Abused, But Never Used

Ch 19: drugs and a drink

"Excuse me!?" Sakura asked taking a step back one closed fist going in front of her chest. Her emerald eyes wide in alarm. Inner was shaking as well.

"You heard me" Sasori said not batting an eye.

"I'm not a drug addict!" Sakura screamed shaking her head vehemently with eyes shut.

'How dare that red headed asshole accuse me so quickly! I'll use him for kindling! Cha!' Inner raved.

"Alright then. Take off your cloak and I'll call it my mistake" Sasori said not in any type of mood for a young girls lies. He should have known. He should have seen the signs immediately when she hadn't struggled when he knocked her out before attending to the uchiha. The want for a taste of something must have been overwhelming. His grandmother lady chiyo had often ranted and raved about the recklessness of Tsunade Senju but Sasori never thought that the old bag would be right about any of it. He had thought she was just a sore loser when in fact she was right about Tsunade teaching her students to self medicate. They were only rumors. Sasori never thought they could be true until now.

"Take off my cloak? I'm not some stripper!" Sakura objected immediately pulling her cloak tighter around herself.

"Don't be ridiculous. That would involve me paying you." Sasori said with an eye roll.

"You-you pervert!" Sakura screeched stumbling backwards til her back hit the wall. She winced. Great now she cornered herself.

"Enough of this foolishness. Either take off your cloak and prove me wrong or answer my question. I have patience for many things but this is not one of them" Sasori said eyes narrowing. Perhaps he had inherited his grandmothers distaste for that Senju Tsunade after all. Was that why he was losing his patience so quickly? Sasori wasn't sure.

"I-I-I can't" Sakura choked out defeated.

"Oh you can't? What a shock" Sasori said sarcastically.

"Don't mock me! What proof do you have anyways!?" Sakura roared.

Sasori sighed. "In the last two minutes alone you have demonstrated that you share three main symptoms of drug addicts everywhere. Mood swings, depression, and low self esteem. Would you like to know what else they have in common?" Sasori questioned and he turned his back to Sakura and started rummaging through his cabinets.

"What?" Sakura asked surprising herself with the angry tone she succeeded in producing.

Sasori paused for a moment a grim smile on his features. "They're all dead" Sasori said making sure an appropriate amount of time had passed for the girl to let that knowledge sink in. Once it did Sasori began to move his arms around in the cabinet again.

"What? No your lying! They make you strong!" Sakura snapped.

"They mask the pain. They bury it. Ignore it long enough and it will kill you" Sasori said with a sigh.

"How would you know! You have no idea what it's like!" Sakura screeched and Sasori froze.

"Why do you think I turned myself into a puppet?" Sasori questioned catching Sakura off guard hoping that this would make the girl listen to him and wake up to reality.

"Because...you wanted to strengthen your jutsu's. Become immortal?" Sakura guessed. That's what most of these nuke nins wanted right? They were almost all immortal except for itachi, and kisame....deidara was questionable with all the explosions he casually through around.