A/N: Another one-shot. THAT'S REALLY, REALLY LONG!!!! So I decided to separate into two parts. Lol, that way I didn't have to keep you guys waiting as long!
I like making these. They're a lot of fun….*giggle* This one is pretty sad so be prepared my pretties. I had it in my mind for a while and I decided since it was a long break, why not go crazy!!! Lol. Yep. Crazy…in like…I'm writing three stories and finishing "My Best Friend's Imouto" in two weeks…lol….a total of *counts in head* hmmm…10 chapters….oh joy…lol it was a looooot of fun…
No really it was! I love writing these! And the attention that all you guys give me in reply!
Also I want to recommend, Chasing Your Shadow by Sasukeluva 4eva. It's a great fic that I think deserves a lot more attention.
Hahaha. On Microsoft Word this was 17 pages. Wow! And this is only the first part!
Anyways enjoy!
Warning: Lots of gory descriptions.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
I could see it in the distance.
Konoha.
The giant gates were but a few mere miles away.
Not even.
I was probably less than a mile away by now.
Yet, the giant gates that were raised above the horizon seemed so far away. Out of touch. It had taken me nearly three hours to travel to this point. In normal time it should have taken thirty minutes at most.
I should have been farther away from Konoha at the time, but the man I was assigned to assassinate had caught wind of me stalking him and made a brake for Konoha. No doubt to set fourth his plans that would end with Konoha's destruction.
I had to make one of the greatest efforts to catch up to him. He was thirty minutes away from Konoha when I managed to stop him. Thirty minutes away from succeeding in his plans. Thirty minutes away from destroying everything I loved.
But I had stopped him.
It had taken everything I had too. This man was someone who a genin could never handle. An Anbu would have struggled to complete this mission. No scratch that, they would have failed. After all that's why I was the one who had been assigned it. Not anyone else. Me.
I should be dead.
Maybe I was dead.
But the constant pain that was spread all through my body reminded me otherwise. There was so much of it. As I limped toward my home, every little jostle, every little movement that I made, caused a searing agony to spread through my chest. My legs. My body.
It hurt so much.
Why am I alive?
My head was feeling dizzy and I struggled to stay on my feet. The constant swaying of my body caused my limp movements to be even slower if possible. I could barly move in the first place without the sword in my chest moving and making deeper cuts in my body.
I stilled finally, finding my body unable to move any further. I warm liquid was sliding down my legs that were shaking with uncontrollable spasms. The world in front of my eyes was getting blury and I had to focus hard not to blank out.
I needed to get to the gates.
That's all, only a little bit further…
I couldn't move. Not at all. My legs would not trudge on another step. Instead they wished to collapse underneath me and it was only sheer willpower that I did not fall right then and there.
But willpower can only take a person so far.
More of that warm substance was running down my thighs and I suddenly had the overwhelming urge to brush it away. To remove it from my body. I brought my gloveless hand down to my lower abdomen to get some of the warmth off my body.
It felt like I had stuck my hand into a bucket of warm water.
Oh kami.
As I brought the hand back up to eye level, I was met with the overwhelming scent of blood. Then I was looking at a hand soaked in blood.
My blood.
His blood.
So much blood.
The red slipped onto my fingers before it dropped down onto the floor below. My eyes followed the drops the entire way and for the first time I received an accurate look of my abdomen. I small, broken gasp left my lips.
My eyes widened, as I lifted my head back up to stare at the gates.
Oh kami. Oh kami.
I wasn't going to live. The overwhelming revelation brought on a new sensation of haze. My eyes began to roll back into my head and a darkening hood took over my sight.
Before I completely passed out I heard an ear shattering scream.
It took me a moment right as I could feel nothing anymore that I realized the scream came from my mouth.
I'm dying.
I lightly placed my fist on the door and even more gently tapped upon the oversize door. A single "come in" came from the other side.
I pulled the knob and entered the Hokage's Office.
I saw that the Hokage chair was turned away and thus restricted me from seeing the person seated in it. Instead it was facing the window that overlooked the entire village of Konoha. I closed the door behind me and stepped forward until I was standing right in front of the desk.
