Chapter 5 - Forest for us two

His gaze was deep and enchanting that she blurted out the first thing that she thought of, "I have never had any experience with… well, any of this. I don't know what to do, or what to think."

Shisui couldn't help but feel excited, she was so innocent in so many ways and somewhat that turned him on even more, he was glad that she couldn't notice the bulge that was hiding in his pants and he could only thank the darkness that was surrounding both of them.

His tongue flicked out to wet his lips, "Then I'll teach you."

It has been a few days since Sakura has last seen Shisui and she couldn't help but feel anxious. What if he decided not to help her? Similar questions to this were running through her head for the past few days. She didn't like the way she was feeling, she always knew she shouldn't depend on others, yet here she was hoping for something, hoping for a certain someone.

And although she tried not to overthink the whole situation, even during the busiest days at the hospital she found herself thinking about what happened between her and the curly haired Uchiha. She even found herself daydreaming and she hated it. It wasn't like her at all to act in this kind of way, yet there she was thinking about another Uchiha once again. Can history repeat itself? She could only wonder.

A deep sigh rumbled from her chest. She probably wouldn't overthink everything as much if he wouldn't have said that he would teach her. Frustration took over her again and she decided that letting it all go would be the perfect time right now. Her fiery temper fuelled by her own thoughts only caused her trouble.

The pink haired woman felt a bit tired after her shift in the hospital, so instead of going straight home she took another route, one that was leading straight to the training grounds. Sakura decided that it would be best if she stuck to the thick forests surrounding Konoha—the kind that were used for extremely difficult training. She never saw a soul there during this time of the day, nor did she want to.

So, when she heard the soft thunk of a kunai hitting a tree, she stopped immediately. Her head tilted, as she listened intently for the sound.

She heard another thunk.

She eased slowly in the direction of the sound. She knew it came from a clearing beside the river that was also a part of this forest. So she moved silently, not wishing to alert whoever it was to her presence. She knew she wouldn't want the attention of the person, but she did want to know who else could possibly be training so late into the night.

In fact, it barely even counted as night anymore. It was three in the morning. In a few hours, the sun would rise. It didn't make sense to train at a time like this, shit she was crazy herself but to find another batshit crazy person at a time like this?

She came slowly upon the clearing. Her eyes landed on a sight she did not expect to find.

Shisui sat, his legs crossed, beneath a thick tree. As the leaves fell to earth, he'd throw a kunai at them. The kunai would pierce the leaf and pin it to the trunk of a nearby tree. Clearly, this was an exercise in aim, similar to what she did the last time he found her in the training grounds.

She also noticed that his frame was covered in a light sheen of sweat, which indicated that this was a cool-down exercise for him.

She couldnt help but smile a little bit, wasn't it the exercise she came up with? She was sitting in the same position piercing blossoms that were falling from a nearby tree just a couple of days ago when he found her. She did that in order to relax her mind and body and what she didn't think was to find Uchiha Shisui would be sitting beneath a tree throwing kunai's at leaves a couple of days later.

And then it hit her. A couple of days later... She haven't seen him for that long, yet he was here in the middle of the night training.

A smile dissipated from her face and she felt a rush of disappointment, he said he would contact her and yet he didn't. Sakura realized that it was three in the morning which meant a start of another day and everything that happened was exactly four days ago now.

She just couldn't understand what happened, was she so useless or unattractive that he actually changed his mind? Was it because she was inexperienced? All of the questions she had in her mind later that day came back into her head again, a fresh wave.

Sakura felt disappointing...and sad for a reason that was unknown to her. She didn't know why she cared so much and it didn't help, that her situation was just getting worse by the minute, it seemed like.

"Why?" She asked while taking small steps to reach his figure. She didn't mean to show her presence to him in the first place, yet she dared to ask him a question. What a foolish woman she was.

He heard a soft voice just after his last kunai hit the tree trunk piercing another leaf to the tree.

He barely moved his head to the direction of the voice, but once his eyes acknowledged the woman who was standing near him in the middle of the night he couldn't help but feel surprised. His eyes widened at the scenery that was playing in front of him.

His eyes pierced through her figure. She was standing near him, her figure was showered in the moonlight which enhanced her pale pearl skin even more, her siren curves lithe and enhanced by the night itself. The wind was blowing through her long messy ponytail moving the loose strands of hair around her face delicately.

He assumed that she probably finished her shift in the hospital not so long ago as she was still wearing her poly-cotton white lab coat. And although he wouldn't admit it to himself, the lab coat she had on was hugging her figure quite nicely.

And even though he wanted to look at her for a little bit more he decided to move his head to another direction, he had a question to answer after all.

"I would have reached out for you today." He said truthfully, Shisui had no reason to lie, it was just that he was rather busy lately.

