Author's note: This chapter has been edited from the original chapter, but it still has most of the original text.
Disclaimer – Takara does not own Naruto or any of the characters, but only the original characters. All rights of Naruto belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
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Black Mamba
Chapter onze: Bleeding Heart
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- Cet amour est douloureux… s'il vous plaît faire disparaître la peine...
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Continued with Sakura
Sakura screamed at the sight of Tenten's corpse. A puddle of crimson blood surrounded the body and the face is just too horrifying to describe. Her once bright brown eyes looked dead and dull like barren earth. She even turned pale as snow. Neji looked like he was about to sob hysterically.
"I got her," a familiar voice murmured behind Sakura. She shivered at the fact it was him.
"What have you done?" Neji closed his eyes to hide his emotions. Sasuke looked at the Neji with a questionable look on his face. He didn't dare answer.
"You murderer!" Neji had lost it. This cold gentleman turned a berserk madman and Sakura saw the thick veins appearing around his once calm moonlight eyes. She was scared of him. "I've been looking for Tenten for years! And when I finally meet her, she gets shot by you, an Uchiha bastard!"
"She was trying to kill you," Sasuke calmly answered.
"I'd rather be dead than see her covered in her blood!" Neji roared.
"I'm sorry," Sasuke whispered and look at the floor with shame in his eyes. Neji looked at Tenten with tearful eyes.
Sakura realized that she better leave before she gets turned in. She got up from the floor and began heading towards the door. Suddenly, she felt someone yanking her wig roughly.
"You're not going anywhere," Neji hissed at Sakura as he glared at her with his cold eyes.
"Let her go, Hyuga!" Sasuke shouted madly.
"No!" Neji's voice boomed. Sakura trembled and felt like she was going to cry. "I'm gonna find out who took Tenten in the first place, starting with you." His glare was scaring her a lot. She saw herself dead, but in a much disturbing death sentence than Tenten.
"Neji!" Sasuke grabbed Sakura from Neji's grip and held her close to his chest.
Neji started to chuckle darkly, "Why save this little bitch? She was the one assisted Tenten. This girl should be punished for assisting and attempting murder!" Sakura hid her face in Sasuke's chest to avoid Neji's gaze on her.
"She's Sakura," Sasuke whispered softly and removed the black wig from Sakura's head to unleash her pink hair that fell like the pink blossoms in autumn. Neji stared at Sakura hard and then looked at Sasuke with a look Sakura couldn't describe.
"Take her away before I arrest you both for murder, assault, and trespassing!" Neji barked at them. Sasuke grabbed Sakura bridal style and ran out the room to leave Neji and the corpse alone. She recovered quickly from the aftershock the traumatic event and began to squirm to be free.
"Let me go, Sasuke!" Sakura fussed in Sasuke's arms when they got outside and he placed her on the front seat.
"No," Sasuke said in a monotone voice.
"I-I hate you!" Sakura looked at him with teary, angry eyes. Damn you! Those eyes he cannot resist.
"It's for your own good. We're done with this topic," Sasuke turned on the car's engine and started to drive.
"You didn't have to kill her! Neji-san loved Tenten!" Sakura started to sob in her hands. What is the caring insanity coming from?!
"Please don't cry," Sasuke looked at her sadly and wiped her tears away with his index fingers with one hand on the wheel. "I'm just as upset as you are. In fact, I feel guilty."
Sakura didn't say anything afterwards. She noticed he drove to an unknown building. Sasuke stepped out of the car and opened the door for her.
"Come," he held out his hand. Sakura took it with no hesitation.
"Where are you taking me?" Sakura asked curiously. Sasuke guided her toward the door of the building.
"My apartment where you will stay with me," Sasuke answered. Sakura thought about it and shivered at the fact Tsunade will kill her in two hundred ways if she returned to the clan base with no dead Neji and a shot Tenten. But nothing is as worse as living with the enemy.
"How long will I have to stay with you?" Sakura looked at him with suspicious eyes.
"Until I found out what took you away from me," Sasuke simply answered.
"So you're gonna prosecute me?" Sakura asked in surprise.
"Not exactly, I want you to stay with me until you tell me yourself. I won't force you," Sasuke looked for the key in pocket. Sakura didn't say anything until the door opened.
"Then what am I gonna wear?"
"Simple. I'll let you wear some of my tee-shirts until I have time to take you out," Sasuke said.
"Oh," Sakura responded.
He guided her to his room, "This is where you'll be sleeping."
"But-"
"Don't worry. I'll sleep on the couch," Sasuke cut her words off. As he was about to leave the room, he felt a hand grab his shoulder.
"No, you will not," he felt her anger seething. "We'll sleep together and nothing wrong will happen, got it?" Her emerald eyes were snapped wide open. What came over me? Why do I feel so possessive over him?!
He smiled at her. "We'll see about it." And Sasuke left the room without a comment. She was pissed off. Did he let her sleep in his room just because she's a woman?! Well damn him! She thought angrily. Damn him to the lowest pit of Hell! How dare he think that way! Sakura looked at the things around Sasuke's room. She spotted a neatly made bed, a wooden drawer, a mirror length mirror, a closet, and a small desk with tons of papers on top. Curiously, she picked up the first paper she saw on the pile. It was small and looked a bit worn bit on the backside. Turning it around, she gasped at what she saw.
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- This love is agonizing... please make the pain go away…
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Author's note – Read and review please.