This chapter is kind of cool =O I like the end (rofl) and please Read and review =D No burning pl0x 3 If you don't like my writing style please dont read it x-x (I actually know my writing style is pretty bad) and thankies to Rida who helped me write a bit of it :'D (Cause I got pissed off whenever I saw what I wrote for like the first few paragraphs, so she helped me change some of the words xD And I tried too :'D Its so cool that if you put a few words in or change the word order that a piece of writing becomes so much better! XD

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Fragmented Lullabyes

Chapter 2

Tears

It was cold.

She was laying on a bed, only covered by her own blood stained clothes. Unable to move herself at all, she just stared blankly at the ceiling, and the tiny bit of wall she could reveal after tilting her head oh so painfully and slowly. The room itself was dimly lit by a white candle on a table at Sakura's bedside. It was a sort of mauve brown colour on the walls, and Sakura could see faint but beautiful drawings of things like butterflies, birds and many other things. She could even see clouds and dragons. She actually wished she was fully conscious, just so that she could admire these drawings better, and if the kunoichi wasn't in so much pain, the experience wouldn't have been so bad.

She felt numb. She couldn't say that she felt the most wonderful feeling after being drugged, knocked unconscious and having her chakra drained to a naught. She wanted to doze off, her head was pounding and her wounds stung in an agonizing manner, and she still was unable to move, but she had to try to remember the series of events that had occurred before she went beddy byes. Her fatigue and drowsiness got the better of her though, and she started to drift off to sleep.

Just before she fell asleep though, she heard footsteps approaching her. She just gazed blankly at the patch of wall that she had been staring at earlier, she couldn't be bothered to rebut, argue or show any defence, she was way too tired.

The two men from before entered the room. One of them stood behind, waiting at the doorway out of Sakura's line of sight, and the other one with dark black bangs walked slowly towards her, checking if she was conscious or not. Knowing she was awake, he plainly said, "Do not leave this room." And turned to leave. As if she actually had the energy to even move, she thought sarcastically. She waited for the other man to leave. But the other man didn't leave, he just glanced at his partner slightly as he passed him and whispered a question. In reply the man just nodded, slightly irritated but still nodded, and finally took his leave, and the other one immediately took action.

As the shyer man walked closer towards her, Sakura couldn't help but look curiously at the strange acting person. As she glanced, Sakura's eyes widened with shock. She wanted to scream and cry, but her voice wouldn't come out. In the end, she just closed her eyes and tried painfully to shift her way in the opposite direction, like a stubborn kid who didn't get his/her wanted ice lolly. As she did this, she felt warm, familiar hands moving over her stomach and her head. She wanted to flinch from the touch, but instead melted into it as she felt his warm chakra flow into her, soothing her and relieving her of the pain.

"Sakura." He spoke. A single word which had broken the silence. His voice was clear, nostalgic but it was missing the playfulness that was in it from when they met before. Sakura could only sigh in relief of the disappearance of her pain. She sat up and looked down, ignoring the blonde man beside her.

"Sakura." He repeated, his voice embedded with anxiety and awkwardness. He moved closer to hug her, his arms, trembling with nervousness as he encaged her wholesome with his body. He let out a minute sigh of relief when about four seconds passed and she leant into his chest, guessing that he wasn't hated completely. His heart skipped a beat when she finally spoke.

"Who are you?" As she spoke, she leant her ear against his chest, around where his heart was. Her voice was cold, frigid but laced with dignity. Sighing, and knowing he had no choice but to reply, he figured he may as well get the whole question and answer thing over and done with, as she'll only keep getting more irritated.

"My name is Deidara, un. The man who hurt you is called Itachi. Uchiha Itachi. Don't mess in his path, un. A glare from that guy will give you shivers for a month… Un. Don't worry though," He chuckled nervously at his upcoming joke, "I'm the one who carried you here, not him." She couldn't tell if he was lying or not, his heart was beating pretty rapidly anyway. She pondered whether he would be lieing or not, but then again, he had lied to her a lot so far, why wouldn't he lie now? But she would take his word about Itachi, the hair on the back of her neck stood when he glared at her back.

"…I'm sorry." He finally said. By this time, Sakura was really angry, and Deidara could feel it.

"Sorry for what, lying to me over and over again? Maybe you should be an actor, 'cuz you're really good at faking things." She replied, cold-heartedly. She immediately regretted it though, as she felt him tense up, and managed to withhold an angry growl within his throat. Deidara knew she had the right to be angry, but the way she was punishing him was making him increasingly more pissed off. The blonde had a temper too, more viscous than some.

