Water!
Sasuke woke up next morning only to see Sakura sleeping next to Dai. He felt extremely irked at that. Just how, when? Who did that guy think he was to have her be so familiar with him when she didn't remember anything?
And if he could do this, why couldn't Sasuke himself do it, too? After all, he was sure for one thing: he did have a past with Sakura.
Looking around him, he rubbed his eyes and let out a silent yawn. Nao wasn't by his side and he wondered for a moment where she had gone but dropped it as soon. He frankly couldn't bring himself to give a damn about his fiance'. The person that had captured his interest was lying peacefully some meters away and Sasuke didn't like what he saw.
If stares could burn holes into flesh, then Dai would have been dead by now, and if not not dead, at least pierced deeply and heavily. He had his back turned to Sasuke and Sakura was lying with her back almost attached to Dai's chest.
Dai seemed to be half awake, because he sneaked up an arm around Sakura's shoulder, dragging her softly close to him.
Sakura was still asleep but still groaned in reply. Dai smirked, of course Sasuke couldn't see that but he didn't need to. He already wanted to kill the guy.
He watched with mouth agape, as Dai moved even closer to Sakura, bringing his lips to brush softly against her ear shell, as he whispered something the raven couldn't grasp from the distance.
Even if he couldn't hear what the sinful words were, he could see how Sakura pressed herself softly against Dai's chest as if in response, rubbing the back of her head playfully against his neck.
Ok, what the damn.
If Sasuke was angry before, now he was fuming. No, fuming was an understatement. He was like a volcano the second just before its eruption.
Getting softly but with determination on his feet, he searched with something with his eyes that could seem useful to him, anything. His glance kept swimming around crazily, till it came to a sudden halt on a worn out bucket thing some feet away from his tent.
He smirked satisfied. Only if he wasnt so angry right now, he could spend hours planning his little revenge just to make it perfect. But he was, and he didn't have time to fool around. The volcano eruption threatened to start off any moment soon.
He walked determined towards the bucket, taking it in his own two hands. It was old and rusty, probably a wreck piece of the plane molded into a bowl shape of thing to serve as what it could be most useful at: put water in it.
Smirking evilly, he walked with quick steps towards the sea and dove the small bucket in the waters, making sure to not pull it out till it was filled up to the top with salty sea water.
When the amount was just right, he couldn't help the soft chuckle that escaped his throat, as he felt his revenge getting close. He picked himself up on his feet and made his way like a ninja on a mission, carrying the bucket between his hands warily.
He softened his steps more the closer he got. The sand was drawning any sounds his feet made. The only thing he had to be careful about was his evil chuckles that were threatening to escape his lips every now and then. If only he wasn't so angry it'd be easier to control himself.
He managed to set foot just some inches away behind Dai's back, said person not having caught a thing and even if he had, it was too late to do anything, which reminded Sasuke he had to keep in control the maniacal laughter threatening his lips.
For a moment he almost felt like a jackass for doing what he was about to do but any regrets vanished on the spot when his eyes ran over the two love birds again, noticing how Dai had burried his head into Sakura's hair. AND SAKURA WAS ALLOWING IT! Well, she was asleep, so it didn't count. But that's exactly why he was planning to wake her up.
Lifting the bucket painfully slow in his hands, he hovered it above their two heads, making sure the splash's range would get them both covered. He didn't want any complains for being unfair. The two lovebirds deserved equal credits to their morning shower.
Taking a deep breath, he leaned his hands slight downwards, forcing the bucket to lean to the edge where the water was just an inch from falling out.
Releasing that breath he didn't know he had been holding, the cold salty content poured onto the lying people, soaking all their torso area and heads.
Sakura let out a tiny scream, shocked and soaked to the bone, as she jumped up from her spot, fully awake now.
Dai on the other hand immitated her, glancing around him like a deer caught in headlights, but let out no words.
