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I just realized I still had this chapter finished in my folder and now I feel foolish for not uploading it the moment it was done. Please forgive the insolence lol
Anyway, here's the second chapter of 'Break Me', I hope you enjoy it!
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BlackRose999
Break Me
Chapter Two: The Ultimatum
I woke to the sun shimmering through the sheer pale pink curtains on my balcony, the golden ivy design creeping up the hem to the middle of the curtain.
As I stared at the gently swaying fabric, the memory of his rough reminder came to mind, and I found myself biting my lip as I slipped out of bed, subsequently, my body was uncovered by my sensual black silk sheets. For a woman of 22, I looked much younger. I was 5'4, 180 pounds soaking wet, and had an hourglass figure that was toned from years of training and exercise. Knowing my friends were around I grabbed the white button-up Gaara had left for me a year ago to wear around the house as a reminder of who I truly belonged to, and put it on after slipping my black lace bra and panties back on.
Fuck the Organization. They could think they owned me all they wanted. My body, heart, mind, and soul belonged to him. No one else could hold me the way he could, nobody else commanded my attention, my body, the way he could. And I've had plenty of lovers… But none like Sabaku no Gaara.
I ran a brush through my hair and cleaned up the makeup smeared over my eyes from the mascara I'd neglected to remove before bed last night, then sauntered out of the room toward the kitchen. The house was huge, Kakashi's millions had given us a massive estate that was privately owned, no Organizational attachments allowed. This was so that they couldn't seize the property and its assets if we went Rogue. I passed the rooms of my friends, grinning when I heard soft moaning from Ino and Sai's room, I chuckled. Seems like my instincts were still spot-on. I paused at the room Naruto resided in, and with a silent turn of the handle I peeked in. There, curled up in his arms, was Hinata. A very naked Hinata. The same girl who swore up and down she didn't see "Naruto-sama" like that.
I smirked, such a liar.
I closed the door as silently as I'd opened it and continued toward the kitchen, stopping at the door when the scent of freshly-brewed coffee hit my nose. "Whoever made the coffee, I love you," I murmured as I opened the cupboard for my special pink marbled mug, just as my fingers wrapped around the mug I heard a familiar voice pipe up behind me. "Love you too kiddo."
I nearly dropped my mug.
"Kakashi!" I walked over and let him envelop me into his woodland musky smell. He was a good eight inches taller than me due to his age, he was in his late forties after all - though he'd never admit it - , and was the lanky type of muscular. Despite this, he still made me feel like a child when he held me close. Not like the seductive temptress when Gaara did.
"I take it you ran into some trouble this time?" He fingered the bruise on my throat, the one he didn't know came from Gaara. I smiled and played along, knowing outing myself to him would lead to one hell of a fight. I wasn't in the mood for this, seeing Kakashi was a holiday on its own. He was almost never around due to his missions with his team, codenamed 'Akatsuki'; they took out diplomats, politicians, presidents, and dictators. And those missions could last for months as they infiltrated and created new people to gain access to their targets. So the fact that he was home, no matter how long it may be, made me happy.
"I ran into trouble, somebody broke the Red Doctrine…" Kakashi stiffened and looked at me, looking at the bruises and the concealed shame on my face. "You didn't complete the Order." I winced and nodded solemnly. He sighed, running his hand through his spiky silver hair, and regarded me with those piercing black eyes.
"You'll be fine. It's your first time failing. They'll make you run the mission until you succeed." "Kakashi you don't understand. The client hired another merc to protect him, one from a darker Organization." His eyes flashed, much like Gaara's did when he was angry, but not as breathtakingly, hauntingly beautiful.
I pushed those thoughts away when I saw Kakashi's eyes search mine, he knew I was hiding something, he'd known for months. I stared back, my emerald eyes daring him to press into my secrets, to ask questions he knew he had no business asking. He may be my adoptive father, but I was a grown-ass woman of 22.
My love life was mine.