I held my hands clasped behind my back and respectably stood straight and tall as I was presented in front of my leader.
"You called, Hokage-sama?"
I heard a long, exaggerated sigh as the green chair spun around to face me. I was greeted by a gloomy face that's crystalline-blue eyes were slightly narrowed at me in a false attempt at a glare.
"How many times do I have to tell you Sakura-chan? Don't call me that!"
"Sorry, Sorry Naruto!" I laughed out. I raised my hands in a sign of surrender. The two rings on my left hand sparkled in the casting of the overhead lights. I found myself caught in its beauty as I often was when the light hit the object just right.
The clear cut diamond on the engagement ring was I presumed at least two carets. Maybe two in a half at most. Then wrapped around the silver band were vines, decorated with small, pink-tinted diamonds in the shape of cherry blossoms. The wedding band was also silver and alternated between white and pink diamonds.
All in all the two little rings, screamed "holy shit! I cost a hell of a lot!" When I had tried and sneak a peek at the checkbook, I was caught red-handed before I could even pick the booklet up off the desk. Another chance never arrived.
"Hm." My momentary fascination on my hand was interrupted by the sound of my ex-teammates grumbling voice. I lowered my hands down to my side and looked back at the Rokudaime.
The silver band on his left hand ring finger drew my eyes in and I found myself smiling at the tiny thing. His eyes followed my direction and after viewing the ring for a moment turned his head back up to gift me with one of his legendary grins. His other hand touched the band and twirled it around his finger.
"I still can't believe it." He smiled up at me.
"I know married for a whole month." I flashed him a smile of my own. He laughed lightly and gazed down at the ring again, probably caught up in the memories of the tiny object.
"You know…" he muttered, "I always thought…I always thought that it would be you…you would be the one that would hold the other half of this ring." I looked at him, seemingly deep in thought. My smile faded momentarily, but hearing no regret or sadness in his voice, I knew he was only remembering a past feeling. It longer existed towards me.
He suddenly turned toward me and flashed other one of his smiles that spread all the way across his face.
"It's probably good though. I don't think I could survive your anger and monstrous strength every day. I'm plenty happier with my adorable Hinata than you."
My smile faded as a vein popped in my forehead (that I had grown into a few years back). Okay so I was awarded "monstrous" and "anger" while Hinata got "adorable?" I could fucking show him angry! That bastard!
I was just about to call Naruto out and possibly pound his face into the floor, when he suddenly lost any sign of enjoyment and instead a look of guilt passed across his face. The emotion was soon followed by sadness and did not move pass it.
"Naruto? What's wrong?" I questioned.
He stayed quiet and instead looked at the desk underneath him. Suddenly a horrible feeling of dread filled me.
'Oh Kami! Oh please no!'
My hand clutched at my ring as I remember that my Husband had been sent on a mission a few days ago. He should be back in a few days….but if something had happened…
'It can't be! Not him!'
"S-Sasuke.." I whispered out.
Naruto head snapped up to look at me and now his eyes filled with fear.
'NO! NO! NO!'
Tears filled at the corner of my eyes as my hand moved to my heart, clenching at the material covering my heart. The Uchiha symbol lay just a little above it.
Naruto watched me for a moment before he suddenly popped out of his chair, realization on his face.
"Oh wait! No, nothing happened to Sasuke! He's fine!"
My entire world paused around me. I barley could register the words that had just been spoken to me. But when I did, relief filtered through my pores. I let out a lengthy sigh. Thanking Kami that nothing was wrong with my husband of six months. Now all I had to do was kill Naruto, for making me believe otherwise.
Before I could make my attack with my fist into the whiskered face of my friend, I remembered that something was still wrong.
"All right Naruto! Just spit it out already! If it's not Sasuke-kun, then what the hell did you call me here?!" I growled at the annoying man in front of me.
He stayed quiet.
I gave a low growl.
"I-I…I have a mission for you."
I stilled. Then I laughed.
