Haunted by the Past

Main: Sakura & Sasuke

A/N: Okay so I have tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday before I'm off to college. It may be a while before I update again what with classes and everything. This is currently the only story, other than "Too Long" that I am going to work on due to the reader demand. I will try to finish this story soon! So, here's a chapter before I leave.

Christmas break was over now and things were beginning to calm down in Konoha. Sakura had started talking to Sasuke again and with her forgiveness the others soon followed, although everyone could tell that Naruto had not forgotten what the jerk had done.

Now, they were all concentrating on the end of the school year which was fast approaching. Every senior was excited, but Sakura and her friends had to be the most excited of all. Sakura was already registered for Konoha University and now she was busy filling out scholarship applications.

She was in the middle of carrying a large folder filled with important papers when she ran into him. The folder fell out of her hand. She'd gotten out of class to go to the counselor's office and now she was alone in the hall with them. Why didn't they buy security cameras for this school? she asked herself, knowing that he could do anything and they wouldn't see.

"Sakura-chan, you're such a klutz. Does my presence really bother you that much?" he asked in his snaky voice as he looked at the folder she'd dropped. Of course he wouldn't help her pick it up, even if it had been his fault.

She stooped down in front of him to gather her belongings, and then gasped when he stooped down too, placing his hands on her arms. "G-get off of me, K-kabuto," Sakura stuttered afraid of what he might do.

"I can't Sakura. My body needs you, Sakura-chan. Please..." he begged, his eyes, although still creepy, more desperate now.

"Well, m-my doesn't n-need you, so...get away from m-me," Sakura said, her attitude coming out even through her stuttering.

"Cold as ice, I love it. I've always loved that about you Sakura-chan. You're always 'The Tease' and I can't stand it. Please Sakura, just once," he said giving her his best 'sexy' face. "I won't hurt you like he did," he added quietly.

"W-what?" Sakura exclaimed. Was he blaming her rape on someone else? What did he know? The glasses, surely those were a sign. Surely, Kabuto was the one that scarred her, but now...Sakura doubted everything she'd ever believed about "That Night."

"What?" he asked, confused.

"Y-you mean...someone else..?" Sakura could barely form the words in her mouth.

"Yes, Sakura. I know," he said quietly. He was smiling at her but at the same time, Sakura got the feeling that he was concerned.

"Well, who was it, then?" she asked, thinking that maybe she'd finally made a breakthrough with this guy.

"I'll only tell you on one condition," he said, a smirk forming on his face.

Sasuke was in the computer lab working on his senior project when he saw someone pass by in the hall. He stood up and walked to the door, looking out the small window. He saw two people walk into the bathroom together. One with grey hair in a ponytail, the other...wait, was that pink hair? And they'd both gone in the boys bathroom?

Sasuke knew something was fishy. He could have sworn he saw pink and there was only one explanation for that. Sakura. He had to get in there before something bad happened to her.

"Naruto." He turned around and addressed his blonde-haired friend. They were the only two in the computer lab other than the lab technician, a middle-aged guy that was currently napping.

"Huh? I'm almost finished with my narrative, what is it?" he asked. Naruto could be such a nerd sometimes. He'd changed so much since junior high.

"Get over here now," Sasuke said, not playing games anymore. Naruto took one look at his face and then rushed over to his friend. "I just saw two people walk into the guy's bathroom together and I think one of them was Sakura."

"Well, what are we wasting time for? Come on, let's go!" Naruto exclaimed as he rushed out of the room, Sasuke following behind him.

The two boys slowed down and walked casually into the bathroom but then froze at the sight in front of them. Sakura was leaning in to kiss Kabuto when she saw them and pulled away immediately. Then someone busted in through the back door of the bathroom, someone very familiar.

"Itachi?" everyone but Sakura exclaimed. Sakura was too embarrassed to say anything.

Kabuto suddenly became very angry. He frowned at the elder Uchiha brother menacingly. "What are you doing here?" he hissed, as if the others couldn't hear him.

"I came to check up on you," Itachi said, although it was obvious Kabuto didn't believe him.

"You came to ruin me!" Kabuto said, his fists clenched at his side.

"Now now Kabuto. You are nothing without my guidance admit it. You would have never found your love if it hadn't been for me, and you know it," Itachi said cooly making everyone's eyes fall on Sakura.

"What is this? A freakin' soap opera?" Naruto exclaimed to no one in particular then looked at Sakura. "Sakura, what are you doing in here with Kabuto anyways?"

"Um...well, you see...I was..." Sakura trailed off, embarrassed by the truth but desperate for her answers.

"She was going to have sex with him," Sasuke said, his tone bitter. He was still in a relationship with Karin, so Sakura didn't understand why he was so mad. He looked at her with something akin to disgust.

"What? Sakura-chan, is that true?" Naruto exclaimed. Okay, even when he was a nerd, he was an idiot! A naive nerdy idiot, that's Naruto.

"Um...well...yes," Sakura said quietly, her face turning red. She couldn't tell them why she was going to do it, not with this many people here and Sasuke still didn't know about "That Night" so she couldn't tell him.

"Kabuto, get rid of these idiots and then you can have your fun," Itachi said encouragingly.

Kabuto looked at Naruto and Sasuke. They had interrupted him when Sakura was about to willingly have sex with him, while sober might he add. But then again, so had Itachi. And Itachi had spoiled his fun plenty of times. Itachi was the reason Sakura hated him. He'd listened to that Uchiha's advice too much and it had cost him a beautiful smart girl.

"No," he said, his voice firm as he turned on Itachi.

"What?" Itachi asked stupidly. He acted as though he did not hear Kabuto correctly. "Excuse me, but what did you say? Did you just disobey me?"

"Yes, I did. Because you are not my mother, and because you've screwed with enough people's lives already. You screwed with mine and now Sakura hates me, you screwed with hers, you even screwed with your own brother's life! You're just a cold, jealous bastard, and I'm through listening to you Itachi!"

Itachi was speechless but Sasuke's expression had now changed. "What did you say Kabuto? How did Itachi screw with my life?" he asked, his tone acidic.

"By screwing your girlfriend! He's been with her ever since you moved here," Kabuto said, looking back at Sasuke. Itachi, meanwhile, was fuming and now, so was Sasuke.

"Wait a minute...if he made Sakura hate you, then why was she in here with you in the first place?" Naruto asked and everyone was too mad to listen except Kabuto, who heard perfectly.

This next part they all heard perfectly. "Because I promised that I would tell her who raped her four years ago. But now, I'll tell her anyways. It was him!" Kabuto exclaimed pointing to Itachi.

Before anyone else could say anything, Kabuto was lying on the bathroom floor with his nose bleeding. Itachi had hit him out of nowhere. Now he stood behind Sakura, his arm holding her by the neck close to his body. Something flashed in his right hand.

Sasuke gasped, Naruto yelled, and Sakura screamed.

-End-

A/N: I know you guys just hate these cliffies, right? Well I have to go to bed so I'm stopping here, plus I'm shooting for twenty chapters so I need to keep them kind of short-medium in length. I'm getting up early in the morning too so gn! And don't forget to review! I will update soon! I'm into the plot again. I even want to know what happens next.