Here's chapter 3! Hope you like it. Enjoy!

Stay With Me

Chapter Three: Sasuke's Feelings

When Sakura woke up Sasuke was gone. Thinking that he must be training she took the chance to take a shower. Stepping into the washroom she striped herself of all her clothing and walked into the shower. Letting the hot water relax her muscles as the water soaked her muscles her inner self came out.

'Sasuke must use this shower'

'obviously'

'naked'

'your point'

'face it deep down you still have feelings for him'

'no I don't'

'yes you do stop lying'

'hn. Doesn't matter he thinks I'm annoying'

'will see once he sees how much stronger you are'

She got out of the shower fully dressed and drying her hair with the towel. While doing so the door opened to revel Sasuke holding a tray of food. He walked in and placed it on the small table. "I brought us some breakfast." Sasuke answered her unasked question.

"Thanks." Sakura relied.

In Konoha village Naruto waited on the bridge for Sakura and Sai to arrive. About 5 minutes later Sai arrived and waltzed up beside Naruto. "Where's Sakura?" he asked the blonde haired blue eyed boy.

"She's not here yet." Naruto replied.

"That's not like her; she's always here on time isn't she?" Sai asked Naruto looking around for any sign of her.

"So why do you care all of a sudden?" Naruto asked him.

"Because she's on our team and if we have a mission we will need her." Sai replied making Naruto feel dumb. Naruto turned his head away from him and ignored him clearly annoyed. About half an hour later, Kakashi teleported onto a nearby pool.

"Hey there!" He greeted the two boys.

"You're late" Naruto yelled pointing an accusing finger at his teacher. Sai just stayed silent leaning against the railing of the bridge.

"Well you see a- "

"Liar!" Naruto yelled cutting off his teacher. Kakashi jumped of the pole he was crouched on and stood in front of his students. He searched his team looking for the female member.

"No Sakura today?" He asked the two males. The two shrugged.

"Sakura isn't one to miss training it's all she does now." Kakashi said out loud. Naruto nodded at Kakashi.

"She's not one to miss training even if she is sick." Sai finally spoke.

Kakashi raised his hand to his chin and looked upwards. "Hm…perhaps we should go see the hokage." He suggested then turning to look back at the two males who nodded in response and the three teleported to the hokage tower.

When they entered Tsunade's office she had her head buried in paperwork and a bottle of snake on the right hand corner of her desk. "About time you got here." She said looking up from her paperwork. "Was starting to wonder when you would get here." She continued.

"I suppose you know something about Sakura than Tsunade?" kakashi asked. She looked at him straight in the face.

"Correct." She replied now looking directly at the three men. "Sakura went missing some time last night and a witness has given me a description that matches Kabuto's appearance. He was seen taking Sakura out of the village." She informed them.

"What!" Naruto yelled.

"I assume you want us to retrieve her than?" Sai asked.

"Yes. She is our best medic ninja in the village we need her. However if she was taken by Kabuto then he's likely taking her to Orochimaru. You need to find the lair and bring her back. Understood?" Tsunade told them.

"Aa" the three replied and exited the room.

Ten minutes later the three men were traveling through the trees in the forest outside konoha. It was all quite till Naruto spoke up. "Kakashi sensei I don't get it what does Orochimaru want with Sakura?" he asked.

"Well likely he wants to use her to get Sasuke's body by using her as bait." Kakashi replied.

"But I don't see how that's going to make Sasuke hand over his body." Naruto replied, while they were still traveling through the trees.

"Don't tell me you never noticed Naruto." Kakashi said.

"Noticed what?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi couldn't believe how dense Naruto was at times. "Ever since you were genin Sakura has liked Sasuke and after the chunin exams she fell in love with him." Kakashi told him

"Well yeah I know that." Naruto replied.

"I noticed that Sasuke also had feelings for Sakura when you were genin he just hid them incredibly well and after the chunin exams I noticed that he had developed larger feelings for her." Kakashi told him.

"What! So you're saying that Sasuke is also in love with Sakura." Naruto said wide eyed not believing what he was hearing.

