Dear Cherry Blossom a.k.a Sweet Serenity
Warning: There is a lemon here.
A/N: OK. Before moving onto the story, I'd like to introduce my translator/cousin who agreed to help me...after I threw myself at her feet and clung onto her leg. Her name is Donny-
Donny: Uh, that's Dawn E.
Skykat: Whatever Donny... She gave me suggestions that would change the story a little. (Hey, whatever my translator wants, my translator gets!) That's the good news. The bad news is she's going to summer school. Not because she has to, mind you. But because she wants to further her education (GEEK!) and she won't be able to help me as much as I'd like. If you want to know more about her, she's got a temporary bio in my profile page. So anyway, thanks for taking the time to read and don't worry, Donny. I'll take the ball and shackle off your ankle as soon as you finish chap 3.
Summery: Sasuke and Ino's marriage is falling apart and now Sasuke's eye is starting to wander. Sakura is a successful advice columnist who's planning to use her expertise to drive them further apart. Naruto still loves Sakura and is making a plan to win her over. Hey! Where does Itachi play into all this?
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. But I miss Haku!
CHAPTER 2: Forgive but cannot forget
The sounds of a highly agitated woman yelling and a cowering fox-boy getting his head knocked around pretty badly interrupted the night silence in the peaceful village. Sakura pulled her body free from the annoying man's grasp and pushed him further away from her. Gathering every bit of strength her worn out body could produce, she clobbered the unsuspecting ninja causing him to hit the ground hard.
"Naruto, why are you here at this hour of the night? What are you trying to do, get yourself killed!" Sakura was ready to explode with anger.
"By who? YOU? You're funny, Sakura!" Even though he was black and blue with a large knot on his head and lying flat on the ground, Naruto still had this annoying grin on his face. "Anyway, I was just out for a walk when I happened by your place. I uh... thought you could use a little company in your time of need." Naruto got to his feet and somehow managed to disappear from in front of her and make his way into her living room although she was standing in front of the doorway and blocking the only entrance into her house. (Can't deny those Ninja skills!) "I heard about you and Rock Lee."
"Where's a TASER when you need one?" Sakura sighed. "Naruto, will you get out of here? It's too late at night and I'm too busy to put up with your antics!"
"You work too hard, Sakura. Relax with me a little while." Naruto suggested while making himself comfortable on her couch. "I can tell you haven't been getting much sleep lately. Have you not seen the dark circles around your eyes? You look worse than Gaara."
"I don't need to relax now. I just need to be left alone!" Sakura stood in front of the opened door with her fists clenched...in about five seconds she was going to pounce and strangle this guy so hard that even kyuubi's eyes would bug out.
"Are you sure you want me to leave?" Naruto fished for something in his pocket. "I've got ramen!"
"GET OUT!" Sakura stood by the door and pointed her finger outside. Naruto stood up and slowly walked outside. After he made it out the door, he stopped in front of the doorway in order to turn around and face Sakura.
"Sakura, are you still upset about your highly publicized break up with that bushy browed loser?" Sakura, not wanting to answer his question, slammed the door in Naruto's face. She looked through to eyehole and watched him walk away from her house with his hands buried in his pockets and his head hanging low. She then leaned her back hard against the door and rolled her eyes to the ceiling.
After all these years, Naruto was just as annoying as ever.
For the first part of his trip home Naruto walked with his head down without paying much attention to the area around him. He had spent the whole day trying to figure a good excuse to go to Sakura's house. Apparently, "just out for a walk and happened by your place" wasn't good enough. "Mission one was a failure." He said to himself. "Next plan."
It was a beautiful night. The moon was shining brightly and the sky was speckled with millions of tiny stars. The air was clear and a warm breeze swirled around some nearby trees. It was the perfect night for taking a long walk and getting one's thoughts together. So, how does one handle such a headstrong woman like that? Was there any point in trying to pursue her while she was still so upset? One would think he'd be use to rejection by now, but the pain was just as sharp now as it was ten years ago.
Naruto paused and looked up at the perfectly round moon in the star filled sky. The damn thing had the nerve to be smiling while he was feeling so bad. "What am I supposed to do?" He asked up at the sky as if he were expecting to moon to answer. "I've always had bad luck with women." The moon had no answer for him. It just sat there with those stupid happy faced shaped spots on its surface. "You think this is funny huh? Kiss my ass, man on the moon!"
