I'm very sorry that I didn't update yesterday. It was the first day, and I was spending it with my family. I hope you guys aren't angry or something!
Guys, I have an announcement to make. First of all, this will be ending very soon. One or even three chapters to the max. Second of all...are you ready? This story WILL end in tragedy. That is all i'm saying. That does not necessarily mean someone will die, but just like that, it can. It could be the antagonist or protagonist, or just a random civilian. It could be that they must separate, that their love can never be, or as simple as ending in a harsh argument. I will however assure you that, it WILL end in tragedy. I thought about it after I listened to a VERY sad song. I have a thing for writing sad things and i'm pretty good at it & I think it's a good thing because, all you ever see is the happy endings, and I think it's so ironic, that this was a comedy, and then turns out to be a tragedy. Just like Romeo and Juliet. Think about it, it's more realistic. Life is never easy, and ending it in a 'happily ever after' is cliché, and you rarely see it in real life.
Anyways, it's settled. The original story I'd Rather Die is just like any other story or movie. The first is always the best & if you don't like the sequel, well don't read it. It's as simple as that.
Oh yes, while you're at it...you should totally read my one-shot, songfic, that I wrote yesterday. It's called The Tilting Hourglass.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, I don't understand why we even have to do this, I mean ain't it obvious? I'm 15 for gods sake!
Chapter 8
Leading to Disaster
X.x.X
Last night I forgot
how the sound of your voice whispered sweet
Goodbyes, your eyes left to die
I'm alone to
understand why
Why not one more night
one last kiss goodbye
my sweet love tonight
I hope the stars
still spell out your name
where you are...
Kiss my closing eyes
Help me sleep
without you I'm so lost
Tonight I cry
Tell me why
I can't live
without your warm embrace
Why not one more night
one last kiss goodbye
my sweet love tonight
I hope the stars still
spell out your name
where you are...
I close my eyes and you
are everything I see
Goodbye
Goodbye to you my love
I won't forget you
I'll see you soon
Goodbye my love
Goodbye to you my love
I won't forget you
Let me live
X.x.X
(Sakura's POV)
Minutes later we had arrived at the apartment complex wondering where that dumb ass could have gone. He was no where in sight and I didn't blame him. I was going to kill him in a very painful way. I was going to bake him in the oven and let crows, and ravens eat him. I laughed at my own thoughts as I sat at my kitchen counter with Sasuke watching me very carefully.
"I'm not even going to ask why you just laughed. I've had a really weird day already." He mumbled running his hands through his hair. I swung my legs back and forth, having a sudden urge to brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out, my outer self had just realized the strange taste in my mouth. I made a disgusted face.
"What the hell happened?" I asked Sasuke calmly with a serenading look on my face.
"You don't want to know, but that strange taste in your mouth...is shampoo." He said with a smirk on his face.
"Oh...wait, WHAT?!" I tilted my head slightly in wonder. Was he serious? Of course he was. I quickly hopped off the counter and began gargling water in my mouth trying to desperately get rid of this atrocious taste in my mouth. He just stood there laughing at me.
"I would really appreciate it if you didn't laugh at me, and I would also like you to get me a very sharp and hot knife, find Naruto and tell him to come see me." I said with a sneer on my face. He raised his hands in surrender.
"Yeah, do you want me to leave the whole knife thing out, because i'm sure he'll reconsider visiting you." I just gave him a cold stare, and resumed gargling my mouth. I heard Sasuke sigh in frustration, I ignored him, but watched at the corner of my eye, as he shook his head as if in sadness, or regret even.
"What's wrong?" I said with my hands on my hips, and spitting the last of my gargle. I sat back on the counter.
"Sakura, you need to stop being so careless." He stated confidently.
"What? What are you talking about?" Is he going to lecture me or something? I'm really not in the mood for this right now.
"First, you don't even notice that you over dosed on Vicodin, and then you leave the apartment in a see through, white shirt? Do you even care if guys stare at you?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.
