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When the Cherry Blossoms Falls
Chapter Five: A New Found Power
Two hours later the apartment was finally done. Naruto was in his room preparing to leave for his mission, while Sasuke relaxed on the crouch playing a flute that he found while cleaning Naruto's room. It was a gift from Iruka, but Naruto could never get the hang of it. Sasuke, however, had played the flute while he was at Orochimaru and was much better at it then Naruto was.
He was playing a melody that only he knew; Naruto heard it and was in awe at how beautiful it sounded. He stopped what he was doing and walked in the living room and sat on the couch next to Sasuke with an amazed look on his face. He had never in his life heard such a beautiful melody, and he was awestruck.
Sasuke noticed Naruto through the corner of his eyes and stopped playing to look at him, needless to say that Naruto was disappointed.
"What do you want...Dobe" Sasuke asked as he placed the flute on his lap.
"Please don't stop on my account that was so beautiful." Naruto said with an amazed look on his face.
Sasuke's face soften as he looked down to his flute and a small smile appeared on his face.
"Thanks, I wrote myself" He said with his eyes glued on the flute. Naruto was shocked that his friend knew how to play such a beautiful song.
"Who is it for?" He asked with a smile on his face. Sasuke didn't look at him as he got up from his seat and headed to the kitchen to get something to eat.
"I wore it for someone that I love." He said softly as the image of her in the hospital bed was still fresh in his mind. His grip on the flute tighten when he remembered who it was who put her there. 'What the hell do you want with her? Orochimaru.' he walked over to the fridge and searched for something to eat, he had a hand on the door and along with his flute. He looked for about a second and then found some bread, lunch meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and mayo. He grabbed all the things and placed them on the now clean table; he walked over to the cabinets and looked for the plates.
"Who's the person you love?" He heard Naruto say behind his back, he took out a small plate and turned to him with a look that read 'you're an idiot' on it.
"Are you serious?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow. "Quit messing with me, you know who it is."
Naruto laughed heartily as he decided to make himself a sandwich before he leaves and he walked over to the cabinet and took a small plate and joined Sasuke at the table.
"I know your talking about Sakura." He said with a smile on his face. "Does it have any lyrics?"
"No, I was never good with words, so I could never find the right things to say." He said as he started to eat his sandwich that he made.
"Well, it sounds awesome even without lyrics." He said as he also started on his sandwich. Sasuke just nodded in agreement as he continued to eat his sandwich that had more tomato ratio then anything else. Naruto looked at the tomato filled sandwich with a confused look on his face.
"What is it with you and your obsession with tomatoes?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow as he looked at Sasuke as he finished his sandwich and place his dish in the sink.
"I don't know." He said as he turned the water on and cleaned the plate and placed it on the dish rack. "I love tomatoes." He then raised his eyebrow and gave Naruto a smirk of his own. "What is it with you and your obsession with Raman?"
"I see your point." He said as he finished his sandwich and want back to packing his bag.
Sasuke was lying down on the couch thinking about Sakura, Naruto had left about four hours ago and he left some money for Sasuke to do some thing for the time being until he comes back. He laid back and stared at the unfamiliar ceiling as he thought on what he could do. It was still light outside and he didn't think walking around Konaha would be a good idea since he now looked so much like his brother. They may confuse him for Itachi, he then looked down at his clothes and noticed how dirty they were and decided to take a shower.
He walked into Naruto's room and went through his closet to find something to wear. He was glad to find out that Naruto and he wore the same size clothes, so for the time being they could borrow clothes. It didn't bother Sasuke one bit, he actually liked Naruto's entire black look, he saw a few pairs of orange cargo paints, but decided to take a black slim-fitted t-shirt and a pair of baggy black cargo paints instead. He then made his way to the bathroom; he didn't have to worry about a towel since there was a clean one in the bathroom already.
