"i want to talk to the underworld goddess, anri." she didnt even say hello or good morning. she just demanded to talk to her.
i've given her a lot of advice already and she doesn't heed them.
"anri told me that she has given you a lot of advice before and you don't heed them." chuckled slightly while sitting down on one of the chairs and he motioned tsunade to sit down also.
"eldest one, im not here for your humour and jokes. i am seeking for advice with our sister."
tsunade sat down on one of the chairs while one of the dark misty shade maids served both of them some tea, coffee and biscuits.
"our sister anri never talked to anyone but myself. but i will ask her if she wants to talk to you." sasuke told her.
"yes. please do it." she sipped on the tea.
the mist around sasuke started emerging from the table and tsunade felt uncomfortable as she could feel the underworld's power seeping through her, just tickling her as if she made a wrong move, she can be crippled on the spot.
momentarily later, the mist turned into a humanoid but in black shade without any distinct features.
ask her what does she wants to talk about.
"shes asking what do you want to talk about."
"about my daughter and miyuki. she must have something to do with it also. you said that miyuki's soul never came here in the underworld. why is that? where is her soul now?"
"her soul never came here in my domain and we dont know why." sasuke sipped on his coffee and brushed his hair back. they've talked about his before and she's still not convinced.
tell her that she's wasting her time. why is she worrying about these trivial matters? does she worries about her own daughter? or is she worried that you might fall in love with her? she's too overprotective of her.
"my daughter... she's very infatuated with you. she shows deep liking to you, eldest one. as if she's attracted to you. i know you're attracted to her because... she resembles your past lover..." she paused.
ah, she's worried about that. she might be right though. you show some interest on her.
"i keep telling you, these forces of attraction i feel for your daughter is the same feeling i felt for miyuki... as if they have the same forces inside of them."
"are you telling me... that sakura is miyuki's reincarnation?" tsunade asked. "but thats impossible. mortal cant just reincarnate themselves as gods like us!"
and now she thinks that it's not possible for mortal to be reincarnated to be god? like how is it my doing when i'm not the one ruling the underworld anymore? just because im the underworld goddess that doesnt mean i just grant souls to be reincarnated.
"the creator must have heard her wish before she died. she did wished to be reincarnated before she died."
they both didnt say anything as silence consumed both of them.
"i will look upon this... im worried about her... her memories... like miyuki's memories sometimes resurface and sakura just blurts them out like what happened from the past even before she was born. i feel like she's in love with you because of miyuki that is inside of her."
" even if she has miyuki inside of her and her memories, she's not my responsibility, tsunade. miyuki is long gone. i saw her body disappeared into thin air. i killed her with my hands. she's the last woman i want to see in this world. i might just kill her again if i see her." he pursed his lips and looked at her directly in the eyes.
"our sister, anri, must have known something about this..." she whispered.
tell her i know nothing. miyuki only begged to me to heal you from your mortal wounds. but something about sakura compels me to be attracted to her. something about her i just can't pinpoint.. maybe because our feelings are being drawn to her...
"she said... 'i dont know anything.' "
"The eldest one is not capable of loving someone after years of torment, war, and fighting. He just doesnt have time for those trivial, caring, and love. If he ever does, it would just be fleeting."
One of the nymph says. Sakura on the other hand was tending the garden and growing plants. Its been years since she last saw the eldest god. 5 years to be exact. It's either he comes when she's sleeping, in her dreams, or when she's away, never when she's around. But in her dreams, they held hands, held each other in their arms, laughed, walked, everything. In her dreams, he was gentle, kind, and capable of loving... loving her. But dreams are dreams, they tend to lie to us. is the eldest one in my dream the real one... or just a fragment of her desire? why is she even attracted him? there are a lot of other guys out there, but why him?
"Not entirely true, remember that one pink haired lady he used to love during the war?"
"Yeah thats different, he feels indebt to her for saving his mortal wounds from the sky god. But looked what happened, betrayed by the worst ways. she was working for the sky god himself!"