"What's gotten into you? First of all how the hell was I going to have control over any of that? Honey, make it a point, that I was in pain, I wasn't going to worry about small things like that and hello? I was kind of incapacitated, I didn't even know what I was doing." I said frustration slowly bubbling up.
"Sakura, that's what I hate. Stop being so damn sarcastic! It's not a small deal! You could have died. You should have seen the stares you were getting, guys were already getting happy...in their pants, just lying their eyes on you!" His voice was getting higher and higher with every word. Is he shouting at me?! He has no legitimate reason to raise his voice at me!
"Sasuke, we all have flaws okay? We can't expect to perfect them all! I'm sarcastic, so deal with it! You know what? You're being too damn over protective. I hate it!" I shouted, making sure I emphasized the word 'hate'. He gave me one of the coldest glares I have ever gotten from him.
"Don't you dare demand me Sakura! The least you could do is try to perfect yourself. You're never going to get anywhere in life with that attitude. So what, if i'm being over protective? It's better then letting every guy drool over you! I actually care!" He was practically shouting at the top of his lungs.
"I'll fucking do what I want! I don't need to try to perfect myself when I know it's not possible, there's no such thing as perfect okay? Like I said, DEAL WITH IT! Don't fucking act like you're Mr. Best Boyfriend In The World. I have to deal with a lot of your stupid little fangirls, so don't you even dare think that I don't care!" I was on my feet now, pointing an accusing finger at him. He stepped closer to me, with such an intense look in his eyes, he could make anyone run for the hills. His nostrils even seemed to flare. I admit, I was a little bit intimidated by him at this moment. It's like we're having mood swings, is this normal?
"I. Don't. Have. To. Deal. With. Any. Of. This. Shit!" He yelled, pausing between every word.
"THEN DON'T FUCKING DEAL WITH IT!" I yelled, grabbing my black sweater from the coat hanger, and white flip flops before storming off.
UGHHHH! I was furious, I was beyond furious. How could he expect me to be a perfect person?! He wanted a perfect girlfriend, but I can't give that to him! I'm not perfect, I'm the complete opposite of perfect. This is when I need Naruto to show up, so I can let my frustration out on him.
He needs to chill out, it's okay to be protective to some extent, but this was ridiculous. He needs to leave me some space. I'm only human, I wasn't about to let him put a leash on me.
I got glares from people in the streets, some people even doing double takes, wondering if I was the same person who had just recently passed by. Every guy that stared at me, noticed my rage and seemed to shrink away from me.
About thirty minutes later, I found myself close to the beach again. I remembered sitting here with Ino when we needed to talk about important matters. Only we knew about this place and I definitely needed to be alone right now. Speaking of the god damned devil.
"Fucking Sasuke." I mumbled under my breath.
"It's about time you two broke up, maybe I can come into the picture now." I heard a voice say behind me. I whipped my head around to see Sai and Ino standing behind me.
Oh god, I wanted to laugh and cry all at the same time. First off, she had shown Sai our little hiding spot. That was horrible! Of course, there was no reason to believe she would keep anything hidden from that son of a bitch. I wanted to laugh because her face, was just...I can't even describe it. It was so messed up. I congratulated myself on a job well done.
I'll be surprised if anyone besides Sai, gives her another look before bursting into fits of laughter. The one thing that had me horrified...was the fact that I was unprotected.
Yeah, I had my whole hand to hand combat thing...but what would that do in this situation? When Sai and Ino have knives in their hands, do I really stand a chance?
(Naruto's POV)
I was scared shitless. I had booked it all the way to the Hyuuga mansion, to talk to Hinata. I had to admit, I was really liking her.
After an hour of hopefully letting Sakura simmer down, I decided that I would head back to the apartments and try to find Sasuke. I had my gay beat up Camry with me, so at least I wouldn't have to walk all the way over there.
One think that caught my attention as I headed to the apartments was a certain pink haired girl. At first I ignored it, thinking, there might be other pink haired girls in San Diego, but then I realized, I'd definitely never seen another girl with pink hair.
