Naruto was flying through the trees and he moaned and fell Kakashi caught him before he could hit the ground. "Naruto what's wrong?"
"I feel so weak." He slid away and stood. "I have to go." He collapsed.
"I think you should rest." They all stopped.
"Okay but, just for a little while." They were all panting and sweating.
Naruto was out his breathing shallow and harsh. "What the hell happened to him?" Karin looked at him and frowned. "His chakra's all messed up."
Kakashi frowned. "What do you mean?"
"It looks like he's been poisoned. I've seen it often enough." She shrugged.
Suiguetsu frowned. "I'll bet."
Jugo looked at him his worry deepening. "How could he have been poisoned?"
Sai looked at them suspiciously. "I don't know."
"I know you're not blaming us." Suiguetsu frowned. He pulled his sword. "You know we didn't do anything."
Naruto moaned. "Sasuke….it's Sasuke." Kakashi looked at him and his gaze narrowed.
"What about Sasuke." Jugo asked his mouth a thin line. Kakashi blinked a few times.
"I think the one poisoned wasn't Naruto it was Sasuke." They all froze.
"What…it was that girl wasn't it she's trying to kill him." Kakashi shook his head.
"I don't know what Sakura had in mind but, she would never do anything that would cause him pain. Most likely Sakura would use a curse quick and painless. And…" He touched Naruto's feverish head. "Something that would take her with it."
Sai paled. "Why would she do that?"
Jugo sighed and sat down. "Because she wouldn't want to live without the person she loves so much."
They watched as Naruto cringed and lived through a pain that wasn't even happening to him….
They arrived at a waterside village that was allied with theirs and took the injured into a larger tent at least Sakura didn't have to duck to get in.
She took out a couple of scrolls. "I need someone to get me some of the poison." She frowned. She didn't want to have to do what she had done with Kankuro it was crude and painful but, if she had to she would. She'd never let Sasuke die.
She took one of the darts and had them bring in the man that had attacked them. They were in a separate room. "I want to know what's in this."
"Go to hell giant lady. I won't tell you anything." She cracked her knuckles.
"Listen to me you little bastard. The man I love is in there and he's dying from whatever is in that poison and you are going to tell me what is in it so I can save him or I'm going to break every single bone in your tiny body."
Tuni sat by his brother. Baku walked up and sat down beside him. "Do you think she'll get him to tell her?" A scream echoed through the forest.
"Wouldn't you tell her?" He shuddered. "No wonder they let their women be warriors too. She's more frightening than he is."
Baku nodded and looked at the other side of the camp nervously.
Sakura walked out and washed her hands. She smiled. "Tuni."
He ran to her side. "Okay I made a list of the things I need can you get these I need them as soon as possible."
"Yes my lady right away…"
Kakashi looked at Naruto and he was finally sleeping peacefully. "I think it's over."
Everyone looked at him. "I don't know but, since he is sleeping peacefully it must mean that he's going to be okay." They all took the breath they'd been holding. Kakashi just watched him sleep. Never in his life had he known someone like Naruto.
Everyone rested they had all stayed up with him it had been two days now. Jugo sat beside Kakashi. "Why do you think he can feel what happens to Sasuke?"
"I don't really know. They were best friends. But, Sasuke was so bent on his revenge. He never really saw Naruto I thought. But, I don't know. It would explain why he refuses to give up on him but, Naruto doesn't give up. It's just not his nature.
"He has always looked at Sasuke differently though. I think because they were both alone. That matters to him. That Sasuke never feel like he doesn't have someone. He really does look at him like a brother." Jugo nodded.
"I didn't know Sasuke had a friend like that?"
"I don't think Sasuke knows he has a friend like that." Kakashi sighed.
Jugo shook his head. "He knows. Sasuke doesn't talk to us he doesn't explain things to us it isn't his nature but, I think he knows. He may try to hide it and block it away from himself because of his pain."
"Stop talking about Sasuke to the enemy." Karin snapped. "Whose side are you on?"
Jugo frowned. "He is not our enemy can't you see he is out here to save Sasuke."
"Yeah like the snotty girl that came out here to kill him." Suiguetsu glared at her.
