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Chapter 10
Sakura had lain awake for most of the night previous, seething about the message that Sasuke had sent her. "How can he be my soul mate if he's…" she referred to the crumpled piece of paper "met someone else?"
Destiny sighed as she took the crumpled paper from the distraught girl. Exchanging a look with her sister, she sighed heavily. "I don't know Sakura…. we didn't …." Destiny choked on her words, a rasping sound. "We didn't see anything like this happen…" supplied Fate, looking at her sister oddly. The only time her sister ever made that sound…
For even as Fate was reassuring Sakura, Destiny was doubled over. She had dropped the note like it had burned her and she was clutching her right hand. Finally, it seemed, the pain subsided and Destiny managed to sit up properly again.
"Wh-what just happened?" asked Sakura urgently. Destiny shook her hand a couple times, like someone does when they're trying to awaken an appendage after lying on it funny. "Whatever it was…it wasn't good," said Fate in a grim voice.
Destiny's right palm was glowing and she looked at it like it was some movie that she had seen for the first time and was extremely fascinated by. "Fae and I…" she said, not taking her eyes off of her palm. "Wrote a tentative destiny for you…. a new one. It's in your hands now, as we said in that dream. However, we thought we'd help the process along."
"Oh!" said Fate softly. "Then I know what that was. We were wrong…again. And now it's entirely up to you, we can't do anything anymore except provide support. And as such…" she turned briskly to Sakura. "It is now 12 PM…you need to go to bed." "Wait wait," she said impatiently. "What was the new destiny you had for me?" she asked.
Destiny sighed and, after looking at Fate who gave her a 'What more can it hurt?' look, said, "We tried to go for the happily ever after ending scenario." Sakura gave her a withering look but Destiny held out her hands in a 'what do you want me to say?' gesture. "We were trying to make up for what we did…"
"Then why did it only hurt you?" "Because I only rewrote destiny. We didn't bother with fate because we figured it wasn't going to work." "Now get to bed. You need to recoup your losses tomorrow morning," said Fate in a stern voice.
Unhappily Sakura struggled out of the white dress she was going to wear to supper, out of her corset and into her silk shift nightgown.
After she had fallen asleep, Destiny showed Fate something in the note that Sakura hadn't noticed. "He….if Sasuke actually wrote this…said 'someone else…I mean something else…'" Fate looked at the note, forehead wrinkled. "You'd think someone who was standing a girl up, especially someone of Sasuke's standing would take care to not make a mistake like that."
Both sisters smelt a rat.
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Sakura woke early the next morning, the sun giving her a headache. "Why is the sun so bright in this time period?" she asked the deceptively empty stateroom. "Because, while it is just after the industrial revolution, it is still a relatively clean environment," said Destiny brightly to the tired girl.
After Sakura had been dressed in a respectable skirt and blouse combo-this time a beige top with a brown velour hobble skirt-and her pink hair had been piled on her head neatly, Sakura was deemed ready. Just before she left the stateroom, Destiny lay a hand on Sakura's shoulder. "Good luck today Sakura…with him…" Sakura avoided her eyes and said, "Yeah…"
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Once Sakura got out into the open air….she was ambushed by TenTen, and Ino with Hinata trailing behind the other two. "Why did you do that?" demanded Ino. Sakura looked at the blonde who was wearing a light blue day dress, confused. "What do you mean? Why did I do what?"
TenTen gave her a look of utter disbelief. "You don't even know what you did? Sakura, he…"
TenTen was cut off when Sasuke stepped up behind Sakura and said in his low voice, "Hello Miss. Haruno." Sakura stiffened and turned around, needing to be polite. "Officer Uchiha," she said in a chilly voice.
"Ladies if I can have a minute?" Sakura looked desperately back to the women who were with her, only to see them nodding, Ino even saying "Yes, certainly Sasuke." Sakura shot the blonde a Look before turning back to the officer, a blank look on her face.
After the other three had gone, Sasuke offered Sakura his elbow that she blatantly refused. His obsidian eyes narrowed slightly at this snub but he said nothing as she walked towards the railing to look out over the ocean.
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Gaara watched as the two stood by the railing talking. This was an event he had to interrupt. Sakura was clever enough to figure out that something was amiss. The Uchiha probably was as well but he didn't want to admit it. He stepped out of the shadows of the doorway.
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"So, what do you want…Officer Sasuke?" she said in an icy voice. "Come to tell me about dinner last night? May I ask who joined you?"
This puzzled the officer. "I was in the Parisian café but…"
"I'm sorry for interrupting…but would you like to take a turn on the deck Miss. Haruno?" interrupted Gaara. The two-pink haired and black haired turned to look at the red haired officer. Black clashed with jade in annoyance but the emerald eyes looked at the red haired man with relief. "Certainly Gaara, thank you." Turning back to Sasuke, she said in a formal voice, "I'm sorry Officer can we continue this conversation at a later date?"
Without waiting for a reply she gave Gaara her elbow and walked down the deck with him.
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The two walked in silence. Sakura noticed that every once in awhile, he would look back but she didn't realize Sasuke was following them until she herself looked back. "And you know the kicker?" murmured Gaara to Sakura after she looked forward. "He knows we know he's following us."
When they came to the next fork in the road, Gaara put a little pressure on her elbow causing her to turn. "This way…" he propelled her into the darker corridor and, once they were in the dark corridor, he pushed open another door and shoved Sakura inside gently before following her and closing the door.
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Sasuke rounded the corner and looked into the dark corridor. "Why is he coming down here…" murmured the dark haired officer. He set off down the empty darkened corridor by himself.
He walked up and down the narrow corridor…. until he heard a scream, coming from one of the utility closets.
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In such close proximity Sakura was really aware of the fact that Gaara was male. She could feel his body pressed tightly against her own and his arms and hands-one on each side. "You know Miss. Sakura…" he said, his normally cold voice rather husky. His face was so close to hers, she could feel his hot breath on her face…and she did not like it at all.
He leaned in and began to feather kiss her on the throat. Sakura's breath hitched in her throat…and not in the good way. "Gaara what are you doing?"
"Oh come on," he purred…but in a feral voice. "I won't bite…. much…" to prove his point, it seemed, he nipped on her neck. Sakura could feel his hands working their way down to the place where her blouse tucked into her skirt.
So, she did what any self-respecting woman of the period would do if they were being assaulted…in that way…
In the dark of the closet, she threw back her head…and screamed at the top of her lungs.
Within a second, two things happened. Gaara growled at her and ripped off her shirt, and the door was torn open with such force that Sakura was sure it was going to be torn from it's hinges.
And Sasuke stood there. He took in the scene and growled 6 words.
"Get. Off. Her. You. Bastard."
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