Hello! The next to last chapter! I'm happy you all stuck with me to the end of the fic! Don't go anywhere yet! And even next chapter don't leave there will be a sequel! Look forward to reading more concerning this fic sometimes in the future! For now enjoy the rest of the fic and the slightly adventurous note we start the chapter on XDD

Kyo~

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I wished I owned Shisui, we could rule the world together bwhahahaa!

Chapter nine: Why we stood.

" If your going to keep touching me there, you better be prepared for what happens next." He growled at her. She laughed softly at him. Her laugh like black velvet.

" Don't get your panties in a bunch who's fault do you think it is that you get yourself wounded in a place like this." She said with a amused grin. His voice rumbled in his throat.

" I blame Itachi." She grinned down at him, she was leaning over his wounded thigh, and he was laying flat on her bed.

" Doesn't everyone?" Sakura asked with a sly grin. He laughed.

" Don't let him hear you say that, he'll be so sad." She snorted at him as she probed the wound that had been inflicted and she healed it with green chakra.

" You think?" Shisui grinned up at her. His eyes Sharingan red.

" I think so." She rolled her eyes but kept them on his wound. Some idiot had to go challenge his cousin and get his ass kicked.

" You guys play rough and hard don't you. Don't you know a little restraint? Do I have to punish the lot of you?" Shisui fought a shutter.

" Now don't go making promises Sakura." She clucked her tongue at him.

" Did you have to rip the pants off anyway? I don't mind if your going to play a little with it, but you can't just bare a mans good and play with his thigh and not get anything done." She rose her eyes to meet his. He looked to be struggling with himself. Her lips rose into an inviting grin.

" Sorry sweetheart, but I don't do Uchiha's." She said with and flick to his hard on, he winced and flinched at the same time.

" Not nice." He said and reached down to cup himself in pain. She laughed and slapped his thigh as he sat up.

" I'm never nice to you, so you shouldn't expect it." Shisui scowled.

" Not true, you can be pretty nice, you just like picking on me." She stood gathering the bloodied rags and his cut pants and walked to her door.

" Yeah have to say that's pretty fun." She said with a smirk back at him. He was the sight after all sitting half naked, from the waist down, with blood covering his closed wound on his thigh, hands cupping his erection. She grinned at him. He blushed faintly.

" Going to do something about it while in my bed?" She asked with a wicked smirk. He glared at her. She laughed while walking out. She closed the door behind him.

Shisui glared at the door for a little while longer before rubbing finger tips over the spot she flicked on his manhood. Little Kunoichi had to go and tease him again. He frowned.

What did she mean she didn't do Uchiha's? He could stay and sleep in her bed with her, but she would never get sexual with him no matter how much he begged, and even his little cousin was staying over, yet she didn't 'do' Uchiha's? Was she trying to prove a point? Or rather why would she do such when she was willingly being herded into his clan to begin with? He never understood her.

The door opened and he expected Sakura but when he looked up he got his little cousin instead. Sasuke's was giving him a 'WTH' sort of look. Shisui's eye twitched not cool. Not cool at all.

" Sakura won't let you get any so you start to come, literally, into her bed to get the deed done huh? Pathetic Shisui." Sasuke said shaking his head. Shisui glared. He was starting to get mouthy, more so, in his stay with Sakura. She was such a bad influence. But at least he was growing a spine. That was always good. He had been here for over a month now. Fugaku and the clan was having a fit.

Fugaku now knew where Sasuke was, he was furious that he was staying with Sakura, since the old man planned on selling her off to Itachi to be his wife, but he supposed it was better then some random chick he stayed with. Besides Fugaku knew he could tell Sakura to not touch Sasuke and she would. Sakura was somewhat loyal to his clan, even with out being an Uchiha. It always confused Shisui as to why.

Other then what she thought it would be good for the village, and the clan, why was she willingly being a sheep for them when he knew she was a wolf? She didn't even have a link to the Uchiha clan except through her friendship with him, Itachi, and Sasuke. How confusing.

He was glad she let him crash at her place, and he always enjoyed having her warm body pressed against his when he slept, she smelt safe, sweet, and like desire, but he had never acted on his arousal, or his need of her. He knew his place after all as much as he could know it. He was allowed playing around with anyone, except her. She was for his cousin.