"Would you shut up Karin you're just jealous because you know this girl is somewhere all alone with Sasuke, I don't know why you even care he could have killed you with that business with the chidori." She huffed. Kakashi raised his brows well, some things never change.
Sasuke opened his eyes and frowned.
"You know some things never change, you were grumpy the last time I had to save you." He sat up and growled.
"I wasn't grumpy at you." She smiled.
"No but, you did try to rip some guy's arms off." He sighed.
"My head is killing me." She pushed him gently back down.
"You need to rest. You almost died it was very touch and go." He looked at her and saw the circles under her eyes. He noticed the three other people in the room all sleeping. "They were sick too did you really save them?"
"I was so worried." She looked around. "They're all so young."
He let his eyes close slowly. She smiled and touched his face. The fever was gone. She made to stand but, he took her hand. She looked at him. "Thank you Sakura." She smiled and before she thought about it she kissed his forehead. Then she was gone. He let himself drift. She had saved him knowing what he had in mind. Knowing what he wanted to do.
That night he walked slowly out of the large medical hut. Well large compared to the rest of the village. "Where is Sakura?"
Tuni smiled. "She was tired so we put her in there." He nodded and walked to the hut they had pointed to. He crawled in and looked at her. She lay sleeping soundly. She didn't even wake when he pulled her into his arms. He had taken a bath and felt much better she must have too she smelled of exotic soap and her hair was still damp. She smelled wonderful. She turned in his arms and smiled. "You should still be in bed." She mumbled.
"I am now." He smiled at her. She snuggled into his shoulder and he sighed.
He felt himself drifting he was still very tired. He slid his arms around her and slept. He didn't think he would ever sleep soundly again by himself and, tomorrow in the daylight that would make him angry but, right now he just accepted it and let the warmth of her infuse him.
They slept until the next evening. Then they woke and ate a good meal and got ready to set out the next morning. They had heard that the neighboring villages wouldn't be attacking anymore. They were too frightened of the man that could wield the lighting from the sky. Sasuke just rolled his eyes. They weren't tired since they had slept the day away. He stood. "I'm going into the forest for a while." He was gone.
She sighed. "He's still so angry."
"He wants to hold on to his pain. You make that hard." She looked at the older man that was the medicine user here. She looked at the darkness where he disappeared.
He flew through the trees. He wanted to forget. Forget her face and her touch. He moved faster as if he could outrun the memories. Her lips, her smile. Damn it. He needed something to kill. He leapt faster his eyes scanning the forest.
He landed feeling something, what was that? He let his eyes spin. "Come out of there?"
"Why should I come out of my warm bed for a child like you?" Sasuke smiled.
"You kill a lot of humans don't you? I can smell the blood on you." A rumbling laugh came from inside the cave.
"I kill a lot of everything." Sasuke listened to the thing slide around in its cave. "I'll kill you if you don't leave."
"Well you'd better get on with it then." He reached for his sword.
He saw the beast peak out. His large misshapen head was gray and his yellow teeth dripping. "You will regret bothering me boy. I haven't eaten a ninja in a long time. The villagers appease me with their young women or I kill their children." He smiled and laughed. "And now, little ninja I will kill you."
"Hmpf." Sasuke's mouth lifted a little this was what he needed. The creature raged forward and he leapt out of the way. It was very old it looked like something from another time. Its chakra was strong. It stood to its full height. It was big.
Sasuke watched him. "What, did you loose something?"
"You're a fast little pest." He swung and Sasuke leapt out of the way. They moved through the forest. "I'm getting tired of you." Sasuke smiled.
"Too bad, I'm just getting started." Sasuke landed on his back and then leapt away. "You don't seem to be worthy of sacrifice. I wonder how much power you actually have and how much is posturing."
A roar and a ball of light flew from the things mouth. Sasuke jumped an avoided it…He smiled, that's better.
Sakura frowned. Another blast a good distance away but, it was definitely a blast. "What is he doing?" She looked at the horizon and saw a light.
"I think he is fighting the Tsuchinoki. It's a terrible monster that demands the lives of the women of the village or it rampages and kills everyone." She stood up.
