I Won't!
By: Niami94
I heard a faint hiccuping in the next room.
"Ugh, not again...," I walked across the hall and knocked on her door. "Sakura, are you in there?"
What was I saying? Of course, she was in there! Who else would be crying in the middle of the night?
"Sakura, open up."
Silence... How strange... Was she trying to fool me? I tried knocking again.
"Sakura. If you don't open this door-," and the door flew open.
"What do you want?" After days of not seeing her, this was the mental image she was going to leave me with: pink-tinted cheeks with tear stains running down to her neck, over-watered eyes, fragile skin, and that look she gave me. Her tone was screaming at me, 'Get out of here; I'm fine!'... but, the way she looked at me whispered, 'You know what's wrong. Please stay, then.'
"Sakura chan... are you alright?" Wow, my voice cracked on that last word.
"I'm fine." She sounded so much like a little three year old girl, I started chuckling.
"What are you laughing, Naruto," she asked. She looked so slighted. Man, way to go, Naruto.
"It's nothing..."
"Well?"
"Well, what?"
"Why did you wake me up for?"
I couldn't believe her! Me? Waking her up? Sounds about right.
"Excuse me? What are you talking about? You woke me up! You've been crying over him ever since we heard Itachi got to him!" Though her rigid expression didn't change, tears brimmed her eyes again.
"Well, what about you? Why haven't I seen you doing anything?; Mourning him? Huh, Naruto? Give me a good reason...," her voice trembled. It's funny... I'd never heard her voice stronger than now, at her weakest moment. "Go on..."
"I don't have a good reason... I'm just not bent up about it as much as you are because I never needed to look up to him."
"That was-"
"Low," I interrupted her and paused, "I know. But, you can't blame me, Sakura."
She looked up at me. Her expression hadn't changed.
"Naruto," she whispered so low that I could barely understand, but understand I did, "When's it gonna stop hurting?"
I wrapped my arms around her and she clutched on to them. I tucked her head under my chin. It didn't make me feel any better knowing I was succumbing to her needs, but... maybe it would help. She started crying again...
"Sakura, you knew this would happen... If Itachi hadn't gotten to him, someone else would. If we ever saw him again, we'd be ordered to kill him without a second thought. He wasn't as immortal as you thought he was, now, huh?"
"You're not fighting fair, Naruto," she breathed into my nightshirt.
"Sakura, if you could see just how many times in the past seven years I've seen him hurt you like that, and you letting him take his toll on you, you'd really see who wasn't 'fighting fair.'"
"Alright, then," she pushed against me and I released her, "I won't cry for him anymore."
A smile crept up my face as she put her brave face on. 'Atta girl...'
I was having a bad day and my Windows Media Player kept on being a butt and playing love songs, I decided to write the shortest drabble I've ever done.
You know, I remember wanting this to be alot longer and having Sakura commit suicide, but that was too mean. Then, the cutting idea didn't work out cuz... I have bad memories having to do with people I hold close and dear cutting themselves. [coughericandjojocough
I have about 3 more documents all leading up to this flashback[hence the reason why it's all in italics but they were all really badly written cuz my drive had been completely wasted by the time I got around to finishing it.
Niami94