Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Pink Thread Of Silk ❯ Hated By The Sky ( Chapter 9 )

Pink Thread of Silk

 

Chapter 9:

 

Onyx orbs stared at the ceiling above him. He had no idea what the hell was wrong with him. He had no idea why he was still here and he had no clue why he hadn't gone after his brother. He had had his chance, Itachi came to him, but he hadn't taken that chance, instead, he went after a woman. Something he had vowed to himself he would never do.

 

His orbs narrowed as he continued glaring at the ceiling. God he was weak, he had fought so hard to become stronger, but obviously he hadn't worked hard enough. Or maybe he just didn't have a chance; maybe he was destined to be weak.

 

A small hand slipped onto his chest as a head snuggled into the crook of his neck. Onyx orbs looked down at the rose haired woman in his arms. What did she have that made him like this, he knew she was the prefect model for the continuation of his clan, but he hadn't been expecting this when he first thought of his plan. He hadn't expected that she would reach out to him, but what he hadn't expected most, was how much it meant to him that someone had bothered to do that. To reach out to him out of everyone, when she had more reliable people all around her.

 

Why had she chosen him? Everyone knew Uchiha Sasuke was bad news, everyone knew that he was an avenger of a bloodied clan. Everyone knew, yet she didn't seem to care.

 

Her pale hand clasped the material of his Uchiha decorated black shirt as she pulled it lightly in her sleep, incoherent words falling from her cherry lips.

 

Why had his brother come all the way here though? Why had he bothered to come all this way when he could have just as easily sent one of his lackeys to do his bidding? There must be something here that he desperately wants, if it was his life or the life of the rose haired woman in his arms Sasuke wasn't quite sure. But either way, Sasuke was going to protect her. She was the only one that had bothered to give him a chance, he wasn't about to let those efforts be unrewarded.

 

Sasuke closed his eyes as he took in her soft sweet scent and allowed himself to relax for a mere moment. Then looking out of the room window, he found the first few rays of the rising sun escaping the distant landscape.

 

He placed his larger hand over her small one and unhooked her hold on his shirt before placing her head onto the pillow beneath him gently. Sasuke slipped out of the bed and walked over to the fusuma door taking one last glimpse back at the young woman before slipping out into the silent household. He had business to take care of.

 

***

 

Sakura woke to find the warmth she had so desperately wanted, gone. Her mind raced over the events of the previous day as she began to shiver under the covers of her bed.

 

“…Sasuke.” She whispered remembering his gentle actions the night before. Was that really him? She had expected something like that more of Kakashi then the Uchiha demon, but he had taken care of her hadn't he?

 

Sakura's emerald orbs widened to the size of saucers before tears overfilled her barriers. Itachi had come back, that was why Sasuke had protected her. Sakura couldn't believe how weak she was, she had frozen when she saw those crimson orbs again, he had demolished everything she had built in the past few weeks.

 

But he hadn't taken her back, he hadn't gone after her. So why was he here really?

 

Sakura sat up wrapping the bed covers around her tighter as she shut her eyes trying to forget those orbs staring at her. All her memories were flashing through her mind as she willed them to stop. God! Why did he have this much power over her?!

 

The rose haired woman threw off the bed covers and slipped off the bed to lean her forehead on the cool glass of the window as she stared out into the peaceful morning. Sakura sighed as she watched the birds fly from tree to tree outside singing softly.

 

She didn't understand her life, why was she alive? What was the point of her life? She didn't make anyone happy, she didn't help anyone around her, she wasn't loved by anyone and she didn't have enough heart to love anyone in return anyway.

 

“Sakura?” Ino's voice sounded from behind the fusuma doors.

 

“Hai?” Sakura muttered as Ino slid the door open and gazed at her with inspecting cerulean orbs. Ino sighed in relief when she didn't see any physical damage on the figure of her rose haired friend.

 

“How are you feeling?” The blonde asked as she walked in slowly to lean against the wall beside the window and Sakura.

 

“Like crap, but when is that any different?” Sakura answered in an emotionless voice.

 

“Whatever happened back there…” When Sakura's head snapped to her friend, Ino raised her hands and continued. “…You don't have to tell me what happened if you don't want to.” Sakura nodded slowly, a small smile on her rose lips. Sakura really didn't have the will power to go through what had and has happened to her. “I just hope that you can rely on us enough to know that we will keep you safe no matter what…” Ino continued with a smile of her own. Sakura's smile faded slightly, but held up none the less. “Though I don't see that as such an easy task with that massive forehead being such an easy target.” Ino smirked as Sakura frowned.

 

“Shut it Ino-pig!” Sakura's orbs narrowed but the smile widened anyway.