"For crying out loud what does he think he's doing?" The light stopped… "Great now I don't even know where to go to find him."
"He will return my lady he is the prophesy, he can not die." She sighed.
"Right." She sat down and waited impatiently for him to come back.
Naruto had felt better and they were moving ahead. He sighed as they moved forward.
He sensed it before it hit. He pulled on his sage powers and looked people a lot of them small people. He stopped and put his arm out. "There's a village up ahead."
"Okay why don't you and I go Naruto and we'll see if we can try not to be threatening." Naruto nodded and let his eyes slide back into place and he sighed. Kakashi nodded and they jumped forward.
They landed in the small village. A tiny child looked at them and smiled then ran to a hut. A man came out and looked at them he was obviously in charge. He smiled at them and waved away the guards. "Hello you must be the Lady's friends. She said you would come she did something with her hands and gave me the power to talk to you."
Naruto smiled. "That was Sakura."
"Yes. She is a very fine young woman she is a fine wife." That made them both stop dead.
"A fine what?" The man smiled.
"Perhaps I have not said the correct word mate, maybe is better." They just stared incredulous. "She was with the Lord Sasuke the bringer of the Dawn."
Kakashi smiled. "Naruto why don't you go and get the others I think they are tired and would like to rest." Naruto nodded still very astounded.
They all got there in time to see Kakashi crawl out of the man's hut. "It seems Sasuke and Sakura were here and she wants us to know that they are fine and we should stay here and wait." He looked at Naruto. "What do you want to do?"
"I don't know I need to think about it." Kakashi nodded.
"Alright we'll stay for the night at least and then decide in the morning…
Sakura was sitting on a small dock and waiting. She felt him. "Well did you have fun?"
"Yes I did. And, they won't have to sacrifice anymore to him." She smiled and shook her head.
"How did you know it was there I haven't heard them say one word until you were fighting it?" He sighed.
"I could smell the blood and the foul chakra." She looked at him.
"You are so strong." He just looked out at the night sky. "I thought you were strong when we were kids but, you didn't even break a sweat with that thing did you?"
"He wasn't that powerful he just liked to scare these people." She looked at him and sighed. She wanted to lean against him but, she didn't know if she should he hadn't shown any affection for her except lying beside her since that kiss that had, had her reeling. So she just sat there. He looked at her. "I saw something interesting you want to see it?"
She smiled. "Sure."
He stood and took off. She followed and he slowed to match her speed they moved through the night and she thought she heard something. What was that?
He slowed her and covered her lips to silence her question. The sound was small mewling and then soft growls. He moved forward silently. She moved up beside him. A clearing and in it were several white cats. Byakko she had believed they were extinct. But, here they were.
They were very special they could shape shift. She watched them spell bound. A mother walked in to the clearing and called to them. She felt the tears but ignored them, this was beautiful.
A soft growl and a huge male padded in and lay down. The cubs ran to him and he played with them. She reached for Sasuke's hand unconsciously. He smiled at her. Finally when they were all sleeping he squeezed her hand and they left as silently as they had come. He took off and she followed it was still a few hours before dawn they should try to rest. They crawled into their hut and she lay down. She hadn't made a sound she didn't want to break the magic. The night had been so perfect. He looked at her as her eyes closed and he smiled softly at her.
He drifted away and dreamed of his parents being slaughtered and his brother's smile as he died. He opened his eyes and she was touching his face. "Are you alright you were screaming." He wanted to lean into her hand. Better yet kiss her and make the pain go away but, he needed this pain. It was his driving force. "I'm fine. We should go." She sighed and nodded….
Naruto woke feeling very angry. "What's wrong Naruto?"
Sai saw his face and frowned. "I don't know I just feel like I'm angry and I don't know why."
"Perhaps Sasuke is angry this morning." Karin scoffed at Suiguetsu.
"Sasuke's angry every morning and noon and night he stays angry." Naruto shook his head.
"No that's not true last night he went to sleep happy." They all looked at him and he shrugged. "Sorry but, it's true he felt very relaxed and happy when he went to sleep." Karin stomped away growling and muttering. "Man talk about grumpy she's grumpy." Suiguetsu laughed.
