Where have you been

Where have you been? (Chapter 5)

Chapter 5

"What was your dream about?"

I asked as she had finally calmed down, she was still shivering lightly and was still quite tensed, but her breathing had relaxed so I took it as a signed she would be able to tell me what was wrong.

"W-What dream are you talking about, Sasuke?"

"Don't think I'm stupid enough to fall for that. You know what I'm talking about, Sakura"

"I-It was just a nightmare…"

"If it was just a nightmare then why don't you tell me about it I want to know what worries you these days"

I saw her gaze turning from my face to my shoulder where my cursed seal used to be, so she was planning to change the subject, huh? Well she couldn't fool me with something like that.

"Don't start about that yes it's gone I know I'll tell the story later I want to hear about you dream, 'cause it seems to me that it's not just a dream… but more like a memory…"

Her face immediately turned to my face again her eyes were wide with amazement or shock, was she scared of me to find out about something?

"W-Well… th-three years a-after you left a man broke into my apartment I was about to go to bed when he stood right behind me, h-he forced me t-to tell him where you were… he was holding a kunai against my throat and I-I couldn't do anything t-to get away…"

I stared at her in disbelief she had gone through something like that because of me.

"wh-what did he do to you?"

Yes you heard it correctly the 'Great Uchiha Sasuke' 'the only survivor of the Uchiha clan' stuttered.

"When I told him you weren't in town he said I was lying and he put the kunai closer to my throat while he commanded me to tell him where you were I kept telling him you weren't here. But after several times he still didn't believe me and was getting impatient, h-he-he-he first started to beat me and th-then he used a jutsu like the Mangekyou Sharingan-…"

I stopped her:

"How do you know about the Mangekyou Sharingan?"

And that's when she accidentally told me who it had been breaking into her room and when I knew the reason why she hadn't called the man by his actual name:

"Sasuke, I know what the Mangekyou Sharingan is. I've been confronted with Itachi before. I always do research before I go on a mission if I know who I might be up against…"

"You said before huh? So it was Itachi breaking into your room!?"

I was loosing control, that jerk had dared to get close to Sakura, he had touched her! And even worse he had hurt her and had used his Sharingan on her.and only she knew what he had done to her there and I wonder if she would dare to tell anyone cause I could guess what it would be.

"Please, Sasuke calm down."

Sakura was getting scared my Sharingan was activated and I was absolutely boiling of anger. If Itachi had still lived I would have made him suffer so badly and long that he would wish that I would finally put him out of his suffering. I was completely freaking out.

So was Sakura but in a different manner she was terrified she was crying she was continuously saying my name asking for me to come back.

"Sasuke, please! It's fine he didn't hurt me badly I can care for myself these days and he's already dead remember? You already killed him? Please become your normal self again?! I'm just annoying remember nothing to get all worked up about…"

That last sentence woke me up, how could she still think I thought of her as annoying? Didn't I show her already that I thought different now? That she had never been annoying but that I was the one drawing the wrong conclusions? My eyes returned to normal, my body relaxed and my breathing was calm and steady.

"you've never been annoying, Sakura, I thought you would know by now… I'm sorry I freaked out b-but I can't bear the thought of him touching you hurting you and…"

I waited for a moment not knowing if I should say it since she hadn't told me maybe it would be to personal. Finally I added not even louder than a whisper:

"r-raping you… even if it's only an illusion…"

Sakura's eyes were filling with tears again as she fell with her face into my chest crying out.

"I-It felt s-so real… over and over again i-it seemed like days b-but it was only seconds…."

I slowly slid my arms around her petite figure she seemed like a young helpless girl crying like this, so small and vulnerable.

"sshhh it's all over now you are safe here he won't ever come back and if anyone dares to try and hurt you again I will be there to protect you…"

She lay in my arms and I just now noticed that she was lying right on top of me with nothing but a shirt and her panties to cover her body. Then I realized it, normally I wouldn't even have noticed if she was even covered she was just Sakura but now I felt a strange feeling in my belly she was more than 'just' Sakura, she was the girl I loved… but I couldn't just tell her… after all those years her feelings would probably have disappeared I was only a friend to her by that time and that was all I'd ever be…