Don't know how this misunderstanding came into picture but Sasuke hasn't been cheating on Sakura at all during the plotline, nor has he been sleeping around after he started dating Sakura.
It's true BEFORE he confessed to Sakura, in this FANFICTION PLOT, he had other women that he used to vent out his frustrations for Sakura's apathy, but that was because they literally threw themselves at him in droves and he was a young man who had desires so he didn't care if he used them.
But he stopped after confessing his feelings for Sakura in chapter one.
Things kept deteriorating until Sasuke's family became the last shred of Uchiha blood in Konoha. There were a total of two Uchiha ANBUs that were currently missing in action, them being Shisui and Itachi. No one had heard anything from any of them since the start of Atethe's Disease, despite the countless messages sent out to them.
Sasuke hadn't been able to get a full night's sleep four almost six weeks now. Every night he would wake up with a pool of sweat completely drenching his bare upper torso, near hyperventilating with shallow breaths ringing up and down his body.
The only things that could calm him down were Sakura's delicate hands wrapping around his lean torso, and her forehead pressing against his back. Her soft voice whispering into the cool night's air: "It's okay, shhh…it's okay, Sasuke."
The last Uchiha, aside from his parents and himself, had just died today inside Konoha General's quarantine zone. Sasuke's once beautiful ivory complexion was now ghost white with almost translucent skin from malnourishment. His muscles had also partially atrophied as a result. It wasn't that he refused to eat, it was that he would frequently lose his appetite or pass out straight from the stress in his life before he could eat anything. Or vomit meals out straight together.
It got so bad that Tsunade had had to prescribe him supplements outright, just to maintain the bare electrolyte and nutrient level requirements.
Tonight was another one of those nights where Sasuke knew he would not be able to fall back asleep.
"Sasuke, maybe…" Sakura's voice sounded behind him as her face remained pressed against his bare back. The Uchiha looked over his shoulder to face her; she was biting her lip.
The Uchiha exhaled exhaustively. "Maybe what Sakura?"
He wasn't agitated at her, his tone just came out gruff because of how tired he was.
The pinkette stiffened behind him.
Sasuke realized the tone of voice he'd used and sighed. "I'm sorry…I…"
He ran a hand threw his long black hair, annoyed not her but at himself. "I'm going to take a shower."
He stood up from the bed and started walking towards the bathroom but Sakura stopped him by getting up and running so she could wrap her arms around his waist once more.
"Sasuke, no, wait…" she was hesitating again. "I..."
Sasuke moved as if to turn around again but a sudden headache overcame his body and his legs lost their strength to support him. His sudden boneless form made Sakura lose her grip on him and he fell straight into the nightstand next to his bed.
He knocked down the photo frame in the action before he caught himself by throwing his palms out. The glass shattered upon impact and Sasuke's unsteady hand almost cut against it but Sakura quickly grabbed his palm.
"Sasuke, be careful," she stated while relocating him to rest his back against the side of the bed. The unsteady Uchiha leaned his head back against the soft comforter as his exhausted eyes took in his fiance's form carefully cleaning up the broken picture frame.
He wasn't sure if it was a hallucination or something else but Sasuke could have sworn Sakura's eyes widened when she took in the sight of the photo's contents, for just half a second. Her posture was visibly stiffer too. He wanted to move towards her but his entire body cried out in protest against this; in the end he was only able to stay motionless against the bed until his skull finally stopped throbbing.
During that time, Sakura had swept the broken glass away with a small dustpan and had relocated the shattered picture lying face down back on the nightstand, before coming back down to check on Sasuke's vitals.
"Sasuke, here, let me help you," she whispered softly, smiling gently as always while shifting arm under his shoulders, so he could lean against her while they stepped into the bathroom.
The Uchiha was too exhausted to ask about the picture or anything else as Sakura helped undress him and helped him into the tub. He was half conscious when this occurred and halfway through the water finally awoke his senses enough that his eyes snapped wide open. He found himself soaking in the middle of a bubble bath with Sakura kneeling on the outside of the tub with soap up to her elbows and even some on her face.
The bubbles and water of the bath were a deep vivid green. There were also flecks of dried leaves in the water with him, upon closer examination.
Sakura wiped her face with the rolled up sleeve of her right arm. "Oh you're awake, thank god."
Sasuke opened his mouth to speak but shut it right away. Some part of him was deeply embarrassed that he was taking a bubble bath. He'd never taken one of these before in his entire life. Another part of him was ashamed that he'd needed Sakura's help to bathe.
