Unspeakable
NG: I don't own Naruto
Chapter1: The Girl
He sighed as a hand ran through his almost black hair. The early morning sun shone down, accenting the natural blue highlights in his hair. Why of all people was he being asked to do this? He had woken up this morning to someone banging on his mansions door which pissed him off. No one came here because they thought it was haunted. Opening his front door he received the messenger with a glare The Hokage was 'requesting' his presence. He had hurriedly dressed, not caring if he looked like he just jumped out of bed, which he did, not that anyone could tell, all black was his theme in life. Black or navy blue depending on his mood and everything was neat and in order. Unlike a certain fox like friend of his. He had hurried to the Hokage tower by roof top hoping to avoid the fan girls that seemed to have built a camp city on the only path too and from his clans' compound. The blond haired Hokage didn't look too pleased when he walked in as though he owned the place after ducking the bottle of sake that was thrown at his head. He was an Uchiha and considering his clans' history and the fact they helped found this place he almost did.
He grimaced at the task assigned to him by the Hokage as she took a swing from her recovered precious Sake bottle. A fan girl squealed as she caught sight of him and promptly passed out of pure joy. A man walking by rolled his eyes and picked her up and placed her on a bench near by.
'Stalkers,' he thought rolling his black-grey eyes. Didn't they have anything better to do? Two more had seen him and blushed furiously as he passed. Apparently not. Walking down market place the young Uchiha stopped by a tomato stand, after eyeing the fruit (yes fruit) critically he selected one and paid for it.
As he let the fruits sweet juices flow into his mouth, feeling the flesh being bitten by his teeth he pondered yet again why it was him being asked to do this? He was infamous for being anti-social and having as little to do with others but his friends as possible, especially those of the opposite sex i.e., fan girls.
Two more dropped cold from his mere presence and the fact his gaze happened to pass over them. He really needed to keep count one of these days if not for statistics at least Naruto and the guys would get a laugh out of the number. With his gothic features, including pale skin that never tanned no matter how long he trained outside, coupled with dark hair and even darker eyes that seemed to pierce your very soul when he looked at you, it was little wonder Uchiha Sasuke was the most sought after bachelor in Konoha if not the entire fire country. The fact that he was a top ANBU ninja was a bonus. Not that anyone but other ANBU knew that. Thumbs up to that.
He frowned and tossed away the tomato core as he approached Konoha's hospital. This was where she was being kept. After stumbling into Konoha a week ago in the middle of the night, she had been admitted to hospital to be treated for exhaustion, malnutrition, hypothermic shock and dehydration. She had been questioned be numerous people trying to coax her into speaking of her experiences. But so far all attempts had failed to produce anything. All they had gotten was her name, and that was from a bracelet she was wearing. And she had only held out it to the nurse when she was asked what her name was. Sakura that was it, Sakura no clan name no family name, nothing just Sakura.
'What kind of a person are you…Sakura?' he pondered stepping through the sliding doors and approached the nurse's desk. The blond idiot was already there, chatting up the secretary, who was blushing like crazy at so much attention from the said to be next Hokage. Glancing up from the flushed nurse the blonds' blue eyes caught sight of him. Flashing the nurse a grin that almost made her faint he excused himself.
"Teme!" he called with a wave beckoning the Uchiha over. Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He did that a lot when he was with this particular friend.
"Dobe," he replied non-chantingly. Nodding his head to the nurse in a small form of recognition. Hinata, that was her name, also a ninja that worked at the hospital part time, her waist long dark purple hair was striking against her white shirt and pants slacks that was the nurses uniform. Her blank eyes her a bit hazed, not that you could tell anyways, from standing so close to her life-long crush.
"Idiot stop flirting and let's go we have a job to do," Sasuke said, Naruto grinned foolishly.
"Is there anything wrong with paying appropriate appreciation to the opposite gender once in a while?" the blond asked. At this Hinata blushed even deeper, she now resembled a cooked lobster.
"There is when you're supposed to be helping me on this," Sasuke answered stuffing his hands in to his baggy black pants pockets. His Katana, strapped to his back shifted slightly. "I didn't have to ask you, you know. I could have brought Shikamaru or better yet Hyuuga." Naruto faked hurt.
"After all we've been through? I would have been insulted if you hadn't requested me to assist you on this!"
"Naruto?"
"Yeah Teme?"
"Stop it with the fake accent; she already knows how dumb you are."
"Screw you." Naruto hissed, turning back to Hinata he flashed a grin that almost made her legs melt, "Talk to you later Hina-chan!"
"H-Hai…" she answered back meekly. The pair walked away to the elevators.
"So what are we doing again?" Naruto asked his arms folded behind his head. Sasuke sighed for what seemed like the 1000th time that day.
