A/N: Great! I thought I won't be able to finish this chapter for a week. Thankfully, I did. Haha. And I mentioned last time that the years got messed up [Ayaka is 6 years old and I said at the 1st chapter that Sasuke's been gone for 6 years]. It'll be explained here in this chapter. lol. Tried my best to make it all work. Here you go. Chapter 11. [oh. and is the title disturbing? hahaha.]

Disclaimer: Weeeeeeee!

Choice # 11: Karin

First thing next morning, Sakura and Sasuke took off towards one of the shopping centers in Sapporo that focuses on fashion, the Paseo Shopping Center. Sakura immediately contacted Mr. Hiroshi's staff and told them that Yamanaka fashion's marketing executive is coming. It seems that she was trying to forget the stuff she thought and did the night before.

"Very high pitched." Sakura commented when she clicked her phone off. Sasuke looked at her.

"What?" He asked. Sakura shrugged.

"Mr. Hiroshi's secretary."

They arrived at the shopping center and were ushered towards one of its offices. Upon entering, Sakura heard the familiar voice of the secretary calling Sasuke's name.

"Sasuke-kun?"

Sakura looked for the owner of the voice while Sasuke just stood there, not caring. Suddenly, a whip of red and yellow passed by and clasped itself on Sasuke. Sakura's eyes widened.

"Karin." Sasuke acknowledged the woman that has practically glued herself on him. Sakura tried not to frown.

"Mouuu..Sasuke-kun, stop being so cold." Karin said as she pulled away, her fingers playing on his chest. Sakura twitched a little. "They said you were coming, so I especially wore this."

Karin was flaunting her Chinese traditional dress. It was a flirtatious red in color that has yellow flowery details on the side, accenting her red eyes and as well as her red hair which were neatly tied up in two buns, the dress reached up just above her thighs. Sakura stared, Karin was really sexy. Her eyes landed on Karin's breasts and in turn, she looked down on hers. Sakura had never felt so inferior in her whole life.

'I'm surprised she's not getting chills.' Sakura thought because wearing that kind of dress in a cold weather is stupid.

"Where's Hiroshi?" Sasuke asked, pushing Karin away. Karin pouted at him for ignoring her efforts in dressing up but nonetheless replied to his question.

"He won't be meeting you today. Our marketing executive will meet you though." Karin said, clinging onto Sasuke's arm like a leech.

"Uhm, where is he?" Sakura successfully managed to say, announcing her presence in the room. Karin took notice of her and looked up and down her body, as if examining her.

"Oh, there's a girl." She said rudely, Sakura frowned. "Sorry, he'll be out in a moment." Karin said, letting go of Sasuke and entering a room. Sakura stood beside Sasuke, she was glaring at Karin's back.

"Jealous." Sasuke whispered simply, sensing the angry aura that Sakura was emitting. Sakura rolled her eyes.

"So not." She whispered back, but she knew she was lying. She hated seeing Sasuke with his wife, so it's natural for her to hate it more seeing him with a whor—oops— another girl.

It was not long after that when Karin appeared again, this time with a pale man behind her. Sakura and Sasuke just observed. Karin was the one to introduce him.

"This is Sai, our marketing executive; you'll have the meeting with him." Karin said with a smile. Sasuke nodded at Sai.

"Let's go?" Sai said, ushering Sasuke inside the office. Karin was about to follow when Sasuke turned to Sakura.

"Keep her at bay." Sasuke ordered, not wanting to be disturbed by the leech —I mean— woman in his meeting. Sakura nodded.

"Care to have a drink?" Sakura asked. Karin looked at her from top to bottom again, frowned and then smiled.

"Sure."

They went to a coffee shop that was serving expensive coffee and English tea. They talked about a lot of stuff and Sakura was told that Karin was Sai's secretary, not Mr. Hiroshi. Karin was elegantly sipping her drink and as she put it down, a glint passed her eyes.

"So, how close are you with him? Considering you're his secretary, if you know what I mean." Karin said with a wink. Sakura looked at her and she immediately knew what she was talking about.

