( Disclaimer: I Don't own NARUTO! They belong to His Highness Masashi Kishimoto! )
Warning! Nasty contents will occur! I warned you!
Chapter Eleven - Wicked Game
Two days had passed since that day they had been fighting and neither of them looked or even talked to each other from that day.
Yamato had tried to be the peacemaker between them, but his Senpai hadn't even care about what he had said and then he had walked away like an immature teenager. This mission was doomed to fail if they didn't began to cooperate again.
And when it came to the issue of Iyagaru Hinoki the wife of Iyagaru Kusari, she was suddenly (yet again) beginning to have a sort of interest in that silver haired guard of Hashidoi Tara, more then she had been before.
That annoyed the'victim', as much as the 'victims' mistress. But neither of them said it out loud.
The 'victims' mistress was no one else then a pink haired Kunoichi from Konoha. A pregnant Kunoichi from Konoha and she had been placed in the care of the maid Kiku, during her 'husbands' conversation with Iyagaru Kusari the Lord of this manor.
It made her a bit restless just to walk around in the enormous big garden with the shyly maid Kiku, who was only walking behind her not saying a word.
The pink haired Kunoichi Sakura walked towards a stone bench and sat herself on it, resting her aching back and Kiku stood in front of her, twiddled nervously with her fingers, almost in a Hinata way.
"Kiku-San, come... Sit with me..." Sakura said, making Kiku jump on the spot and walked slowly to the bench and sat down beside Sakura.
Sakura smiled a bit when she thought this maid was very much like Hinata and that made Sakura think of her state and what Konoha would say about it.
"Ano*... Tara-Sama..." Kiku began a bit nervously.
"Just Tara, please..." Sakura said to Kiku with a smile.
"... Tara... When... When are you expecting...?" Kiku asked and Sakura looked a bit surprised to her and then she frowned a bit. "Go-Gomennasai*! I didn't mean to offending you...!"
"It's alright, Kiku... To tell you the truth, I don't really know..." Sakura sighed.
"You... You don't know... Tara, haven't you been in the antenatal clinic yet?" Kiku asked a bit shocked.
"No, I haven't..." Sakura said.
Why should she? She was a medic herself. What could go wrong?
"Why not? You should really go. It's always good to check your baby, even if it's still in your belly..." Kiku said with a smile. "And you are wealthy, so you shouldn't have any problem with going to the antenatal clinic..."
`Wealthy...? That's right... They pay for this check ups. Konoha is one of the few places that it's free... But I don't really see myself as wealthy...´
"I know Kiku... But..." Sakura paused.
She knew that even if she was a good medic, but it was still things she coulden't see by using her medic chakra only. Like the 'health' of the fetus. That required different equipment. Equipment only an antenatal clinic had and back in Konoha they would found out if she walked in to the antenatal clinic. Well, they would found it out eventlly anyway.
"I guess it wouldn't harm..." Sakura finally said and that made Kiku shine up, Sakura had no idea why.
"Good! I will walk with you to the clinic, but I think you should take your guard with you..." Kiku said and Sakura sighed.
Was she really forced to ask him to join them to the antenatal clinic? She was pretty sure he would avoided her and every chance he had to not go with them, but she hadn't anyother choice. It wasn't like she could walk down the street and kick everyone that attacked her, it would be too risky to do it with Kiku and everyone else looking. So she was now forced to find that man that had hurt her and convince him to follow her down to the clinic.
"We can go after lunch and we will meet each other at the gates, thoes that sound good?" Kiku asked and Sakura nodded. "Then we should hurry. I believe it soon will be lunch..."
Kiku jumped up from the bench like a overexcited child and dragged Sakura up too. She and Sakura began to walk back, this time talking a bit more then they had done before and Sakura found that she enjoyed Kiku's company.
Suddenly Sakura bumped into someone, who took her wrist softly to stop her from fall backwards and Kiku squeak in surprise.
Sakura looked up to the one who she had bumped into and she began to frown.
"...You...!" she growled and glared to the silver haired man in front of her and he looked back.
