Authors' Note:
Yeppers, I'm continguing naming my chapters after prases that they say at the end...I don't know why I keep doing that though...but anyway, here's chapter four. Happy reading and reviewing!
Oh, this is a continuation of chapter 3 since I didn't get everything that I needed in there under one chapter, this is where you find...CHA! Not spilling so chu gotta read to see what I was trying to say. =D But anyway, like I said earlier happy reading and reviewing.
Why does it hurt so much...
Sasuke sighed, he was happy school was over and he just went on a long walk...the long way to the dollar store to buy some notebooks, he wanted to get to the park so he'd meet Oro there and he didn't want to leave Naruto home all on his own, Naruto would go crazy for being alone for too long so he had to be quick. But the dollar store was a fifteen minute walk from school and the park was almost a thirty minute walk from the dollar store, then it's a twenty walk home...he had to almost run to the park to get there in time and explain to Naruto that his feet wanted to take the long way home from the dollar store...which was just a ten minute walk. He could just say he went through the park and then came home which would be truthfull but Naruto would suspect something.
"I hate my life..." Sasuke sighed heavily to himself and dug his hands deep in his pockets.
Sasuke usually didn't do something like this but this week he needed something to keep his mind off his past, he started getting nightmares from that day again and his scar had been hurting him like hell. He just wanted this to be done and over with so he went on the side of drugs though the guy he's been getting it from always paid the bill for him so it was pretty much free. He knew Oro like he knew his friends he sat with during lunch, but he was much creepier. He even looked like a snake and his name meant snake. The guys full name was Orochimaru, there was no last name that came with it and Sasuke never asked, he didn't want to know.
Well when Sasuke was done shopping for his notebooks, he ran to the park...which took like ten minutes so he was a little early when he walked to the spot he and Oro were talking about, the big tree in the middle by the creek.
"I'm early...well it's either that or he's late..." Sasuke said to himself, sometimes when he was alone he'd talk to himself, from what it looks like, but he just thinks out loud.
"I'm not late Sasuke, you're early." A male's voice said from behind Sasuke.
"I see, well?" Sasuke said as he turned around, holding his hand out for his stuff.
"Four shots of heroine at your service." Orochimaru snickered and pulled them out of his pocket and handed them to Sasuke. "But why won't you meet me at my place...or I meet you at yours?"
"Um...no...for one I don't want to see where you live and two you can't come near my place, my dad would kill you." Sasuke snorted. "You look like a drugie."
"Well I am, but anyway, I'll talk to you when you get back on." Orochimaru sighed, he didn't win Sasuke's side, a failure yet again...but he knew he'd get Sasuke one of these days, it was just a matter of time...not like he already has him in his grasp.
"Hn." Sasuke huffed and started running home after he shoved the four syringes into his backpack, he wanted to get home and make sure Naruto didn't wreck the place, he also wanted to get his homework done before Iruka came home so he had to rush home.
"What's taking Sasuke so long?" Naruto asked himself as he threw himself onto his bed. "I should have never let him go out on his own, he just got out of the hospital for a fucking seizure so I should have gone with him."
Naruto was starting to feel stupid for letting Sasuke wander the streets on his own, especially after the episode that was just two hours ago, Sasuke should have been home thirty minutes ago but he was nowhere in sight and he was starting to really worry. But his thoughts changed when the front door opened and Naruto jumped out of his bed and ran to the living room.
"Where have you been bastard?" Naruto asked.
"Sorry, I took the long way home and lost track of time." Sasuke lied, his face dripping with sweat and his breathing somewhat heavy from running.
"Fine bastard, well you're the one cooking this time, I cooked the last time Iruka had a meeting." Naruto explained as he shrugged his shoulders. "And how are you doing right now?"
"Just out of breath, I ran the rest of the way home when I realized where I was going and what time it was." Sasuke explained, which was half true.
"Alright, well you need a shower stinky." Naruto laughed.
"I want to cool off for a minute, then I'll get in, are you working on homework..." Sasuke asked.
"Yea, well doing what homework I can do until dad gets home." Naruto sighed and his head dropped. "I'm never going to get that project done on time."
