Moonlight Rhapsody

Chapter 7

A SasuSaku Fanfic

By UchihaSanNin


This whole chapter is about SasuSaku. THERE WILL BE SASUKE OOCness. So please. Don't bitch. Its totally intended. Theyre spending more time together and getting to know each other, etc. Sorry, may or may not be a lemon in this chapter, so don't get your hopes up...I hate to dissapoint, but everytime I tried to put a lemon in it just seemed...awkward and forced. I want it to be the right time and steamy and romantic. :] Im such a hopeless romantic. HA

UchihaSanNin


Sakura was fuming. Actually, fuming wasn't even the word for it.

Sasuke Uchiha was totally on her shit list.

While she was out picking fruits and herbs, after she performed the necessary hand seals to release the items that were sealed inside the scrolls she carried, Sasuke had apparently taken it upon himself to go through all of the things that she carefully set out. Whatever he deemed unnecessary for the trip was thrown unceremoniously to the floor in the small 12 by 12ft room that was a kitchen, living room and bedroom in one.

An extra blanket.

Pillows.

Feminine supplies.

Packets of ramen that Naruto had dumped into her arms as they were walking out of the gates of Konoha.

A picture of Aiko.

And, call her a big wuss, but she also carried along one of Aiko's little hippo toys that she bought him a while back. The boy had given it to her with tears in his eyes, telling his mother not to forget him back home. (And she cried. Like a four year old girl.) Yes- for some reason young Aiko had a fascination with purple hippos.

The bastard was really asking for it.

"You asshole, this is important stuff!" She seethed, as she bent down to gather all of the discarded items.

Sasuke scoffed as he walked inside and shut the door behind him, shutting them off from the outside world. "You're lucky I thought twice about throwing all of that outside. Or burning it."

Sakura stiffened, her eyes crossing. She swore she saw red. She turned on him within a second, and slammed him on the door behind him.

Suigestu, who stood a few feet away from the entrance to the small room they were in, looked back with wide eyes when he heard something rock the door on its hinges. "Fuck, Sasuke, why didn't you say something...? I don't want to here of your little conquests..." And with that, the water nin walked away.

"You can't throw away Aiko's hippo." Sakura snarled. Sasuke just watched her face with a nonchalant expression. "He wanted me to have it and I'm supposed to protect him and bring him back safe and sound." Sasuke's mouth twitched.

Just for an instant.

"Do you have any idea how you sound right now?" He asked. Narrowing his gaze. "protecting a child's toy?" Sakura quickly let him go, and Sasuke dropped back to his feet, straightening his shirt. "Why do you need all these things...? I am pretty positive that none of the other's packed as much as you did."

"Gee." She gathered an armful of what Sasuke labeled as junk and walked back to the bed and started to pack it neatly away once more. "Maybe its because most of my medical team is male." She deadpanned.

He looked at her in confusion, and she hung her head in embarrassment. "You know nothing of the female reproductive system, do you, Sasuke?"

"I never said I didn't. Karin wasn't always subtle about everything." Sakura growled, and threw a box at him.

"Well guess what, smartass, that's what this stuff is for!" He caught it and frowned.

"Whatever." He tossed it aside, and it landed on the bed behind her. "I have a way to remedy that." He reached out, meaning to take her arm, but she stood, and lashed out with her fist. She just glanced him on the right side, but the force of the blow sent him reeling into the wall, struggling to catch his breath.

"Don't you even think about it!" She stammered, her face slowly turning red. He glared at her, his eyes bleeding red, and winced at the pain in his ribs.

"I could always make you submit." The way he said it sent chills up her spine. She didn't know if that was the good kind of bad.

"I will make your life a living hell, Sasuke Uchiha, if you do it."

And as many times as she threatened to knock him through walls, he believed her.

"But- Ah, wait a minute, Sakura-San, you can't! You're the doctor-" one of the lead constructors from the Iwagakure yelled, as Sakura Haruno proceeded to heft a huge wall that had fallen due to a collapse of faulty cement the night before. A vein pulsed in her forehead as she strained, and as the wall gained height and straightened, the eight men that stood to the side nearly crapped bricks, Sasuke among them.

