Disclamer: I do not own Naruto.. and never shall I :(
A/N: mhmm.. this is a bit something that I wrote a while back that I decided to post. Kinda experamental but not AU.
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'Tap' 'Tap' 'Tap' The sound of rain pattered on the window pain, giving a steady rhythm to the night that slowly grew darker. Sitting on the window sill safe from the rain sat a young girl, a tear falling slowly down her cheek. Her head leaned against the window, breathing heavily trying to suppress her tears. The room was dark, the only light was cast from the street light below, giving the room a tinge of an ere glow. Pink hair fell in front of green eyes as she let her head fall forward. "Sasuke-kun.." she sighed, "will you ever come back..?".
It was true. Even after 5 years, the now 17 year old pink hair girl still longed for Uchiha Sasuke. She never was able to move on and the broken heartiness was carried around with her everyday. Even though she was pretty good at putting up a front that she was okay, as soon as she got home to her apartment that all fell apart. It has been a year since the tragic 'accident' that took her parents from her.. and no one dared to mention in front of her, and that she never dared to try to speak about. Even Tsunade-sama, her mentor, and even closer then that, wouldn't even mention it. It was that bad.
The young girl turned her head toward her bed. For a while she just stared at it, contemplating whether or not she'd attempt to get some sleep. Her eyes dropped and her body longed for sleep that wouldn't come, and even if it did, she knew it would be plagued by nothing but nightmares. Deciding that little sleep was better then no sleep she turned from the window sill placing one foot on the cold hardwood floor. The sudden cold on her bare skin sent a shivering sensation up her spine. One quiet step after another, she made her way to her bed. Pulling back the sheets she crawled into it and reached for her alarm clock. Setting the alarm to 5:00am, she rolled over and pulled the covers over her head hoping that sleep would come but leave the nightmare somewhere else. The red glow off her alarm clock stood out in the dark, the clock read: 1:27am.
Eventually exhaustion overcame her and she fell unconscious. She felt panicgrip her throat as she found herself at a familiar training ground. The night dark she was all alone, when suddenly she felt a presence behind her. Sharingan met green eyes, "Sakura.." was all she heard before everything fell dark. Next thing she new she was walking the familiar road toward her house. The street was deserted and The full moon hung high in the sky, But something wasn't right. She couldn't control were she was going or what was doing. Suddenly she began to panic it was like her body was on auto pilot and there was nothing she could do about it. She saw that there was only one light on at her home, the kitchen light. Her parents were probably waiting up for her. She felt her legs carry her up the stairs as one hand reached for her leg holster while the other went toward the door knob.
Her breath hitched in her throat and her heart beat speed up as thousands of scenarios raced through her mind of what was possibly about to occur. Her mind screamed for her to stop, to be able to yell and tell them to run away.. Mentally she cried out trying her hardest to keep her hand from taking that kunai out her leg holster, keeping her hand from opining up the door. Suddenly there was crimson everywhere as Sakura lunged toward her mom – !
'BEEP','BEEP,'BEEP'. The young woke with a fright she was breathing heavy and was covered in a cold sweat. Her covers were a mess half on the floor and the lightof early morning shone lightly through her window. The beeping of her clock continued and grew steadily louder, she reach over and turned it off, sighing as she ran a hand through her hair. "Always the same..". Standing up the young girl walked slowly toward the bathroom grabbing a towel along the way.
Walking in the bathroom, she closed the door behind her and walked toward the shower. Turning the knob the air instantly began to fill with steam and the mirror fogged over. She undressed letting her clothes fall to the floor, pushing the shower curtain open she stepped inside letting the hot water hit her face and run down her body.
After about 15 minutes she turned the water off and reached for her towel. Wrapping it around herself she stepped out and walked back into her bedroom taking out some clothes and laying the out on her bed. Looking at the familiar Haruno crest made her heart ache, she was the last one.. Eyeing the crimson color it made her recall the last night she'd seen them, and that nights tragic end. She closed her eyes as a tear rolled down her cheek.
Now fully dressed the young girl stood in front of her window leaning out slightly breathing in the morning air. The sunrise was just over the horizon line beginning its upward clime into the sky. Birds chirped at each other, flying circles in the sky. She watched them quietly for a few minutes before heading out, making her way toward the hospital. Her shift started at 6am, and it was only 5:32, so she decided to take a more scenic route. Grabbing her bag and her keys, she open the front door and walked out onto the street.
