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Chapter 7.

Sasu's POV

"Dad ? Hospitalized ?" I asked. I thought I'd misheard something.

"Yes. His heart dicease relapsed this morning. It was much more serious than usual, so mother and I took him to the hospital." Aniki replied.

So I didn't mishear. It was true. Father was hospitalized. "Which ?" I asked for the hospital. I cared about him ? Yeah, maybe.

"It's not where you work, because I think father won't like it. Come with me, I know you want to visit him." He slightly turned his body.

I could feel my feet moved a bit, but then, something stopped me. "Why would I go ? He doesn't need me anymore. If I go there, I'll just make everything harder." I turned my head away.

Aniki looked at me for a while. His face was serious. "Forget about what happened. It's your FATHER who is hospitalized, and you can say you don't care ?" He said, then he grabbed my hand and pulled me with him. "Sakura-san, Sasuke needs to go with me for a while. We'll be back soon." He said to Sakura.

Then we went to the parking lot. We got on aniki's car. He started to drive.

After ten minutes, we arrived. I followed him to father's room. Aniki looked to the room through the glass on the door to check the situation.

"Looks like he's up." He announced to me.

I hesitated, "I won't come in." I said.

Aniki turned to look at me, then he smiled, "I didn't expect that either. Just stay here, you can hear everything from here." then he left me and went inside.

What do I suppose to hear ? I thought, What did aniki mean by that ?. But I didn't have time to think clearly about those, since I heard aniki greeting.

"Oh, Itachi, it's you." It was my father's voice. It sounded very weak, how serious was his state ? I wanted to know.

"Yes father." Aniki said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't bring Sasuke with me." What ? Why did he say that ? He had indeed brought me here.

"It's ok, son. I knew it would turn out like this." Father said, he didn't sound angry at all.

"My youngest son, looks like he doesn't need me anymore." He continued, "Though I still want to see him again." Huh ? Did he just say that ?

"Father, I'll try my best to get him here. You don't need to worry." Aniki said.

"No, you don't have to. I am the one who is guilty. If he didn't have this father, he would definitely feel better. Am I right ?" His voice was half serious, half joking.

"It's not right, father. I'm sure Sasuke does not think that way."

"You don't need to comfort me. I don't blame him or anyone. I just blame myself." Father said. What had I done ? I was the one who felt guilty, I really wanted to go in, but…what would I do ? What if everything became more serious ? So I decided to keep listening, eavesdropping. "And don't waste too much money on curing my dicease, I know it's almost my time."

I was shocked after hearing those. Was his dicease that serious ? How could it be ? The last time I saw him he was still alright, it couldn't be possible.

"Father, please don't be so pessimistic. You'll be fine. I'll do anything to…" I noticed that there was a sign of nervousness in aniki's voice.

"No, you shouldn't, Itachi. If you want to help me, then…" Father paused at this part, "…try to get Sasuke here." was what he said afterward.

Huh ? He still wanted to see me ? After all the thing I had done ? Please, stop this. I thought, This is even more cruel than any punishment. I fell to my knees. I bit my teeth to prevent the tears. I blinked as much as I could to make sure that no one could noticed that my eyes were both red. My hands were clasped hard my shirt. Before I noticed, I had scratched my hands so hard that they were bleeding (He's strong huh ? Or too much ?). But I didn't care about that.

After a while of preventing myself from crying in regret, I stood up, and walked away. I didn't mind waiting for aniki, it thought it would be better if he stayed there and took care of father. Yeah, father was in there, hospitalized, but I couldn't, didn't do anything to help. All I had done was standing outside and eavesdropping about his confidences. I'm a bad child, aren't I ?

Since I had nowhere else to go, I went to the apartment. Damn, I had never brought happiness for that blind girl. She always had to listen to my sad stories. Or I shouldn't tell her this ?

Along with those thoughts, I walked into the apartment. Sakura was there, alone. It seemed like those two annoying people had left.

"Welcome back, Sasuke-san." Sakura greeted. She knew it was me.

I didn't say anything as a reply, or I should say I didn't know what to reply to her. Of course, she realized that something was not right, so she said, "Is something bad happened, Sasuke-san ?".

