Falling in Love with a Dragon
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto but Aniki does own Ryuu.
"Sakura!" Ryuu pounded on her door. "Sakura, open up! We have training!" He sighed and poured chakra into the keyhole to unlock the door. "If you're indecent, be warned."
All the lights were turned off, leaving him confused and wary. "Sakura?" He snapped his head toward her bedroom, where he heard a sod. "Sakura?" He opened her bedroom door and saw that all of her curtains were drawn, letting only a crack of light shine onto her bed. "Sakura!" He rushed to the bed, where she was curled up with tears trailing down her face. "What's wrong? What happened?"
The dragon jinchuuriki looked her over, searching for anything that could have hurt her. Teary green eyes looked up at him before she threw her arms around him. Ryuu sat in shock for a moment before trying to comfort her by rubbing small circles on her back. "It's okay, Sakura; it's okay…"
"No… no, it isn't… Sasuke… how could he?" Ryuu began to growl but paused when she continued. "He shouldn't… use her like that…" He looked down at her in confusion but she just continued to cry.
"She's on our team, so it's not right that she's spending so much time with him." Sasuke was leaning against the wall of the Yamanaka's flower shop while Ino sat on the counter. He had been coming here to rant, mostly about Sakura and her new sensei.
Ino looked at him sympathetically, but she wouldn't side with him this time. Sakura had come to her and told her about how great the new shinobi was, and had even brought Ky to see her. "He is her teacher now, Sasuke-kun; there's nothing you can do about that." She would comfort him, but she wouldn't agree with him.
Before Ino could say anything else, Sasuke moved away from the wall, grabbed her arm and pulled her into a kiss, just as Sakura walked in the door.
The pink-haired kunoichi stood in shock before running away. Ino saw this through the corner of her eye and she did the one thing she never imagined herself doing. She slapped Uchiha Sasuke, her crush and the boy she and Sakura fought over.
"You cold-hearted jerk!" The blonde ran out the door after her friend. "Sakura! Please wait!"
Sasuke stood in the flower shop, face still turned slightly and a growing red mark on his cheek.
Ryuu sat with Sakura until she stopped crying. Sasuke had gone too far this time, at least Itachi had the brains to not harm anyone he cared about.
By the time she had fallen asleep, it was dark out. Perfect for the hunt, ne, Gaki? Ryuu smirked, showing a fang.
"Agreed."
Sasuke ran through the Uchiha District, trying to get out of the storm that seemed to have come out of no where. He rushed into his house panting and soaked. What is with this storm? He looked out the window at the lightning and rain before turning away and walking farther into the house, just as glowing blue eyes appeared.
The younger Uchiha took a shower, thinking about what he had done that day. Trained with Naruto and Kakashi, talked with Ino… hurt Sakura… He was hurt and confused. Hurt that Sakura would spend more time with some other guy after all the years she spent chasing after him, and confused about why he cared at all.
Sighing, he turned off the water and dried off, throwing on a pair of shorts and heading to his room.
"You know…" Sasuke whirled around, trying to find where the voice was coming form. "I wouldn't mind that you kissed Ino, in fact I couldn't have cared less, if it wasn't to hurt Sakura."
A flash of lightning illuminated the form of a shinobi leaning against the window frame, ice eyes blazing coldly. Sasuke took a step back in shock and in fear at the fury in those eyes. "How did you get in here?"
"I was an Uchiha, remember?" Ryuu pushed away from the window slowly and approached him, stopping only a few feet away from the glaring Sharingan-user. "Lets get one thing straight: you support, or leave my student alone, I leave you alone; you harm my student, in any way, I rip you apart."
Sasuke took a stop back at the intensity in his voice and scowled. Why do I care? He shouldn't care about Sakura; he shouldn't care about anyone, except Naruto because he was Itachi's target.
Ryuu watched him with hard eyes. "You aren't as special as you think." The jinchuuriki turned to look back out at the still raging storm. "Orochimaru had already found a replacement for you by the time I finished him off." Sasuke's eyes widened. "Yeah, Hebi-teme is dead; completely obliterated."
"Tell me, were you able to defeat even Kabuto?" Sasuke's silence was all the answer he needed and Ryuu smirked. "Sakura did. She killed Kabuto, I killed Oto's first unit and Hebi-teme, and Itachi wiped out everyone else."
Ryuu turned back to him. "I'm only going to warn you once more: you harm Sakura, I put you through a torture worse than whatever Itachi's Tsukiyomi put you through."
Sasuke blinked and Ryuu was gone. He fell to his knees and brought a shaky hand to his face. Note-to-self: Never anger a dragon unless you're about to die anyway.
AN: I apologize profusely for the long wait in updating, and it will probably just as long before I update again; school is a bitch. Anyway, I hope you liked it! Please leave me and Aniki a review!