Sakura smiled at his silence, obviously reading his embarrassment. "Is this bath too frilly for your Uchiha pride, Sasuke? Well, you're just going to have to endure it for now. This bath is infused with Wizak leaves, it has special healing powers that only come out in the form of-"
She flicked green suds into his face. "Bubbles."
Sakura giggled as the Uchiha swiped his beautiful effeminate face. The usually stoic man cracked a wide smirk as he suddenly reached out with two hands to grab onto Sakura's delicate wrist, pulling her straight into the tub with him.
The pinkette shrieked and laughed as she fell, right before her entire body got dunked. Water splashed everywhere onto the white tiles but Sasuke didn't care, his hands reaching underwater to tickle Sakura's body while her head popped up right in front of his chest.
Sakura spat out a mouthful of water while she swiped her hair from her eyes, all the while she felt Sasuke's hands tickling her from behind.
Or so she thought that's what he'd been doing until she felt the sash around her kimono shirt coming undone.
The pinkette giggled as she felt his hand reach to cup her bare breast. She turned her head around to kiss Sasuke but the man got there first, capturing her lips in an endearing kiss.
Sasuke did concede in taking his first bubble bath ever that night but not before making Sakura pay reparation to him in some other activities in the tub as well. In the end, both of them needed to get clean before stepping out of the tub.
Sasuke exhaled deeply as he dried himself. He honestly felt like a brand new man. The herbal bath had done wonders to him, not that he would ever admit to anyone outside of this current room that he had taken one. But more importantly, he knew that it was because Sakura had taken care of him. He loved being comforted by her.
After Sakura was dry and moved to exit the bathroom, Sasuke moved quickly and came to wrap his arms around her waist, pulling her against his body again. But he didn't want sex, he just…wanted to hold her.
"Sakura…" he whispered into her moist hair. "I-"
The pinkette turned around fast, her finger coming to silence Sasuke's lips. "I know, Sasuke…."
She placed her head against his pale chest. "I know, I feel the same."
The next morning, Sasuke reached with one hand out towards the spot next to him on the bed, expecting to encircle around Sakura's waist but found it was empty.
The man sat up, awake and alert. The spot next to him was unsettlingly empty.
He got up and looked for Sakura but she wasn't anywhere inside his apartment. There was also no note as to where she could have gone. He got dressed in a simple black t-shirt and sweatpants before making to leave the apartment but before he even made it to the door, a loud explosion occurred above him.
Ash and debris rained down on him, forcing him to cover his mouth in order to breath. Sasuke managed to dodge out of the way of any large chunks of ceiling but the sudden movements on top of his malnourishment made him abruptly collapse, falling into a corner that still had its part of the roof. Right after he did that, a small gray sphere fell in from the huge gap that exposed the sky above him; Sasuke's eyes widened, immediately recognizing the smoke bomb.
He leaped out of the room a second before the sphere exploded, flooding his entire home with suffocating black smoke.
But that wasn't what horrified him the most in his surroundings. Every building in all of Konoha was in a similar state as his apartment, if not worse off. Some had huge fires burning across the roofs and catching across straw-thatched homes. Even crop fields had orange streams that danced wickedly across trapped animals and nature. There was so much fire and smoke that he'd had to activate his sharingan in order to make out anything.
There was something wrong with the streets too: a thick river of purple smog filled the entirety of every nook and cranny of Konoha's streets. People that were caught in this air lied still and unmoving across the streets.
Before he could make sense of any of this, a large wrapped blade suddenly came crashing down on him. Sasuke only managed to avoid getting his body sliced in half at the last second.
Damn. His reflexes were too weak and slow right now. He also didn't have any ninja tools on his body right now since he'd literally just woken up.
Still, he was an Uchiha.
Landing elegantly onto a section of his roof that hadn't caved in yet, he took in the sight of his attacker: a man with shark blue skin and gills on the side.
Kisame Hoshigaki.
He had long since memorized the faces of all the current Missing-nins and this man was amongst the most dangerous and most hunted for.
The shark man smirked before charging forward with his mummified sword once again, aiming for Sasuke's heart. The Uchiha did a back flip in the air and leaped expertly out of the way, at the same time sending out his chakra through his eyes.
A large shimmering sphere of the sharingan's symbol appeared in the air and grew at unfathomable speeds until it consumed Kisame's body. The man screamed right before it sucked him into its vacuum, silencing him. As soon as his entire body was consumed the man stopped moving and stayed floating in midair, as if trapped underwater.
Sasuke used that moment to dive back down onto his apartment and grab the emergency satchel of ninja tools he always kept beneath his bed.
