hi here's the final chapter, um I hope you like it. sorry if it seemed like a letdown. I'm, not a good writer. so if anyone wants to rewrite it please do. I just want to read a good sasusaku fanfic lol. and sorry if it's too short. I'm not quite sure how to make it longer. I went back over the other chapters like three times trying to beef it up a little so it was longer. anyways once again, leave a review if you want to. and please tell me if there's any grammar mistakes that I was too lazy to look over, or any changes that should be made, enjoy!
His bloodline trait spins rapidly, bleeding into the familiar crimson red and that's when he sees it, a seal. A seal that he's never seen or encountered before – given the fact that he's come across nearly every Jutsu and seal possible – on her lower hip.
It's a well-hidden seal, and he would've never had seen it if not for his kekkei Genkai. He suspects that the seal is the culprit for the weird behaviour Sakura had been displaying ever since her coma.
Swiftly the Uchiha leaves his hideout on the tree and approaches the pink-haired kunoichi. Landing softly beside her on the training grounds. Avoiding the set traps skillfully and smoothly. Sasuke looks into her eyes, her lifeless, dull green eyes.
A short silence engulfs them, onyx captured by emeralds.
Then as if something in Sakura had snapped, she starts throwing a barrage of attacks towards him. He finds himself trapped on the ground by two Sakura's – a kage bunshin and the original-, and a kunai at his throat.
Her grip is tight, he groans, damn her super inhuman strength. Their faces are inches apart, their eyes locked, and closely he sees the swell of tears in the corner of her eyes.
Sasuke-Kun please stop me...
Something in her eyes shift. The dull, lifeless green eyes now overwhelmed with emotion. Yet her body tells a wholly different story.
He quickly gets up and starts to counter her attacks. It only made it harder when she had the intent to kill, but he didn't want to harm a single cell in her body. Sasuke aims for the clone first, the fewer opponents with the strength of a hundred men the better.
She doesn't seem to be in control of her own body. While she sends punches and kicks, her eyes are swimming with an excessive amount of emotion – pain, guilt, concern, anger, happiness. Sakura was trapped in her mind. Attacking the person, she loved most, unable to stop herself.
The fight lasts for several aching long minutes, wood and pieces of the earth hovering in the air. Shuriken and kunai flying around. This fight was getting nowhere and he knew it, he had to end this.
Sasuke flash steps behind Sakura, just like he had 7 years ago.
He murmurs a soft "I'm sorry Sakura" and hits that familiar spot on the back of her neck. She drops and falls unconscious into his arms.
Curious and angry, he spins his Sharingan to life once again to see what had occurred that lead Sakura TO her current predicament. He digs into Sakura's memories of the past 8 months when she was missing.
He opens his eyes and sees the night sky of Konoha. He notes that she had just come out of the hospital after nearly spending a week can feel her tired body being dragged, her breath comes out raggedly, back aching, mind clouded, and heart hurting.
No doubt because of him.
Sakura breathes in the cool air of Konoha, the light breeze feels soothing on her skin, yet forming goosebumps. She's illuminated by the moonlight in the most angelic way possible.
Sasuke watches as she makes way back to her apartment, fumbling with the keys due to her trembling hands, eating a small simple meal of onigiri and an apple. She takes a shower, water blistering hot falling onto her skin, and flops onto her bed ungracefully earning a small chuckle from Sasuke at her cute antics.
Sakura stirs awake moments later and sees a group of ninjas in white masks, he sees the drowsiness in her eyes, clouded with sleep. Sasuke promptly remembers these people. He had encountered them on his travels, they called themselves the second foundation. Trying to revive the ways of Danzo and the Akatsuki, intending to finish what Danzo had started.
They had tried to kill him, calling him obscenities and talking down to his clan. The second foundation had somehow come up with a poison to temporarily stop his bloodline trait. They were a strong group of shinobi with enhanced powers, similar to Kido's men, no wonder Sakura had been captured even in her drowsiness state.
He sees her struggling to get up and fight back, though Sakura seemed unaware, he saw that she was injected with a chakra blocker and sedative, which only made it even harder for her to counter their strikes.
