1Chapter eight (order of the fang)

*Recap: Last time Naruto and Sasuke got a few more surprises, one being some unexpected guest. Jiraiya and Sasuke's older brother Itachi who reveals that Sakura's father was his teacher in the past. Before anything could happen (preferably to Jiraiya if Ruby and Tsunade killed him) Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura and Hinata told them everything and after that the boys took the girls shopping like they promised, but not with out a surprise for Hinata who got to meet her cousin Neji for the first time in years. So as everyone made their way to the mall, Kabuto, Sakura's step brother was following behind them and following him was Sasuke's uncle Kakashi. Now let's join our happy couple Sasuke and Sakura having a nice conversation in his car.

As the group of teenagers made their way towards the Crimson Leaf Mall, Sasuke couldn't help but notice that how quiet Sakura was. She hadn't said two words since they got in the car and it was beginning to make Sasuke tense. So to help ease her mind of what ever was the matter, Sasuke put one of his hands on hers and gave it a gentle squeeze and decided to break the silence.

"Sakura please tell me what's on your mind, you've been quiet a little too quiet if you ask me. Please tell me what's wrong, my mother always said you can't solve any problem if you don't say what it is. Now what's wrong?" Sasuke heard Sakura sigh and knew she was dreading what she was about to tell him.

"Its nothing big Sasuke its just that, why did that fool of a stepfather of mine have to declare war and why is he trying to kill me, I've done nothing to deserve his hatred and neither has Hinata. So why do all these things keep happening to us and why didn't my mother tell me the truth about my demon origins before she died, why?" Sakura heard Sasuke sigh and noticed that his hand had begun to squeeze hers tighter in an attempt to calm her not to hurt her.

"Sakura I can think of only one reason why your mother didn't tell you about your demon half and that reason was your stepfather. From what the order knows about that guy he's done a lot of experiments on demons but his favorite lab rats just happen to be half demons. The one reason I can think of why your mother didn't tell you of your demon origins is because of your stepfather and his sick hobby. Tell me do you have any other siblings the your mother had with that monster?" Sasuke saw that she shook her head no to that question.

"The only other sibling I had was my stepbrother Kabuto and he belonged to my step dad and he's just as sick and depraved as him." Sasuke sighed on the inside knowing that Sakura didn't have anyone back there.

"So tell me where are we heading anyway, the mall that Hinata and I usually go to is halfway across town and they don't have very good sales right now." Sakura saw Sasuke smirk from the corner of her eyes.

"Well my little cherry blossom, we are heading for the Crimson Leaf Mall. There you and Hinata will be getting some new clothes and anything else you might need and I know that it's a store for demons, but trust me your going to need them. The clothes that are sold there are specially designed for demons and half demons. And don't worry about the price of anything there. As my intended its my job to spoil you rotten along with any pups we have in the process." Sasuke smirked when he saw Sakura turn a nice shade of red at the word pups and decided that looking out the window would be better until they arrived at the mall.

About twenty minutes later (and after a quick detour to drop off Lee), they all arrived at the mall. And to the girls surprise it was three times the size of a normal mall. Both Sakura and Hinata saw that this mall was about five stories tall and the west part of the mall was under renovations for they were still adding more to the mall.

"This is the Crimson leaf mall? It's so big, I mean how can this be so big? There can't be that many stores in this mall, can there?" Sakura looked to Sasuke and noticed him smirking at her.

"Well Sakura, the reason why the mall is so big is because of the huge food court. You see the owner of the mall has a family that loves to eat and when he built this place he said and I quote 'I will create the biggest food court that this city has ever had in a mall. And this food court will have a variety of food for all types of demons, from the carnivore to the vegans. My goal is to not only satisfy my shoppers but my hungry family too'. After that he began to add on to the mall and my guess is he's working on a seafood section for those that can't eat red meat." Hinata turned to Naruto as they entered the mall and stood in front of a beautiful fountain that looked like it had live swans swimming in it.

"But how will we find our way around this place, hasn't someone gotten lost here?" Hinata was surprised when Neji, Sasuke, TenTen and Ino began laughing and Naruto blush.

"Well actually Hinata it has happened before, you see about two years ago Naruto and I came to the mall to buy our mothers and grandmothers gifts for Mother's Day and we had to take Naruto's cousin Konohamaru with us. While we were in one of the stores, Naruto here lost Konohamaru and he went searching for him. As luck would have it the kid went to the bathroom and I found him but Colombus over here got lost. After that the owner of the mall decided to have checkpoints set up in the center of each section of the mall to keep this from happening again." Hinata just smiled at Naruto and took his hand in an attempt to ease the embarrassment of remembering that memory.

