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Jealousy
The Feudal Lord's wife is riding a horse in the woods while her retainers mingle in together keeping an eye on her. She is hunting with her husband who is 5 meters ahead of her chasing a red deer. While she's just entertaining herself of the nature's beauty around her, the servants keep on advising her to participate to hunt but she's not in the mood. They were in a big forest at the south east of the palace, the place where most species of deer is abundant.
She'd been busy and quite depressed since Sasuke left. To make herself not to think more about him, she focuses more on her role as the Daimyo's wife. She started to learn how to play the koto instrument in a special practice room. Studying how to play the 13 stringed instrument is easy. However she had destroyed three musical instruments due to her strength and her temper, so she stop in playing them and choose to lock herself in the archives of the palace, reading the feudal duties until morning.
It's been three days now, she don't have any idea where is the man who said he will be her husband in the future. She was lonely. Even the people around here are not helping. Rika once told her she's not fit to be a wife because she lacks the proper etiquette, she's always been a tomboy ever since and her coaches don't go easy on her given the fact that she is a ninja, they are pressuring her to behave like a real lady of the palace.
Okubo's younger cousin wants him to abdicate and he's the only next possible successor. She remembered the Hokage and Okubo's cousin's reminder on how they plan to remove him in his position.
Contrary to the belief that his past wives died in illness and others left him, they were actually killed by Okubo. As a ruler of a country, if he will be assassinated; it means war and the people who hates him cannot afford fighting the Fire. Itachi suspected that Okubo is infertile and Sakura is making a way to expose this if it's true. The possibility is that he killed is wives and the women he slept with because he don't want the world know he can't have a child.
It came to the point that the family cannot control Okubo anymore. He has sadistic personality disorder and they want to get rid of him but they aren't yet sure if killing can be the answer. To complicate more things, they don't want to let people know he is a crazy sadistic ruler especially his cousin wants to get his position and not the next clan in line. When Okubo's cousin asked for Itachi's help on this and good timing he is obsessing with Sakura and he proposed a plan even they have many demands, Itachi easily finds a way and planned the wedding that will favour both sides of the party.
Sakura accepted the mission from Itachi wholeheartedly, telling her it is "Mission of her life."
I've been married for 3 days, and I have no idea what's happening to Konoha. Sasuke-kun said he will leave as soonest but he didn't even say goodbye to me.
"How lovely." She heard the man with the long hair. He is smirking at the bloody deer on the grass, Sakura watches him on how he smile without any ounce of happiness in it. For her, 3 days is enough to tell that he really is capable of killing his wives.
Sakura clapped her hands, giving him praises on how skill full he is in using bow and arrow. He smiled and kisses her on the lips. She never felt so disgusted in all her life. She quickly moves away while faking a sweet smile. This bastard is my first kiss. The more they got closer, the more her hearts becomes heavier.
And Sakura wishes she never met the old Sasuke.
That evening, Okubo became more frustrated, while all is working according to Sakura's plan. Thinking he's been deprived with the past three days, so she called for her to come in his chamber. He wants to touch her, he want to show her how much he hungers for her. For some reason he can't remember his first time with her and he wants to relive that night, even though it never really happened.
The requirements are met, she wants to end this but she has plenty of time before finishing the mission. She faked a smile again, enduring his kisses on her neck. The man starts to remove her kimono so she is just on her white robe laying her defenceless on his bed. She will not lie; he is indeed a beautiful man, his auburn long hair falling on his shoulder, staring at his eyes intensely.
She is very nervous if she can do it, but she have no courage, she wants to do it to the man she loves. Until Okubo stops and calls his servant to come inside. Sakura was surprised, covering herself when the servant entered pushing a wooden cart.
"What are these tools for?" She asked looking at the box that the servant left on the nearest table. At first it looks like some weird home equipment but when she examined them closely they are all bondage gears. There's a harness, belt, hood, tape and red ropes.
"Don't worry." He said, so she just closes her eyes feeling his hands tying her on the headboard. "You'll enjoy this." Whispering on her ear, Sakura had expected this, it is one of his habits based on the hidden forensic reports of the women he slept with. But one more surprise is to see him holding a crossbow aiming to her heart.
"W-wait, what's that?" She suddenly got nervous. I didn't see that coming. Her hands is now tied up, thinking what should be her response, to act afraid or fight?
