When Sakura woke up next she felt an urgent need to use the restroom. She bolted upwards from the bed and ran into the door on the wall adjacent to the bed. While relieving herself, Sakura found the usual set of clean clothes Sasuke left for her on the rim of the bathtub.
While she'd been recovering, Sakura had had to make do with taking the clothes the man gave her, alternating between about three sets of clothes he gave and the pink battle wear she'd come here in. Yesterday morning, the pink ware had only just come back washed to her.
And now it was torn to shreds, irreparable.
Sakura considered chucking the clothes back into Sasuke's face when he came to visit her again but…she realized she was still naked.
And there were disgusting dried blood streaks between her legs.
Sakura scrubbed and scrubbed herself until her skin was blotched red. The hot water scolded her skin but she didn't mind. She just wanted to get clean, wash away him.
After towel drying herself, Sakura got dressed in the clothes he'd given her. He'd never given her underwear and so they were slightly uncomfortable but Sakura didn't complain. As long as she wasn't naked anymore around him.
When she stepped back into the bedroom, Sasuke was already there waiting for her. He was sitting cross legged in the chair next to the bed with his head leaning on his hand as it rested on the nightstand; his onyx eyes became alight when they saw her.
Sakura tsked. Looking away and plopping down on the mattress, with her back facing him.
In a few seconds, Sakura heard footsteps behind her, on the other side of the bed and then finally around the side, encroaching on her. She turned her head to face the wall opposite of Sasuke right when she knew the man would stand over her shoulder.
There was a moment of reprieve between them, just the sound of their breathing occurring into the room.
Then Sasuke swept the hair off of her shoulder so her neckline could be revealed inside the large collar of the over-sized t-shirt he'd given her. Sakura had no idea what he was doing when she suddenly felt him place an open mouth kiss across her skin.
The sensation swept through her and made her gasp in shock.
When Sasuke moved to deepen the kiss, Sakura backed away, while still sitting, before looking into his eyes. She asked: "Why are you doing this?"
The Uchiha met her gaze. "Because I want you."
One moment of silence.
Then Sakura broke away, standing up to glare at him. Her hands wanted to slap, punch and bruise him -anything to draw blood but they stayed motionless at her sides because of her wretched mental blockade.
It took all her strength just to make her voice seethe in rancor: "Fuck you Uchiha. Fuck you and your entire condescending bloodline."
The man looked at her with confused eyes.
Sakura gritted her teeth. "You think I'm going to fall for this? For any of this? How stupid do you take me for?"
The man stared at her for a very long time. His expression hard and unreadable. After a long moment of silence, he asked quite plainly: "Why are you so sure I'm lying, Sakura?"
The kunoichi bared her teeth in anger at his continued facade. "Because I know you! Because I know there's nothing-"
A lump had formed in her throat –forcing her to have to swallow a mouthful of saliva before continuing: "-nothing short of a black hole where your heart should be."
The man's eyes narrowed ever so slightly in the next few seconds; Sakura first thought they were hardening in anger but after a second, she realized it was-
Before Sakura knew what was going on she felt herself being pushed once more against the wall, his right hand wrapped tightly around her windpipe, forcing her to face only straight as his eyes turned into the Mangekyo.
"Wh-what-" were all the words Sakura could push out of her lips before the world surged and shrank around her, becoming infinitesimally miniscule before diving straight into her mind.
Pain. Intense. Agonizing. Burning. Probing. Seeking pain that travelled across her subconscious as Sasuke's power surged through the many electric synapses of her brain.
She saw quick flashes of different memories appearing in her mind: Her first time riding a bike. Her graduating from the ninja academy. Her visiting Sasuke in the hospital after injuries sustained in battling with Gaara. Her begging, pleading with the Uchiha that fateful night he chose to leave Konoha…
"Please! If you have to go…take me with you!"
In real life, a single tear leaked out from Sakura's right eye, leaving a wet trail straight down her face, but still the adamant Uchiha continued exerting his chakra into her mind. That scene in Konoha vanished and more moments of her life passed through her mental eye in the span of milliseconds, like a spinning turnstile.
And then it stopped.
And Sasuke finally found what he was looking for: a scene that had occurred not more than a month after her sixteenth birthday, almost exactly two years ago from this very day.
Tall arched glass panes of mullioned windows against one wall, running from ceiling to floor, through their clear transparent surface, the tops of Konoha's buildings and residential homes could be seen. Expanded polystyrene ceiling tiles that spread in squares across a rectangular gray room-
In that moment, the pain in her mind surged to one thousand fold; a second later, Sakura realized she had collapsed to the ground, her palms out in front of her and her knees painfully sore from collision. Someone was screaming, at first she thought it was herself, but after a couple seconds, she realized it was Sasuke.
He was hunched over, on his knees a few feet in front of her, cradling his head with both of his palms while howling in absolute agony. After a few more moments, his members from Team Hebe came rushing forth into the room, trying to ascertain the cause of Sasuke's pain.
