Sakura's POV
"HEY GUYS!!" I yelled as I ran toward the Hokage tower.
"Hey Saku!" Said Temari as she ran up to me and gave me a hug.
"Is everyone here?" I asked feeling that we were light on people.
"No. My stupid brother is taking his sweet time getting here. I swear he can be such a pain in the ass!" Exclaimed Temari, exasperated.
"What 'stupid brother' were you referring too?" Said Gaara. He was now standing behind his sister looking annoyed.
"Heh. Nevermind…Looks like everybody's here! Lets go shopping!!" Yelled Temari throwing her hands in the air.
"YEAH!" Repeated Hinata, Tenten, Ino, and I in unison.
We all started toward the West Side Mall.
West Side Mall
We were there before we knew it and were glad because Naruto and Kiba had been fighting the whole way there and Tenten had almost taken Naruto's head off with her numchucks.
"Finally! I want to go to Aero! Who's with me?" Said Tenten.
"I'll come!" Said Ino, "And after I want to get an Ice cream!"
"I would like to go to the book store…um…maybe." Said Hinata.
"Oh! I'll go with you! I love Borders!" I said, "Gaara come with us!"
Gaara starred at me while I waited for him to answer. He sighed then smiled a little crocked smile. "Sure. I do like to read." He replied.
By then Temari and Ino had set out to Aero with Shikamaru tagging along because Temari always needed somebody to hold her clothes.
Tenten and Neji were heading to a photo both near the movie theatre. And Naruto, Kiba, and Sasuke were at the food court already. It looked as if they were going to have an eating contest. My guess was that Sasuke was the chaperone, making sure Naruto didn't choke, or being there to laugh if he did.
So Gaara, Hinata, and I set out to the book store. Hinata and I went strait to the Romantic Fiction part of the store, while Gaara went to the History section. I picked up a book named Midnight Sun and started reading. Before I knew it I was tapped on the shoulder. I looked up about to apologize to Hinata for spacing out around her, but she wasn't there. I looked around and didn't see Gaara either.
'Where'd they go?' I asked myself.
"Ahem. Um excuse me?" A voice said from behind me.
I had forgotten the reason I had stopped reading. I turned around to face the person who had tapped my shoulder. He was a tall man with shoulder length black hair. He looked to be about 20 and had a single piercing on his right ear. I guess you could call him handsome, but he wasn't some one I'd be attracted to. He wore loose fitting black jeans, a grey Hollister t-shirt, and a baseball hat turned around. He was about 6'ft and was looking down at me smiling a very weird cocky smile.
"Um, may I help you?" I asked, a little uncomfortable by his closeness.
"Yeah, sugar, you can." He said, still smiling that cocky smile of his. "You look like you'd know your way around here. Ya see I can't find a friend of mine and I was wondering if you could show me to the Info booth."
'Oh great. A pickup artist. Wonderful!" I thought sarcastically.
"Actually, I don't. But there a plenty of security guards over there and they might be able to help you." I said with a fake smile.
He looked at me kinda pissed, looked out the corner of his eye and smiled. "Ok sugar thanks! I'll see ya around sometime! See ya." He said with a smile walking toward the exit, past the security guards, and walked into the mess of people. He walked with one specific person it seemed.
'Guess he found that "friend of his".' I thought sarcastically.
I picked up Midnight Sun and checked out. I looked around the store, then finally giving up after 10 minutes of searching for my friends, and left.
I walked a little more then went into Hollister. I looked around for a few minutes looking for Temari or Ino. After going around the store a few times I left. My next stop was the food court. Like the other stores I had no luck finding Kiba, Naruto, or Sasuke.
'WHERE IS EVERYBODY?!?!?'
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Deidara's POV
"Where are you fucking leading us?!?" Hidan Yelled.
"Tobi is taking you to a magical place!" Tobi said, skipping down the road swinging his arms.
"We've been walking for half an hour, yeah! Tell us where we're going, yeah!" I finally joined.
1 hour ago Tobi came to all of our houses and gathered us all up telling us it was an emergency. But now since he's got us he won't tell us where we're going and I t doesn't look like there's an emergency, yeah.
"Tobi can't tell! That ruins the surprise!" Tobi yelled.
"Does it have anything to do with spending money?" asked Kakuzu finally talking for once. (YAY)
"Hmmm…It does if you want to!" The annoying little boy with the orange swirley mask answered.
"That's it I'm leaving." Kakuzu said turning around and starting to walk away.
"No!" Tobi screamed. He ran up to Kakuzu and grabbed his arm; digging his heels into the ground trying to stop him. "You don't HAVE to spend money! You could just talk to people! And we're already here! If you leave now Sakura-chan's gonna be upset that you didn't come!!"
Everyone stopped when he said that. Kakuzu stopped pulling and looked at him.
"Tobi, where are we going?" Itachi asked.
"THE MALL!!" Tobi cheered, jumping in the air.
