( First of all, I want to say thank you to all the fans because there will always be updates as long as there are reviews-positive at least!, lol. No point in writing something the people hate it, huh? Next week, I don't know how much I will update this though because labs start in my uni and I won't have as much free time to write it. And when I get tired, I get extremely lazy so , I am going to proceed into replying to those of you that pointed out some parts for the plot in general, right on this page, because I want everyone to see my replies so I dont have to repeat them in similar comments.
Here we go:
Sasuke is Hot 0012: Hun, thanks for your awesome words, and I am glad you like my story so much!!! : 3 Well, your idea is very nice, and thanks for suggesting it; it could come handy perhaps later in the plot. When it is the right time, I probably may use it, as presenting Sakura stronger and angrier and all that that you mentioned. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!!
Zemli: I love how you were honest about your idea on my story and Sakura's attitude. You are right it kind of comes out weird for her to be like that. I could have picked a side sooner but I didn't know how romance could have evolved from there if I made her hate him with passion, if you get what I mean. And after what he had done, it would need many chapters for him trying to earn back her trust before we saw something even slightly romantic between them, because as you say you either hate someone or not in such situations and I couldn't find the fine line to keep a balance so the result came out negative. I am sorry that this part disappointed you. I will try to fix it and find a more rational version to it. Also I would like to add that I wasn't trying to get Sakura to be out with a back bone, but mostly to show how much awe she had gathered inside her, frustration out of all the things that happened lately to her and that makes her react like that. Her nerves are broken or something, if you get my explanation. But thanks for your awesome review, it opened my eyes and I will try to fix it so I make my story better! Keep on commenting like that, you are helping me!!!
To all the other awesome people that left their reviews, thank you a lot for taking the time to support me and comment my story, I am really glad that you like it even if a second thought in my head tells me that it sucks-meh. Well, I am weird, so I guess my stories are weird, too. But as long as you keep giving me positive reviews, I am going to keep writing the chapters!!!
With much love,
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Chapter 4: The Chase In The Dungeons
Sakura supported herself on a wall, trying to regain her composure. She had panicked, not good. She needed to be calm, in order for her mind and body to do the right moves.
She shoved her sweated hands in her pockets, touching the little bombs, her only ally in that twisted brutal game, besides the kunai and the sword hanging from her back.
She was trying to breath slowly, maintain her sanity, she couldn't believe how she had messed in that situation with Sasuke.
How could he do that to her? Her mind struggled to find a connection between the current Sasuke chasing her in the dungeons and the old one, the young little boy that had complimented her on her big forehead the first day they met., years ago. It seemed like centuries that had passed since then.
There was nothing.
The current one was a monster, power hungry. He had already got his revenge, what the fuck did he want more from them? Drops of sweat were rolling down her face and neck. She had to take a quick decision inside her.
There was no more room for jokes. One of the two shouldn't get alive from that dungeon. And that would be either him or her.
She didn't want to kill him, and even doubted if she could, but today was her only good chance of escaping and running back to her beloved Naruto and shout to him how she was ok and that he didn't need to worry or go save her and hug him…and cry on his shoulders, in his arms for all the devastation that had occured in their young lives.
And if she couldn't do that, her life right now counted for nothing to her.
She would give anything to save Naruto, her last chance of sanity on this earth. And she wouldn't be a coward now to Sasuke, the traitor that had erased her village from the map. His village for god's sake.
She felt disgusted with herself, momentarily, for all the intimate touch she had done with him earlier this day and even yesterday. How could she allow herself? But it seemed as the info about Naruto still being alive had soften her heart.
But not for much more. And why was he touching her that way? With the monster he had evolved into she knew he could just rape her and get done with it. It is not like she had a choice or he cared what she would feel about it later on.
But no, he was confusing her, like he always had. Damn him, why did he have to be so hard? That night that she almost gave in her hormones and decided to give herself like that to him, in a desperate cry for comfort for the previous brutal event in the dungeons, he had denied her. And he said he didn't want to regret it. Regret what? She didn't understand.
What was he hiding her? Her mind could never figure out that he could have even the slightest feelings for her. And even when he showed some pigments of care, her mind would dump them like they were useless bugs, since after all these years of his sheer cold indifference, it wouldn't accept that he could care for her. And after the massacre this was even more impossible to assume.
She snapped out of her thoughts. She had seemed to have been absorbed away from the cruel reality for a while, but his heavy breathing that reached her ears two corridors away, dragged her back onto it, in a most uncomfortable way.
