Swept Away From the Ashes
Chapter Ten: Those who are faithful, those who betray
By: Mishka-chan
A/N: I have decided to give love to my reviewers that have stuck by me! So please accept my thanks and continue to give me reason to work on this monster of a work. By the way this has already surpassed "Given" by almost 10,000 words!
Warnings: YURI LIME! Sasunaru LIME! Oh, and this is important to UNDERSTANDING THE STORY! There is a time skip here. THIS TIME SKIP IS THREE WEEKS!
One thing… this is my first Yuri anything… I am warning you now… It sucks. It is not even in the barest spectrum of good, but since you are yaoi fangirls and boys I will assume that you will not hate me. My yaoi could really use some work as well… you know, not being a master at them like darkalbino (go read her stuff… it is amazing work for one so assumedly young!)
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Ino ravished Sakura's mouth. The rough clink of teeth, and the harsh caresses of passion, throwing Ino into a tailspin. Ino was practically clawing at Sakura's oversized sleeping tunic, trying to rip it off of Sakura's body as quickly as possible. Sakura, slightly more reasonable, simply jerked Ino's up off of her body to expose full breasts and a taut stomach. Her skin flushed with arousal. Ino, finally achieving her mission of ripping the shirt over Sakura's head, groaned with approval at the other girls beauty. Though less busty, there was nothing to want fore. The petite girl was a beautiful flushed shade of pink. Looking up into Sakura's eyes that were hazy with lust, spurred Ino's need on to greater heights. Kissing Sakura roughly she winced as Sakura's one perfectly manicured nails, now turned jagged, sliced into her back unintentionally. Pushing the girl down she molested Sakura's pebbled nipples with her fingers, pinching them gently, just barely enough to hurt. Ino raked her nails down Sakura's sides, stopping at her hips, Ino gripped them sharply. Kissing down to the girl's breasts, she slipped her fingers into Sakura's slit and massaged gently, while taking one her pert nipples into her mouth, and laved it with her tongue. Using her thumb she massaged Sakura's clit while continuing her torture on Sakura's breast.
"Mmm, Ino. Ahh! Come on!" Sakura pushed on Ino's head until she dipped it down to her bellybutton level. Ino took the hint and moved her mouth- and tongue to Sakura's mound. Lapping up the juices that were already soaking her curls, Ino smirked as she felt the girl shiver drastically as she dipped her tongue down to her hole, and tongue fucked her briefly. Ino slid her fingers down to her own mound and began to finger herself, knowing all the right places to go to bring herself to orgasm. Ino used her other hand to thumb Sakura's clit and smiled at her reaction. Taking one long finger she reached into Sakura's entrance to stimulate her cervix. It wasn't long until Sakura bowed up in orgasm, and Ino joined her enthusiastically. Collapsing down in between Sakura's thighs.
"I love you, you know that Sakura." Ino crawled up the bed to the position next to Sakura, and curling into her side she drifted off. "Ino…" Sakura ventured and waited, no response. She waited until the tell-tale facial muscle twitches of the first cycle of REM sleep surfaced, and then extricated her body from Ino's side. Dressing as quickly as possible, she lifted herself up to the windowsill, she knew that she would have to make this quick. Checking to make sure she had the letter she had written ahead of time, after assuring herself of it's safety in her shirt she slid out of the window carefully. Being extremely careful of possible trip wires she walked carefully but quickly through the woods. The path luckily wasn't far from the household she had been stuck in. She expected Itachi to drop out of the sky any second. She had no intention of escaping yet. It would be to detrimental to her current plans. It doesn't take her long to find a soldier; he is probably just a patroller, with no real skills but to blow a whistle. She approached quietly and when the man finally noticed her, she beckoned him closer.
"Sir, can you take this to the council for me, do not read it yourself, just deliver it." After receiving an assuring "Yes'm" from the patroller, she turned back and quickly strode back into the woods, tripping clumsily over a root she stood back up, dusting herself off, and continued on her way back to the house. Pulling herself into the windowsill she thanked her lucky stars that they were so low to the ground.
Nobody knew the difference.