Oh great. He reached a new low by cursing out the moon. He knew that he really shouldn't take his anger out on that oversized slab of rock, but it's just that he always did have bad luck with women. First, he had to deal with every female thinking that he was obnoxious and refusing to talk to him. Then, he constantly had to avoid getting beat up by a crowd of angry fan girls whenever he insulted Kohona's eye candy...that so called bronze god Sasuke. The worst was when he became a complete outcast once they found out that he was possessed by a fox demon. It took years for him to gain their respect and get back into the dating scene.
For years he tried his best to win Sakura over but he always lost to Sasuke. Although he did date her for a little while when Sasuke went missing, as soon as Sasuke trotted his happy ass back into the village, Sakura went crawling back to him. That was when Hinata got the courage to ask him out. Naruto still remembered clearly when she told him that things weren't going the way she thought they would and that they should see other people. It wouldn't have hurt so badly if she didn't say this on their first date. It didn't matter. He loved Sakura with every fiber of his body and would do anything to get her back.
He didn't know why he thought Sasuke's marriage to Ino would change things. Even after he got married, Sasuke was still the object of Sakura's affections. The day he heard about Sasuke's engagement Naruto nearly jumped through the roof of his apartment with joy. At last! His archrival was going to be tied down to a woman. Even better... a highly possessive woman. The only reason he actually went to the wedding was to make sure that Sasuke went through with it. If Sasuke even thought about getting cold feet, Naruto would have dragged him down the aisle by the wrists (Or whatever part of Sasuke's body he could get a grip on) and held him in place until he said "I do."
Sakura was there as the maid of honor. He memorized every detail of how beautiful she looked the day and her radiant smile that nearly brought tears to his eyes. She told everyone that she was happy for her best friend but Naruto could tell that she was upset over losing the lifelong battle for Sasuke's heart.
After the ceremony everyone gathered outside and enjoyed the reception. Ino took the time to dance with her father as well as a few friends including Shikamaru and Chouji. Sasuke never did dance with his new bride. What kind of a moron would get married and not dance at his own wedding? He just sat at the table among a few of his fellow ninja and stared at everything with his that same emotionless look on his face. But with a careful look Naruto could see that Sasuke was trying his hardest not to smile. Leave it to Sasuke to make a simple thing like showing that he was happy more painful than getting his nose hairs pulled out one by one.
Sakura sat at a table by herself and kept her face hidden behind her hands. Naruto assumed this would be the perfect chance to get closer to her but when he approached she told him to leave her alone. He didn't want leave her in that state but he didn't want to further upset her either so he reluctantly prepared to go home. Before he left, Naruto assured her that he would always be there for her if she ever wanted someone to talk to. She actually smiled at his kindness and whispered "Thank you" to him.
Not five minutes after Naruto left, "Mr. Wonderful " also known as Rock Lee came up to her. He would wait until Naruto had softened Sakura up a little to make his move. Naruto wanted to kick himself once he learned that Sakura had left the wedding with Lee and then started dating him the next day. What did she see in him anyway? His eyes bulged out, he cried like a wimp whenever his sensei got upset with him, he dressed like a green ballerina, and his freaky eyebrowspractically swallowed his face! Plus, he and Gai sensei have no problem hugging and fondling each other in public. And they way Lee carried himself as if he were the god's gift to women always made Naruto want to breakhis neck.
Oh well. There was no use worrying about the past. Especially since Lee and Sakura are kaput. Now is his chance to show Sakura how much he loved her. She's alone, vulnerable, and in desperate need something (or someone) to keep her mind off the past, which was probably why she had been throwing herself head first into her work. He didn't want to take advantage of her... just be a shoulder to cry on until she felt better. The problem was, as long as the gossip column poured out stories with the phase "Uchiha Heir Heading for Divorce" in each headline, he knew there would be roadblocks in his quest to win her back.
Naruto was well aware of the problems between Sasuke and Ino. Heck...everyone who read the gossip column was aware. He knew that things were rocky between the two, but he never believed that they would get a divorce. Gossip columns had a way with exaggerating everything. He tried to talk to Sasuke a few times about the situation, but the two were never close enough to discuss matters as private as that.
