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"I love you too Sasuke," Sakura smiled again as Sasuke pressed his lips to hers.
Sasuke deepened the kiss as Sakura's hands wrapped around his waist, pressing their bodies together.
Sasuke smiled into the kiss and moved his hands into her hair.
'I never want to lose you again,' Sasuke thought as he splayed kisses across her face.
He picked her up and carried her up the stairs revelling in the heat of her body against his.
Laying Sakura down on the bed Sasuke stared into her eyes.
"Sakura," he whispered as he kissed her, letting his hands roam down her sides.
Sasuke kissed Sakura with all the love and care that he could, he wanted to protect her, but he couldn't shake the nagging feeling in the back of his mind. His hearth throbbed at the thought of leaving her. He couldn't explain the feeling but he felt that he was walking into a trap.
He broke their kiss as he placed his forehead against hers, trying to regain his breath.
'I'm just paranoid, everything's going to be alright,' Sasuke half heartedly assured himself.
Concerned, Sakura caressed the side of his face, breaking him from his thoughts. He smiled back down at her and kissed her again.
He wanted her to feel safe with him; he wanted her to stay with him forever. Kissing her deeper, she wrapped her arms around his neck and brought him closer.
Sasuke knew she needed him just as much as he needed her. All the years he spent hating his brother he had destroyed himself, when he was with her, he felt loved. He felt that she was carefully picking up the pieces of his heart and putting them back together.
She felt the same, being near to him after what Kitaro did to her gave her peace. She was free to live her life, not in fear and pain but in happiness and joy. Sasuke gave that to her. Sakura let a stray tear run down her face as she thanked to whoever was watching out for her, for Sasuke.
She slightly moaned as his fingers traced the skin beneath her shirt in a desperate attempt to feel every part of her.
He wanted her to know that he would protect her, he couldn't before but he would now. He wanted to show her how much he loved her.
Sliding her shirt off, Sasuke let his lips graze over her skin as he pulled her body closer to his, not wanting to ever let her go. His fingers again touched each scar as his lips followed.
As he touched each of her scars he touched each memory attached to them, every terrible moment that she had spent with her 'master' he washed away. The pain ebbed away as Sasuke's breath flowed over her skin.
Sakura's fingers found their way to the top of his pants and side across the waistband, feeling his soft skin. Sasuke softly moaned as she continued to caress the naked skin of his chest and waist with her delicate touch.
Sasuke ran his lips down her body as slow as he could; he truly loved her and wanted her to feel that. This time wasn't about just making love but feeling, they needed each other.
Still letting his lips roam down her body, Sasuke slid her pants down her legs, pressing kisses over the exposed skin.
"Sasuke," Sakura whispered as he came back up to kiss her.
Sakura placed her hands back on the top of his pants and gently tugged them down. Sasuke helped her as he broke the kiss.
"Sakura," he stroked her face.
Sakura smiled as she gently pulled him down for another kiss. She moved from his mouth and kissed down his neck as his hot breath tickled her face. Running her lips over his collar bone and to his shoulders, Sasuke put both of his hands on her hips, lightly massaging them.
She returned to his lips as he slid into her, creating a smooth rhythm.
Both climbed over the edge together, moaning each other's names into the hazy night. Sasuke let his possessive side take over, keeping Sakura's body close to his, not wanting to be without it for a second.
He felt her chest rise with each breath as he collapsed on her. Wrapping his arms around her as she did the same around his neck, Sakura sighed. She didn't mind the extra weight so long as he was with her.
Loneliness, that's what she feared the most. Sasuke feared it too. Sakura cradled his body on top of hers as his heavy breathing ran across the side of her neck.
"Sakura," Sasuke panted, moving out of her hold.
She stared into his eyes and found nothing but love in them. Knowing he would stop at nothing to protect her made her heart race. She could finally let go of her terror and be happy.
"I love you," he finished laying his head down on her chest.
Sakura continued to hold him as she smiled, "I love you too Sasuke," she felt him smile into her skin as she was lulled to sleep by his breathing.
