Chapter 6: The Face I Really See

"What the fuck did you just say?" Sasuke hissed, his eyes burning with fury. The dark aura that usually surrounded him now engulfed him with all the anger burning inside of him.

Sakura winced at the sight. Sasuke's usual pitch black eyes weren't just black anymore they flickered red around the edges. His fists were clenched so hard that it looked like it should have hurt and his face which never showed emotion was twisted in an unbelievably powerful rage.

She wanted to turn and run but she knew if she did her death would just be worse. She stood there waiting for her fate to be sealed; she wasn't going to give Sasuke the satisfaction of seeing her scared. Even if inside she knew damn well she was scared out of her mind.

"I.Asked.You.A.Question." Sasuke said through gritted teeth as he stepped forward closer to Sakura. She fought the great urge to step back but she wasn't going to get intimidated.

Sakura saw the fury in Sasuke face only get more intense as she ignored him and his questions.

"ANSWER ME!" Sasuke roared lunging forward at her so fast he had her pinned down before she could even blink. He kneeled over her like before but instead one of his hands had both of her wrists and his other hand was on her throat clenching it tightly.

"This is your last time to take it back before I kill you." Sasuke growled though clenched teeth squeezing her neck tighter and tighter in his anger. Sakura looked up at Sasuke's furious face and instead of being scared by his intense anger she was happy.

She had found him, she had stood up to him, and fought him. Things she never thought she would be able to do. She looked up again and his face didn't look scary at all instead she saw his face when they had good times three years ago, she saw his smiling face the couple of times he had smiled at her.

She felt his grip tighten again and instead of wincing she smiled up at him. He looked shocked for a second but only a second. She looked up again and used the breath she had to breathe out…

"Sasuke, you don't scare me anymore."

Sasuke's grip loosened up a little and he looked down at her his face spotless of any emotion. But Sakura could swear she saw a flicker of amusement in his eyes, but it was dark, and there was no way he could be amused. If anything he should be furious and finishing her off by now.

Sasuke didn't say a word, he closed his eyes like he was concentrating, that's when Sakura could feel and hear it. He was muttering a quick jutsu and moving his fingers swiftly above her wrists. He finished his muttering and when he did she could feel tightening on her wrists and she realized he had used his chakra and jutsu to make a bind on her wrists.

Still though she was not scared maybe nervous and anxious but not scared. That surprised her that she still didn't get scared of him.

He let go of her wrists and sat up on his knees staring down at her picking up his kunai again. Tossing it from hand to hand menacingly fast like he was itching to stab it into her, when Sakura looked up at him again she could tell he was amused.

While he tossed it back and forth slowing down he snatched it out of the air and gave her cruel smile that made her shudder.

"Are you sure about that?" Sasuke asked quietly with a tone of malicious entertainment.

Sakura wriggled trying to discretely figure out if she could slip out of the binds. That wasn't going to work. She wasn't scared but having her wrists bound above her head so she was vulnerable to him it was just kind of uncomfortable.

"Yes, you look happy about my pain, what are you a fucking sadist?" Sakura asked sarcastically rolling her eyes.

Sasuke chuckled darkly, "maybe," he said with a shrug. He tightened his knees so they were digging into her sides like he was trying to crush her. She winced but wincing didn't mean she was scared just that she was in pain.

He brought the kunai that was in his hand to her stomach and began tracing hard lines down and around her stomach. She held her breath waiting for him to puncture her skin and begin the torture. But he didn't, he simply kept dragging it along her stomach, ribs, and collar bone applying pressure to make her believe that at any moment it would just dig into her.

Sakura wasn't going to admit it, but she would rather just be stabbed and dead than have this, this was just nerve racking. As she thought about how she'd rather be dead than writhing against his damn kunai wishing it was over, it was.

He had stopped. She couldn't believe it, had he read her mind? She looked up at him and all she saw was his beautiful black hair.

"Did you know Sakura," he hissed into her ear startling her, "that some of the skin on your neck is thin and easy to puncture. It has a blood vessel under that thin skin and you can die after it's punctured in less than ten minutes? And it can be punctured by something as simple as someone's teeth if they bite hard enough? But it's a slow, painful, long process and the person causing the death has to like the taste of blood. Do you think I like the taste of blood Sakura?"

Before she could answer she felt his cold lips pressed behind her ear. She gasped and thrashed against his touch, no matter how much liked it she couldn't let him know that. She tried to yank her neck and face away from his touch, but having both her hands tied made it impossible. He continued to press his lips roughly into her soft neck skin, traveling from her ear to below her jaw line along her juggler. He traveled back up to her ear and she felt his teeth go onto the soft skin behind her ear, she squeezed her eyes waiting for the pain to start.