Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St Vincent Millay
Chapter 2. Pieces
Sakura's POV
We were at Naruto's house music blearing, bodies swing to and fro with the rhythm of the beat, however the absence of Naruto and Sasuke left us questioning where they could be. "Anyone know what's taking Naruto and Sasuke so long" asked Kankuro
"Nah but knowing Naruto he probably has a prank or something planned and blackmailed Sasuke into helping him." Kiba said causing everyone to laugh, memories of his antics dancing through our heads. We knew he wouldn't have an issue with us being in his house while he was out but it wasn't like him to be late which worried me a little.
We weren't worried over their absence, instead letting the spirit of the party push away any fear, Young Forever by Jay-Z had just come on. The familiar lyrics flow from our mouths, our hands in the air, our bodies occasionally brushing against each other as we dance.
"Let's dance in style, let's dance for ['Hey I own the night] a while Heaven can wait, we're only watchin the skies Hopin for [and I don't need no help] the best but expecting the worst [Gotta be the feelin that scarface] Or you gonna [Hello, Sasuke where are you and Naruto] drop the bomb or not? Let us stay young, or let us live forever [Sasuke are you ok what happened] We don't have the power but we never say never Sitting in a sand pit, life is a short trip [OH GOD.] The music's full of sad men"
Ino stops dancing and singing just stands, shock consuming her features as the song continues to fill the air, everyone else continues sings the song all of us ignoring her.
"Forever young; I wanna be, forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, and ever?
Forever young; I wanna be, forever young (forever young)
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever young?
Uhh, Young!
Ay may the best of your todays
Be the worst of your tomorrows
But we ain't even thinkin that far
Knahmean?
So we livin like a video (video)
Where the sun is always out and you never get old
And the champagne's always cold, and the music's always good
And the pretty girls just happen to stop by in the hood
And they hop they pretty ass up on the hood of that pretty-ass car
Without a wrinkle in today, cause, there's no tomorrow
Just a picture perfect day that last a whole lifetime
And it never ends cause all we have to do is hit rewind
So let's just stay in the moment, smoke some weed, drink some wine
Reminisce, talk some shit, forever young is in your mind
Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time
So when the director yells cut, I'll be fine
I'm, forever young
Forever young; I wanna be, forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, and ever?
Forever young; I wanna be, forever young (forever young)
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever young?
Fear not when or fear not why, fear not much while we're alive
Life is for livin not livin uptight, 'til you somewhere up in the sky
Fear not die, I'll be alive for a million years, bye-bye
So now for legends I'm forever young, my name shall survive
Through the darkest blocks over kitchen stoves over Pyrex pots
My name shall be passed down to generations while debatin up in barbershops
Young slung, hung here, show that the nigga from here
With a little ambition just, what, we can become here (yeah)
And as the father passed the story down to his son's ears
Younger get, younger every year, yeah
So if you love me baby this is how you let me know
Don't ever let me go, that's how you let me know, ba-by
Forever young; I wanna be, forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, and ever?
Forever young; I wanna be, forever young (forever young)
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever young?
Just let it run..
Slammin Bentley doors, hoppin out of Porsches
Poppin up on Forbes list, gorgeous hold up
Niggaz thought I lost it, they be talkin bullshit
I'll be talkin more shit, they nauseous hold up
I'll be here forever, you know I'm on my fall shit
And I ain't with foreclosure, I will never forfeit
Less than four bars, Guru bring the chorus in
Did you get the picture yet? I'm paintin you a portrait of Young
Forever young; I wanna be, forever young (forever young)
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever young?"
The song ending, Ino slowly approaches me, a timidness to her actions, looking at me with a sad and depressed expression. "Sakura"
"Yeah Ino." I ask cautiously.
"Sakura something happened."
"What Ino."
"Sakura Naruto's hurt." Her statement shatters the happiness I had felt moments before.
"What do you mean" I ask hoping her was referring to his injuries from his fight with Kiba.
"Sakura it's bad, it's really really really bad." She says gaining everyones attention the radio silenced and all eyes on her, something she normally loved but not right now. "Ino what happened." Garra asks very serious. "I'm not really sure all I know is its bad and that Sasuke was crying when he called me." Her face paling as she retells the events of her call.
"Oh God." Temari gasp knowing that if Sasuke was crying it was something horribly wrong. Frozen in fear I watch as everyone seems to move at a hundred miles an hour. However I'm snapped back to reality by Shikamaru, he's generally relaxed face etched with worry.
"Sakura, Kiba's gonna take you and Ino to the hospital ok." The only response I'm capable of is nodding my head. "The rest of us will be there soon ok." and with that I'm being lead to a car and flying top speed towards the hospital.
