Fear
As the amazing Uchiha he was, nobody excepted him to ever fear anything, it simply wasn't in his blood. Said they. But right now he was beyond scare to dead, while he felt her hand slip away...
It had all started with team 7 to get a scroll from Suna to the Hokage in Konoha. Sasuke wanted to get back as soon as possible since it was an easy mission, so he had convinced the team to run all night, but right now he regretted it. On the way home they had meet a large group of Sound ninjas. Without warning they started to attack them. The Sound ninjas split into two groups, and forced team 7 to split up too. Kakashi and Naruto went in to distract them, so that they couldn't follow Sakura and Sasuke that ran with the scroll.
When they had ran with the scroll, he and Sakura had been outnumber and without a night's rest their chances weren't good at all, but they still fought with everything they had in them. Sakura knock out a couple ninjas in one punch, and Sasuke Chidori to whip them out.
With the famous sharingan Sasuke had a head start, but Sakura didn't, and without sleep in one and a half day, he could see how her punches and kicks became weaker and weaker. It didn't made it better that they were fighting near a deep cliff. Sasuke was sure that today wasn't his lucky day, and that Kami just wanted to piss him off. Before him and Sakura were Sound ninjas, they blocked their way and so they couldn't get forward and behind them were a cliff, things didn't look good from where he was standing. Not one bit. The more tired they got, the shorter got the distance to the edge of the cliff.
While Sasuke looked over to Sakura to see if she was okay, one of the sound ninjas kick Sasuke in the guts, which caused him kneel, only to get a kick in the face. While Sasuke tried to get up, and make his vision clear from the blurred world he could see right now, took another ninja the scroll from him. The ninja and one of his teammates ran to a bridge that went over the cliff to the other side. Sasuke got up and tried to see, but he knew he wouldn't reach them in time.
"Sakura! Get the scroll! Quick!" Sasuke yelled at her. She heard it and ran after the ninja. Sasuke fought off the ninja that tried to hold him down. He killed him with his katana and ran after her. Sakura got to the ninja with the scroll. She cut off his hand with a kunai, took the scroll and pushed the Sound ninja off the bridge. His friend wasn't happy about that, since he started to cut off the ropes that were holding up the bridge at the other end of the bridge. Sasuke could see Sakura turn around and run against his side of the bridge, trying to get to safety.
"Sakura get off that bridge. NOW!" Sasuke cried out.
He knew Sakura couldn't off the bridge before it would fall down. He broke into a dash when he saw how the far end started to get lose and to fall. The boards were getting weak, and were breaking. Sasuke could see the surprise in her eyes.
He don't know what happened after that. When he opened his eyes, - (had they even been closed?) - Sasuke could see that he was holding her hand and his other one was tangled in on of the ropes that was hanging. He must had caught her hand just in time. When he looked down a her, he could see how scared she was. She looked like she wanted to cry, like the cute crybaby she was - (wait, did he just think of her like cute?) - but held it back in her. He slowly relaxed when he saw, that she didn't have any serious wounds, and the blood on her was from the Sound ninjas. He opened his mouth to speak...
RRRRIP
They both looked up, only to see that the rope, was slowly untangling it self.
"Sasuke...?" Sakura's voice was a low whisper, but Sasuke could still hear the fear in her voice. How she sounded terrified and scared. Sasuke hat never heard her like that. And it somehow scared him. There was another jerk in the rope and a loud "rip" more.
"Sasuke we're too heavy. We have to get up. Can you climb? I don't have chakra enough." Sakura said while looking at him in a way she hadn't done before. But he couldn't quite place his finger on it.
"No. Not enough to get us up." Somehow the answer didn't seem to scare her. It more looked like she just made up her mind or found the answer to something difficult.
"But... What if you were alone... Could you then?" She asked with same weird expression in her eyes.
"Hn, i guess i could" Sasuke told her, while he wondered why she asked.
"Well, if you can get up without me, then this is goodbye Sasuke Uchiha" Sakura said with a sad smile.
The moment the words got in and he could feel how she let go of his hand, tightened his grip on her hand,. and he started to panic (You just can't see it bacuse he's an Uchiha). Did she just say goodbye?...
When Sakura said goodbye it meant goodbye. It meant that you didn't get to she her anymore, that she would be gone forever. Sasuke knew that from the time when her father died on a mission. Sakura had told him with tears in her eyes that, that day she had been to tired to send him off since she just got home from a mission. That instead of her usual 'Goodbye, take care and see you soon', she had just said 'Goodbye dad'. and then went to sleep.
Two months later - one month later than he was supposed to return - a patrol near the border of the land of fire found her dad. He had been dead in a about two weeks. Sasuke was there when she got the news from Tsunade, and to be honest he had never seen her cry so much, or for so long.
Sakura's mother died when she was about 5 years old. Her little brother, Kyota, didn't know how his mother looked like except frome the pictures they had of her. And since her father died was it only Sakura, Kyota and Ren(maru). Ren wasn't biological in family with the two Haruno's, actually was he some guy Sakura had meet as a 12 year old while Ren was 17 and when her dad meet him and saw how he trained Sakura, he just took him in, since he was an orphan, or something like that. That was what Sakura told him. And for the reason she called him Ren is pretty simple. She thinks it's cool and sounds stronger and tougher.
But ever since the patrol found him dead, she had never ever just said goodbye. it was allways, see you later, come back soon , or take care. Or something like that. She had told him, that she was scared that if she ever just said goodbye, then the person she told it to wouldn't come back again, so she never did.
But right now, was that teammate that blamed herself for her fathers dead, who couldn't foregive herself, and was even more scared to ever say goodbye again, slowly letting go of his hand while she said goodbye...
Sasuke was in shock, he couldn't find his mouth until he felt her hand leave his
"SAKURA" was the only thing that left his mouth while he watched one of his best friends fall from the cliff...
Hey we're back :) this is a story that got stuck in my head, so now i wanted to give it to you. Don't worry there will be another chaper (or more depends on how long i will make it :P)
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