I felt inspired so I decided to update quickly, no wait not inspired more or less had nothing to do and wanted to update :D
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Disclaimer: Naruto no es mio, I wanted to say it in Spanish
Warnings: Yes I will leave a warning for this chapter, mature themes are placed in this chapter, you have been warned.
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The sun shone through the brunette girl's window casting light and shadow across her fairly big room. The sun held promise for a beautiful day; paradise for a morning person. To bad Sakura was not a morning person.
"It's too freaking early to wake up! Stupid sun how could you do this to me! I hate you, I hate you!"
Screaming at the accursed sun she very slowly made her way from her bed towards the bathroom she shared with Naruto.
"MORNING SAKURA! ITS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY!" Naruto was more of a morning person, hell Naruto was a morning, afternoon, and evening person, nothing could bring his spirits down.
"Shut up baka! Nothing is beautiful about waking up!" Glaring at the blonde with as much force as she could muster this early in the morning she then grabbed her toothbrush and began to vigorously brush her white teeth.
"Aw don't be so grumpy, I asked the kitchen to make all of us Ramen!" The blue-eyed boy jumped around with amazing innocence.
"When don't you ask them to make Ramen? We after all we run a ramen restaurant during the day." She finished brushing her teeth and she began brushing her long brown locks.
"Oh. Heh. True. Well see you Sakura-Chan im going to go see if anyone else is awake!" He skipped out happily singing 'Im A Little Tea Top' at the top of his large lungs.
Snickering evilly at the thought of her friends waking up this early to Naruto's horrible singing she then walked towards her closet picking out her waitress uniform.
She had designed it with Ino and the entire female staff at The Cherry/Ramen bar/restaurant wore one. It was an orange skirt that reached above the knees and a black shirt that exposed no tummy much to Naruto's protests that waitress's needed to show skin. Ino and her had smacked him calling him Perv and distasteful at the colors he had picked out. Giggling at the memory she fastened a white short apron over her uniform and made her way down towards the Restaurant.
When she reached the restaurant she noted the grumbling faces of her friends, "Naruto wake you up?"
Neji death glared her, "That fuckin idiot came in my room singing, a fact of life Naruto can not sing!" His white eyes flashed dangerously, he definitely was not a morning person.
Tenten rolled her eyes in disgust, "I agree with Neji, how the hell do you survive Sakura?"
Sakura shrugged, "You learn."
"I hope I never have to learn! Naruto's singing even woke me up, he actually made me come downstairs!" Shika shrugged lazily.
Everyone stared at him in disbelief even Shikamaru was awakened by Naruto's singing that was a first.
"G-G-Good morning everyone!" Hinata waved at everyone and took a seat next to Neji, she looked half asleep with her white eyes half closed by her eyelids while she leaned peacefully on Neji's shoulder.
"You look tired Hinata."
"Couldn't Sleep Sakura.." She trailed off and Sakura decided to leave the subject alone, if Hinata didn't want to talk about it she wouldn't push it.
"The wonderfully wonderful Ramen is here!" Naruto jumped in front of the table excitedly while Ino and him handed a bowl of Ramen to everyone.
They all groaned inwardly at Naruto's morning excitement.
"It's such a wonderful morning! Ramen and I! And Ramen with my friends'! Oh the great life!"
It was going to be a very long and tedious morning.
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He looked so peaceful just sleeping there, his eyes closed gently and his soft lips slightly parted as his body gently moved up and down while he breathed. It had been an interesting night, both of them were not really talkers yet they managed to say so much yet so little. She looked at him once again and decided not to wake him, she then started to walk towards her personal training ring.
Her family wasn't rich, well she guessed they weren't she had never actually met her family. But one made a lot of money being an assassin, a retired assassin at that, people wanted people killed and she got it done. So she lived in comfort by herself just the way she liked it. Starting up the training simulation to level ten she then began her warm up stretches. Artemis had been trained like a gymnast, a swimmer, a runner, and a dancer, everything combined together she often pushed her limits to extreme, but in order to stay alive in the world she lived in being in shape was required.