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Itachi was on occasion pompous- but never a fool. So it goes without saying that Sakura did not fool him. He knew she was desperate to escape, he knew that she would do anything to get out, and he knew that anything including screwing Ino so that she could sneak out. He had set up traps a long time ago, and he knew that she would be looking for trip wires, and so they weren't trip wires.
As he went through his early-early morning checking he smiled to himself, it looked like someone had crossed through the trap in grid number five.
"I smell a rat." Itachi sang as he approached the trap, laughing to himself as he saw that it had indeed been tripped. He leaned down to look closer; on the branch nearby he saw exactly what he was looking for. A few strands of pink hair were wrapped around the twig. Anyone else would have missed it, but not Itachi. "And it's pink."
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Sasuke woke to the soft caress of Naruto's lips against his own. Smiling softly he responded, feeling Naruto's lips curl in a smile. Swiping his tongue over Naruto's lips in a leisurely request for entrance that was granted almost immediately. Sasuke turned himself slightly to enter the kiss more comfortably. Taking a deep breath through his nose he followed Naruto as he turned to lie on his back. Finishing the kiss off lazily, he dropped a kiss onto Naruto's cheek.
"Good Morning," Sasuke croaked out good-naturedly. "You should wake me up like that more often."
"Mmm, good morning." Naruto greeted back groggily. Wrapping his arms up and around Sasuke's neck, he pulled him down to his lips. Sasuke complied and continued their early-morning kiss. Naruto parted his legs, and Sasuke moved slightly to lay himself between them, pausing in his kiss as he felt something press against his thigh.
"You're hard." He whispered.
"Mm-hmm." Naruto replied while attempting to pull Sasuke back down for another kiss. Sasuke, once again, complied. He moved his hand from next to Naruto's head to his side, and began to stroke the soft skin there in gentle circles with his thumb. Naruto bucked up against Sasuke as his thigh shifted.
"Let me help you with that." Sasuke whispered as he reached down to the bottom of Naruto's sleep shirt and jerking it form around his thighs to his chest. He kissed the little patch of skin that was shown between his sleeping shirt and his under-shorts. Hooking his fingers under the shorts' band he pulled them off. Naruto gasped as his erection was freed from its' confines and hissed as Sasuke put his hand around it, stroking lazily to bring it to full hardness. He kissed the perfectly shaped thighs and nuzzled them lovingly. Looking up to see Naruto raised up on his elbows, blue eyes hazy, but focused directly on him, and breathing heavily. Sasuke leaned up, brunet bangs just barely brushing Naruto's penis, Naruto shivered slightly. Looking directly into Naruto's eyes, he whispered, "You are absolutely gorgeous," and then lowered his mouth to Naruto's head and kissed gently, then slipped his mouth down over his shaft, as far as he could go. Naruto let out a small somewhat sharp moan, reached down with one hand and swept Sasuke's bangs from in front of his eye. Then Sasuke's head began to bob and Naruto felt his other arm quake with the attempt to keep him up and he fell back when it gave out. He could feel Sasuke's bangs sweep across his thighs and then back off in unison with his head's movements. Sasuke dragged his still unused hand down Naruto's side and over his hips to under his throat and reaching down tentatively he grabbed Naruto's balls and very gently massaged them. Naruto's back bowed up with pleasure and his hips bucked uncontrollably. Sasuke relaxed his throat and allowed Naruto his buck, occasionally pulling back to keep himself from gagging. Naruto moaned, keened, and groaned loudly as Sasuke kept pleasuring him.
"Sasuke, I'm going to- uh- ah! Nggh. I'm going to cum."
"Mm-hmm." Sasuke answered around Naruto his throat vibrations sending Naruto over the edge, and Sasuke sat up and swallowed. Naruto watched his Adam's apple bob in confirmation of the act. Then a clapping came form the door. Sasuke turned sharply to spot Deidara still clapping, his tiny ponytail bobbing with the bounce of his mirth.
"Great show, un! Itachi wants you upstairs for an important meeting."
"What the fuck? You asswipe, get the fuck out of here!" Sasuke screamed, enraged.
