Eighteen vs. Twenty Nine
Author's Notes : First Chapter re-edited.
To ensure you understand the story properly, please take notice of the use of italics and bold print within the story and what they represent:
Italics- Flashbacks.
Bold- scenes from a movie.
One.
She sat behind the wheel with a troubled mind.
Her foot was pressed onto the accelerator and she drove at quiet a high speed for a fifty zone.
She knew that if the police was here, she'd be caught.
She didn't care though.
No fucking police could stop her from getting to the Konoha Family Court.
She sighed.
She originally didn't plan to go to the court as it would've been wasting a whole two hours of her time.
She would've been at home, cooking dinner and waiting for her husband to come home.
Of course, her husband would only then come home, never bother to greet her with a 'tadaima' and run straight upstairs to take a shower before practically locking himself into the study room as he is sound mixing for another new single he was going to release.
Sometimes….. he would even FORGET to eat DINNER.
All her hard work would then just be tossed aside and she would chuck the food away.
She thought that even if he DIDN'T eat dinner, he could've at LEAST thanked her for cleaning the house, tidying his study room and for cooking him dinner although he can't eat it.
If only he showed her some gratitude, then she wouldn't be driving to a family court right now instead of cleaning the house and making dinner.
But…..
Some things just weren't meant to happen.
And that included her husband not showing enough affection to her.
He wasn't like this before though,
He used to always eat her dinner, always give her a kiss on the cheek when he came home and he always would talk to her although his 'talks' was just one sentence long.
She knew that he didn't like talking so she was still glad that he gave in SOME effort to try and talk.
"Do you love him or are you two just fooling around with each other?" Sakura screeched.
"I-I-I love him okay, Sakura, I love him!" Karin replied back with hesitation in her voice.
Sakura looked back at Karin for a long time before she suddenly left the room and thundered down the apartment steps.
Karin stood there motionless as she was trembling with fear.
Sakura shut her eyes for a brief moment in an attempt to stop the memory from haunting her.
She re-opened her eyes and was in deep thought again.
As she was thinking, she didn't notice a motorbike zoom straight in front of her.
She screamed and quickly turned her car left.
Not noticing a truck coming straight at her car, both vehicles slammed straight into each other.
The truck hit the side of where she was sitting in and on-lookers from the side of the street screamed.
Cars stopped immediately and crashed into each other.
Some little children by the street, frightened, started crying as their parents covered their faces to stop them from getting scared.
A man quickly reacted and dialed for the ambulance and police.
Two teenaged boys ran up to the two crashed cars and one of them checked on the truck driver while the other checked on the woman.
They both dragged the two people out of their vehicles and laid them gently by the side of the road.
The ambulance arrived by then and paramedics rushed to the two injured people.
One of the paramedics saw that the truck driver was fine and only suffered a few scratches on his head but he would be fine to be let go.
The woman, however, the paramedic noted, was bleeding profusely in the head and she would have to undergo emergency surgery or else she might die from losing too much blood from the head.
After the two people were carried back onto stretchers into the van, the ambulance screeched down the street driving at an alarmingly high speed back to the nearest hospital just a few streets away.
Police cars came and the officers were briefly taking down notes on how the accident happened.
One of the officers knew that today was going to be major traffic delays due to an extremely dangerous accident on the highway.
Many people coming back home from work weren't going to be happy…
A silver Mercedes Benz cruised down the extremely rich street filled with French boutiques and exotic shops with imported items from other countries that were quiet expensive.
It stopped by the side of the road in front of a huge black fancy building.
Bodyguards stood in front of screaming fans and golden fencing fenced off the fans so that there was a white, cleaned path in the middle.
A chauffeur stepped out from the driver's seat and hurried around to open the passenger seat.
He opened the door full wide and a devilishly handsome young man stepped out in a black tuxedo.
His hair was in its signature style and there was a dangling cross ear-ring on his right ear.
His face was perfectly pale and his dark black eyes were covered by a pair of dark, midnight, black aviators.
He drew out a breath as he studied the crowd and waved at them.
The crowd went crazy and screamed.
TV reporters were waiting to interview him later when he's greeting fans and having his pictures taken by the paparazzi.
The man turns around to where the car door was still open.
He extended out his hand towards a mysterious person in the car and she gladly accepts it.