"Sa-... Tara-Sama..." he said with his deep voice and let go of her wrist, almost like he had burned himself.
She frowned even deeper and narrowed her eyes at him, like she expected him to have that little slut accompany him.
The silver haired man looked to Sakura's left to see that little black haired maid, that was looking at him a bit nervously and then he leaned down to Sakura's ear.
"We need to talk..." he whispered to her. "...alone..."
Sakura raised an eyebrow to him, it had been the first time they had been saying a word to each other since two days back and she turned to Kiku.
"I will see you later, Kiku..." she said with a smile to Kiku, who bowed.
"See you at the gates after lunch..." Kiku said and walked away.
The man looked after the maid and then he raised his eyebrow to Sakura.
"What did she mean with that...?" he asked.
"I will come to that later..." she told him and turned her head away from him. "What do you want...?"
"Well, I want to apologize to you..." he said, even if he didn't feel like he needed to. "About that night... I was under her jutsu and I didn't know what I did..."
"Under her jutsu...?" Sakura looked to him in away like she didn't believe him.
"Aaa... And even how much I wanted to walk away, I couldn't. She had me stuck in her Genjutsu. I tried to tell you that morning, but you didn't let me..."
Sakura felt a bit ashamed that she hadn't even let him explain himself at that time and she didn't know if she wanted to hear the rest of it right now anyway.
"I did never intended to hurt you and I didn't know that you had seen it..." he mumbled. "I just want you to know that I'm sorry..."
Sakura bit her lip and glanced to him with a softer expression in her emerald eyes.
"I forgive you..." she suddenly said and he looked to her with a surprised look.
He hadn't thought that she would forgive him that easy and truth was that Sakura hadn't really forgive him. She was just tired of being angry and arguing about something (in the end) she couldn't win. And she needed him to follow her and Kiku down to the antenatal clinic. And top of it, they had a mission that needed to be done. They needed to cooperate with each other if they wanted to come out of this alive.
There could be no room for any mistakes.
"Arigatou*..." he mumbled and held out his arm to her to take it and she took it with a bit of hesitation.
He began to walk towards the stone bench she and Kiku and left just minutes ago and he placed Sakura down on it and then he leaned on to the big maple.
"So, are you going to tell me what you and that maid is plotting...?" he asked her.
"Why would you care what I do with the maid... Kakashi..." Sakura mumbled and glanced to him.
"Well, if it concern that you leave the manor, I would care..." Kakashi said. "Because you shouldn't leave the manor when you are pregnant, at least not alone..."
`Well, not while a psychotic killer is on the lose...´
"I can take care of myself..." Sakura told him and looked to the Chrismas Camellia that was bloming with it's blood red flowers. "And yes, we are planing to leave the manor, but just for a while..."
"What on earth are you going to do down in the town with the maid...?" Kakashi asked in a tone that almost sounded that he was scolding her.
"Well... she convinced me that I should visit the antenatal clinic..." Sakura mumbled.
"Why?"
"Because to check it..."
"...Oh..." Kakashi looked dumbfound down to Sakura. "Well, it's maybe better to check on Chibi-San here then back in Konoha, I guess..."
"I thought so too... Anyway, Kiku will walk with me to the clinic, that's why we are going to meet each other by the gate..." Sakura said.
"And you two is going all alone...?" Kakashi asked her a bit stiff.
"I had hopped that my guard would follow me... It would look strange if we got attacked and I beat the hell out of the attackers, when I'm supposed to be a Lady and are even pregnant..." she said and laied her hands in her lap.
"I guess you are right about that..." Kakashi mumbled a bit annoyed. "So we are leaving after lunch...?"
"Hai... Don't tell Yamato, though..."
"Don't worry about that... He is busy right now with Kusari, he won't even notice that you have been gone..." Kakashi said and sighed.
"...Right... And by the way... How's things going? Are we close?" she asked Kakashi, who glanced down to her.
"Hum... Not really... Me and Yamato has been trying for some time now to infiltrate his bed room, but no use... I began to think he has hired some Shinobi's to set up trappes and other things that will protect him..." Kakashi said in a low voice and Sakura nodded "We are also worried if we take one down, they will maybe notice... And in the end, we could only came up with one idea..."
