A.N: Hello again!!! Listening to Michael Jacksons' Billy Jean while I type this chapter for no perticular reason. Last night I saw a new episode of Blood Plus and I remebered that song that Diva would sing and I thought, "I really wish I could download that song". And then I thought, "Why not?". So I looked it up on Rocket (my downloading sight) and I found it! I love this song, and Diva's got the most beautiful voice (even though she's an evil bitch!). Any way I'm listening to an asortment of songs, but one of them is Blood plus Diva. That's what I looked up to find it and that's what it labled itself, so I guess thats what it's called. Any who, here's chapter six!!!

Chapter Six

Revelations

Sakura shot awake, then immediately regretted it as pain snapped at her and she slowly lowered herself back down on her comforter.

'Wait, my comforter?' she thought in disbelieve.

Sure enough, looking around she saw that she was back in her suite. She tried to sit up again, slowly this time, as she tried to recall the night before. Everything was a bit fuzzy, and she wondered if it had all been a dream.

Grabbing her head in pain, she moaned as everything suddenly came rushing back to her.

'That's right, me getting up, finding the hidden trap door, and then Sasuke was…' she shivered as she remembered the creature she has seen last night.

But then her paled cheeks quickly turned rosy when she remembered him kissing her so passionately, not to mention she had kissed him back.

Jumping out of bed, ignoring the pain she felt shooting from her feet she ran to her closet grabbing the first thing she saw which was just a simple red and white dress that she would wear whenever her mother wasn't around.

After making her self look presentable, she quickly made her way down the main staircase. It was almost 10 in the morning so everyone was already up.

Looking around she saw Naruto and Hinata talking of to the side of the grand hall. Hinata was blushing and giggling softly while Naruto was laughing as he told her what appeared to be a very entertaining story.

Sakura swiftly made her way toward them and as she neared, they both spotted her and greeted her with smiles.

"Sakura-chan, your finally up! I thought you had died or something, but Hinata-chan assured me that you were just sleeping." Naruto said as he grinned showing off his gleaming teeth.

"I-I'm sorry I d-didn't wake you up S-Sakura-chan, but you l-looked so tired I thought I should l-let you sleep." Hinata said as she lifted her hand up to her mouth still blushing, but looking concerned for Sakura as well.

"Oh, don't worry Hinata-chan, I needed the extra sleep. I didn't get much sleep last night so…" Sakura trailed off as she again remembered the events last night and her brows furrowed in confusion.

"Hey Sakura-chan, you ok? You still look pretty tired, maybe you should go back and sleep some more." Naruto said smiling in worry.

"Oh, no Naruto-chan. It's ok, I just… hey do you know where I can find Sasuke?" Sakura asked.

"Hmmm? Well last time we saw the teme he was looking after his mustang, Manda. I offered to help him, considering it's actually my job to look after all the horses, but the bastard just glared at me and told me to get lost!" Naruto said while he crossed his arms looking annoyed, but it wasn't directed at either of them.

"Oh, thanks." Sakura said as she hurried off to the stables hoping she wouldn't miss him.

Naruto and Hinata stared after her looking confused but Naruto just laughed, smiled and shrugged it off. He took Hinata's arm, mentioning something about ramen and led her to the kitchen.

However Hinata turned back around still staring after Sakura in worry. She couldn't help but think something was wrong with her.

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Sakura slowed down as she reached the stables attempting to catch her breath. As she walked in bits of hay crunched beneath her feet and she looked around hoping to spot Sasuke.

The stables were quite huge and they held all of the kingdoms finest steeds. Sakura loved horses and often would go out riding with her father, of course only when her mother was preoccupied.

Looking at all the beautiful horses, she reminisced the old times wishing so much she could go riding again. Finally coming to a stall that was marked with the Uchiha symbol, she saw a magnificently handsome black mustang. It must have been at least seventeen hands tall (A.N: FYI- Horses are measured in hands not feet. I know weird, but that just how it is. Also hands and feet are not the same measurements, so no, this horse is not seventeen feet tall!) and its coat gleamed in the stall lighting.

Reaching over the stall she gently stoked the beautiful beast. It's mane was soft as the strands glided gracefully over her fingers. The mustang leaned into her touch and she smiled as it attempted to search her for food. She giggled as it sniffed her hands and she stroked it's soft nose.

"Careful, he bites." she heard a monotone voice say behind her.

Turning around she relaxed a breath she had been holding when she saw it was Sasuke holding a curry brush and what appeared to be an apple. She gave him a small smile as she continued to stoke the horse.

"Is he yours?" she asked softly.

Sasuke walked slowly toward her dropping the curry comb in a bucket filled with other different brushes. He stood next to her and she jumped slightly when he whipped out a small pocket knife. She pursed her lips when she saw him smirk at her reaction as he began to cut the apple into slices, feeding them to the steed.

"His name is Manda." he said still feeding the horse. Sakura smiled and looked back up at the horse who now she knew was named Manda.

She was startled a little when Sasuke held a slice of apple out to her and she blushed as she murmured a thank you and popped the apple into her mouth. Smiling as she chewed the sweet fruit.

She got confused when she spotted Sasuke lightly glaring at her, and she turned to look at him raising a delicate eyebrow in question.

"You were supposed to feed it to the horse stupid." he said as he cut another slice and fed it to Manda.

Sakura felt herself growing warm in the face as she tried to stifle the blush that was creeping it's way up her cheeks. However she quickly narrowed her eyes at him.

"Well excuse me, you didn't exactly specify what I was supposed to do with the apple, so I just ate it ok!" She said mocking his expression.

