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Chapter Twenty one

I had opened the door to Sasuke Uchiha and now I was frozen in fear. How had he gotten here? What did he want? Were the main thoughts that circled inside my head while my body tried to get control back from my shocked mind.

"Happy birthday Sakura." He said and in a flash I was shoved up against the wall, his hand around my neck keeping me in place.

"I will get revenge on my team, you didn´t think I´d just forget about that do you?" His voice cracked with barely held back anger that scared me. He was clearly unstable at the moment.

"Let her go Sasuke." I heard Itachi say calmly from somewhere on my right and a little bit of relief filled me. Itachi had promised to protect me from his brother and I believed he would, and it reminded me that I was not alone.

I could see movements at the edges of my quickly darkening vision; it was probably the other guys surrounding us as a preparation to take Sasuke down. I tried to move my head a little to the side, hoping to catch a glance of Hidan or Kisame or anyone as well as getting in a little air in my forcibly tightened throat.

But Sasuke were having none of that.

"Don´t look away from me you BITCH!" He yelled and backhanded me. Hard.

My head snapped back from the sheer force of the blow and for a moment my vision turned all black. All I could hear was an annoying buzzing sound and I felt dizzy and slightly disorientated.

I felt my body shift and move, but not on its own accord. My vision finally cleared and as the buzzing sound disappeared I realized that I could breathe again and I quickly sucked down several deep breaths of much needed air.

I looked up to see the concerned face of Kisame look down at me in return. I frowned and looked around, my gaze soon locking onto Sasuke again.

He was held down on the floor by Hidan, Kakuzu and Pein. Itachi were on the phone, clearly talking to their cousin Madara about locking Sasuke up. Zetzu and Tobi were on either side of Konan, both of them holding an arm around her slightly trembling form.

I looked back up at Kisame and frowned as the numb feeling in my jaw gave away to stinging pain instead. He put me down but kept his arm around me in case my knees would give away. I was thankful for his supporting arm when the room spun before my eyes and I clutched his arm for support.

He gently sat us down on the floor; I sat in between his legs and rested my head against his chest. Then we waited.

After about twenty minutes a car pulled up in front of the house and Itachi opened the door and let two people in. the first man was the oldest one, he looked to be around 35 years old. He was slightly taller than Itachi but had the same slight yet muscled build, dark red eyes and black hair. His hair was really long and reminded me of a lion's mane. The other man looked to be only one or two years older than Itachi, he also had a slight yet muscled build, his eyes were charcoal black like Sasuke´s and his black hair was short and kind of wild.

"Madara, Shisui." Itachi greeted and Sasuke increased his efforts to escape from the other guys grip. Madara barely spared Sasuke a look, instead his gaze locked onto me and a frown appeared on his face.

"I take it that this is Sakura?" He asked and kneeled in front of me. Itachi nodded yes and he reached out his hand towards my face.

I flinched.

Madaras frown got deeper but he still gently touched the blooming bruise on my face. His eyes were trained on mine and I could see different emotions flashing in them.

Anger, guilt and regret.

I didn´t understand why those emotions were the most prominent but I didn´t question it. He stood back up and gestured for Shisui to put Sasuke in cuffs.

"I´ll take him with me now but I will need to come back and talk to Sakura tomorrow night." He said and looked at me as if asking for permission. I nodded and then he and Shisui dragged Sasuke out of here. Hopefully that was the last time I saw him.

As the door closed behind them I was surrounded by Hidan, Kakuzu and Itachi. All of them asking me things that I couldn´t concentrate on enough to answer. The darkness that the whole time had teetered on the edge of my vision was now taking over and I quickly sank down in black, comforting unconsciousness.

I apparently slept through the night since it was light outside when I finally woke up. I was alone in bed abut after a look at the bedside clock I realized that it was close to noon.

I quickly got out of bed and when I was confident that I wouldn´t faint I took a quick shower before running a brush through my hair and pulling on some clothes. Then I went to search for food.

When I arrived in the kitchen, only Itachi was there and I saw his eyes widen as he took in my appearance. I was wearing a pair of dark blue skinny jeans, a white tank top, a dark blue, oversized sweatshirt and a huge black and blue bruise covered almost half of my face.