Next thing he knows, she's being kicked through the wall. Sakura lies limp on the ground with blood pooling around her, vision blotchy, pain spreading to every nerve of her body. Sasuke watches as the long brown hair man takes off his mask and smirks.
His vision blackens, and he knows she's fallen unconscious.
Sakura wakes up in a cold dim room, the concrete walls uncomfortable against her blood-soaked skin, the cold sending shivers up her spine. Her arms and legs are bounded with chains, blood continues to trickle down her chin nonstop, her eyes bloodshot.
She shifts painfully, the ache in her stomach from the kick that could not be healed. The scratches on her skin from kunai are opening again from the shifting, causing more blood to ooze out.
Suddenly the door opens and in walks the long brown-haired member of the second foundation, the leader. Ako, Sasuke remembers. The brown-haired man simply observes Sakura for a moment, smirking before punching her stomach hard. Causing Sakura to involuntarily cough out blood.
The leader crouches down towards her limp form until they're at eye level.
"Pinkie, you want to tell us where that damn Uchiha scum boyfriend of yours is?" the Ako asks.
A glare, so sharp it could cut glass is sent from the pinkette "fuck. Off. Id never tell you where he is."
Another punch. And another cough.
"I'll only say this once, If you won't tell us where he is…" his threat Is left unfinished as another punch is lunged at her form.
He continues his interrogation regarding Sasuke's whereabouts at the pink-haired kunoichi goes on for months. Each time, she curses back not releasing one bit of information.
This continued for three months.
Sasuke watches as Sakura's been cut, electrocuted, punched, stabbed, and burned. Multiple jutsu's were used on her making it infinitely more painful. For months, she's been tortured in every agonizingly and excruciatingly possible way.
Yet no information slips out of her mouth.
A face with so much beauty, now scrunched up in pain. Pink, delicate locks now a darker shade, plastered, sticking to her face. Bright emerald eyes, now shut and rolling to the back of her head.
Sasuke's heart clenches unbearably as he watches this memory unravel in front of his eyes. Rage rising at a rapid rate.
Watching this happen to the only girl his broken heart could love.
It's like living the Uchiha Massacre again.
His guilt swallowing him as a whole. As long as he's here, the people he loves will continue to hurt because of him. 'tch, stupid girl! Just tell him already!' he thinks, instead of being tortured she should've just told them his location.
Sakura knew he was in Kumo, so why didn't she say anything! He can't bear to watch her as she bites her lip drawing more blood from the force of the bute, trying her best to swallow her screams of pain.
Sasuke watches her limp body fall towards the cold ground lifelessly after another round of torture. Her blood, her...blood is everywhere. The scars and bruises littering her body, unable to be healed by her byakugou due to the chakra suppressors. He hears a sigh of defeat come from the leader.
"pinky I guess if you won't corporate then I'll have to make you," he says with a smirk
He weaves signs and instantly a seal is appearing on her hip burning into her skin. Streams of tears mixed with blood pouring from her eyes. This time, she's unable to bite back her scream.
Sasuke's body freezes, the scream of pure pain falling from her lips, it physically hurt him to hear this.
Then all of a sudden it all stops. Her body freezes, and her eyes slowly turn from pain to a dull lifeless green.
"here's what you'll do pinky, when that scum of an Uchiha comes back you'll break him into pieces, destroy him and kill him," he says with a grin
A wave of confusion hits the Uchiha's face 'If this was the order given, how come she had suppressed the order until now?"
Slowly, Sakura's head lifts, he sees a flick of brightness within them. The realization hits him 'she had been trying her best to control her seal and protecting him by avoiding everyone' Sakura is indeed the strongest kunoichi, but in team 7, Sakura was mentally the strongest out of all of them.
'Sakura has done so much for him. She had been supporting him through thick and thin, even when he had tried to kill her twice. All she ever wanted was his happiness, and this is what fate has awarded her with? She deserved so much, so so much.'
He didn't deserve her, that much he knew; she was too pure for him. But If she would continue to accept him then he'll give her everything he has to offer.
He watches as they throw her into a ditch, not giving one-second thought on whether she's still alive or not.
Sasuke blinks and comes back into the real world, anger causing his eyes to spin rapidly into a completely different pattern, now mangekyo. Rage seeping through his skin, Sakura in his arms is the only thing holding him back from dashing towards the hideout of the second foundation and massacre everyone there.
