Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Pink Thread Of Silk ❯ Crimson Scar ( Chapter 8 )

Pink Thread of Silk

 

Chapter 8: Crimson Scar

 

What is he doing here?

 

What does he want with me?

 

Does he want to take me back?

 

I can't do that…

 

… I can't go back…

 

…I'll die…

 

…But I'm not ready…

 

…help me…

 

“Help me.” He heard those words in his head like they were screamed in his ear, though he had no clue where they were coming from. For a moment he thought he had imagined it, but his conscience was telling him another story. Sasuke's onyx eyes gazed around at the hordes of fighting nins surrounding him. Knocking his opponent unconscious by a vicious jab to the head using his shoulder, Sasuke counted heads.

 

“Ino…” He muttered slamming his foot into another opponent's stomach before ending the man's life with two kunai to the head. “…Temari…” He noted the blonde slicing a man's head off his shoulder using her vicious wind fan. Onyx eyes widened when he found a certain rose haired woman missing from his count. “Sakura?” He called out, his fist colliding with an enemy face knocking the man clear off his feet.

 

He didn't know why, but he panicked. Orbs sifted through the number of nins around him, the amount diminishing in the seconds with more dead or unconscious nin's falling to the ground.

 

“Sakura!” He called out, his muscles were tense. She couldn't be dead… she just could be, not yet, she could defend herself well, she could protect herself… he was suppose to protect her! Kakashi had ordered him to! …no, he had ordered himself to!

 

So where is she?

 

“Sakura?!” His head snapped to his side where the blonde woman he had despised over the years was staring up at the building they had jumped off of on their way to the fight, shouting her name. His own orbs followed her gaze and widened further as the woman he was searching for stood, almost in a daze, her whole body swayed dangerously close to the edge. “Wake up!”

 

“Sakura!” He called out, but their voices weren't reaching her ears. Now Sasuke was truly worried, her eyes were dim and dull, almost… empty. He tried jumping on a lower roof to jump onto the one she stood on, but an enemy arm slipped around his neck cutting off his air supply. Onyx orbs narrowed as he slammed the back of his foot into the mans knees, knocking him back and off balance before throwing two shuriken which landed in his chest and sliced open his lungs.

 

He turned back and watched as the woman swayed further, her orbs fixed on one place, one location. Once again he found himself following the path of a gaze, this time, wishing he hadn't.

 

Blood red met same blood red eyes, one set narrowed, the other seemed amused. Sasuke's hand unconsciously slipped into his pouch grabbing hold of a kunai, but he didn't get the time to use it.

 

“SAKURA!” Ino screamed as Sasuke's orbs broke away from the orbs of the one man he hated more than himself. He acted faster then his brain could process what was going on, his soul, his heart moving his limbs forward. His eyes didn't see the battle around him anymore, he didn't see the blonde woman's tears as she watched, he didn't see the smirk on a certain Uchiha's lips. How could he? His eyes were purely on her, her form, her slender womanly form falling from the rooftop. Her normally sparkling emerald orbs were dull and empty, her skin pale and everything that Sasuke knew about her, everything he liked about her… was gone.

 

A figure blocked his path, blocked her from his view, blocked her from him. Without a moments thought the kunai he had readied for his brother was drilling a hole in the enemies head, the Uchiha slipped over his body, all his muscles working double time and burning from over excursion.

 

Onyx orbs closed as Sasuke fell to his knees skidded on the dirt, arms wide and praying, praying that he would make it in time. Praying that he wasn't too late, praying that for once, he was able to save someone apart from himself.

 

He felt the weight, he felt her weight in his arms, he felt her form sink into his, he felt the tear that rolled down his face, he saw the tear that dripped from his cheek onto hers.

 

“Sakura!” Ino's orbs were filled with tears as she rushed to her side, in the arms of Uchiha Sasuke, the man she wouldn't have once thought of being able to do this for someone else. She found her in the arms of a monster. “Sasuke!”