 

“Come on, I have a new addition to my large and very colourful family!” Ino said cheerily as she led the cherry haired woman out of her room and down into the kitchen where at the table sat Kakashi, two maiko girls under Ino's training and…

 

“Mako-chan?!” Sakura's eyes widened as her orbs landed onto the brunette sitting chatting to the silver haired nin who was desperately trying to read his book.

 

“Sakura-sama!” The young girl grinned as she ran at the rose haired woman and wound her arms around her.

 

Kakashi's eyes left his book and gazed at the act curiously. So this girl really was here for a reason. Sakura being that reason meant the girl was sent by Itachi.

 

Sakura was staring down at the girl, her eyes not believing what she was seeing. It wasn't just the fact that she was here that shocked her, though that did play a big part, what had utterly terrified her was the massive slash right across her pretty face.

 

“What happened to you?” Sakura asked lifting the younger girls chin up. She was only thirteen!

 

“I fell.” She muttered, but Sakura wasn't fooled. Tears welled in the rose haired woman's eyes for the second time that morning.

 

“I'm so sorry.” Sakura mumbled through sobs as she pulled the girl into a desperate hug. “I'm so so sorry!”

 

To say Kakashi and Ino were surprised was an understatement. Why would Sakura be sorry for something that wasn't her fault? Only Kakashi had put the pieces of the puzzle together, she was indeed a present from a certain Uchiha genius to keep the rose haired woman remembering why she was here.

 

“It's okay Sakura-sama, it's not your fault.” Mako said cheerfully as she wrapped her small hands around Sakura and returned her hug.

 

“Who the hell is she?” A cold voice spoke from the entrance to the kitchen as six pairs of eyes landed on an Uchiha genius.

 

Ino laughed nervously. “What do you mean Sasuke-kun? This is Sakura! You know that!” Ino continued to laugh nervously as she tried to hide Mako behind her back and was slowly pushing the girl towards the second entrance to the kitchen that led to the exit of the geisha house.

 

“Don't play me for an idiot Ino.” Sasuke growled as he glared right at the blonde woman. She really knew how to push her luck with him.

 

“I'm not Sasuke-kun, I really have no clue what your talking ab-” Sasuke with his speed was already behind the blonde haired woman and lifted the younger girl by the material of her yukata.

 

“Who the hell is she?” He repeated himself, his eyes never even looking at the girl.

 

Sakura ran at the Uchiha genius and grabbed the arm that held the young girl. “Let her go!”

Sasuke stared down into emerald pits, he didn't like this. He didn't like this one bit. That girl radiated hatred and… him.

 

Shoving the girl into Sakura's arms Sasuke glared at them both. “I bloody hope you know what you're doing.”

 

“Don't play me for a fool Sasuke.” Sakura replied with hard orbs as she copied his earlier statement.

 

“When you give me reason to believe you're not one, I will.” Sasuke replied and walked past them before leaving the Geisha house altogether.

 

“Well he's grouchy in the morning!” Ino said with a sigh as she approached the two girls and wrapped a reassuring hand around the younger one's shoulders. “How about we take a trip to the baths?”

 

Mako pulled her gaze away from staring at Sakura's hurt filled face, to smile at the blonde haired woman. “Yeah! Sounds great!” She said cheerily before following the blonde towards the stairs and their room. The two maiko girls following with eager faces.

 

“You coming Sakura?” Ino asked, but only got a shake of the head from the rose haired woman, who still gazed at the spot where the youngest Uchiha had left. “Suit yourself.”

 

With that they left, leaving her wondering what the hell she had done wrong.

 

“Don't worry about him, he gets like that from time to time.” Sakura turned to find Kakashi still sitting at the table, his eyes in his favourite perverted book.

 

Sakura sighed.

 

“Your not going to tell me what happened yesterday are you?” He continued as Sakura took in a sharp intake of breath her eyes slightly wide, not expecting the comment. “If Itachi was here then don't you think I should know?”

 

Sakura sat down opposite the silver haired nin and gazed at her hands.

 

“I was going to tell you, but…” Sakura sighed again. “I guess I'm just weak, anything that remind me of him I run a mile from.”

 

Kakashi put his book down and gazed lightly at the rose haired woman. Her orbs full of sorrow.

 

“So he was there?” Sakura nodded. “And she was sent by him with a piece of his artwork on her face?” Sakura now close to tears again, nodded. “Don't trust her; there is something very off about her.”

 

Sakura's head snapped up the silver haired nin.

