Disclaimer: Alright here it is! Chapter 11! Thank you all for reading. I was feeling a bit crazy today, so here it is, the first peak into some romantism.

Song sudgestion?: Blackbird by the beetles.

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CHAPTER ELEVEN: A New Feeling.

Mayu sighed and played with a stray peice of hair. She was lying in the middle of the living room, staring up at the ceiling. She wasn't aloud to go out during the day because of obvious reasons, and so she was once again left alone in the large house. There was one other place she was aloud to go, the garden in the back that had it's own pond and a wooden bridge to get over it.

"That's what I'll do." Mayu murmured to herself, standing up and walking to the back of the house. Once there was was greated with a beautiful picture perfect wonderland. A small pond ran through bright green grass with large trees. The pond wrapped around a small grass island with a beautiful sakura tree in the center of it.

Mayu drifted over the bridge and walked straight to the tree, where she promply sat down and gently touched the bark, feeling it's coarse texture on her fingers. She closed her eyes and burried herself in it's long future. It was all the same for awhile, summer, spring, winter, when suddenly an axe slammed into the trunk and the tree screamed. Mayu's eyes shot open and she shook there for awhile, not once letting go of the tree.

Why did everything have to die? Why must that tree die?

"You poor thing." Mayu sobbed, leaning her head on the trunk. "I wish you could live forever..."

A tiny chirping noise brought Mayu's attention to a small squirrel that had crawled up to the hem of her skirt. It was sniffing curiously at the fabric.

Mayu smiled but didn't reach for the animal. She didn't want to know. If anything, the fate of an animal was worse then that of a tree.

"Mayu?" The brown haired girl looked up with tear stained cheeks as Sasuke made his way across the bridge. He had a hard cover book clutched in his hand. "Are you crying?"

Mayu blushing and furiously wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I was just afraid of something." Mayu answered truthfully, something she seemed to do too often.

"What?" Sasuke asked, immideatly thinking the worst and glancing around for danger.

"Death." Mayu replied softly, drawing Sasuke's attention. "Everytime I look into the future of an object or animal, all there is, is death."

"Then stop, if it scares you so much." Sasuke offered bluntly, staring up at the tree. "What future were you looking at?"

"The tree's." Mayu said glumly, staring at her knees. Sasuke had allowed himself to buy her another pair of clothes, seeing as she needed more. He really did take good care of her, for someone who acted like he hated the world.

"This tree has been here for a hundred years." Sasuke said in a low voice. "And it'll be here for another hundred years. It's end wont come for a long time so don't worry."

In an odd way, Sasuke's words were conforting, if a little blunt. Mayu stared up at Sasuke with new eyes. When he glanced down at her he quickly looked away, and Mayu's shoulders fell a little. Her eyes. It was because of her eyes that no one could look at her. A sadness overwhelmed her suddenly and she gripped her knees tightly, spluttering with tears. Sasuke looked down in surprise.

"What-"

"I'm so sad." Mayu sobbed, clentching the fabric on her legs desperatly. "I'm so incredibly sad."

Unable to think of what to do, Sasuke stood there dumbly.

"It's so sad, when no one will look at you." Mayu hiccuped. Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't even thought of how incredibly depressing it must have been when rather then looking her in the eyes, people rather stared at their own two feet.

Suddenly Sasuke was overwhelmed with a strange new feeling. Without thinking he dropped to his knees in front of Mayu and placed a hand on her shoulder. Before he could blink her face was in his chest and she was sobbing and hiccuping all over his shirt. It vaugely reminded him of the first night Mayu had stayed at his place.

Sasuke felt his resolve melt away, it was so bizarre to be hugging someone. Finally, Sasuke got all feeling back and placed a hand on Mayu's back. He got a sudden incredible urge to pull her as close as possible and melt together. But he didn't act on it.

"Come on." He said, pulling her to a stand. She blushed and wiped away her tears, eyeing the giant wet spot on Sasuke's shoulder. "I'll make dinner."

"Thank you." Mayu whispered, grasping Sasuke's arm as they walked back inside. She stared at his profile with new eyes. Maybe he wasn't such a horrible person. If she didn't know any better, she'd think that little by little, the wall that made Sasuke angry all the time, was slowly being chipped away. Mayu leaned her head on Sasuke's shoulder. He tensed slightly, but didn't pull away. Somehow her being close seemed to dull that urge of his to crush her close to him.