Okubo starts to laugh and said he is just kidding and surprising her by hovering above her. "Haha, look at your face you're so afraid of me, of course I won't hurt you." He said laughing like a maniac.
"Wait!" She tried to protest when but he suddenly slapped her face.
"Oh, I didn't mean that sweetheart." He said, looking very apologetic, he touches gently her reddened cheek because of his slap.
"Don't hurt me please," She begs, definitely expecting of something in return from the man above her. The more she begs the more he will show his true colours. He is absolutely insane. She thought.
"But you know it will hurt right?" He strangles her neck with the red rope and grabs her face. Adoring how her emerald eyes cry for his mercy. Slowly he undresses totally in front of her, and Sakura look somewhere at the other corner of the room not ready for this. It's totally going too far especially his hands travelled under her skirt.
She gulped hard, collecting all the chakra on both of her hands until some bluish flashes lighted the dark room, she was sure she heard chirping birds just seconds ago. Her saviour quickly catches the unconscious Okubo to throw him on the floor before he fell on top of Sakura. It was chidori nagashi. Sakura thought.
The man standing behind the window is glaring at her, with sharingan activated. His left eye is covered in bandage, and he is simply wearing his usual navy blue shirt with black pants below. He looks taller than the last time she'd seen him and his hair grew like two inches longer.
She is still studying about Okubo's behaviour and thinking of other terms on making him resign in his position. Itachi told her any means possible to let him abdicate. She had a month of deadline to finish this.
Sakura stares at the man who broke into the Feudal Lord's room. Even though she can totally kick the Okubo's ass, she is giving the absolute tolerance that made him mad. He is now her new problem; it will take a lot of effort to defend herself to be caught in this situation by the man she values the most.
However, he was surprised when she starts to cry. She misses him, so she quickly got up to come to him, removing herself from the ropes by her strength with ease. She jumped to reach for his comfort but he shoves her away.
"What is this?" He is referring to the crossbow on the table, and grabbing the red rope to hand it to her to emphasize his point. "So is this your thing?" With just a blink of an eye, he's now checking on the man the floor, definitely alive. He unsheathes his katana and about to plunge the blade to his heart but Sakura grabs his arm.
"No please! Do not interfere!" She protested, grabbing the katana and slowly using her two hands to guide him to bring it back to his dark gray scabbard. He thinks I'm dirty now. She thought, still hurt when he didn't let him touch her. "You're not supposed to be here." That's only she can say.
"I will kill your beloved Daimyo right here right now, or you will tell me what your mission exactly." It's an ultimatum, for him to catch her like this is driving him nuts. He was worried when he found her room empty and this is the second option he checked to find her. Sakura has no idea on how afraid he is. His heart is beating so fast, he doesn't want to catch them doing it even she assured him that it will never happen.
In the end Sakura had to explain everything to calm him down and not to be controlled by his emotion. All the tension in the room faded away when she confessed. "I'm sorry." She said, trying to break the long silence after her explanation. They were both standing on the room facing each other.
"No need to say that." He said, putting her head on his chest. "I just sneaked away from Konoha, I got an operation 3 days ago and they don't want me to leave the hospital." He explained. "My headaches returned again and for me to see you under him are the worst." He said, Sakura had no idea how relieved he was to see her safe and pure.
"I thought you have returned to your home?" She asked suddenly, removing her face from his chest to look at his face.
"Not yet." He answered. Sakura don't know how exactly she should be feeling right now. She needs him even he belongs to another place, after this stolen time they had, Sakura is aware that she will be alone again, but she doesn't have the courage to avoid him.
"My eye isn't healed yet; they told me I need two days or more before I can use my left eye's dojutsu. Something came up, and my original rinnegan was restored; if my visual prowess finally works I can go home."
"Good for you." She said.
"Hey, what's with that face?"
"I just… I don't know, it doesn't make sense. You're not telling me what particularly happened to you. Why did you travelled here? If you are really from the future, where's the Sasuke-kun of this world? You should co-exist with another you. It's confusing… and you're going to leave me. I realize I don't want it." Sasuke stiffened at this, and lifted her chin to see the sadness.
I don't want to tell her she is in a tsukuyomi, because she will make that sad face again.
"Sakura, I'm not going away from you." He said, holding her shoulders in his arms. "I'm coming back for you."
