Double Lovers
Summary: After witnessing her father's death and fleeing for her life Sakura finds herself waking up from a coma. She meets new people, gets back in school, and even gets a new boyfriend. When she runs into the wrong crowd and gets involved, everything gets turned around…
Chapter 6
Somehow knowing you're in a place all by yourself, where no one knows where you are or who you are, you get the chance to be someone else, and the chance to start all over again. Your just outside the reach from others and yet no one can touch you, it's when you hold everything in your own hands, and take orders from no one. You can go anywhere in the world and just be free. You can think of anything, anything at all and have it appear before you within a second. This is when you feel safe and care free. This, this would be a dream.
A dream is just that, only a dream. You can wake up at anytime and still see your room, still know that today you're going to hang out with your friends, or you're just going to lie around the house all day doing absolutely nothing. And when you really take a look at your life and realize, what would I do if I actually had left all this behind me? Would I miss it? Would I miss any of it? And the answer is yes, you would. You may think that finally getting the chance to leave, to break free of this place you have known for so long and learn to live with, you would be so wrong because we all know you would look back at least once before you said good-bye. That is why it's good to have dreams, they give open your eyes to the world around you and let you see everything a different way. Just knowing you're in a place all by yourself, where no one knows where you are or who you are, you're just outside the reach from others and yet no one can touch you. It's when you can't wake up that turns it into a nightmare.
Hinata made a place in the middle of the living room where the two of us could sleep. Basically it was a huge pile of blankets, pillows, and sheets to make a soft area to lie down on, it was actually very comfortable. We had all made ourselves ramen, sat down to watch a movie, and get ready for bed. Hinata had brought me some of her clothes from her house and I was very grateful. Hinata was now lying next to me and was already half asleep. We both laughed as we heard Naruto's obnoxious snoring coming from his room. I closed my eyes and waited ten, fifteen, thirty minutes. Nothing happened. Still awake, I sighed. An hour later and still no luck. I sat there in silence except for Naruto's snoring and finally slipped into unconsciousness.
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I woke up in a dark room I wasn't familiar with. There were light cherry colored pink walls covered in posters and pictures surrounding me. The bed spread was green, as were the matching sheets. A dresser was up against the wall and the closet door had a full length mirror on it. I walked over to the mirror to see myself, but instead of seeing my face or reflection, I was blurred out, yet everything else around me was perfectly clear in the mirror. I turned and looked again, I saw white sandals on pale feet, a skirt covering from my waist to my knees and a matching shirt to go with it. looking back at my face, there was still a blur. I gave up and turned to see the white door which I assumed was the way out. When I opened the door I was looking into a hallway that ended with a staircase. When I reached the stair case I could see a living room and decided to go down and check it out. When I was almost to the bottom step I heard voices talking and headed in that direction to find out who it was. I ended up in the kitchen of the house and saw two people setting the table for three. It was a male and a female and when they heard me come in they both turned to look at me before smiling.
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Someone was shaking me and I was forced to open my eyes. Hinata was leaning over me looking a little worried.
"Are you okay? It was just a dream." She tried to reassure me. I felt myself sweating and I wiped off my face with the back of my hand.
"You were mumbling and thrashing around in your sleep. I thought you were having a nightmare so I woke you up. I didn't want you to rip your stitches in your side by moving around like that."
"Thank you." I smiled. "Um, what time is it?"
"It's around six something in the morning."
"Can-can I get a shower?"