I will kill the lord of darkness for you, sky god. i will end him for you.
Good, miyuki. good. In return... I will grant you immortality.
Her memories are playing with her again. Memories long forgotten but not hers. these memories confusing her. she can feel the pain. the feelings. her voice. everything.
The only person who can answer these questions is her dad... or the eldest one. but the eldest one avoids her when he sees her. he just looks at her and turn around.
when she walked back to her house, there she saw him coming out of the door and bidding her mother farewell while dropping off some supplies like usual.
when her mother went inside with shizune, he looked up and saw her just a few feet away from him. he just stood there and didnt say anything. he's feeling it again. his emotions flying everywhere. he just wants to hold her. talk to her. kiss her. but he's fighting the urges. please don't talk to me he begged internally.
"eldest one, can i ask you a question?"
his heart was now racing. he was getting cold chills, his eyes are now fixated on her. he could smell her even from this distant and it's driving him nuts. getting pricked by that arrow wasn't a joke.
"i... i've been having these memories that i do not own. and you're in there too..."
no please stop, dont make me remember it. he mentally pleading her. he took a small step back and she didnt noticed it.
"i... just had this memory where this person keeps telling me to kill you."
by this time, he closed his eyes and clenched his hands tighter than he should have.
"i know nothing." he told her coldly. his mist was slowly creeping in and started wrapping around sakura's feet. but for some reason she didnt even flinched. she showed no sign of being afraid of it.
"please hear me! in my dreams! i remember things from the past even though i never lived through it and you were there! i have nobody to talk to about this except for you! please! tell me what's going on with me!"
by this time she started crying. crying for the memories she doesn't even own. memories she doesn't even want to remember or know.
he wants to comfort her. he wants to bring her in his arms and just comfort her and tell her that everything will be ok and nothing will harm her.
"dont ask me about any of those." he walked away. he walked away from her. the look on her face was devastate as if her heart has been crushed a million times and it hurt him.
it's been a months since the last time she saw the eldest one. whenever he comes, she avoids him also. she just can't bare it. the only option who could ask was her father. coincidentally, her father came to visit her mother to see how she was doing and he just came back from meeting someone near their place.
each step that the sky god take, the more he remembers something from the distant past.
you are mine.
you will kill him.
i will make you immortal.
you are nothing without me. i made you. i heard your prayers, thus you belong to me.
"sakura, daughter. nice to see you." he smiled at her and she looked up at him and smiled at him also.
"hello father, how are you?" at this time, she just doesn't feel comfortable around him. there's a part of her that just want to run away from him as far as she could. but she has to ask him about it.
"I'm ok. is there something troubling you?"
"there is. i was wondering if you know something about this woman named miyuki."
he hasn't heard of that name in forever. this was getting interesting to him. he gave her a smile and he pondered on why was she asking about miyuki all of the sudden.
"she's... it's like her memories are embedded in me. there are times where i remember her memories..."
"ah, that is interesting" very interesting he thought to himself while chuckling. "come meet me at the even that's going on tonight, and we'll talk more about it there." he gave her a toothy smiled and she nodded.
"i'll send a chariot here tonight." he then walked away and flew.
"can you tell me more of miyuki?"
both shizune and tsunade turned to her and just looked at her.
"why did you suddenly asked about her? how did you know about her?" tsunade put some vials down and sat next to sakura.
"i dont know her. her name kept ringing in my mind... sometimes memories of someone would race in my mind." sakura closed her eyes and tried to stop the memories that was resurfacing.
tsunade didn't answer her for a while so sakura took the answer as she's just going to hide it and not tell her.
"mom how come i could never go with you when there's events up in the skies?" sakura asked.
"there are a lot of hungry, lusting, gods up there. and i dont want them to see you."
"but mom, im old enough now. i can handle it my own! father said he's throwing an event for everyone tonight!"