"Okay I'm all for teasing Naruto for his faults, but we came here to shop and that's what....huh? SAI!!!" Ino then ran into the arms of a boy that came out of the art supply store and when he heard his name being called he knew who it was.

"Ino my vision of eternal beauty and love, where have you been for the past week? You promised me you spend the entire week with me and help my mother and father set up for their next art exhibition." Ino just kissed the fool that she called her boyfriend and just held onto him for a few more minutes.

While Ino was sucking faces with Sai, the boys decided that now was a good time to take them to get some clothes.

"Here we are, Lady Kurenai Women's Boutique. This is the best place to buy any clothes and other accessories for women. And I think that you two will like Kurenai-san. She's the number one dressmaker known in the demon community and she's human. So you'll like her a lot." As the boys lead their girls into the store, the girls became awestruck.

For the inside of the store was twice the size as it was before coming inside. Hinata noticed the sweet smell of lavender perfume mixed with some type of citrus. It was a smell that she really liked and wanted to get some but knew that they were just there to get clothes.

"Hinata-hime why don't you look at some of the clothes and pick out a few things to try on. I'm going to talk to Neji real quick. Go on I won't be far I promise." Naruto then kissed her on the check and she then proceeded to look at the various clothes on the racks.

"Ne Sakura why don't you pick some clothes too, there is something I need to talk to the guys about real quick. And try to find something that will go with your eyes, Sakura-chan" Sakura couldn't help but blush and shiver as Sasuke's breath sent shivers up and down her spin and Sakura felt a familiar dampness between her legs which was the same from back in her temporary room back at his place.

As the girls left to look at clothes, Sasuke turned to see Neji and Naruto talking about something and saw that Neji got tense real quick. Sasuke decided to see just what they were talking about and to his surprise found Naruto telling Neji about what happened the night before and about having their seals removed when they returned.

"And that's what happened, and after the seals are removed I plan on making Hinata my mate. I already told my parents that she's my intended and I told my dad, but seeing how you're her only relative that does give a damn about her I wanted to ask for your blessing to make Hinata mine. Of course I intend to give her a wedding too, I plan to follow both demon and human customs of mating. So will you give me the honor of making Hinata happy for the rest of our lives Neji?" For the first time in Sasuke's life since he has known Naruto, he has never seen him so nervous.

"Naruto, true I have only seen my cousin for a short amount of time and I wish that monster of a father of hers would drown in a ditch somewhere, I can't think of anyone more qualified to be my cousins husband than you. Just promise me that you will make her happy and I promise you that I will be there on your wedding day to hand her over to you. But know this Uzumaki, if anything happens to her because of you, you will have me to deal with. Hinata has had enough happen to her, she deserves some happiness." Neji saw Naruto nod his head in agreement and then noticed that both Hinata and TenTen were talking about something that made Hinata blush like a tomato.

"Hey Sasuke is Sakura still trying on the clothes that she picked out cause she hasn't come out of the dressing room yet." Once Naruto said that Sasuke went to see what was keeping Sakura. When got there he saw that Sakura was looking at one of the signature jewelry that was displayed in the store. Sasuke noticed it was made of genuine Austrian crystals and was done in sterling sliver. The pendant itself was in the shape of the characters that spelled "red wolf" and Sasuke knew that Sakura was probably thinking of her father.

"Sakura-chan, are you okay, you seem to be distracted." Sakura turned around quickly to face Sasuke only to bump into his chest almost dropping the clothes she was holding.

"Sorry Sasuke, I was just looking at this necklace and thinking of an old story that my mother told me before she died. I don't remember much just that she keep mentioning 'the red wolf's treasure' for some odd reason. Everything after that or before is a blank, I was kinda young when she told me that. But I'll go change and see if these clothes fit and mph!!!!!" Sakura was cut off by Sasuke's lips as he kissed her senseless and back her into the change room.

Sakura couldn't believe what was happening, one minute she's about to try on clothes and the next she's being kissed by a guy in a dressing room in a public place where anyone could walk in. Sakura tried her best to get Sasuke to stop but he wouldn't let her go.

After about ten minutes Sasuke finally let up from Sakura's lips and had a satisfied smirk seeing his Sakura flushed cheeks and shallow breath. How he wanted this girl and he didn't just want her for her looks. No he knew that Sakura was the type of girl that would make life interesting for him and she had a good head on her shoulders. She had the hands of a doctor yet the body of a model. She had brains, brawn and beauty all in one. And Sasuke liked that about her, for she was the type that would fight off anything to protect what she loved the most.

