AN: Lemon in this one people.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Chapter Fourteen

I was in the place you go to when you´re half awake, half asleep. I was warm and comfy but an aching in my shoulder slowly pulled me from sleep. The surface beneath me was warm… and had a heartbeat.

I looked up to see who I was sleeping on and I met Hidans violet eyes looking at me. I yawned and burrowed my head in his chest, tightening my hold around his waist.

"How are you feeling?" He asked me, curiosity clear in his voice. "My shoulder is aching… tired…" I mumbled, not willing to wake up just yet. He let me be for a while but then he suddenly disappeared from underneath me. I sat up, alarmed at his sudden movement.

"Relax Cherry." Hidan told me from inside our bathroom, before coming back out, now dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. I got out of the bed slowly, moving to stand in front of his mirror. I looked at my new haircut before groaning and going back to the bed, flopping down on my stomach.

"Did I really do all the things I think I did last night?" I asked him from the safety underneath his covers. "Yup, all of it." Hidans answer was filled with laughter but I only burrowed myself deeper beneath his covers, shame burning on my cheeks.

"Hey Cherry don´t be like that, it´s not so bad." Hidan tried to comfort me but I stayed where I was. I had no intention of leaving my safe haven in Hidans bed until tomorrow at the very least… I had kissed Konan for kami´s sake!

"Sakura?" Hidan started to sound a little worried and he lifted a corner of the covers to look at me. But I hid my face in my arms making him pull off the covers and holding me against his chest instead. "It´s okay Sakura, we don´t blame you. In fact we´re making Kakuzu clean up all you´re messes because he gave you that pill without watching you."

I couldn´t help but to giggle at that and then it felt okay again. Hidan was amazing like that.

He was also right about the others; none of them blamed me for my unexpected high last night. Not even Konan.

The days flew after that and soon it was only a few days left before Sasori, Deidara and Itachi would be returning. Pein had said that we could go to the mall the next day to get some things for the party we were going to throw them. But for tonight, Hidan and I were alone in the house, the others out for the night.

"Cherry let´s do something, I´m so fucking bored..." Hidan whined from his laid back position on my bed. I was rummaging around in my drawers looking for a missing leather bracelet. "Well, what do you want to do then?" I asked him, annoyed that I couldn´t find my bracelet. "Maybe we could go to the fucking pool and play around for a bit?"

I stood up and nodded. "Sure, go and change and I´ll meet you there." He gave me a quick smile before disappearing and I searched for my simple peach colored bikini. I finally found it under my bed and hurriedly changed before making my way to the pool.

When I got there, the room was empty and I stepped in carefully, prepared for an ambush. Suddenly arms encircled me from behind and lifted me from the floor. "What took you so fucking long Cherry?" Hidans voice sounded from behind me while walking closer to the edge of the pool. I had no time to answer him because when he reached the edge he held me tighter before simply jumping in the water.

I shrieked in surprise and instinctively clung to Hidan. He only laughed at me as we resurfaced and I hit him loosely on the chest. "Don´t do that to me!" Then I laughed with him.

We played around for a while before Hidan leaned against the edge of the pool, seriousness suddenly appearing in his eyes. "Who am I to you?" I immediately sobered up as well and went to him, wrapping my arms around his middle before answering.

"You are one who cares for me, one who protects me. You are my teacher as well as one of my best friends. You are a part in my new family." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before telling him the last part. "And you might just be the one to show me how to love…"

Silence followed my statement and I didn´t dare to look up at him, what if he didn´t feel the same way? He had told me that he loved me but that didn´t mean he was in love with me.

After what felt like an eternity of silence I couldn´t take it anymore and dared a quick look up at his face. I, however, didn´t see what I wanted to see…

His eyes were huge violet pools and his face held an expression of complete and utter surprise. He was stunned, just as when I let him hit me during our first spar.

I released his body as if he had burned me, then getting out of the water as fast as possible, fleeing back to our bathroom and locking the door behind me. I stepped into the shower, still in my bikini, and turned on the water. I had been right to worry, he apparently didn´t feel the same way as I do…

It was first then I released the sobs since the sound of falling water made them silent, and the tears since the water gently hid their trails.

I almost died right there and then as a solemn voice behind me said.

"Did you mean it?" I slowly turned around and found Hidan only inches away, his eyes betraying no feeling at all. "Every single word." I told him and to my surprise his body lost all its tenseness, his eyes softened and the most gorgeous smile I had ever seen entered his lips.

I felt a tiny sliver of hope enter my heart but I was still a little wary of him, not completely sure he still wouldn´t shatter my heart. He took a step forward and joined me in the shower, also still in his swim shorts. He gently cupped the back of my head, his other hand resting on my hip, pulling me closer.

Then his lips locked onto mine and every doubt in my head evaporated from all the emotions he poured into the kiss.

Excitement.

Happiness.

Love.

I let out a small sob, this time out of pure happiness as I drowned in his kiss. His lips moved against mine, gently massaging everywhere they touched. He pulled away for air and his eyes locked onto mine, the color lighter than ever before, glittering in joy.

"I love you, so, so much Sakura… Do you believe me?" I slowly raised one hand and gently stroked his cheek. "I believe you… and it scares me a little…" I told him and his lips locked on mine in another hot kiss before he pulled back and told me.

