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Wilting Roses
Chapter Eight- A Life Lost
Sakura was sleeping on the wooden floor when Sasuke returned hours later. Taking the sight he saw on Sakura's sleeping face, he couldn't help but reach his hand over and touch her hair, startling her awake in a instant.
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura rubbed her eye as she sat up to have his arms wrap around her body.
"I won the bid...the elder will be coming over shortly with the Mother to tell you," Sasuke whispered softly, minding the little girl under the furs began to stir and roll over. "I will be waiting at my inn suite for you."
"Oh!" Sakura hummed with joy. She wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and pulled him down into a deep kiss, hugging him tightly as he laughed against her lips; trying so hard to keep her still as she tried to tackle him down.
Sasuke was the one to stop Sakura from hurting herself as she tried to keep him there, gently setting her back on the floor and held her face. "I promised everything will be alright, Sakura... now Ino will get her doctor and you can come with me."
"I'm so happy, Sasuke-kun," Sakura whispered with tiny tears falling from her eyes as she kissed his cheek repeatedly. She felt his vibrating chuckle as she buried her face into his neck, softly giving love bites on his cool skin. Sakura wanted nothing more then to have him hold her close and show Mother the truth behind it all...
"I will be waiting, Sakura," Sasuke said as he looked towards her door, slowly touching her long hair and let out a pleasurable purr. With that, he was gone after kissing her head one last time and then was gone.
The shouji door opened with a quick slide as Mother strode in like she was at her job. "Sakura, my darling little Geisha! You have made history in the bidding of yourself!" she shrieked with joy as the elder walked in behind her. "A very, very rich man has bought you for tonight!"
Sakura was quick to hush sweet words to Ino, who whimpered in her sleep at the sudden yelling of Mother's voice. Being pulled back by Mother's firm grip as she was shoved at the elder who greeted Sakura quietly. She bowed her head silently in hello as the elder began to unroll the scroll of the polls, showing it with interested to the young Geisha.
"You see the tallies, my child?"
"Um."
"Every tally is for the hundred of payment in all from the men who came tonight, you have made more money then any Geisha I have ever assisted in bidding for." The elderly man gave the amount of tally that was recieved, making Sakura's heart skip a beat at the results. She saw kanji written in big letters as she saw the scribbles of the name who won the bid. "I think you will find this man... alright."
"What is his name?" Sakura asked softly with a sparkle in her eyes. Just hearing Sasuke's name made the event more exciting.
"Kabuto."
"...What?" Sakura looked as if she has misheard him, watching as the elder repeated the name. Kabuto.
"A very handsome man, I might say," Mother purred darkly. "Yes, he came over right after the bidding was done and purposed three times more the the original winner! Ha, I am so proud of my Geisha." She, as the first time in Sakura's career, touched her face and smiled at her. "He is expecting you right away!"
Sakura stood with a blank expression. Unable to look over at Mother's shining eyes, Sakura slumped her way to the floor as she looked at Ino's blonde hair. Sasuke told her that he won the bidding and now...Sasuke was second for the one named Kabuto has bought her purity for tonight.
"Come on, darling! I have your white robe ready for tonight." Mother pulled out Sakura's brightest kimono, all white and sparkling with silk material that was purposely made for this event of Sakura's special night; the one where she will finally save Ino with her illness and leave the okiya with her.
The elderly man left the room, closing the door as Mother began forcing the clothes off of her. His baldness reflected against the lantern's light as he watched his own feet move his way to the front enterance, his eyes dimmed and sad for his most desperate prayer to the gods for Sasuke to win: to take Sakura in good hands and make her well cared for the rest of her life. Wishing to lay a hand on Mother for taking the late bidder's offer and ruin his plan to get Sakura out of her hell.
"I am so sorry, my child..."
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Mother walked ahead of Sakura by only a few steps, holding the umbrella to keep the snow off of Sakura's body as she followed without her furs. She was shivering in the white silked robe; walking in her boots as she wrapped her arms around her as her teeth chattered. Mother commanded for the Daughter to go without her warming furs since she saw Ino 'spread her diseases' onto them, as punishment for Sakura as she made her way to...the bidder's inn house. The man didn't live that far away, as Sakura noticed, but his residence was out in the middle of nowhere and had no actual lights to lead them. It was Mother who took the job of guiding the virgin to the house where her white robe will be changed to a red silk he had waiting for her.