Sasuke was giving quick glances all around.
He wished he didn't have to do that. H e could easily walk away and let her do her effort to get away, pretending he hadn't taken notice and turn back to the party. Everyone was drunk by now, who would keep an eye on what he had been doing?
But his pride would always kick in. Let her escape? No way, what would they think of him?
The cruel powerful ninja that let an unimportant slave girl get away. Too much of a humiliation, and he couldn't take it. Not for anyone, and not surely for her, who had tried to walk out on him, in his moment of weakness –when he cared about her. He wouldn't forgive her that. Even if logic says anyone in her place would do as she did, Sasuke's big ego wouldn't settle down with common logic. Instead he kept on hating on her because that day she had destroyed every bridge of them getting back closer emotionally. And that hurt. He didn't know why and he now hated himself for feeling that way. She had deprived him from his only chance to forget, forget the past and live satisfied in the present. Even if she didn't know this was one of the reasons he tried to keep her close to him. He fast brushed the sweat of his forehead. It had finally come the time for them to confront each other, they hadn't finished it in the massacre because he had walked away on her. But now, it wasn't the case for it to happen again.
And so, with both of them hating each other on that fancy for others night, for their own reasons each one, the dungeon chase started…and let the best win…
Sakura could smell him all around on the air. She cursed herself for the stupid perfume she had put on that night for the role of the whore, it could give her away easily. She hadn't thought of that earlier. That is why ninja and feminine shit don't go well together.
She started walking in silence, noise shouldn't be the second mistake she would do, and looked at the corridor ahead of her. The dungeons seemed pretty serene and she wondered how many prisoners they kept. Obviously, not many. She shivered in the thought of the reason behind it. They probably killed most of the citizens so who was there to capture?
Her hand unconsciously grabbed lightly around the blade on her back, still in its case in the sound of his approaching steps. She had to move, and be more alert. Now it wasn't time for day dreaming, she told herself off inside her mind. She raised her glare again on the corridor ahead of her and walked fast towards it, crossing it all the way till she came to face other two. Here was her plan. She needed to confuse him and the big dungeons were a pro to her, they were like a maze. And with not so many prisoners around, she did have much of room to move herself around and play. And this would hopefully balance their power gap. He was stronger, but she could use her mind to change the stats.
Sasuke on the other hand could smell her perfume on the air, grinning as he knew this would give her away no matter where she went. She approached the corridor slowly and turned fast on it, in alert of her hiding there but no. As it seemed she had been fast in moving deeper and now his eyes focused in front of him. Attacking him straightly would'nt help her much. And he was conscious of his strength comparing to hers, and in addition he knew she wasn't that stupid to walk onto him for a straight charge.
He figured out she would try to confuse him, using the size of the dungeon section but he didn't frown in that, he was confident she wouldn't make it out of the dungeon this day. He would do anything to show her who was in charge.
He crossed the corridor and reached fast the one she used to be into before. Her perfume still on the air, leading his steps more and more into it.
Sakura in the meantime had reached in front of two corridors, two paths and she looked at them both. It didn't matter which one she would take, since there was only one escape and that was backwards. And she wouldn't even think about going back there again, with Sasuke on her steps.
She quickly grabbed the sword on her back again and pulled herself into the right one, running in silence as a smart ninja would, her only give away her perfume still strong enough to last.
Sasuke fast reached the two paths she used to stand before in front of and stayed pensive.
He started worrying now how she could indeed use the dungeon effectively to confuse him.
So much trouble for a night that was supposed to be the exact opposite. He sighed wouldn't make it out of here, he thought in himself.
He reached closer, her perfume on the right corridor. He smirked and tighened his grip around his sword. Being a woman, could make her weak in many more ways that someone could imagine.
He walked fast into it, following her steps marked into the air by the tense fragrance as his heart started beating faster, not knowing why.
Sakura could hear him, he was close to her. She cursed her perfume inside her, tears burning her eyes. Always unlucky. She kept on runnin, now she was in front of other paths, this time they were three.
She smirked. She had a nice idea to confuse him and since the pervious corridor was still long, she had time .
She cut a piece of her kimono sleeves and waved it in the entrance of each path. That way her perfume would be on each of it, at least at their start but that was enough to confuse him. She kept waving the piece of tissue in the entrances like it was some kind of moral spray and she shoved it back in her pocket, taking the left path this time.