"What project is it for?" Sasuke asked as he went to the kitchen and got a glass of water.
"History, we're working on Ancient Egypt and unfortunately...we don't have books on that time period...we have everything else...but that time period..." Naruto explained...then complained as he threw his arms up in the air.
"Aah I see, why didn't you go to the library during lunch?" Sasuke asked.
"...Are you serious?" Naruto asked. "I was going to start the little plan during lunch...and if I had started it in the library you would be fucking dead right now."
"Oh...never mind then..." Sasuke sighed. "Well I'm getting in the shower now so I'll be back out soon."
"Don't take all the hot water, I want a shower too." Naruto barked.
Sasuke just waved a hand which meant that he understood and went to take a shower.
When Sasuke was done with the shower a half hour later, he looked to see what time it was and it was only four o'clock, he had two hours until he had to make dinner so he went to his room and got dressed. He was going to work on his homework until he had to start dinner so he started with rewriting his notes from Advanced Ancient History and Mythology, the class was working on the man named Homer, next week they were going to work on Plato and Monday was the big test over Homer so he had to read through his notes and they needed to be rewritten...badly, so that's why he bought around six new notebooks at the dollar store.
Sasuke was top of his class while Naruto was somewhere in the top fifty. Naruto always complained how Sasuke was always smarter than he was and he never even had to work really hard while Naruto had to bust his ass on his and they were just basic classes, he could see Naruto's face if Naruto had to take advanced classes with him...Naruto would be so confused his head would explode trying to figure out calculus with him. Sasuke laughed at his own joke which if you were standing in the middle of the same room with him when he did this, it would be scary as fucking hell. But Sasuke had his own work to do and knew that if Naruto had a problem he couldn't understand, he'd come to him...that's why he kept his door unlocked today when they were alone with a lot of homework.
Sasuke sighed heavily after he was done with the first page of his notes and decided he wanted some music to go on in the background to help him focus, he loved listening to music when he studied, it always kept him calm and focused while he did his homework. So he turned on his CD player and put on Linkin Park and played some random song, he didn't remember the order of the songs anymore.
Memories consume like
Opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm save here in my room
Unless I try to start again
'Well what a coincidence...' Sasuke thought and got back to his notes.
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habbit
I'm breaking the habbit, tonight
Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than any time before
I had no option left again
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So I'm breaking the habbit
I'm breaking the habbit, tonight
I'll paint it on the wall
Cause I'm the one at fault
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
To show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So I'm breaking the habbit
I'm breaking the habbit
I'm breaking the habbit, tonight
Sasuke was now already half way done with his notes, and that was two notebooks by the time he played this song for probably the hundredth time. He loved this song, he thought it was well written and wondered if anyone in the band was on drugs like he was...but he never put any real thought into it as he stretched and looked at his alarm clock...it was almost seven.
"Shit!" He cursed to himself and got up to go to the kitchen to start dinner, and noticed that Naruto had already started it for him. "I thought I was the one starting dinner?"
"Well...you looked really busy working on your homework and I was already done with mine except for the project." Naruto explained. "And what's the harm in me making dinner, I do know how to cook."
"Alright, just tell me when it's done ok?" Sasuke said as he started getting back to his room. "I have another notebook of notes to study through, I have a test Monday over Homer."
"Alright." Was all Naruto said before he started chopping up some lettuce for a salad, he was making stirfry chicken with plenty of steamed rice and salad to go on the side as the veggie, and Sasuke liked salads anyway so Naruto was going to stay on his good side.
"Well the meetings' over, you all can go home if you so wish." The principal of the elementary school said with a heavy sigh, the teachers there except for Iruka didn't want to expand, they didn't want to deal with even more kids...they were selfish like that.
So all the teachers got up and rushed home, they were glad the meeting was over, they thought it was a pointless battle that was never won in the very beginning and glared at Iruka for ever thinking of the idea, but Iruka stayed after the meeting as he put his things together.
"They are so self centered." He sighed to himself.
"You got that right, but I get where you're coming from Iruka."
