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Sakura knew she shouldn’t be doing this.
“Your back?” The mershark trailed around her, his glowing red eyes peering right through her soul. The same eyes she gets lost in and likes to watch whilst they-
“I said I would be.” Her hands traced his chest with a smirk.
What would stop him from eating her once he was satisfied?
Her brain was telling her, no, to be rational but her body moved on its own as did his when his lips descended upon hers grasping the back of her head and roughly pulling her closer.
His tail wrapped around her small frame.
“Where’s Sasuke?”
Sakura froze at the voices nearby but then his fangs moved down to her neck grazing it and distracting her.
“You're his best friend, shouldn't you know?” Another voice cut in. One was a white shark whilst the other was orange.
“Yeah but the bastard's been more distant than he usually is. It's like he's distracted or something.”
Oh, how right they were.
Sakura licked her lips letting out a low moan as his claws glided down her tail.
“Shh, you don't want them to see you like this do you?”
At least they were well hidden.
“What the hell happened to your back?” Sakura knew she should have healed herself before coming back home.
It was the perk of having Tsunade as her mentor and was the reason she was able to keep the meetings between her and Sasuke a secret for so long. Not every mermaid had the ability to heal.
“Uh…it’s nothing. I got caught up in a current that’s all.”
“Right, like I believe that. Seriously forehead, they look like claw marks. Did you almost get eaten?”
“No! I told you-”
“Sakura, there is no current. We both know that. I'm your friend, you can trust me.”
It wasn't like she would blab about something like this anyway, not with how serious the matter was.
“I went to see him.” Ino knew fully well who the 'him' in question was.
“And by seeing you mean…”
“We… we mated...” Sakura fidgeted with her hands watching as Ino's eyes grew wide taking in the information.
“You did what? Your crazy forehead. He’s a shark!”
“So?”
“So? SO?! He’s a predator.”
“He's different from them, he saved me!”
“Oh, you mean from that time you almost got yourself killed because you wanted to explore the deep sea. Sakura he’s using you.”
Admittedly it had been a thought that crossed her mind, what shark would mate with a mermaid with no other intentions in mind. However, Sakura still sneaked off to see Sasuke.
The visits never started off as anything inappropriate, she was curious about him and although he had often referred to her as an annoyance he would answer her questions and humour her.
Of course, neither had made their little friendship public. If either of Sasuke's friends or family caught on, she would be their meal. Yet somehow Sasuke always managed to put them off their scent.
If he wanted to eat her, he would have by now, right?
“And okay, let’s imagine he doesn’t plan on eating you. What are you expecting out of this? For him to make you his official mate? Your only setting yourself up to get hurt.”
Perhaps Ino was right, but what could she do? She couldn't just end... whatever it was they had.
“Besides there's plenty of fish in the sea, why don't I introduce you to a few. I'm sure they can distract you.”
Them distract her from Sasuke? If only, maybe then Sakura wouldn't be in this situation.
“Sakura this is Hiroto, Hiroto Sakura.” The blonde was pleased with matchmaking her friend with such a fine merman, better than any shark for sure.
“A pleasure to meet you Sakura-san, Ino's told me a lot about you.”
“Likewise.”
However, when Sakura awkwardly smiled shaking his hand she swear she could feel eyes glaring daggers at them. Or maybe that was wishful thinking on her part as Sasuke never leaves the deep sea.
“You shouldn’t be here Princess.” The sinister smirk didn’t go unnoticed by Sakura from the white male shark and Sakura felt pale. How didn’t she feel their presence?
“It’s rare for mermaids to swim this deep underwater. You must either have a death wish or be really stupid. Works for me.” Normally Sakura would blow up at such an insult but fear overtook with the three of them surrounding her, she was as good as done for.
Why did she go back?
“Hey, Jugo, what’s your favourite part of a mermaid.” He laughed menacingly as the two circled around her.
“Urgh, don’t make too much of a mess.” Was all Karin said, however, something seemed… off? First of all, why was a mermaid down here in all places?
It was almost as if she had been there plenty of times and had been expecting someone.
Then there was her smell, Karin had smelt it before.
She smelled like-
“Wait, Suigetsu don’t-”
Too late, because the next thing they knew Sasuke had Suigetsu's arm in his claws and was ready to snap it in two.
“Sasuke?”
“Don’t touch her!” He snarled glaring daggers at the shark. “She's my prey! Understand?”
All he could do was nod dumbly and when he finally released him Sasuke turned his attention to Sakura.
“You, follow me.” She wasn't really sure what to make of his attitude but being with him was safer than being with them.
“Gee, what was that for? He could have said something sooner.” Suigetsu scowled muttering to himself. Karin decided to keep quiet, they may have been dense and believed Sasuke but she knew it was far more than that.
Sasuke would probably talk to her about it later.
“What were you thinking?”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t realise they were…”
“You should have stayed back home.”
“I… I know.” Sakura looked down ashamed, she usually wasn’t so distracted but everything Ino had said. From what she wanted out of this and finding someone else...
Except no one could make her feel the way Sasuke does.
“But I wanted to see you again.”
“See me? Why? Isn’t your merman enough?”
“My… my what?” So it wasn’t her imagination?
“You came to see me?”
“You haven’t been here for the past few weeks, what else was I supposed to do?” Ah, so he did care. Inside she was happy but also dreaded. What did this mean if their feelings were mutual?
“We should stop this...” Yet her body betrayed her and Sakura found herself leaning towards him.
“We should.” Then why was his tail wrapping around her? This was too dangerous yet neither made a move to stop it.
Meanwhile back in the present, little Sarada was asking Sasuke a ton of questions.
“I have so many questions, what kind of food do we eat? If I’m good my Mama makes my favourite seaweed spaghetti. Will I grow as big as you? What’s it like being a shark? Are there others too, is this where we live? Why hasn’t my Mama taken me here, she said it’s full of pre…pre…preditators and that there are a lot of creatures that want to eat me? Do baby sharks get eaten a lot?”
Yup, she defiantly took after Sakura.