She smirked, her mind was helping her. She ran into the corridor and didn't stop until she found another paths, 4 this time and did the same to them with the piece of tissue that she had done before in the other ones and rushed into the third from the left.
Sasuke was now in front of the 3 paths she used to be before into. He tried to sniff her perfume on each of them.
Surprised he realized her perfume was gracing each one of the three, which made him dive in thought.
He realized her mischevious act behind it and grinned unconsciously.
''She is smart.''he admitted inside him.
''But even so, in the end I will get to her. There is no way she could walk just like that out of the guards would never let her out of the castle.''he said, the confidence turning back in him.
He stayed pensive now, focusing on the paths and cussed her inside him for wasting his time like would be a difficult chase, he could tell it.
He looked at the corridors again, with rage raising inside him.
Then he thought''Wait, she couldnt just have walked all three of them, so probably her perfume is only at their start.''he smirked satisfied with himself as he rushed to the center corridor and walked for some steps…After the fourth step, her perfume fainted, so probably she hadnt walked into that.
Then he walked to the left path and did the same. He kept walking till the middle of it and surprisingly enough her perfume was still around. That was the way she had gone. And so he didnt waste anymore time, tracing her. He burst into the other half of the way reaching the next 4 paths. Now that he knew her technique it would be easier to trace her, maybe he would waste time doing so, but earning time wouldnt take her somewhere. In the end he would make it to trap her in some corner, since the way out was only one, and way back.
Sakura cussed inside her in panic. Damn, he had figured out her trick.' 'she thought in a disappointment but then smirked as she knew he wasn't that easily fooled so she should have expected it. At least, she would earn time, and time for her was valuable in that insane chase. Very.
Sasuke now had reached the other paths, her scent still in the was all ok till now but he had started getting pissed, this lasted way longer than it should and she should have given up with her weak tricks, since there was no point avoiding him either way. In the end she would have to fight, either she wanted it or not. And then she wouldnt have any more aces in her sleeve.
He walked close to the new paths sniffing the air on each of them, as he had done before. This took him quite some time, more than he had figured and this had earned Sakura 5 whole minutes ahead, and a bright smirk on her face as she could no longer hear his steps after her.
Sasuke finally managed to find where the scent would linger for more and longer and that was the third from left path. His white shirt was hanging on him open, revealing his naked chest.
He walked on it running, increasing his speed, she wouldnt get before she had been punished. He thought in a sick revengeful mood.
Sakura was out of the last corridor now and found herself in front of a big room that was full of doors all around, all leading to other rooms or corridors, she thought to herself.
She fast walked to one and opened the crinky old metal door, entering it. It was a simple cage, empty almost, the only special thing in it was a small window that connected to the next room, next to it. Probably for the prisoners to communicate between them. Sakura thought in wonder. It was full of bars though so it made it impossible for exchange of objects…Measure of safety, she thought.
Sasuke in the meantime had reached the same room with her and was now wondrering what room she could have hidden into. He followed her scent once more, resulting in front of the room she was now.
He grinned and stood out of it, a few centimeteres away from the metal door.
Sakura in her panic from seeing all those doors, had let her guard down and ignored the fact that Sasuke could be somewhere around, thinking he wouldnt have had the time to reach her so soon, but obviously she did the fatal mistake to understimate him. And he wasnt just anyone.
She fast opened the door and tried to walk out but then before she knew it she had pumbed onto something. She looked up, her eyes pinned into his, she froze in her stupidity as he was observing her with a light sarcastic smirk.
He had felt her head bumping onto his naked chest, as she was looking on the floor while she stepped out of the room and smiled inside him for her foolness.
Now she was looking at him and he returned the look at was way easier than he had thought.
He broke the silence first.
''Looking for something?' he asked her sarcastically.
Sakura looked at him in secret terror, gathering all her guts she didn't know she had, and pushed him lightly walking away. She didn't know what she was doing, she had no idea, and her body was acting on its own.
''Out of my way.' she said in a low tone as a stunned Sasuke was watching her walk calmly away into the room. He wasted no time and walked after her in a fast pace.
''Where you think you are going?' he asked in a light tone but the wonder was obvious in his voice.
''Can't you see you are trapped? It is over.' he said following her.
Tears had started gathering in her eyes. She didn't think she could ever have been defeated so easily.
''Just give me a break, will you?' she yelled at him, making him pause his marching for a second. Then he retook it, just a few meters away from her. And the room was quite huge to let them walk like that for lots more.