"I'm just his secretary." She said firmly. Why does everybody think that there's something going on between her and Sasuke? [A/N: Because there is. ^_^]

"Oh come on, surely you don't mean that!" Karin said, not believing Sakura, but when Sakura gave her a cold look, she knew that Sakura was not kidding. "You seriously don't know what you're missing. It's great to be close to him." She said, taking another sip of her coffee.

"How so?" Sakura asked, taking a sip of her coffee too and trying to sound casual.

"You get a lot of….benefits." Karin giggled as she bit her lower lip. Sakura almost choked on her coffee when she saw Karin's expression.

"Benefits?" She asked, still trying her best to sound casual. She was fighting the urge to rip Karin's head off. Karin nodded at her question.

"Yes. But I really hoped it was sexual because damn it, he's hot." Karin said, her eyes diluted and in a dreamy state. "Unfortunately, it was not." Karin started. Sakura, on the other hand, felt relieved. "You'll just know a bit of secrets..and probably a glimpse of his past." She ended. Sakura was now interested.

"Secrets? Past?" Sakura asked, she had an idea about his past but the secrets; she wanted to know that.

"Don't tell him that I told you. He can be a real talker when he's drunk and he does a lot of things." Karin said with a wink.

'I know that thank you very much.' Sakura thought as she previously experienced a drunken Sasuke and he, indeed, talked so much and he does do a lot of things. "Okay, so?" She asked, trying to get back to the topic.

"Did you know that he bites?" Karin giggled as she tried to recall Sasuke's bite. Sakura flinched at what she said.

'He bites other girls too?' She thought, forming a fist. She stood up, "I'm out of here." She said, but Karin's hand grabbed her wrist, she was laughing.

"Okay, I'm sorry." Karin said. Sakura started to sit down again when she heard Karin say, "But really, I practically had an orgasm with just one bite." Karin laughed out loud, not caring if the other customers hears her since they're used to her talking like this. Sakura's eyes were now fiery.

"Ugh. Out of here." She said again, standing up and trying to walk away. Karin just laughed.

"Sorry, sorry. Okay. Here it is. He told me that before he went to the States, he had this girl. I guess he really loved the girl because it seems like he remembers everything they shared." Karin recounted. Sakura listened intently. "And he left her."

"Why am I not surprised?" Sakura said sarcastically, she knew the story very well. Karin continued, ignoring her comment.

"He left her without a word, no, more like vanished after a -steamy, hot night- that's what he said." Karin said,

Sakura's sweat dropped. 'He describes it to others?' She thought.

"God, how I envy that girl, it was because of her that he doesn't dare shag anyone else." Karin pouted in frustration. Sakura, however, was feeling a bit touched.

'So he's not having sex with just anyone. One point for you Sasuke.' She thought with a smile. "Why did she leave her though? I mean, why did he suddenly vanish?" Sakura asked, trying to find out the real answer on why Sasuke left her.

"I heard his brother, I think Itachi was his name, did something that made him leave her." Karin said, trying to think deeply and remember the story.

"Really? Did he say what?" Sakura asked. So, Itachi was the reason why Sasuke left her. It all fits since Itachi never did like her in the first place, but what confused her is why Sasuke didn't rebel against it.

"No, he fell asleep. It's a cliffhanger actually, I planned to get him drunk again after that but he avoided me. Since we saw each other now, I'll try to get him drunk, sooner or later, to hear the rest of the story." Karin laughed. Sakura had a 'eureka' moment. She grabbed Karin's hand and smiled at her.

"Karin, let's get him drunk. I want to hear the story too." Sakura said, she definitely wanted to hear the rest of this story. He never wanted to tell her, so she's going to find out for herself. Karin thought it was a brilliant idea, now that Sasuke's secretary is involved, it'll be much easier.

"Wow. Okay then, I guarantee you that we'll get half of the story." Karin said. "And maybe even do something more." Karin said with her flirtatious giggle and wink. Sakura didn't like the last part.

"Please don't do that." Sakura said, her phone vibrating. It was a text message from Sasuke. "We need to go; they're finished with the meeting."