"That's just because she figures she knows why he's happy. We heard about the whole wife thing. She's been pretty ticked ever since." He snickered.
Kakashi frowned. Sasuke had danced with her and then they had slept in the same hut on the night of the feast. They had had a feast and had scared Naruto out of his mind because the women really liked him. With his big blue eyes and blond hair they had swarmed him. Poor man. Kakashi had felt sorry for him. But, he laughed. He was certain that if Sasuke was faced with the same situation he would have been more than willing to use her as a shield.
At least they were alive. That was the main thing. And if Naruto was right and Sasuke was happy at least sometimes.
"So Naruto what do you think; do you want to wait or go after them?" Naruto frowned. A very small woman looked at him and winked.
His eyes grew large with fear. "Go; we should go." Kakashi laughed and nodded.
"Alright then we'll leave within the hour."
Karin snarled. "Why the hell should we listen to you?"
"You are criminals in the bingo book we have not tried to capture you I would not push it Karin. Aren't you the one that was the warden of Orochimaru's prison and helped him?" She frowned.
"Point taken." Jugo answered for her. "We will be traveling with you." Suiguetsu nodded smiling.
"Yeah I'm not really sure I want to be here once Naruto's gone some of these women look hungry." He looked around smiling nervously.
They left and headed east….
Sasuke stood on the front of the boat and watched the world. He could feel something. He was sure that Naruto was coming. Last night when he had been fighting the Tsuchinoki he could have sworn he heard a plea from him. He couldn't be sure he had been a little busy. He was no where near but, he still heard it.
"Lord Sasuke this will be the last day we are on the river after this we go through the forest." Sasuke nodded.
It had been ten days since he had found Sakura in the forest and it had been five days since they had left the village of the Yama Bito people. They were miles from anything either he or she had ever seen far from the five nations of their home land.
It felt very freeing somehow. He took a deep breath and smelled vanilla. She was there ahead of them. She laughed and spoke with a young warrior that had seemed to become very fond of her. He was Tuni's younger brother one of the lives she had saved.
He was half in love with her. Sasuke smiled. It felt strange to smile so often. Unfortunately that brought his brother's smile to his mind and his mother's so similar. His teeth ground. Damn it. He would avenge his family his sweet mother how it must have killed Itachi to do that.
Sakura looked back and saw his face, it was hard and his eyes were red. She frowned. He'd been off and on like that…So much pain. She couldn't imagine what that must feel like. If she could take it from him she would. She sighed and turned back to Sani; Tuni's little brother he was such a sweet kid.
They ended their water journey at a dock in a very large village. It was as big as the village back home. Tuni stopped and smiled. "We will spend the next day gathering supplies to go on to the mountains. She nodded and watched him walk away.
Sasuke fell into step beside her. "I am going to find an Inn." She nodded and watched him disappear. Here there were all kinds of people. She was amazed. She had seen many different clans at home but, never anything like this. The first thing that shocked her were this tall couple that had to be well over two and a half meters and they had large black eyes and they seemed to almost float and then there was a group of women that wore clothing that covered everything but their eyes and they wore pounds of jewelry. She just wandered and watched.
She felt them and turned to glare. She had wandered into a quieter part of town. She knew her way back she wasn't lost. She had felt them following her and she was pretty sure she knew why so she decided not to disappoint them she still wore Sasuke's clothes she hoped to get some of her own while here she liked these because they smelled like him but still. She should have her own clothes.
She smiled. "Well what are you waiting for I know what you wanted." The men spread out.
"Well that makes it easier boys we don't have to sneak up on her." She smiled and her fist glowed.
"No I won't make you do that." She stepped forward and the ground fell out beneath her. "Shit."
She landed in a pit of some kind. "This must have been different from what you were thinking huh girly?" She frowned and just leapt up but a barrier stopped her.
"What are you doing let me out of here. What the hell are you doing?" He looked over the edge.
"Well you'll fetch a good price in the slave market once we get rid of that mouth of yours. A little time in the box should fix that." She didn't like the sound of that.