Sakura began to frown.
"No... I will not do it again!" she told him and looked down to the fadeded grass.
"We don't have any other choice... You are the only one who could do it, without breaking any wards..." Kakashi mumbled to her and she glared to him. "I understand you, I really do, but we can't stay here too long... We can't go through with the deal, because we don't have the money..."
"I know that..." Sakura looked down to the grass again. "But shouldn't they be finish with the deal already...?"
"They should, but hadn't it been for the lord's cousins death, we would have had less time..." Kakashi said and waved with his right hand in the air nonchalantly.
"What have you done with your hand?" Sakura suddenly asked and looked to the bandaged hand.
He quickly hide his hand behind his back.
"Nothing... Anyway, Yamato have tried to drage out the deal as much as he could, to buy us time. But he can't do that for so much longer..." Kakashi continued while Sakura gaved him a scowl.
"Let me see your hand..." she ordered him and he looked down to her.
"No... And I'm fine... The cat bit me..."
"They don't have cats here... Let me see, now!" Sakura said and raised up and reached after his hand. He flinched away from her. "Stop with that or I will really hurt you...!"
Kakashi hesitated for a moment and it was then Sakura saw her chance and grabbed his wrist and he have away a painful hiss.
"It's broken... I don't believe a cat could do that..." she told him.
"It was a big cat..."
"And your knuckles is crushed... If a cat did that, it must have been a really big, stoney cat..." Sakura mumbled and began to wrap off the bandage from his hand and looked down to the wounded and bluish knuckles and the swollen wrist. "It look like you did this for a couple a days ago... What did you do...?"
"Bar fight..."
She frown.
"I don't believe you..."
"I didn't ask you to believe me..." he mumbled and watched how she forced some medic chakra to her hand and she began to heal him.
"I can't promise... But I will try to charm Kusari..." Sakura suddenly said and looked up to him. "I can only hope that he has tast for a pregnant woman..."
She let go of his hand and Kakashi closed his hand into a fist and heard how the joint in his hand cracked.
"You don't have to be to worry about that... He has already eyes for you..." Kakashi said with a bit of disgust in his voice.
~oOo~
"Tara-Sama... You are late!" Kiku called and Sakura frowned when she heard that phrase, because her; I-have-every-excuse-to-be-late-Sensei, was already standing carelessly against the wooden wall.
"Suman, Suman*... I was feeling a bit sleepy..." Sakura lied and she smiled to Kiku.
"Oh... I can understand that..." Kiku said and walked up to Sakura's side. "Let's go then, Tara-Sama..."
Sakura walked with Kiku, who was holding on to her arm like she would protect Sakura (even if Kiku wouldn't stand a chance if they would be attacked) and Kakashi walked silencly behind them.
They arrived at the antenatal clinic and Kiku 'helped' Sakura to get checked in and Kakashi (to his annoyance) payed for her.
Sakura was called in (shortly after) to the examination room, followed by an excited Kiku and a careless-annoyed Kakashi.
Sakura didn't know why she began to feel nervous all of sudden and the female doctor looked at Sakura with a curious look and then she turned her head to Kiku and frowned.
"Kiku-Chan, I didn't know that you had an elder sister that was pregnant..." the female doctor said to Kiku who began to smile nervously.
"She isn't my sister, Keiko-San... She is one of the guests in the manor..." Kiku said and the doctor Keiko looked at Kiku then back to Sakura.
"Well then... Because this is your first time here I have some questions to you... Tara, was it?" Keiko said.
"Hai..." Sakura answered and Keiko nodded and looked down to a paper and flipped the pencil between her fingers.
"So, how old are you...?"
"Um... 23..."
"23... Are you married?"
"No-... Yes! Yes, I'm married..."
Kakashi looked to her and sighed in relief.
"How long?"
"... Eh... About three weeks..."
"Okay... Is this your first one?"
"Yes..."
"Do you drink or smoke?"
"No."
"Any other drugs...?"
"No!"
