To Eternity [Saso/Saku, Theme set Delta]
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Akasuna no Sasori/Haruno Sakura
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13
Warning[s]: Sexual innuendo
Author’s notes: And I finally post my half-assed piece of work after much procrastination. Done to get the SasoSaku love bug out of me.
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01. Air
Sakura forced large gulps of air in her lungs, only to have it subsequently forced out as a fist connected with her gut and a rough voice tried to pry the jinchuuriki’s location out of her.
02. Apples
Her arms strained from holding herself up through the chains ensnaring her wrists and she could vaguely remember through a hazy fog of pain and fatigue hair the color of apples during snatches of barely there consciousness.
03. Beginning
The Akatsuki eventually decided - after innumerable days of torture and interrogation - that she was of no more use regarding the jinchuuriki; eventually, it was also him who cut the chains binding her and set her, in a twisted version of liberation, free.
04. Bugs
“There was…a minor glitch in our system and they want you to join us-” To which he was interrupted by her mocking laughter and a bitter remark of inviting her after a very warm welcome.
05. Dark
She didn’t have much choice in the matter so she conceded to join, all the while meeting Sasori’s eyes while speaking the words that will condemn her from her village.
06. Coffee
There are times when Sakura will wake up from a nightmare, and Sasori knew all of these being her next-door neighbor.
07. Despair
He scoffed when he saw her with blood on her wrists anda blade in her hand, after accidentally walking in on her in the bathroom.
08. Doors
Sasori smirked and Sakura frowned when he held the door open for her in a gentlemanly manner.
09. Drink
Sakura went out drinking with Deidara, and Sasori wouldn’t be surprised if she found herself on bed with someone the next day; he just didn’t expect that someone to be him.
10. Duty
With anger in her eyes and hatred in her heart, she concentrated her chakra on his wounds and healed them with as much determination as those bygone days when she was pining after Sasuke-kun.
11. Earth
One day, Sakura caught him spacing off, staring at some random corner in his room and, with the giddy glee of a three-year-old, punched him back to earth.
12. End
Sakura knew that in the end of her Sasuke-filled tunnel was another torture chamber; only this time, it was occupied by a different person looking apathetically at her.
13. Fall
Demented, psycho Akatsuki puppeteers don’t fall in battle but he was an exception: falling by her fist in the battle for victory and falling by her lips in the battle for dominance.
14. Fire
“You see Tobi,” Deidara explained to a puzzled Tobi who walked in on Sasori at a very inconvenient time, “Sasori-danna is on fire so Sakura-chan is watering him, yeah.”
15. Flexible
Kunoichi are flexible and can twist their bodies in many different positions - Sakura was no exception, perhaps more so than normal, and Sasori never failed to take advantage of this fact.
16. Flying
After saying that everything was a fluke and it was only a mere fling to satiate the more primal needs of his mortal body, Sasori found himself flying in the air with a hell of a stinging cheek and a furious Sakura at his heels.
17. Food
Sakura picked at her food; this wasn’t the food her body needed, and said food was currently in the infirmary with a broken jaw and a couple of dislocated joints.
18. Foot
There were mornings when Sasori felt completely disoriented because there wasn’t a foot locked around his led and a warm body curled up beside him.
19. Grave
“Here lies Akasuna no Sasori, master puppeteer and Akatsuki member, who died of Sakura-deprivation with a huge boner to complete the package - ow, danna!”
20. Green
The constant itching to pummel Itachi and stuff his nearly blind, idiot head in a toilet bowl was extremely overpowering and Sasori had to convince himself that Sakura was only healing the wound on Itachi’s thigh and not feeling it up like she was doing now - oh screw it; “Put me down, Sasori…oh hell no, I’m not going to your room!”
21. Head
“Just fuckin’ apologize to her and ask if you could pretty please get in her fuckin’ pants, seriously,” An annoyed Hidan said irately when another one of Sasori’s puppets went on a rampage and cut his head off.
