The Gift

Chapter 4

"Look at me," Sasuke said in a dangerous, low voice.
Sakura had no choice but to obey, she would undoubtedly be forced to do so anyways.
And then all she could see was red and black, and then the feeling of the world spinning and her body barely holding on.

The world was black and lined in white.

The sky was red.

Sakura looked around and saw that the streets were eerily silent. But she fixed her gaze on a sign of a nearby shop. Wasn't that the Uchiha emblem? And why was there blood splatters everywhere? And kunais and shurikens covered in blood?

She was in the Uchiha District, and there wasn't a single person around. Sakura widened her eyes in shock, and suddenly she knew what Sasuke's genjutsu was going to be about. She saw young Sasuke run in the street, looking worried and scared.

"Sasuke-kun!" she cried out.

"Huh? Who a-are you?" Sasuke asked, clearly frightened. He held out a kunai and pointed it threateningly at her.

"Listen to me, don't go home! Run away!" Sakura screamed deliriously, how could she help him when the truth would leak out.

"Leave me alone!" Sasuke screamed and threw his kunai at her arm. It barely scraped the side of her arm as she attempted to dodge it.

Sasuke continued to run home, ignoring her warnings. He slid open the door and stepped into the deathly silent house.

On the floor was a pair of dead corpses. It was the sliced bodies of Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto. Behind them was a tall figure hidden in the shadow. The figure wielded the Mangekyo Sharingan. Clearly, it was Itachi, not even trying to hide the fact that he was the murderer of his own parents.

Suddenly Sakura was seeing out of Sasuke's eyes.

"Brother! You have to help! What's happening?" Sasuke cried.

"Who killed mom and dad?"

"I did," Itachi replied coolly.

"E-everyone?" Sasuke's voice quivered unstably.

Itachi didn't give any sign of movement, but his grim expression said enough.

"No!" Sasuke ran outside, trying to run to a place where none of this was real, where his brother ignored him and his mother was still alive and well.

"Foolish little brother," Itachi sighed, in a flash he was in front of Sasuke, who was still running desperately.

Sasuke's eyes widened even further as he stumbled backwards.

"Why?" Sasuke's face was covered in cold sweat. His entire body was paralyzed in Itachi's gaze.

"This clan is weak. Its goals are futile, and I see no future for this clan. So in eliminating them, I saw what I was capable of," Itachi said impassively.

"This is a lie!" Sasuke cried, tears pouring down his cheeks.

"If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live a loathsome life…," Itachi said, "Run away, run away…and cling to life."

"As you are now, you're not even worth killing."

Sasuke started shaking-horribly, his skin felt extremely cold and exposed.

"If someday when your eyes are the same as mine," Itachi said coldly, "Your heart still burns with revenge, I'll be waiting."

"But…for the next forty-eight hours, you will witness the extent of my ability," Itachi said as his eyes melded into the Mangekyo Sharingan and locked with the fearful onyx ones of Sasuke.

Sakura saw everything. She screamed with Sasuke, screaming and pleading for the visions to stop. She felt the blood splatter across her skin. She felt the chilling wind of the night. But most of all, she felt the weakness, the weakness of not being able to stop Itachi, utterly useless as she waited for the inevitable to happen.

Finally the forty eight hours was over. She was next to Sasuke in the hospital.

He was looking directly at her, with inexplicable fury and hatred in his eyes.

"Do you understand now?" he whispered.

"Do you UNDERSTAND THE PAIN I'VE BEEN THROUGH!?" he shouted.

"How could you expect me to love after that? How could you expect me to trust anyone after my own BROTHER did this to me?" he screamed.

"Could you? Could you be so foolish as to get close to anyone after that? Could you ever love or trust another again?" he sobbed deeply. Sakura took hold of him and cried in his shoulder, saying sorry over and over.

Suddenly she was underneath, in another woman's body, and Sasuke's body was on top of hers. But they weren't holding each other in comfort. In blunt words, he was fucking her, devoid of emotion and passion. He was simply shoving in and out, thrusting with animal strength.

But it still felt so good.

Vaguely she remembered that it was genjutsu and wondered how long it's been in the real world. But his thrusts and groans distracted her, and her mind unconsciously zeroed in on the way his rough hands were gripping her hips and that their friction was driving her out of her mind. And she was moaning, and whimpering in another woman's voice. But she carried on moaning and whimpering.

Soon the pulsing bud deep within the folds of her womb was reached by the tip of Sasuke's member. She needed the contact, once more and more again, so she grinded her hips against his, following his rhythm and not stopping for a second. The end was coming soon, she could feel it coming. She could feel everything, herself contracting and his velvety hot flesh throbbing inside her. Then her muscles tightened simultaneously, but snapped the next second. She was on the edge of sanity, drunk on the sensation he was feeding her. His warm breath against her neck and ear, his warm body on top of hers, that was all she needed.

"Sasuke…," she shuddered, releasing her fluids and letting go of everything.

"Finally," Sasuke murmured.

"What?" Sakura's eyes suddenly snapped open.

Sasuke ignored her and kept on ramming in and out in an inhuman speed until he felt the sudden release, and held his body stiffly, still inside.

"I love you," Sakura said. There wasn't a reason; it was just like a reflex. When the man of your dreams fucked you to submission, saying those three words was required.

"Don't say a word," Sasuke ordered coldly. Sasuke immediately withdrew and rose away from her and started putting on his clothes. Then he grabbed his katana.

"No! No! Please!" Sakura heard herself cry in the woman's voice. She was still naked and lying on the ground.

"I won't tell! Just please, please!"

Her words were wasted. In a clean swipe, her head flew of her body, spurting blood and both falling on to the ground, sucking the coldness of the world. The woman's curls straightened, and the fiery color faded into pale pink. The body shrunk, the breast shrinking, the thighs thinning, until Sakura felt at one with her body again. The slam of the door reminded her that she was alone, and Sasuke had deserted the women he fucked then killed.

Sakura was stunned, the color and life draining out of her as she started crying. Finally understanding, and hating Sasuke, despising his cruelness, she bawled, tears flowing from her eyes and sliding down her cheeks.

Just lying on the filthy ground with her body detached from her head, she howled.

"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan!" a familiar voice gently called, "Wake up."

She opened her eyes and there in front of her was Naruto and Kakashi, looking worried. Then she realized that she was in a hospital bed, in Konoha.

"You were crying in your sleep," Naruto informed her quietly.

"Where's Sasuke?" Sakura asked fearfully.

"He took you to us, assuring us that you were safe," Kakashi answered, "Then he threatened that he would alert the Akatsuki of Naruto's whereabouts if we didn't leave immediately."

"The bastard was bluffing," Naruto insisted, "As if he would rat on us!"

"He put you in a genjutsu, didn't he?" Kakashi asked quietly.

Sakura nodded, wiping her tears away.

"I'm surprised that you didn't come out of it sooner," Kakashi said, "Have we not gone over this?"

Sakura looked down, not wanting to give anything away.

"Give her a break Kakashi-sensei," Naruto glared at Kakashi.

"Okay, we'll talk about this later, and we'll have to pay a visit to the Hokage sometime," Kakashi sighed and motioned to Naruto that they should leave.

When they left, Sakura's mind drifted to the last of their moments together, and although the genjutsu was over, she cried herself to sleep, hoping that she would dream of him again.

END

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.