As he pulls her out from the darkness inside the car, her hair glimmers in the sunlight and the crowd goes even crazier.
When she is fully out of the car, the people are dazed and cameras are flashing crazily all around her.
Her signature hair (kept unkempt on one side and slick and straight on the other) was tied back into a sleek, straight pony tail.
She had on a lot of make-up high lighting her delicate fire red eyes and defining her facial structure.
In simple silver jewellery, a red Chanel dress and black stilettos, she was surprisingly pretty in such simple clothing.
Her eyes twinkled as she followed her co-star down the path as the couple briefly stood for a few minutes to take pictures or sign autographs.
As they neared the entrance, a bubbly reporter with a camera-man behind her taping the couple came up to them.
"Hi! Would you mind if we just took a minute to interview you on your new movie?" the reporter asked enthusiastically.
The pair looked at each other before the dark haired man replied,
"Sure"
The reporter smiled.
She then suddenly spoke,
"Well first congratulations on filming your first movie Uchiha Sasuke! It's a thrill for you to be here! How are you feeling tonight and how do you feel towards your entire loyal fans?" the reporter asked in a rush.
"I'm glad to be here and happy that my fans can make it" the dark haired man Sasuke replied.
"Good! Now, your movie's based loosely on your old life as a young teenage delinquent who finds an extremely strict mannered girl attractive. Now, is it true that you and miss Karin over here are in fact secret lovers?" the reporter asks a bit more secretly to create tension for the people back at home watching her interview Sasuke.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed and the reporter visibly gulped.
Karin, sensing Sasuke's suddenly darker aura cleared her throat rather loudly and the reporter, glad to have a distraction turned towards the ravishing redhead.
"So, Karin dear, might you be the one to explain about your relationship with Mr. Uchiha?" the reporter asked nervously.
Karin nodded her head and replied,
"We're just normal everyday good friends. We got to know each other A LOT throughout the film and we kind of just got used to each other"
The reporter's eyes widened.
"So you're not exactly lovers….yet?" she asked excitedly.
"No, we're just friends. Although we may have a bit of kissing in the movie. We're just cool right now and I plan to keep it that way" Karin replied a bit impatiently as she catches her manager waving her and Sasuke over to go inside and take their seats in the front row.
The reporter noticed that Sasuke was angry and Karin was getting impatient so she just smiled, gave a polite bow and said 'thank you' before rushing to interview other stars.
Sasuke walked straight to the cinema room with Karin practically sprinting to catch up with him.
"Hiroto-kun!" screeched a red haired girl who was currently being held back by her friends.
A gun shot erupted through the air and a dark haired man can be seen plummeting to the ground in one swift moment.
His head rolls to one side and he chokes up some blood.
The girl covers her mouth in shock with her hands.
She looks to see her friends trying to hold back their tears and she lunges forward to the dying man.
"Hiroto-kun…." She whispers gently.
Tears fall down her cheek as she strokes the man's hair.
The man looks straight up at her before saying,
"Shut up, you annoy the shit out of me"
And with that, he closes his eyes for the last time and the girl cries out loud.
The credits roll down the screen and suddenly the huge cinema room is lit up with the audience politely clapping their hands and congratulating the couple sitting in the front room.
The couple stands up and politely bows and say thank you before they walk off into the corner of the room.
Their manager waves them over to the next room and the two walk quietly into the room.
There, a whole bunch of paparazzi and interviewers/TV reporters stand up waiting for the couple to choose them.
The couple politely bows before the audience as they clap and then sit down.
As a reporter was about to ask Sasuke a question, his manager whispers something in his ear.
Sasuke's bored expression suddenly changes to one of little shock.
He quickly gets out of his seat leaving Karin behind confused and clueless of what is going on.
"Clear!" a doctor says.
They're in a surgery room and trying to revive the pink haired woman whom seemed to respond to the shock treatment she was receiving.
After a few more minutes, her heart monitor finally goes normal and the doctors all smile happily as they can finally go home and boast to their family that they've saved a life of someone deemed a lost case in the beginning when they were brought here.
The red light outside the surgery room turned off and nurses rolled the patient on the stretcher into a private hospital room.
Fin. I just re-edited some parts especially with the breaks in between different scenes...the content itself is still the same although I'm trying to change it a bit more to make it not so childish in some aspects.