I heated some leftovers in the microwave and poured myself a glass of water before sitting down at the table, facing Itachi. He didn´t say anything but I could feel his gaze on me.

"What is it Itachi?" I asked him after having enough of his stare.

"How are you feeling?" He finally asked me and I immediately knew why he was so weird. He felt guilty for Sasukes actions. I sighed and lightly pinched the bridge of my nose; I could feel a headache coming on.

"I´m fine Itachi… Don´t worry." I told him as I put my plate in the dishwasher. When I passed him on the way out of the kitchen I leaned down and whispered in his ear.

"You´re not responsible for what Sasuke did so stop feeling guilty."

Then I left him at the kitchen table and instead went to Peins office. I knocked lightly on the door before opening it, revealing Pein, Kakuzu and Hidan inside.

"Hey guys, something happening?" I asked and all of them turned their eyes towards me before Pein sighed and answered.

"Yeah there´s movement down in the harbor again, I take it you wish to join them?"

"Can I?"

"No." I pouted at Pein´s short answer, I didn´t see any reason to why I couldn´t go with them.

"Why can´t I go?" I whined in hopes that he would change his mind.

"Because you need to be here when Madara and Shisui returns."

"But Madara said he needed to talk to me tonight! It´s barely afternoon, I have plenty of hours before they arrive."

Pein sighed and slumped in his chair, he knew I was right and he didn´t like it.

"Fine you can go with them, but make sure to be back in time." I nodded eagerly and promised him to be back in a few hours. Hopefully the disturbance in the harbor would be some kids not knowing better, that happened from time to time.

I wanted to take my car but in the end I let Kakuzu convince me to let him drive, I absolutely didn´t want anything to happen to my baby.

Down at the harbor everything seemed normal at first, but since I was there, we sure found trouble. There was a few Sound members causing the trouble but neither Orochimaru nor Kabuto were there.

The fight was nothing we hadn´t countered before but once again I was thrown into the ocean, other than that all of us were fine.

As soon as we got home I went straight to the shower, I needed to warm up and I still had time before the other Uchiha´s would arrive. Hidan soon joined me in the shower and when we got out of it an hour later I was both warm and satisfied.

I was on my way over to the kitchen when Konan found me and asked me to come with her for a minute. I did so and soon found myself in what would become the nursery. The walls were still white since they had not been painted yet and the only furniture was two chairs.

Konan sat down in one and I told her to put her feet on the other as I sat on the floor. I could see that Konan was nervous but I didn´t say anything, I just waited for her to tell me what she had wanted to talk about.

"I know that you might not like what I´m about to say right now but anyway… I… I want you to be the godmother of my children."

I stared at her with my mouth open for almost a full minute before finding my voice again.

"Are… Are you sure? What do Pein think about this?" I asked her, not truly believing she was serious.

"Of course I´m sure! And Pein agrees. My only worry is that you will not accept it because it might remind you of that you can´t have kids of your own…" She trailed off.

"I´d love to be the godmother of your children." I told her, a huge smile on my face and a warm feeling in my heart.

We talked about the nursery for a while after that, seeing as Pein had told Konan to decorate it as she wanted, she asked me for help and advice about it.

We decided that the walls would be painted a neutral green and that we would ask Deidara to paint some jungle animals on them. We also decided to get fiber optics for the ceiling, making it look like a star filled night sky with the help of some dark blue organza fabric.

We were interrupted by a knock on the closed door and Pein entered with Madara and Shisui in tow. He tried to give me a stern look but I only laughed and told him.

"Hey I´m in the house, you didn´t say anything other than that I had to be back here in time." He smiled and helped me up from the floor.

"Yeah I know."

As he turned towards Konan I gestured to the Uchiha´s to come with me. I led them to mine and Hidans movie room and plopped myself down in the sofa, Madara and Shisui joining me.

I turned towards Madara and asked him.

"Well, what did you want to know?"

"What exactly happened?" He asked me, his voice rather dark and a little raspy but still very nice to listen to. Too bad I didn´t know how to answer his question.

"From what point?" I asked him while frowning in slight confusion. Madara and Shisui shared a look before Shisui asked me.

"Please start from the very beginning."

So I did.

I started to tell them everything that happened to me after Sasori left me with our parents. Then I told them how I had gotten here and everything happening while I was here and with me joining Akatsuki. Then I told them about my time in Sound captivity and the struggles I had after that. At the very last I told them about everything Sasuke had done to me in detail.

