Cold Midnight Tea
He sat back in his arrogant sort of way.
He said," There's nothing more to say."
Then lectured on for another hour.
She said everything was fine,
She said she didn't like to wine,
Then cried on for another hour.
They sat there screaming though the room was silent.
They sat so still though the scene was violent.
And words can never really help you say,
What you really want then to anyway.
And words can never really help you see,
What you really want to be.
He took a last sip of cold tea.
Last chance to stop all these lies,
Last chance to clean up these lives.
This could be the final hour.
This could be the final hour,
Or this could be the finest hour.
And words can never really help you say,
What you really want then to anyway.
And words can never really help you see,
What you really want to be.
He took a last sip of cold tea.
Sasuke took a seat in his large chair and stared ahead to Sakura, whom sat on the edge of his desk. He glared at the clock, the time showing eleven p.m. He sighed and looked to the rosette haired woman who stared back at him just as intensely. He narrowed his eye and then closed them whilst saying, "There is nothing more to say."
Sakura glared at him, trying her hardest to keep her emotions in check. She was finding it harder with each second that passed by the way that he was acting so indifferent to their current situation. She looked to the rows of books that covered his walls and tried her best not to yell and scream at him.
Sasuke grabbed a scroll, he looked at Sakura only to be able to get a glimpse of her face. When he looked closely he could already see the beginnings of tears in the corners of her eyes and he asked her, "Are you alright?"
She looked at him and then she said, "I am just fine."
By the sound of her voice he knew that she was not, but decided not to question it, he was not up for another one of her speeches on why he should not join the ANBU. In all honesty, he wanted her to be understanding about his decision to join, he wanted to become stronger and he knew that only the strongest of the strongest were allowed to join.
He stared down at his scroll and was about to read when he heard Sakura's voice, he looked up at her and raised an eyebrow.
"I really don't like to wine…" her voice trailed off. "But you have to understand where I am coming from Sasuke. I see people every single day who come home from missions in the ANBU with severed legs, arms, some come home paralyzed. The ANBU is such a big step, you and I just became jounin a year ago and—"
He raised his hand, he already heard all of this before and was not in the mood to hear all of it again. He picked up his cup of tea and took a sip noting that it was cold and set the cup back down and continued to read his scroll. Tomorrow he was supposed to get his physical exam, the preliminaries before going into the actual exam.
Sakura looked at him through teary eyes, her mind in jumbles at how calm he could be towards her. She knew that he was strong, a powerful man of twenty, but still. She was scared so badly for him. ANBU to her was such a large step and she could only recall a handful of people who come home from ANBU missions without any real damage, physical or mental.
Sasuke got a pen out of a drawer and was writing some things down when the voice of Sakura once again interrupted him. He looked up at her impatience boiling in his veins.
"Sasuke, please if you would just—" she too was once again interrupted.
He glared at her, trying to keep his anger in check, "I have made my decision and you can both stay by my side and give me support or you can just leave."
Sakura looked at him with tears in her eyes, although she refused to let them fall, her inner-voice could not help but voice out the words that have been threatening to spill from her mouth all night.
How can I leave you? How do you just expect me to leave you? Why don't you just see that it scares me to think of you out there, possibly being killed?
Whilst Sakura sat there quiet and saddened Sasuke sighed quietly and could not help but think, If only she knew that the only reason that I want this, then maybe she would support my decision.
They sat there, both of their minds filled with irritation. Sasuke, irritation for the fact that someone whom he thought would always support him was now leaving him when he needed her most. He wanted her to wait for him to return from the exam, with his new ANBU mask in hand and smirk on his face. He wanted her to understand that when he said that he wanted to be stronger, he meant it. Even if that was not the true reason.
Somewhere lost in his thoughts, that little voice in the back of his head yelled at him, True reason? You don't even know the true reason for joining, you are already strong enough to kill anyone who gets in your way. Plus, you already killed the two bastards, there is no need to get any more stronger. Liar…and hurting her…pathetic…
Angry at his voice in his head he shook his head and glared at Sakura, whom was looking at the rows of books her eyes still teary as if she were sad yet determined not to cry, which she was. But more than that, she was just as irritated as Sasuke, Uchiha Sasuke the man that she told that she loved and would always care for, the man that she wanted to strangle at the moment.