Sakura grinned wide, and held it with her pinky. Now she was just showing her ass. "Well, c'mon, I won't waste energy holding this forever. Let's go!" Sasuke just stared at her as she worked alongside the Iwa nin. She was saying something to make the men laugh, and Sasuke smiled to himself.

Juugo walked up beside the Uchiha, gaining his attention, the smile still on his usually impassive face.

"Why don't you tell her...?" The orange haired man asked, and Sasuke just scowled.

"She doesn't need to know now." He answered, and he turned back to his work with his group of men.

Sakura smiled as she looked out the window. Sasuke had left her alone about sleeping with the purple hippo plushy. The snow fell softly, and she caught sight of the halfway finished hospital, which was now covered in a fine blanket of fresh snow. It had come up quicker than one thought. She was glad. That meant that she could get back to Aiko.

But Sasuke.

Sasuke didn't say anything about the young boy. She wondered sometimes if he even cared that he had an illegitimate child.

But then again Sasuke was socially retarded. He didn't say much to her actually. After the confrontation a week ago, he tried to stay out of her way. He would come home- 'I'm already calling this small living space a home. Really?!' She thought, way later than she, and he slept on the couch. Suigetsu and Juugo too the room that was built, the same type as the one she and Sasuke stayed in, about twenty yards away from their own.

She guessed that the housing plan was due to more privacy that would appeal to other people that were planning on coming into the village. And everyone knew Sasuke liked his privacy. Especially when it came to Sakura.

She didn't understand that man.

And she didn't even want to start trying.

She leaned back against the pillows, sipping the strong, hot, steaming cup of Apple cider she prepared. She'd made a cup for the Uchiha also, but it had long since gone cold. Maybe she just did it out of habit, because Aiko absolutely loved Apple Cider. The child would pitch a fit the likes of Konohagakure never seen before if he saw her drinking a cup and she failed to make him some.

The door suddenly opened and slammed shut.

"Sasuke?"

A low grunt was her only reply.

That's an affirmative. She sat up, setting her mug down on the floor, as the Uchiha shoved out of his coat. It hit the floor with a wet, heavy plop, and he headed her way. He practically fell into bed, and before she could make any protest, he threw his arms around her waist and roughly pulled her to his freezing cold body.

"Sasuke, get off of me." She growled, clenching her jaw in anger. "Go warm up else where. There's a hot pot of soup and cold Apple Cider on the counter. I'm not your personal heater."

His muffled reply vibrated against her shoulder, sending delicious shivers through her body as his cold lips brushed her warm skin. "This seems most logical. Plus I thought that maybe you would return the favor. It's not like I didn't do the same for you two years ago. Except this isn't a life and death situation. And I can't go take a hot shower, unless you want to explain to the Hokage and everyone else here that I had a fucking heart attack." She growled, and attempted to shove him off, but his grip tightened around her. "You're not shoving me off this time." He muttered, and she gave up.

"I could and you know it." She retorted, wanting to finish her hot beverage, but she could pretty much forget it until the bastard fell to sleep. He grunted in reply, already fading off. He snuggled closer to her, letting his whole body fit against her own, and she sucked in a breath at the temperature of his skin. She'd lost this argument.

But then again, she kind of wanted this.

The next day...

Sasuke sat on the stump that was recently cut, glad for the freezing temperature that kept the sap from flowing onto his cloak. He brooded silently, trying to figure that pink haired woman out. One day she's nice, sweet even...the next, she's mad at him and wants nothing to do with him. Granted, he pretty much abandoned her, but shouldn't she be over that?

He sighed and scratched the back of his neck.

"She still not putting out? Damn, Sasuke, it's not like you to be so fixated on getting into someone's-"

Sasuke lashed out, the sound of a thousand birds echoing around them. The water nin froze and wiggled around as the current of electricity flowed through his now liquified body, and as Sasuke cut off supply of chakra to his hand, Suigetsu fell to the snow in a puddle. The nin glared up at the Uchiha who continued on as if nothing happened.

"Bastard." He said.

Sasuke suddenly realized how terribly jealous he was. The rosette was so kind to everyone else. But when it came to him, the Uchiha, the one she professed her love to all those years ago, she seemed to treat him the worst. At first, he thought he deserved it. He shook his head at the absurdity of it all. 'No.' He told himself. 'I did what I had to do. I couldn't stick around and be vulnerable because of all the ties to the enemy villages.'

