AI NO JUTSU
By miku
STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY
WARNING: Shounen-ai/ Yaoi.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay! Important details first! In this story, Orochimaru had acquired a new body. Yes, it was in the manga, yes. But since I haven't watched the animation, and I've only seen little details of Orochi's new body, I'll just used my own imagination
WARNING: Uh… I'm raising the Rating of this fic coz of "unhealthy" languages and scenes and of implied, uh, "unhealthy" circumstances. But I won't be explicit
AI NO JUTSU
By miku
Chapter Three:
It was more than disgusting - the cold, rough hand intimately tracing the skin of his neck, circling the cursed seal, and lowering down to his lean bicep, threatening to continuously move down causing him to shiver. Orochimaru smirked and stooped down and bit the inviting young flesh of the boy. Sasuke hissed in restrained anger, his slightly damaged hands due to severe training clutching the silk bedcover, his bare back pushing down itself in a futile attempt of avoiding the man's degrading advances.
"You could serve me better than any ordinary soldier, Sasuke-kun," the sennin whispered in his ear, desire exuding in his new husky voice, which Sasuke still failed to get used to. Whenever he looked at Orochimaru, he could not help but envision Gaara. Their eyes, their hair, although Orochimaru's new body was blonde, like Naruto's. Orochimaru's new form was almost tolerable especially with the absence of the snake-like tongue. But it was still Orochimaru, his scent oozing from every part of the stranger. He felt the man's hand in his exposed belly, pressing it gently but firmly enough to immobilize him. Sasuke gritted his teeth but did not struggle.
"Good. Very good, Sasuke-kun," Orochimaru said, the seemingly compliment scraping Sasuke's mind. The man then crawled to stare at the young boy's stern face and then smiled, coyly, hatefully, and if Sasuke have been strong enough, he would've killed the man right there. But he needed to make most of his three years stay before his body becomes Orochimaru's possession. In any case though, it seemed that his body already belonged to the man.
He could see Orochimaru's face leaning towards him – he did not close his eyes for it denoted cowardice. He had to prove this self-assuming master that he could withstand everything, that this everything meant nothing to him. He tried not to close his eyes. But once Orochimaru's face was just an inch closer, mechanically, he turned his face away.
Orochimaru smirked and held Sasuke's chin, forcing the latter to look at him. Sasuke did so… impassively. He held more tightly at the silk bedcover as if transferring all his fury there when Orochimaru claimed his lips, tongue forcing its way inside, exploring the young boy's virgin mouth.
Sasuke winced at the memory, and Naruto stopped.
"I-I'm sorry, Sasuke," the blonde stammered, noticing Sasuke's pained expression, refusal unobtrusively shown, and that Naruto thought he really did something wrong. "I'm sorry, Sasuke," he repeated, "I won't do it again."
The young Uchiha only sighed and turned his face away, inwardly cursing Naruto for bringing back that memory and loathing Orochimaru for creating it. "Yes, don't do that again," he said before completely turning his back and resuming walking.
Naruto did not move – he knew he had to leave the other boy alone. But Sasuke's face, his expression, still lingered in his mind – it offended him. How he wished Sasuke just punched him back than show such obvious disgust. He believed, however, that it was not Sasuke's fault and that his expression was real and was not deliberate. Naruto touched his lips and shook his head. The moment could have been sweet… the moment could have been sweet…
.-
"Enjoyed what you see?" a voice behind him said, a woman. Kakashi already noticed her presence earlier – she did not try to conceal it anyway, but Kakashi was more occupied watching his two former students below, and now the already party Uchiha.
"What do you want, Shizune?" he asked, uninterested, his eyes now staring down at the left alone blonde shinobi. He inwardly shook his head, feeling sorry for Naruto, but he was more worried with Sasuke because the latter's expression held more than just annoyance, than just refusal. It held memory.
"Tsunade-hime called for you. It is urgent," the woman informed and Kakashi nodded and told her that he'd follow. Shizune understood and left.
The truth was he wanted to run after Sasuke and learn more but he knew it was not the right time. And he could not go down and comfort Naruto because he knew he was not the right "person" and that Naruto would not appreciate it anyhow. He had never been in good terms to Naruto ever since Sasuke left. Who would want a coward for his teacher, anyway?
