A/N: Strangely enough I found this chapter harder to write than the last one just because I wasn't sure how all of the characters would take these new developments. Hopefully it's still enjoyable.
Chapter 6.
"Sakura what the hell happened, and don't you even think about lying to me." Kakashi's heart was beating so swiftly that he thought that it's palpitations could probably be heard by every patron in the bar. His hands ghosted over her soft skin that was now sporting bruises so dark they were purple.
"Oh these? Uh, it's nothing." She felt so stupid for forgetting to heal before she left the hotel room. Green chakra quickly lit her hands and she began to heal the bruises on her neck. She decided to heal the bruises on her inner thighs to since it was obvious Kakashi knew how she got them anyway. She saw his eyes narrow to where she was healing and her breath caught in her throat at the look in his eye. There was only one word you could use to describe a look like that. Murderous.
Kakashi was out of his seat before he knew it and heading directly for the room where the Uchiha slept. He could hear Sakura behind him begging him to just let it go but he didn't care. "That bastard is going to pay for what he did to her."
"Kakashi wait!" She had never seen that look in his eye when they weren't fighting for their lives and it scared her. "I can't let them fight, they would destroy each other."
Kakashi slammed through the door and was met with a semi sleepy ninja who was already armed (It didn't bode well for ninja to be caught sleeping).
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sauske was in no mood to listen to whatever his "leader" had to say. He say Sakura shuffle in behind the Copy Nin and wondered what the hell this was all about.
"What did you do to her you bastard?" Kakashi was ready to drag this sorry piece of filth to the street and end the life of the last Uchiha. Eyes steady he moved his hand to his kunai pouch but found a bit of resistance. Sakura had her hand firmly against his and her eyes begged him to not start a fight.
"I wasn't doing anything that she didn't want me too, ask her yourself…she likes it rough" Kakashi felt sick to his stomach, turning to the woman beside him he gazed into her eye looking for any trace that what the man said was a lie so he could kill him. Her eye said nothing, but the next words out of her mouth shocked him to the core.
"It's okay Kakashi, I…liked it." Her eyes drifted to the floor out of shame, not because she had actually liked being handled the way Sauske had handled her, but because she had lied to Kakashi. She hadn't wanted it, she wanted to weep for her own lost innocence but she had come to the conclusion that if she were to admit to Kakashi what had actually happened they two men would wage an all-out war and she wasn't sure if either of them would survive a head to head match.
None of them had noticed the quiet artist sliding in the room just seconds before and he was not about to draw attention to himself now. He could tell that Sakura was lying, years of training in root made his ability to separate lie from truth almost unparalleled. Even still he didn't have to look hard to tell she was lying, it was there in the slump of her shoulders and the shake of her voice. If you hadn't know her well enough you could mistake this for shame at enjoying something so deviant, but he knew better. He knew for a fact that Sakura was innocent, or at least she was. What Sai couldn't understand was how she was allowing the Uchiha to control her. The Sakura he knew was a powerhouse. Her strength was unmatched by even the Hokage and even though she might not be able to take down the Uchiha she could certainly get her point across. So why then was she allowing him to treat her this way? It must be that stupid sense of female pride he knew she possessed in abundance. She thought she could "Fix" this broken man all by herself so she had allowed him to treat her like filth.
Kakashi couldn't believe his ears. His sweet cherry blossom enjoyed this? "How could anyone enjoy that, especially from someone they love?" Kakashi could be as dirty as the next guy, well more dirty in fact, but he could never imagine choking someone to the point where they had bruises. Choking him wasn't his forte at all but he knew that some people liked it. Kakashi preferred to make love to his women slowly. That was neither here nor there and he couldn't help the anger as he turned without another word and left.
Sai stepped forward then and asked if he could speak to Sakura out in the hall. "It will only take a minute." He saw Sauske wave him off and then crawl back into the bed. The pink haired woman followed him quietly out into the dark hallway. "Sakura why are you doing this? It's obvious you were lying but I don't understand why you are with him. You haven't been happy since we left for this mission." He heard her suck in a breath, but he wasn't about to stop. Sometimes people needed tough love to understand that their pain was somewhat self-inflicted. "I get it, you use to be madly in love with this guy, but he broke your heart and more than that he broke you, but you overcame that and became one of the strongest ninja I have ever known. I know you think you can fix him Sakura but he can't be fixed unless he wants to be fixed. Do you honestly think that he respects you? That he loves you? A real man wouldn't treat any woman the way he has treated you. You could knock this guy into next week but you just let him take you."