He stood suddenly, thinking to himself, and walked off to go find that irritating slip of a woman.

Sakura rubbed the home made poultice over the man's injury on his leg. 'men and their training sessions...why must they be so rough?' She thought to herself, as she began to wrap the man's thigh, just above his knee.

"Just rest for a few hours. I repaired what I could, and this should heal the rest rather quickly. Don't take it off until you wake the next morning." The man nodded, blushing, and she beamed at him as she stood. Suddenly, someone grabbed her arm and proceeded to drag her from the room at the ground level of the nearly finished six story hospital.

She turned as they took a left down the hall, and was shoved into an empty room. She saw the hair and knew who it was immediately.

Sasuke.

"what do you want! You had no right to drag me away from a room full of waiting patients, Sasuke!" He pushed her back against the exam table to her rear, at the opposite side of the room, and he glowered at her. She did NOT like the look in those inky, black depths.

"They can wait. I have waited long enough. I'm sick of it." He stared down at her, and she glared up at him.

"Sick of what?" She nearly screeched. "If anyone has a right to be sick of anything, it's me!" Sasuke tightened his already vice like grip on her elbows. She sat down on the table, and tried not to shove him away with everything she had. "You screwed me then left, and it's like you don't even care that Aiko is yours. Yeah your nice to him, but have you mentioned trying to change the situation? No! Nothing! It's like Aiko doesn't even exist anymore. I'm only here in Oto to help with the medical team and then in another few weeks I am going home." She wrenched away from him, and he didn't move to stop her. "And I don't want to see you again." She walked to the door. "I think it's better if Aiko forgets about you."

Sasuke clenched his fists. He couldn't describe the feeling that seemed to crash through him at those words. He clenched his fists in anger, and gnashed his teeth. Her hand touched the door knob, and his hand gripped her arm. He shoved her against the door, and glared down at her, his eyes now an angry crimson.

"I intend on rectifying the whole situation. I can't right now. My focus, right now, in this moment is you." Sakura froze, staring up into those blood red orbs. "You are mine. Aiko is mine. Tsunade gave me an order to fix the fuck ups in my past. But you wont let me!" He practically screamed this last sentence, and she shamefully looked away. "I told you I could not come back. I didn't want what happened two years before, but it just happened."

"Yeah you managed to get that out right before you disappeared, then turned up my apartment again to-"

"You're so stupid." He deadpanned, poking her in the forehead. Her eyes crossed and she started to reply, or rather scream at him, but his mouth slanting over her own stopped her from doing so. His tongue instantly invaded her mouth, seeking out her own and drawing it to play. His arms wound around her narrow waist, making her seem to melt into his chest, leaving no space between them. She was mortified when she suddenly moaned into his mouth and her own body betrayed her as she arched into him. His hands rudely shoved themselves into her spandex shorts, massaging the newly exposed flesh.

A loud knock at the door made her wrench her lips from his.

"Sakura-San...?" Came Emmi's voice through the other side of the portal. Sakura froze, but Sasuke continued what he was doing: Chewing on her earlobe oh so softly. She almost moaned aloud. Almost. Score for Sakura. "There's another patient waiting to see you. Everyone's getting impatient."

Sasuke beat her to the punch. "Learn how to do your job and go the fuck away."

The younger woman on the other side of the door quickly walked away. Sasuke then let his hands roam up her body and to her pink locks that met her shoulders. He let his fingers delve into the thick mass of pink, and he gently pulled, exposing her throat. A hungry growl emanated from deep within him, and he slowly licked the line of her neck to her chin.

"Sasuke..."

She gripped his shirt, trying to push him away. Her body was betraying her mind. She wanted to hate this man.

"Sasuke...sto..stop..."

He pushed her away so many times.

Puh...please!" She managed to push him off this time with little effort. His crimson gaze slowly looked her up and down, but she wasn't going to have it.

Why now...?

"I'm not a robot, Sasuke." She murmured. "I can't turn my emotions on and off at the snap of your fingers." He didn't even try to stop her as she walked out of the room and quietly shut the door behind her.