Sakura couldn't take the tense and angry atmosphere, she had better things to do, like get away from this annoying place. Immediately, she pushed Deidara away from her, and started towards the dragon marked door. Deidara instantaneously leapt (A/N More like teleported ._.) in front of the door, making Sakura stop in her tracks.

"Let me pass." She demanded angrily.

"Sakura. You're not in any shape to fight me, and you shouldn't even have any energy to walk, let alone talk back to me. Don't make me angry." He warned, his blue eyes darkening.

"Let me pass." She spoke through gritted teeth, while advancing closer towards the door. Deidara growled in response. The last thing he wanted to do was hurt her.

"Sakura. Please… Don't try it." He asked pleadingly. Sakura was right in front of him at that point.

"Why not? It's not like you have to hold back or anything. I don't see why you don't kill me already," Sakura fumed.

"Sakura. Shut up." Deidara was losing his temper. Really fast. "I never lied to you back then, apart from my name maybe, but still, don't you dare think you understand everything. You're just a weak little girl." He regretted his words as soon as they came out of his mouth, his heart wrenching as he saw her face pale. She didn't cry, but her eyes were screaming.

"…I hate you." She spoke, clearly with rage and sadness. "I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE Y-"

Her eyes widened with shock as Deidara kissed her gently, completely muffling what she had wanted to say, and totally negating her anger. Deidara broke the kiss after what he thought was her becoming calmer, and hugged her gently and lovingly.

"I really am sorry." He spoke softly, breathing into her ear. Sakura sighed, and drifted off to sleep. (A/N Standing.. o_O)

Deidara picked her bridal style, and gently placed her onto the bed. He then took off his cloak and put it over her, and sat on a nearby chair, watching her happily, imagining what kinds of dreams she'll have.

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"Ne, ne. Will you always be with me?" Sakura asked one early peaceful morning, learning dozily into his muscular and warm chest. She was sitting on top of the Konoha Mountains, as she was meant to be on look out from there. She had been pretty bored, she didn't even understand why anyone would attack from a cliff, though, she had to admit, it was a pretty nice view. But she was still bored. Luckily for her, he had came to her again, as he could even sense that she was pretty much bored, and on the verge of breaking something.

"Yup. Even if you can't recognise me, I'll always be with you. I'll never leave you. I promise you koishii." His voice was gentle, everything about him with Sakura was gentle. He buried his face further into her hair, and rested his cheek at the crook of her neck.

"Hum… This feels nice…" She continued, gazing at the view of konoha and the forests beyond it. By now, she had already gotten used to fighting the temptation of looking at him. She didn't want this feeling to end, she felt so safe in his arms.

They spent several moments chatting idly in each other's arms, until their mindless soft chatter was interrupted by a flurry of footsteps. Not caring whether the person coming would hear her or not, she had every intention to keep chatting, her company however did not agree to this, and kept quiet.

"Haruno Sakura, please report to the Hokage's office immediately." A man with short light brown hair announced quickly, panic written all over his face. Sakura merely nodded in response and gave a final squeeze to his hand. And with that, she set off, leaving a worried raven haired man behind.

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Sakura's eyelashes fluttered as she opened her eyes dreamily. She had had a pleasant dream, sort of, as it was of a past event with him that she had almost forgotten about, but she was still in a dreamlike state. She went back to sleep for a few more moments, cuddling up to her self-heating and especially squishy pillow. She breathed in, and smelt vanilla, so she started gnawing and licking at the pillow. The pillow, started chuckling from the tigglish feeling, which of course Sakura thought was weird anyway. Even weirder when the pillow gave a huge yelp from when she bit into it, hard. Sakura woke up with a start and sat up, and saw a very distressed Deidara. Before she even saw the huge bite marks and hickeys, she shouted furiously, "Why the hell are you in my bed!?"

"This is my bed, un!" He whined, rubbing his sore nibbled neck. Sakura opened her mouth to rebut, but she couldn't think of any words as the chain of events came back to her, and as they did, a deep blush formed on her face, and she could only shout an embarrassed "Shut up!" back at him. Although, he had a look of amusement more than pain or irritation. They ended up in another awkward silence, and yet again, it was Deidara to break the ice.

"Did you have a good dream?" He asked playfully, referring to the biting and licking she did to his neck and body. She punched him in response, making him land on the cold floor on his butt. He chuckled at her antics, while rubbing his butt painfully. It had seemed Sakura had forgotten that he had sort of kidnapped her, but he was much happier she did forget.

Meanwhile, Sakura however realised in a faint shock that he wasn't there with her. She hadn't noticed it at all, but she was alone. This alone scared her, and she was forced to enter a chain of thoughts on where did he go? She felt so guilty that she hadn't noticed, as he meant the world to her. While she was thinking, Deidara noticed her abrupt seriousness, and waved his hand in front of her.

