A/N; You reviewers are awesome, you know that? This is the longest chapter in Discrepancy so far, and I hope it makes up for the Intermission after that terrible cliffhanger in chapter five. I've also added a poll to my page that people should check out. ^^ Read and enjoy.
I am Memories Faded, my ten-year-old brother is better at math than I am and I do not own Naruto.
Chapter Six
Covet
-verb
[kuhv-it]
1. to have an inordinate or wrongfully desire.
2. to wish for eagerly.
It had only been a day since 'it' had happened. And Sakura was flat-out refusing to talk to Suigetsu. Period.
The kiss, which he had to admit was surprising even on his part, seemed to have ruptured any equilibrium the two of them might have had as house-mates. Now it was replaced by Sakura's angry cold shoulder and Suigetsu's equally stubborn ignorance to that cold shoulder.
They managed surprisingly well without any verbal means of communicating. Sakura's apartment had a continual routine by then; they'd both wake up in separate rooms at different times, Sakura would make breakfast and head to work just when Kakashi came to her house. (By now he had his own key, much to Sakura's disdain.) Usually by that time Suigetsu would just be waking up, and starting a series of stretches and push ups beside the twin sized futon.
He then would settle himself into his mundane daily cycle of sitting around, reading whatever Sakura had laying around, training as much as he could while indoors, bantering with Kakashi and more or less, doing nothing. While Sakura would spend seven to eight hours at the Konoha hospital doing different jobs. Which varied from saving the lives of wounded Konoha shinobi, to healing a couple of kids who got a little too rough with the training equipment at the academy.
But even with as workable and as relatively balanced they were while not speaking to each other, nonetheless, this could not go on forever.
Time was a rather large obstacle if he still wanted to antagonize her when she was refusing to talk to him. With Sakura busy at work, where she was able to force her mind on things other than him. (Most of the time at least) She was given a pretty decent advantage over Suigetsu, who was still very much a prisoner of Konoha, and was forced to remain inside. Leaving him bored and alone at the apartment every day.
Boredom was the reason why Suigetsu had been so openly difficult when it came to Sakura going back to the hospital and spending more time at outings with friends and training. He didn't like being bored. So far, upsetting Sakura, getting her all worked up and manipulating her until she acted out of character was the greatest fun he had now that he was no longer permitted to train with his swords. He had yet to anger or even irritate Kakashi. Who was as cool as a damned penguin's ass when it came to watching over his 'special ANBU mission'. The bastard hardly even looked to him, much less took the bait that he so easily used to piss off the little pink nurse who lived in the same house as him, and, whom was still mostly in charge of him.
Speaking of her,
Suigetsu scowled inwardly, as he finally began to dwell on just how stubborn she could be when she wanted.
What he really wanted to do was kiss her again to further jab at her anger. But his impulsive decision had already caused enough damage. And Suigetsu wasn't ready to take a step back and allow her to maintain her self-preservation once more.
He'd have to make a real move when she came home later that day.
Which meant that he still had a good few hours to come up with some kind of a plan.
The man was slightly taller than her, his clothes were nothing more than dirty rags long enough to make him look like he was wearing a dress, against a rather boney frame. His lips were in a frown and his hair was silver with a shiny bald spot in the center. While his beard was long and salt and peppered in color. In every since of the word, he looked like a bum.
Sakura really did hate people who hung around the hospital and did nothing. They were one of her biggest pet-peeves. But Sakura was humane, so she gave the old man the benefit of the doubt anyway. The least she could do was check to make sure the man wasn't in need of medical attention instead of just skipping her way home without a care in the world. The only thing she had scheduled for this evening was having dinner, taking a bath and going to sleep. Whilst pretending that Suigetsu was not even there the whole time of course.
It was only because he had spoken to her that she even really noticed him anyway. Though, she hadn't heard what he had said. He was the one who had still made the initial move and talked to her first.
"Excuse me sir, do you need any help?"
The man looked at her and said nothing. His lips were still pulled in a tight frown and the rags he wore still made him look like he was wearing a dirty dress. But the way his eyes blinked stupidly at her made her feel like he hadn't even understood what she had said to him.
She eyed the man curiously.
"What's your name?"
"In proper society, it is polite to introduce yourself first before asking for another's name." He replied gruffly. Sakura's distaste for the loiterer grew.
"They call me Kin. You may address me by that name, Haruno-san."
What was with this guy? Sakura was annoyed by his rudeness, and inwardly felt a twinge of suspicion at the fact that he knew her name before she had introduced herself.