''First, you betray anything I hold holy, then you kill my village and friends, then you tell me that you are using me to get to Naruto and kill him too, then you mess with my heart and mind with the excuse that you wanted to protect me! What the fuck is wrong with you, Sasuke?''she yelled and her voice sounded broken by sobs, as the tears were running down now on her skin.
Sasuke blinked, he felt awkward in this kind of had just figured it would be a hard fight and then itwould be over. But obviously, with women it is much more complicated. He thought smirking annoyed.
''I never intended on killing Naruto.''he said calmly and catching up with her.
''So stop making assumptions, you seem confused.''he said coldly as Sakura turned around to look at him and now he could see her tears running down, the pencil of her eyes making soft black colored wattery lines on her pale cheeks.
''Am I confused?''she asked him in anger.
''Perhaps if you werent so confusing, I wouldnt be so can ever figure out what you are thinking. You make everyone feel threatened. And I could never understand, thinking back now why would ever me or Naruto try to get you back in the old team of ours. ''her voice sounded angered and he thought it was time for confessions, obviously and looked at her bored.
''Even when your life is in danger, you still are annoying.''he said, looking at her apathetically.
That did it for her. All the betrayal he had done upon them, all the bottled hatred for him escaped through her lungs and walked fast towards him, closely, as she started hitting her fists onto his chest in mania, cussing him and crying in frustration.
''I hate you, I hate you, every inch of you, I hate you, Sasuke Uchica! I hate you!''she would repeat the same phrase over and over again, with a stunned Sasuke looking down at her crying face, as her fists inficted little to no damage to her and all.
''As always you found the right time, to break down, Sakura. Your weakness never ceases to surprise me.''he said in a bitter sarcastic tone that earned him another hating look by her.
''So what are you waiting for right now? Huh?Kill me!!! Why do you waste your time putting up with my weak reactions ? Obviously you are here for a reason. The nature of the traitor in you wont gift you a moment of peace inside you. You could instead have pretended you hadn't noticed my running away, but no you had to come, you had to come after me and crash all my hopes once more!!At least I have the guts to confess my hatred on you, but I never heard you expressing your own feelings!!I want you to say that you hate me!!Right now! Just help me understand why you are doing all this, Sasuke. Say you hate me!There must be a reason behind all this torturing of yours! Or I will believe you enjoy making me lose my sanity from day to day! I need to hear that you hate me!''she said, wild tears running down her cheeks.
Sasuke looked at her shocked. Her reaction was too much for him to handle, he was never used dealing with emotional break downs, especially coming from women.
''I don't hate you, you are too unimportant for me to do so.''he said simply, his ego taking over. Why did this girl think he was supposed to be her punching bag? She was making things all too complicated with her emotional thought confessing your feelings or showing them was a weakness, and he wouldnt be weak now to her. She didn't deserve it. She didn't understand him, why should he care how she felt?
''And why would I let you get away? You are calling me a traitor, but wouldn't I be what you say if I betrayed my current clan? How can you contradict yourself so well at times?''he said behind his teeth in a sarcastic chuckle.
Sakura looked at him, feeling intense the urge to slap him.
''Because we used to be friends. And emotional bonds are stronger.''she said out of soul, turning her glare to his chest, in a disappointed tone.
Sasuke laguhed lighlty ironically at her statement.
''Emotional bonds are only a burden to me. I only seek out for the power ones. And the reason I betrayed your team is that it was weak, because it based on them and this made me sick. That is the difference between me and you, me and naruto. You think with your heart, which makes you vulnerable in a foolish way. You are weak.''he said simply and coldly making Sakura give him an extremely angered look as she lifted her knee and gave him a good kick on his sex, making him fold in pain.
''Catch me if you can, strong guy.''she said in satisfaction for the pain that she inficted on him and ran into the room further opening the first door she could find in front of her and hiding inside, breathless.
That had caught Sasuke out of guard and he now tried to look back up again, in an effort to regain his breath after the strong hit on his most sensitive area, looking around of signs as to where she could have gone.
''Damn you, Sakura!!If you like dirty games, you will have them!''he shouted and she smiled at the tone of the physical pain in his voice.
She looked around the room she was into, it seemed to be a torture room, full of turturing tools. She cringed at the thought of them, but then a shy smile graced her red painted lips, as she figured this could come handy at her fight agaisnt him.
