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things you should know:

1.i love to torture these characters. : )

2. italics is for thoughts

3. as always, i own naruto

4.as always, i lied about number 3

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This Pain

Chapter 5

Sasuke POV

What to do? If I say hello she'll be all over me quicker than I can say "predator". So…the only thing to do is to…

"Do I know you?" I asked the redhead coldly.

"Sasuke! It's me, Karin! How could you forget?"

That was the problem, I couldn't forget, not with the way she tried to 'ravage me like crazy' every damn night. But a guy could dream, right?

"I don't know any Karins. Get off of me." I growled at Karin, who was now clutching my arm the way a child might clutch a long-lost teddy bear.

For a moment, her face was a picture of hurt, but she quickly covered it and released me.

"Fine. If that's how it is." And she turned to leave, but not before I caught a gleam in her eyes.

Hn. I guess I'm not rid of that problem yet.

Sakura POV

A busty woman in a short kimono and way too much makeup answered the door to the Uber Lovers brothel. She gave me an apprehensive look and asked me what kind of 'service' I would like today. My stoic mask only barely concealed my insane twitching.

"Aah…no, I'm here for work." I forced myself to say. The attendant was clearly relieved.

"Follow me."

As we walked through the building I asked her, "When I showed up you thought I was here for the… services. Does that mean you 'serve' women too?"

She cast me a glance. "Only sometimes. Our motto is to serve every customer with the best we have to offer."

With that we arrived at a great screen door, which the attendant opened for me. In the room sat a great lady. Elegant, but old, and you could see how she tried to cover her age with face paint.

"Rina tells me you're here for work."

"Hai."

The regal woman gave me an indifferent once-over. "You'll do. Come back tomorrow at four to begin."

As I turned to leave she stopped me. "Also. No boyfriends are allowed here."

End POV

Sasuke gave the room a glance-over, and relented there wasn't anything left to do. He already unpacked the bags and straightened things here and there. He flopped onto his bed. What now? I have to wait until Sakura gets back… He pulled out an Itcha Itcha book that fell out of his bag as he was unpacking. He studied the cover. Probably Kakashi or Naruto slipped it in his bag as a joke. Couldn't hurt… Just as he was about to crack it open, it hit him. She had no idea which hotel to stay in, and neither of them thought to meet up at a place and time.

Giving a small huff, he figured he'd better go look for her.

Sakura, after leaving Uber Lovers, had reached the same conclusion. Dammit. I feel like a babysitter, she thought, checking in every building she passed for signs of Sasuke.

-But of course, kami-sama hates Sakura too much to make it easy-

Once she walked into a bar. The drunken men leered at her and pulled her in, promising her a "good time". She got out of that one by punching the men's lights out and running away before the bar's owner caught her.

Then, as she approached a clothing store, she was practically kidnapped by the sales associate and forced into wearing revealing clothes and high heels. She escaped yet again by using a replacement jutsu on a potted plant located out side the store as the associate went to get more 'fashionable clothes'.

A few more mishaps followed these, and by the time Sakura reached the Town Square she had earned the title "escape artist" about ten times over.

And this is dear reader, how Sasuke found her, as he reached the town square.

Panting and sweating lightly, dressed in a form fitting dress that only barely reached mid thigh, had a plunging neckline and a strapped back, with high-heeled boots.

Poor Sasuke. He could only stare as the forgotten Itcha Itcha book sprang to mind. Funny how that works.

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