Part 1, Chapter 2 Don't touch me! Don't touch her!
Where Sasuke is ( getting ready for funeral )------
Sasuke was surprisingly nervous about this whole situation. He was trying to wash up a bit to look decent enough to spit in Itachi's dead face, but something was nagging at him, in the very pit of his stomach, he felt that something big was about to happen. The only thing to wonder was, 'What?' His curiosity would have to wait until he got there.
He jumped out of the area he was at, and started his way toward Itachi's funeral with even more questions in his head then before.
Where Sakura is------
Sakura slowly slid into her black, strapless dress, that went halfway to her knees, and of Miroku picked this out. Sakura did not know why she was even invited to this funeral in the first place, she never really knew Itachi!
Miroku was not sure on weather or not he really wanted Sakura at this funeral, but if she did not show up, people might suspect what is going on. He had already had several talks about Sakura not associating with anybody at all accept him. Sakura hated Miroku, but was afraid of him, and knew she could not defeat him in battle, and he would have her dead in two minutes if she messed with him.
Sakura thought about all of this while she slipped on her black strappy sandals. Then she slowly applied her makeup, and fixed her hair. She had to wear black gloves according to Miroku. She looked at herself in the mirror with a sorrowful look, and for a minute, saw an image of how she used to look, with her beautiful smile, and her eyes shining in the sun, with the old team seven. In comparison, she would have done anything to be as happy again. She started to cry, as Miroku walked in.
"What's wrong? Are you sad because Itachi is dead?" he asked.
"Huh? Oh, yeah." she replied.
"Well, can you make it all the way to his funeral?"
"Yes, are we leaving now?"
"Yes, let's leave." And with those words, they walked out the door, into the pouring rain. The skies were very dull and gloomy. Not a bit of sunshine was shown. It was completely dark outside.
Unison - Funeral------
Sasuke walked in the door, to see everybody expected there. He slowly walked up to Itachi's casket adn spit in between his eyes and growled with laughter. Then, it looked like the last guests had arrived, a boy and a girl, the girl look vaguely familuar, but he was sure that he had never seen and or met the boy.
Sakurawalked in the door and looked around to see all of her past sensei's and the sensei's of the other teams. She cried at the sight of seeing Kakashi and Naruto smiling at her entrance. Miroku flashed both of them dirty looks, and dispite that, they walked up to talk to her.
"Hey Sakura!" said Naruto happily.
Sakura looked at Miroku for a signal of what to do. He directed her to reply, but not start a conversation with them.
"Hi, Naruto." she said softly.
"Well, I haven't seen you for a while, what have you been doing all this time?"
"Uhh, I've been on private missions."
"Oh, sounds cool."
"Well, I'd better leave now."
She turned away from Naruto and ran smack into a man and started to fall backwards, but the man caught her around her lower back, and with just her luck, Miroku saw and gave Sakura a threatening look. The man she ran into looked extremely familuar. She looked into the pair of Onyx eyes, as she could tell he had seen her before.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, sir." Sakura said.
"Oh, don't worry about that, I'm okay, are you?" he replied.
"Yes I'm fine, thanks for catching me."
"Sure."
"Excuse me for asking, but you look familiar, have I seen you before?"
"I was just thinking the same thing."
"Well, hi, I'm Sakura Haruno."
Those words stung his ears like an ant in a bee colony. He had now known exactally who she was, but she looked so diffrent, she looked sad, like a piece of her was missing. She did not look like the little smiling girl that always obsessed over him.
"Hn, Hi Sakura, I'm Sasuke Uchiha." he said with a smirk on his face. Sakura burst into tears.
Miroku saw that they were having a conversation, and came over to straighten her out.
"Excuse me Sakura, but I think we're done frolicking." he said angrily.
Sakura slowly walked away with Miroku, and Sasuke could not help but notice her sad, resentful look she recieved when he came over. He saw Miroku slap her across her face. Sasuke could not stand to see that happen to anybody. He closed his eyes.
"Please, stop that!" she screamed.
"You know I told you not to talk to anybody but me!" he yelled back with another slap for Sakura.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" she screamed as she had had the final straw, when he pulled her away from her old friends. She sacreamed loud enough for everybody to hear, and they all looked over to see Miroku holding Sakura by her hair.
Sasuke saw all of this and could not take it anymore. Nobody deserved to be treated like that. He walked up to Miroku.
"Hey, It's not good to be abusing her like that." he said.
"Oh yeah? and what are you going to do about it?" asked Miroku.
"Anything it takes!"
Miroku held her hair tighted and this time, even grabbed her neck and started to choke her adn choked her so hard, that she was lifted completely off that ground by her neck. Sakura gave Sasuke that look meaning to stop while he can. Sasuke ignored it and threw a kunai at Miroku's foot. He hit it, and everybody found out that he was not about to let that stop him. Miroku laughed at Sasuke's determination.
"Does she mean that much, kid?" he asked.
"Nobody deserves that!" he yelled.
"What are you gonna do, kid?" he said choking Sakura harder now.
"DON'T TOUCH HER!!" he screamed.
"Aww, why not?"
Sasuke could not stand the bastard anymore, so he snuck up behind him and jabbed a kunai at the back of his head. Miroku feel to the ground. Sakura was dragged down with him. Miroku weighed a ton compared to tiny little Sakura. She was squashed! Everybody lifted Miroku up, and of course, he would be uncoinscience for a while now, and they helped Sakura get on her feet. They were all giving her water and helpful things, because her face was blue. Somebody had to take her to a hospital.
Sasuke walked up to her, she was coughing hard and she could not breath. Sasuke walked up closer, and everybody backed up for him to get to her. Nobody was going to stand between then, they could never match the respect he had just shown for somebody. He lightly checked her pulse. There was a very faint thump, she had to get to the hospital, now.
He picked her up gently and carried her bridal style to the hospital. She was extremely light. It seemed to be a dangerous weight to be. She was about as heavy as a modern bicycle, which is just about the peak of death. This could not be helping her one bit.
Kagome9943: Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I tried to make it longer than the last one for my fans. Thanks so much! And I strongly encourage you to review, but please no flames!