"sakura honey, please listen to me, please don't be naive! your father-"
"no mom, im going up there tonight!"
sakura stormed off and hopped on the chariot that the sky god prepared for her. tsunade and shizune on the other hand were yelling for her to come back down. she didn't even looked back at them. she continued straight on as the chariot ascended. as sakura arrived to the sky palace, the party started already. people were laughing, eating, socializing, some were getting orgy on one side of the party. her father, jiraiya, greeted her and congratulated her for being old enough to be part of the gods. she was offered a seat and a lot of men gathered around her and started talking to her. most of them smell like alcohol, she noted.
"aren't we going to talk about miyuki?" she asked her father.
"why yes we are. just enjoy everything right now." he was pouring some wine in his cup and almost all of the male gods flocked around her as some of them were their first time seeing her.
"so this is your daughter, jiraiya?"
"she does look really pretty."
"you are very hot, sakura."
"right? your breasts must taste wonderful."
"probably her virgin pussy tastes best."
the men laughed around her. one of the men started groping her and she insistently told them to stop and pushed their hands away. then all of the sudden, the sky god himself, got in front of her and ripped her clothing off.
you will kill the god of darkness.
she yelped and tears started flowing down her face.
you belong to me.
"fa... father? why are you doing this?"
let me just fuck you in front of the man you love, miyuki.
he laughed and he told her that he wanted to have a little taste of his own daughter.
look how wet you are, it will make it easier for my dick to slide in.
"ive tasted a lot of younger women like you. some younger. and they all tasted wonderful."
you belong to me. and you will kill the god of darkness.
he went down to sit in front of her and ripped her legs apart and revealed her womanhood to him. all the men around her could smell it and she was getting scared. the sky god himself put his head in between her legs and licked her slit. she yelped and struggled. the men were holding her down and some were groping and licking her breasts at this point while the sky god himself was rolling his eyes at the taste of the goddess and moaning how delicious she tasted.
"mmm, daughter, you taste wonderful. i cant stop licking your pussy." he continued licking her.
when he stopped, sakura found an opportunity to zapped everyone and stunned them for a while and bolted down the hallway and ran as fast as she could. she could hear them following behind her and she decided to dive down to earth and hoping her mother would save her. for some reason it reminded her of what happened to her before and she cant pin point where.
down in earth, sasuke was sitting by the lake again looking at the stars that the moon goddess created. the stars twinkled and reflected on the river. the sight amazed him and he feel at eased and relaxed as if nothing can disturb him. whenever he's here, he just cant shake the feeling of uneasiness and regret. his memories from the past just purge him. he remembers her eyes. her voice. her smile. everything.
he shook his head to try to forget about her. he kept telling himself to move on but it was just too hard. even though its been years. centuries. millenniums since she's been gone but it felt like she was just here yesterday. he broke away from his trance when he felt someone's presence.
He looked at the lake for any life source, but all he could see are the fish near the lake banks swimming around. he relaxed a bit but he could still feel that presence. he cant pinpoint who it is since it was coming in fast. when he looked up, that's when until he noticed a big splash in the middle of the lake and the object was slowly sinking to the bottom. he stood up and wobbled towards the center of the lake and swam down to see what it was.
when he saw pink hair, he immediately went over where the body was and pulled out her immediately. when he got up to get air and near the banks, he laid the body down and sweep the hair out of the face, it was sakura. sasuke stood up and looked around but found nobody around them except for the two of them. he sat back down again and lightly tapping her face to wake her up. but no response at all. when he brought his face near hers to see if she's still breathing, she suddenly woke up and started coughing.
"are you alright? where did you come from?"
sakura opened her eyes and looked at him and she started crying. she held on to sasuke's blue robes and started sobbing and saying something incoherent. mumbling and talking really fast in between hiccups.
"eldest one... please... help me! i... i was at the sky palace and... i..." she just cant form her sentences without crying and gasping for air.
"please help me! they're after me...! he's coming to get me!"
when sasuke looked down, he noticed that she was naked and wet in this cool night weather. he wrapped his mist around her and brought her closer to him.
"who is chasing you? what's wrong?"
