My Heart's Pulse
Part One - Scene Three

You said "Move On"
Where do I go?
I guess second best
Is all I will know.

WARNING: Swearing
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing except the plot!Regret.
It is like a bitter taste in my mouth. I hated knowing it was chewing at my memories. It was like a scar you couldn't get rid of. The feeling burned my throat, like Sake would.

A red liquid; blood.
For so long, I've waited to bleed. Just to let the pain over-flow and pass throughout my body. A sensation that leaves me numb and makes me feel everlasting. The small paper-cut on my finger left me staring off into space... Oh, I bet I looked like a spaz. The only sound I could hear was my heartbeat. It sounded like fireworks going off. The heartbeat; the "thumping" noise was swallowing me up, slowly drowning me. 120 years of in organs, body, and appearance altogether staying perfectly preserved.

"Sakura-chan?" Naruto's boyish voice called my name, pulling me out of my thoughts and back into reality. I looked at him, my eyes meeting his.

"What is it, Naruto?" I replied, resting my hands in my lap.

"Are you alright? What were you staring at?" Woo. There is was. I totally felt like a spaz.

"I'm sorry... I just stare off sometimes. It's a gene I got from my father," I explained quietly.

"Oh... well your soup is ready," He paused, "Sasuke turned off the burner for you." I hesitantly grinned.

"I guess you're hungry," I rose from the barstool, "But first, where's the bandaids? I cut myself."

Silence.
It's a beautiful mystery. It surrounds you and makes you listen to the sound of the world. Not a word. Nothing, rarely even a sound. When it's silent, you feel invincible, like there's nothing but you. It's a moment in time where the sun seems to shine brighter and sky seems to beat, like a living thing's heart. I wait for precious times like those. A small, content smile played upon my lips while Sasuke, Naruto, and I sat around the dark cherry wooden table.

Seconds, minutes, hell, even hours passed that night at dinner. It must of been awkward since I seemed to be the new ingredient to the recipe. I studied Naruto's face as he ate, quietly slurping in the soup. I watched Sasuke too, hopefully he didn't notice. The boys' eyes, baby blue and onyx, glanced at me very now and then.

"Hey teme, do you think we could move into the compound--" Naruto started.

"No." Sasuke answered.

"Aw, why not? It'd be bigger for all of us!" Naruto insisted.

"No." Naruto sighed in frustration, so I decided to help the poor guy out.

"Please Sasuke-kun!" I begged, putting a very heavy emphisize on the -kun. He turned to me, his stare was hard.

"Sakura..." He said my name as if I were testing him.

"Come on! Please?" He shook his head and when he did, I made my lower lip tremble, as if I were going to cry.

He growled, "Fine." I gave Naruto a high-five in acheivement. We laughed a little, as if we had won a contest.

It was around twelve o'clock when I had finally fell asleep. I couldn't even make it to the spare bedroom. I was completely wiped out! Sasuke had went to his room two hours earlier and Naruto was still up, watching TV, when I fell into a deep sleep.

Silver.
It's a color that glows in the moonlight and is the purest thing, next to white of course. Picture frames are normally silver. Mostly because it's shiny and attracts attention from others whose eyes pass over it. Once there was this silver bracelet my parents gave me for my sixth birthday, it caught everyone's eye... I had to get rid of it, lock it away in a time-capsule. I couldn't bare to have anything that reminded me of them.

Where'd I put that thing anyways? I asked myself, trying to remember. I slowly began to drift into conciousness, waking up from my sleep. It was around three o'clock in the morning. I tried to remember where I hid the time-capsule. I sighed and slung my legs over the side of the couch, sitting upward. I looked up and saw Sasuke staring at me, then I remembered...

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