She intended to stand up and walk to me, but I stopped her by walked towards her. Hearing my footsteps, she let herself stay still. Then I sat next to her.

"Ah, nothing, family business." I said.

She paused for a little while, and then said, "Is your father alright ?" .

I was a bit surprised when she said that, but then I thought she probably had heard it when aniki and I had been talking, "Yeah, he's fine." I replied with a heavy voice.

"But you're not fine." She said. Then she tried to grabbed my wrist, "You know, I could know what you're thinking just by…what's this ?" she changed her words when her hands met my hand. Then she moved my hand to her nose, "Is this…blood ? You're injured ?" she said nervously.

"Ah, it's nothing, don't worry, I can take care of it." I said to comfort her.

"But what made you clench your fist so hard ?" She saw through me ?

"How…would you know ?" I asked.

"There are still nails' traces on your hand." She said, "It's definitely something really…big with you."

I guessed I couldn't hide anymore, "You're right." I started, "My father's heart dicease is getting more serious. You would think that if I had finished with him then why would I care, right ?" I paused, but I heard no answers, so I continued, "But you know what he said ? 'My youngest son, looks like he doesn't need me anymore. Though I still want to see him again.', 'If he didn't have this father, he would definitely feel better.', and something like that." Till then, I couldn't stop myself anymore, I started crying, like a three-year-old boy.

"I'm his son, and I did nothing even when I knew his state was terrible…" I couldn't say anything anymore. I just sat there, cried, in front of a girl, though she couldn't see the scene.

But then I felt something warm was in my hand. It was her hand, Sakura's. She was holding my hand, really tight, "Do you remember I told you that I had a way to help you make up with your father ?", she asked.

"Hn ?" was what I replied. Yes, she had said that.

"Do you…wanna know ?" She continued.

I hesitated at first, but then I made up my mind, "Tell me." I tried to removed all the signs of tears in my voice, successful.

"Why don't you…be your father's…private doctor ? I mean, you're a doctor, right ? And your father is having a dicease. So far your father always forbids you being a doctor, but if you can become his doctor, you can help your father curing the dicease and…maybe your father will think again about your career." She said.

I looked at her, I found some of possibilities in what she said, but then I thought again, "You think he will accept this ?" I doubted.

"Come on, didn't you just said that he still wanted to see you again ?" She replied, "Maybe in front of you, he acts like he doesn't love you, but he just ACT. No parents hate their own children. You have to be patient with your…patient, right ? Like you're patient with me. Though I'm blind, but you still let me stay at your place and take care of me."

What she said convinced my somewhat. Yeah, give it a try wouldn't hurt, right ? Again, she helped me, and it was my time to hold her hand tightly…just as an appreciation, I think, "Thank you, Sakura.".

But as soon as I turned my hand to hold hers, she took hers back immediately. And I could noticed that she was blushing, and tried to avoiding me. She was…embarrassed ? Oh come on, why are girls always so complicated ? Just a second ago, she still held tight my hand, and now she…I'm outta here.

"It's all thanks to your song, it helped me think of it again." I tried to change the topic, I really didn't want to keep that awkward atmosphere.

"That's noth… what ? My song ? What do you mean ?" She asked, I could see that she was surprised, I was too.

"What do you mean by 'what do you mean' ? Didn't the song mention the story about me and my father ?" I said.

She paused, like she figured out something. "So you think that the song talks about you and your father ?" she asked.

"Yes, what did you expect ?"

She shook her head, and smiled, err, what should I say to describe it ? Happily, I guessed, "No, nothing."

I was sure that she had something in mind, but she didn't tell me. If she didn't think it was with my father, then who could it be ? I kept thinking about that. Yesterday, I…yes I was mad at her, then…right, then Karin came…wait, could it be Karin ? She probably heard what I said to Karin from the bedroom. I thought, yeah, it could be Karin, but why did I care ? Wait, if it was about me and Karin then…it was…a love story ? No no, no that right ? How could it…

"Silly me." Sakura said, pulled me out of those thoughts, "I was thinking that you and Karin had some…forbidden love." then she giggled.

"What ? What forbidden love ?" Now I knew it.