This time though as I did a double take, I noticed that she looked furious. She wasn't that far from the apartments. I wondered if she had talked to teme already. Was she angry because of me still? Or had she and Sasuke gotten into a fight or something? I decided what was best for me. I did not want to die today, I simply decided that I would watch where she was going, and inform teme where she was incase they hadn't gotten a chance to talk.
I saw her look around making sure no one was watching her, and then slip in between two big, huge rocks, and disappear from sight. Since when had that been there? I'm pretty sure that leads to the beach though. I'd better tell teme about it, if she's still all loopy, there's no telling what she'd do.
After knocking countless times, teme finally opened the door to his apartment. He was a wreck. His hair had the bed head look, and his eyes held exhaustion and anger. Damn, i'm assuming Sakura's been here.
"Teme, what happened?" I cautiously asked. He glanced at me for a second.
"Nothing." He said coldly and began closing the door. I stopped the door from closing with my foot.
"Teme, I saw Sakura walking alone, are you sure that's a good idea? You know, how practically no one approves of yours and Sakura's relationship."
This guy had to get it through his head. Was he that stupid? Usually, I'll admit that i'm the clueless one, but must I always be the one keeping him in check?
He looked down at the floor sadly, and then he looked back up at me.
"What do you want me to do about it?" He said with a sneer. Obviously, they weren't in the best terms with each other right now. Does he not realize that there are about 3 potential people wanting to kill her, and every other person in San Diego disapproves of them?
"She's your girl friend teme, that's reason enough. Just come with me, and talk to her. I'll show you where I saw her go, but then you're on your own." I said grabbing his wrist harshly. He yanked his arm out of my hand.
"I don't need you holding my hand." He spat. He still doesn't realize that everything I've done is for the best. Of course, not exactly everything...but you know what, I have helped him loads of times!
Minutes later, I was speeding down the streets to where I saw Sakura go. I didn't want her to get any farther and because teme is so stubborn, we had wasted valuable time just arguing about why he had to go talk to her. He doesn't understand how lucky he is. His life could have remained just as cold and lifeless at it was before. He should be thankful that he found a reason to live.
Thunder rolled from the grey sky above, as a drizzle of rain began to pat down on my windshield.
I'm a big believer of omens and signs. You should have seen the look on my face when I heard the thunder and rain, I also noticed countless ravens, and crows circling the place where Sakura had been moments before. This had death written all over it.
The omen of death.
I screeched my car to a stop and almost threw teme out of the car.
"Teme, get to her NOW! This is not good teme. This is not good." I kept mumbling to myself. He looked at me with a confused expression.
"Why are you making such a fuss about this? I just need to talk to her. It's as simple as that."
He has no idea. I never really talk about myself to people, but teme knows about the death of my parents. That day it had been just the same as now. Rain, thunder, crows and ravens. Ever since then, I dreaded this whether, and those stupid birds could make me have a heart attack.
I gave him a stern look.
"Teme, look around you. It has death written all over it! Just hope that Sakura's doing the killing! Now, get out!" I yelled at him.
His eyes widened in understanding, and then he quickly bolted out. I watched him run faster then I'd ever seen him run before, the wind was picking up speed, and rain was pouring down. He disappeared in the grey fog that had engulfed the beach.
What is going on?
Why can no one accept their love?
Are they cursed to live like this forever?
Is there salvation for anyone?
Alrighty then, so get ready for the end. In a chapter or two maybe. I'll figure it out, but anyways hope you guys are ready. Sorry if you wanted a happy ending. Remember it could be a horrible sad ending, or a semi sad ending or whatever, the point it, it will be tragedy!
The song is Early Morning by Alesana, I'll even provide you a link to listen to the song. It makes things so much better if you can listen to the song. So I'll put the link to it. It's a youtube video, so you can enjoy watching Naruto and listening to the song! Yay. I also just realized one of the reasons why it wont let some people view the pics, FanFiction is taking out the extra slash after http. REMOVE THE R AFTER EVERY LETTER IN HTTP AND REPLACE THE WORD DOT WITH A PERIOD, AND MAKE SURE YOUR COMPUTER DOESNT ADD AN EXTRA HTTP/ OR IT WILL NOT WORK.
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