Past Regrets Chapter 9: The Tavern, a naruto fanfic

Past Regrets

Chapter 8: The Tavern

Warning: To all that read this chapter and detest lemons or anything of that nature, skip the second block of reading. There is a sexual situation that many people may find offensive or distasteful. So please, read up to the page break then skip to the other break marker. You may flame but please do not report abuse. I warned you all and I also rated this R so it's only fair that you don't report me. Thank you for your time. Now on with the story!

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Tetsu's heart skipped a beat when she saw there was only one bed. She didn't truly think that their relationship was that close as of yet, but she decided that she didn't mind it. She dropped her backpack on the floor in front of the bed and sat on the edge, kicking off her sandals.

Their quarters was only one room with a bed all but ten feet from the door. The rafters were old and low and the color of redwood trees. The bed in front of them was against a wall on the right side and very low to the ground. Beside the left side of the bed was a small nightstand with a dim candle burning on its last bit of wax. The room was darker than the hallway, but there was still the slightest bit of light, allowing them to see slight details around them.

Tetsu flopped backward onto the bed and sighed in exhaustion, then sat up remembering the fight with Kakashi.

"What was all that about?" she asked Sasuke, who sat down and began to unlace his shoes as well.

"What... the bar?"

"What else."

"I'm not sure. You should ask Sakura. She's close to Kakashi. She may know." Tetsu nodded and blinked, her body tired, but herself wide-awake.

"I'll talk to her later. I can't move without feeling dizzy," she murmured and sat up, crawling to the pillow and flopping down again. She had her back to him, looking at the wall.

"Were you just dizzy? Moving from there to there?"

"Well... no."

"Then you lied."

"I'm just tired."

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"I am too." Sasuke agreed. He scooted closer to her and laid down, draping his arm over her waist. She turned over and looked at his placid face. They stared at each other for a few moments before Tetsu felt slightly self-conscious and cast her eyes down. In one swift moment, he pressed his face onto hers, pushing his lips gruffly to her own.

She grabbed his shoulder with her left hand and pulled him harder into the kiss. He broke away for not even a second before he began delicately kissing her chin and neck. She held tighter to his shoulder and pulled him up onto her.

He lay there between her legs, caressing every inch of her neck with his mouth. She squeezed his hips with her legs and grabbed the back of his head, pressing him firmer to her neck and making him more energetic.

Sasuke sat up, bringing her up with him, and pulled off her top as they continued tongue wrestling. She reached down and pulled off his wife beater, beginning to rub his shoulders and chest. They were skin on skin, a coil of perspiration and raw heat. They laid down again, the intensity of the moment growing with every second flying by.

Tetsu rolled him over and straddled his lap, suckling and caressing his bare chest. Sasuke did nothing but hold her head and pant as though he'd never breathed before. She made her way down, licking every part of his torso in ecstasy and rubbing his shoulders roughly. He grabbed onto the bed comforter with one hand and her head in another, tangling her raven tresses around his fingers.

She looked down and then back up at Sasuke's face. He looked as though he was a crazed animal with no sense of direction or what was happening. She smirked wickedly and climbed back up, connecting to his lips and plunging her tongue into the beast's mouth.

He mimicked, and held her lower back firmly in his hands, pressing himself on her despite their pants. She felt slightly uncomfortable, but tried to ignore it and continued to suck on his mouth. He did it again, only this time he held her there for longer, making her even more uneasy.

He let go of her side and reached down faster than she could react and began to press her with his finger. She held her breath for a second before his hand rose and reached down again, this time he went inside her pants. She began to pant harder, out of an unknown fear, and out of the almost heavenly sensation he was bestowing upon her.

She grabbed his shoulders in a gruff manner and meant to say something, but couldn't get it out when he moved his fingers around in a sensual motion. She groaned slightly without meaning to, but in reaction to what was happening. He moved his fingers around faster and she gripped his body tightly. Her hips began to move back and forth with the persuasion of Sasuke's hand, and it made her feel even better.

She couldn't think clearly, only back to what happened with the Akuma brother's. She opened her mouth to tell him to stop but all she could do was moan in pure frenzied euphoria. She began to quiver with the excitement of everything and hardly noticed when Sasuke began to remove his pants. He started to untie Tetsu's sashinuki when she finally had enough sense to choke out a barely audible, "Don't."

Sasuke either didn't hear her or thought she was being playful, but he didn't stop taking off her pants. She started to grip his shoulders even harder than the death grip they were already in as he successfully slid her pants down to her knees. She shook her head as he gripped her waist, pushing his own hips upward and pulling her down. Memories of Yasuo and Masahiro flooded her head and she began to tear up in fear and uncertainty.

Sasuke moaned slightly and pushed his hips harder into hers until he could feel himself inside of her. Tetsu gritted her teeth and tried desperately to stop the horrible memories from destroying this moment, but she couldn't do anything to stop it.

Sasuke drove himself into her over and over again, moving her hips back in forth to motivate her to help. She kept shaking her head but jerked back and forth to please his pressuring hands.