"Were going to question that girl who came here a week ago." He reminded him, "I have no idea why the Hokage asked me to do it, and she knows I don't talk to people."
"You talk to me," Naruto pointed out, "Who knows maybe Tsunade-baa-chan was counting on your famous Uchiha charm to get the info out of her." He ducked Sasukes swing to his head. Laughing the duo exited the elevator and walked down the hall. Stopping in front of the room they waited a second, silence greeted their ears.
"Perhaps she's asleep?" Naruto suggested.
"I told you to drop the accent dobe," Sasuke muttered opening the door. Naruto stuck his tongue out at his friend.
The two were greeted with the sight of a pink haired woman around their age sitting on her bed, with her legs tucked up under her chin staring blankly out the nearby window.
Her eyes glassily watched the children running to the academy laughing excitedly while pretending to be full fledged ninja and a pair of women going down to the market gossiping and chuckling at the children's antics as they passed.
She gave no indication that she heard them coming into her room, not a twitch, not a glance. If it weren't for the fact that they knew she was alive they would have thought her a statue. Naruto cleared his throat exaggerating the motion to try and get her attention. She didn't move. He tired again louder. No reaction. Sasuke rolled his eyes at his best friends' antics. And swatted Naruto on the head to stop him from doing it again.
"Ow! Teme what the hell was that for?"
"It's not working loser, and you look like an idiot doing that over and over again. Stopping you would save me the embarrassment of being seen with you."
"Bastard!" Naruto grumbled he was in a hospital so he couldn't kick his butt without being thrown out, that would have to wait until this was over.
Grinning with his trade mark fox like smile he walked over to the pink haired woman who hadn't even looked up during the entire exchange.
"Hiya miss!" he said sitting down next to her on the bed. She flinched. Not very much, but noticeable to the Uchiha. He narrowed his eyes. Anyone would be annoyed from the blond but it didn't seem that kind of twitch. It was like she was trying to shy away from some expected blow. Oblivious to this fact the blond kept talking.
"My name is Uzamaki Naruto, This silent bastard over there is Uchiha Sasuke." He told her. For the first time she looked away from the window Sasuke was startled by the colour of her eyes, a dark soul binding green.
But that wasn't all they looked haunted as if she can't pull away from the darkness of something traumatic, something she saw. Now he understood why he was asked to do this. She was like him, detached from reality because of a horrifying experience. For him it was his families' massacre. For her…what?
"What's your name?" Sasuke asked. He saw her shiver slightly at the sound of his voice. Naruto glared at him for sounding so cold. Although they already knew this information he thought it would be easiest to start with the basics. Her eyes met his and he could see some sort of curiosity hidden behind the emptiness of her eyes.
She held out her wrist that held the bracelet. Naruto checked it.
"Sa-ku-ra? Like the flower right?" he asked her, she didn't answer she kept looking at Sasuke who was getting a bit unnerved by her constant stare. Then she blinked and turned back to the window.
"It's a fitting name," Naruto told her gently, referring to her hair, "a beautiful one too." Sasuke understood what he was doing; he was trying to gain her trust. It didn't seem to be working though. She still hasn't said a word. Although they did get some sort of reaction out of her, which was better then nothing, her silence wasn't surprising.
"What happened?" Sasuke asked cautiously. He saw her muscles in her arm tense slightly. She was preparing herself for a barrage of questions and demands Sasuke saw coolly. What did the idiots before him do?
"We won't force anything out of you Sakura-chan," Naruto told her, Sasuke sweat dropped. He hadn't known her name for more then a couple of minutes and yet calling her "Sakura-chan" already.
"But if you told us what happened we could help you," a small ironic smile worked its way onto her face. Silence.
"Naruto," Sasuke spoke for the first time in a while, the blond looked over at him questioningly, "Leave." Naruto looked startled for a moment then eyes him suspiciously. Sasuke was his superior as captain of first company and he was vice captain. Nodding he stood made to leave, he stopped next to his friend.
"You better not do anything," he said with mockery in his voice. Sasuke felt a vein pop in his forehead, as if he would do something like that, to a traumatized girl no less.
"Go now," he said his voice low and dangerous, promising pain. Naruto held up his hands in mock surrender.
"I'm going, I'm going" he told them, "Later Sakura-chan, Teme." And he was gone. Sasuke closed the door behind the blonds back.
"I apologize for my friend, he gets ahead of himself." Sasuke told her. Sakura didn't blink but he could see her posture relax slightly. The raven haired shinobi walked over and stood beside the window, his body face her as he looked outside.
"Do you know where you are?" she didn't move or make any indication that she heard him. He took her silence for a no.
"You're in a village name Konoha," he told her, he saw her brows furrow slightly. Had no one even told her were she was? He fumed on the inside someone out there is going to die.
