Her eyes blinked groggily open, only to close again at the lack of light.
'Was it night already?' she wondered
She only vaguely remembered the events that had happened earlier that day.
And having done so did she opened her eyes again to assess her situation.
The air was chilly and nipped at the exposed part of her legs and arms, surprisingly though she found herself warm, and in her groggy state she couldn't quite figure out why.
She wanted to move to sit up but found her hands firmly restrained behind her and apart from being unable to move her arms she found that something else was holding her there.
It finally clicked that she was being held by someone, firmly at that.
She couldn't recall having ever felt this groggy in her life and being a shinobi she was trained to wake up at the slightest disturbance and be awake enough to fight.
The arms around her tightened into almost a squeeze letting her know that he was awake and knew she was too.
She gulped and backed into his chest letting him know she wasn't going to try anything and his grip around her loosened slightly again.
As much as she wanted to protest and fight she found herself too exhausted to do much more than just keep her eyes open.
She realised that it was probably the effects of the Sharingan on her system, having just remembered seeing red before she blacked out.
She remembered that it took Kakashi-sensei days to recover from the effects Itachi's Mangekyo had on him. She didn't remember any pain however, or anything at all in fact.
She remembered only darkness; she supposed it made sense she was so exhausted now because in all the time she had been unconscious she hadn't been sleeping but in the effects of the Sharingan.
She disregarded her thoughts and went back to focussing on her current situation.
He was holding her?
What the fuck.
She was so not okay with her ex teammate holding her like this for various reasons. Years ago it would have given anything to be held is Sasuke Uchiha's arms but she had long since moved on.
Even though she knew it was wrong he was so warm and his hold somehow comforting that she found herself drifting to sleep.
The next morning she woke up as soon as he removed his hold around her, this time not remotely groggy.
She didn't recognise where they were and they were surrounded entirely by thick forest.
Sitting up was almost difficult with her hands fastened behind her back. Deciding she'd had enough of her bindings she pushed chakra to her hands.
Instead of the desired effect though, she keeled over as a pang of pain hit her and no chakra reached her hands.
She could feel him smirking at her and she so badly wanted to smash it off his face.
It was a chakra seal.
It was unlike any she'd ever seen however; it didn't drain her chakra or stop her from generating it, it just stopped her from being able to use it. Without permission she supposed. She scowled at the thought.
She finally lifted her head from her knees, where she had placed it when she had keeled over in pain, and looked up at Sasuke.
He had his eyes on her and was leaning casually against a tree.
She wondered why she was even alive, he had threatened to kill her if she didn't heal him and she had gone for death so why was she here and why had he kidnapped her of all things?
"Let me go," she said, finally breaking the silence.
The smirk appeared yet again on his face and he walked towards where she was still sitting on the ground.
He looked at her in silence for a minute before reaching down and pulling her onto her feet by her arm.
He didn't let go however and puller her onto her tippy toes to look him in the eyes. She still didn't quite come up to eye level, being a foot or so shorter than him.
"No, Sa-ku-ra," he said her name one syllable and a time, slowly and with a smirk on his face.
Her eyes widened when he did the next thing and leaned in close, right by the shell of her ear and whispered.
"This is how it's going to work; you're going to heal me and when you're done I'll let you go and you can go back to that hospital of yours and heal whoever you want."
"You may have chosen death over healing me but Sakura there are so many things I could do to you that are worse than death."
She shuddered, both from what he was saying and his hot breath fanning over the shell of her ear.
She had seen firsthand what he could do to someone; in fact she had healed more than one person he had interrogated for information.
She couldn't even undo some of the damage he'd done to them, certainly they were never the same afterwards.
Not one of them hadn't spilled their guts though, and these were fully trained Jounin too.
She found herself nodding, agreement to his terms. Her eyes were shut tightly and she didn't look at him.
She was slowly lowered to the ground again
Her wrists behind her were grabbed and the rope holding them there untied.
She gingerly rubbed the area where the bindings had been and looked up at Sasuke once more.
He just stared at her then slowly he started to unbutton his shirt again.
