"Ino, wait!" Someone kept calling me as I walked down the empty streets. The sun was setting, the sky was a shade of pinkish purple with a hint of orange. "Ino, can I talk to you?" They called out again, I took a glance back and saw Sasuke running after me. I slowed down so he could catch up to me; I wanted to know what he had to say to me. "Ino, I didn't know about your memory. I'm sorry if I freaked you out back there." He held onto my hand and looked into my eyes. His eyes were the same as Itachi's but with more emotion, just like his brother though; he was hard to read.
"Who are you to me?" I asked him. "Don't lie to me." He hesitated, looking like if he had to regain his thoughts before speaking.
"Your boyfriend, I was your boyfriend."
"Sakura told me I was single." I rolled me eyes at him and then folded my arms. I started to leave but he stopped me.
"Ino, I'm telling you the truth. We've been together for almost four years now."
"Then why did Sakura tell me I was single? And where were you when I woke up, why were you at the hospital?"
"You really want the truth?" I nodded and he took a deep breath before speaking. He grabbed my hand again and held onto it like he was to let go I would fly away. His touch was soft and caring, it made me feel safe to be near him. "Sakura was never a good friend to you. She threw away your friendship and never told you why, and then when she came back was when we got together; she was jealous. She secretly liked me for a long time and never told you until the day she was leaving."
"Is that Sasuke Uchiha? It is him!"
We both glanced over to the direction where we heard the voice shout Sasuke's name. He muttered 'shit' under his breath and ran, dragging me with him because he was still holding onto my hand.
"Damn paparazzi." He said as we ran into a dark alley. He pushed me against the wall, his body on mine trying to hide ourselves in the shadows. I could hear his heart beating with house close he was to me, he chest moved fast as his breathing was hard. I looked up at his face and noticed how handsome he really was. He glanced down at me and my heart skipped a beat and then started to pump faster. "I think they're gone."
We stayed glue to each other's bodies until it was a for sure thing that they had left. Sasuke back off of me, I stayed looking at him; I strangely missed his body on mine.
"Ino," I pulled him back to me without thinking.
"Were you really my boyfriend?" I put my head against his chest. He placed his arms around my shoulders, holding me.
"I wouldn't lie about that, not to you."
From that day, I never left Sasuke's side, my memory still hasn't come back to me; but the other night I had a dream, and it was strange and felt really real.
I was running away from someone; I looked like trash, my clothes, skin and hair were dirty. I was out of breath and had been crying. Someone kept calling out my name, and then I trip on a branch. I crawled behind a bush when I heard footsteps.
"God damn it, Ino where the hell are you!?" They yelled for me and my heart started to race even more. I think I was drunk, I was stumbling everywhere when I would walk. I tried to yell but nothing was coming out. I was scared, there was a lump in the back of my throat. My heart skipped a beat when the footsteps got closer to where I was, I closed my eyes tightly knowing what was going to happen at that moment; they grabbed me and pushed me to the ground, and then I woke up. I woke up in a cold sweat, out of breath with tears running down my face. I reached over for Sasuke but he wasn't there. I glanced at the clock and it was 7 in the morning.
I got up from the bed and made me way to the kitchen. My knees were shaking and my heart was still racing, pumping so loud you could probably hear it in the next room. The kitchen was empty and there was no sign of anyone on the house. I sighed and went for some glass of water, from the corner of my eye I saw a piece of paper on the fridge. I tore it off and it read 'Ino, I'll be out for a few hours. If you don't remember, we're at your house. Sasuke.' I blinked and looked around not realizing that this was my house. There was no pictures on the wall, the place was plain and empty. The living room was small and it connected to the kitchen. The main door was in the kitchen and there was a small patio door in the living room. The walls were wood in the living room and there was white carpet, in the kitchen the walls were painted white and the floor was titled. The hall way that lead to the bed rooms was long and dark; the walls and floor were just like the living room. The hallway lead to another hallway but this one was smaller and only had one door unlike the first one which had four different doors; the rest room, the room I came out of and two empty rooms.
I opened the door and it lead to a sunroom, with a lot of windows which let in a lot of light. The room was filled with flowers, lots of different colored flowers, the sad thing about the room was that the flowers were losing their color and slowly starting to wilt away. There was another door which lead to a different room, but this room was like an actual room. With a bed and the walls were painted a pastel purple, with a perfect sized bed that was pushed against the wall. There was a vanity on the other side next to the closet and it had its own little restroom with a bath tub. Outside the window was a beautiful sight. There was a swimming pool and little bed of roses with a white pitched fence. The room was filled with joy but at the same time sadness.
I walked over to the vanity, there was two picture frame that at been faced down and a small little notepad that had looked like it had been used recently. I turned over the picture frame and it was a picture of Sasuke and me, I was kissing his cheek and he looked happy with a small smile, the other was a picture of Sasuke, me, Itachi and some other girl with long red hair, pale skin, and bright yellow eyes, she was beautiful. The red head girl and I squeezed Sasuke and Itachi in the middle, looking like we had forced them to take the picture with us; they looked annoyed but happy at the same time.
I smiled and then picked up the notepad. There was a lot of writings in it, with dates. Skipped over to the most recent one which was written last month.
'I hope you wake up soon, I don't know how to take care of flowers like you and Akria did. It's been too quiet without both of you here. I'm sorry.' There was no name on any of the papers. They were just small sentences. I skimmed trough them and they had been written almost every day. Every once and awhile they were mention this Akria girl, she must have been the red head in the picture. In the middle of the notepad there was a long paragraph written.
'Ino, I know I've said this like a thousand times to you; but I'm sorry. I know when you wake up you're going to tell me it's not my fault why it happened, but I feel like it is. I'm the one that let you leave that night to look for her on your own, I should've gone with you. If I had, you wouldn't have been so depressed and gone back with Sasuke and none of this drama would have concerned you and you wouldn't have been stuck in the middle of it. Just please wake up soon, I need to hear your voice and see your beautiful eyes, and to hold you.' On the back of the page was something else. 'P.S. If you don't know where Chiro is, I have him. I've been taking care of him for you. He misses you too.' Chiro? That named, why do I remember that name so much?
I looked around the room and saw a little pet bed by the other bed and there was small cat toys in it. I remember now, I had a cat! I had a cat named Chiro and I've had him since he was a small kitten! And I have no idea where he could be…But then again maybe I did. I took my phone out of my pocket and looked through my contacts.
"Itachi…"