Upon recovering the initial shock, the two people started slapping the water drops away from them and took deep breaths. Then, as if they had been programmed to have the exact same reactions, their glances pinned on Sasuke's form, said person, throwing the bucket away, an evil smirk gracing his fine soft lips.
''Good morning.''
Dai was the first to snap out, his whole forming catching on fire….fire of anger. The one Sasuke had before? Yeah, ten times worse.
''Just what the hell is your problem, asshole?'' he yelled, causing Clair some meters away to half open her eyes in slumber.
Sasuke's smirk only got wider.
''Stop being such a lazy bum. We had planned to wake up early today to search for water, you dumbass, but apparently you were too busy satisfying your hormones with the blanked out chick next to you.'' Sasuke said, trying to come out as sarcastic as he could.
Dai only looked at him wide eyed, thinking he had lost it.
''First of all, I wasn't satisfying my ''hormones.'' Secondly, we weren't the only ones sleeping. Just what the hell, man?'' he shouted in a loud tone now, earning annoyed glares from Nicole and her boyfriend who were forced to wake up by the commotion near them.
''Sasuke turned around to glance at the newly awake couple then back to Dai with an ironic smirk gracing his lips.
''Well, it appears you woke them up yourself. Don't you think it was worth waking you up first, after all?'' he came back, rather annoying wittily, his onyx orbs glaring daggers on Dai's still shocked and filled with fury eyes.
''You're so going down, man.'' He spitted under his breath menancingly as he covered the small distance separating them and grabbed Sasuke by his colar, his face close to his.
He shook him violently, readening his fists to punch him but then Sakura who had been too startled to talk all this time ran and got in the middle, pushing Dai away from Sasuke.
Dai's grip was forced cut and he stepped a small distance away, looking at Sakura not understandingly.
Sakura gave Dai a reassuring nod. Boy, could he tell she was scary when she was angry. Even Sasuke was eying her warily.
She swallowed deeply, then took a deep breath as she stood in front of Sasuke, just a few inches away from him.
Sasuke cocked a brow at her, as if mocking her. He might feel intimidated by her fury but he knew better than let it show. Unlike Dai, he stood his ground when chicks man handed him like that.
Sakura's angry death glare threatened to burn his own coal orbs, as she had pinned it on him determined, just like she had pinned her feet in the sand in fury.
A tensed silence was in the air and Sasuke could even feel the glares of the awoken couple in his back, curiously, as his senses seemed to perk up in the total lack of noise.
Sakura was struggling to find the most effective words to say, but she couldn't. She wanted to say so much, she wanted to choke him even. But her throat was sore, and a burden was weighing in her heart making it heavy. With a hint of bitterness she realised she felt more hurt than angry about what Sasuke had just done to her. Oh, but boy if she let it show.
She pushed back the tears threatening her eyes with all the emotional strength she could gather, and fixed a determined yet mad glare on Sasuke as she walked even closer to him.
Sasuke unconsciously took a step back. Realizing this in a flash and regretting for his weakness on the spot, he made up for it by looking back at Sakura with new determination, as if there was nothing that could scare him in the slightest.
It was almost like a stare competition.
Sakura's breath almost mixed into his own, as she looked from down on him, him being taller than her for some inches.
She suddenly calmed her glance down and looked at him, almost as if her anger had vanished.
She crossed her hands on her chest and shook her head disapprovingly.
Sasuke looked at her weird, ready to speak as he wished to break this awkward scene the soonest possible.
But instead no words came out. Cause Sakura's fist came faster than sound, heck what sound,…faster than Sasuke's thoughts themselves. Or hers for that part, as the action was rather impulsive.
Her fist collided with his jaw, making him stumble back and fall on his bottom rather clumsily.
The pained expression on his face was enough to show her the impact of her punch's strength and she would almost feel sorry for him if she wasn't so mad right now.
She kept any accompanying screams deeply in the back of her throat. Leaving it just like that seemed cooler, after all. She didn't need to come out as the hysterical pmsing chick that starts yelling at anything and anyone that pisses her off like a broken alarm.