'Thank you Sasuke, thank you,' Sakura thought as night encompassed the two lovers.
Sasuke awoke in the morning to Sakura's steady breathing under him. He raised himself off of her body as her arms fell from his neck.
'She's beautiful,' Sasuke smiled as he pushed a few strands of hair back.
He looked out the window and sighed, it was time to go. He didn't want to leave her but, he had to. He swung his legs over the side, pulling the sheets over her naked body.
Before leaving the bed he leaned over her body and laid a small kiss on her lips.
"I'll be back soon, I promise," he whispered as he kissed her again.
He felt guilty as she stirred in her sleep. Pulling his clothes back on slowly, he brought her hand up to his lips and kissed each finger, not wanting to leave.
Selfishly, he wanted her to wake up and beg him to take her. He wanted her to cling to him and force him to let her come. Selfishly, he wanted to take her with him as well but, he knew he couldn't.
'I guess I should go,' he thought as he started to walk across the room.
Turning around as he left, he looked over her form once more. Pink hair splayed across his pillow as her angelic body slept peacefully. Her limbs were tangled in the sheets as the scent of their love filled his senses.
'This is what I want everyday,' Sasuke thought as he turned back around.
"I love you Sakura," he whispered as he closed the door to his bedroom and walked down stairs. He grabbed a quick glass of water while gathering his kunai holster and headband.
Sighing, he walked out of the door.
"Oi Sasuke, you're late!" Naruto yelled as Sasuke slowly walked through the Konoha gates.
"...Yeah," he murmured wishing he was back laying on Sakura in bed.
"Well, let's go, we have to get that bastard!" Naruto yelled starting to walk off.
The group nodded as Sai, Neji, Shikamaru, and Kakashi followed the blond ninja.
Sasuke shook his head and looked back through Konoha's gates.
'What's this feeling? Something's not right here,' Sasuke frowned.
"Hey, Sasuke, let's go!" Naruto yelled.
Sasuke shook the doubts in his mind and raced to catch up with the group.
Turning over in the bed, hoping to find Sasuke sleeping next to her, she found his side of the bed cold and empty. She wrinkled her nose as her eyelids fluttered open.
'I guess he left,' Sakura sadly thought as she sat up.
It was quiet, too quiet for Sakura's liking. She liked waking up to see Sasuke's sleeping face; he always looked so calm and content. She liked that. The lack of Sasuke sent a shiver up her spine; he was going to kill Kitaro.
'I guess I should be happy but, come home Sasuke,' Sakura inwardly whined, hoping he would hear her and come running back.
'Yeah, that won't happen,' Sakura sadly smiled.
Running her fingers absently over his side of the bed she reached a piece of paper. It crinkled under her touch as she carefully read its contents:
Good Morning Sakura,
Sorry I couldn't be there when you woke up. I'll be back soon, don't worry about me. I told Tsunade and Ino to watch over you.
I love you Sakura,
Sasuke
Sakura smiled at the note and slowly got up off of the bed.
'Sasuke,' she thought clutching the sheet to her naked body, 'Please be careful, all of you be careful,' she thought of Sai and Kakashi's composed and laid back demeanour, Neji and Shikamaru's cool personalities and Sasuke's love for her.
"Thank you," she whispered looking out of the bedroom.
"So where is this guy?" Kakashi asked.
"To the west of Konoha, it's an old abandoned town," Neji answered with byakugan activated.
"How'd you find this guy?" Sasuke bit out.
"The named matched one that ANBU had on record for numerous crimes, seems he was one of those guys Sakura was up against in the village raid," Neji replied.
"Sasuke, there was one last raid on the village. Whoever it was, Sakura fought for the village one last time…"
Sasuke remembered Kakashi, Jiraiya and Tsunade explaining the mission Sakura had been sent on when she was taken. His blood boiled when he thought of what that man, if you could call him that, did to her.
"So what's the plan?" Sai questioned Kakashi.
"Well-"
"There's no plan!" Naruto cut Kakashi off, "We go in and kill the bastard!"
'For once I actually agree with the dobe,' Sasuke thought as he clenched his fists.
