Note to the reader: I'm sorry for the three week delay! I'm SO busy and I didn't have the time (not to mention privacy) to type this.

Summary: Just read. Hehe.

CHAPTER XII- Passion for Pleasure and Pain

The whole September was a month of events and those events finally revealed the plans of Orochimaru. Those occurrences also revealed Sasuke's memories but still they left a question unanswered: Why did he drink from the fountain? Gaara knew why but it was too late to ask him. October passed without much significance. Sakura was able to work for the whole month until the first week of November. Kabuto kept on reappearing at places to scare her but he usually disappeared when Sasuke spotted him.

When December reached its first day, Sasuke prepared their documents for the flight. He asked for a flight schedules one day before Christmas.

One evening after finishing the requirements, Sasuke decided to pass by the Church on his way to the hospital. He was not in a hurry since Sakura called and said that Kakashi was there. He rubbed his palms together and watched the snow fall from the darkening sky. Winter had always been a gloomy yet romantic season. That fact led him into thinking… Would he do it during their stay in another country? Or maybe Sakura would change her mind… Sasuke tucked his hands into his pockets and sat at the back of the church. His eyes immediately lay upon Father Luis who, despite his blindness and weakness, was still holding the mass. There were human-size statues resembling a family inclusive of Mary and Joseph. There was feed box filled with hay but there was no Jesus in sight. There were also candles lit near it to resemble four weeks of Advent. Christmas… a time of birth. Baby… He sighed and turned to the altar for people were already singing the final song. He didn't sing but he listened to the united voices of the congregation. Sasuke remained sitting with his eyes unnaturally soft and weak. So suddenly, he felt sad for a particular reason. The voices of the people flowing in a melancholic tone drowned his senses making him feel like there would be something to mourn over in the future.

"Let's go home."

Sasuke blinked and saw a family pass by the aisle. He didn't realize that the people were already leaving. His mind was in total daze that he bumped into someone on his way out. The man had a hood with the glistening lights of the church shadowed his face. Sasuke only saw a vague image if silver hair—and he wasn't sure if it was really silver or simply "old" white.

Sasuke walked out of the church as if he had just awoken from some hazy dream. He called onto a cab and stared through its window while the car moved towards the hospital.

Every night he would reach Sakura still attending to a patient even though how tired she was. She acted more like a doctor than a nurse and even her colleagues agreed that her skills and passion were comparable to a doctor's. This night was, however, quite different for Sasuke as he spotted Sakura sitting at the waiting hall beside Kakashi. He approached them and then told Sakura that there was a cab ready.

"Till next time Lt. Kakashi." Sakura bowed slightly and took her bag.

"Sasuke, say hi to Itachi for me if you meet him." Kakashi's sheepish eyes turned into arched lines.

The Uchiha eyes Kakashi's open polo and saw his torso bandaged at his lower rib cage part. "What happened to you?"

"My students were practicing shooting on their knees. One gun backfired and luckily, the bullet missed his head and hit me instead."

"You even rhymed." Sasuke leered.

"Did I?" Hatake smiled.

"Why do you still have to wear that mask anyway?" the Uchiha asked all of a sudden.

"I must leave now, good night love birds." Kakashi waved and went out of the hospital.

"He was obviously avoiding that question." Sasuke muttered to Sakura who just chuckled.

"I asked him the same question just a while ago and he pretended to have fallen asleep." She led the way out of the hospital.

"We'll be leaving by the twenty-third." Sasuke placed an arm around her shoulder when they got in the cab.

"Where are we going anyway?" Sakura watched the night lights illuminate the Uchiha's face.

"To the Ricefield country. It's a perfect get away place if you want to forget about the fast urban life." Sasuke replied. He became silent for some seconds before speaking again.

"Sakura are you sure—?"

"Where will we turn again?" the driver looked over his shoulder.

"To the right sir. There. Thank you." Sakura handed the bills and went out with Sasuke following afterwards.

The next days were normal and safe. No threats or physical harm was done to Sakura. Sasuke was just busy preparing the plane tickets. Also, he was busy trying to keep himself from the back alleys. He was very familiar with the nocturnal transactions going on there. Charlatan was so addicting that he even almost forgot that it almost killed him… well, it actually did though indirectly.

Stop… for her. Sasuke once told himself when he was about to purchase a pack. It actually worked for he walked away with a satisfied smile.

On the twenty-second, Kiba called everyone to go to his house and start the gift giving. Most of them had planned on a Christmas get away so they had to celebrate earlier.

"Nice to see you again guys!" Kiba hauled Akamaru from the ground to his head. He pulled a paper bag from behind the couch and placed it on the table.

Hinata and Shino were sitting at either side of Kiba. Tenten sat on the arm rest beside Hinata. Shikamaru, Chouji and Naruto were on another couch across where Kiba and the others sat. Sakura was on a single sofa while Sasuke sat on its armrest. Lee was on another single sofa with his presents.

