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Sakura walked, no, she dragged herself to the kindergarten.
"That idiot made me stay up until freakin' 4 a.m." she sighed in annoyance. "Did he had to want that so much that we had to do it after we left Sasuke's place??" she sighed again. "He's such a gaki sometimes, and because of him my body's freakin' sore all over." Her eyes darkened and her fist shook in anger.
"He's gonna pay if he keeps this going." She smirked devilishly as images of a beaten Sai pleading for her mercy flashed in her mind.
Her thoughts were broken however when and ANBU appeared in front of her.
"Haruno-san, Hokage-sama ordered me to tell you that until Uchiha Sasuke is completely healed you'll have to do a daily check up on him."
"Whatever." She muttered, the ANBU bowed and disappeared in a pouf of smoke.
Chapter 8 – Forgetting lunch & Sealing the flames
She entered the kindergarten thinking of ways to kill Sai, her aura irradiated killing intent, and even knowing that, the raven haired male, who was the reason she was like this, did as if she wasn't.
"Morning to you too Ugly." She turned to him with a deathly glare, and accusatory finger pointing at him.
"YOU." She practically yelled. "You made me stay up 'til freakin' 4 a.m." he tilted his head, a smirk on his lips.
"You seemed to enjoy it, so why the bad mood this morning?" he asked casually, her eyes burned in anger.
"I'm. Sore." She hissed. "And I feel like flopping myself in the pillows and sleep." By now she was grabbing his collar, her body shaking in anger, everyone else would have probably ran away in utter fear by now, but Sai liked seeing her like this, so he didn't.
"I stayed up 'til 4 a.m. too Ugly." He remarked. "And I'm not complaining like you." She made him bend down to her level so she was staring (more like glaring) at him, onyx staring blankly at pissed off emerald.
"You're not freakin' sore from doing it." She hissed in a dangerously low tone, the kids were all glued to the walls in fear while staring at them, a pair of onyx eyes was watching the whole scene and listening to the whole conversation from the doorway.
"You weren't complaining too much last night." Sai shot back with a smirk and leaned to her ear. "In fact you were moaning Sa-ku-ra." he whispered her name in a purr. She blushed and in a flash he was smashed in the floor, said floor now contained a hole in Sai's shape.
As Sakura stormed off, Sai just sat up chuckling.
Sasuke watched the 2, something inside of him breaking once more, and don't even ask why. Didn't you get it by their conversation?? They… she… uuuhhhhh… they did it.
Lunch
Sakura was calmer than this morning, but as she ate lunch next to Sai she was still glaring, and all he did was smirk back at her.
"Anoune." Sakura looked down to see Saya, she had her bento box but was frowning.
"What is it Saya-chan?"
"Is Sasuke-onii-chan ok??" Sakura smiled at the little girl.
"He's just a little sick, but if he eats properly he'll be fine." She reassured, but Saya's frown intensified.
"But he's not eating onee-chan." Saya said in concern, Sakura got up.
"Stay here and eat Saya-chan, I'm gonna talk to him." Saya nodded.
Sakura walked away to where Sasuke was, Sai watched.
"He's in deep trouble." Sai mumbled to himself.
Sakura stopped in front of Sasuke, who was looking outside.
"Sasuke." She called, he looked up at her. "Where's your lunch?" he stayed silent, just observing her.
"I told you you had to eat properly did I not??" she scolded, he remained silent. "So where's your lunch?" she lowered her head, her bangs covering her eyes, a dark aura irradiating from her, like when Naruto used one of his perverse jutsus.
Sasuke wasn't expecting what she did next, she pinched his ear, hard.
"Where's your lunch?" she asked in a somehow calm voice, he didn't reply, she pinched harder.
"I'm a medic and I told you to eat properly, so why aren't you eating?" again, nothing, she pinched harder.
"If she keeps this going she's gonna rip our ear off you idiot, do something." His inner self yelled.
"Where's you lunch Sasuke?" he remained silent, biting the inside of his cheek to contain himself of showing emotions, she pinched harder.
"Sasuke." She said in a dark warning tone. "Where. The. Hell. Is. Your. Lunch?" she hissed in a dangerously sweet voice looking at him in the eye, nop, it was more like glaring, he could have sworn he saw a flash of red in her eyes.
"Sasuke." She hissed and pinched harder.
"…iforgotmylunchhome…" he mumbled under his breath.
