Betrayal is made in Blood
llwild1992 (2011- )
I do not own Naruto or any characters save for my OCs and mind you there will be some massive Out OF Character (ness)
At 13 he left, 23 he returned. If I had not fallen back in love with him I would have been the one to sign his death warrant. We secretly married at 25 and at 27 he gave everything up to betray us once again and create another shinobi war. Revenge can still be sweet if covered in blood.
New description: No one has ever loved anyone as much as I loved him…I thought we knew everything about each other. But I was wrong; I was a pawn in his quest for blood-soaked revenge. How can someone you love hurt you so? I though Sasuke loved me, but it was a lie, just as sorrow brings tears; Betrayal is made in blood.
ARC III
CHAPTER FOUR
"Why so glum, Wife?" Sasuke asked, as per his morning ritual as he sat down at the formal dining table.
I ignored him as I kept my back to him, standing in the little kitchenette fixing my breakfast. Kaiko stood off to the side, her eyes cast down as she waited for me to finish so she may prepare Sasuke's meal. The tension was too palpable in the room it was like a fog. Three months, twenty-five days, and six hours, that is how long I have been held captive in this place. It's been that long since I was imprisoned in these rooms and able to use my chakra. Weak and vulnerable, two things I hate about myself.
I resisted everything, Sasuke included. By creating an alliance of friendship with Kaiko I knew everything about Sasuke's schedule before he did, so I could properly avoided him. Kaiko took pity on me, fetching her own clothes that she wears when not on duty because I still refused to raid the closet Sasuke apparently provided for me. Kaiko swears up and down that Sasuke had made no advance upon her, sexual or platonic. I still don't want to believe her. It would mean that I have to believe Sasuke...never…
Taking my bowl of fruit to the island I sat down and nodded at Kaiko. Sasuke would be in meetings all day, planning the celebration; the anniversary of the Uchiha Regime. So he would not frequent the suit at all for meals or breaks. Sounds good to me, the less I see of him the better. I made the most of my time cooped up in here, which consisted mostly of using Sasuke's private training salon, exercising my pent-up rage against him, and planning my escape. I've tried five times to break the binding. All coming up either as failures that literally blow up in my face, which hurt, or moments where Sasuke catches me in the act, which is frustrating; I can't break it. Without my chakra I probably will never find a physical loophole in the binding. Unless I find out a way to drain my body of all its blood and still live. I'm bound by my blood, not easily broken unless Sasuke breaks it.
Sighing I picked at my berries, not really feeling hungry.
Kaiko had already served Sasuke his meal and had already collected the empty plates. She looked at me with concern, "Lady Uchiha, please eat something, you know you have to eat more than once a day." She said.
"I'm fine, Kaiko." I said, eyeing Sasuke who was sitting at the table, back straight, arms crossed over his chest, and his eyes on me, having heard Kaiko's concerned statement, it peaked his interest. "I am not that hungry recently because I'm borderline depressed." I said, feeling like I should peeve him. "I have been locked in here against my will for months; I can't even open the windows! I'm a sunshine and wildflowers kind of woman; I like the outside, not this dark prison the Uchihas call a 'Castle'."
"If you would cease trying to escape I would lessen the constraints against you." Sasuke was at my side, his hip resting against the marble island top, Kaiko cased her eyes down and dismissed herself to do laundry as she always did whenever Sasuke and I would start our other morning ritual, arguing.
His thumb and forefinger captured my chin, lifting up so he could inspect my lasts bruise from my botched attempt at breaking the seal. He feigned concern before leaning in and kissing the side of my neck. I locked up and ignored it. When he was done with his attempt at affection, I shook his hand away.
"Eat Sakura; don't want you to become ill. What would happen if our son was found and you where to weak to care for him? I could never place him with a nurse." He stayed beside me, one hand twirling a lock of my hair around his fingers.
"You will never find him!" I snarled. "My son has been well hidden for years, what makes you think you can find him now?"
"Now that I know he is alive. I found you; didn't I? I won't give up until we have our son back." he smirked.
"There are millions of children in the world, and you're looking for just one. It will be imposable. I'd rather have my son missing than found by the likes of you and that man who calls himself 'Madera'! He is not a puppet to hand over to that man; he is a living breathing child!"
"You think I would give him to Madera?" he glared, hut by my words, "I would see to it that both you and our son would never be found by him." I turned away from him. "I will protect you and Takashi with my life, Sakura."
"Again you lie to me!" I pushed away from him and the island. "You keep saying that you never lied to me, that you love me, that you will keep me safe forever; but you keep lying to me! Stop telling me what you think I want to hear!" I advanced on him and glared into his eyes, "my husband, the man I loved all those years ago, was destroyed when he decided to betray the village, when he destroyed my world. I know Obito knows I'm here, and he is biding his time until my son is found. I am nothing to him without my son, so either kill me now or let me go, I am worth nothing to you."