"Now? Okay, yeah, sure you can. The bathroom is throught that door and on the right. Don't forget to lock the door behind you. I thanked her and followed her directions to the restroom. It wasn't hard finding the place seeing as it wasn't a very big apartment at all. I walked in the bathroom and started undressing; when I stepped into the shower, turning on the hot water, I couldn't help but sigh and let my body relax. I let my head rest against the shower wall as my hair soaked through and I thought about my dream. It wasn't a nightmare, like Hinata thought it was, it was just – weird. I triedto remember the two picture from my dream. The two people who looked at me and smiled, but I couldn't make out their faces. The harder I tried to remember, the more and more my head hurt. I stayed in the shower a while longer before dragging myself out of the warm water and grabbing a towel to wrap around me. The door opened and a blonde headed boy walked in with his eyes still closed and dried drool still on his check. Turning to face me, with his eyes still shut, he pushed the door open the rest of the way before walking in.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" I shouted, causing Naruto's eyes to jerk open and the toilet bowl lid drop making a loud crack noise. His eyes quickly darted around the room and landed on me before looking down at my towel, then back at me and finally at my towel again.
"HEY!"
"Oh! Right! Sorry!" Naruto face flushed a bright shade of red and he scrambled past me trying to get out of the room. I shut the door in his face and made sure to lock the door.
"Hey, I have to pee!" Naruto whined.
"Go ask Hinata to bring me some clothes please!" I called back at him through the door. A few moments later Hinata was at the door with clothes for me to borrow.
"Thank you!"
As soon as I had finished dressing and opened the door, Naruto had flown past me, put his hands on my shoulders and then pushed me out of the bathroom, shutting the door behind me before I could even register what was going on. I found Hinata putting on a pair of shoes in the middle of the crowded room.
"You're leaving?" I asked, curious.
"Yes, I have to go home and check in with my father so he doesn't start calling everyone I know asking where I was. I will need to tell him I was staying at my friend Ino's house. I should be back in an hour or so, so you will be okay hanging out here, right?" she stood up and headed closer to the door.
"Yeah, of course I will. I think I might go for a walk actually. Then Naruto will have at least a little while to be all by himself." I said jokingly.
"It is going to rain soon."
"That's not a problem. I don't mind the rain."
"Okay, hey, do me a favor and tell Naruto I had to go?" she was out the door before I could say 'sure'.
When Naruto came out of the restroom he was pulling a clean shirt over his head and mumbling out some kind of apology for walking in on me.
"Where's Hinata?" he asked looking around the room with a questioning look on his face.
"She said something about needing to see her dad, and using her friend Ino as a cover up."
"Oh, okay. That's cool."
"Hey, I was thinking that I would take a walk, and I'll be back soon. I just need to get up and do something after being stuck in that awful hospital bed so long. I promise not to get lost." I laughed.
"Okay, yeah, sure. Hey, hold on a second, I'll be right back." Naruto left and returned with five dollars in his hand and went to give it to me.
"What's this for?" I asked confused.
"In case you want to stop somewhere and get a drink or something? I don't know."
"Thanks, Naruto."
I ended up at the ice cream shop a few blocks down from Naruto's place. The sky had darkened due to the clouds building up and getting ready to rain down on the earth below them. 'Not necessarily the most preferable day for ice cream, but oh well.' There was a tall man in front of me who ordered a chocolate double scoop cone and was now waiting on the young boy behind the counter to finish pre-pairing his order. There was also a young girl behind me who looked to be about a year or so younger than me, bobbing up in down listening to her I-pod. The door opened behind us all and the little bell at the top of the door chimed. Three girls walked in making sure they were seen by everyone in the store before continuing forward. The younger girl behind me stopped dancing to her music and starred at them before promptly moving out of their way and letting them all in front of her.
"Hey, stupid, you gonna move or what?" The girl in front of the other two popped her gum while making it extremely obvious that she was giving me the once over.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Are you asking to get hurt?" she asked sarcastically. The young girl backed up even more when she heard that, allowing them more room. The girl talking to me took a step closer making sure to enter my personal space. She had a spiky/choppy haircut, that was shorter in front, longer in back, and bright fiery red hair. The black framed glasses sitting lightly on her nose were definitely designer made contrasted against her pale white skin. The only way to describe her clothes, or lack thereof, is to say she was dressed extremely 'provocative.'
"Move." She ordered.