"UUGGHH!!!" Everybody groaned.
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Eventually Tobi dragged us all in and we were walking around.
"It's to crowded, yeah." I wined.
"I'm going to a store." Itachi said.
"What store Itachi?" Pein asked.
"Hot Topic." He muttered.
"I'm coming." Sasori and I said at the same time.
We all walked for awhile in silence. We heard whispers and whistles coming from girls. I always turned to wave and smile, just to see them blush and turn away. The other two just ignored them and walked.
I bent down barely and inch to whisper in Sasori's ear. I was about 6'2 while Sasori was 6'1 ½ and Itachi being his gigantor self at 6'4.
I whispered, "Do you know where Hot Topic is? Its been awhile since I've been to the mall."
"Ask Itachi. I'm following him." He answered.
I looked at him waiting for an answer. I knew he could hear us. He nodded forward and I looked. It was right around the corner.
"Hn." I thanked him.
We walked in. Itachi went strait to the back to look at the heavy metal CDs. Sasori and I walked to the t-shirt racks. I was wearing a dark blue muscle shirt with a black jacket and jeans. Sasori was wearing a tan Hollister long-sleeved shirt, kaki shorts with a tan, fabric belt. I looked over to Itachi. He was wearing black fitted jeans and a black muscle shirt with a red collar.
I picked up a Slipknot t-shirt and asked Sasori what he thought.
"Hn. It's ok." He answered not really interested.
He picked up a wallet with a chain and hooked it to his pants. It looked cool on him even with his bored, lazy look. He decided he wanted it and held onto it. I went to look at the CDs with Itachi. He was holding a Three Days Grace CD. I knew them and liked them but what I really remembered was that Sakura liked them.
"You like Three Days Grace?" I muttered.
"No. Sakura does." He said bluntly.
I stared at him. 'Is he getting that for her?' I thought.
I quickly shook that thought out of my head and resumed looking. I picked up an Avenged Sevenfold CD and checked the songs. I liked the band but I already had the CD. I put on the headphones to listen to the CDand picked the song 'Afterlife'.
I made sure to keep and eye on Itachi and Sasori as I listened trying to make sure they didn't leave me. Itachi had moved to a different corner looking at belts, while Sasori was still looking at chains. Then my gaze met something outside of the store. A girl with waist length pink hair was standing and gazing at a map. She wore a white aeropostale t-shirt and light blue jeans. She had a white head band in her hair and looked worried.
Sasori met my gaze and looked in the direction I was facing. He too saw her and turned toward her. He dropped what he was doing and started to walked out of the store. I quickly took off the headset and run to catch up with him not letting him take the credit for finding her. We both walked up to her at the same time and tapped her on the shoulder.
She stiffened and shivered. We looked at each other and back down at her back.
"I can't help you find your friend I'm sorry! Leave me alone!" She said a little too loudly.
People started to slow down and stare at us.
"Um, Sakura-chan? What are you talking about, yeah?" I asked.
She gasped and spun around so quickly it was like a blur.
"Sasori! Deidara! What are you doing here?" She asked sounding surprised.
"Well, Tobi dragged us all here in search for you but we soon just went separate ways, yeah."
"Sakura-chan. What did you mean by, 'I can't help you. Please leave me alone.'?" Sasori asked with a slightly worried slightly pissed face on.
"That? Oh, nothing really." She answered looking timid.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" He pushed.
She stared at us trying to decide whether or not to tell us.
"We're getting worried, yeah. Just tell us what happened." I said trying to persuade her.
"Well. Earlier I was in Borders with Hinata and Gaara. I picked up a book and started reading. 30 minutes later some one taps me on the shoulder. I look around and Hinata wasn't there, neither was Gaara. I turned around and a tall man was there asking if I'd help him find his friend. I got him to leave but everywhere I go, it seems as though I can see him following me." As she reached the end her voice grew smaller and smaller.
I looked at Sasori to see what he was thinking. He looked worried, pissed, and scared for her. He stepped forward as she started crying and wrapped her in his arms.
"Shh. It's alright. We're here now; you don't need to be scared anymore." He whispered into her ear.
I didn't know what to do. I just stared at them wondering why Sasori only showed so much emotion towards Sakura. He never showed more than boredom to me and I've known him for years.
"Hey. What's going on?" Asked a voice from behind me.
I turned and Sasori and Sakura lifted their heads. It was Itachi. He was staring at Sasori and Sakura questioningly.
"Sakura-san? What's the matter?" He asked cocking his head to the side.
Sakura's POV
"Sakura-san? What's the matter?" Itachi asked cocking his head to the side.
Right then I realized something. Itachi, Sasori, and Deidara were all worried. ABOUT ME.
I giggled and Sasori looked down at me with a questioning look. He was probably thinking I was going crazy, but I just shook my head.
I looked up with a smile. "Nothing. I'm fine, no need to worry." I said smiling.
