It's True, I Crave You
By 25shadesofFebruary
Chapter 7: Where Am I?
My eyes feel so heavy that it takes more effort than it should to open them. I groan when the light from the ceiling crashes into my iris, I have to shield my eyes with my forearm, blinking my eyes severe times, trying to get them into focus. The faint sound of beeping comes into my ears next and I turn my head towards the sound.
The beeping of the electrocardiogram is what greets me when I search out the sound. Am I in the school's clinic? Do they have an electrocardiogram? I don't think they do.
Looking from the monitor and following the transparent cords from the machine that inserts into my hand, I notice that crisp white sheets that come standard in the hospital aren't what covers my body. But the the colour of the sheets are a dark blue, navy blue, I think and smell of stale cleaning products and medicines don't feel my nose either. I don't feel the itches of the cardboard like grown the doctors make me wear on my skin and this places doesn't hold the same ill-like air the way the hospital would .I'm not in the hospital am I.
There are voices, they mumble in the distance. I can't make out the words they say or their tones of voices. Turning my head towards the sound of the muffled voices, I groan in pain as my head throbs and I close my eyes tightly.
Hell, what happened.
I remember going to school today in daze because I didn't get any sleep the night before. I remember being on edge and Ino yelling at me to pay attention to her. I remember the boy with the golden hair and the soft smile telling me we needed to talk and I remember agreeing to it. Did we ever talk? I don't remember anything else pass that.
The door to my room creaks open and I shoot my eyes to the figure that's just 's a blonde woman, she looks to be off average height with a curvy figure and a bust line that would make a porn star jealous. The sound of her heels clicking against the tile floor is the only sound between us as she takes in me and I take in her.
"You're awake." shes says after a few seconds.
I blink at her, because my throat is itchy and I need some water. I try to clear my throat but its no use.
She wakes up to side of me and grabs a hold of the remote control that controls the beds positions.
"I'm Tsunade." She says as she pushes the button on the control to raises the head of the bed into a angle.
Before I could form the words to tell her my name was Sakura, she handed me a paper cup that was filled with water. "I know who you are." She tells me.
I can feel my eyebrows dip down in confusion as I look at her. I don't remember meeting her. How does she know me. I look at her over the rim of my paper cup as I try to not chug down the water. It tastes so good and cold to the touch. My throat a little better already. I clear my throat when I finish the water, hoping my voice doesn't sound too hoarse when I ask her, "How do you know me?"
She doesn't answer my question just ask me if I was in pain and when I tell her no, which was a lie, she nods her head and tells me she will be back later. I don't have time to ask her where the hell I am, before the sound of her heels are gone from my room and I'm alone. I'm alone and I have no idea where I am.
My head still hurts as I lie in this foreign place and my body feels heavy, like there's some invisible force laying on top of me. There's a sharp pain in my left arm. I look down to see my arm in a white sling as its being held against my chest. I have to stop myself from moaning in pain as I try and wiggle my fingers. My right arm seemed to me working fully with only minimal scratches.
I remove the sheets off my body and stare down at the lower part of my body. I noticed that I was still in my clothes from this morning with the exception of my shoes. Or yesterday? I have no idea what time it is or what day. My head was starting to throb again and I closed my eyes once again, waiting for the pain to stop. I should have told her that I was in pain, but I didn't want her touching me. I have no idea who she is or where I am and the last thing I want is for someone to hand me pills.
When the pain from my head subsides, I take a look at the lower part of my body and I still seem to be intact. It takes more effort than it should to wiggle my toes back and forth, but I manage to do it. My body is very stiff and my muscles ache with each move I make to get my bare feet on the tile floor.
I make it to a seating position with my legs dangling over the bed's edge when the door opens up again to relive Naruto. He peeks into the room, his messy locks catching my eyes first before I see him fully.
I smile, despite the pain all over my body. Finally someone I knew was here.
"Naruto." I say happily as I take him in. Hes changed out of the clothes the last time I saw him. Hes wearing a dark v-neck tee shirt and dark washed jeans.
"Hey, you're awake." he says as he closes the door. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine." I answer him, clearing my throat once again before I ask, "Where are we?"
"A friends house." He answers simply as he walks towards me, his steps just as light as I remember.