"Enough reminiscing. It's time to formulate a new plan." Perhaps he was being too pushy by just dropping in on Sakura like that. Naruto thought long and hard. "I need to plan this out better. I got it! I'll make this a new mission...a new mission that would definitely win Sakura's heart for good!" It took a few more minutes, but a plan eventually came to him. The first thing was to put a stop to the circulation of the gossip columns. Because his plan was so complex, he'd probably carry this plan out in phases:
Phase number one: Find out who the author of the gossip column is.
Phase number two: Beat the crap out of him for giving the woman he loved false hope.
Phase number three: Beat the crap out of Sasuke for being a jerk. (Surely, these marital problems are all HIS fault)
Phase number four: Convince Sakura he's the only one that should be with her.
Phase number five: Talk to Ino and try to help her work things out with Sasuke. And while he's at it, beat the crap out of Sasuke again for the heck of it.
"Yeah, that should work nicely...Bah! Who am I kidding? That plan sounded dumb even for ME! C'mon, Naruto! Think, think, think!" He knocked himself in the head a few times with his fist but a new plan would not come to him. Forget it. He'll have to find some other time to work on a plan. But for now, he'll just enjoy the night with his new buddy, Mr. moon.
Naruto grinned a wide foxy grin and continued walking until he came across a person standing under a streetlight getting attacked in the distance. Upon further investigation he discovered that the person was Shikamaru getting his ass kicked by a dark figure that didn't have any facial features.
"Oh boy, here we go again." Naruto said, putting his hand over his forehead. "I guess I should go help him out this time." Naruto took a deep breath and looked up at the night sky. "Sakura, I gave up to soon. I let you go before and you ended up getting hurt." Naruto said as strutted up to Shikamaru so that he could help him out. "I won't let it happen again. I promise."
"Who do I write to when I need advice?" Sakura walked back to her office and searched through a stack of papers that collected in all of the corners of the room. She was searching for something that always gave her nightmares when she looked at it but she could never make herself throw it away. She wasn't sure what was driving her to look for something so horrible, but she kept searching until she found it. It was an article with the feature story of her emotional breakup with Rock Lee. She picked it up and slowly read each and every painful sentence. It had been two weeks since the break up and Sakura was not quite over him. She leafed through the periodical and reminisced about the good times that she shared with him.
They had the perfect fairy tale relationship that made everyone (especially Naruto) quite ill whenever they were seen together in public. He treated her like a princess and everyday he would assure her that he would always protect her with his life. Everyone thought that they would end up getting married. In fact, Sakura knew that he was indeed planning on proposing to her. After Sasuke's rejection she found happiness in her private life through Lee and actually did consider spending the rest of her life with him. That was until the word got out about Ino's rocky marriage to Sasuke.
This was the news that Sakura had waited almost 2 years to hear. Although she was happy with Rock Lee, she had secretly been hoping -even going as low as wishing- that Ino and Sasuke would divorce each other. Since the divorce appeared to be imminent, Sakura had to make sure that she was free to be there when a distraught Sasuke needed a shoulder to cry on. Too bad this meant breaking up with Lee.
It all happened the night that Lee was going to pop the question. Lee had planned for weeks in order to make that day special for Sakura. With the help of his fellow teammates (and Gai sensei of course) he dressed in the best suit that he could afford and rented a private banquet hall decorated from top to bottom with lotus blossoms. It was quite extravagant for an ordinary wedding proposal, but Lee was always willing to go that extra mile just to show off.
Everyone in the village was there, including Kakashi and even the Hokage (although Naruto failed to show up). After a night of feasting and dancing to the music of a live band, Lee actually got up on the stage and sang his feelings (Lee was surprisingly talented) for Sakura, for all to hear. Just as he was about to hand her an exceptionally beautiful lotus flower with the ring hidden inside, she uttered a faint "I'm sorry but no." and ran out of the banquet hall.
Sakura had to admit that it was way better than Sasuke's proposal to Ino. (All he did was throw a kunai at her feet with a tag on it that read "I choose you, Ino"), but she didn't regret what she did that night. Tears streamed down her cheeks and onto the article when she remembered how she became incredibly depressed shortly after realizing all of the pain that she caused.
She had to do it. This would be her once in a lifetime opportunity and her dream come true. She would just die if she knew that her biggest competition was out of the way forever and Sasuke would once again be available. She felt it was the right decision even though the lingering memory of how cruel she was to Lee still wrenched her gut.
