Chapter 9: Unrequited Love


She growled, and started to walk off. He grabbed her arm, and pulled her roughly up to his chest. "You better tell me, or I will tie your ass up and take you home. Then I'll go to Naruto and ask him." He smirked at the sudden look of suprise and bewilderment on her face, and his grip on her arm lessened. "Sakura," He growled, warning her.

"..." She couldn't get the words out. She didn't want to tell him. She didn't want him to be angry with her. He was unpredictable right now, because she didn't know what he would say or do when she told him the reason behind her motive.

"Sakura. Tell me, NOW. I need to know. You didn't think about your desicion at all. Did you?! All you did was put yourself in danger. NOW TELL ME!!" The now angry Uchiha yelled, making her flinch back.


"No!" She yelled, and pulled away from his unrelently harsh grasp. he ran away from him at a full sprint, and he followed at a slow walk, silently, knowing that she had only on eplace to go. And she wouldn't go all the way back to Konhagakure.

He found her huddled underneath the blankets, naked, shivering, and crying. "Get away," She murmured, as the sobs wracked her body. "I don't know why i fell right into your little guise, you bastard...!"

Sasuke, for the second time in his life, was too stunned for words. everything that came to mind: Screaming at her; Softly cooing her name; growling until he was sick of it; even having hot make-up sex; it all was blown out of his thinking process. Gone. "..." He just walked over to the side of the bed, and sat down beside her huddled frame.

"What did I say, teme!?" She yelled, reverting back to his nickname from Naruto, "Get--!"

"What the fuck did I tell YOU!?" He yelled in reply, finding his tongue again. She flinched back, and his look softened from a glower to a look of sadness. His voice lowered from that harsh toned yell, to a hushed whisper. "Now look at you...idiot...I told you that you would get sick..." He reached out, and let his fingers move a strand of hair away from her face.

"You hate me, don't you...?" She whispered, closing her eyes tightly at the feel of his hand running across her cheek. "That's why I didn't take that pill...I was afraid...that if I didn't decide soon, you would...you would..." He pulled her across his lap, and ran his fingers along hr jawline stopping at her chin. His other hand weht to her upper thigh, holding her in his lap.He pushed her face up, and looked down at her, a sof look in his eyes. A look that she never saw before. "Please...Sasuke-Kun...do not lie to me..." She whispered against his lips, which were barely a hand's width away from hers. He kissed her softly, and she whimpered into his mouth as his tongue met hers. He pulled away, and kissed her tears away.

"Shutup..." He murmured.

"Wha-What--?"

"I said, 'Shut up...'" He repeated his words, and ran his hands through her rain-soaked hair.

"S-Sasuke...!" He cut her off as he kissed her again, softly this time, putting everything that he felt into it. His frustration; love;pent up passion; fears; anything and everything he ever felt was put into that one fierce kiss. He ran his tongue over her bottem lip then started whispering, " I...I don't hate you, Sakura-Chan...I never have...and I never will..." Her eyes widend at the intimate confession. His mouth slanted over hers, and his tongue slipped into her mouth as she manuevered around on top of him. She put her legs against his leanly musceled thighs, and he reached down and unzipped his black Nin pants. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and leaned into him as he freed his now hard length, and entered her slowly.

He pulled the blanket away as he started to move her body, and she gasped as he shoved her down on his arousal. Then as she began to find her own rythem, his hands conformed to the curve of her well rounded butt, pressing her on. "You're mine..." He gasped out, in short harsh breaths, "You're My blossom, Sakura..." She writhed in his arms, and he moaned.

"oh god...Sas-Sasuke!! Yes...hnnnn..." He helped her come down again, with more force this time, and she felt the odd tense pressure starting to build, low in the pit of her stomach. She was then moving of her own accord seconds later, begging him for release, and for him to thrust harder. And harder he did. She made a keening sound as they both came together, symultaniously, and he lazily leaned against the headboard of the bed. He whispered sleepily into her ear:

"Ashiteru...Sakura-Chan..." and he buried his face int othe crook of his neck as he fell to sleep moments later.