"You are worth everything to me." he declared, I pushed my hands against his chest, groaning in disgust, "no one knows you are even here, Sakura." He captured my hands at his chest and held me, "I am not an idiot, and Madera would have you killed if he knew of your arrival, he wants our child, that is true, but I will never give him up." I tried to pull away, "I would never give you up."
"Again you lie to me. What was that one way trip into the sharingan illusion, and early 'push present'?" I pulled my hands free and walked away, "Take a long walk off a short bridge Uchiha."
I retreated into my little corner of the living room and sat on the settee. Sasuke left almost immediately, slamming the door in the process. I got on his nerves, good. I did my job for the day. Kaiko entered and shook her head at me as she sat down.
"Why must you do that? Lord Uchiha only wants his family to be reunited again. Would you not want your child back into your arms?"
I shrugged my shoulders, "he is not what he says he is, he would give over my son in a split second if he was ordered to. All he does is lie, Kaiko. Why am I the only one who sees that?"
"Because he has been telling the truth since you where brought here." She fisted her skirt into her hands, her green eyes down, "It maybe not my place to say, Lady Uchiha but you are all wrong about him. Your arrival was top secret, the men who brought you, programmed, no memory. Aside from your ladies maid, no one knows of you. Probably why he wants you to remain locked in the rooms, so no one would see you. He has been protecting you this whole time."
"I…" I stood, "I don't believe you. He's paying you."
"I may be employed by him, but I have grown to care for you, Lady Uchiha, it pains me to see two people who love each other so much fight day and night. I would never lie to you."
Now that got me, "I do not love him!" I groaned before I started off for the training salon.
"The one who needs to stop lying is you." Kaiko whispered as I rounded the corner and kicked open the salon door.
I choose the punching bag, pretending it was Sasuke. I attacked, throwing all of myself and my emotions into the kicks and jabs. I thought of all the lies he told me, all the deceit. I thought of Kakashi, Tsunade, TenTen, Ino, and Shikamaru…all of my friends who left me because of him. I thought of the precious years I missed with my boy, his smile, laughter, worlds, teeth, and booboos, all of it I missed because of that man! I then gave myself over to the stupidity that was my belief that Sasuke came home for me. All the lies and seduction he used against me, the smiles and the loving words. I was hopelessly weak against him then, I can never be now! He is not my Sasuke!
Not mine…
Not mine…
Stay strong…
Fight for Takashi's sake….
Protect him…
He is only three, he can't protect himself…
Three…
I gasped, I felt as if I was being choked, I stopped my movements and fell against the bag. I thought if I didn't acknowledge it; it wouldn't happen…I wouldn't feel guilty. But I did. Uchiha Day, the day my dream world ended and this nightmare began was tomorrow, it was also Takashi's birthday. His fourth birthday. Four years ago I gave birth to the love of my life and left him to protect him. I left my child; my child was being raised by someone else. My legs gave out and I fell to my knees, I cried out, tears falling. I was so jealous of Hinata; she was raising my child, watching my child grown and play. He was everything I had wanted and she was living my dream! I hated her in the beginning, but now I just hate myself.
Kaiko had to peal me off the floor hours later. I had worked myself into exhaustion, training hard so my mind would escape reality. I didn't want to think about it, and be weak in front of Sasuke; he would use it against me. My fists where bleeding, my legs bruised. If I was in the past I would have been happy, it would have been considered a good workout. She helped me into the shower and told me she'd come back in if I didn't come out in twenty minutes.
I stood under the heaven that was a rain showerhead. My forearms braced against the walls, holding me up. I had managed to wash my hair but was now gathering my energy to soap my body. I didn't realize what was happening until I felt him against my back, his hands at my sides, making me shiver.
"For the love of all that is sacred, get out of my shower!" I groaned, placing my head against my hands, "I'll be done in a minute Uchiha!"
He chuckled and kissed my neck, "no."
"Fuck you!" I said.
"Defensive and I've done nothing to you, yet."
"Shouldn't you be in all your important 'Uchiha Day' meetings?" I stepped forwards towards the wall to distance myself from him, but he followed.
"It's the fourth year it's been done, it practically plans itself." He rubbed my cheek with his nose, "Forgive me for this morning?" Sasuke said against my neck, "I didn't mean to upset you." His hands moved my hair away from my back and over my shoulder. I felt the soap bar being pressed against my shoulder.
"I can wash myself." I growled, but I couldn't move, I was lucky my arms where still holding me up.
"We both know you over worked yourself. Let me. Give me a chance, wife." He started to rub the soap into my skin, his hands pushing down onto my sore muscles; I bit into the side of my cheek to hold back the moan I was about to release. I couldn't admit I was enjoying this.
He made to turn me around, but I fought him on it. "stop." I growled.
I felt him place his chin on the back of my head before handing the bar over my shoulder to me. I washed, ignoring his closeness, or his hands absently running along the seam of my shoulders and hips. When I was done I shut the shower off and hugged my arms over my breasts.