"father... he... my father... father he... touched me... he... was..." she cried even more. by this time his feelings were running wild again. his hatred for the sky god resurfaced. who the hell touches their own daughter for their own pleasure, he angrily asked himself.
balling his fists until his knuckles turned white, he could feel another presence coming. 2 of them to be exact. he wrapped the mist around sakura's head to obscure her life force to some unwanted intruder but a second had passed, tsunade and shizune arrived from where they are. he uncovered sakura's face to them and tsunade noticed that sakura was naked.
"sakura?! what happened?! sasuke... you... what have you done to my daughter?!"
"MOM!" she came and hugged her.
"mom! i was so scared! father... and the men... father did something to me... he was tasting me under while the men groped me and they were chasing me and..."
tsunade hugged her and crying now. sasuke's mist havent left sakura and shizune can feel that the underworld god was in rage.
"they're coming." he whispered.
"no... no... mom i'm scared!" sakura sobbed even more.
tsunade turned to sasuke and asked him to save his daughter and keep her safe.
"please... eldest one... keep my daughter safe under your care... i will deal with this men while you hide her with you... please!" she bowed to sasuke.
"we've talked about this earlier tsunade. she is not my responsibility." he angrily told her.
"please... im begging you" she pleaded.
he doesnt want to take her with him to the underworld as he doesnt want to catch any feelings towards her and have his trust be broken. he kept reminding himself that miyuki and sakura are two different people. they may look alike but doesn't mean they're the same person. sakura is her own person.
he looked at sakura who was still in tsunade's arm, hugging her like her life depends on it. with little hope in his heart, he needs to carry this burden to help the needy as the eldest one. he needs to remind himself that the eldest one needs to protect his own kind from danger and problems, thats what the creator told him.
no one is safe who are near the sky god himself. no one is safe with him being their authoritative ruler. he should have done something. he should have taken the spot but he needed allies during the war, thus he has to give himself up to the underworld.
"i dont want jiraiya to take her away from me and do adultery upon our daughter... please!" tsunade sobbed.
he pushed away all the negative thoughts and decided that he will take sakura for the sake of the greater good of what will come out of it.
"i will take her. she will be... safe with me." he whispered.
with that, tsunade looked at him giving him the look of hope and thankfulness.
"shizune, take care of tsunade."
"yes, milord."
he held out his hand to sakura and she took them after letting go of her mother's arms. before opening up the portal, sakura looked at her mother and shizune one last time before both of them vanished into thin air. if there was anyone that tsunade can count on protecting her daughter, the eldest one would be the right one.
"milady, my lord will never do sakura harm." shizune lifted her up and fixing her dress.
when the men came, even jiraiya, they asked where sakura was.
"ah, my mistress. have you seen our daughter?" he asked mischieviously.
"OUR DAUGHTER IS GONE I DONT KNOW WHERE SHE IS!" tsunade yelled at him.
the portal took him the entrance of the underworld. he looked down on sakura and she was still silently sobbing.
"where are we...?" she asked.
"entrance to the underworld." sasuke said.
when he took a step forward, everything became dark around them. a few seconds later, the area lit up and showed them where to go. at the end of the hallway, it lead them to this big cathedral dome place with a giant red door. as the ruler of the underworld, he could just walk past through it, hence it's what he did. the mist around him thickens and made him float a few inches off the ground as if he's hovering. he glided through all the spirits and animals and the gods and goddess that lives in the underworld. everyone looked at him and were now on him. it took him a couple of minutes to reach his palace and when he arrived, the witchcraft goddess and the death god was outside waiting for him. when they saw him, they both bowed down and were shocked to see tsuande's daughter in his arms crying.
"sasuke... did you abducted her?" the death god asked cautiously.
"tenten, prepare a room for her right now."
"yes, milord."
"neji, be on a look out for any outsiders."