Done with stretching she pressed the start button on her training wall, the level then begun. One by one ninja's clad in black began to pour from the simulated skies and trees. The simulations were like reality, every blow and kick she received hurt as they would in a real battle. She began, kicking, punching, dodging it became a routine like a dancer that memorized a difficult choreography. Level ten finished with a bang, it was getting too easy, she needed a challenge, turning the dial up it reached as high as she designed the machine to go. Level thirty.
The environment changed to the artic, she instantly initiated the heating device on her costume it collected the atmosphere's heat and warmed her body making the air colder and her body warmer. Then the drone came, the robot was nine feet at least and incredibly muscular, its eyes a chilling ice blue, she didn't mean for the drone to look so sinister but it apparently had, and to think she turned the safety measure off. Shit. A cocky grin made its way to her face, its not like she wasn't trained for these sorts of situations.
He moved towards her aiming a punch to her face, she dodged no problem, another punch, another dodge, she smirked this was too easy. A kick, she went flying.
"You are too full of yourself, cockiness only makes you an easier target."
Sighing at how right her master had been she ran towards the monster now forming hand seals for a chakra attack.
Snake, Tiger, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger, "Fire Element: Grand Fireball Jutsu!"
A large ball of flames manifested from her hands in a blink of an eye it was hurtled towards the drone and soon the once large robot was disintegrated. A worried look crossed Artemis's stunning features it couldn't be this easy, one chakra attack no matter how powerful it was could just end the last level on her training program she was better than that.
"Still playing childish games? Its been a while dear. I've missed you so much."
Artemis's brown eyes widened in fear, no this was just a simulation he wasn't real, Orochimaru had killed this man.
"Cat got your tongue daughter?" An evil smirk fell on his cracked lips.
"Your not my father!"
"But I am darling!" The man advanced towards her arms flinging dangerously towards the now panicked Artemis.
"Don't touch me!" She began to form hand seals once more, her chakra was running low but she couldn't risk him getting near her again.
She began, Serpent, Dragon, Rabbit, Tiger, "Fire element: Dragon Fire Technique!"
A dragon dished in flames flew towards the man sending him flying back and down the waterfall. Tears of relief tried to flood her face, no she mustn't cry no matter how much the memories hurt, crying was for the weak.
"Have you forgotten dear, your fire Jutsu is useless against me."
He popped behind her in a cloud of smoke his breath sending cold shivers down her back. She didn't fight back, there was no point, the little voice inside her head reminded her that he wasn't real, but the memories were too painful.
A young girl cried silently against a tree, the wind blew softly across her back sending her red locks in frenzy. She was a picture of innocence warm brown eyes and red hair that rivaled the fire she controlled.
"What is a pretty little thing like you doing here crying?" A tall man approached her his green eyes shimmering with lust for the innocence of the girl before him.
"My master says im weak, and if I want to cry to run far away and cry!" More tears fell from her vibrant eyes.
"Don't cry dear, I don't think your weak."
She looked up sniffling a bit. "You don't?"
"No, you're beautiful. How old are you?" His body ached for his sick intentions.
"Twelve almost thirteen. But I mustn't be talking to you, Master says that I must not talk to strangers."
'I'm not a stranger, im your father." Her brown eyes widened at his revelations.
"Father?" She steadied her voice trying to hide the excitement that burst in her body, had she finally found her parents?
"Yes mother is dyeing to meet you. Come home with me."
The girl looked around her scared that master might see her leaving with this man, but naivety and curiosity got the better of her and she followed her so called father home.
They reached the large house and he took her inside, telling her that he would be back in a minute. She waited patiently sitting down on a stool and kicking her legs out of boredom beside her. The man returned a while later wearing only a towel and a sinister look on his face,
She wasn't a stupid girl and she now saw through his bluff, had she just been tricked so easily? Willingly following this man home, Master would be furious with her!
