#sasubae

„I‘m sorry to bother you so late.. but I seem to be in a Situation in which I’ll need your assistance.“ she said, standing in front of his appartment, in the middle of the night.

„Ah, It‘s fine, I was awake anyway. What is it, Sakura-chan?“, he said, leaning in his doorway, not expecting anything particular.

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Warning: graphic description of period matters! If you are easily disgusted by stuff like that, you should skip that one.

Also: could be a bit OOC

Sakura was almost 13 years old when she had her period for the first time.

Kakashi and Sasuke did an unexpectedly good job at supporting her in their individual ways (while Naruto was just Naruto and way to blunt to notice any of it).

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Even though she knew it could happen any time now (Ino had her first period a few months prior, so she figured it wouldn't be long before her body started to bleed as well), it didn't change a thing about now being a very bad moment for it.

They were on a c-rank escort mission when there was an ambush. While Kakashi and Sasuke concentrated on fighting back the enemies, Naruto and her were tasked with protecting their clients.

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She remembers the wet and warm feeling, the quicken of her heartbeat when she realized what just happened and she remembers the urge to shake all these things from her mind in order to concentrate on their current battle situation.

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Later that day, after they managed to beat their opponents who turned out to be just some civilian bandits, she took upon the chance to check on her undies behind some bushes when they where taking a short break.

The bottom of her panties where red and panic began to creep up her mind when she realized, that she wasn't prepared at all.

No tampons, no sanitary pads, only one pair of extra panties.

Sakura had to fight back tears from falling. This was not what was supposed to happen, Ino promised to be by her side, just like she had been by her friends side. Now she was alone with a bunch of men and two boys, on a mission that will probably still last a few days from now on, and without any kind of sanitary products.

She couldn't hold it any longer and small beady tears began to stream down her face when she rummaged in her backpack to retrieve her second pair of knickers. She quickly changed and stuffed the already bloody ones inside of her pants. That'll have to do.

Sakura dried her tears rather aggressively, angry at herself for being so careless and at the whole situation and started to head back to the rest of their group.

She didn't see the way Sasuke warily looked at her, out of the corner of his eyes. Something was off about her, he just couldn't tell what it was - yet.

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In the evening, after they set up camp in the woods, Kakashi offered, just like always, to take on the first watch. Everyone else crawled into their tents, worn out from the events of the day.

Lying in their tent beside Naruto and Sasuke, Sakura couldn't fall asleep. Her pants were starting to itch a bit, she felt dirty and really wanted to take a shower, or at least, clean herself up properly.

She heard Naruto snoring loudly on the other side, sometimes rustling with his blankets when turning in his sleep, while Sasuke, just like most of the time, lies still beside her, breathing slowly and silently.

Her abdomen started to hurt around sundown, it got better when they sat by the fire, eating their provisions, but now, since everything has cooled down, it started to hurt even more than before. She wrapped her armes around her belly and winced.

Sakura could feel blood flowing out of her body and soaking the crumpled fabric she stuffed into her pants.

Out of instinct she pressed her tighs together, trying to keep everything in place. Sweat started to form on her forehead, her pulse quickened, she'll need to do something about it soon, otherwise the boys will wake up in the morning to see her stained in blood.

The girl stayed beside her teammates for another 10 minutes before she decided to head out to some bushes to tend to her business and grabbed a pack of tissues on her way out.

She nodded at Kakashi casually, mentioning something about having to pee, and went further into the woods.

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Sasuke opened one eye as he heard her getting up and leaving the tent. When he sat up after she went outside, he felt her chakra slowly getting away from them. He heard her say something about just going to pee again, but the uneasy feeling he had about her through the day remained, he wasn't that sure that that's just it.

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The Jonin, on the other hand, noticed her change in behavior throughout the day as well as he noticed that something about her smell changed.

He already had a suspicion about what could be happening to her right now and started to search through his backpack as soon as she was out of earshot, looking for a little package the genin instructors where given by their superiors.

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It was dark and hard for her to see, but she could feel that it was more than about time to clean her pubic area.

For the second time today she could feel tears welling up in her eyes. Sakura tried to clean herself up as good as possible, using her own spit out of lack of something better, wiping away dried and sticky remains of blood at the joint of her tighs before she rolled up one sheet of tissue into a small cylindrical form.

She studied her crafted substitute tampon sceptical, unsure if she should give it a try. Closing her eyes in determination she positioned the rolled up tissue at her entrance and tried to position it properly. The first try hurt like hell. The second was even worse - if that's what it feels like when having sex, well, no thanks!