 

He didn't respond, he didn't seem to have heard her at all. Sasuke's orbs were fixed on the closed ones of the rose haired woman; she could clearly see the panic and shock in his features.

 

“Take her and go!” She yelled slamming her fist into an enemy nin that tried to make the raven haired man his next victim. But he still didn't respond, like his ears were blocked and his body was too stiff to move. Taking another kunai out of her pocket whilst blocking an attack from another direction, the blonde threw the kunai at the onyx eyed man slicing lightly through the skin on his left arm.

 

He blinked, his form ungluing from kneeling in the dirt with his arms wrapped tightly around the form of the unconscious woman.

 

“I said, TAKE HER AND GO!” She screamed.

 

But every monster can turn into something beautiful.

 

Sasuke looked up at the blonde haired woman, completely confused at his current situation. Orbs landing on the emerald eyed woman in his eyes, something clicked in his mind as he rose to his feet and began jumping from one low roof to a higher one before retreating from the battle field and into the dark night. He no longer had any consciousness of what was around him. All that mattered to him at that moment was the woman in his arms and only her.

 

***

 

“Itachi-sama?” Itachi's cold hard crimson orbs didn't leave the spot where his brother had fled with his rose haired slave in his arms. He couldn't quite understand why his avenger had been so emotional to start with but he had a pretty good understanding of what was going on.

 

Sasuke was his younger brother after all; Itachi knew that if Sakura could plague his mind like she did every night, then she could squeeze into the mind of his only living relative and more importantly his younger brother.

 

But Itachi wasn't going to let anything happed between them, he would be damned before he would let four years of work go down the drain. He had moulded the rose haired girl into the perfect woman, one that didn't fight back and did exactly what he told her to do.

 

She was his and his alone.

 

“When are you going to kill her?” The voice of the woman standing a few feet away annoyed him more then life itself. He had only taken her on as a toy that he could use to keep his hold on his cherry blossom.

 

“Soon.” Itachi replied but inside laughed at how naïve this girl was. God this bitch was dumb; did she really think that he would want a wench like her when he had a perfect figured cherry blossom at his disposal?

 

Itachi had felt all the longing looks on his back, he had seen the blush on her face whenever he paid any heed to her, he knew she was running around doing his bidding in the hope that he would become attracted to her. But it was all in a days work to Itachi, why not use another toy to keep his first in line?

 

Reaching in under his black, red cloud decorated Akatsuki cloak, he grabbed a kunai whirled around on the spot and slashed the young girl's face, not enough to kill her, but to leave a nice reminder of himself that would keep the cherry blossom his.

 

The girl screamed falling to her knees, hands over her bloodied face as tears fell from her eyes.

 

“Go find her.” Itachi ordered and he turned away from the woman, Kisame at his side watching the scene in silence before disappearing into the night air with his Uchiha companion.

 

***

 

“Sakura.” Sasuke muttered as he tried to shake the rose haired woman awake. He was getting worried that whatever his brother had done to her might have been more then he imagined, worse then what the older Uchiha had put him through.

 

She was shivering beneath him as he stroked the silky strands of her pale pink hair, his onyx orbs taking her in as if for the first time. A sweat bead rolled from her temple as she whimpered slightly, she was having a nightmare.

 

Sasuke stood and stared. God he was a stupid bastard. He had no clue what to do for her; he had no clue how to make her feel better. All that ever existed in his life was hate, darkness, revenge and himself. He had never tried to care for anyone else, so he had no clue where to start.

 

Kakashi would be back soon, so would Ino, they'd know how to help her. But they weren't here right now, right now is where she needed something. Sasuke just wasn't quite sure what it was.

 

He walked over to the fireplace and using a jutsu started it without much thought. She's shivering because she's cold, if she's cold the fire will warm her up. He told himself as he looked back at her desperately.