"Just a mission! That's it?! You made me have a heart attack for nothing Naruto! Geez! If this is about what Sasuke-kun said about not giving me missions unless he approves of them first, you don't have to obey him! You're Hokage and he can't dictate my life! Plus I haven't gotten a mission in almost four months! Being stuck in the hospital was beyond boring! I want to get some action. I honestly figured that Sasuke-kun was giving the village a bribe of large quantity of money to keep me from getting missions! Really! I'm a Jounin for Kami's sake! I can take care of myself! Just cause he's captain of the Anbu team, doesn't mean he can control everything I do! Really I…I—"
I suddenly dropped off from my ramble when I noticed that Naruto still had a guilty look on his face.
"W-Wha…What's wrong? It's just a mission right?"
Naruto looked up at me, reaching for a folder that I had not noticed was lying right in front of him. He threw it at me and with my exceptional ninja skills I caught it.
In huge, bold, red letters the words CONFEDENTIAL were written.
I glanced up at him to see him nod as I started to open the brown folder.
~Mission Assignment~
For: Uchiha Sakura
"I'm sorry Sakura, you have to know if we had any other choice for a person to complete this mission we would have chosen them!" Naruto spoke in the background.
Rank: S-Rank
Classification: Solo
Mission Length: 2-5 days
"But this mission HAS to be a success and after me and Shikamaru consulted over the matter…the only person with the greatest chance to succeed was you!"
Location: Land of Fire
Objective: Assassination of—
"Sakura, you're one my best friends, I love you! I'm so sorry! I would never even think to give you this except that…if I didn't the village…." I heard a sobbing noise begin as my eyes continued to look down the sheet. I froze when I read the final part of the notification.
Estimated Survival Rate: 3 Percent
"This is soooooooooooooo boring!" Kotetsu spoke from his position in the guard stand of the two legendary gates of Konoha.
"You should be happy to have a mission at all." I said quietly.
"Oh come on Izumo! You can't honestly say you want to be back at 'village guard' again do you?! Seriously! I mean we've fought Akatsuki! We survived the Fourth Ninja War! God damn it, we should be worshiped by everyone! Not given a stupid task like this!!!" Kotestu protested again.
Despite slightly agreeing with him, I stayed quiet.
Kotestu continued to mutter about the topic while I lazily placed my head on my hand, using it for support.
The only recorded persons that were meant to return today had already arrived about an hour ago. Now they were stuck until there relief came. In six hours.
Shit this was going to be the most boring day I have had in a long ti—
My thoughts were interrupted when a high-pitched scream tore through the air. Kotestu fell backwards out of his chair while I immediately froze.
In a matter of seconds the screaming stopped and I reacted quickly thereafter. Within a flash of a second, I was standing outside the guard station looking out of the entrance where I had heard the sound come from. My eyes looked toward the path that lined the area and the single figure that stood less than half a mile away.
Kotestu was suddenly beside me as I took off toward the person who as I watched, started to fall forward. I couldn't make out the direct form of the figure, but I swore I could see a glint of some shiny weapon in the sunlight protruding from their chest.
Oh shit.
As I heard the thud of the person hitting the ground I flinched. I could now see the hilt of the sword sticking out of the back of the collapsed ninja.
Kotestu overtook me and while I still ran for the body, he had already arrived. He bent down and looked at the person, whose face was in the dirt. Yet when he turned to look back at me, I knew he had recognized the individual without even seeing their face.
Kotestu was terrified.
I could see that much as I was only seconds away. As I skidded to a stop beside him he didn't move an inch, wearing a face that was torn between shock and fear. The body which was so tiny and frail was so covered in blood that it was impossible to recognize it. I would have assumed them dead already except that there was a faint rise and fall of their back, signifying the girl (which I assumed from the slender form) was still breathing. Her hair was almost completely red and the only strands that weren't bathed in crimson appeared to be a light pinkish color that—
OH SHIT.
As I looked down at the feminine figure, I noticed despite it being drenched in blood, that straight threw were the sword was placed in her back, a symbol surrounded it.
The Uchiha Clan symbol.
OH FUCKING SHIT!
"I accept the duties and risks entitled to this mission, Hokage-sama."
"Sakur—"
"I accept my duty as a Ninja of Konoha and the responsibilities and sacrifices that service requires."
"I-I…"
"Even if that means death."
