"I know I still like you, I've already tried to deny that fact, but it doesn't go away…I just don't know if I don't like Itachi yet…but…do you love me?"
"I…."
'Here's your chance!' Inner Sasuke popped up.
"I…"
'Come on! Just tell her! You don't want to do the dare, right?! Besides, if you don't say yes, it might break her heart even more.'
"I…."
'For heaven's sake! Just say it! '
"I….l-l-love you, too." Sasuke stuttered out.
Sakura smiled brightly and hugged him tightly. Since her head was buried in his chest, she couldn't see the small smile that was graced on his lips.
He had his ambition, his life, his determination, his Sakura back, the person he truly cared for the most deep down.
He held her tighter, letting both of them fall in a deep peaceful slumber.
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Lmao…so it's officially going to be a SasuSaku fanfic. Yea…Sasuke's not going to be doing the dare…but you could always envision him doing it XD
And for those who were rooting for ItaxSaku, don't worry! I'm going to make another fanfic based on that couple…and maybe another on SasuxSakuxIta. Omfg! I love that love triangle XD So anyways, keep posted for those couples if you like them. The rating might be different though, I'll try and make one or two of them K+ like this one, but no guarantees. If I ever create another one, I'll try and alert it here.
PS, sorry about never really updating! I was going to update from before my exam, but I got too stressed and caught up in it, but luckily I just finished it! So I can move onto more pressing matters…like catching up on my fanfics! XDD Kay, enough of my talking, onto the story!
Holy Jesus! Also, heads up; Sasuke and/or (haven't decided if he'll be in this chapter yet…) Itachi will probably REALLY OOC, but I can't help it! Yes, I'm whining but aren't they so much cuter when they are kind and actually full of emotion?!
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Sakura stirred in her sleep and opened her eyes, blinking innocently to the person staring back at her. They were such pretty eyes, nice and black. Onyx…it reminded of someone…who was it? She couldn't remember. Did the name start with and S or I? One of those two…
Waking up completely the haze of the thought vanished as if it was a dream and was face to face with Sasuke.
Sakura smiled brightly and snuggled in his chest even more.
Of course Sasuke stiffened a little at the beginning because he was still not used to being in close contact with another person, but relaxed from the feel of Sakura's warmth coaxing him.
Sakura felt at peace but knew the time of asking him had to come eventually and the longer she waited, the worse it'd probably be.
She took a deep breath and said finally "What do we do now?"
Sasuke looked a little confused, though you could barely see it through his stoic mask. "What do you mean?"
She explained further, "I mean that what about Naruto, and the others-"
"What about them? If they don't respect our relationship, I don't care. Let them gawk, I'll be with you, that's all that really matters…" Sasuke butted in, saying the last part while nuzzling her neck affectionately. (A/N: Am I going too far with the OOCness? o.O)
Sakura giggled at the contact of her ticklish neck, but corrected him. "No, I mean that what are we to do because I assume you didn't tell them that you'd try and find me by myself, did you?"
"No, I didn't leave a note either."
She looked at him accusingly.
"I didn't think I'd bump into you." He defended.
"So what's your lie? I can't obviously just waltz back there and say 'hey, I quit the Akatsuki, I'm going back to Konoha, now can I?"
"You quit the Akatsuki?" Sasuke inquired.
"Yes…"
"For what reasons?"
"What are you, interrogating me?" Sakura asked, trying to sound pissed off, but truthfully, she was just trying to divert the conversation into another direction, for we ALL know what would happen if she were to tell her what really did happen.
Sasuke took the bait and said "Of course not, I just wanted to know what happened."
Sakura smiled wanly and it was all quiet again in the cave, just them both relaxing in each others' embraces.
"…So do you know where the Akatsuki's hideout is?" He asked, breaking the silence.
"Yes…but I can't tell you."
"And why is that?"
"Because! I made a promise to them."
Sasuke's eyes flashed with impatience but were soon smothered-with extreme difficulty, nonetheless, though.
"What do you think is more important, a little promise, to a highly dangerous organized group of S classed criminals, or to protect Konoha…AND Naruto. He has the Kyuubi in him, don't forget that."
"They threatened me with my life if I leaked anything. Now personally, I don't really mind the fact that the leader threatened me or I might've died by their hands," She ignored the glare of him thinking that she was putting her life too worthlessly, and continued, "…but I know that some people DO care and I could never let those people get hurt."
"But if you keep it a secret, the people you love will eventually get hurt by them." He argued.
