Chapter 10 ~ I love you

Kabuto´s P.O.V

Sasuke still glanced at me, his blade still on my throat, so that I feared he wouldn´t grant me my last wish and just kill me. Then he said:

"Even if I would leave her here, don´t you think Orochimaru will look for her anyways?"

"Then tell him I killed her…"

"I some kind of doubt that he will believe me that, especially when I don´t bring him her corpse…"

I bite in my lower lip for a moment and closed my eyes, before I made my decision.

"Take me with you and I´ll tell it to him myself…"

A little bit shocked he looked at me.

"Are you serious?"

"I´d do everything to keep her save, even if that means I have to go back…"

His expression turned back into the emotionless one he normally had and he took his sword then away from me, but gave me a warning glance.

"Don´t even try one of your strange tricks on me or I´ll immediately kill you."

"I won´t, I promise, but let me bring Mao back inside of the cave…"

"Fine, but I´ll follow you, just for the case you´re planning something."

Nodding I tried to stand back up, but it was still a little bit hard, due to the fact that my injury wasn´t heald completely. I suppressed the pain and walked towards Mao, heaving her up from the ground and carrying her back into the cave. Sasuke walked behind me, but that didn´t really disturb me, while I opened the hidden entrance and walked down. I laid Mao back on the pillows and kneeled down in front of her, while saying:

"I´m so sorry Mao, I really had the hope that we both could escape Orochimaru, but as it seems this isn´t possible. Maybe the remembrance of the time we shared together will make it easier for me to endure the punishment I´ll get, though I don´t believe he´ll keep me alive after what I´ll tell him…"

Now I looked into her beautiful face, at her soft lips which I wished to kiss since such a long time and when I finally was able to do it, I had to leave her. Life is so unfair!

I grabbed her hand tightly and whispered:

"You´re the most wonderful person I´ve ever met and I wished that we both could´ve met earlier, so that you´d have been my woman. Well, but I guess as much of an asshole I was you wouldn´t have liked me anyways. But even if I can´t be together with you now, I´m glad that I met you, because you showed me that there exist other things in life than just pain and betrayal. No, you showed me that life can be beautiful if you just share it with the right person and I wished I could´ve shared my life with you…"

Tears ran down my face now and I continued:

"I never thought I´d feel something like this for somebody one day, but I do, I really do. I love you…"

I leaned above her and our lips made contact for the last time. Before I turned to Sasuke, I wiped my tears away and walked then past him, back up inside of the cave. Goodbye Mao…

Sasuke and I walked through the Forest in silence and as we were near the hideout, he suddenly stopped walking and turned to me. The look in his eyes had changed into something mixed between pity, doubt and confusion, but he then shook his head and continued going further. I had to smile lightly. At least he thought about it for a moment…

We reached the hideout and walked through the endless long hallway, until we reached Orochimaru´s room. I had to gulp and prepared myself for everything he had planned for me. As we entered, was the first thing I saw Orochimaru´s terrifying expression and how he glared at me with pure hate. He walked closer to me and stood now in front of me, looking straight into my eyes.

"Anything to say before I rip you to pieces?"

A light smirk appeared on my face and I said:

"Yes, those last few hours were the best of my life, because I was far away from you, you sick Bastard!"

His golden eyes glanced at me and he hit me brutally in the face, so that I fell against the wall and on the ground. Then he grabbed me on my ponytail and we had eye contact again. He hissed:

"You ungrateful piece of shit, I gave you everything the last few years and that´s how you´ll thank me?! Whatever there´s just one thing I want to know before I end your unimportant life. Where is Mao?"

Smirking at him again I said coldly:

"I killed her."

After saying this, his expression seemed shocked and I could´ve bet I saw some pain in his eyes, but this pain turned into rage as he then laid his hands around my throat and yelled angrily:

"Why?!"

"B- Because it was fun."

What do I have to lose if I provoke him now?

He heaved me up, his hands still tightly wrapped around my throat and then he said threatening:

"I´ll make you pay for this Kabuto!"

His grip tightened and I felt how I slowly became unconscious. At least Mao is save now and that´s the only thing I care for…

Mao´s P.O.V

What happened?

I felt that I was laying on something soft and opened my eyes, just to find myself in Kabuto´s hideout again. Slowly I sat up and looked around, but as I couldn´t find Kabuto I jumped up and ran out, inside of the cave and then outside. Did Sasuke kill him? Please not!

Neither Sasuke nor Kabuto were there anymore, which meant that there were only two possibilities what happened. Sasuke either killed him and brought his corpse away or the worst case happened and he brought him back to Orochimaru.

"Kabuto?!"

I walked around and called his name, but no reaction to it and I knew what that meant. Despaired I fell down on my knees, my tears dripping down to the ground. Why? I wasn´t even able to tell him how much he meant to me and now it´s too late! The man I love is gone and he´ll never come back…

Sasuke´s P.O.V

Orochimaru made Kabuto become unconscious, who then laid there on the floor while Orochimaru stood above him.

"Aren´t you going to kill him?"

He turned to me with a malicious smirk on his lips and said:

"I don´t think this would be enough punishment after what he has done. No, he´ll suffer before I allow him to die…"

Though I knew how cruel Orochimaru was, I some kind of felt sorry for Kabuto. Was my decision wrong? Should I have let him escape with Mao?

Orochimaru must´ve noticed my thoughtful expression and raised a brow.

"Is something the matter Sasuke?"

"No."

Well, I can´t change it now and then, it was his decision to come back with me…

"Would you like to help me punishing him?"

He smirked at me, but I shook my head.

"I don´t want to have anything to do with your strange punishment methods."

I said, before I turned around and walked away. Sorry…

Orochimaru´s P.O.V

That little Bastard!

I looked down at Kabuto and had the wish to beat him to death, but I had to control myself. Grabbing his ponytail, I dragged him along the floor to my Throne and got then a good idea how I´d make him suffer for what he had done. Oh Kabuto you think the things I have done with you were bad, but you don´t know what awaits you now…