Tempest
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Epilogue
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Rain...light, feathery touches on her skin...prickling, slipping down her arms and dripping off her fingers. Shoulder length hair stuck to her face and neck; soft, smooth.
Tears mixed with the rain, emerald green eyes stared off into the distance. Thunder roared overhead, lightning illuminating her shaking figure.
Shaky fingers reached out.
...closer.
...closer.
...why was he always so far away?
This is not happening- her thoughts were chaos in her mind, raging-
Why did you- A gasp...a determined intake of breath...lungs screaming out-
Why did you leave- a shudder, cold wind...cold- so cold-
-me?
Her lips moved, mouthing her thoughts. Her voice hoarse...painful -dry.
Heart beat, erratic, thumping against her bosom, so loud - so painfully loud- she wished it to stop.
Fingers curled, grabbing hold of the material, dark, soaked.
Her knees scraped on the ground as she moved closer...and closer, yet he only seemed to go farther and farther away.
Pain shot through her legs, though she felt none...There was nothing but a dull ache in the hollow of her chest.
numbing all else. She pressed against the solidity that is in front of her. She pressed and shook. Her voice too hoarse to be heard. She felt them.She felt their eyes boring into her back.
She felt their pity when she managed to utter one word.
His name.
Someone shouted her name as she started shaking him roughly- desperately- muttering his name. A mantra.
-Emotions flying, tears dripping, fingers clutching, heart aching-
Brushing the ebony locks away from his eyes, her eyes scanned his face -begging- for a sign. His face was cleaned by the rain, not a single
sign of blood. Pale -too pale-Her name again. Who was that? Can't they see she was busy? She wanted to be left alone.
Arms grabbed her shoulders, pulling her back. She fought, clutched, pulled, bit, scratched, kicked, anything to get them off of her. Who were they? What did they want? Couldn't they see that she was in pain. They were hurting her! He was hurting her, didn't he see? Didn't he care!
Stop it!
Her voice was drowned in the thunder. It hurts-
Who was he? Why did it hurt to see him like this?
Wind slapped her face, chilling, as cold -heartless- as him-
Her tears sped down her cheeks as she was pulled away from him. No! I have to go back to him! I have to be there when he wakes up-
-Sakura-
-I have to be the first person he sees-
Hysterical.
-Sakura, he's not waking up!
A mantra- his name-
-Sa-Sasuke-
-Sakura-
Thunder-
-Sasuke-kun!
Wind-
-Sakura-
Lightning-
-he's dead-
Tempest.