"Shall I start?" Kiba stood up and grabbed the first box. "Here Hinata." After giving the first, he handed the rest to the others.

"Thanks!" Chouji stared on countless barbeque coupons in a small box.

"Wow…" Naruto gasped as he pulled out a jacket from the box.

"Thank you Kiba." Sakura embraced the pillow she received. The rest thanked Kiba for their gifts at different levels of enthusiasm.

"I'm next." Lee handed everyone boxes of the same sizes. All of them opened their gifts and upon seeing the object, their head dropped except for Naruto's.

"YEAH! A green training suit!" Naruto waved the fitting green clothing in the air.

"That's not all! There's a training manual with it! Written and signed by no other than Sir Gai!" Lee raised his manual with Gai's signature for everyone to see.

"Professor Gai? Oh no…" Sasuke heard Tenten mutter.

"Thanks Lee." Shino said almost emotionlessly. "Mine is next." He handed everyone brown pouch bags.

Hinata opened hers and then asked, "Seeds?" The rest opened theirs and saw the same surprise.

"Each of you holds a specific kind of flower seed. Different flowers attract different insects, including butterflies. They're pleasant to the eye and to the surroundings." Shino adjusted his round shades.

"Thank you Shino." A sincere smile crossed Shikamaru's face, "Ino would love these." Shino nodded and sat back. "I guess I have to give out mine." Shikamaru broke the silence that came next. He handed everyone boxes of varied sizes.

"I've always wanted a Cook Book!" Tenten gazed at the cover of the book.

"Ino and I had planned for gifts even months before. She told me that you're good at cooking."

"Thanks!" Kiba tied a dog tag around Akamaru. The rest said their gratitude and then laughed when Tenten hugged Shikamaru. They calmed her down and afterwards, she swore to visit Ino's grave.

"Next?" Tenten gave her gifts and waited for their responses. All of them gave a positive response.

Chouji brought boxes of pizza to give to everyone but ended up eating a third of the food. Hinata gave all shirts except for Naruto. She gave him a hand knit sweater and cotton pajamas. She almost fainted when Naruto shook her hands. Kiba shook his head—he couldn't believe how numb the blonde was. Sakura gave the girls bracelets while she gave the boys each a bottle of sake. Naruto offered another drinking game but they agreed to do it next time.

"It's my turn!" Naruto sniggered and from the look of his face, he obviously planned something malicious. He handed Kiba the first.

"A videotape?" he glanced at him in question.

"That is for the sole purpose of seeing more naked videos of you!" Everyone laughed. Kiba blushed and pulled on the blonde's cheeks.

Lee opened his and saw a razor. "Er?"

Naruto pointed at his own eyebrows. Tenten hit him in the head when Lee's head dropped.

Shino was not surprised to see an insecticide in the box. Chouji only laughed when he saw a book of styles in dieting. Tenten almost ran for a kitchen knife when she saw a brassiere in the box. Hinata burned red for she got a pair of bikinis. ("I thought it'd look good on her!" He defended. "Pervert!" They yelled.) Shikamaru got a book emphasizing on how laziness would kill him someday. Sakura was to fully open hers but the Uchiha slammed the lid of the box shut. He didn't want to expose a lacy thong.

"Come on…" Naruto leered.

"Hn." Sasuke glared at the blonde.

"Fine. Why don't you open yours instead?" Naruto crossed his arms.

Sasuke just raised his brow. "I don't even need to see it to know how I'll react."

"Embarrassed are you?"

"…" Sasuke was irritated so he simply smiled and gave way. His gift was a rather small one and with one look, he already knew what waited for him inside. He pulled out the content and everyone gaped to see a box of condoms… strawberry flavor.

"NARUTO!" they screamed.

Before the blonde could savor the Uchiha's humiliation, Sasuke caught everyone's attention when he spoke in a pretty light tone. "Thank you Naruto, I never knew you were concerned." Or was he even humiliated? "Aren't you just excited to get in bed with me tonight?"

"What?" Naruto bellowed.

"Didn't you find a condom with ramen flavor? I bet you would not stop sucking on me if I had one on." The cunning Uchiha spoke nonchalantly.

The speechless listeners were staring at Naruto who was dumbfounded himself.

"Let's proceed with mine." Sasuke pulled out a bag of gifts from behind his sofa and started handing out things. The others had slowly recovered from the recent conversation and had begun opening their presents: Tenten got another book, now related to baking; Kiba got a skateboard; Lee received a set of weights; Chouji got buffet discount coupons; Shikamaru had a two by two meter artwork in a form of a puzzle which was delivered to his house; Naruto got a cellular phone and he really had to thank Sasuke even though he hated to do so. Hinata had a box of cross stitch materials while Shino received a box of a white insect egg.