"Um...Sasuke do you think you could wait outside while I try on these clothes, please" Sakura was doing her best to not just jump into his arms and kiss him with the same amount of passion and force he had done to her a few minutes ago. To her surprise she felt Sasuke's lips touch the shell of her ear and shivered again but this time from him breathing into her ear.

"Alright Sakura I'll leave you to change. But remember I'm not a patient demon so don't keep me waiting long" Sasuke then kissed Sakura and left the dressing room. Once he was out Sasuke went about the task of buying a few thing for Sakura that she didn't know about, but would defiantly like.

"Hello Kurenai-san I would like to see some of your finest sterling sliver necklaces, bracelets and I would also like that necklace that says 'red wolf' on it please." Kurenai just smiled at Sasuke for he knew that he wanted to surprise his intended with that necklace.

"I see your going the same route as Naruto-sama is. Getting a gift that will make both of them happy. But with him he choose Jade jewelry and that perfume. You boys are really determined to make these girls happy aren't you?" Kurenai saw the surprised look on Sasuke's face and smiled.

"Don't look so surprised, I for one know what is feels like to grow up with a tough childhood. It might not have been bad as theirs but I know the feeling of being alone and unloved" Sasuke knew about Kurenai's past and what she was talking about and nodded.

Ten minutes later after Sasuke was done paying for the jewelry, he saw Sakura come out in one of the outfits that she picked out. The moment Sasuke saw her he could have sworn that he saw a heavenly light and heard a chorus of angels sing by just looking at her. Sakura was a vision she had chosen a pair of black low pumps, a black miniskirt with an embroidered rose going from the bottom hem of the skirt to the side of the right pocket. The top that she wore was a combination of a tight strapless tank top with a red light sweater that had three buttons on it in the shape of black roses and to top of the out fit Sakura had added a red headband on top of her head. While Sasuke was admiring Sakura's beauty, Naruto was drooling over Hinata and the out fit that she chose.

Hinata had chosen a very simple sun dress that complimented her curves very nicely, but still allowed her some sense of modesty. The sun dress itself was nice shade of lavender, which complimented her eyes. The dress had a white ribbon like sash around the waist. And Hinata finished the outfit with a white lace choker and white lace up sandals. Naruto was literally awe struck when he saw Hinata. All he could think was 'Damn!'.

"Well girls its safe to say that those out fits are winners. And the other ones that you chose winners as well. Now if you boys are done drooling over these girls, I think now would be a good time to head towards the weapon shop and the food court 'C' cause at the moment I'm hungry and I can guess that Sakura and Hinata are hungry too. But before we go eat I need to talk to Neji for a few minutes in private, okay." Neji then proceeded to follow his girlfriend further into the back where she knew that Sasuke and Naruto wouldn't be able to hear what she was talking about. TenTen knew that something was not right and that this feeling of dread and danger she was having was for a reason.

Neji being able to pick up on changes in human emotions noticed that his TenTen was tense and nervous for some odd reason so he knew that this was not their normal session of 'kiss and fuck' in the changing room like they usually have when they go clothes shopping together, so he decided to ask what was wrong.

"TenTen, what's wrong with you? I've never seen you this tense since...well I've never seen you this tense in years. What's wrong, you only get like this when....Oh no." Now Neji knew why his girlfriend was tense. For she knew that Kabuto, her royal nightmare was somewhere in the mall and was either looking for her or someone else.

"Neji listen to me, you can't tell Sakura about this or Sasuke. If they found out about this, Sakura would freak out and Sasuke would go on the war path just to find him. Sasuke still wants Kabuto's head for what he did to his uncle and his cousin. But Neji you must promise me that you won't go after him, I know you want revenge for what he did to me but you must promise not to go after him in cold blood, please Neji" Neji saw that TenTen was asking him, no begging him not to do anything that would get him or the other boys killed because of their revenge.

"I promise you TenTen that I won't do anything to the foolish, but I can't say the same for Sasuke. I've known him for years and if there is one thing I have learned about him is that no one messes with his family and lives to tell about it. Sasuke will fight tooth and nail to uphold his families honor. But I promise if Sasuke does try something I will do my best to stop him." Neji then sealed his promise with a kiss, and not a small kiss mind you.

"Ummm, Neji-kun please not here, we have to head for the food-," TenTen was cut off by Neji and his wonderfully skilled hands which were making their way to her bra strap. And they would have continued if a certain person hadn't shown up to ruin their fun.

