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Chapter 7

“Guys! Sasuke-kun! Naruto? I brought breakfast!” Sakura called down the
hall as she approached the master bedroom, the door was open but she made sure
to knock politely before peeking around the corner. She was surprised to see
that Sasuke was awake, sitting in the recliner reading a book while Naruto was
sleeping in the bed. “Naruto-kun! Get up! Go hop
in the shower!”

“Five more minutes, please?” the blond lump
protested, but it had already begun to stir.

“No! Tsunade-sama needs to see you so you better get
moving,” she said, grasping the covers from the foot of the bed, she
yanked hard, pulling them off and exposing the blond all curled up in his
orange boxers.

“Aww,
Sakura-chan!” Naruto shivered in the bed and then hopped out of it
reluctantly. He took a moment to stretch his arms and his back. “I take
it we’ve got a mission?”

Sakura nodded and smiled, “Yep. Anyway, good morning,
Sasuke-kun, are you hungry?”

“Hn.”

“I hope that’s a yes, but I have to hurry and
get my stuff set up, so you eat and then I’ll get started on your
treatments, okay?” She caught Naruto grinning mysteriously on his way
into the bathroom, but Sakura ignored him, looking instead at Sasuke. He was
sitting in the chair, but he wasn’t resting his back on it.

“What are you doing up so early anyway?”

“The Dobe couldn’t keep his hands or his lips
off of me while he was sleeping.” Sasuke continued to read as he spoke,
but he was practically purring when he said that- the sound was so alluring
that it took an extra moment for the words themselves to sink into her head.

“He wha-” Sakura
paused mid question and in her search for the burn cream when she heard that.
He was looking at her now, and his expression was impossibly mischievous, which
made her blush uncontrollably. “Oh gods… H-He told you? He told you
about that stupid…”

“I thought the story was kind of cute,
actually.” Sasuke shrugged, returning to his book.

Sakura listened to the shower running in the bathroom for a
moment and then she looked at him. “Do you… still want to know what
Sai said?”

“Hn.”

He looked up over the top of the book. “Well, Sai said a lot of mean things back when we first met him
actually, but he was disturbingly obsessed with the size of
Naruto’s… uhm penis. Seriously, n matter
where we were or what we were supposed to be doing he seemed to find a way to
comment on Naruto’s… equipment. At first he actually called him dickless,
then after we all went to the hot spring together he kept trying to tell Naruto
how tiny it was. He still calls me an ugly bitch, and he said you are nothing
more than a spineless, gay traitor…”

Sasuke rolled his eyes. “Please. Sai’s all talk.
He took one look at me and fell on his ass. Someone ought to tell him that he shouldn’t
be wearing spandex if he’s going to imply that he’s got anything to
brag about down there and trust me, you’re not ugly. On the other hand, so what if I do like guys
better?”

“You do- I mean, you… really do like guys
better?”

Sasuke snorted and rolled his eyes again. “That
wasn’t the point, but yeah.”

Sakura blushed. “Sorry, you’re right, it’s
none of my business, I’m just… surprised. Anyway,
I guess Naruto and I felt like he should’ve tried to fit in with us, I
mean, he was supposedly on our team but he wasn’t you. I think sometimes
he looked too much like you- but even Naruto said you were way too cool to be
replaced by him. Anyway, could you come on over here and lie down please; I
need to get this done before we are sent out.”

“Later you two!” Naruto
said, emerging from the bathroom fully dressed
already. He stuffed a doughnut in his mouth on the way past them and smiled.
“I’ll come back before we go if I have time, but either way, you be
good, Sasuke!”

As she carefully cut away the bandages along Sasuke’s
side, Sakura could almost feel the sinister glare Naruto was getting for that.

She giggled. “Come on, if we can’t tease you who will?”

“Why would I want to be teased?”

“It’s rare, but you’ve been known to start
your share of the bantering with us too, you know. I seem to remember a certain
little wisecrack about how Naruto couldn’t keep his hands to himself? He
really does like to sprawl out and sleep wherever though, doesn’t he?”

“Hn.”
Needless to say she was pleased to see a nod of his head.

She knew somehow that he was grinning too as she untangled
the last bits of gauze and tape. “W-Woah. Oh
gods… S-Sasuke- How did you do this?”