The meeting was successful, just what the girls needed to make an excuse to celebrate that night. Sakura phoned home and told her parents that she was probably not going to make it home that night. Her mother told her that it was fine. She arranged a hotel room, just in case they really couldn't make it home.

"Sasuke, I invited Sai and Karin for a little drink tonight, just to show my thanks in behalf of the company." Sakura said, half-truthfully. Sasuke stared at her for a long time.

"What are you up to?"

"Is there suppose to be a reason for drinking?" Sakura retorted. "Tell me if you don't want to, I'll cancel it immediately." She said to avoid detection.

"Hn." He said, walking away.

"I'll take that as a yes then!" Sakura called out to him.

The day passed by quickly because they were doing a lot of walking and exploring, not minding the snow. Before they knew it, it was already night time and the two of them were heading to a bar that was for higher-class people. They had private rooms and Sakura especially picked this because it was close enough to the hotel that she rented a room in. They arrived and saw that Sai and Karin were already there, drinking to their hearts content.

"Sasuke-kun! Come on, let's drink!"

Sakura was pulling an annoyed Sasuke with her inside towards Sai and Karin. Karin was openly flirting with Sai who just smiled at her, though his eyes were cold and very much like Sasuke's.

'So, she's got a thing with these types of guys.' Sakura thought, looking from Sasuke to Sai; they're very similar. "Sorry we're late." Sakura apologized.

"It's fine Haruno-san." Sai surprisingly replied. He offered her a drink. "Care to have one?"

"Thank you." Sakura said, taking the glass and drinking it in one go. Sasuke stared at her interestingly.

"You're up to something." Sasuke whispered to her. Sakura tried to not look guilty. She looked at him and gave him a glare.

"Could you please stop accusing me and just drink?" She retorted.

And so they did drink the night away. Sakura tried to make it seem that she's been drinking a lot, but in reality, she was watching Karin urging Sasuke to tell her the story. Sakura tried to talk with Sai while constantly peering over and listening to Sasuke and Karin's conversation.

"Sasuke-kun…tell me the other part of your story…please? I promise I won't tell anyone." Karin said drunkenly, raising her right hand up to swear before it plummeted down on her side. She was feeling really very tipsy already. Sasuke gave her a grunt.

"Get off." Sasuke said, trying to get away from her leech-like grasp. Karin moaned as his hands brushed against her front.

"Not until you tell me what made you leave your girl." Karin whispered in his ear. Sasuke pushed her face away.

"I told you it was Itachi." Sasuke said coldly. Karin pouted.

"What did he do?" Karin asked.

"Why do you want to know?" He asked back. Karin will not back down, she glued herself to him and it annoyed him more. "Ugh. Fine. He told me that if I don't leave her, he'll think of a way to get her expelled." He said simply, drinking more beer.

"Ohh. So you left. Did you try to rebel?"

"Of course I did, I got beaten up and was taken away by force."

"Did you try to get back to her though?"

"Every year. My first attempt, he told me that he'll hire people to hunt her down. Second, is that he knows where she works and he'll get her fired. All the other attempts were like that, always with a threat." Sasuke said. He knew he was babbling a lot, which is so not like him.

"So, what now? You're back in Japan, have you seen her?" Karin asked, amazed at Sasuke's dedication to the girl. "Did you tell her about all this?"

Sasuke smirked. "She just heard it all." Karin looked at him, confused. And in one quick motion, Sasuke and Sakura were out the door and going straight to their hotel room.

"They're crazy." Karin mumbled, realizing that the girl was Sakura after all. She turned her attention to Sai. "Boss, do you mind if I start to glue myself on you?" Karin asked. Sai just shook his head.

Sakura slammed the door shut without bothering to open the lights. The only light in the room was a lamp light on the bed side table. She was glaring at Sasuke and Sasuke was just looking at her in a bored way. She stomped over to him and stopped in front of him.

*SLAP* *SLAP*

She slapped him twice, one on both cheeks. His face was stinging but he never showed any sign of pain because his hair just covered his eyes. Sakura's eyes, however, were brimming with tears.