She fixed her wet shirt on her, thanking god her face was already wet and thus they could never say if she had tears on her face, in case she did. Because…fuck they felt so close right now, and that punch instead of easing it up for her it made her feel even more tensed.
Sasuke was still looking her dumb founded, still shocked from her sudden attack. He rubbed his jaw softly, his confused orbs never leaving her green gems.
But still he had a smug expression on his handsome face about it, as if he was shrugging it off as nothing serious, probably because he had deserved it. But still!
That bastard, how dare he act all so arrogant!
''Good job, hun.'' Dai cheered behind her, and she could almost hear the satisfied chuckle in his voice.
Oh to hell with the both of you. I am out of here. She thought and before she lost her sanity completely, she broke the staring contest with Sasuke and stomped off to the forest, anger still emanating dangerously from her aura.
But her rather abrupt leave made her whole movement seem as if she was running away.
Because in fact , she was. She wanted to go deep into the forest and scream to whatever God she knew to let out all the pain and confusion she was receiving ever after her first moment on that cursed island.
Just why did God hate her so much? What had she ever done to that Sasuke-jerk? Why was he hating her so much? And what had she done to deserve a pressive assaulter like Dai by her side? Because now that her clarity had returned, she realized that it was Dai's hands and voice she felt in her sleep. She was half asleep and at the time she just thought it was a dream but now that her mind was fully awake, she thought differently, remembering back at what Sasuke-bastard had said about Dai satisfying his hormones with her.
Fuck.
She ran inside the woods and stopped only after some minutes, kneeling on the ground and shoving her fingers in the soft soil.
''I hate you…I hate you…I hate you…I hate me for not knowing who I am… I hate me because I shouldn't have to be going through this…I hate me, it is all my fault…all my fault…''she whispered, her green glossy eyes pinned on the brown earth under her, as she let her tears roll and fall down on the small plants.
Up at this point, she thought she'd go crazy because it wasn't enough that they had told her who she was. Because for one they both seemed assholes, how c ould she trust them? And secondly, it just didn't feel enough. Not until she remembered things herself.
She heard soft steps approaching, and she immediately snapped out, ready to punch the hell out of those jerks dared they to have followed her.
''Dai, I thought it was clear I need to stay alone…''her phrase stopped abruptly, when she turned around to see the person for who they were.
It was Nicole. Well, now, that was unexpected. The girl cracked a shy smile to her and walked closer, her kind eyes reassuring Sakura everything was okay.
''Don't worry about Dai. He won't follow you. I stopped him right when he was about to do it, telling him he needed to leave you alone. I thought I'd come find you, instead. You know…it's not safe wandering alone in those woods.'' Nicole whispered awkwardly, eyeing Sakura as if she was afraid the pinkette would throw a punch at her if she went over the limits, unknowingly.
Instead, Sakura let out the heavy sigh she had been holding and closed the distance between them, looking at Nicole with her true emotions for once. Broken.
Well, at least, she was better than Dai and Sasuke. So who cared? As long as those liars weren't anywhere near her.
She threw her head on the girl's shoulder and let her tears roll down, as her sobs echoed in the silence.
Nicole tensed up at first, then eased down and relaxed in Sakura's contact, as she circled her arms around the pinkette, tapping her sympathetically on the back.
''It's okay.'' She whispered to comfort a crying Sakura, resting her head on top of hers.
After some brief but honest moments, the two women made their way back to the shore, both silently dwelling into the formation of a new friendship. Sakura was grateful.
The survivors had a plan. And that was go deep and around the island, searching for a source of drinkable water. Nao insisted that there had to be one of the sort somewhere in that island.
Sasuke had made the route, saying how they would need to leave signs behind to mark their route so as to not get lost.
They had set foot from the shore and had been walking around in vain for 3 hours till Nao finally squealed when she spotted a lake with a small waterfall hovering over it and down some sharp green dressed cliffs on the side of the round lake.
