Hi!! Thanks to the people who reviewed for the last chapter. Well, this one is just going to start off with some of Sasuke, then it will morph into a juicy Sasuke and Sakura interaction!!
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He stared at the ground through his fingers. The white tiles were making him sick, and he wanted nothing to do but throw up, the stress, the physical and emotional turmoil was getting to him. Reluctantly he looked up once more, yet his surroundings were the same. He was still in the hospital. He was still under the careful eye of one Hatake Kakashi, he was still so dirty.
In the short two weeks that they had kept him under lock and key, they had only allowed him four showers, his last one being nearly four days ago. Sure, there wasn't a terrible amount of physical activity that he had to do, nothing that could make him sweat over, but still, anyone would feel disgusting after going nearly two days without a shower, considering the fact that he was used to taking a shower almost every day of his life.
If that had been it, the fact that he was not given proper showering, then he would feel slightly better. But, no, the incident this morning. Nearly eight hours had passed since then, and only because the fact that Sakura screamed so loud when they took him away, only because of that, was he allowed to sit in the hallway outside of her room.
She had just been released, he had been told. And yet, one look at him, and here she was, back in the hospital. He grunted in aggravation and rubbed his dirty hands over his eyes. The headache he had still had not lessened any, and, Tsunade was being a bitch and not giving him any help at all.
Okay, well, he knew what he said earlier pissed them off, but still, they were treating him like hell, he was entitled to exaggerate about how he felt anyways.
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Tsunade stared hard at him, her chin high and her stance did not show anything but anger and importance. She waited for him to speak, yet knew that he would not, but that did not matter, Naruto broke the silence anyways.
"Just tell me this, you asshole, why in the world would you cheat on Sakura, are you really that stupid?" his voice was cold, yet held a great deal of curiosity.
Sasuke snorted, Naruto was a retard if he had to ask a question like that, but, when he looked at the faces of Tsunade and Kakashi, he could tell that it truly was a mystery to them.
"Same reason the damn elders are pressing into my affairs, they think it's the right time for little Uchiha brats to be in Konoha again….well," he smirked at this, despite it being a complete lie, "and Sakura just doesn't know how to please a man…too innocent."
Naruto snarled and leaped forward, about to tackle him when Kakashi held him back, Naruto glared at Kakashi, wanting an explanation as why Kakashi was not letting him hurt the bastard. Yet Kakashi just shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "Don't, his words a meaningless, the only person whose voice will matter is Sakura's. Only what she has to say to him will hurt him worse than your fist."
Naruto looked confused for a second and then looked over to Tsunade, who had a saddened look on her face, and Sasuke caught it, and fear gripped him. Then, almost instantly his anger took hold of his voice, "What the fuck are you talking about? What is the matter with her?"
Anger intensified as Kakashi started to push him into the room he had just been in, and before the door slammed he let out an ignorant yell, "Damn you!"
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He stared up from the ground to the ceiling, closed his eyes and sighed. If all he was going to do was wait for her to wake up from, from what ever it was that she was suffering from, then he could at least take a shower in the meantime. He looked up at Kakashi, who was reading a Icha Icha book and leaning against the doorway that lead to Sakura's room.
Sasuke looked him in the eye and asked, "Can I at least take a shower?"
When he saw that Kakashi was shaking his head in a no, he spoke once more, "Do you really want me to smell like shit when she wakes up? I highly doubt that she will enjoy me holding her if I smell…undesirable."
Kakashi looked him in the eyes, blinked and looked back at Sakura who was still sound asleep, yet still held an pained look on her face. He knew, that despite Sakura being ill, she would want to be held by Sasuke, despite the current situation, and, no matter what his thoughts were, he knew that he had no right to hold Sakura back from being held by him.
He sighed, closed his book and walked into the room that held Sakura, and beckoned Sasuke to follow him. When the two of them got inside the room, Kakashi pushed him into the bathroom and stood there staring at him. It didn't take too long for him to realize what was going on, he was allowed a shower, but only under the supervision of Kakashi.
Without shame or embarrassment, he turned to the shower of the bathroom and removed his clothing, after stepping into the shower, did he close his eyes, and scrub his head.
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"So, how much longer do you think that they will be?" Sakura's voice asked.
She had woken up after the beginning of Sasuke's shower and was waiting patiently for Kakashi to escort him out of the bathroom. When she had woken up, Naruto had been in the room, after being asked to bring some clean clothing for both Sasuke and Sakura. Naruto stared at her, bit his lip and said, "Don't think it will be too much longer, I doubt Sasuke likes to take long showers."