Looking over my shoulder I glared, "Turn around." I ordered.
With an eyebrow cocked he smirked, "I've seen everything. I'm your husband."
"I don't care, and you are not. Turn around Uchiha."
Groaning Sasuke turned his back to me. I got a glimpse of the long scar and the dimples on his lower back before I stopped myself from admiring more than I wanted. I slowly walked to the towel hanger inside the shower and covered myself. Reaching to open the glass door, Sasuke's hand over mine stopped me. His other arm wrapped itself around my waist.
"Dine at the table with me tonight, Sakura." He said into my ear.
I kept my eyes locked on the door. "No."
"It's a special night, something to celebrate by coming together and having a meal."
"I am not celebrating the day that ruined my life with you!" I snapped tuning to glair at him. I was captured by a soft gaze, hurt and longing swirling in his charcoal eyes.
"You know very well that's not what I want to celebrate, Sakura." He said it with a warning tone, "it's our sons fourth birthday."
"I wouldn't celebrate it with you if you where the last man on earth." I said, "Let me out. I am having dinner and I am going to ignore tomorrow, get this day over with."
"Very well." He kissed my cheek and hugged me to him before releasing me.
I exited the shower and walked to the sink; I gathered my night clothes and went into the toilet room to change. I left the bathroom as I was finger-bombing my hair. Kaiko was standing in the bedchamber waiting for me with a worried expression.
"No I didn't kill him." I groaned, "I wish I had the power to though…"
"Don't joke like that," she shook her head at me, "dinner is on the island." She motioned for me to walk ahead of her.
A familiar sent was in the air as I was leaving the chamber. I rushed out, wishing it was true. I was stunned when I entered the entertaining salon. It must have been hundreds of vases with fresh cut flowers lining the room. Poppies, Peonies, Lilies, Giant Purple Alliums, Vervain, Roses, Hydrangea, Zinnias, Cosmos, Daffodils, Delphiniums, strings of Sweet Orchids…there must have been every flower imaginable in the room. There were hanging baskets in the corners of the rooms, small vases on the tables and shelves, and five foot vases all over the rooms. It was a flower wonderland. I walked to the nearest and took in the exotic scents.
"Lord Sasuke had them brought in while you showered. Made the whole staff go nuts because there was no explanation of why he wanted thousands of fresh flowers in his rooms. Put everyone in a tizzy if I do say so myself!" I looked over at her; she was smiling sweetly at me "he did this for you." She chuckled.
"Shut up." I said before smelling the lilies one more time.
Sasuke sat at the dinning table reading scroll and eating dinner, as he always did. I finished with my meal and went back to my settee and admired the flowers, it was an Eden in here. I didn't have the backbone to thank Sasuke; it would mean showing weakness to him. Part of me knew I should thank him, then again another part of me wanted to make him suffer without my thanks. Yawning I leaned back onto the pillows of my 'bed'. Tonight was going to be a hard one to bear; my nightmares are more violent on the eve of Takashi's birthday. I wasn't looking forward to it. Last year I almost flung myself off a cliff after sleep-running. At least I can't leave the rooms or jump out a window. So it wouldn't be too violent tonight.
Come to think of it…I haven't woken up with bruises recently…I noticed I wasn't screaming myself awake but most of the time I wake up with finger bruises along my neck and wrists…I looked at my arms other than my fresh ones from training today I have no healing or recent marks…
When was my last screaming nightmare…?
Have I had one…?
It's strange…I can't remember the last time I had a nightmare…I remember the ones I had before I came here, and the ones Sasuke forced me to have the day I got here….but none after…that's strange…Sasuke….Sasuke…SASUKE!
HOLY SHIT! I growled and pushed up to my feet. "UCHIHA!" I ran out of the room and went in search of him.
"Wife," Sasuke answered, he was still at the table.
"Uchiha what did you do to me!" I accused with my hands on my hips, glaring down at him while he sat down overlooking scrolls.
"You've noticed?" he smirked with one brow raised.
"I have not had a nightmare in weeks, for the past four years I have had them, what did you do?"
"Nothing,"
"As if!"
"Hn," He grunted before pushing away from my grandmother's table and advancing on me. I backed away as he followed me, intent in his eyes. When my back reached the far wall I was trapped, his hands were placed on either side of my waist, his head lowered until he was at eye level, "I have done nothing to you, Sakura," he smirked, "you on the other hand have."
"As if I would!" I accused. "I want nothing from you!"
"You do," his bladelike nose traced along my jaw until he was close enough to whisper in my ear, "you seek my touch at night, you have been sleeping by my side for months on the settee, Sakura, as long as you sleep next to me your dreams stay at bay."
I shivered at the feeling of my body enjoying his attention. "You disgust me!"