22. Honor
Contrary to popular belief, the Akatsuki was not an honorless group as proved by giving Sasuke’s mangled body a decent grave - and as a drunk Sakura would say later, “I can’t believe I killed the stupid chickenhead then give him a grave marker.”
23. Hollow
Something twitched in the pits of his chakra-powered heart when he saw Sakura’s immobile, un-breathing body and he tried to convince himself that the hollow feeling was due to malfunctioning chakra strings.
24. Hope
Ever since he told her everything was fake, Sasori had been crushed by the raw hope shining in her eyes that maybe someway, somehow he had lied; in the end, he leaned down and kissed her, and all was forgiven.
25. Light
For the first time, Sakura left the lights on while indulging in Sasori and his body, letting the reality of their actions catch up on her, through his caresses and the odd emotion in his usually blank eyes.
26. Lost
Sasori almost sniggered, if he weren’t himself, as he watched Sakura look frantically for her lost lacy panties (those that were currently under his cloak, clenched in his hand); besides, she looked better off without them, but he wasn’t going to tell her that.
27. Metal
The metallic tang of blood from her first kill as an Akatsuki was strong in the air, and the only thing that kept her from shuddering was Sasori’s hard glare and the chakra strings attached to her.
28. New
Sakura stook stock still, unaccustomed to the raw emotion in Sasori’s eyes as she said yes to his proposal of a marriage for convenience.
29. Old
Sakura felt old, so so very old when she looked at the faded picture of a once there Team Seven; she didn’t notice the tears running down her cheeks or the hand wrappedaround he own.
30. Peace
During a sparring session with Itachi while enshrouded in his Tsukuyomi, Sasori watched Sakura die a million times and he realized, while breaking away from the genjutsu to the rest of the Akatsuki’s surprise, that the mere thought of losing her left a part of him troubled and unsettled.
31. Poison
The first real thing that turned Sasori’s eyes to the emotionally-broken medic-nin was the antidote she made in less than three days to the poison he made in more than one year.
32. Pretty
As an artist, Sasori was bound to notice whether or not his subject was physically appealing ad he remarked to himself that Sakura was not pretty; strong, talented, witty, yes, but never pretty with the patchwork of scars across the expanse of her skin and the forehead protector she stubbornly refused to mark.
33. Rain
In a flurry of kunai and shuriken and the inevitable bloodshed, Sasori found himself shielding Sakura’s body from a rain of poisoned senbon at the expense of his own life.
34. Regret
He has many regrets in his life like humoring Deidara and blowing up a building, but the one thing he regrets the most is dying for Sakura to use a life transfer jutsu on him.
35. Roses
N the dying light of a setting sun, Sasori sat on his achingly empty bed with one hand cradling his impassive head and the other twirling a rose between his long fingers.
36. Snakes
For a brief moment, Sasori thought of approaching Orochimaru to seek help but he quickly banished the thought as soon as it entered his head; he wasn’t that desperate.
37. Snow
Sasori’s eyes widened when a female figure materialized in the raging blizzard outside the Akatsuki’s temporary headquarters but it dissipated in the cascading snow and he shook his head and berated his brain for playing tricks on him.
38. Solid
He woke up to the cold night air with no warm presence cuddled up to him and no warm fingers entwined with his own; for the first time since she died, Sasori felt the harsh reality of her death crash down upon him as he laid on his bed and waited for the nonexistent tears to come.
39. Spring
It hurt (oh fuckin’ God it hurts so much) to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom while the one cherry blossom he wanted to see was withering away without him able to do anything.
40. Taboo
It was forbidden, strictly forbidden, to interrupt Sasori while he was surrounded by books and looking for ways to bring back what was gone; even Itachi and Pein refrained from doing so.
41. Strange
To Sakura, it felt strange to open her eyes and feel the warm rays of sunshine; but it felt stranger to see Sasori sleeping on a chair beside her.