She smiled, thankful to at least hear him utter the words at least only once.That was all she wanted. One time to know his true feelings. It made her feel an odd sense of ease, and now, the love that seemed to be onesided and unrequited, was no longer. She, and only SHE knew how he truly felt, whether he rememebered saying those three words or not.


2 Months later--

Sakura looked down at her blood test results again, fro the millionth time in a row. Negative; Horomone levels, Normal; Not pregnant. No, she thought, sitting in the bathroom at her apartment. She waited until she got home from her Hospital shift to read it, so it wouldn't take away from her concentration.

"Sasuke will leave me...If I can't bear him an heir for his clan..." She whimpered. She slowly walked to their bedroom and flopped into the bed, deppressed and fearing the consequences of his finding out.

Sasuke walked in the door, thankful that he stopped by I chikaru's Ramen walk-In Bar with the Dobe. No alluring smell or aromas drifted towrad his nose from the kitchen. Sakura's scent didn't seeme to catch his sudden interest either.The apartment was mysteriously dark. Sakura wasn't waiting on the couch as she always did before today. No, "Welcome home, Sasuke," or anything. He quietly put the bowls of Ramen down on the counter in the kitchen, and looked back in their room to find her balled up form in the bed, huddled up into the blankets.

"Sa-ku-ra..." He teased, nuzzling her neck softly. "hey..." He kissed her lips, then moved to her chin, and she turned over, revealing the black cut off, sleeveless hakama of his that she was wearing. The front collar parted, and showed a generous amount of cleavage. "I have dinner..." He whispered and kissed the well rounded curves that seemed to beckon to him for attention. She suddenly pulled away, and sat up on the other side of the bed. He looked at her, suddenly confused.

"Sakura-Chan...what's wrong...?" His look of confusion only intensified as she tried to pull the hakama tighter around her. "...?"

"I...I don't know, Sasuke-kun..." She semed to murmur, and she hid her face from him, so he would'nt see the anguish that was written all over it. He sighed, getting frustrated.

"Then what isn't wrong, Sakura...?" He asked, and she looked up at him. "Huh? what is it, Sakura?"She watched his face carefully, watching for the glint of anger in his obsidian eyes as she explained.

"I...I don't know, really, Sasuke-Kun...We've been trying...and having sex every night for the past 2 months...and I'm...I'm...I'm NOT pregnant..." She sobbed, and the tears came. She tried to just wipe them away, butit only made them flow even more freely. "I haven't taken anything...and I missed my period last month so i thought--!?"

"Shut up..." He murmured, as the words she said went through his thought process.

"Wh-What...?"

"SHUTUP..." He stared at the hands that were now clenched in his lap. He sat on the edge of the bed, and just stared down at them. "Just shutup, Sakura..." He whispered in stunne disbeleif. he ran a hand through his ebony-black hair, and stood up. "I..." All words failed him. "I..." He just walked out of the room, and out of the house.

"Sasuke...!!" He heard her anguished yell, and his own foolish pride wouldn't let him turn back and go comfort her. Instead, he had to go and take his sudden anger out on something before he exploded.


"So..." Karin muttered, pushing her glasses up her sharp nose as she watched the Uchiha do his own battle simulations in the training area. "The bitch actually tricked him to coming back to Konohagakure...no wonder Orochimaru-Sama dis-liked this village so much...hmmmm...weak ass idiots..." She sat in one of the trees that lined the outer-protective-walls that sourrounded the Leaf Village, watching Sasuke's rigurouos trainging carry on out in to the night and into the next morning. "We're going to set you free, MY Sasuke-Kun..." She cooed, and jumped away, disappearing into the cold morning air.

