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So I didn't update for a while because I had my wisdom teeth removed (Hooray!). xD I'll try, with my bsuy shcedule, to write th res tof the chapters soon. My grades have been lowering and I think it's because I've been ditracting myself with rolepalying, drawing, and writing stories. (Dang.) Anyway, I'll try to keep up with everything including my Karate and guitar lessons. Not to worry! I'd never leave my stories to go on a super long haitus, it ticks me off when good wirters do taht and I wouldn't want to upset you readers. :)
Thanks so much for believing and being here as this story chugs along slowly!By the way, I'm taking one-shot and short stories requests. You want a SasuSaku, InoShika, NaruHina, NejiTen, KakaSaku, etc. one short or short stry? Just ask and I'll galdly whip one up (putting effort into it of course).
By the way Dare To Dream will not be ending any time soon. I plan for this to be a long story with around thirty or more chapters.
Ja!
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The white fur of the small animal shone in the dim light that emitted from the high ceiling lamps. It squeaked in delight once the door was open to show in the welcoming rays of the moon into the damp room. Nothing good lasts forever though, as the door slammed shut and left the mouse to slump in the darkness once more.
"Hmm- Let's see. I guess you can go over here-" said an amused voice soon followed with a thump of a body being thrown into a corner. The man speaking giggled slightly as he bent down to shackle the poor body by the wrists and ankles.
"Ah. I guess you're shorter than the others. We'll put you on the stretcher..." The man heaved another body onto the thick plank of rotting wood. He locked the body in and turned around to watch the last man slumped on the floor.
"Well, well. I think we're going to have to put you in a more confined area than the others." His glasses shone as he stepped forward under the dim light of the lamp. He bent over and rolled the last body into a cage where he proceeded to place explosive seals around it and surround the metal with his own sealing chakra. The door creaked open slightly as a pale man entered.
"Kabuto. Have you made sure they are all tightly secured?"
"Yes Orochimaru-san."
"Kuku, excellent. Now I will put you in charge of the torture tonight until morning. That's when I'd like to ask them a few questions. Meanwhile... I think our dear Sasuke-kun will be delighted to hear the news of their capture." Kabuto nodded and turned to face his master, but when he came fully round he found nothing but an open doorway.
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Uchiha Sasuke was not one to give in to feelings. Had he done so in the past, he would have been dead by now. But as he stood before his own bed in his personal hut, he could not help but try not to struggle against what was in his mind. At the time, Sasuke didn't think much of it when he had taken control and kissed Sakura. It was just the need to quench the inferno that roared in his belly when he was so near yet so far from what he could have had. He didn't know what had first started it and he was determined to stop it before it went to far. That was then, however, and this is now.
What had driven him to stay with her those nights? What made him stay after he had done what he needed to do: Give her a meal? These questions had flooded his mind and he thought himself weak for wanting more from their relationship. He had never heard of a shinboi to fall in love while he was still in duty. Usually when a ninja had married, or fell in love, it meant that they could no longer serve and would need to break from their profession to seek a lower one.
Sasuke growled in disapproval as he punched the wall on his right. He would not allow it! To fall in love? Ha! What a stupid idea. He did not have feelings for that and would never will!
Sasuke's rage passed quickly as dread swept over him. Had he already done what he swore not to do? Had he already given in to a woman's charm? And not just a woman, a team mate, companion, a friend.
"Pitiful," he murmured to himself as he reached for his weapons. He would try his best not to fall further from the ledge he had already fallen from.
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The petite shadow moved silently, as a rabbit would, across the passage between huts. The moon deceived the figure, blazing pink hair shown for a few seconds in it's light. She crept stealthily listening to each and every hut. She needed to find them as soon as possible, and if she would get caught she was ready.
Sakura made her way to one of the last huts and finally, she seemed to have stricken gold. Leaning her ear close to the adobe, she strained to eavesdrop.
"So... You were here looking for whom?" the man who spoke, Sakura vaguely remembered but there was no mistaking him.
"I'm not-------anything---------" The next voice was dull and muffled. Sakura wondered, but there was no time for pondering.
"Hn. Sakura..."
Sakura's eyes widened. How did he find her? Sakura turned around slowly to find Sasuke smirking down at her, his arms crossed. Something wasn't right though, the way he looked at her, and it looked almost-snake like.
"Ah... Sasuke-kun, I was just..."
"Just what Sakura? Eavesdropping on our little plan? You didn't think I'd really help your friends did you? Kuku..."
"Wha...What?" Sakura choked out, her green eyes blazing. This wasn't right. This wasn't-
"Damn you! Where's the real Sasuke?" she growled and she reached for her kunai.
"Kukuku. My my.. This little cherry blossom is as smart as they say she is." In an instant 'Sasuke' was pinning her down on the ground, swiping the weapons away from her. He leaned down and hissed into her ear.
"Isn't this what you wanted blossom? Didn't you want your Sasuke-kun to feel you like this-" He slithered his fingers to the crook of her hip. Sakura let out a scream, but a hand that was defiantly not Sasuke's muffled her.
"Orochimaru?" she gasped under the pressure of his palm.
"Shhh there's no need to be afraid-" His lips curled into a maniac smile, "You'll be safe around me.. Unless.. I get bored of you of course... Kukukuku-"
Sakura widened her eyes as blackness befell her. She was never good and disarming genjitsu.
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Sasuke knocked carefully on the door as he heard the clinking of chains end abruptly at his arrival. The swivels squeaked and Kabuto's head rose from the blackened interior or the hut.
"Ah. Sasuke-kun. I thought you'd be gone by now..." Something in Kabuto's voice turned Sasuke's suspicions to Orochimaru. Had he planned something that would have made Sasuke not be in the Sound Village?
"Kabuto, who are you keeping in these quarters?"
"That's not for you to know yet Sasuke-san..." Kabuto replied, eyeing Sasuke carefully, "Though I think you'll hear the news soon enough."
"I've already heard it-" Sasuke growled, slamming his hand on the doorway, "There's no way I'll let anything pass by me." Kabuto watched him coolly.
"There's nothing you can do at the moment." The silver-haired man droned seriously. Sasuke sighed impatiently and glared deep behind Kabuto's glasses, "We'll see about that. When I get back, I expect you to tell me all you know."
With that one last frustrated remark, Sasuke turned on his heel and disappeared once more. He had only one thing he had to take care of before finalizing his decision.
Kabuto smirked as he slowly closed the door to the outside and returned torture Neji. He uttered a deadly whisper partly in response to Sasuke and partly to himself.
"And I expect you to be dead-"