"How do you know my name?"
He snorted, and she felt an even stronger pang of annoyance from him. "There are not very many pink-haired women in this village, Haruno-san. And everyone here knows about you, being Tsunade's famed little apprentice."
Sakura did not bother asking him if he need help by that point. It was obvious that he was unhurt. In fact, he was well enough to even accuse her of being rude and make her feel like an imbecile.
Obviously this man was just a loiterer, and next time Sakura would be sure to tell the head desk if she ever saw him around here again.
She felt Kin's eyes on her as she walked away from the main entrance. "You should be careful." She heard him call after her.
This time, she pretended not to hear.
Right from the moment she was home, Suigetsu was downright pleasant toward her. And Sakura wasn't sure if it annoyed her more than it confused her. She did not like the sudden major change in character from him. And she doesn't bother to hide her distrust towards it at all.
But he ignored her obvious suspicion, talked good-naturedly about the absolute nothing he had done that day, and even offered to help her with the dishes after they were done eating.
The warning bells her head were driving her crazy, so she just came out and demanded it.
"Alright, what do you want?"
He blinked, a little startled by her outburst, which was the first thing that she had said to him in over a week, but all the same he managed to perfectly uphold his front.
"I don't want anything."
She glared at him with cold and questioning eyes. So he decided to give her what she was looking for.
"Maybe we could go for a walk later on." He said slowly, evenly, and Sakura's doubt began to loosen just a little.
She agreed stiffly. Not wanting to please him but wanting him to continue this ridiculous behavior even less. Relenting to his request could be seen as a surrender, so Sakura made it clear to him that she would be the one deciding where they would go, for how long and when.
He complied in as just a genial manner as before.
Later that night as they walked around the alleys of Konoha that bordered the river, (She had purposely picked this in hopes that he would seem less satisfied after they got back.) Sakura continued to think back on what was going on. The air had turned painfully humid, and it became clear that it would rain soon. She hated the fact that his mannerisms toward her had turn around so suddenly and that the looks he was giving her were so very convincing. She couldn't remember him ever trying something nice for her. Every instinct inside of her was screaming trap.
She stopped walking, and irritably he stopped with her. The sudden humidity was doing absolutely nothing good for her temper, and really, she couldn't even remember what her reason was for allowing herself to give in to his proposal to take a walk. Shouldn't walks outside be rewards for good behavior? His mood tonight had only made her angry.
He watched her as she watched him, for a moment it looked like he would try to touch her. He took one step closer.
'He's too close.' Her inner whispered. Sakura's anger had all but faded as she began to blush, and now she wished that she had not even bothered to stop because now she had given him and opportunity to...
He took a step closer, his eyes falling on her lips.
'Too close, too close, tooclose!'
Visions of the dream she had nights before came back to her, and she felt her blush steadily worsen. She tried replacing the embarrassment with more anger.
"Will you just back off!" She snapped angrily, hoping that her hostility would give her a bit of breathing room from his forwardness. It worked, as he took a step back.
"What?! I'm not even doing anything!"
"Yes you are!" She accused.
"I didn't mean to piss you off okay?!" He snapped back at her. And Sakura couldn't tell if he meant before or now.
"You're lying." She hissed. "Don't bother trying to hide it."
The fight had been long waited for, just hidden under time and the day's false pleasantry. It was at that moment, that the heavens opened up and big, fat raindrops fell from the sky. Turning the village of Konoha into a humid but dry village to a cold wet village in a matter of seconds.
Both were suddenly silenced, the rain seemed to act as a damper to their hostilities. Suigetsu moved close enough to her that their bodies nearly touched.
Why weren't they fighting? Why wasn't she pushing him away again? Sakura did not even have a second to think on this, because Suigetsu shoved her into the brick wall beside them, and for a terrifying moment, she was afraid that he might actually try to hurt her. But instead two hands pinned her own to the wall and Suigetsu kissed her.
Sakura was still.
Maybe it was the rain.
Maybe it was because she had already come to terms with the fact that she liked him.
Maybe it was because even as ill-meaningful as the last one had been, she had still actually enjoyed his first kiss.
Sakura kissed back.
She felt his hands run down the length of her thighs and then hoist her up against the wall behind her. They were both completely drenched from the downpour.
The kiss was hard and hot and angry. Lips coaxed open and tongue and teeth and fingers digging through hair and hands raking in clothes. He wanted her to submit, give in, melt into it. But she would not.