"surely, milord."
before walking away, sasuke added to neji that sky god will be looking for her and avoid telling him that she's here.
they walked in this maze like hallway. sakura didn't even know where she was going as they were cutting corners here and there. her mind was a total haze and a mess. as he walked to where her room would took glances at her to see if she was still holding it together but with the looks of it, she was at her limit.
when they reached her room, he sat sakura down on the sofa and she balled herself up. with her naked self, sasuke closed his eyes as he took off his outer layer of his yukata and wrapped it around her to give her some dignity and show his gentleman side while giving her respects.
"milord, ive also came with water in case she's thirsty." sasuke nodded and told her to put it on the table.
"is she... alright?"
"attempted raped by jiraiya." the look on tenten's face was shocked and sakura started sobbing again when she heard her father's name.
"i... i must inform the rest to keep in watch from outsiders." tenten added before leaving the two alone.
"you will stay here and rest. you are safe here." sasuke whispered as he sat down next to her.
he didnt say anything to her except kept looking at her and hoping that she would stop crying and just rest. he doesnt know what to tell her. he doesnt know how to comfort her. he just doesnt have the heart to comfort a crying girl in front of him as he cast away his compassionate side and want to be away from her as possible. but when he got pricked by the golden arrow by the love goddess's son, whenever he's near her, his feelings are just everywhere. he just wants to hold her and tell her sweet nothings just how he could do it in his dreams. but this is the reality. shes in front of him and he's in front of her. with that, he decided that he needs to keep his feelings at bay.
when he stood up and walked infront of the door, he heard sakura stood up and ran up to him with his yukata wrapped around her. she wrapped her arms around him and he stiffened.
"eldest one please... stay with me. i am scared and i don't want to be alone..."
he didnt turn around but he felt sakura's arms tightening around him even more. it took him a while to do something but all he could do was took her hands off from him and turned around to face her.
"you are safe here. no one will harm you here."
"please... just stay with me until i fall asleep... i just dont want to be alone..."
with that, he couldnt resist her. he gently guided her back to the bed and motioned her to lay down. she tucked herself underneath the comforters and just looked at him. whenever he thinks that shes falling asleep as her eyes are failing her to open, he would stand up slowly but her eyes would open as if it is asking him 'where are you going?'. he sat back down again and patiently waited for her to fall asleep.
his feelings now are playing with him. he doesnt know what's going on. all he knows is that he needs to do is get out of this room as sakura's scent was filling him and he doesnt want to drop to temptations as it was driving him nuts.
shes not miyuki. shes not my lover. shes my sister's daugther. she is under my protection. i will not touch her the way my brother did. he told himself.
he kept repeating that mantra over and over and over again.
after a few hours later, she was now finally in deep sleep and he decided to silently get out of sakura's room and head to his room to catch some rest also.
when sakura woke up that morning, she felt that her bed was super soft and comfortable, the temperature was a little chilly but fine. she noticed that her body was sore until the memories of last night flooded in. she bolted straight up and ran to the door. when she opened it, she bumped into someone with red hair and glasses.
"my, my, woke up in a nightmare?" she said jokingly.
sakura backed away slowly and just looked at her. the girl with the glasses just smiled at her and told sakura that there's nothing to be scared about.
"you must be the eldest one's guest, sakura? he told me to get you ready for breakfast as every god and goddesses take each meal together." she smiled at her and closed the door behind her.
"...who... who are you?" sakura asked while hugging the yukata around her body that sasuke gave her last night.
"i am the vengeance goddess. i work along with the god of war, god of mischief, and god of deceiver. we are the lord of darkness's servants." she said while looking at the closet for clothes for her to wear.
when she found a clothing, she turned around and show it to sakura. it was a blue long dress and strapless one. she took the clothing and started to put it on while the goddess of vengeance fixed her hair and put it up in a bun. when she was well groomed, the goddess put the yukata back on sakura's body.
"it might be a little chilly here in the underworld, it will provide you warmth as this clothing came from our lord, it will provide you heat." she smiled and opened the door.
"thank you for helping me... lady...?"
"karin. my name is karin."
"lady karin."
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