"Please talk correctly."
"I forgot it home ok?" silence fell as she released his wounded ear.
"That wasn't so hard now was it?" he bit the inside of his cheek seeing her hand moving to his ear again.
"Do something, she's gonna rip our ear off." His inner self yelled pathetically. But no pain come, on the contrary, she healed his ear.
She got up and looked at him.
"C'mon, me and Sai-chan'll share with you." In the background Sai almost choked and gave Sakura 'The Glare', which made her shiver, but she hide it well by just glaring back.
Slightly afraid Sakura would hurt him again with her superhuman strength, which he couldn't counter thanks to a chakra bind, he followed her. She sat down on her chair next to Sai and Sasuke sat down on the other side of the table.
"Here." She handed him her bento box and smirked at Sai, who had half of his bento box eaten.
"Thanks for the meal Sai!" she cheered and took his bento box and chopsticks.
"Hey." He protested but was ignored as Sakura started eating his food contently.
Sai huffed and crossed his arms in front of himself while glaring at the contently eating kunoichi.
"This is your punishment for last night." Sai scoffed.
"Yeah right." He muttered and leaned to her ear, his right hand going up her back in some strange pattern slowly. "If I recall correctly your moans clearly said you were enjoying it." He whispered, she stilled, a shiver going down her spine.
Sai leaned back on his chair with a victorious smirk, and even when she elbowed him with a chakra infused elbow, his smirk remained in place, because he knew he had won the argument.
Sakura darkly muttered something in the lines of: '… stupid jerk… kill him… enjoy… torture… suffer… slow and painful death…'
The end of the day – after all the kids were gone
After there were only Sasuke, Sakura and Sai, they started walking out of the kindergarten.
Sasuke started walking to go home.
"Sasuke, wait up." He turned back to see Sakura running to him. As if reading his silent question she spoke.
"Tsunade-shisou told me to do a full daily check up on you 'til you're fully healed." She turned back. "See ya tomorrow Sai-chan!!" she yelled and waved at Sai. Said person shrugged and in a twirl of ink was gone.
She giggled as both started to walk to the Uchiha compound.
The walk to the Uchiha estate was silent. As Sasuke opened the door he let Sakura enter first.
"You have to lie down so I can do the check up." Sasuke nodded.
"My room will do." She nodded and both walked up the stairs in silence.
Once in Sasuke's room he lay down on his bed and Sakura sat on the edge of said bed.
As Sakura's chakra entered her body, Sasuke closed his eyes, secretly enjoying the feeling of calm her chakra gave him.
"I said I wouldn't help you, and honestly I'm somehow out of ideas." His inner self said in a serious tone, Sasuke raised a brow at his inner. "And you're telling me this because??" His inner glared, but then turned serious again. "Dude, we both know we want her, so we have to do something." "And I'm supposed to work with a guy that uses pink smoke?? No way." His inner sighed in annoyance. "Parley?" Sasuke stared in disbelief at his inner. "Look, the pink smoke was just to piss you off, which worked by the way, and for as much of the pain it'll be, we have to get her back, and we'll work better if we work together." Sasuke pondered on his inners words, his idiot inner was actually right.
"Fine, Parley, but after this we're not partners anymore." He shook hands with his inner, and as his inner was about to say something a wave of burning pain came from his neck. He shot his eyes open and screamed, his hand going intuitively to his neck, like he had done so many times before. He sat up, still nursing his neck, trying his best not to scream, but failing miserably.
In his fit of utter pain he missed to see Sakura falling to the floor, her hands with 3rd degree burns, her breaths raged, and her screams being contained inside with much effort.
As he kept screaming in pain Sakura healed her hands and got closer to him.
"Sasuke." She had almost yelled, but to him it seemed like a whisper. "Calm down." He just kept screaming, Sakura's eyes widened in shock as she saw his body begin to be covered in black flames coming from the cursed seal.
"Sasuke." She tried to touch him but his skin was burning, like if it was boiling water. She charged her hands with chakra and in a swift movement put them on his shoulders and made him lay down while pressing some pressure points so he wouldn't get up. By now his body was fully covered in those demonic black flames.
As Sasuke lay down, his hands still on his neck, screaming in pain, the black flames starting to become grey and larger, covering his whole body, Sakura had to think fast, her chakra bind was destroyed by the seal as she did the check up, and now the seal was going out of control.