He walked in the bathroom and turned on the water, he got undress and stepped in. the moment he stepped in he felt a sharp pain on his shoulder, his heart raced and his breathing had gotten shaper and painful. He dropped to his knees and screamed in pain while the hot stream and water flowed down his back. He shut his eyes to tried and block out the pain, he streamed again even louder and his curse sealed began to spread across his body, he reopened his eyes to reveal the sharingan. The cruse seal turned bright red and Sasuke held his hands over his ears and screamed in pain as his head started to throb badly.
"What's happening to me?" He asked himself out loud
'I want to see you' a soft voice said in his head
Sasuke's eyes widen at the voice inside his head 'This voice…whose voice is this?' He thought with confused eyes
'Where are you?' It asked weakly
'Wait…I know this voice' He thought again as he figured out who it was
'I miss you' it said weakly just above a whisper
'Her voice' He thought again
'Sas…uke…kun' She said weakly
'Sakura's voice' His eyes widen at her voice in his head
'Where are you Sasuke-kun?' She asked weakly
'Sakura? Is that you? Sakura?' He asked confused in his head.
'I can hear you, but I can't see you. Where are you?' She asked confused
'I'm at Naruto's place…Sakura…is it really you?' He asked as he began to get up from his knees. The pain he had felt was gone and he was able to continue with his shower, completely confused and unsure of the situation.
'Yes…it's me…what's going on? Where am I? It's dark here and lonely, I can't move my body, I'm so cold. What happened to me? Why can I hear you in my head? I'm scared.' She said as she tried to hide the fear in her voice.
'It's okay Sakura…I'm here.' He said calmly to rest her nerves. He got out of the shower and quickly dried off and got dressed. (His clean…. he did it really fast) 'You're at the hospital, it had seemed at you had gotten the curse seal, and your in a hospital bed unconscious.
'What? I…I have the curse seal? How? Why? Why me? I'm in the hospital bed unconscious? Sasuke-kun…. you're at Naruto's? Wait…. how am I able to talk to you if I'm in the hospital and you're at Naruto's…am I dreaming...I must be…that would explain everything…. only in my dreams would I hear your voice…please, tell me I'm dreaming…. Sasuke-kun…tell me I'm dreaming…' She pleaded
Sasuke didn't know what to think, if she was dreaming then he was dreaming too and for some reason he hoped that he wasn't, he really love to her voice in his head talking to him. He was already dressed and looked out the window and noticed that the sun was setting. It was a good time as any to go and see her.
'I hope not.' He said with a warm smile on his face 'if you're dreaming, then that means I'm dreaming too. And I know I'm not dreaming. Sakura…your not dreaming…I'm back in the village and I'm on my way to you. You do have the curse seal; I believe that's why we're able to speck to each other telepathy. I don't know what's going on…all I know is that I want to be near you…and I coming to see you…because I want to see you too…I miss you too…please wait for me…I'm coming.' he said to her as he was outside hopping from rooftop to rooftop heading towards the hospital. He paused when he felt a sharp pain in his heart, it felt a thousand kunai's cutting him, he kneeled down and tried to catch his breath, he was not sure where it came from until he heard Sakura again.
'Can you feel it too Sasuke-kun?' She asked painfully
'What is this pain in my heart?' He asked unsure
'It's how I'm feeling right now.' She said sadly 'I guess we share more then our abilities to hear each other thoughts, Ne?'
'I'm coming…just wait for me' He said smoothly. He was only a few blocks away from the hospital and the closer he got to her the more pain he felt. He tried to block it out and continued to follow the pain to her.
'I believe you, Sasuke-kun' she said sweetly
'Damn, what the hell is going on here?' Sasuke thought to himself as he finally made it to the hospital and thinking about how he and Sakura are able to talk to each other.
'I don't know…that's why I asked you.' Sakura said confused
Sasuke blinked with a puzzled look on his face. 'Umm…Sakura, I was talking to myself that time.' he said with a hidden smirk on his face.
