Bundyangel: Hi all again!Well people here's chapter 8! I actually got this out within a month… I think… but its sooner! Yeah! Congratulations to me! 8 days!
Give thanks to my inner self/muse/ ninja Cari Oonishi. It's kind of weird I named her Cari since my name is Jennifer but meh, go figure! XD
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DISCLAIMER:
Me: Hmmm today I think ill have our favorite heiress kunoichi do my disclaimer. Hinata if you would?
Hinata: But of course Bundyangel-san.
Me: Thanks Hinata I appreciate it.
Hinata: Of course, Bundyangel-san does not own Naruto-kun, the series Naruto, or anything in connection to it, including myself. She makes no claim to it at all. She does however claim this plot she came up with.
Me: Once again thanks Hinata-chan!
Hinata smiles and bows before making her leave.
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"Baaaka"- regular speech
'Baaaka'-thoughts, flashbacks, and italics
'Baaaka!'- Inner self's
The Ancient Curse of Love PART I OF III
Part 1 - Running from the pain
Chapter 8: An offer you almost couldn't refuse.
By Bundyangel
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(IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER)
Sakura slipped into bed and snuggled down into the pillow intent on instant sleep and had started to doze when a dark chuckle rang through the room and dark voice called out,
"Well Sakura, Lovely idea with the lock on your front door. Too bad it didn't work."
Sakura's eyes sprang open and bolting strait up in bed swung her head around to meet sultry onyx eyes that stared at her from the window with a flat intense gaze and a smirk from a luscious mouth to accompany it.
Sakura's emerald eyes widened and then narrowed as she whispered out,
"Sasuke-... Kun."
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(Sakura's Point of View)
I never removed my gaze from Sasuke as I reached under my pillow for the few kunai I was never without but froze when I felt nothing but cotton bedspread and pillowcase.
That bastard.
He took my kunai, and I never even sensed him doing it. I quickly tore my eyes from him and looked around my room at the strategic places I stored weapons and I felt my blood boil when they were all gone.
"You evil bastard! Why the hell are you here? Who said you could into my house or touch my things?" I growled and I couldn't believe my voice could get that low sounding. And to my dismay all the bastard did was smirk and look out the window.
I gritted my teeth and after a few minutes as ready to leap at him with my bare hands when he swung his head to stare at me with those twin pools of midnight eyes of his and I was frozen.
"Sakura. How… are you doing?" My eyes widened at not only the question and show of emotion from Sasuke but also the fact that he looked uncomfortable asking it, as if he wasn't sure how to phrase what he wanted to say.
Too bad for him I was still angry with him.
I laughed bitterly,
"And why the hell would you care? But if you simply must know, I'm in hell!" Sasuke arched an eyebrow in question and ignoring it I stood and started pacing the length of my room clenching and unclenching my fists. I continued, "Almost everyone is enjoying their lives and moving on and I can't! I'm not even allowed anymore to do the one thing that's kept me sane for the past couple of years! All because of your psychopathic sensei and his fetish for turning normal peoples life to hell!"
I ran my hands into my short hair and gripped tightly before turning to glare Sasuke, "I can't move on because I'm scared to let go of you! I'm scared I won't be able to! Scared that the moment I do my life will fall apart even more then it already has." I screwed my eyes shut and removing my hands from my hair dropped them to my sides and turned my head off to the side,
"They can't even put a seal on it Sasuke." I hissed that sentence at him in a low angry voice, "There's a chance if they did it would kill me or spring up and attack them. I'm a fucking walking time bomb, Sasuke! There's a chance Tsunade-Shinshou won't let me be a kunoichi anymore." That moment the curse mark chose to act up and pulsed with its uncontained power.
I sucked in a sharp breath and clamped my hand over it. I looked up in shock of what Sasuke said next,
"Let me help."
"Let you help…?" My brain wasn't registering what he said when it clicked and my bitter laughter once again rang out in mocking waves, "Let you HELP?! Are you stupid as well as insane? Help? How the hell do you plan to help me Sasuke? You're a wanted missing-nin! If anyone, ANYONE finds out that you're here you're as good as dead! You can't help me dead or in prison!" I froze again from his deep chuckles,
I freeze way too damn much around him.
"Who said I'd die or be in prison?" I let out a frustrated roar,
"I DID you Idiot! You can't waltz back into Konoha and expect to be welcomed without some kind of punishment! You'd be lucky if you weren't killed on the spot!" He smirked again,
"You assume too much Sakura. I didn't say I was returning to Konoha." Now I was seriously tested to bang my head against a wall,
"Then how the fuck do you plan to help me Sasuke?! I'm not going to be quiet if you decide to constantly sneak in Konoha."
"I won't have to do that either Sakura… Sakura? What are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm beating my head on the wall." I could practically feel his questioning gaze on me,
"… Why?"
"Because I'm going to bash my brains out before you make me go insane." I continued to lightly smack my head on my bedroom wall and he snickered lightly,
"Should I just explain my offer?" I stopped hitting my head on the wall and turned to look at him with a small smile. I could feel my eye twitching,
"Would you? That'd be ever so helpful." His smirked widened to borderline smile and he suddenly became serious he walked forward to stand in the middle of my room,
"I want you to come to sound with me."
"Oh fucking HELL NO!!!" Sasuke ignored my outraged reply and continued,
"Both Orochimaru and I would help teach you how to control your curse mark. He would give you power and you'd get what you begged me for 3 years ago. You'd get to be with me."
"Didn't you hear me the first time?! I said no! Fucking no way in hell! You must be crazy for you to even think for a minute id say yes and go to that pathetic excuse of a village!"
"Of course I heard you Sakura. I'm powerful not deaf."
'And pretty damn hot to boot!'
