If She Only Remembered

A Sasu-Hina Fanfiction

Chapter 2

The Red String of Fate and The Voice of The Wind

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other recognizable stuff. Okay?

Sasuke. New York.

"Sasuke-kun! You c-came b-back!"

Sasuke turned towards The Big Oak Tree in the middle of their University's campus and was suddenly smothered to death by Hinata. He hugged the said girl back and then put her at an arm's length, chuckling and shaking his head.

"Why wouldn't I come back, Hinata ? I was only away for three months."

With that said, her unshed tears made their way down her cheeks. She bit her bottom lip and looked down, hiding behind her bangs. After a vigorous attempt to draw out blood, she finally replied,

"Ano.. I-I thought yo-you would for-forget about me, that you would fi-find some American blo-blonde wi-with sparkling bl-blue eyes.."

And that's when, for the first time in 5 months, Sasuke guffawed. He didn't care if the people around him looked at him. He didn't care if his reputation of being 'The Cold One of Konoha 12' was going down the sewers. All he cared about was this lavender eyed girl standing before him.

"If that was the case, I could've dated Ino.. She's everything except for American."

Sasuke smirked and ruffled Hinata's hair.

Hinata blushed at the same. She looked towards the Psychology Block. The wind was blowing at a steady pace, making the Sakura leaves dance in an exotic waltz.

"Well, I'm glad you're back, Sasuke-kun." Hinata smiled and held onto Sasuke's warm hand. Sasuke looked at Hinata and secretly smiled to himself. She led him to the upbeat café around the corner, in buzzing excitement.

Sasuke laughed and asked her, "What's the rush about, Hinata?" Sasuke stopped and looked towards the blushing girl.

"If you want, we can go to my place?" He added suggestively and wiggled his eyebrows.

Hinata stared wide eyed at the Uchiha. And all of a sudden she giggled. Those giggles turned into laughter. The laughter turned into snorting till the point of no return.

One look at Sasuke's facial expression was all that it took for her to remove her hands from her sides and straighten up. She blushed profusely and started poking her fingers.

"Ano.. Go-gomen Sasuke-kun.." She looked towards him with a smile which could put a light bulb to shame.

"Hn..You were taking me somewhere ?"

Hinata nodded and tugged on his hands once again.

"So, why are we going to that mysterious place anyway?" Sasuke questioned, not realizing that out of the two, he was the one busy babbling.

"W-we aren't going anywhere sp-special. You remember the coffee shop next to Hana-chan's clinic?"

"You're that excited for a cup of coffee? Kami, I miss those days when you were in your 'I-must-only-drink-milkshakes' phase."

Hinata laughed, recalling that particular memory.

"No Sasuke-kun. I'll be dr-drinking hot chocolate and you'll be telling me ab-about your trip to the States."

Sasuke sighed and looked towards the petite woman. There was no way he was going back to his dorm before telling her every little detail.

"Lead the way, milady." Sasuke gestures with a bow, leaving Hinata giggling in amusement.

Suddenly he finds himself on the road. People are around him, holding him by his collar. He can't find her. He then feels himself being in blood.

Surrounded in HER blood.

He looks around and sees her lying in a pool of crimson. She looked at him and smiled. From her eyes.

Beep Beep Beep.

I woke up with my voice shouting all around me. I sat up and wiped away the tears streaming down my face. My throat was sore. My body was visibly shaking. I was numb.

Why? Why after all these months was her face tearing my world apart?

And those eyes. Those eyes which haunted me all the time.

She's my equilibrium yet she's the only cause of my destruction.

I yanked hard on the alarm's wire. Well, someone's out of their misery.

I went out in the balcony and leaned on the glass railing. I looked towards the clouded sky. There wasn't even a speck of sunlight. She had always hated the clouds yet loved the rain. I looked down towards the streets filled with New York's population, every single person headed towards the same destination: their jobs. They all were pushing against each other, not giving a damn about who lands face first on the ground.

It was funny how all their lives were connected by a red string.

The Red String of Fate.

She was the one who told me about it. It was her irrational belief in such things which made me realize the meaning of life. At first she seemed delusional to me, but that changed when she told me about The Red String of Fate in our junior year of high school.

According to her, it was the sole thing that kept two people together. Kept them connected. If one pulled on the string, the other could feel it.

If the string was somehow cut, or snapped in two pieces, the two individuals die without ever knowing the meaning of true, blissful and heavenly love.

I could hear my phone ringing in my apartment. I chose to ignore it. I wasn't in the mood of facing the real world this morning. Anger and desperation was seeping through me like poison in my veins.

When would I get the chance to pull on my string and have her with me, safely tucked in my arms?

I banged hard on the railing repeatedly, until my palm turned red. Rage could not even define what I was going through. The weather sucked, my coffee machine was broken and my stupid phone was blaring somewhere inside.

Oh, and I just had a fucking nightmare about her. Again.

I went inside and found my phone lying on the coffee table, still blaring. I stared at it, glaring at name blinking in the caller ID.

Uzumaki Idiotic Naruto.

"What ?" I said, my gruff voice booming with irritation.

"Teme, it's her. She's.. Unwell."

Her ? Her as in Hinata ? Panic flowed through me like a liquid with very low viscosity.

"What ? What the fuck happened Naruto ? Where is she ?" I shouted, not caring if it woke up my damned neighbors.

"I'm so sorry Sasuke, I-I was only doing what Sakura told me to.. I swear I had no idea that she would freak ou-"

"What. The. Fuck. Did. You. Do. ?"

"We were trying a new method Sasuke and she-she was fine at first but then her eyes started rolling to the back of her head and she fainted and she's in the hospital ohmyGod I'm so sorry Sakura said that she's suffered extreme brain damage due to excessive usage I don't know.. She said Hinata might go into coma.. Everyone-everyone's panicking Sasu-"

I tuned out of Naruto's bullcrap.

Excessive usage. Extreme brain damage. Coma.

I chucked the phone at the nearest wall. It broke into a thousand pieces. I couldn't care less if this was my seventh phone. I couldn't care less that my landlady would threaten me, again.

All I cared about was her.

I wanted to see her.

I wanted HER.

I NEEDED HER.

I'd always denied myself the simple pleasures of her sole existence.

And now Kami snatched away the only person who was my escape from reality. The only person who was sane enough to keep me sane. The only person, who taught me the meaning of life.

My feet took me back towards the balcony. I stood against the glass railing, readying myself for the fall my body was going to make when suddenly the wind blew past me.

I broke down crying, facing the skies as they started crying with me. Rain was falling hard and fast upon my body, drenching my soul and my uncharacteristic wails of misery.

Why was I crying? Because with the wind, I heard her voice.

Her voice murmuring the three words that I'd always wanted to hear from her.

The three words being,

I love you.

Yes, Hinata has a touch of amnesia. And no, Sasuke's no suicidal hussy.

The events line up to The Big Accident, which will probably be told in the next 2-3 chapters.

I need your love ! T_T