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Disclaimer: Itachi would have become a good guy by now…
Odd One Out
Chapter 2
Dammit.
Oh Shit.
Crap.
She froze, before taking that precious step outside.
She turned, already knowing whom it was.
Naruto.
The village idiot.
Literally.
She only expected one person, but another was there.
Sasuke.
She sharply breathed in, "What's up?"
Naruto stepped closer, as did Sasuke, "Sakura-chan… You're not gonna… Are you-?" Naruto jumbled up his words in confusion.
Naruto never thought Sakura was the type to… run away?
But of course Naruto has no clue why she's doing this.
"What he hell are you doing?" Sasuke was pissed. Naruto drags him out to eat some ramen and then they find Sakura one foot out of the border.
Sakura using her semi-useful skill thought of a sneaky plan, "I'm going on a mission."
Sasuke stepped closer; this was all too familiar. "Really?" his voice was coated with doubt.
"Oh, okay then let's go." Naruto started to drag Sasuke back to the ramen stand.
"No! You idiot she's leaving!" Sasuke yelled out in frustration.
This boy was so dense.
He didn't even think of this possibility.
He believed in Sakura so much.
As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Sakura was running.
But, Sasuke was faster.
He practically tackled Sakura and sat atop of her, her hands behind her back. "You think it'd be that easy?"
Sakura cried. "I thought you people hated me." She spat out through rivers of tears. She squirmed.
"No. I just don't like you." Sasuke retorted.
Oh, he is so good at being comforting. –Quote the Sarcasm-
Sakura's eyes narrowed.
Her tears stopped.
Naruto jogged up his eyes doused in worry.
"Why?" Sakura asked quietly.
"Because you are weak." Sasuke stated his facts.
"Exactly why I'm leaving."
"?"
"You left for power.
You got accepted back.
Why can't I?"
"Because-!"
"I'm weak?
I can't protect myself?
You need someone to hurt?
Because you need someone to carry your weight?
Because you want me to make yourself look good?" Sakura was so mad her tears have started up again.
Her anger was building up.
She had to take it out somehow.
She needed to spill it out.
"WHY DO YOU HATE ME?
WHY AM I ALWAYS LEFT OUT?
A FREAKIN SLUT THAT WE DON'T EVEN NOW HAS OFFICIALLY TAKEN IN MY PLACE!
EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IT'S STILL ABOUT YOU AND NARUTO!
CAN'T I HAVE SOME TIME TOO!" she started screaming bloody murder.
They were in the forest so no one really heard them.
Sakura was breathing in and out so hard that her body was shaking underneath Sasuke.
"S-Sakura…" Sasuke kind of amazed.
Sakura was never the one to get mad.
Only at Naruto but they knew that she was just playing.
Now was the reality.
Now was her time.
Now the Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto were speechless.
These idiot boys had no clue that it was just them the whole time.
Sasuke was popular since freaking birth.
He never noticed.
Everyone liked him.
Even if he pushes them away.
Naruto was born an outcast.
A supposed-to-be hero.
The container of the nine tailed fox.
Nobody liked him...
He was so caught up in his other friends he hardly ever noticed.
The boys stared silently at Sakura's form.
She was currently face in the dirt and body flat on the ground.
Sasuke was atop of her.
Naruto was staring down.
Silence.
Then a fucked up crazy laugh.
It came from Sakura.
She was laughing.
L A U G H I N G!
"What-?"The boys questioned.
"So it has come to this?" Sakura's voice was completely different.
It was mean.
Rude.
Arrogant.
Everything Sasuke is.
Everything Sakura is not.
"Get off.
Or I won't…
Hesitate...
To
Hurt you."
"Like you can." Sasuke replied back.
Sakura scowled.
Time to put her medical ninjutsu to work.
She gathered the chakra into her arm.
It was a menacing red instead of the regular soft green.
It burned Sasuke.
He let out a short shout of curses.
He was forced to jump off.
Sakura laughed that mean laugh again, "That was weak wasn't it?"
Sasuke was crouching down on the ground, clutching his hands.
They were exactly like the burn marks he got from using chidori.
They were burned.
They would hurt.
But his heart hurt harder.
He almost felt like crying the tears he never could.
"Come at me Sasuke.
Let me test my capacity."
With those words Sasuke's eyes were flashing with the deadly red shine.
But even though it was on, he couldn't see her.
He could.
It works on her, it works on everybody.
Bu something wouldn't let him believe he had to use it against her.
Was it his heart?
The scrap of ice that fueled his body of something that is lost everyday?
"Fine. I'll come then."
She played it dirty.
Instead of going at Sasuke she went to Naruto.
She knew her heart was breaking, but she isn't wanted so…
I didn't matter.
She'd be gone anyway.
She punched Naruto straight into the ground.
She knew he wouldn't fight back.
He could never comprehend what was going on.
He lay there on the ground completely immobile.
He was awake… but amazed.
He lay there eyes open.
He never paid much attention to her.
He knew she had a freakish strength, but never this hard.
He always thought that she was the sweetest blossom.
Ever.
He was wrong.
Sakura laughed again. "Naruto, you are an idiot."
"But I hope you forgive me." She whispered the last part.
His blank blue eyes blinked, tears were spilling out of his speechless body.
"Ah, Sasuke, mustn't forget about you." Sakura smiled a demented smile.
This smile was not hers.
This smile was Sasuke's.
This little girl is becoming this little boy.
This boy is quivering in fear.
This boy cannot decide.
This boy is breaking down.
"You're not Sakura." He pointed out.
"No, honey, I'm more than Sakura…. I'm the Broken Blossom." She walked seductively over to him.
"No. You look like someone else."
Sakura laughed again, and looked up at his face.
"You're looking in a mirror."
"What?"
"I'm you.
I'm the face you used to be.
I'm the thing I hate most.
I'm becoming something special.
I'm becoming something I wanted."
"No! Sakura! Power is bad! You'll just keep looking for it!" Sasuke felt her grip that she had around his heart.
It was tightening.
It was letting go.
It was hurting.
It was exactly what Sakura felt when he left.
Exactly.
Sakura upper-cutted him.
Her fist pumped up and hit him in the jaw (like what Naruto did to Neji in the chunnin exams).
He flew up and landed in a back flip.
A trickle of blood slid down his lip.
"When did you get so strong?"
"When everyone left me."
"How! You trained for merely 2 years and I've been doing this all my life!"
"It's called hard work."
"!"
"I worked for this Sasuke!
You had help from a lot of people!
Talent isn't everything!"
Sakura lunged at him.
He disappeared from his spot and appeared behind her.
Her hands were once again in a vice grip behind her.
"Sakura… Really… Why?"
"Because… I'm a burden. You don't need me."
"I need you because I love you."
Sasuke leaned his head into her neck.
Sakura leaned on him.
"Do you expect me to still love you?"
"…"
"Well I don't."
That was a lie, but it got Sasuke.
She appeared behind him and knocked him out.
His body fell limp in her arms.
She hauled him over with Naruto.
They lay next to each other.
Sakura gasped as soon as she saw their faces.
Naruto was crying, his eyes closed.
Sasuke was crying too… his eyebrows were furrowed.
Sakura fell and hugged both of their bodies.
She cried.
"Naruto… I know you're awake…
Just to let you know…
I love you both…
I'm sorry…
I hope you can forgive me…
I'm not coming back…
-She heard a faint gasp-
Tell Sasuke-kun I lied."
And with that, Sakura popped up and left.
Forever?
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