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Cool bursts of October chill fell upon the not so small and obviously not so ordinary city of Konoha as the sun slowly made its exit. Autumn was in the air and even the oldest of the cities members grudgingly enjoyed the festive air that its chill brought upon the town. Halloween décor filled window's and counter tops and in the midst of this happy October fall was one stoic ninja barely tolerating his loud mouthed friend.
"Hey it's almost Halloween!" Naruto exclaimed ecstatically whilst rifling through Sasuke's calendar.
"No homo it's Christmas." Sasuke retorted rolling his eyes.
"What did you say bastard?"
"What are you deaf now too?"
"I'm gonna-!" Naruto gagged, choking on his words. Sasuke couldn't resist, Naruto just made it way too easy.
"What? Forget how to swallow?"
"Gah!" Naruto yelled throwing up his hands in frustration.
"Why am I even still your friend?"
Sasuke shrugged going into the kitchen grabbing three tomatoes and a small bottle of water.
"Besides you're more of a homo than I am, homo. At least I date and Karin doesn't count. Dating her would be like screwing a cow."
Sasuke snorted, if he had taken the time to explain to Naruto that he never dated Karin and that she was only trying to tag along, Naruto would some how make that into a case proving his point of Sasuke's sexuality. Sasuke decided that at this point silence was his best option. That and it would drive the Dobe crazy. Sliding his feet into his boots and making his way out the door into the crisp October air, Sasuke couldn't help a smirk from finding its way across his lips.
"Hey! Hey, Teme! Where you going man?"
"Out."
"The games about to start!" Naruto exclaimed pointing at Sasuke's Plasma.
"Whatever." He needed some peace and quiet and as long as he had Naruto around he wouldn't get it anytime soon.
"You're gonna miss out teme!"
"Hn." And with that Sasuke slammed the door in Naruto's face.
He drank in the sweet pungent scent of the rich aroma that came from burning wood smoke, intoxicated and addicted to its taste in his throat. Unsurprisingly he ended up back at the Academy not really minding since it was almost empty of everyone except for the night guardsman.
Sasuke stretched out on one of the seats in his classroom, looking out the window, quietly brooding over a girl with cotton pink hair and eyes that were so painfully innocent that they left him breathless.
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Sakura had spent a better part of an hour tearing through her normally clean room in search of something that she "should have been more vigilant in keeping track of!"
She grumbled, berating herself over her own stupidity, as she tried for her pack once more. Turning it inside out she grimaced as grungy bits of grayish black lint dug into her nails.
Lose leaf notes slid out of her binder in a flurry as the folder fell out of her bag along with half a bottle of used strawberry lip gloss that she had borrowed from Ino last week (she really should have given that back to her by now) pencils, three unused shuriken, mascara, her house keys, two dull kunai's in great need of a polish, pens, eyeliner loose change, seven senbon still in their case, and just about everything else that she really didn't need right now landed on her desk or rolled onto her floor-all except for her journal!
She threw her pack onto the floor in frustration and gave it a kick for good measure.
"Hey Sakura-Whoa! What happened? It's like your closet was infiltrated by an enemy nin and it exploded in defense! Ma's going to flip when she sees this mess!" Akira exclaimed.
Akira had the same pale complexion as Mitsuko and Sakura but that's where their similarities stopped. She was the tallest of the three, reaching six feet exactly in height with a lean but slightly muscular build. She had pale blonde hair, layered in the front coming down just above her chin, while the back was cropped and leaned slightly towards the shaggy side (Think of Victoria Beckham's hairstyle), almond shaped light, watery, grass green eyes with flecks of brown. She was dressed in what she called her "civilian uniform," clothes which she wore when she wasn't on a mission (A black tank top, midnight black skinny jeans tucked into worn boots.) To Sakura, Akira's "Civilian Clothes" didn't look much different from her ANBU uniform but she supposed that was because Akira had to live in the shadows for her job and naturally incorporated that into her "real life" wardrobe.
"No, it looks more as if her closet had taken a mild sedative and was suffering adverse effects." Mitsuko disagreed warmly with a loving but exasperated smile on her face.
Mitsuko was wearing her lab coat on top of a rich yellow sundress with giant red sunflower prints and was barefooted except for a tiny rhinestone toe ring on her second toe. She was about 5'4 and the shortest of the three. She had waist length burgundy locks, like their father, which where straight but started to loosely curl towards the bottom, and round honey brown eyes with small flecks of green and ringed with thick lashes, which when half lidded, gave her a look of dreamy allure and mystery, causing many a men to fall for her before she had found her husband.
"Well you're the doctor." Akira muttered laughingly.
"And you're supposed to be the "genius" in the family." Mitsuko teased.