42. Stable
“I’m sure this will work,” he muttered to himself more than to his partner who voiced the dreaded question as her lifeless body convulsed under their glowing hands; Deidara could only nod as he watched Sasori’s fingers drip with blood from the amount of chakra he was putting in them.
43. Summer
Waking up to Sakura’s green eyes after a winter of pain and solitude, Sasori decided a summer of her smiles was worth nearly dying from chakra exhaustion.
44. Water
Sasori acted like a man dying of dehydration and Sakura was his first drop of water as he crashed his lips on hers and struggled to take her clothes off.
45. Ugly
Deidara’s concept of art was questionable and Sasori prided his own beliefs of eternity but he couldn’t help but think Deidara wasn’t entirely wrong and his concept of art could not be ugly because art was a bang with Sakura writhing under him, screaming his name out loud.
46. Wood
Sasori thanked his lucky stars he had been revived into a mortal body or he would not have enjoyed this to its full extent; “Oh Sakura, do that again.”
47. Welcome
“Seriously, ‘s only fucking normal they screw each other’s brains out, what with Sakura’s damn revival and all that shit a warm welcome is due - Oh holy fuck, not on the kitchen table, dammit, we fucking eat there!”
48. Winter
Sasori felt compelled to smile (truly, truly simle) as he watched Sakura and Tobi run amok in the snow behind a slightly frosted glass he could easily break if he so wanted to be with her - which he did; “You’re so paying for this, danna, yeah!”
49. War
Their happily ever after existed in a field of blood and bodies in the aftermath of the Konoha-Orochimaru war, kissing under the fading sun, with her bruised, battered, bewildered friends watching the spectacle before them.
50. Secret
He kissed her, soft and sweet, as he confessed against her lips, “I never married you out of convenience but let’s keep that a secret,” and they danced in the pale moonlight towards an eternity together.
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Post-fic notes: Sasori was awfully OOC, I know, and this is one piece of crap. But humor me and the SasoSaku love bug that forced me to do this.
Pairing: Akasuna no Sasori/Haruno Sakura
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13
Warning[s]: Sexual innuendo
Author’s notes: And I finally post my half-assed piece of work after much procrastination. Done to get the SasoSaku love bug out of me.
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01. Air
Sakura forced large gulps of air in her lungs, only to have it subsequently forced out as a fist connected with her gut and a rough voice tried to pry the jinchuuriki’s location out of her.
02. Apples
Her arms strained from holding herself up through the chains ensnaring her wrists and she could vaguely remember through a hazy fog of pain and fatigue hair the color of apples during snatches of barely there consciousness.
03. Beginning
The Akatsuki eventually decided - after innumerable days of torture and interrogation - that she was of no more use regarding the jinchuuriki; eventually, it was also him who cut the chains binding her and set her, in a twisted version of liberation, free.
04. Bugs
“There was…a minor glitch in our system and they want you to join us-” To which he was interrupted by her mocking laughter and a bitter remark of inviting her after a very warm welcome.
05. Dark
She didn’t have much choice in the matter so she conceded to join, all the while meeting Sasori’s eyes while speaking the words that will condemn her from her village.
06. Coffee
There are times when Sakura will wake up from a nightmare, and Sasori knew all of these being her next-door neighbor.
07. Despair
He scoffed when he saw her with blood on her wrists anda blade in her hand, after accidentally walking in on her in the bathroom.
08. Doors
Sasori smirked and Sakura frowned when he held the door open for her in a gentlemanly manner.
09. Drink
Sakura went out drinking with Deidara, and Sasori wouldn’t be surprised if she found herself on bed with someone the next day; he just didn’t expect that someone to be him.
10. Duty
With anger in her eyes and hatred in her heart, she concentrated her chakra on his wounds and healed them with as much determination as those bygone days when she was pining after Sasuke-kun.
11. Earth
One day, Sakura caught him spacing off, staring at some random corner in his room and, with the giddy glee of a three-year-old, punched him back to earth.
