Forget Me Not VIII.

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They force me to the ground; the strength of ten ANBU Nin is amazing. Hell, they must have thought I was going to do something… Like what?

"Tsunade-sama! Please!" I hear you cry. I can just picture you. Your hair flustered and tears prick your eyes.

"Sakura, you knew if he ever came back that this was what would happen," She says harshly.

"So why didn't you do it after I died?!"

….That's a good question…

"Heh, 'cause Naoki hasn't betrayed us, and he needed some one… At least for a little while," Tsunade says sourly and the ANBU Nin pull me up off the ground, my hands tightly cuffed.

"So you planned this?" I growl through clenched teeth.

I hear her hesitate before answering.

"Yes."

I press words of curse down. For now.


"Sasuke? Sasuke-teme?" I hear someone whisper from my cell.

It's cold and wet and hard. I have never been in such a prison. Hell even Orochimaru's lair was better than this dump. The walls are steel and cold. Blood is smeared on the floor in a violent fashion. Some of my blood leaks out of a disturbed wound and makes a puddle. I shiver in the cold and wipe dirt away from my eye. I'm dirty and scruffy. My shirts ripped, my face and body is dirty and my hairs a mess.

"Sasuke-te…" His voice trails off as my blood shot eyes look up at his. It's Naruto, his face is tear stained.

"Sasuke…" He whispers, as if in shock at my state. Kami, I hate this place.

"Where's Sakura?" I croak out, looking away, but all I see is cold blue steel.

"Sasuke… She's…Uh…" Naruto mumbles then sighs heavily.

"Sasuke-teme, they're sentencing you to death…" Naruto whispers and then wipes his eyes on his sleeve. I stare at cold hard steel.

"Sakura," I mumble.

"She can't come… She's been banned to see you…"

"Damare!" I yell in frustration, "Kisama…"

"Sasuke…Please!" He is obviously appalled at my bad language.

"…"

"Okay, Sasuke… Is there anything you want to say before I leave?" He asks calmly.

"Yes," I say, actually talking now, but I have to make my message clear, "Tell Sakura that I love her."

"Yes," He gets up and heads out the door "Gomen nasai."

"Hn."


Three days in this prison and I haven't move. I haven't been feed either. My throat is dry and inflamed and my voice deep and raspy. No body comes to visit. Some times I watch the people outside from where I sit, but I can only see their shoes. Sometimes I think I see Sakura's red heels. The heels come past quite often. But then again so do leather boots. Oh Kami, I think I'm going mad.

"Sasuke."

I snap my head around to my name.

"Get up," Oh great it's that deceiving bitch of a Hokage. Come to kill me I presume.

"Kill me here," I say.

"You'd like that wouldn't you, but we're going to," She pauses, for a dramatic effect I presume, "name and shame you."

"Kuso…" My eyes widen as I get the full picture. Tsunade will read out my crimes… All the crimes I've committed, all the gruesome detail. And naming and shaming, the whole village will listen… Then she'll kill me in front of the village.

"Tomorrow morning at 10, Sasuke," She tells me, the she walks out the door with not so much as a goodbye. I guess that's just the way they treat S-class criminals like me.

Although what I don't understand, and probably never will, is why she lied to me all these months? Why did she do that?

Why?!


"Sasuke Uchiha," I hear a voice boom in the early hours of the morning and my eyes crack open.

"Get up now," I'm tossed to my feet and thrown in a small dirty white room.

"You are to have a shower then you will be escorted to a hall were you will eat breakfast, then you will be sentenced at ten-hundred hours," The large man booms, his eyes are determined and cold and he pushes me into a small white room with a toilet, hand basin

and a shower. I quickly strip off my blood stained and dirty clothes and turn on the shower, letting steam fog up the room and the hot water pelt onto my back.

Under the hot water, I feel a chilling breeze sweep past my ankles and then suddenly it's gone.

Turning the water off with a squeak, I step out of the dirty prison shower and notice that the sun is shining through a heavily bolted window at the top of the wall, as the one in my cell is like, I can see a few people's feet. Scruffy shoes and people will no shoes walk past. It must be an alleyway.

As I go to put on my clothes something catches my eye. Clothes. Clean clothes. And a note. Clean clothes and a note.

I pick up the note and my eyes read the writing scribbled on it.

Sasuke-kun,

I want you to have these clean clothes as yours are probably bloody and dirty. I love you will all my heart and I always will

Aishiteru,

Sakura H- Uchiha.

I smile for a brief second and then slowly tears prick my eyes. I quickly blink them away and pull the clean shirt over my head.


"Uchiha," The large man booms, "Time to go…"

He smirks as he hand cuffs me in Chakra blocking cuffs and leads me up stairs and out into the street. The sun blinds my eyes and I squint to see anybody at all. But I can hear them. I can't determine if they're cheering or morning. Maybe a bit of both.