"In your sleep you wrap your body around mine, purring as my hands caress your back and sides, moaning as I kiss the secret spot on your neck. Oh yes I disgust you." He teased me by kissing that very same spot on my neck, sending shivers down my side.
"I don't believe you." I groaned as he stepped closer to me. How I wished I had my chakra and I could push him away, or smack him unconscious, preferably both.
"I won't come to you after you fall asleep, you will see. When it happens and it will, you will realize that you need me. All you have to do is come to my bed; wife and I promise to make the nightmares go away, forever." He kissed my nose before he released me, leaving me, for his chamber, alone with my thoughts.
I awoke in a deep guttural scream. I reached out to my side, seeking what I knew wasn't there. I knew and wanted to banish the truth from me, I didn't want to need him. But I always needed him. Thunder crackled outside the palace, echoing the screams and moans from the dream, I had to…I wanted to...
Whimpering I whispered who I needed, "Sasuke…" I cried as I sat up, pushing the blanket away from me, finding my footing as I placed my cold feet against the soft carpeting of the floor. The thunder crackled again and I heard Takashi crying. Tears fell from my eyes; I slapped my hands against my ears not wanting to suffer through hearing my child crying out for me. "It's just a dream…" I whispered to the storm in my head, "It's not real…" I heard it again and again, with each roar of the storm the infant cries grew louder and more frantic. I fell to my knees, my hands pushing down on my ears, rivers of tears flowing.
The agony, the pain, the self-induced suffering….
I can't take it anymore! Standing I deafly ran around the settee, and into the bedroom. Clutching my hands to my chest I looked upon the bed. Sasuke slept on the left of the massive bed, by the true vulnerable look upon his highborn face I knew he was in a deep sleep, unaware to the torment both outside and inside his suite. The room smelled of him, deep rainwater and fresh mountain air. Taking in his unique sent the infant cries mellowed inside my head, I was calming down in his presence. He was right; near him I escaped my torment. I cried for myself; having to stand there and realize that if I were to escape from my own weakness, I needed to allow myself to be with him. In order to ease the suffering I was causing upon myself; I had to relinquish the pain I felt from all those years ago and move on.
The nightmares I relived over and over…
I thought they were punishing me for falling for him and his lies…
But they…they were pushing me towards my salvation…they were pushing me back to him. He really is my ruin and my salvation…our lives have always been intertwined, always breaking and mending, always pushed together. No matter what the circumstances I would always find my way back to him and he would find his way back to me. Destiny is what it is; no one can fight what is meant to be. Sasuke was meant to defect and leave in search for power, and I was meant to grow stronger and find him. His sole ambition would cause me to seek him out to end everything. He was meant to lose his war and come back to me, we were meant to come together as we always did, in battle or allied wants and wishes, and we were meant to be broken again by destiny. That's how we always where…
I can't fight it any longer…I will not suffer as I have ever again…
I approached the bed, looking down on his face, the pure perfection that was him…in this moment I saw the man I loved…the man I do love. Not the monster distorted by darkness and rage, the true man that he is. He would have no warning that I was there because of my charka constraint, the thunder boomed again and the crying returned … loud and distressed
"Sasuke…" I said franticly, his eyes opened immediately sharingan activated so he would see the threat in the darkness.
The red I was so trifled of locked on me. Two deep red flames of power looking at me in the darkness, I gasped as I finally looked at him, at the eyes that where so beautiful and powerfully, yet utterly terrifying.
His gaze grew from alter to concerned, the red reverted back to his obsidian color, "Sakura?" he asked as he shifted towards me, eying my shaking body, tears, and distressed demeanor.
At my name, I was undone. "Sasuke!" I cried as I fell into his chest, arms wrapped around his shoulders desperate to hold onto him.
I hid my face in the crook of his neck, taking in his heat and his sent. His reaction was to stiffen against my invading touch; I felt the air in his chest solidify as he became utterly shocked at my advance. Upon feeling my tears against the skin of his neck and chest he quickly held me to him. His hands incased my waist with a tight grip, holding me against him for fear he too was only having a dream. I felt his bladelike nose rub against the outside of my ear. I felt his heart jump and quicken, timing itself to mine. I cried into him.
I cried for all the time wasted running from my fears and the dreams. I cried for the hate I held, for the pain, the fear. I cried for the ecstasy, desperation, and the elation.
"Stop crying," Sasuke pleaded with a whisper, "Please stop, Sakura…" I groaned as his hands soothed my back, "I'm here…I'm here my love." He kissed the exposed skin of my shoulder as he maneuvered me onto the bed, wrapping my body around his so I was sitting in his lap. "I can't watch you experience this torture anymore."
I shook my head, "I can't…" I moaned as more tears fell, "I can't live like this!" I leaned back, looking up into his eyes through blurry tear filled eyes, "Why me? Why do I always have to suffer? Why is it; when I find one single shred of happiness it all comes crashing down in the end?"