The young Sakura understands what he means, and she know the way he looks at her is the eyes he have for his wife, thinking that he is treating her as the same person. "What I can tell you is that I was trapped in a powerful jutsu and came here where the people around me are young. You and Naruto are younger, even I but I should have the same age as Itachi right now. It's hard, to be in a place that you don't belong too."
She didn't protest anymore, and nodded in agreement. "What if you can't return anymore?"
"I will die trying." It was a sincere answer that she cannot object anymore. She admits her defeat, she can't dream to have more like this. My fate is not to this man in front of me. That's her conclusion.
"But you can't die trying; you need to go back alive." She corrected. "Just promise me." She said, her soft hands sliding around his waist and stared on the tatami floor. "I want to see you before you go." She asked.
He flashed a warm smile for her understanding her pain. "Of course." He said.
"So, what is your plan with him?" He asked, pointing at her rapist.
"Do not worry; I am not capable of killing him unless he gives me the reason while staying here."
"You cannot do it right?" Sasuke asked. "You cannot kill that easily, Itachi will understand that."
"Yes, but I have a perfect plan for him to abdicate. Please worry about yourself Sasuke-kun. For you to go here in the palace again is unnecessary."
"It's important. If I didn't come he might rape you." Sasuke shakes his head again, trying to control himself not to remember things he did to Sakura, he might totally kill him. Sakura noticing his irritation again they decided to clean the mess on the room and sneaked to her place.
"I'm sure you need something, tell me?" She asked. "Do you want me to check on your head?" They're now on her room, she combs his raven bangs to see his face clearly.
"I came to see you. I want to see you." She blushed on how he can say it in a straight face.
"Me too." She said smiling at him. "May I have a quick check on your eye?" He nodded and guided her to her bed to have a seat. "Don't you have to be with Hokage?"
"At least I need to get back this night; he told me he wants me to meet someone. He said he's an old family friend who can check on my situation."
"A guy? I see..." Sakura wants to know if his headaches occurred because of his original eyes returned. Promising she will return, she told him she will just get them something to drink by calling out for Rika's help.
"Kya!" When she returned, Sasuke is sitting on her bed without a shirt. She gulped hard and turned her back on him.
"You're the one who's going to get us caught." He said sarcastically, a bit offended to her reaction.
"You should have told me that you're naked!" She said, her face is all red.
"Common, turn around." He told Sakura who is facing the wall. "I still have my pants on, why are you so shy?" He said, lying again on the bed resting his head on his crossed arm behind.
"Hey, let me make this clear. You are 7 years older than me and we are alone in a room. If my retainers caught us-"
"So what?" He cut her off.
Leaving her no choice, she turns around and can't avoid to look on his well toned body. "You're forgetting that I'm just 19, not yet your wife!" She yelled.
"I'm not doing anything; why are you so bothered? You even seen that Feudal Bastard's body and stare at him like a puppy." He said nonchalantly; the scene is still pretty clear on his memories.
"Oh no you will not bring that up." She glared at him. "I'm just doing my part!"
"Really?" Sasuke said, still furious on her reaction earlier.
"I'm going to check on you now." He felt how dangerous her aura around when she finally sits on the chair beside the bed. "You better shut-up." It was a threat. After everything you did to me, I've been depressed and you're not helping me. Her face is all furrowed up and the Uchiha choses not to argue anymore or she might break his body. Until she lifts her hand, he thought she's about to hit him he closes his eyes ready to receive her punishment.
"Why did you come here with this temperature? You're burning!" She said her hands on his forehead.
"I don't know, maybe because I lack some sleep." He said.
"Be honest, you come here because you're really sick right? You really didn't come to see me." That made Sasuke sighed, scratching his head.
"You know that's not true." He gives her his famous blank stare, it is a warning that she should be more careful with her words, he admitted earlier that he came for her and she cannot twist the truth just because she's mad.
"Fine." Her green chakra appears, giving him a soothing chakra in his head. "Sleep here, I'll nurse you."
After an hour…
"Ouch!" She pulled the string and made the sound; it was out of tune, she places the koto notes on the floor where she can easily view it while playing the instrument. She continued manipulating the bridges until she's done on the tuning and looks up to watch her sole audience sleeping with that handsome face.
