The next day Sakura couldn't stop thinking about how she was going to solve this situation. She had to get Kohona back. She still didn't understand how the village crumbles over the Akatsuki. They had to have some kind of help from the inside. She didn't know who could possibly be a traitor in the village.
Sasuke was currently with Sakura following closely by. She felt so much better in her new clothes compared to wearing just Sasuke's shirt.
She was currently wearing a black tube top that looked like a straight black bra. Connected to the bottom was fishnet that went down to her hips. She had her black spandex shorts on with a red shirt that was similar to her pink one. She had a red belt that lay loosely around her waist. She wore the same black boots that went up below her knees. Sasuke insisted she wore the Akatsuki cloak to cover up more, but she refused.
They were walking around, but Sakura did exactly know where. She was lost in thought until she bumped into a couple of people who look familiar.
"SASUKE-KUUUUN" a screeching was heard.
"Shut up" The man said meanly.
Sakura looked up at Sasuke wondering if he knew them and by the looks, he definitely did. The red haired woman clung onto Sasuke while the man was smirking at Sakura.
"Who is this bitch? Shouldn't she be put in a cell?" The red head stated.
"Shut up, Karin. You're jealous she is hotter then you." The man said.
Sakura looked at the man and studied him. "Are you Suigetsu?" She asked. She thought she had read about him in a scroll about how he studied off of Zaku. And by the look of the sword he had, she had to be correct.
He smirked, "You've heard of me, huh beautiful?"
Sakura didn't know why, but she blushed at the comment.
Sasuke finally was able to get Karin off of him to see what Suigetsu and Sakura were talking about.
"So, what is a gorgeous woman like you doing with a heartless murderer like him?" Suigetsu asked jerking his head at Sasuke.
"Sasuke and I-"Sakura started.
"She's my slave so I advise you do back off." Sasuke said glaring at Suigetsu.
"Oh, really? So someone finally melted your heart? You must be one amazing woman." Suigetsu said while staring at her with interest and lust.
Karin was oddly quiet. She didn't know anything about this girl. She pushed her glasses downward to examine Sakura.
Suigetsu walked up to Sakura and brushed hair out of her face, but before he could even touch her, a hand slapped away him. Sasuke growled at him.
"Don't touch," Sasuke growled out.
"Oh come on, Sasuke. We can share." Suigetsu stared at him with a puppy face.
"She's mine!" Sasuke yelled.
"I don't see any claim that she is yours. She couldn't be anyone's, Sasuke. Let me just take her for a spin. I can break her in for you." Suigetsu chuckled at his own comment.
"If you touch her one more time then I swear I will rip you apart." Sasuke threatened.
"Why so protective, Sasuke? Does she really mean that much to you?" Suigetsu tested him.
"Enough!" was heard and the boys bother looked at Karin who was red in the face. "Let's just kill the bitch and get on with our lives!" She yelled as she pulled out a kunai and threw it at Sakura.
Sakura easily dodge and glared at Karin, "Oh Hell No!" She yelled as and took out her Katana. She ran at Karin at full force with her katana by her side. She went to strike Karin, but she jumped out of the way. Karin chuckled.
Sakura growled and chased after her. Using another hand, she threw a kunai at Karin's leg and knocking down from running any longer.
"What the fuck? Aren't you going to stock her before she gets hurt?" Suigetsu asked Sasuke.
Sasuke smirked at him and said nothing. Suigetsu thought he was crazy until he noticed Sakura grab Karin and throw her into the ground make a huge crater and deep cracks that came out of the ground.
Suigetsu's eyes widened. He snapped at Sasuke so see he had amusement and lust in his eyes. Suigetsu slightly shivered and wondered what he was thinking. He turned back to the battle.
Karin had got out of Sakura's grasp and threw explosive tags at her, but missed because of Sakura's speed. Leaves were circling Karin which turned to Sakura petals. They circled her faster and faster until they began to become razor blades and were cutting Karin over and over again. She screamed in pain.