"You just wait." She gathered her chakra and flew slamming
Her fist into the shield it rippled but didn't break. She glared. It would take chakra like Naruto's or Sasuke's to stop her. What the hell was going on?
"Is that all?" He smiled. "Alright girlie time to go." The ground rumbled and she was in a chakra cage floating above the ground.
She snarled at them. "SASUKE!" She screamed knowing he would never hear her.
Sasuke saw Tuni and nodded. "Where is Sakura I have a room at the Inn."
Tuni frowned. "She is not with you?" Sasuke stilled.
"No…"
"My Lord she went into the village she wanted to look around." Sani smiled.
"By herself?" His teeth ground.
"Well My Lord she is a warrior." Sasuke was already heading away he had a bad feeling about this. She was so damn stubborn if she did get into trouble she would want to handle it.
"Shit where are you?" Sani was with him.
"My Lord I'm sorry I should have gone with her." Sasuke ignored him and leapt away he stood on a light pole. He could see most of the village. His eyes spun and he looked for her. The longer he looked and couldn't see her the more fear curled around in him. He landed beside Sani.
"What would be the biggest danger here for a woman like her?"
"Well sir I suppose the same danger for any woman. The slave traders would probably be the biggest threat My Lord." He took that in and tried to think past it.
"Slave traders."
"Yes my Lord she is most beautiful she would fetch a very nice price at the market of course as your wife she would not bring as high a price as if she were…." He reddened. Sasuke didn't need him to finish.
"Thank you Sani I will return. I got rooms at the Inn, The Red Fox inn you can take everyone there." Sani looked after him as he disappeared.
He had never felt so much rage from one human being. He sent a small prayer for Lady Sakura but, he sent up another for the unfortunate person he found with her….
Sasuke flew threw the air he looked and looked until he saw what he wanted. A seedy tavern that looked like it held the lowest of humanity. He walked in slowly and silently.
He watched and listened. His eyes were working so he could read the lips of the ones he couldn't hear. A man in the corner a fat man with a bald head and ear rings. He saw the word slave. No he was speaking of having to slave for his wife around the house.
Market on another. No he was speaking of the fruit market. He was ready to leave when he heard what he wanted. "Tomorrow there will be some new girls at the market I heard of one that had been captured was a real beauty." He smiled and watched his prey.
"Oh yeah they always say that."
"No this one must be true it's one of Brando's finds. You know he never sells anything but the best. I hear she's real exotic and she's a ninja." Yes this had to be her.
"A ninja that sounds like a story to me and if she is, she'd be more trouble than she was worth." He had no idea. Sasuke frowned.
"Well even so she won't be for the likes of us you know anything like that the Lord Darko would buy up he loves his concubines he could make her submit no matter how feisty she is." The skinny fellow was dangerously close to death. His words brought to the surface a very real fear that had nothing to do with the curse on her arm. He could loose her.
He watched them and when the man that had the information he needed left he followed him. He shadowed the man silently until he broke off into an alley. He turned and pulled a knife. "Alright buddy I don't know what you're after but you picked the wrong guy."
Sasuke smiled and lowered his head. "I don't think so."
His eyes spun into the star and the phantom arm picked him up bringing him down to Sasuke's level. His eyes rolled slowly to the man. "I want to know where Brando would have his new acquisitions."
"What are you?"
"Your death if you don't tell me what I want to know." He spoke softly no emotion. Just cold authority.
"The center of town a big place called the Golden Ox. Now please spare me." Sasuke smiled.
"You go and you tell him that Sasuke Uchiha is coming for Sakura Harano and he should be ready because I'm going to kill him." He let the man go. "GO!" The man ran for his life.
"Will you shut up?"
"Go to hell you piece of shit. Let me out of here and face me like a man you coward." Brando frowned.
He walked forward to where she stood behind the bars of the chakra cage. "If you don't shut up. I'll take you anyway pure or not. You'll sell just as well especially when I cut out your tongue." She glared at him.
"You just try it buddy. I'll beat the shit out of you." She slammed her fist into the side of the cage next to his head. He actually flinched. He stormed off and slammed the door. "Damn that woman."
"Sir?"