"Heal me," he ordered and she could feel the seal release and her chakra flow freely once more.
She hesitated wanting to do nothing more than punch him in the face with a chakra laden fist.
"Don't even think about it," He said in almost a growl.
She felt that same pain from earlier and almost whimpered. This was a seriously advanced seal he had placed on her and he seemed to have full control over it without any sort of hand signs.
She didn't see how she was going to get out of this, without Chakra she couldn't run fast enough to get away from him or do any real harm.
She sighed and her hands lit up with a green glow.
"I need you to lie down on your back," She said finally, knowing it was the only way she'd be able to remove the chakra keeping his wound open.
She could tell he didn't like the idea and she assumed it was because he always had to be in control.
To her surprise he obeyed her finally and lay flat on his back on the grassy forest ground.
She kneeled down next to him and plaited her waist length hair behind her, it was the best she could do to keep her hair out her face without a hair tie.
She had a cup full of those on her desk in the hospital and always tied her hair up when healing patients.
"This is going to hurt," she warned him; it was an invasive procedure where she had to force a bubble of her chakra into his wound to extract the foreign chakra. It was nothing like the relaxing knitting together of a wound that people usually feel when being healed.
She formed the bubble and started to push it into the wounded area; she saw his entire body tense and before she knew it she felt the same pang of pain as earlier.
Having her concentration interrupted the bubble shattered and she involuntarily keeled over again.
"I can't heal you if you're going to hurt me!" she near scolded him in frustration.
He didn't say anything but motioned for her to continue again with his eyes.
This time she managed to remove some of the chakra and it evaporated into the air with a tss sound.
She did it a few more times before the chakra bubble popped again and she nearly collapsed onto his chest.
She would have done too had she not caught herself with her hand on the ground on the other side of his body.
With the bit of chakra she had left she scabbed the wound over to stop any more unnecessary bleeding.
She found herself panting audibly; it's an exceptionally draining procedure and she already had low chakra reserves at the current time.
This was going to take even longer than she anticipated; she dreaded having to spend any more days captive to her deranged ex teammate.
Sakura shakily rose to her feet and had to lean against a tree to stable herself. She had overdone it slightly wanting to finish healing Sasuke as soon as possible and she could feel her body shutting down to replenish her chakra reserves.
Before she fell to the ground a strong arm caught her by the waist.
She awoke at some early hour of the morning and yet again had no idea where they were. It wasn't the same place as before however, she knew that; the trees were different.
She was being taken further and further away from the leaf and she didn't like it one bit. She hadn't left the village at all in the last 2 years. Being assigned as the chief medic at the hospital was a huge responsibility and she was needed there more than they needed her on missions.
This time she didn't even need to move to know she was in the same position as the last time she woke up in the dark. Her hands were bound behind her back and a warm body almost pressed against her.
This time though the hand that was wrapped around her was lightly grazing her neck, sending unwanted shivers down her spine.
By the slow even breathing she knew he was asleep. She wondered if he was holding her like this to have better control over her or to keep her warm. She was still in her pyjamas from a couple days ago and at this point she both desperately wanted clean clothes and desperately needed a bath.
She figured her hands had been bound so Sasuke could control her while he was sleeping and not able to watch her. Tch, he had always been such a control freak.
Suddenly her ears pricked up as she heard rustling of leaves nearby. And in a split second Sasuke was on his feet, Kusanagi in hand.
Shortly they were surrounded by what looked like a band of looters. There were around 12 of them, and while most of them didn't look a threat the leader of the group had a Jounin headband of rock country with a line scratched through it.
Missing nin.
She didn't like being so chakra depleted and even worse her hands were still tied behind her back. Not to mention the chakra seal that until now she had almost forgot about.
She sat up and backed up into the trunk of a tree nearby, at least this way nobody could sneak up on her.
She was going to kill him for this, as soon as he let her go. While Sasuke was bad she didn't think he'd do anything to her as long as she healed him. These looters however were scumbags who raped, pillaged and murdered for fun.
"Give us everything you have, or die," The leader said to them, his face was covered by a mask, similar to Kakashi's and he had grey eyes and medium-short spikey black hair.