"AH-EM" Both Neji and his flustered girlfriend turned to see none other than Ino and Sai behind them along with Naruto and Hinata just standing there with either smiles or blush on their faces. Neji and TenTen both blushed at the thought of someone finding them like that. It wasn't until TenTen noticed that Sakura was missing from the group along with Sasuke so she decided to ask what was going on and where those two went.

"Hey has anyone seen where Sasuke and Sakura went to?" Once TenTen said that, both Hinata and Naruto noticed that their friends were indeed gone. Hinata turned back to TenTen and told her what happened.

"Well Sasuke said something about he wanted to talk to Sakura alone for a few minutes. So Naruto and I have been talking until Ino came in with Sai and said that she wanted to take us to another store that sells different incense and candles and well you can guess that we got a bit distracted trying to get your attention." Neji just nodded his head and took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Sasuke where to find them.

"Look if I know Sasuke he'll meet us in the next store. I sent him a text message that said where to meet us when he gets done with his business with Sakura. And speaking of phones I take it that both Sakura and Hinata don't have one right?" Neji turned to Naruto who nodded and gave a sigh.

"Okay so the next thing that we do after Ino is done taking them to that shop she mentioned is get Hinata a cell phone and Sakura a cell phone. Now let's go before Ino rants about us taking our sweet time." Neji ducked quickly for Ino had thrown a trash can at him that Kurenai kept behind the counter for candy wrappers, soda cans and other trash like that.

Meanwhile Sasuke and Sakura were at this moment walking into another store that caught Sakura's interest. For the store was filled with many books that ranged from Cooking for Dummies to some of the medical books that her and Hinata were studying at the moment. Sasuke saw that his intended was happy and knew that she unlike most girls or most people that he knew actually enjoyed reading for fun. Sakura then turned to him with a smile on her face and hugged him and asked him a simple question.

"Sasuke why did you bring to this bookstore, not that I'm complaining but why and how did you know that I loved to read? The only other people that know about that are Kiba and his family, Hinata and our medical teacher Tsunade. So how did you know?" Sakura saw Sasuke smile, then he bent down and kissed her on her forehead and spoke.

"Sakura its my job to make you happy, and I kinda figured that when you weren't practicing you Judo on Kiba for what ever he did, you were either studying or reading a book. I kinda talked to Kiba and he told that the only time he saw you calm was when you were studying or reading. He kinda also told me about what happened to the last book you had. Sakura I brought you here to get you another full copy of "The Chronicles Of Narnia" but this copy includes all the stories that the author wrote in one book. Kiba also told me that you liked to read Hemingway too" Sasuke saw the joyous look in Sakura's eyes when he mentioned one of her favorite authors.

"I love Hemingway's stories, but every time I try to check out one of his books at the library its either checked out or they had to order a new one cause the last person that had it either had a little sibling with crayons, a dog that thought it was a chew toy or they left it in the yard and their dad destroyed it with the lawn mower and before you ask I'm still trying to figure out the last too." Sakura saw Sasuke nod his head then he took her hand and lead her towards the 'H' section of the bookstore.

(AN. Okay for those of you that are wondering about what's this story looks like, basically it is the size of a library. And everyone knows how the books are sorted, by last name. I rather not go into the library sorting system cause to be honest, I still don't get it have the time. Now back to the story)

Once they were their they began to look at the many books that the store provided.

"Here it is, "Hemingway's Greatest Stories" a collection of Hemingway's best stories. Here now the only thing that is left is to find "The Chronicles of Narnia" unless there was something else that you wanted while were here Sakura?" Sasuke didn't miss the blush that appeared on her face as she turned to look at him.

"Well there are a couple more books that I wanted to get, one was for cooking, another was for ancient martial arts and sword techniques and the finally one was for *mumble, mumble*" Sasuke didn't miss her mumbling and her blush and knew that what ever it was, must have been too embarrassing to say. But the fact that she was mumbling didn't sit well with him so he came very close to Sakura and whispered in her ear.

"I don't like it when people mumble Sakura and I don't like it when you mumble around me now why don't you whisper in my ear what you were going to say but didn't" before Sasuke left Sakura's ear he bit down on the top and bottom of her ear making her shudder and flush like crazy. Once Sakura composed herself leaned towards Sasuke's ear and whispered what she didn't say earlier.

"I said a book on demon mating and behaviors." Sakura couldn't stop the blush as she told Sasuke that. And her blush got worse when she felt him lick her neck and kiss her under her chin, which was sensitive.