As if her status on the social ladder wasn't already low enough, people avoided her even more. Wherever she went, people would avoid eye contact and pretend that they couldn't see her as they walked by. Sadly, she could easily tell that they would be whispering something about her as soon as they thought she was too far away for her to hear. For the past two weeks Sakura was known as "That evil girl who broke poor Lee's heart." What she did next really made her sick to her stomach. The very next day she got an e-mail she clicked it open and read the contents:
Dear Cherry Blossom,
I just asked the girl of my dreams to marry me and she turned me down. I have never felt so crushed and humiliated in my entire life. I am still trying to figure out she could down a good-looking guy like me? (Gai sensei much?) I still love her and I still want to spend the rest of my life with her. How can I convince her to change her mind and come back to me?
Crying in a lotus blossom
She immediately recognized as Lee's not just because of the familiar subject matter but also because Lee had never used a contraction in his life.
It all but hurt her fingers to type her response, but she tool a deep breathe and did it anyway:
Dear Crying,
I understand your pain and I deeply empathize with you. Break ups are never easy and I'm sorry to say that you're going to have to try and move on with your life. If she turned down a wedding proposal, chances are she doesn't want to be with you anymore. Remember that time heals everything and you'll feel better and be in another relationship before you know it.
Cherry Blossom
After she finished her response she went hysterical and desperately looked to her best friend to ease her pain. Who else but Ino would be standing at Sakura's front door with open arms ready to comfort her? It was her best friend Ino who stayed up with her all of those nights that she cried a river. It was her best friend Ino who stood up for her when people trash talked her. It was her best friend Ino who pretended to understand Sakura's lame excuse as to why she did what she did. "I wish you were here now, Ino." She almost felt guilty for wishing that her best friend's marriage would end. (ALMOST being the key word.)
All of a sudden she could not get Sasuke out of her mind and her feelings of guilt and depression were replaced with fury. "I should be married to Sasuke! That...PORKER doesn't deserve him!" She ripped the article to shreds and threw the pieces into the air. The scraps of paper slowly drifted down around her like confetti and she curled into the fetal position on the floor.
"That fight!" She banged her fist on the ground. "If only she knew the truth! If only they ALL knew the truth!" By now, she knew that there was no way she could get any more work done, so she opted to take a bath and turn in early for once. Once her tub was filled, she looked at her own reflection in the water and was shocked at the unfamiliar sight looking back at her. " I DO look worse than Gaara. Damn that Naruto!" she shouted, easing herself into the tub. The warm fruit smelling water that surrounded her caused her to relax a little more. "I wonder what Sasuke's doing now?"
Sasuke couldn't fall asleep after the incident with his wife. He thought about apologizing to her but his pride got in the way (damn male ego!). He decided to just wait until morning to see if Ino would come to her senses. She KNOWS that he's the great Uchiha heir. She should be worshiping the ground he walked on like she did before they got married.
He was about to close his eyes when he heard the bedroom door open followed by the sounds of his wife slowly walking down the stairs and into the living room. "Oh great" he thought, "she's probably here to annoy me again." Sasuke shut his eyes tight.
"Sasuke? Are you awake?" Ino asked even though she could easily tell that Sasuke was pretending to be asleep. She quietly stepped a little closer. She looked at the circular light red mark that formed on his forehead and softly put her the tips of her fingers against it causing him to flinch a little. "Does it hurt?" He still didn't talk to her. "I'm sorry." Sasuke opened his eyes and looked at his wife. She was standing next to the couch in her bathrobe with her face cleaned off and the rollers taken out of her hair. He put a frustrated expression on his face and continued to stare at her without saying anything.
Sensing that apologizing would not be enough for him, she untied her robe belt. She pulled the opening of the robe apart and allowed her robe to slide off her shoulders and onto the floor revealing that she was wearing nothing underneath. Sasuke tried his hardest to ignore her but he couldn't take his eyes off of her. Nor could he resist the urge to get up from the couch and start fondling her body with his fingers and his mouth. She trembled as his fingers softly touched the tip of her lip and then journeyed down to her chest. He spent a few seconds circling around her areola with his fingers then moved them further down the front of her body to her inner thigh. He sat back down on the couch, allowing his instincts to take over.