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Dark eyes stared with a grin down at the town. It was almost time, so close to the plan.

His weapon was almost in place, almost ready to act.

Just a matter of time now.

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Mayu pitched forward with a pained gasp, clutching her chest. Sasuke's eyes widened and he grasped her shoulder. After their episode in the garden, Sasuke's wall had become even more chipped away. He no longer kept a deep space between them, but rather seemed to enjoy Mayu's company. He even had decent converstations with her.

"Whats wrong?" Sasuke asked worriedly. It was so bizarre for him to actually be worried. It felt like the old Sasuke was dissapearing. They were eating breakfast before going out to have a spar, just the two of them.

"I don't-" Mayu winced and coughed. "It feels like my heart is on fire."

"Should we go to the hospital?" Sasuke offered, but Mayu shook her head quickly.

"No!" She said loudly. "I'm fine, see? It's already going away. Probably just from eating too fast."

Sasuke frowned and pulled his hand from her shoulder. She always told the truth so he had to believe her. But it couldn't have been from eating too much, because lately Mayu wasn't eating much at all, and at night she seemed to be plauged with nightmares. So what new fear was this?

Lately, Mayu had been keeping away from any place that might hold death in it. The hospital was a key place, and so shes stayed as far away as possible for fear of accidentaly seeing the future there. Even Sasuke's house bothered her, but she still had yet to ask him why he lived alone.

Sasuke gathered the plates and brought them to the kitchen. When he returned Mayu was laying on the floor, staring at the ceiling. When she wasn't actually staring at someone, her eyes were sort of pretty. Sasuke inwardly scolded himself as he sat down at the table.

"I wanted to ask you something, but I am afraid you might get offended if I do." Mayu said after some silence, drawing Sasuke's gaze off her neck. He inwardly flushed and felt a little confused. What was happening to him? Was his hormones finally settling in after all those years of surpressing them? "May I?"

"Doesn't matter to me." Sasuke muttered.

Mayu pulled herself up and stared at her feet instead of at Sasuke.

"Why do you, live alone?" She murmured. Despite expecting that question at one point or another, Sasuke still tensed. He shouldn't care about that anymore, it was past and over with, but somehow it still bothered him to talk about it.

"Because." Sasuke sighed, lifting a hand to squeaze the bridge of his nose in an attempt to inconspicuously hide his features from Mayu's eyes. "I have no family anymore."

Mayu felt her gaze soften and she leaned forward on her knees, waiting for him to continue.

"My brother...Murdered them all." Sasuke didn't dare look up. He could just imagine the look of surprise and disgust on her face, the speechlessness. Just like everyone else. But when he looked up, he saw neither. All he saw was understanding.

Mayu's eyes drooped and before she knew what was happening she moved closer to Sasuke and wrapped her hands around his neck, pulling her face forward and kissing his cheek.

"I'm so sorry." Mayu whispered in his ear. "I know I can't say much, I'm just sorry that you had to live such a life on your own..."

Sasuke's eyes were wide and he was shocked beyond all belief. The only person he had even kissed was Naruto, but that was a mistake, an accident. It was the most embarrassing moment in Sasuke's life. But this kiss, it was different. It made that feeling inside him, that urge stretch and widen and overtake him.

It enveloped him and captured him until he saw nothing but pure need.

Without thinking Sasuke wrapped his arms tightly around Mayu's waist and pulled her forward. This time her lips weren't on his cheeks, and Sasuke closed his eyes tightly. It was so bizarre. He felt himself being overcome with feelings, bits of himself were being torn away, melting into nothingness.

Mayu was surprised at first, but she closed her eyes and made a move Sasuke hadn't expected. She opened her mouth and left herself be enveloped by all that was Sasuke. It was so strange to have her tounge in his mouth, but Sasuke didn't mind. He lost himself and explored every place he could find. His arms tightened on Mayu's waist and his eyes squeezed more tightly together.

Finally, Sasuke let go of his resolve and let the feelings wash over him, not minding in the least that this meant he was weak. That now he had a weakness. All he knew, all he felt was the small body in his arms and those lips kissing him. It was such a complete feeling. So instense. Sasuke let it overtake him completely.

Their sparing session would have to wait, because Sasuke's new discovery was too much to pass up.

There you go!!! Haha, I hope you like it! This is it, the romantism!

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