'Oh, sorry about that Sasuke-kun.' She said with a hint of embarrassment in her voice.
'Don't worry about it.' He said with a smirk on his lips
He was at the entrance of the hospital when the pain finally went away. He took a moment to catch his breath; he then carefully made his way to her room. When he found the tree, he hopped on the branch and decided to hide himself by using the camouflage jutsu.
He sat on the branch and looked into the hospital room; she was still in a coma state…she looked a little better, he smiled at that fact, but soon frown when he saw Kakashi on one of the chairs facing the bed. He had his arms crossed over his chest and his head was down, he looked like he was sleeping. Sasuke knew Kakashi better and whenever he was in that state it always met that something was up. He gulped hard and tried to control his charka so he wouldn't notice him, it had worked until…
'Sasuke-kun! Are you here yet?' Sakura screamed suddenly and surprising Sasuke enough to almost make him fall out of the tree.
Sasuke covered his ears in pain and twitched as he strained one of his eyes to look at Sakura's bed and give her a peeved look on his face. 'Geez, woman, why the hell did you scream like that for? I'm outside your Hospital room looking at you.' He hissed annoyed
'Oh, Sorry about that…I don't why I screamed like that, it just came out like that, sorry.' She said softly
Sasuke let out a deep sigh 'its okay, just try not to do it again, I do value my ears you know.' He said with a smirk.
Sakura just let out a small giggle and Sasuke smiled deeply, hearing her giggle in his head was like a bunch of feathers tinkling his head; it was enough to make him want to laugh, he made a soft chuckle as he looked at her from the window.
'So?' She sang in a waiting melody.
'So what?' He asked confused by her question.
'How do I look?' She asked him with a hint of a smile in her voice.
He let out a small chuckle and a smirk. 'You look like crap.'
'Sasuke-kun, that's just mean.' She pouted
'But I still think you're beautiful.' He added in a loving tone.
She didn't say anything due to the shock she had just experience from hearing Sasuke telling her that she was beautiful for the first time.
'What?' He asked confused as he heard her let out a small gasp.
'Sasuke-kun…. that was the first time you said that about me…do you really think so?' She asked with a hint shock in her voice.
'Yeah, I do.' He said smoothly
'Is that why you're back in the village?' She asked curiously
'I came back so I could be with you.' He said as he looked at her.
'Sasuke-kun?' She said in a soft voice.
'Sakura?' He replied in a softer voice.
'I feel really sleepy.' She said as she let out a small yawn. Sasuke smiled at her innocence.
'Go ahead and sleep, I'll still be here.' He said smoothly as he eyed her happily from the window.
'Thank you, Sasuke-kun.' She said in a warm and soft voice. He smiled as he looked into her room and then gave a shock look as he noticed that Kakashi wasn't there. 'What the Hell?' He asked in shock, as he looked around for the missing sensei. 'Where the hell did he go?' He asked himself as he activated his sharingan eyes so he could get a better look at his dark surrounds.
'Sasuke-kun?' Sakura asked concern 'What happened? Are you okay?'
He ignored her and continued to look around for any sighs of Kakashi; he stood up and thought it was a good time to leave, for he feared of being caught. He stood on the branch and was ready to jump when he hear a loud THUMP sound land right next to him.
"Leaving so soon Sasuke?" He said in his usual mono tone voice. Sasuke was caught completely off guard that he simple gulped hard and slowly turned around and was met with a dark figure with a pair of mix-match eyes. One eye was as dark as the night sky, while the other burned abnormally red that could scare the crap out of the great Itachi Uchiha.
"Oh Damn." was all he could say, as he stood frozen in his tracks. His eyes were still burning with the sharingan but they were also widening in fear. He never in his life felt so much charka from him since he left the village and became a missing Nin. Sasuke looked hard at his dark figure and even dared himself to look at his lone red eye that only added to his scary figure.
'Sasuke-kun? What happened?' Sakura's voice echoed in Sasuke's head.