12. End
Sakura knew that in the end of her Sasuke-filled tunnel was another torture chamber; only this time, it was occupied by a different person looking apathetically at her.
13. Fall
Demented, psycho Akatsuki puppeteers don’t fall in battle but he was an exception: falling by her fist in the battle for victory and falling by her lips in the battle for dominance.
14. Fire
“You see Tobi,” Deidara explained to a puzzled Tobi who walked in on Sasori at a very inconvenient time, “Sasori-danna is on fire so Sakura-chan is watering him, yeah.”
15. Flexible
Kunoichi are flexible and can twist their bodies in many different positions - Sakura was no exception, perhaps more so than normal, and Sasori never failed to take advantage of this fact.
16. Flying
After saying that everything was a fluke and it was only a mere fling to satiate the more primal needs of his mortal body, Sasori found himself flying in the air with a hell of a stinging cheek and a furious Sakura at his heels.
17. Food
Sakura picked at her food; this wasn’t the food her body needed, and said food was currently in the infirmary with a broken jaw and a couple of dislocated joints.
18. Foot
There were mornings when Sasori felt completely disoriented because there wasn’t a foot locked around his led and a warm body curled up beside him.
19. Grave
“Here lies Akasuna no Sasori, master puppeteer and Akatsuki member, who died of Sakura-deprivation with a huge boner to complete the package - ow, danna!”
20. Green
The constant itching to pummel Itachi and stuff his nearly blind, idiot head in a toilet bowl was extremely overpowering and Sasori had to convince himself that Sakura was only healing the wound on Itachi’s thigh and not feeling it up like she was doing now - oh screw it; “Put me down, Sasori…oh hell no, I’m not going to your room!”
21. Head
“Just fuckin’ apologize to her and ask if you could pretty please get in her fuckin’ pants, seriously,” An annoyed Hidan said irately when another one of Sasori’s puppets went on a rampage and cut his head off.
22. Honor
Contrary to popular belief, the Akatsuki was not an honorless group as proved by giving Sasuke’s mangled body a decent grave - and as a drunk Sakura would say later, “I can’t believe I killed the stupid chickenhead then give him a grave marker.”
23. Hollow
Something twitched in the pits of his chakra-powered heart when he saw Sakura’s immobile, un-breathing body and he tried to convince himself that the hollow feeling was due to malfunctioning chakra strings.
24. Hope
Ever since he told her everything was fake, Sasori had been crushed by the raw hope shining in her eyes that maybe someway, somehow he had lied; in the end, he leaned down and kissed her, and all was forgiven.
25. Light
For the first time, Sakura left the lights on while indulging in Sasori and his body, letting the reality of their actions catch up on her, through his caresses and the odd emotion in his usually blank eyes.
26. Lost
Sasori almost sniggered, if he weren’t himself, as he watched Sakura look frantically for her lost lacy panties (those that were currently under his cloak, clenched in his hand); besides, she looked better off without them, but he wasn’t going to tell her that.
27. Metal
The metallic tang of blood from her first kill as an Akatsuki was strong in the air, and the only thing that kept her from shuddering was Sasori’s hard glare and the chakra strings attached to her.
28. New
Sakura stook stock still, unaccustomed to the raw emotion in Sasori’s eyes as she said yes to his proposal of a marriage for convenience.
29. Old
Sakura felt old, so so very old when she looked at the faded picture of a once there Team Seven; she didn’t notice the tears running down her cheeks or the hand wrappedaround he own.
30. Peace
During a sparring session with Itachi while enshrouded in his Tsukuyomi, Sasori watched Sakura die a million times and he realized, while breaking away from the genjutsu to the rest of the Akatsuki’s surprise, that the mere thought of losing her left a part of him troubled and unsettled.
31. Poison
The first real thing that turned Sasori’s eyes to the emotionally-broken medic-nin was the antidote she made in less than three days to the poison he made in more than one year.