She felt sharp teeth cut against her tongue as the kiss deepened and became hotter. She dug her nails hard into his skin
and every single bit of it was so utterly worth it.
Then a loud crash suddenly echoed from around the corner of the alley they were currently in. They both parted suddenly, red faced and panting, at the sound.
Cold washed over Sakura's body and had nothing to do with rain.
Sakura inwardly felt herself panic, she could get caught here! Not like this! Out in public, held against a wall with her lips red and breathless by her so-called cousin. But she was unable to will her frozen body into movement.
And then Suigetsu was grabbing her hand and running. Half-pulling half-dragging her along. Eventually, when she realized that he was actually trying to save her, she stopped stumbling and managed to keep up running behind him.
"Where are we going!" She yelled above the rain, breathless from their running and from their previous actions.
"I don't know!" He shouted back. "Does it matter?!"
Sakura couldn't help but begin to laugh, fueled even harder when Suigetsu gave her a strange look from the corner of his eye. Still running.
"I knew you were losing it!"
She still laughed, unable to retort anything at the moment, indeed feeling a little crazy herself.
They ran and ran, down another alley and through another, feet slapping and splashing into puddles and clothes sagging from the rain and their movements.
When they stopped they were both a little dazed from the thrilling exhilaration, possible due to the fact that they could have been caught, sides splitting and gasping for air. The had run hard and far and even though both were ninjas, they still had a hard time catching their breaths because they had already been panting when they began running.
Their gazes met and Sakura smiled at him just a little. He returned it, though his was wider and mischievous.
Suigetsu looked around and started to laugh, and Sakura looked at him with the same dumb-founded look that he had given her moments before.
"What?" She asked, almost afraid of the answer. Half the time when he was laughing he was doing something bad. Or rather, almost nearly all of the time.
He pointed behind them, and Sakura turned only to realize that the had run back to the apartment and not even known it.
Ironic.
She smiled, too worn-out to laugh again at the irony at it. They had run for so long so quickly that neither had known where they were going, and when they finally stopped they were home again.
Fishing through her pockets Sakura dug out her key and they both stumbled inside. Leaving a dripping trail of rain-water behind them.
...
Soaked literally to the skin, Sakura couldn't help but feel increasing self-conscious at the fact that she had left wearing rather thin clothing, and now her whole outfit was clinging to her body like a sopping wet, second skin.
Suigetsu was eyeing her intensely. She stepped away from it until her back hit the wall.
She wanted to cover herself, go to the bathroom and change so she could rid herself of the uncomfortable feeling of being in wet clothes. But he beat her to it.
Cautiously, as if fearing a negative reaction that could lead to a beating, he reached out and simply pulled the zipper of her shirt part-way down.
She waited, surprised that he was being uncharacteristically careful and slow, giving him time to watch her reactions before going on. Then, when he saw that she wasn't resisting, he slowly continued.
He opened her shirt, but made no move to completely remove it. Then he leaned in, his warm breath fanned her face and she didn't bother to hide the shudder of delight that the comfortable feeling gave her.
Suigetsu leaned in and kissed her softly on the temple, pushing damp hair away from her face as he did so.
It was only a light brush of lips, not like the harsh, angry passionate kiss like from before. Somehow, she actually found this was almost as good as she was pressed further against the wall. One of Suigetsu's hands were pressed next to her hip, effectively blocking her in with his own saturated body. His lips trailed down her cheek, and though she did not protest, she gave no real encouragement either. Other than leaning her head back to give him more access to her neck, closing her eyes. Her lips parted just slightly as he felt his mouth press firmer to her wet skin.
This was nothing like before, though he was kissing her, and he made kissing her a show of dominance up until then, he kissed Sakura like she actually mattered.
What had sparked this? Where was the change coming from??
He slid his tongue against her flesh, leaving a hot trail in its wake, at the same time he slipped his free fingers under her damp shirt just barely.
She panted slightly and finally wrapped her arms around him. Her hands went to grab his shirt from behind, just above him hips, twisting handfuls of wet cloth in her fists. She brought her head back to him so that they could make eye-contact.
It was like a dam broke, and suddenly everything spilled out.
Their lips met again, and this time there was no coaxing, tongues battled for dominance and lips clashed together like water against rocks.
They shouldn't be doing this. They shouldn't be doing this. Just taking one step back to look at the absurdity of it all and maybe they would change their minds. They wouldn't be doing this. They did it anyway.