"K-K-K-Kakashi" He studded out loud. His eyes widen at the figure in front of him. Kakashi just looked at him and give him an intimidating look as he cross his arms over his chest.
'Kakashi-sensei? His here? OMG! How is he? I haven't seen him in a while? How does he look?' She asked happily to hear that her old sensei was there at the hospital as well.
'Scary' He said in low and damn scared tone as he tried his best not stare at him anymore, but to no anvil.
'Scary? Kakashi-sensei? Scary? No way.' She said not believing what Sasuke said.
'Oh Yes Way! Scary so scary…..never since Itachi have I felt so freaked out! Oh man I wished he would stop staring at me like that.' Sasuke said nervously in his head to Sakura.
Kakashi's eyes never left Sasuke's glaze. He wanted to laugh at seeing the look the young Uchiha was giving him as he decided to break the numbing silence between them.
"So what brings you here, Sasuke?" He asked in a low and clam voice as he eyed the young Uchiha.
Sasuke couldn't answer him, he was so numbed by the charka level coming from Kakashi that he couldn't give him an answer, he was just so intimidating. His eyes then absent mindedly drafted towards the unconscious Sakura and remanded there as he watch her chest rise and fell with her breathing. The fear he felt before was instantly taken away when he saw her.
Kakashi notice the change in his mood as he turned to see where his gaze was at. He then gave a small smile as he saw his gaze was in Sakura's direction, he then turned his attention back to the young Uchiha.
"Sasuke" He said in a deep authority voice as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Sasuke was then snapped out of his gaze of Sakura and then slowly brought his attention to Kakashi. He let out a small sigh of relief when he notice the light of the moon shining on his figure and ilimitadating the dark and scary intimation he had before. His red sharingan eyes had returned to their normal onyx orbs as he gave him a blank look.
"Kakashi" He said in his usual clam voice.
"I see you're not freaked out anymore, that's good, and that will make this conversation run a lot smoother." He said in a light chuckle and a huge smirk on his face. Sasuke didn't look amused one bit as he send the sliver haired Jounin a death glare.
"I wasn't freaked out okay." He denied in annoyance as he crossed his arms. "You just took me by surprise that's all." He pouted as he averted his gaze from Kakashi back to Sakura.
"Well, then, if that's the case. You should go back to training." Kakashi said as the smirk remained on his lips.
"Whatever." He mumbled under his breath as he continued with his glaze at Sakura. Kakashi saw the look on Sasuke's face as he was looking at Sakura on her bed; he turned his attention to Sakura and gave a smile as he then turned his attention back to Sasuke.
"Well, I think I know whose you're eye candy is." He stated with an anime eye and a big smile on his face.
Sasuke then turned his attention to Kakashi and gave him a puzzled and confused look. "Excuse me?"
"You heard me." Kakashi said playfully. "Sakura is your eye candy, isn't she?"
"Eye…Candy?" Sasuke said with a raised eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"
'Sasuke-kun, what's going on?' Sakura asked him curiously
'I don't know, Kakashi is giving me this really weird look and he's talking about some kind of eye candy.' He said in a confused voice.
'Eye candy?' She repeated with a hint of puzzlement
'Yeah, whatever the hell that is…I was just looking at you and then he says you're my eye candy.'
'You mean…I'm not your eye candy?' She asked with a hint of hurt in her voice
'I don't know what that is….how am I suppose to answer that, if I have no idea what you guys are talking about?' He asked with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"You mean you don't know what an 'Eye candy' is?" Kakashi asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No." Sasuke said annoyed "What the hell is it?"
"Wow, I wonder how you had all those fan girls if you're this dense." Kakashi said with a raised eyebrow
"Damn it Kakashi! Do you mind getting to your point?" Sasuke said as he felt the last of patience leave him, as he balled his hands in a tight fist.
"Now, now, clam down." He said in his usual low monotone voice. "You're too young to start popping blood vessels Sasuke."
