A/N: Happy SasuSaku Month, you guys! It's been a year, but I'm back with more stories! I do hope that you people like it!

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Disclaimer: Naruto and its characters belong to Kishimoto; this fanfic, however, belongs to yours truly.


DAY 1: Necromancer


Something was definitely up; she could feel the magic in her blood shifted uneasily. Jade green eyes peered around the marketplace, searching for anything that could give her a clue as to why she was feeling agitated. Her eyes found nothing, nothing that could indicate danger. She'd brushed off the feeling for now; she'll conduct a search when she was back in the safety of her own home. Paying for the eggs, she flashed the stall owner a smile as thanks and made her way to the next stall. She needed to get lavenders but they were already out of season; thankfully she knew someone who could help her. Walking as quickly as possible, she made it to the flower shop of one Yamanaka Ino. To her surprise, Ino was already making her way towards her,

"Sakura, you're here!" Ino called and picked up the hem of her dress to speed up. Sakura smiled and raised her hand to call out in reply when she saw the look of distress on Ino's face. Her hand fell back down in worry just as Ino reached her,

"Sakura, we're in danger! We need to leave this village at once!" Ino whispered frantically into Sakura's ear. Sakura's eyes widened, Ino was already pulling her through the flower shop, towards a room at the back of the shop. The main door shut tightly behind them, the "closed" sign set firmly in place. In the privacy of the room, Sakura finally found her voice,

"Ino, what is going on? Tell me, please." She begged her friend. Ino was busy laying out all of her possessions onto a table where a magic circle was drawn. Ino spared her a glance before she activated the circle and had her belongings whisked away to another location,

"I was tarot reading when I saw it. The king, he had sent out orders for a witch hunt. Apparently, they found out that a witch had poisoned the crown prince." Ino explained. Sakura gasped in shock, and Ino continued,

"He's fine now, and the witch was executed; but His Majesty's flames of anger have yet to be extinguished. So now, he's conducting a nationwide witch hunt to get rid of us "Whores of the Devil" His words, not mine." Ino rolled her eyes as she started drawing another magic circle on the floor. She was acting tough but Sakura knew that Ino was worried, if the tell-tale sign of her hands shaking minutely was saying anything.

"Ino, how long do we have before they reach this village?" Sakura asked as she felt her gut clenched uneasily. Their village was the nearest one to the main kingdom. Ino shook her head, her blonde hair sweeping from side to side, as she finished the last few details of the circle,

"We don't have much time. The soldiers will be reaching this village soon. I've sent Shikamaru to the edges of the village as lookout so that he can warn me when they're here." Ino stood up, clapping her hands together to get rid of the chalk on her hand. She turned towards Sakura,

"I'll be waiting for you at Mountain Peak in a week. I have to warn our sisters from the other villages. We'll be fine if we stick together. As long as we head north towards the great fields, we'll be fine." Ino pushed Sakura into the middle of the circle that she had just drawn,

"Use this transportation circle to get back home. Send all your belongings to storage once you get home. And for goodness sake, get yourself a familiar! You'll need to get one if you want to get out of this alive." Ino advised as Sakura activated the transportation circle. Sakura nodded,

"Ino, I'll see you soon. Take care of yourself!" Sakura called out as she faded out of the room.

Sakura stumbled out of the transportation circle that was drawn in her home. She worriedly peered out of her window and sighed in relief as the woods near her home was still quiet and peaceful. She bustled around, setting up a circle to transport her belongings to storage. She knew that she was neck deep in trouble; the village knew her as a medicine woman who was able to cure almost all types of sickness. It wasn't long before they pieced two and two together when the soldiers arrived and lead them to her home. As she worked, she pondered over Ino's advice to sign a contract with a familiar. She had never needed one before as she could communicate with the forest and get herself out of trouble. But then again, she wasn't being hunted then either. Sakura sighed, as she get about, setting up the required apparatus and materials. She hadn't done anything like this in her life; she was going to have to be focused. Reading from the spell book her mother had left her, Sakura began the summoning.

She had read the incantations needed and offered the necessary ingredients; it was now the last stage of the summoning. As she peered over the line of words, she took the ashes of the burnt ingredients and used it to draw the familiar's symbol over her heart. 'Are all familiars' symbols this elaborate?' She mused, her eyebrows pinched together in concentration.

"Can't make a single mistake or the spell won't work." She muttered in annoyance.