"According to what you were saying with Karin, I guessed. Like this, you and Karin loves each other, but Karin's family force her to marry to… what his name ?" She said.

"Suigetsu." I kept listening to her story, to see how much was her imagination.

"Yeah, Suigetsu. But Karin doesn't want to. And you don't want her to disobey her parents so you…initiatively break up with her." And she finished.

I couldn't help laughing out loud. So that was she was thinking. So hilarious.

"Wha…Why are you laughing ?" She was getting angry, "It's just a guess, you know."

"Ye-ah…" I still couldn't stop laughing, but I still tried to calm myself down, "…but you are totally wrong."

"What is wrong ?" She asked, "And stop laughing or else I'll make you laugh to death." she smirked when she said that.

"Oh no no, please." I tried my best to stop, I can't handle myself when someone tickles me, "This is wrong. I don't love her, I just treat her like a cousin, she's my cousin though. Now you understand ?" I explained.

"Oh, so that's what it is." She nodded repeatedly, but then, she let out a smirk, a wicked one, "But…you still have your punishment for making fun of me.".

As she finished her words, it was too late for me to defend, she found my waist and began to tickle me.

"Wha…Sakura, stop it." I shouted when I laughed so hard.

"Not yet." She smiled slyly and kept on tickling me.

"Stop it Sakura, I can't…" I was cut by my laugh.

I couldn't let this be any longer. I had to defend. So I looked for her hands. Found it. And I grabbed her wrists. But it was no use, she resisted and tried to free her hands. I struggled with her for a while. Then she could free herself, but she lost her balanced and started to fell behind. As an automatic reflex, I let out an arm and caught her, but of course, I fell with her. But why did I do that ? We were sitting on a couch, she wouldn't hurt herself, right ?

As soon as I realized the situation, I was lying on her, with my arm covering her, and our faces were really close. Perhaps she also felt this, because her cheeks were really red, I wonder if the same went to mine. Suddenly I felt my body become hotter, and it moved on its own. My head lowered, we were even closer than earlier, I could felt her breath. What's with that feeling, I couldn't stop it. My head kept lowering and…

"Sasuke-san ?" Sakura said, and that brought me back to myself.

I quickly helpep her sit up with me, and I let my arm off her. What were you about to do Sasuke ? Were you out of your mind ?

She didn't say anything, neither did I. After what had happened, what could I say ?

"Aniki, can you transfer father to my hospital ?" I asked aniki. We were in a coffee lounge, I'd asked him out.

"Can I ask why ?" He didn't seem really surprised, he likes staying calm anyway.

"I'll be his doctor." I said steadily.

"So you heard everything the other day right ?" Aniki smirked at me, "Ok, I'll help you." then he put his arm on my shoulder, "Try your best, I believe in you."

After that, he stood up, "I gotta go now. See ya." then he left.

I didn't want to go yet, it was still early, so I stayed for a little more while. I leaned my back against the armchair, and I thought about…what had happened with Sakura and me at home earlier, So strange, my body moved on its own. What was wrong with me ? I thought, The first time I, I mean we, had the same accident was at the hospital, but my body didn't react like that. Why this time…

"Ah, it's you." A voice cut my thought, I looked for the person. It was…Karin, "You're here, too ?" she said.

"Yes." I replied shortly.

She sat on the chair opposite me, "What were you thinking ?" she asked.

"Huh ? Ah…nothing." I denied.

"I want to tell you something." Karin said, her voice and face became more serious than ever.

"Go ahead."

"I'll break up with Suigetsu, and there won't be any marriage." She said with out any hesitation.

I was surprised at first, but then I calmed down, "You're acting silly again." I commented.

"I'm not acting silly or anything, I'm really serious about this." She said. I found no sign of joke on her face, "If I don't have this business marriage, you won't use it to refuse me."

So that's why she did it, because of me again, "Look Karin, even if you don't have to get married to Suigetsu, I still don't love you, because…" uh-oh, what was the reason ? I couldn't think of any.

"Because of what ?" She started assailing me, "You have the one you love ? Or anything ? If you don't give me a good answer then I…"

And that made me angry, I cut her, "Yes, I have the one I love, you're happy now ?" Wait, did I just say that ?