Blue Ocean Floor-
The scrolls didn't reveal much. Sasuke sighed, leaning back against his chair. The scrolls were his only hope of trying to help Sakura but seeing as most of the Uchiha clan had remained in secrecy Sasuke could only grit his teeth. His father was the one who was supposed to tell him how to do the ceremony, how sex was supposed to work, and of course, the only learning he had gotten was when he was in the room…with Sakura. Sasuke shuttered thinking about Sakura, he could only hope she'd get over herself and comply with the ceremony.
Naruto sat with a smile upon his face, he had been treated to ramen by Kakashi who sat and stared at the blonde. Sasuke was emotionless as always, although after their training session he was grateful for ramen. The two thirteen year olds sat before Kakashi who took out his orange book.
"So…as protocol as your teacher, I'm supposed to inform you of things that I really would not. But as you two both know I have to do this—"
"Kakashi-Sensei shouldn't we wait for Sakura?!" Naruto exclaimed looking around for the pink-haired teammate. Kakashi sighed.
"No…actually she's learning the same thing, but with Kurenai." Kakashi watched Sasuke's face drop, the raven-haired boy looked cautiously as the blonde continued to rant about how Sakura was getting special treatment.
"Dobe….Shut up." Sasuke looked back at Kakashi and noticed the sliver haired man smirk, "What did you want to tell us?"
Kakashi looked back at Sasuke, "Well do you two know anything about sex?"
Sasuke cringed at the past conversation. He spent two hours with Naruto who asked a million questions…how to insert it, how fast, how slow…it went on for hours it felt like. Sasuke had tuned Kakashi and Naruto out, all he needed to know was the basic insertion and movement, he didn't need the pleasuring her part, they wouldn't need pleasure, he had a goal to do.
But as Sasuke looked back he just wondered whether Sakura was told a romantic version rather than the down and dirty parts like Kakashi had gotten into.
Sakura hadn't been able to be away from Tsunade. They had appointments to get through and the seal needed to be monitored. She spent the last five hours in the Hospital trying to get out (for the first time).
As Sakura took a breath of air, she felt as though it was knocked back out of her when she saw him standing at the main hospital gate. His face was tired, his eyes hard, and his jaw clenched.
"How'd you find me?" Sakura asked, she had been avoiding Sasuke for the last week and a half, and she certainly wasn't going suddenly give up avoiding the teen.
"Easy enough. You don't stray too far." Sasuke concluded shoving his hands in his pockets. Sakura sighed.
"I'm not a cat, Sasuke."
His eyes widened, "Never said you were."
"Well I'm not astray, I'm just not going near you." Sakura spat, walking past him.
Sasuke kept pace, "Fair enough. But I have an obligation to you now."
Sakura abruptly stopped, "No. I'm not your obligation. You can go away. Just because this is—just because I'm your problem now doesn't mean you can just uproot my life. Go away."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "You shouldn't be so stubborn. I thought you wouldn't mind—"
Sakura glared at him, "Mind? Wouldn't mind?! What do you think, I'll just jump into your arms, with a smile on my face as though my whole life revolved around you?!"
"You didn't let me—"
"I didn't want this! I didn't want you to do this! Didn't let you? Of course I didn't let you I didn't want you." Sakura turned away from him with tears in her eyes, she didn't want him to see her cry. She still cared about him, sure, but to let him just walk into her life because of an obligation? She began walking.
"Sakura—"
"Just go away."
"Sakura I didn't finish." Sasuke hissed.
Sakura paused, "You can't threaten me, I don't care if you didn't finish, and you're not the boss of me!"
Sasuke ran a hand through his hair, "You're annoying."
Sakura paused and smiled weakly, "Yes, thank you for reminding me."
Sasuke watched Sakura turned and walk away, he had hoped she'd hear him out, he didn't like it when he was ignored, especially by a woman no less.
The moment Sakura reached her apartment she turned noticing Sasuke had followed her home, although he was farther away. In the bottom of her heart, she hoped he followed her home…but she knew he'd never follow her home…but what she carried.
Sakura sighed, turning she noticed the raven-haired man pause leaning against a telephone pole across the way, "You're welcome to have some tea…but nothing more." Sakura opened the door to her apartment and wondered why she'd invite the Uchiha in.
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Twenty minutes of complete silence, Sakura could handle, she'd had longer quiet sessions with Sasuke before this day and she wasn't about to show him that she'd be the first to talk. The only thing making her shift in her seat was his intent stare on her as she drank her tea.
When Sakura finished, Sasuke raised a brow, "Sakura?"
Sakura looked up from her cup and eyed the Uchiha suspiciously, his voice sounded gentle…just like the night he left the village, "What?"
"I want you to hear me out. That means all of it with no interruptions, are we agreed?" Sasuke asked, staring at the pink-haired teen with black eyes. She looked away from him and crossed her arms, as though she was a child.
"Please." Sakura felt her jaw drop. Please wasn't in the Uchiha's vocabulary. She shifted an eye over to him waiting for him to begin.