"Good. Any healt issus that runs in the family?"
"Not what I know of..."
"And I have some questions to the father as well..." Keiko looked towards Kakashi who looked back with a raised eyebrow and then he turned his head towards Sakura.
Sakura could see that Kakashi was telling her to tell his woman that he was not the father, but Sakura looked away from him like she hadn't notice him at all. Kakashi frowned.
"What do you do for living...?" Keiko asked Kakashi who sighed.
"I'm working as a guard and the father to this child is not me... He is still at the manor..." Kakashi told the doctor who looked surprised to Kakashi.
"Oh, Gomennasai... I thought you were the father... Well of couse you would be the guard... You shouldn't let a young pregant woman walk all by herself..." Keiko said and then she turned her attention back to Sakura. "Well, now I will do a vaginal examination and after that I will look at the fetus with an ultrasound examination..."
Sakura nodded. She did know what Keiko would do with her and everything else, but standing here like the patient was another thing.
"You can go back behind the curtains and dress off yourself..." Keiko said to Sakura who looked confused to her.
"Everything...?" Sakura asked.
"Aaa, everything... But I have a cloth I will cover you while I examinat you..." Keiko told her and Kiku lead Sakura behind the curtains.
Sakura began to undress the kimono with Kiku's help and after that her underwears was off too. Kiku placed a soft palm on Sakura's stomach and stroke it softly. Sakura looked at Kiku with surprise. No one (apart from herself) had touch her stomach like this before, with a tenderness that Sakura nearly never had seen in a woman before.
"I like your belly... It's soft and I believe you will be a great mom..." Kiku said with a smile and Sakura couldn't help to smile back.
"You think so...?"
"I do... I have never wrong..." Kiku looked to Sakura and then she turned her head away from her. "Guard-San... You will have to leave..!"
"No I won't... I need to be sure that Tara-Sama is okay..." Kakashi called and Sakura could see how Kiku flushed.
"It's alright, Kiku... He can stay..." Sakura told her and Kiku looked to Sakura with a questioning frown and then she dragged away the curtains.
Sakura walked out to see Kakashi leaning on the wall and she could see that he looked away from her (she was thankful for that).
"Place yourself on that gyn chair, please..." Keiko said and pulled on rubber gloves on her hands. Sakura did as she was told and it felt really uncomfortable laying there compleatly stark naked and looking up to the white ceiling.
She felt a cold and metallic thing been gently pushed in to her private area and she felt how Kiku took Sakura's hand, in a comforting way.
"Just relax Tara-San... I will be finish soon..." Keiko mumbled to Sakura who looked annoyed to Kakashi, who still didn't look at her. "There, finish... Now we will take a look at the fetus..."
Sakura growled inwardly and felt how Keiko rubbed on some lubricant on her belly and switch on the ultrasound. Keiko placed the little 'reader' on Sakura's stomach and suddenly Sakura could see something small on the screen.
"Ah, there we have the head and see, it's sucking on its thumb..." Keiko said to Sakura who just watched the little thing on the screen and she thought that she would soon began to cry.
Keiko pushed a button and then a fast beating sound could be heard and Sakura recognized it at once.
"Wow! Your babys heart is beating really fast..." Kiku said and looked to Sakura with a smile.
"It has a strong heart and I think that you maybe be in week 17 or 18... It's a bit hard to say... The fetus is quite small..." Keiko said to Sakura who couldn't teare her eyes from the screen.
Kakashi glanced towards Sakura who looked like she was enchanted by the little moving thing on the screen and suddenly he could hear a fast beating of a little heart.
That thing that hadn't been more then just an 'it' to him, had suddenly began to have a heart. A strong beathing heart and Kakashi felt something inside of him. Something he couldn't recognized what it was, it was too unknown for him to recognized. It annoyed him that he couln't recognized that feeling and that he gad beagn to feel it when he heard the 'its' beathing heart.
He turned his head slightly to have a better look at Sakura and saw that she was crying.
Why was she crying? Was it really that bad to see what their act had turn in to?
Well, he couldn't blame her if it was in that case. He too would cry if he saw what she saw and what it would remember to her.
