A/N: Hey Everyone! So, It Took Me An Entire Weekend To Plan And Write This Chapter And I Really Like It And I Hope You Do Too. Sasuke Is A Little OOC Here, But Like I Said Earlier In The Story, I'm Doing This For A Reason. Sayuri Is Also A Little OOC, But You'll See Why. Alright, Well I Hope You all Enjoy And Please Review!

The One That Got Away, Chapter 10: Risky Business

"That's him," Ino murmured to Sakura as Sasuke strode through the door.

His eyes paused for a second on Ino before he brushed her off and flashed me a blinding smile. "Hey,"

"Hey," I smiled back. The scowl on Ino's face was priceless; it took everything in me not to laugh. "So, where are we going?"

"Be careful with that one," Ino chimed in, her tone venomous. Ino reminded me of a king cobra, putting on a show before she strikes. "He likes to … drift off quite often."

"Maybe if you kept him interested then he wouldn't have to think of someone else," I threw back at her accompanied by a dark smirk.

She raised a bleached eyebrow at me. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me," I waved her off. "Now, where are we going?"

Sasuke chuckled and nodded toward the door. "You'll see,"

After the most anxious subway ride of my life, we ended up downtown at some shady looking abandoned building. "Eagle's Head Brewery" was in worn out letters across the top of the structure along with the silhouetted figure of a flying eagle.

"An abandoned brewery?" I asked doubtfully. My stomach tightened as realization dawned on me; this could be something really bad.

"C'mon," he pushed, leading me to the door.

The door was chipped and broken with a board over a small window near the top. All of the windows were broken and boarded up with spray-painted graffiti in every available space. Some were very skilled and detailed, like one of the changing seasons that took up the entire side of the building, while most were sloppy tags thrown up in a rush. I admired them until a rhythmic knocking pattern shook me from my thoughts. The board in front of the door's window slid open to reveal a pair of what looked like cat's eyes.

"Invitation?" a woman's voice demanded, her voice raspy and hushed.

Sasuke pulled a crumpled piece of black paper from his pocket and held it in front of the window. The eyes looked it over and nodded.

"Welcome," the woman said as the door creaked open. Inky black hair fell down her left shoulder in a heap while her yellow cat-like eyes skimmed over us. A silky royal purple tank top swooped down her chest to show more than enough cleavage and hung by silver chains that twinkled against her creamy skin. "It's nice to see you again, Sasuke," she hissed seductively before glancing at me. "Fresh meat?"

"Yeah, thought I'd show her a good time," Sasuke purred back as he slung his arm over my shoulders.

"She's an adventurous one," the woman smiled malevolently. In that instant, I thought she might actually lure me away and sink her canines into my neck. A shiver rolled through my body at the thought.

"Follow me," cat-lady instructed, leading us down a dimly lit hall to a flight of stairs.

"Are you sure about this place?" I whispered to Sasuke. My feet froze on the first step, terrified that I'd be walking into a drug den or a vampire cult lair. I gazed up at Sasuke knowing that I looked like a petrified child but I didn't care; I needed to hear him say it was safe.

"Do you really think I'd take you somewhere dangerous?" he grinned reassuringly. "You'll be fine, these guys know how to have a good time."

I swallowed hard and followed him and cat-lady down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was another door with a boarded up window. Cat-lady rapped on the door so fast that I couldn't even attempt to catch the rhythm, but I guessed that was the point.

"Who do you have for me?" a man's voice said as another set of eyes appeared from behind the board.

"Sasuke and a newbie," cat-lady motioned to us.

The pair of eyes scanned over us briefly before nodding and opening the door. "Welcome, we hope you have a great time with us."

"Have a good night, Sasuke," cat-lady purred over her shoulder as she made her way back up the stairs. "Watch out for your newbie, you know how fond we all are of you."

"See ya, Lilith," Sasuke waved to her.

We watched her retreat to the darkness of the upper level before we entered the room ahead of us. It was pitch black at first until yellowish beams of light began to twirl somewhere in the distance and hard core metal music thrummed throughout the room.

"You'll need one of these," Sasuke murmured against my ear. The exaggerated use of the bass in the music shook the walls and vibrated through my body; we literally couldn't be more than an inch from each other if we wanted to hear the other which was a fact I didn't mind at all.

I squinted into the dark in a feeble attempt to make out what Sasuke'd handed to me without success.

"You might want to turn it on," he chuckled.

A beam of light spewed from the object and illuminated the path in front of us - it was a flashlight.

Sasuke held his flashlight under his chin and smirked devilishly. "It's blackout night,"

"Okay," I shrugged. "What now?"

"We join the party," he smiled mysteriously before grabbing my hand and hauling me through the dark room.

We took so many twists and turns that I couldn't even use my flashlight to guide me through all of the halls we were nearly running through. We finally emerged from the hallway maze into an auditorium type room filled with countless people all crammed together and holding flashlights. A stage seemed to be raised at the other end of the room occupied by a group of people whose flashlights were facing the audience.

"Is this a concert?" I guessed as an ear-splitting electric guitar riff erupted from the stage.

"For tonight," Sasuke nodded. "C'mon, we're going to miss the show." he added as he pulled me into the massive crowd.

We elbowed and fought through the countless bodies for an immeasurable amount of time before we got somewhere near the front. The band's lights cast some much needed brightness over the shadowy crowd and filtered thin streams of light through the first few rows of people.

"This isn't really my style," I admitted over the wail of the guitars and the crash of the drums.

"Exactly," he replied. "I wanted to get you out of your comfort zone. Just lose yourself, I won't let anything happen to you."

It was difficult to imagine losing myself in the chaos that surrounded us, but I complied and turned my attention to the band. Despite the chaotic nature of the instruments, the singer's voice was that of a fallen angel - beautiful and enchanting with a powerful note of pain, anger, and brokenness. I ignored my instincts and closed my eyes, allowing the pained lyrics to burrow into me.

