Arrangement by : Sasusakuhart (Thanks again !)

Chapter 8 : Cure

To spend a whole morning with Sasuke, in his, or rather theirs, house, in their bedroom, on the bed, had always been an unreachable dream to Sakura. But today it was a reality.

She had reached her climax for the 5th time when he decided to stop. At first, he planned to torture her until she tells him what's wrong with her. When she had her first orgasm, he didn't stop there and kept pleasing and teasing her, making her losing all senses; at her desperate begging to stop with his ministrations, that left her completely exhausted and worn out, the only answer she got was a repetition of his question : "What's wrong with you?"

After 3 hours, and her 4th time orgasming, Sakura couldn't take it anymore and started telling the truth. She had been lied to him the previous hours, but couldn't fool him. Now, she said all she had to say, all her worries and theories.

Satisfied with her answer, he decided to please her a 5th time, promising it won't be the last for today.

Laying next to her, he caressed her hair before pulling her head to his chest. "You don't have to worry about me this much. Don't harm yourself." The tamed Sakura could just say "Yes."

"Sasuke-kun" she started, trying cautiously to sit "Why don't you do a medical analysis… Maybe… You're not sterile."

Sasuke looked deeply in her eyes, kissed her forehead and answered her worries: "I don't think that Konoha's doctors are more competent than Orochimaru. I got my check when I joined the Akatsuki."

Silence took over the room, and Sakura let her eyes go blank until she objected to him: "But… Tsunade-sama is more co-"

But Sasuke wasn't going to have this conversation or to debate on that. It was an old topic, closed long ago. Sakura needed to calm down, forget about it or simply break up with him.

"Sakura. Forget about this. I'm not in the mood of talking about it, let us enjoy the moment, and I don't want to think or speak about it again. So please, don't bring it up again. Please."

"But… Maybe you're not... And…"

Sakura didn't know how to continue or what to say. But she wasn't going to let it slide, she still had a lot to say: "Maybe you're not sterile. Your sexuality looks so normal and –" It was a weak argument and she knew it. Unfortunately, so did Sasuke "It has nothing to do with fertility. And I'm really sterile. It can't be cured. Enough." He said rising from the bed and starting to leave.

"Sasuke-kun I may cure yo-" – "Enough!" –

"There is no way I'm going to let people know that the last Uchiha is sterile."

Was it pride again? Sakura was feeling hurt. Sasuke's words hurt her. Not directly, but as a reflection of his pain. They mirrored to the hurt he felt by himself about the situation, and Sakura could experience that pain like her own.

She couldn't lift her eyes to meet his, so she could just focus on the blanket while she tried again "No one is going to know anything, I'm qualified enough t-"

"I said e-nou-gh!" he was angry now, and not just a little.

"Ok! But at least stop saying that you're the last Uchiha!" Sakura cried locking her tearful eyes with his Rinnegan, firmly fixated on her forms. She felt hypnotized, desperate and afraid, but still she gathered enough courage to continue "The both of us are going to be the last two members of the Uchiha family, at least."

Sasuke didn't cut her out but waited for her to finish before laughing at her. He lowered himself so their eyes were on the same level and regarded her with a mocking smile "Annoying. You're very annoying."

It felt like he had slapped her. Sakura suddenly felt like a spoiled brat. Was she asking for too much again? But…

"Do you know why you're annoying? It's because you think that this world revolves around you. The more you get attention, the more arrogant you become." Cruel. His words were too cruel. She was just worrying about him and this is how he turned back her worries? At the moment, she fully believed his words; maybe all the tears she shed for him so far were in reality for her own ego.

"If you think you'll be an Uchiha just because you married one, then no. We don't share the same blood or eyes." – it hurts. Why was he hurting her so badly?

"We're not alike." Hitting too deep, Sakura started regretting opening the subject. "I'm sor-" it seemed late to apologize to a Sasuke that seemed now far beyond angry…

"Listen. I understand that you've kept yourself virgin me. Thank you. But I never asked you for anything like that. And at the same time, it isn't like I did the same thing as you." The raw cruelty of his words shocked Sakura, that was a little too much for her taste. She had figured that he wasn't a virgin like her anymore, but he didn't have to mock her for that. "And if you think so high of yourself, if you think that you can become an Uchiha just because you'd marry one, let me tell you that you won't be one even if you gave birth to an Uchiha." Was this the redemption Sasuke talked about? He still had more words like these "If you think that I had waited for such an happy spoiled princess as you to try have a child – you're grossly mistaken."

As intelligent as she was that last words were too hard for her to understand. Surely, she had misunderstood something. Has Sasuke just said that he had tried to have a child before? That he contemplated having a child with a woman who… Wouldn't suffer this much for him, be as patient as this just for him? Or is there a woman who have went even further for him? What did she know about Sasuke's life during the years he was away from the village? Was his redemption journey just an excuse to check on this woman?

"After killing Itachi and joining the Akatsuki, I've tried to have a child, to rebuild the damned Uchiha clan!" he yelled in crescendo.

Sakura's ears went deaf. She felt like she was drowning in a cold sea. His words were too cold and were hurting so deeply she couldn't blink her eyes. Cold silent tears left her eyes while Sasuke fully stood and stepped away from the bed, dressing up.