Didn't mean he didn't want her. She certainly had never let Itachi sleep in her bed at her back, but she had let Sasuke, which made him jealous. She wasn't for Sasuke either, and it made him feel less important to her. More so now with Sasuke so near her all the time. Besides that he couldn't stay over much anymore. Sakura didn't want him coming over when Sasuke was here, which he almost always was. The kid just didn't have a life it seemed. Couldn't even get out of the house so Shisui himself could come over and get a good nights sleep in familiar arms.

He had never liked sleeping in some chicks arms, not safe anyway, but Sakura... Sakura was one of a kind, and soothed his beast in one way and ignited it in a different way. Like now. He winced and covered himself from his cousin's view. Didn't like the kid to see his junk that was just Un-cousinly of him. Didn't want Sasuke getting all turned on by his massive manhood or anything.

" Eww. Get that weird look off your face and thought out of your head. That's just creepy Shisui." Sasuke said with a repulsive shutter. Wow he was too easily read now a days. Sad... really sad.

" Leave him alone Sasuke, I wouldn't want to ruin your innocence by having to see him spill himself at the sight of me." Sakura said walking up and ruffling Sasuke's hair. He made a face and turned partly to look back at her with a scowl.

" Yeah right. Innocence my ass." She grinned that grin of hers. A playful grin.

" Don't lie to me Sasuke." She said and looked to Shisui.

" Change my sheets when your done. Not sexy to sleep in your blood and whatever else you might spill." Sakura said with a chuckle and pulled Sasuke out of the doorway shutting the door. Leaving Shisui to himself. He stood with a scowl as he bobbed while walking. Dang erection wouldn't have happened had it not been for her touching him while he was bared to her. Just the feel of her hands so close, and her chakra seeping into him, the feel of her warmth, and the weight of her gaze on his lower half had ignited that fire in his stomach. He couldn't help it. Sakura frustrated him like no woman had. Shame he couldn't have her, hell she didn't even want him.

He however didn't have to like how close Sasuke was getting to her. What the hell, now he sounded like some bad guy in an anime. Crap.

Get it together Uchiha.

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Sakura frowned when she opened her door at ten at night to find Naruto Uzumaki. He smiled at her though he looked a little pained to see her, maybe it was what she was wearing, or maybe it was just seeing her in general. She after all was in nothing but Kakashi's old shirt that hit her mid-thigh flashing that long expanse of creamy thighs he knew so well, and knew they were soft as they were strong. He remembered the feel of them wrapped around his hips as he drove into her. He blushed and looked away hurriedly.

" Hey Sakura-chan." She winced. It was back to that again hum? Well who did she have to blame after all?

" Whats up Naruto? Looking for Sasuke?" She asked knowing he wasn't looking for her. He had stayed away from her for the long month since she broke it off and told him to be with Hinata. He was giving the girl a change after all. Though he would always love and want Sakura. She was right, he did need Hinata. Sakura after all would be an Uchiha sometime in the future.

" Yeah, the teme around?" Naruto said looking around her at the sound of footsteps. Sasuke walked down the stairs towel drying his hair wearing his usual black clothing Uchiha crest on his back.

" Of course." Sakura said moving back into her house and walking away with out a goodbye or anything. Naruto watched her go with dark blue eyes anguished. Sasuke walked into his line of view.

" What do you want dobe?" Sasuke asked. Naruto's eyes met his.

" Got anything to do?" He asked. Sasuke stuffed his hands in his pockets.

" No, what do you have in mind?" Naruto grinned that famous grin.

" Up to some ramen?" Sasuke made a face.

" No." He replied.

" Kidding, want to get some drinks?" Sasuke looked back into the house. She needed some time alone after all, he was stealing her alone time. He nodded.

" Sure." He didn't bother telling Sakura, she could hear them anyway from the kitchen, he simply left.

" How's Sakura-chan doing?" Naruto asked folding his arms behind his neck. Trying to be casual.

" Why don't you just ask her dobe. Stop avoiding her just because she broke up with you." Sasuke said with a scowl. Naruto winced.

" I'm not avoiding her teme. You wouldn't understand." Sasuke looked over at his best friend and frowned. Maybe he didn't understand, but he must be alright if he was going out with the Hyuuga girl a day after Sakura broke it off with him. He obviously wasn't too broken up with the split.