"Yeah, I get that Naruto but," Kakashi groaned, "we can't."
"What! We-"
"Naruto," Shikamaru started, "I know how you feel but, we have to be on guard," Shikamaru sighed as Naruto started to sound off on him, "Troublesome," he muttered at the blond ninja.
Shikamaru couldn't help but remember the dressing room scene. He felt terrible and sat with Ino all night, letting her cry on his shoulder.
"Shikamaru I didn't mean too!" Ino cried as Shikamaru slung his arm around her shoulders and pulled her into his embrace.
"I know, I know," he whispered kissing her on the head.
"I didn't know, I never would-"
"It's okay, none of us knew how bad it was," Shikamaru said sadly.
"I didn't mean too, I never thought that she was hiding those, oh Shikamaru, who could've done this to her!" Ino cried.
"I don't know. Neji and the others are searching for something on this guy."
"Find him and kill him, that bastard, to do this to Sakura, I can't imagine what she's gone through!"
"Yeah, none of us can," Shikamaru rubbed her back gently, "Don't worry, we'll find him and Sakura will be alright, besides, Sasuke's with her."
"I guess so but, I just can't stand what happened to her! How could this happen? Why?!" Ino screamed holding Shikamaru's shirt in her fists.
"I don't know, we've all been thinking the same thing just try and calm down," Shikamaru tried to soothe her.
"I can't, I can't not when Sakura-"
"You have to be strong, for Sakura, she needs her friends now Ino, she needs you to help her, she needs all of us," Shikamaru surprised himself.
He had never been that close to Sakura and neither had Neji but everyone had a special place for her in their heart. Usually he would say that this was 'troublesome' and that he would rather watch clouds but, Sakura was something special to everyone and he couldn't stand what had happened to her. She was the one on the battle field that healed everyone before herself, she was the one when training or some mission went wrong would heal you without a second thought, she was the one that held team 7 together and for that he respected her.
"We need to help her at all costs, after all, she would've done the same for any of us," Shikamaru finished.
"….Yeah…. I guess you're right," Ino sniffled into his shirt.
"What do you mean? This is just one guy!" Naruto screeched.
"That's enough Naruto," Kakashi curtly said jumping ahead of the hyperactive ninja.
"But, but, Sakura chan!" Naruto whined.
"Naruto, we all want to get this guy but, he was an S- class criminal, we have to be ready for anything," Neji sighed as Sakura's story about one of the times she was beaten rang through his mind.
Neji remembered walking home to see TenTen after the visit with Sasuke.
"Neji? Neji how is she? Neji?" TenTen asked shakily as he walked through the front door.
"We told Sasuke about that guy," he whispered.
"And? Is Sakura okay? Did you tell her I'm sorry? I mean-"
"It's bad TenTen," Neji whispered back, "She told us about one of the times he," Neji had never been lost for words but the story Sakura had told them made him shiver.
"What happened?" TenTen asked.
"He beat her," Neji whispered as TenTen walked over to him and cried into his chest.
"Neji, I'm sorry, I didn't know, Ino and I we didn't mean to-"
"I know. I saw what he did but, what she told us, it was terrible, what she must have gone through…" Neji trailed as he cradled TenTen's form.
Neji couldn't stop thinking of the scars he saw on her body and the memory Sakura recalled.
'That was just one time, one time,' Neji repeated over and over in his mind.
"Neji, what are we going to do? What' going to happen to her?" TenTen cried.
"I don't know but, we're going to find this guy," Neji snarled as he narrowed his eyes thinking back to Sakura's fear stricken face as she recalled her beatings.
"I want to go with-"
"No."
"But, I want to help Sakura!"
"You can, just be there for her, if we leave to find this guy Sasuke won't be there for her," Neji whispered.
The thought of how Sakura was beaten was beyond belief for Neji. He remembered how she would turn down Lee's youthful dates with a smile one day and spar with him the next. He saw Sakura as a strong person who never gave up and admired that strength.
"…."
"She needs all of her friends to help her through this one."
