Something extra short. A small passage that will have a part two. Not about the same thing but it's like a chapter two. Uh...I can't explain but you'll understand what I mean when I do it.

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-BREATHLESS-

..Thursday..

It's happening again. My high is gone but I don't want to be sober. Ino sat next to me giggling insanely.

"Shh..." I said putting my index finger to my lips. My eyes closed, the dimly lit room sent shockwaves through my brain. Ino cracked a smile.

"Chill man." She says to me giggling. I slap here arm and take the blunt she has.

"No more for you. I think my mom is hme but I can't tell with all that gigglin'." I say putting the blunt to my lips. I inhale a few times and blow out relieved. My high was back.

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..Friday..

I walked in the big classroom with drowsiness like I been up all night. I spot Naruto in the seat next to mine.

"What's up Sakura-chan?" Naruto asks with a ginuine smile. He's always kind. That's why I don't like him.

"What's up? What's up is that you're all in my face like you know me or some shit. Naruto you need to get out my space 'cause I, Sakura Haruno, don't play that." I snap. I don't even know where all this anger comes from. Now he's oogling at me. I roll my eyes and sit down facing the window.

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..Later Friday night..

"This is the new stuff. Okay. I want two hundred for this shit right here." The tall guy, in his early twenties maybe late twenties informed spreading a tiny bit of white powder over the oak table.

"Two hundred?!" Ino questioned skeptically as if he was crazy. Didn't she know you have to pay that kind of money for this kind of Speed? Here in this town, that's the kind of money you should have.

I turned around and anxiously waited for the man to take my money.

"One or two?" He asked. I wasn't necassarily sure what he meant but I nodded.

"Two." He then takes my money, finger through it and goes to a shiny pearl cabinet that looks as if it should claim millions.

He gave it to me, I spread it over on a plastic wrap, place the gold tube to my nose while Ino did the same with the other one I purchased. I snorted it hard. Perhaps too hard because, my head went light, my nostrils burned, my throat felt like a splintered wooden post. I couldn't breathe. I began to cough from the lack if air and then I felt my arms shake. I dropped the tube while struggling to look down. Everything around me was spinning and I seen my veins advance to a brighter green. My eyes rolled to the back of my head and I tipped backward.

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..Konaha Hospital..

Voices came from everywhere. I wanted to tell them to shut up but I couldn't talk. There was a rhythmatic thump to my left. I want to open my eyes but I my eye lids are heavy. I feel tubes on both of my arms and...and an oxygen mask on my mouth. Where did I go? Who brought me here? Ino? No, she didn't even help me when I choked. What day is it?

"She's right this way ma'am." A deep, gentle voice says in the distance. I wanted someone to come my way but no one did. No one ever did.

Last night... I think I can remember now! That guy. It's all coming back. Ino left me breathless and he took me here. I can feel my adrenaline rushing, coursing throughout my body fast as sound. My heart thuds and the rhythmatic tempo speeds up. People are hurrying in. I tried to breathe but my lungs seemed blocked. Closed. Shrunken. The mask lifted and my mouth felt wet.

Now hands were everywhere, touching me here and there.

"Come on doc. We're losing her." A panicked pleading. The tempo stopped and made a long beep in the words of my death.

"Clear!" The doctor shouts. Beep, beep, beep, beep...

"She's back." The doctor mumbles relieved. My lungs fill with air and I feel the panic inside me vanish. And then suddenly it feels as if my lungs were being filled with water. Someone immediately cut a small insition in my throat, sticks a tube-like thing in the hole and breathes down it softly. I feel relief and thankfullness sweep over me although I'm light-headed. I cannot hear, see, tase or feel anything save the small breathing. Then, I guess, I pass out.

..Three days later..

Breathless. That's what I am. Again! Why won't they just pull the plug and be done? Even if I do live through this, I'm never smoking, snorting, drinking WHATEVER it is ever again. Realization dawns on me: This is my punishment, and it can happen to anybody.

"She's been here for four days and isn't going to last much longer. I can't contact anybody."

"We might as well put her out of her own misery. She had a chance, I'm sorry to say."

"No, I agree. We must let her go. No use in punishing her any more than we have to." I hear the doctors talking softly. I am going to die. A tear threatens to fall but I don't let. Why cry now? I didn't cry when I smoked, when I drank or snorted not knowing how deep in I was.

Drugs. Bad usage of drugs gets you to exactly where I am. A clicking sound goes off then...

Sakura's gone. That's where doing bad things, such as drugs, can lead you. Leave you lifeless like her.

Like myself, you'll be breathless.

-END-

Im not trying to preach or anything but this was on my mind. It's seemed so weird at the time but I just wanted you all to know this. To know not just drugs but lots of things can kill you. My example was drugs, in this case. Once, again, I hope you learned from this. Arigato for reading. Ja ne!

...Live your life. Don't let it live you...

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