He was also exceptionally muscular looking as though he spent hours a day just body building.
She knew his strength was nothing compared to Sasuke's however; although his frame was lean it held extreme power.
She heard Sasuke make a "tch" sound before he smirked at the Jounin in front of him. The Jounin, angered by Sasuke's attitude, lunged at him with his tanto drawn.
He was easily deflected with Kusanagi and went skidding backwards along the dirt.
While Sasuke was distracted however one of the lesser thugs of the group came at Sakura's vulnerable form against the tree.
"Thanks for making it so easy, love." He said. He spoke in an ugly way, as though he hadn't quite opened his lips wide enough to talk, not remotely graceful like Sasuke spoke.
He didn't attack her though, rather pulled her to her feet by her elbow then almost right off the ground. She had always been rather petite.
She smiled sweetly at him and with a swift motion kneed him straight in the groin.
She almost didn't catch herself when he dropped her but it brought her some sadistic pleasure seeing him keeled over on the ground.
She kicked him again in the side, hard, just for good measure and he rolled a few feet away from her wailing in agony.
While she relied heavily on chakra control for her superhuman strength she was well trained in Taijutsu and was strong enough without having to use her chakra at all.
While she had been cooped up in the village she would train with Lee every morning for an hour or so before her shift started in the morning.
She had forgotten about his visits in the morning but she figured he would be the first to notice her missing.
She had also told him she would be off sick but he would definitely try to rile up her "youthful spirit" before she was ready.
Another thug swiped at her from behind and knocked her out of her thoughts. She ducked out of the way just in time to entirely miss the kunai he was holding.
She promptly used the opportunity to kick the kunai out of his hand and land one strong kick right in his abdomen.
She heard screams behind her and turned to see that another thug who had been lunging at her just a moment before had the arm that was reaching for her cut clean off at the elbow.
She jumped out of the way as the body went skidding across the floor straight past her.
There were no longer any of the lesser thugs active in the fight and the only ones that were still alive were the ones that she had dealt with that were groaning from their positions on the ground behind her.
The Jounin didn't last long either and she didn't even think she saw him get a single hit in before Kusanagi was plunged through his chest.
Sasuke's power was truly unbelievable, he would be such an asset to Konoha if only he would come home.
It was far too late for that though, were he to come home now he would most likely be executed for his crimes, just to keep peace between the five great shinobi nations.
He would also have an angry Hokage on his back for the whole kidnapping her thing.
She cringed at all the bloodshed around her, they really chose the wrong people to mess with.
Her eyes widened and she flinched as he plunged Kusanagi into the chests of the two she hadn't killed.
"That was unnecessary!" She yelled at him, they were basically civilians with the fighting skills they had.
They weren't a threat. He just smirked at her though and walked closer to her. She found herself wanting to back up but held her ground regardless.
He grabbed her chin and tilted her face up to look at him.
"You think so?" He asked, pausing before speaking again, "They attacked you."
"They weren't a threat," She persisted.
"Tch," He sounded, letting go of her chin and scooping her up against his chest to carry her.
"Wha- No- Put me down!" She protested, flustered by more body contact. He entirely ignored her though and continued walking in the direction she assumed was even further away from Konoha.
~Meanwhile in Konoha~
Knock knock.
Silence.
Knock Knock.
More silence.
"Sakura-san?" Lee called from outside her apartment door.
Even more silence.
"You must be feeling better by now, you are young and full of youthful energy!" He persisted.
Still getting no answer he decided to try the handle. It was open, which was strange as she always left the door locked when she was home as well as when she wasn't.
He saw the latch was locked but wasn't quite closed enough to lock as though she left in a hurry or didn't plan to be out for long.
He walked through her house calling for her and stopped next to her bedside table when he spotted a note.
He thought maybe it was from her but upon seeing the message his eyes widened and he grabbed the note before bounding towards the Hokage tower.
Hope you guys liked the chapter :)
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Also I wanted to tell you guys that this fic won't be a fluffy one if that's what you like, in case you haven't noticed I'm working with a deranged Sasuke xD
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