Sasuke walked in the dark hallway alone, going towards Sakuras' room. He sighed before he slid open the shoji screen and walked into the sitting room. He waited for her to feel his presence.
"Haven't you heard of knocking?" Came her muffled voice.
The screen slid open and she walked out of her room into the sitting area. Walking right past him. Another sigh escaped him as he walked over to the shoji screen that separated the sitting area & the hallway. Sliding it shut and locking it.
"I never said you were allowed to stay." She said as she sat down on the futon.
"We need to talk." Sasuke said as he walked over to where she sat and crouched next to her, making sure they were eye level.
"I don't feel like talking." Sakura said as she refused to meet his eyes.
"Please." He begged.
"Would this have anything to do with Tsunade's suggestion of me bearing a child for you?" Sakura asked quietly.
She still would not meet his eyes.
"It would."
"Then leave, my answer has not changed." Sakura said harshly.
"You haven't allowed me to talk with you about it." Sasuke said as he reached for her face. She quickly stood up.
"There's nothing more to talk about."
Sasuke stood up as well. He walked towards her, and she backed away from him. Another step, and she took another step and she hit the wall. Walking up to her he took her chin in his fingers and moved her face to look at him.
"Sakura this was once a long time dream of yours." He whispered.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breathe. "I was a naive fool back then, and I will never allow myself to be such a fool ever again." Sakura replied.
Sasuke moved his arm from his side his hand grasping her tiny waist. "I was the naive fool Sakura. I was an idiot blinded by revenge, and power. I was jealous of you & Naruto. If I could go back in time and change everything I would .... I can't though. But I can make up for everything. I can give you everything you want. Me, my heart, my love. I'll treat you like a queen. And our child will be loved the way I never was by my father. Sakura that Daimyo he's not a shinobi, he knows nothing of the world we live in, the lives we lead. If you go to him, he'll never be able to understand you the way I can. He would never be able to relate to you the way I can ... Please look at me." Sasuke said.
She didn't open her eyes, or make any move to. She merely took a deep breathe and banged her head against the wall. "Sasuke have you forgotten. by marrying Karin you've promised her all that."
Sasuke let go of her and for a moment he was thoughtless.
His hands slammed against the wall. Trapping Sakura. He growled.
"You see that's just it. .... You, you've done something to me. All I do is think about you, I see nothing but good views of you everywhere I go. When I allowed you to move in I thought maybe it would drive you a little crazy by seeing me and Karin together all the time, seeing that I wasn't as cold & heartless as you always said I'd been, seeing that I had made a wise decision in choosing Karin."
He was taking on a weird tone. It was like a mix of insanity, & pleading.
"I never expected it to backfire though. And then showing up at my wedding, proving everyone wrong about you, looking as beautiful as you did, as you do right now." He was only inches away from her.
"Making you regret was always the plan." She said as she pushed him away, her hands on his chest.
"Then live with the consequences, you wanted me to regret it and I do." Sasuke hissed. "Sakura do you really honestly think it's love at first sight with him? All he wants to do is fuck you. And when you give into what he wants he'll brag to all those spoiled politicians he probably socializes with."
"Then you'd be the same right?" Sakura asked as she finally opened her eyes.
She looked as though she might cry. She pushed against his chest. "I'm right aint I?! That's all you want Sasuke, fuck me then once your satisfied you'll be long gone back to your precious Karin. And all those promises are out the door with you right?!" She said angrily as she pushed on his chest again.
"So what if your right?! You'd finally get what you wanted!" Sasuke bit back.
"I never wanted just to to fuck you Sasuke & you know it. You & I both know that the only reason your proposing to me is because you feel threatened. You just don't want to see me happy and that's all it is!"
Sasuke pushed her against the wall. Smashing his body against hers. "That makes us the same then right? Making me regret my decision to marry Karin makes you happy doesn't it?! Watching me feel like shit for taking you for granted makes you feel real good inside doesn't it?!"
"You bet your ass it does." Sakura bit back.
"You have absolutely no idea what I went through Sasuke, what you & that whore put me through. I put my ass on the line just to get you to be excepted back, I put my ass on the line for those idiots you call your teammates all because I thought it would make you happy. I spent most of the time getting harassed by that bimbo you now call a wife, all because she slept with you when you left us. I humiliated myself trying to get you to notice me I lost so much weight that all my clothes were to baggy on me. Because you told me you like your women thin. I put to much weight on that I was taken off the roster all because you said you liked women with meat, Sasuke you fucked with my mind in so many different angles I'm surprised I'm still sane!" Sakura continued.
"No one ever told you to listened to a god damned word I said."