'NOT FUCKING NOW INNER!"
'Damn woman did the curse mark give you PMS too? GOD!' Sasuke continued unaware of my mental argument,
"What I'm saying is that I'm giving you an offer. One you don't have to decide on right now."
"Oh and what's that?"
"I'm going to be camped about a mile outside of Konoha for the next week. After that week I'm leaving back to sound. Now as much as I would like to make that the deadline for your decision, Orochimaru says you have till two weeks after I leave to make up your mind." Sasuke crossed his arms and shrugged,
"So basically you have a month from now to consider my proposition. You have till then to mull over the recent events and decide what is in your best interests." Sasuke held up a hand to silence my outburst he knew was coming,
"Before you fly off the handle on me, at least listen to the benefits you would have." I snapped my mouth shut and mirrored his moments but kept one hand on my curse mark. He smirked and continued, "Smart girl. Not only would Orochimaru give you control of the curse mark, he'd give you the ability to go to stage two of the curse mark whenever you pleased like I can." I scoffed interrupting him,
"I can already do that smart one."
"No you can't." I arched an eyebrow in question, "You could put all your energy into it right now but no matter how hard you tried you couldn't attain second level again like at the clearing. That was a result of Orochimaru's miscalculations. He put too much chakra into the binding." I narrowed my eyes at him and dropped my hand from my curse mark,
"He would also order Kabuto to help you develop more of your medical jutsus. Orochimaru and Kabuto have developed some that even Tsunade has never dreamed of. I would also help you train you overall. I am a master of all aspects. You would also keep your Chuunin rank or have an even higher one in sound. You would most likely be made my partner, seeing as we were once on a team and you would be the closest thing to a friend id have there." I locked eyes with Sasuke,
"But then of course you could stay here. Where you have the chance of being made a civilian again and would be forced to avoid to the other villagers because of the mere chance your little control would slip. After being made a civilian you would be distanced from your friends seeing as they would all be much too busy with their own ninja lives to go look for the little pink civilian they used to know as their kunoichi friend." He shrugged again, the bastard,
"Even if you didn't become a civilian your shinobi life would still be very limited. Tsunade would be afraid to send you on missions for the chance that you'd snap, especially should it be in an alliance territory, and then you'd risk war. So most likely you'd be sent on scouting or kept to the office to do paperwork. You'd see your friends but still not as often as you are used to now. If they weren't on missions they would be caught up in their own lives, and those that are not close to you would avoid you like the plague. Simply because of what you are now." I bent my face down letting my bangs shield my face.
"Oh Sasuke? And what is it I am now?"
"Orochimaru's cursed link to this village." I felt one tear streak down my cheek.
All my worst nightmares, all my worst fears, all the possible outcomes of my life, they were all just laid before me and were just as pitiful if not more so then I thought. I was ashamed. I had only two choices.
One; I could stay here and fight my way through the hardships that would probably last forever. I would have to rebuild all of the villages' belief in me. Everyone knew I had the curse mark now, and if they didn't know I had no seal on it by now they soon would. I would have to reinforce my friendships and suffer so much emotional torture. I would however stay in my home, the place where I was safe. Where my friends were and where my family was buried. I would stay with the respect of my peers if not their fear. I would at least have my honor and retain my loyalties to Konoha and Tsunade-Shinshou
Two; I could go to Sound and become the second traitor of my team. I would become a little girl in a village full of people who would stab me in the back at the slightest provocation. I would be taken to the home of the person I hated most in the world. It would be a place that they would return my smile and would scorn me for even pretending to be happy. I would however get stronger. I mean training under two sannin would have some benefits right? I would be near Sasuke. I would be most likely made his partner and I would be the first person he'd let close to him in years. But most of all I would have control, control of the curse mark, control of my emotions, and control of my life.
I stiffened when I felt Sasuke walk toward me. I knew he wouldn't hurt me because now he wanted me to come with him, but that didn't mean I was going to let my guard down with him near. He could decide to screw the plan and throw me over his shoulder and pack me away to Sound.
All he did though was raise a hand and wipe the tear from my face,
"The truth hurts Sakura, but those are your current options. I don't lie." He dropped his hand and turning I walked past him to stand next to the window looking at the slightly cloudy sky and half moon.
After a minute Sasuke walked up behind me and stared at the moon as well over my left shoulder. I relaxed a little, as he did nothing but stand there. I opened my mouth to speak when a jolt of pain shot through my body and I went rigid letting out a small noise of pain.
He had just bent his head down and placed a soft kiss to my shoulder where my curse mark was. Sasuke inhaled sharply; apparently he felt the pain as well. It was like a shock of electricity to the system and you certainly felt the after effects.
But Sasuke growled lowly under his breath and determinedly laid his cheek on my shoulder wrapping his arms around my waist, pulling me back so I rested against his warm chest. Soon the waves of pain receded and my body relaxed.
It was all too much in one day for me and I knew it. My eyelids grew heavier and I kept linking them rapidly to keep them open. Sasuke was in my room with his arms around me. No matter how tired I was I was not going to miss this. But damn it his chest was really warm, and this day was so emotionally draining.
Apparently Sasuke felt my sleepiness and it amused him, for he smirked and chuckled lightly,
"Sakura. With control, things like this wouldn't hurt anymore. But I do think this has been a little too much for you. Time for sleep." I nodded silently as his arms tightened and I sank onto his warmth and strength and allowed the blanket of unconsciousness to begin its work over my body. I felt Sasuke lift me up and put me on my bed. Pulling up the covers and laying a soft quick kiss onto my lips. The last thing I heard before my mind slipped into dreams was his light laughter and a quiet,
"Good night Sakura. I'll see you around."
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Oh yeah!
Happy belated birthday Sakura-chan!!!!