Sakura was crying now, every word he had said was true. She was ashamed of herself. She was a Leaf Kunochi damnit! And she was letting a man rape her. Her tears that had started to fall at the man's words were feeling cold from the heat coming off her face. She was getting angry. She had let Sauske take the most beautiful thing she had to offer a man and not only had he not been grateful, but he had nearly broken her all over again in doing so. She suddenly remembered all of the nights she had cried herself to sleep after Sauske had left, hell he had tried to kill her on more than one occasion.
She felt her fist clench together and she had sort of snapped. She had been telling herself over and over again that he was different, that he came back to be with her but the truth was that he had never once told her he loved her. In fact he told her that he wanted her for nothing else than to be a baby factory so he could rebuild his clan. She gave Sai a slight nod and stomped back into the room with the sleeping Uchiha.
Sai was glad to see his teammate snap out of whatever spell that Sauske had woven around her and he couldn't help a small smile that crept on his face. "I almost feel sorry for him… almost."
"Sauske get up!" Sakura could feel herself shaking but it wasn't from fear, she was pissed and she was about to make her anger known.
Sauske grumbled at the woman who he had thought to still be the quiet meek girl he had left all of those years ago, but the look in her eyes was anything but meek. He would never admit it to himself, but he was afraid.
"HOW DARE YOU?" Sakura was quiet enough that there argument wouldn't be heard outside but she was not whispering by any means. "You sick bastard! Did you know that you took my innoncence or could you not even tell by how rough you were? You choked me Sauske, you choked me so hard that I passed out and you didn't even care enough to move me to the bed or return my clothes, you left me crumbled on the floor. You tried to break me Uchiha and like a fool I almost let you but no more. I am going to break you!" She dove at him and landed a solid punch right to his face, even without chakra the blow was enough to break his jaw and shatter his nose. "And don't expect me to heel you. I will be your teammate because unlike some people I am loyal to this village and I will even try my damndest to forgive you, but if you EVER so much as look at me wrong ever again I won't be aiming for your face and I won't hold back. She cast a glance down to his genitals so her point would be heard and she could almost hear his mind working wondering how he would ever rebuild his clan if she got a hold of him there.
Sauske knew when he had been beaten, but that didn't mean that he was going let it go. "He doesn't love you, you know? He just knows that you have feelings for him and he wants to use you. No one could ever love someone like you Sakura. You might have more strength then 10 men but you are weak. You let me take you, you barely put up a fight because you know I'm right. I was the only chance you had and now you have decided to give that up. But don't worry, when you find out I am right you can come back and stand behind me where you belong." Then he strode to stand in front of her and gently placed a hand on her stomach, "Who knows, my child could already be growing inside you".
Sakura felt like she had just been punched in the gut. Could that be true? Could she have gotten pregnant? She visibly shuddered at the thought. No, that couldn't be. She turned and strode out of the room without a second glance.
Walking down the hall she pressed her face on the door to Kakashi and Sai's room. Before she could even knock Sai was there opening the door and enveloping her in a gentle embrace. She allowed his warmth to comfort her and rested her head on his chest.
"I am proud of you Sakura. Tonight you proved how strong you truly are." He inclined his head to where Kakashi would have been sleeping had he been there at all. "Give him some time, he will come around."
"Oh Sai, it's too late for that. It's not like he really had feelings for me anyway, he was just trying to be a good friend." She held him closer, her own words bringing sadness.
"What are your feelings for him Sakura?"
"Honestly? I don't know, I thought what I felt for Sauske all those years ago was love but I was wrong. If I loved Kakashi I wouldn't have lied to him right?"
"Oh I don't know. I think lying to protect someone you care for could mean that you do love him."