"It´s nothing to be scared of Cherry… It´s just you and me."

He took another step forward pressing me up against the shower wall. "Just tell me if you want to stop and I´ll stop." He whispered in my ear before kissing me on the neck, making my breathe hitch and my knees go weak. I clung to his wide shoulders, my nails dragging lightly down his muscled back.

"Let me wash you." Hidan purred in my ear then gently nibbled on my earlobe. He put me under the water again, wetting my hair before he poured shampoo in his hand, working it into my now short tresses.

His hands working in my hair was strangely calming in this otherwise rather heated situation. He let the water rinse me of suds before repeating the motion with my conditioner. Then he took hold of the strings holding my bikini top together, asking me.

"May I?"

I nodded and closed my eyes as the knot came lose and Hidan removed the top. His large hands almost covering my stomach before working their way up over my ribs to gently cup my breasts. His lips found their way to the junction where my neck and shoulder met and as he kissed me there, I gave a small moan in pleasure.

I hesitantly turned around to face him, his hands dropping to my hips as my own hands experimentally played over his chest. I explored his body with my hands and he let me, patiently waiting for me to meet his gaze. When I did meet his eyes, my hands froze on his abs as the depth of his amethyst gems pulled me in. One of his hands moved to the small of my back, the other one traveling upwards to touch the jewelry in my nipple.

He gently pulled at my nipple piercing, making me arch against him, heat pooling low in my stomach. Suddenly he pulled me flush against him, kissing me like there was no tomorrow. I felt something that was both warm and hard poke me in the stomach, making me feel like I did something that was slightly forbidden.

I locked my arms around his neck, pressing harder against him to feel even more of him pressed against my own tingling body. I felt him nib at my lower lip, begging for entrance to my mouth.

I let him in and his tongue won over mine in the battle of dominance. He put his hands underneath my thighs and lifted me up, letting me wrap my legs around his waist as he turned off the shower and walked into his bedroom, never once breaking the kiss.

He gently put me down on his bed, his legs in between mine and his arms holding his weight up. He paused for a moment. "Do you want this Sakura?" My heart filled with warmth at his words, he put me before himself, a gesture I was not used to. I nodded and whispered. "Yes, I want this."

His lips locked on mine again while his hands roamed over my body, my own hands finding trails over his back. He pressed light butterfly kisses along my jawline, down my neck and then the rest of my body. His mouth stopping at my breasts to gently suck on one of my nipples, making me moan his name in a voice I first thought didn´t belong to me.

He soon continued to kiss his way down my stomach, while placing a kiss on my hipbone he found my little secret.

"You´ve got another tattoo?"

"Yes, it kind of reminds me of you. You give me hope."

He kissed me once again and I felt as if his hands were all over my body. They probably were too. My stomach was coiled tight and hot, a feeling that was foreign to me but not unpleasant. Suddenly my bikini bottoms were gone and Hidans fingers were playing with my sensitive nub, making me moan and grip his shoulders harder.

His mouth escaped from mine, once again leaving a trail down my body. His fingers leaving my nub to gently wrap around my thighs, holding me in place as his mouth descended on my nub, the warmth and wetness making me crazy.

I moaned almost constantly now, the tight feeling low in my stomach almost hurting. Suddenly one of his fingers traced my opening making me tense up for a second before relaxing again. His mouth continued his magic on me, but I felt him watch me carefully as he slowly slid one of his fingers inside of me. I closed my eyes in pleasure.

He soon slid another finger inside of me and I was expecting pain, but it never came. Instead I saw stars as he curled the fingers inside of me, hitting a spot I never knew existed.

The combination of pleasure from both his mouth and his fingers made the tight coil inside of me snap and I screamed as I was overwhelmed of intense pleasure.

When I came back to my senses Hidans swim shorts were gone and I felt the tip of him at my entrance. I suddenly felt scared but he made me meet his gaze and he told me. "I won´t hurt you, I promise."

I kept my eyes trained on his as he slid inside of me, inch by tantalizing inch. And I never once felt pain. Instead I felt full, like I was about to split open (he was after all nowhere near small) but I never felt any pain.

His eyes had darkened to a shade of dark purple, I thought they were more beautiful than ever and I never wanted to stop looking at them but when he was fully sheathed inside of me, my eyes slid close on their own.

He moved slowly in me, the hot tightness returning. I clawed at his back and Hidan went a little faster making my moans a little louder. Hidan went faster and faster, making me feel like I was about to erupt like a volcano. He went a little deeper, hitting that spot again that made me see stars and scream his name.

Suddenly I exploded and for a moment only experienced hot blackness and searing white. Something warm filled me and then a comforting weight settled on top of me.

When I opened my eyes I saw Hidan sprawled on top of me, his eyes closed and his breath labored. He let out a content sigh and rolled off me to lie on his back, pulling me with him so that I instead was sprawled on top of him.

He opened one eye and found me looking at him. "You okay Sakura?" he asked me, his voice lazy and eyes droopy. I nodded against his chest. "Yeah I´m fine… I feel almost as if you have healed a piece of my soul…" He chuckled beneath me. "I´m glad, now sleep Cherry, we´ll talk more tomorrow."

I cuddled closer to his bare chest, a sigh of content slipping from me. I felt warm, I felt protected, I felt safe and I felt cherished.

I felt loved.