Chapter #3Any person from series by: Dylan M   Tayuya sat in front of the door…on the other side was the kid who had brought her back to life. She felt the seal on her stomach rise…she wondered if it was because she was close to him, like Orochimaru-sama said.
Tayuya remembered losing to that fucking Shadow-nin. If she ever saw that bastard again he was a dead man…
She hadn’t sacrificed everything in Sunagakure just to die in some kami forsaken Konoha forest. She left Suna to become strong…to get away from her brothers and her overbearing sister. She was here to prove to them all how powerful she could really become…and one day she would show Suna just what they lost by ostracizing her.
Tayuya wasn’t used to owing anyone anything…she remembered when Sakon saved her life from that Taki-nin. She had had to wait nearly a year to pay him back, she didn’t owe anyone except Orochimaru-sama. She had given him her freedom…he had given her power.
She put her hand on the doorknob to her room…the Konoha-nin had been moved there; it wasn’t Sasuke-sama. She wondered who it was…who had sacrificed everything for Sasuke-sama to stay in Konoha?
Orochimaru-sama hadn’t even seemed angry about losing Sasuke-sama’s kekkei genkai. Then again Kimimaro, fucking bone bastard, was alive again…all the sound five ninjas were alive again.
She opened the door…while she was grateful to whoever this Leaf-nin was, she didn’t like being a babysitter. Orochimaru-sama had given all of his remaining elite guards a week to rest, she had looked forward to some sleep and training but baby sitting someone…
Tayuya opened the door to her candlelit room…so it was that loud-mouthed blonde…he was a Jinchuriki? He had a lot of friends for a Jinchuriki…everything Tayuya knew from her experiences told her Jinchuriki were loners.
But then again if Orochimaru-sama was going to save them from Akatsuki…
Her room looked just like she remembered it…stone walls, minimal furniture, candlelight…wonderful. She looked around a corner and saw her clawfoot tub with it’s faucet was still there, along with the washbowl and mirror and the small toilet.
She looked over and saw the Blonde was sweating and convulsing…according to Kabuto he was weak from giving so much of his demonic chakra and that combined with the Cursed Seal…
He was in her bed…sweating everywhere…fucking kid…
“You little bastard…” she cursed under her breath. Not that her room was fit for royalty or anything but it was hers…she liked the claw foot tub in her bathroom, her chest of drawers, her weapons... And this cute kid could die on her bed…she didn’t just say that.
The covers were pulled down so that he was “protected” below his navel. The seal she had on her stomach was also on his…except it was flared red. He had her Cursed Seal…where his left shoulder met his neck…it also had a circular design over it, like an interwoven crown of thorns.
This kid was weak…
“Hey…Hey kid…” She was being a shithead and she knew it. Hell she had bit through the stick she had put in her mouth when Orochimaru-sama gave her the Cursed Seal. She shook him awake…
He opened one eye…she saw he had goosebumps all over his body. He was doing better than she had…
“Don’t die on my bed…”
He took a shuddering breath, she thought he might have chuckled…Tayuya couldn’t believe he was able to stay conscious.
“T-this…I-is…y-your…r-room?” He managed to grit through the pain.
Tayuya nodded. She went over to her drawers…she lit some more candles and pulled over her rickety wooden chair, if she was going to have to baby-sit... Hell this kid would need at least a day…possibly two or more, and when he woke up out of Cursed Seal coma he was going to be super pissy.
“S-So…y-you’re…a-alive…then?” He was drawing, short quick breaths and speaking in short spurts. She was so surprised he was able to talk…that she didn’t scold him for sounding like a retarded baka…
“Yes…apparently Orochimaru-sama was able to use your demon chakra to bring me back. I guess…” She scoffed. “I owe you.” She waited for the inevitable, idiotic macho bullshit she always got from the men in Orochimaru-sama’s ranks.
“Y-You…don’t…o-owe…m-me…anything.” His speech was improving, he was already getting closer to taking full breaths. If Kabuto-sempai was right, this kid had only had his seal for eight hours… “I-I wanted to d-do that…” His eyes clenched for a moment and he let out a long huff.
This kid was strange…his shaggy blonde hair was everywhere. He was a runt…probably small downstairs to match.
Tayuya wasn’t a whore…but she had slept around. Mostly with various ninja who caught her eye and weren’t bullshit trash ninja…but none of the Sound Four. Gross. It was really an empty act…all it really did was scratch an itch, nothing more.
“So you wanted to please Orochimaru-sama?” she said offhandedly. She took off her beanie and ran her fingers through her hair. She wondered when he would pass out from the sheer pain wracking through his body.
He shook his head…he took a quick breath. Tayuya noticed his beautiful blue eyes…she didn’t just say that.
“N-No…I don’t l-like to see people die, e-especially when it’s p-partly m-my fault.”
Tayuya looked at him…this kid had went to get the Uchiha back, what did he mean it was his fault?
