Chapter 10

The darkness of the room completely submerged him. Memories flashed in his mind, all the ones he tried to forget. All the memories of her. Coal eyes flashed with emotion he left locked away deep inside his heart. There was a reason why he left the village, why he left all his friends behind. Mist covered his eyes as he freely let the emotions come. Sasuke had never wanted to have anything distract him from achieving his revenge, and yet, while he was with Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura he felt his resolve fading. He was shocked to find himself wanting to forget about Itachi and his quest to bring justice to his clan. He found himself only wanting to protect the village and everyone in it. Sasuke dropped his head as a very significant memory surfaced.

A sharp pain erupted in his skull as he slowly tilted his eyes open. It was then that all the memories came back about the fight he had had with Itachi, trying to stop him from taking Naruto, he failed--again. As he moved the white sheet that covered him fell as he sat up. Instantly warm arms embraced him.

"Oh Sasuke, you're okay." His pink haired teammate hugged him gently. Sasuke was taken back as he leaned his head towards hers. She had been really worried about him, hadn't she? His eyes softened as he felt her tears hitting the sensitive place on his neck. He noticed Naruto sneak out of the room from the corner of his eye but didn't acknowledge it. A warm feeling began to build itself as he let her embrace him. He almost smirked at the thought that he actually didn't want her to let go.

Tsunade had left the room, leaving Sasuke and Sakura to themselves.

Sasuke never moved to embrace Sakura back but she seemed to be okay with that.

"You have to promise never to scare me like that again." Sakura spoke, causing her warm breath to hit his neck. He wanted to tell her that he would never do anything to scare her but the words wouldn't come.

Sasuke stiffened as she buried her face in his neck. Her lips touching the curse mark that was present there. Why did she care so much for him? Sasuke knew she liked him because of his looks but by the way she was holding him he realized it was something more, much more.

More of her tears traveled down his skin. Sasuke had to stop himself from reaching out to touch her hair. After a few more minutes she pulled away, her cheeks were red from all her crying, as she smiled at him.

"Thank you for being my friend."

Sasuke's mouth fell open as she pushed her hair back.

"Well I'll go get you something to eat. Rest and get better." Then with a parting smile she left. Sasuke's eyes fell down to his hands. What were these new feelings that were suddenly flowing? Why did she affect him now? When he started to think of the times she had been threatened he got angry, real angry.

Sasuke's eyes widened largely when he realized what was going on inside him. He was falling for her, and he was falling hard. He clenched his hands to stop them from shaking.

"Sakura..." he whispered her name on his breath as he looked out the window.

Sasuke ran his hand through his hair which caused him to realize that he was shaking. Swallowing he tried to steady himself. He had to get a grip on his feelings before they overtook him and completely took over his hold on his goal.

Closing his eyes he began to take deep breaths. In...Out...In...Out...

There was a rapping at his door which he chose to ignore. The door began to creek open after a few moments.

"Lord Orochimaru would like you to take care of the pink haired girl that is causing rampage on some of the villagers. We've never seen her out of control like this." A shaky voice explained.

Sasuke opened one of his eyes to glare at the messenger. The messenger moved his eyes down to the ground.

"I know you don't like to be disturbed but--she's causing a lot of damage and...well, she's scary to be perfectly honest."

"Hn."

The messenger bowed his head as he shut the door behind him as he left. Sasuke sighed once the door was shut. What could she be doing to cause so much trouble?

'She is starting to cause too much trouble. I'm starting to think that letting her go would be the best way to get rid of everything.'

Walking towards the center of the compound he stopped in his tracks as he looked at all the damage that lay on the ground. The walls had huge holes in them every few yards from each other. There was a shout that caused his eyes to fly to where the voice came from.

He didn't show any reaction as he noticed the dark chakra that was gathered around her form. Steadily he walked over to her; she was pulling something from the man's hand.

"Sakura what in the world do you think you're doing?"

Her hateful green eyes landed on him as he spoke.

"Leave me alone."

Sasuke folded his arms across his chest, glaring at her.

"Tch."

Sakura threw the man down on the ground fiercely without a care in the world.

"You and your stupid answers are really starting to piss me off, Sasuke-kun."

Rolling his eyes he seemed indifferent which caused her to become even more annoyed. She stormed over to him and reached out and grabbed the side of his shirt, her face was inches away from his. Sasuke didn't flinch or show any reaction to her being so close to him. In a flash he had a Kunai against the skin of her neck.