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU SENT HER ON A MISSION?!?!" I growled out at the person seated behind the desk.
He stared not at me, but at a pile of papers as he used a stamp to mark each individual paper before he moved on to the next.
I slammed my fist on the table causing the pile of papers to scatter across both the desk and the floor surrounding it. I felt my sharigan activate as my chakra rolled off me in heaps of angry waves. I had to control myself from activating my MangekyōSharigan, since my medic (and wife) had advised me –cough-orderedme-cough- not to for health purposes. Naruto finally looked up at me after staring at the scattered pile for a few moments.
His eyes were emotionless which was something that was near impossible for Naruto to do. It made me furious.
"HOW DARE YOU!" I screamed at him, shoving my face right up into his, my bleeding red eyes swirling dangerously as I glowered down at him.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO SEND HER ON ANY MISSIONS! ESPECIALY WHEN I'M NOT THERE! NARUTO!" For a moment during my shouts at the Hokage, I could have sworn I heard a scream from somewhere in the distance, and it caused a feeling of dread fill me for a moment, but I decided I was imagining such a noise, since Naruto took no notice of it.
"Sasuke." He almost whispered.
"WHAT THE HELL DID I GIVE YOU THAT MONEY FOR?! IT WASN'T A FUCKING DONATION!!!!"
"Sasuke…"
"DO YOU REALIZE THAT I SHOULD KILL YOU RIGHT HERE!?!?"
At that two ninja appeared on either side of Naruto, both armed with Kunai. I could fucking care less about those wimps. I could kill them in a second and right now anything I could get my hands around would suffice the need to kill someone, anyone right now.
Naruto raised a hand in the air and the two Ninja with slight hesitation disappeared once again.
"Sasuke…the mission."
That's when I realized something.
Naruto NEVER called me by my name. Only when there was something important. In fact I could only recall him not using 'Teme' as my name three times. While we were fighting Haku on the bridge, during our fight in the Valley of the End and throughout the time he was trying to bring me back to Konoha.
By body stilled.
"What mission was it Naruto?" I hissed out from my teeth. Naruto flinched; I had a feeling he could handle my screaming words better then ones that were almost whispered out.
He did not speak instead choosing to look out the window.
"Where the hell did you send my wife?!" I growled out.
He turned around to speak to me, his mouth open to deliver a speech, when suddenly the door flew open behind me.
"Hokage-sama!!"
The strong stench of blood also filled the room, as I turned around in such speed it almost made me dizzy. I recognized the person immediately. After all they had been the guard on duty when my Anbu team had returned home earlier today.
Kotestu was it?
Yet the person had blood smeared all over their shirt and it covered their hands as well. There was so much of it. My noise twitched slightly in disgust, despite having had so much blood soak my hands before I started to detest the sight of it.
The guard seemed not to notice me standing a little to the side of the room and instead ran up to Naruto's desk, placing his hands atop it, and consequently leaving some of the blood atop it.
He was panting and out of breath, showing that he had probably used insane amounts of chakra to arrive here quickly. My eyes narrowed. Something of that importance revolved around the lines of invasion.
"Hokage-sama!! I-It's Sakura! Uchiha Sakura! We found her body outside of the gates she—she was collapsed and bleeding—" It was there when he finally took notice of my presence and he shut up. His eyes widen in horror, as he took his hands off of the desk and took an exaggerated step backwards.
My eyes looked back at the desk where the crimson substance was smudged across the wood. A small amount of it started to slide down the side of the desk, forming a small droplet.
I realized then that it was my wife's blood on the desk.
My wife's blood covering the man in the room.
My wife's blood.
So much of it.
Sakura…
Sakura
With speed that would even frighten the most powerful of ninja, I had the man covered in the Uchiha Matriarchs crimson life source, slammed against a wall with my hand grasping his neck, making sure to use enough force to constrict his airways.
The man desperately clawed at my hand to try and remove it from his scrawny neck. He was rewarded by a harsher grip and being slammed into the wall.
"What the hell did you do to her?" I hissed out, slamming his head against the wall of the office. He continued to claw at my hand.
"TELL ME YOU BASTARD!" I growled out, my Sharigan flickering between its normal three tomoe to Mangekyō Sharigan.