The Redhead began to run towards the door but the tall man stopped her, he wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her close to his body the towel now shed on the ground.
"You don't think you can escape me that easily. Foolish girl."
Tears she had fought so hard to keep in fled her, all vibrancy in her eyes disappeared they remained dull as he shed her clothing. The brown light that once shone with brilliance was now dead and cold as he entered her body. She refused to scream from the pain she refused to scream at sight of her blood falling on a puddle below them. She refused him the pleasure of her moan as he quickened the place, he had touched her, he had hurt her, he had taken advantage of her and she was going to kill him. If only she had the strength! Her body quivered as he finished his deed and dropped her to the ground letting her fall in the puddle of her own blood.
"And now I shall kill you." His sick face contorted to pure evil as he began a long run of hand seals but the man never got to finish them. He lay dead on the wooden floor beside her and her pool of blood.
"What did I tell you!" Her Master's haunting eyes flared with danger and practiced anger.
"To never talk to strangers?" Hoping it was the right answer she closed her eyes as he struck her firmly on her face.
"No! Never show weakness, never let anyone win." His pale face was impassive. "And I believe that was a display of weakness. Maybe you weren't as good as I thought. Maybe I have no use of you!"
"NO! I am strong! I am sorry master! It will never happen again!" She wanted to cry to scream. Master couldn't leave her he was the only thing she had left.
"It better have not. If anyone touches you again they will be begging me to kill them. I don't know why I saved a weak and pathetic girl for you."
"I am not weak and pathetic!"
"Then why are you lying there naked in a pool of blood?"
She stared at him rather baffled.
He glared back at her, "Clean yourself up and don't you dare return until every last drop of blood is gone. We will resume training immediately after."
"Yes master."
Shaking she picked herself from the ground and ran towards the lake rinsing her sore body from the blood.
She would show master wrong, she wasn't weak, she would show master, she would never be naïve again.
With a cry of pain she fell to the ground fearfully watching the man of her past, he had changed her world after that incident nothing had been the same again.
"Get away!"
He kicked her stomach as she just lay there not moving not fighting back exactly the same as she had done as a child.
The man continued to kick her, beating and bruising every inch of her body and she still did not fight back.
Weak, Weak, Weak, the word kept ringing through her mind. Weak, Weak, Weak
No. She had enough.
His foot reached out to kick her again with a swift notion she grabbed his foot and bent it firmly making sure to break all his toes in the process. She then pulled him down next to her turning to lie next to him she brought a Kunai to his chest and drove it in. The simulation ended and everything disappeared. Her body ached and her mind was in utter chaos, she did the only thing that was left to do.
Artemis passed out.
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Sasuke woke up to a yell, it was that of a female, blinking his eyes at the light that fled through the curtains he got up to stare at his surroundings, this was not the inn he was staying at. Then her remembered the nights events, he had fallen asleep at Artemis Matthews house and by the sound of it she was in danger.
He rushed towards the scream but something caught his eye, turning towards the large room he walked inside, control panels lay in each direction staring down he caught Artemis stretching. She was graceful and catlike in her moves and she looked like she had been well trained. He watched as she finished her stretches and began the training simulations, she finished the level with ease and he watched as she turned a dial on the wall. The Uchiha raised his eyebrows in much liked surprise, level thirty huh?
He watched as she activated hand seals, she was powerful and a skilled fighter a definite match for him any day. She wouldn't be an easy opponent, the way she fought was much like his style they fought to win and they didn't care if they killed along the way. The large robot fell and a man stepped before her, the look in her eyes was readably, it was shock pure shock. Sasuke couldn't hear what they where saying but it didn't look good. The man began to kick her and Artemis took no urge to fight back, he should've stopped the simulation but he decided against it better to wait and see what happened instead. Artemis had grabbed the man's leg and she swung him down, the simulation ended but she still lay on the floor.
