Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Pink Thread Of Silk ❯ Blood Sweat and Tears ( Chapter 7 )

Pink Thread Silk

Chapter 7: Blood Sweat and Tears

 

Just forget about me, typical, predictable. You knew the end before I started. I can't take no more, you had tricked me once, you had tricked me twice and you would keep on tricking me till the end of meaningless life..

 

Two emerald orbs gazed up into the red glaring ones.

 

I always thought that to watch you suffer would only make me smile. You've watched me suffer time and time again, though I never see your smile.

 

She couldn't move, he held her captive like all those many times before.

 

I've never been as alone as I was back then; I sat around by myself all day, your actions made me sick. I couldn't stop laughing at times, you had completely messed up my mental health, I was so unwell.

 

The blood from the deep gashes on her skin seeped, she didn't seem to notice them though, her full attention, her body and mind were frozen under his gaze, under his world, under his law.

 

No-one knows what its like to be tortured to your very core quite like me. No-one can do it as well as you could, no one could break another quite like you could. Your love is pain, your love is destruction, your love is your will and none other.

 

His lips were mere inches from the already bruised and battered ones of the woman before him. His hands left dark prints on her pale skin, he held her tight as he slammed the woman against the wall countless times, watching the crimson liquid seeping down the concrete wall and tainting her pale flesh.

 

My dreams were never as empty as your conscience seems to be. My dreams were always that little bit out of your reach, you could never get into there, you could never get into my heart, I hated you, I loathed you, but for some reason. I always needed you.

 

The corner of his lip rose as a smirk fell on his features. He leaned in, his tongue lapping up the blood running down her neck. He could feel her, he could smell her, he could taste her.

 

In your mind, that meant you could have me, you never thought twice once you made your mind up. I guess you're like me that way. I never thought twice about following you back then, you already had my heart captured in your devils hand, even though back then, you never wanted it.

 

Her tears spilled over her cheeks, the clear liquid mixing with the crimson as he watched it leak down her naked body.

 

I always knew there was something about you, something had you not been so evil, could bring good to the world. But I guess someone had tainted you when you were young, a monster must have taken your heart and smashed it before your eyes, just like your doing to me now. But you couldn't have been born evil, no-one, not even you could be born that way, you had to have been good.

 

“I know you.” The words spilled from her lips as he watched them move.

 

His hand slipped over her sticky skin. The blood, sweat and tears mixing on her flesh. His lips fell on hers in a brutal assault as he pulled her naked body onto his.

 

That's all you've ever know, isn't it? Brutality, torture and lust. You don't even really know what you're feeling when you look at me, do you? But you do feel something.

 

Her arms wound around his shoulder as he slipped inside her. She cried out, her tears dripping off her cheeks onto his.

 

Did you ever cry like you make me? Did you ever know suffering like what you're putting me through? Because even a monster like you can feel something, if you would only open you shattered heart to.

 

Her sobs disappeared into the night air as he slammed her back against the wall, ravenous to have her, he wanted her, he needed her. Though he never knew why.

 

Maybe I am your shattered heart. You've broken me into more pieces than I can count. That's why you feel something for me? Maybe I'm a part of you that long ago escaped your hold, you lost you heart and it was placed in another… me.

 

His lips were searing the bruised skin on her neck as his hands held her legs open so he could have full access. His orbs were shut, yet hers were wide open, tears spilling from them like a river of the whole sorrow she felt. The side of her head rested on his as more words fell from her lips to whisper into this ear.

 

“You know me.”

 

Your love is something I could never have, because you never possessed enough to give. Did you hate your family that much? Did you hate your heart that much? Do you hate me that much? Or don't you know any better?

 

Her screams filled the night air as her body was beginning to betray her yet again. Why could she never stop this?! Why could she never stop herself from giving herself to him? Why could he hold such a tight clasp over her soul, why could she never just… let go?

 

“Sakura” He groaned out her name as he assaulted her rougher, deeper and harder.

 

After every meeting with you, all I ever wanted to do was sit in the rain. Sit in the mud naked in the rain. It would hide my tears from you; it would cleanse my body and kill your smell. It would give me hope for a better life as every rain drop had chased the sun. Nothing had ever felt so real as it did in that moment, everything fell into place and nothing else seemed to matter.