"My teammate is a medic-nin, just as you. She've been working under Orochimaru for so long that she had learned a lot from him. Now if you think that Tsunade is better than Orochimaru when it comes to biology… Heh, even then, I don't think Tsunade's student would be better. You may be a better fighter but there's no way she made an error with the analysis."

When he reached the door threshold, Sakura's voice dared to come out: "And what makes you so sure she didn't lie to you?"

"She is as desperately in love with me as you are."

When he closed the door behind him, he could hear her sobbing. Sasuke knew he had been too harsh. But didn't she said how she wanted to know him more, to understand him, to know his past and what he went through? Well, here it is. If she was able to accept him as he was, she's welcome, if no, he wouldn't chased after her or begged her to be with him.

Five days later, Sakura hadn't talk to Sasuke at all. She had been avoiding him since their fight. As usual, Sakura's way of coping consisted in exhausting herself, burying herself in her work while pretending that everything was fine in front of her parents and friends. Only when she was in the loneliness of her bedroom she took off the mask.

This morning she had to meet him again at Kakashi's office. He confirmed their assignment for the mission he talked about some days ago; they've been sent to the Land of Grass with Naruto, Yamato and Sai to escort an important diplomat. It was an extremely easy task for a team like theirs, and in fact everything went smoothly, aside from the fact that two members of the team refused to speak to each other. Well, she refused to talk to him.

It was only during their path back home that Sasuke approached her. They had stopped near a river to camp for the night, and the only kunoichi of the group informed her comrades her intention to wash her face to refresh.

"May I talk to you?" asked the man standing some meters behind her as she rinsed her face and hands in the cold water. She answered him with the same flat tone: "Sure. What do you want?"

"I think… That I have been a little too aggressive with you last time, and I'm very sorry for my words."

"No problem. It's ok."

The Uchiha approached her gently and tried to take her hand. She jolted away.

After a deep sigh, Sasuke tried again "Sakura, I'm trying to be completely honest with you. I don't want to give you any false hope. If you think that I have no chance in making you happy, let's end this now."

Sad green orbs turned to meet him. Her lashes were wetted, not by the river's water but with her tears. She started crying. She loved him so much, wanted him so much, but he treated her so badly and then so nicely like she was a lamb he was feeding to then slaughter. She felt so weak before him. Although strong, she was completely weak when it comes to him. She had no chance to rebel against him. She wanted to tell him no but was afraid to lose him, afraid he'd leave her as he said he would do; she had to accept him as he was or leave. And she couldn't afford to lose him, not after all this pain.

Hiding her face in her hands, she managed to confess an "I love you" through her sobbing. He gave her then what she wished for, a hug. "I'm sorry Sakura. Forgive me."

Sasuke and Sakura's relationship was rocky, but so far they had been able to get along. They had never been close or intimate to each other before, and being in a relationship was a more complicated story.

They had returned to Konoha from a week already. Sasuke had been kept busy in the Hokage tower the whole time, so that he had to leave early every morning. Sakura would wake up to a heavy dizziness and discomfort every morning, then headed to the bathroom expecting her period. It was their time and she felt the usual pain of her cycle.

The next day, around the time she started her shift at the hospital she felt the same discomfort in her abdomen once again, but no blood was coming out from her.

As she entered the bathroom in a hurry and headed mechanically to throw up, she suspected that it wasn't her periods, but something else entirely.

Happiness got over the pain she felt, she was going to prove Sasuke wrong.

Post Scriptum

In the latest review (July 10th), the person expressed that they was disappointed in finding that Sasuke tried to have a child with someone else (Karin).
Well. Let me explained here how Sasuke tried to have a child, since I'm not going to include this in the story :

After killing Itachi and being brainwashed by Obito, Sasuke had a new objective : the destruction of Konoha. He hated every Konoha ninja and citizen, he couldn't bear their laughters and smiles (like he expressed himself to Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi after killing Danzo).

So right before the Kages' Summit, when Sasuke had just joined the Akatsuki, after capturing Hachibi, after the serious brainwash, Sasuke asked, not really asked but urged or forced Karin, who wouldn't refuse, to sleep together. They spent two weeks together. After that, Sasuke asks her if she got pregnant. The test shows she's not. So he tries further. Some five days later, Karin informs Sasuke about his infertility. Sasuke then realized that the Uchiha are lost for ever. Worse, he wouldn't have killed Itachi if he knew the truth about Danzo and the Roots of Konoha. Destroying Konoha, starting by killing him made him go mad.

Now for those who think, like a friend of me told me that "Sasuke wouldn't do that, he has enough respect for Sakura", I'd like to tell them that back then, he tried to kill her twice, if not Naruto and Kakashi, he tried to kill Kakashi and Naruto aswell. Tried to kill the other Kages... etc. Like Kakashi said, he has fallen too much into darkness.

So such a thing is possible. Now please tell me, if Sasuke hated all the Konoha people, and he has a clan to rebuild, why wait ? Sakura ? He hadn't looked at her yet then, or more likely : he was pretty blind to think of anything like said Kishimoto. So it isn't something impossible.

This story's sommum isn't Sasuke and Sakura getting together unfortunately. My imagination couldn't explore that too much, but it took me to something more complicated and it is : Sasuke's absence for full ten years from Konoha. Why ? I can't tell more. So, thanks for all your reviews ! It really warms my heart ! 3

Next chapter : Lies

"To whom am I alive ?"

DIMLIM - RIJIN