Decisions of Love
Chapter 18
No one noticed Itachi and Madara slipping out of the trees, retreating. Sasuke almost went after them but decided against it and took his shirt off. He dived in he water. The cold newly made water met his skin, sending chills up his body, he blindly searched the dark water for his team mate.
He looked around before he activated his Sharingan, he had ten more seconds before he would have to go up for air, Sakura had been down here for Thirty-six seconds, she would drowned in twenty-four. He had to find her.
His Sharingan saw her body laying on the rough floor, he desperately swam over to her, he pulled her body up and placed his rough lips on hers and gave her all of his breath. He felt her body move, her chest move with air. He swam up lips still locked, before breaking the surface was when he dropped the affectionate display.
He gasp for air while he with the help of others pulled himself and Sakura up over the high cliff, he started to lay her on her back when he noticed the Kunai. His face scrunched up in anger and disdain. Who would hurt her like this.
Her body had already began healing her wounds, thanks to that jutsu her mentor taught her. It was like a purge or something from what he understood. The only thing that left him completely clueless was the writing on the kunai that was lodged in her back.
Kakashi pulled the kunai out, her facial expression grimaced in pain. His black spikes flattened and dripping with water that landed on her face, he was hovering over her. Ino prompted her up and He held her,Ino started healing her back, but stopped and started cursing.
"Boys and Men out! Her shirts coming off and I'll single handily kill each and everyone of you if you peek. So out into the trees, Kakashi cover Naruto and Lee." She ordered while she started to pull the ends of Sakura's shirt up for emphasize.
All boys jumped into the trees and turned around, Naruto, Lynx, Sasuke, Sai and Kakashi were all together while Lee was with Neji and Shikamaru and Chouji. Tenten and Hinata were both helping assist Ino, Hinata was healing her other gashes, while tenten wet cloth and cleaned the wounds. Kiba, Shino, Asuma, Kuriena, And Gai all stood together. His team Hebi stood to his right about twenty feet, looking nervous and uncomfortable.
Sasuke reluctantly turned around and tried to ignore Naruto's loud chatters. His attention was caught when Naruto talked about something interesting. "Sakura-chan has become so strong, Teme are you listening.?!"
"Aa." Sasuke answered without thinking, dammit now the dobe would continue talking.
"Where was I?..." Naruto asked loudly before Kakashi answered.
"Sakura." the copy ninja said, his nose buried in porn.
"Oh yeah... Teme you missed out Sakura grew a lot... I mean A LOT, she's prettier than she already was. She grew her hair out, she asked Baa-chan to teach her, and the Hokage accepted! After three years of training She inherited inhuman strength, a nasty temper, amazing Alcohol tips and drinking skills, seduction skills. Oh and the obvious medic skills"
"After that she learned a lot of Fire jutsu and Lightning jutsu from Kakashi-sensi. She learned her Genjutsu and created her own from Kuriena, and a little help from Baa-chan. Ummm Lee and Neji helped her with Tiajutsu and obviously baa-chan just put that tiajutsu to work with Chakra!"
"I helped her with basic Wind element, she's already mastered Water and Earth. Anko and Tenten helped her use her knowledge from being a medic ninja to aim weapons at precise points to kill instantly. You should see her use a Katana she's amazing...her father taught her. Sai taught her... To be... Emotionless." Naruto said with a frown and glare.
"Ino taught her to have fun, or that's what Sakura says anyways when I ask. It's weird, maybe one day she'll explain it to you until then it's not my secret to tell." Naruto said with a mocking grin, what was he talking about secret? Fun? It made no sense.
He was about to threaten or ask when Ino's voice rang out to everyone.
"Okay! DONE!" Ino yelled happily while stretching her legs.
"Took you long enough! We need to get out if here." Neji said with his arms crossed.
"Relax Neji... No Akatsuki members will be coming back, not with two Jinchuuriki here and... Sakura." Tenten cooed and put everyone at ease.
"Let's just stay at that town that's a little ways away... Sakura had hotel rooms lined up for us, we're only an hour behind schedule!" Ino said happily.
"What's on the Kunai?" Sasuke asked breaking the conversations up, while he held the bloodied kunai that was in Sakura's back in disgust, he kept getting images of her body dead, and his parents bodies. He involuntary shuddered.
"I don't know... Some kind of... Seal or jutsu, it scratched her nerve cord in her back, the one that connects to the brain. She's fine but it's weird." Tenten said what Hinata had explained earlier.
"Let me see that!" Ino ordered curiously. She fingered the drawings after a moment her eyes widened and she dropped the kunai, she ran to Sakura's laying form. She placed her fingers at the back of Sakura's neck, where the most important part of the brain was, visual and opinion, some personality thing.
She saw a slight waver and difference, just enough to make a nightmare reality. She gasp and wrenched her hands away.
"There's no way-" She said with a frown.
"Wha?!" Naruto asked confused as the rest.
"These... Writing they're like a sire bond formed as a jutsu, it shouldn't be possible, but I wouldn't put it past the Akatsuki to do something so... Horrific." Ino whispered more to herself.