I stop and open my eyes. Now I can see everything. A long walk way stretches down the main square and at the end a large platform, like a gallows, although there is a judges box at one end. People are on either side of me. Screaming, some are morning, some are mutter things that I mentioned before. Some are morning and I release them as my fan girls. They pull on their hair and their faces are red and tear stained. I turn away as I make my way up the walk way.

I hold my head high, unaffected by what people are doing next to me until I reach the platform and I am forced up it, two men next to me hold my wrists.

I step up onto the platform and am greeted by Tsunade. She looks sad for a moment, but the weakness is quickly abandoned and replaced with determination. She walks up and sits in the judge box, the microphone rustles and then she speaks.

"We will start the judgment on Uchiha Sasuke, Missing Nin to the leave for seven years, Kisamai, please hand me his case."

I can't suppress a chuckle at his name and the guard that directed me this morning name is Kisamai… Poor bastard.

He hands Tsunade a fairly big portfolio. Heh, Orochimaru's would have been double that.

"Uchiha Sasuke," She starts, he voice being projected by the microphone, "Has committed numerous acts of crime and has murdered hundreds of people. He betrayed and left the Leaf and joined with Orochimaru and Kabuto both deceased."

"Clearly Uchiha Sasuke is guilty and should be sentenced to death."

The crowd roars.

This isn't even a friggin fair trial.

I look over to the crowd who are cheering beneath me. They jump up and down and start chanting. But I can see, at the very far end. A lone, still character holding a squirming baby and looking straight at me. It's you.

"Uchiha, do you have anything to say in your defense?" Tsunade interrupts me from my gaze and trance state.

"Yes," I say.

"Will you say it then?" She asks as if annoyed that I didn't say it in the first place.

"I done away with Orochimaru, Kabuto, two S class criminals that the village, no entire land has had trouble with. I have killed a main member of Akatsuki, and I have given back Konohagakure the high respect of having one of the strongest clans in the land. I have done more things in the short five months that I have been back then most people do in their lives."

Tsunade thinks for a moment, "But all your crimes," Her face twists into an evil smirk, "They surely cannot go unpunished. I should read them all out, every gruesome detail, Uchiha, to the whole of Konoha I'm sure they would be very happy to hear about everyone you've killed and how you killed them."

"No," I say. I don't want anyone to know what I did or how I done it. I want it to stay in my mind for eternity.

"Then we shall decide your fate," Tsunade says then turns to leave and discuss it with the jury who stood about fifteen strong on her right, next how ironic, to the place were I shall have to stand if I am sentenced to death.

Then an eerie silence sweeps over the crowd as they waited for the pending decision.


I stand on the wooden platform, only about three meters from the ground, and I look up to the sky, thinking about things.

'What will happen if I'm sentenced to death?'

Well obviously they'll kill you.

'What will happen to Naoki?'

He'll grow up and never know the true potential of being an Uchiha. Hell, you had Itachi for a little while. He'll have no one. Maybe Kakashi.

'What will happen to Sakura?'

I guess she'll move on. Maybe even re-marry. Lee loves her, he always has.

'Will she forget m-?'

"Uchiha!"

I snap my head at the loud projected sound of Tusnade's voice. She looks angry, but I read past her eyes, they're easier to read now. I don't know why. But what I can read shocks me. Ther- there's sorrow in her eyes. Apologetic sorrow.

Oh Kami.

And then she says it. I can hint slight sobs in her voice.

"Uchiha, Sasuke, your fate has been decided. You are to be sentenced to death."

The crowd cheers.

Then my head snaps over to the crowd and is instantly attracted to you, your crying, your fist in your mouth as Naoki leans on your shoulder, I can't tell what he's doing. Tears stream down your face as sobs rack your body.

No. Please don't do this…

I look over to Tsunade who looks at me again with the hard but apologetic eyes.

"Please… Don't do this," I whisper as I'm dragged up to the podium.

I look down at the crowd, men cheering, egging on my demise, women are different. Some are morning others are also egging them on.

Please… Don't. I…

Tsunade walks in front of me and then stops about a meter in front of me. Her eyes look at me and then she whispers a word that can describe my life for theses five months.

"Sorry."

Then she starts to power up. The ground shakes and the crowd goes silent.

And then I hear it.

The unmistakable sound of my son screaming his head off.

I look up and see his little red face and tears streaming down it. And what's more shocking. Naoki is veering away from you and screaming and his arms reach out to me.

I see you trying to calm him but still he screams and motions for me.

Tsunade is unaffected by any of this continues to power up.

Until she has a ball of chakra in her hands. And points it right at me.

Please... Don't do this… I love her…

Please…

Everything happens so fast. Naoki screams and I shut my eyes.

An ear splitting cry fills the air.

Please… I love her.

I love her.

Tsunade lets off her chakra ball and I can feel it whirl at me, until it burns my gut. I hear another ear splitting, blood curdling scream.

And then nothing.

I friggin love her...


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