The man's face was growing a purple color as he struggled to get air. I knew full well that I was killing the guy, but I could care less. Only the fact that this man was drenched in the blood of the woman I loved mattered.
Suddenly an amount of pressure hit my chest, effectively pushing me away from the man I was strangling and shoving me to the other side of the room, where I was slammed into the wall. I glared at where Naruto stood in front of Kotestu, one arm simply raised in the air.
He narrowed his eyes at me.
"Sasuke, he can't answer you if you kill him." He turned away from me and faced Kotestu.
"Kotestu speak."
The man gasped a little rubbing his throat as his face returned to the normal complexion.
"T-Th…At the gates, we found her body, outside the gates. S-She…blood." He continued to rub his neck and coughed periodically, unable to continue.
I growled ready to kill the bastard if he couldn't give any more information. I started to walk toward the man and when fear started to take over his eyes, a certain amount of pride filled me. Yet it was outweighed with anger and fear.
Was…Was she?
"Her condition?" Naruto asked the question that was on my mind.
"A-Alive. I-I-Izumo took her to the….hospital"
If any further conversation occurred, I was unable to hear it. By the time the last word was uttered I was already outside the Hokage Mansion and headed toward the hospital.
Toward Sakura.
Toward my life.
"W-Wha do we do I-Izumo." Kotestu asked me from beside the dying woman.
I bent down and felt her neck, searching for a pulse. I had to wipe away some of the blood covering the area, before I could even locate the area I was searching for. And even then it took me a moment before I found what I wanted.
It was so weak.
"We can't wait for a medic nin to come here. We have to take her to the hospital…now."
Kotestu nodded to me.
"Help me get her in my arms, make sure you don't touch the sword."
He nodded and proceeded to my side. I carefully wrapped my arms around her torso, making sure that I avoided the sword. I waited until Kotestu lifted her legs up in his arms before I lifted her body off the dirt. Her long hair fell down beside her face and droplets of blood fell off from the strands.
Once I had her bridal style in my arms, Kotestu stepped away from me. I noticed that his appearance had changed. His shirt was covered in blood.
I looked down at the body for a brief moment before I had to force myself to look away in fear of getting sick. There were so many wounds. Some were so deep that organs could be seen if you looked past all the blood.
How in the hell was this girl still alive?
Not to mention the sword that was sticking just a little below the center of her torso. I wondered for a brief moment on why she had not removed the object, instead just getting rid of most of the edge, till just a small amount was sticking out of her chest. Then I realized that the sword was probably keeping the blood in her body.
Not that it mattered much.
It still found plenty of other ways out.
"Kotestu, go inform Hokage-sama right away! Also request Tsunade-Hime in case she is not at the hospital. GO!"
I didn't bother running to the Hospital instead using a transportation jutsu to arrive just inside.
The tiny girl lay limp in my arms and if not for the way her chest rose the tiniest degree I would have feared she had died in the few seconds it took to arrive at the hospital…
Yet I didn't know how even the greatest medic could save the life of this dying blossom.
"Where is she?!" I shouted at the nurse present in the station. She glanced up nervously at me, her eyes widening at my sudden presence.
"Where is Uchiha Sakura?!" I shouted again, though I had the feeling she had known who I was talking about beforehand.
"Tsunade-Hime! A-A…Emergency Ward number 3, but—"
I didn't listen to her as I ran down the hallways toward the room. Normally I wouldn't make such an effort for someone, but this situation was different. This was Sakura. This was the girl I had trained for almost three years. This was the girl I saw as my daughter.
As I ran down the hallway, I noticed the red light illuminating above the sign with the number three written on it. I slammed the door open, all but ripping it from its hinges.
The sight before me was horrendous.
The beautiful woman who I have known throughout my time as Hokage lay broken apart on the hospital table. Her blood was covering the table and dripping onto the tile floor of the operating room. The beeping of the heart monitor was slow and almost sporadic.