Sasule panted as he stopped to catch his breath, and sheathed his khatana, satisfied with the destruction of the training grounds. EVERYTHING was leterally obliverated...or hanging by strands to one another. "hn..." He finally spent his quiet rage, and felt the sweat run down all over his body. It is an honestly NASTY feeling, he concluded to himself, but, I like it better than feeling the anger that I've kept stored up inside...

Blood dripped from his raw knuckles, and he ripped his hakama into shreds and wrapped the cloth around his wounds, and tied them off. He walked into the apartment, to see Sakura laying on the futon, and with the black hakama that she wore gaping open, revealing her cleavage again. He ignored the exposed flesh, and pulled her against him as he sat down and stretched his body full length on the futon. She unconciously stretched on ontop of him, putting her face on his chest, and lightly rubbed her hand against his neck. A tear fell on his bare chest, and he stared at it.

Damn it, He thought, wiping the tear's trail from her face, and left the tear itself on his chest. Sasuke...you're such a bitch...He smile at his own name calling on himself. Makng the woman who will bear your child cry...Stupid Idiot...I wouldn't blame her if she NEVER forgav you for this one...

Sakura haruno walked down the empty dirt road, wiping her forehead, dragging the whisps of stray pink hair out of her eyes. She was embarrassed and angry with herself after her reaction to waking and finding her lying ontop of a tired, bruised, and battered Uchiha. He was lying on the futon, where she had fallen to sleep, and had pulled her over ontop of him and stretched out on the full length of the furniture. She yelled at him, and he just sat up, then kissed her. "Marry me, Sakura Haruno..."

That was all he said. "'Marry me..." And she just sat there.

Sai suddenly appeared in a poof of smoke beside her, and she looked over at him. "Sai!!" She yelled, and hugged him as he reached out towards the pink-haired kunoichi. He pushed her away gently, at arms length.

"Good morning to you to, Sakura-Chan..." He replied, quickly, giving her the hint that something had gone wrong. He was alot paler than he usually was, and she stopped. "Naruto must see you...I've just gotten back from a mission...and the rest of the team is needed...Even Naruto..." He choked suddenly, and fell foreward in her arms.

"Sai-Kun?! Sai!! Hold on!!" She pulled his head in her lap as her hands started to glow the blue-ish white color, and found the source. He had a bandage wrapped a large puncture wound in the shoulder blade on his back. the bone itself was cracked, and a poisonous purple liquid seemed to seep out of the wound. She placed her hands on the wound, and concentrated the flow of chakra to that certain point. "Hang on, Sai-Kun...I'm here..."

Sasuke went to look for Sakura when he came home, again, to an empty house. "Where the hell is she?" Naruto asked him, when he came to the Hokage's office, seeing the note that was on the door that said that they needed to report to his office. They looked all over the place, and Sasuke activated his SSharingan. He could now see through everything around him, and saw her sitting on the concrete behind a biulding to their right.

"Sakura," Sasuke yelled, now seeing the black haired Sasuke look a like that was sying on the ground on his back with his head in her lap. "What the hell are you--!!"

She looked up at him, her eyes full of tears. Naruto crouched next to her, while the Uchiha stayed at bay. "He's been poisoned, Naruto-Kun...! I tried to get it out of the vital areas of his system, but i couldn't do much..." She cried out. Naruto picked Sai up and pulled his limp body over his shoulders.

"I'll get him to a hospital, okay? go with Sasuke to my office...Kakashi is already there. Go I'll be there i a little bit..."

"Right," Sakura smiled sadly, and leaped away, without waiting for Sasuke, who was silently brooding.

Naruto leaned against the desk at his back, and wiped his face off with the palm of his hand. "Sai will be allright...Sakura, you managed to get the toxins out of his system before they actually got to his vital organs...but you weren't able to get the last bit...looks like it'll just be us four on this mission..." His ceruluean blue eyes lit up as he looked from a shocked Sakura, to a bored and brooding Sasuke, and to a calm, cool and collected Kakashi. he smile. "Team Seven is back in action..."