"She is the meanest thing I've ever met besides my mother. She may be meaner than my mother." He shook his head. "I'll be glad to be rid of her."
"She is very beautiful."
"I don't think it's worth it." He frowned. Then he smiled. "Darko will shut her up. He'll teach her what that mouth is good for…"
Naruto flew through the trees at light speed. "Damn it."
"What's the matter Naruto you have to slow down?" He shook his head.
"I can't he's scared I've never seen him scared not since we were little kids." Kakashi frowned. Sasuke was afraid what the hell would make that happen. "He's so scared and angry."
"Maybe it's Sakura she scares me." Sai offered. Naruto frowned.
"I think it's, for her." Naruto just moved faster.
Kakashi leapt beside him. They were making good time because they didn't follow the river the way the others had done they were cutting across country. A straight line.
"Brando Sir there's a man here." Brando frowned and turned who the hell would bother him at this time of night?
"Let him in."
He opened the door and a man walked in white as a sheet and shaking. "Lord Brando Sir I bring a message. He told me he'd kill me."
"Who; what message?"
"He said…" He paled further and went mute.
"He said… speak man what's the matter with you?" A soft deadly voice behind him had him frozen.
"He said that Sasuke Uchiha was coming for Sakura Harano and that he would kill you." Brando turned and looked at the young man that had spoken the quiet deadly words. He raised a brow.
"And where is this Sasuke Uchiha." He looked back at the pasty fellow who pointed a shaky finger at the young man with the dark hair. "This is him this kid…He's the reason you're so afraid?"
He laughed and looked at Sasuke who still stood silently watching. "I'm supposed to believe you are going to kill me."
"Whether you believe it is irrelevant, it is a fact." He reached for his sword. The man smiled.
"With that?" Sasuke smiled.
"I had considered it." He took his hand down. "Maybe not. First things first where is Sakura."
"YOU SON Of A BITCH LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Sasuke smiled.
"Never mind." He was just gone. Brando ran into the room and saw him looking at the cage.
"Get away from her." Sasuke raised a brow.
"Don't worry I haven't forgotten about you."
Sakura smiled. "Hey."
"I can't leave you alone at all can I?" She shrugged.
"I could have handled it." He shook his head but, he smiled. She was alright. He stepped forward and reached for the cage.
"You'll never break that chakra you're just a kid." Sasuke met eyes with Sakura and she smiled.
She stepped to the middle and used her chakra to float. He used the chidori and touched the cage with both hands and it shattered. She stood and smiled. Then before he could stop her she ran and hit the man he flew into the wall and took it with him. She snarled.
"That's what you get." Brando's eyes rolled back in his head. Sasuke smiled shaking his head.
She turned and smiled then she ran to him and didn't care what he thought. He caught her and pulled her into his arms. He held her for a moment then he pulled her back and glared at her. "Don't ever do that again."
"I didn't do anything." He growled at her.
"Come on." He acted like a bear all the way to the inn. By the time they got in their room she was fuming.
"What the hell is your problem?" He slammed the door. He still had her by the hand. He met her eyes and his were red and angry. He slammed her into the door and kissed her brutally. She gasped and he deepened it then it gentled and his hands slid into her hair and anchored her to him. He slid his arms around her and pulled her close holding her for a long time. She was still trying to catch her breath when his lips were at her ear. "I could have lost you." He took a ragged breath and picked her up pulling her into his arms.
He walked to the bed and pulled her against him he held her and kissed her hair. She didn't speak she didn't know what to say. So she just tucked her head into his shoulder and cried. She could have lost him too. They fell asleep like that.
Naruto stopped and sat down heavily. "It's okay now."
"What makes you so sure?" He laughed.
"He got angry again and now he's just relieved." He sighed. "We can rest here."
They fell over all of them had been trying to keep up with him and it was not an easy thing to do.
Suiguetsu went to look around he wanted to find some water. "Hey come and look at this?" Kakashi could smell it.
He frowned and walked into a clearing. It was huge a beast that looked like a giant snake but it was slimy and a mottled gray in color. It was dead. It had been sliced to pieces. Jugo frowned and his face started to change. Naruto clapped him on the shoulder. He looked at him and sighed smiling.
