Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Let Me Love You ❯ Old Friends, New Hatred ( Chapter 3 )

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Warning: Adult language

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He knew that the woman had slipped into unconsciousness and he moved his hand again to take the mask off. When he did his eyes immediately filled with surprise and for the first time in seven years his dark gaze fell onto the familiar face of Haruno Sakura

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- III -

Old Friends, New Hatred

 

The mask fell from his numb fingers, all but forgotten, as his dark gaze studied the familiar, yet oddly foreign face before him. He sliced the white cloak from her body and pulled the soggy clothing from her. As the hood of the cloak fell from her head, her familiar pink hair was revealed to his eyes. He studied her face, still not believing his bad luck to have run into Sakura of all people. She looked mostly the same as the last time he had seen her except the baby fat had disappeared from her face giving her face a more heart shaped look. Her pink hair was the same but a little longer and held into a pony tail instead of being let down. His eyes lingered on a small scar that ran down the length of her pink eyebrow. His brows furrowed and he frowned wondering where she had gotten that scar from. As soon as the thought entered his mind he roughly pushed it away and got to his feet. He should leave; he didn't want to get involved with Konoha anymore. That was a part of his past and he never intended to live long enough to see the place again. His cold eyes wondered back to the unconscious woman and felt a small tug at his heart; he knew that he couldn't just leave her there.

`I'll heal her wounds but when she wakes up I will leave.'

He decided and lifted her light weight into his arms.

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Sasuke replaced the hot cloth with a cool one onto Sakura's warm forehead. He had found a large cave and had laid Sakura out onto a blanket he had found in her bag. He had stripped her of her wet clothes and covered her with his spare shirt as her clothes dried. He couldn't help but see the numerous scars that she had all over her body and he once again found himself wondering just what kind of life she had been leading. He looked through her pack and found it mostly filled with medical supplies and some scrolls that he assumed were apart of her mission. He took out the medical supplies wondering when she had started carrying so many supplies. As he tended to the numerous gashes on her person his eyes kept on wandering to her face. She had a small frown on her lips and he could tell she was dreaming from the movement of her eyes under her eyelids. His eyes roamed down her body looking for any other wounds and found that there were nasty bruises beginning to form on her stomach and her left arm. He frowned and lightly skimmed his fingers over the bruises seeing that her ribs were broken and her shoulder was dislocated. He wrapped more bindings around her stomach lifting her limp body a little to get around her torso. When he was finished with that he moved to her arm. He quickly moved her arm causing it pop back into place. At that instant Sakura's jade eyes snapped open and she shot up, her hand automatically shooting to her arm.

“Fuck!” she groaned and leaned heavily on her other hand. Her eyes scanned her surroundings quickly and found that she was in a large cave. There was a small fire in the middle of the cave and she was laid out on her mat. Her bag was a couple of feet away, open and its contents laid out. Her eyes fell on a long familiar looking sword laying a couple inches from her. A sandaled foot came into her sight and she followed the foot up to a very familiar face. A face that had haunted her nightmare; A face that she hated with every fiber of her being.

Sasuke gazed down into cold jade eyes. He watched as her eyes become colder and colder until he was sure he would freeze under her gaze. Her lips turned into an ugly scowl and a single pink eyebrow rose.

“Uchiha, what a surprise to run into you here,” she said her words dripping with sarcasm.

Sasuke's brows rose a fraction but other then that he showed no sign that her tone bothered him.

“Where are we and what the hell are you doing here, aren't you supposed to be out chasing after your stupid brother somewhere?” Sakura asked inspecting her wounds carefully.

She knew that she was still very low on chakra but she had enough to heal her ribs and her shoulder. She formed a set of seals and brought her glowing green hand to her ribs.

Sasuke remained silent, not bothering to answer her former questions. He watched her quietly as she healed her ribs, his obsidian orbs studying her eyes. Until now he hadn't seen her green eyes and what he saw in them both surprised and saddened him.

He remembered the Sakura from his childhood was always so out going and high spirited. Her jade eyes always shown with life and happiness, even when she was crying. He remembered the last time he had seen her was when Konoha had won the war against Akatsuki and their followers. They had killed off all Akatsuki members but Uchiha Itachi. He knew why they let him go, it was because of him, they wanted to give him the chance at his revenge and some part of him warmed at the thought of their sacrifice. It was then that he had turned his back on his former teammates again. He had informed them that they didn't need to worry about Orochimaru because he had killed him. Then his blank eyes had taken one last look at Naruto, whose blue eyes held understanding and pain. Naruto knew that Sasuke would never be able to live in Konoha again until he took his revenge and he had finally come to terms with that fact. Sasuke's black eyes had fallen to Sakura, who had tears falling from her pain filled eyes. He could see the immense pain and longing their, causing his heart to constrict painfully in his chest. He knew how much he was hurting these people that had believed in him, but he had decided long ago that he would devote his life to avenging his clan. He had turned his back and walked away from them once again. If he would have turned back he would have seen the dark look that came over Sakura's face as she watched him willingly walk away from her yet again. He would have seen the cold rage leak into her eyes; he would have seen the hate that darkened her eyes to a deep turquoise. But he didn't look back, in so doing he never saw all of this, he was oblivious to the decision a certain Kinochi had made on that day.

