Unfaithful Chapter 4: Hemophobic, a naruto fanfic

(Previously)

"I should walk around to shake off the sleep." Sakura thought as she started to walk around the hallways of the hospital.

She stopped by every room, peeking through the glass windows on the doors, making sure that they're asleep. To the few that weren't asleep, she would knock on the door and remind the patient to sleep and then walk off.

She stopped in front of Sasuke's room and decided to peek anyway. Her eyes narrowed when she found out that Sasuke wasn't in bed.

(Act 4 – Hemophobic)

She quickly slid open the door and ran inside the room. She saw that the windows were open and she looked down and scrolled the surroundings below, for any signs of his escape.

"Who gave you permission to enter?" hissed a voice.

Sakura froze on the spot, her eyes narrowed all the more, if that was even possible.

She calmed down and closed the window. She reached for her jacket's pockets for an explosive tag. She placed three explosive tags on the closed windows.

"Thinking I would escape?" said that deep voice again, "I'm not a coward like you."

"Ah, so you're not escaping from boring old jolly Konoha?" Sakura turned around to see Sasuke standing in the corner of the room, with his arms crossed. His Sharingan was activated for some unknown reason.

She noticed that his eyes were different, so she quickly broke her gaze from his eyes and instead stared at his feet.

Sasuke noticed the medic nin hat on Sakura's head and mocked, "You made use of your weakness… being a pathetic medic nin. Medic ninjas become one because they couldn't defend themselves and degrade themselves just by helping those who aren't cowards by mending their wounds."

"Wow, thank you for such remarks." Sakura rolled her eyes, "One of the countless reasons I find Konoha a much better place without you."

Sasuke was irritated by that remark that his Sharingan whirled a bit.

Sakura approached the door and tried to slide it open, but she withdrew her hand, once she felt and seen electricity cackles on the door.

"Great! Just great! I can't punch this door down because everyone's asleep. Now that I've sealed the windows with explosive tags, there's no escape!" Sakura thought.

"What are you planning?" Sakura asked, "Conducting electricity on this door, why won't you let me leave your room?"

(A/N: In Chapter 308 of the manga, Sakura learns, in Team 7's encounter with Sasuke in Otogakure, that Sasuke can now use his Chidori in every part of his body without much effort. He can even use a sword fusing Chidori on that sword.)

He didn't reply.

Sakura was ticked off by now.

"What's your name again?" Sasuke asked.

Sakura looked at him; of course, they only met after 8 years. He still remembered her name when they encountered him 8 years ago in Otogakure. 8 years… since he acknowledged her as weak, of course he'll forget her name easily.

"You don't need to know that." Sakura replied, "My name's not really important."

"Answer me."

"I don't like to." She eyed him sharply, "You can't force me to give my name when I don't even want to."

He was really being fed up with her words. He knows he met her. He knows she was his teammate. He knows her… He just forgot her name. 8 years were pretty much an impact on his memories of Konoha. But when he encountered Naruto and the others, he remembered a pink-haired girl trying to stop him.

"She must be that girl." Sasuke thought, "…That wimpy girl."

--- FLASHBACK ---

"I'll kill him now, while he's defenseless… after all, he almost killed Naruto, Kakashi-sensei, Yamato-taichou, and Sai! It was his fault that those guys pushed themselves just to drag him here! I'll end his life, as revenge for the things he has done to me!"Sakura thought to herself as she was with Tsunade, Shizune and other medic ninjas trying to heal a critically injured Uchiha Sasuke.

Sakura was dazed from all the thinking. She wasn't at all focused on operating this bloody man struggling in between life and death in front of her. Her healing chakra started to become a cutting chakra… her thoughts had completely overwhelmed her.

Blood spurted on her face, on her clothes and on her already bloody hands. The blood belonged to Uchiha Sasuke.

"Sakura, what are you doing! We're trying to heal his muscles! You just cut an artery! Focus your chakra right!" Tsunade slapped away Sakura's hands as she moved over to the said cut artery and healed it herself.

Sakura was brought back to all her senses as she just realized what she had done – she had just cut a major artery, instead of healing the muscles surrounding and near that artery.

"Tsunade-sama, he's losing a lot of blood!" Shizune panicked as she helped Tsunade heal the cut artery.

"Sakura, what were you thinking! You almost killed him!" Tsunade scolded.

--- END OF FLASHBACK ---

Sakura's fists were trembling as she clenched them tightly with the curtains, her eyes shut tight, her eyebrows furrowed and she bit her lip, she bit it so hard, blood was already trickling down from her lips to the tip of her chin.