He runs towards the direction of the hospital. After he makes sure she's stable and in good care, he'll follow through with his sweet revenge.
Once again, walking into the hospital with a limp and unconscious Sakura in his arms. This is turning into a normal routine, he sighs.
Tsunade instantly approaches him and bombardons him with a million questions. "Uchiha! What do you think you're doing to my apprentice!" she yells.
He isn't the least it intimidated by the blond woman, Sakura had just the fiery temper, maybe even worse than her masters.
"She has a seal on her hip" he blandly states.
The Godaime quickly pries Sakura away from Sasuke's arms, placing her on a gurney and pushing her towards the OR.
Sasuke sits outside waiting for her pink-haired teammate. She's been in the operating room for hours now. From time to time he can hear her scream in pain. The sound is so loud it echoes down the empty hallway of the hospital.
His heart clenches at each cry, he balls his fist, nails digging into his palm drawing blood.
He had informed both Naruto and Kakashi what had happened. How he'd find her at the training grounds with a seal on her hip. They ended up doing some research on the forbidden seal used on Sakura. it turns out it's a kind of seal that traps the person in their mind, like a puppet. The victim follows the orders given while being conscious of their actions, unable to do anything about it.
Sasuke relays what he had seen in her memories. What she had gone through the four months that she had been captured. Guilt mixed with rage bubbling within him as he tells the events she had experienced to his old sensei and best friend.
After reporting all information, he has on her. The look of murder in Kakashi and Naruto s eyes would scare anyone with a glance. Kakashi sends out a group of ANBU to track down her captors, they would be executed no doubt for their actions on a fellow allied shinobi.
Naruto and Sasuke had gone with the group of ANBU, Sasuke knowing where the hideout was from Sakura's memory, lead them towards the direction of it. Kicking down the door with a little too much force, they immediately ransack the place. Not one member escaped, and all were under custody and chained.
Of course, with the leader and men beat to a bloody pulp by a certain Uchiha for revenge, he is, after all, an avenger. The satisfied smirk playing on the Sharingan users' lips as he drives his fist over and over again towards the brown-haired mans face.
With around fifteen of the members behind in cuffs, they bring them towards interrogation and leaves them with Ibiki. Their trail is set in a few days, their deaths are a given.
The duo sets their pace towards the hospital room of their pink-haired kunoichi. Naruto quietly taking a seat next to Sakura while Sasuke leans against the window. They listen to the quiet hum and beeps of the monitors that she is being hooked up to.
The blond leaves after a few hours, having to go home to spend time with his worried wife. Leaving a guilt-ridden Uchiha sitting next to her.
Once again intertwining their fingers, his eyes swimming with concern and relief. Still unable to come to terms for what Sakura had just gone through for three months...for him. Accepting the endless days of torture, not giving one ounce of information regarding his whereabouts though she knew.
Her scars and bruises are still evident on her skin, they haven't faded away just yet, she had done a good job covering them up before that even the Uchiha didn't even notice.
Sasuke looks at her form, no doubt does he feel relief that his Sakura is finally here in his grasp. Safe, away from harms reach. He rests his head on the mattress of the hospital bed. He can smell her vanilla shampoo mixed in with the sweetness of a scent that is so very Sakura like. He slowly drifts to sleep in content, thinking that it was finally over, he was home where he'd belonged.
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Sakura wakes up, jolts of pain running throughout her body from the tips of her toes all the way to her head.
Coughing and immediately wincing at the pain on her hip. Sasuke's head snaps up at her sudden movement. She sluggishly opens her eyes instead of the hospital ceiling lights, her emeralds are met with a mismatched pair of worries and concerned eyes.
Confusion hits the pink-haired kunoichi's face, the past feel months dizzy in her mind.
Suddenly the memories of the days she spent in the cold room hitting her like a wave. The endless amounts of pain she felt, and the attempt at biting back her screams. Every cut and every stab, the taste of iron in her mouth. Feeling powerless and weak. Tears run down her cheeks and she starts sobbing, her body trembling uncontrollably.