Sakura took a small scroll from her pouch, it was a technique she was working on, it wasn't fully ready yet, but she had no other resource, she had no other choice.
Knowing Tsunade would lecture her for hours later, she opened the scroll in a fast movement and put it in the floor, next she took another scroll and in a small pouf some ropes appeared; she took them and with some effort tied Sasuke to the bed so he wouldn't be able to move to much.
She took the open scroll and threw it in the air, bit her thumb and as she caught it she made a line over the whole scroll with her thumb. As the blood was over the whole scroll she put it next to Sasuke and made some hand seals, as she did the last one she put her right hand over the centre of the scroll full of kanji, her left hand over Sasuke's stomach. She closed her eyes and focussed on her jutsu, in this particular jutsu she didn't need words, only some hand seals, very accurate chakra control and a lot of concentration.
The kanji in the scroll started crawling out and into Sakura's body and then going to Sasuke's body, as his body had a complicated pattern of kanji, the few remaining kanji on the scroll crawled into Sakura's skin settling over her arm, chest and stomach.
She did another complicated sequence of hand seals and put her hands over his cursed seal, his arms tightly tied to the bed so he couldn't interrupt her.
She focussed with all her might, sending all of her chakra into his body to try to stop the cursed seal.
Sakura's movements seemed a blur, he only knew she had tied him to the bed so he couldn't move, and as she settled an open scroll next to him and made some hand seals, he felt his skin burn even more as something crawled in his skin.
After a while he spent screaming, almost pleading for the pain to go away he felt a wave of cool chakra enter his whole body and focus on the black/grey flames that covered his body, the pain was slightly less painful, until the cool chakra started to become colder and colder, until it was painfully cold, like ice in an open wound. The pain only increased.
Sasuke started to wriggle, but couldn't move to much because of the ropes, the only thing his brain proceeded and he could do properly was scream, trying to relieve the pain by doing so, but failing miserably as the pain kept there, consuming his whole body.
As her chakra filled every mark of the cursed seal, the second and risky part of the jutsu started, she focussed and with her own chakra she started pushing back the marks to where they came from, but there was a 'but'.
When the cursed seal activated, the amount of chakra it possessed augmented sometimes to 10 times the original chakra, giving the possessor great power, so as the chakra was pushed back by force, it wouldn't fit in it's original container, it would have to be stored somewhere else. That was the 'but', as her technique was not completed she had nowhere to put the excessive chakra, so she would be the container.
At the moment, Sasuke's cursed seal chakra had only grew to twice the original, so Sakura wouldn't get hurt in the process of storing the chakra in her own body, or so she hoped.
The cursed seal started to retreat and Sasuke's screams started to fade. The cursed seal retreated to both Sasuke's mark and to Sakura's body, as a final touch this particular jutsu would seal the cursed seal.
As the seal was fully put away Sakura was drained, and Sasuke was panting.
As the pain ceased Sasuke looked to his left to see Sakura panting hard, fighting to breathe, what shocked him was the black marks crawling from all over her body and settling in her right lower arm going from her elbow to her wrist and stopping at the top of her hand, the mark had the shape of a dragon, it's head settled on the top of her hand, its body curled over her arm and its tail reaching her elbow.
She looked at him, fighting to keep conscious, she took in a large breath before speaking in a small tired voice.
"I sealed it… it shouldn't come out for a while now." As she ended her sentence her eyes closed and she fell unconscious over Sasuke's torso, she was barely breathing.
"Sakura." Sasuke sat up in shock ripping the ropes in the process, carefully laying Sakura on his lap before taking her on his arms bridal style and rushing out of the house to the hospital, he realized he had his chakra back, so he took advantage of it to go faster, instead of going through the crowded streets he went by the roofs, jumping from roof top to roof top as fast as he could, careful with the girl in his arms.
He looked at the girl in his arms, it was his entire fault, he looked back at where he was going and finally reached the hospital, slightly panting.
"I need Tsunade, NOW." He practically yelled as he entered the hospital. The nurses stared at him in shock.
"Which part of now didn't you understood??" he hissed dangerously, his sharingan blazing and glaring at the nurses. The nurses immediately returned to work, one of them disappeared in a pouf of smoke to go get Tsunade. Another one approached him hesitantly and told him to lay Sakura on a stretcher, but he just glared, held Sakura closer and refused.