I've never been a fan of the hard core rock that was crashing around me, but it somehow found a home in my mind and coaxed me into a hypnotic lull that was slightly like the feeling I got at The Rave but completely different at the same time. The techno beats that lived at The Rave were fueled by lust and sweaty desire to jump anything with a pulse, but the hard metal beats that resided here were fueled by pain and anger and sadness that washed over you with such overwhelming force that you quickly became numb so you wouldn't have to think about all the time in your life that you've felt those emotions. My body shut down as if to put up a force field to protect me from those painful memories and allowed me to become a strange sort of calm that I'd never experienced before. Suddenly, something that felt like plastic was thrust into my free hand.

"Try that on for size," Sasuke laughed, his lips tickling the nape of my neck. "It's the house special for tonight. They call it a power outage."

I slung the drink back in one gulp, the multitude of liquors that I couldn't identify burning my throat and coursing through my veins like molten lava.

"Damn, calm down or I'm going to be carrying you out of here," Sasuke warned with a chuckle.

"That doesn't sound so bad," I murmured back. I suddenly felt so much bolder than I had just a few minutes ago, or had it been hours? I couldn't tell anymore. "Another one, please."

Before I knew it, Sasuke was dragging me out of the suffocating large crowd and back into a secluded corner that I didn't even know existed.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I stumbled after him. My head felt fuzzy and my mouth was full of cotton; nothing I said was coming out clear.

"You were making out with some scumbag," Sasuke explained. Even though it was dark and I had tunnel vision, I could still see his jaw clench as he spoke.

"I what?"

"You were about to go off with that guy," he almost growled.

"He wasn't you?" I asked slowly, unable to comprehend what he was telling me.

"No, he wasn't me," Sasuke's tone suddenly softened and he relaxed his whole frame.

"I'm so sorry!" I wailed. An overwhelming wave of regret crashed over my head like a ton of bricks as hot tears leaked from the corners of my eyes. "Sasuke, I swear I thought t was you! Please don't be mad at me," the last sentence came out as a whimper as I crumbled in on myself.

Sasuke grabbed my shoulders and crushed my body into his, my head on his chest and his chin on my hair. "I'm not mad at you, please don't cry," he begged me. His hand smoothed out my hair as I sobbed into his shirt.

"I just don't want you to be mad at me," I mumbled against the fabric of his t-shirt.

"Listen to me," he said, tearing me away from him so he could look into my eyes. "I'm not mad, I'm glad."

"Glad?" my brows furrowed together in confusion.

He nodded and smiled. "I'm glad you were thinking of me,"

The tears the poured from my eyes ran dry as soon as those words registered in my fuzzy mind and a relieved grin took their place. "Can you take me home now?"

"Anything you want," he chuckled.

That's what I hoped you'd say.

I restrained myself on the subway and settled for leaning my head on his shoulder. I could feel my rational mind resurfacing but I shoved it as far back as I could; I didn't want to think tonight, not about this. Sasuke supported most of my weight as I stumbled down the sidewalk to the house.

"Wait," I said as he swung the door open.

"What?"

"There's something I want to do first," I took a step toward him.

He arched his brow. "And what's that?"

I slid my arms around his shoulders and pulled his mouth to mine in a slightly sloppy but hungry kiss. He hesitated for a second before his hands grabbed at my hips and his lips mimicked mine. A surge of desire shot through my veins as I used all of my weight to push him back into the house, the door clicking shut behind us as I let my hands finally roam his body like I'd imagined a million times before. His muscles flexed enticingly under my touch, making my heart beat so fast I thought it'd explode right there. I fumbled with the hem of his shirt for a minute before lifting it up over his head and abandoning it on the floor as I pushed him back through the kitchen and up the stairs. Sasuke's back hit the door of my bedroom with a loud thud as I pushed him into it, a groan escaping his lips as his hands wandered up my shirt to my breasts which made me imitate the animalistic sound.

My shirt flew over my head so quick, I barely had to pull my mouth from his as his fingers toyed with the clasp of my bra. I felt around behind him for the door knob, my hand shaking with anticipation while he laid little bites down the side of my neck. The door finally gave way and I quickly found myself straddling Sasuke with my pants undone. I kissed from his lips down to the top of his jeans and back, relishing the way his hand knotted in my hair and the howl-like moans that erupted from his throat. He held my mouth to his as I squeezed my hands between our sweaty bodies and nearly ripped the button of his jeans open. Suddenly, Sasuke threw his body over so he was on top of me and held my hands down on the mattress.

"Wait a second," he panted, his forehead resting against mine.

"Why?" I breathed. My body shook with desire as my lips found his again, the same desire reflecting back at me with such intensity that I nearly convulsed under him.

"Just wait, please," he pleaded, taking his lips from mine.

I waited for what felt like forever as we both caught our breath and calmed down. He rolled off of me and sighed.

"Sayuri, you're drunk," he sighed heavily as he buttoned his pants back up.

I bit my lip as salty tears stung the back of my eyes. "No, I'm not,"

"I can taste the alcohol on your breath," he retaliated. "I might be drunk just from that."

"If you didn't want me, you could've just shot me down at the door," I choked out. I fought to keep the tears that threatened to spill over in check; it was much easier said than done.

"Sayuri, you have no idea how badly I want to," he rolled over to face me. "but not like this. I want you to remember it."

I looked up into his onyx irises and let a single tear roll down my cheek. "You can go now,"

Sasuke stood and sighed. "I'm sorry,"

I swallowed the lump in my throat and pulled the comforter up over my exposed body, rolling over so I couldn't watch him leave. As soon as I heard the door click shut, I let the waterfalls flow.