Sasuke let out a loud and annoyed sigh as he just rolled his eyes. "Just tell me what it is that you want to tell me." He said in his clam voice.
"Oh...Well about the whole eye candy thing…I'm just saying that Sakura is your center of attention, right?" He asked as he gave a small glance at Sakura and then at Sasuke.
"So that is what an eye candy is?" He asked with a raised eyebrow
"Yep, she is isn't she?" He teased him with a smirk on his face.
"I don't have to answer that." He said as he turned his gaze away from Kakashi.
'Sasuke-kun, you mean, I'm not your eye candy?' Sakura pouted 'I thought that you like me…you mean…you don't?'
'Hold on' He protested 'I never said that'
'But aren't I your eye candy, Sasuke-kun?' She asked him sweetly
'Oh Man! This is ANNOYING! Could we drop the subject please?' Sasuke asked annoyed
'Ok, Sorry Sasuke-kun.' She said quietly and then she let out a loud and soft yawn. 'I don't know why, but I'm starting to get tired.'
'Why don't you go to sleep now Sakura?' Sasuke insisted
'Yeah, I am, good night Sasuke-kun.' She said softly
'Good night Sakura' He said with a warm smile on his face, which caught Kakashi off guard as he followed Sasuke's loving gaze to the now sleeping Sakura. A sly look formed on his face as he had finally put the pieces together.
"So, Sasuke?" Kakashi asked coyly
"Hum" Sasuke said as he paid no mind to Kakashi as he kept his gaze on Sakura.
"How is Sakura doing?" He asked causally with a raised eyebrow.
"She's fine, she just went to sleep." He said causally. Not two seconds later, Sasuke's eyes finally widened as he turned to Kakashi in shock.
"What did you say?" He asked with widen eyes.
"I asked you, how was Sakura?" He repeated
"H-H-How would I know about that?" He asked as he diverted his gaze from Kakashi to the skyline of the village.
"I don't know, but you can hear her can't you?" His voice became more serious as his gaze never left Sasuke's.
Sasuke looked down for a moment, and then he brought his gaze back to Kakashi. He might as well come out and tell him, Kakashi is more advance in using and controlling his sharingan then he was, plus he is older then him and he seems to know a lot of things, maybe he could help him with whatever it is that he has with Sakura.
He sighed and let out a deep breath. "I don't know how it happened." He started out slow "I was about to take a shower this afternoon, I only stepped in when I felt a huge amount of pain all over my shoulder." He paused to look up at Kakashi and notice his eyes were intense and he seemed to be into the conversation.
"Go on Sasuke." He said with a serious tone in his voice. Sasuke silently obeyed and continued.
"I was screaming, and it got so bad that I held my hands to my head as I started to have a seriously bad headache, I screamed louder and louder and I felt the curse seal spread across my body as my sharingan became active." He paused again and noticed Kakashi's eyes widening slightly. He was a little taken back by it but he let out a deep sigh as he continued.
"I was so consumed by the pain I was ready to do anything to get rid of it. I was about to do something when I heard a voice." He said with a hint of uncertainty.
"A voice?" Kakashi asked with raised eyebrow and a hint of awe in his voice.
"Yes, a girl's voice, it was Sakura's voice." He said knowingly
"Sakura's voice?" Now Kakashi was seriously into this conversation.
"She was calling out to me, asking me where I was, how she missed me, how she wanted to see me." His eyes became glassy as Kakashi could see the light flicker off of his dark eyes, as he tried his best not to let his emotions show.
"She sounded so weak…I felt like my whole word was shattered…from there the pain went away and I was talking to her and I've been talking to her the whole day." He finished as he looked at Kakashi with hopeful eyes hoping that he would have the answer his been looking for.
"So…" He said, as he looked deep into the sliver haired Jounin's eyes "What should I do?"
