Tearing her long pink hair out of the bun, she ran to the servant quarters door. She listened, waiting to see if there are people inside. No noise, Sakura ran into room, looked around and there was her old clothes. She changed quickly throwing the beautiful robe to the ground, when she threw it she noticed a pair of old scissors on a table nearby.
Sakura
"Search the kingdom, Find Sakura!!" Storming over to his throne, swallowing the overflowing amount of tears.
"My lord we found something!" Madara's head snapped up, he noticed what was in the guard's hand.
"It's…It's her…ha-..hair" Sakura's long pastel pink hair was being held in the guard's hand, she had cut her hair. Images of Sakura and her beautiful long hair flowing around filled his mind, her once silky, long hair would now be short and crudely cut.
"Leave." He barked loudly, the guards backed up hesitantly.
"B-but my Lord-"
"LEAVE!!" he screamed at the guards who scurried out of the throne room, he slammed his hand into the glass breaking it beneath his hand. No blood came out, and no wound followed, only the pain of losing Sakura again.
Sakura
My lungs felt like they were on fire, my breath coming out in short gasps. I reached back to tie my hair to only remember I had cut it not 20 minutes ago. I retied the fabric covering my hair, I heard horses passing by. I ran into the woods, I was running down a hill, moving around the bamboo trees. I looked behind to see if I was being followed and I crashed into something. I tumbled down the hill and landed into the valley's river, I sat up quickly rubbing my back.
"Hey what's your prob-?" Looking at the person I crashed into clearly, his skin a pale peach, his eyes, onyx, his hair, black and wild. His earlier expression of anger froze and softly turned into an expression of kindness.
"What's your name?" The question burst out of my mouth, he smiled but, it was only for a fraction of a second.
"My name is Sasuke, and yours?" I could feel my heart beating fast and my head felt dizzy.
"Sakura, Sakura Haruno, we've meet before, I think, right?" I felt this burning in my chest, this was the man Ino had told me about, and my past life, wanted him.
"Yes, we have, anyways come to my house so you can change out of your wet clothes." He stood his clothes soaking wet, he held out a hand to help me up, hesitating I held onto his hand, his hand were rough and had calluses on them. He pulled me up, my head cloth fell off and his eyes widened.
"Sakura." he whispered. "This must be the hand of fate guiding us."
"What are you talking about?" He was confusing me; I didn't know what was going on.
"Sakura, do you not remember?"
Sakura
Their clothes were hanging up on a line outside, drying in the hot afternoon and she was wearing one of his shirts that fell to her mid thighs, along with some of his baggy shorts. She kept pulling them up, trying to keep them situated on her waist. She noticed Sasuke was watching her smiling, she blushed furiously, and he turned back around to the fire.
"Come sit, and I'll tell you what I meant earlier." She walked over and sat beside him on the worn tatami mats.
"About 450 years ago I lived as the prince of this kingdom, I wanted to escape the pressures of being apart of the royal family. I was allowed to take leaves for periods of time, during one of my leaves I happened upon a nice village. I wondered about watching the children play and the family's having fun. I will always remember the first time I met you; you were walking out of your house with your good friend Ino. I was walking past and you fell down, I turned around to help you up. You had on this smile that melted the ice from my heart, you thanked me and then walked off with Ino who was blushing and batting her eyelashes at me.
"I then returned two months later and I saw you again wondering through the streets, greeting everybody and healing the children's scratches in the square, and then join in on their games. I watched you and then one of the children pointed me out; you looked and blushed turning around. Then, you walked over to me and introduced yourself.
"I'm Sakura, Sakura Haruno, we've meet before, right? You questioned me before smiling again.
"Yes we have, and I'm Sasuke I said to you. I tried to calm down but, I kept feeling a smile on face. You just smiled and grabbed my hand pulling me over to the children to play games with them. I had so much fun but, then the children had to go home for lunch. So where do you live you asked me. I told you somewhere nearby, I would not tell you I was the third in line to be the crown prince, I wanted you to love me for who I was."
Sasuke turned around looking me in the eyes he was smiling slightly, he held onto my hand. He hugged my warmly, then he finished he's tale.
"I was sent to war after those precious nine months we spent together. You promised that when I came back you would marry me and we would live together. Before I left for war, I stole a sip of the immortals drink. Just like my brother, Madara had, and then I was sent off to war. I gave him a note to send a letter to you if I died before I returned. I was struck with an arrow as we marched back to the kingdom's borders, I had to act dead. I lay in the coffin for a long time; I had to rest for over ten years to heal because it turned out the arrow had some jade in it from the wound in the coffin. When I woke up, I left the tomb and made my way to the village, it was dark and dreary. I asked people nearby what had happened, they told me you had died in a raid at the castle where you were working at the time.
Sakura looked at him she hugged back as he continued to talk.
"I felt terrible for days; I left the village and made a living as a fisher, and other assorted things. It was hard for a long time to make a living like that, but I soon learned all the secrets. Moving from village to village for the past 300 years has been tough, but, I've meet you again. It all feels worth it now, even though after all this time I still love you and I always will."
