It was dawn! Sakura didn't manage to get enough sleep, she was too worried, but why? she called the duel. She challenged madara to this battle. Sakura stood in the almost dark forest on the clearing where they had arranged to fight, this was the perfect spot and time she thought-the clearing is isolated from the village they were staying and a good distance from it too, also, dusk was the best time as they knew people would be heading into the village before it gets too dark to travel.

her white getup lowly blowing in the light breeze that blew by. She was sweating cold sweat, too little for the naked eye to see but she could feel the moisture on her face. There he was, madara, standing right in front of her poised and seemingly confident. His face gave away nothing, he had no emotions. sasuke, Karin and itachi all stand at the lower circumference of the clearing-karin eagerly awating the fight to see sakura get pummeled.

"ready?" madara broke the silence with a question. sakura knew he could sense her hesitancy but she refused to let him get the better oh her.

"hai!" she yelled vibrantly. she was ready.

A smile curled on karin's face as she saw the fight was about to begin.

madara and sakura nod at each other, then they bend to bow. And…they…were…off!

sakura begins defensively by an aerial jump backwards while madara had not even flinched in the centre of the clearing, why would he? he had one of the most kekkei genkai. Sakura rapidly reaches into the pouch to grab kunais, and without hesitating she hurls the kunais at madara. Madara didn't flinch at sakura attack, he stood in the center watching the kunais coming right for him, as soon as sakura's kunais were near his body madara quickly summoned his susanoo with its armor to block the knives. shit! how am I going to get around that? sakura thought to herself. She had seen sasuke's susanoo in action and knew of its great power.

"its no use child," madara begins to speak, "you can never win." with his last statement undid his purple susanoo and vanished into thin air.

sakura begins to panic! w-where'd he go? before she could blink madara appears behind her and raises his foot to the right side of her abdomen. Sakura was kicked to the other end of the clearing, she could hear her ribs crack as his feet connected with her abdomen. Sakura crashes onto a large tree, denting it. "oh…" she groans as she feels the broken bones dangling inside her.

-Karin id going mad with amusement, her smile could compete with a clown's mile-

Sakura reaches down to her side and her hands begin to glow, she was healing herself.

that caught madara's eye, it appears as if she's healing herself, he spoke lowly to himself. Madara noticed sakura's painful contorted face turn into an eased expression.

her hands stopped glowing, she was healed. "now where were we?" sakura races onto madara, he doesn't put up his armor instead he opts to use taijustsu. The two are at it, the speed of sakura's attacks are almost to fast to be visible, yet madara just moves defensively and is able to make sakura's attacks look like nothing. She stops and falls back breathing heavily. madara not even looking like he broke a sweat.

"my turn." he headed to sakura's direction and not giving her enough time to react h punches her into the same side of the ribs he had just broken breaking them again. A piercing scream raked through the forest. sasuke jolted slightly, Karin with a pleased grin on her face.

without waiting for sakura's reflex to respond to escape and begin healing herself madara brutally stepped into her right calf breaking the bone! another piercing scream escaped her mouth!

itachi could only look away.

sasuke's face remained emotionless but one could sense he wanted it to stop,

Karin, well…I'm sure you all can guess karin's expression.

…

sakura plopped to the ground drenched in blood, grimacing. her face contorted by excruciating pain. she could only see madara's shadow walk over her. this isn't it! this can't be it! I must stand up and fight, I need to know what's he up to! I need to know! sakurathought desperately trying to conjure up enough chakra to heal herself. it was in vain. she was all out

madara noticed her desperate attempt to continue fighting but he wanted no more of this child's play! if this continued he's kill her, and that's the opposite of what he wanted. he wanted to preserve her. she played an important role in his plans. though only around her for a short while he could sense her desperation and knew that the only to end this fight was for him to relent…give her the answers she desperately wanted.

"enough child." madara spoke, his words were sharp and got every body's attention, even itachi who had turned to look away. "I admire your resilence, but your resilience willl lead me to kill you." sakura looks at the man with crimson liquid painting her body, her eyes weary and her body weak and still in pain. "however,' madara continued "I will grant you this," he paused, "I will tell you what my plan is."

sakura's eyes began to darken, she knew she was going to go unconscious, but even then her ears were wide open.