"This can't be happening. It's a dream." I tell myself "Sakura stop freaking out we need to be strong for Naruto." Ino grabs my face so that our eyes meet. "Ok. I'm ok."
"Good cause we're here."
Kiba drops us off at the door, leaving to find a parking space, Ino and I rushed in. "Sasuke" Ino gasped at the sight of him sitting against the wall hand between his knees crying and covered in blood.
Immediately we run to him knelling next to him. His sobs slowly stop as He looks up at me with blood shot eyes. "Sasuke are you ok you're covered in blood are you hurt." I ask him franticly my training kicking in. His only motion is looking up in shook. I turn to Ino hoping she can get him to answer.
"Sasuke are you hurt." Ino asks him softy. He looks at her for a minute then shakes his head no. "Where is all this blood from then." She asks him.
He looks down at his shirt and at his hands, both covered in blood and his body begins to shake as his silently sobs return and he looks at me. "Sakura I'm so sorry…I…I…." he starts crying. "Sasuke what happened" I asked as Ino tries to comfort him. His body just shakes as he sobs.
"Is that blood Naruto's." I ask my face paling at the thought. A violent sob shakes his entire body giving me my answer. "No, No, your lying right it's all just a joke." I yell at him "just some sick joke that you and Naruto came up with." Sasuke continues to sob loudly.
"Stop tell him it's not funny, Sasuke. Tell him to come out and stop joking." I yell at him as I begin to cry. A pair of arms rap around me as I struggle crying harder and harder. "Stop Sakura he's telling the truth." To my surprise it's Garra who is holding me. I turn around to face him as he releases me from his grip.
"Thank you" I whisper to him, he nods and does nothing more. I accept it knowing that he's not one for emotions.
"Sakura" Temari yells as she runs into the waiting room followed by everyone else. "How's Naruto have you heard an….." Temari begins but trails of as she sees Sasuke. "Oh God….Sasuke" is the only thing she can mutter.
"Shit." Kiba, Kankuro and even Lee say in unison as they lay eyes upon Sasuke. "Sasuke you need to tell us what happened." Comes Shino's gruff voice. Sasuke just looks down refusing to meet our eyes. "Sasuke he's right tell us what happened." Neji says as Tenten clings to him for support. Sasuke looks up at him then Ino, then back to Neji and finally at me before he nods.
"I….I was walking down the street to meet Naruto to pick up the stuff for the party I turned the corner and saw a big fight maybe a 250 yards way. I looked and saw Naruto. I called his name and they heard me I started running. Two guys grabbed him and another shot him…. and…and…." he started crying again "I….think…..one was …..Kisame." He looks down again and cries. Tear of my own begin falling, fear filling my being.
In the background I hear Kiba being slammed against the wall declaring he was "going to kill those fucking bastards." Followed by the calm words of Shikamaru. "Kiba Look at me…. Kiba calm down we'll make them pay but for now calm down and be strong for us all don't go off and get yourself killed. I hear no verbal responds but a few seconds, Kiba's hand is on my shoulder, squeezing it in a reassuring way.
We sit there waiting forever watching doctors come out of surgery, each time they gave us an apathetic look and head of to someone else giving them news of their family member or friend. Sometimes the person receiving the news would suddenly smile but more often they seemed to collapse and start crying each time I wondered if that's what I would look like when the doctor came out. If the doctors here would come out to tell us bad news and then remember us as those poor kids who's friend got killed by a gang member.
After what seemed like an eternity a doctor came out. "Are you all here for Naruto Uzumaki?" "Yes" I murmured as we gathered around the doctor. "He's alive, your friend is a very lucky man." The doctor said.
"However the bullet severed a main artery and punctured his lung causing it to collapse. We lost him twice on the table but were able to bring him back. Your friends a fighter I'll give him that. However right now he's in a coma from blood lose, whether he comes out of it or not is up to him. Also he's right cheek bones; a few of his ribs, his left hand and his right leg are all broken. The break in his right leg is a compound fracture that is now being held together with some screws. Like I said he's lucky to be alive. Now if you would like you guys can see him." We all thanked the doctor as he led us to Naruto's room.
"Here you are. I hope he wakes up soon but please try not to make too much noise." With that he left and we entered.
Naruto was lying in bed with multiple tubes sticking out of his arm and one in his mouth, along with bloodied bandages covering his chest and his leg and hand in casts. I sit down in the chair next to his bed and grab hold of his hand; I flinch at the feel of his icy hand against my warm hand.
My emotions over whelm me and I start bawling. A quick shuffle of feet and the room becomes silent except for the beeping of the heart rate monitor, my quite sobs, and the machine that is helping Naruto breath. I cried myself to sleep, hoping and praying that he would live and I'd be able to see his beautiful blue eyes staring at me again.