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The boy was perplexed when the girl had approached him, but she had asked for him to deliver the package to the council and so he would do it. He handed the package to the first attending council member he came across and left it to him to take care of. It wasn't his business anymore.
Neji, however, had no disillusions of loyalty. He quickly ripped open the package, and read the contents. He smiled knowing that Naruto was safe with the names that were reported on the page, but this girl, this Sakura Haruno, was a problem. If she were trying to contact the council, then things would go badly. He couldn't take the chance that no one had noticed her plans. So he set about creating a plausible diversion.
"An illusion consists of two things, a falsehood, and a plausible diversion." Neji whispered.
He stood gliding to the door. He leaned out to address the guard that stood near his rooms in the Hyuuga household. "You, go get my cousin Hinata, she should be in the temples." The guard was off immediately. He entered his room again and looked at the letter lying on the desk. Grabbing his quill he quickly inked it and began to scribble in the changes to the old edition. Five miles south of the village soon became twenty miles north west of the village. He left the names though, as a deterrent, those names meant danger, serious danger. It also meant that instead of going straight after Naruto-kun they would feel slightly less eager, he changed the landmarks around, and also their positions along the trip. Soon there was a small tap on the wood of his door.
"Come in," he called. The door slid open to expose his younger cousin. "Good morning, Hinata, I was wondering if you could do me a favor."
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"I, Representative Hyuuga, stand to a point of order."
"Representative Hyuuga, the Speaker will hear your request."
"I received a letter this morning, upon opening it, I found it gave exact directions to the area that Uzumaki Naruto is being held along with the daughter of the late Representative Haruno." Neji watched as several of the Representative turned to watch him. "If I may read it?" Neji asked.
"All in favor." Everyone raised his or her hands. All Neji could do was smile.
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Itachi was back in the house before most noticed that he was gone in the first place. Kisame was at the stove, preparing breakfast, and Itachi could hear the clanking of Sasori's workshop, and the quiet 'swish, swish' of Deidara's paintbrush in the living room.
"Deidara, call everyone. That does not include Sakura, tie her to some surface, and ignore anything she says." Deidara cleaned his brush off as he nodded and he laid his brush down on his worktable. "Tell them breakfast will be served in the dining room and that they should be there." Deidara nodded and went over to the hatch, and dropped out of sight into the lower area. It wasn't long before a string of deep-voiced curses flew from down the stairs, and Deidara came up the stair quickly snickering. He saw Itachi and Kisame's stares, smirking he answered their unasked question.
"They were doing the nasty." Deidara sang. Itachi felt his eye twitching sharply.
"Please don't speak like that about my younger brother." Itachi asked, and Deidara, barked out a laugh as he left to find Sasori and Ino.
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"It is clear there is only two choices that can be had. We must either ignore this letter, and pretend it never happened, or we must act." The Speaker of the house acknowledged.
"We must act, we cannot leave this girl to her fate." Representative Maito Gai called out.
"Are you dense, did you hear those names? Akasuna no Sasori, Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Itachi, Hoshigaki Kisame, we can not risk action with such well known warriors, we would be sending our men to their deaths." Representative Nara Shikato pointed out.
"But there is always the mention of the Uzumaki package. There are some things that cannot be found out by other legislatures. If we do not retrieve the boy we will be at risk for other nations to claim that we are a rouge nation. If we act now, we will lose men, but it will not be a war." Representative Mitarashi Anko spoke. There was a long period of silence and then Neji stood from his chair.
"I move that we vote"
"All in favor." Most of the chamber raised their hands.
"All in opposition." Ten lonely hands raised in the air.
"On the resolution of covert operation in order to regain Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto all those in favor of militant action, please raise your hand."
"Seventy-Eight are in favor, leaving Twenty-two in opposition. It is decided by this parliamentarian that we shall pass the resolution of militant action."
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"Good morning everyone." Itachi greeted as they all came in and got settled. Due to a lack of chairs Deidara was sitting on the countertop, Naruto on Sasuke's lap, and Sasori was leaning on the counter next to Deidara. Leaving one seat vacant for Itachi himself. "I will just get to the point." Itachi said leaning on the table heavily with his upper body. "Sakura is a liability, and a dangerous one that harbors ill intentions toward us."