"No, why should I? I was here first." I said before turning back around ready to ignore the nasty comments just waiting to come my way.
"What can I get you today miss?" the guy behind the counter looked a little edgy asking me such a simple question, was this girl really something to be that afraid of? I mean really, she just looks like an anorexic bully.
Before I could answer 'A chocolate fudge ice cream double scoop cone please' I had someone else's hand in my hair and yanking me backwards, hard I might add. I squirmed around to see the same red headed girl from a second ago.
"Look, I don't know who you are, but you are obviously new here, so I am going to give you a little tip that might help you out in the future. See- me, the names Karin; these here girls behind me, they're with me and always have my back. I do not take shit from anyone; I don't give a crap about anyone or anything else besides my girls and my boy friend. When I tell you to do something – you do it, no questions asked. If I tell you to move, you had better move unless you are planning on being suicidal anytime in the near future. If I were you, I would stay the fuck out of my way and pray to god that I don't decide to come after you." She gabbed her perfectly manicured finger in my face. "Got it?" she sneered.
It was my first day here and I already had people who hated me and I was not looking to make it worse so I merely nodded to her. After being pushed back, I turned away ready to walk out of the store completely forgetting about my ice cream.
"I feel sorry for your boy friend, whoever he may be." I muttered under my breath taken by surprise that it had actually come out from my mouth and not someone else's. I didn't mean to say it at all, especially not out loud where they could hear me, but something just came over me and I couldn't stop it.
"Excuse me?" Exclaimed the shrill voice behind me sending a shudder down my spine.
"Nothing. I was just leaving." I said lowering my head and trying to back away again.
"I didn't think so." She smirked just before her friend shoved her elbow into my side landing the blow directly along the stitches on the long gash I had. I winced and decided to ignore the pain in order to get out of the store.
"You're bleeding."
"What?" I asked aloud to no one in particular, because no one was there. I looked down and saw that the voice, no matter who it belonged to, was right; I had a thin line of blood appearing on my side through my borrowed shirt.
"I going to kill her if she ever touches us again." I heard the voice in my head which made me think it was me, but I hadn't though it.
Little drops of rain had started coming down and lightly sprinkling themselves along the sidewalks, streets, and grass.
"Yes you can hear me. I am a part of you, however I am not a second personality, not really, nor and I your conscience."
"Then… what are you?" I was so confused and it was weird getting used to hearing someone else's thoughts in my head.
"I am like…a different you. I hear and see everything you do. I feel what you feel and yes I really exist. I was with you before you had your 'accident' and lost your memory and I have found your cluelessness on this subject to be a nuisance. Before, you just knew and understand who, and or what, I am and how I can help you, but now you have forgotten even me with your memory loss. How disappointing, almost sad actually, I mean, it's me!"
"I am really sorry. I wish…I wish I knew." by now the rain was really coming down and I found it actually quite calming.
SASUKE POV
"Love you babe, I gotta go. I will see you later, bye!"
"Bye." I called watching her run off with her friends and all hoping into her car. I walked back into the kitchen and grabbed a coke from the fridge. Opening the can and hearing the faint popping noises and fizzling of the soda, I headed to the back room where I grabbed my jacked and left shutting the door behind me. I pulled my jacket on knowing it was going to rain and locked the front door behind me.
I was headed home to take a shower and relax without having to worry about pleasing other people. I had only made it a few blocks before it was raining and I was starting to get soaked through all the way to my undershirt. I was close to turning on my street before someone caught my eye and I had to stop. I was looking at a girl leaning o against an oak tree across the road, she was just sitting there getting rained on but it looked as though she didn't seem to mind. I changed my mind about going home right away and decided to take a little detour. I tuned and stepped out into the street, crossing the road I could get a better look at her and could already see that she had a nice body frame. What I hadn't been expecting was the pink hair, it was unusual, and yet, obviously natural. She was beautiful and I realized this the closer and closer I got to her.