She sat there and thought for a second. Kakashi was the closest friend she had. He had been there for her in a way that no one else had when Sauske had left, and then Naruto left soon after. He had always been there when she needed a shoulder to cry on even though she knew he hated to see her cry. She knew that he felt at least a close friendship for her, and apparently lust if that kiss had been an indicator. Did she love him? She had been so blinded by Sauske's return that she hadn't realized that after the war that somewhere along the way her feelings had taken a deep turn. My God, she did love him.
"You're right Sai, I do love him. But what does it matter, he wants nothing to do with me and even if he can still stand to be my friend it's not like he can give me anything more. I think I must be doomed to walk this Earth and be on the same team as the man I love, knowing that he doesn't love me in return." She felt a silent tear slide down her cheek. "I thought it was bad with Sauske, this is so much worse."
Sai gently picked her up and tucked her into his bed, thankful Kakashi and Sai had gotten the room with two beds. He pulled the cover over her and lay down beside her careful to lie down on top of the covers so she knew his intentions. He pulled her in close, and let her cry herself to sleep. Several hours later their team leader came into the room and scowled down at him.
"Oh so she has decided to make her way around the whole team huh?" He was drunk and he didn't care how callous his words were. "You can have her." He was a little startled when Sai let go of the woman sleeping beside him and crossed the room.
"You watch your tongue, she has gone through enough and she doesn't need any more guilt on her shoulders,"
"Guilt? Are you joking?" Kakashi looked incredulously at the man before him. "Guilty about what? That she likes a rough fuck?" Kakashi knew the words sounded harsh but his heart had been broken by the pink haired kunoichi and at this point in time he didn't care if she woke up and heard him. Next thing he knew he was pressed firmly against the door with a kunai at his throat.
"I know you are hurting and a little drunk so I will refrain from maiming you, but shut your mouth before you wake her up. You have no idea what you are talking about and I won't let you speak about her that way."
"Okay then, enlighten me." Kakashi was starting to feel his buzz wear off at the serious turn this conversation had taken.
"He raped her you idiot. He has been pressuring her since he came home to have his children so he could rebuild his clan. She didn't want this any more than you did." He waited for a second before continuing, letting his hold on Kakashi's neck loosen. "She lied to you because she knew as her best friend that if you knew the truth you wouldn't stop until either you or Sauske was dead."
Kakashi could feel the blood draining from his face; even though he wanted to blame her he knew that Sai's words were true. Thinking back on it her face had been all wrong when he asked her if she had consenting. He sent a nervous glance at the woman sleeping, thanking whatever God was listening that she had slept through his tirade. "I'm going to kill him."
"No, you are going to continue this mission and then when we return to Konoha we will let the Hokage deal with him, besides I am fairly sure that Sakura said her two cents to him already."
"I can't just let him get away with it Sai, I love her."
"You know that Sakura is light a daughter to Tsunade, do you really think she will just let it go?"
" I guess not. How is she Sai?"
"Beaten, but not broken this time, but there is something that you should know." Sai felt like he might be overstepping his bounds, but he couldn't stand to see them like this. "She loves you Kakashi, she loves you more than she even knew herself, but she is hurting."
"She.. she loves me?" Kakashi could hardly believe the words he was hearing. Sakura, his Sakura returned the love that he was trying so hard to hide. He felt like hugging the man before him before remembering that he wasn't much of a hugger and neither was Sai. Then realization of the conversation hit him. Sauske had raped her. He was itching to kill the man, but that wasn't what she wanted so he would refrain. A small smile flashed under his mask at the thought of the foul tempered Hokage, and the Hokage to be beating the ever-loving shit out of the Uchiha. His smile was quickly replaced by a frown as he quickly glanced at the woman sleeping. How in the world was he going to convince her that he could love her and that he wouldn't leave? How could he heal the scars that would obviously cut her deep? Kakashi wasn't sure what his game plan was to make her his, but he would try anything. He was known for his stubbornness after all.
A/N: The last chapter will be the last on in the story. I am considering a sequel if it gets enough interest. Hope you enjoyed this one since Sakura finally got her nerve back! Sauske has always been a weak point for her but I think she is finally past being under his control…