"This man is someone I knew, so you shall be taken care of," Mother said in a flat voice, making Sakura's head shoot up when she first spoke. "You will do whatever Kabuto-sama says, no matter how odd it sounds. Do you understand me, Sakura? You mustn't fail in the presence of this man."
Sakura did not know much about how to phyisically please a man, nor did she know what she was actually suppose to do; but the sound of Mother's voice...scared Sakura to the extreme as she met the pace next to the woman who raised her. She saw in her eyes that there was nothing to be seen, nor could Sakura look deep enough without Mother snapping at her. Mother's face was as blank as white, unable to show anymore joy then when she was dressing Sakura an hour prior; unable to hold her shrieks and cheerful yells while Ino was being disturbed in her sleeping state. Poor Sakura tried to have Mother hold it all in with no luck.
"I understand, Mother," Sakura replied in a low voice. "May I ask... Who won the bid before Kabuto bought over?"
"That is none of your concern, my dear. Kabuto is a much better fit compared to the last person," Mother grunted when she opened the wooden gate that held a lit home, Kabuto's current residence. "Kabuto has promised me that he will keep my okiya running for years after this." She pulled Sakura ahead of her as she nearly slammed into the wooden post that held the lantern for the porch's only light. Mother was quick to walk up to the shouji door and ring the bell that signaled anyone inside that there was company over. "Stand up straight, Sakura!" Mother hissed sharply as she pulled the pink haired girl and pushed her spine straight, gripping her braided hair back to have her chin up high.
The door slid opened to show a young woman dressed in pure black. She looked at Mother's still face before drifting her gaze over to see Sakura's light hair, suddenly having her slit eyes widen at the sight of the young girl. Her lip trembled slightly as she bowed her head low and beckoned the two women to come inside, pulling on both of their sleeves and quickly shutting the cold out. Sakura noticed how incredibly warm it was inside the paper house; how very normal it looked inside and out, like the Kabuto man had the kind of money to triple Sasuke's offer? Sakura may not be able to read, but she can sure count all the tallies and times them by two if she was told to.
"Go with her, Sakura," Mother pushed Sakura lightly towards the servant's waiting arms, watching as the girl whimpered at the servant's tight grip as she was yanked down the dark hallway. Mother's boots were kicked off silently as she was lead by another servant who appeared out of nowhere to the waiting room.
Sakura was pained by the servant's strong grip. Even for a weak looking woman, the servant proved worthy of possessing great strength compared to the strongest man Sakura has ever known. She was quick with her steps and nearly tripped a few times as Sakura was shown no hospitality when the woman slid opened a door at the end of the hallway and literally thrown into the room, shutting it behind Sakura's back to make her head snap.
"Uh!" Sakura struggled to speak as she tried to go to the door, just to ask the servant woman for a cup of tea to warm up quicker.
"So this is Sakura..."
Sakura had shivers sent up her back as she heard the silky voice singing her name like a sin. Slowly turning around, Sakura saw a shadowing male sitting on the darker end of the bedroom; hair silvery as an elder's aging hair and spectacles that glistened against the candlelight, covering his coal eyes that was staring deeply into Sakura's jade emeralds in a very uncomfortable way.
"You are truly a sight for even the blindest man, my dear child," Kabuto's voice snaked across the room to Sakura's ears, making her shiver a little in the shoulders as he chuckled at her reaction. "You do not need to fear me... I simply sealed the deal and will take good care of you." He stood up from his cushion and stood barefoot on the weaved rug.
"U-uh..." Sakura was quick to bow her head as low as she could. "A-arigato, Kabuto...-sama, for purchasing at such short notice."
"It was not a bad deal," Kabuto said in a even tone. "Let me say that Mother owed me for something years ago."
Sakura didn't reply to that, not even as Kabuto began taking large steps towards her shaking body. He reached out his tanned hand and touched Sakura's locks, tangling them in his fingers as he stared in awe at the lovely shine it brought to the room.