Sasuke slowly opens his eyes, surprise to see the beautiful little lady in white kimono with flower patterns of ume blossoms. Her face is funny, she displays a face of disapproval on how horrible the plucking sounds she is making. When she notices that he's already awake, she apologizes on how noisy she is.
"Don't stop." He said, and then she complies and proceeds on the next notes. The sound had made the room noisier; she became tenser when he already made his way to sit beside her while playing the large instrument in front of her.
Sakura stops and touches his forehead, he is still hot but not like before.
"Rest." She said in high pitched voice. You're just here because you miss your wife. She wanted to say it out loud but she just put her feelings to the instrument, sending her thoughts through the music.
"It's the first time I'd seen you play a musical instrument." He said watching her hands adjusting the strings, struggling to produce a good music for him.
Sasuke suddenly feels dizzy again, watching her cute face who's only thinking about the strings. He fights not to sleep because he wants to watch her. Sasuke don't want to hurt her anymore and Sakura is afraid to fall deeper that she won't be able to stand again once he disappears. The lovers remain silent but appreciating each other presence while weird music continues.
Until she felt his head rest on her shoulder. "I told you, go back to sleep. I am practicing. Do not stress yourself out." He didn't hear her clearly but enjoy her fragrance when she pulled his face to rest on her chest.
"You are the one who is stressed." Sasuke said while eyes were closed, letting her hug him tighter. "In times like this, think more about yourself, you're in a place where nobody knows you personally. That will let you think of unhappy moments." Sakura chuckled at him; it's not like him to teach him how to manage her emotions. "In my experience in my travels, I'm always with people I barely knew, so I just think about my daughter and wife and my brothers in Konoha."
Sakura just frowns and commented, "You talk like an old man." She puts her hands on his head fighting the will not to water her eyes. How she wishes she is the girl on the future, or she is being jealous and selfish right now? She doesn't understand.
"When did you become so talkative?" She said. Suddenly a smoke came out from him and she hurriedly holds him, never letting him go. Is he going to disappear now! She panicked. It is the same sensation when a transformation technique is dispelled.
"Oh no! Who the hell are you?!" She look at the man she is embracing very very carefully, his eyes is closed now, removing his face on her chest to see who he really is. His jaw is perfect and his pointed nose became more prominent. She thought she look like his ancestor; Uchiha Madara to be exact.
What surprises her more is everything is naked and exposed before her eyes. She wants to remove her eyes on him, forcing herself to look up instead of looking down. "Oh my." Sakura thought she's going to lose consciousness but she quickly stands up to pull her white blanket to wrap around his body. "S-Sasuke-kun in… in his… adult form…" My eyes, my eyes… She was extremely confused and distracted to the man on the floor.
She lifted him, bridal side but didn't expect for him to be that heavy and they both fall down on the floor.
"Sakura, what are you doing…" He said, body covered in white, he sounds like he is dreaming.
"You – ch-changed, yy-yourr b-body changed Sasuke-kun!" Not sure if he heard her, she uses her full power to carry his body for the second time to rest on her bed. Running out of breath after lifting a grown man, the first image of his naked body never leave her mind. His leans muscles, and abs, his arms and legs are larger and he is quite taller. His hair is longer, the same length with hers. Even though everything looks good, it still made her sad to found out his left arm was cut.
A rinnegan and an arm in his mid-twenties. She thought curious on what happened but she is sure, he is the Sasuke she knew. She leaned down to kiss the arm that was cut. So this is your real form.
He is really going to leave me.
"Sakura-sama!" It was Rika calling out from her room that made her turn away from the sleeping guy.
"What is it?" She quickly stand up and preparing to hide Sasuke before opening the door.
"Okubo-sama was killed!"
"What?" She looked behind the sleeping man on her bed and decided to go out. I'm sure Sasuke-kun didn't kill him earlier. "Killed? When? How?" She asked, the old woman crying for the Daimyo's death.
"Someone sneaked inside the palace and killed him; he's being stabbed in his heart by a sword three times. The soldiers will come to check everything around so do not be surprised." Rika said, Sakura eyes widened and felt the incoming group of soldiers on their way to her room.
a/n: I'm sorry for giving little Sakura's first kiss to him. Also another warning for the next chapter, I really wish it should be in this release but it's too long already. Thank you for reading guys! I love you all =)
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