She smiled at him, it was not like the was enthusiastic about seeing him, but, still, he always made her feel safe, comfortable, happy, and right now, all she needed was to feel that way again. She needed to have him hold her, even if there was some tension going on. She needed it, she needed him.
And she needed to tell him.
Tell him the truth about everything.
About her fears of having cancer, of her tests that have not come back, but she feels as if they will come back positive, of her leaving him if he continues to drink.
But, the biggest thing that she had to tell him, was that even if he stopped drinking, if she had cancer they would have to split up. She highly doubted that she was still in the stage one of cancer, and because of that, she knew that she would lose her fertility. There was hope though, in her heart, that maybe, maybe she didn't have cancer, that maybe it was some other sort of problem, or at the very least she was still at the low risk part of the cancer.
That way, maybe she could preserve her fertility. But still, any route that included having cancer required her to have surgery, and, ultimately, death. That thought, despite her not wanting to cry anymore, made tears come to her eyes, and a soft sob came from her mouth before she closed her eyes and folded, hiding her face in the sheets of her bed.
Naruto, instantly alarmed was at her side, rubbing her back and asking what was wrong. He had been so scared this morning, when she collapsed, and momentarily stopped breathing. It scared him so bad, and when he had to rip off her shirt for Tsunade, he could not help but fear the worst.
And, now, the fact that both Tsunade and Kakashi knew something, that he did not about her, he felt the stings of fear run through his heart and spine.
After a few minutes of her crying and Sakura stopped, wiped her tears on the tissue that Naruto handed her. She smiled at him, caressed his cheek and nodded when he asked her if she was fine. He kissed her palm, and rubbed her back before helping her lay back down under the warm blankets.
Hinata was lucky, a very lucky girl. She had the greatest catch of them all.
Naruto was so wonderful, that, at times when she was fifteen, she wondered why it was that she could not like him, why it was that she felt so turned off by the thought of kissing him in a attracting sort of way. Yet, as the years gone by, she knew that in the end things turned out for the best, Hinata deserved a great man, and Naruto was as great as they get.
She felt like sleeping, now that Naruto was rubbing her arm and hand so softly, and that she was under the blankets, completely comfortable. She opened her eyes, and murmured, "If…if I fall asleep, can you have Sasuke wake me up? I know that things aren't too great, but, I really would like to see him, and talk to him."
Naruto simply nodded.
And Sakura closed her eyes.
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Thought I would end the chapter there huh? Nope, I like this next scene a lot. ;p.
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The minutes must have gone by so slow, and she must have only slept for a minute or two, because Naruto was still holding her hand, and caressing it softly. He was such a good friend, but, when had the shower turned off? She was sure that she had heard it earlier.
Had Sasuke gotten out of the shower and Naruto not tell her?
She was about to open her eyes and ask Naruto how long she had been out when a soft kiss was pressed to her forehead, then, her cheek, then, so very softly, a kiss was pressed to her lips. The lips on hers were gone after a few seconds, yet, it barely took half a second to know who's lips were upon hers.
Sasuke's.
Hesitantly, she opened her eyes, and there he was. Sitting beside her, his forehead pressed to her knuckles as his head bent over, as if he were simply thinking. She could feel the dampness of his hair against her fingers, and, unconsciously she let tears come to her eyes as she whispered, "Sasuke…"
When he heard her whisper he looked up, their eyes connected, and a soft smile came to his face. Sakura pulled herself up into a sitting position and Sasuke moved to sit beside her on the bed, so that he faced her. Despite wanting to, Sasuke made no move to touch her and simply sat there as her hands reached up and cupped his face gently.
She smiled so sweetly at him, and he could not help it, but lean into her gentle touch and close his eyes at the kindness that she was offering. When he opened his eyes, he noted that a tear had fallen down her cheek, then fell to her shirt, his eyes followed down, then up to her wrists that still had bandages on them.
He sighed as he stared at them, knowing all too well where they came from.
As one of her hands fell from his face, he looked back up her and she only smiled back.
As her other hand left his face, he only became concerned with staring at her eyes, and hearing her voice, "Sasuke-kun…" she sweetly whispered.
"I have missed you so much," her smile got even bigger, and then it hit him.
A harsh, loud, and bruising smack to the face.
A backhand actually.
It hurt to bad that he moved from the force of her slap, and during the two seconds that he sat there in shock, she got up from the bed and said, "No matter how much I missed you, you deserved that slap to the face…for cheating on me, you asshole."
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Hehe, I told you that I liked that scene!!
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