"You do Kakashi?" Iruka asked.
"Yep, you've adopted two kids of your own from the childrens' home and you want the same education for the other kids there...you have that kind of personality." Kakashi shrugged as he explained.
"Well thank you." Iruka blushed a little and scratched the back of his head.
"Well I'll see you in on Monday ok?" Kakashi said as he stood up and stretched. "I have a meeting with the Board of Education tomorrow, you're welcome to join if you want...it is your idea."
"It's alright, I'll think about it though...but I'm just not so sure I should leave Sasuke at home after what happened during lunch." Iruka sighed.
"I heard, and is he doing alright?" Kakashi asked as he packed his things.
"Yea, he's just happy that Naruto was there to help." Iruka smiled as he looked to Kakashi.
"I bet he is...but weren't they fighting all the time?"
"They were only showing off so that bullies would stop bullying other students...it was all Naruto's big plan to rid the school of them completely." Iruka laughed.
"Good but stupid plan." Kakashi laughed as the two walked out of the school building and to their cars which so happened to have been parked next to each other.
"Well I gotta get home...they probably trashed the place and I'm just expecting to hear a fire syren to go off..." Iruka sighed, he was expecting the boys to burn the house down.
"Good luck." Kakashi said and got in his silver Sunfire before backing out and driving off to go home when the two said their good byes.
Iruka was dreading to go home, he didn't want to see a mess but he had to or Naruto would start going insane and really tear it apart. He was getting a little worried about Naruto because he knew that his back had started hurting recently and the surgery for his metal plates was in a month, and all known to him, Naruto was hiding his pain behind the mask of deception like he always did...he hated it when people started worrying about him. But Iruka sighed heavily again and got in his car and drove home.
Sasuke and Naruto were done cleaning up after dinner, Sasuke actually loved Naruto's cooking for once and ate everything and they were sitting on the couch watching their favorite show called Hellfire. Hellfire was about a girl that was sixteen and she got addicted to drugs and alcohol cause of her parents, she made a new friend...or was forced to...and ended up falling in love with the new friend that just happened to be another girl.
Sasuke loved television that involved girls falling in love with another girl, he thought it was hot but he was so involved with the show that he didn't notice Naruto was tensed up and holding his back until Naruto made a sound of pain that accidentally escaped his throat. "You alright Naruto?"
"I-I'm fine...I pulled something in gym today..." Naruto spat through clenched teeth. "I'll be fine..."
"Naruto...you know you're not supposed to hide back pain, what if it's something else?" Sasuke said, now it was his turn to worry.
"Where's my chair..." Naruto asked, he was glad that Tsunade let him have a wheelchair incase he needed it, but hardly ever used it...but now he was over exerting himself in gym and martial arts class that it was starting to get despirate.
"Hold on, I'll go get it...I think I know where it is." Sasuke said and got up, secretly grabbing the phone and slid it in his pocket as he went to Iruka's room and looked in his closet where Naruto's chair was kept, but he stopped and called Iruka's cell phone.
"Yea, something wrong?" Iruka asked when he answered his phone.
"Yea a big problem, Naruto's back is hurting really bad..." Sasuke answered in a low tone so Naruto couldn't hear him.
"How bad?"
"He's asking for his chair." Sasuke answered and heaved the chair out of the closet.
"I'm pulling in the driveway now, I'll call Tsunade before I come in." Iruka said and hung up the phone.
Sasuke only sighed in annoyance and put the phone back in his pocket before he opened the chair and wheeled it to the living room where Naruto was still sitting in the couch, but now he was laying down and looking really pale.
"Naruto, are you sure you just pulled something?" Sasuke asked as he leaned over, moving Naruto's hair out of his eyes, his forehead felt hot and Naruto looked like a ghost...almost exactly how Sasuke's skin looked and that was saying something, Naruto was very tan and his eyes were closed.
"I...can't feel my legs." Naruto answered, opening his eyes and they were filled with so much pain that they looked almost white.
Sasuke just left his side and ran out the front door to Iruka's car, scaring the living shit out of him again and nearly screamed, "Naruto can't feel his legs...his face is as white as mine and he feels like he has a fever."