"Sakura..?" Her name rolled off beautifully off his tongue, but Deidara said it with a slight worried tone weaved into his expression. At looking at Deidara, Sakura remembered something important. What he had said back then…

['Why do you sound so upset then?'

"Cuz you won't need me anymore."

'…?'

"The third me will come and get you. You won't need me anymore.]

Sakura was utterly confused. But she missed him, and he was wrong, she did need him. He was her life.

Tears formed in her eyes, and rolled down her cheeks down to her chin, her body trembling with fear. Deidara noticed with a start, and started wiping her tears.

"Koishii? Whats wrong?"

"..t ..ay…" She spoke raggedly, her words coming out in half sobs. He lied to her. He lied to her! He promised that he'd always be with her! He promised!

"…Sakura?"

"Get away…"

"Sakura, tell me what's wrong!"

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" She screamed, hysterical, and ran towards the door leaving poor Deidara to run after her, opening it to bump into the very man she was warned about. And before she had noticed it, she was knocked unconscious, letting Itachi scold the blonde harshly.

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Sakura was on her way to the Lightning country.

"We need you to participate in an S rank mission in Lightning country. The Raikage may be planning war against Konoha, and so..." The hokage paused, pondering how he should tell her. "We would like to ask you to marry the Raikage as a peace treaty, or at least to spy on him before he declares war. Please remember you can choose not to." Naruto gulped with fear as he saw an indescribable look on Sakura's face. A face not of shock, not of anger but a face of just pure blankness. She knew she would have to do it, since it was an order from the Hokage and all, she had a choice her ass.

And because of that, she was on her way to the Lightning Country, being escorted by several ANBU in case they get sabotaged. She had to admit, she was surprised some people didn't want her to marry the Raikage, as she thought that everyone would be glad that she would be gone from their lives. Instead, they had been attacked nearly 4 times in the first day, and about 6 in the next.

It was on the third day when they were tired, exhausted and hungry that they had trouble.

The first attack was brief, only a few bandits attacked them, not actual ninjas.

But the next one, was the problem.

They were surrounded by tons of missing-nin, all of which had a plan to attack the Lightning and Leaf villages as they went into war, their backs turned, and they didn't really want that plan to go to ashes.

It was a quick and bloody fight. All the ANBU had been wiped out, Sakura was the last one standing as she had managed to pummel down her attackers so far, but she was exhausted and outnumbered, and she couldn't even heal her allies as they were all beyond healing.

She knew she was going to die.

As a dark crimson haired man walked towards where she knelt on the grass, paralyzed by muscle tendons breaking from the extreme chakra pressure, clutching the hilt of his blade, she actually wondered if she would go to heaven or hell, if she would see her parents again. At that moment, she didn't even care if Konoha went into war with the Raikage, what has Konoha ever done for her?

He yanked a handful of her hair and brought her face to look at his, she heard him murmur something about a waste of a beauty or something. The pain of her wounds and the pain of her weaknesses brought a tear to her eye, and that's when she noticed something.

The crimson haired man let go of her hair, making her collapse onto the floor, semi-conscious. She saw the man back away, and the rest of the missing-nin stare at her direction with wide eyes, fear etched into every part of them.

She tried to look behind her, and all she could see were a pair of beautiful red eyes and a shadow, glaring at the missing-nin. But she couldn't stay awake any longer. She entered the dream world, once again, but not before she was held softly by familiar warm arms, and heard a "You're safe now, koishii." Breathed into her ear.

As soon as she was asleep, the shadow rested her down softly, and instantly glared at the missing-nin, his murderous intent choking them.

"U-Uchiha Sasuke-sama, w-what are you doing here?" One of them pathetically stuttered, aghast at the motion of the young man reaching out for his katana.

"I won't forgive you." He spoke, his mouth forming a grim line. "You hurt her, and even worse, you made her cry." At this, a few rouge ninjas tried to run away, and without Sasuke moving an inch, they were all slaughtered and killed within a millisecond.

"Though, I guess I should thank you for not forcing me to kill the Raikage, as since now she'll have an excuse not to marry him." He spoke laughingly, and the missing-nin tried to laugh too, they were all nervous wrecks.

"But… Making her cry is unforgiveable." He concluded to himself, and unsheathed his katana.

And from miles away, people could hear their screams as they were murdered ruthlessly and painfully.

Sasuke picked up Sakura, kissed her lovingly on her forehead and whispered again in her ear. "I'll come back for you soon, I promise. I love you koishii." He whispered gently, only gentle with her. And with that, he placed her at a tree, carved some letters in it, and set off to his next task.

"I'm tired of watching you

I want to touch you

I want to hold you

And make you mine and mine alone."

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