"Why didn't you tell me that it wasn't your fault? You didn't have a plan on telling me, didn't you?" Sakura almost screamed, good thing that the rooms in the hotel are sound proof.

"Hn." Sasuke replied, walking towards the bed. Sakura grabbed his wrist firmly.

"I wouldn't have known if you weren't drunk." Sakura said quietly. Sasuke smirked and looked back.

"I'm not drunk." He said, turning his hand and now grabbing her wrist. Sakura looked straight at him, wide-eyed.

"Then why did yo—?"

"I just thought I had to." Sasuke said, cutting her question. He let her go and shrugged. "I knew you were up to something and I figured that it was probably this since Karin talked to you."

"You were gone for six years! No, make that seven since you just vanished after the night we spent together! You never really explained that. My friends said you were still in Japan, so why didn't you try to contact me?" Sakura asked, wanting to know and starting from the first thing she had in mind.

"I was in Japan. He locked me in the house and refused to let me see you." Sasuke told her calmly. He figured that he'll have to be honest from this point on.

"He locked you for a year? That's ridiculous. You were in Japan when Ayaka turned 1, weren't you?" Sakura told him accusingly. Sasuke frowned at this.

"I told you before right? You didn't tell me that I had a daughter. That was the reason why I was angry the day I saw you again." Sasuke explained. Sakura laughed sarcastically.

"I told you that I couldn't tell you because you'll die of sudden heart attack, right?" Sakura said, telling him exactly what she told him the day they met again. "I didn't mail you but that doesn't mean that my friends didn't try." Sakura said truthfully. Sasuke grunted, so Itachi had also tampered with his mails before.

"That son of a b—" He started, but before he could finish his sentence, Sakura cut him off.

"You said Itachi wanted me expelled. Why didn't you just let him?" Sakura asked straightforwardly and a little loudly. She wanted to know about Itachi and about what really happened, so she decided to drop the first subject. Sasuke grunted again, should he really be explaining this?

"You were graduating; your parents' money will go to waste when you get expelled for no apparent reason." Sasuke said simply, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"You said that he wanted to hunt me down."

"I couldn't risk your life, and it proved to be a right decision since you had a child."

"You said he was going to find a way to get me unemployed."

"He had every power to do so at that time, not just fire you, but prevent you from having a job anywhere else. That's not good right? You had to raise Ayaka alone for 6 years."

"What about Ino then? Why did you marry her?" Sakura asked, now her voice lowered. She wanted to know, if he did everything he could to get back to her, why marry someone else in the end? Somehow, this brought a little smile on Sasuke's face; he knew that Sakura was affected by him marrying Ino from the start.

"I needed to get back to Japan and she was the only way. I agreed to marry her because I knew she would want to stay here." Sasuke explained a bit truthfully. He did not elaborate about the deal that he had with Itachi.

"Why do you care about her then?"

"If I hurt her then that means I'll be hurting you. You remember when Itachi fired you? It was because Ino was frustrated at me for—"

"But why are you with me now, if you don't want me to feel Itachi's wrath?"

"Damn it, woman! How many questions are you going to ask?" Sasuke said in a frustrated tone, running a hand through his raven hair. He looked up and got greeted by another slap on his face, Sakura's eyes were fixed on him, and it was still flaring with anger.

"I hate you!" She said fiercely and full of emotions. Without warning, her whole body crashed on top of him, making him fall back onto the bed and making him feel everything there was to feel.

Sasuke was surprised as he felt her soft, hot lips on his, taking the lead. Sakura was sobbing while kissing him, fiercely, like she never kissed him before. She hated him; she hated him for not telling her everything he'd been through but she hated herself more for bearing a grudge on him for the past seven years that he was gone. Sasuke was not complaining though, he knew that she loved him still, but he's going to wait until she says so herself. Or not. When the need for air was felt, both of them reluctantly pulled away, lips numb from the sudden intense make-out session.

"I hate you, do you know that?" a panting Sakura softly said, biting her lower lip as she catches up with her breath. Sasuke was panting too, he smirked, his hands wrapped around Sakura's body.