"Are you alright?" I asked stepping up to her. it looked as if I had startled her and I tried to hide back a smirk.
"Oh, sorry. You kind of scared me there. I was just thinking, but yes – I am fine. Thank you for asking." She looked at me as if she was expecting me to leave after that, so I did the exact opposite and decided to sit down.
"I don't know you. Are you new here?" I was surprisingly in a conversational mood. She nodded her head and turned away looking off into the distance at something.
"Why are you out here in the rain all by yourself?" I asked as rain slid down my check and dripped on my neck before I could wipe it away.
"Doesn't bother me." she answered in a soft and seemingly soothing voice.
"So, you're not cold?"
"No, actually, I quite enjoy the rain. There is just something about it…" she trailed off not finishing the sentence.
"Like-?" I was trying to prompt her to continue on talking.
"I find it to be very calming, almost as if , I don't know, it kind of clears my head. I know- you are thinking I am really weird right now." She started to laugh a little but immediately stopped herself.
"What's wrong?" I asked noticing the slight wince on her face before she forced it away.
"Nothing." She muttered through clenched teeth.
I looked at her stomach where her hand was and saw a thin layer of blood seeping through her shirt in a straight line down her side.
"What happened to you?" I asked honestly caring.
"It's nothing, really. I should be getting home now." She said it as if nothing was wrong with her at all.
"Where are you staying?"
"Not far from here. Just a few blocks." She turned and proceeded to leave. I caught up to her and asked her again what happened to her.
"Nothing. What do you want?" she snapped never stopping.
"Your name maybe?" I wasn't thinking, I just answered.
"Sakura. Happy now?"
"No, I could help you but you won't tell me what happened to you or let me see what's wrong." I had absolutely why I cared so much about this person I had never meet before in my life before today, but I did and I couldn't just turn away from her.
"I just got out of a hospital, that's what. Yesterday I wake up and find out that I was in a coma." She hissed. "Then, I find out that some freaking crazy man tried to actually murder me while in a come, and managed to poison me. The only way for the hospital to save my life was in fact to kill me, so to speak, and then act like everything is okay. Oh but wait! There's more! Let's not forget the best part, the part where I wake up without any recollection and or memory what's so ever about my life before the accident and or who I even am!" she took a breath and held up a finger telling me not to speak yet. "And, to top it all off, today all I wanted was a freaking ice cream, I was minding my own business when some crazy girl came up to me and decided to screw with me in the ice cream store! So getting pushed around by her little follower freaks along with everything else, it just made my day perfect." Her voice dripped in sarcasm. She hadn't stopped walking at all the entire time she talked, but I did.
"This girl is seriously messed up, hey, I bet she's on crack, doing dope, hitting it up, you know what I mean?" It was my annoying inner that spoke to me. "Damn hot though."
"Shut up." I growled in return while running to catch up with her.
"What now?" she moaned in annoyance.
"I'm sorry."
"Great. Just great, more people to feel sorry for me." she breathed.
"What the…?!?! Holy- DUDE!" my inner yelled.
'What?'
"Uh, she, she um- she has an inner." He hesitated.
"What? How? How do you know?"
"Because she saw me checking her out, and she scares me. "
"Damn it , why the hell were you-"
"Don't act like you didn't think she was-"
"Wait! How do you know she know that you were- did she- you- how? What the hell, can you talk to her?!"
"Apparently, I didn't know because I have never met anyone with another person with an inner before."
I had stopped again and she was about a block away from me when I realized this. A car rounded the corner speeding down the street and came to a complete stop in front of the girl. The car was noticeably an orange mustang with tinted black windows.
"Isn't that…?" my inner trailed off. She opened the car door on the passenger side and climbed in. she looked straight at me before shutting the door all the way. the engine revved and flew past me. the horn honked as it left and I had no doubt about it.
"Yeah, that was Naruto."
"Why was she-? When-? Naruto?!?"
"I have no freaking idea."
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