Ino closed her eyes and flung her head back when she felt Sasuke took both of her breasts in his hands and explored around her navel with his tongue until he could feel himself slowly losing control of his own body.She was about to ask him if he would forgive her but before she could open her mouth to speak, a lighting fast hand grabbed her by the waist and pulled her onto the couch. Sasuke didn't bother to take his pants off but he pulled the top down far enough to free his manhood, which was already standing straight up. He climbed on top of Ino and pushed into her so hard that her head hit against the arm of the couch.
The sounds of Ino's moans of pleasure echoed throughout the house with each hard thrust of Sasuke's lower body. He used his arm to raise her leg over his shoulder so that he could press into her even further. She wanted to arch her back but there was no need- he was already as deep inside her as he could possibly get. Feeling his member rub against her insides, he groaned, lowering his head to her shoulder and burying his face in the base of her neck. His pulsating member put her into a trance- a kind of hypnotic state not even the feel of him releasing the contents of his ejaculation inside of her could break.
She enjoyed submitting to him for a while but she wanted her turn to be on top. She hinted to him by releasing her leg from his grasp on his shoulder and moving her body from side to side in an effort to get him to change his position. Try as hard as she may, she was unable to move much because she had almost all of Sasuke's body weight on her. It's not like he would have let her get on top until he was ready. Sasuke was always the one in control and after a year and a half, she was well aware of it by now. After a few minutes, Sasuke's heavy body began to take its toll on her. She tried to shift her weight so that she would be on top but Sasuke reacted by propping himself up and pinning Ino down by her shoulders with his hands. After a while Ino's body couldn't stand anymore.
"Please Sasuke, say you forgive me now!" she pleaded- shoulders starting to hurt because of the pressure he was putting on them.
"Say who I am and I'll forgive you." Sasuke demanded while he continued his jackhammer like motions into her.
"You are Sasuke Uchiha!" Ino's arms were beginning to go numb, so she grabbed Sasuke's arms and dug her nails deeply into his skin. The deep crescent shaped markings she imprinted in his flesh did not faze him at all.
"WRONG! Try again!" Before she could respond Sasuke was lowered his head and rammed his tongue down Ino's mouth...mostly to delay her answer.
"You are Sasuke...the great Uchiha heir!" Ino only managed to say because she turned her head away from Sasuke's mouth. Sasuke compensated by kissing her hard down her neck with his tongue licking her skin along the way.
"LOUDER!" He angrily stared dead into her eyes. His own eyes began to flash between his sharingan and the normal dark color, letting Ino know that he meant business.
"YOU ARE SASUKE...THE GREAT UCHIHA HEIR!" Ino's throat began to get soar from all of the yelling.
"That's what I wanted to hear." Sasuke said in his usual monotone voice. "And don't even think about stopping until I say you can." He halted his body and rolled over toward the back of the couch and allowed Ino to straddle him for a little while. He used this time to catch his breath and rub his hands around her body while she steadily moved her pelvis forward and backward against his own. "Faster." he commanded in a stern voice. Ino did as she was told and sped up her body movements until she became too tired to continue. When he gave her the okay to finish, Ino got off of him and rested her head on his chest so that she could listen to his heartbeat. He shifted a little and started to run his fingers through her hair. "Before you go to sleep, do me one more favor."
Ino knew what was coming. He was going to ask her to use her special jutsu to pleasure him from the inside. This was another thing that sucked for her (other than his feeling that his masculinity would be in jeopardy if he were not the dominant one and first to be on top) when it came to having sex with Sasuke. This was something that only benefited him because she got absolutely no pleasure from lying lifeless next to him. "I need to rest." She said trying to sound as pitiful as she could. "You've already worn out my chakra."
"Just a few minutes" he responded with his fingers now roaming to the sensitive area in between her legs.
"All right." Ino made a few hand signs and released her soul into his body. Sasuke relished in his wife's abilities although he refused to outwardly show it by moaning. About two minutes later she could no longer hold out and fell fast asleep in his arms. Sasuke was finally content.
With a smile he pulled his wife closer to him and whispered, "You really can be a bitch every now and then, Ino" Sasuke turned his head and kissed her softly on the cheek. "But I'll forgive you this time."
Sasuke woke up early the next morning on the couch next to his wife. He could tell that she was still exhausted from the night before, so he didn't bother to wake her. He hurriedly walked back up the stairs to his bedroom and got himself ready for the day. He was going on a mission to train some genin with a team of fellow jounin and couldn't afford to be late, especially since he had to make a quick stop along the way.
