The Broken cherry blossom
Chapter 4:will he ever be caught...?

-recap-

ok, the other chapter had to much to cover so I'm going to put it in shorter terms:
Sakura just got out of the hospital and went to see her friends due to a 'feeling' that she neded to see someone. Finnaly, she decides to go see Sasuke, until her father corners her in an alley and beats her yet again. once he is done, he throws Sakuras' body into a dumpster. Sasuke walks along and finds Sakura because her sandal's was lieing on the ground, so he takes her out of the dumpster and is on his way to the hospital.

-end recap-

Sasuke was running as fast as possible, dodging people in the streets of Kohona, and often bumping in the people that glared, or threatened to hit him by bringing their hands back,but once they saw the large 'package' he had in his hands, they stopped and stared in awe. Sasuke ignored the 'aw, how sweet!' and 'oh my god is she ok?''s he heard as he made his way to the hospital. He had this... Sensation in his eyes, it burned, and made his eyes blur. It had been so long since he had felt this, soon enough he relized he was...crying.

Crying about the fact that he had his long-time teammate in his arms.

Crying because of the reason she was in his arms.

Crying... because he didn't know whether she would live to see another day.

Suddenly, Sakura moved her head slightly, leaving Sasuke some momentary relief, until she started to cough up blood. 'oh,no...' he quickly shifted his arm into a position to check her pulse. This time he checked it useing her wrist, due to the fact it was more convientent and wouldn't catch the attention of the on lookers. He gasped when he felt that Sakura had an irregular pulse, and picked up speed, making tear droplets fling off of his face, fly for a moment and land with a sorft thud on the ground. Blood droplets slid down her face, leaving a sticky trail, and, for what felt like an eternaty to Sasuke, land with a tiny 'blip' on the ground.

why does this happen?
nobody quite knows.
but you still can't help but wonder
why people do this
and you can't help but feel...
pity for the person that causes it
slowly, but surely, loosing the love of the poeple close to them
'you better stop, BUD, before someone comes and snatches her away!'
he says 'Ha! what do you know?'
you whisper...' you'll see soon enough...Bud...'

Sasukes' mind was racing, but he soon snapped out of his daze and bump into someone who says 'oof' when they hit the ground.
'...oof... wait!..."

Sasuke whispers "Hinata?"

The lavender eyed girl looked up and blushed at the sight of Sasuke holding a certaint pink haired kunoichi(sp?) in his arms, and slowly picked herself up off the ground "Y-yes Sasuke...k-kun...!?" she took a few startled steps backward when she saw the pain stricken face of Sakura in his arms "Wh-what happened... to-..." She was cut off bye Sasuke deep voice.

"I found her..." he turned his head with his eyes closed "In a... in a dumptser..."

Hinatas' eyes went wide "Wh-what?!" Hinata went completely out of character. "Then why aren't you taking her to the hopital?!"

Sasuke put a confused look on his face "Nani..?"

Hinata furrowed her eyebrows "What do you mean 'Nani?"?! You heard me!"

Sasuke went eyed wide taking a few nervouse steps backward "Hina-"

Hinata started pacing the sidewalk "I mean how could you be so stupid?! Not taking an innocent girl to the hospital!"

Sasuke began to get fed up "Hina-"

Hinata held up a hand in front of his face "wait I'm not done!" sasuke let out an exasperated sigh " I am ordering you to take her to the-"

"HINATA!!!!!" Sasuke yelled this (duh)

Hinata settled down at the sudden outburst "Wh-what?!"

"The.Hospital.Is.THAT.way." he brought his head foward to indicate the Hinata was in his way. Hinata blushed " ano..ano...so sorry Sasuke..." she gave a short wave and smiled a 'Good Bye' to Sasuke and quickly ran off. Sasuke sweat dropped, but then shook his head trying to get back on task. (A/N ok, I relize that, that conversation had absolutly no point what-so-ever, but I wanted to add some slight comedy to the story) Sasuke noticed that he had a straight shot towards the hospital that was now in view, so he picked up speed. 'Sasuke, you better not die or I'll kill you...' Sasuke finnaly reach the hospital, and he kicked open the door and yelled "Please! You have to help her!" She ran up to a nurse and told her about Sakuras' stroy as she put her down on, yet another hospital bed. The nurse was nearly in tears as she wheeled Sakura down to her hospital room.

-a few hours later-

Sakura slowly awoke with in the bariers of yet another hospital room. All of the past memories shot through her mind like a speeding bullet, on instinct, she shot up in bed, but instantly let out a painful sounding cry, which caught Sasukes attention who was sitting in a seat right outside the door. He jumped up,and was about to turn the handle to her room he felt a slight tenge of pain course through his hand. "Ouch..." he turned his head while rubbing his hand to see a frowning nurse infront of him.

"It's not visiting time yet, Hon. You'll have to wait, like everyone else..." The nurse turned on her heel and walked away. Sasuke looked down in sheer disapointment. Every once and awhile, he could her Sakura whimpering either in her sleep, or while she was away. H e didn't care though. All the wanted to do was get in there, and comfort her. He looked up at the clock that was conventienly placed above every hospital door. He groaned when he saw that it was still an hour until visting hours were open. A few minutes later Naruto, Hinata, and Tsunade came rushing though the doors of the Kohona Hospital doors.

"Where's Sakuras' room?! and why aren't you in there?!" Tsunade Yelled from acroos the hall. Sasuke heard Naruto make a comment aong th lines of 'What happened about 'No yelling...?''.

"A nurse told me not to go in there right now. Because it's 'visiting hours'..." Sasuke said in his best imitation voice of the annoying nurse, which earned him a few giggles from waiters in the hallway, and glare from the nurse.

"Ugh, well I'm giving you permission to go see her right now." Tsunade said opening the door to Sakuras' room.

"Wait, how did you-..." He saw Hinata standing there with her knees slightly buckeled and poking her index fingers together, "Ugh, never mind..." He walked into Sakuras' room, and gently scooted a chair next to her sub-consious body (A/N for those of you who don't know, sub-consious is when you can't see or move, but you can hear) He gently slid his index finger across her cheek.

"Sakura..." Naruto looked at Sakuras' limp body, but then sorely looked away.

Tsuande just stared at Sasuke wondering about his sudden change in attitude.

Hinata was still standing there in the same position as earlier.

Suddenly, they all snapped their attention to the main office of the hospital.

"What do you mean you haven't seen her anyhwere...?" and deep voice.

Sasuke, Naruto, Hinata, and Tsunade all gasped at the sound fof the mans oice. It was...

Sakuras' father

-To be continued-

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