Sasuke turned back to the horse, his mouth quirked in one corner of his mouth. Sakura then resolved that she may as well came to ask him what she came here to inquirer.

"Um… Sasuke…" she said nervously.

He turned to look at her this time and Sakura inwardly cursed. 'Great how am I supposed to ask him now that he's looking at me with those mesmerizing deep eyes!' she though, but continued regardless.

"Uh, well… what exactly happened last night… in that dungeon?" she asked quietly.

Sasuke's expression quickly turned blank as he turned away from her. Sakura felt the comfortable atmosphere that she had felt earlier quickly change and she cursed herself, starting to think maybe she shouldn't have said anything at all.

"It shouldn't have happened." he said, his voice held no emotion in it, yet Sakura was still surprised he had said anything at all.

"You shouldn't have been up at that hour, and I wasn't myself…" he trailed off.

Sakura's eyes widened when she realized that he was trying, in his own way, to apologize for what he had done last night. She attentively reached out to sooth him, lightly touching his shoulder. However he shrinked away from her touch and turned further way from her.

"I guess I brought it on myself, I shouldn't even have been there and I guess my curiosity got the better of me." Sakura said trying to restore the warmth she had felt earlier.

Sasuke turned toward her then reached around her grabbing the saddle that had been strung across the side of the stall. Lifting it off the wall he opened Manda's door and walked into the small stall.

Sakura felt the tension that she had felt earlier disappear as he laid the saddle over Manda's back and then leaned down to fasten and tighten the girth.

"Where are you going?" she asked as he adjusted the stirrups.

"Out riding, there's nothing to do around here anyway." he said as he slipped the bit into Manda's mouth and adjusted the bridle straps.

"Oh! Can I go with you, it seems like ages since I've last been on a horse!" Sakura said clasping her hands together pleadingly.

Sasuke surveyed her expression as if searching for something. His gaze lightened a little as he grabbed the reins and led Manda out of the stall. Sakura backed up as he stopped Manda in the walkway, and her expression went to surprise when he handed her the reins.

"Manda will be an easier ride, I'll take Gambuta." he said as he walked a little ways down the stalls, stopping at a dark brown chestnut.

"Gambuta?" she asked. She was steadily getting excited that Sasuke was going to let her come with him and even more so shocked.

Sasuke quickly saddled up the said horse and led him out of it's stall heading towards her.

"The dobe's horse, Gambuta can be temperamental with strangers so you'll have a smoother ride with Manda." he said as he loosely tied Gambuta to a wooden beam.

Turning toward her he motioned for Manda's reins and she quickly handed them over. He tied the reins to the same beam as Gambuta then walked into the tack room a little ways down from the walkway. Sakura waited patiently for him as she stroked Manda's sleek coat.

Sasuke emerged face void of emotion with a pair of riding pants and a plain small t-shirt.

"Change into these, there are boots in the tack room so put some on before you come out." he said handing the clothes to her.

Sakura took them and quickly headed toward the tack room to change, hoping he hadn't seen her blush.

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As he waited for her to come out he started to rack his brain for reasons as to why he was doing this. Not only was she Itachi's fiancé, but she was bound to ask questions about last night. It's not like she would believe him anyway, but a small part of him felt like he owed her an explanation.

He could still remember the smoothness of her skin, and the way her lips felt against his. But then he also remembered the look of fear in her eyes, and how she had desperately tried to get away. He had hurt her physically and probably mentally. Then again who wouldn't be, he knew that he had been fearful looking and he should have gotten used to the crippling terrified look that he had seen so many times before.

But in her eyes, it was heartbreaking to see her so scared, so frightened. He was so confused by these unknown feelings he was having and Sasuke knew that they were being caused by that girl.

That girl with crème smooth skin that he wanted to touch, with long pink luscious hair that he wanted to run his fingers through, and those lips that looked so inviting, how he wanted to kiss her a thousand different ways.

'No, stop. She'll just get hurt, I cant fall for her now especially since Itachi…'

Sasuke clenched his fist in anger for his brother. Always getting what he wanted and what he didn't deserve. That was probably part of the reason he was taking her riding with him. Itachi had pretty much nothing to do today, and Sasuke didn't like the fact of leaving Sakura here with the pervert.

The other reason he was taking her with him? He didn't want to think about it, but he liked her company. She had a warmth about her that made one want to be near her.

Sasuke was interrupted from his musings when he saw Sakura emerge from the tack room wearing the riding pants and the t-shirt that fit her curves perfectly. Her riding boots were black and the reached just below her knees and she had tied her long pink hair back into a long braid.

Sasuke felt his lower regions tighten and he inwardly cursed as he quickly turned away from her and mounted Gambuta.

Looking to the right he saw her smile as she jumped and mounted Manda quite skillfully considering how big and tall he was. Leading them out of the stables and into the hot sunny air he slowed his trot so she could catch up with him. Sakura expertly held the reins and smiled as she came up beside him obviously happy to be riding again.

But her expression quickly turned nervous and serious as she gently kicked Manda into a fast walk.

"Um… Sasuke, I was wondering if you could tell me what exactly… well… what I saw last night?" she said looking at him earnestly.

Sasuke inwardly sighed as they continued their path up the trail that led to the gorge leading away from the castle.

'Here we go..' he sighed.

A.N: So yeah, that's chapter six. Just so everyone knows I hope for there to be a lemon next chapter!! Just a little heads up. Next chapter we will discover how Sasuke came to be what he is and what the hell is going on!! Anyway, as always thank you for your support and REVIEW!!!