"You have no proof of that." Ino spat out.
"On the contrary, it just so happens that I caught a rat in our traps this last night, of course the rat had left some evidence that it had been there. A few strands of pink hair. Ino-chan, I am sorry, but she is using you."
"She isn't- she-"
"Loves you, Ino-chan? As it is I am willing to simply leave her behind while we make our escape. Were she anyone else, I would eradicate her." Itachi said coldly. "If you want we can leave you with her, your father would be upset with me, but I could arrange it. You can go with a girl that doesn't really love you, or you can stay with people who will not desert you, and who understand you. That girl is a senator's daughter, she has want for nothing, and may I also ask you to acknowledge that she has a fiancé."
"She has what? She doesn't-" Itachi looked at Ino directly, he could see her eyes beginning to water. "She- she would have told me."
"Ino-chan, may I point out that you have known each other for three weeks. That being said, I should hope you spend these last hours before we leave to say goodbye. You may go now, Ino-chan, I know you wish to go back to her." Ino nodded slightly and rose, leaving the room within a matter of seconds.
"All due respect Itachi-san." Kisame whispered. "You should not leave that girl alive."
"When we leave she won't be." Itachi said plainly. "As for where we are going- the answer would be Suna. I know people who can help us there. Along the way, we are going to stop in Kiri. All of you go pack and be ready within the next two hours to leave, when you are done packing bring everything to the living room, and we will discuss how we are going to go about this.
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"Itachi…" Kisame called, tapping on the door.
"Come in." Itachi called, hearing the door open behind him as he set the last few things in his tiny knapsack. Kisame, still unaccustomed to being allowed into Itachi's room, briefly looked around the room to see what had changed since his last visit here a week ago. Truth be told, there wasn't much to change. Kisame noted that the bed was still impeccably made and the pictures of Sasuke still sat, lonely, on the dresser. Kisame watched as Itachi packed his pictures of Sasuke in the knapsack, wrapped carefully, lovingly in his clothing. "What is it Kisame?" he asked tightening his bag to close it up. When no answer was forth coming, he turned to look at Kisame. "Is something wrong?" Itachi asked in a voice that told Kisame that if there was something wrong it wasn't his fault.
"Not precisely, just checking to see how close you were to done." Kisame informed him. "She is feeling a bit better.
"I'm glad." Itachi sat on the bed, the perfect visage destroyed by his body displacing the coverlet. " I don't want to Kisame, but I have to."
"I know Kisame whispered.
"Do you think I'm a horrible person for doing this to Ino? I mea. Fighting so hard for someone my brother loved, but throwing away someone Ino loves, does that reflect on my character." Itachi's head was down as if in shame of his hypocrisy.
"No. There are those who are faithful and there are those who betray. Sasuke has found someone who is faithful beyond all belief, and Ino has found a fraud, who pretends to love, but really doesn't care at all. There is such a thing as too faithful." Itachi looked up all dark eyes, with dark circles underneath, all practiced killer hidden beneath a veneer of silk.
"I'm afraid you are in those select few. The few who are too faithful to those who don't deserve it." Itachi chuckled, his hair falling from behind his shoulders to in front of his face. A small smile, that made him look so much younger, and Kisame was shocked to remember that Itachi wasn't that old at all. Sasuke was seventeen now, making Itachi barely twenty-two, a child to most people.
"I believe you deserve it, Itachi. I believe you deserve everything I can give you." Kisame answered, fervently, feeling a foolish desire to protect his child, this child that isn't a child at all. This child that is fully capable of protecting himself.
"Too good to me Kisame." Itachi said, looking up at Kisame, Kisame once again discovering that Itachi's eyes weren't pure black, but a deep dark red. Once again, Kisame was struck by Itachi's beauty, the Uchiha were a beautiful family. All petite, slender, pale beauties.
"There is no such thing." Kisame said simply. Suddenly a crash alerted them to the living area of the cabin.
