Amnesia.

Last Time

"Well alright. Just don't forget to visit me today! I gotta go. My shows on," I giggled and hung up, walking back inside.

"Well? What did he want?" Ino asked.

"Just wondering why I didn't take him on our date," Neji and Ino laughed, and Gaara just made something of a nervous chuckle.

"Well… now what?" I asked.

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Chapter Six

You Won't Protect her Forever!

((SAKUPOV))

Light flooded into my room as the sun slowly picked itself up over the grassy hills of Hokkaido. Groaning, I turned my face into my pillow. I didn't want to get up. But wait... why was I so warm? Why didn't my pillow feel like my pillow? Opening my eyes, I came face to face with a cough pillow. "Heh?"

"Ah! You're awake!" MY head whipped up, and I was staring into the seafoam green eyes of...

"GAARA?!" I squeaked, scrambling to a sitting position. Why was he at my house?! WHAT DID WE DO LAST NIGHT?!

"Y-yea... do you remember? We watched a movie at your house and you kinda..." by now, a small blush had risen to Gaara's cheek, making him look a bit... cute. "You kinda.. er.. fell asleep on me, so I couldn't move without waking you..."

That is so sweet! Man this kid is cute, I thought, giggling softly. "Well now that that's cleared up, do you want me to take you home? Your sister is probably tearing her hair out, trying to find you,"

"Yea... Temari-nee usually does that when I go missing..." we both laughed for a minute, then I stood up.

"I'm gonna go change," I said. He nodded and stayed put while I pulled on the first thing I could find--work clothes. Black, slightly baggy slacks, a white long-sleeved button up and a black tie. I didn't have to put on the tie, I just flet like it. Plus, I had to work today. Trotting down stairs, I saw Gaara quirk one of his invisible eyebrowns.

"Are those your work clothes?" he asked, stadning up. I noticed something then. Gaara was at least four inches taller than me.

"Er... yea," I replied, craning my neck slightly to look at him. He was almost as tall as Sasuke! "Hey, Gaara? You're working today, right?" he seemed to know what I wanted, but he listened anway. We began to walk out to the car before he replied.

"Yea... why?" he asked, knowing the answer still.

"Could you talk with Lee? I mean to see how Sasuke's doing, that is..." I mumbled, opening the driver's door. He nodded before ducking into my small car. I had to the top up, for some reason. The drive to Gaara's was long... and silent. When we got there, a woman with blond hair and emerald eyes ran out of the house. When Gaara stepped out of the car, she glomped onto him.

"Gaara! Where have you been?!" she cried into his shoulder. What an emotional sister...

"Uh, it's my fault. I fell asleep... on Gaara's shoulder, and he didn't want to wake me by moving..." I explained, watching her face lightened. The expression on her face was a little shocked, and she practically mouthed 'no honorific'.

"Oh! That was you who went on a date with Gaara, Sakura-kun?" she giggled, peeking over Gaara's shoulder at me. Both of our faces immediatly went pink.

"H-hai..." I stumbled over thr word, but it came out.

"Well, we gotta go, Sakura-kun! Bye-bye!" Temari giggled once more, dragging her cherry of a brother into the house. I blinked, just staring at the closed door.

"Bye..." I mumbled, twisting the steering wheel to turn around. Then something caught my eye. "L-Lee-san?!" I squeaked, standing up in my car. The boy jerked his head around, staring at me. I'd forgotten that Lee lived next to Gaara.

"S-sakura-san?" he blinked, his hand on the handle of his truck's door.

"Hey! I was just gonna go to the hospital. You want a ride?" I asked. A simple offer to drive him to work--and home.

"S-sure..." he blushed slightly, and jogged over. Hopping over the door, he settled into the seat. "Thanks, Sakura-san,"

((LEEPOV))

Aa Sakura drove to the hospital, I couldn't help but stare at her. No...! Not like that. I was just... staring at her face. When we pulled into the oarking lot, I wasn't out of my zone until I heard her voice.

"Lee-san? Are you coming?" she asked, already out of the car. I blinked, then got out of the car, following her into the hospital. When we got into the hospital, my beeper started to squeal. Looking at it, I gasped.

"Gomen nesai, Sakura-san! I've gotta go!" I sprinted off, heading towards Sasuke's room. Bursting into the room, I saw Sasuke in a fit of coughing, and his face was controted in horror and pain. "Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun!" I yelped, running over to him.

((SASUPOV))

Pain. That's all I could feel. It'd been almost a year since I'd gotten memories. They burned my head, making me feeling as if I was on fire. I gasped for air, in a spasm of pain. My chest felt like there was a big gap in it. I didn't know why. Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun! I heard my doctor's voice. "What?" I rasped, voice quiet and dry.