Her eyes narrowed to slits as she felt him put pressure on it, causing a thin like of blood to drip down the blade. She began to search his eyes for any signs of regret for what he was doing. Her blood boiled as she saw that nothing was present in his eyes. He didn't care! Her hair began to rise from the amount of chakra that was flowing out of her body.

Sasuke smirked as her chakra began to whirl out of control.

'So this is what Orochimaru has planned. I never would have thought that he'd be transferring some of his power to her every time he was with her. Things just got interesting.' He mused to himself.

The smirk that was on his lips made Sakura hiss.

"You think you're so good like you're a God. Well you'll be surprised to find that you aren't the only one that is special." She snarled her eyes turning dangerous.

She glared at him as she was pressed against the wall harshly. Her eyes were met with his blood red ones.

"Being rejected really affected you didn't it? And here I thought you were fully over your little crush."

"You think the world revolves around you when it doesn't!" She cut in sharply.

Sasuke's lips twitched up into a half smile.

"To me the world does revolve around me, but that's because I don't care about anyone else in this petty world."

"That's right you aren't capable of caring about anyone, that's why you'll always be alone." She snapped back.

Sasuke's smile stayed on his lips as the Sharingan began to spin slightly.

"At least I was able to leave everything behind. You are suffering now because of the bonds you have back in the village that you can't think about anything except them. I left because I needed to be alone, there's nothing in this world that can stop me from achieving my goal."

Sakura winced as he pressed the blade harder against her neck. The purple chakra was still around her body.

"You're just a monster Sasuke, and you always will be."

Sasuke pressed the blade even closer; a steady flow of blood began to fall onto the Kunai and onto his right hand.

"That's right Sakura, I'm a monster and that will never change."

Her eyes hardened and Sasuke's eyes shot up when he felt the chakra spike, before he could react he was thrown against the opposite wall. Blood flowed down her neck as her hair covered her face. Sasuke stood up from being thrown against the wall.

'She's getting dangerous, I have to handle this before it gets out of hand.'

Before he could reach out with his chakra the purple chakra around her faded until it was no longer present.

"I'm sorry Sasuke..." with that she turned around and without looking at anyone she walked into one of the openings.

There was a chuckle from behind Sasuke and he turned and glared at the man that was standing before him.

"Remarkable, isn't she? A little gift from me to her."

Sasuke looked at the place she disappeared from. Orochimaru smiled as he watched Sasuke.

"I'm sure you're beginning to realize what I have in store for her. I'm glad you are finally putting the pieces of the puzzle together."

Sasuke walked calmly to stand beside Orochimaru.

"I never thought you could get sicker than you already are, apparently I was wrong."

Orochimaru smiled his sinister smile.

"You have no idea of what I'm capable of, no idea."

Sasuke smirked in response, "And you in return have no idea of what I'm capable of."

Orochimaru continued to smile at his future vessel. When he didn't say anything Sasuke turned and walked away from him.

"That's one of the joys of you becoming my vessel, who knows how much unlocked power you have deep inside of you."

Sakura sucked in a deep breath of air. What had happened to her? Never in her life had she lost it like that before. Her hands shook as she gazed down at them. She had done so much damage with just these two hands--and she never once used a weapon. Gulping she looked around her room, she winced from the pain it caused in her neck where Sasuke had punctured her.

Her mind told her to heal it but she ignored the instinct. Sasuke had done this to her in order to make her stop being what she was becoming. In her rage she had egged him on and made matters worse. Green eyes turned sad as she thought of all the awful things she had said to him. She had called him a monster for the second time and...this time he didn't deny it.

"Sasuke...you aren't a monster--you're just lost in this darkness that has over taken your heart," she whispered to the room.

The tip of her fingers reached up to touch her lips. She could still feel the way his lips felt against hers. She smiled as she noticed that she could taste him still as well. Her smile faded as she also began to remember the way he had pulled away from her and scolded her, like it was all her fault!

'But you have to admit, even though he was a big pain in the butt he still was a good kisser...' Her inner self chided, sighing.

Sakura shook her head lightly from side to side. He was a very good kisser even though she was pretty sure he had never kissed a girl in his life. Sakura sat up straight as she heard footsteps nearing her door.

The door opened slowly and Orochimaru stood in the doorway, grinning at her wickedly.

"I thoroughly enjoyed the show you put on out there."

She bowed her head, her pink hair covering her face like a curtain. Orochimaru walked into the room and shut the door gently behind him.

"You got under Sasuke's skin, I don't think he ever imagined you could become so..." he paused off searching for the word, "violent."

She cringed as the word left his mouth. She held her composure as he walked over to her and sat down on the bed next to her.