She was laid down on her side, two nurses holding her up while another one was removing a sword from her back. When they heard the sound of my entrance, they immediately looked up. When the nurse removing the knife from Sakura's back, lifted her head up I recognized her as Ino Yamanaka. Her icy-blue eyes were filled with tears and she let out a strangled breath, something that was a cross between a sigh of relief and a sob.
She kept her hand firmly placed on the dagger in the back, but did not attempt to remove it further.
"T-T-Tsunade-sama….S-she—" When she broke off into sobs, I was unable to do anything but stare at the body of my ex-student.
There were multiple scratches and abrasions covering her arms and legs, nothing that was life threatening in any sort. Her shoulder had a slice through it and that would need to be repaired if she wanted to be able to use it again. Also her right hand had third degree burns on it. The way they were patterned on her fist, gave indication that she had used it to protect another body part from the flames. But none of those were the problem.
It was her torso that had me speechless.
There was a ground in hole located in her side that looked almost as if someone had thrust their entire fist into her flesh. The area of which it had hit, predicted that her small intestine and possibly her kidney had been damaged. A long, diagonal cut went from her lower hip all the way to area just before the arch of her breast. The cut left her red shirt split in half, allowing the sight of her pale skin, although covered by red liquid, still oozing out of the deep gash. Then there was the sword still left in her body.
So many wounds…
So much blood…
How was it possible for someone as small as Sakura to have that much blood leaking out of her body?
My fingers started to shake slightly as my past fear of blood started to resurface. Another one of my most important people lying in front of me. Another one dying.
"T-Tsun-a-ade! P-Please help her!!" Ino sobbed out, her arm that was holding the knife in Sakura's back started to shake, trembling ever so slightly, as tears slid down her cheeks.
My shaking stopped as the medic in me took over.
I was beside Ino in a second, my hand clasping over Ino's trembling hand. I stilled the movements with my firm grasp.
"Ino control yourself! Sakura needs all the help she can get!" I ordered her.
Ino gasped her eyes widening, before they took on a new look; determination. It passed over the sorrow and fear in a quick flash. Using her free hand she wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Hai, Tsunade-sama!!" Her voice clear, with just a small amount of tremble in the depths of it.
"Alright Ino, I want you to remove your hands from the knife. You two don't move an inch!!" The two nameless nurses nodded their heads and Ino followed my order. She took a step away from me, allowing more space for me.
"Stand on the other side now. When I start removing the knife you will immediately begin healing the wou—"
"Shishyou…" a small, weak voice spoke below me.
Everyone in the room snapped their head down to see two dazed, emerald eyes staring back at them.
"…sama…"
Someone was speaking. I couldn't tell where it was coming from. The darkness was so strong. So thick that I could taste the eerily black, metallic on my tongue.
"I-…control….help….get…"
Ah, I knew that voice. Strong, commanding, and prideful, the voice that could only belong to her sensei. Tsunade-Shishyou. Yet right now her voice was weaker. Something was hindering her voice. What was it?
"Hai…Tsunad—"
Was that Ino? What was she doing here? I thought she was at the hospital, covering for me while I was on a mission. Hospital? Was that were I was?
"…I want you…from the knife…You two don't move an inch…"
Knife? An image of a man charging at me from the front flashed in my head. He held a long katana and right before I hit him with my fist, he vanished. The memory was hazy and it made me feel sick, but I could still distinctly remember the pain that flashed inside my chest after the nameless man vanished. The same pain that I was still experiencing now.
I tried to speak, but some unknown force was keeping me from completely awaking.
"Stand on the other side now."
I tried to reach out to Tsunade, but again I was unable. My eyes twitched slightly and after using my entire strength I broke through the haze to see Tsunade standing above me.
" When I start removing the knife you will immediately begin healing the wou—"
"Shishyou…" my voice finally broke through the haze.
When I saw the head's of four people snap down to look at me, I realized for the first time where I was. The hospital.
My breath hitched slightly and I realized that it hurt to breath. I was tilted on my side and I felt two pairs of hands holding me that way.
"WHY THE HELL IS SHE AWAKE?!"
Tsunade's scream would have made me flinch, but the hands on me kept me from moving. My ears had a ringing noise in them, but I could still hear a beeping noise nearby. A recognized the sound as a heart monitor.
