Chapter 10 – My World

As it seemed the time stopped, but all he could see was darkness, he had no strength what so ever to move. At that point, in time, he couldn't be bothered.

…Until he heard someone crying…

He could hear Sakura crying…

"I don't know what's going on! One minute he was perfectly fine! I'm out for a second and I come back and he's out unconscious, and so is the miniature!"

"Calm—"

"I won't! Not until… not… until… he wakes up…I won't…"

Sakura's look of despair could possibly crack the hardest of people, and send them into tears.

However, not that Naruto could see it.

She saw something stirring out of the corner of her eye, and perked up thinking that it was Naruto.

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain.

However, it wasn't Naruto. But it was Kyuubi, he was getting up, looking worse for wear, she quickly grabbed him, so he wouldn't fall over, and hit his head, or something anything else the Kit had managed to do over the time, but this category she wouldn't put with him prancing under the falling flower petals. She had seen him do that when there was a huge wronging in time, and this time convulsed with five or so years ago. She didn't know what year it was when he was sent back, though however, she knew he didn't know it. Therefore, she never spoke about it. Trying to keep what a relationship Kyuubi had first, five years ago, had told her. However, sometimes it was hard.

Because I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.

'Are you okay?'

Kyuubi looked up to her, and looked still as if he didn't know what was going on, so she didn't speak, and left him alone, to gather whatever thoughts he could. For she and he knew that he couldn't regain whatever dignity he had lost…

You've gone away;
you don't feel me,
here anymore.

A day went, a night came, and Sakura was forced to remember the first time five years ago when something of a sort happened, and she was at his bedside in the hospital, she had fallen asleep, and when she had woken up, she found that he had put his cloak around her, to keep her warm.

How she wished, that if she fell asleep, when she woke up, the same thing would happen.

However, it didn't.

It never did.

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain.

The Kit that stayed in her lap showed a lot of patience, he wasn't known for it. It something outstayed his span, he would prance out and not come back for an hour or so, but some reason, he stayed. However, this made her worry more.

Like the first time, Kyuubi forced her to leave, but this time there was no younger Naruto to come and talk her out of her revenue, she just sat on the same bench looking towards the falling flower petals. The Kit sat near her, looking rigid, as if expected the world to fall into shadows.

She didn't like this anymore.

Because I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
Because I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.

She walked back,

The Kit's head hung low,

The clouds darkened.

She saw no one.

No one could make this mood better.

…Not unless Naruto woke up...

Sakura sat back down into her chair. It was cold. The Kit jumped back to her lap, and settled there, she unthinkingly started to pet him, but he, now, didn't even seem to mind.

When she noticed… she didn't know what to do.

She looked over to Naruto, and wished he move, apart from his low breathing. She wished he would speak. Like all the times when he had his back to her, he would always seem to know she was there.

However, now, he didn't seem to know where he was himself.

Because I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
Because I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.

She looked up from where her head lay; she had somehow fallen from the chair, to the bed, where her head was now lying. She looked up past the bed, to see the sun coming through the shaded curtains, knowing another night has past; another day would soon pass as well. She saw that Kyuubi had settled next to her, curled up as usual in his tails. Naruto was the same as usual the same spot, same breathing, nothing more, nothing less.

She didn't feel like getting up, so she just kept her head the way it was, and kept her eyes towards Naruto, and watched for anything different…

She never found one.

She felt someone else come into the room. Whether it would be Sasuke or Tsunade, and that point, she didn't care. Unless they could wake Naruto, then she would care.

It turned out to be a nurse, telling her she was cold, the nurse gave a blanket to cover her, the nurse gave a saddened smile, and playfully scolded her that her friend (let alone the Hokage) wouldn't want her to get cold on his account.

Sakura took the blanket, in that excuse, Kyuubi arouse himself, and chided her too, telling her that Naruto would care if she caught a cold on his account.

Sakura felt that she had been in a room that was full of light, the only window was on the right, and it was one of the glasses, that you knew there was something behind it, but you couldn't see what that just was, but the only thing she knew that that room was dark. So dark and it kept getting darker.

Kyuubi sensing that she needed to eat, drink, and just plainly get out of the room, forced Sakura yet again to get out of the room. She left the blanket where it was, and followed the Kit to wherever it was going. Again, this time, she was forced to remember there was no younger Naruto to take her out of her revenue.

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.

She sat on the same bench holding a bottle of water, there she sat and watched the falling flower petals, and watched the carefree children run around under them.

Such carefree, they had nothing to worry about…

…So young…

Perhaps she was that young once.

Time might have been better then.

Perhaps time is less cruel to younger ones.

Then again, Time is cruel.

It takes so much away, and it never gives so much, to how much it takes away.

She saw out of the corner of her eye, the Kit, as it were, sitting near her and rigid like the first time, away with his own thoughts.

She walked slowly back to the hospital. She noticed the people around her were so happy. She couldn't stand it, that happy atmosphere.

She started to run.

She ran.
She needed to run away.

You've gone away…
You don't feel me here anymore.

By the time she got back to the hospital, she was walking again, and Kyuubi had caught up to her. She breathed slightly, and kept walking. She said her silent hello to the staff as she went by. She felt the Kit jump to her shoulder as she rounded into the room; the light coming into the now opened window blinded her.

However, she saw what she needed…

'Hello, Sakura.'

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A/n: Well, so Time is wrapped up and finished. Yay! If anyone was wondering, the song is called Broken by Seether ft Amy Lee. And I'm thinking on posting the sequel. XD, so check my profile to see if I have published it. Would you be so kind enough to say whether or not you would like a sequel or not?