After trying to insert it for 4 times, she succeeded, in her opinion, on try number 5. By that time she couldn't hold back the tears of anger, frustration and shame anymore. Her right hand was full of period grime and dirt when she finished burying her used tissues and her bloody pants in the ground.

Sakura couldn't help but feel miserable. She felt like a dog, hiding away in the woods, tending to her dirty business - that's not what it's supposed to feel like, is it? But there's no chance she would talk about it to any guy she's accompanied right now, she'll have to suck it up until she met Ino again.

Tired and unsure about that new sensation between her legs she dragged herself back to their camp. Kakashi was still sitting on a thick tree branch, reading his smutty novel when she came back. Completely lost in her train of thoughts she almost didn't see the small white paperbag, positioned beside the entryway of their tent. When she carefully opened it up to peek inside she discovered a wide variety of sanitary products, wipes for pubic areas and painkillers. Her heart fluttered with relief - she was very well aware of who left it there for her, her face grew hot and red with embarrassment mixed with gratitude. Sakura didn't turn around to look at her sensei, she just took the bag and went inside to finally get some rest.

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Kakashi let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding when she took the bag and went inside without turning around or commenting on it.

Girl stuff like that was never his forte.

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Sasuke on the other hand listened in on everything he could make out since his teammate got up: Sakura leaving camp, mumbling something, Kakashi starting to rummage through some stuff in the camp shortly after, him coming near their tent, putting something down in front of it, leaving again for his tree branch, Sakura coming back (what did her take so long?), the rustling of Sakura opening something in front of the tent, her sighing, again, rustling, and then her coming back inside.

He was sitting there, watching her coming in with eagle-eyes. Sakura looked at him tiredly, trying to hide the bag she just got, and went to her sleeping bag to finally settle in for the night.

It was unusual for her to not swoon over him, or at least, smile at him or pay him any kind of acknowledgment or attention.

When she lay down beside him, her back facing him, body rolled in like a hurting cat, he was sure that something was wrong.

Sasuke lay down on his back, his head turned to look at her back. He saw her arms snaking around her middle, fingers clutching the red fabric at the back of her dress. Her knuckles turned white and started to shake lightly.

It was then, that he did something highly unusual, but he couldn't help it.

"What's wrong?" He whispered and was glad for the first time that his other teammate's snoring was loud enough to easily cover up whispered words.

When Sakura didn't turn around or made any signs of answering anytime soon, he sat up again, and looked over her fragile, curled in, form.

From the angle he got by sitting up he could see a part of her face, her eyes squeezed shut, eyebrows furrowed, cheeks and forehead sweaty and red. It dawned on him that she was in pain.

"Sakura, we should tell Kak-" he started again, but stopped when she shook her head.

"No." She managed to say between gritted teeth. "But, water, please."

Sakura didn't expect period pain to be this intense and painful.

Sasuke stared at her for a moment but grabbed his bottle above his sleepingbag and held it out for her to take.

She slowly sat up, the white bag in her lap and managed to find a blister full of little white pills that promised to help against menstruation cramps.

While she was taking her pills and taking a big gulp out of his bottle, he managed to get a glimpse of the other stuff inside the bag. It jolted through is system like lightning when he remembered where he saw packages like that before (in the women's hygienic area at the drugstore) and what they are made for (mostly for women and girls on their period). His face went hot with embarrassment, but he refused to look away from her, wiping water from her mouth, screwing his bottle shut.

"Thank you." she whispered and handed the water container back to him. He took it from her and put it back to where he got it from.

It took him a moment to gather enough courage to speak up again.

"Are you okay?" He whispered.

Sakura lay down again, trying to relax as much as possible, cheeks still red, though he's not sure if it's because of pain or embarrassment.

"I don't want to talk about it." She answered, hiding her face in her hands.

Sasuke looks at her for another moment and then lies down beside her as well. He turns his head to look at her back once more, her frame still shaking lightly, arms wrapped around herself again. It's obvious that the painkillers didn't kick in yet. A vague recollection of their sexual education classes at the academy eruptes within his head.

Before he can think about what he's about to do or if it's appropriate at all, he find himself lying on his side, his right arm wrapped around her body in a protective way, trying to provide as much warmth for her as possible.

A small high pitched gasp escapes her mouth, when she can feel the heat radiating from his body at her back.

Only a few minutes into their silent embrace Sasuke begins to feel highly uncomfortable but refuses to back of, since he can feel that Sakura finally is able to relax and slowly drift into sleep due to the painkillers and the warm and protective embrace.

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It becomes a secret habit, that whenever she's on her period he discreetly looks after her by providing her with warmth in the night to lighten the pain. (He also tries to be a little less mean to her during the day.)

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Only that it's not as secret as they think it is, since Kakashi knows everything but shuts up about it.

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