"Konoha is a shinobi village," her head turned ever so slightly towards him, "That means nothing can get you here. This city is walled and patrolled. Whatever you saw cannot harm you here." He left out the fact that something horrible did happen but that was 10 years ago. And the man who did it is dead. She relaxed all the more her eyes closing as if reassured. She looked at him and smiled.
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"No body even told her where she was?" Kiba asked shocked his fanged mouth hanging open. His large white dog beside him wined in annoyance. Sasuke was with all his friends at Ichiraku's a favourite of theirs introduced to them by the one and only Naruto.
"I know sick right?" Neji who sat on the other side of Kiba shook his head his long medium dark brown hair swung in its low tied ponytail.
"Idiots," he said opening his pearly blank eyes that were whiter then Hinatas'. Sasuke nodded in agreement. He had just come from reporting to the Hokage. Tsunade had been pleased with his progress even though he hadn't been able to get her to talk. But he had told her about the village and it's occupants in order for her to feel safe. The blond haired woman was pissed at the previous interrogators for neglecting such an important concept.
Naruto slurped up the rest of his ramen and ordered another bowel.
"How is Sakura-chan doing anyways?" he asked as his 15th helping of noodles was placed before him.
"Her names Sakura?" Shikamaru was silent up till now pondering the reason that the girl might be mute. Before Sasuke could answer Naruto did through a mouthful of ramen.
"Yeah, and it really suits her 'cause she's got pink hair and really cool green eyes!" he told them all.
"Yosh! She sounds like a very youthful person!" Rock Lee cheered out flashing everyone blind with his pearly white teeth.
"Inuzuka…" Sasuke implored. The Dog ninja nodded and smacked the bug eyed self proclaimed beautiful green beast of Konoha on the head.
"Hardly anything youthful about being traumatized to the point of being mute" the normally silent Shino pointed out. His hood pulled up and his eyes were hidden behind his sunglasses as he inspected an ant the wandered across the bar table.
"Dude please don't do that when were eating," Neji asked hand over his eyes to block out the disgusting sight.
"Wow Hyuuga I didn't know you hated bugs," Sasuke told him sarcastically. The Hyuuga glared at him as the Uchiha smirked.
"Teme you didn't answer my question!" Naruto yelled. Neji flicked his head.
"Quiet down!" they were attracting attention, but they weren't worried of being thrown out. They were Ichiraku's most loyal customers.
"What question dobe?" Sasuke asked feeling a small migraine building behind his eyes.
"How's Sakura-chan?" The blond asked slurping down yet another bowel of ramen.
"She was sleeping when I left," Sasuke told them as he too took a bight of his ramen, "Which according to the nurses is a miracle, she hadn't slept since she first woke up here nearly a week ago." Shikamaru nearly choked on his food.
"Are you serious?" the genius asked sharply. Everyone stared at him with wide eyes. Usually the pineapple haired shinobi didn't care about the world and was asleep half the day.
"Yes," Sasuke replyed flat out. Shikamaru looked thoughtful for a moment. Everyone wondered what was on inside that brilliant mind.
"That can't be good," he said softly.
"What can't be good?" Kiba asked running a hand through his wild spiky brown hair. He yawned stretching the red triangles that ran down each cheek.
"If what ever terrorized her was powerful enough for her feel insecure even when she was inside surrounded by humans it must have been truly horrible. And if that's the case she might never recover enough to tell us what happened." He told them. It took a moment for everyone to process what he had just said.
"Well that sucks…" Neji said. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Now that means we won't know what happened," Naruto whined. Neji resisted the urge to Kaiten the blond.
"No moron I meant that if she doesn't talk we can't hunt down the bastard that did this to her!"
"Oh," the blond looked puzzled for a moment then looked furious, "Damn that son of a bitch."
"Oh I agree Naruto, I agree." Sasuke said darkly. His friends cast him a wary glance, this wasn't normal. The Uchiha survivor didn't care about people he just met but this girl struck close to home. She had both suffered what seemed like psychological trauma and possibly physical as well. Just like he had ten years ago when his entire family was killed. He has eventually gotten over the tragedy with the help of his friends, mostly Naruto and Neji but the others eventually came into his life and he could get back to normal. But this girl, Sakura didn't have anybody. Sasuke wanted to help her like his friends helped him. So she could get back to a normal life.
But that couldn't happen unless she spoke to him. He remembered when it first happened he was only seven when his brother killed his clan and made him watch in horror as he killed the clan over and over and over again. For three days he had watching everyone he cared about murdered. And for a month after words he couldn't speak.