"I was a fool then Sasuke, you & everyone else knew I'd have done anything for you, to be with you." Sakura said.
"What happened to you?! Where's the fan-girl that used to annoy me? Or the girl that would fight with Ino for me? What happened to the girl that used to try to get to know me? I wanna talk to that girl."
"She's dead and I can't bring her back to life." Sakura replied icily.
"Can't or won't? Because right about now I'd prefer the innocent naive foolish Haruno Sakura Konohas' Sakura over whoever you are."
"Then why don't you just leave, and take your empty promises with you because that girl that sweet innocent girl you prefer so much, drowned in a pool of her own tears."
"The tears you cried in the shower or the tears you that put you to sleep?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura inhaled a breath and shook her head in denial. "No! No! No! You were a goddamned hallucination!" She cried.
"You actually think I'm so cruel that I wouldn't check on you? I did, whenever the hell I could get away from everyone I would go check on you. Do you have any idea what it's like to watch someone literally loose their mind?! I felt useless around you, listening to your suicidal and insane mumblings. Watching you starve yourself to the point where you were nearly as thin as a piece of flimsy paper. On numerous occasions I had to pull you out of the damned tub and do c.p.r.!"
"That wasn't you! that was Sai!"
"I'm sorry to say this but Sai always found me breathing air back into your pathetic body!"
"If it's so pathetic then why didn't you let me die?!" Sakura screamed
Silence.
She really asked it.
"Tell me." She begged, her voice shaky. It had been so long since he'd seen so much emotional sides to her.
He moved a little away from her. "Tell me Sasuke if it's so pathetic then why didn't you let me di-
-Because I couldn't except a life without you in it! Are you happy now!" Sasuke asked as he cut her off.
"Living with Orochimaru was possibly the worst thing in the world. He was every bit opposite of the girl I used to know, and I was reminded of that everyday. If it wasn't his daily reminders it was when Kabuto was healing me, reminding me that when I had left you'd just started your training with Tsunade. I'd always wondered how far you'd gotten in your training what you were working on that moment. And then spring would come and the Sakura trees would bloom, and every time I saw grass and leaves, I was constantly reminded of you everywhere I went. And I hated it. I've gone on without out you only to reminded of you everywhere. I wouldn't put myself through it again. I'd rather see you go insane than have you die on me and always have to be reminded of you." Sasuke continued.
He moved closer to her again, getting even closer to her. " ........... I didn't let you die because a life without you in it, without seeing you, hearing your voice, calling you names, & calling you my precious person. ..... A life without you in it Sakura, is insane, I wouldn't see it, I can't see it." Sasuke continued in a gentle tone.
He needed to do it, hopefully the gods were on his side.
Bending down more so he truly was eye level with her he moved forward.
Gently taking her lips with his.
Sakura pushed him away. Breaking their kiss. A small sad smile on her lips.
"God Sasuke I waited so long for you to say that .... to bad your four years too late." Sakura said as she pushed against his chest with chakra induced hands. Sasukes body moved a few feet away from her.
Four years too late?
Her eyes looked away from his and at the coffee table. He looked too.
Guess he missed the paperwork on the table.
Sakura walked over to them and picked them up along with a pen. Holding them out to himself.
"I need you to sign these." She said.
Sasuke plucked the papers out of her head and read through them. His eyebrow raising as he read the words on the parchment.
"Release forms?" He asked.
"Sai found a loophole for me. Tsunade & the elders have to let me out of this punishment, as well as the construction on my apartment is finished, I can move back in as soon as possible." Sakura explained quickly.
"If I don't sign these then you don't leave right?" Sasuke asked.
"It is in your best interest to sign those." Sakura replied.
"No, you're staying here." Sasuke said as he tore the papers in half.
Sakura moved back to the coffee table and reached underneath it pulling out more papers. Pushing them into his chest. "You have copies?" He asked.
"I prepare." Sakura replied.
"I'm not signing them Sakura. I won't allow you to leave-
-and what do you expect to happen? If I stay here do you expect me to just get tired of the antics you plan to pull and give into your wishes?" She asked.
"No I plan on having you stay here and getting you too revert to your old self." Sasuke replied.
"Do you actually think that lovesick child still exists?!"
"I know she does that's why you want to leave so badly, why you keep your distance, avoiding me at all cost." Sasuke said as he walked up to her sandwiching her between him and the futon sofa.
"Your afraid of falling again, becoming the weak girl your really are." Sasuke finished.
"Falling will only lead to insanity." Sakura said to him. As she once again pushed him away.