Before he left, he cleared the hair from Ino's face and pressed his lips against her forehead. "So worried about how you looked last night. I hardly think your client would approve of the way you look now." He left the house and made his way toward the village.
The sun wasn't fully out yet, but the sky was lit well enough to see everything in the area. Everything was quiet except for the sound of an occasional singing bird. He steadily walked toward the village with his head hanging low...the satisfaction that he gained the night before was short lived. There was something still bothered him about his wife that he could not put aside. Something that he could never come to terms with.
Now was not the time to worry about it. Even though he was upset, he found comfort in the reminder of where he was headed. Sasuke picked up his pace and started to walk as fast as he could. Not just to get to his destination on time, but also to avoid-
"Hey loser! What are you doing up so early?" Naruto ran up to Sasuke from behind and slowed down to a walk when he caught up to him. "We don't have to be in for another hour." Every time he got up early to go to the main village he ran into Naruto. And every time Naruto would ask him the same question with that ever-present look of stupidity on his face.
"I should be asking you the same thing. It's not like you're needed for this training session--or any other one for that matter." Sasuke glanced at his endlessly irritating comrade. They didn't hate each but they weren't exactly best friends either. After becoming jounin, they've settled their differences and were content to remain friendly rivals. (Although it was rare that an encounter between the two did not end in a verbal brawl.)
"I've got something that I'm working on. Plus, they need a replacement for Shikamaru. He got beat up pretty badly last night and he has to recover."
"Not that again." Sasuke nodded in disbelief. "Can't he keep that thing under control?" All of a sudden another thought rushed into Sasuke's mind. "There're actually letting YOU take over a squad?"
"And what's so surprising about that?" Naruto stood still and put his hands on his hips. "I AM a jounin just like the rest of you!"
"True, but I thought you were placed in the suicide squad. Or as the rest of us call it, 'The group that can't do anything else.' " Sasuke kept walking but looked back over his shoulder and smiled at Naruto.
"Oh you are so damn funny!" He looked Sasuke up and down and continued his walk with a devious look appearing in his eyes. "Look at the way you're walking. And check out those marks on your arms...you got some last night didn't you?" Naruto asked with an "I want details" look on his face. It was odd that Naruto would have an eye for something like that, considering he was still a virgin.
"That's none of your damn business." Sasuke said crossly. He tried to walk a little faster but Naruto picked up his own pace and kept up with him.
"Does this mean you've finally got things settled?"
"One wild night with Ino doesn't make up for the eternal pain she's caused me." Sasuke once again gave Naruto a look. Naruto just stared back with a dumbfounded expression on his face. "Perhaps I've said too much."
"Wild huh?" Naruto said with a smirk. "Eh...you're probably just not doing it right."
"How would you know?" Sasuke responded angrily (Yet again, his manhood's on the line.) "The closest thing you ever get to sex with a woman is whenever you touch yourself while using your Sexy-No-Jutsu technique!"
"Hey! That was a one-time thing!" Naruto yelled defensively. "Had I known that pervert from the gossip column was watching me in the springs I would have-" Naruto's face was turning bright red and he figured it was probably best to stop. Just when Sasuke thought he finally got his comrade to shut up, the sudden change of expression on Naruto's face told him that something else had jumped into the dumb dobe's mind. "What pain?" Not getting an answer to his question made Naruto look in Sasuke's direction and notice Sasuke turn down another road. "Where are you going? The village is this way!"
"I'm going to see my brother." Sasuke yelled back "I'll be back in time for the mission."
"I see I'm going to have to come up with a new plan sooner." Naruto said to himself and continued his journey to the village.
Sasuke made it to the special care facility with more than enough time to visit his brother. He always made it a point visit Itachi at least once every six weeks even though he was still evil. Evil or not, Itachi was still family and is now suffering a fate worse than death. Every visit was the same. They never said a word to each other and Itachi would just stare at Sasuke with the lingering presence of hate in his eyes. Sasuke didn't mind. He was only doing what he thought his family would want him to do...but it also didn't hurt rub fact that he was still mobile in Itachi's face. He entered the building and walked down a long hall to the entrance of Itachi's room.
