I'm back with chapter 10. I'll tell you now, Ive taken an extreme turn in where I was going orginally with this story. Most importantly I can tell you that the plot is thickening, especially at the end of this chapter.So enjoy!

What we left behind

Chapter 10

"Sas...SASUKE!?" Sakura screams, "What are you doing here!?"

"I should be the one asking you that," Sasuke replies coolly, "What are you doing in my house?"

"Your house!? I..." Sakura says, faltering as she remembers she's in the bath, "Ugh, you pervert!"

"It's not perversion if it's in my own house," Sasuke argues. Kireichi sat with her head resting on her palms, bored. Suddenly Sigfried's voice sounds from out in the hall.

"Young master, it is not proper for a man to walk in on a lady's bath," He says.

"I don't care," Sasuke says, "She's an intruder and I want her out."

"No way!" Sakura protests.

"Listen, Sakura," Sasuke persists, "Get out now or I'll drag you out by that ugly pink hair of yours." Sakura stubbornly shakes her head.

"No, I'm not getting out of this tub so long as you're looking!"

"Why?" Sasuke muses, "It's not like its anything I haven't seen before." Sakura sunk back into the tub at the comment. Unfortunately, after being ignored, that comment was the last straw.

"GET THE HELL OUT!" Kireichi says forcefully pushing Sasuke out the door. And with her super human strength, she did it with ease.

"Wait until she's decent, then she'll get out, jeez!" Kireichi continues as she slams the door in his face. Sasuke was about to yell through the door, but Sigfried stopped him.

"You know nothing about women," Sigfried sighs. "I know what's important," Sasuke defends.

"Knowing how to make a women moan or scream your name, is NOT important," Sigfried scolds, "Females have their own unwritten rules that you must follow. One of which is you do NOT invade their privacy, especially when they are exposed."

"Why are you telling me this?" Sasuke says annoyed. Sigfried sighs once more. "Did you not say that she wasn't something you hadn't seen before?" He explains, "With that alone, I have reason to believe that you were attracted to her at one point or another, enough to..."

"She was drunk," Sasuke interrupts," Even I was drunk, there's no 'attraction' in that." Sigfried gave a sympathetic smile, one that irritated Sasuke to no end.

"I'd be careful if I was you," Sigfried continues, "The young miss seems to have taken a liking to this lady... to which you have no attraction... I'll tell you now, that females travel in packs. However I have the feeling that the little miss has been a lone wolf all her life. That's probably why she defends that woman so fiercely. In a way, she reminds me of you when you were a young boy. She's determined to a point, which neither of us can understand. And even against you, she'll protect her first chance at being noticed."

"She wouldn't dare go against me," Sasuke protests, "I'm her chance at survival."

"Ah," Sigfried muses, "but in the end, which is better. To live without anything...or to die, with everything."

"She WON'T go against me," Sasuke firmly states, ignoring the last comment.

"Indeed, you don't know women at all," Sigfried ends before walking away. Sasuke was annoyed, yet he couldn't quite figure out why, so he just pointed it at what was in the bathroom currently.

"You better be dressed, because I'm coming back in," Sasuke bluntly states before opening the door. Kireichi was sitting back in the chair and Sakura was on the edge of the tub in a robe.

"Where are your clothes?" Sasuke demands, obviously not pleased with Sakura in one of his families' robes. Little did he know that both girls had heard every word spoken by him and Sigfried in the hall. Kireichi was positively irritated at Sigfried being able to read her so well, while Sakura was deep in thought about what Sasuke had said.

"Sigfried was washing her clothes," Kireichi said finally.

"We're they that dirty?" Sasuke asks cruelly, "I guess no one knows how many men have touched them." That immediately set Sakura back into her fighting mode.

"I'm more pure than you!" Sakura argues, "One slut is obviously not enough for the great Uchiha Sasuke!"

"You two know each other?" Kireichi interrupts, not really caring.

"Know each other? Kireichi, this man...I...he...this ASS is...,"Sakura tries to get out.

"Who said you could call my servant by her name?" Sasuke asks otherwise.

"Your wha..."

"Who the hell said I was your servant?!" Kireichi interrupts once more.

"Kireichi, why didn't you tell me that HE," Sakura says pointing, "Was your employer?"

"You mean Master," Sasuke corrects.

"Like hell!" Kireichi stubbornly says to Sasuke first.

"If I had known it was HIM, I wouldn't have made you go through the trouble," Sakura continues.

"I'm sorry!" Kireichi screams, "How was I supposed to know that you knew each other, and even worse, THAT YOU HATED EACHOTHER!"

"What exactly were you thinking bringing a stranger here, seeing as some of the fault lies with you, servant?" Sasuke demands out of Kireichi.

"You think I give a damn!? And I have a name, IM NOT YOUR SERVANT!"

"Your foul language better not catch on to my children," Sasuke says, now ignoring Sakura. The pressure seemed to build within her as Sasuke and Kireichi continuously argue.

"I...I HOPE YOUR CHILDREN DON'T EVEN LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BE BORN!" Sakura yells with tears in her eyes. The outburst had silenced both Kireichi and Sasuke. Sakura took it as her chance and pushed past Sasuke out into the hall, running blindly.

"I just want to go home," Sakura sobs, "I just want to go home to Maro." Somehow, she was able to find her way to the front door. She opened it roughly, not bothering to close it after she ran out.

