Our Reflection in Each Other's Eyes.

Chapter 10: Learning to Love

"I have a lot of plans ahead of me. I'll discuss them with you some other day, for now let's just lay here."

"Sasuke-Kun, I have never said this to anyone because I never thought I would ever have this feeling. I always believed it was useless, but you changed my perspective. Sasuke-Kun, I think I love you."

Sasuke-Kun remained silent at my confession and I'll admit it made my heart ache. I quickly covered it up with another subject.

"About your plans, do they involve Orochimaru-Sama?" I asked changing my voice from it's fragile tone to a serious one.

"They don't involve him as part of it, where he plays a role. If anything I plan on getting rid of him."

"He..I don't know how to feel about that..he's been there for me for so long." I looked down attempting to hold back my tears. "I can't let go of him. He held onto me tightly the day he found me and not once did he neglect me..I can't bare the thought of having him..dead."

He lifted my chin causing our eyes to meet and said,

"As the man that loves you to no end I believe, more than anything in the world, that this is what's best for you, for the both of us."

A single tear left my eye and I turned away from him. Even if he's already seen me breakdown, I don't want him to have that image of me. I want him to see me as a great Kunoichi. He turned my face back to meet his gaze, not saying a word.

"Sasuke-Kun..does Orochimaru-Sama have to die?"

"He does. He's after my body and if we just fleed from here, he'll stop at nothing to retrieve us, me for my body and you..well you for.." he was lost, he doesn't know why Orochimaru-Sama keeps me.

"I've been with Orochimaru-Sama since I was 6 years old. He found me during the destruction of one of the village's I had been living in. It was cold and soon it began pouring, everyone ignored me, but he..he stopped right in front of me..he was the only one to acknowledge me and offer me his hand. He raised me since, 11 years with him is bound to make our relationship special. I assume he keeps me because my story is similar to his, like he said when he named me 'your name shall be Kyoko because within you I see a reflection of myself.' Him and I are alike in some aspects, the reason, I've learned, he treats me so nicely and values me very much is because he doesn't want me to be neglected like he was. I can't let go of someone who means a lot to me."

"I understand. I don't want to hurt you, but I also don't want to endanger you. Even if Orochimaru has approached you with good intentions, we will never expect what he plans."

"I see. That's what he spoke of."

Sasuke-Kun looked at me in confusion before I continued.

"He expects you to attack him. It seems all along, he knew you and I would fall in love because he prepared me for this. He told me that if you were to ever find the necessity to kill him, to do what my heart desires, he said that he knows my heart will desire to remain by the one I love and he insists that decision is best."

"He knows already?" He asked, frusturated.

"He does. He just doesn't know when."

I paused shortly, "Sasuke-Kun, I wish to not be included in the plan to kill him. If possible keep me away from here when you do it, I don't want to see the man I've protected and loved for so long, come to his end. Killing him is like killing myself. What good is a mirror with nothing to reflect?"

Sasuke-Kun lifted himself up on the bed and flipped our positions so that my bare body was against his bare one. He held onto me so tightly I was certain I'd stop breathing soon.