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After it was all over with, Tetsu collapsed onto Sasuke's body with tear-stained cheeks. She clutched him tightly and closed her eyes firmly, refusing to shed any more tears on the subject of Yasuo. It didn't work completely and so she whimpered and sniffled in Sasuke's arms.

Sasuke was dumbfounded. He embraced her loosely, too exhausted to hold her too tightly. She hugged him back, holding back as many tears as she could.

"What happened?" he asked quietly. She shook her head and sniffed.

"Forget it," she whispered, breathing in deeply and exhaling in hicks and uneven breaths.

"I can't. I'm completely at a loss here," he said, nuzzling the crook of her neck. She did the same.

"It's not your fault so don't worry," she hushed, trying to calm herself.

"Now I know something bad just happened here," he said and grabbed her shoulders, lifting her up so he could look her in the eye.

"Can we talk about it later?" she asked quietly looking at his pale face.

"Will you be mad at m if I bring it up again?"

"No. Just... just hold me for a while, okay?"

He nodded, still searching for an answer in her eyes. She rolled off of him, pulled on her sashinuki, and got under the covers. He did the same, cradling her in his arms until he no longer heard her sniffle. The rain pounded against the roof, lulling their troubled minds to a soothing sleep.

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"Let's talk," Naruto muttered, looking at the wooden ceiling. The room was identical to Tetsu and Sasuke's, only this one had two smaller beds against both walls.

"What about?" Sakura asked, unpacking her bag. "Turn." Obediently, Naruto turned over as she slipped out of her close and into a pair of pajama pants.

"I don't know. I mean, we've never had to share a bunk before or anything. Never had a heart-to-heart," he said matter-of-factly. She jumped into bed and pulled the blankets over her topless body.

"Wow, you're right," she replied. "Turn." Naruto turned over to see her buried under the covers up to her neck.

"You sleep topless?" he gasped, mouth agape.

"I usually sleep nude when I'm alone. But I left the pants on this time just for you," she sassed.

"Jeez, I was only askin'," Naruto said defensively. He grabbed up his backpack and took the wife-beater Tetsu had lent him off and threw it in the bag. He didn't notice Sakura hide all but her eyes in the blanket so as he wouldn't see her blushing. He slipped off his sashinuki and put on a pair of underwear. "That's weird anyway," he muttered, turning to face Sakura. "I thought only guys slept naked."

"Well you were wrong," she murmured. Naruto sighed and laid down in his bed.

"Sakura-"

"Yeah?"

"Why are you always so mean to me," he asked with sadness in his voice. Sakura was taken aback at his comment, and it took her a couple of seconds to think of a good answer.

"You're childish and rude and loud and like an annoying little brother," she affirmed. She could all but hear Naruto's heart break in two.

"Oh," was all he said and he turned over, facing the wall. Sakura felt instantly horrible inside and a heat wave of guilt focused on her cheeks and neck.

"I'm sorry, Naruto," she whispered. When he didn't respond, she felt her heart crawl to the pit of her stomach. "What if we make a deal." Naruto still didn't say anything for a time, but then looked up slightly.

"What kind of deal," he murmured.

"I'll stop being so mean if you stop being so childish."

"How."

"Figure it out." Naruto turned over with anger on his face.

"How am I supposed to stop being who I am? I've lived this way since forever! I can't just stop acting the way I've acted since I was born!" Sakura pulled her head under some of the covers in shame.

"You could try," she mumbled. "Just try and be more mature."

"Then you'll try and be nice to me."

"Yes. The whole reason I'm mean to you in the first place is because you act like a little kid. If you stopped acting like that, then I'd have no reason to be angry at you constantly. You act like a kid brother." Naruto looked at her in a strange way.

"You think of me as a brother to you," he repeated.

"Well... what else would I think of you as?" Naruto narrowed his eyes then turned and looked at the ceiling.

'No wonder she was never attracted to me,' he thought in annoyance at himself. After a few moments of silence, Naruto turned back over and looked at the wall. Nearly five minutes went by with nothing but quiet.

"What was your childhood like? I mean... when I didn't know you?" Sakura whispered, trying to spark a conversation.

"You really want to know? You care to know?" he said with a hint of agitation in his voice as he turned over to face her again.

"Why not. After all, we haven't ever had a heart-to-heart," she suggested. Naruto's eyes beamed and he grinned slightly, his birthmarks curving with his cheeks.

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Evening came suddenly and the rooms got even darker than when they first arrived. Naruto sat up in his bed and stretched after taking a brief nap. He looked over at Sakura who was sound asleep in a little ball on her bed. She yawned and blinked awake to see Naruto's shadowed form.

"You can't sleep well either, huh?" she muttered and rolled over on her side to face him better.

"Thunder always used to keep me up when I was little," he replied and rubbed his eyes. "That and I'm so hungry I could eat this tavern out of house and home."

"Me too. Let's get dressed and see what there is to eat downstairs," she said and sat up, turning to her backpack. Naruto instinctively turned away, but she didn't say anything this time. He still decided not to stare anyway, just in case she would get in trouble. He didn't want to destroy the relationship he'd tried so hard to create with her.