She was dressed in a sleeveless crimson midriff top, three scars were visible on her stomach, black shorts covered by a crimson skirt that was split on the sides and was held together by buckles. Tossing her bag on her shoulder she began walking down the almost deserted street. Everything was quiet, except the sounds of the few people who were out starting to set up shop. Walking with her eyes on the ground and her head in the clouds she past several familiar places. Ichiraku Ramen, favorite place of one of her best friends and teammate, and as it being so early Naruto wasn't even there.. Yet. The Ninja Academy, from the streets below a few teachers could be seen coming in early to there classes making arrangement for the day to come. The Hokage tower ..The young girl came to a halt and looked up at the massive structure, she marveled at the site of the tower reflecting the morning sun, bathing it in yellow and orange. 'Tsunade-sama is probably just up there..,' she thought, 'Now the hospitals not to much farther.'. Sighing, she continued on her way once again stopping in front of a familiar place.
It was the park.. The same park that she used to sit and watch all the other kids have fun playing all day as a kid while she sat away under the trees hoping that no one would see her and come make fun of her wide forehead. Away and out of site, that's how it always was 'till Ino attempted to befriend her. She recalled all the afternoons near sunset were she would come and try to play when all the other kids had gone home. But, it was never the same, she usually always gave up and just sat by herself, being conscious of the growing dark. When it did come time to get home, when her parents had asked her were she had been, she'd just say that she had stayed after class at the academy to get more practice in. That was hardly ever the truth, actually more times then not she had sent her afternoons at that park by herself.
She suddenly heard a bird fly out of nearby tree, snapping her out her past and back to reality. She realized that she had been standing there a bit to long and would have to pick up her pace if she wanted to make it to the hospital on time for her shift. Starting off again she no longer walked slowly allowing her mind to wander, instead she picked up her pace and focused on getting to work on time.
Arriving at the hospital she sighed, greeting the receptionist with a forced smile. Walking past the desk and down the hallway she stopped in front a small room, took out her keys and unlocked it. Walking in, she reached her hand out to the right and flicked the switch and the once dark room was illuminated by two lights over head. Leaving the door open behind her she walked over to the small desk and threw her bag upon it, tossing her keys next to her bag. Looking over at the clock on the wall to the right of her desk, she realized that she didn't have time to just sit and think about the day to come like she usually did. 'Wish I hadn't stopped at that park.. Why did I stop anyways? Its not like remembering those things will change anything..' she thought, walking over to the small bookshelf by the window. "now were is it..?" she though out loud while scanning over the books and miscellaneous files she had shoved between the books. "Here it is.." her eyes scanned over the tiny journal. She flipped through the pages, being ever conscious of the time. After making through only a few pages, she closed it suddenly and put it back on the shelf, having a hard time remaining her composure. Taking a deep breath she walked past her desk, grabbing up her keys and walked out of the room, locking the door behind her.
The young girl took a left hand turn down the hallway, spotting the doctors station and the nurses station, then she stopped. Scanning the names on the clipboards on the desk, her eyes fell on the one labeled 'Haruno Sakura'. "Here we go." After reviewing the patient list for the day, her face fell, 'Today is gonna be a long day..' she thought, grabbing her white coat with her name tag on it, and a stethoscope, 'Better get started,'.
Walking back down the hallway she'd just come from, suddenly she saw someone entering the elevator at the end of the hallway. 'Oh crap..' she thought, "Wait, hold the elevator" The person didn't seem to have heard her, so concentrating her chakra into her feet, she sudden disappeared and moments later reappeared in front of the elevator, her hand on the partially closing doors. The man, seemingly a janitor with his cleaning cart and all, just stared at her with wide eyes. Confusion evident on his face at the fact that she had just suddenly 'appeared' in front of him. In seeing this she just straitened up, walked inside the elevator, stood next to the man and leaned over pressing the 'floor 10' button. The air was filled with discomfort, she could feel the man still staring at her. She tried her best to just brush it off. Her plan to tackle the long list was simple, to start from the top floor and make her way down.
Several hours had passed since she had started her rounds and the young girl was only on the 3rd floor. A clock on a nearby wall read 5:35pm. 'Almost 12 hours,' she thought, 'and I'm still not done,'. She was exhausted. She had only had one break and there had been three patients rushed in, in critical condition and she had been called to all three. Each one took a hell of a lot of her chakra and she was pretty sure if she attempted to assist in another she'd pass out from chakra depletion. But never the less she continued on with her dailies.
Pulling up a chair from the small desk beside the patients bed, she sat down looking at the clipboard in her hands. Her eyes had a hard time focusing on the numbers and words scribbled on the pages as she flipped through them trying to figure out just who she was checking up on. Looking up at the heart monitor and watching its steady rhythm, she turned toward the patient, "Mr. Nakawa, you seem to be doing great. Blood pressures down to a safe number, heart rates steady, and everything else is doing fine. You should be all better real soon. There's just a few more things I wanna check up on, then you can get some rest." She finished, looking back down at her clipboard. Mr. Nakawa replied with a nod and a kind smile.
"Sakura-san" Came a soft female voice from the doorway.