Sasori seemed convinced as did the other two. So we decided to keep walking. It was about 7:30 so we stopped at Apple bees. I told them the whole story on how everybody had made plans to come to the mall together and then I told Itachi how we got separated and about the weird guy that tried to pick me up.
"Don't worry, yeah! If I ever see that guy I'll just blow him up!!" Deidara said a little too loudly.
"Heh… yeah, but not before I use my sharengan to torture him to death." Added Itachi activating his sharengan.
"Yeah Deidara. Your power's too destructive. You can blow him up after I gut him." Sasori said with an evil grin.
"Aww! But I wanna hear him scream!" Deidara wined.
"Don't complain. You sound like a child." Said Itachi looking annoyed.
I couldn't help it. They sounded so funny! Talking about ways to kill a guy just because he tried to pick me up! They were like over protective parents! But they felt like something more. Itachi seemed like a father, but also the type of guy my father would be worried by if I was dating him. Deidara seemed like the type of friend you read about in stories. And Sasori, he seemed special. I didn't know how, but he did. They were all starting to grow on me, but these three were special.
I laughed at them, and they all stared at me.
"What is it, yeah? What's so funny?" Asked Deidara.
"HAHA! Nothing. It's just so funny to see you all get so emotional over such trivial things!" I continued to laugh.
After that we left. I would talk to Temari and everybody tomorrow and tell them what happened. Well, maybe not everything but the important things.
Deidara, Sasori, and Itachi insisted on walking me home. It was so embarrassing having them see what kind of neighborhood I lived in, but they insisted. I always looked back at Sasori because he was giving all kinds of looks. One moment he would look worried. Then he would look shocked, then disappointed. I couldn't tell what was going through his mind. He looked like a parent looking at there child's own house for the first time and being disappointed it wasn't in the best part of town. Deidara looked a little shocked but otherwise looked concerned. And Itachi really didn't fazed by it.
"Why do you live here Sakura-chan? This place…it's awful! No offence, yeah." Asked Deidara.
"Well when I moved from Sunagakure, after I mustered up some money, didn't have that much. All I could afford was a house over here." I answered trying to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal. When really it wasn't, I really didn't spend much time at my house anyways.
"Don't your parents have jobs? Surely you could move." Added Itachi.
"Um, well, no. I don't have any parents. That's why I moved. There was a war and my parents along with the rest of my family died." I answered still trying to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal.
"Oh…um, I'm sorry, yeah" Deidara said quietly.
"It's not a problem."
It suddenly became very quiet. It was a disturbing silence.
"Do you remember any one?" Itachi asked out of nowhere.
"Um, yeah. I have pictures." I answered.
By then we were at my house. And I invited them in.
"Can we… um… see the pictures?" Deidara asked quietly not meeting my gaze.
"Um, sure. I guess." I answered.
I went to my room and brought back out a big box. It was filled with photo albums, old toys, clothes, brushes, and jewelry. I opened it and their eyes grew wide. Deidara and Itachi sat at the table and picked up things to get a better view. But Sasori just stared with a dead look in his eyes. As if he saw a ghost.
Sasori's POV
'She kept it. All of it. Everything.' I thought as I looked at the box of very familiar items.
I sat and opened a photo album. The first page was off two people. Sakuna and Hideki Haruno. The father's bright red hair all too familiar. And the mother grey eyes like a mirror. I flipped the page to see two adults and three children. The two parents; mother with bright orange hair and brown eyes, and the father with black hair and the same grey eyes I had seen in the picture before. It was obvious that the man was Sakuna's brother. The three children were all the same, but different. The eldest son with black hair and brown eyes had a kind timid smile. The next son had orange hair with a black streak across his front bangs and had grey eyes. He had a bright and happy smile. And the last was a baby girl about 3 years old. With Black curls and wide grey eyes. The caption read, 'Tomo (31) and Miroko (29) Kuroishi w/ Deichi (10), Seto (6), and Megumi (3) August 5.'
I stared at the family knowing exactly who they were. I touched the picture and flipped the page to find a picture of two elders. The man had white hair and dull black eyes. His arm was around his wife waist and he looked very happy. The woman had Dark grey hair and grey eyes. She looked as if she used to have dark hair but it faded over time. I could barely look at the picture of two people that I knew and loved but would never see again. I decided to flip one last page. I paused as I looked at the picture. The little girl was surely Sakura, but the boy who was holding her tenderly was barely there. His whole upper body was gone and there was no caption. I took the pictures out and flipped it over all it said was, 'Sak—a and –sor. Au-ust 5.'
'Oh so that's why she doesn't know. I guess she'll know in time. When she's ready. That's when I'll tell her.' I decided as I put the picture back and closed the book.
'All in good time. When she's ready.'
This was one of the parts I really wanted to get in!!
Hopefully it wasn't TOO obvious cause I want some mystery.
Any way! I have to tell you all that I'm gona be busy this weekend (april 4-5) and I won't even be home!
So please hold on!
Until next time!
