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Origonal Characters: Jin and Mai are mine (tee hee)
ladyrine: thank you guys so much for the wonderful reveiws! as promised, here's the next chapters... and chapter 10 part 2. I'm glad that ppl are actually reading this and liking it (smiles) i'll try to be more descriptive in later chapters... but most of the time it's hazy for a reason.
ENJOY (heart)
-lady rine
Act 10-part2: Sleep tight Sasuke-kun.
"Achoo!" Sasuke rubbed his nose a bit as she bulled the blanket tighter around his body. "Crap… I better not get a cold…" He said unhappily.
"Well that's what you get for roaming around in the rain." Sakura scolded as she boiled some water.
"I don't see you sneezing… ACHOO!" He whipped his nose again, and shook his head causing some water droplets to fall from his hair.
"I had an umbrella." The kettle was wheezing now and she took it off the stove, pouring it into a tea pot and adding a mixture of leaves, Sakura stirred it gently then brought it over to the kitchen table on a tray with two cups.
"…" Sasuke didn't say anything. He gave a small nod when she handed him a cup of tea but that was it.
The two of them sat there drinking tea silently. Time seemed to go slowly while they sat. "Why isn't he saying anything?" Sakura thought as she glanced up at him for a mere second.
She started on her tea again when Sasuke looked at her, "Why isn't she saying anything?" It was usually Sakura who initiated the conversation, but since she's been back, Sasuke found that she didn't say anymore than two word answers to him. So it seemed.
"Sakura…" he started.
"Yes?" she looked up from her tea.
"Damn…" He thought. Sasuke hadn't really thought as far as what to actually say to her. He didn't know what to say… he wanted to know so much but the Uchiha Prodigy couldn't muster enough courage to ask her. This coming from the guy who can kill 75 capable jounin level men in 20 minutes flat.
"Yes?" She asked again.
"Umm…." DING DONG! The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Sakura got up and made her way out of the room.
Sasuke slammed his fist on the table. "DAMNIT!" He spilt some tea. "ACHOO!" "Fuck. It's bad enough I can't talk to her, but now I have a fucking cold. Shit!" Sasuke got up and grabbed a cloth to clean up the mess before she got back.
"It was just a messenger boy… neh, Sasuke-kun, are you alright?" Sakura said coming back into the kitchen.
"Yeah, why?" He asked plunking back down into his chair. Actually his head was pounding like mad and he felt like he was going to fall over any minute.
"Because your face is all red." She walked closer to him and placed her hands on his neck. "Sasuke-kun, you're burning up. Looks like you have a fever." She took his temperature pressing her right palm gently on his forehead after taking off his headband and brushing away his bangs.
"I'm ok…" He muttered groggily. "I don't get sick… ACHOO!" He rubbed his nose with another tissue. Sakura giggled a little bit. "It's not funny…" His voice sounding rather nasally now.
"Ok then tough guy…" she teased. "You're not sick, but you have a fever and a cold… you should rest a bit."
"Gah…" Sasuke moaned as he got up. Sakura pulled his arm a little bit to help him up. She brought him out of the kitchen, up the main stairs and all the way to his bedroom which was quite a walk, his house was huge.
He was starting to fall asleep when they got to his room. Falling asleep… asleep… asleep… falling… falling… falling quite quickly. Sakura helped him lie on his bed and pulled the covers over him to his chest. For spring, it was still quite chilly at night, even in fire country. When she was done, she looked upon him.
"He looks so peaceful and at ease when he sleeps..." She smiled and turned to leave, but she could not move. It took Sakura a minute or two, though it felt like hours, to realize that something was holding her back literally. She looked down her left arm and followed one that was not her own with her eyes… to Sasuke.
"Sasuke?" She whispered.
"Sakura… don't go…" His eyes were slightly open; she could see some glaze of his black holes underneath pale blankets of his eyelids.
She didn't know if it was really Sasuke who was asking her to stay by his side or if it was his fever talking… but her heart skipped merrily with secret joy.
She pulled a chair to the bedside and sat down holding his hand. Satisfied, Sasuke closed his eyes fully. She watched him sleep again. Sakura's mind started to drift off again in thoughts and memories.
It must have been an hour or two before Sakura decided she should probably go to her own room now. She heard a crash from downstairs. Alarmed she ran down to investigate.
Something was squirming in the shadows, worming around on the floor. "A hostage!" She thought as it looked like the shadow figure was bound somehow, probably by rope. Another figure appeared over it, and thrust a long pole-looking object right through the head of the bound hostage. Sakura saw, what she made out to be blood, ooze allover the kitchen floor. "Sasuke!" She thought and ran up the steps silently back up to Sasuke's room. Her eyes widened in horror, his bed was empty.
"Looking for Me?" She turned around
"SASUKE!" She hugged him tightly. "You scared me!" She pulled away and looked into his eyes. They were crimson, and spinning. "Sharingan!" She hadn't seen a Sharingan like this before. "This is not Sasuke's eyes…" "You're not Sasuke!" She cried. The imposter threw her on the bed and pinned her down roughly with his hands. Another figure appeared behind the Imposter pushing a cage.
"SASUKE!" She cried as the cage was pushed into the moonlight from the window. She started to cry.
"SAKURA!" He started to kick the bars wildly, as his hands were tied behind his back, on the cage floor next to him a messy pile of blonde and blood lay lifeless.
"No…Naruto too?" Sakura cried even harder. Remembering the murder downstairs.
"SAKURA!" Sasuke continued to kick at the bars like mad. Sakura looked at the Imposter above her, his eyes wielding like wildfire. "ITACHI YOU BASTARD! LET HER GO! KILL ME! KILL ME! NOT HER! NOT SAKURA!" Tears were forming in his onyx eyes. "NOT MY SAKURA!"
The evil brother glared at him and grinned mischeviously. A spark, long and sleek, thrusts into Sakura. She coughed up blood, eyes flowing with tears. No breath left in her, she mouthed his name one last time. Shed one last tear… and died.
"SAKURA!" Sasuke jolted up sitting straight up in his bed. He was wet with sweat. Frantically he gazed around the room. "It was a dream? A nightmare…"
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura pushed open the door, she had left to use the washroom when she head him scream for her. "Is everything ok?" She rushed over to his side upon seeing his panic. "I just went to the washroom and I— " Sasuke pulled her onto the bed into his arms hugging her tightly.
Her eyes widened in total shock… "Sa…su…ke…" She whispered. "Again… this embrace…" She blushed deeply as she retuned his embrace wrapping her own arms around his shaking body.
"Promise me…" he started to whisper into her ear. "You'll never leave me again…"
"Sa…su…ke…" She pulled him in closer to her, like a mother to a broken child. "I'm not going anywhere." A tear fell from here jaded eyes and she smiled kindly. "I promise..."