"Bikochu?" Shino eyed the egg curiously.

"I thought it was only a myth." Sasuke shrugged.

Finally, they're at least agreeing on something. Sakura thought.

"Sakura," she turned to the Uchiha, "open yours."

The pink head lifted the cover of the velvet box and saw a silver key. "A key…" She looked up to Sasuke and then gasped. "A car key?"

Sasuke cocked his head to the side when suddenly Sakura embraced him. The others watched the two and began teasing them until Sakura released him. The rest of the evening was full of laughter and reminiscing. And whenever Naruto started an argument, Sasuke always won by the end of their exchange of sides. After some time, Naruto proposed a drinking game. Funny, he swooned before any of them. They only got home go when Kiba noticed the clock. They bid each other good bye and left.

On the twenty-fourth, they boarded the plane to Ricefield Country. The country, as expected, was green from the top view. There were a lot of farm lands and fishing ports indicating that the place was indeed a rural one. They stayed in a rented house near the fields and spent time looking around


Sasuke had just placed his bags in a corner when he noticed the sweet scent of perfumed soap from the bathroom. He stopped and eyed the curtains flying due to the breeze. His bare torso fully captured the chill of the midnight blow. Sasuke's orbs dropped on one of the bags. Will I use one? He bit his lower lip and proceeded to the balcony. Without even raising a question, the Uchiha suspected what was bound to happen. He knew that Sakura also felt the thrill of something secretly wanted… and whatever it was would happen tonight.

Sasuke looked down on his silk pants and then looked at the view that lay before the house. Is she sure? He heard the door knob open so he looked over his shoulder. His eyes couldn't contain themselves from looking at Sakura's slim figure under her night gown.

"This place is nice." Sakura didn't seem to notice his stare and joined him in the balcony. She stretched her arms over the banister. "See how the rice bows to the moon?" The wind was blowing the plants to the direction of the nocturnal heavenly body.

"…" Sasuke just stared at the sky while his mind flew to nothingness.

After getting no response, Sakura went back into the room, climbed onto the bed and then laid down. The raven head followed her and faced the bed. Half of his image was concealed by the shadow. The Uchiha stepped a little closer, exposing his eyes that were asking if Sakura was sure. The emerald eyes reflected a 'yes'.

Sasuke slowly hauled himself up the bed and then went on all fours on top of her. He gently lowered his lips towards Sakura's and told himself inwardly that everything would be down slow. He parted her lips with his tongue and it played expertly against her tongue. As the French kiss went on, Sasuke pulled her gown upwards. They only broke the kiss to make way for the garment off her body. The wet kiss went on for minutes until Sasuke's lips advanced to her ears. Sakura moaned as her earlobe was teased by the Uchiha. Her hands trailed down the back of his neck to his spine.

Sasuke left her ear and went to her jaw line. He licked her jaw and placed butterfly kisses on her white smooth neck while his hands touched whatever they reached. Sakura had pulled his pants halfway down his thighs when Sasuke's lips enclosed over hers again. He replaced Sakura's hands and pulled his pants off while continuing with her mouth.

They parted for a moment and stared into each other's eyes. He smiled and whispered "you're so beautiful" to her ear. He kissed her again and played his fingers on Sakura's panties. He kissed her collar bone and then proceeded to her chest. He knew Haruno twitched when his lips touched her breast. He placed one hand on her other breast while his tongue moved on her nipple.

"…Sasuke…" she gasped and held Sasuke's hand which was caressing her breast. The Uchiha sucked on her gently and while on it, he looked straight into her eyes. He continued on, sucking and touching, until Sakura begged for release. She closed her eyes and raised both her knees as Sasuke pulled her panties off. He kissed her abdomen and brushed his fingertips against her waist. He moved again to her lips and kissed her more ferociously than before. The kiss became too torrid that he fell to his side and both found themselves gobbling up each other's lips. They were also brushing their tongues and lips against whatever they felt. After tasting each other, Sasuke pushed himself up and knelt in between her thighs.

Sakura was kind of embarrassed yet thrilled to feel the Uchiha's eyes on her organ. Finally, the right man to own her whole body came to claim her chastity.

A sly, confident smile crossed Sasuke's face. It was his favorite part after all. He pushed her thighs apart and then lowered himself. He licked her inner thighs and ran his fingers on her legs. Sakura felt his tongue approach the spot of her virginity. Slowly, she felt a weird sensation inside her—the sensation seemed to drive her insane for more. Sakura moaned upon feeling Sasuke's warm tongue against her vulva. She gripped on the bed sheet as she felt the rush of blood in her body. The Uchiha, amused by her moans, continued to lick on—his tongue repeatedly touching her clitoris. He was enjoying himself for he licked her like his favorite ice cream. Minutes after, he placed his index and thumb on her skin (at the surface) at either side of the vulva. He moved his fingers apart, widening the entrance a bit. He licked the surroundings before dipping his tongue into her. Sakura actually let out a small scream of pure ecstasy. He moved it in sharp flicks sending warm teasing tickles. The pink head was just letting out muffled words of extreme pleasure. The action went on until the Uchiha pulled back, her juice glistening on his lips. He inserted his index and middle finger into Sakura. His lips moved back to her nipple as he moved his finger in and out in an increasing speed.