 

“Sakura!”

 

I was so lonely, I wanted life to show me that I was worth more than the toy that I was to you. I knew you felt something for me, an emotion that you would nor could ever figure out.

 

“Please! Sakura!”

 

I don't want your words, I don't want to hear your lies, you always say more than what's spoken, your promises were forever broken and you never knew or cared enough to let me go.

 

Two strong arms were on Sakura's shoulders before her mind could continue. He shook her body, but she refused to open her tightly closed eyes. She didn't want to see him; she didn't want to see herself the way that she was now. She wanted him to leave her, let her cry her soul out yet again on the cold marble floor of her bathroom.

 

“Sakura, open your eyes.” She couldn't, she couldn't stand those eyes, she knew her soul would snap if she saw those red eyes again.

 

But her heart stopped her mind from thinking as she felt drops on her arm… rain drops? Her orbs began to open, her body defying her mind and following her heart. The arms shaking her shoulders stopped and disappeared as light seeped in through the curtain of her eye lashes.

 

She didn't see red eyes, she saw something that made the tears stream down her cheeks in relief. It wasn't him who greeted her, it was someone completely different.

 

It was…

 

“Kakashi.” Sakura choked out as her arms clasped around the older mans shoulders and she felt him stiffen beneath her. She couldn't help the smile that grew on her lips as she took in his scent how ever much the man was trying to get her off him.

 

She sniffed happily willing the tears to vanish as her orbs took in the second and last person beside her.

 

“Ino.” There were tears running down her cheeks too as she watched her friend. She couldn't believe what she had just seen, she couldn't believe what she had heard from Sasuke either.

 

How could you drown yourself Sakura? She thought as their orbs met. Ino hadn't known that Sakura was as broken as she could see now. She hadn't known that Sakura's dreams were filled with nightmares, but she knew exactly who haunted them. Her screams, her sobs and her muttered words had shown her a very clear picture of what the woman who Ino considered her friend, had been put through since been taken into the older Uchiha's household.

 

It made Ino sick.

 

The blonde woman's orbs widened as she felt arms wrap around her neck and pull her into another female chest. She only managed a small smile as she caught on to the rose hair from the corner of her eye. With Sakura's back turned, she gave Kakashi a worried look, one that for once, was mirror back in the silver haired ninja's features.

 

***

2 Weeks Later…

 

Cold and dripping the emerald eyed woman walked into what she now called home, behind her, a dry and stoic man followed her and watched her every footstep. Sasuke after all, had heard about how the rose haired woman beside him, had woken up the next morning after he had brought her home the day before from her failed suicide attempt.

 

The sneeze coming from the woman beside him brought Sasuke back to reality. Taking off his sandals he followed Sakura into the kitchen where Ino and two of her apprentice geisha were practicing the tea service. At spotting the rose haired woman, Ino's blue orbs fell wide open.

 

“What happen?!” She half screamed as she hurried to the side bathroom grabbing a towel before wrapping it around the rose haired woman who sneezed loudly again.

 

“I lost.” Sakura replied, her voice unladylike like thanks to her blocked nose.

 

Ino's orbs had softened slightly at hearing the news, by the looks of her friends, Ino had been expecting the worst. Another suicide attempt.

 

Sakura with a sigh kneeling down opposite one of Ino's apprentice geisha, and watched as she poured her tea.

 

“Explain to me again, why do I have to learn to fight?”

 

Sasuke calmly kneeled down beside her, the two maiko girls quickly stood and left after the fierce look the blonde woman had sent them.

 

“Sakura, Konoha is going through a bad stage in time right now and there is a high danger of war between the three greatest hidden villages, Konoha being one.” Ino explained as she kneeled down in her previous seat.

 

Sakura had heard this countless times now, explained not only by Ino, but Kakashi and Sasuke as well. Though Sasuke had less patience and only explained it once then continued to glare at her if she brought it up again.