Sakura woke up suddenly as the knocking at the door continued. She looked around for Sasuke, but he was no where to be found. He didn't come home last night. Disappointment suddenly took over the warm cozy feeling, and she pushed it away. 'I should be glad he didn't come home.'

She stood and threw on a shirt and a pair of shorts then went to the door. She opened it, and there stood Naruto. Holding a certain black haired, ebony eyed boy with a wide, ear to ear smile on his small face. His cheeks were a ruddy hue, including his nose. "OMMA!"

He practically shoved away from Naruto and fell into his much missed mother's arms. She cried happily, hugging the heavily bundled boy to her tightly.

"So...where's Sasuke?" Naruto asked, as Sakura made Aiko, Naruto and herself a cup of Cider. Aiko giggled and babbled away as his fists hit the counter, counting the seconds away until he had the cup of deliciousness in front of him, his for the taking.

"I have no idea, and I don't even care." Sakura replied, her voice clipped. Naruto winced.

"Sore subject?" He asked, and got no answer. "Great..." Aiko suddenly squealed when his mother set a small plastic cup in front of him, and proceeded to blow on it. Naruto laughed loudly at his exaggerated motions.

"Well, Tsunade wanted me to come and check up on you...She said you might miss Aiko a lot so, I should bring him. Lee and Shikamaru are with The teme now I believe, if they even found him, talking to him about whatever Tsunade wanted relayed to him."

Suddenly, the door opened, and Sasuke walked in. Followed by lazy genius.

"Where's Lee?" Sakura asked, knowing this would spark something with the Uchiha, and had a moment of satisfaction when he fixed her with a red tinged, ebony glare.

"He said something about the power of youth and wanting to help build the police district in record time...you know how that idiot is." Sasuke replied. Aiko turned when he heard his father's voice, and he smiled wide.

"Addy!" The boy shrieked, taking everyone for surprise. He held his arms up, and Sasuke whisked him out of the chair and hugged him tight. Sakura watched, trying not to smile at the warm feeling that seemed to run through her chest at the sight of father and son.

"What do you mean, Someone was in Konoha looking for Sakura?" Sasuke asked, ignoring the needle like pain as Aiko, who sat quietly on his father's broad shoulders, yanked at the bangs that framed his face.

"Yah!" The boy yelled, as if he were riding a horse.

"Anbu intercepted a young woman...a brunette with blue eyes. Dark skin..." Naruto explained. "She was looking for Sakura. That's all I know. I swear. That's all that hag would tell me, I swear."

"So Lee and I are here to keep tabs on her at all times."

"What do you mean at all times? I need my privacy, mind you!" Sakura yelled, and everyone looked over at her.

"You'll get it, I swear." Shikamaru sighed. "It's only when you go somewhere, cover your shifts at the hospital, you know. Damn Sakura what's up with you...?"

"Nothing. I'm just stressed out. I think I am just doing too much..." She answered, and felt someone staring at her. She glanced over to see Sasuke eyeing her suspiciously, and she narrowed her gaze on him. They both knew who it was looking for her.

Later...

Tsunade smiled to herself when she opened the letter that Naruto Uzumaki's buunshin delivered earlier that afternoon. She wanted to laugh outloud at the Uchiha's luck.

Inside, it read:

The bastard still hasn't been able to open up and get the stick out of his ass. He's made the situation worse. He and The Blossom are no longer on talking terms.

Tsunade wondered who the woman was that came looking for Sakura from the Land of Lightning.

She had to keep Sakura's where abouts hidden until she could find out who or what was suddenly seeking her student out.

Sakura fell backwards into the snow, and Aiko did the same. The snow crunched underneath their bodies, and Sakura proceeded to stretch her arms and legs straight out. She waved her arms back and fourth, making a snow angel. Aiko copied her movements, squealing with laughter. "Lookit, omma!" He flew up to his feet, pointing down at his slopping body print.

"Aiko it's so pretty!" She exclaimed, and he beamed up at her. Sasuke Uchiha stood to the side, arms crossed over his chest, looking the other way. She scowled at him, then swung Aiko up into her arms.

"Ooh, you're all wet!" She said, feeling how wet his jacket and pants were from the melted snow.