Now all Sakura could hear was the rage in her mind, they had lied to her, she had never loved Madara, maybe a tiny part of her loved him for the comfort he gave he during Sasuke's death.
They all lied.
Madara
"Your Majesty, the girl is no where to be found." a nervous guard enters a chamber, watching signs of anger in his lords features.
"She is somewhere, and she will be found if it's the last thing I do."
"Your Majesty, the girl wha-what if she runs into him?"
"Leave. If you value your life." Madara looked up through a curtain of hair, his red eyes spinning violently. The guard was out of the hall in less than two seconds, He ran a hand through his thick black locks, and let out a long frustrated sigh.
Sasuke, it's been three hundred years since I last saw you, ever since the last visit to your tomb anyways. Slamming his fist into the table, he harshly whispered
"I should've killed you while I had the chance". Pushing his dark hair out of his face he leaves the throne room to enter his bedroom. He lies on the bed thinking and waiting, dreaming of Sakura and the cursed spell she has cast on her heart. Tossing and turning it seems that he cannot fall asleep. He calls for one of his maids that is smitten with him to keep him company for the night, to warm his bed. All the while his thoughts drift back to Sakura.
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Sakura
It was now late afternoon since Sasuke left for the market to sell his home grown produce since the early morning. For the first few hours she sat around then, she got to working around the house. She washed all the floors, walls and tables, and then she began to work on washing the dishes and clothing in the house. As she was hanging out the laundry she covered her hair, when ever she heard horses she hid behind the billowing sheets. Afterwards she started to cook dinner, she steamed some vegetables and began to grill the fish, and Sasuke came home in the middle of her cooking. He almost dropped his leftover produce and earnings in surprise, she smiled at him.
"Welcome back, Sasuke." His usual cold expression softened, he began to set the table and helped her with the cooking. She liked watching him, she knelt down beside him and as she watched him she smiled to herself.
"Sasuke, I love you so much" He looked at her shocked, he leaned towards her and gave her a kiss. It was tender; it was so full of love that she only remembered from so long ago. That she began to cry, deep in her heart she remembered their moments like this and then she remembered Madara who loved her to death also, he loved her enough to wait for her for 500 years and Sasuke also. She was the only one who killed herself, because she couldn't wait that long. Sasuke stopped kissing her; lines of worry crossed his face.
"What's the matter? Are you hurting?"
"I remember Madara; I'm so weak I couldn't live forever".
"Sakura, it's not your fault" He gave her a hug in front of the hearth.
"Yes, Sakura everything is not your fault" A different voice echoed in the room. The pulled apart quickly, there sitting on one of their rickety chairs in all his glory was Madara. He looked at Sakura, his eyebrows furrowed when he saw her hair.
"Someone said my name". Sasuke tucked her behind him, glaring at Madara; Sakura buried her face into Sasuke's clothes.
"You know you're holding onto my wife, I'd like you to take your hands off of her".
"I'm not your wife!" Sakura yelled from behind Sasuke, "We never even got married!"
"Oh but, Sakura we did about 500 years ago" Sakura's hands balled into fists holding tightly onto Sasuke's shirt.
"You tricked her into thinking I was dead, when you were the one who shot that arrow!" Sasuke yelled at Madara. "Then what you made Itachi do, completely dishonorable!" Madara slammed his fist on the table, Sakura winced from behind Sasuke.
"Itachi made that choice on his own, I had nothing to do with it do not try to sound so innocent on front of Sakura, when you aren't even close". His eyes a bright red color that made Sakura dizzy, Sasuke held his ground and helped Sakura stand up with him.
"Were leaving together, whether we have your blessing or not I was with Sakura before you stole her away and spoon feed her lies". Sasuke helped Sakura walk out of the house; she glanced back at Madara who was watching the both of them. She looked back up at Sasuke as he opened the door; she stood on her tip toes.
Then, life went in slow motion Sakura gave Sasuke a peck on the lips and a fast humming noise sliced through the air. Sasuke gasped falling to the ground, Sakura stumbled with him.
"Sasuke! Sasuke what's wrong?!" It was then she noticed a green bladed dagger in his back. Jade, she cried.
"NO! Sasuke!" She pulled out the dagger and flipped him over; black veins began to line up his throat, his face losing color quickly almost turning grey.
"Sakura, kiss me, one last time." He croaked out, his voice so hoarse. Sakura leaned over his head, and her lips touched his. They were so cold, there was no feeling to them he kissed her back, he leaned back. The black veins now were showing up around his face, Sakura held his hand against her face.
"Fate is cruel Sakura, I only just got to see you again, now I'm going to die" he laughed. Sakura cried even harder, she could feel Madara's presence behind her.
"Sasuke, I won't forget you, even after 300 years or however long it's been. I'm glad I got to meet you. I-I lo-" She felt an arm wrap around her waist yanking her away from Sasuke, it was Madara.
"NO! NO! SASUKE! I'LL MEET YOU AGAIN! IM SURE OF IT!" The last thing she saw of Sasuke was his smile and arm stretched out towards her in a wave. His lips mouthed.