Drawing out of his thoughts he gazed down at Sakura who had just finished healing her shoulder. She lay back weakly and let out a large sigh.

“I can take care of myself now, Uchiha. Go stroke your pride somewhere else you're not needed here anymore,” Sakura all but spit out.

Sasuke frowned and walked to the fire adding another log.

“You need to rest, your chakra is depleted,” he said simply, sitting down next to the fire.

Sakura scowled in response but said nothing, not feeling the need to argue with him. She knew that he was right, her chakra was indeed severely depleted and she needed to rest or she would never get back to Konoha and rip a certain blonde's balls off.

“That ass better fuck Hinata one last time before I come home because when I get back he's loosing whatever balls he has,” Sakura mumbled under her breath, her eyes sparking fiercely with anger.

Sasuke's eyes shifted slightly when he heard the comment Sakura had made and he couldn't help but smile at her vulgar comment. He never took her for the swearing type but then again it had been seven years… people change. He heard her shift behind him and then he heard her breathing even out, signaling she had finally fallen asleep. He let out a sigh of relief and let the tenseness flow from his shoulders. He gazed intently into the fire, his eyes slightly glazed over. He didn't know why he was here. He had avoided running into Konoha ninja's for years now and he didn't know why he had even bothered to stop and save this one; Especially this one. Sasuke shifted so that he could see Sakura who slept facing him.

He remembered the uniform she had on and the tattoo she had on her right shoulder.

`She is apart of ANBU now, which means she has gotten powerful. I wonder if Naruto has become part of ANBU as well…'

Sasuke was slightly surprised and very unfamiliar with the idea of Sakura becoming ANBU, he had always thought that she would stop at Jounin and then settle down and have a family, she had always seemed like she wanted to end up that way. His gaze drifted back to her face and he studied her sleeping face carefully. Even though she had looked the same at first sight, she had indeed changed. Her eyes no longer held innocence or happiness, all he saw when he looked into those emerald depths was…. Nothing. It unnerved him slightly because her eyes were so similar to his own. He didn't know why he was still here, she had told him to leave, and she obviously didn't want him here. But for some reason he didn't want to leave, he was curious about her and how she had ended up being ANBU. His gaze narrowed as they landed on the scar on her brow. He was curious as to how she had gotten that and the many other scars that were on her body.

`I will stay; at least until I know she can make it back to Konoha on her own.' He decided.

Sakura could hear his deep even breathing and she felt her skin tingle as she felt his gaze on her once again. She didn't know why he kept on looking at her, but it was starting to really annoy her. She had become an expert at deceiving people when it came to being asleep or unconscious. She was an expert at the body and she could pretend she was unconscious or sleeping without a moments thought. As she continued to breathe deeply she thought about her predicament. She was safe for now; it would take her two days to recuperate to her full strength. She just hoped that Sasuke left before then because frankly she was not in the mood to deal with him at that point. She had left him behind long ago, accepting their different fates. She had decided to leave Sasuke in the past and move on and that's exactly what she had done. She had moved on from loving him to hating him, even despising him. He was the reason that she drove herself so hard to become as skillful as she was today. He was the reason why she never smiled anymore. He was the reason why whatever heart she had left was covered in ice. That last day… the day that the war had finally ended, was the day that her and Naruto had seen Sasuke again. He had come looking for his brother but instead he had bumped into them. Naruto had accepted by that time that Sasuke had chosen to leave Konoha on his own will and had not tried to keep Sasuke from leaving. He had told Sasuke to choose between their friendship and living a lonely life of an avenger. He had chosen the latter.

That was the day, as she watched his fading back; she made a promise to herself. She promised that she would hate Uchiha Sasuke with all her being. She would become cold, unfeeling, and powerful so that next time she ran into the Uchiha she could laugh in his face instead of cry her eyes out. That was the last day she had cried, until Tsunade had died. She had to admit she had not expected to run into the Uchiha any time soon, let alone have him take care of her.

`I'm surprised the heartless bastard has it in him to think about someone other then himself.'

She almost felt sick at the thought of how weak she felt. It was as if she was cursed to always appear weak before the Uchiha. She hated it, she hated feeling so weak and out of control. She had to recuperate fast; because the faster she got better the sooner she could leave his presence. When she had seen him again she had felt that familiar pull at her heart. She knew that some part of her still loved him. But she refused to let that part of her dominate, she would leave his sorry ass, let him see her back for once.

