Memories of a Cherry Blossom
Chapter I: Sasuke
"Of course I'll marry Sasuke-kun one day!"…"Sasuke-kun, I love you!"…"Sasuke is the one that I admire."
He was tortured by remembrances of her. Guilt, sorrow, and thoughts of what could have been ran through his head constantly. He knew one day he would have to rebuild his clan and that in order to do so he would have to take a wife. Despite how annoying he used to find her, she probably would have been the one. She was his team mate, after all… The only girl who he was really close with.
Sasuke held his hands in front of his face and cried. He sat in the living room of his apartment, the lights turned down, and wallowed in despair. He had thought at the age of seven, when his clan was massacred, that he would never experience pain like that again. He was wrong. When his family was taken away from him he had thought the event had left him dead inside. Sakura's death… no… murder had left him with a completely new kind of pain, the kind that came with a sense of responsibility that the wholesale slaughter of his kinsmen lacked. If Itachi was still human, this is what he would be feeling.
He had killed Sakura. Sure, the dobe thought he was equally at fault, but Sasuke knew. The Uchiha's doujutsu had been active at the time, and there were no errors where the sharingan was concerned. When Sakura had ran in between them, Sasuke's chidori had slid through his pink haired teammate's head like a hot knife through a melon, over a second before Naruto's rasengan had pulverized her heart. Sasuke knew that it was his fault. That day on the roof of the hospital would live with him forever.
Still alone, ever alone, Sasuke picked up the sake bottle some simpering, ass-kissing cunt of a merchant had sold him and downed the entire thing in one drink. Tomorrow… Maybe tomorrow he would visit her grave again. It had been almost two days after all.
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Author's Note: Something darker, something more emotional… I hope that this story will help me write people a little better. I know it's my worst area right now. Dialog has never been my thing either, but I'm hoping that will improve as well in later installments. This chapter is intentionally short; I'm aiming for one page chapters, and I'm going to try to update this each day. Tomorrow's chapter is titled 'Naruto'. Ten imaginary dollars to anyone who can guess what it's going to be about. ;) By the way, if you want to read an overview of what this story's going to be about, check out my story idea fic, "What If?"