Kakashi heaved a sigh and looked at the direction Shizune took – towards the Hokage's citadel. Soon enough, he was gone, but Naruto still stayed standing on the same spot.
.-
He winced, his eyes suddenly unaccustomed to the sun's rays. He pulled the blanket and covered his face, turned to his side and curled in an embryo state. He just finally managed to sleep and then the sun was already banging in his window? Sasuke cursed. Sleeping had been difficult that night but it was not something new. Since he left Konoha and served Orochimaru, sleeping had never been easy.
He heard the birds chirping happily outside, greeting him melodious song that he had learned to forget. In Orochimaru's place, there was no such thing as singing birds neither knocking sun's rays. There was no need to hide himself under the blanket because he hated Orochimaru's blanket – muggy and sex-smelling, never had been very helpful to him. He rose and glared at the window, scowling at the birds, at the sun, at the surrounding vibrant trees. The flora around Orochimaru's fortress was dead, not literally but they all seemed dead to him anyway.
He heaved a deep sigh and dropped himself back to his bed, his arm shielding his eyes. He thought of pulling close the curtain but he felt too lazy to do it. He wanted to rest.
"You can't, Sasuke-kun," a voice said, instantly waking him up. His eyes flew open and, instinctively, he rose and glared at the direction of the voice – towards the door, and he there he saw Kabuto leaning against, arms crossed in his chest, eyes smiling teasingly at him.
"Orochimaru-sama's been missing you greatly even though you've been away for just barely three days. So he told me to remind you of your mission," he paused and looked penetratingly at Sasuke, "In case you have forgotten."
Sasuke gritted his teeth and allowed his visitor to feel his obvious anger. But Kabuto was almost always unfeeling. He walked towards Sasuke still wearing the same look.
"I haven't," Sasuke replied, fists clenching. In some reason, he could not help but hate the man in front of him.
"Good. And Orochimaru-sama wants you to return after two days or less from now."
"What the hell! The original plan was within a week!" the young boy shouted, his expression changing from disgust to bewilderment.
Kabuto stared at him, studying him. The boy had changed a lot, he thought. He had grown much stronger and he looked more mature than any boy his age. Perhaps it was because of what he had suffered under Orochimaru. But there were still traces of youth in him and, like now, Kabuto could not deny that Sasuke was still young. And vulnerable.
He had pitied the boy before, and even until now, and if there were other ways available that could save him from the sadistic sennin, he'd help him. But he had found no body more perfect for Orochimaru and so he had to set aside his sympathy. Goals should come first before emotions.
"As I've told you, Sasuke-kun, Orochimaru-sama is missing you greatly," he repeated, this time emphasizing the malice it implicated. "And," he continued, "I'm sure you already know that you can finish it within a day or two; after all, there's no use pretending because the Hokage knew."
Sasuke inwardly agreed. But in some reason, he could not seem to leave Konoha immediately. His body still wanted to stay. He silently cursed himself for being emotionally weak but tried to stay calm outside. Kabuto could read him, anyhow, and caught the hesitation in the young boy's dark eyes.
"I'm done here and I must go. Do what you have to do, Sasuke-kun," Kabuto said before he opened the window and left. It was not a very safe line, Kabuto told himself. "Do what you have to do, Sasuke-kun" almost implied terminating the mission. But if Sasuke still returned to the sennin, it would only prove one thing: Orochimaru's control of Sasuke was already unbreakable.
.-
"Where have you gone, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked, curiosity written in her face. "We went to your house this morning, 'thought of treating you to breakfast, but we did not find you there."
"I already had breakfast," Sasuke answered, avoiding the question directed to him.
Sakura smiled and looked at Naruto who was still silent. The latter had been quite throughout the day and Sakura wondered if something happened between the two. Naruto couldn't have argued against Sasuke, she thought. Naruto told her of his feelings before and Sakura was relieved that she finally gave up on Sasuke.
"Don't give up on him like I did, Naruto-kun!" she told him once and Naruto took that advice seriously. She patted Naruto and looked encouragingly at him. Naruto got her message.
"Anyway, would you like to do some catching up today, Sasuke?" the blonde shinobi asked, concealing the hesitation in his voice. But Sasuke only stared at him.
He knew he offended Naruto last night but he could not bring himself to apologize and explain. How could you tell a person that his kiss just reminded you that you've got sexually harassed before so he should not take it personally and move on? Sasuke found no answer. So he just sighed. "Some other day," he replied, his eyes scanning the whole place for "recollection".