"That memory again." Sakura thought.

Sasuke was just watching her. She looked like an idiot, but he knows that she might be angry with him for a reason.

She opened her eyes and with her cold hand, she reached down her chin to wipe out the liquid she thought to be sweat… but then her eyes narrowed and trembled when she saw… blood.

Blood spurted on her face, on her clothes and on her already bloody hands. The blood belonged to Uchiha Sasuke.

She trembled more and more, until tears were forming in her eyes. She didn't know that what happened to her mentor would happen to her, too… hemophobia, the fear of blood.

"Blood…!" she subconsciously said.

She trembled more and more, her throat was running dry, her breathing was speeding up and she was sweating cold.

Blood spurted on her face, on her clothes and on her already bloody hands. The blood belonged to Uchiha Sasuke.

She then saw the whole room was full of blood, the bed was occupied by Sasuke, bleeding due to critical injuries, splashes of his blood were on the bedside table, the bed covers dripping with his blood, the walls were smeared with blood, and on the floor were puddles of blood. Sakura looked at herself and saw that her hands were dripping with another person's blood, and that her clothing has been smeared with blood.

Sasuke was just staring at Sakura, he didn't know what was happening to her. He was sure he wasn't using his Mangekyou Sharingan at her…

…Or did he subconsciously use it on her?

His eyes narrowed at that thought. He deactivated his Sharingan and quickly rushed at Sakura, holding her by her shoulders.

"Oi, what's wrong with you?" Sasuke asked.

"Oi, what's wrong with you?" Sakura heard a voice.

She looked at the bloody room and when she blinked, she saw Sasuke wasn't on the bed anymore.

"Snap out of it!" the owner of the voice appeared in front of her.

Sakura blinked again and she was horrified when a bloody-faced Uchiha Sasuke was already in front of her, shaking her by the shoulders.

"Snap out of it!" Sasuke started shaking her by the shoulders.

Sakura looked terrified, she was losing breath.

… And then she fainted.

The next day…

"We found her in Uchiha Sasuke's room." A medic nin told Tsunade.

Two medic nins found Haruno Sakura's unconscious body in Sasuke's room. They found Sasuke fast asleep on his bed but Sakura… Sakura was on the floor.

"What is she doing there?" Tsunade asked, "She's on an afternoon until midnight shift, right? All she has to do is to sit and stay alert at the receiving desk!"

"She must be walking around," another medic nin replied, "I found her walking around last week and she told me she does that to get rid of her sleepiness."

They were in the emergency room; Sakura was laying on the bed with machines attached to her.

Tsunade looked at her student's hands and found a smear of blood on her fingers.

"Where did she get the blood?" Tsunade asked yet again.

"Her lower lip was bleeding, she must've wiped it away." A medic nin replied, watching the vital signs monitor, "I wiped off the blood from her chin earlier. I did notice that the trickle of blood was discontinued at the tip, so she must've wiped it off. Uhmm… Tsunade-sama?"

"What?" Tsunade turned around to face the medic nin.

"Tsunade-sama, Sakura's heartbeat is normal but her brainwaves…" the medic nin gulped the lump in his throat and continued, "Her brainwaves are abnormal."

"What!" Tsunade pushed the medic nin aside and looked at the vital signs monitor. Her eyes narrowed at the sight of the abnormal brainwave feedback.

"Maybe," the other medic nin commented, "Uchiha Sasuke has something to do with it."

"That's possible." The medic nin beside Tsunade replied, "I heard from the upcoming Rokudaime Hokage that Uchiha Sasuke now possesses the Mangekyou Sharingan."

Tsunade added, "When I returned to Konoha, Uchiha Sasuke and Hatake Kakashi, were dazed and unconscious. Other jounins who were with Kakashi then, told me that Kakashi fell unconscious after an encounter with Uchiha Itachi. Jiraiya told me that Sasuke fell unconscious after an encounter with the same man."

"So those events are similar with this situation." the medic nin said, "It's just that it's not Uchiha Itachi who did it. Uchiha Sasuke isn't the victim of the Mangekyou Sharingan in this event. He is the suspect."

"Let's hear what he has to say." Tsunade left the emergency room, "Get some neurologists to test Sakura."

TBC…
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Neurologists inform Tsunade that Sakura had indeed abnormal brainwaves. They say she was quite disturbed and startled before she fell unconscious. Tsunade visits Sasuke, wakes him up and interrogates. But it looks like an insult to her student ticked her off.

Act 5: Broken from Reality

"Just tell me you're accusing me."
-Uchiha Sasuke

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