Chapter 2(in a world of Naruto)03/11/2009 14:24:00

"Who are you?" was the next thing I heard.

I struggled to open my eyes and couldn't believe the sight before me that bought back childhood memories of loitering in front of the television with a seemingly infinite number of goodies spread across the living room floor.

"Hey, did you hear me? Who are you?"

"Sasuke?" I whispered, amazed. Tears began to form in my eyes as I stared up at him. I brushed them away and cleared my throat.

His forehead crinkled and he took a step back. "Tell me who you are and I might decide to not kill you!" He hissed.

I tried to stand up but a pain shot through my legs and I fell to the ground again.

He looked at me strangely. "Well?"

"Well freakin' what?" I yelled. Stay calm cat. All I had to do was calm myself and I would regain control of this awkward situation. Right. Easier said than done.

"Who are you?" He persisted, even after I had shown my vulnerability to badgering questions and the fight I had to put up to keep myself in one sane, orderly, and most importantly safe place.

"I can't get up and you worry about my goddamn name?" I whisper through clenched teeth. Well, I was certainly trying.

He looked at me hard with his dark eyes. "What happened to you?"

"No comment…" I felt the urge to move when I remembered, "Allison!" A multitude of questions followed her name, which, after the questions were curtly assembled in an orderly fashion within the confines of my mind, a flurry of emotions hungered, to release from me. Where was she? How did she disappear? And most importantly, why were we bought here?

"Who?" He said narrowing his eyes.

"She's my best friend. She and I were in an accident and…we were separated I guess. I don't know where she's at." I mumbled, trying so hard to cover my quivering lip "I don't even know if she's still alive." Don't you dare shed a tear in front of him Cat. "Ok." I promised myself quietly, I would not cry now.

Sasuke stared at me for a while and then decided to let the identity part go. "Well, what does your friend look like?"

I narrowed my eyes to prevent the tears from falling. I tried so hard to concentrate, to picture her face but it was as if something that was always there engraved within my mind was temporarily erased. All of a sudden, I couldn't remember anything about her at that moment. The harder I tried to remember, the more the memories slipped away from me. I started to cough uncontrollably, it felt as if my lungs were on fire, and it became hard to keep my eyes open.

Sasuke picked me up and started to run. "You have to stay awake okay?"

I grab onto his shirt. "Put me down." Just what did he think he was doing?

Sasuke sighed. "What is wrong with you? I'm saving your life, not mines."

I became overwhelmingly angry, like usual, and it felt like for one split second someone, something, was controlling me. I took a deep breath and finally I was able to gain control over myself once again. I had to try harder. I couldn't let anger rule my life.

His eyes bore into me like dark knives, waiting to plunge deep within my chest and rip my beating heart out. "What the hell is wrong with you? Are you okay?"

The anger came back and I cringed with pain as I fought myself to let it go. I had to calm down, to relax.

Sasuke seemed amused as he smiled slightly. "You're quite an enigma aren't you?" He looked at me somewhat affectionately. "Well, don't worry. I'm not going to have you die when you obviously show so much promise. Now breathe in the air and think about life because it's going to be a long time before yours is over Cat."

My eyes widen. "How do you know my name?"

"That's not important but think of it like this, I could ask you the same thing." He winked.

"Where are we going? And why are you being so nice to me?" I mumbled, almost as if I were speaking to myself.

"The hospital." He looked at me and ignored the second question. "You say you're not from around here?" He continued.

"…No…I'm not…." I wish he would just leave me be and stay quiet like most people would expect him to do.

"Well, that would explain why…" His eyes flashed in a different direction and then he dropped the conversation altogether. It only slightly helped to keep me awake but mostly it gave me even more of a reason to close my eyes and end this torment once and for all.

I cough again and rolled my eyes. I might as well contribute to the conversation, even if it was only a little. " My mother is Asian and African American, my father is Hispanic and African American. My grandfather, I don't know much about him, but he was a chef. My mom is a genius. Well, not the kind that knows everything but the kind that can memorize anything that she pleased and could recite it back to you, 10 years from now. My dad's a comedian and he gets on my mom's nerves a lot but they are still madly in love, you can see it in their eyes.

My little bro, he's 14, his name is Emmett, he can't keep the girls away." I giggled at my little bro's success with the ladies. "But I can see why the girls love him. He's soft spoken with a silent power you can feel pulsating deep within him. And to tell the truth, he's one of the most gorgeous guy's I've ever seen in my life." I sighed now, I missed Emmett coming to me for advice about his certain girl of the week every night after dinner. I tried to shake the memory away, and after a few seconds to my surprise it worked. "By the way, what were you going to say earlier?"

He shrugged and smiled again slightly. Had he always had this much smiles in him?

"… You're pathetic at being mysterious." I laughed, trying to see if I could agitate him, even just a little.

Sasuke looked up and stared at me, a stare that made me want to touch his face and press my lips softly against his. "Well you're pretty pathetic yourself… and we're here." He said, running into the hospital.

"Sasuke?" I whispered his name.

"Yes Cat?" He answered me the way a father would answer his over curious daughter.

I shook my head and reached out to touch his face but it fell limp beside my body midway as I drifted off into unconsciousness.