She walked back to the shoji screen of her bedroom. Sliding it open. "........ Unless you wish to take care of me through such an illness than you should give up on any thoughts of us." She said before she slid it close. Disappearing behind it.
Deep breathes.
Inhale, exhale.
Sakura walked into her bathroom. Sliding the door shut and walking towards the sink. Splashing freezing cold water onto her face.
'Breathe.'
'It's so hard.'
'Remember we get our strength from them.'
'I'm losing my strength because of them.'
'Do it then. Give into all your emotions, except your love for ... one of them. Lose the last of your sanity, lose them again, forever this time.'
'I'm losing now, deceiving them all.'
'It's for their own good.'
'We should tell them.'
'Minsheng will see it a mile away, and he won't hesitate in getting rid of us.'
'They deserve to know.'
'They deserve to live, they'll die trying to speed up the process if we tell them.'
'We can bring them back.'
'Minsheng will take that power from us before our brain can tell our muscles to work.'
'He won't .... he needs us.'
'Only until he gets what he wants, then he can be done with us.'
'Madara will protect us.'
'Only to a point. Dojutsus came from the Rinnegan, they came from Minshengs teachings. He can take back all dojutsu's if he wants.'
'We need to blind him.'
'He's already getting up from that attack.'
'Then we stop following him, we take ourselves far off the radar.'
'In order to do that we'd have to die.'
'What do we do then? You're my inner desires, my most inner thoughts. Tell me what we should do.'
'You want to do this fine.'
Sakura looked into the mirror at her reflection and screamed.
Madara was leaning against the bathroom wall across from her.
"Interesting conversation you and Sasuke-kun had." He said as he pulled off one of his gloves and inspected his nails.
Sakura turned around and watched him.
"What!" Sakura snapped.
"You know what." Madara said.
"Explain it to me then."
Madara sighed. "They're a group of rebellions, just like us. Akatsuki, and they're growing fast. Getting deep into things they don't need to be in. And they're quickly killing off our people, Konoha hasn't deemed them a threat because so far they haven't killed any people from the five nations. The have no name, they have no faces ....yet. Pein knows nothing of them because I don't plan on telling him. He knows he's loosing men, but I've been telling him it's the five nations. I can't have him panicking." Madara said.
"Why me?"
"Because you can see everything, you can plan your reaction for everything."
"I can't just get up and walk out on everybody." Sakura said.
'So sad and true.'
"Yes I know, but we can fake your death easily." Madara replied.
'That's such a lie.'
"No you can't Pein knows that if I die, Sasori, Deidara, Kakazu & Hidan all die with me, we can't just fake my death."
"I've already thought about that. I've already planned to make them all go back to their homelands and begin recollecting subordinates, followers. A process like this could take a good two years, they won't be in contact with any of us until they have a good fifteen loyal men, moldable men." Madara said.
'Minshengs seen this conversation already.'
"Minsheng will tell."
"What are you talking about? Minsheng can't see this. I'm in your head. Not in your peripheral vision, not in your hearing, in your head. It's the safest place when going around a prophet they can see the future, but they cannot not see into the mind."
"But the future is our actions that we've thought about."
'Everyone knows that .... Maybe he's lost some brain cells through the decades.'
"Don't make any move on this then, everything will fall into place, we need to do this, these people are becoming to strong, they can wipe all of us out within the next decade if we allow them to live any longer." Madara said.
"Great. just great." Sakura said as she turned around to look back at the mirror Madara was gone.
'Who knew he knew such a jutsu.'
'Urasai.'
Sasuke sighed as he sat down in the courtyard, his room was the only room that lead to it. He'd left the design alone, keeping it the same way his mother always had.
"What is it?" He asked.
He felt the mans presence even when he was with Sakura. "Just stopping by, haven't seen you in quiet some time ....... although I didn't expect to found your lips suctioned to the Harunos."
"Keep her out of this, she's got nothing to do with any of it." Sasuke said in a harsh tone.
"On the contrary, she has got plenty to do with it. If it wasn't for her Pein would still be dead, and no more would I have him watching me like a hawk."
"I still can't believe you never told me of Peins death." Sasuke replied.
"Don't try to change the subject, I know for a fact that she'd rather kiss corpses than kiss you."
Sasuke growled as he stood up turning to look at Madara. "And tell me you know this how?"
Madara smirked beneath his mask. "Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke, You saw her when Jiraiya brought her back, now tell me you really believe a prisoner of mine, a prisoner of Akatsukis would look that good."
Sasukes hand touched the hilt of his sword.
"Your men stabbed her almost to death, I saw the blood, I saw some of the gashes. That was not faked."