" How's the Hyuuga?" He instead said, changing the subject from Sakura easily. Naruto sighed.

" To be expected from Hina-chan after all. She's great." Sasuke sighed at the idiots frown.

" Don't do that to the Hyuuga, idiot. She doesn't deserve you acting like this when your with her." Naruto looked over at Sasuke in surprise.

" Since when did you start caring?" Sasuke snorted.

" Just give it a break Naruto. Your not making it easier for anyone less Sakura or the Hyuuga. Konoha's getting some peace with out your loud mouth at least." Naruto glared bunching his fist in anger.

" Teme!" Naruto shouted. Sasuke chuckled.

"Dobe."

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Sakura sat in bed reading another scroll to pass some time. She looked up from the reading to the figure standing in her bedroom after leaping into the room from the window silently. She frowned at him.

" Decide to get out today did we?" She asked with a smirk.

The silver haired figure smirked under his mask.

" Well you know..." He said with an eye crinkle. She rolled her eyes.

" So whats it this time Kakashi?" He opened his lone black eye, the other hidden by his headband, like the rest of his face was by the black cloth mask.

" Well it has been a while Sakura. Can't I just see how my favorite ex-student is doing?" He asked with that smile. She huffed.

" Right... Like I was ever your favorite." She said and stood. His eyes followed the movement and he smiled wider. His lone eye glittering in male amusement.

" Why Sakura, I'm glad you like my shirt so much. Glad I gave it to you." She blinked and looked down at herself then scowled. Of course she would be wearing his shirt when he came to visit. -And only his shirt at that.-

She put away her scrolls and stood hand on her hip waiting for him to tell her what he wanted.

" The Hokage told me about the Uchiha's plans for you." Ah...so that's what this was about.

" Don't bother Kakashi. They've had their plans from me since they first met me. It isn't going to change, and it's better for the village and the clan." Kakashi frowned at her. He looked worried.

" Don't let them force you into that Sakura. It's not worth it." She scoffed at him.

" It's not worth my life to unite the village finally together? To strengthen the village? To piece together the village for the first time with the Uchiha clan this time acting as insiders not outsiders? It's not worth it? I beg to differ." He sighed.

" It doesn't have to be you." He said. She raised an eye brow.

" Who else would it be Kakashi? They want me in the clan, and if it helps the village you know I would do anything." He closed his eyes to rub a hand over his face though most of it was covered as per-usual.

" So your going to let them force you to be with some man you don't know?" She snorted.

" If it was what it took, but they won't. They want their clan heir to tie the knot after all, and Itachi's only ever gotten along with me and Kiba's sister his old teammate when it comes to women. Kiba's sister is married already. So they are stuck with me, since they want me in the clan for whatever reasons they do, and having me friends with Itachi already, they of course want him to be married to me." Kakashi didn't looked any more pleased.

" Are you sure you'd like to be stuck with Uchiha Itachi? Strange one isn't he?" And he would know he had been in ANBU with him until he reverted back to Jounin. Sakura laughed softly.

" Just a little bit, but I think I've had my fair share of strange men, besides I'm not exactly normal either Kakashi" He smiled a little. She definitely was not normal.

" Are you sure you want to be with Itachi though? If you wanted him, you would have already been with him right?" She smiled a little and looked out the window, opened, he had came through. It wasn't raining but it felt earlier like it might.

" Well, I trust Itachi. He's one of a few friends, and I get along with him...sometimes. If I had to choose anyone from the Uchiha clan it would be him." Kakashi raised an eye brow.

" Really? Not even Sasuke?" She chuckled.

" Definitely not Sasuke." Kakashi was going to ask why, but he knew she had been turned down by Sasuke when they were younger, maybe she had never wanted that to happen again, or maybe, just maybe she was still upset over the fact, though it had been so many years since then.

" Besides Itachi has a nice ass, shame not to get to see it." Kakashi's mouth popped open in surprised shock.

She grinned at him looking away from the window.

" Sakura." Kakashi choked out. She laughed.

" Don't worry about me Kakashi. It will be alright. You worry more about Naruto. Hinata maybe with him now, but he'll need all the help he can get to be Hokage. Not all the village is going to like it when he takes over." Kakashi nodded. He knew that.

" I heard Sasuke's in a bind as well. Staying here." She nodded.