Sakura jumped at the sound of her sisters voices and spun around in relief. Akira stood in the middle of her room, hands on her hips while Mitsuko stood by the door, her stomach as round as a beach ball, leaning lazily against the frame.
"Akira! Mitsuko!" She shouted with glee. Running towards her sisters she gave them both long heartfelt hugs. As annoying as they were she had missed them horribly when they had moved out.
She pulled away and stared at her sister as inspiration struck.
Akira took in Sakura's expression and gave a second look at the now desecrated room and shook her head, eyes widening.
"Nuh uh NO WAY! I am not helping you clean this mess!"
Mitsuko signed and waved her index finger from side to side like a human metronome.
"If you had cleaned up the little messes, Sakura, you wouldn't need our help cleaning up a big one."
"No! Not that! Jeez, you guys are just like Ma!" Sakura huffed and barely stopped herself from stomping her foot in frustration.
"Yeah cause that would have been real mature."
Ignoring the voice, she told her sisters about her lost journal and asked if they had seen it.
Mitsuko pushed herself away from the door with much effort seeing as how large she had become and as graceful as her sister had once been even Sakura had to admit Mitsuko now more or less waddled as she entered her room.
"You lost your diary?" She asked disapprovingly. "Sakura do you realize the folly of your mistake? Your medicinal notes were in that journal! Do you know what it will mean if enemies get their hands on it? Some of the formulas were straight from Lady Tsunadae's personal medical archives only to be viewed by you!"
Sakura ducked her head in chagrin and mumbled, "When you put it that way it sounds a lot worse."
"That's because it is worse!" Mitsuko retorted.
"Ok, ok calm down you guys. Sakura where was the last place you think you had it?"
"I don't know! I thought I had it in my pack but it wasn't-" Sakura paused. Thinking back she realized she had it out during Uchiha Sensei's class but had hastily put it away not checking to make sure if she had fully stuffed it into her bag.
"Oh man!" She wailed.
"What?" Akira asked.
"I think I know where it is!" Sakura exclaimed.
"You do?" Mitsuko asked.
"That's great!" Akira stated.
"I left it at school!" She wailed.
"…"
"…"
"It's still light out, just hurry up and ask the security guard to let you in. You'll probably be able to make it to dinner." Akira stated matter-of-factly.
"Cool that sounds great."
"Just make sure you make it in time for dinner okay?" Mitsuko stressed.
"Why? What's happening at dinner?"
"My hubby's coming!" Mitsuko squealed girlishly.
Sakura rolled her eyes. Her sister The Medic ladies and gentlemen.
"Mitsuko I see Kakashi Sensei almost everyday. He is one of my teachers you know."
Mitsuko's development with the ever reclusive Kakashi was interesting to say the least. Although she was smart, Mitsuko was also beautiful in an almost painful way. Never vain but clear and precise on whom she allowed herself to fall for, she had thought herself above men, and in all honesty most of them had disgusted her. But Kakashi was different. He needed her in a way that she couldn't explain. Courting was surprisingly hard. For Mitsuko was dedicated in marrying the man and putting a firm foot atop of his bachelor ways while Kakashi on the other hand tried vehemently to deny this new way of living. Unfortunately he had yet to learn the level of stubbornness in the Haruno women.
Kakashi had been brought in half dead and unconscious, leaving a trail of crimson along the clean corridors of the hospital lobby. After a two hour procedure of removing a deadly poison from his system, she had been the first person Kakashi had seen when opening his eyes, blinking blearily awake from the anesthesia. For a few seconds he speculated that she was the angel of death come to bring him out of his eternal loneliness, seeing as how she was bent forward in such a way with the lamp behind her haloing her burgundy locks. She had taken him out of his loneliness, just in a completely different way.
Five months was all it took for Mitsuko to woo the reluctant Kakashi into asking for her hand in marriage, to the surprise of almost everyone involved. Never had the citizens of Konoha expected to see the day where the proud bachelor would happily give up his freedom for the life of diapers and station wagons. Albeit he would have been two hours late to their wedding if only Mitsuko hadn't tricked him with the wrong time. And of course she had yet to find a way for him to stop reading his damnable orange books.
Mitsuko lowered her voice and whispered conspiringly, "Akira's also bringing a date."
Now that was news. Akira had brief flings of course but they usually never lasted more than a few days let alone weeks due to her job. Assassins never did have happy endings, only the promises of death. So her actually bringing someone home must have meant that they were pretty serious indeed.
"Who?" Sakura gushed reveling in the gossip.
Mitsuko leaned closer and opened her mouth until Akira pressed her hand against it effectively cutting off her sister before she let anything else slip.
"Shouldn't you be going now to get your journal?" She growled.
"Hey! You can't just man handle a pregnant woman!" Sakura retorted hotly.
