Chapter 7: Sleeping with the enemy

Making his way over to the nearby forest, past Sasuke’s tent, he made his way deeper towards the forest, where he was near the campsite.
“Orochimaru? Are you here?” he asked, wanting the Sannin’s attention.  Jumping down from a high thick branch, Orochimaru made his way down, his dark yellow eyes, stared coldly at the client. His assistant nearby him.
“Have you found anything?” He demanded as he licked his lips. Riku shivered in fear, cleared his throat and spoke.

Sasuke heard faint whispers coming not far from his tent. His curse seal pounded against his body. “Kuso!” he cursed, his right arm trying to cover the curse seal. “He’s close….i can feel it” he murmured to himself. Sasuke grunted in pain, as he arose from his spot, clenching the curse even harder.

Sakura opened her emerald eyes as she heard a familiar noise. “Sasuke-kun?” she asked coming out of her tent and entering his own. Seeing the familiar figure of pain in the past she knew what was going on.
“Sasuke-kun! The curse seal!” Making her way over to it, she held the Uchiha’s hand and reassured him that he was going to be okay…hopefully it would.

“I want Sasuke back with me…..” Orochimaru demanded. “He can’t keep running of like this”
“He seems to have high taste on the Haruno girl” Riku stated.
“Haruno?” Orochimaru repeated to himself, licking his lips in temptation.  Looking back at his assistant he gave out the next order. “We’re taking the Haruno girl as bait” Kabuto adjusted his glasses as he nodded to the plan.
“Hai” he commented evilly. Both nins disappeared into the darkness, leaving the client by himself to walk back to base camp.

The pain had stopped leaving the Uchiha nearly breathless, Sakura looked at him worried at what had just happened to him. “Sasuke-kun” She tried reaching out to him. Sasuke clenched his curse seal tighter than usual, he felt faint, his eyes going blurring as he landed on the kunochi’s lap.
“Sasuke-kun?” she tried calling out to him again. A tear came from the corner of her eye landing on the Uchiha’s features. “Sasuke-kun please wake up” she begged the Uchiha, knowing that there was no luck on him awakening.

Riku came back to his own tent that he was sharing with Sakura, hoping that a certain pink-haired kunochi was there. “Sakura” he started. Looking around the tent was deserted, seeing the empty sleeping bag next to his.
He laid himself down in one of the empty sleeping bags, hoping for the kunochi to come back to her own tent with him.

“Sasuke-kun?” Sakura tried asking him again. “Sasuke-kun please wake-up” she was now begging the shinobi that laid on her lap almost she thought that he seemed lifeless. She was shaking in fear, almost like the time when she was first met with Orochimaru in the forest of death. Silence there was nothing but silence that drooled over the couple that stood in that lonely tent. Nothing but the sound of the crickets playing their creepy melody….looking back at the Uchiha’s sleepy features she gently put him to bed, exiting the tent and making her way to her own.