"This is definitely his work. Why do you think he killed it?" Kakashi frowned.
"I smell the scent of human blood and there are lost of bones in that cave I think this thing preyed on the villages around here." Alright let's get away from here. The chief said that there was another village not far from here I think we should go ahead till we get there I don't really want to have to smell that." They all moved on and stopped at the village.
Another feast though not nearly as frightening. Naruto just pushed them off on Sai. He smiled as he leapt into a tree to sleep. He could feel him he was already asleep.
He closed his eyes and drifted away….
Sakura sighed as she felt the hands that slid over her shoulders. "Sasuke."
"Hmm." He smiled and kissed her skin. She still wore his clothes loose and soft.
"What are you doing?" He raised a brow at her.
"That should be self explanatory." His lips slid over her throat. She shivered.
"Uh huh." She mumbled. "Why?" He smiled.
"Because I'm tired of fighting it. That's why. I almost lost you last night and I realized that I don't want that to happen. I want you Sakura." He slid his hands down her sides. She closed her eyes and sighed. This was wonderful and the words were like a balm to her heart.
She opened her eyes and looked at him. "I love you Sasuke."
"I know and I don't mind anymore." She grinned well it was a start.
She reached up and touched his face. "Oh so many times I dreamt of this moment."
He blushed a little. He leaned down and his lips found her ear. "I'll tell you a secret." She shook at his soft breath in her ear. "I never thought of you not even once. I was glad to be rid of you and I'm glad I'm going to kill everyone in the leaf. All of them will know my hate." She screamed just as his faced twisted and she sat up shaking and sweating.
"Oh God…" She gasped. Sasuke was up reaching for a weapon when he realized she must have had a bad dream.
"Sakura what is it?" She fell back.
"It was just a dream." She shivered. "Thank God it was just a dream."
"What dream? Sakura are you alright?" She met his eyes and hers were pained. "What did you dream?"
She turned away. "I don't really want to talk about it." He frowned.
"It was about me wasn't it? I heard you say you loved me." She cried.
"It was just a dream Sasuke it doesn't matter." Her tears became sobs. "Oh Damn it Sasuke I can't do this. I can't go with you so you can get a weapon to kill my home." She shivered.
He watched her and he looked away. "I can't leave you here its too dangerous. You could get hurt and with that thing on your arm you wouldn't just be hurt. I can't even let you make a summoning spell until that things gone. You'll die Sakura."
She looked at him. "Do it then I know you want to I can feel it sometimes; you at least wouldn't hate it. Do it take the curse away. Then you'll be free of me. I couldn't hurt you anyway I would just have to hope for a miracle."
He watched her face and knew that he couldn't not to her. He probably couldn't kill Naruto either. Damn knuckle head. "Damn it Sakura why would you just give up like that. I thought you were tough you're just going to give up."
"No never." He held her face and watched her eyes.
"Then don't say things like that offering yourself over like that; I haven't earned the right to do that." She just watched him as he stood up and moved to the window and looked at the moon light. She closed her eyes no matter what he believed he was one of the most honorable men she had ever known that hadn't changed. She stood and went to him sliding her arms around him.
"I'm sorry. It was a terrible dream. It was wonderful then you told me you didn't care you never did. That you never thought of me at all it hurt so badly. Then your face changed into the other you face." She sighed. "I'm sorry Sasuke."
He sighed and turned around. He slid his arms around her and kissed her hair. "I know I have nightmares too. I understand." He smiled. "And I thought of you. How could I forget you you're so annoying." He pulled her chin up and kissed her lips softly. "Come on let's get some sleep."
She nodded and they went back to bed and slept soundly. They woke the next morning feeling much better. They got up and both took showers and she found a new set of clothes on the bed when she walked out. She smiled it was much more her style and it even had her crest embroidered on it. Those bastards had taken her head band but somehow there it was.
She walked out and met him in the hallway. He raised a brow. "Feel better."
She leaned up and kissed him. "Thank you." He raised his brows and blushed because they were in a public hallway.
She just smiled and trotted away. "My God what have I done?" Their group headed through the village together…