 

The ninja training was the only thing that was keeping her going now. Every night her nightmares would come back and the only way she knew to get away from them was to learn to defend herself from the one cause of them all. Sasuke had also been spending more time around her, Sakura knew it was because Ino had probably begged him to as Sakura knew Ino was scared of another attempt of the rose haired woman, to take her own life.

 

Sakura wasn't desperate enough anymore to do that. She had been given a chance in the form of Uchiha Sasuke, and she would be damned if she would let him go. He would teach her everything he knew and more, her skills had been increasing with every lesson and even though she sat soaking wet, she had learned a great amount in that too.

 

Though her nightmares still refused to leave her.

 

Sakura had refused to accept Kakashi's forced offer of using his sharingan, which she had only recently discovered that he possessed, to allow her dreamless nights. She couldn't look into those eyes again, anything that reminded her or him would send her into a panic attack. She understood now more than ever, that coming back to him now, would be death in the first instant. She needed to be strong so she could get away, she needed to be strong so she could support herself and not count on anyone else.

 

But she wouldn't allow anyone else to know that.

 

Sasuke sipped the tea Ino had placed before him slowly as he watched the fire in the emerald orbs of the rose haired woman flicker and sway.

 

Something inside the woman came alive in every spar they had. That something in turn had awaked something inside himself. It was odd this feeling that he had begun feeling towards the woman, it was even starting to eat at him, scare him.

 

But for some reason, the thought of seeing her again was what kept him going, the risk of death was inching closer day by day, if it be war or his brother. But he seemed to forget that when they sparred. She had come miles from the way she was in their first lesson, she had learned so much and improved on even more.

 

If Sasuke wasn't the cold hearted bastard that people knew him to be, he would almost say that he was impressed.

 

Once again Sasuke thoughts were interrupted as the rose haired woman shot up from her seat and ran into the bathroom that was stationed right beside the kitchen a retching noise coming from that direction filled both his and the blonde woman's ears.

 

“This all your fault!” Ino glared at the Uchiha as she got up and left after her friend.

 

But it wasn't, it wasn't him that had suggested underwater camouflage techniques, it was purely her. Sasuke suspected that it was Kakashi putting the thoughts into her head, but when he had spoken to him the day before, Kakashi had commented on the same thing.

 

The woman didn't know when to stop, nor was she willing to.

 

But her body was slowly telling her its limit; she had gotten a high temperature last night but still refused to give up on training this morning, give up on training in ice cold water when they could have done something simpler and at less cost to her body.

 

Though she had shown her full skill of chakra management and learnt that her anger greatly amplified her power, she still wasn't quite there yet.

 

With her, any emotion amplified her power, just as it had with a certain blonde friend of Sasuke's who he hadn't had time to see privately these past few months. He was sure to amend that mistake.

 

Sakura still wasn't anywhere near the level a ninja should be at at her age, but she was getting there. Faster than most, she was getting there.

 

 

***

 

A loud explosion sounded in the west as emerald orbs snapped open and the form of the previously sleeping woman sat up in the blink of an eye. She scrambled out of bed and rushed the window of her room that allowed her a small view of the smoke rising up in the side of the village where the explosion had taken place.

 

“What the heck?” She whispered as her eyes widened and she took in enemy nins approaching.

 

The fusuma door slammed open as a silver head pocked through, dark orb met emerald and instantly Sakura grabbed here jounin clothes from the chair she had flung them on earlier and began getting dressed, Kakashi already moving on to the other rooms of the Yamanaka Geisha house.

 

Within less than two minutes Sakura was already running out of her room and rushing down the stairs, Ino and Temari right behind her, both had lost their geisha yukata and any complicated hairstyles, for simple styles that allowed them free movement.

 

As they approached the exit fusuma doors they noticed Kakashi peering through a small gap. The other younger geisha were running to the lower levels of the house as instructed by Ino only yesterday in case of an attack.

 

Sliding the door open Kakashi signalled for the woman to follow him. She knew where they were going; they were going to find an early grave.

 

Slipping through the door, Ino at her side and Temari slightly behind, they followed the silver haired nin into alleyways that seemed to lead directly of the Uchiha household. Now why would they be going there?