I nod my head before a moan of pain slips pass my lips as I try and place my feet on the floor below.
He's standing in front of me, with his hand on my shoulder before I knew it. "You should rest, you're in pain." He states.
"I'm fine, I have to get home." I tell him as I place my hand on his stomach to push him away.
"You're not fine, you can't even move without closing your eyes and clenching your teeth. You need to rest, Sakura." He says, but its said more like a demand, as if I didn't have a choice in whether I wanted to go or stay.
I look up at him, his eyes were burning with that same emotion from before with Sasuke. I remember now, his eyes had turned red. Him and Sasuke fought and I called to him and his eyes were red, again.
His eyes were red again...and he..he had..
"Fangs." I whispered out as I stared up at him.
He looks shocked, scared even as he removes his hand from my shoulder and takes a step back.
"You-You had fangs." I stutter out accusingly. "You had red eyes, I saw them."
"What?" the world barely has a sound as it comes out of his mouth.
"I saw them before, in your car and I thought I must have been losing my mind because peoples eyes just don't change colour, especially to red. But I saw them again, when you and Sasuke fought at school. I called to you and your eyes had turned red like blood." I tell him as I move away from him as much as possible. I roll to the other side of the bed away from the door, my freedom, and him.
"Sakura, what are you talking about you need to rest and get some sleep. You haven't been sleeping lately."
"H-How do you know that?!" I ask him as the realization struck me. "Were you the one that gave me that note?"
"Were you?!" I yell at him when he doesn't answer my question the first time.
He doesn't flinch at my tone of voice but instead moves around the bed slowly to where I'm standing pressed against the metal side table.
"Yes." He answers me and I take a step away from bumping into the side table that causes a pain in my side. "But you have to listen to me Sakura." He pleads as he takes a step forward and I leap on to the bed and roll to the other side.
"Stay away from me." I bark at him.
"Sasuke is trying to kill you." He tells me calmly as if he was explaining to me how two plus two equals four.
"How do you know that?"
"I've been watching him...watch..you" He states sheepishly.
What? "Wait...you've been stalking me?" I yell at him in disbelief as I search for my shoes so I can get the hell away from him.
"I wouldn't say 'stalking." he says and I scoff at that. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay."
"Why? I barely know you and you barely know me." I turn to tell him only to see that spot empty.
"I do know you." He tells me just to the left of me, I stumble back and lose my balance but I don't feel the impact of the tile floor below but the feel of a hard body against my back and I can't stop the shiver that shoots through my body.
"Are you alright?" I hear his voice above me and I struggle to get out of his grip, but I do and try to make enough distance between us as possible.
"How did you get- What are you?" I ask him looking him over from head to toe in disbelief. Theres no way he could be human, humans don't move that fast and humans don't have fangs and out eyes don't turn red.
"Sakura-"
"What are you?!" I yell at him.
"I-I'm...I don't understand what you mean Sakura." He tells me as looks at the tile floor below.
"You stay away from me." I tell him before I shoot for the door and start running. I don't know where I was running too, as I ran down corridor after corridor and finally out out the front door and into the forest.
I look down at my bare feet and back at the house before turning my gaze back to the forest and making up my mind. I ran towards the forest and didn't look back into I was belly deep in. When I stop to catch my breathe, I notice the sun is setting and it was starting to get darker. My feet hurt from stepping on tree branches that lay on the forest floor along with rocks and other items that are embedded in my feet. My head is killing me, my arm hurts from all the pain of it being hit with unexpected tree branches.
When I find a place to rest, its against this huge boulder that I just leans against and close my eyes, trying to calm my breathing to normal.
When I finally open my eyes once I got my breathing under control, my eyes land on a figure in the shadows.
"Who's there." I yell as I push off the boulder and take a step backwards.
The shadowy figure appears from behind the trees and my breath has left me once again. I feel my knees go weak and I wish I still was lent against that boulder for support.
He here.
He's always here.
"Sasuke."
"I've been waiting for you, Sakura."
AN: Sorry about the more than a month long wait. I didn't have a computer to type it this chapter with. I haven't proofread this or anything. I hope you will forgive my mistakes, because I'm sure there are a lot of them. I'm not really happy with this chapter, but I wanted to give you guys something for being so patient with me and not hounding my inbox with threats and shit. So thank you.