The room was quite vast and as always a small window connected it with the other room by its side. She picked into that window, the other room was a small one, empty as her eye had caught something great, a hope flamed up in her glare.
She could see light coming out of the other room, out of a small window in one of the walls. Morning light. Maybe this would lead her out of the castle. She smiled and her heart was beating 4000 miles per second in her unexpected discovery.
She felt Sasuke's steps wandering around the room, he was trying to trace her. She frowned thinking as of her perfume would give her once more away.
And indeed it had. The scent had guided Sasuke now close to the torture knew that room. And he knew she would try to take advantage of the objects inside it to win her fight.
He walked close to the door, grabbing his sword, getting ready for a possible attack by the pink haired girl.
Sakura waisted no time in useless fear, she fast looked around the room carefully. It was quite deep, which satisfied her need to hide for the time being. She saw a big pool, with wooden walls around it and she wondered what kind of tortures they tried in that water. It seemed blurry. Maybe they tried drawning people in it. She thought in disgust as she walked closer to it. Maybe she could try diving into it and holding her breath till he gave up looking for her in the room.
But she couldn't when the thought of him finding her inside there made her freeze .Because she knew how things would evolve from there and she would have no chance of backing herself up under the frozen water.
Instead she noticed a pair of shelves, metal light shelves behind that huge pool of water and she rushed in there, hiding herself behind the thick shelves.
The source of light was always spare in that spot too so it helped her hide better masked in darkness.
Sasuke slowly opened the door, peering inside. He smirked, he already knew she was resting hidden. This game weirdly turned him on, even if he didn't know why.
Her words of earlier hadn't get far into him, he enjoyed that he could cause so much frustration to her for the time being, but it wasn't out of his sadistic tendencies and he had no time or want to analyze it at this time.
He watched around him carefully. She wasn't around. She would have chosen to hide deeper in the room, where more tools and stuff were and would come handier to her.
He felt her gaze watching him, but couldn't trace from where. He smiled.
''Sakura…''he whispered griddling his sword.
There was a cross, a wooden one in his right, where they used to crucify slaves and traitors. He smirked at the sight of the painful tool.
And then there was a big old wooden table with all kinds of torturing tools from whips to sharp little blades and knives and the list went on.
The tools were sparse here and there so someone would need a lot of time to actually list in their mind each one of the tools of the room.
He stumbled on something on the floor and cursed inside him. It was a round metal thing, like a ball, only smaller and had a hole in it. He wondered what it was for, but he overview it and kicked in away, which resulted in the metal ball hitting on the wooden pool and made a weird cranky sound.
He turned his glare on there and immediately noticed how her scent was leading to that spot. He secretly laughed with himself.
Of course, how couldn't he tell before? She would have tried to hide underwater and he was already enough time in the room. He smirked sadistically; this would do back for the kick she had given him in the nuts.
He grabbed his sword out of his case and approached the pool. Looking at it from distance and carefully.
He couldn't help as a slight doubt embraced his heart, as he felt she would jump from time to time over the water and try to stab him with something.
He approached more, trying to make out the bottom of the pool, over the blurry water.
The water had a white-dirty grey color and it wasn't easy to make out what was lying under.
Without wasting any more time, he shoved his sword into the water, several times, trying to find something to hit or pierce into.
But all he would always feel would be the seer wooden bottom hitting back the metal top of his sword.
Sakura was watching his brutal attack secured behind the shelves some meters away, wondering how could he find it in him to attack her like that, those stabs would probably hurt her fatally, if she was hiding underwater.' What a pig.' she thought inside herself.
''If he wants to get serious, then so will I.' she thought biting her bottom lip lightly.
Sasuke suddenly stopped. He could hear a light but fast breathing somewhere around that spot. He sniffed the air but it wouldnt help him at that spot.
He tried to trace where the unrhytmical sound was coming from.
She was around there, he could sense it.
He felt the terror in her breath, smirking in superiority. He was the predator and she was his pray.
Sakura looked at him, staying still, like he was listening to something interesting. She froze, and closed her eyes. She got what was that. It was her stupid breath that had given her away. She stopped it. She didn't breath. She held it inside her, wishing he would go away.
With her eyes closed.
Then she reopened them again, he seemed to have already traced her but he more of walked randomly, trying to spot her as he felt he was close anymore to the ceased sound.
He was standing now in the other side of the shelves, trying to pierce the metal material with his gaze, like he could see through it.
Her smell was around there, one with the dusty odor that covered the old tools.