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"Your an ass, did you know that?" Kireichi says to Sasuke as she pushes past him herself.

"She shouldn't have been here in the first place," Sasuke retorts," What were you thinking?"

"She was out in the rain, upset by her fiancé, plus she was crying! What was I supposed to do?" Kireichi asks, glaring.

"You are supposed to leave her to solve her own problems. Caring is a weakness, I thought you wanted to be stronger." Kireichi hesitated once he said it. She herself had learned caring was indeed a weakness.

"What will you do?" She says simply. This time Sasuke hesitated, riddled with confusion.

"What will you do when you do have a kid?" Kireichi clarifies, raising her voice," When they cry at night because of nightmares, will you just leave them? When they are upset that you only come home every so often, will you just ignore them? When they kill themselves because they find their existence meaningless to you, will you just pass it off as a flaw? After all, kids are replaceable, right?"

"I don't see what..."

"Its a father like you, I hoped I never had," Kireichi interrupts, "If I had a father, He'd actually care for me. He'd care when I cry and he'd care when I'm upset, but most of all, he'd protect me himself, NOT hire some random orphan that reminds him of himself to do it!" With that Kireichi ran away herself, back to her room.

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Here she was again, back in the rain right outside her house. It was like the trip to Sasuke's was only a bad dream. The only proof of it was the robe she still wore. "Why do I feel so miserable," Sakura says to herself," I should be happy, I'm getting married. I'm going to have a family."

"it feels more like your shackled to him" Kireichi's word repeated in her mind.

"I'm repaying him," Sakura tries to convince herself, "I have to..." The more she seemed to say it, the more it seemed to not be true.

"No...I'm done repaying him," Sakura says determined. Could she do it though? Could she really break off her engagement with Maro after almost a year? She was going to try. She didn't love him, her heart was not in it. She had tried, but it's as if her heart was missing. As if it was left with someone a long time ago.

"It needs to be done," She finally told herself," I refuse to live a lie."

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Kireichi had made it back to her room, and immediately began packing what little she had. If Sasuke wanted kids, he could take care of them himself.

"I'm not going to be his stand in. I don't want to see the heartbreak of children who are nothing to their father. It's worse than being fatherless," Kireichi tells herself.

"I couldn't agree with you more, little miss," Sigfried's voice came from the doorway. Kireichi didn't even bother to look at him.

"Was he always like this?" Kireichi finds herself asking.

"No. He was more caring before the massacre." Kireichi stopped to look at him.

"Massacre?"

"Yes," Sigfried continues, "The master's entire clan was murdered by his own brother. Since then, he's found it his purpose to hunt down and kill his brother. As the next in line to the clan, it is also his responsibility to revive the clan. You must forgive him that he cannot put much thought into it. He knows he needs an heir, but he's too blinded by revenge to know what that entitles. Do you understand?"

"I guess..." Kireichi says quietly.

"Well then, before you leave I can promise you that I will try my hardest to get master Sasuke to understand."

"I thought you said it wasn't wise to call him by his first name," Kireichi says grabbing the rest of her stuff.

"The way he's acting now, do you think he's even worthy of an honorable title?" Sigfried asks in return. Kireichi smirks.

"No, I guess your right," She says.

"That's what I thought. Now, may I be so kind as to escort you to the door?" Sigfried offers.

"That'd be nice."

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It was odd how quiet it was as Sakura entered the house. The only noise she heard was faint mumbling coming from upstairs. She assumed it's where Maro was. If he was with another girl, she frankly didn't care anymore. She'd barge in anyways to resign her place as his fiancé. However, as she got closer she realized that there were two male voices. One was Maro, another she didn't know.

"What's going on? Who's he talking to," Sakura says creeping closer to the room it was coming from. The door was opened slightly allowing a little light to spill out.

"Not much longer," She heard Maro say, "She'll give in soon."

"She?" Sakura thought. Were they talking about her?

"I hope you are correct, Maro. We expect a son within the next year," The other voice spoke. Sakura tried to maneuver so that she could see the other man. She was surprised when she caught a glimpse through the door's opening.

"The sound ninja from the hotel!" Sakura thought confused. Suddenly, it pieced together. Maro hadn't saved her bravely back when she was attacked. He had been on their side.

"You'll have your son, one strong enough to inhabit the spirit of Orochimaru-sama," Maro says in reassurance.

"We better. We cannot leave Orochimaru-sama in the spirit world forever." Sakura backed up out of shock. They were using her, Tsunade's apprentice, to create a new body for Orochimaru. She suddenly found herself in a more dangerous game than before.

"If you fail," Sakura hears the sound ninja say, "We'll have to resort to the lost Uchiha child and wait until she matures." It was like a smack in the face to Sakura.

"My, my daughter's in danger," Sakura thought, "I'm in danger!" Before she knew it, Sakura was racing down the stairs. She had to get away from here. Just as she made it to the front door, she ran into something.

"I'm so sorry you had to hear all of that, Sakura," Maro says gripping Sakura's arm, "But I'm afraid I can't let you go now. For some reason, only one betrayed thought ran through her mind.

"Sasuke...Did you know?"

What'd you think? The story's going to get more dramatic from now on. Read/Review. I'll try to update as soon as possible!

-Iya Kari