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Title:Natsu no kōrinoFuyu Kasai (winter's fire summer's ice)

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I formally apologize for any grammatical errors. Being my own editor and writer among other things is hard.

[Chapter Fifty Two]

Sakura groaned disoriented and in pain. Her head throbbed. Weakness and nausea cascaded down her body as pain shot through her arms and legs as they were spread wide. Her hands were tied to the ceiling by metal chains that dug into her wrists, her legs tugged apart and shackled into the floor. Her body fell forward the taste of blood in its metallic glory strong as her mouth was full of blood. Each breath was a scream from her, winded and in pain.

Sakura could hardly even move her head. Her palms throbbed as they had been pierced by wood and one was in her chest too. Blood oozed through.

The pain was unlike anything she had every felt, her naked body covered in bleeding cuts and burses. She couldn't plead anymore or cry out anymore. Sakura couldn't beg for her life as she dipped in and out of consciousness. She never really thought of how technically she was going to die. She knew she would die and she would die soon but she had never really thought about what exactly would be the first to kill her. Would it be her illness? Would it be the souls inside of her? A car accident? No it would be this as something crucified her.

The symbolic circle she was in with the slain goat in front of her lit up. Electricity surged through the metal and her body tensed as she shrieked at the top of her lungs the pain shooting up through her body. Her hoarse and sore through pulsed and blood shot out of her mouth as she wailed the pain sucking the life out of her. Her skin set a fire the tears had now turned to Sasuke's blood running down her face.

She heard the clicking of heels and laughter. "From the moment I saw her I just knew she was perfect." The woman said her voice oddly familiar but equally foreign.

It sounded so distant Sakura could just barely make out the words. She was talking to someone who was probably the man that had lured her into car only to do this to her. She wondered if Sasuke was going to come for her. It seemed like a lost cause. She didn't know how he would when they couldn't feel each other. She felt void and empty on the inside.

"She's not bleeding fast enough," he growled angrily, "It's like no matter what I do the blood is hardly leaving her body. We can't start anything until she bleeds out."

"Then cut her some more!"

"Where!?" He yelled frustrated coming into view. "If you haven't fucking noticed I've slit every fucking inch of her goddamn body."

Sakura forced her eyes open. He was a just a blur and a mixing of colors but he was more like an It. He had three eyes all of them black like night time. His skin was a disgusting yellow green and he hissed the tongue of a snake coming out of his mouth. He titled his head sideways.

"Are you posit…"

She zoned out again unable to keep her head up or even listen anymore. There was pain even in the darkness of her subconscious. The pain was potent sieving through her cells and into her brain. She didn't know what they had done to her but she couldn't even hear from her inner though she knew the Kavazwalian was probably the one preventing her from bleeding out and dying.

But Sakura wanted to die. She would give everything and anything to die in that moment. She wanted the pain to stop. The maddening slices and wood boring through her skin and the tight hot pain burning her flesh she would give anything just to make it stop. She did not want to make it out of this. Electricity pulsed through her at such a high voltage Sakura could hear her skin burning off from her bones her mouth torn open in agony but no sound came out.

Her body slumped with her head hung low, blood dripping out. She didn't know what was happening down to her fingers disoriented and had absolutely no feeling in them. She gasped like she had been drowning the moment she came to and gagged but there was no vomit to come out. She'd released everything what felt like a long time ago.

What was Sasuke doing? Was he worried about her? Was he at the banquet? She didn't want him to miss it with how important the banquet was. What would he do when he realized that she was dead? Sakura coughed and blood literally erupted and poured out of her mouth like a tap. Her insides twisted and turned and she wailed as the blood gushed out. She gasped and lulled with the chains being the only thing keeping her body up.

Her pink hair hung around her from her neck down to the tips red and drenched in her own blood as it hung on her skin and around her bleeding and naked body. She was going to die here tonight and even if she didn't she was going to live her life wishing she had.

Sakura stood at Ino's front door with her heart playing hopscotch in her chest. She was shaking from head to toe. She knew he was out there waiting on her and she was having the hardest time convincing herself to open the door and face him.

What if he didn't like the dress she had on? What if he didn't like her hairstyle or her eyebrows or anything else for that matter? What if he had a bad day and couldn't be bothered? On rare occasions he got like that with her when he was stressed. For some reason this seemed like the most cataclysmic event of her entire life.