He was being so very insensitive to her feelings, and rude. He would not listen to her, never letting her finish what she wanted to say, what she wanted him to understand. If he would just listen to her, then he would probably be able to understand and accept why it was she did not want him to join ANBU just yet. If he would look at her, actually look at her, forget his pride, his family, everything they were and just look at her, then he would be able to see. Be able to understand her, not Sakura who loved him, who was a Medic Nin, but Sakura.
While trying to hold back her tears, Inner Sakura decided that it was time to speak up, Just smack him! Honestly, if he were smart enough he would get it that you are just scared for him like you were for Naruto when he applied for ANBU. Honestly, Naruto is smarter, waiting until he is stronger instead of being stupid like Sasuke. Don't cry dammit! Ignore his glares!
But her inner voice was unheeded as the first tear fell and Sakura hastily stood up and walked over to a bookshelf, pretending to be looking at his books. Sasuke knew clearly what she was doing, yet he made no move to help or hinder her, if she wanted to cry then he would let her. It was not like he could say anything to make it better, there were no words that he could find that would consol her.
As Sakura let a few more tears fall, she could not help but think, How can I get him to see? What words can I say to make him see what I am feeling?
But, at that moment she made a decision, that after midnight, if he did not understand her then she would let him go. She would stand back and let him join the ANBU, however painful it was it were more painful to be so close to him and have him not understand her pain.
Without meaning too, she hiccupped and then covered her mouth. Sasuke glared even harder at her, knowing that if she continued this little charade he would lose his control and end up saying something or doing something that he would regret. Sakura on the other hand could feel his glare at her and it nearly broke her heart, a man that she cared so deeply about was hurting her.
She wiped her face, hoping to destroy the evidence of her tears and turned around hoping to talk once more with him, wanting to at least get her side of the story out. Although, when she turned around, she got sight of one of the most hate-filled glares Sasuke had ever given her. She bit her lip and tried to look away and tried to keep her emotions in check. But, when she looked back up, it seemed as if his anger had risen tenfold.
He even had his Sharingan blinking on and off.
Sakura gasped and took a step back, partly in fear and partly because the room seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, suffocating her with his anger leaving her breathless. She felt a tear rise to her eyes and then fall, this time right where he could see and her mind screamed for her to turn, turn and run away faster than ever before. But, before she could even blink, there it was, the Mangekyou Sharingan.
Her eyes slipped closer and closer, her knees buckling and then she fell forward to the floor. Sasuke kept his gaze on her, going though her mind, caressing her into a soft slumber. He stood from his chair, still mentally connected to her mind and crouched down beside her. Picking her up and staring into her partially closed eyes he searched even deeper, floating past her memories into the realm where she hid her deepest darkest secrets.
He narrowed his eyes, pulling her face closer and felt her hand rest on his chest, then it fell once more and he closed his eyes, feeling her body go limp in his arms. He sighed, and stood up making his way to his bedroom where he would lay the unconscious form of Sakura to sleep.
Walking back to his study, he cracked his neck once more and continued to read his scroll, despite that voice of Sakura's screaming at him. The one that he had heard whilst delving deeper into her mind, the one that yelled at him…the one that told him the truth…
"Don't you see that I don't want YOU to become like all of the other ANBU that I operated on…I don't want you to die…Sasuke-kun…"
He sighed once more, hearing his clock strike twelve he put the scroll away, he had an early exam to get some rest for, looking down at his cup, he took a sip of his cold tea.
FIN
I hope you like this, I tried my hardest and came up with some ideas but this seemed like it was very interesting and I liked it a lot.
EXPLAINATION: Sasuke was applying for ABNU and Sakura did not want his too because she was scared that one day he would come home to her operating table and she would not be able to save him. He got his Mangekyou Sharingan from killing Itachi sometime prior to this time setting. He used his Sharingan to find this out, also so that she would pass out. In the end, he still joined the ABNU, if my partner in crime, TooLazyToThinkOfName Wants to, we might make a sequel. TooLazyToThinkOfName Wrote the song and I made the story, Naruto does not belong to either of us, and we thank you for reading, please review and tell me what you think.