 

“She's only a kid! She's been abused by Itachi, don't you think we should give her a break?” Sakura almost yelled her anger boiling. It was her fault that Mako-chan had to suffer. If only she had been there to take up all of Itachi's time then Mako wouldn't have had to go through this. She wouldn't have to have that permanent reminder of him on that young face of hers.

 

“Just because what he done to you broke you apart doesn't mean she would react in the same way.” Kakashi continued in a nonchalant voice.

 

“What the hell would you know about suffering Kakashi?!” Sakura's hand slammed into the table hard almost breaking it in half as she shot up from her seat, her eyes filled with rage. “What the hell would you know about what I've been through and what Mako-chan has been through?!”

 

“You'd be surprised what I know about both.” Kakashi replied calmly.

 

“You know jack SHIT about me and my life so keep the HELL out coz your better off there!” Sakura screamed storming out of the geisha house, the cold wind hitting her hard as she ran down an alley, not really sure of where she was going.

 

What gave him the right to judge her and Mako? He didn't know what it was like to be cut open everyday by slicing words, be raped to the extent that you hated being human because he could do that to you. To be tortured so bad you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror before breaking down.

 

He knew nothing about that, yet he still acted as if he knew everything! What the hell gave him the right?! NOTHING!

 

NOTHING!

 

NOTHING!

 

Sakura fell to her knees in the middle of the alley. Then why did he bother to make her feel like crap. It was her fault why she was in the state that she was and it was her fault that Mako-chan had followed her on her path.

 

Getting up she ran, she needed to get away from everyone. This place was suffocating her. She couldn't stand being here if her past and future were crashing down on her. Maybe if she just disappeared then Kakashi and Ino could go back to their normal lives and forget about her, then they could be happy. Mako-chan could find a life here too! And Sasuke…

 

Sakura stopped dead in her tracks as the face of the brooding Uchiha filled her mind. Whatever she felt for him he could definitely deal without, he would be happier that way because where ever she went death and destruction followed. Death being Itachi, destruction being Kisame.

 

She walked on, her feet crossing the line on the ground that told her she had left the borders of the city. She jumped into the trees, skipping from one branch to the next putting as much distance between herself and the town as she possibly could. Between herself and them. Between herself and him.

 

If she's not there then none of them can get hurt and all of them can be happy in whatever life they choose to live.

 

***

 

God he was an idiot. Why the hell was he so rough with her, she was only being kind to the kid just like she had been kind to him. It was her nature, she was just like that, yet he called her a fool for it. She wasn't a fool, he was the fool, he was the fool that couldn't get over himself to see anyone else.

 

He slammed his fist into the wooden block he was practicing his taijutsu on. He closed his eyes in frustration as he rested his forehead on the wooden block.

 

He had to apologise, but he didn't have the first idea on how to do it. He hadn't apologised to anyone in his life apart from his parents. He apologised to them all the time, that he wasn't strong enough to stop the massacre that took them from him. But apart from that, he hadn't given an apology for anything he did, everything he did he didn't feel remotely sorry for.

 

But this…

 

Sasuke slammed his fist into the wooden block again.

 

But this was his fault and he had to sort it out because she didn't deserve to be put down, knowing that that was all that Itachi ever offered her when she was with him. He wasn't going to be like his brother. Sasuke wasn't a monster, he was man that wanted revenge and would do practically anything for power. But he wasn't going to walk over a broken person, and he definitely wasn't going to help in his brother's handiwork.

 

He kicked off the ground and landed on a tree branch not far away before performing a few seals and disappearing in a glimmer of a shadow. He reappeared in front of the Yamanaka Geisha house but was surprised to find how quite it was when he got inside. Slipping off his sandals he walked to the kitchen, finding only his silver haired sensei leaning against a wall reading his porn.

 

“Where's everyone?” Sasuke asked nonchalantly as he walked towards the man, stopping a few meters away.

 

“Ino took the younger girls to the bath house.” Kakashi replied without looking up from his book.

 

“And Sakura?” Sasuke asked again getting annoyed at the fact that the silver haired nin knew that Sasuke wouldn't be looking for Ino.

 

“She ran off.” Kakashi replied in the same tone of voice.

 

“Why? Where?” This took Sasuke by surprise. If Sakura had run off, shouldn't Kakashi go after her? He was supposed to be her main protector, though Sasuke would make sure he himself was a better one.

 

“Got angry, don't know.” Kakashi replied flicking a page in his book.

 

“Then why didn't you go after her?” Sasuke was starting to get pissed. Something about the silver haired nin was off, he didn't usually act like this, he was never so uncaring, even though he did try to hide the fact that he did actually care.

 

“Didn't think it was my business to, after all you're the one she relies on.” Kakashi replied, his orb never leaving the pages of his book.