"As you know, you are baring my child…" Sasuke saw her flinch, "As much as I'd have prefer the situation to go differently, it is what it is. On normal circumstances, you and I would've probably waited a while—" Sasuke noticed the curious look, he felt his face grow hot as a pink tint lit his cheeks, "I-I mean to say, not us specifically together…but just in general….not that you're not…ah, forget it, that's not what I wanted to get into." Sasuke frowned and looked away from the girl who turned to look at the flustered Uchiha.
"The situation you are in….there are certain circumstances to this gestation…" Sasuke noticed the way she'd cringe at words that mentioned her pregnancy, Sasuke sighed, "In normal terms, you're pregnant, and nothing will change that fact now. The ceremony—"
"I will not become part of a ceremony, Sasuke!" Sakura stood with her hands on her hips, "I'm not some doll that gets to be placed on shelf for months!" Sakura's emerald eyes glared down at the Uchiha before her. Sasuke sighed.
"I asked for an agreement to not interrupt. I've heard and felt you're part," Sasuke said rubbing his chest that still had yellow bruises. Sakura noticed and looked away, she felt odd standing up to him like this, but she couldn't give in.
"Please will you sit?"
"NO, if you want to talk, then talk, but I'm not going through a ceremony, I'm not a doll, I'm not going to be anything that cripples my ability to be a Kunoichi, and other woman get pregnant and don't have to do this! The women who do this enjoy the ignorance of a men like you, and they—they're weak or annoying as you'd say!"
Sasuke felt his jaw clench, "Sakura. I'm serious, you've said enough."
"I don't think so! I'm not an Uchiha woman I don't need to go through a ceremony, I'm not weak like the woman who were in your clan!" Sakura shouted.
Sasuke stood slowly, clenching his fists, and when he looked at Sakura he saw the pain she felt in her hardened eyes that were on the brink of tears, "Sakura, I haven't finished."
"Well to bad, that's another thing! I'm not going to sit by and let you talk down to me! I'll say what I want when I want—"
"Sakura—"
"—I'm not going to just—"
"Will you just—"
"—stronger now, and if you think I'll just—"
Sasuke felt his blood boil, "Shut up."
"Tsunade taught me—what?" Sakura felt the anger radiating off the Uchiha and before long she came to her senses and clenched her teeth, "Don't you dare—"
"Don't I dare? Don't you dare, Sa-ku-ra! I'm asking for your time, I'm asking you with patience to not interrupt, I don't care if you're pregnant, I don't care! I'm asking you to listen because your life is on the line, you're being an immature, annoying, spoiled brat like you've always been."
Sakura felt tears well up and she blamed the hormones, but he didn't care about the pregnancy...yet he still saw her like a twelve-year old.
His chest rose and fell angrily, he was containing himself as best he could, but she always managed to get to him, "Now, will you please shut up and sit?"
"Get out."
Sasuke felt his jaw drop, "You won't listen to me, Sakura."
"What's there to listen to? The makings of a ceremony? Tsunade has told you my life is on the line, that's why you care so much, you're heir is going to be from me! It might even have pink-hair! Who knows….but I'm telling you to get out, I'm not twelve, I've grown up, and Sasuke you're someone I care deeply for, but it will be nothing my a feeling, now get out!"
"Sakura…please I just—"
Sakura walked to the door, "Get out, Uchiha, I'm not going through anything, I'm not a weak little girl anymore. Your clan's ceremony is ridiculous, I'm not property, I'm not weak, and I feel bad for your mother."
Sasuke felt his eyes close or else he'd have done something that would've gotten him killed, "You don't know my clan."
"And I never will they are gone, Sasuke, just get out."
Sasuke took a breath in as he walked towards the door, "You also don't know what it feels like to lose everything you had. You don't understand what I go through, you never will, my parents, my father cared about my mother, her safety, his children. That's the Uchiha way, I don't have anything left but Team Kakashi…and—" Sasuke looked down at Sakura's stomach, he swallowed hard, "and the ceremony, is protection to prevent losing everything. But I can't perform it, because it's passed down from father and son—I wasn't old enough for my father to pass anything on to me. He barely even noticed me."
Sakura felt her confidence drop as he came closer. She could see the frown forming on his face and she regretted getting worked up over a ceremony that he couldn't perform. Then again she felt as though she ate a stone, she had spoken back to Sasuke and although she had great pride at the fact, her words were harsh and uncalled for…his clan.
Sasuke walked out and without turning, "When you're ready to lose everything to the seal, Sakura, let me know, I'll give you some pointers, but if you're not I'll be in my apartment waiting for you to get over yourself."
Author's Note: Thanks for reading! (I'm working now, so it'll be sometime before I update...I'm planning to update a lot at once rather than one chapter at a time, so deal I guess.)
Also, I enjoy criticism, it's tough, but I like to hear what people have to say...So yes, the rape is kinda faulted, in how Sasuke was demanded, but that's a live and learn writing moment. (Also it's just awkward to write a rape scene knowing that rape is a serious thing and cannot just be written.)
Thanks for reviewing I enjoy helpful comments.