His thumb traced my tears away; hand cradling my face before his lips chastely kissed my nose, "if I could change what happened to you, I would." He gathered me into his chest and rocked me, "I would take back everything I ever did to you, all the pain and all the tears, my Sakura, my love, and my wife. But I can't, don't question what happened…it only made you strong; it made you who you are. It made you the woman I love. I would do anything for you, for us."
I pulled back at his promise; I looked up at him with pleading eyes. My hands slowly and attentively reached up to hold his face in my palms. I sat up, pulling my legs under me so I was kneeling between his open legs. I looked at him, he was telling me the truth, and it was neither a forced sign of compassion nor a fake mask he was wearing. This was him; this was my Sasuke reaching out to me as a reaction that I was reaching out to him.
My chest exploded with happiness that I had reached him, I smiled, "Make them go away?" I whispered, "I feel as if I am disappearing, the nightmares kill a part of my sole each and every time I close my eyes…I need you…Sasuke…. " I cried, his hands gathered my hair to the nape of my neck, making me realize I was in a cold sweat, he twisted my hair before pulling one hands away to hold my neck in his callused hand, "I need you to make me feel…alive."
A moment of sheer joy flooded his face before his lips connected with mine; his heat engulfed me as his hands crushed me to his body. I held his face to mine, allowing myself to become lost in his passion. "I need you too, Sakura…" I whispered against my lips, "I long to feel alive." He pulled back to look at me, my tears gone, and a smile on my lips. His thumbs traced across the smile, "I have waited for you for such a long time, Sakura." He said, "I will never break you again. I love you."
I leaned in and kissed him before leaning my forehead onto his cheek, my hands rubbed against the flesh of his pectorals, feeling the strained muscles, he was holding himself back; he was purposely trying not to fend me off or startle me. I breathed in deeply, taking in the sound of his heart, strong and drumming against my hands, and his sent encasing me, soothing and calming me. "I love you, Sasuke."
He stiffened, his hands on me stopped their soothing touches, and his heart skipped a beat. I kissed his lips, silently telling him again. I love him, I love him with every fiber of my being, and every shred of my sole belongs to him. I sat back to look at him, my hands touching his face and neck, feeling what had grown and changed in the time apart, learning him again as he sat there, looking at me. I felt the brand he was given in the maximum security prison in Leaf, right below it was the dormant curse mark, I leaned in and kissed both, the skin under the curse cold, as it always was, holding the darkness, the black and blind hatred that he would forever carry with him. I kissed my way up his neck, his hands returned to caressing my back and sides; he craned his neck, allowing me to kiss more of his skin before I reached his lips.
We kissed again, not a fevered kiss but a long kiss, drawing out to the last moment where we needed to breathe. We drank of each other, taking in the essence of the other. Tongues explored and played against each other, teeth clashed and pulled at the tender and swollen flesh of lips. Breath became heavy, and hands became more frantic. His hands fisted the bottom of Kaiko's gifted sleeping shirt, we separated for the moment it took to pull the shirt over my head and it was properly thrown across the room.
I groaned as he pushed me down and into the soft sheets of the bed, his hands where everywhere at once, his lips followed in open butterfly kisses. My hands fisted the hair at the nape of his neck and the skin of his shoulders. He groaned as my nails traced against his skin, leaving crescent moons and lines in their wake. His hands found my panties, he groaned at the sight of theme before he sat up, a smirk on his face. I bit into my lip, feeling embarrassed that I was wearing a hot pink thong, he captured my thighs, as he held my gaze he placed both legs on either side of his body, my feet against his collarbone. Slowly he took hold of the string on my hips before slowly, an agonizing speed, pulling it down, and then up my legs. I pulled my feet out and placed them at his waist before sliding the soles against the tight skin of his sides until they were placed against the bed, my knees now under his arms. He never released my gaze, his charcoal eyes holding me in a lovers embrace.
He discarded his own underwear before running his hands from the tops of my knees down along the sides of my thighs, sending anticipation and sparks up my spine and deep into my center, long artistic fingers flowed up my hips and along my sides. My hands held onto his elbows before drawing up to his shoulders, gripping him tightly in my hands. Leaning down, our mouths crashed again, I held him as close as I could, mouth to mouth, chest to chest. One of his hands fisted my hair, the pain turned into pleasure. His other hand ran down from the collarbone, to the valley between my breasts, past my naval and towards my center.
"Sasuke!" I moaned as I felt the pressure of his fingers against my mound, he kissed my neck as he pushed into me, feeling the warmth of my wet womanhood. I cried out at the feeling of his fingers in me, his thumb pleasing a certain little area that awakened my lust for him even more. "Ahahahah!" I groaned as his mouth over took mine, swallowing my moans as he explored me for a moment, stretching me, reaching the most pleasurable spot within my body. I felt as if I was going to explode or die, maybe both. I gripped his shoulders so hard I must have broken skin by the time he released me.