To his horror it wasn't there.
A second after he realized this, a large swooping sound occurred in the air above him, like a blade slicing down- Sasuke rolled out of the way at the last minute, managing to not get caught as the bed got sliced right in half by Kisame's sword that was fused with blue fire.
He managed to roll out of the way but a bit of the man's sword flames had seared his shoulder, causing him to wince in pain.
"Damn," Sasuke swore as he cradled his raw injury, a second before summoning his chidori lightning into both fists. He morphed them into the shapes of kunais and sent them projecting towards the shark tooth man.
The shark tooth man knocked them away but as soon as he did that he suddenly felt his entire body being sucked down towards the ground, as if he weighed a thousand tons. Kisame plummeted straight towards the concrete floor of Sasuke's kitchen and stayed there flat, as if magnetized to the surface.
Before he could do anything to break Sasuke's jutsu, he suddenly found electric restraints across his wrists, ankles and neck, pinning him to the ground.
Sasuke wheezed and panted as he lowered his folded hand signs. His arm fought against his movements but Sasuke forced himself to reach into his sock drawer for the second emergency ninja tool bag. It wasn't there as well!
What in the world was going on?
Sasuke felt Kisame fighting against his restraints and the Uchiha knew that his weakened state could only hold the man for a few more minutes. Making do with just two kunais from his Jonin clothes, Sasuke leapt back through the hole in his ceiling, propelling himself from roof to roof, heading for the Hokage's building.
Hopefully Tsunade would know what was going on and he could get himself treated quickly.
As he travelled, Sasuke shivered in horror at his surroundings: bloodshed and battles took place both in the air and on the ground of Konoha. The people attacking both the civilians and shinobi seemed to consist of a lot of missing-nin and a lot of people he didn't recognize. With his sharingan he briefly identified Naruto's fighting form somewhere way on the farside of Konoha.
When he was almost there, Sasuke felt the strong sense that something was targeting him and he abruptly leapt towards his right, shooting himself horizontally through the air.
A plethora of needles rained down on the spot he'd just been in.
Sasuke landed on one knee across the smooth concrete streets, his hand in front him to slow his descent. His slow malnourished reflexes caused him to summon his chakra a second too late so friction from his fall still burned into his palm and the Uchiha cried out in pain once again.
He didn't even have a second to recover however because a sharp kunai came aiming straight down towards him; his attacker a female with black glasses and deep long majenta hair. Sasuke managed to raise his kunai up with his undamaged hand to block against her attack, preventing her from skewering his esophagus.
They were now locked in close combat, face mere inches apart with kunai against kunai. The magenta haired woman widened her eyes when she saw his face up close. Sasuke didn't care about her reason for doing so but her grip on her kunai suddenly weakened fractionally, and he used that moment to throw her off of him.
The woman propelled through the air horizontally but recovered before she made impact against the burning kiosk behind her. The woman charged towards Sasuke once again, at top speed, Sasuke managed to raise a defensive post again but this time her force was so strong it forced him against the concrete wall of the alleyway behind him.
The woman smirked as their faces once again came close to eachother.
In a second, Sasuke found her kissing him.
Her tongue swept across his teeth and fought for entry but the Uchiha furiously pushed her off before she had the chance.
Ugh. The man wanted to gag as he wiped his mouth with his arm.
The woman wasn't turned away, she smirked as she folded her arms across her chest. "Such a pretty man….the name's Karin. What's yours?"
Sasuke scowled as he sent a huge chidori sphere at her. The woman gasped and backed away fast but still ended up getting caught up in the explosion. The Uchiha used that moment to leap back into the air.
Thank goodness the Hokage's building was right ahead of him now. Because the construction materials had been infused with chakra it was inflammable and so it was the only building right now in Konoha that wasn't burning.
A series of fast moving shapes leapt from corner to corner across the building's roof, signifying that several shinobi were currently fighting on top of it. When he got close enough he identified Tsunade and his old mentor Kakashi's form. His father Fugaku Uchiha was also there, amongst several other ANBU ops.
The hokage building was made up of three circular dome shapes, the center one being the largest and most important. Sasuke landed on the outer edge of the center one, where Tsunade was locked in battle with a strange orange haired man with almost mechanical looking eyes. Kakashi had leapt into air facing his opponent while his father was locked in flat blade battle with-
Sasuke gasped.
His mother?
Mikoto Uchiha carried two flat blades that she wielded with strangely expert precision. His father, known in the clan for his expert battle skill and exceptional combat tactics, had countless cuts and flesh wounds littered across his body. Blood poured down his entire chest in a morbid amount and made Sasuke's mouth drop in horror.