This didn't go unnoticed by Sasuke and knew that he was going to have fun with Sakura once they finally mated completely and she had her seal removed. Once Sasuke was through worshiping Sakura's neck and chin he then looked into her eyes and began to speak.

"Don't worry Sakura I'll get all the books that you need, come on let's go." Then Sasuke lead Sakura down an aisle that had a lot of craft equipment and stuff for making cards and other things like that. Sakura also noticed that there were books with blank pages and knew that they were either beginner journals for kids or storybooks for future writers. Sakura also noticed a few different baby books for both boys and girls and her mind began to wonder. Sakura began to wonder what her kids would be like, would they have her face or their fathers. Would they have her eyes or Sasuke's. Then she stopped herself completely for she was thinking about something that hasn't even happened yet. True Sakura had always wanted kids, but now was not the time to think about them.

Sasuke noticed that Sakura's face had turned bright red all of a sudden and was about to ask what was wrong when he turned and saw what she was looking at, which in turn made him smile. He too had wondered what it would be like to have kids, but he didn't have the right girl in mind and he was too busy with missions from the 'Order' to worry about having kids. But now he had a chance to have kids with this wonderful woman behind him and knew that he would one day get the family that he wanted. Then Sasuke turned around and found that they were in the section that they needed for the books that Sakura wanted.

"Okay we have all the books that you need, lets go pay for these and meet up with the others at the next shop okay?" Sasuke saw Sakura nod her head yes and they both made their way towards the front of the store. Once the books were paid for Sasuke and Sakura made their way towards the store where the rest of their friends were. Sasuke and Sakura were no further than two feet from the store when they heard a voice that caused them to stop dead in their tracks.

"Well if it isn't my dear little sister and the son of the Uchia wolf clan. What a surprise to see you here." Sasuke turned around and pushed Sakura to stand behind him while he shielded her from the one demon that he did not want to see at the moment, Sakura's stepbrother, Kabuto. Sasuke was literally seeing red at the sight of this demon scum and got madder when this snake had the nerve to ask Sakura something that made his blood boil and her blood chill.

"Well aren't you going to give you dear brother a hug, baby sister?" Kabuto couldn't help but smile as he saw the fear in Sakura's eyes and the fury in Sasuke's.

Sasuke was close to skinning this guy alive when out of nowhere he heard a voice that he knew all to well.

"Kabuto unless you want to lose a few body parts to my nephew I suggest that you leave now." out of the shadows came Sasuke's uncle Kakashi, who wasn't happy to see Kabuto either.

"Well, well if it isn't the famous copy wolf of the Uchia clan, I see that scar is still there, tell me how is your son doing? Can he walk now or is he still unable to after I broke both his legs?" Kabuto was treading on thin ice with Kakashi for he was close to killing him if he didn't shut up.

Before things got out of hand and Sasuke and Kakashi both killed this fool, Kabuto stood up and leapt into the air while shouting to Sakura a message that would haunt her for a long time.

"YOU CAN'T ESCAPE YOUR DESTINY SAKURA!! FATHER WILL FIND YOU AND END YOUR LIFE AND ANY OTHER LIFE THAT YOU HAVE!! THERE IS NO PLACE THAT YOU CAN HIDE!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!" Kabuto then leapt through the glass ceiling breaking the glass and causing it to fall on many of the other demons in the mall. Sasuke quickly took Sakura into his arms and covered her head to keep her from getting hurt by the falling glass while he turned his body into a shield for her protection.

Once the glass stopped falling, Sasuke noticed that Sakura was shaking uncontrollably and was pale like she had just seen a ghost.

"Sakura say something, please. It's alright I'm right here, okay." Sakura looked at Sasuke before everything got fuzzy and then went dark. The last thing Sakura heard before darkness overtook her was Sasuke yelling her name. And for the second time that day, Sakura had fainted into the arms of Sasuke. For now she knew that her step father would never stop until she was gone, but why is the mystery that she wants to find out.

To be continued....

*Wow now things are getting interesting. While is was going through my story I noticed that I didn't have anything with Sasuke and Sakura by themselves. So to fix that (and to appease some of my reviewers that let me know) this chapter and the next few chapters will focus mainly on Sasuke and Sakura. Don't worry though there will be a few lemons in this story I just haven't decided when to add them, so please bare with me. I'm still new to the lemon writing thing. So until next time (and until my family and I move into our new house all this week) keep sending your reviews and keep reading. I have two more stories to update then I can focus on moving all this week, so until then Ja ne!!!!!