Running down towards the room he brought a towel in hand, he reached the redhead and swabbed her head gingerly with the wet towel.
Her eyes began to open slowly revealing her large brown orbs, "Hmm, Sasuke?"
She bolted upright, "Your awake!"
He nodded, "What happened."
She blushed and looked away as he watched her with interest, "I don't want to talk about it, more of my not so wonderful past."
"Hn." He made a silent agreement not to further the question and the two made their way back to the main wing of her house.
"Im hungry all I have is a pack of beer in my fridge, lets go and get Ramen."
He nodded in response.
"I will go get showered I left clothes for you in the guest bathroom. Meet me outside the door in five minutes that's all I need."
He nodded once again and walked towards the guest shower.
The steam of the water felt good and he soon toweled off the steaming water of his body. He turned to look at the clothes before him, a black shirt and black baggy jeans, maybe they were her boyfriends?
Sasuke walked into the annoyingly bright sunshine blinking back as the light his eyes, he approached the gate where Artemis already stood waiting for him.
"You look good, I was worried they would not fit you."
"Hn, They are fine."
"Good."
The two walked towards Naruto's Ramen bar in silence.
All though the sun was too bright for their taste the silence was comfortable and they couldn't have asked for more.
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The team of friends sat lazily at the large table, neither one having a thing to say. The peaceful silence was broken by Naruto's loud yells.
"MORE RAMEN ANYONE?"
Everyone shook their heads no.
"FINE THEN! I WILL GO GET SOME MORE FOR MYSELF!" The blonde stormed off happily and the friends went back to the peaceful silence.
The doorbell of the Ramen store rang and the team looked towards the door. A handsome man with ebony hair and a striking woman with red hair entered the Ramen bar.
"Good morning Sasuke-Kun! Good morning Ma'm." Sakura couldn't remember the redheads name nor did she want to remember. Her inner self yelled 'That Baka has a freakin Redhead we are way prettier than that Sakura-Chan!'
"Hn. Morning." The two replied in eerie unison, everyone waved as the two took a seat at another table away from Sasuke's former friends.
"Would you like anything to eat?"
"Two bowls of plain Ramen." The redhead gave Sakura a brief once over and then smirked at her, "Get along woman."
Sakura growled at the redhead's rude behavior and glanced at Sasuke his stare was cold but his eyes looked almost apologetic for his friend's behavior. She nodded then left to fetch the ramen.
She returned shortly after and placed the Ramen at their table, "Enjoy, its on the house."
The two silent teens nodded a thanks and continued to eat, once their food was done Sakura went to retrieve it then she walked back to her spot on the large table where the conversation was animated between the friends once again.
Sakura did not join in instead she watched Sasuke and the redhead, they where talking quietly, smirking at each other then chuckling at what the other said.
The looked like old friend although Sakura knew they had just met two nights ago, yet they got on so easily. She couldn't help but wonder why Sasuke and her were never like that, was she that annoying to him?
"Sakura you need to get over that cold hearted bastard."
Sakura gasped turning to face Tenten, "What do you mean?"
"Im going to set you up on a date. Well hes on his way actually, you can go the way you are dressed. Im tired of Sasuke ignoring you its time you find someone else."
The doorbell of the shop rang once again and Tenten grinned at her brunette friend.
"I believe he has arrived."
Sakura turned to face the front of the shop to get a look at the guy her friend had set her up with. A loud gasp fled her mouth as she realized who the man was.
"Oh no."
Oh yes her inner self smiled wickedly
"SAKURA! You still look as youthful as ever!"
She slapped her forehead, could this day get any worse?
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Ne cliffy, any guesses to who this mysterious date is?
Well I hoped you like it, please tell me what you think, thanks to Jenjennr's long review I was inspired to update sooner, HINT HINT people lol
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