So… Here it is.
R&R!
Sakura flickered in and out of awareness. It didn't matter much if she closed her eyes or opened them, either way there was no sun. There was only a grayish glare on something high above her. Underneath her, sharp things prodded at her back, evenly spaced. In her brief moments of wakefulness, she ran her fingers across the edges, trying to remember where she was at and what those sharp things were. She knew not to get up, for she was drifting in and out of attentiveness and couldn't keep herself up on jiggling legs.
The rosette gave one resented sigh before deciding that she was strong enough, aware enough. She sat on one of the sharp things. They had a flat spot between them. She blinked her eyes, trying to adjust to the foul lighting. The gray glare took on a golden tint. The rectangle things took on the look of stares. Next to her, Sasuke's shirtless abs took their tanned tone.
Sakura grabbed on to a crook in the wall and lifted herself. She gave Sasuke's sleeping form a glance then tried waking him. He blinked into life.
There was no sign to say whether it was morning or afternoon. Sakura simply smiled at her fiancée instead of saying anything. She gave him her hand and helped him up. In silence, they walked up the stairs; Sakura ran her fingers alongside the walls, Sasuke following her by way of sound.
There was something engraved into the wall where Sakura fell at. She knew this was the wall because she was about to fall on it. There was something written on it and it scared her to death. What was written was:
Chichi wa Sosade kiratte iru. Watashi wa kare ga uchi manshon de watashi no jikan o dainashi ni suru nani ka o yaru osorete iru. Sore ga okoreba, watashi wa chichi no dōi nashi ni wa koko o Sosade to watashi no jikan o saikai shinakereba naranai. Dare to wa kono nōto o mitsukeru to, oboete iru: Watashi wa uso o tsuitede wa nai.
The words felt oddly familiar. As if she had written them and then forgotten. But why in the world would she write: "Father hates Sosade. I fear he'll do something to ruin my time in the Uchiha Mansion. If that does happen, I shall resume my time here with Sosade without my father's consent. Whomever finds this note, remember: I am not lying"?
She had a fair sense that this "Sosade" was a good person from those dreams of hers. She also knew he looked like Sasuke.
Annakota was a girl in Sakura's family, centuries ago—Minaru had told her that when he taught her about the 67-year Clan Rivalry. The girl died when she was around nineteen years old, just three years older than Sakura is now. In her "visions" the girl she was was called Annakota. In those visions, she was always around this "Sosade." Who was he?
Sakura had to know. She pushed down on the wall. It rumbled and ran alongside the other, opening quickly. The door opened strait into the white-carpeted floor and sky blue walls. Two red sofas greeted them. Through the windows in the room, the sky was high over the horizon. Sakura knew it was just after noon.
"Sasuke," she called, "do you know who 'Sosade' is?"
Of course he knew who Sosade was! Sosade was him! That was his name! Wait…Sosade not Sasuke. Why did he feel that that name corresponded to him somehow? "Uchiha Sosade…" Sasuke muttered, "is my great-grandfather. About…sixty seven years ago, he was killed by your clan."
"When…?" They took the lovers away—one to her room, one to the hanging room.
"He was nineteen. It was eight months before my grandfather, Diran, was born," Sasuke answered, rubbing his stomach.
Sakura ran her fingers over the engraved letters again. Her eyes flashed. There was a knife in her hands. Stone shavings jumped into her green dress. She ran a hand over her handiwork, to reveal the word iru and a colon. And then her green eyes flashed for a second time. This time, her fingers ran over the red silk of a couch. "Sasuke, is he still alive?"
Sasuke nodded, lounging on the longest sofa. It barely fit his body. "He lives in the southernmost part of the Uchiha section."
Sakura watched out the window. She had always liked the name Dylan. Diran was just the Japanese version of it. She figured to name her son Diran. That, however, wasn't the thing that drove her to Sasuke's grandfather. She had questions that needed answers.
"Rev up your car. We're going to grandpa's."
END.
Ok. Short but there. If anyone has any idea on why Sakura's "drawn to Diran" and why Sasuke and Sakura have "visions" IM me. I refuse to give the answer out unless you review (not the answer because you might be right and that would be a spoiler) and IM me.
