WHEN WE MET
A/N:Long time,no see... finshed engineering,got a job,ditched it...anway..so this is gonna be a multific. Sasunaru obviously. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: MINE!...not (T_T)
CHAPTER 1: TRAIN TO WHERE?
Sasuke stood in the platform staring at nothing. Trains whooshed by him blowing his coat and hair in a tangled mess. People...nameless faces bumped into him and cursed as they walked away. Some were bold enough to try pick a fight. But he was lost in himself...in his thoughts. It was like he had found another level of consciousness. He had run away. After all these years he picked up the courage to do the thing he should have done long before. Something an Uchiha never does. He ran away from everything. His name. His family. His responsibilites and his life. He thought back to all the events that had at last pushed him to the brink..to the edge of his tolerance.
Flashback
Sasuke knew something was wrong. The way his father called him up in the morning in his all too fake cheery voice to attend a lunch party that would help him expand his horizons. By that he had thought something regarding his lack of interest in his work..or life in general. But it seemed like his father had another thing in mind. Getting out of his car he walked into the hall brushing by several business tycoons. At last he saw his father talking in his haughty way and signature smirk to a fat man he recognised as Dasho Himura, the owner of their biggest rival company. Powerful and ruthless. To his disappointment his slut of a daughter Karin was there standing next to him giving him a smug look. Ok..there was still time to slowly escape and pretend that he forgot all about the party. His father had not yet seen him.
"ooohhhh Sasuke-kun! Over here!"
Fat chance now.
Resigning to his fate he made way to the group in slow steps. His father graced him with a nod. He bowed to both his father and Mr. Himura who smiled and immediately gushed over Sasuke. Tch fools! thought Sasuke.
"ah. Sasuke. dear boy..glad u could make it.. though of course...you being the star attraction. And my lovely daughter. "
WHAT! Sasuke gave him a puzzled look and turned to his father who was avoiding his gaze.
"I'm sorry...but I don't understand..father?"
His father cast a stony glance at him and without giving any explanation marched up the stage. As he crossed Sasuke he whispered "don't disappoint me".
Still confused he watched his father pick up a mike and gathered everybody's attention.
"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad that you all could make it to this special party I've thrown.." he paused. " Mr. Himura and I have had until now a strictly business relation. But today I'm proud to extend this into a family one through the engagement of my youngest son Sasuke and Karin Himura..."a chorus of applause and congratulations rose around Sasuke. But it sounded dim in his ears. A faraway din. He stood rooted on the spot eyes wide open. The magnitude of betrayal and resentment he felt on his father hit him with such a force he shuddered and let out a shaky breath he didn't know he had held.
"...so Sasuke and Karin please come up the stage."
Karin giggling madly held her head high and glided up the stairs standing next to his father. Sasuke stared directly into his father's eyes. He was met with a steely glare warning him to follow the orders. But he didn't move an inch. At long last his legs made a slight movement and Fugaku gave him a small nod of appreciation but frowned when Sasuke took a step back.
"SASUKE!" He growled.
The whole hall grew quite. But to Sasuke the silence was deafening. Filling his brain. His heart. He couldn't bear it. Not anymore. The loud silence was broken by his shoes as he turned and made to the door. His father watched dumbly for a moment before calling him once again...everything was chaos...Karin swearing equally loudly like her father..people murmuring bout what was going to be the latest, hottest gossip in town...and his father trying to calm both father and daughter.
Outside Sasuke broke into a sprint. He felt so free but at the same time so burdened. He ran past gardens and fountains until he reached his car..not his..his father's money..his father's car. He kicked it with full force earning only pain as the car stood innocently.
"Sasuke!Stop this idiocy and come back inside!"
He turned back to find his father had followed him and was fuming like a bull. He had never seen his father this angry and somehow it pleased him.
"You will go inside and be engaged to Miss Himura. Sasuke, you should know all I do is for the company and for the family. No son of mine will run away from his duty."
"ENOUGH!"Sasuke spat out. He didn't want to hear anything anymore. His father's fucked up logic. He was just a pawn in his ugly game of power. A means to an end. Itachi was already tangled in this web. But not him.
Without bothering to reply he hailed a cab and throwing the car keys at his father's feet he ordered the cab driver to speed away. He didn't even bother to see his father grit his teeth and kick the car.
END FLASHBACK
The whistle of a train brought Sasuke crashing back to the present situation. The train slowly halted and passengers bustled by. Pushed along with the crowd Sasuke mechanically made his way into the train. As soon as he stepped in he realised it wasn't a local train. It consisted of compartments and berths meant for long journeys and what was worse he was in the 1st class compartment...without a ticket. He made to the exit but the train gave a parting whistle and slowly gathered speed. Cursing he stood at the train door. He watched the sky turn dark blue and then slowly inky black. There were no sign of stars tonight. Sasuke always prided himself to be a strong person. A bit depressed but never the one to quit. But today somehow he saw everything with a different light. He was never a positive thinker. He just never thought. He acted. But today's event somehow triggered a tsunami of negative emotions. A flood that had destroyed his dam of stoic devil may care attitude. Twinkling lights in the distance..houses carrying normal people..happy people passed by. Each a glimpse and gone forever. He could make out another train speeding from the opposite direction, the light from it getting brighter and brighter almost blinding him as it got closer
Sasuke straightened up...he made a split second decision as he made to jump out into the night from the speeding train. I'm free.
A/N: Um...so a cliffe...gomen. Sorry I don't know much about trains abroad. I'm just using the version I have always travelled in. Please leave a review. I need it more than you'd imagine.(-_-")