#zaku and dosu were lucky sakura was still awake/alive when sasuke woke up

[sea-owl]

Remember this post and this post? Well I thought of more to add.

Set during the Sound Ninja attack:

Sasuke woke up and he was pissed.

"Sakura," he called to the Uchiha soulmate gently. "Who did this to you?"

The pink haired girl was covered in scrapes and bruises. One of her eyes was swelled shut while dried blood was stained all over her. Her pink hair was cut, and Sasuke could see clumps of it littering the ground from the corner of his eye.

But with her hair no longer in the way Sasuke could perfectly see the Haruno circle on her back. The red inside the circle had been torn, and a cut is now bleeding where the Uchiha fan marked her skin.

Someone had tired to cut the soulmate mark that connected Sakura to the Uchiha. Someone had tried to kill an Uchiha soulmate. Someone had tried to take Sakura away from him.

Sasuke saw red.

Two voices raged inside Sasuke's mind. Both of them demanding for the head of the scum that tried to take their soulmate.

"It's okay Sakura, just tell me," Sasuke urged. His eyes never left her form. The last time he did she was beaten nine ways to hell. He's the blood born Uchiha it's his duty to protect the soulmates of the clan.

"I did!" A cocky voice declared.

Sasuke turned to look. It was the lanky looking sound ninja with metal in his hands.

'Kill him, make him regret laying his filthy hands on our soulmate', the voices demanded.

Sasuke smirked. 'With pleasure.'

Sasuke felt chakra travel across his skin as that scumbag raised his hands to attack. That scum will not hurt his Sakura again.

"Supersonic Air-Slice!"

'Protect our soulmate!'

"Heh," the scum smirked. "Blown them all away."

"Blown who away?"

Sasuke smirked as he sent that piece of shit flying. He'll handle him away from his Sakura.

Hidding shurkins in the flames Sasuke took his chance to get a hold of that fucker's arms. Sasuke pulled as his foot pushed down on the scum's back.

"You must be very proud of your arms," Sasuke said as he pulled harder.

'Rip. Them. Off!' The voices commanded. 'Avenge our soulmate!'

Sasuke pulled harder and harder, relishing in joy as the scum screamed.

A crack, and Sasuke drops that piece of filth.

'Good boy. Now finish them and get back to our soulmate.'

Sasuke faced the last standing sound nin. "Looks like you're the only one left."

Sakura stared in horror. This, this wasn't Sasuke. He wasn't blood thirsty or cruel. He wouldn't torture an opponent like this.

'Help him, he needs you,' two familiar voices whispered to Sakura.

Without realizing it Sakura forced her body to run. "STOP!"

Sasuke froze as two arms wrapped themselves around him.

"Stop," his Sakura cried. "Please stop."

Sasuke looked down into his Sakura's eyes. The tears falling, falling because of him, felt like a punch to the heart.

'She needs you,' the voices urged. 'Our soulmate comes first.'

'Sakura needs me,' Sasuke thought as he let go of the dark chakra. He let himself lean into her. Using the opportunity to cluch the circle on her back and force the last of his natural chakra into his palm.

He felt his body truly relax as he felt the soulmate mark fix itself on Sakura's back.

Fugaku had told his wife of his encounter with Sakura. His eyes narrowed when Mikoto bit her lower lip.

"Mikoto what's wrong?"

The Uchiha matriarch sighed and pulled out the scroll of Shachi. It holds the name of every soulmate born for the Uchiha and the name of their Uchiha soulmate. It's one of the Uchiha's most valuable possessions.

"It will be another six years but I believe we have found Sasuke's soulmate," Mikoto said as she opened the scroll.

Fugaku's eyes widened as he looked the last name on the scroll.

Sakura Haruno