She sensed him. She felt like it was the time to attack him. He felt that too. And he spoke.
«Ah, Sakura…your cheap perfume gave you away…too bad the game ends here.' he said with a light ironic laugh on his voice.
Sakura heard him and started breathing again, lightly, trying to suppress her lungs large hunger for more air.
''No more cheap than the perfume you had on you, when you slept with that whore Erin!' she said with anger in her voice, wondering how could she have let a jealousy comment slip out of her mouth like that. She didn't understand if she hated him totally or what. She couldn't tell. It was all a mess in her head. Perhaps she wasn't as strong as she thought herself to be. As she made herself to be to the others.
And with that said, she kicked the shelved in front of her and onto him, grabbing her sword to attack him, jumping close to him and swinging her blade on the air, trying to target his pretty pale skin.
Sasuke felt the metal shelves falling on him and partially hitting him as he quickly moved away, hoping back in the air , partially stunned more from her comment than from the attack.
If she had a room to complain then so had he.
He dodged her attack with his sword, jumping even more far than her close to the wall, but not touching it, looking at her frustrated.
He hadnt slept with Erin, but his ego decided onto what he needed to give explanations or not and that was surely unneeded.
''So why would that bother you, Sakura? Didn't you choose Naruto over me the time you thought of running away?''he asked her in a cold tone, trying to mask his bitter betrayed one, charging back at her with his blade and scratching her skin on her left arm, some drops of blood ran down, causing a painful grimace at Sakura's now stunned face.
She never expected him to see it like that. Her choosing Naruto over him. She could never have expected to create such feelings to him. And now she wondered where they emerged from. Was it love? But she fast pushed that thoughts away from her head, feeling her hatred mixing with every other feeling for him inside her, an enraged voice punching in her mind, telling her how every one of his actions till now showed only mere hatred and nothing else towards her place. ''Even the times that he did take care of you, he had an upper motive behind it, he was trying to regain your trust and make you betray Naruto. He wanted to take you with his side.''the voice repeating in an hostile way in her mind.
''Of course I did choose Naruto over you!You betrayed us, remember?!!''she asked him and she jumped high on the air, throwing her kunai at him, trying to injure him.
He sighed and avoided them all fast and carefully doing swift moves around himself.
He smirked pausing to look at her once her attack was momentarily over.
''You wouldn't understand.''he said simply thinking of how the day his brother killed his whole family except him had changed him for life and he could never be the same again.
Maybe he could get a piece back from his old peaceful self but not without her help and she had just thrown that chance away, without knowing it. If only she had been more patient with him.
''I wish I did…but there is nothing really to understand, is there? You are just a traitor!''she said as she suddenly fell his blade piercing her on her ribs and stepped back in pain, trying to hold back her dripping blood.
She managed to give him a kick on his chest that threw him back, but he fast regained his balance, still holding his sword, looking at her as she lost her own from the hit and fell backwards into the wooden pool of water, causing the waters to become partially red from her spilt blood inside them.
The water was frozen and made her shiver. Unable to cease her pain, she didnt emerge instantly at the surface causing Sasuke to worry unwantingly for her.
He ran over the pool, and tried to trace her over the water, watching as the grey color had started turning to red.
''Sakura!''he shouted and his echo made two rounds around the huge cold room.
She opened her eyes in the water, it was blurry but she could see a shadow out of the pool, with the blade on his right hand, standing there suspiciously.
It was him. And he had just fallen in her one she had just thought inside her defeated mood.
She quickly jumped out of the water and dragged him in it with her, causing him to fall into, making the waters splashi around and out of it, as she managed to see his stunned expression before they both fell into.
She opened her eyes again into the pool, looking for him underwater. She only saw him sinking slowly as he regained his grip and started swimming back to the surface.
This scared her and in one second she pulled her head back out to breath and get ready for the in water fight.
She looked around her in wonder. He was nowhere near her. He should have emerged by now. Then she froze in terror. Of course, he was playing dirty just as he had promised her.
Before that thought managed to cross her mind completely, she felt a hand grabbing down on her left leg dragging her back into water.
She fell inside, and tried to open her eyes, the blood flow had stopped from her wound and she thanked her strong immune system for that.