"Hello and good-bye". Then his body turned to ash as the wind blew it all away.
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Madara
"Sakura, Sakura you need to eat something. It's already been a week since you last had a meal". Her friend Ino was holding a plate of steaming food in front of her, hoping she would eat. Sakura had been sitting in the corner of her chambers every since I had left her there, she had refused to change out of her clothes, and refused to eat anything.
"Please, Sakura eat" Her friend was crying again, she's been crying every time she's come in here. Sakura just stared at the floor, her eyes glazed over, her mouth opened slightly.
"Ino, Leave" Ino protested for a moment until he promised her Sakura would be alright did she finally leave. Madara walked over to Sakura his layers of robes dragging onto the ground; he took off his first layer of robes and threw it over her shoulders. She shook the robe off, her brows furrowed tears pricked at the corner of her eyes. Madara sighed and grabbed the chopsticks beside the plates of food and tried to feed her some rice.
Her mouth remained shut, he pinched her nostrils so she couldn't breath, at some point she would open her mouth. After about a few moments she opened her mouth to gasp for air taking the opportunity to stuff the rice in her mouth. Grabbing her mouth he made sure she kept it shut, and moved her jaw to chew then rubbed her throat to force her to swallow. After he turned to get more food, she had covered her face with her hands and was now lying on the ground.
"Sakura, I can easily do this all day, I can also easily lift you off the ground and make your dining experience very unenjoyable, or you can eat yourself". She looked at him from beneath her hands.
"I hate you." She sobbed loudly as her voice cracked; Madara picked her up and set her onto one of the chairs in the room, took off one of his sashes and tied her to the chair. She kept sobbing, I hate you, over and over, Madara felt himself feel more guilty but also angry. Setting the tray on the table nearby, he began the process of force feeding her again until every thing on the tray was gone.
"I hate you" she sobbed once again, her hair covering her face, Madara's eyes softened for an instant.
"I know, me too" Her head turned skyward, her jade eyes piercing his and he could see her they were swollen and red. His hands rose to touch her face, as soon as his finger tips grazed her cheek she flinched, facing away from him.
"Why'd you do it?"
"Because, I love you" He sounded unsure if that was the right answer or not. Her head flung around she was glaring at him now.
"You love me huh? Well if you loved me you would have let me be with Sasuke!"
Furiously he grabbed her chin and whispers harshly, his teeth grinding.
"Would you change your mind if you knew that I let him take a drink of the immortals drink? Would you think differently if I was the one who set it out for him to drink it so he would stay alive? Hmmm, what have you got to say?" Releasing her from the chair he left the room, storming away.
Sakura crawled back to her corner then fell asleep with Madara's robe as the mattress.
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Madara sat in his chambers reading documents for about two hours before returning to see how Sakura was. She was lying back in her corner, Madara picked her up carefully, she felt lighter setting her down on the bed he pulled the thick covers over her. Tucking her hair behind her ear, he smiled lightly sitting down on the edge of the bed. Madara stands up and gets into bed on the other side after shedding all his layers till only his yukata was left. He slowly pulled Sakura toward him; unconsciously she snuggled into his warmth. It made him happy even though she didn't know he was there he set his head onto the pillows and slowly closed relishing this feeling. Knowing it would fade away as soon as she woke up.
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Sakura felt a source of warmth, she snuggled into the source. Feeling a flat surface, keeping her eyes closed she wondered what it was. Her eyes opening slowly, she saw a black yukata opened showing a pale chest. Sakura slowly scooted away when she was stopped by a pair of hands behind her back. Placing her own thin fingers on Madara's chest she started pushing as hard as she could. She felt his hands move, lacing his fingers together stopping her from escaping.
"Let go" Sakura started whimpering as she kept pushing, her face refusing to meet his. She was jerked towards him, he adjusted himself into a more relaxing position and Sakura continued to try and push.
"Stop" His voice was deep, ceasing her attempts of escape. Sakura started crying again, his voice was similar to Sasuke's.
"I hate you" She must like to repeat the words that hurt him so much all the time.
"How many times must you say that?" He asked her, he loved her so much and at one point she did too.
"Until you hate me too". She was shaking and he hated that he was also.
"Well, you'll be saying it till the end of time because…I'll never hate you". He knows that every word he just said and deep inside she knows also that it's true, it feels nice she thinks.
"When will you forget him?" He asks her, the sooner she forgets, the better.
"Never".
"Then, don't forget me also". He never wants her to forget him, like the way she says she'll never forget Sasuke.
"I hate you". He buries his head into her hair, breathes in her scent closing his eyes and pulling her closer before he tells her the same.
"Yea, me too". Her face is against his chest and he feels the smallest movement of her lips turn into a smile, a small sad smile.
GOD! I write such emo, angsty romance stories don't I? Well, as I write them they kind of make me depressed as well….the next few chapters will slowly begin to get better. Also I'm sorry for killing Sasuke, if he stayed our main couple wouldn't have been able to progress lol!