"Oh…my… oh god…" He heard her mutter. Her eyes were closed while her hands moved to feel his hair between her fingers. Sasuke was turned on by her reactions so he decided to take it to the next level.

Sasuke parted Sakura's thighs a little bit more and watched the pink head pant for a few seconds. He brushed his fingers against her cheeks and then said, "This might hurt…"

The listener gulped but later smiled. She trusted him anyway. She just watched the Uchiha move for a better compromising position. It occurred to her that she had never seen the Uchiha's member before and now, it was exposed to her—hard and…well… big. Sasuke kissed her again before holding his member and directing it into her. Slowly and yes, painfully, the organ inserted into her virgin flesh. Sasuke let out a gasp but Sakura's eyes squinted because of pain. The Uchiha offered not to continue but Haruno was sure that she was ready for more. Sasuke gradually moved his penis in and out of her while observing her face. When she showed pain, he's slow down, pause, kiss her and then continue. He actually pitied her for he saw blood. The only thing he could do was to slow down and wait for her to get used to the pain. So far, she got over the pain minutes after. The reward after bleeding was the intense pleasure she felt as Sasuke increased his pace. Both of them were perspiring and panting as the rhythm went on.

"Shit…shit…" Sasuke was repeatedly muttering to himself as he thrust deeper into her tight vagina. The heat was building up fast and his groin was starting to feel extremely sexual. In a few more thrusts, he knew he was to ejaculate. Sakura was in the same state as he was. She was, despite her supposedly demure demeanor, screaming Sasuke's name. She was also feeling her juice wanting to flow. But before both of them could reach their peak, Sasuke withdrew and kissed her again. He moved Sakura on her knees and elbows and brushed his palms against her butt cheeks. He kissed her back and then inserted his penis into her again. The pleasure was prolonged before they both came, which was a damn good thing.

"Deeper…Sasuke…" Sakura pleaded as she was being rocked by the Uchiha. Sasuke, on the other hand, was pushing his member further into her. He, himself, wanted to reach more…The speed drove them both insane, making them both a lot more erotic than they were before.

"Shit! I'm coming!" Sasuke's groin burned causing him to grip on Sakura's hips. In a quick thrust, his cum shot inside Sakura. He panted and pulled back to lie beside Sakura. The pink head also fell to her side and caught her breath. The two looked at each other and smiled. They found each other funny that moment they looked tired yet happy. Sakura cuddled close to Sasuke who motioned his hand on her waist. "Sit on me." He whispered against her ear. Haruno obliged and sat up. Sasuke positioned her vulva directly on top of his penis. She lowered herself onto him and with the Uchiha's help, she moved up and down.

As she moved, Sasuke enjoyed himself by watching her perspire and by touching her breasts. He was panting himself for she was doing great…a little more and… Sakura fell towards him because of weakness. Sasuke kissed her and licked her lips before she sat upright again and moved up and down. After a few more pants and friction, Sasuke ejaculated in her. Sakura got herself up and then lied down beside Sasuke. She closed her eyes as the Uchiha continued to kiss her hair. A few minutes passed before both of them fell asleep.

Wake up. Sasuke's onyx eyes refocused after opening to the darkness. He saw Sakura's face inches away from his and her hands were curled against his chest. He sat upright and eyed the clock; he groaned to find out the it was two a.m. The Uchiha slid off the bed and went to corner of the room where the bags were. Sakura shifted her position and lied in a supine form. He paused and then continued to the bags. He moved his hands into the bag in search for a candy or something but instead, he pulled out a familiar thing. It was a deformed Charlatan cigarette.

Sasuke didn't throw it but instead, he lit it and went to the balcony. He sat on the banister and he didn't care that he was actually naked for everyone to see. Hell, it was two a.m. anyway. He smoked when he was in a state of anxiety. Until now he was thinking if what he did was just right. Sasuke eyed Sakura was sleeping deeply. He watched her breasts move up and down because of her breathing. Her words repeated in his mind. Before you go…leave a child in me. The cigarette fell from his fingers for he saw a tear trickle down her cheek.

He knew that she also understood the fact… he left a child in her… for he was really leaving.


END

I have cut a lot of scenes because I am in a hurry. Forgive me. Let us pray that I don't get punished… coz obviously I would be…

I hope you enjoyed.