"Sasuke, don't make this tougher on me. You know very well that I deeply care for them, but…" Sakura sighed, not liking the on-coming headache she was feeling, "I don't know…I just don't want anymore conflict anymore. I'm just so tired out…"
Sasuke glanced at the sky out of the cave and gave her a reassuring squeeze before getting up.
"I need to get going, the others will be searching for me. We'll continue this conversation later."
"I can't wait." Sakura drawled out, sarcastically.
Sasuke quickly swept her off her feet with a kiss. He was planning for it to be quick and comforting, but once Sakura moaned with pleasure and opened her mouth, allowing him to slide his tongue in, how could he refuse?
Taking advantage of the wide-open opportunity, he kissed her possessively and passionately. She never wanted the time to pass.
Sakura let go of her weight as she felt like she couldn't stand anymore and Sasuke slowly brought her to the ground.
Sakura flipped over so she was on top, pressing as close to him as possible, trying to lessen the amount of distance between them as much as possible.
Sasuke knew at that very moment that he was in deep shit…he had fallen for this woman and this could cause many implications in the future. If she was to be held hostage, what would he do? Could he possibly let her die? This was the exact reason why he kept his distance from others and never got too emotionally attached to them. But, even knowing that he made a mistake and feeling that he'd regret it big time down the road, at the moment, he couldn't have cared less.
Sakura and Sasuke were both in bliss, but it was ended when Sasuke reluctantly pulled away. Sakura looked at him with a little of disappointment where Sasuke really hated to see that face, but explained.
"It's really dark out; I've probably been gone for almost the whole day."
Sakura realized why and smiled a little, gesturing her hands to allow him to leave. "Alright, I guess I'll wait here, right?"
He nodded and took a last long glance back at her, as if memorizing every part of her so he'd never forget.
"I'll be back, I promise."
Somehow with those words, she felt even more nervous and scared. Something in the pit of her stomach was twisting and churning, making her feel uncomfortable. The feeling wouldn't leave. She had an ominous feeling of what would happen in the future, she just prayed that it would all be resolved later on.
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"And where the hell have YOU been?!" Ino yelled at a very annoyed Uchiha. (A/N: They met up, let's say, I want this fanfic to draw to an end soon)
"Around."
"We were looking everywhere for you!! If you were going on a walk, why didn't you leave us a note?!" Naruto joined in.
Sasuke mentally sighed; he was getting impatient with their endless pestering.
"Let's just get on with the mission, we're losing precious time."
Ino scoffed, "Yeah! Precious time YOU lost for us as well."
"And we're losing more time as you argue, Yamanka."
Kakashi massaged his forehead to keep down stress levels as he spoke up, "Sasuke, you did indeed make us break our backs for you, and you should learn in the future of this mistake, but you are right on one thing, losing precious time is not what we need, especially if the Akatsuki are in this area. We need to head out."
They all except for Sasuke reluctantly grumbled, but agreed.
"Great! Okay, I'll make the teams," Kakashi said, ignoring the groans of protest. "Ino and Shikamaru-"
"Yes!" Ino burst out.
Kakashi blatantly ignored them and continued with his pairing system, "Hinata, Shino and me, and lastly Naruto and Sasuke."
"WHAATTT?! I wanted to be with Hinata!" Naruto yelled out.
Kakashi managed to not roll his eyes and explained, "Because, Naruto, we are to deal with catching Akatsuki and rescuing Sakura. If I left you both together god knows what you would do."
Hinata was blushing a deepest red you could ever imagine and Naruto was still scratching his head, trying to figure out exactly what 'god only knows what you both would do'.
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Sasuke and Naruto walked around, scouting about for the Akatsuki, but deeply, Sasuke was trying to avert their direction from the cave he knew that Sakura was in. If Naruto found her, he figured all hell would break loose.
"So what's up with Hinata and you, dobe?"
Naruto looked at him funny. Sasuke never started conversations, what was up with him?
"Well, I know that I like her, I just hope she likes me back." Naruto said, blushing all the way, completely forgetting about his suspicious behaviour.
Sasuke snorted, "You must be the densest guy on the world. Of course she likes you."
"I sure hope so…"
It was again dead quiet again, unfortunately for Naruto, Sasuke wasn't creating any new conversations and he always hated the quietness.
He took a deep breath…guess it's my turn to start a conversation…
"So do you like anyone?"
"No." Sasuke replied quickly…too quickly.
Naruto let a smirk of interest spread across his face (like that time on episode 101 with trying to find out what was under Kakashi's mask! XD)
"So…I know you do like someone, who is it?"
"…" No answer.
"Well, knowing you, you'd want someone powerful…"
No answer.
"Someone you probably wouldn't care about…"
Sasuke successfully brought a flinch that was about to happen, that was originally his plan, but it got…altered…along the way.