The room was located in an isolated part of the building behind two steel doors. The only way to get into it was with one of the special keys that were made just for him, Tsunade, and a few other medic-nin. It was heavily guarded just in case anyone from the Atasuki ever tried to break in and reclaim their former member. Once his identity was confirmed and he was thoroughly searched, he was given the okay to enter. He pushed his key into the lock and turned it slowly so not to wake his brother in case he was still asleep.
"What the hell do you want now?" The angry voice from inside yelled. "I said I'm not going to eat that shit you serve here!"
"It's me, Itachi." Sasuke walked into the room and sat on the foot of his brother's bed. Itachi lie stiff on the bed with a thick tube sticking out of his neck. He was hooked up to a large machine with an endless amount of tubes connected to his arms. One tube was extremely large and connected to his chest. Its main purpose was to keep Itachi under control by draining the chakra right out of his body in case he ever tried to open a chakra gate to heal himself.
"I don't want to see you. Get the fuck out of here." Itachi said in a voice so evil that it sent shivers down Sasuke's spine. "You're just here to gloat because you can still walk."
"So you're finally talking to me. You've been like this for almost two years. Get over it." Sasuke responded, shaking off the cold feeling forming at the base of his spine.
"Don't think I don't know why you let me live. You know I'd rather die than live like this."
"Don't think I don't know why you let me live. You had two chances to kill me, but you were determined to fight me when I was at my strongest."
"Almost four years ago." Itachi said slightly louder than a whisper.
Sasuke could vaguely remember what happened during his last day with Orochimaru. He did find out that Orochimaru had eventually possessed his body but he wasn't sure what happened after that. All he could remember was waking up at Itachi's feet next to a pile of dust that was once Orochimaru's body. Sasuke's body frozecompletely stiffwhen he looked at the coldness in Itachi's eyes. He was expecting to get slaughtered right on the spot, but oddly enough Itachi just whispered an icy "You owe me one, little brother" before he turned and walked away.
After Sasuke's return to the village, he spent over a year preparing for the fight with his brother. Fortunately, the painful purification process that he had to go through got rid of his cursed seal, but did not diminish much of the power he had gained. They finally did get their chance to fight and Sasuke emerged as the victor.
It kind of sucked that all he had to do was sneak up from behind Itachi and push him off a cliff. It was hard to tell who was more embarrassed...Sasuke, who resorted to such a cheap trick to defeat his brother, or Itachi who fell for it... literally. Either way, they both kept their mouths shut about the whole situation.
"You may have won that battle, little bother, but I still don't give a damn about what I did. The only thing I regret is not killing your sorry ass when I had the chance." Sasuke glared frigidly at his brother but Itachi continued. "Why are you here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be 'rebuilding' our clan? Shouldn't you be home banging your wife? Or is your performance so bad that you can't even keep a woman satisfied? Admit it, little brother. You're weak as a fighter and you're weak in the bed."
"You talk a lot of shit for someone who's useless from the waist down." The look of anger on Sasuke's face was replaced by a sly grin. "I have a gift for you, Itachi." Sasuke stood up and walked over to a bulletin board located against the wall at the foot of Itachi's bed. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small photo. Pulling out an unused thumbtack from the board he stuck it in a clear area of the board. Itachi's eye's widened when he saw that it was a picture of his family that Sasuke had hung right in front of him.
"DAMN YOU!" Itachi screamed to the top of his lungs. The machines he was connected to began to beep hysterically causing an orderly to run into the room.
"Have a nice day, brother." Sasuke said calmly before walking out of the room leaving the chaotic scene of medics trying to get everything under control. Yelling and cursing echoed down the hall back before the steal doors slammed behind him. "On to the village."
Donny: Well that was tastefully done.
Skykat: Oh please, you geek! I've seen tastier lemons grow on bushes! Haven't you ever heard of smut?
Donny: Lemons grow on trees, you moron!
Skykat:(singing) Your lemons suck! I'd rather suck a lemon than read your sucky lemon! Your lemons suck!
Donny: Let's see you do better!
Skykat: Fine! I've got the next lemon!
To the readers, I had no intention of including Itachi but Donny likes a little adventure so I'm putting him in. My plot is still there, but there will be some added stuff to give the story a more adventurous tone. So, essentially, I'll be rewriting the story.
Thank you for your reviews. Be sure to let us (Especially Donny) know how you feel about the story so far, and remember we are always open to suggestions. Chapter 3 will show more of the change in the plot.