 

Kakashi threw three kunai to his right as enemy nins approached them, hitting each square in the head. Without sticking around to watch the lifeless bodies fall to the ground, the group moved on pushing through the centre of the town right to the other end. On approaching the gates that Sakura knew all too well led to the home of the Uchiha genius, they weren't surprised to already find the man in question engaged in a battle with another three enemy nins.

 

Without much effort the onyx eyed man jumped into the air as the three lunged at him, rounding a kick onto one who fell back and slammed into the gate at full force knocking him unconscious. Using the attack Sasuke changed direction mid air and taking out a kunai landed behind the second nin and sliced his throat open.

 

Neither of the woman looked away, too used to the sight they had seen all to many time, Sakura included. How many times had she seen attacks on the older Uchiha's household? How many times had she watched with fear filled eyes as blood was smeared upon her from an attack of a nin protecting her prison? Too many to count.

 

This time though, she wasn't afraid.

 

A smirk fell on the lips of the rose haired woman as she found a team of eight enemy nin's approaching on their location. Her eyes tore away from the Uchiha genius as he indulged in a jutsu fight with the remaining nin, and her orbs landed and locked onto the approaching enemy.

 

Ino and Temari disappearing from her sides to attack the enemy behind her leaving only her and now Sasuke with open hands. Kakashi had departed at Ino's request to protect the geisha house and leaving her life in Sasuke's hands.

 

Or so he thought.

 

Taking out a kunai from her pouch she spun it on her finger expertly, a glint of pure malice in her forest green eyes. She side glanced at Sasuke who's own smirk was illuminated by the uncovered moonlight.

 

This was something both had been waiting for, both were itching to fight and Sakura was itching to prove herself. Kakashi may not have been here, but Sasuke was just as good if not better.

 

Two enemy nins lunged at the rose haired woman, one throwing a kunai aimed at her head. Without much thought, purely instinct the woman grabbed it in her hand twirling it her fingers and ready to attack. Dropping centimetres away she held both kunai attacks with two of her own. Shoving the men away she jumped behind one slamming both kunais into each of the man's kidneys and slipping away just before the dead man could crush her with his lifeless body weight.

 

Her smirk only widened as she saw from the corner of her eyes the onyx eyed man slamming another enemy into the dirt, his orbs met hers for merely a second before both returned to their fights.

 

Crouching down Sakura rounded a kick tripping the other and a new enemy nin before lunging into the air, taking out another two kunai from her pouch and directly throwing both into their jugulars.

 

“Sakura!” Her celebration in her head ended faster then they had begun, she looked down at Sasuke as she began falling back the ground. “Behind you!”

 

With not enough time to turn around a kunai was digging into her throat, narrowing her eyes she elbowed the nin in the stomach knocking the kunai from his hand by the force then mid air she twisted around and rounded a kick directly into his side feeling some ribs break as he flew from her.

 

Landing smoothly she smirked at Sasuke who smirked right back before rounding a fist to an approaching nins head.

 

They were on the same page now. She could stand her ground, not as well as him, but she was catching up. Her monstrous strength was also his doing, he had unlocked that part of her skill that was somewhere deep inside her and now she possessed something that was above him, something she did better, and that made her feel alive for the first time in so long.

 

“Come on.” Sasuke was at her side in moment, Ino and Temari behind, both were covered in dirt and blood but like true ninja they put their geisha sides aside and concentrated on the task at hand. To protect their homes, lives, themselves and each other.

 

They rushed over the dead bodies of the enemies they had slaughtered. All those still alive would be interrogated later. Following Sasuke's lead they jumped onto the roof tops, jumping from one orange tiled rooftop to the next moving to the side of the town where she knew the hokage resided in.

 

There was a mass of enemy nin in that one area as well as a mass of leaf nin's pushing them back. Sasuke and her two friends jumped straight into the fighting mass, imputing their own into the battle. But something had caught the emerald orbs of the rose haired woman that made her stop dead in her tracks on the edge of the rooftop and stare. To not follow those she felt close to now, to not defend what she called home.

 

Deep scarlet orbs gazed right back, the commas she knew all too well, spinning in them and locking on her form.