Surviving the Team

The look on Sasuke’s face was murderous. The only time that I had seen him exhibit that much emotion was when Itachi was involved. I pulled myself of Naruto’s lap, grabbing his arm (with the hand that wasn’t covering myself) to try to get him to follow me. We had to get out of here. If Sasuke and Naruto started fighting there was a good chance that one of them would come very close to dying and I didn’t have enough chakra to do that kind of healing at the moment. Besides I’d really rather not deal with it. They can kill each other on their own time.
“I’m sorry Sasuke I didn’t think … Oomph”
My entire body jerked backwards. Naruto had pulled back instead of trudging along and I ended up in his lap backing him and facing Sasuke. I twisted my head backwards to look at him. What could he have been thinking? At first I thought that he had brought us here because it was the closest and … well I wasn’t really thinking. Naruto wouldn’t do this on purpose … I mean… why would he? I twisted back to look at him.
“Naruto …?”
“No”
I was the one who had asked but he was looking straight at Sasuke and Sasuke was returning the gesture. Shit. This was not going to be pretty. What the hell happened while I was gone? Well whatever it was I was sooo not going to be in the middle of it. I still have scars from the last time I tried to get between them. Whatever it was they would work it out. They always did.
I started to get out of Naruto’s lap but his arms wrapped around me and kept me in place. I couldn’t get out without hurting him. During this time Sasuke has been very still and silent, well he was up until the moment that Naruto prevented me from leaving. Then his eye twitched in the way that I have always associated to mean someone’s pain, today it just might be mine. Goody for me.
“Naruto … I think we should…”
“No”
Lord he’s being even more stubborn than usual. I steal another glance at Sasuke waiting for the inevitable. His back stiffens even more and his fingers curl into a fist and I mentally prepare myself for the fight that is coming. And then all the pomp and arrogance that He is known for seems to drain out of him and his shoulders slump in … defeat.
“Fine… do what you wish.”
He starts to walk out the door but quick as lightning four Naruto clones are tackling him to the ground.
“Na…ru…to” and just like that the anger returns. He struggles managing to dispel a few of them but for each one he dispels two more take their place until Sasuke is surrounded by a sea of blonde hair and tanned arms. And appetizing as it may be to watch I know this has to stop.
“Naruto let him go. Just what are you trying to prove?”
“Ask him what he told me when you were gone.”
The anger in his voice made me twisted back to look at Naruto. His eyes had taken that feral appearance that they always did right before they went red.
“What did he say?”
“Ask him”
I paused glancing at Sasuke. I doubted he was going to feel cooperative but then neither was Naruto so I might as well give it a shot.
“Sasuke what did you say?”
“Hn”
I should have known that that would be his answer.
“Tell her”
“Tell me what?”
“Hn”
I groaned, this could take all night.
“Naruto please tell me what the hell is going on.”
“Fine he said that he was thinking of asking Tsunade to officially break up the team.”
“WHAT! WHY?!”
“Should I tell her or will you?”
“Hn”
God I hate it when Sasuke goes into non-speak mode.
“He said we don’t need each other any more, that there is no need to cling to each other anymore and that whatever feelings we had for each other has dried up.”
I glance at Sasuke who seems to be unable to meet my eyes.
“Is that really how you feel?”
He looked up at me then as if he expected me to have a different reaction. Then he glanced back at Naruto behind me “I told you so” written all over his face.
The look confused me and I glanced back at Naruto as well trying to understand what was going on.
“Naruto …I don’t understand.”
He chuckled impishly.
“Sakura for someone so smart you really are quite stupid at times…”
I whacked him upside the head. A habit that I had retained from childhood.
“Ow … Sakura-chan”
“Get on with it Naruto”
“You really don’t get it.”
“No I don’t”
“Think about it nothing has changed between you and I, and nothing will ever change Sasuke and I’s relationship, the only thing that has changed is …”
“Me”
I turn back around to look at Sasuke. He is deliberately not meeting my eyes.
“Look at him Sakura …he misses you. In his own way he has been trying to fix what went wrong between the two of you. And now, for the first time in his life, he has given up on something. Look at him, our proud avenger reduced to a depressed fool because you couldn’t forgive…”
Naruto’s voice has turned angry and I feel his power spike. He blames me for essentially almost breaking up his family.
“ I don’t know what happened on that bridge, but I am going to fix it.”
Suddenly Naruto’s body heat began to rise and I notice that I am once again shirtless.
“Look at me Sakura”
I turn to watch Naruto’s eyes bleed to red and realize that the rising temperature is from the Kyuubi’s power.
“Sakura! Get away from him”
Sasuke’s voice seems to be coming from far away. Naruto’s eyes have always fascinated me in all their forms, but perhaps that brilliant red of the Kyuubi is the most fascinating of all. And right now staring into them is breathtaking. The heat from his body envelops me and stirs something deep within me. The lust that had dissipated during our talk with Sasuke returns full force. My skin feels like it is on fire and all I can think about is how badly I want Naruto to touch me. A vague and quiet part of my mind tells me that this isn’t right, that I am being manipulated by the Kyuubi’s pheromones or whatever this is, but the larger and louder part of me is staring at his lips and remembering what they taste like. I can only watch as he lowers his head towards me and I lean in as far as I can go. A hairs breath away from my mouth he stops, and I actually whimper, the need in me is so great. He smiles and then kisses me and all rational thought is gone from my head.