It wasn't really big, it was just some meters in width and length, though it wasn't actually small either. Sakura had refused to walk close to Sasuke and his girlfriend, so she ended up walking hand in hand with Dai. No, don't get the wrong ideas about it, she was just scared in those big wild woods and a woman had to protect herself, right? Right.
So, she ended up hanging on Dai for dear life in every small sound that snapped her out of her slumber. Cause god knew it was noon and the sun was still up and it was hot and wet as ever in the forest. The shadows of the trees did little to nothing to protect them from the sun's rays as they somehow managed to peer into the forest and stay trapped in it, either way.
But sadly, and as expected, Dai had taken the wrong idea about her and was getting more physical with her at times. For example, when she tripped over a root of a thick tree, Dai held her waist to prevent her from falling and even when she had regained her balance, he lingered his hands for more than needed. Like a lot more than needed, until Sakura finally got impatient and shoved his hands kindly away.
She was surprised that moron wasn't afraid of her snapping out and punching him like a first class boxer as she had done with Sasuke this morning. Dai must really have thought that she had believed most of what he had told her blindly. But allas, she wasn't that type of girl, she wasn't that naive and even if she had done her best to show him that she didn't trust him, it was just never enough. That guy was glued on her like a damned sticker. She was getting more creeped out and angered as time passed. If it wasn't for her fear of the woods and insects lying around, each and every one being a possible life threat in her eyes, she would have shoved him away a long time ago.
Back to the present, they had found the precious water source in the woods and the good thing was that it wasn't even that far from their post at the shore, as Sasuke managed to figure out ,making some brief calculations.
They had been walking around it before and had missed to see it. Talk about idiots, Sakura snorted inside her.
Nicole's boyfriend had tested the water, taking some in his palm and licking it. It seemed to be drinkable. Soon every one did the same, more gutsy now. Yes, it was drinkable, Sakura, realised, and it felt like heaven too, after all that heat and sweat she had endured during their walk there. She made a quick note to sneak secretly back to it somehow, when the others would be busy doing other things, to get a good fresh bath for her melting body.
Not that it was the naked alone part that would annoy her but she vaguely wondered if they would allow themselves to bath in the lake, since it would be the point one for them to get their water from. Yeah, didn't sound as likely. Yet, she couldn't manage to care.
After all she had been through, she deserved to get a good bath for herself and if others never found out, the water would always taste the same fine to them…
She mentally sneered in delight at her evil thoughts as she bended over at the edge of the lake.
They all took out their bottles and filled them to the top with the water.
The route back was as long, even if this time they knew what to follow and where to step. But bitch PMS Nao was apparently on her first day of period and was making everyone go secretly mad at her frequent rude snaps at Sasuke or anyone who dared to talk to her or even look at her the wrong way.
Seems like it wasn't just Sasuke who deserved a nice well clear punch on their face, Sakura thought, annoyed from the loud yells torturing her ears and causing her migraine to get bigger…No bigger was an understatement, it was huge.
Dai next to her was mentally screeching as well, often frowning at Nao's loud voice. Sasuke putting up with it didn't particularly help in silencing her up. Or maybe it did. He knew her better either way to know what attitude to hold to annoy her the less possible.
They arrived at the sea shore exhausted as hell. The sky had already darkened and the sun had just finished setting behind the oceanic horizon a while ago. They took out some fish from the other day and put them over the fire. They sucked but Sakura ate it either way, she was too hungry for whims.
After dinner, there was no one still standing, exhaustion catching up to them as they all had made it for their tents, drifting off to dream land.
R&R, please!
Done with another chapter! Please, don't hate on me for it being boring. I know this fic is not interesting at all in its majority and most of the chapters lack real romance but I promise to make up for it in the next chapters! It's just gonna be a long way so please bear with me! It's just the nature of this fic. I wanted to make one where I didn't straight off jump into rosy and easy romance. I wanted to make it a bit angsty. The fic isn't catergorized as angst because of how things will get on later, though rating may change!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, don't they say? Heh, here it's the opposite?