"Game over" Sasuke said smirking as he walked up to Sakura who was glaring deeply at Karin a hundred feet away. He grabbed her forearm and they both teleported back to his bedroom. Sasuke pushed Sakura on the bed, but she refused to settle down.
"Let me kill her!" She demanded making her way to the door. Sasuke's amused face changed quickly as it went back to a scowl.
"Stay here!" He demanded.
"Or else what," She tested.
He activated his sharingan. Sakura started quietly, but sat down. She didn't understand what made Sasuke like this. She felt guilty.
He left the room. Sakura sat there quietly, patiently waiting for his return.
Hours went by and she began to feel sleepy, but she refused to sleep until he returned. Sakura missed his company. She felt so alone.
Another hour went by and the door opened. She jumped up, "Sasuke, I'm-" She stopped noticing it wasn't Sasuke.
Standing there was Sasori. He had a fishnet top on with black pants that he hand his hands in the pockets.
"Are you okay?" He asked kindly.
She nodded her head, "Where is Sasuke?"
His face expression changed quickly, "He is release anger out as we speak."
"Anger?" She asked as he nodded.
'What did I do so bad to make his angry' she wondered.
A loud crash was heard as Sasori slowly turned his head to look out the still open door.
"What was that?" Sakura gasped out.
"Sasuke," was all Sasori said.
Sakura ran out the door, but he grabbed her, "You don't want to see this." He warned.
She looked in to his eyes, but said, "I have to make sure he is okay."
He slowly let her go and nodded his head. He watched her ran after the loud bomb. He closed his eyes and sighed.
"You're such an idiot, Sasuke." He said softly. He walked the opposite direction, hoping Sakura would be alright.
Sakura ran as fast as she could. She was scared of what Sasuke had done to himself. She couldn't bear seeing him hurt. She ran faster.
She finally made it to the training grounds and couldn't believe her eyes. Sasuke was beaten badly. He had a deep cut on his arm and stomach. He was breathing roughly, but still determined to defeat whoever he was training with. He had marks everywhere. By the looks of it, the battle was about over Sasuke was about out of Chakra. She could see him exhausted and ready for the last blow of his Chidori.
She looked for his opponent. She stopped dead in her tracks. She started to shake. She saw Gaara in a worse condition then he was. He had gashed everywhere and he too was about done. They both fought long and hard.
Gaara look ready to destroy Sasuke. They glared at each other with hatred. Sakura didn't understand how this happened. She didn't know what to do until she head a thousand birds chirping. She turned her head towards Sasuke to see him charging at Gaara with his Chidori.
Gaara didn't move. Sakura didn't know what came over her, but she ran towards Gaara as fast as she could. It was seconds before Sasuke hit him that Sakura clung onto Gaara to protect him. Both Gaara's and Sasuke's eyes widened. Gaara went to push Sakura away, but she wouldn't budge. Sasuke stopped his Chidori at the last second and stared at Sakura protecting Gaara.
He didn't know what to do. He watched her as things became silent.
"How could you?" was heard from Sakura.
Sasuke looked at her stunned. Gaara kept staring down at Sakura in shock. Neither knew what to do.
Sakura refused to cry. She promised never to cry again and she will keep that promise. She waited in silence seeing what would happen.
The last thing she expected was a growl from Sasuke. She was jerked from Gaara and was being dragged to her room. Gaara ran after them to help Sakura, but two of the Akatsuki members grabbed him and pulled him back to his cell. Gaara didn't know what to do. He needed Sakura. He wanted to help her. He screamed. That's all he could do. Scream in frustration and disappointment in himself that he couldn't help her.
Sasuke was furious. He was disappointed in her for leaving the room, but also himself for causing her pain. He dragged her to the room and put the Chakra bracelet on her wrist much to her fights and arguments.
"Sasuke, how could you? Let me go! Don't fucking touch me!" Sakura was screaming
Sasuke remained silent as he fought to keep her still as he placed the bracelet on her wrist.
"Listen to me! You had no right to do that to Gaara! He didn't do anything to you! He has a sweet heart and cares about this village!" Sakura continued.