Mitsuko nodded her head in indignant agreement.
"I'm not man handling her, just effectively shutting her big gossiping yap."
Mitsuko's eyes narrowed in anger before she stomped on Akira's foot. Akira ignored her, seeing as how Mitsuko was barefooted where she had on boots.
"And before you ask he's not a date we're not even in a relationship. He's just a close friend who's had a rough past and we ran into each other again during one of my missions. I invited him back to Konoha for a nice homemade meal. That's all. End of discussion."
Mitsuko rolled her eyes as Sakura's brows rose in disbelief.
"Ri-ght…" Sakura teased.
She'd really did have to get going if she wanted to make it back before dinner to spy on her sister's "friend." Grabbing her forehead protector Sakura opened her window stepping out onto the balcony that ran around the house.
"I know your obviously lying but I'm late. Don't think this is over older sister. I'll be back! Tell Ma where I'm going okay?"
"Okay." Akira muttered.
Mitsuko just waved, her mouth still covered by Akira's calloused palm.
Sakura jumped off her balcony and landed on the neighbors' roof. Pulling her arms behind her for speed, She ran three steps before she channeled a minimum amount of chakra into her legs, coating the muscles with a green energy, giving them an elastic texture and bounced off the roof's shingles rising into the air before gravity pulled her back down for another quick chakra filled jump. She loved chakra jumps. Aside from it being a quicker way to get around, it felt like flying. Wind in her face and the sky stretching for miles and miles, this was her ecstasy.
All too soon her journey abruptly ended as she landed in the front courtyard a few feet away from the guard station. Knocking on the little side panel window she waited for the familiar aged face of the guardsman. Jehu had been Guardsman since Akira's time as student. He knew every single one of the sisters and Sakura secretly knew she was his favorite because she was the youngest. He had always called her "Little Haruno" an endearing term more than an offensive one, really.
"Why Little Haruno! What are you doing here at this time of hour?" Jehu asked in surprise.
"Hi Guardsman Jehu! I'm really sorry but do you think I can borrow the key for Sensei Uchiha's classroom? I left a very important notebook and I really need it." She finished lamely.
Jehu seemed to be in deep thought and then he sighed.
"Alright Little Haruno but don't let anyone catch you alright? You know I'm not aloud to let anyone in after hours. Just slip the key back into the slot alright?"
"Thanks, will do!" Sakura said brightly grabbing the key from Jehu's hand and made her way into the building. The hallways were empty and eerily quiet. Gone was the laughter and gossip during the day and Sakura felt nostalgic of the noise and activity and just the general lack of people.
She quickly unlocked and slid open Sasuke's door closing it shut behind her. It was becoming darker but there was enough light to search for her journal. She looked around her seat but there was nothing there.
"I know I dropped it here. I just had to. It would have stood out to much in the forest for no one else to notice…"
She caught a splash of pink in her peripheral vision and breathed a sigh of relief as she realized it was her journal. Just as she was reaching for the journal she heard, more than saw, a whisper of movement. Before she could turn around she was slammed roughly against a warm well toned chest (she realized, ironically, that she had been spending much time on this chest today) as cool deadly steel kissed her neck like a lovers caress.
"You know a real Kunoichi would never have let herself get caught." A baritone voice remarked offhandedly.
'Yeah well a real Kunoichi wouldn't have lost a priceless journal either.' Her inner voice replied sarcastically.
Sakura was facing the amphitheater of chairs with her back to one of Sasuke's Kage bunshin's. Sasuke himself was lounged lazily on one of the empty seats towards the left, facing the window.
"Sensei I-"
"Lost my Journal like an idiot and came to look for it?"
"Left behind a personal-NO"
"Did you see my pink journal?"
"My sister's are going to murder me for being late so let's make this quick?"
"Er…uh…" Sakura stammered and felt her face heat with the knowledge that even if it was his Bunshin she could still feel his torso pressed snuggly against her back.
Sasuke smirked in amusement. To her mortification her blush deepened. With a poof his bunshin disappeared and Sakura let out a sigh partly in relief, and a small tiny part that she would only admit to herself, in disappointment.
Forgetting about her journal for the moment she asked timidly, "Sensei?"
"Hn."
She assumed that it was a yes.
"How did you do that? Even if your chakra were masked I would have sensed it from our close proximities. How did I not see you?"
"An illusion."
'Eh?'
"Sir?" She asked in confusion.
"My clan's bloodline limit specializes in the eye. Illusions therefore are not that difficult to interpret into our defensive maneuvers. The move that I had used on you, Haruno, is an illusion, one that tricks the victim into seeing what isn't there and to miss what really is, albeit, even those without a Kekkei Genkai have the ability to learn this technique with a little practice."