Even though one part of her was slightly curious as to what he was doing here, she didn't want to ask. She didn't want to talk anymore then she had too to the Uchiha.

She slid her eyes open halfway and stared unseeing at the rocky ground of the cave.

“Why haven't you left?” She whispered.

Sasuke's gaze shifted to Sakura who had her eyes open again.

“Why do you care?” he asked, successfully avoiding answering her question.

She opened her eyes more fully and glanced up at his face. His face was so hauntingly familiar. He still had the same silky black hair, the same emotionless onyx eyes and the same velvety voice that had always sent shivers throughout her body. She noticed that he had grown taller towering above her petite 5'5” height. His slender body had become more muscular and much more defined. She tore her eyes from his body and stared at the fire.

“I don't, your presence just annoys me,” She said

Sasuke smirked and folded his arms before him. “If my presence is so annoying then why don't you get up and leave, after all this is my cave.”

Sakura's eyes snapped back to his. If she didn't know any better she would have thought he was joking around with her.

Sakura scoffed at that thought. `Yea right, thee Uchiha Sasuke joking? Those three words didn't even belong in the same sentence together.'

She sat up gingerly and removed the shirt; she presumed was his and stood up. She saw that she was naked except for the bandages on her and her bindings and panties. She didn't care that she was all but naked; she had lost her modesty long ago. She made her way over to her clothes that had dried by then and pulled down her pants and loose tang top. She walked back over to her makeshift bed and deposited her clothes. She then brought her hands to her bindings and began to unwind them from her breasts. She glanced at Sasuke and noticed he had looked away.

“Are we shy now Uchiha? Never guessed you to be the bashful type,” She said sarcastically as she continued to remove her bindings. Sasuke frowned slightly at her comment and shifted his gaze back to her and locked his obsidian orbs with her emerald eyes. Seeing the challenge she smirked and met his eyes dead on. Dropping her bindings she walked to her bag, her breast bare to the world. She didn't really care, she only saw her breast as a weapon to be used against men on missions that required her to lure and kill her victims. She bent down and pulled a dry set of bandages out and a dry set of panties. She hated wearing wet clothes but most of all she hated wearing wet panties it annoyed her to no end. She made her way back to her cot and began rebinding her breasts. She looked back at Sasuke to find him frowning his eyes staring intently at her bared breasts.

She smirked, “How flattering to know that even the cold Uchiha Sasuke finds interest in my breasts,” She said continuing to wrap the bandages tightly around her chest flattening them.

“Where did you get all those scars?” he asked quietly, still frowning.

“That's what happens when you get raped and tortured,” she said nonchalantly shrugging her shoulders.

Sasuke's black orbs flew to hers, surprise clearly written in them.

“When… how did it happen?”

“You don't have to look so mortified, it's no big deal, it's happened enough times to where it doesn't affect me anymore,” she said shrugging her shoulders again.

Sasuke's frown deepened and he made his way over to her and sat next to her causing her to tense up.

“Repeatedly? This happened to you repeatedly?”

Sakura hooked the end of her binding and stood up, sighing. “Look Uchiha I don't know if you know this but Kinochi are expected to go on missions that require them to have sex with a man and then kill him. It's a way of life and every Kinochi has to experience it. It just happens that the first mission I went on where I had to go undercover was with a man that had unusual ways of getting aroused. He liked to torture and rape and that's what he got off on so I had to go along with it. That's where all these scars are from but that was a long time ago,” She said waving her hand dismissively.

She curled her fingers around her panties and pulled them down stepping out of the openings. She then bent down and extracted her clean pair and slipped those on, along with her black pants and loose top. When she was finished she sat down and looked back at Sasuke who was still looking at her.

“Look is their something on my face or something because you're really annoying me.”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow in questioning.

“Why do you keep staring at me?” she said sighing.

“You have changed, Sakura.”

Sakura scoffed. “Do you think that I would stay the same girl who followed you blindly and cried at every little thing? I grew up because I had to grow up,” She said and lay down.

“Now if you don't mind I need to get to sleep,” She said and turned her back to him, her hand curled around a kunai.

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Author's Note:

So that's the third chapter and Sakura and Sasuke have finally met and talked. So what do you think have I portrayed Sasuke to your liking? I hope I have even though he hadn't done much talking in this chapter. Well please review and tell me what you think. Thanks for reading. Ja Ne!

Next Chapter:

Sakura wakes up to find Sasuke gone, has he gone for good? She still is not strong enough to travel so she decides to stay another day in the cave. While she meditates she begins to think about old memories and feelings.