Author's Note: Thanks a lot for the continuous support, everyone! And to one of the guest reviewers, I'm glad you love this fanfic despite the Shikamaru/Ino pairing! Anyway, I'm sad to say that this fanfic is nearing its end. But no worries, I just published a new Sasuke/Sakura fanfic a few days ago and I'll be happy if you'll check it out as well. Enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 18: Captive

Sakura's POV

"Are you sure you are fully recovered?"

"Since when did you become someone who nags, Sasuke?"

"I'm just worried."

"I know. But trust me, I'm as good as new!"

I gave Sasuke a quick peck on the cheek before joining my teammates at the basketball court. The semi-final match was starting soon and I needed to escape from Sasuke as fast as I could.

Sasuke almost looked cute when he was so worried about me. Of course, he would let me off easily if I said that to his face.

"Have you finally convinced lover boy that you're alright?" Temari nudged my arm as she teased me.

"Whether he is convinced or not, nothing is stopping me from playing today."

Temari smiled widely and nodded approvingly at my determination. Just then, Ino walked towards us and wrapped her arms around Temari and me.

There was a devilish grin on her face as she turned towards Temari, who seemed rather confused with the situation.

"How about you, Temari, are you feeling fine? You don't look so good yesterday."

Ino's words made Temari red but I wasn't sure if it was anger or something. She almost seemed embarrassed.

"I'm perfectly fine, Ino. Thank you for your concern." With that said, Temari walked away almost too quickly.

"I smell something fishy." I muttered softly, not wanting to be heard by Temari. After all, it wasn't wise to deal with her wrath minutes before a game.

"I have a strong feeling that Temari and Konan had a super heated up threesome yesterday. I'm dying to know who the third person is!"

I was taken aback by Ino's words and was completely stunned.

"You're so vulgar, Ino! And how you're so sure they didn't do it separately?"

Ino was giggling while her eyes followed Temari and Konan closely. She glanced over to me and gave me a confident smile.

"I'm Ino Yamanaka. I am never wrong about things like this. Also, the way those two glanced at each other yesterday made things pretty obvious."

I pushed away the disturbing images of Temari and Konan from my mind and tried to forget Ino's words. I was glad I had a basketball game in front of me as a distraction.

But then again, if Ino was right, who was the third person?

Sasuke's POV

"Naruto, did you send the e-mail or not?"

"For the thousandth time, I did!"

It was just Kiba, Naruto, Neji, Shikamaru and I inside the changing room after one of Itachi's ruthless trainings. Even though we had just won a rather tough semi-final game, he didn't go easy on us that night, which was perfectly normal of Itachi.

And that was exactly the problem. Everything was going way too normal. There wasn't anything unusual about him back at home as well. If Itachi did receive the e-mail containing the sacred recording, was it even possible for him to act as if nothing had happened?

"Maybe Itachi is an exhibitionist. So when he found out that someone caught him on the act, he felt satisfaction instead of anger."

Kiba's words were enough to scar my mind for life. The others were obviously feeling the same way and didn't hesitate to literally knock some senses into Kiba's head.

"Let's just wait and see what happens next."

The rest of us agreed with Shikamaru's suggestion and stopped coming up with possible reasons as to why Itachi wasn't freaking out. We took our bags with us as we headed towards the door.

Once we stepped outside the changing room, Naruto bumped straight into the main character of our conversation.

I could see Naruto gulping in nervousness as he tried to be as casual as he could around Itachi.

"Naruto, may I have a word with you?"

I swore, Naruto instantly grew pale and I actually thought he might faint from fear. Despite the seemingly normal Itachi, I saw a dangerous glow deep in his eyes.

When Naruto began dragging himself to follow Itachi, the rest of us took it as a cue to run for our lives.

Before we left, we caught a glimpse of Naruto mouthing the words 'don't leave me'. But we were already a step away from the exit and chose not to turn back.

Itachi looked like he was ready to bring someone to the gates of hell. And none of us was ready to die just yet.

"We're sorry, Naruto."

Sakura's POV

I almost squealed when Sasuke suddenly came over to my house after his practice. He was the kind of uninvited guest I wouldn't mind at all.

After a brief chat with my parents, Sasuke and I went to my room to hang out. There was something different about Sasuke. He almost looked like he was putting his guard up for some unknown reason.

But I assumed I was just reading too much into it.

I was surprised Sasuke didn't complain when I chose a romantic comedy movie for us to watch. We sat on the bed and leaned against the headboard as we watched with popcorn on Sasuke's hands. Not long after the movie started, I made myself comfortable by resting my head on Sasuke's broad shoulder.

It felt even warmer when he wrapped his arm around me, making me snuggle against him.

"Did anything interesting happen during your game earlier?" Sasuke suddenly spoke in the middle of the movie. It was rare of him to start a conversation so I would giggle excitedly whenever he did so.