 

“Sa-suke.” The words tumbled from her lips as her form began to relax. At hearing his name he walked closer to her. Some other words were escaping her perfect lips but he couldn't quite hear them. Leaning down closer, his ears strained to hear the soft mumbled words. “Stay.” Was all he heard.

 

A small hand wound around the arm that held him up by supporting himself on the bed. Onyx eyes met pale emerald as she stared into his soul. He didn't know what to do, if he was lost before he would never be found in the maze that they call a heart.

 

“Please.” She whimpered as a single tear rolled down her face, Sasuke on seeing this instantly reached out a wiped it away with the pad of his thumb. Her small hand covered his as it cupped her cheek. “Stay.”

 

Maybe for tonight he could forget all the hate, darkness and revenge. Maybe just for tonight he could be the Sasuke that should have been had what his brother done not taken place.

 

As Sakura tugged his arm lightly, he didn't pull away, he didn't run for the hills or give her a glare that would signify she should leave him alone. No. He lay down beside her, letting her scent and her eyes lead him astray, lead him into unknown territory where he had never been before.

 

Just for tonight he would be Sasuke, not an Uchiha avenger. Just for tonight, he would take care of her, because she needed him. For once, someone needed him and was relying on him to be there. He wouldn't let that slip through his fingers.

 

***

 

Kakashi skimmed over the report handed to him by the Hokage and frowned. This wasn't right; there was something very off about it.

 

“You see it too hm?” The blonde sannin commented as she twist in her chair flicking through numerous reports and papers that were handed to her because of the surprise attack. “This wasn't an attack to take over.” She continued as she stamped a few papers and handed them to Shizune her assistant.

 

Kakashi looked up at the older woman his face void of any emotions but the wheels in his head were turning, taking in all the information and processing it.

 

“This was an attack to check Konoha's strength and speed.” The Hokage continued her face grim and tired. Her eyes landed on Kakashi hard as she spoke the next few words. “The worst is yet to come.”

 

“Who's behind this?” Kakashi asked his eyes skimming over the report again, imprinting the image into his mind to use on a later date.

 

“We're not sure yet, but we'll find out soon enough, we have enough prisoners to keep Ibiki happy for a very long time.” She said, yet there was no humour in her voice, only fatigue. “You and all the other jounin are to stay within village walls and on alert at all time, keep the village going, and if another attack takes place, we'll deal with that when it comes.” She continued and gave a true smile at the masked man. “I have faith in all of you.”

 

Kakashi nodded and without another words disappeared from the office and was skimming the roofs to where he knew the onyx eyed genius had been defending the village. When he jumped off the roof beside the town centre clearing his eye widened. There was a sea of the dead; bodies lay in all directions, blood made the stone ground glimmer a sickly crimson.

 

Pulling his dark eye away from the scenery he took in two women, leaning against a wall not too far away, obviously tired and resting.

 

“Ino, where's Sasuke and Sakura?” He asked not seeing them in the close vicinity.

 

“Probably back at the Geisha house, if that Uchiha bastard done his job right.” Ino's cerulean orbs narrowed at the thought of her friend not being taken care of in her state.

 

Temari sat quietly watching the two ninja with half interest.

 

“Was she hurt?” Kakashi continued, something pulling at his heart strings.

 

“…You could say that.” Ino said slowly. Then continued. “But not physically anyway.”

 

Kakashi's brows furrowed as he took in the statement.

 

Seeing the older silver haired nin's face Ino continued. “I don't know what happened, but she completely blacked out on the roof and fell, Sasuke caught her right before she hit the ground and then ran back to the Geisha house to keep her safe.” Then Ino glared down at the brick lane ground. “Or at least that's what he had better done.”

 

Kakashi nodded his head, half understanding what the woman was rambling about.

 

“Are you alright with getting back?” He asked as he already began to move away in the direction of the Geisha house.

 

“You betcha!” Ino called out getting to her feet, Temari doing the same, before following the silver haired ninja onto the roof tops.