Remember her nasty Sensei that was one of them who took her 'virginity', because in her mind (back then) she had still been a virgin.
"Would you like to have a picture...?" Keiko asked Sakura and she looked to the doctor.
"Is that possible?" Sakura asked and Keiko nodded. "I would love too..."
"Then you can show your husband, Tara..." Kiku said and Sakura looked to Kiku with a faint smile.
Kakashi frowned.
Wasn't it better if Sakura showed the picture to the father?
`Wait! That's me, right?´
Why would he care? He didn't want to get involve in this more then necessary and now he found that he was getting more and more involved in this, more then to his own likings.
They left the antenatal clinic, Sakura with a photo in her hand and the maid Kiku looking down to it, while Kakashi (9445 yen* poorer) walked behind them yet again.
Kakashi noticed that Sakura hadn't tore her eyes of that photo and a little smile was almost breaking forth in her almost impassive face and he was confused by this.
~oOo~
Sakura was undressing her kimono when she heard someone slide open the shoji door.
"You could at least knock, Ka-..." she growled and turned her head to the shoji and was surprised to see the one standing there.
"I deeply apologize for my rudness, Tara-San... But I need to talk to you in private..."
Sakura looked up to the tall, broad shouldered, light brown haired middle aged man with those stern and empty brown eyes.
"Kusari-Sama...!" Sakura said and bowed slightly and dragged the half undressed kimono back on. "What do you want to talk to me about...?"
"It's about your guard..."
Sakura froze. Had he recognized Kakashi some how? This couldn't be good.
"My guard...?" Sakura said and Kusari nodded.
"Aaa... Your guard is obviously 'flirting' with my wife..." he said and Sakura swallowed.
She didn't know what to say to this and what Kakashi had told her this noon, it was something she had to believe in. Even if it all had just been a lie.
"What have you for proof that he is doing that to your wife...?" Sakura asked Kusari who had began to walk closer to her and she didn't like his closeness.
"My wife's interest in him... She never shows it and that means that he is 'flirting' with my wife..." Kusari stopped in front of Sakura and she looked down to the floor. "I can't accept that someone like him is 'flirting' with my wife, unless..."
Kusari stopped to speak and that made Sakura look up to him.
"...Unless I can get something in return..." he said and placed his hand on her cheek and stroke it with his thumb.
"Some-... Something in return...?" Sakura mumbled and felt how she just wanted to walk away from him, because he was looking down to her with eyes that showed nothing more then lust.
"Aaa... I want you in return... I want you to pay with your body, because of your guards sinful way to fuck my wife..." Kusari said in a low tone and grabbed Sakura's shoulders and pressed her hard against his body.
Sakura was about to react the way every woman should do if they got touch or grabbed in a way that was uncomfortable, but then Sakura remembred their mission and that was the only reason for her to not began to scream and hit Kusari.
She breathed in and looked up to him, in a way that almost was mocking.
"Kusari-Sama... We shouldn't do it here... and not now..." Sakura said to him and he looked down to her with a questioning look. "My husband..."
"I see..." Kusari let go of her and smirked down to her. "In two days I want you to come to the stables and there I want the rest of the payment..."
`The rest of the payment...?´
He leaned down to Sakura and she could feel his beard tickle her check and then he whispered in her ear.
"I have always loved young pregnant womens... And I want some of the payment right now..."
Sakura's eyes widened. She wasn't ready for this and she bit her lip. What should she do? She couldn't just knock him down and run for her life, that wouldn't be so good to the mission.
"...What do you want me to do...?" Sakura asked in a way that she hopped sounded seducing and even a bit girlish innocent. Kusari smirked to her in her neck and laid his hand on her back and began to stroke his way down and then he squeezed her bum.
"I want you to suck it..." he said still with a low tone and with his other hand he pulled her kimono down her shoulders and then he bit down in the crook of her neck.
She hissed in pain and she began to regret that she had done the deal. But she couldn't retreat now, not now when she was so close to finish this bothersome mission.