It wasn't until Naruto was admitted in the bed beside him for injuries thanks to hateful villagers that he began to talk. There was something about the blond haired kyuubi container that made you feel like everything was going to be fine. And they had bonded right away. Two orphans who knew the pain of loneliness. Ltaer the had met another rone like them named Gaara who lived in Suna with his brother and sister. He was like Naruto with a demon sealed inside of him and was a little more then half insane when he met them and realized he wasn't alone.
Now at seventeen years old, Sasuke was almost back to what everyone could call…happy. Oh he was happy, well happier, but he showed it in a very unusual way. He just didn't like fan girls. And also he was alone, yeah sure he had friends and a ton of wannabe girlfriends that he never liked, but he was alone in that huge compound full of empty streets and houses. Walls stained with the blood of the Uchiha, his family and friends that was long washed away and the screams of those who were murdered echoing through the once lively streets and alleyways. But despite it all, all the pain that was attached to that place that was his home.
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It has been another week since Sasuke had been put in charge of getting Sakuras story. She still hadn't spoken a word to him but she would greet him with a smile whenever he would come. That smile that was so sad and spoke a thousand words of pain to him. At least once a visit she would look him straight in the eyes not doing anything but stare and she would look curious and slightly annoyed. What ever she was trying to find there Sasuke couldn't figure out but she would look every time. Sometimes he would bring a friend or two with him to meet Sakura and to get her familiarized with people other then himself and the nurses. More then once he had come to see Hinata in the room already talking to the pink haired girl in her own soft quiet voice. Sakura seemed genuinely interested in that the violet haired girl had to say. When ever Hinata or one of the gang said something funny she would smile but never laugh. She never made a sound. Eventually she was introduced to Yamanaka Ino, Shikamarus' fearfully loud and fashion obsessed, blond team mate. And Tenten, Nejis team mate who had chocolate brown hair tied up into buns and eyes to match. She would entertain the group by juggling a bunch of her weapons without cutting herself. At first Sakura seemed frightened of the new people not sure of she could trust them and would stay on her bed as far as she could away from them as she could but when she saw Sasuke talking easily to them she began to relax as well.
One night a powerful lightning storm hit Konoha from the north. The young Uchiha patriarch was in bed sleeping fitfully unable to find true sleep when he was brought out of his slumber by a crashing on his front door. He jumped out of bed and pulled on a shirt, he had gone to bed in his regular pants, too tired from a spar with Naruto to change. He wrenched open his door ready to yell when he saw it was Hinata. She looked distressed. Sasuke frowned, wasn't she on duty at the hospital tonight?
"Sasuke-san! Please you have to come. Its Sakura she won't stop screaming!" she said in full panic not stuttering once out of fear. Her eyes wide and glassy in the moonlight. Tears of her own stained her face and she huffed out of breath.
"Shit!" he cursed and grabbed his sandals putting them on he didn't bother with a rain jacket but just ran out into the rain after Hinata in full sprint towards the hospital.
He ran down the hall towards her room and skidded to a halt in front of open doorway. There were about five nurses in there trying to calm down a hysterical Sakura with her hands over her ears as she crouched on her bed her head down tears falling from her tightly closed eyes. She screamed a loud shriek trying to drown out the rain and thunder.
"Everyone OUT!" Sasuke shouted causing the nurses to jump in surprise. They were about to argue but then they saw who it was with his sharingan blazing the herded out like sheep in silence. With them gone Sasuke closed the door and turned to the still screaming Sakura. He waked over hurriedly, still dripping wet. He gently placed a hand on the screaming girls shoulder only to have her shriek in surprise and flinch away from his clammy touch. Her eyes flew open, full of pure terror she looked passed him out the window in tot the dark sky with the random flashes of lightening illuminating the whipping branches outside her room the wind howled outside. Sasuke caught a glimpse of what she might be seeing, what she had been seeing for two weeks now, maybe even longer.
Evil.
He quickly wrapped his arms around her small frame and pushed her into his chest holding her close blocking the sight of the window. She shuddered against his chest her hands clutching his wet shirt as if it was a life line.
Her already pale skin was white at the knuckles she was gripping his shirt so hard. Her muffled sobs were all that was heard in the room now that the screams had subsided. His arms blocked the noise from outside, she felt…safe for the first time in over two months she felt safe.
"Sakura…" Sasukes voice was soft and careful as he called her name. She made no indication of hearing Sasuke but he knew she was listening. He could just tell. When she was still and her tears had stopped her spoke again.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" he felt her stiffen in his arms, the grip on his shirt intensified and the silence grew. He didn't think she would answer. But then he heard her soft voice for the first time. Horse from screaming and little to no use in weeks.
"Have you ere felt like you were being watched?"
End of Chapter
NG: Oh yeah chapter one! 4000 words exactly! Woot!
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