I could tell by their facial expressions that they wanted me to stop talking a few times but despite that I continued. I hadn´t wanted to revisit some of the memories that I had told them about but they had asked and I felt obliged to answer them.

I didn´t even notice that tears fell from my eyes the entire time.

When I finally was done talking, silence filled the room. Madara and Shisui had clearly not expected to hear what I had told them. But it was the truth and they knew it, they could see it in my eyes.

The one to break the silence was not Madara as I would have expected, instead it was Shisui who put his hand on my knee in a comforting manner before telling me.

"I´m so sorry."

He didn´t say anything else but he didn´t need to. I felt that he really meant it through the innocent touch and it made all the dark thoughts give away to the thoughts that maybe these two guys would be two new friends.

Madara didn´t say anything at all but as he put his hand on my other knee, I got the same feeling from him.

I smiled at them both before suggesting that they stay for dinner which Shisui accepted. Madara told me that he had other business to attend to but that he didn´t mind joining us another time.

I followed him to the door, telling him that he was welcome any time. He gave me a small smile and a quick friendly hug before leaving.

When Shisui and I entered the kitchen, the rest of the gang was already there except for Zetzu and Tobi who had once again left town. I informed them that he would join us for dinner and then another plate was set before I could blink.

Shisui sat down next to his cousin Itachi while I sat down next to Hidan. Hidan leaned towards me and whispered in my ear.

"Are you okay Cherry? I can tell that you have been crying."

I smiled at how cute he was, worrying about me.

"I´m fine Hidan, I had to tell Madara and Shisui about everything but it´s okay, I think I can add two new friends on my list now." I whispered back with a smile.

Hidan only nodded in response before he relaxed his tense posture and leaned back in his chair, a secretive smile entering his lips. Kisame who sat on the other side of me suddenly asked Shisui a question.

"Hey Shisui are you staying the night? We were thinking of continuing to celebrate Kitten tonight since last night was kind of ruined."

"Sure I´ll stay. If it´s okay with the rest of you?" He only got positive responses so it was decided that he would sleep on the couch in mine and Hidans movie room.

Then we all gathered in the living room were Deidara put on some music before Kisame entered with a few bottles of sake.

"Since you´re eighteen now Kitten you´re allowed to drink and I thought it would be a great way to make up for the miserable ending of yesterday." Nobody disagreed with him and soon everybody except Konan held a shot in their hand.

Kisame smiled at me and said.

"To Sakura!"

"To Sakura!" The rest of them echoed and then all of the shots were gone. The liquor burned my throat on the way down but left a heat that was not at all uncomfortable.

Kisame only smiled as he refilled our glasses.

A few hours later the house was all chaos. Konan was the only one sober but Itachi, Kakuzu and Pein only had two or three shots each. Kisame, Shisui, Hidan, Sasori, Deidara and I were all drunk out of our minds.

The kitchen was a mess after Deidara and I made a bomb in the microwave, the pool was filled with red food coloring after we played 'jaws' in it with Kisame as shark (the red food coloring was supposed to be blood) and know we was about to start a game of truth or dare.

Pein and Konan had already gone to bed and just as we were about to start the game, Itachi and Kakuzu abandoned us as well.

Kisame, Hidan, Shisui, Sasori, Deidara and I sat down on the floor in the living room and since Shisui was the guest, we let him start the game.

"Deia… Dedi… Blondie truth or dare?" He finally got out, his speech rather slurred from the amount of alcohol he had consumed.

"Dare me."

"I dare you to… to… … I forgot…" All the guys laughed at him but I smiled evilly before whispering something in his ear that made his eyes widen and a matching evil smile appear on his lips.

"I dare you to dress as a girl for the rest of the night!"

Everybody got really quiet before exploding in even louder laughter than before. Deidara only paled before getting up from the floor and stalking out of the room while dragging me with him. Lucky for us I snatched another bottle of sake before anyone realized what happened.

Deidara and I locked ourselves in mine and Hidans bedroom for his makeover and he sat down on the bed, pouting.

"Aww... Don´t worry Deidei… I´m going to make you a really pretty lady!" I told him happily before taking a few large gulps of the sake I had brought with me.