Sasuke stepped back and looked at her wrist. Sakura stopped her ranting to look at her wrist. She watched it as it turned to the bright blue like Naruto's, but slowly darker into a black. Sakura looked up at Sasuke in fear. He had no expression on his face. When she looked back down, she saw the bracelet had turned red.
"What is this?" She asked in fear.
"You will stay by my side and do as I order. You're my slave." Sasuke commanded.
"Like hell! You're not on our side! You're using us!" She barked out.
Sasuke snapped, "Use you?! You lost! There is nothing to use your for! Everyone could be dead if it wasn't for me!"
Sakura widened her eyes, but said nothing knowing what he said was true. She didn't know what this bracelet would do if she denied his orders, but she didn't want to find out.
"Follow me," He demanded.
Sakura stayed silent and followed him out the door. They walked for a couple more minutes until she realized they were walking towards the village. As they exited, they heard sounds of things hitting against each other, groans, and things falling down.
They continued walking until what they saw shocked them. People were all around the village, rebuilding it. Sakura saw some of her friends as they were glaring up at the Hokage tower. Sakura turned towards to see what they were staring at, but didn't take long.
"Sasuke, Sakura. How nice to see you here." Tobi greeted from the tower. Sasuke grabbed Sakura and jumped up to him.
What they saw frightened Sakura. Naruto was tied to a chair with a gag around his mouth. He looked worse than the day Sakura saw him. She ran over and started to heal him.
"Naruto, are you ok-"Sakura screamed as she was threw into the wall.
She looked up to see Tobi standing next to Naruto smirking, "No, no Sakura. He is the reason this village will be re-built. This village fear for their dear Hokage," Tobi said as he pinched Naruto's face and shook it as if to make him cute. "If they fear for his life, then the sooner this village will get down, but no promises will be kept," He ended as he punches Naruto. Naruto groaned and struggled to keep his eyes open.
"You bastard," Sakura spit out as she ran towards Tobi.
Tobi stood there smirking as she rushed to him. Before she could even touch him, she was thrown into the wall for a second time. She looked up at Tobi yet he hadn't moved. She looked to see Sasuke in defensive position.
She heard Naruto screaming into his gag. She laid there stunned. She didn't know what to do, but she was furious.
"Control you pet, Sasuke" Tobi Commanded Sasuke.
Sasuke looked at him and walked towards Sakura. Tobi went back to watching the village. Sakura pulled out a Kunai and pointed at Sasuke. Sasuke didn't do anything and proceeded to pick her up. She went to stab him, but it was unsuccessful. The kunai wouldn't even touch him.
Sasuke sighed as he poofed down in the village.
"What the hell is going on," Sakura asked.
"You're mine. You cannot hurt me and vice versa." He stated as he walked towards the Uchiha grounds. Sakura stayed in his arms wondering what he was planning to do.
"How could this happen? I just returned after a year. This can't be happening." She said in disbelief. She felt disappointed in herself.
Sasuke looked down at her, but continued walking. Sakura saw how destroyed the Uchiha grounds were and she could tell it hurt Sasuke even if he didn't show it.
They stood in front of the grounds as Sasuke placed her down.
"I won't let anyone work on this," Sasuke stated, opening up to Sakura. Sakura stared up to him understand he only wanted Uchiha's to work on it. She nodded her head. What he said next shocked her, "Except you, Sakura." Tobi is allowing you to work on the village and I'd like if you choose this as your project."
Sakura stared up at Sasuke and she knew he wasn't the bad guy. He had to act like one. She smiled and turned to hug him. "Thank you," She whispered.
"You too, Sakura" He said.
She smiled as they embraced each other. She knew there was still hope and she knew he was on their side. She knew with his help, things could get better. They just needed a plan, but maybe, just maybe, things wouldn't be so bad for now.
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A week had gone by from that day. Sakura was currently working on the Uchiha resort as Sasuke was out at a meeting with the Akatsuki. Sasuke placed a jutsu on the grounds so she was able to stay there alone without Sasuke while no one else was allowed him, and no one was allowed out.