His hands gripped my inner thighs, spreading me up and out as his own thighs where placed under me, supporting my legs. I felt him at my entrance. Taking hold of his shoulders I braced myself. Fire ignited as he entered, both of us moaning at the feeling of liquid fire. He wasted no time, no need to take it slow like new lovers, he set a pace that was strong and fast, I held on for dear life. I screamed and moaned as Sasuke kissed and bit into my neck, his hands braced hard on my shoulder one pulling my arm down and holding it over my head. My free hand tangled into his hand and pulled tightly.
I felt myself reaching the beautiful white-liquid-fire cataclysmic ending that was my orgasm as his thrust became hard and determined his hands gripped my face as his forehead was placed against mine; he looked down at me, pleading with his eyes. I held onto his waist as I was shaking, my breath rapid, my heart racing. I knew what he wanted.
"No one has ever loved anyone as much as I love you!" I screamed as I reached orgasm. I felt as if I was falling, nothing under me existed. I heard Sasuke rear up and roar into my neck with one final thrust.
Sasuke gave me his full weight as we both recovered from that absolutely perfect bout of lovemaking. I wrapped my legs over his buttocks and my arms over his back, one hand playing with the hair at the nape of his neck. Our breathing matched, both of our hearts drummed to the same rhythm, and we both felt spent.
Sasuke gathered me to him and rolled onto his back, placing me back into my nook, I made myself comfortable and looked up at him, he looked down at me, and the hand that belonged to the arm I rested on rubbed my scalp. Both of us smiled with our eyes.
"Sasuke…" I moved closer to him, "find him…find our son."
Sasuke tensed. I had always referred to Takashi as my child or my son, never his nor ours. He tightened his hold on me, pleased at what I had just said.
"I will, Sakura."
Hinata placed Takashi's foot in her lap as she rubbed ointment on the little boys tired feet. He was playfully laughing, his feet being the most sensitive place on his body. When she placed a sock on him, she smiled, sweet boy. Naruto and three of the men had gone off to rendezvous with a trader for food and some other supplies, leaving Hinata to care for the boy and the others in the caravan.
"Thank you, Auntie!" Takashi said as he reared up ad placed an innocent and loving kiss on her cheek. "I'm all better!"
"Yes you are!" Hinata gathered the child into her and kissed the top of his head and loved on him. He hugged her back, content on his features as he accepted her love.
She dressed him for bed and placed her charge in his fold up bed, rubbing his forehead and looking down into his dark eyes. "Tell me the rest of the story?" he asked. "Uncle Naruto isn't here, so you can finish it, please Auntie?"
"Okay," she said with a hushed and sweet voice before she bunkered down next to him with her arm around him, "Where did I leave off?" she asked.
"When the Prince was put in jail and the Princess wouldn't go see him! After he left and started a war against their home but lost." He was so enthusiastic.
"Right you are, okay: The princess so hurt by her love's betrayal couldn't bring herself to go to the prison and look at him. Pride swallowing her, she asked for his execution. But the Queen of the land asked for the princess, her student, to see the prince. There in the darkness of the prison labyrinth the princess looked upon the prince for the first time in years. Broken and defeated, he claimed that all he wanted was to come home and be with her. Allowing her love for him to wash over her, she pardoned him. They got married, had a little baby boy, and lived happily together forever."
Hinata looked down at the child, watching his reaction. His almond eyes wide, mouth agape, shock all across his face. She traced his long bangs and waited for him to react with worlds. He looked up at her with a glare, one pinning her, one that could have made his father proud, a true Uchiha glare.
"That's it?" he asked, "I liked the story better with all the fighting and swords and lightning! How does it end like that?"
Hinata smiled sweetly at the child, he loved adventure stories, like the ones Naruto told. But her stories where different, they were about his parents. She told the truth for the most part, wanting Takashi to understand the events that lead his father to his choices, no matter how dark or twisted they were. She only hid the monstrosities that took place around his birth.
"Not every story ends in a battle, Takashi." She smiled, "even if uncle Naruto's are better than mine, mine will teach you lessons that you might need one day."
"I'm too little for lessons!" he said squealing his eyes shut.
"I don't think so; four is a good age to learn." She kissed him before putting him to bed on the pallet.
Takashi was woken up by a frantic Hinata, "What?" he said coming awake.
Hinata pulled him into her arms and jumped up into a tree. "Don't worry, I got you!" she cooed when he started to cry, "Shhh, its okay I got you, you're safe Takashi." She walked along the branch and pushed a tarp away from a hollow hole, "Go in there and be quiet, like the pay drills Uncle Naruto does, Shhh."
"Auntie…" he cried, his hands at his eyes trying to keep the tears away. "I want uncle Naruto!"
"Takashi, whatever you hear; do not come out!" Hinata said with worry on her face, she gently pushed his bangs back, looking down at this child, tears in his eyes.
