Sasuke to cope with the death of their parents. A pure hate for his older brother filled him that day and the same thing was happening as Sasuke recalled the events of that night...
Mother... father... I promise to avenge your death...
Balling a fist at the thought of Haruno Sakura harming another human being, it made his heart ache and something inside of him was telling him to get the truth from her...
I'll get some answers... that certain...
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Author's Note
Well... how was that chappie? Took me a day or two to do, but hey! At least it's done... I hope all you wonderful readers enjoyed this chapter. Was it too short? This chappie was actually one of the finest out of all the other chapters I did; I really liked writing it and got right into the story...
Sorry for any mistakes in this chapter... Gomen...
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