But the idea of Suigetsu kissing her again lost it's appeal the moment he closed in on her and pressed his body into her completely. As she realized how stupid and irrational she was acting – like a love-struck horny teenager. By letting him do this she'd be letting him take control over her again.
She scowled and tried pushing him away, he didn't budge, so she tried bitting down on his tongue. Bad idea. Her eyes grew wide and her whole body stiffened when she felt his teeth sink into her lip, she began attempting to bite back and failed horribly. Inner Sakura was reminding her how much bacteria there was in a human mouth. She dug her fingers hard into his back and he rewarded her - to her distress, with a pleased groan.
It wasn't about attraction, it was about domination. It had always been about domination. There was no way she was just going to let him gain the upper hand on her, not when she'd promised herself not to.
His teeth bit harder, and pulled suddenly without warning. Sakura jerked in pain, wide-eyed, unable to pull away because he was practically attached to her.
For a moment she panicked, unable to push him off of her. Unsure of what exactly she should do to get him off as she felt warm blood trickle down her chin.
So she grabbed on a handful his hair hastily and pulled as hard as she could without using chakra. Almost at once he let go and she shoved him away, a hand coming up to hide her bleeding lip.
"Ow! what the hell!" He snarled, face grimacing in pain. Then he caught sight of what he had done to her, and immediately his irritated look vanished and was replaced with one resembling alarm and slight fear.
"Oh, shit.."
Sakura could actually feel her lip practically hanging open as blood fell heavily from out of it, and she had to resist the urge to suck on the bleeding wound. She gingerly brought her fingers to it and began healing as she glared at him.
"Thanks a lot, you jackass." Her voice was pain-laced and a little muffled.
The expression he wore actually resembled regret. Or something close to that.
It took only a few minutes to heal herself, by then they were no longer pressed against the wall, just standing in the hallway a bit awkwardly. Puddles of water formed around them.
He leaned forward and she stiffened to defend herself, but this time, instead of kissing her, his tongue darted out and brushed over the lip he had bitten. Softly, almost apologetically. Startled, she only stared at him. He pulled back, looked at her, smirked, leaned in again and actually licked the blood off of her lip.
For the moment, she was too stunned to move. And then, Sakura realized, that she didn't really care. Even though about two minutes ago she had been ready to rip his arms off, she allowed him to lick her, clean the blood off of her lip and chin. She closed her eyes in contempt for about four seconds until she felt his tongue move over to her neck. Immediately, she sobered.
'Oh, Hell no!'
Shoving him away as far as she could, she had time enough to hear him make a sharp 'ompf' sound as he landed into something before she had stormed into her room and loudly slammed her door. Where she stayed, for the rest of the night.
A/N; Sorry this is late, school is coming up and I've been busy as shit lately.
I'd like to thank a couple more people, Lea and mysticblue05 for being amazing. Lea, your english is fine, :) I really admire everyone who's first language is not english who've managed to review. ^^
And to mysticblue05, Yeah, the 'Fuck you very much' thing came from a movie. One of those crappy suspense/thrillers that no one cares about. XD I hope you do write a SuixSaku because this pairing still could use a few more good stories out there. Good luck!
Part of me dislikes the anime Suigetsu, because he seems ridiculously skinny compared to the manga Suigetsu. -_- Anime Suigetsu also has purple eyes.. which sorta ruined a scene from an earlier chapter. -Sigh-
ALSO! I'm trying to finish this story before February 18, a.k.a Shark boy's birthday, (Still a ways away.) because I'm planning on releasing a sequel. YES! A sequel, for Discrepancy on that day. People should also check out the poll on my page if they are playing on reading said sequel. The poll decision may be important later.
And here's a short word from Chapter VII.
Chapter VII; Hello, I am chapter seven, I am currently under construction by Memories Faded in a cold and cramped closet. I contain more Suigetsu/Sakura tension and some small amount of long waited for fluff. But most importantly, I will have bondage. So make sure that you review and check out the poll on her page and Memories Faded will be sure to update faster and let me out of the dark, awful closet I am currently in and not end me D:
P.S, Well, you heard the chapter. Very low, yes, yes I know that. But you'll thank me later.
The letting-the-chapter-speak thing I got from Le KING, who is a goddamn genius. Enough said. XD
Until next time! And make sure none of you go near the coast in Maine during a friggin hurricane. We've already had seven people swept out into the ocean and we don't need any more bad attention.
~ Memories Faded