"Sasuke-kun, what's wrong?" he asked, pressing me down on the bed.

"Water," I croaked. He nodded, leaving for a moment, then coming back with a water bottle. I snatched it from him, opening it with my mouth and chugging down the water. Pausing for a moment, I let the water sooth my throat. I didn't even know why I was so pained. Every part of my body was hurting. My head the most.

"How many memories just came back?" Lee asked, placing his hand back on my chest to keep me from arching at the pain.

"One," I groaned. "Only one fucking memory!" I practically screamed. The other black haired boy blinked, then sighed. He groaned to himself, but it was quite audiable.

"You're recovering is... very weird. At first, you build up with few memories, then you get memories from the beginning of sixth grade, and stop remembering thing for almost a year. Then you get one memory that decides to torture you..." Lee sighed once more.

"By the way, what was that memory?" he asked me, staring at me in the eye. I looked towards the ground.

"Nothin' important..." I grumbled.

((NARROTORPOV))

Begin Memory

It was very strange. Sasuke found himself walking to one of his friend's houses. Only a day after they'd met. He'd just been so captivated with this girl! She was so pretty, he long pink hair blowing in the wind. Her bright emerald eyes filled with nothing but happiness--those eyes that looked at him with such emotion. He slapped his cheeks, trying to get a hold of himself. Then he found himself at her door. Biting his bottom lip, he was about to knock. But he then heard a noise he'd never heard before coming from inside. He opened the door quietly, and peeked in. What he saw in the room by the door caused him to jerk back in horror.

"Yada! Yamero!" a small girl screamed, tears streaming down her face. The man behind her paid no heed to her cries. He just proceded further of penetrating the small girl. Suddenly, he slammed in, causing her to gasp, the tears momentarily stopped. But then she let out another scream and the tears flowed like a river again.

She's being raped! Sasuke screamed in his head, wondering what to do. Should he call the police? Yea! That's what he'd do! Running a few houses down, he randomly knocked on someone's door. A woman of about twenty-one answered. "Miss! May I use your phone? I need to call the police! One of my friends is being raped!" what he'd said caused horror to strike in the woman's eyes.

"Y-yes." she mumbled, letting Sasuke into her house. He rushed to the nearest phone he could find, fumbling with the buttons on the phone. Once someone answered, he was scared shitless.

"Hello?" the person on the other line asked.

"I need the police! One of my friends are being raped!" he cried.

"Alright. Give me the adress and I'll send them over right away," the girl on the other line answered. Sasuke gave Sakura's adress as slow, but as quick, as he could, then hung up. He bowed and thanked the woman for letting him use her phone, and rushed out. He paced the driveway of Sakura's house. He just burst in there and stop that man. The police arrived a minute later and stormed into the house.

The man raping Sakura--who happened to be her father--was arrested. "Sasuke-kun? Is that you?" Sakura gasped, reaching out for his hand. Wraping a blanket around the girl's small frame, he tried to smile sadly.

"Yes... it's me, Sakura," he whispered. She then broke down, throwing herself onto Sasuke. He let her cry into his shirt. "How bad did it hurt...?" he asked, rubbing her back.

"It felt like he was shoving a pole with the diameter of at least ten inches into my butt..." she sobbed, her grip on his shirt tightening.

"It's okay, Sakura. I'll protect you."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

"Arigatou, Sasuke-kun!" the smaller girl let go of his shirt, and encircled her arms around his neck.

"You..." they both turned to see Sakura's father getting hand cuffed. "You can't protect her forever!" he hissed, venom dripping from his voice. Sakura clung onto Sasuke tighter.

End Memory

((SASUPOV))

I shuddered, just by playing the memory over in my head. Lee quirked a brow at me, but headed towards the door. "If you need anything, you just press that button," he said, then left. There was a silence, then those words echoed in my head. You can't protect her forever! I shuddered again. The door was knocked on, and I looked up.

"Sasuke?" I heard a familiar voice, and a small smile tugged at my lips.

"Sakura?" I asked backed. She poked her head into the room, and smiled softly.

"I heard you got another memroy..." she said, shutting the door. I could tell that there was something wrong.

"Yea. Do you remember when I promised--"

"To protect me." she finished my statement, and I grimaced. "What about it?"

"Do you remeber what your dad said?" I asked, biting my lip.

"'You can't protect her forever'..." she whispered. It was her turn to bite her lip.

"Something tells me that those words are about to come true."

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A/N: OMG. I'm so sorry for the slow update. School's been... icky. xx Anyways, I had to reboot my computer (like swipe it clean) so I lost Word Document. I'm stuck with writing these in Word Pad. But, once I get Word Document up loaded onto my computer again, I swear to fix this chapter! owo