With an air of nonchalance he asked, "Would you like me to show you?"
Sakura's eyes lit up in excitement. Unlike Tsunadae Shishou whom she had to beg for extra tutelage, Sasuke Sensei had offered and even though Sakura hadn't known her teacher for very long, she had a feeling that it was a rare occurrence.
"Oh yes! That would be lovely!" She exclaimed excitedly.
Sasuke smirked. He would never admit it, but, he found that Sakura was incredibly endearing when she was excited. He stood from his chair and walked down the steps towards Sakura. Passing her he reached for a piece of chalk and started to sketch a rough drawing of an eye.
"It's all in the eye. One glance, even if it's not directed towards you and you're victims already caught. This technique can be used in both offense and defense." He stated the chalk making small clack, clack, noise's as he continued along the blackboard.
Their lesson continued like this for the next twenty minutes or so with Sasuke explaining to her the basic concepts of the maneuver before he decided that she was ready for a small demonstrative lesson.
Sitting her down on an empty stool he stood in front of her slightly leaning down to her height. Sakura's heart pounded as she looked at Sasuke's perfectly leveled face.
"Your chakra should be gathering around here." He remarked, gently brushing his finger tips next to her temples.
Sakura shivered. Suddenly the idea of Sasuke's tutoring wasn't sounding too good. Actually she felt as if she were going to get in trouble.
But she didn't care.
"Like this?" She asked her voice became low and whispered, her eyes half lidded, as she slowly reached towards his face her finger tips brushing against his cheek before resting gently on his temple.
Suddenly it was so much harder to talk, so much harder to breathe. And her lips, dear god her lips! Those rosy buds he just wanted to devour. The guilt which was dripping down his back like slow turned molasses turned upside down in a jar, won over.
It was with hot and restless ecstasy of emotions that he grasped the back of her head with one hand, long calloused fingers digging into her hair, bringing her head closer towards him as his lips came crashing down with a bruising force. Teeth scrapped her lips, savagely biting down. She gasped in surprise and that gave his tongue an opening between her lips. Her hands ran through his soft hair, skimming the skin at the nape of his neck earning her a growl of appreciation.
He grasped her to him firmly as her body pressed flush against his own. He felt every one of her curves, especially those of her breast as they where pressed warmly against his chest. She clung to him willingly letting him overtake her, a smaller part of her mind worried over her inexperience. But he didn't seem to mind her inexperience as it was overlooked by the utter amount of passion. His hands grabbed her thighs bringing them roughly around his waist. He rubbed the smooth skin of her inner thighs with his hands as he backed her up against the wall. She let out a wanton moan, one that she hadn't even known she possessed, causing her to blush a deep scarlet.
"Sakura?" A distant voice called, but she ignored it, too lost in the throws of passion.
"Sakura?" The persistent voice seemed to have been getting louder.
Suddenly the lovers stiffened. It wasn't her imagination. Someone really was calling her!
Sasuke pulled away from his student in horror.
What had he done?! What the hell was he thinking?!
Sakura recoiled away from Sasuke thinking along the same lines.
"What did I do?! Oh no! That sounded like Akira! Dinner! My journal! Oh!"
"Sakura?"
Sakura's eyes widened and hissed, "My sister!"
She tasted a bitter copper taste in her mouth and pressed her fingers against her swollen lips pulling them away she saw in an almost trance like wonder, drops of red blood, her blood. A flash of green and the redness, along with the cut disappeared just as the doors where thrown open, revealing one breathless and worried Akira.
"Sakura! It's been over an hour! What's taking you so long? Mom's freaking out!"
"I-uh-well-uh-we-uh-"
"I was tutoring Sakura on a new jutsu. I did not know that we only had a limited amount of time to work by." Sasuke replied smoothly.
'Nice save.'
"Oh, Uchiha-san. So the rumors are true, you are teaching here."
"Hn."
"Ok, well did you find the journal? C'mon everyone's waiting. Later Uchiha-san."
Sakura nodded grabbing the journal off the table. She chanced a look towards her Sensei only to shudder at the intense emotions that flitted across his face; lust, anger, self loathing, confusion, before it melted back into his usual stony continence. Luckily Akira was already outside making her way down the hallway.
"Good-bye sensei." She managed to whisper out.
He looked at her sharply.
"This was a mistake. Nothing more."
Sakura felt as if someone had punched her in the gut and ripped out her heart through her mouth. Never had she felt such emotion, such out of this world ecstasy and to hear him say that it was nothing? A mistake!? She wanted to cry but instead she forced her face to become stony as she choked out a clear, cool, and crisp, "Of course" and was satisfied to see the brief flash of surprise from Sasuke before that too was swallowed up by his stony façade.