A sigh escaped the older man. "Ah yes, the wounds, but other than that how'd she look .... Because compared to when we got her ....I think she looks pretty damn sexy now." Madara said.
Sasukes hand inched away. "Think my dear boy, she's completely healthy, & she looks better than ever; none of my prisoners are ever healthy, or good looking when I've got what I've wanted."
Sakuras a traitor.
"Sasuke your a smart boy put the pieces together. or perhaps your so in love with her now that you refuse to see the truth. Don't let her beauty blind you."
"She would never betray Konoha she lov-
- loves Konoha. What if I told you she found a different love? Or more so another man to play with." Madara said
"She wouldn't fall so easily for the enemy, she would never do such a traitorous act, especially if she knows it will hurt Naruto!"
"Naruto? Boy haven't you been paying attention to anything, because of your wife she lost Naruto, she lost you, she lost everything. The man she's messing with offered her what she wanted. Giving her all that she wanted ..... well almost all. And let me tell you something .. from what I've heard she's like a rabbit beneath the sheets."
"Urusai!" Sasuke shouted.
They could hear foot movements from the hallway.
"Sasuke, she wont let you fuck her because she's already fucking someone else, someone more powerful, more stronger. Open you eyes and see that she's only teasing you, once she has you where she wants you, she'll rip you to shreds. ...... All she wants is to kill you all .. I understand though from her side, you betrayed her, played her, messed with her, humiliated her, and she wants revenge. And she's getting it." Madara said before he disappeared.
"Sasuke! What the hell was all that shouting?!" Suigestu asked as he barged into the room.
"Madara." Sasuke hissed out.
"Pein." Konan said as she entered his study.
Upon opening the door she found said person pacing.
"What?" He asked.
"Have you seen Madara?" She asked.
Peins head turned too her and he stopped in his tracks. "You're suppose to be with him in Kusa preparing with him." He said.
"No Madara said that Zetsu and Sasori were going.
"Zetsu is in Kusa waiting for your arrival, and Sasori is back to Suna for recruiting." Pein said. She could hear the edge in his usually calm voice.
The door creaked open and Madara popped his head in. "Did I miss something?" He asked as he walked into the room.
Pein said nothing. Konan would say nothing as well, she wasn't scared of the man .. she just knew not to get on his bad side was all. Pein probably knew that Madara was up to something and she'd have a talk with him when they were alone another time.
"Madara I need you too take a look at the girls somethings wrong with their eyes." Konan said as she grabbed hold of Madaras arm and dragged him out of the office.
It seemed as though that when the words eyes and girls were in the same sentence he obviously cared a whole lot. Wouldn't want his children being a disgrace to him.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Well last night they were perfectly happy when I put them to sleep, everything was normal, but this morning when I went to see if they were awake and they were their eyes seemed a bit more paler than usual. .... I talked to Hotaru and she said that it didn't look like blindness so I came to find you." Konan explained.
It was true.
They were in the room in a blink of an eye after that.
Konan watched as Madara bent over the crib and checked the babies eye. He sighed.
"Nothing to worry about, this is natural for all Uchiha children, it's merely a sign that the sharingan is strong in their blood." He said as she turned around and bent over the next crib.
"I suggest you have Hotaru catalog this." He said as he stood back straight and walked out of the room.
Konan walked over to her girls. The man could care less if it was some kind of stomach flu but when it came to their eyes. Lo and behold he was there faster than lightning.
"Hopefully you girls find someone better than how your father is." Konan said as she sat down on her rocker and watched her girls.
Sasuke slid the screen open as he gritted his teeth, Sakura wasn't in her sitting room. Growling angrily he walked over to the bedroom and slid the screen open. She wasn't in there either.
Turning around he froze in place as he remembered the bathroom.
Walking over to it he slid the screen open and walked in, sliding the screen shut behind him, he'd found her.
"You know for someone who comes from a prestigious clan, your manners are far from what are to be expected." Sakura said before taking another sip from her sake bottle.
She was in the tub bathing in something white.
"Warm milk and honey with rose petals, and some spearmint oil, it relaxes the body." Sakura exclaimed.
"Sakura I was talking to an acquaintance-
-Madara is no acquaintance Sasuke, he's more like someone that will never leave you alone after you meet. ...... like a lost puppy."
"How did you -
-know? Sasuke I'm no idiot, and I know what he told you, and I know why your hear." Sakura said.
"Then tell me what I want to know." Sasuke said.
"I'm not with sleeping with Itachi." Sakura answered.
"Then who is it?" Sasuke asked angrily.