The sounds of barking jolted her in surprise and she looked around and cursed. The villagers were near her home now! She had been too engrossed in the spell to notice the woods warning her of the villagers' approach. She wanted to cry out,

"Shit, they're almost here! It is alright, it is going be okay. There's just one step left." She muttered, eyes rapidly skimming the sentence.

"A single drop of your blood is-" the sentence seemed to continue on the next page so Sakura flipped the page of the book… only to cry out in alarm when she found it blank.

"The page is blank?! Why is it blank?!" Sakura cried out, almost in hysterics. What kind of incomplete spell book was this?! She was going to curse the author to hell and back!

She sensed the villagers nearing her home; it was way too close for comfort. There was no time to fret; she needed to get out of here! She tossed the useless spell book together with her belongings and activated the transportation circle, sending them to storage. She pulled on her cloak and was about to head to her own transportation circle when the door of her home burst open.

"There she is! The witch is trying to get away!" The villagers yelled. Sakura hurried towards the circle when she felt arms pulling her back into the vicious mob. She struggled but it was no use, against them all, she was powerless, even with her above average strength. Soon, she found herself bound in ropes and being transported back to the village square.

Sakura was made to kneel with the other witches as the men prepared the stakes. She looked around and found that her blonde best friend was not amongst the witches that had been caught; Sakura exhaled in relief. A female villager came up to Sakura, her face in a sneer. Sakura realised that it was none other than Kin, the musician's daughter who had an overwhelmingly hatred towards her. Kin pulled Sakura by her silk like pink hair, and Sakura winced in pain. Kin jeered at her,

"Aren't witched supposed to have warts and large noses? They're supposed to look hideous, you know." She tugged forcefully, making Sakura arch her back to lighten the pain. Kin took out a pair of scissors and waved it dangerously close to Sakura's face, she lifted the scissors,

"Why don't you look the part, you bitch!" Kin cried out gleefully and swung the scissors down. Sakura braced herself for the pain to bloom across her face. When it did not happen, she opened an eye to peek about, only to see strands of pink falling around her. Her once waist-length hair had been sliced through haphazardly. Kin cackled above her, making Sakura wonder who was the real witch there. Finally satisfied, Kin looked back down at her, madness in her eyes,

"I'm going to give your face a makeover now, sweetie." Kin promised as she brought the scissors back up. Sakura's eyes widened as the weapon lunged down… only for it to be stopped mere centimetres from her face. Kin had been stopped by a soldier; he had told her that it was time to start burning the witches now and to stop fooling around. Disgruntled, but otherwise fearing the soldier, Kin made her way back towards the eagerly chanting crowd.

"Burn them!"

"Burn the witches!"

"Get rid of them!"

"We don't want whores of the Devil in this village!"

The chants were getting louder as the villagers started getting stimulated. Sakura and the other witches were now tied at the stakes. The soldiers lit the hay with torches and the fire spread rapidly, inching closer and closer to them. The other witches had started screaming, some cursing the villagers for betraying them, some pleading that they were not witches and for them to be released. That was when a torrent of stones and rocks started raining down on them. The villagers had gotten aggressive and started attacking the witches with rocks. Pained cries filled the square as the rocks connected with flesh, breaking skin and even bones.

Sakura kept silent, not willing to give the villagers the pleasure of hearing her crying out in pain. The poor women beside her had half her face crushed when a rock flew into her face. Half her brain was exposed, the other half had splattered behind her head; her eye was dangling from its nerve and blood was soaking through her clothes. Sakura looked away, visibly nauseated from the gore. She spotted Kin aiming a rock at her before she sent it flying. Sakura jerked her head away and the rock grazed the left side of her forehead instead of smashing her head in. A stinging sensation spread across her forehead as the sharp edges of the rock had opened a gash. The warmth of her blood spilled from the wound into her left eye down to her chin, partially blinding her. The next rock that hit her was in the abdomen and Sakura's head lurched forward slightly in pain. The sudden action had caused a few drops of her blood to splatter on her skin, right above her heart. Sakura clenched her eyes shut at the pain from the rocks and the heat from the ever growing flames; she never noticed the mark glowing red…

All of a sudden, everything stopped; the vicious chanting and rock throwing of the crowd ceased, the heat and smoke from the flames disappeared. Sakura was breathing hard, her lungs desperately taking in the cool air. She cracked open her one good eye, 'What just happened?' She wondered. She looked around and was shocked to see that everything was frozen in time. The villagers had their face twisted into unsightly masks, but no sound came out from their mouths, in fact, they don't seem to be breathing either. Rocks that were thrown were paused mid-flight and the flames never once flickered. 'D-Did time stop?' She glanced around and noticed that the shadows were converging together a few feet away from where she was tied.