She stared at the wounds without really believing her eyes.
Sasuke’s skin was still horribly torn up, and there were still countless burns
and ugly scorches crisscrossing his muscular back, but the small pieces
she’d been able to smooth back into place just yesterday were now firmly
attached, and her chakra told her they were healthy. No one except Naruto could
heal that fast- it should’ve taken at least a day to be sure they would
grow back at all!

“It’s not a jutsu; the ANBU waiting outside
would’ve known if it was me. That is the power of the white snake-
Orochimaru caught one and used it in countless experiments on his own body. Its
healing power is stronger when I’m sleeping because my chakra isn’t
being used for anything else. I have all of Orochimaru’s other powers
too.”

Sakura paused, thinking hard. “You know, I thought it
looked a little bit better last night after dinner too, but I really thought
that must’ve just been my imagination… Sasuke, Lady Tsunade has to
know about this so she can decide what to tell the council. I mean, if Danzou thinks
you’re skipping out on your sentence he’ll try to force the rest of
the council to kill you again.”

“I know, but unless they decide to keep me awake
continuously, I don’t know how they can stop it.”

Sakura nodded. “Yeah, it’s looking better, but even
at this rate, your back will always be… badly scarred.”

Sasuke shrugged. “That’s the idea.”

There was a comfortable silence in the room as she smoothed
various creams and lotions over his wounds, and she could feel Sasuke’s
breathing deepening beneath her hands as if he were falling asleep again. She
smiled to herself. Of course he’d never admit it, but she knew he must be
tired after everything that’d happened to him lately.

“I’m sorry we’re leaving so soon right
after you got back,” she said. She wouldn’t have minded letting him
rest, but she wanted to get him bandaged up so that she wouldn’t have to
bother Shizune or Tsunade about sending someone else to do it when he woke up
later.

“Orders are orders.” He shrugged.

“I know; it just… seems wrong to leave without
you again…”

“Even if Tsunade-sama does decide to put me back in
Team 7, we won’t always be a team, you know. Aren’t you a Chuunin
these days? You’re already qualified to lead missions of your own, you
know.”

“I’ve lead a few low rank missions, but my heart
hasn’t been in my missions since you left. I think that’s why Lady
Tsunade put up with us looking for you for so long…” She helped him
stand up and began to wrap layers of gauze bandages around his wounds.

“You mean you still saw the three of us as kids so she
let you two keep acting like kids?”

“That’s a really mean way to put
it…” Sakura scowled at him, but it didn’t stop her from
nodding reluctantly. She finished wrapping his wounds and turned to put
everything back into the basket.

“Hn.”

Unable to interpret that, Sakura sighed and changed the
subject. “Sasuke- I… I can’t leave without asking you one
thing…”

“What is it?”

“Those things you said to Naruto when we found you at
that creepy snake pit- how could you?”

“This should be obvious, Sakura. Orochimaru and Kabuto
could’ve been watching us from anywhere that day. I couldn’t say I
was glad to see you because they would have killed both of you. To protect you,
I had to keep pushing you away. What I said about the two of you being a
distraction that was true; I was distracted in my training for weeks after you
showed up. Luckily, Orochimaru believed I was angry with you for finding
me.”

“You attacked
us, Sasuke-kun and-”

“I had to; I told you, if Orochimaru saw how much I
care about either of you he wouldn’t have let you walk away. I knew he
would only buy my indifference if I depended on your teamwork to protect each
other and for the most part you did.”

“But we could have fought him together!”

“How could I attack him when I still had more to
learn?”

Sakura looked away, letting her shoulders sag. “I
guess that leaves me one more question. Was it really worth everything you put
us through?”

“Why are you asking me questions when you already know
you won’t like my answers?”

“Because I need to know that there’s still
something left in you of the Sasuke I thought I loved! Don’t you owe us
that much?”

“I’m giving you the truth, because I do owe you that much.”

“Then tell me, damn it! Was your training and revenge
worth everything you put us through? Was it worth my heart, and Naruto’s?
How about Orochimaru- I was there, remember? I saw the way that disgusting
bastard looked at you. Was your revenge worth more than the sick things he did
to you?”

He gave her a fierce glare, and she swallowed hard, but she
kept eye contact. She knew Naruto wouldn’t have asked him any of these
questions yet, but for the sake of their future trust in Sasuke, they needed to
know...