She saw him from under her dragging her and she bitted his hand, releasing herself from his grip. He fast dragged his hurting hand back to him, and swam closer to her as she tried to swim away. She felt his hand again on her ankle, he dragged her closer to him, giving her a sharp hit with his sword on her thigh that made her clench her teeth to prevent a scream of pain underwater, as without turning to looks at him, she kicked her leg in the water, feeling she had hit him somewhere and the grip on her ankle to loosen up and fade away.. The pool was 2 meters deep-and it was partially dag also under the pavement too, and part of the wooden walls coming out of the floor, for reasons of limited room height, so swimming back to the surface wasn't as hard.
Sasuke was left underwater for some time, as the kick on his stomach had caused him to open his mouth in reaction, as the air left his lungs, and he swallowed some water instead.
Enraged he emerged to the surface, finding her body, he as he had let his blade fall on the bottom, as with the kick he had momentarily lost grip with it.
She was holding on to the wooden sides, trying to regain her breath from both the pain and the long time spent underwater, anymore no makeup at all gracing her pain painted face.
Her blade was too watery and escaped her hands, in her desperate attempt to catch it back but it was too late it had fallen onto the floor, causing a sharp metal sound to scratch her ears.
Sasuke smirked at her, as he had got close anymore, swimming next to her.
''Seems as we both let go off our weapons.''he said commenting on the sound her wet blad had made a few moments ago.
Her face now had retaken its innocent look, free from make up and stupid glitters.
''I have more than that.'' she said as she turned her face back to him and flinched in shock as she felt his breath on her face, realising he was almost touching her with his body, placing his arms around heron the wooden sides, almost like embracing her but without touching her.
He was looking at her, his onyx eyes on her, his chest touching hers now, she felt unprotected and placed her two clenched hands on his naked scratched from the fight with the blades chest.
At least there was one good with all that, her annoying perfume had almost all of it gone away after her underwater stroll.
She looked at him in hatred.
''Now what, are you going to try to smother me?''she asked, trying to hide her scared tone.
Without replying he let his gaze wander on her visible torso. The kimono had been tore apart and big part of her left tit was exposed, hold back only by her hard from the frozen water nipple.
His body warmth was making her writhe in shock, warm and cold together, it was more than what she could take.
He felt a bulge fighting hard against his wet pants now, as he fought with his manly self inside him if he should finish her off, or take advantage of her delicious body while he was at it. And seemed as his hormones had won.
He let his left hand wander on her torso skin, on the area above her breasts, ripping the kimono with a strong move away from his way. Sakura gave him a shocked look, not believing what he was doing.
She flinched and stayed silent in shock, as he saw him moving his head down lower on her chest, sucking on her breast skin softly, moaning lightly.
''What are you doing?Stop it!''she shouted, as she tried to push him away but she felt an intense pain on her head, as his other hand had reached in her hair and pulled it brutally, immobilizing her in the painful feeling.
He didnt talk to her, he didnt know what he was doing. She was going for it, he though, with all her body exposed like that.
She couldnt prevent her protesting moans of pleasure, as she felt guilty with her body that had already given in his touch.
She felt his other hand now going down on her, rubbing her uninjured thigh, earning another tremble from her as she made to swim away but his strong grip on her hair, reminded her she wouldnt go anywhere.
''Stay still.''his voice cold, his tone a commanding one.
He pressed his hand underwater further on her thigh, rubbing it gently, while he was softly massaging her nipple with his soft warm tongue, his hand grinding against her skin, as he let it go deeper, touching shyly her core.
She moaned which made him smirk uncosciously, as she tried to prevent herself from injuring herself in the angered voice inside her head that was screaming her to move away, because she hated him. But her body wouldnt obey, and she had no more mental power to face the reason behind it. Or she would go mad.
She felt his hand passing through her panties and getting straightly in touch with her core, she felt his soft fingers exploring her major lips, then the clit, then the inner ones and a tear or guilty ran down her eye.
He now started sucking on her nipple, and then ran his tongue all over her exposed tit, as his index finger was playing with her clit, he pressed himself harder against her and she felt the cold touch of the wooden sides knocking on her back. She felt trapped between the wood and his body and she wouldnt do nothing to escape.
''Stop it, please! Just don't…don't behave like your pig teammates.' she managed to say out of breath between her desperate moans.
''What does it matter? You think I am like them, either way. So why should I try to prove anything to you?' he said and she thought he sounded bitter but his tone was really cold.
''Well, now you are like them! Let go! I will surrender, just let me go!' she said and she noticed him smirking.