She let him molesting her soft skin with his teeth and she felt how he left prickling bruises on her skin.
She wanted to cry, because she was scared. Scared that he would change his mind and rape her right here, right here on the hard wooden floor. And she could do nothing to stop him from doing it, because they needed to let this man trust her. No mistakes.
She could hear who he buckled up his belt and heard how his heavy pants fell to the floor. She shivered and tried to hold in her tears as he bit down on her neck once more and she almost fell to her knees, due to the pain.
"Suck my cock your little harlot..." he hissed to her and grabbed her long pink hair and pushed her down to his semi-erect member.
She closed her eyes and prayed that this would be over soon.
Suddenly she could feel how Kusari let go of her hair and a loud sound of fist meeting jaw could be heard and Sakura opened her eyes slowly. She blinked twice when she saw a man with his mass of silver hair standing threatening above Kusari who looked furious up to the man.
`Kakashi...´
"You little..." Kusari growled to Kakashi who panted slightly and then he lifted Kusari up in his collar.
"I don't give a fuck who you are... But I will not let you put your disgusting hands on her..." Kakashi growled and Sakura could have sworn that she had felt his 'killing' chakra just for a moment. "Got that!"
Kusari didn't answer Kakashi who shook him violently.
"I said, Got that!" Kakashi growled once more and he was so close to Kusari's face that he could easly see Kusari's fear in his eyes.
"...Aaa..." Kusari told him and Kakashi let go of him and Kusari took himself up and walked to the shoji and then he turned his head to face Sakura. "Remember..."
And then Kusari was gone.
Sakura who was still kneeling on the floor, let out a weak sob and fell with her face in her palms. She couldn't believe that she had been able to get away from Kusari thanks to Kakashi. She was really thankful, but she wouldn't get away a second time.
Kakashi walked towards Sakura and kneeled down beside her and then he began to tug up something he had in his pocket. And if Sakura had cared to look up, she would have thought that she would see him dragging up his Icha Icha out of his pocket. But she couldn't hear the little devilish book be open, so she glanced out from her pamls to see Kakashi with a little bottle of pure liquor and he began to tear the sleeve from his white shirt made of linen and drench the cloth with the liquor.
"What are you doing...?" she asked him and saw how he reach out to her with the cloth in his hand and he began to dabbing her bite wounds with the cloth. She hissed when the liquor touched her wounds and she bit her lip. "Fuck... It hurts..."
"It looks like I'm cleaning your wounds..." he said to her and she hissed again when the cloth met her wounds.
"With what?" she hissed.
"Um... Shouchuu*..."
"Ugh... You gotta be kidding me...?"
"Nope... I didn't have anyother antiseptic..." he mumbled to her and she glanced to him.
"I don't really call that for antiseptic..." she told him. "And why are you carring liquor with you...?"
"It's none of your business..." he told her and pulled her kimono back over her shoulder.
Sakura sighed. Maybe it had been true, what Anko had once told her. That Kakashi was addicted to alcohol. But Sakura hadn't give a damn about him back then and if her Sensei wanted to ruin his life with this water from the devil, he was welcome to do so. But now it was a bit differently.
"You shouldn't drink that foul tasting thing... It will ruin your life..." she mumbled to him and Kakashi looked down to her.
"My life is already ruined... With or without that foul tasted thing..." Kakashi told her and she looked almost regretful up to him. "Don't look so sorry... I have live a long and painful life, those foul tasted things was just a way to get away from the pain..."
Sakura looked down to the floor. Why hadn't she seen his bad mannors before?
That's right. She had been way too busy with hating him.
"You will kill yourself if you don't stop with it..." she finally told him and she could see Kakashi smile a bit to her and then he placed a warm palm on her cheek and rubbed it softly, to her surprise.
`You are the only one that will kill me, Sakura...´
"I'm not really addicted... I don't know what Anko have told you, but really I'm not..." he suddenly told her and she looked up to his dark grey eye. "So if we end that conversation and foucs on something else... Why was he with you and did he hurt you somewhere else?"
"I'm fine... And I really don't know what he wanted... He just appeared and told me that he didn't like your way of flirting with his wife..." Sakura told Kakashi who frowned.