I wake up the next morning around 10 and his unconscious body stilling lying in the hospital bed, his chest raising and sinking thanks to a machine. Hoping he could hear me I start to talk into his hand pleading with him "Just wake up. Please just wake up." I look at him and I start noticing details I hadn't the night face badly bruised and beaten black and blue masking the usually tan skin, blood still splatter in his hair leaving small crimson stains in his usually vibrant golden locks.
I sit there looking at his bruised, beaten face wondering what kind of monster could do this, even though deep down I had always known that they were evil I had never expected this.
"Still not awake huh." I hear Shikamaru say as he and Temari walk in.
"No"
"Don't worry Sakura he's strong he'll wake up soon" Temari said as she walks over and hugs me. "Thanks Temari. Um where is everyone else." I asked causing Shikamaru to let out a sighed "troublesome." Temari glaring at him before looking back at me.
"While after we all left we all went back to Sasuke's house to talk things over and figure out what we should do. In that time span Kiba and Sasuke got into a fight because Sasuke got it into his mind that he would go kill Itachi. Kiba, Lee, Neji, Shikamaru, and Choji all tried to hold him down. Sasuke punched Kiba in the face they started fighting all the other guys backed off not wanting to get caught in between the two of them fighting which gave Sasuke the opportunity to run. So he took it and now they're all looking for him." Temari finish with a sigh.
"Great" I said now pissed that Sasuke was basically committing suicide by going into the lion's den looking for a fight. "Troublesome right." Shikamaru asked
"Yeah" Temari and I replied.
"Ok well Sakura we're going to go help look. Plus Ino is freaking out she's convinced he's lying in an alley somewhere dead."
"Yeah you should probably go comfort her. I'll call you guys if anything changes." I said as they leave but Shikamaru abruptly turns back around. "Sakura we'll run by your house to pick some cloths for you later ok." "Yeah thanks guys." I said as they leave, leaving me to my thoughts.
A few hours pass and I hear someone yell "sir you're not allowed in that room." A second later Sasuke appears in the doorway, his eyes immediately landing and Naruto's motionless body. "Sasuke leave."
"Why" he asks stubbornly. I get up, run over and pushing him out in to the hall. "How dare you try to go get revenge. Oh fucking dare you…." I start to cry. "You saw what they did to Naruto." I pointed back into the room. "Do you want to end up like him? Put us all through this again. DO YOU." I scream the last part falling to my knees crying.
"No" he said knelling down to try and comfort me; I shrug his hands off my shoulders and lean away. "Sasuke just go home. Ino thinks you're lying somewhere dead." I say getting up and walking over to Naruto's bed side. "Sorry" he said as he leaves. Leaving me and the only man I loved in a hospital room.
I spend the next few hours remembering how bad I had treated Naruto in Elementary school wondering if he had ever truly forgiven me or if he understood that I loved him more than anything.
"Hey you wanna go on a date with me" Naruto asks the pink haired girl infront of him.
"Naruto you're stupid and annoying. I hate you." A seven year old Sakura says to the blond boy.
"Naruto you ruined my chance to ask out Sasuke just leave me alone." A ten year old Sakura tells Naruto before pushing him away.
I thought about how he saved me from Garra.
"No Naruto he'll hurt you." I screamed as I gripped my bleeding leg and stared at his back as he took a knife ment for me.
"Sorry Sakura-chan I can't do that." He said before punching Garra in the face
I thought about Garra's past and how it must haunt him, especially now. I felt the sudden need to apologize to Naruto and make sure he knew how much I loved him.
"Naruto please wake up I need to wake up." I got no reply "I'm sorry I was such an idiot when we were younger and I need to make sure that you've forgiving me and I want you to know that if you just wake up I'll never hurt you again. So please please wake up. I need you, everyone needs you." I start to cry "If you don't wake up it will hurt us all. Sasuke is trying kill his brother and is going to get himself killed, and then Ino will go after Itachi and she'll get killed and soon everyone will get hurt or worse so please just wake up and make everything better. Just like you always do. I NEED YOU." He didn't reply. I cried myself asleep.
I awoke to the sound of the heart rate monitor and the machine that helped Naruto to breathe. Today was Sunday and tomorrow school would start again the thought of being there without Naruto was sickening. I couldn't bear walking the halls without him with me, or sit in class without being able to look over and see his fox grin.
As the hours dragged on everyone came and left staying awhile to comfort me but they knew that I would only be happy when Naruto woke up. Again I cried myself to sleep for the third time.
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Naruto :(
Thanks For reading and there will be a two week hold because im going to be away. Hopefully i'll be able to get chapter three up before i leave.
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