Sasuke quickly pulls her up into a gentle embrace whispering 'it's okay, you're safe now' like a mantra on his lips. The thin material of his shirt slowly soaking with her tears. He pulls back and his hand automatically flies up to wipe the tears off her cheeks with his thumb. Her eyes widen with surprise when she finally realizes who it was in front of her.
"Oh hey Sasuke-Kun, you're back!" she says a small smile mixed in with tears still running down her cheeks.
His hold on her tightens, not tight enough to hurt her but still strong nonetheless. He pulls her back into an embrace "stupid girl, why didn't you just tell them my location" he mumbles.
"Sasuke-Kun you know I would never do that. I would never want to put you in any danger when I can prevent it," she says voice a little dry.
He tucks his head into the crook of her neck "Why would you go that far for me" he asks a little stunned.
"Because you're a dear and precious teammate to me" she gives a light giggle.
A little bit hurt, he repeats "teammate.."
She watches as his gaze diverts from hers, her confusion clouded eyes suddenly clearing with realization.
"Tch, Sasuke-Kun! What did I tell you, I forgive you, no matter what you will always-"
His lips are suddenly crashing into hers, effectively cutting her off. She freezes, unable to process what just happened before she all but melts against him.
Lips passionately massaging against each other, moving in sync. His hand tilts her chin and slants his lips harder on her, deepening the kiss. After what seemed like hours, they pull apart panting for air.
"Sasuke-Kun wh-"
"I love you" he whispers against her lips.
The tears in her eyes are welling up once again, she softly brushes her lips onto his and whispers "I love you too". Her hand is placed on his chest and he can only hope she doesn't fell the rapid beating of his heart. They pull apart a moment later.
He knows he can't leave her, not again. She can't get repeatedly hurt because of him.
She's waited long enough.
"come travel with me" he gives a chaste peck on her lips "Marry me" he blurts out without a second thought. He doesn't take them back though; he means it with his whole heart.
Her eyes widen at his words, momentarily frozen by them. She gives a beaming smile that causes his breath to hitch.
"Okay," she says as tears stream down her face, before she kisses him tenderly once again.
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"I'm home Sakura"
"Welcome home Sasuke-Kun"
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After a few days, she's discharged from the hospital. Told well more like ordered and threatened to take it easy from her hospital duties. Shizune is stepping in to take care of her workload as the temporary head medic.
Sakura's friends visit her in her room with flowers and gifts. She sends apologizes to every person she sees for her behaviour in the past month. They'd all brush it off, everyone knew that it wasn't her.
Some desperate fanboys would rush into her room confessing their undying love and giving gifts. Sasuke had to growl and scare them off with a glare from his Sharingan and Rinnegan. Causing Sakura to merely laugh at her lover's antics.
Sasuke decides to stay in Konoha for a few months until Sakura is deemed fully healed physically and mentally.
During the night he pulls her close to his chest in a protective manner, with a heavy arm around her waist. As if embracing her any less tightly would mean her slipping away. Her head is tucked under his chin and he draws soothing patterns on her back. She's never felt so content and protected in her life.
On many nights she'll stir in his embrace and wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat, screaming. Like his nightmares, she relives the time when she was captured, tortured painfully.
But he was always there with her, drawing soothing circles on her back, sifting his fingers through her hair, embracing her ever more tightly, telling her that everything was alright, he was here to protect her now.
He walks her to and from the hospital every day. Knowing that she's the most vulnerable when she's low on chakra, despite her disagreeing. He drags her out of the hospital when it got too late, she would protest, but he had ways of making her give in -smirk-.
Three months pass by, and her friends are waving goodbyes at the Konoha gates. This time around, she's not saying goodbye to Sasuke anymore. She's going with him, and Sakura can't seem to be able to wipe off the smile on her face. She hugs everyone and waves them goodbye.
She was so caught up in her thoughts she doesn't realize that Sasuke had stopped walking. Sakura completely oblivious to his sudden halt walks straight into a wall of muscle.
Sasuke looks down, one of his eyebrows cocked up amusement swimming in his eyes, and he smirks. His smirk only widens as he watches her saying 'sorry' repeatedly with heavily flustered cheeks.
He walks past her giving a small chuckle and turns. He reaches out his arm and offers her his hand.
"Ready?"
She nods, intertwining their fingers excited for the journey ahead.