She had made so much progress to the grounds. She was actually almost done. She was now working on the insides. She wanted to make this special to Sasuke so she worked at full speed and made many details to the grounds. There were Uchiha flags everywhere. It looked like it did, but with more Uchiha spirit. She hoped Sasuke would like it.
As she was working in Sasuke olds house, she noticed her bracelet flicker. She noticed days ago when her bracelet flickered it meant multiple things: Sasuke was close to out of Chakra, He was too far or very close. She use to get very scared when it would flicker, thinking Sasuke was extremely hurt, but Sakura learned that he could handle himself.
She smiled as she heard steps in the house. She knew he was here. She continued working as Sasuke walked in. She heard him stop as he watched her. She was currently carving the yet another Uchiha symbol on the floor. She felt as if Sasuke deserved the biggest Uchiha symbol in the whole village and she decided to place it in his old room. It was a large fan that took up most of his ground. Sometimes she felt as if she could carve the fan in her sleep since she has made so many. It wouldn't be painted, but she knew he would like it.
Sakura wondered what he was thinking when he saw it. 'Does he not like it?' She thought to herself.
She felt his squat down behind her. He didn't touch her as she continued. Sakura couldn't help but smile.
Nothing happened for several minutes until Sakura decided to stop and turn around. When she did, she notices how close he truly was. Sakura blushed, "Hey, Sasuke," She greeted.
He smirked down at her. Sakura tucked a piece of hair behind her ear and looked down at the floor to avoid his glaze and to make her blush disappear. As she let her hand fall, she felt Sasuke grabbed her hand gently. She looked up at him with a questioning look on her face.
Sakura became even more confused when he brushed his fingers on her cheek. He had gotten down on his knees. His face leaned in closer to Sakura as she whispered, "Sasuke-kun…"
She didn't know what was happening, was this really Sasuke?
Sasuke brushed his lips against Sakura's, but paused. Sakura closed her eyes, hoping for him to continue. Sasuke watched her eyes closed and felt her eyes closing as well. Sasuke pressed his lips against hers.
Sakura felt butterflies in her stomach as she pressed his lips against hers. She couldn't believe this was happening. She felt his hand cupping the back of her head, running his fingers through her hair. She raised her other hand that wasn't being held by his hand, to his head to run her fingers through his head as well.
It was a deep passionate kiss. As he pulled away they both opened their eyes. Sakura didn't know what came over her, but she pushed herself back onto Sasuke, kissing him, yet knocking him over where she was on top of him.
Sasuke grabbed onto her waist as she straddled him. He smirked in her lips and they continued to kiss. Every now and then they would part for air, but would continue kissing.
Sakura didn't care what just happened, she wanted this for years.
"Sakura," She heard Sasuke say in-between one of the kisses.
Sakura stopped to look down at him. She blushed and sat up on his stomach, suddenly embarrassed. She jumped off on him and sat on the floor staring down, blushing. Sasuke continued to smirk and sat up. She ran his fingers through his hair, messing it up.
"Sorry," Sakura said quietly.
Sasuke chuckled and grabbed her around the waist to cuddle her. She continued blushing, but closed her eyes and leaned into his chest.
"I love it," he said. Sakura became confused, but realize he was meaning the fan in the ground.
She smiled and turned towards the fan, "I'm glad."
"How much longer?" He asked looking around.
"I can get it down in an hour," She said.
"No, everything." He asked.
She realized he meant the whole grounds, "Hmm… Maybe 2 more days."
He nodded looking down at her, "Would you like to move in here?" he paused as she looked up to him, "with me?" he finished.
Sakura stared at him in shock. She jumped back on him and laughed, "Yes, Sasuke-kun," She was extremely happy.
He nodded smirking, "I'll get the furniture and clothes and everything you will need."
