Another Gift for the Wonderful Kiyomi Inuzuka, I hope this meets your expectations!

I Do Not Own Naruto

Chapter 11

Sakura decided that the world had gone topsy-turvy on her when she was discharged from the hospital and instead of Naruto it was Sasuke taking her home. However, the exhaustion from her extreme case of blood loss had her too tired to argue this point with anyone as Sasuke wheeled her to her apartment.

She had moved out of her parents' bakery two years ago when she had had learnt that training with Tsunade made her life not only unpredictable but inconvient for her parents. Sasuke took the keys from her hands when they reached the door.

"You don't have to…" she started.

"Sakura," he cut her off with a warning look and a hard tone of voice which she had come to learn meant she wasn't going to be having her way no matter how much she pleaded. A sigh escaped her as she leant back in her wheelchair and he unlocked her apartment. It felt like forever since she had been home.

"Thank you," she said when he set her up on her couch and handed her a book. When he sat down she stared dumbly at him.

"You can leave now," she said evenly.

"No."

"Sasuke, I'm not a child, I'm fine, and I'm certain that you have better things to do," she said firmly as she opened the book she had been reading before she had gotten stabbed by Sasori.

"Sakura, I am not leaving you now or ever get used to it," he snapped harshly.

"I don't want you around," she snapped back.

"Hn," he grunted and she narrowed her eyes on him then as she slammed her book shut with all the force she could muster in her weakened state as she scowled at him.

"I Do Not Want You Around! Especially since you hate me!" she shouted at him.

"Oh for the love of Kami! I DON'T HATE YOU!" he roared back but she didn't back down, despite her weakened state she wasn't going to let him hurt her again with deluding her into thinking he like her when she knew damn well he didn't!

"Yes you do!" she argued back.

"Haruno Sakura if you don't shut up about me hating you I will kiss you to prove you wrong!" he snapped back.

"As if," she snorted and his eyes bled red as he glared at her. For a second she felt a flicker of fear in her heart as she saw that look in his eyes; his predatory look which had girls quivering in the knees and enemies running for the hills.

"You want to bet?" he asked her darkly, he was slowly closing in on her, she pressed herself back in the couch because she didn't know what to make of that look in his eyes.

"Uchiha Sasuke, I know for a fact you hate…" she never got to finish that sentence when his mouth covered hers'. She gasped, he took advantage of that moment to deepen the kiss and she felt herself melt into him as her fingers curled on his chest.

Good Kami did this woman know how to drive him insane, she knew every damn button to push, knew every line to say, and knew every look to give which could make him feel like a complete and total asshole for being himself.

However, this woman tasted divine as his mouth moved over hers, his tongue traced her teeth and he drunk in that essence that was Haruno Sakura. This woman terrified him, she could make him want to die for her, to barter his soul so she could stay here, and he didn't even know why that was as he kissed her deeper, harder, and tried to take everything she had. A whimper escaped her and he pulled away, he noted that his hands were tangled in that thick, short pink hair of hers' and he rested his brow on hers'. There were things he could say, should say, but there was nothing he wanted to say because there were no words to convey what she meant to him.

"Sakura…" he breathed her name like it was a prayer and he looked at those wide green eyes. She looked confused, very confused, and with those bruises under her eyes from blood loss and her swollen lips he couldn't help but feel guilty about stealing that kiss again as he shut his eyes and savored the moment for a second longer.

"Why?" she whispered.

"Because, you wanted to be stars rather than here, you wanted to see that fucking sunrise, and you smiled. Damn it," he whispered and he opened his eyes to look her in the eye.

"I carried you all the way back here, I was covered in your blood, and every time you were conscious enough to talk you talked like you were going to die and I couldn't… I couldn't let you go. And you… you just gave up," he murmured and she blinked in shock.

"I don't like you hating me," she whispered and he sighed. How had they gotten so fucked up to get here as he traced her cheek. Her eyes were drooping a bit and he kissed her brow then as he shut his eyes and thanked Kami she was alive.

"I don't hate you," he assured her softly.

"Will you… will you stay with me?" she whispered.

"Aa," he nodded and he released her as she settled back gingerly. He sat at her feet, he didn't notice when she fell asleep on her couch, he only noticed that she was breathing and she was alive. They were going to have to fix this mess he had gotten them into and he felt that he was probably going to have to do a lot of stupid things to prove to her that he didn't hate her but he could live with that. What he couldn't live with was her dying on him or leaving him behind again. That was something he wasn't going to tolerate as he began devising his plan to fix this mess.

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy I'm Alive! =)