"WHY ISN'T SHE UNDER ANISTETIC?!"
"We did…it must be the blood, the anesthetic won't stay in her body."
"THEN PUT HER ON THE GAS!!! We have to remove the sword now, Ino begin healing the wound immediately."
Something was placed over my mouth and noise, and as I took in a shaky weak breath I felt a fog come over my senses already. I already felt a sleepy-like quality move over my mind and I wanted to humor the feeling.
"Alright Ino, now!"
I felt something leave my body and I was still aware of enough of the world to let out a scream. My sleepy eyes widened as I felt the object slice threw more of my flesh as it left my body with a hole. I heard the clanking of metal from a distance and then a warm feeling filled the spot where the pain was coming from.
Medical Nin-jutsu.
But it was to late, the pain was still there and it overwhelmed my senses. Taking over the tiny spread of warmth in my chest. It was too much. To great of a pain.
A blinding light flashed in front of my eyes and right before a creeping darkness slithered over my sight, I let out a weak apology.
"I'm….sorry."
And then there was nothing, but me and the dark.
.
All eyes turned toward the heart monitor as it went from the slow, but steady rise and fall of a slope to nothing, but a straight line.
"Shit!" I screamed.
I pushed more of my healing chakra into her backside, closing her back up, but not healing the wounds inside her flesh. Immediately I grabbed onto my ex-apprentice's shoulders and then forced her body to lay on its back.
The two nurses released their grip on her body immediately and allowed me to stand over her body.
.
Ino was still standing over Sakura's body, healing the bleeding sword wound. She was pushing a lot of her healing chakra into the wound at a extremely fast pace. Obviously trying to save the life of her best friend.
"Ino move!" I shouted again. She removed her hands from Sakura's mangled body.
I placed my hands, one on top of the other, over Sakura's heart.
"CLEAR!"
I pushed an electrical current into Sakura's body and her back arched into my hands. The monitor to the side, had a small increased slope raise above the flat line before it returned back to flat, lifeless line once again.
I shouted clear again before I pumped a greater amount of electric current through her heart. The monitor beeped twice, before it returned once again to nothing.
I was about to begin another round of crash cart reinforcement when the doors to the room burst open.
I lifted my head out of surprise to see Uchiha Sasuke staring at his wife's body. Then he glanced up with red eyes to look at the heart monitor with the line that didn't rise for a single account.
Ah crap.
It was so dark here.
I could see nothing at all in this place. It was cold and lonely. But for some reason it brought me comfort. It felt like this was a much better place then where I was just a small amount of time ago.
What had happened to me?
I couldn't remember. Only the distant feeling of pain was a recollection, but even that was fuzzy. This impending darkness seemed to be clouding my mind completely and as I stood glancing around trying to use my sight to see something; anything.
I stepped forward and despite my cloudy head, my body was stronger than ever.
"Sasuke-kun?"
I don't understand why I called out my husband's name, but for a strange reason or another I could almost swear that I sensed his chakra right next to me.
Nothing was there.
I stepped forward again with slight hesitation as I took slow hesitated steps. I moved as I would on a mission; observing everything that was occurring around me. It was a slow process and it took me a moment to realize that there was nothing around me. Nothing at all.
"Sasuke!" I cried out to the still air, fear finally taking over me.
I hated being alone. I hated the dark. It frightened me since a long time ago. I whirled around searching for anything, any flicker of light; since after all, it was impossible for there to be utter and complete darkness.
That's when I saw it. A light coming from so far away that it almost appeared to be darkness as well. It was growing bigger though, allowing myself to see more and more of the beautiful color. Without hesitation I started to run toward it. My legs moved quickly and despite not using any chakra, I moved faster than I normally could even with it.
I kept getting closer and closer and as it appeared almost right in front of me, I stretched out my hand. It was as if the light was a material good and I reached for it with my hand, before I clenched my fingers trying to grasp it within my grip.
The light flashed a million times brighter and I was forced to place my hands over my face to keep myself from going blind.
When though the skin of my hand I noticed the insane brightness had disappeared I slowly removed my hand from in front of my face.
I was greeted with the sight of the gates of the Uchiha Clan…
Home.
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