"Why don't we ask daddy if he can take us to that little hot spring they just got done with?" Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Hot sprig, hot sprig!" Aiko yelled, and he just led the way.

Sasuke tossed the boy into the water, and a horrified Sakura slapped his arm. "What if he couldn't swim?" She growled, wanting to lob his head off. Aiko came up gasping for air, but floating nonetheless.

"Naruto told me he taught him to swim. He's fine. Quit freaking out." Before she could make a cruel retort, Naruto appeared behind him with a towel around his waist.

"I'll take Aiko. He can come with me to the other side of the bath." He reached down and Aiko grabbed his hand. The soon to be hokage lifted him out of the water with ease, and carried the naked boy out of the room to give them their privacy.

"Leave it to Naruto to 'help' when necessary." Sakura said, her voice laced with sarcasm. "I don't know what made him think I wanted to be alone with you."

"I told him I wanted to be alone with you." He dead panned, as he suddenly shrugged out of his long sleeved shirt. Her jaw dropped.

"What?" She wanted to punch him. "Why?" Then went his pants. She blushed furiously, and looked away. He grabbed her, then threw her into the hot water, fully clothed. She came up fuming, as he waded in, calm and collected, and over to her in the deeper end of the pool.

"What am I supposed to wear when I get out of here?" She asked, blushing, backing into the wall that separated the four interconnected bath houses.

"Who said I am letting you out?"

Her face flamed. She fought him when he made a grab for her.

"What do you want from me Sasuke?" She asked. He pulled her to him. she looked away from him as he settled her bottom into his lap. A pensive look seemed to take over his usual apathetic visage, and he didn't answer for a few seconds. She wanted to mentally kick herself. She knew Sasuke wanted her. Alot of times his body language told her other wise, but he recently started acting strangely. And back in Konoha it took everything within her not to let him in her pants.

"You."

She fixed him with a glare.

"Aiko." He continued. Her resolve almost melted. Almost. "A future." He leaned in, and kissed her softly.

Sakura yielded, ever so slightly, but yanked away from him in the next instant.

"No." She said firmly. "I won't do this." Sasuke narrowed his gaze on the pinkette, and frowned. "I can't. I'm not your baby machine, and the sooner you realize that, the better. Not for your clan, Sasuke!"

As she quickly waded out of the water, soaking wet, and grabbed a towel, she heard his reply.

"If I wanted a baby machine I would've picked someone else. Aiko was an accident." Then he clammed up and turned away from her.

The next morning, Sakura woke slowly and turned over in the bed. An arm suddenly looped over the curve of her waist, and dragged her back against a warm, muscular body. Sasuke's scent wafted over her and into her nostrils, and she sighed. 'When did he start sleeping in bed with me again...?'

Aiko stayed the night with Naruto, since he passed out on the way home in the blonde's arms, leaving Sasuke and Sakura to their own devices. Sakura was sort of glad for the alone time. Leave it to Sasuke to wait until the most inconvenient time to try to make a move, even though he had three weeks to do so before their son arrived without warning yesterday morning.

Later that day...

Sakura led Aiko by the hand around the small town, trying to let him be more independent. She turned to talk with one of the men that were still there finishing the hospital when she heard Aiko shriek. She and the Iwa nin turned quickly to see Aiko crash into Sakura's leg, and grip it tightly. Juugo stood with Karin only a few feet from them, and Aiko was in a pure panic.

"Omma, big man, big man!" He cried, sobbing, with big tears trailing down his face.

'Juugo was the man standing at his bedroom window...?' Sakura thought to herself. 'how strange...? maybe he was watching over him...?'

She fixed Juugo with a pensive stare, and he just smiled. Karin scowled, eying the young boy that was climbing up her body. Sakura could see the barely hidden contempt in her eyes. 'Not my problem...' Sakura thought, and waved to Juugo then walked away.

"It's okay, Aiko," She murmured, rubbing his back in soothing circles. "That big man...he's here to protect you."

Aiko immediately stopped crying and sat up and away from her, looking at her with those deep, forest green eyes. "You mean like a guard dog?"

Sakura couldn't stop laughing.