''Surrender? It is not like you had any other choice. I won.' he said and with that he shoved two of his fingers at once inside her, making her fluids run down her sex and spread into the water around her thighs.
''Enough!' she said and with that she slapped him, causing him to lightly back away.
He ignored her slap, but his hand was already out of her hair, now cupping her breasts, apathetic to her angered reactions.
He placed his other hand on her ass, pulling her closer to him, grinding lightly against her in the water.
''Behave yourself, Sasuke Uchiha!''she said and with that she raised one leg of hers and used him to push him away, against his pelvic region and he momentarily drifted away in the water as she found the time to escape and support her hands on the wooden sides in pain, as she jumped out of the pool, splashing all around with waters, running on the other side of the room, close to the door, trying to cover at her exposed breast by dragging her kimono back higher up.
He jumped out of the water, following her example, as she had bended over the ground to pick up the first kunai of hers she found scattered.
She searched her pockets for the bombs but anymore they were useless being dripping wet. She tossed them on the ground, which let out a weird odour.
''Ok, time to take you back.''he said secretly hurt by her pushing away, his voice sounded serious.
''Glad you realised it.''she said trying to hide her embarassment from before.
''You just proved me once more how I was right about are just like them.''she said as he fast paced back to her and got ready to do his shadow jutsu crossing his fingers.
''Perhaps, you need a little bit more of fight to stop complaining.''he grinned but it was too late cause he had stepped on one of the wet bombs and to Sakura's surprise it somehow worked, exploding silenty and filling the area around them with smoke, that prevented them from interacting.
That was all she needed, she rushed behind him, as she hoped he hadnt moved from his position but somehow she bumped agaisnt him, causing them both to fall on the ground.
When the smoke went away, she noticed how he was standing there, waiting for the air to become transparent again, partially confused with his back on the stone wall.
She picked the kunai that had fallen by her hand and quickly crawled in front of him, his legs between her knees and targeted the kunai to his neck.
''Move and you are dead, Uchiha.''she said as he looked at her calmly.
''You cant kill me. You dont have it in you.''he said and she slapped him with her free hand, before returning it back to grab with both hands the pointed kunai.
''Shut up!I have had enough of you. First you offend me, then you try to rape me. You are sick!''she said as he rolled his eyes on her.
''Ok then let's see you killing me. Because I guarantee you that if you step back on it, I will take you back to the clan, there is no going back after that.''he said regaining his usual tone.
She looked at him, clenching her teeth. She wondered why she didnt move the kunai further into his skin. She wondered in a painful dillema.
No he wasn't right. She wasn't weak. And she wanted more than anything to escape. But why couldn't she kill him? The question lingered in her mind, torturing her, as all kind of emotions filled up her in pain, guilty, love, hate, jealousy, fear, desperation, hope.
What was the feeling behind her hesitation though? Which one of them all?
She looked at him, trying to intimidate him with her look. He had a serene expression on his face. He didn't say anything.
She blinked, trying to put a cold mask on her face. She had already been far too soft with him in the past; he didn't need to know what she was thinking.
Before, she could snap out of her pestering thoughts, she felt a pair of hands tightened on her arms, pulling her lightly to him.
She noticed as her kunai, kept stably by her grip, grinded painfully against his pale fickle skin, letting a small reddish scratch on the spot.
''Do it.' he said looking at her in the eyes.
She flinched in confusion. Was he playing with her? Was he really so sure of her dilemma?
Or was he trying to give her an advantage and let her claim her right to get away?
If he wanted he could have knocked her on the ground long ago but he didn't seem to feel scared by her posed threat, lingering its cold touch on his neck.
''I might do it.' she said pretending to tease him, when her voice sounded broken by her confusion.
His hands tightened slightly their grip around hers, pushing her lightly more onto him, causing the kunai to push harder against his skin.
His eyes stable on her, her grip on the kunai stable as well.
She felt a tear rolling down her face, and she wasn't even aware she was crying. The tear rolled down her cheek, giving her inner struggle away.
He kept his glare stable on her, but she knew he had noticed her tear by his victorious expression, even if he tried to hide it.
Her grip on the kunai was now starting to shake; her hands moreover had started to shake causing her only ally in this twisted game to doubt.
She looked down on her hands and then slowly and unsurely back to him with a guilty expression, lightly shown all over her innocent face.
He smirked lightly, almost too weakly to be shown and slowly pulled her more onto him softly, uniting their lips into a soft but passionate kiss.
And the kunai had slipped from her hands.