"Flirting...? I'm certainly not flirting with that awful excuse to woman..." he muttered and Sakura couldn't help to smile slightly. "Did he tell you or did something else to you?"
"No... Not more then..." Sakura paused. She had almost gave a blow-job to Kusari and she began to shiver slightly. "Well... He did tell me that he wanted me to pay with my body because of what you did with his wife..."
"That shithead..." Kakashi snort and glanced to Sakura who was now looking down to her lap. "If he approach you again let me know... Take a shower... I will wait for you outside the room."
Sakura nodded and Kakashi helped her up. She walked a bit unsteady out of the bed room and Kakashi looked away from her to look down to the chest of drawer.
On top of it laid the black and white photo that Sakura had got from the antenatal clinic. He walked towards the chest of drawer and took up the little picture from its spot.
At first Kakashi couldn't understand what was so speciall with this photo, but when he looked a bit closer he could make out a little body and then a head. He then saw how that little thing was sucking on its thumb. Kakashi almost felt like he wanted to cry. Why he wanted to cry he didn't know. But looking down to this picture made him feel somehow vulnerable.
It was his mistake he was looking down to. His mistake with his student and it didn't feel right to looking down to this picture and feeling those things he felt now. The feeling of some kind of joy. A joy he couldn't explain even to himself.
He putted down the photo back to the chest of drawer and gave it a last glance.
`I wounder if it's a boy or a girl... Stop those stupid thoughts! You shouldn't get involve with this child, you will only hurt her and her child...´
Yes, hurting Sakura. Hurting her child. Hurting his child.
No. It was not his child. Not until someone could prove it to him, it was not his child.
~oOo~
As they had done every other day since they had come to this place, Yamato had escorted Sakura to their room after a late dinner and Kakashi had followed them, still with a annoyed look on his face.
Yamato opened the mahogany door and walked in after Sakura and Kakashi closed the door behind him. He glanced to Yamato who had sat himself down in the antique armchair and looked a bit troubled.
"Where is Sakura...?" Kakashi asked Yamato who pointed to the well hidden bath room door.
"She is taken an bath..." he told Kakashi who walked to stand in front of him.
"Good... We need to talk..."
"If it has anything to do with what happen that night, I don't want to talk about it..." Yamato told him and rubbed his temple.
"I'm sorry that I gave you the cold shoulder, but he has made his move..." Kakashi told Yamato who looked up to him.
"He has...? When?"
"Today, when Sakura was in her room to change kimono..." Kakashi said to Yamato who frowned. "He approached her-..."
"Wait... He approached her, in our room?" Yamato looked shocked up to his Senpai.
"Aaa... Anyway, he hurted her and-..."
"He hurted her! Wasn't you with her?" Yamato asked and looked a bit angry at Kakashi.
"No I wasn't... I was searching after things that could connect thoes murders with them..."
"What a guard you are... Did you find anything?"
"Nothing. And when I asked some of the servants they was shocked that it had been murders her in this manor... I don't think they even knew that it had been murders here..." Kakashi said and Yamato began to look troubled again.
"That could explain why we hadn't heard anything from the first place..." Yamato mumbled. "But that doesn't explain how that creepy son to Hinoki knew about it..."
"Or it never have been murders in the first place... He was maybe just scaring us..." Kakashi mused.
"But you saw that the shoji was open..."
"That could be just a coincidence... And what I understand, it was no bugs in none of the rooms... and nothing was stolen..."
"That's right... No bugs and nothing was missing..." Yamato said and sighed. "We should just drope this and focus on our mission..."
"I can't just drope this! If Sakura is in danger, we shouldn't just stand here and see it happen, we should try to find this murderer as well."
"But it's not our mission!" Yamato told Kakashi. "If we finish this mission, we can go back to Konoha as fast as possible and Sakura would be just fine... And you said it yourself, it could be just a coincidence..."
"But if something would happen to her I-..."
"Nothing will happen to her. She has us! As long as we are with her she will be just fine." Yamato said firmly and Kakashi sighed. "Anyway, Kusari was with Sakura and?"
