Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and Kudozaki Lucine. The rest belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

| Kudozaki Lucine |

The feeling of fingers running through my scalp was what made me wake up from my heavy, dreamless sleep. It felt nice, but slightly unnerving, because I felt another hand on my thigh that was moving up by the second. Quickly I opened my eyes, and tried to analyze my surroundings. It was a difficult task, because my head was throbbing and I still felt tired, too tired. When my vision cleared completely, I met dark onyx eyes that were directly looking at me, of course I recognized him immediately.

"I see you're not a heavy sleeper anymore." he said with an amused smirk, as if he had a secret.

"What..." I coughed, my throat dry and raspy, as if I hadn't had any water for months. Slowly and with a lot of difficulty, I sat up. We were in the same room, lying on a new bed this time. To my relief, I was wearing a shirt, although it wasn't mine. "What did you do to me?"

He frowned, and held up a glass of water. "I overdid the genjutsu, you've been asleep for a whole day."

Reluctantly, I accepted the water and drank it all in one gulp. "Then why do I feel so tired, I..." My breath hitched in my throat. I can't access my chakra. "What the fuck did you do you piece of-"

He interrupted me with a kiss on the lips, just a slight peck, but it was enough to make me shut my mouth. "Shh. You were a bad girl, Lucine. So I suppressed your chakra with a seal. It's what you get for lying to me like that." he glared at me, it was cold and it made me glare back at him.

"I hate you." I said emotionlessly, hoping it would hurt him. It did, because he visibly winced, but it quickly turned into anger.

In a second, he had me tackled on the bed. "Enough, Lucine. I want to be patient with you, but you still want to be difficult."

That's surprising. Itachi was right, he really has changed. The old Sasuke would never snap at me like this, he has never truly been angry at me, and that worries me. Sasuke is not a kid anymore, and neither am I. He was already about to... Shivers ran down my back, as I looked up at him with a scowl. This is bad. Where is Itachi when I actually need him.

"I. Hate. You." I repeated, despite the fact that now I was slightly reluctant to test him like this. He's stronger than me, and without my chakra I'm vulnerable. This is really bad.

Sasuke's eyes flashed dangerously, with both pain and anger. For a second, he looked like he was going to do something, but he didn't. He sighed and shook his head, "I can't be angry at you. I know you're just saying those words to hurt me, like I hurt you when I left the village."

I smoothly kept my face passive, pretending that his words didn't affect me. "You know nothing about anything."

He smirked smugly, as if he knew that he was right. I hate him, I repeated in my mind, wanting to kick his face in. Sasuke sighed and laid down next to me on his side, forcing me into his chest, so he held me securely. I didn't even bother fighting him.

"I forgive you for lying to me. I knew you were, and still are, angry." he said while caressing the exposed skin of my lower back. Thank God you forgave me, I thought sarcastically, but too lazy to say it out loud. "But now, I've got some questions for you." he kissed the top of my head, as if we were lovers simply cuddling in bed. It annoyed me. He abandoned me, and he thinks he can just do whatever he wants. "Yesterday when you punched me, you immediately reached for a small blue ball of crystal, filled with foreign chakra. When I investigated the chakra inside it, it was unidentifiable. What was it?"

I frowned, knowing I couldn't tell him. His relationship with Itachi is not at it's best and I don't want to deal with angsty Sasuke now. "I won't say anything."

"Figured." he sighed, and buried his nose in my hair, taking a long sniff, it made me sick. "It's not important anymore, I destroyed it."

I perked up, looking up at his eyes, "You broke it?"

He nodded, and moved his face towards to kiss me, but I turned around, my back now against his chest. Surprisingly, he let me have my way, and instead spooned me from behind. I as well let him do this without putting up a fight, partly because it wouldn't change my fate, but mostly because I had a chance now. Sasuke crushed the chakra crystal, which means Itachi knows I'm in trouble. Although he won't know my current location, since I didn't insert my chakra in the crystal, it will still notify him. It's only a matter of time before he'll show up and save me, the useless damsel in distress, unfortunately.