The silence lengthened as their stare down continued, and
she took his silence to mean that his bond with her was never as strong as her
bond to him. Those painful thoughts made her eyes prickle and they filled with tears;
so she was startled when Sasuke suddenly looked away. “By was it worth
it, I suppose you basically mean would I do all of it again?”

She nodded but felt her heart sinking as she looked into his
icy black eyes.

He was quiet for so long that she put a gentle hand on his
arm. “My brother finally told me the reason he left me alive, and knowing
that I stopped him makes it worth everything. I’m not proud of the road I
took to get there, Sakura. But, I got my revenge and where he is right now,
Orochimaru is no longer a threat to anyone; yes, I would do it again.”

“I guess I don’t understand. What could Itachi
possibly say to you that would justify everything that’s happened?”

Sasuke looked down. “He wanted my eyes.”

“What do you mean? He wanted you to join him
or-”

“He needed my eyes and- I almost didn’t react in
time to stop him.”

“Y-You mean he- he really tried to…?”
Sasuke nodded and Sakura shuddered, unable to speak. Instead, she wrapped her
arms around him and held him gently. “I’m sorry, Sasuke.”

He looked truly confused. “What
for?”

“I guess I always thought maybe he went crazy or had
some other excuse no one knew about for what he did to your clan- I never
dreamed he could’ve really been a completely heartless monster.”

“He said if I had the Mangekyou Sharingan too, then he
would be immortal if he replaced his eyes with mine.”

“That’s disgusting!”

He smirked coldly. “Yes, but I got his head so
it’s too late now.”

“That’s disgusting too, so don’t look so
happy about it!” She growled, and went back to putting her healing
supplies away. The next time she looked at him, Sasuke had a clean navy blue
button up shirt on and he was reading again. “Don’t tell me
you’re reading the same crap Kakashi-sensei does…”

“No. This isn’t nearly that interesting.”
Even behind the book she could tell he was smirking. “It’s an
exhaustive, dryly written history of
the Uchiha clan. I’m trying to find out more about Uchiha Madara.”

“Uchiha Madara? I’ve never heard that name
before.”

“My father once told me that he’s the statue
facing the First Hokage at the Valley of the End, but other than that I
don’t know much about him either.” Sasuke tossed the book aside and
she finally noticed that there were already six other books and a few scrolls
scattered along the floor around the recliner where he was sitting.
“I’ll be in the library.”

She nodded and looked at the pile and picked up the book
he’d just been reading. “I suppose this means he’ll always be
obsessed with something…”

She was just about to put the book down when she noticed
that there were two pages that’d been torn out. She turned it upside down
and shook it, but nothing fell out. ‘So,
the torn pages are missing, is that why he gave up on this book?’

She thought about going to ask him why his search was so
important to him, but decided to finish getting ready for her mission and tell
Lady Tsunade about it instead. She’d been in the expansive vaults and
libraries under the Hokage’s mansion, so it was possible that she might
be able to find out something that would help Sasuke- or at the very least,
help them to understand him.

**

Sasuke was awake instantly- but he didn’t turn on the
light or even open his eyes. He forced his body to remain still and relaxed
while he used his chakra to search the darkness around him.

The flicker of chakra that’d roused him out of the dream
was gone, but it was enough to warn him that he wasn’t alone. He’d
always been a light sleeper, but after being kidnapped numerous times out of
his room for the dark Sannin’s enjoyment, he’d learned to detect
disturbances in the chakra around him even while sleeping. He sensed no one in
the room with him, but he focused harder and still felt nothing out of the
ordinary in the surrounding rooms.

There was yet another storm going on outside tonight, and
the house felt quiet, much like it had several nights earlier, but he knew
instinctively that he wasn’t going back to sleep tonight. He used his
chakra to search out the presences of the masked ANBU shinobi who’d been
assigned to enforce his house arrest.

He sat up in bed
when he realized that he couldn’t feel them anywhere around the compound. The clock read 3:25, but the time was
irrelevant. The ANBU didn’t report to him, but he knew they would not
leave their positions around the mansion without some sort of a replacement already
present.

He paused, they
could be suppressing their chakra intentionally waiting for the chance to
attack him, but that was extremely unlikely. Even with Naruto and Sakura gone
for the last two days, he believed that Tsunade actually wanted him to return,
whatever was going on, it was not the Hokage’s doing.

He knew that Danzou hated him- but he would be signing his
own death warrant if he defied the wishes of the Hokage and the rest of the
council by attacking him now, without
some sort of provocation on his part.

