Status: Edited September 2011
The Person We Could Never Have
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Chapter 2: Our Little Locket
As the white light slowly vanished, Naruto's condition was no longer in as bad a stateas before. He was close to stable.
Sakura then released her lips from Naruto's as she stood up. She slowly walked to the door helplessly, as if she gave all of her energy to Naruto. She took a rest as she leaned on the door. She faced where the two were lying. She gave her last glance at them.
Then she whispered to them, "Sayonara." Tears then trickled down her cheeks.
After a while, she decided to leave as soon as possible. She opened the door, and no longer looked back at her teammates as she left the wardroom. Then, she paused for a while to have a little rest. Her knees were moment now, she might collapse.
After a little while, three shadows appeared to her left side. Footsteps were silently heard. She was about to walk away, and suddenly, she couldn't move forward. She eventually thought of Shikamaru, who could have used his shadow technique on her. But sadly, it wasn't him. It was just her. She really didn't want to be separated from them. She didn't want to leave. She wanted to always be there beside them, to be able to laugh with them, to be able to explore new things, and to be able to protect them.
As the three shadows got closer,she eventually recognized them. A silver, spiky-haired guy, a brown haired man, and the black haired boy who had replaced Sasuke for a while, appeared on her far-left side.
She walked a little farther away, away from the door, and away from them.
She couldn't face them. She didn't want them to seeher sulking face.
"Sakura…" Kakashi called after her in a low-pitched voice.
"What was that strange light that came from the wardroom?" Yamato asked her.
She gave no response.
Silence fell upon their little conversation.
Sai, who was just watching,suddenly felt a pain in his heart. He didn't know why his heart ached like that. As he kept looking at Sakura, who no longer planned to look back at them, he felt more pain in his heart. Never did he feel that way before, even when he was sent into ROOTS.
Sai's POV
"What is this? Why am I feeling this kind of pain?"
"This feeling is killing me."
"Do I have a heart disease?"
"So, what is this?"
He asked himself more questions, as he felt the pain go much deeper.
Suddenly, the word…
"Is this what they call L-O-V-E?"
"Truly, considering girls, Sakura is quite an exception. I really liked it when I was able to tease her, when she would lend her shoulders to lean on, when she appreciated my new artwork, whenever she listened to my thoughts, andsometimes, when she reacts after she misunderstands the way I act because of what that stupid book tells me (The Basic Steps to Interact with Others)."
"Is the feeling of being in love quite happy? Hurtful? Or what?"
"I have a feeling she'll go away. I will no longer be able to talk to her, see her, tease her, listen to her complaints, and to be able to comfort her."
Sai, thinking of different kinds of thing at the same time, made him more confused about what he truly felt toward Sakura.
End of POV
"Sakura…" Sai called her.
Still, there was no response that was given.
When Sai could no longer wait for her response, he was about to walk to her.
Suddenly, Sakura faced them. Her hair covered her eyes. No one could tell what kind of emotions that she felt in that moment. She then bowed to them. Sai stopped.
Kakashi, Yamato, and Sai were surprised when Sakura suddenly bowed to them without any reason.
She then said, as she was still bowing, "May you take care of them for me."
The three was quite confused about what she meant, especially Sai, who was already confirming the possibility that Sakura was going away.
Then Sakura stood up her hair was covering her eyes from the three. Then suddenly, a tear of blood trickled down from her eyes to her pale cheeks, making a markon her face.
"Sakura," Kakashi said worriedly, as he saw the tear-blood of Sakura's.
Then, all of a sudden, Sai ran towards her.
Sakura gave a faint smile at him.
When Sai was about to grab her, she suddenly vanished and became Sakura petals. Sai grabbed some of the petals, and fell down to his knees.
Then Yamato, who was quite curious about what might have happened inside with Sakura and the two, burst inside the wardroom.
He then looked around, and didn't see anything that was only thing that passed through his mind was that Naruto was no longer quite grasping for his life, and that Sasuke looked pretty well.
Kakashi too then followed Yamato.
"Yamato," Kakashi called his attention.
"What happened here?" Yamato said.
"It looks like she did something to make this two in better conditions than before," Kakashi said as he observed the room.
"Did she…" Yamato said, as he was able to think of few things that might have happened in the room.
Sai, who suddenly fell to the floor, looked at his hands. He felt the Sakura petals had formed into something. When he opened his hands, the petals had formed into a mini Sakura-shaped locket. Then, suddenly, the locket had an engraving on it."Team 7." Sai opened the locket, and saw the pictures of them, the members of team 7, with their previous and new members. After looking at it, he closed the locket, and saw his name on the back."SAI."
Then, all of the Sakura petals suddenly disappeared into thin air.
Sai couldn't face the fact that Sakura had left, so he rushed to out find her. He left the hospital, and searched for her throughout the entire village.
Inside the wardroom…
"Yamato, you stay here," Kakashi ordered him. "I'm going to see Tsunade-sama." Then he went through the window and vanished.
Yamato, who was left behind, was still curious about what might have happened if his theory was incorrect. Then suddenly, he just remembered Sai. Herushed outside the room and checked, but Sai was no longer there to be found.
Yamato's POV
"Sakura… What was the meaning of what you said?"
"Why didn't you wait for them to wake up?"
"Have you done something?"
"Have you performed a forbidden technique?"
"What might have caused you to be in that condition?"
Yamato, who was still asking himself a lot of questions, sat in the corner and watched over the two inside the wardroom.
End of POV
Sai finally stopped at Sakura's home, and gazed at her room. He looked tired and , he has no plans on stopping until he found her.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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