"long ago…" madara began to tell his tale, "there is this clan in the village of the mist, the Izunambi Clan. like the Senju clan they are our enemies but not that great extent as we, the uchihas thought we were more superior. their kekkei genkai the ability to manipulate the o in the air to bring forth water to wield as a weapon was far beneath the ability of the uchiha sharingan! they had always stayed in their place until now!" madara's eyed darkened at his last words

what did he mean 'until now'?

"apparently, the Izunambi clan just discovered that the entire uchiha clan was killed, at this discovery they were happy but then they heard something else…all but one died!"

sasuke! sakura thought.

"so their plan is to bring their entire to annihilate the last uchiha, that way they can no enemies who they believe they have absolutely no chance in fighting against! but I refuse to let that happen!"

so their plan wasn't to attack the village afterall, but something is not adding up…what part does zuryck play in all this? she thought. "Zuryck…?" sakuraaskedweakly

"oh him!" madara gave a smile, "you see, as mighty as I am I alone will not take on the izunambi's. my plan is to revive the entire slaughtered uchiha clan using the reanimation jutsu and allowing them to partake in the fight. zuryck is the means by which the bodies will be exhumed! he has the connections. they will regret the day the intend to annihilate the uchiha clan. they will all regret it!"

this all makes sense now, sakurarealized. all of this is to protect sasuke.

sakura was beginning to fade, but there was still one unanswered question, why was she there?

"and me…?" she asked weakly,

madara could see her losing consciousness, he knew she would ask. a twisted smile came across his face, "you'll find out the answer in due time. sooner than you think." sakura heard his last words before total darkness consumed her being.

LATER THAT NIGHT

sakura awoke, she noticed she was in the cabin itachi had found and that she was in her room. someone must have brought me here, she thought. she too noticed that a sheet covering her body and she could feel that she only had a underwear on, in addition to the slight pressure she could feel on her right side she assumed it was the pressure from the bandages to help mend her broken ribs. she felt pain but only slightly from her side, it was as if someone healed her-her broken calf pain was gone but no pain, she too noticed that she was extremely weak, she could barely move. it was as if she was drained of not only her chakra but also any energy. why? I mean she didn't try to run before…

sakura heard murmuring at the door, she couldn't make out the words but she knew the voices….

the three stood behind sakura's door evidently in a heated conversation,

"no! I won't!" sasuke protested. his face unlike anything you'd imagine from him, a somewhat distraught expression. "you want me to rape her?!" sasuke's voice directed at madara

"yes." madara replied dryly.

"for what reason?! this is unnecessary!" the thought of raping a female hurt sasuke's pride.

"on the contrary, sasuke this is most necessary." madara's voice still dry.

"well I won't." sasuke's answer was sharp and confidently expressed.

madara knew what he was asking sasuke for was far beyond reach, making it worse he couldn't explain as to why he wanted sasuke to do such devious things to this innocent female but he knew he had to convince sasuke, he had to put him in a position he couldn't refuse. "either you do it, or I will."

sasuke's face was racked with unexplainable emotion, was madara really giving him that ultimatum? he felt powerless.

"sasuke…" itachi intervened "I do not know the reason as to why he wants you to do such a thing, but what I can assure you is that he is serious. either you do it or he will, either way this is going to happen now, for her sake I urge you to do it and make it easier on her. she knows you" itachi's plea was convincing but it still wasn't sufficient. "please sasuke…" itachi continued

sasuke tilted his head down, itachi was right, it's best for him to do it rather madara but why though? that was another mystery waiting to be solved.

sasuke's expression softened and madara noticed it, he knew sasuke was relenting.

a smile of accomplishment came across madara's face. sasuke noticed but cared not much of it, al least not in this instance, for what he was about to do was far more treacherous than the amount of lives he had taken.