"You're scaring me, Auntie!" he whimpered.
"Stay here, I will protect you." She kissed his brow before pushing back onto her feet and jumping down.
Takashi placed his back against the hallow hole, the darkness of the night scaring him. Inside his chest he felt his little heart race, deafening him, he panicked, wanted to scream but knowing not to, clamping his hands over his mouth and choking back his terror. Tears formed as the sky blasted with reds and oranges, other people screaming, evil laughter booming. When all was quiet, he waited for Hinata to come back for him. He could barely see out of the owl's hole, he went to stand on his toes, suddenly the tree moved!
"AHAHAHAH!" Takashi could not hold back his screams as the tree fell to the ground, pushing him out of the hole and onto the ground. He cried because there was a pain in his wrist. Laying on the cold hard ground in the dark, he wish for his mother, wanting her to come and save him. Cradling his wrist he looked up at the sky, crying.
A shadow appeared above him, it smelled of the tobacco some grownups put in their mouths, "Who do we have here..?"
I woke to Sasuke kissing my back. I smirked into my elbow as I hugged my pillow tighter to me. Not wanting to wake, I was sleeping so peacefully I didn't want to be disturbed. Not even by my husband. His hands traced along my back and into the curve of my spine under the duvet cover. I growled, wanting to be left alone, but he ignored me, continuing to caress me and worship me with kisses.
"Wake up…wife…" he whispered into my skin.
"No." I answered.
He darkly chucked before leaning into me, his body resting against mine, he slung an arm over me his hand holding my elbow as his head dipped into my hair, "I have five meeting to attend to today, and I won't survive them without some time with you." He said.
"Suck it up." I head butted his hand and held the pillow tighter, "I'm so rundown, I just want to sleep all day." I said with a sigh.
Sasuke leaned his head down onto mine and breathed in deeply, "I know it's only been three months, I have my personal scouts in all units looking for a child matching his description, but don't let it get to you. We're looking for him, that's what counts. We will find him."
"I just want him back!" I whimpered as I turned over onto my back and into Sasuke's embrace, "I feel so guilty for leaving him. I want him back before he's too old to forgive me and resents me for life. It took you for years to find me! What if we don't find him until he's in his teens? What it—"
Sasuke silenced me with a kiss, before hugging me, "We will find him, Sakura. I swear it. You will have our boy back and you will be his mother for the rest of his life."
"Okay," I wrapped my arms around him and nodded into his shoulder.
I stayed in bed for most of the day. Kaiko came in with some boxes of family photos and photos of her recent vacation, books, and gossip from the female staff quarters. She sat on the bed and we looked at pictures of her family and pictures of the cities that where popping up all over the new territory. The Hokage Mountain was still standing, that surprised me.
"And this is my cousin Ami, and her husband Kenshi, and my niece Momo! She's two months old now!" Kaiko squealed in delight at the pictures of the fattest baby I have ever seen. But it was a cut fat baby.
"Your family is sweat, Kaiko, owe!" I gasped as a sharp pain ran from my lower back up my spine as I tried to lie down in a comfortable position. "What is wrong with me…I'm so stressed and achy…I just want to lie down, or throw up…something…" I groaned.
"OH!" Kaiko gasped, "I know why you are so rundown, Lady Uchiha." Kaiko said suddenly as if she had the million dollar answer. She was beaming with happiness, jumping around and doing a little jig. "Oh this is wonderful!"
"What is?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"You're pregnant!"
…Say what..?
"No I'm not…" I felt my body go cold, "I'm stressed because my son is still missing. It's been three months since we started and still no news. There is no way in hell I'm expecting."
Kaiko ceased her jumping and looked at me as if I was a brick wall, "did you have your tubes tied?"
"No!" I said defensively.
"Are you on the pill?"
"No…" come to think of it…
"Does Lord Uchiha use condoms?"
"…um…no…" oh mother-fucking-gates-of-hell-son-of-a-bitch-shit!
"Congratulations!" She said throwing her arms around me, "I couldn't be happier for you and his lordship!"
"Oh my god I'm pregnant!" why is the room spinning so fast?
"That's not a pleasant face…Lady Uchiha..?"
"Sakura?" Sasuke asked with concern as he entered the bedchamber. I was sitting on my side, my hands in my lap, "are you okay, Kaiko said you fainted earlier." He sat down beside me and placed his hand against my head.
"I'm fine," I pushed the hand away. "I just started myself,"
"Well you started Kaiko too, she send five 'emergency' notes to me during my council meetings with Madera." He wrapped an arm around me.
I broke, I started to cry, and I fell into his side and let out all of my emotions. He took it, holding my hand and rubbing my back, not caring if I was getting his shirts wet. When I was done I looked up at him, my hands holding his face he looked down at me, concern and questions in his yes.
"I'm pregnant." I whispered.