They were at the bridge where their team usually met up for mission discussion. He was always first to arrive. Maybe because he needed not to blow dry his hair or eat a pale of ramen or more before starting his day. Sakura would almost always arrive next because blow drying hair was faster to do than eating a pale of ramen or more. But it was always expected for their sensei to arrive last - almost always an hour late, caused by various unreasonable reasons their sensei could think of.
He looked up and saw the wooden ark where Kakashi always showed up. He smiled. Sometimes, he wanted to relive that past, not the one created by his brother Itachi, but that past he created with his teammates. Sometimes, just sometimes, he wished it were the only past he lived so that there were no reason to join Orochimaru and no reason to leave Konoha again.
He gritted his teeth. He felt the itchy, swelling sensation in his eyes again.
Maybe Kakashi would suddenly pop before them and greet them "Yo! I got lost on the way again", Sasuke suddenly thought. But he immediately brushed the idea aside and looked at his two former teammates.
"'Got to go," he said, and without waiting for their responses, he left, jumping from one spot to another until he was instantly out of sight.
"He's sad," Sakura whispered but enough for Naruto to hear.
"Yeah," somebody agreed and the two member of team 7 looked behind them to see Kakashi gazing at the path Sasuke created. "Well, 'have to go!" he said, his eyes smiling happily, and before Sakura and Naruto could respond, Kakashi was already gone.
.-
Most impending class B missions occupied the whole of next month, Sasuke learned. During those times, few jounins would be in Konoha. However, there were still many unexceptional chuunin at bay like Naruto, Chouji and Rock Lee. Shikamaru, Shino, Sakura and Neji were already jounin. Sasuke smiled wistfully. And what about him, he thought. Neither a chuunin nor jounin. He was not even a genin. Under Orochimaru's rule, there was not such thing as titles. Everybody was his slave.
He continued recalling new information in his head.
Jiraiya was not in Konoha, he learned that from Naruto, and would be back by the end of the year and that was probably after four more months. It was one hard defense and offense eliminated. And, as he thought before, next month many jounin would be sent on class B missions and that included Shikamaru and Neji. Chuunins, too, which included Naruto, Chouji, Rock Lee and Kiba. Chouji, he thought, could be working together with Shikamaru. Kiba could have been demanding missions just to compete with Naruto. And he was sure Rock Lee wanted to be with Sakura; after all, he was her boyfriend.
Many things had happened since he left.
He continued recalling…
Kakashi had no mission on that month… so if the plan to attack Konoha again was decided to be on that month, they had to fight Kakashi. Maybe Orochimaru would want him to fight Kakashi – Orochimaru was a sadist, anyway. Would he fight him? "Definitely," Sasuke answered. Goals should come first before emotions and, in anyway, he held no emotion for his former sensei. He smirked. "Liar."
"Talking to your self, Sasuke-kun?" a familiar voice said, too familiar that his head began throbbing madly. He felt his chest constricting.
"What do you want?" he asked, irritated.
"You taking drugs or something?" Kakashi teased and jumped in front of him. The wind blew, the light curtain dancing with it.
"Shut up. What do you want, sensei?" he asked again, emphasizing the last word.
Kakashi tossed him an apple and Sasuke caught it with ease. The latter looked inquiringly at the older man but Kakashi explained nothing. Instinctively, Sasuke took a bite from it and, thinking it was delicious, continued eating. He did not take breakfast.
"Breakfast is the most important meal, you know?" Kakashi lectured but Sasuke was thinking other things.
"You spying on me?"
"Yes. The Hokage doubts you."
"I know," Sasuke replied impassively. He wanted to ask whether Kakashi saw him and Naruto last night. He wanted to ask what he felt when he saw Naruto kissed him. He wanted to ask many things but he refrained himself and focused on the apple. Sweet and juicy. Red. Tempting. The reason why Snow White fainted.
Sasuke's eyes widened and Kakashi sighed. "Yes," the latter replied without even being questioned. "But it's not poison."
To be continued…
A/N: Want to take longer time to update, actually, to gain more reviews to convince me. Hehe. But… I dunno… I managed to finish this chapter today so… why not post it immediately, na? But please do review! Please!