This time Sakura took a chug of her sake before she spoke. "Tell me Sasuke what are you planning? Overthrowing the Hokage like your parents had tried? Killing Itachi? Killing Naruto for Madara? Killing Madara? What? Because I really can't see you trying to settle down without some kind of hidden agenda." Sakura said.
Sasuke sat down on the ledge of the bath. "Why should I tell you?" He asked as he meet her stare.
"Because I can help you." Sakura said as she leaned forward.
Pein watched as Madara sighed.
"Tell me does Sakura know any aging jutsus because I can't take it anymore I need them older now." Madara said as he looked out the window.
"I can't say."
"Do you know if Hotaru and Itachi have conceived yet?" Madara asked.
"I can't say."
"What of Sasuke and Karin have they conceived yet?" Madara asked.
"I can't say."
"What can you say then."
"We won."
Madara turned his head to look at Pein.
"We did?" He asked.
"I've already sent Itachi." Pein replied.
"So we really did it, Kusagakure & Kumagakure are really ours ... and Konoha has no idea right." Madara said excitedly.
"Absolutely no idea." Pein replied
"So who's next on the list Pein .... it's your turn to pick." Madara said.
"I was thinking perhaps Takigakure, it's a small village, but it'll be less likely to see an attack coming from us, as well as their shinobi are that of chunnin ranks. it would be simple." Pein said.
"Are we going with small villages first and then the bigger ones?" Madara asked.
"It's safer." Pein said.
"It's perfect." Madara said.
How many men did we lose?" Madara asked.
"Eight."
"That a great outcome." Madara said.
"All thanks to Sakura and her foresight." Pein said.
"Speaking of Sakura ... How's it going with her?" Madara asked as he sat on the desk.
"............... She hasn't brought it up so I'm guessing it's going well." Pein said as he reclined into his chair.
"She's planning your death then." Madara said.
"You think ..... worse part is before she left. I'd been feeling a little off which led to a bit of violence between us."
"You hurt Sakura? ... never thought I hear such a thing come out of your mouth .... perhaps she brought to life a old friend of yours." Madara said.
"Yahiko? You don't think it's possible do you?" Pein asked.
"You've been around her when she was using Hai Saisei perhaps because he was dead just being close to her when she was using it brought a part of him back." Madara said.
"If that's true then I'd have to kill this body again." Pein said.
"Again."
"Again." Pein repeated.
"TEMEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sasuke's eye twitched at the familiar loud voice. He looked over to Sakura and saw her shaking her head.
"So how are we going to do this without getting the dobe suspicious?" He asked her.
Sakura picked up her sake bottle and took another chug as she walked out of the bathroom with him, wearing only her kimono robe with her hair up secured by a chopstick.
"There's no way to get around him .... we have to bring him in, put a lock on the memory until he needs it." She replied.
"So we tell him."
"We have to .. you see although the mind wont remember because of the lock, the kyubi will, you can see and talk to the kyubi convince him to keep Naruto at bay with everything, and then he can break the lock when the signal is given. If he brakes the seal a day or two early Naruto will say something. We give him a couple hours, he'll keep quiet." Sakura explained.
"And I have to do the difficult part." Sasuke said.
"Ahh yes the difficult part of convincing the kyubi and putting a lock on the memory is such a difficult procedure, I am so glad that all I have to do is leave this world." Sakura said sarcastically.
"TEME WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!"
"Are you positive we can do this?" Sasuke asked.
"Are you positive your an Uchiha?"
Sasuke glared.
"We can do this, don't forget who taught us everything." Sakura said with a smile.
Sighing he stood up and walked over to the shoji screen that separated the sitting room from the hall and waited.
Sakura spoke in a hushed voice. "He's coming in eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two.
Sasuke grabbed the blonde by the hair, pulling Naruto into the room and covering his mouth to keep anyone from hearing his yelling.
Sakura slid the screen shut and quickly put a jutsu on the room so no one could hear what was being said on the inside. Naruto bit Sasukes hand causing the Uchiha to hiss in pain as he nursed his hand.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!" He yelled.
"Naruto we need to tell you something." Sakura said as she walked up to him.
His eyes lit up in happiness. "See Sasuke I told you she still loved you."
"Naruto we need to talk." Sasuke said.
It was clear that Naruto realized that it was a serious, Sasuke never called him by his name unless it was serious.
"What is it?" He asked carefully.
"Before we begin, you need to promise that after we tell you everything you need to know, that you'll forgive us." Sakura said.
"Forgive you?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke shut his eyes for a moment. Opening them as he spoke.
"Naruto it's about Akatsuki."
Dun Dun Dun!
I only wonder what's gonna happen.
Oh wait I already know.
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