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The signal was thrown to the left and the right. The sudden adrenaline rushing through your body makes you shudder. Eyes wide and alert in the dim light. Two fingers at the ready and swiped forward, the signal for invasion as the door was busted down. The first officers enter. I hear the sporadic calls of "Clear" ringing out through the doorway.
"Tear the place apart." The commanding officer shouts, and suddenly we all rush in and begin to check every possible hidden area. An hour later the call comes out.
"There is no one here, sir."
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Everyone was in the living area when Itachi got there. His bag slung over his should and secured safely, high above his belt where four swords rested carefully. Surveying the room he began to take check in his mind the list of everything they would need. Sasuke and Naruto sat beside each other on the floor, Naruto with his head on Sasuke's shoulder laughing about something, and Sasuke smiling at Naruto's reaction. Next to them Iruka and Kakashi stood arguing over who would carry what.
"I'm perfectly capable!"
"Come on, sensei- let me carry it for you."
Beside them Ino stood awkwardly looking everywhere but at the girl sitting at Sasori's feet.
Sasori sat with Deidara at his side, Deidara's art requirements packed carefully away. Sasori sat with his medical kit at his side ready to be hooked onto his bag. When he saw Itachi he quickly attached the two together, and tossed the bag over his back. Sakura glared up at him from the floor- eyes full of malice. He simply smiled in her direction.
"Okay, I take it that everyone is ready to go. Kisame, lead them in the direction we spoke of earlier. I'll catch up. I need to close things up here and let Sakura free. Naruto. I trust you know how to use one of these." Itachi announced as he detached one of his swords from his waist.
"I may be a little rusty- but I think I remember the basic idea." Naruto said as he stood and received the sword from Itachi.
Everyone quickly clambered up and out of the household and Itachi went towards the infirmary to Sasori and Deidara's room. He checked everywhere to make sure there were no plans left behind by accident. Finding one of Sasori's weapon plans he took the scroll under his arm and carried it with him as he checked for anything else. His own room, he searched over once more. Kisame's he scoured for any possible mistake that they may have made, any connection to lead anyone coming her to where they now were. Sasuke's room was completely devoid of anything incrimination and he carried everything he knew they would want, but couldn't take and it went into a secret room that he easily sealed with mud to where you wouldn't know where it was if you had no prior knowledge of the room. Ino's room he checked more thoroughly than any other. Not because he didn't trust her, but because she was not a soldier and therefore did not know what they were looking for, and also because the little pink rat had been in there. Anything he found with possible incriminatory messages he burned, regardless of what it was written on. He checked the ashes quickly, but thoroughly- and upon reassurance that they were clean of evidence he rose form his previous position and walked to where he knew Sakura to be.
"Hello, Sakura-chan." Itachi said amiably.
"Don't call me 'chan', I have no endearment to you!" Sakura spat out, her voice filled with perfect loathing. If he didn't know better he would say she disliked him slightly- ah, the greatness of understatement- regardless he needed to get rid of her quickly.
"Well, Sakura-san then. Do me a favor and cooperate, I promise this will be easier if you do."
"How dare you, the brother-in-law of that whore, say that I should cooperate with you?"
"Please do not speak badly of Naruto-kun, I am quite fond of him." Sakura struggled to her feet, an only stood a full head shorter than him-, which wasn't saying much, and the Uchiha clan had always been very tiny in stature.
"Well, I could say something about your fag of a brother. Itachi glanced calmly in Sakura's direction.
"Sakura-san, I believe that you are a person of some moral worth, and therefore deserve a clean death- so it would serve you well to shut your impudent mouth before I cut your tongue out of it! I told you your cooperation would be appreciated and if you refuse to give it to me I will take your pretty head off of your body and leave a gruesome picture for your family."
"You intend to kill me. You intended to so all along!" Sakura screamed, backing away from Itachi- realizing now that he did indeed hold her fate in his hands.
"And so you figure me out. Itachi chuckled, shrugging slightly. "No matter, you would've figured it out quickly enough as it was."
"You told Ino-"
"That I would let you live. Yes, I did. I lied. I couldn't hurt her like that- likewise I cannot let you live. I hope you don't think too little of me, Sakura-chan."
