A/N: Yay, thanks for the reviews everyone! Heh, I'm glad this is my second story that everyone likes so much. Other than The Dating Game of course.
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.
Betrayal – Chapter 12
"Sakura." Sakura's emerald green eyes fluttered open when she heard her name. Her vision blurred, but once it was clear, she saw a pair of onyx eyes staring back down at her. Her instinct reaction was to open her mouth and scream, but Sasuke quickly covered her mouth with his hand.
"Calm down, it's me." Sasuke said, quietly but sternly. She stood up immediately, wincing when she felt the tight bandage around her shoulder. She came up and gripped, looking at Sasuke with confusion, her confusion increasing when he held his stomach tightly.
'Damn, Tsunade as one hell of a punch.' Sasuke thought, remembering the "maneuver" the legendary medical ninja had used on him to get the poison out of his bloodstream. "Sasuke-kun," Sasuke snapped his head towards Sakura's direction and Sakura gulped unconsciously, "How—when—what's going on?" Sasuke merely shrugged.
Flashback
Him and Sakura were placed in a hospital room on two beds that were a few yards away from each other for their body to recuperate. Minutes passed, and Sasuke regained consciousness soon after Tsunade's deadly punches, his ninja instincts taking over as he hopped off the bed with a kunai beside him just in case and checked out his surroundings.
When he recognized it was the hospital, he lowered his guard slightly and noticed another chakra in the room. His grip on the kunai tightened and he walked over to the chakra's location. He sighed and pocketed his kunai in his hip pouch when he saw it was only Sakura's slumbering form.
'How the hell did we get here? What's going on?' the Uchiha Prodigy thought, trying to remember what had previously happened. All he remembered was waking up when icy water splashed on his face, then getting punched repeatedly by the Gondaime herself and falling into unconsciousness.
'Maybe Sakura will know…' the raven-haired shinobi concluded, making his way over to the sleeping kunoichi. He nudged her shoulder, trying to wake her up. When he did it a couple of times and noticed that it didn't work, he called out her name. After a few times of repeating her name, she woke up.
End Flashback
"How'd we get here? I don't remember…" Sakura said, quieting her voice. Her mind tried to replay over the last few events in her head, and her eyes widened as wide as saucers when she remembered.
Flashback
"Besides, if I bring you Sasuke-kun, you can use Fushi Tensei sooner instead of later, don't you agree Orochimaru-sa—"
She got cut off when she heard the door burst open revealing the one and only Uchiha Sasuke himself, the deadly Chidori making a crackling sound in his right hand. Sakura's emerald eyes widened as Orochimaru turned around, smiling evilly when he saw the great strength coming from Sasuke's hand. Sasuke's Sharingan were a deadly blood red color, so dark and full of hatred.
"You…" his voice said in a deadly quiet tone as his eyes bored through Sakura's jade green ones. Sakura felt her body beginning to shake uncontrollably through his hard, angry stare. The Uchiha Prodigy then shifted his gaze towards the snake sannin, his deadly quiet voice turning into a deadly yell, "You're dead!"
The young Uchiha used his incredible speed, sprinting towards the snake sannin with his Chidori aimed straight at his heart. "S-Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called out, running after the raven-haired boy until she was running side-by-side to him. "Interesting…" Orochimaru said in a sly tone, his eyes having an evil glint in them.
Sasuke threw his arm at the snake sannin, the Chidori barely touching Orochimaru as he grabbed Sasuke's wrist and pointed the lightning blade towards Sakura's direction. Sakura's emerald green eyes widened when she saw Sasuke's Chidori coming towards her. "Sakura!" Sasuke yelled out, trying to move his arm out of Orochimaru's grasp. The medic nin let out a blood-curdling scream when she felt the Chidori hit her.
End Flashback
She looked at Sasuke, who, noticing her gaze looked back at her. "What?" he said, making it sound like a statement than a question. 'Does he remember?' she thought franticly. 'Well, judging from the fact that he hasn't exploded into a fit of rage, I'm guessing no.'
She hesitated before asking, "D-Do you r-remember anything Sasuke-kun?" Sasuke narrowed his onyx eyes. 'What's she stuttering about?' "I just remember waking up and getting punched like a dummy." He said, muttering the last three words.
They both turned their heads when they heard the door cringe open. Inside walked a nurse, who widened her eyes when she saw the two shinobi awaken. She looked at both of them, blinking her eyes a couple of times before leaving the room and heading towards the front desk.
"I'm guessing we weren't expected to be awaken soon." Sasuke concluded from the nurse's reaction. Sakura nodded her head, "Hai. Ano, Sasuke-kun, do you have any idea what's going on?" Sasuke glanced at her, "I know as much as you do Sakura." His eyes locked on her bandaged shoulder, "What happened to your shoulder?"
Sakura tried her best to think of an excuse so he wouldn't remember what really happened and gave him a fake smile the young Uchiha easily saw through. "I was rushing back here so fast after my mission that I cut my shoulder against a sharp branch."
"Mission? What mission?" Sasuke said, narrowing his onyx eyes when he sensed her lying. "The mission Tsunade-shishou gave me." Sakura quickly blurted out. When Sasuke saw her reaction, memories flooded back to his head. He remembered being inside a layer, Orochimaru's layer he soon remembered, and heard them talking. 'Wait a second…Sakura's working for Orochimaru…' Sasuke thought, remembering what had really happened, 'And I came in…and we fought and my Chidori got deflected and it hit Sakura instead…and that's how—'
His thoughts were cut off when he heard the door open. Both Sasuke and Sakura's heads snapped over at the direction of the door cringing. "Ah, so you two are awake." Tsunade said, a sincere smile on her face as she looked at the Uchiha Prodigy and her apprentice.
"Tsunade-shishou!" Sakura called out, giving her a small smile, "What're you doing here?" Tsunade looked at Sakura's shoulder before moving her golden almond gaze towards the pink-haired ninja's face, "I came to see how you two were doing. After I healed you," She looked at Sasuke who was glaring at her and holding his stomach, "you both passed out. You've been knocked out for a few days now, I was beginning to think you both went under a coma."
Sakura let out an uneasy and forced laugh and Sasuke remained with a stoic expression. Tsunade's expression then grew serious and Sakura stopped laughing. "Sakura, Uchiha." Tsunade said to the two of them, "Why the hell happened?" Sakura unconsciously gulped down a lump that was beginning to form in her throat. 'I knew that was coming…'
'Think you can think of something to get out of this?' 'Just give me a second…' 'Well?!' '…Nothing…' "Sakura?" The blonde-haired woman's voice said, taking Sakura out of her thoughts with her alter ego. "Hai, gomen about that Tsunade-shishou." The Gondaime nodded and continued what she was saying, "When I was informed about you two, you were in critical condition. Care to explain what happened?"
When they both remained silent, Tsunade used a stern voice, "Fine. I asked you, but since you aren't responding, I order you, as the Gondaime Hokage, to tell me what happened on the mission."
Sasuke glanced over at Sakura's direction, his onyx orbs seeing that she was beginning to fidget nervously and her hand gripped on her shoulder. Her emerald eyes met with his for a brief second before she quickly looked away and looked down. The Hokage tapped her foot impatiently, "I'm waiting…"
Sakura gulped, "Heh, about that Tsunade-shishou…"
A/N: Omg! I'm so sorry for the slow update! Don't kill me! –ducks flying tomatoes– anyways, I hope you forgive me by reading and reviewing! (no flames please, but constructive criticism is allowed.)