He looked at the girl in his arms again, her breaths were slow and short, he could barely feel her heart beat, and he could only see a tiny amount of her chakra with his sharingan, an amount dangerously low, and what was disturbing him, the dragon mark in her arm kept emitting high waves of chakra once in a while, but never emitting it to her body.
He snapped from his thoughts as Tsunade's voice was heard.
"What happened Uchiha?" she yelled, he glared at her, making holes through her body with his sharingan.
"What did you do to her??" she yelled once again, he remained silent, still glaring.
"Instead of yelling at me, why don't you fucking start healing her??" he snapped and yelled at the Hokage, as the woman only asked what happened and was starting to deafen him with her yells.
The Hokage looked sternly at him and then looked away ordering people around so she would start heal her daughter-like figure.
Sasuke hesitantly lay Sakura on the stretcher, she was instantly taken away to he had no idea where, the Hokage following and ordering more people.
3 hours later
Sasuke sat in the hallway, waiting for Tsunade or one of the nurses to come out and tell him something about Sakura, something… anything.
Two hours ago a nurse had came out of the operating or whatever block and rushed out, 10 minutes later she had came back with Hinata and Ino running behind her, and Sai had came 5 minutes later, a blank look on his face, his lips in a thin line.
Sasuke looked up and saw Sai in the same position he had been since he arrived, leaning against the wall, poker face on, arms crossed in front of him and his eyes closed.
In a silent pouf of smoke 2 figures appeared, one had grey hair and had a porn book in hand, a serious and worried face, not really reading the book.
The other had a serious and worried face, his arms crossed in front of himself.
"What happened?" Yamato asked breaking the silence, his question directed at anyone who could answer. The question lingered in the air and Sai opened his eyes slowly.
"Ask Uchiha." He said slowly, measuring his words, his eyes fixated in Sasuke, a hard glare directed at the Uchiha heir.
The 2 older males turned to Sasuke, who was sitting on the floor.
"What happened Sasuke?" Kakashi asked in a serious tone. Sasuke looked up at them voidly and then looked back at the floor, no words leaving his mouth.
"Sasuke, what happened?" Kakashi asked again, this time more gravely. Sasuke remained silent, fixating a particular spot on the floor.
In a flash, no one noticed how he was standing up and was shoved against the wall.
"Don't you just stay mute you fucking bastard." Sai yelled at him and pushed him harder against the wall. "What the hell happened to her??" Sai pulled Sasuke back from the wall and shoved him against it again with the double of the force from before.
"Stop it Sai." Kakashi said and took one of Sai's arms. Sai just shook Kakashi's hand away.
"Not until he tells me what the hell happened for her to be like that." Sai hissed dangerously. Everyone in the hallway was shocked, Sai never ever showed emotions, even negative ones. Their eyes locked, Sasuke stared blankly at the pissed off Sai, remaining silent.
"Teme, let him go." A calm voice came from behind them. Sai kept in place. Naruto placed a hand on Sai's shoulder and pulled him back.
"Doing this won't help her." Sai let go of Sasuke and walked away to his previous spot.
Sasuke looked up at Naruto, but said blond never looked at him and went to stand next to Kakashi and Yamato and the trio started to talk quietly, Sai just listened while glaring at Sasuke.
5 a. m. – 8 hours later
Tsunade came out of the operating room looking exhausted.
"I want explanations, and I want them now." She ordered sharply looking at Sasuke sternly. He looked up and stared blankly at the blond woman.
"She was doing the check up when the cursed seal started getting out of control, after that it's pretty much a blur." He said slowly measuring his words, his face in poker mode.
"And??" the Hokage urged.
"She took a scroll out and did some hand seals." He continued. "The kanji crawled through her body to mine and she sealed the cursed seal. That's all I know." Tsunade took her hand to her face and covered her face with it.
"What happened Tsunade-baa-chan?" Naruto asked quietly, so unlike of him. Tsunade straightened herself and looked at the group on the other side of the hallway.
"She had been working on a justsu to seal and remove permanently cursed seals that are complex, like Sasuke's." she paused. "She already worked out the way to seal the cursed seal, but one item was missing, a container for the seal." Tsunade sighed.
"You mean she used an incomplete jutsu?" Tsunade nooded at Yamato, who looked down in worry.
"She did more than that didn't she?" Kakashi asked, his Icha Icha book opened on his hand by his side.
"Hai, at the lack of a container to put the excess of chakra from the cursed seal, she used herself."