"You have...lovely hair, Sakura-chan," Kabuto's voice made Sakura's heart skip a beat in agony. "What a luck for a man like myself to be allowed to touch them."
"T-thank you..." Sakura said sadly. "I must honor this time as I stand infront fo the man who is going to save my dear friend and myself..."
"Aa, I have heard of this friend of yours'," Kabuto nodded very slowly, tracing his fingertips to Sakura's soft shoulders, pressing down on the silky fabric to feel how truly soft the woman's skin was to the touch. "She is gravely ill and you have took the time to bid your body to pay for a doctor, am I right?"
"Hai, Kabuto-sama," Sakura said as she stared off into space, when her eyes were angled at Kabuto's tall body. She felt the numbing touch of his fingers touch the exposed skin of her neck. "This will save her life and I will take her far away from here."
Kabuto's lips twitched upwards as he circled his fingers on her pulse. "Tell me, Sakura-chan...what are you looking for after this night is done?"
Sakura closed her eyes as a single tear fell, dripping down her cheek. Kabuto leaned down and let his tongue lick the salty drop off of her smooth skin, purring contently as Sakura opened her lips to speak. "I want to...live a perfect life with the man that I love. Have a happy ending and know that Ino is safe... I wish to have children and be a mother."
"What if," Kabuto started while licking up Sakura's cheekbone, sending shivers of fear throughout her body, "you could live forever with the man you love? Would that make it even better for you, Sakura-chan?"
Sakura kept her eyes closed as she sobbed. How wonderful would it be to be in Sasuke's arms forever and have him love her whole body and soul with no end, even adding in to never growing old and have children? It was a equation for perfection in Sakura's mind as she thought outloud of her opinion. "That would be...amazing, Kabuto-sama."
"What if," Kabuto purred into her little ear as his fingers traced down to her cleavage, slipping into the fabric as he kept talking, "I could make that possible for you tonight, Sakura-chan?"
"I don't know..." Sakura lightly sighed, pretending that it was Sasuke here touching her skin that she felt she saved her whole life for him; just wishing it was Sasuke here and now to strip the frozen silk off of her body and have his way all night and even until daybreak if Sakura could handle it. "I do not think it is possible..."
"But it is possible, Sakura-chan," Kabuto nipped her cheek sharply, biting with sharp teeth as the fingers inside Sakura's robe pulled the material apart. The silky white robe fell to the floor as Sakura let out a shy gasp, throwing her hands to cover her chest and limbs pressing together hard. Watching her eyes shut tigher, Kabuto's smile grew, letting the candle shine on his fangs. "I can make it last for all eternity if you do just one simple thing for me."
Sakura swallowed thickly, feeling like the man was going to take her most valuable possession on her at any second now, she bowed her head in the internal shame that lingered in her mind as thick as mist. "Anything you wish...Kabuto-sama."
"The only thing I wish from a god's gift like you, Sakura-chan, is the most simplest thing I could ask for..."
A sharp pain ripped through Sakura's chest as her eyes snapped open wide, feeling the stretching muscle and tearing tissue rip throughout her chest and ribs. She let out a stifled scream as Kabuto's hard mouth smashed onto her lips, thrusting his tongue inside her mouth as he sucked out the blood that sprout up her throat. Sakura's eyes tore down the see a swords handle sticking out of Sakura's body, being held firmly by Kabuto's free hand that once tore her robe off in such a graceful manner. She gagged more red liquid as Kabuto pulled his lips away from hers slowly, having a string of blood stretch from the connected holes.
The grey haired man licked his lips pleasurably, his eyes nearly rolling the the back of his head in heavy lust as he twisted the sword that was embedded in Sakura's gut. "It has been so long since I have touched a woman's flesh..."
Sakura's body was starting to go numb as her hot blood dripped down her bare skin, hitting the floor like raindrops during a thunderstorm, making loud 'pat pat pat' noises as they made contact with Sakura's stenchy blood.
"...and your blood smells so sweet to my senses. I can't hold it in much longer..."
Sakura opened her mouth to cry out for help, but a mouthful of blood was the only language she could speak.
"...I know Orochimaru-sama said to make more...helpers. But I could not resist the chance of tasting a virgin again..."