"That's what I'm saying Naruto." Kakashi replied.

"But that makes no since why would he hurt Sakura than?" Naruto Asked.

"Because of one main reason, Itachi… you remember his brother don't you. That's why he pushes Sakura away so Itachi doesn't kill her because if he finds out that Sasuke has feelings for her he would."

"I see..." Naruto muttered.

"This is likely why Orochimaru wants Sakura, because he likely realized that Sasuke has feelings for her." Kakashi finished.

"That bastard." Naruto said.

"Until Sasuke can kill both Itachi and Orochimaru he can never show any kind of love to Sakura I'm afraid." Kakashi told him. Sai was behind kakashi and Naruto the whole time listening to him and he wasn't happy one bit.

'uchiha…I wont let you have Sakura…' he thought to himself

Sakura walked into the middle of the yard where she was told to report to by Kabuto a few hours ago. She saw a figure leaning up against a tree trunk with his glasses flashing to cover his eyes. Kabuto looked at the pink haired girl and slowly walked towards her.

Sasuke was also at the training grounds waiting for Orochimaru who had just arrived. "Sorry Uchiha but I will not be able to train you today I wish to observe your roommates spare with Kabuto." The snake daemon told him walking away smirking to himself for he knew he had just made the Uchiha angry. Sasuke glared at him intensely.

'that bastard, if Kabuto hurts her he's dead.' Sasuke thought dangerously.

Orochimaru titled his head in Sasuke's direction. "You're free to observe if you wish" he told him.

"hn." Sasuke replied turning his head.

Kabuto reached behind his back to his orange pouch and pulled out something and the sun was now reflecting off the metal. Sakura didn't have much time to react as the kunai was thrown at her. The only thing she could do was doge it at run head on towards Kabuto who was attacking her.

Sakura took a few breaths and began her line of hand to hand combat. However every one of her punches and kicks were blocked or countered by Kabuto who seemed to enjoy making her look weak in front of the now observing Orochimaru and Sasuke. She took a step back for a moment before running at him again head on and was able to land a punch to his stomach. She smirked but before she knew what was happening she was being pined down by Kabuto, her hands being held at her sides and his grip tightening around her wrists.

Sasuke was glaring at the man on top of her 'common Sakura, your better then that I know you've gotten stronger when I was gone now prove it to me.' Sasuke thought.

"Well it seems that she is worth training then." Orochimaru spoke up Kabuto looked at him for a while but Sasuke and Sakura seemed unfazed. "I want you to train her Kabuto." Orochimaru told him before walking away but Sasuke remained.

Kabuto was about to look down at Sakura when he was kicked in the stomach by both her feet sending him flying to a tree off of her.

'I knew it. She has gotten stronger' Sasuke thought.

Kabuto brushed himself off and stood up looking at Sakura and handed her a pouch full of weapons she took it and tied it before readying herself in a fighting stance. Kabuto took out a number of kunai; both ran at each other metal hitting metal their breath becoming ragged as the spare dragged on. Sakura missed a kunai aimed at her which hit her shoulder. She pulled it out only to have Kabuto punch her in the stomach sending her flying and hitting the base of a nearby tree trunk.

Sakura winced in pain from her shoulder and she was having trouble fighting the longer the battle drew on till eventually she fell to the ground from exhaustion and overexertion. Kabuto began to walk towards her only to have Sasuke appear in-between them and pick Sakura up bridal style.

"She's had enough kabuto." Sasuke said making his way back into their room where he placed her down on the bed. He sat down beside her, taking a look at her shoulder.

"I can do that Sasuke." She told him trying to lift her hand to heal it. But he prevented her form doing so.

"No you cant you've used enough chakera for one day I don't want you falling unconscious by using up all your chakera." He told her and began to bandage her shoulder.

'Is he actually caring about me.' She thought blushing slightly.

By the time he was done Sakura was asleep and he decided to take a shower before going to sleep himself.

To Be Continued…

So what did you think? Sorry it took me so long to update. Thank you to everyone who has commented my story so far I already have 2 more story ideas that I can't wait to write but I need to finish this on first.

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