Kakashi was at a lost for words, he had never in his life heard of anything even slightly related to what he was hearing. He truly had no answer for him. He then thought hard about what Sasuke could do and what would happen when Sakura wakes up.
"I truly have no idea, Sasuke." He said unsurely "My guess if anything is that somehow you and Sakura are connected…but beyond that I have no idea."
That was not what Sasuke wanted to hear; he walked passed Kakashi and stared straight into the hospital room with Sakura in it. His blood boil as his knuckles turned white under the pressure he was currently putting them tough as he hunched over and his body shake under his silent anger.
"What.The.Hell" He said dangerously low. Kakashi looked at his shaking back as he tried to clam the young Uchiha.
"Look, Sasuke I-"Kakashi was cut off when Sasuke turned around and showed his sharingan eyes to a now freaked out Kakashi. He had never seen that look on Sasuke's eyes before and he was about to say something until Sasuke cut him off.
"Shut Up!" He snapped as he gave Kakashi a death glare. "What the hell" He started again "What the hell did she do?" His voice carrying every once of hatred in it. "What did she do to deserve this kind of punishment?" his body shake with anger as he felt his blood rising. "I deserve this pain, I deserve to be tormented, I'm the one who should have to suffer thought this…NOT HER!" He screamed out the last words in agony as Kakashi's eyes widen.
"Sasuke" Kakashi said as he was looking pass Sasuke's shoulder and into the hospital room with widen.
"Shut up! Damn it! I'm not done Kakashi!" Sasuke snapped as he gave Kakashi a dangerously
"Sasuke" He said with the same amount nervousness in his voice.
"WHAT!" He snapped as he looked at Kakashi, his eyes soon showed a puzzled look as he looked at the shocked look on Kakashi face. Not soon afterwards, he began to feel a very strong charka level coming form behind him, his eyes widen in fear at the level as he slowly turned his back towards the hospital room.
Both Kakashi and Sasuke's eyes widen in shock and fear at what they were witnessing, on the hospital bed where Sakura was lying down. She was surrounded by black charka streaming from her body, her body twitch and she began to moan and groan as she opened her eyes and began to sit up.
At anytime Sasuke and Kakashi would be jumping for joy, but for some reason there was something very wrong with her, her charka level was too great to even comprehend. She sat up on her bed carefully as soon as she did that the charka encased her and then there was a strong gust of wind coming from the room. Sasuke and Kakashi held the arms front of them and closed their eyes to brace the affect of the force that was now in their direction.
When the wind finally clamed down they both let their arms down and then widen their eyes at what they saw in front of them. There facing them in hospital room was Sakura, surround by the black charka. that only didn't brother them, but what really got them worried was her appearance, Her eyes looked just like the sharingan but it was purple instead of red and her hair had turned to black with violet highlights, she also had the curse seal covering her entire body. She looked pissed to boot.
Sasuke's eyes remand red with the sharingan as he stood shocked and freaked out, with the expectation of her hospital gown, she looked just like she did in his dream, which he had hope was just that…but looking at Sakura had conformed his worse fears…
Sakura looked at both ninjas in front of her; she looked at Kakashi for a moment before moving her gaze towards Sasuke. She forced her gaze on him and him a lone as a small smile formed on her lips. Sasuke in all of this was in total shock, he knew she had the curse seal and that she would be powerful, but he never imaged her power to be this great. He looked at her in disbelief as all he could say was…
"S-S-S-Sakura" He stuttered in shock…
"Long time no see…Sasuke-kun" She said with a smirk on her face….
TBC...
I'm I was in a real rush to have this posted...so if there is some errors I'm really sorry, I have to update a lot of stories...(sighs) Damn Workload! anyway I'll be posting my other stories really soon...starting with Sex and Coffee, Yeah! whow...man there's alot going on in this chapter...I bet you guys where expecting that Sakura and Sasuke would be able to talk to each other telepathyly huh?...anyway stay tuned for the next chapter...
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