"Kusari... Right... He forced Sakura to do something sickening and after I told him to fuck off, he said to Sakura that she should remember something... But I don't know what it was..." Kakashi told Yamato who was rubbing his temple again.
"Then we should ask her what it was that he wanted her to remember..." Yamato said and then he turned his head towards the bath room door that had began to slide open. "Speak of the devil..."
Sakura walked out and dryed her long pink hair with a white soft towel.
"Ah... That felt nice..." she sighed and looked to the two men in front of her, who looked back to her. "Um... Have something happen...?"
"Nothing..." Kakashi said and looked down to the floor.
"Actually, it has..." Yamato suddenly said and that made Sakura look to him with a raised eyebrow. "Kakashi told me that you and Kusari had met each other today..."
Sakura looked to Kakashi, who ignored her glare.
"So?" Sakura said and countinued with drying her hair.
"What is it you and he is up to? What is it you was supposed to remember?" Yamato said and looked worried to her.
"It's none of your buisness..." she told him firmly and looked away from them.
"Sakura, you have to tell us! If it has something to do with the mission, you shouldn't do it all by yourself...!" Yamato told her and she glanced annoyed to him.
He was acting just like Kakashi right now and she hated to be looked down as weak. She could do this all by herself. She wanted to prove them wrong.
Even if she was pregnant, she was still a Kunoichi and she could still do this. Even if that meant to sacrifice her body and maybe even the life that was growning inside of her. She could still do this!
"DON'T INTERFERE!" she barked to them and stormed towards the bed room and shut the shoji close behind her.
"Nice work Yamato... Now she will never talk..." Kakashi sighed and looked to the shoji. "And no... I will not share with you..."
"Do you expect me to sleep on the floor?"
And before Kakashi could answer him a terrified yell could be heard from the bed room and Kakashi who was closest, run towards the shoji and slide it open with a loud smack.
"Sakura!" Kakashi called and looked in to the room and he felt a cold shiver down his spine.
"Kakashi?" Yamato's voice sounded behind him. "...Oh Fuck...!"
Kakashi could feel how Yamato back slighty away from the room entrance and Kakashi couldn't blame him. It was not a lovely sight to behold.
He entered the bed room and walked forward to the frozen body of a young pink haired woman, standing right in front of the bed.
Kakashi turned her around and pushed her towards his chest and embraced her hard, avoiding pressure against her stomach.
"...Close your eyes and don't try to look... Sakura..." he ordered her softly and he could feel how her body began to losen up a bit and how she grabbed the back of his shirt with her fingers. Then she began to sob in to his chest.
Kakashi hushed her and patted her back in a comforting way and then she sank to the floor, dragging Kakashi with her.
Kakashi looked down to Sakura and kissed her head softly and then he could hear Yamato entered the room.
"This is... This is just too sick to even look at..." Yamato said in a nauseous tone and walked to stand beside Kakashi and Sakura on the floor.
Kakashi nodded slightly and looked up to the wall opposite them.
There hanged the body of what was left of a young woman. Her body was decayed to that grade it was almost nothing left of her skin. Only the cruly long brown hair that was covering most of the hollowed face was left. And it looked like she had died while screaming in horror.
But it wasn't just only that, who made Kakashi all cold inside. It was the words on the wall behind the corpse.
Writing in blood, big angry letters could be seen on the wooden wall;
YOU WILL BE NEXT, WHORE!
The Game had began...
Author note:
What will they do now, when Sakura has been target by some unknown people? Can Kakashi and Yamato protect Sakura and solve this before their mission is over?
It may contain some spelling errors...
And some notes;
When I writes the text 'like this' it means that the person in question is thinking. When I writes like this the person emphasis just that word and when I writes like this that means flashbacks.
Mini Japanese dictionary and little more;
Ano* = Errr, well, um
Arigatou* = Thank you
Gomennasai* = I beg your pardon
Suman* = Sorry
Shouchuu* = Japanese liquor similar to vodka
9445 yen* = It's about 106,28 US Dollar
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