…

itachi raised a hand to madara's left shoulder indicating that it was time for them to leave, madara obliged and walked off with itachi leaving the cabin. "wait!" madara said while at the cabin door "lets wait for him to start."

itachi knew what madara meant but was confused, "how will we know when he starts?" itachi asks

"easy…" madara replied

sasuke slowly put his hand on the door knob, hesitant to enter. he turns the knob to sakura's door…

from sakura's perspective she could see the knob twisting slightly and wondered who was coming in, she was alarmed yes but could not set up defensively, she was weak.

the door edged open more and she could see the glimmer of light and the spiked hair, sasuke? she thought. what's he doing in my room?

sakura could see sasuke's face, like always it showed no emotion but she sensed that there was something wrong. "sasuke, what's wrong?" she asked

he didn't answer. he closed the door behind him bringing back a tint of darkness back into the room.

sasuke could see her puzzled look and he could also see that she had a cover over her body. her exposed legs showed some bruises from the match earlier on, and even with the bruises her long toned legs were lean and strangely alluring. He assumed she was naked under the covers.

sasuke walked closer to the bed sakura was on still looking at the woman's puzzled face.

he released a heavy sigh, "let's make this quick.' his voice cold and his eyes not leaving her face.

sakura didn't know what he meant until she saw the young uchiha reaching forward with his right hand to remove the covers, fear filled her face as she saw the young uchiha's intention. then it occurred to her, so this was what they were talking about? However it was hard to believe as the thought of itachi allowing something bad to happen to her after the conversation that they'd last had was far, I mean he wouln't allow this, would he? even if it was for sasuke?

sakura broke her chain of thought and snapped back to reality, "sasuke no!" she emitted a weak scream. sasuke too noticed that her plea seemed weak and assumed that madara may have drained her of her chakra.

sasuke ignored her plea! he roughly tugged the white covers from her body, exposing her nearly naked body.

sakura could barely move, tears built up in her eyes, "w-what are you-"

"shut up." sasuke interrupted her question, he knew what she was going to ask. he didn't want to hear it.

sasuke stared down at her body, he saw her trembling. he saw she was afraid. why is she trembling? he thought. Of course she can guess what I'm about to do but…she's behaving like…like this hasn't done this before. Maybe not being forced but she does have experience with this sort of thing, doesn't she? he questions himself rhetorically. Maybe she's stil a vi-no! a thought came to him, that night came back to him…the night she was to entertain him as his mistress. There is no way an innocent woman would speak such intoxicating words that would break the will of even the most righteous men! his thoughts roamed to when she was whispering in his ear, to her fingers trailing on his body, the thought of that night still made his body twitched. He even remembers calling her a whore due to how talented she was, only a well experienced whore would possess such talent, or so he believes.

she was fooling no one, or so he thought.

sasuke reached to his side and removed the sword, "sasuke please…" sakura sill pleaded

sasuke swiped his sword, she screeched weakly, the pale blue underwear she wore parted to each side revealing her folds. He didn't even turn to look on her exposed flesh, his eyes still glued to her face.

She was whimpering, her eyes glossy.

Why, sasuke? she thought. why is he…

He ignored her vulnerable look as he assumed she was mocking him…a whore playing innocent, how funny. With another quick swipe of the sword the bandages in her upper body fell apart revealing her breast mounds…

…it was then he turned to look at her, when she was fully naked.

His face revealed noting, but internally he was getting anxious. That night at the casino he was only able to see what her lingerie allowed, but now he saw everything! She was perfect; despite the bruises her breasts were even more alluring than they were in their lingerie.

He was getting anxious, a feeling that was foreign to him. Suddenly he didn't feel like what he was going to do was wrong again, he just wanted to have her.

sasuke started to undress himself and soon his clothing was entirely on the floor.

sakura saw this and tried to get up to run but her attempted failed miserably, her weak body just collapsed onto the bed. She was weak.

She saw sasuke looking down at her, his eyes no longer emotionless, now they were filled with desperate want. she didn't understand the magnitude to which his anxiety was overflowing.

she climbs atop her trembling body, looking down at her he felt guilt, but guilt or not this had to be done. his hands reach to grab both her arms in each hand pinning either of her hands at the side of her head, she was weak she without chakra she could not match his manly strength. sakura felt his legs parting her thighs…

this is it….he was going to have her whether she liked it or not…

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