Her eyes closed sickly, her head was giving out. She wanted Sasuke's hand to hold her cheeks like he would to keep her face warm.
"I thank you Sakura..."
Her legs felt no use to her anymore as she slumped down with the katana sticking out of her back.
"...for agreeing with my wishes..."
Her mouth hung open as more and more blood spilled out with no end. She was talking with blood as she cried out for Sasuke. Her Sasuke-kun...
"...of allowing my curse to fufill for soul and body..."
She felt his hands grip her hips sharply, letting a weak cry escape through her nose.
"...and letting me take what Sasuke shall never have."
Her world was going black.
"Here me, oh Devil, as I summon your duty as slave..."
She could barely hear but felt the painful thrusts in her lower body.
"...as I claim another mortal's shell to show my pride, to be in my control when the spell is complete..."
She still pretended that it was Sasuke touching every part of her body with the sharp pain in her neck and abdomen. Sasuke, the man who she would obey with her mind and body. She wanted Sasuke to touch her bare skin...take what is meant to be his and his alone! She pretended it was Sasuke in her...Sasuke causing the pain as she felt her whole world go black.
"Let the scar of a cursed vampire be under the control of the man in her..!"
Sasuke-kun... Sasuke-kun... Sasuke-kun...
Sasuke-kun...
Sasuke-kun...
Sasu...
The servant that threw Sakura inside the room was waiting outside the door as she heard Kabuto's low grunts and the sound of human skin scratching against the straw-rug. Her face was as expressionless as she was when she opened to door for Mother and Sakura, standing just as if nothing was going on the other side, she stared straight at the wall to wait for her master's next order. She was taught the hard way of what would happen if she left her post...
After a few more breaths of Kabuto's current plan, she heard him stop and slide something out of somewhere, she didn't think of what and heard him stand contently as he redressed himself. She turned around and found Kabuto opening the door for himself, looking at him with emotionless eyes as Kabuto cracked his neck in a stretching yoga pace.
"Shall I clean the room, Kabuto-sama?" the loyal slave asked in a blank voice.
"No. Just leave her in there and help me get rid of the annoying woman in the waiting room," Kabuto snarled with his canines exposed. "Orochimaru-sama has wanted that bratty-lady dead for months."
The servant eyed Kabuto's fist holding long locks of pink hair in his tight grip, watching as his fingers rubbed on the strands graciously as he forced his way passed her, letting her see the scene of the crime of the dead corpse that laid sprawled on the floor: her chest area where the heart should be was stabbed opened, spilling drying blood all over the room she had cleaned yesterday. Inbetween her legs, was pushed opened...with blood dripping out in a slow pace, sinking into the rug as she slowly closed the door. She heard no heartbeat coming from the dead girl, nor the fact that her scent was dying out in the stench of blood that flew in the breeze of the opened window Kabuto has slide opened to dry the blood quicker. She didn't see the dead girl's face expression of her closed eyes, looking like she was dreaming a sad dream of losing something so precious.
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Sakura slowly opened her eyes. Her head hurt horribly as she felt her body feeling so cold and naked. She shut her eyes quickly when she winced sharply at the pain in her chest and inbetween her legs, wishing to have her furs and snuggle against Ino's sleeping form for warmth; she weakly rolled over on a sticky surface and propped herself onto her elbows.
She opened her eyes to see that she was still in Kabuto's room, thanks to her barely visible eyesight, she noticed Kabuto's cushion she first met him on and her white robe laying in the distance on the other side of the room, under the winter's shining sun and glittering to Sakura's eyes.
"Sunlight..." how much Sakura wanted to see the sun as an omen from the gods, giving her the message that her nightmares are all over. She crawled her way to the edge of the unlit room and looked sweetly at her white robe, being warmed in the sunlight and just asking her to take it and use it as a blanket. She slowly reached over and let her fingers touch the yellow sunlight-
A flash of light burst on Sakura's fingertips, sending a jolting sharp pain throughout her whole arm and sending down her body as she yanked her hand away. She cried out in a eerie screech as she watched her fingers burn to a black color and spilling a light ribbon of smoke of her burn. Tears swelled into her eyes as she pushed herself as far away as possible from the sunspot, shrieking like a banshee as she crawled to the darkest place she could find in the room: the opened closet.