I guessed he was trying to distract himself from the romantic comedy movie he obviously wasn't enjoying.

"Nothing particularly interesting happened. But Ino said something rather disturbing before the game started." I shuddered in disgust when I remembered Ino's haunting words. I hated how I failed miserably in trying to forget about it.

"What did she say?"

"It's just Ino and her perverted mind. Temari and Konan were acting rather weird yesterday and the way they walk was suspicious." I paused for a while, wondering if I made use of the right word to describe their wobbly movement. "Anyway, I have no idea why but Ino concluded that those two had a threesome. She mentioned something about the glances they gave each other. It just doesn't make sense. Then after the game ended, Ino just couldn't stop making guesses on who the third person was."

My eyes were fixated on the TV screen as I spoke. When Sasuke was taking longer time than necessary to respond, I thought he wasn't going to give any comment. That wasn't surprising though, considering how disturbing the issue was.

"Whom did Ino guess?"

It was sort of weird that Sasuke cared about Ino's ridiculous assumptions but I answered anyway.

"Some of her guesses are beyond disturbing though. The first person she thought of was Jiraiya-sensei. I mean, seriously? I doubt Temari and Konan want to have a three way with an ultra perverted old man."

Sasuke actually snorted and it effortlessly made me burst out in laughter. I gave myself some time to calm down before continuing.

"After I convinced Ino that her first guess is impossible, she said it might be Kisame. That isn't very impossible but I know Kisame was with Gaara yesterday working on the preparation for the closing ceremony of the festival. I doubt he had time for that. So it came down to Ino's third and final guess."

"Who?"

"Itachi."

Sasuke chocked on the popcorn he was having and I quickly patted his back to make him feel better. Sasuke coughed as he placed the bag of popcorn on the night stand.

I expected Sasuke to be surprised to hear his older brother's name but he reacted more than I thought he would.

"Are you alright, Sasuke?"

"Yes."

I narrowed my eyes suspiciously at Sasuke, who was obviously avoiding eye contact with me.

"Are you sure?"

"Hn."

Sasuke's lack of words wasn't anything out of the ordinary but his facial expressions were betraying him. He was hiding something and that was for sure.

"You're lying." I said that while poking Sasuke on the cheek continuously. I got annoyed when Sasuke didn't budge at all.

An evil smirk appeared on my face when I came up with an idea to force things out of Sasuke.

"Looks like I'll have to finish watching the movie some other time."

I straddled Sasuke and wrapped my arms around his neck. I then placed feathery kisses on his cheeks and jaw. Sasuke groaned when I began sucking on the sensitive spot of his neck.

I pulled away when Sasuke's arousal was becoming more apparent, causing him to grumble under his breath.

I pressed my chest onto Sasuke's hard torso and rested my forehead on his.

"You're hiding something from me, Sasuke. Tell the truth." I stared into Sasuke's eyes, which were clouded by intense lust. Sasuke looked away, reluctant to respond to my demand.

"You're not planning to say anything, Sasuke-kun?" I emphasized the honorific I purposely added in a flirty tone, hoping that it would persuade Sasuke to speak up.

"I have nothing to say."

I pouted in annoyance when Sasuke still refused to say anything. But I wasn't planning on giving up just yet.

I crashed my lips onto Sasuke's almost too aggressively, making him gasp in surprise. I took the opportunity to enter my tongue and used it to massage his. By then, Sasuke's clothed erection was already poking my equally aroused womanhood. As much as I wanted to have Sasuke inside me, I had to wait until he told me his little secret.

I broke the kiss for air and watched Sasuke panting lightly. I smirked once again and gave Sasuke what I felt was a confident tone.

"I'm not going to stop until you speak up, Sasuke-kun."

At that moment, I was glad I had the habit of locking my door all the time.

Sasuke's POV

She was going all out to torture me.

Sakura had been pleasuring me here and there that it took almost all the self control I had to keep my voice down. I constantly reminded myself that I was in her house and her parents were in a dangerously close proximity from us.

However, what had been annoying me was the fact that Sakura wasn't going to bring things forward until I told her what she wanted to know.

If it weren't for Sakura's unusually monstrous strength, I would have turned things around so it would go exactly like how I wanted it to.

Seriously, where did Sakura get her abnormal strength from?

That wasn't my concern as of then though.

I took in a sharp breath when I felt Sakura's hands stroking my fully erected length. By then, my shirt, pants and boxers were already thrown onto the floor, leaving me in absolutely nothing.

I placed an arm over my head as I took in the immense pleasure of having Sakura pleasuring me down there. I couldn't contain my moan when I felt her tongue licking my lip while her hands continued pumping my shaft.

"S-Sakura, please."