"She made the seal stay on her body." Everyone looked at Sai, he had his eyes closed.
"Exact." Sai opened his eyes and stared at the Hokage.
"How is she?" he asked quietly.
"She's unconscious, for how long I don't know, we a hard time trying to keep the seal from interrupting as we inserted chakra in her body and healed some parts of it." The lady Hokage looked at all 5 of them.
"Yamato and Kakashi can stay here since they have no missions, Naruto, you go home and rest, you have a mission tomorrow tomorrow." Naruto nodded, he looked so different from his usually energetic self. "As for Sai and Sasuke, you two go home and rest, you have to be in the kindergarten by 9."
"Hai." Sai muttered and looked at his sempais. "Inform me if something happens." The 2 elder men nodded as the artist nin and the Kyuubi container walked down the hallway silently. Sasuke got up and looked at the Hokage. Before he could speak the Hokage did.
"Go home, all of Rookie 9 and Team Gai will be informed about this and if there's any change." He nodded. "You don't remember anything else?"
"If you mean the pain that consumed my body, I do, if you're talking about something Sakura did, I don't." Tsunade nodded and he walked away, surprisingly, his inner was quiet, probably in the same mood he was.
Instead of going home, Sai went to the cliff above Konoha, he could see the whole village from there, the hospital, his apartment, the Uchiha compound, Ichiraku, her apartment… everything.
He sat down on the grass and took a scroll, a paint brush and a small vial of black ink out from his pouch.
He looked at the sky night, although there were no clouds, the stars couldn't be seen for some odd reason.
He sighed and started painting randomly, not really paying attention to what he was drawing, his mind was too busy thinking about Sakura's situation, he knew he should have gone with her when they left the kindergarten.
Naruto stared at the ceiling of his bedroom, tears threatening to fall, he was over with the crush he had on Sakura, but he still loved her, in a different way, in a brother-like way. He hated seeing her hurt, he hated seeing her hurt herself to help one of them, he hated himself for not being able to help her when she needed, he hated himself for not being able to prevent her from being in the hospital.
He sat up his bed and held his face in his hands, some tears running down his cheeks.
"Doushite?" he whispered. "Doushite Sakura-chan?" his body began trembling. "DOUSHITE??" he yelled in frustration. (doushite means why)
Sasuke couldn't sleep, he just couldn't, not knowing that Sakura was like that because of him.
He looked around from his balcony, the sliding glass door leading to the room open.
His room had her smell all over, maybe it would go away if he kept the window open.
He could still feel his sharingan, but, somehow, he couldn't deactivate it.
He looked up at the sky, there were no clouds, but for some odd reason he couldn't see the stars.
He remembered when they were genin, she was always being protected when he, Naruto or Kakashi were around, and now even if he wanted to, he couldn't protect her, she had changed, she was no longer the week girl he used to call annoying, she was a strong Konoha kunoichi.
She was on a hospital bed unconscious, and it was his fault, his entire fault. For going to Orochimaru. For not keeping the cursed seal sealed when Kakashi had put a seal on it during the Chuunin exams. For so many reasons. For being an idiot. For… underestimating her. For taking her as granted.
He turned around and stared at his faint reflection in the glass door. He hated what he had become. A monster in some eerie sort of way.
"AAAARRRRGGGG." He ran forward and closed his fist, as he reached the glass door his fist flew in front of him.
CLASH
The glass shattered in pieces to the floor, blood dripped from his knuckles. He let his hand fall to his side, the sharingan disappeared and he walked inside shattering the glass even more, he laughed ironically, just like he was shattering the glass on the floor, he had shattered her heart.
The blood running down his hand left a trail of blood as he went to the bathroom to bandage his hand, everything seemed so fucked up. She wasn't supposed to be like that, she was supposed to be a weak annoying kunoichi he had to be always watching so he would protect her when she was in trouble, she was supposed to be all over him since he arrived to Konoha, she was supposed to be sleeping on his bed since he arrived to Konoha, she was supposed to be his annoying kunoichi that he always had to protect, she was supposed… but she wasn't, she wasn't weak and didn't need to be protected anymore, she wasn't all over him like when they were genin, she wasn't… she wasn't his.
"Fuck." He muttered under his breath darkly and took what he needed from the first-aid kit.
From outside his house, an ANBU observed his every move.
"He's so messed up." The ANBU sighed. "He became so messed up he doesn't knows what to think."
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