Karin knelt before the man first, her palms alight in magenta chakra but as soon as they touched the Uchiha, the man's pain seemed to increase even more and he angrily shoved the girl away from him. Karin wasn't even remotely agitated at the man for this action, instead her anger turned towards Sakura: "What did you do to Sasuke?!"
Suigetsu was staring at her with angry accusatory eyes too; Jugo was presumably looking at her too but Sakura couldn't see the man's expression from where she currently stood. She fearfully shook her head, trying to indicate that she hadn't done anything.
Karin advanced on her but before she could get within three feet of her, either from Sasuke's invasive probing, or from whatever was currently causing the aforementioned Uchiha unparalleled pain right now, Sakura felt her mind succumb to exhaustion.
Sakura wasn't sure how long she was unconscious but the next time she opened her eyes it was nighttime and Sasuke was once again on top and moving inside of her.
Her lips parted in her horror and the Uchiha who realized she had woken up, used that moment to devour her vulnerable mouth with his. The kiss was ravenous, like a half starved man, eager for her taste. His tongue traced the back of her upper and lower teeth as he increased his pace where they were joined. Sakura realized she was fairly lubricated and so Sasuke had an easy time going in and out of her, but it didn't help the intrusive discomfort she felt from being raped again.
"G…get…off," her voice was dry and croaked, from not having been used for too long. Just how long had she been sleeping?
Sasuke ignored her as he continued plowing into her, near his peak and pretty much slamming into her right now. He was hitting her cervix with each thrust from how deep he was going and every movement caused deep pain to her pelvic bone.
As he reached his orgasm, Sasuke leaned his forehead against Sakura's so that his face was directly parallel with hers; his black eyes staring straight into her green ones as he spoke: "You…were right, Sakura."
The kunoichi's eyes widened, her shock getting almost immediately displaced as he spilled into her, shuddering in short quick breaths and staying stock still inside her while he sent his essence into her body. Sakura choked back a cry of despair as her subconscious registered the possibility of carrying Sasuke's child.
This was already the second time and he had never used anything…
Her despair shown through her face, Sasuke saw it but allocated it to another reason, one that caused him to exude a light short chuckle, before placing a brief kiss over Sakura's lips.
"Surprised?" he asked her with the beginnings of a mocking smile.
Sakura had no chance to ask him what he was talking about because the man continued speaking: "It was all just a game."
Sakura gasped, her mind finally sowing recognition at what he was talking about.
"Disappointed, Sakura?" he asked with a derisive inclination of his head, once more leaning his forehead against her scalp. Sakura wanted and tried head butting him but his restrictive jutsu was still in effect and she found herself unable to enact anything that physically harmed him.
An idea occurred to her and Sakura was more than happy when she successfully spat at the man. "Get over yourself, Uchiha."
The slap occurred before she'd registered it and Sakura found her breath stolen from her in its aftermath. The man wiped the spittle from his lips and mockingly wiped it on Sakura's cheek -knowing she could not wipe it off with both of her hands tied to the headboard.
His hand came to grip her jaw painfully. His eyes were once again red as he intoned: "You will show me respect."
Fuck you.
Sakura had wanted to vocally say that but found in her horror, it could only be spoken mentally.
An exasperated half-shriek-of-anger-half-wail-of-despair tore from her lips then as Sakura turned her head away from him on the pillow, at least refusing to acknowledge him.
Okay, before anyone yells at me for changing this story, let me just say THAT I HATED THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS CHAPTER. It's my story okay? I can change edit things to the way I want them to be, and please please if you are unhappy with something just stop reading. No need to yell or insult or request that I change anything.
I REPEAT, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON'T REQUEST THAT I CHANGE ANYTHING IN MY PLOT, DO NOT ASK FOR REVISIONS OR EDITS OUTSIDE OF GRAMMAR/PUNCTUATION ERRORS, PLEASE. PLEASE.
If I choose to write Sasuke stealing candy from babies and playing with Ninja Turtles, if I choose to make Gaara marry Legolas, if I choose to change something from a version I've written earlier, if I choose to kill off your favorite character, if I choose to take your favorite character 180 degrees AU from the canon, please please just stop reading, okay? No insults, no revision requests please. PLEASE.
I'm not going to post the original version of this chapter back up under any circumstance, and I HOPE no one has it saved against my explicit request not to save my stories, because I just genuinely hated that whole dialogue between Sasuke and Sakura.
Yes, it showed his manipulative nature but it was literally making me cringe whenever I read it. I made Sakura's reaction way too OOC and inconsistent with the next chapter of this story (yes the original version's next chapter), because she's strong and defiant in the next one, so she should realistically be the same here, EVEN IF she had been fooled, EVEN IF she had actually fallen for his trap, EVEN IF she actually felt disappointment -she would at least hide it, not wanting to give him that satisfaction.
I hated the way in the original chapter Sakura just played straight into his palm and so I just had to change it.
Thanks for reading, and as always, I love you guys. I hope you guys liked this fast update!