She watched as her blood-stained fingers touched the burned skin, feeling no pain at all as her nail scraped along the black spots. What was wrong with her? Why did her skin react like that to the sun she has prayed to come for so long? She noticed that her skin was still pale from walking in the freezing snow last night, wondering why the icy tone hasn't disappeared if her body heat was suppose to return.
A cracked mirror caught the corner of Sakura's eyes as she slowly turned her skull to look at herself. Her hair was not long anymore but rather a chopped unevenly in waves up to her chin; her eyes looked tired as her jade hues were now black beads and not a single spot of white could be seen. She looked like a monster even more as her jaw dropped in shock to show that every tooth in her mouth was sharpened to a razor point...
Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs.
Sasuke's head snapped from the cold ground as he heard the echo of a high-pitched scream outside of the inn. He had waited for Sakura all night and didn't shut his eyes once to rest unless his beloved came for their special time that he had to bid for against hundreds of unworthy men. His mother and father always came out every hour to check on him and tried to persuade him to come inside; refusing to meet his parents' request and standing still on the porch is what he did alright. But the first time he actually moved was when the scream reached his keen ears, noticing the tune that reminded him oddly of Sakura's high-pitched giggles. He turned his head south to where the source of the voice came from and began walking at an inhuman speed towards the destinated area. In the air: dried and faint blood, to be exact for the Uchiha. Possibly hours upon hours old of a female human who was accidentally slain? No, it couldn't be because Sasuke could hear sources of a female breathing inside the house...crying loudly and something smashing of glass.
The scent of the faint blood got stronger as his black eyes slowly realized who it was. Bursting into his vampire speed, he burst into the room to find gallons of blood spilled all over the floor, the scent of his Sakura still lingered fresh of her body and skin, but her blood was long gone. His head snapped to the darkest area of the room and saw a leg sticking out from the shouji door of a closet; quickly with his moves, he grabbed the ankle hard and pulled the body out.
Sakura was naked before his eyes, her face read fear of anything that may have come her way would send her into a frenzy if he wasn't careful. Her once beautiful eyes were now beads of black balls that stared into the deepest pit of the Uchiha's soul, showing him how unable she was to listen. Her lips trembled hard as little razors poked her bottom lip and her cheeks hallowing in starvation, of thirst. Her long locks were no more now of only chopped waves that shaped her face perfectly, in his opinion.
"Sakura..." his voice was so low, a human couldn't hear. But Sakura's shoulders hunched as she heard and knew the voice who called her name.
"Sasuke-kun..!" Her normal voice was tuned into a ghosty-mist, sending even Sasuke shivers. "Wh-...what...?"
He knew the stories of curses that would be placed on mortals. Witches back then would try and take vampire's meals by turning human blood into black goo that tastes horribly to their tongue, causing the vampire to starve and go into a hunger-frenzy, trying to kill whatever has blood pumping into their body. Sasuke has also heard stories of vampires being able to perform witchcraft curses upon all species... There was once a great Pureblood vampire that had a male companion being capable of performing such tasks, but he was told that both of them were killed in the times of Ancient Greek. Surely, as Sasuke tried hard to prove it, they didn't make it into the Japanese era of Geishas, using innocent women to take their bodies into their own slavery.
His Sakura.
His.
The Sakura Sasuke swore to himself he would protect, claim her body and soul, to take her struggles in life and change her himself into a Pureblood!
Sasuke slowly leaned in and took the injured hand of his blossom, hearing her whimpers to cause his stress to escalate even higher. "Don't worry, Sakura...I'm here now." He gently touched the black fingertips before sticking them into his hot mouth, sucking on the burned skin and licking with his soothing tongue.
"Sa-...Sasuke-kun..." Sakura whispered as she watched Sasuke lick her fingers, slowly noticing how the burnt layer of the skin was peeling off by Sasuke's licks. Her eyes drooped tiredly as she tried to find more warmth within the man she cried for on her dying breath. "Sasuke-kun...Sasuke-kun...Sasuke-kun..."