“What do you mean your…”
The kid was out…Tayuya hadn’t noticed the whiskery scars on his face. Probably an influence of his demon…she wondered which one was sealed within his body. Orochimaru-sama had already said he was going to use the “New” Sound Four to take on Akatsuki…they were soon going to have special training in order to handle the S-Ranked ninja. Tayuya was actually excited…three years of growth would be good for her.
She winced…the chakra medicine was already kicking in. Orochimaru-sama’s medicine…it was going to permanently triple her own chakra stores…
Tayuya studied her roommate…she was apparently going to have to take care of him for a while. She hoped Kabuto-sempai could find him his own room…she didn’t like him here…
“I want my bed back…” she said out loud to the unconscious Leaf-nin.
Tayuya fell asleep in the chair…soothed to sleep…she was alive…
When Tayuya awoke…he wasn’t there. Her bed was warm…
She got up and walked over to the bathroom…she remembered Sakon saying he pissed blood when his infection spread.
The Blonde was nowhere in her room…as she came out of her bathroom, she realized she stepped on her undersheet. What?
Their was one of her two pillows on the floor…this didn’t make any sense. That small runt had put her in the bed and slept on the floor? What the fuck was wrong with this Leaf-nin.
He had obviously taken a bath and cleaned up but the toilet seat was down and her tub was spotless.
Tayuya just shook her head and crawled back into bed. She was off this week…she was alive…sleep called to her.
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“Uchiha Sasuke…” Tsunade said. The heavily bandaged, but walking Uchiha looked at her. His left eye was covered along with both legs and arms and chest. Tsunade smiled to herself, she was dehydrated from all the tears she had cried over the Blonde leaving, but at least he had beat the hell out of the Uchiha.
“I’ve decided to clear you of the charges the Elder Council had brought against you…Treachery, Dereliction of Duty, etc…”
Uchiha Sasuke nodded. He did look pathetic mummified in those linen bandages…Tsunade had never seen Uchiha pride take such a huge blow…
“You owe Kakashi and Sakura big time…if they hadn’t pleaded your case I was more than willing to shove your ass in prison for a year or the rest of your life.”
The Uchiha again nodded…
“But…you’re going to do something for me…”
He looked up at her…
“I understand why you made the decision you did…I’ve already arranged for Jiraiya to train you, a Sannin, for at least two years. You’re going to need it…because it’s your sole responsibility to get Naruto back.”
Sasuke looked up at her…
“This comes even before Itachi…do you hear me? I…” Tsunade held back tears… “want…him…back. I don’t care what you do…I don’t care how you do it…even if it causes a political disaster get him back…”
“Itachi…” The Uchiha said firmly.
Tsunade sighed. “The closer you get to Naruto…is the closer you get to Itachi. Your brother is after him remember…Naruto is your best bet at getting to Itachi. But you’re not ready for Itachi yet anyway…you would have to be as strong as Jiraiya just to attempt it.”
Sasuke looked away…
Tsunade looked at him…she really couldn’t understand everything Sasuke went through. That was Naruto’s job…Kakashi had told her how lonely Naruto had been when he was little.
“I’ll get that strong then…” Tsunade saw the Uchiha clench his fist that wasn’t in a sling.
“I’ve already informed Kakashi of this and he plans on forming a team platoon that will go after Naruto. You will be a part of that team…Kakashi didn’t want you but…”
Sasuke nodded. “Hai…is there anything else?”
Tsunade hated this kid. “No…dismissed.”
Sakura sat outside of the office, she kept pulling on her skirt…her own nervousness and denial eating away at her from the inside out.
She felt so guilty…and it wasn’t for the right reasons.
She wanted to tell herself that she missed Naruto…that she cared that he was gone. She wanted so desperately do believe that she was sad he went so far to keep his promise…
But she wasn’t….she had never been happier in her life. Sasuke followed her around constantly…and always wanted to train with her, to be with her. Last night it had rained and he wouldn’t let her leave the Uchiha Mansion to go home…he had made her sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor.
She knew it was probably because she was really the only friend he had left. None of their other peers even spoke to the Uchiha anymore…the ostracized him. Shikamaru had even said to his face that Konoha got the short end of the stick in Naruto’s pact with Otogakure. But even though it might all be empty she loved the attention…
Sasuke actually spoke to her a lot now…he had even held her hand the other day…
Sasuke shut the door to the Hokage’s office and looked over at her. The injured Uchiha smiled a small smile…
“I’m not going to jail…”
Sakura ran over and hugged him tightly…he let out a grunt.
“Oh…sorry…”
“It’s fine Sakura…“
There was a silence and Sakura smiled at him…glad she wouldn’t have to visit her crush in prison.
“I’ll walk you home.” Sasuke said.
Sakura went over and linked arms with Sasuke’s uninjured one…she nearly exploded inside when she saw him blush a little.
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