So, if the Leaf wasn’t planning to kill him, did that
mean that the chakra he’d sensed was someone attacking them? Assassins after him would
definitely have to take out his captors to get to him…

As if answering his thoughts, he heard a subtle noise on the
other side of the wall- Itachi’s room. Sasuke growled as he slid out of
bed. ‘So much for
not fighting until I’m healed.’

He couldn’t move his hands above his shoulders without
pain yet, but his strength was returning quickly and he pushed his body
relentlessly in the dojo. He supposed he could tolerate the confinement, but he
didn’t trust anyone to watch his back while Naruto and Sakura were on
their mission. Sooner or later he knew he’d be attacked here- whether it
was a bunch of drunk over zealous young genin who
wanted to make a name for their team, the ANBU loyal to Danzou or a cold
reminder from Kabuto that the Sound hadn’t forgotten him, it didn’t
matter. He had no intention of relying on Konoha’s ANBU to protect him.

He used the Sharingan to create a genjutsu of the hallway
being empty while suppressing his own chakra as much as possible and extended
the illusion to make it look like he was still in the bed asleep. The door to
his brother’s bedroom opened and for a half second Sasuke actually
expected to see his brother standing there, staring at him dispassionately.

The huge silhouette was one he didn’t recognize, and
the man didn’t see him. He crept out of the room and held up his fingers
behind him. As he crept farther into the hall, lightning gleamed off of the
Sound headband the man wore and Sasuke bristled instinctively.

Rather than wait for the assassins to attack, Sasuke
summoned his chakra into a Chidori that covered his whole body and hammered
three fingers into the soft part of the man’s throat. His attack
destroyed his illusion that the hall was empty but Sasuke didn’t care.

The leader fell
in a heap, unable to breathe. Sasuke leapt over him and smirked coldly as he
grabbed a slim young woman by the throat she gave a horrible scream of pain as
the current from the Chidori sizzled through her body and she slumped to the
ground already only half conscious. The third intruder wasn’t as startled
as the other two and attacked him with a kunai, but Sasuke only twisted his
body to the side, bringing the girl with him so the assassin stabbed her instead.
Sasuke dropped his living shield and continued to smirk ominously.

“You asshole!”

Sasuke rolled his eyes, feeling morbidly amused. “You
came here to kill me; I can’t help it that you aren’t good enough
to pull it off.”

“Maybe they aren’t but I’ll bet I
am.”

Sasuke paused, the voice behind him was familiar, but he
couldn’t think where or why he’d heard it before…

The Chidori current was still enveloping him like a shield,
but now the assassin in front of him didn’t look scared of him anymore
and his chakra told him that the one behind him was considerably more powerful
than these three morons.

“Like I said, it’s time to see just how tough
you really are.”

“So, you just couldn’t wait to see my pretty
face again, eh?”

Sasuke laughed coldly as the man under that mask stuttered.

“Y-You’re a traitor to this village, and you’ll
never belong here.”

‘You helped
assassins from Sound infiltrate Konoha and you dare to call me the traitor?’ Sasuke was
seething inside but he kept his face a mask of cold amusement and touched the
summon tattoos on his wrists and smirked when a pair of mammoth white snakes
appeared at his side. These serpents were loyal and seemed hungry since they
attacked immediately. He sent both of his pets after the third member of the
Sound team and spun to face the ANBU traitor.

He caught the man’s sword in both hands and easily
snapped the blade after using Chidori’s power to weaken it. The man threw
the shattered blade’s hilt to the floor but grabbed a pair of kunai
instead, keeping one at the ready in each hand.

Sasuke was glad to be fighting; he needed the adrenaline of
this battle to get rid of some of the stress he was under. The Sharingan showed
him every move the idiot was going to make before he made it, and the intruder’s
actions began to show his fatigue. His attacks grew wild and desperate.

Sasuke had no intention of letting the coward leave alive
and knocked him to the floor, but before he finished the hand seals to call his
sword to him, something struck him in the back of his head and everything went
dark.

Author’s Note:
As much as I looooove killing OC’s,
I love cliffies, more!! Who KO’ed
Sasuke? When are Naruto and Sakura getting back, where has Kakashi been all
this time? The list just goes on, huh…

I’m looking
forward to your reviews!! ^_^
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