IV
Tears slid down my cheeks, staining my shirt in large spots. I stumbled into my dorm and crumbled onto my bed without turning the lights on. I had lost my only good friend. My roommate, Ino, had been a good friend in the past but she just recently started dating this bad boy, Sai so she's been preoccupied.
I just laid there, the tears slowly soaking into the blankets, until I finally fell asleep.
The light being flicked on woke me. I looked around to see a wide-eyed Ino, her back against the door, like she had been caught doing something wrong. Immediately, the look of shock and sheepishness washed off her face as she recognized the look of despair in my eyes and the wet tearstained bed. She rushed to my side and wrapped her arms around me, something she hadn't done in quite a long time.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" The deep blue of her eyes and yellow hair flashed me back to Naruto and I collapsed into her shoulder.
We sat there for a long time, she cradled me and whispered that everything would be alright, even though she had no idea what wasn't alright. I finally sobbed out the entire story; my fight with Naruto, Sasuke ignoring me more than usual, Karin popping up at the most inopportune moment and asking Sasuke to a concert, and him saying yes! Ino had, like all the other sane people in the school, a crush on the beautiful, smooth, Sasuke to a point where our friendship was demolished. After she got over her obsession, we stopped feeling animosity toward each other and reconciled. I was so glad to have my best girlfriend back in my life.
She was quiet for a moment and finally with quiet austere in her voice, she said, "Do you think it's time for you to forget about all this, Sakura?" When I looked at her with disbelief, she lowered her head. "This is just causing you pain. I think he really means something to you, more than he ever meant to me, or anyone else at this school. You see something in him that no one else sees, but that my not be the best thing. It may not be there."
I couldn't speak. My throat was tight and raw. Finally getting control of my voice, "He is everything I see in him and more! I know him! We were friends. He is..."
"Not worth this pain you're going through. You have to let go," she whispered.
"What if I told you to let Sai go? What if I told you he wasn't as perfect and wonderful as you think he is?" I was angry now, hot tears sprung into my eyes and slid down my cheeks. "You would tell me I was wrong. You would tell me to shut up because I don't know what I'm talking about."
"Sakura, I-"
"You're wrong. You don't know what you're talking about."