Haunted by the Past

Main: Sakura & Sasuke

AU, Sakura was in the eighth grade when it happened. Her parents away, she walks to her house alone in the dark and a man jumps her from the shadows, rapes her, and then leaves her broken to suffer the pain for the rest of her life.

A/N: Thanks for your reviews on the previous chapters. All suggestions have been taken into account, and I'm sure that everyone will LOVE the twist that I'm planning. Of course, before we get to that, we have to stuff this sandwich with meat, so here's Chapter 4! Ham! jk

Just as Ino had planned, she, Sakura, Hinata, and Naruto had spent every Friday together that summer. Now it was the last full week of summer vacation, and Sakura was beginning to get the blues.

"Ino, why did the summer have to go by so fast?" she groaned to her best friend, who sat on her bed, painting her toenails.

"I don't know. I guess that's because it always does," she said as she continued to focus on not making any stray purple marks on her skin.

"I don't want to go back," Sakura whispered. Ino stopped her painting and looked at Sakura's face. She was looking down at her lap as if remembering.

"You think it was someone from school?" Ino asked. They'd never talked much about the subject because of Sakura's sensitivity to that life-changing event.

She nodded her head, then looked over at her dresser. "I have a theory, but in truth it could have been anyone," she said as calmly as she could.

"Well, what's your theory?" Ino asked, closing up the bottle of polish.

"Um...well...you know I was dating Kabuto right before it happened right?" Sakura started.

"Uh-huh..."

"And I didn't have sex with him even though he'd wanted me to..."

"Uh-huh..."

"Well, on the last day of school, I ran into him and he just...he made me feel...weird."

"Uh-huh..."

"I'm finished, Ino." Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Oh sorry. So, you think it's Kabuto?" Ino asked, apparently in thought.

"Well, I won't say for sure that it was him, but he's the only lead I have," Sakura said, trying to dismiss the eerie thoughts in her head.

"Hm...So what should we do? We have to find out for sure Sakura. If not, you will keep blaming every other guy for what he did."

"I don't blame every other guy!" Sakura protested.

"Then why do you run away when any guy other than Naruto comes near you?" Ino said, knowing that she'd won.

"Because...they...they make me nervous," she lied, sort of.

"Kiba makes you nervous? What, that he's going to tell another corny joke? Shikamaru? All he ever wants to do is sleep. Shino's too quiet, and all Chouji does is eat all the time. They are our friends Sakura, but you are too worried that they could have been the one to hurt you, that you ignore them."

Sakura was silent, because she knew that Ino was right. Her "friends" were just that, and she had abandoned them because of what some stranger did to her. None of them would have hurt her but she was afraid. Afraid of getting hurt again. Afraid that they were the ones that did that. Afraid of men in general.

"Come on. Let's get out and have some fun!" Ino said as she dialed some numbers on her phone. Sakura groaned, knowing what was coming. Fun Fridays!

Sasuke grabbed the keys to his car and began to walk out of the house but his mother stopped him. "Where are you going?" she asked.

"To the movies."

"Oh okay. Well have fun and talk to people!" his mother said with a giggle. She loved to pester her son about his un-social life.

Sasuke rolled his eyes as he walked out of the house. As he got to his car, his cell phone rang. Sasuke smirked when he saw the caller ID. "Hey babe," he said in a deep, seductive voice.

"Yeah! So what movie are we going to watch?" Naruto asked excitedly as he looked at the list of movies playing.

"Ooo...Let's watch Eclipse!" Ino said with a devious look on her face.

"Hehe...you're only saying that because of-" Hinata started before Ino put her hand on her mouth to shut her up.

"Jacob," Sakura finished. Ino glared at her.

"Eww! We are so not watching a movie where Ino is drooling over 'hot' guys the entire time!" Naruto proclaimed, making the accent marks with his hands when he said hot.

...30 minutes later...

Ino is drooling, Naruto is pouting. "Why am I the only guy in the group?" he grumbled. All three girls had outnumbered him when it came down to the vote. Turns out Ino wasn't the only one that liked werewolves.

"Could be worse...you could be alone," a deep voice said from somewhere behind him.

Naruto visibly jumped and turned around looking for the culprit. When he saw no one suspicious, he whispered, "Jesus? Is that you?"

Someone behind him chuckled quietly. "No, you idiot. It was me," a black haired guy said from behind him as a pale hand reached out from the darkness.

Naruto turned around, looked at the person and then shook his hand. "Oh. Hehe, that's embarrassing. My name is Naruto by the way, and you are," he said introducing himself, despite the people complaining about the distraction during the movie.

"Sasuke, nice to meet you," the black-haired guy said as he looked away from Naruto and to the girls that sat around him. He smirked and then said in a sly voice, "Dude, I'm so jealous."

"What do you-Oh," Naruto said as it hit him what Sasuke was implying. "No, no it's not like that. Only one of them is my girlfriend." He was digging himself in a deeper hole.

"And the other two are?"

"Ack! They are just friends, man I'm terrible at this," Naruto said, putting his hands on his head in panic.

At just that moment, Sakura turned around and looked at the guy sitting behind Naruto. She gasped and then turned back around quickly. A blush was rapidly spreading across her face and she would do anything to make it go away.

He was hot! Long black hair that stood out in spikes with bangs that framed his face, dark, mysterious eyes, pale skin. It was like one of the vampires had pulled itself off the big screen and landed in the seat behind her friend. Edward had nothing on this guy. In fact, neither did Jacob.

She chanced another glance at the mysterious stranger and immediately regretted it. He was looking straight at her, his eyes...intrigued perhaps.

Then she heard him ask Naruto, "Who's she?" His voice, so silky smooth, yet deep and masculine. He was a dream...Sakura pinched herself...nope, not a dream.

"Oh, this is Sakura, my friend. And the blonde beside her that's too interested in the movie to notice us is Ino, Sakura's BFF. And this is Hinata, my girlfriend and the most beautiful girl in the world," Naruto explained in a smooth voice, describing each and every one of the girls. Sakura figured that she must have missed something. He winked at Hinata, who had looked at him curiously.

"Cool," Sasuke said still looking at Sakura. In the darkness, he couldn't tell what color her hair was. Red, blonde maybe? It was light-colored, long, and slightly wavy. Her eyes, a dark color, seemed shy and troubled. She was pale complected compared to her friend who sported a suntan. She appeared to have a small frame, curves included, but she still had an attractive air about her.

He stopped himself. Why was he examining this girl so much? He had a girlfriend, and one that wasn't lacking on the curves front. She had the prettiest red hair, dark reddish-brown eyes, long eyelashes, a perfect profile and slightly tanned complexion. She wore clothing that made Sasuke's body ache as did every other guy she crossed paths with. Sasuke had always been the one protecting her from guys that would have "taken advantage of" her. Or at least, he thought they would take advantage of her.

The point was, he shouldn't be looking at this girl that was a complete stranger to him. He felt as though he was betraying Karin by even thinking about her, so he pulled his eyes away from her and focused back on the movie, trying to stop thinking about the shy girl in front of him.

-End-

A/N: Okay, I'm stopping there just because I needed to update and I didn't want to make the chapter longer. Plus I'm tired. Sorry it took so long. I've been playing on my Nintendo DS for the past few days. Got hooked, couldn't stop. But I updated, so please review! Your reviews are what make me keep writing this story. Fewer reviews, lower priority. So REVIEW IF YOU LIKE HBP!