A few days later, fresh snow started to fall once more. Aiko had left the day before, and Sakura was left to her own mean's of entertainment once again. Tree sap froze underneath the thick trunks of the pine and maple trees exploding set everyone on edge. Especially Sasuke. He acted as though he had PTSD. Sakura couldn't get a break. She didn't need him to protect her.

Sakura let her small hand sift through the fresh blanket of snow, to the thicker layer of settled ice underneath, and an idea popped in her head.

"Oi, Sasuke!" Said man turned around, just in time to take a fairly sized, well packed snow ball in the face. The force of it threw him off balance, and he landed on his butt in the snow. Stunned, he wiped his face, and looked up, seeing the heavily clothed pink haired kunoichi lobbing another at him. He rolled, and disappeared, and the large snow ball hit the tree behind him with a loud smack and disintegrated.

Sakura looked around, smiling at the fact that she just enticed the normally stoic Uchiha into a childish snowball fight.

The next thing she new, a pile of snow was dropped on to her head, and she shrieked as a large amount got under her cloak, shirt, and pants. Sasuke Landed on top of her, and sat on her stomach, pinning her with his weight as she hit the snow with a thud.

She was laughing loudly, her cheeks flushed, and eyes closed tight as the giggling ensued. Sasuke just stared down at her with a look of irritation. Little by little, she stopped giggling, and stared up at him. Just as Sasuke starting thinking strange thoughts about kissing that pouty mouth of hers, She ruined it by bursting out with laughter once more.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" He yelled, and shoved away from her. She didn't even bother to get up, even though she was freezing cold, and wet from all the melted snow in her clothes.

"Y-y-your...f-face!" She howled, laughing once more. She then slowly sat up, her hair covered in the soft snow flakes and wet in some places, and Sasulke had to look away as his face went crimson. "You looked so constipated." She wiped the tears that trailed from her eyes, and He scowled once again. 'There she goes.' He thought to himself.

She ruined his moment.

"Sa-Sasuke...I'm f-f-freezing." She chattered as he opened the door to the room. The fire that was burning in the mantle was now nothing but slow burning embers, and He grabbed some wood from the shelf beside the door.

"Well, you shouldn't have started anything."

"Y-Y-you're the one who threw snow in my clothes!" She yelled, and Sasuke rolled his eyes. Sh almost slapped him upside the head. Almost.

Instead she fell into a shivering heap onto the bed, and proceeded to shed her clothing, layer by layer. "I could k -kill y-you, U-uchiha." She muttered, as Sasuke managed to get the embers blazing once more. He turned to her, watching her shaking fingers fumble with the buttons on her blouse, and he made a rude noise.

He walked over to her and slapped her hands away. Her face went red as his hands swiftly plucked at the buttons, then pulled her shirt loose from her body, leaving her in her pants, boots and sports bra.

He held a large, calloused hand out, waiting patiently, for her to lift her foot up. She did so, muttering softly under her breath, and he pulled her boots off.

As his fingers tucked into the waistbad of her pants, she glared at him. The look she gave him could kill.

"Don't worry. I'm an expert. I've done this before." He deadpanned. She was too cold to protest, too cold to bash his head it, and too cold to laugh at his perverted, un- Sasuke Uchiha like comment. He pulled them off in one swift movement, and she quickly yanked the think blankets over her scantily clad body before he could do anything else.

"Okay, now go away." She mumbled, her eyes suddenly feeling heavy. Instead, she felt a heavy weight settle onto the bed, and she was suddenly shoved over. The blankets flew up, then back down, and a warm, hard body intimately spooned against her own. Her eyes went wide, and her mouth dropped.

She started to protest and turned to the stubborn man to give him a piece of her mind, but he cut her off. His lips pressed against hers in a quick, chaste kiss, then were gone.

"Be quiet." He wrapped his arms around her, and cradled her against his naked torso. She stared down at his well defined abdomen, and gulped. Loud. Then looked back up at his face to see him staring down at her with a bored look. "What."

"N-nothing." She layed her head back onto the soft pillow, and fixed her gaze on a small scar that lined the size of his neck.

"Hn..." His eyes closed once again, and Sakura pouted. the soft snores from the Uchiha lull her into a deep slumber.


Sorry guys. No lemons yet. It just felt too awkward. :]

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