"You don't have to force yourself if you don't want to help." She said while looking at the moonlight, her hands were crossed on her chest indicating that she was clearly annoyed. "I would've understood if you said no." She said without hesitating, her voice as clear as the night itself.

"I have no reason to lie, Sakura." He said while looking into the dark sky. "I really had no time to come and fetch you."

Sakura was getting even more annoyed, how dare he lie to her? Did he really think that she was dumb?

"Yet you are here, training in the middle of the night, it doesn't look to me that you had no time." She said as if trying to sting him in some kind of way, a woman turned into a venomous snake. What she was trying to prove anyways? She was just embarrassing herself in front of him once again. It wasn't like she couldn't find anyone else, right?Foolish, foolish girl.

Shisui took a deep breath and released an inaudible sigh.

"I was...on a mission." He said not giving a glance to the pinkette.

Sakura's mouth formed an "o" when she heard him mentioning the mission. She knew he was a shinobi, yet she doubted him. She really was miserable, yet she took her time to look at the man that was sitting nearby trying to find any kind of evidence. Up close she noticed the torn pieces of clothing that were hanging from his shirt and pants along with a few scratches. She blinked twice after she noticed the anbu mask lying near his legs and her eyes widened, she didnt know. He was anbu, classified, private, a man full of secrets, dark.

She bit her lip, she knew anbu was a really secret organisation and there was a reason as to why anbu members wore masks – they had to remain anonymous at all times, their identity only revealed to the Hokage and the Konoha's higher ups. They did things for the village, that no one else could. Selfless shinobi, with a sense of duty she couldn't comprehend. No one knew who was behind the mask, no one dared to ask.

Ninjas working in anbu weren't allowed to share information about their missions, only Hokage knew who was assigned to what mission and when, loyal dogs of Konoha.

She couldn't face him right now, she embarrassed herself in front of him, again. He probably thought she was a childish girl, one that was foolish and couldn't control her temper as well.

"I'm sorry…" The pinkette said while still biting her lip. "I won't assume things like that next time... of course if there will be one." She said while trying to hide her face in the darkness, her expression unreadable, but her words gave him everything he needed to know.

His black eyes shifted to her once again, he couldn't help but smile a little bit, it was rather cute to him how she was trying to hide her embarrassment between the layers of her hair and the darkness that was surrounding the both of them. It felt quite weird to him how they would always meet at times like this and he was already trying to think of a way to meet her, preferably next time during the day, when the sun shone bright, and the village was alive.

"You are overthinking things too much Sakura, I told you that already." He said effortlessly, amusement played in his voice.

Sakura didn't have an answer for him so she decided it would be better to just stay quiet. After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence she took a seat on the ground, next to him, her face was still hidden in the layers of soft, pink strands of hair clung to her temples, forehead and jaw, almost temptingly.

"So what are you doing here anyways, want another lesson, eh?" Shisui said after another couple of minutes that passed in silence. The guy was really just trying to lighten up the mood and he was confused as he couldn't see her reaction, she gave nothing away. So although he knew the answer to his question already, after seeing her in the lab coat, he still decided to ask her.

Blush crept into Sakura's cheeks once again, heating up her face, as she caught the words that came out of the curly haired man's lips. She tried to ignore the latter part of the sentence by answering only the first half of it.

"I just finished my shift at the hospital not too long ago, but I really wasn't feeling that tired so I decided to train a little bit before going home." She said, her gaze set on the ground, as if she could possibly make out the contours of the soft grass beneath her body.

"And just when I thought that Sakura-chan would be willing to come for another lesson." Shisui said while looking at the pink haired female a fake pout forming down his lips.

"I didn't have anything like that in my mind! " Sakura's voice was rushed, her tone almost defensive.

She was blushing mad, and honestly it was all she did when she met Shisui one way or another he was making her embarrassed. He was such a tease.

She heard him chuckle and felt herself relax a little bit, she looked up at the sky and leaned towards the tree trunk.

Unconsciously she leaned a bit closer to Shisui and inhaled the musk of his cologne, his salty sweat and the scent of bonfire that were mixed together, she couldn't lie, Sakura found it so pleasant that she couldn't understand it until it consumed all of her senses. Shisui Uchiha was a man with a thick, alluring smell that would turn the any woman's head for miles.

Shisui felt the pink haired woman lean closer to him and for some reason he didn't mind it. The way the both of them were at the moment made him feel somewhat comfortable. He relaxed, her aura calming.

"Say, Shisui why are you here at a time like this? Why you didn't go home straight away after a mission?" She said while still looking deeply into the night sky, her pose relaxed just like her soft features.

His tongue flicked out to wet his lips, "I didn't want to, there is no one waiting for me there anyways." He said while staring into the sky as well, curious to see what she saw up there as well, the black eyes of his eyes seemed to consume the dark sky along with its stars.

Sakura felt as if she asked something wrong again, the sadness that was laced under his tone was almost unnoticeable, barely there, yet she noticed it.