Her eye widened, as from the pool of shadows, a form began to ascend. The being slowly materialised from the shadows, as it did, the pool of shadows decreased in size. The first thing she could make out was huge wings that had talons at the tips. A head of jet black hair appeared next, from its sides, there ivory white horns with complicated details that she made out to be runes. Her plan to watch as the entire being emerged from the shadows was shattered when ruby red eyes bordered with long eyelashes locked onto her jade green one. The intensity of the gaze directed at her took her breath away and she unconsciously backed away. She steadied her gaze, muscles coiling anxiously, waiting for any sudden movement. Somehow, as though reading her mind, the pair of eyes blinked slowly, as not to scare her. It was like the trance was broken and Sakura finally found that she could tear her gaze away. She noticed that the being was fully out of the shadows by then. Slowly, she dragged her eyes down along its figure and assessed it. The being in front of her was male and slim, and it had a pale complexion, which gave it a stark contrast against its other colourings. There was a tattoo running from the left side of its forehead to below its left eye. Piercings adorned his ears, left brow and bottom lip while broken shackles encircled its wrists and ankles. The being shifted and seem to be appraising the situation around them with an indifference. Sakura's attention was directed to its clothes which were also black in colour and… 'Oh god, I think it's made of human skin!' she silently freaked out inside her head. Before she was fully given the chance to freak out, he interrupted her,

"Were you the one that summoned me?" He asked her, its voice low. Sakura could only gape at it in bewilderment. He sighed, and levitated towards her, his hand reached out towards her chest. Shocked, Sakura attempted to lean away, which was useless since she was tied to a fucking stake.

His index finger touched the mark that she had drawn onto her skin and it felt like electricity had passed between them. Her hair stood and she quickly fixed her gaze towards the being in front of her, her mouth opened in silent shock. He smirked,

"It would seem that you have summoned me to form a contract with me as a familiar. Interesting…" Using his thumb, he wiped the blood away from her left eye, giving her back her vision. Her breath caught in her throat as she watched him lick her blood, red eyes never leaving her green ones. Her lips quivered but she managed to steel herself,

"Are you my familiar then? How did I summon you? The spell written down was incomplete…" She inquired. He hummed, levitating slightly further away in a sitting position,

"The spell was completed when a drop of your blood was spilled onto the mark you drew. I'm only your familiar if you want me to be. But be warned, there are conditions that both parties must agree to before the contract can be formed. Do you still want to go through with it?" He offered. Sakura gritted her teeth; there was probably nothing that she wouldn't do considering the situation that she was currently in,

"State your terms and conditions." She allowed. He leisurely came closer to her,

"First and foremost, as your familiar, I'll be under your command and will do anything you want. My top priority, however, is to keep you safe." He started.

"Now, I have no idea how you did it, but congrats, you've just summoned a rather high ranking demon from hell. Now, you do know that a familiar lives off your magical energy and if needed, your life energy, right? Well, as a high ranking demon, I'm going to be consuming much, much more than an average familiar. You've got to have lots of magical energy if you want to survive keeping me around." He explained. Sakura nodded her head, the gears inside her head already working to find a way to store her magic. The demon seemed pleased,

"Here is my next condition; I will disguise into any animal you wish of me except a slug. Don't giggle; I'll have you know that I do not wish to have the joy of being slimy." He glared at her in an attempt to shut her up. It didn't work. He sighed,

"Continuing on, you'll never be able to get rid of me until the day you die. So, if we were to sign a contract, we're stuck together for a very long time. I hope you're not some annoying brat." He rolled his eyes when Sakura glared at him for calling her a brat.

"And the last condition is… Are you sure you want me as a familiar?" He gazed earnestly into her eyes. Sakura was taken aback; she had never expected a demon to be so courteous. She thought it was more fangs and claws not respect and professionalism. Well, she had already made up her mind anyways, especially after he mentioned the slugs. She nodded her head,

"Let's form the contract. I believe that it would be best if you were my familiar." She consented. He grinned at her, showing off his canines.

"You may call me Sasuke." With that, he pricked his finger and held it above the mark over her heart; a drop of his blood landed it, burning the mark into a permanent tattoo onto her skin. Sakura gasped as the pain receded from the burn. The ropes around her loosened and she rubbed her arms to get the blood flowing. A hand reached out in front of her expectantly, Sakura looked up to see Sasuke in front of her, a smirk on his face and his wings unfurled to their full glory,

"How can I be of service to you, mistress?"

~Up next, Day 2~