 

Sasuke was taken aback. “What the hell are you talking about?”

 

“Your screwing her aren't you?” Kakashi continued, his dark orb finally leaving his book to land on Sasuke who just stared blankly right back.

 

“No.” Sasuke replied.

 

“But you want to.”

 

“What the hell are you getting at?”

 

Kakashi shrugged returning back to his book. Thunder rumbled outside as lightning flashed only moment later. The sun he had seen that morning had long since been covered by thick grey clouds.

 

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” Sasuke growled taking a step towards his former sensei.

 

“Nothing.” Kakashi replied calmly.

 

Sasuke watched the silver haired man. Before it clicked in his head.

 

“You're not jealous are you?” Sasuke asked almost laughing at the thought. There was no way, as long as he had known him which was practically all his life, Kakashi had always been a strict rule keeper and only had woman for a one night stand basis. He was never keen on a relationship because it would drag him down in his duty.

 

But before Sasuke could go deeper into his thoughts, a hand was around his throat and held him against the wall cutting off his air supply.

 

“If you know what's good for you you'll leave her alone. She's Itachi's property and he will not be happy if someone, especially you, taints his masterpiece.”

 

Sasuke didn't struggle against the choking hold. He knew Kakashi would never kill him, there was too much past between them and Kakashi often treated Sasuke like his younger brother. They were too similar in so many ways and everyone seemed to notice and comment on it, which meant that they thought alike as well. What really plagued Sasuke's mind though, was what was making his former sensei act like this? He had never lifted a hand to him unless it was in sparring or training.

 

Kakashi let go before grabbing the book he had dropped on the table and walking out of the kitchen then disappearing into the house.

 

Sasuke stood glaring at the door he had left through. Whatever his problem was, Sasuke didn't have time to find possible causes, a storm was coming on and if Sakura was out there, then it was dangerous for her.

 

Grabbing his coat from his room he left the geisha house in search of the rose haired kunoichi. To hell with Itachi, she wasn't a piece of property he could own. She was a woman that Sasuke was going to protect even if hell comes calling.

 

***

 

Rain hammered down on the petit form of the rose haired woman who leaned over a tree root, everything she had eaten the day before lay in a heap before her as she retched. Her stomach didn't feel good, Sakura guessed she still hadn't gotten over that bug she caught when she was training with Sasuke.

 

Sakura rushed to the stream a few feet away, cupping some water in her hands before rinsing her mouth to get rid of the horrid taste.

 

“Why me?” Sakura asked after spitting out, sitting back against a rock and looking up at the sky, rain droplets decorating her pale face before running of her cheeks, hair and chin. Sakura guessed that she was about an hour away from the village, but the storm that had surrounded her had taken her by surprise.

 

She had left everything behind, all her clothes, private possessions, though she didn't have many. She hadn't brought food which her stomach made her very aware of as its grumbles were hidden by the thunder sounding above her.

 

If she continued the way she was then she wouldn't get very far without getting more sick then she already was, and with no one to look after her, she would become the next pray of the first carnivore that came her way.

 

“Doing spur of the moment things like this really is really a bad idea.” Sakura muttered getting to her feet slowly, swaying slightly she took a step forward. Her vision was getting blurry and Sakura knew that she had to find some shelter before she fainted all together.

 

Jumping into the closest tree she set on her way, praying inside her head that some luck would struck her at least once in a while. That someone in the sky would for once take pity on her and offer her a life line.

 

She stumbled, her foot catching the odd limb of the tree as her eyes fell closed and her body fell limp to the ground beneath her. Someone really did hate her with a passion.

 

Shivering she tried to open her eyes but her body refused to listen to anything her mind was trying to get it to do. Her limbs felt numb as she desperately tried to stay awake, but the darkness that had already devoured her body was now attacking her mind.

 

She didn't want to give in though; she didn't want to be weak again. She was on her own now, she had to take care of herself and this was definitely not a way to do that. She couldn't just give up at the first hurdle of the many that she was sure were going to be chucked at her by the people that hate her in the sky.

 

Just as her inner mind began to panic she felt herself being lifted, she couldn't see, she couldn't hear nor could she feel more then the sensation of being carried. But whatever was going on around her, something inside her mind made her relax, like whatever or whoever this was was on her side.

 

Whatever side she was on.

 

Using her last bit of strength she peered through the tiny gap between her eyelashes at the blurry image of a male figure, dark hair and pale skin.

 

“Sa-Sa-su…ke?” She tried to ask, but her word only came out as a rumble of her throat.

 

The darkness finally took over her mind as well, but she felt calm, knowing that whatever lay ahead, she would deal with as soon as her monstrous strength returned.