She took a deep breath and opened the front door, closing it behind her and making her way over to his car. This time it was sleek and black. It was one she hadn't seen before but reminded her of panthers. He leaned against the car, his hands in his pockets, a smile playing on his lips.

She flushed as she stood before him. "What are you smiling about?" she stuttered out, head down looking at the floor.

He opened the car door but didn't say anything. She looked up at him then squinting. She titled her head. Something was wrong- so wrong she felt it down to the insides of her marrow. Her heart leaped fifty feet in her chest. She gripped his arm.

"What's wrong?" she asked. "What happened?"

"I'll tell you about it in the car ride." He said crisply like his starch pressed suite.

It wasn't the suite she'd thought he would have been wearing but he still looked amazing in it. The feeling travelled down her spine like cold, hunkering down into the pits of her belly. For some strange reason she hesitated to get into the car. He just looked at her but it felt like he wasn't looking all at the same time. What could have happened to change him so much since she had seen him yesterday? She couldn't handle anymore kinds of big news. Not anymore.

She nodded then and slid into the car. He closed the door and then got in. she kept looking at him. Something was wrong, so wrong. She had known from the moment she saw him but as he started the engine Sakura felt like she was in the car with a complete stranger. Stranger. That's when the fear gripped her.

"Who are you?" she demanded before she could stop herself.

She had taken too long to ask he was already off the curb and driving along the seats. Metal bars projected from the seats and wrapped around Sakura, caging her to the seat. The scream had ripped from her throat with such rawness even she couldn't have believed it.

There was more talking but there was so much internal and external noise Sakura could hardly hear it. It all sounded like a mixture of blurs and slurs but it was rushed and quick. She forced herself to focus their voices coming to the forefront of everything.

"He can't know I'm here!" She exclaimed panicked. "I thought you said he couldn't find her!"

"He shouldn't be able to!" He roared frantic.

"Remember what I told you," she said quickly her voice almost clicking in Sakura's head but she couldn't focus enough to stick a name and a face to it, "remember what I told you."

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Kill him if she won't leave the girl." She instructed.

Sakura's eyes widened. He found her. Sasuke found her. How did he even figure out where she was or even get here so fast when they had not even a thread of connection? Relief should have flooded her but it didn't. What was he going to save? She was two seconds away from being a mere carcass strung up by the ceiling. The floor beneath her trembled and she prepared herself weakly for the next dose of pain.

There was a loud explosive sound and the world shook and rattled. Sakura groaned forcing her eyes to open. Everything was a mirage and out of focus but she could make him out. It didn't even take her a second to see him standing in the door way in the far corner in front of her. His red eyes made him a target and soon –just barely- the images came into focus.

He had something in each hand but she couldn't tell what it was until he held them up. They seemed limp and large. Bodies. They were dead bodies. Sakura could see the demon inside of him breathing.

"Stay back!"

"They were yours?" Sasuke asked holding up the bodies higher for him to see.

Voltage shot through her ridiculously. Her body became taut and shaking, her shrill blood coated and she felt wet all over as blood gushed from the wood in her chest, palms and knees. Tears gushed from her eyes in their redness.

"Alea!" he cried out as Sasuke dropped one body and tore her head off with the heel of his shoe. He glanced up back at him, his eyes like nothing Sakura could have imagined.

Blood tumbled out of her mouth and she wheezed pain slicing and dicing inside of her chest. "Sasu…ke." The words almost didn't come out contaminated by the blood.

She had never seem him like this with so much darkness coming from him. His power was all but crushing the room and cracking the walls. He held up the other girl by the throat and she whimpered, her body covered in blood. The grotesque sight made her want to vomit but Sasuke had her under some sort of spell…her…savior?

"One more step and she's fucking dead." Something sharp and cool touched her neck. "I'll slit her throat."

He ran his tongue over all his teeth and cracked his neck. He nodded and ripped off an arm off the other body in his hand. Blood spewed everywhere, spraying her Sasuke's face but he was unfazed. The girl screamed, her voice manifesting throughout the entire room as Sasuke held her like a toy.

"How many bones have you broken?" Sasuke asked. She heard his dress shoes click against the warehouse floor as he walked in ripping limbs off the body with each step he took. "How many cuts exactly have you given her?" O

The blade pressed into her throat. Sakura's head was up, her hair falling behind her in their wet heaviness and she watched him. She watched Sasuke come closer and closer his face collected and smooth as if nothing fazed him. His eyes a lethal gorgeous red hypnotized her. Sasuke stopped at the edge of the symbol in which Sakura stood. He stared at the decapitated goat for a fraction of a second.