The absolute joy that spread across Sasuke's face was the complete opposite of the painful guilt I had in my gut. He looked at me with such wonder and love. His hand instantly went to my belly fully intent of sending out chakra strings to investigate.
I shook my head, "too early, could damage it. Kaiko thinks I'm only a month maybe two. I won't know until a doctor examines me. I can't do it because I don't have access to my chakra." I looked up at the ceiling, and counted to ten, trying not to freak out.
"Are you not happy?" Sasuke asked.
"I am…" I felt the pain in my chest, "it's just…I'm pregnant and my son is still missing! How can this happen? My child is gone and here I am pregnant with another, I feel so horrible!"
"Sakura," Sasuke wrapped his arms around me, his warmth incasing me, "we will find him."
"I want my son!" I cried.
"How about we get out of here?"
"What?"
"How about we leave? You've been in here for six months."
"Really?" I said excitedly, "where?"
"Now you're happy? You where crying a moment ago."
"Hormones, sue me." I laughed. "Where?"
"You'll see, tomorrow."
I was told to keep my eyes closed as Sasuke released the confinement seal and then transported us to a new location through a transportation jutsu. I felt the wind push my hair off my neck, sweet nectar filled the air. I opened my eyes and was presented with roaming mountains, fog, trees, and a little yellow house tucked in the hillside, under the shade of five large trees. I recognized the dirt pathway liked with white, pink, and red cosmos ten inches high. The felids off to the side went on for miles without any other houses, and a river passing through it.
"Is this my grandmother's house?" I asked, stunned as I saw the white climbing vine over the door.
"Yes," His arms wrapped around my middle as he held me to his chest, "now it's our home. Tucked away from Madera eyes, where we can have this baby and no one will find out. It will be just you and me. Happy anniversary, my love." He placed a kiss on my neck.
"I want to cry…" I turned and kissed him, "I love you." I smiled so big my face hurt. "Kaiko is coming too, right?"
He smirked, "whatever you want."
"Yay!" I laughed before taking his hand, "I want to see the house!" I pulled him with me into the door.
Everything was almost the same, hardwood floors, blue walls, and a large kitchen. Sasuke held my hand the entire time, walking in and out of the rooms with me. One room was already decorated for a little boy. The bedroom for us was already furnished and a closet full of clothes and shoes, oh my man is a godsend.
I moved to sit down on the bed but he pulled me, "Don't, we have something else to look at."
"What?"
"The garden, remember."
"Ha-ha, okay." I rolled my yes, it would be there tomorrow.
This time he led me through the house until we came upon the backdoor. We pushed through it and where rewarded with the sight of a large lake of clear crystal water. Roses and alliums lined the back of the house. Hydrangeas created separate flowerbeds. It smells wonderful there; I closed my eyes and remembered my childhood, the running around, the flowers, the water, and all the laughter.
I froze when I heard a real child laughing. I opened my eyes and looked to the left, over the bushes, where the old swing set use to be. I gasped. Was I imagining it? There, next to two Uchiha guards a little boy was running around chasing a butterfly. The guards where amused as he ran jumping for the insect but never really catching it. But he was a determined little thing.
He was just how I pictured him. Gangly limbs, long legs, light skin; highborn coloring and features, dark hair and eyes, but my smile. I could see it from the house, bright and joyful. I fell in love with him. I didn't realize I was crying until I touched my cheek, I turned and hid my face into Sasuke's neck, I laughed, full of joy.
"It's him…" I said, "Our baby!" I cried as I looked up at him.
"He was found three weeks ago in a refugee camp, he was move there after a small caravan was attacked by raiders, he was found alone in the woods with a sprained wrist." Sasuke held my face, smiling down at me, "he's here, Sakura, our son is here."
"It's really him," I turned to look at him, "but…he doesn't know me, he has no idea who we are."
"He does actually. He's been talking his guard's ears off since he got here. He knows you're his mom, Sakura."
"He does?" I whipped my tears away. "I want to go see him." I started walking that moment. I felt as if I couldn't get there fast enough. I was standing in the felid before I knew it, Sasuke right behind me.
Takashi stopped running when he noticed me standing there, he looked over at us, his dark eyes shocked and confused. His little mouth dropped slightly as he seemed to recognize me. The butterfly now forgotten, he smiled. "MOM!" he cried as he ran towards me, his arms out wide. I went down to catch him, his little arms wrapped around my neck as I crushed him to me.
"I knew you were real!" he cried, "I knew it!"
"Takashi," I cried into his black and night hair. "My little Takashi, I love you so much my darling."
Sasuke came to stand beside me, placing his hand on our sons head. Takashi looked up bewildered, "I knew you where my dad!" he chirped happily.
I kissed his little cheeks and smiled, "we will never leave you again, my love."
"I know."
Word Count: 8,504
Pages: 19
I was captured by a thing called "summer job" so I didn't have time to upload this so I gave you all a little something extra, a new BABY!
One more chapter to go and BIMIB is over.