"What- what have I done to deserve death?"
"Don't tell me you don't remember last nights little venture to the road? You know the one where you tripped on that root and left me that little strand of your hair Sakura-chan." Itachi said softly and Sakura's eyes widened in fear- he knew. "Thing about your hair Sakura-chan- it's pink- a very unique color, as for me I've never met anyone with it- even your parents don't have that particular genetic strain, so if you want to die in at least a dignified manner- I suggest you do as I tell you." Sakura turned and ran to the door only when there she realizes that she couldn't open the door. Itachi reached forward and opened the door for her, and she immediately bolted once again, and she tripped, smashing harshly into the ground. "Stand up, Sakura. Itachi said coldly. "Get the fuck off the ground- whore!" When she didn't move Itachi reached down, and taking a handful of pink hair, yanked her to her feet. "Walk." He spat icily. She took a careful step forward. Her knees scraped form the brutalizing fall. He threw her forward and she once again took off in the supposed direction of the road. Itachi simply followed calmly and watched as she fell again on the same root that was the demise of her plan. He once again dragged her to her knees and positioning here where her neck was held high. "It will be my greatest pleasure to slice that pretty head off. This is for hurting Ino, you lying bitch!" Itachi's sword arched high and came down quickly, chopping into her neck, Sakura's attempt at dodging only disconnected Itachi's slice and prevented it form severing her head, and simply sliced her throat. Itachi assumed that it would do him no good to actually waste too much energy on her. So he left her like that and headed to the place where they were supposed to meet up.
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Sasuke heard the initial scream of Sakura; he had been near the back of the group covering up their tracks. He found that he was glad that Ino was near the front and didn't have perfected hearing. He watched as Naruto spoke to Deidara like old friends and was inexplicably happy tat he had saved at least Naruto from that hell. At the same time he felt sorry for Ino, a feeling he couldn't shake. He trotted up to Kisame's side, deciding that maybe he could distract himself with some well placed teasing.
"Hey Kisame, have you ever noticed that Itachi has the tightest ass." Kisame blushed crimson. "I'll take that as a 'yes, Sasuke, I do check out your brother." Kisame sputtered embarrassedly.
"I do not like Itachi!"
"I never said anything about liking him- but if you say so."
"Stop messing around with me! You know I don't have a crush on him!"
"A crush on who, Kisame?" A smooth voice asked from behind him.
"Oh, hello Aniki, you got back fast."
"I ran, you guys aren't moving very fast."
"That's because there is somewhere we can stop ahead- assuring that we are moving, but apparently it would be hard to find us- or so Deidara has said."
"I see- so once again, who does Kisame have a crush on?" Sasuke smiled the crooked grin of the cat that just ate the canary.
"Yo-" Before Sasuke could even finish the word; Naruto had tackled him from behind and clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Don't tell other people's asshole!" Naruto screeched defiantly. Itachi shrugged and walked up ahead to speak to Sasori, Kisame's eyes never leaving his figure. "The Uchiha's are a pretty breed though." Naruto confessed when Itachi was out of presumed earshot. "All of them- except for your dad Sasuke- your dad was not a pretty man, but he did make pretty boys." Kisame nodded acknowledging Naruto's words as true. Sasuke shrugged- announcing loudly:
"I'll leave you ladies to your girl talk." He jogged up to Deidara's side and struck up a conversation with him and Ino.
"So when did you know?"
"Know what?" Kisame asked avoiding what he knew Naruto was referring to.
"When did you know that you were in love with him?"
"L-love? Who said anything about love?"
"I can tell by the way you look at him. It's the same way Iruka-sensei looks at Kakashi- the same way Deidara looks at Sasori- and I'm pretty sure it's the same way I look at Sasuke."
"I suppose it started not long after I met him. We met about two years ago- I remember the first day I met him I couldn't stand him, but there was something so compelling about him." Naruto nodded. "It's really quite a long story, I don't want to bore you."
"We have a longer trip." Naruto said simply.
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A/N: Please review. I am sorry for the late update.