"Someone you figured would be able to take advantage of…because you knew them practically inside out…"
Naruto was pretty good at guessing his old self, but Sasuke knew now that Sakura was his fatal mistake to his original plans. It was only too late when he found out about this.
"Someone you-wait a minute! Sakura fits all descriptions! It all makes sense now."
"And how would that be dobe?" He icily shot. It was all a deploy to keep him off that idea in his mind, he knew and hoped it would work….unfortunately it didn't.
"And why not? You know Sakura, know she's powerful."
"She's not, she's weak."
Naruto scoffed, "How she owned you from before?"
Sasuke wheeled around, "How did you know that was Sakura fighting me?"
"Well, I've fought against Sakura and fought alongside her, I know her attacks, the same way you got those injuries."
Silence again.
"So…DO you like her?"
More silence.
Naruto sighed; he would never verbally get the answer from him. But deep down, he KNEW that Sasuke liked her, so he was okay with the silence.
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The feel was down right annoying now. At first, it was just that kind of feel where you felt like you were itchy and you knew the spot. You itched, and you could itch as much as you wanted, but it could never satisfy you. It was like it was UNDER your skin.
The feeling of Sakura not being next to him was starting to gnaw on him. His usual saturnine aura and personality was dissipated and replaced with an ominous one.
He knew that the others were staring at him with a glare, heck they probably hated him and he couldn't have cared less. And why was that? It was because he hated himself as well.
Their death glares were boring in his back but it did not faze him whatsoever. The itch for having Sakura near him was killing him, but he knew that this was for the best, for Itachi Uchiha was always right.
Sakura was a problem for him, he knew it. Having her with him would cause a weakness, a weakness anyone could exploit. It just wasn't safe. This 'pain' from having her away from him was one that he ensured himself was the right choice. The 'feel' was just a minor problem, one that he had needed to risk, but if he exterminated the feeling by letting her be with him, the consequences could be much, much worse.
"You just had to break her heart, didn't you?" Deidara irritably snapped at him, as he sat across from him in the Akatsuki kitchen.
"I have my reasons." Itachi plainly replied, not saying anything else.
That made Deidara snap in a whole new anger. If that was all he had to say, he just wasn't human.
"You just love to toy with other peoples feelings, don't you?"
Itachi didn't say anything. If only he really knew what the reason was…
"Do you enjoy shattering young girl's hearts? You were always a cold-hearted bastard, but I never imagined you'd go this far. Especially after you let her in. Was this another one of your 'to see how truly powerful I can get' deploys?"
Itachi hissed back at him, "No, I did what was best for both of us. It would be dangerous for her to be here. Do you know how much pain she could've gotten from being here? I don't' want that to happen to her…"
Deidara was shocked at this news. He had thought of the reason from Itachi as a completely different way. But not backing down from his rage, he continued on a different set of rants.
"Well, did you know how much danger could be from her out there??! Some bloody guy could've raped her."
"She is strong enough to take care of herself." But as Itachi said that, he was starting to doubt his original plan.
"What if Sasuke comes to 'claim' her to start the Uchiha clan again?" Deidara pressed.
"Again, she can defend herself."
"Against Sasuke?"
"You have very little faith in her skills."
Deidara was caught off guard from his but quickly got grip again, "No, I don't, but I'm just worried about her. We haven't seen you dear little brother in a long time. Who knows what kind of powers he has now acquired on the way?"
"She'll work out fine in the end."
"What about what she's just gone through?"
Itachi narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"
"You've broken her heart, Sasuke's done the same. What do you think all this emotional pain could go to?"
"If she handled the first break, she can handle the next one."
"You put too much faith in her, I hate to say. Remember when you guys both came back from the mission for the Jinchuuriki? She nearly stabbed herself! And that was when she wasn't even thinking of her heartbreak."
Itachi was doubting himself more and more, with every word Deidara said.
"…Fine, how about we check up on her. Silently, of course, and see how she's doing."
Deidara seemed satisfied with that. Plus he couldn't wait to see Sakura again. He really hoped she was doing fine.
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I'll just leave it at this, sigh, I have a tendency of dragging out chapters, don't I? Okay! Good news. I'm definitely going to make an ItaxSaku fanfic down the road, it's going to be based on this love triangle too, but I want to finish this fanfic first. I'm thinking 2 or maybe 3 chapters more and then it'll be done, depends if you guys want an epilogue. Say your thoughts on that. And I'm not quite sure on the ending, I'll either make half of you have a heart attack or it'll be quite a nice ending, we'll see ;
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