Sakura couldn't be happier. Being in the Uchiha compound was a blessing for her. She only wished when she left, she didn't see the disaster and the pain of her friends. She could tell that Sasuke knew that and hoped she would stay there to be happy, but deep down, she wouldn't forget about her friends and the Akatsuki.
Sasuke stood up and walked out, Sakura guessed for the furniture, as she continued to work.
She stared down at the almost down carved fan. She smiled thinking about Sasuke. She was almost ready to paint it. It was her master piece and it made it her even happier that Sasuke like it, no he loved it.
She wanted to finish everything even faster. She wanted to make Sasuke happy.
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The next morning Sakura woke up Sasuke's room.
'I must have fallen asleep last night' she thought.
She sat up to feel something comfy underneath her. She found she was sleeping on a bed.
'Sasuke-kun must have move in the furniture.' She thought. Then she started wondering where he was.
She looked around, but didn't see anyone. She got up and wanted to change. She walked to the dresser on other wall. She looked through to find a dark blue short kimono.
She put it on and walked out of the house. She walked around and looking every now and then at her bracelet to see if it would flicker. She walked to the entrance to see people continuing to work on the village. It looked amazing. It was ten times better than it used to be. She was so proud of everyone. She missed her friends so much.
She hoped everyone was okay. She closed her eyes wishing for Sasuke would be by her side so she could see her friends.
She looked through the village, hoping to see someone she knew. After a couple of minutes, she gave up and continued to work on the compound. She was determined to get everything done today.
Hours went by and Sakura noticed Sasuke still hadn't been around. She glanced at her bracelet and seen that nothing was wrong. She frowned and went back to work. She was tired and became worried.
It was close to eight at night that she noticed her bracelet flickering in the light. It became dim. Sakura's eyes widened.
'It's okay, Sakura. He'll be fine. He is strong. Don't worry' Sakura told herself as she took a deep breath.
She went back to working, but kept glancing at the bracelet. It flickered continuously for 2 hours, but then stopped. She stared at it for 5 minutes; waiting for something to happen. She nailed the last nail in to complete the compound. She walked back to Sasuke's house while continuing to stare at the bracelet the whole walk to the house.
When she got there, she took a shower and got dress for bed. She wore a pink tank top with green pj shorts with pink cherry petals on them. She walked to the bed and straightened it out to only get in the bed and cover herself with the blankets. She watched the bracelet as she laid there.
She watched the clock and watched the door. An hour went by and Sasuke still wasn't back.
'Where the hell is he?' She became more frustrated. She was hungry, she hasn't eaten all day, she was tired from working all day, and she was worried about Sasuke. She didn't know what to do. Soon she fell asleep.
Later that night she heard the door open. She laid still knowing it was Sasuke. She sighed in relief as she heard him walk closer. She looked at the clock to see it was 4am.
Her ninja instinct was to fly out of bed and interrogate him, but whatever he went through she knew it took a lot out of him and he was tired. She stayed still as if she was asleep.
She felt him climb into bed and cover himself with the covers. She still stayed still; a little nervous that this would be the first night they slept in the same bed.
She heard him sigh as he drifted to sleep. She continued to be worried for him as she tried to fall asleep.
A couple hours went by until she drifted to sleep.
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The next morning Sakura woke up to Sasuke gone. She looked everywhere around the room. She ran around the compound. When she made it to the entrance, she stopped.
'I wonder what will happen if I step out' She thought.
She looked towards the village to see if anyone was around; she jumped on top of a building in the compound to get a better look. The village looked amazing. It was so much better than the old village and Suna. She missed being back in Suna, healing and being the best medic there ever was.
'Wait! I'm still the best medic! I'm and ANBU captain! I'm stronger now and can kick some ass!' She pumped herself up as she jumped forward towards the village. Nothing happened as she continued jumping until she felt it.
Small electric shocks spread throughout her body. She squinted her eyes and continued running, hoping to find her friends. She knew could her through this. She felt her chakra disappearing and the shocks became stronger.
'No! No! Please! I can do this!' She thought as she ran two miles in.