"I see those gears spinning Sakura, you know it'll come out eventually, or maybe… I know more than you think I do." I grinned and took another sip of the coffee and waited for that black mug to kiss his lips, "Sure you do, just like you know how to woo a woman." He immediately choked on his coffee and gave me a solid death glare."I can woo a woman just fine thank you…" I grinned, "Is that why your entourage consists of men and a married woman?" His glare deepened, "Just because I don't have a string of endless lovers like your friend Ino does, it does not imply that I don't have a few singular short-term partners every now and again."
My mind flashed to my partner, a partner I'd kept for a little over two years now. I'd been careful, so had he, we'd never been seen together, never in public or private. I quickly changed the subject, hoping the heat rising in my blood at the thought of him wouldn't be noticeable. "Where's Kaze? Have you heard from him?" The thought of my foster brother made me wince, he was never the kindly sort after all. Kakashi sighed, he wasn't overly fond of Kaze either, but when he'd adopted him he'd sworn that he would love him as his own.
Gaara had laid eyes on him once and had immediately hated him.
"He went AWOL last week. Nobody's seen or heard from him… Tsunade suspects he might have either defected or died." My stomach dropped. Defecting to another Company or Organization was considered cowardly, it made you lower than low. "Sakura." I came out of my musing immediately, he didn't use my name very often, so I knew it was something worth my full attention.
"I know about Gaara," Kakashi murmured behind his mug. His black eyes gauging my reaction, poor bastard, he'd get nothing from me. "And I won't say I approve."
I smiled back at him, and in a monotone voice murmured back "Then you know to keep silent. I'm not a child anymore Kakashi… I know what I'm doing." That got me a raised eyebrow, a silent 'Sure you do.' Dick. My black smartwatch flashed with a message from an 'unknown' number, a number I know very well. Kakashi's flashed too, and we both immediately stood and dumped our coffee out into the sink and hurried to change. I quickly did my makeup, covering any bruises or claw marks he'd left last night, and slipped into my uniform.
Our organization fronted as a 'Law Firm', so we were required to play the part. I slipped on a pair of pressed black slacks, a white button-up and black blazer, and simple silver jewelry. I left my hair down but brushed it out so it was a glossy mane of rose gold locks, and then slipped on my heels and hurried out the door. Ino, Hinata, Sai, Naruto, and Kakashi were all dressed the same, and without a word, we got into our separate cars and headed in. The drive with Kakashi was silent, but I knew he was stewing.
I ignored it. I didn't need his approval for the choices I'd made in this life.
We arrived at the 'Office', a normal-looking law office that hid our little secret. The five of us walked into the building and past Matsuri, the only 'receptionist' who knew of us. She nodded and typed in the entry key to let the Elevator go down instead of up. We went in silently, there was no stupid elevator music or bouncy descent, and when the steel doors opened to the Underground we stepped out.
I took the lead, knowing all eyes would be on me anyway. There were a lot of gleeful faces out there I noted, faces all too happy to see Tsunade's Protege 'taken down a peg'. I scoffed as if their puny approvals could ever make me care about them. It wasn't long before Danzo, Tsunade's self-appointed advisor, approached me. "Sakura, your presence has been requested in Tsunade's office." I ignored the knowing looks, the smirks and held my head high. I had nothing to prove to these imbeciles.
She sat in a spinnable black padded chair, her long pale blonde hair pulled back with her bangs framing her dark eyes. "Care to explain what happened with your Order?" I dropped to my knees, keeping my eyes down. "My apologies my Lady, a variable occurred that I hadn't thought of, it will not occur again." I heard her chair move and heels click toward my direction, "So you've finally failed me."
'Finally?' I thought with rising anger. 'You bastards have such little faith in me that you expected me to fail?' I wasn't stupid enough to let my anger show, such disrespect wasn't tolerated in the presence of the Lady Tsunade, aka 'The Queen'.
"You will continue this mission until you succeed. However," She stopped in front of me. "Should you fail me more than twice, your status as my subordinate will be revoked and you will be removed from my Organization. Is this understood?"
I nodded, "Yes mistress." "Good, now go." I stood and, keeping my eyes down, took three steps back and pivoted toward the door. I met the others waiting in the lobby and they glanced at me with knowing eyes.
'Three strikes and you're out…' I snarled inwardly.