Once they were dressed, Naruto got a bunch of money from his knapsack and headed downstairs. The bar was eerily quiet by the time the appeared on the last step.

"Looks like everyone cleared out," whispered Sakura as she stepped down behind the register. Naruto followed closely.

"Where do you think they keep the food?" he asked, looking under the counters and inside cabinets. Sakura ignored him.

"It's not that late... it's not even happy hour yet," she muttered and eyed their surroundings suspiciously.

"Sakura?" Naruto called quietly, but saw her turn a corner, disregarding him. He followed to see her standing still and looking ahead. He looked from her to where she was looking at. He narrowed his eyes and stared into the nearly pitch black area of the bar she was looking at.

His eyes adjusted to see the outline of a dark figure sitting in the corner, smoking a slightly lambent cigarette. He inhaled deeply, causing the blunt to illuminate his face. He held it away and exhaled.

"So you'e the people I was hi'ed for?" the man mocked in a strong, almost fake, accent.

"Hired for?" Naruto asked, cocking his head to the side.

'An assassin,' Sakura thought and glowered.

"Who hired you," she demanded.

"None 'o' you' beeswax, lass," he replied, shifting his weight in the chair.

"Well then," Naruto muttered, his eyes full of excitement, "let's go."

"As yah wish," the man said and ground his cigarette into the table. His outline disappeared in a blur and he reappeared inches in front of them. His eyes were a wild, fiery red and his hair was black and dangled loosely around his shoulders. His skin was covered with small, red puncture wounds. "Let's go."

Sakura quickly grabbed at his arms but went through them instead. She had a puzzled look on her face until it was hit with a hard blow from the side. She growled at herself when she landed, angry that she didn't see through the illusion.

Naruto took out a pair of kunai knives and threw them directly at the man's throat and stomach. The demonic man caught them and threw them back twice as hard. Naruto dodged them swiftly, grabbing one out of the air and letting the other fly by. He flashed a smirk at the man and charged him.

Sakura struck at him from behind before Naruto could get to him. He took this as an advantage point and dodged them both. Naruto collided into Sakura with his blade drawn, thrusting it deeply into her stomach. She stumbled backward with an awestruck look on her face, holding tightly to the kunai knife. Naruto gawked in shock at what had just happened. She grimaced and pulled it out, chucking it at Naruto. He dodged it just as it hit the mystery man's shoulder.

"Noice plan lass, but it di'n't quite wo'k out," he said, taking the knife out of his shoulder.

"Didn't it?" she asked. In a poof of smoke, she turned into a splintering barstool. Naruto and the man both took a step back as the real Sakura threw dozens of shuriken at the man. He jumped upward and dodged the stars as she began manipulating with her hands. The stars stopped in their path and began to give off a brilliant glow.

They shot upward at the man and continued to swarm around him no matter how many times he dodged them. 'Fine,' he thought and jumped over to Sakura, 'if I go down, I'll take at least one target.' He grabbed her and held her in front of him as the shuriken slashed at her back.

Naruto hooked his leg under the man's and tripped him, catching Sakura. The shuriken fell on top of the man, slicing the large jacket he had on. The spell died as Sakura stood up, bleeding extensively from the back. The man stood up, sliding from his jacket to show off a tight, black long sleeved shirt with gloves and golden stripes on his shoulders. Sakura's eyes widened when she recognized the costume.

"Tetsu said you were dead," she muttered, slightly startled.

"So you know Tetsu?" the man asked, dropping the accent. Naruto's eyebrow quirked when the man said her name.

"She said she killed you," Sakura said, ignoring his question.

"Oh, I'm very much alive," he hissed and smirked. "But you won't be for long."

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Everyone: My sister put my laptop in my dad's car, so I couldn't write for a while 2 weeks. ::sigh:: Maybe I'll keep it out of my sister's hands next time, eh?

Tamera2187: ::gasp:: I'm guessing you don't want Sakura and Naruto together, huh? Heh heh. Truthfully, I don't know what I'm going to do with them. They'll figure out what they're doing. If they kiss, they kiss, ya know? I don't really control what they do. Whatever happens, happens, I guess. Thanks for the review! You and krn-kimbap are my most loyal reader and I'm so happy about that!

Jigglymonster: Haha! I'm glad you like it! I hate how there's no plot to other people's lemons also. It annoys me. I hope you like the cliffy! Thanks for the review!

Krn-kimbap: Hah! First Tamera says not to do that, and then you beg me too! Like I said with her, I have no idea if they're gonna do anything. It could lead up to a sibling-like bond, it could turn out to be something more. I'm thinkin' the reason Sasuke fell for her so quickly was because he didn't have much of a relationship with any girl but Sakura if you think about it. Fresh meat, ya know? He never really seemed all that into Sakura ever, so I made it so they never had a relationship.

Gary: Thanks for the awesome comment! I love praise. If I had a tail, I'd wag it. ::grin:: I'll try and keep this story as interesting as possible! Thanks for the review!

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