"Few people are really sired, besides siring is like protecting family and friends just more... want, almost desperation to protect and serve the sire. Sakura has been... Sired to the owner of this kunai. Madara Uchiha." Ino said with tears in her eyes.
"What's a sire bond?" Naruto asked.
"A sire bond is a link between two or more people- The sire would be Uchiha Madara. And Sakura would do anything to make him happy, she is completely loyal to him, nothing will matter to her besides him. She will protect him with her life. Their minds are connected." Ino said in horror and everyone turned grim.
"We can focus on that later, she will have memories right?" Neji asked.
"Yes but like I said her personality will change to what Madara wants, she could completely hate us, or could remember everything. It all depends, we can only wait." Ino said with a sigh the topic ended.
Everyone nodded and Neji explained which way they would be going, Naruto bickered with a silent Uchiha after the small meeting. "Teme give me her! I'm going to carry her!" Naruto demanded.
"Hn." Sasuke deadpanned and adjusted Sakura in his arms, she was bridal style. Her head resting against his chest, his left hand supporting her back and right hand supporting her under the knees.
She looked peaceful while she slept. All go her wounds were headed but Ino explained, since she completed the jutsu to full effect for the first time it would damage her body, it would take time to repair itself, not to mention having little to no Chakra left didn't help, and blood lose. She had lost thirty percent of her blood and had two broken bones and many fractures.
Ino said we could be asleep from twelve hours to one hundred and twenty, before she wakes up. Longest wait would be five days. When they were two miles from the village, Neji started talking about sleeping arrangements.
"I vote: All four of us girls in one room, and then all the males are with their team mates from the good ol days!" Ino exclaimed happily and Tenten voted with her, while Hinata shyly nodded liking the idea. Karin remained silent, not showing her loneliness, these girl grew up together and do everything together and she had no one.
" That's not going to work. We have team Hebi and Sam." Kakashi said with his eyes closed.
"Okay... Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, and Sai in one room. Myself, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata in another. Juugo and Suigutsu with Kiba and Shino. Ummm Lee and Neji with Sam and Gai. Let's see who's left- Kuriena, and Asuma... With Karin and Chouji. Shikarmaru and Sai?"... Ugh this is hard!" Ino wailed.
"Actually it's simple. Sasuke has to be guarded as well as team hebi so. Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi. Ino, Myself, Lynx and Chouji. Suigutsu and Juugo with Kuriena and Asuma. Gai and Lee, Neji and Tenten. Sam, Sai and Karin." Shikamaru said evenly, everyone nodded while the girls sighed.
"Fine but I'm going to be in Sakura's room half of the night along with the other girls." Ino promised and Naruto whined.
True to the blond girls word she was sitting on Sasuke's bed beside Sakura, as well as the other two girls, they gossiped and waited for the cherry blossom to wake up.
"When she wakes up, we have to sneak out of Neji's watch and then we can go to that hot club!" Ino squealed.
"You know how hard it is to sneak away from Neji!" Tenten exclaimed while she sharpened her weapons.
"Hinata would know!" Ino exclaimed with a devious smile.
"H-How did you know!" the Hyuuga looked offended.
"Oh common it's obvious you sneak out and go on dates with Naruto! I just don't see what you see in him, you could do so much better."
"You told Sakura the same thing about Lynx and look what happened!" Tenten snarled.
Sasuke felt like this wasn't something he was suppose to be witnessing, he thought about leaving but decided against it.
"Oh please she did deserve better, the asshole cheated on her." Ino exclaimed.
"You cheated on her to technically... You were one of the girls who he slept with while in a relationship with Sakura." Hinata spat out, so unlike her.
"What she doesn't know won't hurt her! Besides she needed me after the break up, Naruto had left again and Sasuke was already gone!" Ino defended.
"She would have been hurt but you need her a hell lot more than she will ever need you!" Tenten said quietly a lot of edge in her voice.
"You couldn't stand the fact that he loved her, so you had to take something that made her happy away, you were his first he wouldn't have continued if you wouldn't have started it!" Tenten continued on.
Sasuke shot up out of Naruto's bed.
"You betrayed her!" He exclaimed without thinking.
"Don't talk to me about Betrayal! You left her literally left for three years, she deserves better." Ino screetched.
"You should take your own advice, she deserves better than someone who stabbed her like that. You never told her after a year." Sasuke snarled.
"I'm telling you she couldn't deal with all of it at once, whatever like I said what she doesn't know can't hurt her. She'll be fine, she's better off without him anyways." Ino said while angrily getting up and storming out.
"Night Hinata. I'm going to bed!" Tenten said before half striding out of the room.
"Please Take care of Sakura, Sasuke-sama." Hinata asked and bowed before leaving to her room.
Sasuke stood and walked over to Sakura and his bed, he laid down and instinctively wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her to him. She mumbled something and fell asleep in his arms.
Half ways into the night Sakura groggily opened her eyes, she was met with pale skin and raven hair, Sasuke. She smirked and snuggled closer, she felt three images flicker before her eyes. Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Itachi, and Uchiha Sasuke. Her boys. She smiled to herself, no one would touch her Uchiha. She didn't know where she was but all that mattered was she was with one of her boys.
Da da daaaa... If you didn't know or understand she is sired to all three Uchiha!