"How does it feel, knowing that you could out power him if you really tired?" he asked lightly, his snake like eyes blazing.

"Out power him? Ha! Don't make me laugh. He's ten times stronger than me and he'll continue to do so. I don't think anyone can out power him...except Naruto." Her voice lowered as he said her best friend's name.

Orochimaru began to chuckle, causing her to whip her head up to look at him.

"You really believe that Naruto could beat Sasuke? I hardly doubt he'd have the guts to go through with the killing blow. We both know that if they were to go up against each other for a second time that Naruto wouldn't be able to kill him. Sasuke on the other hand...I believe he could and would kill Naruto if it came down to it."

Sakura's heart sank at the words because she knew deep down inside that Sasuke really would kill him. Three years ago he came extremely close and she had yet to find out why he didn't go through with it.

Her skin crawled as Orochimaru's hand reached up and touched her slightly wet cheek.

"Why such the low face? It's a part of life to die."

"You don't want to die, if you really believed that than you wouldn't be preparing Sasuke to take his body." Sakura stated as he continued to trace the outline of her face.

Orochimaru smirked as his hand stopped his motion.

"There's just too many Jutsu in this world to learn, I can't afford to die."

Sakura stared into his eyes, not moving when he began to lean down towards her. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as he neared her lips. The first time since she had been here she didn't pull away. When his lips touched hers a tear escaped her eye as the only image in her mind was Sasuke, kissing her only minutes before.

'Sasuke...why are you denying what you feel? Can't you see that--deep down inside you want me just as much as I want you?'

Her green eyes closed as she let Orochimaru take control. There was no point in fighting anymore--there was only one person worth fighting for and he didn't want her...never wanted her. Orochimaru put his arm around her and moved her so she was lying against the soft mattress. She opened her eyes slightly to look up at him. He smirked as he lowered his head again to place his lips on hers.

Yes...there was no reason left to fight.

Naruto's heart fell as he stopped in his tracks. Kakashi had to spin away from him, causing his Lightening blade to hit into a nearby tree. His heart was racing as he turned to look at Naruto, whom he almost killed because he let his guard down so abruptly.

"Naruto?"

Naruto looked over at Kakashi with defeated eyes.

"She gave up...I can feel it Kakashi-Sensei. Sakura..." Naruto looked down at the ground as the tears began to fall freely down his face, "gave up."

Kakashi lowered his eyes to the ground, closing his Sharingan eye.

"Maybe you just are thinking she did." Kakashi replied, trying his best not to believe Naruto's words.

Naruto shook his head, "No, I felt it...I know it seems crazy and stuff but me and Sakura...we're like brother and sister. We have this bond and--suddenly...I felt--defeated. She's defeated Kakashi-Sensei...somehow her strong spirit...was broken."

Naruto clenched his hands at his sides. There really was no time left, it was time to head out to find Sasuke and Sakura.

"Kakashi-Sensei, I know you wanted to wait until I mastered this new Jutsu but...we don't have time to sit here. Whether I'm ready or not it's time to move out. Sakura won't last much longer since her spirit was broken. I--we have to get to her, now."

Kakashi watched as the tears stopped flowing down his cheeks and saw his eyes cover over with a determined look. He couldn't help but let the small smile form on his lips, which was hidden behind his mask.

"All right Naruto. Let's get going."

Sasuke walked down the hallway and he closed his eyes as he heard the moans and groans coming from Sakura's room.

'Don't let it affect you, just calmly walk away and go into your room where no one can bother you.' He glanced down at his feet, willing them to move.

'I should be able to move my feet with no problems. Grr! This whole thing is seriously starting to get on my nerves, perhaps it would be best if I killed him now rather than waiting until I've learned everything I could from him...'

The thought of killing Orochimaru was very appealing to say the least. It would be rewarding to see him glare in fear as Sasuke stood over him, getting ready to give the killing blow. Another moan escaped the room and Sasuke turned and glared at the door. His Sharingan spun rapidly as he willed himself not to break the door down and to reek havoc to a certain man in the room.

Taking a deep breath to calm his mind he was able to move down the hall, leaving the distance echo of moans behind him.

Sasuke entered his room; his eyes still a blood red. No one got away with touching what was his, no one.

A/N: Sorry for the time it took to update. Had a little bit of writers block but then this chapter came about. I really have to say this is one of my favorite chapters so far. Anyway, I don't want to ramble a lot in this note so I'll just let you review and tell me what you think. Just wanted to thank my beta again, Silver! Totally amazing!! And of course I want to thank the faithful readers and reviewers of this story.

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