"Yeah….Just, find that guy," TenTen sighed shakily as Neji laid his head on top of hers.
"We will, I promise."
Naruto let out an exasperated sigh as Sai jumped on a tree branch next to him.
"Don't worry Naruto, when this is all over Sakura's going to be fine," he smiled his fake smile while glancing over at Sasuke.
'I wish it was that simple Sai,' Sasuke thought as the ex ANBU read his mind.
Sai saw the look of doubt pass over Sasuke's face. Sai felt it too, no matter what they did the damage had been done, Sakura would have to live with it the rest of her life.
Sakura walked down the stairs in Sasuke's old clothes as someone continued to knock on the door.
She crept up to the door and went to unlock it when a shiver ran down her spine. She couldn't help the feeling that someone was watching her, waiting for her.
'What is this feeling? What's going-'
"Sakura? It's me and TenTen, can we come in?" A strong voice called from the other side of the door.
Shaking the thought of someone watching her, Sakura opened the door to see Ino, TenTen holding some bags.
"Uh, hi Ino, TenTen," Sakura smiled letting the two girls walk into Sasuke's house.
"Hey Sakura, how are you?" TenTen asked as she dropped the two bags she was carrying to the floor.
"Okay, um, what's in the bags?" Sakura asked as Ino set her bags down next to TenTen's.
"Well, we brought you by some clothes, I hope that's okay," Ino looked at Sakura's face waiting for her to cry and run away.
'They must feel bad about yesterday,' Sakura thought as she stared down at the bags.
"Oh, um, thank you," Sakura shyly smiled.
"We felt bad about yesterday and-"TenTen started.
"No, please it's my fault, I overreacted I just, just-"
"Don't," Ino rushed over to Sakura, enveloping her in a hug, "It's not your fault, we're sorry," she finished as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry we didn't listen to you, we should've respected your privacy, we didn't mean too," TenTen said as she placed a warm hand on Sakura's shoulder.
"Thank you," Sakura whispered as the two girls smiled, "thank you."
"Yeah, don't worry about it!" Ino yelled as she grabbed one of the bags, "Sasuke has no style so we bought these for you!"
Sakura laughed as she looked down at her appearance. She still had on Sasuke's old shirt and pants.
"Thank you," Sakura smiled.
'That's the Sakura I remember," TenTen thought as Sakura took the bags from Ino.
"Go try them on!" Ino ushered Sakura into the bathroom while TenTen sighed.
Sakura tried on the dozens of clothes that the two girls bought for her without hesitation. She really loved wearing Sasuke's clothes, they smelled like him and she felt safe in them but, she knew she couldn't hide behind them forever.
Sakura emerged from the bathroom in the outfit she like the best, not only did it mask the scars completely on her stomach but, it looked familiar to her in many ways.
"That was quick!" TenTen exclaimed as Sakura shyly walked out.
"Yeah" Sakura smiled, 'you learn to change fast when someone wants to watch you,' Sakura remembered Kitaro's lustful gaze as he made her change in front of him.
"So, what do you think?" Sakura asked as she looked down at what she was wearing.
A tight red top started at the top of her chest and went to her waist over a black mesh top. The mesh shirt went down over of her upper arms, stopping mid way. She wore beige shorts going down to the tops of her knees, further concealing any scars she had.
"Great!" Ino yelled as she ran up and tackled Sakura.
"Yeah, it looks nice!" TenTen smiled prying Ino off of Sakura.
"Um, thank you," Sakura laughed at the two girls in front of her.
"Neji do you see it? Do you see it?" Naruto yelled in the Neji's ear.
"Stop it dickless! He can't concentrate with your annoying voice in his ear!" Sai jumped to the side of Naruto and hit him over the head.
"Sai!" Naruto yelled holding his head and glaring at this team mate.
"I see it," Neji started looking ahead, "It's not far, just a little further," he replied.
Sasuke clenched his fists as he sprinted up to where Neji was leading the team.
"Can you see him?" Sasuke asked quietly.
"….Yes."
Dun dun DUN!
Ohh, they found Kitaro, grr, i hate him!
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