Hello! I'm so sorry for the late upload, I've been seriously busy with school work Here's Chapter 3 for those who actually like my fanfic
I do not own Naruto! Masashi Kishimoto does and he is awesome for doing so :D please review!
All three of us were frozen. No one moved. I could feel Sakura's hand on my shoulder shaking. Itachi stood as still as we were, but instead he was grinning at us.
"Sasuke, it's very rude not to introduce your friend."
At this, I felt Sakura tense up immensely.
"Why are you here?" I managed to get my voice to work.
"I'm simply here to negotiate with you Sasuke."
The way he said my name, it was as if he was rolling it around on his tongue, testing it.
"What do you mean negotiate? I don't want anything to do with you."
"Sasuke, it doesn't matter if you do. We aregoing to do this."
The thing with Itachi, he's so fast that if you blink he could kill you instantly. And I blinked. The next thing I knew, Sakura was lying on her back on the floor holding her arm and I was being pinned up against the wall by my neck. Naruto's words were ringing in my head
"He just barged in and pinned me to the wall by my neck"
It was only then did I realize that Sakura was hurt. Her skin was going grey, her breathing was shallow and her grip on her arm was so tight it was going blue. Itachi noticed my gaze and chuckled.
"Like I said, we are going to negotiate. I've injected her with a poison that will slowly and painfully kill her."
My heart was pounding so loudly against my ribs that I was worried it would pop out. I glared at him but he tightened his grip in response, causing my hands to claw frantically at his hand around my neck, trying to let some air into my burning lungs.
"However, there is an antidote."
My head was getting so fussy that I almost didn't hear him. My arms were getting numb and they fell to my sides as darkness started flooding my vision. Just as I was about to pass out from lack of air, Itachi whispered in my ear.
"You know where to find me little brother."
I was already unconscious when I hit the floor.
I woke up in the hospital. This didn't surprise me at all; the hospital could be considered my second home. I felt woozy but other than that I was perfectly fine. It was then that I suddenly remembered what had happened. The feeling of panic was clawing its way up my throat as I remembered the image of Sakura lying on the floor in pain. I climbed out of bed and stumbled to the door to start my search for answers. I didn't get very far though as Lady Tsunade walked through the door the very moment my hand reached the handle.
"And where do you think you're going Uchiha?"
She gently led me back to the strange smelling bed and she stood holding my medical notes.
"Sakura…?"
"Isn't doing so well."
"Let me see her."
"You can't, she's in intensive care."
I clenched my hands into balls of fists and bit my lip, hard. I was always inpatient. Sakura was going to die and it's my entire fault. Some boyfriend I am.
"We have no idea what she's been poisoned with. If my calculations are correct though, then I'd say she has less than 24 hours left."
The words were swimming in my head, my heart not believing a word of it. I had to do something to stop it.
"How long have I been out?"
"Only an hour. Kakashi told me what happened and he said he needed to talk to you. Also, you can leave as soon as the nurses have filled out your forms."
She walked over to the door and was about to leave,
"Tsunade-sama… Thank you."
I said so quietly that I almost thought she didn't hear me. But she turned a little and smiled at me. She left it at that.
I was able to walk out of hospital half an hour later after being violently thrown out from trying to sneak into intensive care.
It was only just dawn so the sky was a beautiful blue as I made my way to my house. I had no intention of talking to Kakashi but it is kinda hard when he was standing dead in the middle of the road waiting for me.
"Sasuke, if you even think about going to meet your brother then I will put you back in hospital unable to walk."
Damn, someone's a bit blunt.
I walked straight past him without looking back to see if he followed in pursuit.
A hand held firm on my shoulder and stopped me in my tracks.
"Please Sasuke. Promise me you won't do anything extreme."
I closed my eyes and thought my choices through. I could stay here in Konoha and let Sakura die. I would eventually move on like I did my parents. Or, I could go to see my brother and negotiate with him for an antidote. He would probably give me to Orochimaru and I'd be a vampire slave, but Sakura would live. Who's live is worth more? Mine or Sakura's?
"I won't."
When I got home I had shower and got changed into my ninja clothes. I ate some bread and soup before hiding a kunai in my back pocket. I looked at the time, it was 5am. I took a photo frame from my desk and sat on my bed just looking at it.
It was a picture of Team 7. We were at the beach, not long after the chounin exam. I remember the day clearly like it was yesterday. In the picture, Naruto was on the left smiling with all his might striking a peace sign, Sakura was in the middle with her arms wrapped around me sticking her tongue out at the camera. I was at the end, grinning a little with one arm around Sakura's waist.
I took the picture out of its frame and folded into my pocket. My decision was made up. It was just a shame I couldn't see Sakura goodbye. I got a piece of paper and wrote the only thing I could bare to say. My hand on the door handle, I looked back and took one last glance at my home.
I set on towards the one place I knew where my brother would be waiting, the Uchiha compound.
Kakashi walked over in the morning to check to see how Sasuke was coping. Everyone knew how much Sasuke and Sakura loved each other and it broke Konoha's heart to have to separate them.
He knocked at the door once, twice with no answer. Strange. He moved over to the window to find no one inside. He used his transportation jutsu into Sasuke's house.
He looked inside his closet to find his clothes all there and his food still all neatly in place. His bed was made and cold. It was only then that Kakashi saw the little piece of paper on the desk. The one word Kakashi wished he would never see.
"Sorry."