" He came to me Kakashi at three am, soaked and in shock. Fugaku-san made a mistake, and now Sasuke had to stand up for himself and make his own life, he can't keep allowing the clan to guide his actions and or his father. Sasuke needs to grow up sooner or later. Besides he can't keep going through life thinking girls have cooties." Kakashi frowned at the anger in her voice. He wondered if she was mad at the clan, or Sasuke himself.

" Little harsh aren't you Sakura? Do you blame him for not wanting to have anything to do with women when he's only ever had fan-girls chase him everyday of his life?" She sighed rubbing a hand over her eyes then back through her long hair, messing it up more.

" If Sasuke can't live for himself there is no reason for him to live at all. Life is pointless when you can't make decisions for yourself." He frowned hard at her. Wasn't she allowing herself to do the same thing be controlled.

" Don't even think about it Kakashi. I made the decision to allow the Uchiha clan to use me like they did. I made this decision and no matter what you or anyone else say it was my choice." He sighed she really had made her own choice and he knew he couldn't talk her out of this.

" Does Itachi have anything to say about all this?" Kakashi asked curiously. He knew Itachi and Sakura were at least somewhat friends, but he didn't ever see them together or knew how they interacted with each other. Itachi didn't seem the type to be able to be with a women in any way sexual.

" Not so far." She said with a shrug. She grinned to herself.

" Mikoto however told me to make sure I know my place though." Kakashi's eye went wide again. He was getting all sorts of surprises. Mikoto the soft hearted women told Sakura that? Didn't seem like something she would say. Sakura however wouldn't lie.

" She doesn't want me touching Sasuke." Sakura clarified. Kakashi whistled. He knew Sakura had started acting out and finding all the lovers that she had thus far in life, changing almost completely in the years he had known her, but he didn't ever think she was some sort of harpy. Of course he could see where Mikoto would be nervous. Sakura is beautiful and Kakashi was sure if she tried, Sasuke could be hers as well. The only one she really wouldn't have gone after, are men who are taken, most Uchiha's, and Itachi.

Which was why Kakashi was confused. He was serious when he had said that if Sakura wanted Itachi she would have been with him. Yet she had never even bothered. Itachi certainly was attractive. Women wanted him, of course they feared him as well, but wanted him. So he knew Sakura found him attractive, so why had she never went after him? Because she knew she would be with him in the end? Why? Why had she never been with Itachi Uchiha? Shisui Uchiha either. Or Sasuke. Did Fugaku and Mikoto give her rules, were they holding her on a short leash?

Kakashi narrowed his eyes in thought. He would have to look into this further. He smiled at Sakura thought.

" Is it hard to follow that request?" Kakashi asked about Mikoto's command to not touch her youngest son. Sakura looked away from Kakashi for a moment then looked back.

" No." She answered. Kakashi wondered if that was a lie or not. He couldn't tell any more. She was too cunning for him. Too much time around too many genius like herself did that to someone. Even out smarted her old sensei. He maybe just getting old though. Rusty.

" Why not with Shisui?" Kakashi questioned. She looked at him for a long while something crossing her face Kakashi tried to decipher but couldn't.

" I'm not going to mess around with Itachi and Sasuke's cousin." Kakashi's eye brow rose. Hadn't she done so already though? Kakashi knew Shisui had come over here more then once alone and stayed all night, was she seriously saying nothing went on, when Shisui Uchiha, the perverted Uchiha playboy of Konoha, had not done anything alone all night with a desirable woman such as herself? Was she serious? If so, why? Why didn't she allow anything to happen? Shisui wasn't exactly ugly. He was right up there with Itachi, and Shisui wasn't shy when it came to the opposite gender.

" Are you sure this is what you want Sakura?" he asked one last time. She nodded with out hesitation. He sighed.

" Alright. I tried. If you need anything come find me Sakura. I mean it." She nodded, he shook his head and left. He was worried. She knew that. She just couldn't do anything about it.

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End chapter:

Was going to keep this in one chapter, but decided to split it since there's only fourteen pages left in the fic to make it ten chapters for this fic instead of nine lol. Getting to the end aren't we? :D Not to worry there will be a sequel I can't just leave the fic as it is after all, but I will get hate mail for ending as I do next chapter I know for a fact I will lols. :D Enjoy!

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