"BRING HIM IN IMMEDIATELY!" A woman's voice screamed from the phone.
"I'm on my way." Iruka said quickly and jumped out of his car. "Sasuke call a squad now!"
Sasuke just nodded and called nine-one-one, not hesitating once and told them the situation, his conversation was quick and short, they understood his situation and sent a squad immediately to the premisis. Sasuke decided to stand outside to make sure they went to the right house as Iruka was inside trying to keep Naruto comfortable.
'Twice...twice in one day we're going to the hospital.' Sasuke thought as he growled at himself.
When the squad got there and parked in the driveway backwards, Sasuke ran into the house and packed his school things, leaving the heroine shots in his bed side table in a secret compartment, he wanted to take the rest of his homework along and grabbed Naruto's homework too, he was going to help Naruto finish his project and type it up on Iruka's laptop at the hospital then print it off when he got to school. He wasn't going to let Naruto fail the class just because the teacher was an ass and he knew the teacher was an ass...one time Naruto came late for class after his apointment and gave him a detention even with a doctors note, he hated Ebisu-sensei.
But as Sasuke was grabbing the last of his things, Iruka came into his room and said, "You wanna ride with Naruto or do you want to ride with me?"
"I'll ride with you, they wait on me they won't leave for another few minutes." Sasuke said as he grabbed his Ipod and charger.
"Alright, meet you in the car in a minute." Iruka said and rushed to tell the Ambulance driver that Sasuke was leaving with him and they rushed out.
Sasuke only had to grab one more thing and that was his flash drive and he ran out to the car with his keys, locking the door behind him as he went and jumped into the car. Iruka was in no mood to go the speed limit and sped all the way to the hospital, but this time he had his seat belt on and Sasuke was glad he put his on too, he would have been tossed out the window if he hadn't and yes, they were pulled over.
"You do know you were going eighty in a thirty five?" The officer said with a heavy sigh.
"I know, my kid is on his way to the hospital..." Iruka explained. "Not him, my other kid."
"Alright, just try not to go eighty...next time I will have to give you a ticket..." She sighed, it was late and hardly anyone else drove the streets in Konoha at night so she let him off easily.
"Thank you officer Kurenai." Iruka said and sped off, this time going sixty until he was out of her sight, then slaming on the gas and went eighty again.
"I want an IV ready for when Naruto gets in here, and I want some morphine, and an operating room open immediately. I'm going to operate on his back as soon as I go and get the metal plates." Tsunade ordered her staff as quickly as she could while she got ready for surgery. "I also want A+ transfusions at the ready incase they are needed."
"Yes my lady." A brunette said as she got to work asap, she was Tsunade's most trusted intern.
As Tsunade scrubbed and rinsed her arms and hands, she dried them and threw on a pair of temporary gloves just as Naruto's ambulance pulled in, she needed a few more minutes since her intern wasn't back yet with the stuff she called for and another of her interns said, "I have an operation room at the ready lady Tsunade."
"Thank you Lola, is Shizune back yet with those blood transfusions and the metal plates yet?" Tsunade asked.
"She's on her way lady Tsunade." Her third intern said from the counter as Tsunade rushed to Naruto's room.
"Alright, tell her I'm in Uzumaki, Naruto's room Genma." Tsunade said and disappeared behind a curtain. "Where does it hurt Naruto?"
"I can't feel my legs...and my back hurts really bad like I pulled something..." He answered slowly, his face looked almost transparent in the lights and his eyes white.
"Wait...I thought his eyes were an obsidian blue Tsunade." A regular nurse said as she looked at Naruto's eyes real quick.
"It's something that became adapted to him, when he's in excruciable pain, his eyes turn white...that's when I know that his spinal nerve is being pinched in three different places and that I have to do immediate surgery." Tsunade explained as she got Naruto's IV's ready in his left and right arm.
"Aah...but I've never heard that before..."
"Sasuke's eyes turn gray when he has a seizure." Tsunade shrugged just as Shizune ran into the room.
"I have the things you wanted in the operating room all set up lady Tsunade." She said quickly.