I was almost desperate to feel her warm cavern but Sakura wasn't being very considerate. I knew I was close to my limit when Sakura began sucking my throbbing dick while rubbing my thighs.

Much to my dismay, my release wasn't granted. Sakura removed her mouth from my manhood when I was very close to my climax.

"You're annoying, Sakura." I said that between pants, all the while glaring at Sakura for putting me in the messed up state I was in.

"You'll get what you want if you tell me what you're hiding, Sasuke-kun."

Sakura began removing her clothes in an unbelievably slow pace. When it became unbearable, I reached out to give her a hand. But Sakura slapped my hand away to reject my kind offer.

When Sakura was left in her maroon lacy bra and matching underwear, she straddled me once again. The position caused our aroused lower regions to come in contact, sending waves of pleasures throughout my body.

She began rubbing herself on my painfully erected manhood while pinning me against the headboard.

I was beyond desperate, wanting nothing but to thrust deep into the beautiful woman on top of me.

"I'll let you fuck me as much as you want if you speak up, Sasuke-kun."

I knew I had lost. But then again, it was a battle I was bound to lose in the first place.

An hour afterwards in the 'Itachi is a serial killer' group…

Kiba: Naruto, are you alive?

Neji: It's been more than two hours since we left Naruto with Itachi.

Kiba: I tried calling Naruto but he didn't answer. Does this mean that Itachi had found out that it was Naruto who sent the recording to him?

Shikamaru: It appears so.

Kiba: But how?! Naruto used a new e-mail account.

Sasuke: Neji, can you check the e-mail address of the new account Naruto made in your laptop?

Neji: Shit.

Shikamaru: Please don't tell me the e-mail address had something to do with ramen.

Neji: kingoframen.

Kiba: Fucking idiot.

Sasuke: Shouldn't have trusted that the dope could do a clean job.

Kiba: We're dead. He's going to tell Itachi we're part of this too.

Shikamaru: Sasuke, is Itachi home already?

Sasuke: I don't know. I'm not home.

Neji: Where are you?

Sasuke: At Sakura's.

Kiba: I think it's safer for you to stay there.

Sasuke: I can't. Her parents are around.

Shikamaru: Why must everything be related to ramen when it comes to Naruto? What a drag.

Neji: What can we expect from an idiot?

Kiba: We're bigger idiots for putting our trust on Naruto.

Sasuke: Should we go and look for Naruto?

Neji: Is Sasuke showing concern for Uzumaki?

Shikamaru: I think he is.

Kiba: So sweet!

Sasuke: Can you guys be more serious? We're dealing with Itachi here. Naruto is probably half dead in his hands right now.

Kiba: You don't think he's really going to kill Naruto, do you?

Shikamaru: I doubt that. We need Naruto for the final game on Sunday. I don't think Itachi will kill him before we win the championship.

Neji: That's right. Naruto might be brainless but he is one of the best players in our team.

Sasuke: Neji just complimented the dope. The sun is going to rise from the west tomorrow.

Neji: Can you be more serious, Uchiha?

Sasuke: Don't steal my line, Hyuuga.

Shikamaru: Alright, enough. I think we should go look for Naruto right now.

Naruto: There's no need for that.

Kiba: Naruto, where have you been?! I though you're already on your way to your next life.

Sasuke: Did you tell Itachi we're involved as well?

Naruto: Sasuke, it's heartless of you to ask about your well-being first before Naruto's.

Neji: Oh, shit.

Shikamaru: That's not Naruto.

Kiba: What the hell is going on? This is getting creepy!

Sasuke: What have you done to Naruto, Itachi?

Kiba: Since when is Itachi added to this group?!

Neji: He never was, you idiot. The one using Naruto's phone is Itachi.

Kiba: What the fuck?

Naruto: Greetings. Yes, this is Itachi. Don't worry about Naruto, he is well and alive. Well, for now he is.

Sasuke: Let him go, Itachi.

Naruto: Oh, I definitely will let him go. But that is only after the recording in Kiba's phone is deleted. I heard from Naruto that the one in the laptop was deleted right after he sent the e-mail.

Kiba: Consider that done.

Naruto: Send the proof.

Kiba: Kiba sent an image.

Kiba: There are no recordings in my phone anymore so you can rest assured.

Naruto: Alright. I'll let Naruto go now.

Sasuke: You better keep your word.

Naruto: I definitely will. Oh, by the way, the group's name is very creative.

Neji: It's Naruto's creation.

Naruto: I see. He should be rewarded for his creativity one of these days.

Kiba: What is this so called reward?

Naruto: It's a surprise. Anyway, I'll see everyone in practice tomorrow. Have a good night.

Neji: He's definitely going to give us hell in practice tomorrow.

Shikamaru: So troublesome.

Kiba: We're so dead.

Sasuke: This is all the fault of the dope and his obsession towards ramen.

Neji: I couldn't agree more.

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