"Step away from her." He instructed lethally holding a head up.

She'd never seen him like this before. There was so much hate and vengeance in his eyes, so much blood and monstrous need to kill she could see it all over his face, drowning in his red eyes. Had kidnapping her done this to him?

He laughed manically. "Get out of here."

He was left with the head of the woman he had killed. "Or this will be your daughters head after I tear her womb out with a katana." He finished calmly. The blade pressed deeper into Sakura's throat quickly. Sasuke nodded and looked Sakura in her eyes. "Don't look."

Which was fairly easy to do. Her eyes closed before she could even think. Her heart wasn't racing and Sakura couldn't even remotely feel nervous or worried about what would happen. The blade was gone from her neck and noise erupted in the warehouse. Her entire body shook and sung as the earth vibrated beneath her. Animalistic growls shattered her eardrums. It started so quickly she could barely understand it.

She slipped out of consciousness again and when she came to there was a lot of noise. A lot of talking well more like panicked screaming. The haze made her head feel like it weighed a thousand pounds, her neck about to snap and unconsciousness was about to take her for good.

"Hold him Naruto!" A voice barked.

"What does it look like I'm doing!?" A voice screamed loudly almost like a lions roar. "Get him out of here Sasuke won't stop!"

Her eyes forced themselves open. Naruto had a bright red bubbling coating around him, three tails twitching behind of him. His eyes were blood red and his teeth and nails were sharp. What he was holding down didn't even look like Sasuke but completely like him at the same time. His hair was so silver it was almost lavender his skin color deeper and different. She could hardly comprehend the large hands for wings. Wings. He had told her once that he had wings. Possibly the kind that they have when they fall and burn in a cross fire. It's more on the grotesque side of things Those had been his exact words. Her stomach rolled.

"Sasuke you can't kill so many in one night! You need to STOP!" Naruto yelled frustrated. "You can't kill him!"

"Sasuke." The sob got stuck in her sore throat her eyes rolling over. God she wanted this to be over. She wanted it to be over and she wanted it to be over now.

Their eyes locked and she couldn't help but think about how beautiful he was even in this inhumane form. So much like himself through and through. She wasn't even remotely afraid of him as he stared at her like for a second he had forgotten why he had been here. Rage had consumed him and she watched it leave his entire body like looking at her pulled it right out of him.

He shrugged out of Naruto's hard grasp and was behind her in a second. The second the metal released her arms from the ceiling her body headed to the floor. He caught her but just the contact alone had pain siring through her skin and had her screaming. The light rammed into her eyes but she couldn't even move her arms that had been snapped or her palms that still had the wood in there.

His wings folded over her sending her in complete darkness. "I have you." He assured her but that wasn't enough.

The pain was real. Sakura would have given the entire world to die. Everything. Her body shook and trembled the pain was everywhere on every inch of her body. She felt the cold floor beneath her as he laid her down. She turned her head to the side. Darkness spotted her vision the wood grinding in her chest.

"We can't pull them out." Shikamaru said kneeling down beside her naked, blistered, cut and bruised body.

The darkness was coming closer and closer, coming in and consuming her sight. It was final this darkness that was covering her vision. Her heart beat was slow and irregular.

"What are you going to do?" He asked.

"Take it out." Sasuke said his voice strangely steady. "She'll be dead in a minute if we don't. I can fix this."

Sakura wailed like a zombie when a hand gripped the wood that had pierced her chest. Sasuke grabbed her hand. She knew his touch anywhere. He took her face and she forced herself to look at him, hardly able to make him out. She wanted to touch his face or something but she couldn't even…

"You'll be okay. I promise." He said but she knew he was going to tear the wood from out of her palm.

Words words and just more words. She wasn't fine. She had never been fine. If it wasn't one thing it was another or someone or even somewhere. He couldn't stop this. He could save her but he couldn't stop this. No one could stop this as long as-

The wood tore through her chest and Sakura could swear she tasted death on her tongue like morphine.

There you have it guys! The end of another chapter! I hope you all have a SPLENDID weekend! Stay positive and stay motivated!

Endless Love,

D.V