"But you still love me don't you?" He said with a boastful tone. Sakura made a frustrated sound, hitting Sasuke squarely on the chest over and over again.

"Damn it! Damn it! That is just unfair! Do you know how much effort it took me to try and move on? And then this happens!" Sakura said, burying her face on his chest.

Sasuke felt her wet tears touch the fabric of his clothes. He quickly turned them over so that he was now on top of her. She was covering her face; Sasuke realized she was blushing madly. He smirked as he neared his lips to her ears.

"I want you to say it." Sasuke whispered to her. Sakura shuddered and shook her head violently. Sasuke smirked. "Come on." He said, another 'no' came from Sakura. She was determined not to admit defeat, even though she already did admit it by her actions. Sasuke motioned to stand. "I'm leaving you here." He said seriously. He started to withdraw when Sakura grabbed his collar.

"Fine! I still love you, okay?" Sakura said furiously, pulling him down and kissing him again. He practically shoved his tongue down her throat which left them panting when they broke off, Sasuke just gave her a smirk.

"Desperate isn't cute Sakura." He commented proudly. He knew he had her back and he's not going to let her go again, but he just can't help himself. It's fun to tease and mock Haruno Sakura if you're Uchiha Sasuke.

"I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." She chanted over and over again. "You always frustrate me into telling you what you want to hear." She said in a defeated tone. Sasuke shrugged, his hands finding its way on her body. "Ah!" Sakura reacted as he reached a certain spot.

"Sensitive, aren't we?" Sasuke whispered, biting her earlobe that made her shiver. It's not good on Sakura's part that Sasuke drunk alcohol that night, even though he's not really drunk but he's still going to be out of control.

'Damn, he knows all of my weak spots.' She thought. She felt his bite, now on her neck and she remembered something. "You bite a lot, don't you? Even Karin." Sakura accused him.

"She told you?" Sasuke started. "I bit her arm because she was mercilessly clinging onto me, I didn't know it aroused her though. It was disgusting." He said, not tearing his lips away from Sakura's skin. It tickled her when he talked. "I knew you were jealous." He sneered.

"At first." Sakura said, then she chuckled. "But then I realized she was ugly." She ended. Sasuke let out a low laugh.

"She's average-looking." Sasuke said, teasing her still. Sakura rolled her eyes. Sasuke was finding it very difficult to tear away Sakura's clothes since she was wearing so much. "Damn, is it that cold?" He groaned, struggling to remove her coat and everything that came along with it.

"It is. I'm surprised you're not wearing this much yourself." Sakura said, she too, was pulling off Sasuke's clothing, but her job was much easier since he was only wearing a coat and a white, buttoned up shirt underneath.

"I wish you're not wearing this much." He grunted. A thought passed his brilliantly perverted mind. "You should've brought that Santa costume with you." Sasuke told her, his underpants getting tighter every second, especially as he thought about the Christmas party costume that she had.

"Fuck you to hell, Sasuke." She said with a laugh. Sasuke smirked though.

"Gladly." He replied. "I'll make that heaven though if I were you." He said. Sakura stopped him though.

"What about Itachi?" She asked, suddenly bothered. If news get to him, they'll both be dead, especially Sasuke. She will not forgive herself if all his efforts go to waste just because they're probably back together. He groaned.

"Screw Itachi." He said. "I'll deal with him later, right now, all I want is this." He said, his hands groping a part of her body that was begging to be groped. She moaned at his touch. He smirked before proceeding in tearing all their clothes off and doing stuff that I'm not allowed to write in a rated T fanfiction.

A/N: HAHAHA. Well, it's not like I hate Karin or anything..she's actually pretty cool. haha. Oh, please don't kill me if you happen to hate Karin. LOL. I would've loved to write a detailed version of this chapter but since this is a rated T FF, I can't. hahaha. Hope you enjoyed this chapter!

PS, I'm stuck right now, really. I don't know how I'll reveal Itachi's secret...sigh. :(

March 09, 2011 [Wednesday; 9:21 p.m.]

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