Her eyes closed as she fell towards the ground. She was in a lot of pain and her body became numb and smashed into the ground. She felt herself passing out.
"Sakura…Sakura!" She heard a voice call as they ran towards her.
"Shik-Shikamaru?" She whimpered out.
"SAKURA!" She heard a female voice call out, but she knew it was Ino.
She tried to move her body, but she felt herself passing out.
The last thing she heard was a thump of someone landing towards them and the ground becoming smaller.
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Sakura woke up in Sasuke's room. She looked around for Sasuke and found him in a chair across the bed with his head in his hands.
"Sasuke-kun," She mumbled out.
His head shot up as he rushed over to her side, "Are you okay?" He asked with no really emotion, but she knew Sasuke better than that. She nodded her head, " What. Happened!" He demanded.
"I wanted to see the village," She stated as if it was nothing.
He growled at her response and shook his head, "You're supposed to be my slave and not do what you want! Tobi is furious and wants you in a cell! He's going easy on you! You could have been killed!" He yelled pissed off.
"That's not fair! Why the hell aren't we planning?! I want out of this hell hole!" She yelled back at him.
"I'm working on it! Naruto and I are planning everything so don't act like you know everything." She yelled back sourly.
Sakura calmed down and looked at her lap.
"Follow me." She said as he got up. She followed him hoping to get out of the compound.
And that's exactly what he did. They walked together in the village as Sakura got to see what was done. She smiled and continued to stay close to Sasuke. They walked into a building. She thought he was rude for not knocking, but remembered Sasuke could do anything at this point. She looked at the people inside and their surprised faces.
She saw all of her friends. She smiled as Ino called her name. They ran out to each other in embrace.
She took a step back and looked at Ino. At the most part she was healed, but she looked ill and terrible.
She looked around at everyone else and they looked the same way. Everyone was healed at the most part, but there were scratches and marks here and there. She knew her friends fought with everything they had. She wished she could have been there. She smiled sadly as she hugged everyone else in the house.
"Geeze Sakura, hotter than ever" Kiba said as he chuckled. Sasuke growled and glared at him.
"You're still the same, Kiba" She giggled as she hugged him. He squeezed her around the waist. He looked at Sasuke behind Sakura. He noticed he was glaring so he winked at him and continued to hug Sakura tighter as he smirked.
He let go of Sakura for others to hug her. In the end, she healed them up knowing Tobi would be mad, but she took the risk. Sasuke watched her very tense.
Sasuke watched as smiled and laughed with all of her friends. He stayed by the door to watch for anyone that may try to enter.
It'd been a couple days since the kiss and he didn't know what she thought. He wondered if it was a bad idea, but he didn't know what came over him. He wanted her. He needed her for selfish reasons. He wasn't going to let her go. He knew she loved him because she even whispered it. He knew he wasn't supposed to hear, but he did. He honestly didn't know what his feelinsg were with her yet, but he knew he wouldn't let something so special disappear.
He watched her as they talked. He didn't want to take her away from her friends, but it was getting dark. Sakura looked up at Sasuke while laughing and saw his face look impatient.
"We have to be going. It's dark out." She announced. Everyone looked disappointed expect for Sasuke who snapped his head at what she said. They all said their goodbye's as Sakura and Sasuke left.
After a couple minutes of walking Sakura said, "Thank you, Sasuke-kun." She smiled at him and she stopped.
He stopped too and looked at her with curiosity. Sakura walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him in a hug. Sasuke hugged back as well.
They said nothing after a minute of hugging. They continued back to the compound.
When they reached the compound and his room, Sakura went to the bathroom and changed into some pajamas. When he walked out, she saw Sasuke already in bed. She climbed into bed with him. She faced away from him as she cuddled the blankets. As she got comfortable, Sasuke got comfortable as well as she placed his arm around her waist and pulled her closer. She smiled.
She couldn't believe Sasuke could be the loving type. She thought back at their kiss. She blushed remembering the feeling on her lips. Her lips tingled. She snuggled closer to him as they both fell asleep.