32. Pretty
As an artist, Sasori was bound to notice whether or not his subject was physically appealing ad he remarked to himself that Sakura was not pretty; strong, talented, witty, yes, but never pretty with the patchwork of scars across the expanse of her skin and the forehead protector she stubbornly refused to mark.
33. Rain
In a flurry of kunai and shuriken and the inevitable bloodshed, Sasori found himself shielding Sakura’s body from a rain of poisoned senbon at the expense of his own life.
34. Regret
He has many regrets in his life like humoring Deidara and blowing up a building, but the one thing he regrets the most is dying for Sakura to use a life transfer jutsu on him.
35. Roses
N the dying light of a setting sun, Sasori sat on his achingly empty bed with one hand cradling his impassive head and the other twirling a rose between his long fingers.
36. Snakes
For a brief moment, Sasori thought of approaching Orochimaru to seek help but he quickly banished the thought as soon as it entered his head; he wasn’t that desperate.
37. Snow
Sasori’s eyes widened when a female figure materialized in the raging blizzard outside the Akatsuki’s temporary headquarters but it dissipated in the cascading snow and he shook his head and berated his brain for playing tricks on him.
38. Solid
He woke up to the cold night air with no warm presence cuddled up to him and no warm fingers entwined with his own; for the first time since she died, Sasori felt the harsh reality of her death crash down upon him as he laid on his bed and waited for the nonexistent tears to come.
39. Spring
It hurt (oh fuckin’ God it hurts so much) to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom while the one cherry blossom he wanted to see was withering away without him able to do anything.
40. Taboo
It was forbidden, strictly forbidden, to interrupt Sasori while he was surrounded by books and looking for ways to bring back what was gone; even Itachi and Pein refrained from doing so.
41. Strange
To Sakura, it felt strange to open her eyes and feel the warm rays of sunshine; but it felt stranger to see Sasori sleeping on a chair beside her.
42. Stable
“I’m sure this will work,” he muttered to himself more than to his partner who voiced the dreaded question as her lifeless body convulsed under their glowing hands; Deidara could only nod as he watched Sasori’s fingers drip with blood from the amount of chakra he was putting in them.
43. Summer
Waking up to Sakura’s green eyes after a winter of pain and solitude, Sasori decided a summer of her smiles was worth nearly dying from chakra exhaustion.
44. Water
Sasori acted like a man dying of dehydration and Sakura was his first drop of water as he crashed his lips on hers and struggled to take her clothes off.
45. Ugly
Deidara’s concept of art was questionable and Sasori prided his own beliefs of eternity but he couldn’t help but think Deidara wasn’t entirely wrong and his concept of art could not be ugly because art was a bang with Sakura writhing under him, screaming his name out loud.
46. Wood
Sasori thanked his lucky stars he had been revived into a mortal body or he would not have enjoyed this to its full extent; “Oh Sakura, do that again.”
47. Welcome
“Seriously, ‘s only fucking normal they screw each other’s brains out, what with Sakura’s damn revival and all that shit a warm welcome is due - Oh holy fuck, not on the kitchen table, dammit, we fucking eat there!”
48. Winter
Sasori felt compelled to smile (truly, truly simle) as he watched Sakura and Tobi run amok in the snow behind a slightly frosted glass he could easily break if he so wanted to be with her - which he did; “You’re so paying for this, danna, yeah!”
49. War
Their happily ever after existed in a field of blood and bodies in the aftermath of the Konoha-Orochimaru war, kissing under the fading sun, with her bruised, battered, bewildered friends watching the spectacle before them.
50. Secret
He kissed her, soft and sweet, as he confessed against her lips, “I never married you out of convenience but let’s keep that a secret,” and they danced in the pale moonlight towards an eternity together.
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Post-fic notes: Sasori was awfully OOC, I know, and this is one piece of crap. But humor me and the SasoSaku love bug that forced me to do this.