"Mother!" he called instinctively but the woman didn't react. She didn't even turn to look at him, only continuing to hack away at his father. Fugaku could only block and parry about half of her precise blows and eventually she cut into his right leg, deep. This caused the man to stagger backwards, falling flat onto his back, across the roof right as Mikoto's left blade came to land right over the man's throat.
As she made to deliver the finishing blow, a backwards kunai came flying at her wrist, knocking her sword out of the way. The way the kunai had been thrown was that the rounded end, the side usually used to hold the kunai, had been the first to make contact with Mikoto's skin, so it knocked the sword away, without actually cutting her.
The woman seemed possessed, not even stopping for one second to even look at who had attacked her. Raising her other sword now to strike down at Fugaku-
Sasuke stopped the blade with his bare hand, the one that had been burned from the ground before, having used the moment of her brief reprieve to sprint to them.
"Sas-Sas…uke…." His father whispered through chapped lips, blood vomiting forth a second later.
"Mom…" Sasuke called while his blood seeped down the length of the sword, dripping onto his shirt as he lied kneeled in front of his father. His mother's eyes were completely black and soulless as the black haired woman stared down at her closest family members. The woman seemed completely apathetic towards Sasuke's addition.
In a second she had pulled the blade straight out of his palm.
"AHHH!" the youngest Uchiha screamed as the blade's movement caused the cut to sink deeper into his palm. He buckled backwards, stopped from smashing his head against the concrete ceiling only by his father's intervention.
"Wh-why are you doing this?!" he cried out through tear filled eyes while looking back up towards his mother.
"That…isn't your mother…she's being controlled…" Fugaku intoned weakly before once more coughing up another slough of blood.
Wh-what?
"Who-" Sasuke started asking but was stopped Mikoto abruptly sent her blade crashing straight down towards her husband's skull, splitting it right in half.
Sasuke screamed in horror at the horrific sight.
His vision turned red.
Two ellipse of red and black tomoes filled his eyes on both centers and in a second black flames that were at least seven feet tall in height erupted in a circular shield around him and his father's maimed corpse, preventing Mikoto from getting any closer.
The possessed woman stopped her movements then, remaining lifelessly still as her black eyes stared into Sasuke's.
"Why? WHY?" he screamed again and again but Mikoto didn't answer. Couldn't answer.
Next to them on the roof, the sight of clashing weapons completely surrounded them as people fought against Konoha's attackers. But Sasuke didn't care about any of that. Tears streamed down his blood and dirt stained face, leaving clean trails in their wake as he glared at his mother. He screamed at her to tell him why she did this once again.
"She can't hear you," a female voice said from behind Mikoto.
Correction. Above and behind her.
Sasuke looked up right in time to see the speaker materialize right out of thin air, a shimmer of iridescent light that formed into physical limbs and white clothes.
His eyes widened at who he saw.
Sakura.
She was dressed in a flowing white sleeveless dress that was tied securely at her chest. Her dress fell to right above her knees, revealing simple white open toed boots that rose only to her ankles. Her long pink hair was kept high ponytail behind her head. In her hands were a pair of white gold gloves that glistened from the bright light of the flames dancing around them.
"Sakura?" he spoke her name quietly, disbelievingly as she stepped up to stand right behind Mikoto's brainwashed form.
"She's nothing but a meat puppet now, her mind has long since died," the pinkette stated matter of factly, without looking at Sasuke, her eyes trained on Mikoto's black pate.
"You…" Sasuke started asking but stopped himself, afraid of the answer he would get. "Wh-what is going on, Sakura?"
The pinkette finally turned to face him now.
"An invasion," she answered simply. "Of Konoha."
Sasuke's lips parted but no words came out. Sakura continued speaking: "I've been waiting for this day for so long, Sasuke."
The twenty year old Uchiha stared agape at his fiancé. "…for what?"
Sakura answered by suddenly propelling Mikoto's body through the flames; the abrupt movement caught Sasuke off guard and pushed him out of his protective Amaterasu circle. Mikoto fell off him as he was shoved off the edge of the roof.
Sasuke plummeted down the vertical length of the Hokage building; his shock and horror of the present moment inhibiting him from gaining his bearings as he plummeted towards the ground.
Halfway through his fall, Sakura's came diving down as well, lining up right over him, with her sword propped ready.
She controlled her descent and therefore fell faster than him; in a second she had impaled him straight with her blade, right through the chest.
The world flashed white.
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