At this point she was lost, she couldn't come up with an answer once again.

So the both of them were just sitting together covered in the darkness watching the starry sky, no words needed, none were shared.

Shisui was the first one to shift his gaze away from the dark sky. Instead he looked at her. She was leaning onto the tree, sitting so close to him he could almost feel the body heat of hers. Her long pieces of hair were nearly slipping out of her ponytail, the hair tie in her hair was holding for its dear life. The exotic pink locks looked messy, he assumed that it was probably due to the long hours she spent in the laboratory of the hospital or maybe it was due the wind that was blowing through her hair effortlessly. Yet it made her look beautiful, she looked so simple yet there was something about her that caught his eye.

He looked into her eyes and he could have sworn to god he could see the dark sky reflecting in them, jade eyes laced with darkness, half-lidded, eternal. She reminded him of a forest goddess with her long unusually pink strands, green eyes that were so green it made him think of a spring and pearl pale skin, void of any scars or imperfections. He would have never called a woman by a name of goddess but at this moment, she looked like one.

"I don't feel like going home as well." She said while closing her eyes, the starry sky scenery disappearing beneath her eye lids.

Shisui smiled, and leaned into the tree as well. He felt as if she was trying to comfort him in some kind of way and he didn't have energy to argue with her, quite the opposite actually, her feelings of concern were welcome this time around. So just for today, he decided that he would let her stay. His eyes closed as well facing the eternal sky for the last time.

An hour passed and he couldn't fall asleep, more than so he also knew for sure she as awake as well, he could feel her shifting every couple of minutes.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" His voice nearly a whisper.

"I'm not feeling as comfortable as I thought I'd be." She chuckled, her laugh carefree and relaxing.

"I can make you comfortable if you want." He said teasingly, typical Shisui.

He could feel her blushing, his teasing techniques working well on her.

"I-I'm alright." She said while pulling her lab coat more tightly around her tiny figure. It finally made sense, the girl was cold, he sighed.

Without a warning, he reached out. His arm wrapped around her waist effortlessly bringing her body close to his, and Sakura almost felt her heart skip a beat, her body flush to his, she even felt the flex of his lean muscles, she swallowed nervously.

He used his other hand to move a single strand of hair that was falling on her face and he pushed it under her ear with his thumb. He leaned closer to her, his voice was low and silky, his warm breath ghosting, whispering against her ear "Better now?".

She felt a cold shower of shivers running through her body wildly. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

"I'm fine!" She said while trying to push him away with the thoughts that were stuck inside her head. Yet he didn't move, not even for an inch, he was stuck to her like a bee to honey. His body hot on her.

After trashing and trying to get away from him for a few more minutes she sighed and stopped, she had no chance to run away, unless the man that held her allowed her to do so, and even then she didn't know if she really wanted him to do so.

And to make matters worse, Shisui was still watching her with a slight curl to his mouth and masculine satisfaction glittering in his eyes.

"D-Don't think I'm letting you do this willingly!" She said nervously, obviously aware of her defeat, another pout formed on her lips. Yet a part of her was somewhat happy, she felt at ease…and more than anything else she finally felt warm, and warmth was always a welcome feeling.

"I won't." He said the slight curl never left his mouth.

She felt the heat of his hand - his body threatening to overwhelm her, it was enough for her sensory overload, given her bodily state right now. Emerald eyes panned dizzily up to his face, her mouth opening and closing as she tried to register a response that just wouldn't come.

So she closed her eyes, and unconsciously she leaned a bit closer to Shisui as if trying to steal the warmth that was radiating off his body. She felt his hand relax and his grip around her become a bit more loose. She smiled at her little victory.

It didn't take her long to fall asleep and this time he was the only one that was left awake. He looked at the moon and then at the woman that was laying down on his shoulder. He picked up and touched a strand of pale pink hair that was hugging her like a blanket, he found his fingers almost twitching at the soft sensation between his long fingertips. So soft, he fought off the temptation to run his hands through all of her locks, wanting to feel each of the strands individually.

Unconsciously he brought her even closer to him, deciding that he needed a nap as well. It neared around five am in the morning and he couldn't be bothered to move anymore, he felt tired, his muscles sore after yet another mission, and the small woman in his hand was just too soft in his arms, warmth filled his body.

"Just one time…" he whispered more than anything to himself, letting her body heat lull him into the sleep.

Author's note

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to everyone who reviewed the first few parts of my story, I hope you are enjoying it so far! Please excuse any mistakes you see I'll try to edit them later, it is very late in the evening right now and I have work tomorrow but I really wanted to update the story for you today guys! Please let me know what you think so far in the review section, or by simply following or favoriting my story! I hope we can reach 40+ reviews until the next chapter. See you all very soon, thanks a lot guys, you are my motivation to write without you I wouldn't be writing this!