The feeling of his mouth against mine is exquisite but it is not enough. I grind myself into his lap, my back sliding over his chest, trying to communicate what I am feeling.
“More”
He smiles against my mouth and nods, grabbing a kunai from one of his many pockets and slicing it through my shorts and underwear. I am now completely naked. His hands reach around to ghost over my skin, from collar bone to breasts to hips and finally a light touch between my legs. I moan, spreading my legs a little wider to give him access and from somewhere in the room I hear a choked gasp. I open my eyes to see Sasuke staring at me. What a picture I must make, naked save for my boots and hita-ate, Naruto’s arms snaking around me to place light touches on my breasts and between my spread legs. I writhe in Naruto’s lap almost begging for more even as the blush steals over my entire body. I turn away, ashamed at having Sasuke see me like this but unable to make Naruto stop.
“Naruto … please”
“What do you want Sakura…for me to stop?”
I should stop him, I really should, but I can’t help it. I need this so badly.
“Please Naruto …. Sasuke …”
He lift his head from the crook of my neck to glance at Sasuke.
“Look at him Sakura.”
I shake my head, holding my eyes shut like an adamant child. The hand that is cupping my breasts moves to my chin, pulling my face in the right direction while simultaneously slipping the hand between my legs into me. The pleasure of it forces my eyes open to see Sasuke on his knees in front of us, only two of Naruto’s bunshins holding him lightly in place. His eyes are transfixed on where Naruto’s hand has slipped into me and there is an obvious tent in the towel that he came out wearing.
“He wants you, Sakura. Can’t you see that? Almost as badly as I do and for almost as long, he has wanted you. Except unlike me he has repressed it, pulled it in so far that it devastates him. Until the hunger eats at him until he can’t stand it anymore. And now he is plagued with the worry that he has lost his chance with the only woman that he has ever loved. Can you really let him fall apart like this? Even if you feel nothing for him, nothing but friendship wouldn’t it be better to tell him. That way he can move on find a nice wife and give birth to thousands of little Uchiha babies.”
There was a teasing note to his voice and it made me glad. It meant that Naruto was still mostly in control and Kyuubi wasn’t manipulating him into doing things that he didn’t want to do. Teasing for Naruto meant that he had realized that his plan had a high chance for failure and that the only way to win was to hope.
I glanced back at Sasuke. He was looking off to the side, as if our conversation had nothing to do with him.
“Let me go Naruto.”
He looked at me as if asking if I was sure. I nodded and he let me go. I grabbed the end of the sheet and wrapped it around myself. I padded softly to over to Sasuke and even though we both knew I knew that he knew I was there, he still refused to look at me.
I reached up to touch his cheek.
“Sasuke …”
“…”
I gently turned his face towards me, it was carefully blank. The look Sasuke gets when he thinks he is feeling too much.
I lean closer to him, resting my lips against his. I would ask him if it was true, but this is Sasuke not Naruto. Naruto would proclaim his love from the hilltops; Sasuke would show you in a million tiny ways. For a moment he leaned into it almost deepening the kiss, but pulling back at the last second.
Anger washed across his face as confusion washed against mine.
“I will not be a charity case … not for either of you.”
“Sasuke …”
“No Sakura what ever youre feeling now isn’t real. Sooner or later it will pass and then you will regret it. And no matter how good it would feel to be with you, it will feel worse when you decide that you were “under the influence”
I glanced back at Naruto, unsure what to do. But he gave me that blank look that all my boys gave me when had given me all the help they were going to. I was on my own with this.
I stepped closer to him reached my arms around his neck (thanks to Naruto’s clones I could actually reach without going on my tip-toes). I pulled myself as close to him as I could get and with my head against his chest, resting against one of the larger scars that marred his perfectly pale skin, and I told him the truth.
“I’ve always loved you, Sasuke. Even the times when I didn’t like you and the time I downright hated you, I still loved you. No matter how any of us try to fight it, we are all tied to each other. We will always love each other. Nothing in the world could ever make me regret anything that we do and nothing would make me happier than to share something as special and as intimate as this with you …” I glanced back to Naruto who was half sitting half lying on the bed “…both of you. Youre both the most important people in my life. And I could never EVER choose between you.” I turned back to Sasuke. “So it’s up to you, If you don’t want this I understand but don’t pass it up because you’re afraid, we all are.”
I stepped away from him and walked back to Naruto. I crawled back into his lap and nuzzled my head into his chest. If Sasuke rejected us, then I didn’t want to see it. I wasn’t brave enough. If he chose misery over us it would hurt to much so I hid. Using Naruto to protect my self from things I didn’t want to see.
“Naruto, let him go.”


AN: wow finally this is almost done. Just one more chapter and its done and all that’s left is the actual real smut. YAY!! Sorry it took me so long. I somehow lost my muse but all of a sudden he/she came back for you guys. Now if only I had that kind of luck with my story on fanfiction.net.
Well till next time toodles
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