"Lookie here! I even got you some more sake." I said to him before giving him the bottle.

"Hell yeah! Now maybe this won´t be so bad…" He answered before emptying the bottle in one go.

I giggled before searching in my closet for the perfect outfit for him. I found the perfect dress for him and squealed loud enough to get his attention.

I tossed the dress on the bed and then tried to pull off his shirt but tripped and instead ending up sprawled over his lap. Both of us burst out laughing and then Deidara said.

"Thank Kami I´m gay or else Hidan would castrate me…"

This of course only made us laugh even harder.

After a few other mishaps I had finally managed to get him out of his clothes and into my dress. The dress was awkwardly tight across his chest and down to his hips, effectively allowing his taut muscles to show as if he wore no top at all. Thank Kami the dress flowed out at the hips before ending about mid-thigh, the dress reached to the knees on me but Deidara was a bit taller.

The thing that made the dress perfect for him was that it had the exact same color as his eyes. It had a tube top with sequins on and the skirt part was puffy and glittery. To finish the outfit I forced him in a pair of fishnet leggings and a pair of high heeled boots. I also gave him a blue and glittery themed make-up.

When he walked back out in the living room he had to lean on me since he was almost passed out from the alcohol but the guys didn´t care as they took a lot of photos in hopes of a few good ones to be used as blackmail.

But when he almost fell while only standing still, Sasori took pity on him and led him away to their bedroom. I strongly suspected that we would not see either of them again tonight.

We opened another sake bottle and since Hidan was the most sober one, he got the honor of continuing the game.

"Kisame, truth or dare?"

"Dare me."

"I dare you to make out with Shisui for 30 seconds."

Complete silence followed and by the looks on Kisame and Shisui´s faces, I´d say that neither of them wanted to do that dare. I smiled mischievously as I got an idea to make them to it and I leaned closer to Hidan to ask for his permission. He granted it, clearly thinking it was worth it if he got to see two absolutely straight guys make out.

"If you complete the dare I´ll give each of you a kiss in reward." I exclaimed making Shisui´s expression change from a disgusted one to a determined one.

"Fine…" Kisame muttered before latching onto Shisui´s mouth. I watched intently, not knowing if I should be fascinated or disgusted. From the corner of my eye I noticed that Hidan was recording the whole thing with his phone and I giggled evilly.

As soon as their 30 seconds were over they flew apart and sat as far away from each other as possible. Both of them looked at me expectantly and I sashayed over to Kisame first, giving him 30 seconds of full make out before giving Shisui equal attention.

When I sat down next to Hidan again neither Kisame nor Shisui had moved an inch, if it was out of shock or fear of Hidan I did not know nor did I care. But when Hidan laughed, they came back to reality and Kisame immediately asked me.

"Kitten, truth or dare?" I thought about it for a moment before locking gazes with him and confidently saying.

"Dare."

"I dare you to give the three of us a strip show. Which Hidan can interrupt whenever he thinks it is enough." He quickly added when Hidan glared at him. I looked at Hidan and he gave me a look that said 'your decision, it´s your body'.

I smirked and changed the music to something more fitting before dimming the lights slightly and went to stand in front of the three remaining guys.

I started moving my hips with the music while slowly dragging my hands up my body, tangling them in my hair before turning around and slowly pull off my shirt. I tossed the shirt in Shisui´s face, making him blush before I turned around again so that the guys got a good look of my upper body now clad in only a hot pink lace bra.

I let my hands fall from my hair to caress my neck before gently squeezing my breasts and drag down my stomach to the buckle on my belt. I unclasped it and then shimmied out of the tight fitting jeans with sensual movements. The jeans I tossed at Kisame before I turned around and reached down and backwards, putting my body in the same position that had made Kisame faint when he found me like that in the gym.

"I believe that´s enough." Hidan suddenly said before pulling his own shirt over my head to cover me up again.

"Ye... yeah…" Kisame agreed before disappearing from the room with his course clearly set on his bedroom. Shisui only shrugged and winked at me before telling me.

"Good show."

He then also left and I heard the door to mine and Hidans movie room close not long after that. I turned towards Hidan and stretched out my arms toward him.

"Carry me to bed?" I asked in my best childlike voice and he did so without complaining.

This ending was much better than yesterdays.