The pink haired girls head shot up looking for the source of who called her name. Her eyes feel on the door way. A young nurse stood in the doorway, short brown hair and striking brown eyes, looking over at her. It was Taishi Yuko.
"Huh, what is it?" She replied, looking back down at her clipboard.
"Come on, get out of here. You look exhausted." Yuko said, glancing up at the clock on the wall.
"Im not done with my patient list." She said, not even giving a glance in Yuko's direction.
Yuko looked at her with worried eyes. "Look Sakura.. It's 6:00, your shift was over four hours ago. You were called in for three emergency cases, of course your not gonna finish you rounds. I'll finish your rounds, just get home and get some rest."
"Im just gonna finish this up, there's not that many left." She replied, still not looking at Yuko.
'She sure is one stubborn girl,' yuko thought 'either way, if I can't get her to go home, there's one person who can'. "Don't make me go get Tsunade-sama".
Suddenly her hand quit writing on the page. She sighed, defeated. She knew Tsunade-sama would force her out of there, and would be angry too. She had just promised her mentor that she wouldn't over exert herself and stay in the hospital to long. And that she wouldn't have to be called in to get her to go home. 'She'd probably knock me out and take me home herself to get me to go,' she thought. See the thing is that she had been staying late at the hospital, and over working herself and it had become a bit of a pattern that the fifth would have to come and get her student to go home, after hearing voices of concern from her colleagues.
Standing up, she walked over to Yuko, handing her, her clipboard stopping halfway through the door way. "Okay, I promise I'll go.. You just gotta make sure Mr. Nakawa gets meds. and that the room temperature is set to what he likes." She said, and with that existed the room and walked down the hall way. All Mr. Nawaka could do was smile a sad smile at her retreating form.
"She sure is one sweet girl, isn't she?" Mr. Nawaka asked, looking at the spot were she was moments before. "Always going the extra mile for people.."
Yuko too looked at the empty door way, "Yeah, she sure is. I worry about her though". With that Yuko walked over to the rooms thermostat, "What temperature do you like the room set at Mr. Nawaka?" she asked, smiling at him sweetly.
Walking slowly under the full moon was a young girl who's pink hair blew gently in the breeze. Bringing her arms up she hugged herself slightly trying to suppress the goose bumps that appeared when a shivering sensation ran up and down her spine. She had to admit, the temperature had drop slightly since she had left the hospital and she hadn't been home since, so she didn't have a coat. All that she said was "I'll go.." she didn't say she'd go home. She'd been wandering around aimlessly for some time now, just letting her feet guide her, when suddenly she spotted it. 'Why did I come here, here of all places damn it! ' she thought staring at the bench. Then she started to think about him.
She just walked over to it and sat down. 'When was the last time I came here..?' she thought. Then she remembered, and she remembered that it resulted it quite a bit of tears, and just more heartache. She traced the stone lightly, it was cold on her fingertips and dared to send more shivers up her spine. Suddenly she laid down on the stone bench and looked up at the night sky. Adjusting herself to get as comfortable as she could, she stared up at the stars and let her mind wander.
Suddenly she smelled Naruto's scent and realized that her eyes were shut. Slowly she opened her eye's to find the sun just over the horizon, and she noticed something laid on her torso. Looking down she saw a black jacket with orange stitching, ' Naruto.. ' she thought while examining what was behind her head. It to belonged to Naruto, it was his smaller sweater jacket. When she started to sit up she stopped suddenly, "ahh ... " she said through clenched teeth. " Stupid, stupid, stupid..," she muttered to herself holding her back trying to sit up completely. When she finally did she looked down at the jackets in her possession sadly. ' Naruto and Hinata's date was last night.. So that means that they probably found me here when Naruto was taking Hinata home seeing as the Hyuga compound isn't to far from here. Damn.. I must have ruined there happy evening. I mean what better way to end a wonderful evening out together the to find a messed up friend of yours out cold on a bench in the middle of the night? Anything.' she thought her grip tightening on the jacket as she began to fill with anger aimed only at herself.
'How could I have been so stupid?!' She thought running her hand through her bangs while getting up from the bench. She still had work to get to, and she knew that she had to stop by home. Walking down the street Sakura tried to rid herself of the guilt and anger she felt so that making a smile convincing when she got to the hospital wouldn't be so much a diffuculty.
A few hours later Naruto was on his way out of his apartment when he found his jackets folded up neatly outside his door. There on top was a note of apologie, signed Sakura. "Arigato, Sakura-chan." he said sadly turning around and placing the jackets ont the stand juust inside the door.
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A/N: yeah kinda drops off at the end.. sorry about that I could try to fix that depending on weather or not anyone would be interested in reading more. I do have a plot, just weather or not I can write it down, that's another story. ^__^ I hope ye all enjoy!
NEW!A/N: me fix the ending atleast slightly better...