Chapter Three

Nightmares

A/N

Long time no see i know!. I graduated!O.O Omg! i'm actually now an official adult! craziness! and anywho i uploaded this as soon as i could with all this stuff for planning for my future has gotten me a little stressed and very busy! so i hope you enjoy this chapter and please please review! i know i'm like the most horrible person when it comes to uploading but if people are all like "Hey! you need to upload more i love your story!" then i will be like "OMG! someone likes me story! i must write the next chapter right now!" that might sound exaggerated but that's actually how it goes lolXD so please review or i will continue on my snail pace lol but yeah i don't bite! even constructive criticism it welcome:) but remember i said constructive so in detail say what you like and what you don't like and why haha but yeah review please:3 and enjoy this chapter! it's in Sasuke's point of view this time...i think it's going to switch every couple chapters or so...but anywho enjoy!

~goingthroughchanges

Smoke filled my nostrils and choked my lungs as I stood on top of a building surveying the burning homes. Through the thick black tar that hung in the air I could see the silhouettes of woman and children running through the streets. Their panicked cries filled my ears and scratched at my aching brain, but still I remained a silent shadow watching their lives and all they knew crumble to dust. A dust that after the blaze would be picked up in the wind and carried elsewhere, leaving nothing of what they knew and loved behind.

Flames licked at the bottom of a house where a mother screamed from the window clutching a young girl tightly to her chest. A trail of dark tears stained her cheeks as she screamed into the thick smoke…but her pleas were swallowed by the screams of victims on the street. But still she yelled squeezing her little girl to her chest as if that would save her from the inferno.

I wanted to close my eyes against this horrible nightmare but I found the more I urged them to close the more I couldn't imagine doing so. This was all my doing. I forced myself to watch until the woman and her child burst into flame. I watched until their screams of agony died on their lips and what remained of them was the smell of their burning flesh, and their voices echoing in my mind.

And there I stood my hands curled tightly into fists by my side, my bloodless lips pulled tight into a straight line. This was what it felt like to watch lives end and I knew as the last flame lost its life and the screams turned into barely audible moans I would never ever forget that woman and her little girl. The baby who cried and wailed screaming 'Mommy it hurts' as her mother tried to protect her from the flames while knowing she would fail. I hung my head my nails digging painfully into my palms. Tears streaked down my cheeks as the morning sun came from behind the hills illuminating my figure in a heavenly glow.

This was all so wrong.

Me standing here with light sticking to my arms as if I was a god, as if this was any other regular morning. But the charred corpses on the street would never let me forget that this was not any morning. They would never let me forget what I had done.

I wandered through the trees my clothes black from the smoke. Images of the village I destroyed flashed through my brain and I stumbled on a stray root falling to my knees. I paused letting my fingers sink into the cold dirt. My fingers were aching and as I curled them around the nice cool dirt they caught on fire. They burned until the fire swept from my hands into my veins and boiled my blood until I felt it in my throat.

I screamed the fire engraving itself in my howls of agony. I fell to the ground grabbing at my skin as the ink black markings traveled up my body branding themselves into my flesh. Howls filled the air and my nails desperately tore at my skin until finally I fell still. Just still as if death had finally conquered me under the green canopy of the dancing trees.

If only it had.

I closed my eyes letting the wind gently brush my skin as if it were forgiving me for my sins. The sins that now were branded forever in my heart. I couldn't believe how much of a fool I was. How could I think that I would forget these treacheries like I would forget stomping on a bug.

Tears pulled at the edges of my eyes as her face floated before my vision. Her pink hair that under the gentle rays of sunlight caught on fire…and her smile. Her smile that shone brighter than any sun or moon. Tears fell down my cheeks and I lifted my arm to cover my pain from her.

"Please forgive me." I sobbed.

"Forgive me Sakura." I whispered as a hard lump formed in my throat.

I took in a sharp breath as I continued to talk to her ghost that now sat on a rock watching me.

"I don't know how I can ever face you...how can I touch you with my hands soaked in blood?"

I paused the lump in my throat making it impossible to say another word.

Her ghost watched me from her perch for a breathless moment before coming to my side. Her soft hands landed on my cheeks and her green eyes examined the clear trail of tears that adorned my face. She smiled, though the sorrow in it was more painful than her previous joy.

"I'm so sorry." I choked out as I again tried to hide my face from her.

But she held me with her hands and in those few moments we stared at each other. Locked in a embrace that no words could ever describe.

Then she was gone.

Away she went on the floating breeze, leaving only the feeling of her hands on my skin for me to remember.

She hung halfway over the bridge staring at the swirling water underneath.

She wouldn't know but I was carefully watching.

I desperately wanted her to move away from the edge but she looked so peaceful it would have been a waste to break the moment.

So I watched.

Watched as she smiled at the fish darting under the thin layer of water, and how every few moments she would carefully curl her pink hair behind her ear. I watched everything to the curve of her fingers on the ledge, to the slight rising and falling of her chest.

She was by far the most beautiful creature.

She suddenly turned catching my eye. I froze suddenly afraid of what she would see in my eyes. But I need not have worried for she smiled, catching the beauty of the sun's rays in a simple action.

The breath shot out of me and I couldn't look away. Again she was spinning me into one of her binding spells. When she spoke I couldn't decipher the words but they fell upon my conscious like far off mesmerizing music. She laughed and I could have sworn birds were singing along to her tune. Then she was silent and she studied me with her green eyes that shone brightly in the sunlight. It was one of those moments where the world slows and everything disappears. Those moments that seem to last for a beautiful moment longer than they normally would so you could soak it in. Breathe It in. Remember it for a day were there is nothing left but a memory. She smiled and turned back to her examination of the river. The moment was lost in the swirling wind, going off to whisper it's tale to a listening ear.

It would never be forgotten even if she did.

Even if I did, the memory would be forever etched into the history of the world and before it was truly lost to me I whispered "I love you Sakura."

I sat alone.

A river laughed in front of me urging despite my sorrow to laugh along and remember the days where I would consider what it would feel like to laugh. Now those thoughts have drowned under a puddle of painful memories.

I would never again think of laughing.

I hung my head and traced the deep crevices in my hands. There was a time before this that I had gotten my future read.

So long ago….

"Young man let me read your future free of charge."

I turned to see a woman staring at me. Her eyes were half hidden under sagging flesh and her hands shook as she held them out to me. I hesitated I didn't want to know the future I knew was bleak.

"Come. Don't be shy." She said as she took my hands with her bony fingers.

I flinched but didn't pull away.

She gazed intensely at my hand her eyes boring holes. Right when I was about to pull my hands away and walk away she did something that made my blood freeze in my veins.

She cried.

Tears rolled down her cheeks and stained my palms. I stared captivated by her display of sorrow before jerking my hand away. I turned and quickly began to walk away but even with my back turned I could feel her eyes on my back. And when i looked down at my palms i could see her tears...

I curled my fingers into my palm and brought my gaze upwards to the sky that was beginning to turn to brilliant shades of gold. This moment was the moment that all dreams were made of and here I was my hands stained with blood…enjoying the golden sky.

Was this a sick joke by god?

I laughed joylessly before pushing myself to my feet. My job had only begun. There was more pain to cause and far more blood to spill.

It was only the beginning of my nightmare and as I walked away I left a little bit of me sitting alone by that river.

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Fourth chapter WOOOOOOOH! okay so review please:) it would be very very nice! and as i said before if you speak a different language i swear to god i will translate it lol but then again how would you read my story...hmmmm a question that i dont' have the answer to but anywho! review please! it would make my day! AND! you get an honorable mention:3 who dosen't like those huh? okay until next time!

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