 

It took less then five minutes to get back, no-one was out and about at this time of night and after what had taken place. But as the three nin's slipped off the roof to land silently in front of the Yamanaka Geisha house, they were surprised to see that someone had ventured out, but didn't seem in any fit state.

 

“Ano,” Ino said quietly as she approached the female figure sitting in front of the main entrance. “Are you alright?”

 

The brunette continued sobbing, her hands, mahogany bangs and shadows covering her face.

 

Something seemed very off to Kakashi about this girl. He hadn't seen her before and even though he was sure he hadn't seen every civilian in the village he was damn sure he knew all the girls from the drinks he often had with the lecherous Genma and his very intimate details with each of the woman he had, wanted to take or would never lay his hands on. She wasn't one on any of those lists, though he could be wrong, he hadn't ever paid much attention to it.

 

Ino put an arm around the girl's shoulders as she willed the girl to look at her.

 

“What's your name?” The blonde asked as she leaned towards the girl and squeezed her shoulders lightly as a sign of comfort.

 

The sobbing stopped slightly as the girl began to shiver lightly.

 

“Mako.” She replied in a small hoarse voice.

 

“Wow, what a pretty name.” Ino commented as she pulled back some of the mahogany bangs and slipped them behind the girl's ears. Only then realising what was on her hands from the touch. Cerulean orbs landed on her hands as a sticky crimson glimmered in the moonlight.

 

Dark orb met both sky blue ones before looking back at the younger girl. Kakashi kneeled down in front of her a lightly wrapped his hands around her wrists.

 

“Hey, how about you show me your pretty face?” Kakashi said lightly. Now he was definitely on edge.

 

The girl. Mako, slowly lifted her face from her hands, the tears still refusing to stop as the moonlight fell on the deep gash right across her face. Ino gasped as Kakashi held Mako's hands in his taking in the damage. Whoever had done this knew how to do it without causing any serious damage, but enough to leave a scar to mar the young girl's pretty face.

 

“Hm, how about we go inside and get you cleaned up?” Kakashi continued with an eye crease at the younger girl who nodded slowly. Ino leading the way Kakashi helped Mako up and led her inside, Temari following at the rear.

 

Leaving the brunette in Ino's capable hands Kakashi went in search of the cherry blossom that had been haunting his mind and refused to leave how many time he tried to force her out.

 

Walking silently down the hall, up a stair case and down another corridor, he stopped at the door of the room he knew belonged to the rose haired woman. His hand pulled the fusuma door open as he looked through the gap. With only the light coming from the crackling fire in the fire place he found a sight that shocked him more then any of the events that had happen that day.

 

The silver haired nin's teeth ground together as he watched in anger as an arm wrapped around the rose haired woman protectively. He couldn't see the man as he was in the shadows, but he didn't need to to know who it was. A sickly feeling fell over him that he had never felt before. Was this jealousy?

 

He slid the fusuma door shut before his mind could make his body to any rash actions that he would regret later. Closing his eyes he rested his forehead on the wall beside the door, letting the cool cement wall calm down his raging emotions. What kind of ninja was he? Emotions aren't for nin's, emotions are for civilians who live a peaceful life and keep the village going. The nin's around them have no right to do the same, they have to concentrate fully on protecting their home and to keep those civilians doing what they are meant to do.

 

He pushed all that he felt to the back of his mind as he walked down the corridor towards the kitchen where Ino was taking care of the young girls wound. But he heard those words that fell from her lips as he began moving away. It was as if she was right beside him. Those words made his hands clench.

 

“Stay with me…” She had muttered, his sensitive ears picking up every word. “…Sasuke.”

 

XxX

 

Ok people, this is the last chapter I am going to be putting up on AA as its taking too much space on my profile and well there are still many chapters to go. (At least 15)

 

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Thanks so much to all that have stuck with me this long and I hope you all continue to read my fic in the future.

 

Arigato!

 

Serena :D