He grunt to let her know that he was there. That he was the one healing her burn and watching her every move, unable to hold in his true emotions of fear for Sakura's...curse. He trailed his eyes down to her chest to see a large scar lingering on her pale skin. The color of peaches as the shape took fold of a biblical star, the one that the Three Wise Men would've followed to their path to their Savior... This particular scar did not serve as a guide to Sakura's Savior, but to an eternal damnination that was all caused because Sasuke...he didn't protect Sakura's mortality. He noticed, now as he saw more of her bare skin, that she was too young to be a Changed vampire. Of course, these were not the eyes of a Changed vampire.
So what is Sakura?
"Sasuke-kun..." Sakura's voice dried to the cracks of her throat, coughing softly as she wished she had water. "Sasuke-kun..."
Sasuke's hair covered his eyes as he slowly pulled her fingers out of his mouth; Sakura saw how the burnt layers were no longer there but had a peeled-looking color to the icy pale skintone she now had. Sakura's lip quivered as she held her hands to her chest, sobbing silently as the pain in her throat began to burn hotter. His large hands slowly reached for the back of Sakura's chopped locks, pulling her quickly to shove her face into his neck, keeping a very tight grip on her so she didn't more away from him.
"S-Sasu-" Sakura tried to say his name, her eyes dropping again.
"Drink."
Sakura made a whimper of confusion, feeling Sasuke's fingers tace up her spine slowly and cause her to shiver pleasurably, yet still in pain. She licked her own lips before pressing them to his pulse, feeling the strong heartbeat as she kissed his skin...opening her mouth and slowly sinking all of her razor-sharp teeth into his dense skin. She felt him jerk in pain, but could not pull away! The feeling of this hot liquid hitting her tongue caused her to moan and began drinking his blood.
"Sakura..." he whispered against her ear as she continued to drink all the blood that was taken out of her body, suddenly smiling at the thought that Sakura was capable of drinking blood like a normal vampire; kissing her earlobe gently as she gasped, letting go of his skin and panting for air. "You will be okay..."
He pulled his winter cloak off of his shoulders and wrapped Sakura snugly around her torso, like a towel or a strapless dress that will be shown in our present time. She kept her hands on her chest as Sasuke pulled her into his arms, holding her as close as he could before standing up with ease. His eyes bled the color of crimson as he faced the presence of the sunlight inside the room, bracing himself for incredible pains of burns as he would push himself at inhuman speed to take Sakura home.
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Mikoto sensed her youngest son bursting into his inn room, suddenly snapping her pretty head up as Fugaku and the other members of her clan that was present currently as they heard the same deal; jumping to her feet, she scurried to her son's occupied room and slide the door open to find him pushing himself and a unknown body against the corner of the bedroom, growling fiercely at his mother's presence and hearing sobs of a female.
"Sasuke?" Mikoto said carefully, hearing his son grunt and growl louder in reply. "Sasuke...who do you have there?"
Sasuke didn't answer with words, but shoved his body against the smaller one, earning another whimper from the hiding face as she gripped to Sasuke's black hair as if she was trying to find him. His shoulders heaved up and down as he was heaving for oxygen. His mother, as always the one who worries for any soul, ran over and pulled her son away from the corner with her dominant strength, seeing that his face was covered with dark burns and bleeding out of cuts that was caused by the sun's rays.
"Sasuke!" Mikoto gasped as she turned to find a young woman's body laying weakly against the wall. Not hearing a single heartbeat but heard the breaths entering the lungs as Mikoto realized it was the Geisha woman she would like to hear during her time at the bar. Her once pretty tresses were now chopped short to her doll-like chin, dripping from the lips of Sasuke's blood as she called out to him blindly with thirst. "...what happened?"
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AUTHOR'S ENDING NOTE- Next chapter will deal with the present time of Sakura and Hinata C: All done with SasuSakuness background story for y'all! I apologise if it is sorta short, but I have been very busy with schooling and work...and now I would like to announce that two new stories will be released sometime before the American Thanksgiving; one is another AU NaruHina (for those who like Wilting Roses' difficult relationship development) and the other is an AU SasuSaku (for those who have checked out my other story, Sing To Me, Baby, and would like something more fierce and mindstruggling). I do not know when I will next update, but I do promise that it will be soon C; Please enjoy yourselves until then, dear readers!