"Thanks Shizune...we'll be going down there in a few minutes, go and make sure Iruka Umino and Sasuke Uchiha are in the waiting room." Tsunade said. "And inform them of the situation."
"Yes lady Tsunade." Shizune said and bowed before she left the room and went to the waiting area.
"Naruto's going to be fine dad." Sasuke said for the fifth time as they were now running into the hospital, Sasuke carrying two bags, one the computer and the other his backpack.
"Sasuke, you do seem to understand the situation don't you?" Iruka asked and they stopped running.
"Um..." Was all Sasuke could say...he didn't know the entire situation.
"Sasuke...before you met Naruto...before I even adopted him, Naruto was in a bad car crash, his parents were crushed and torn and Naruto's legs were crushed too and his three lower spinal plates were cracked enough that his spinal nerve could easily slip into it and get stuck...that's how Tsunade explained it...but if she can't fix this now without tearing that spinal nerve...Naruto will never walk again and never be able to feel his legs or anything from his waist down." Iruka explained with a heavy sigh.
Sasuke was horrified with this, he didn't know it was that bad, "Wait, I thought it was a bad accident."
"I'll tell you later..." Iruka said and ran into the emergency room as he saw Shizune walk into the waiting area looking for them.
Sasuke followed suit and wondered what Iruka was talking about but shrugged it off and saw that they were sitting down in a secluded area where hardly anyone was sitting down, Sasuke figured that the woman was explaining Naruto's situation to him and decided to sit where there was a plug so he'd be able to plug in the laptop when it needed to be charged but he wanted to get his own notes finished up then start on Naruto's project. But he didn't expect Iruka to come over so soon and sit next to him.
"He's in surgery right now...and we might be here all night..." Iruka sighed heavily then rubbed his face with both of his hands, he was tired and wanted to go home, but he wanted to stay awake all the same.
"I'm fine with it...and I found out why Naruto was using the internet at home..." Sasuke said as he averted his gaze over to Iruka. "He was using it for a project in History."
"What project..."
"Ancient Egypt..." Sasuke answered. "We don't have books on that subject...and we do on all other forms of ancient history."
"Aah...I haven't been able to find really good books on Ancient Egypt though..." Iruka said as he lifted his right leg and put his ankle on his left knee, he was trying to get comfortable.
"I can understand that...Ancient Egypt isn't a famous subject and I don't know why." Sasuke noted.
"So what are you doing?" Iruka asked as he started reading what Sasuke was writing.
"My notes on Homer...I have a test on Monday about him...then Tuesday we start Plato." Sasuke explained in a heavy sigh, it was boring.
"Aah, and how are your other classes coming along?" Iruka asked, now being curious.
"I'm passing everything with the highest marks...I'm going to be the valedictorian ya know." Sasuke smirked and went back to his notes, he was on his last few pages now.
"When did you get those notebooks?" Iruka asked, not remembering getting new notebooks.
"I got them after school today...Naruto didn't want to come with me so he went home." Sasuke said and sighed, his last page of dreaded notes.
"I see." Iruka yawned. "Wake me up if Shizune comes back."
"Who's that?" Sasuke asked, finally looking up to see Iruka's face.
"That's who I was talking to." Iruka explained and closed his eyes as he fell asleep.
"Alright..." Sasuke yawned too.
"Don't worry Naruto, we're going to help you as much as we can ok?" Tsunade said as they were wheeling Naruto to the operating floor so they'd go to the room requested and start the surgery, they were just getting onto the elevator.
When the doors closed, Naruto looked up at her and asked, "Why does it hurt so much..."
Tsunade just looked at him and he closed his eyes, he was tired and passing out was the only way he could do to get out of the pain temporarily even though Tsunade wanted him awake a few more minutes.
Authors' End Note:
I know I'm evil...I put Sasuke in the hospital last chapter and now Naruto's in the hospital...I AM EVIL! But I won't be for much longer, one more chapter of past and...you know what's gonna be said by now right? CHA! Not going to spoil. Please feel free to review.
Next chapter name: Why can't he know?
