I have some free time so I'm going to take it to start the update... Although I know I'm not going to finish it tonight. So yeah... lol.
I was actually not even going to start updating but I was listening to music and I started listening to this song called "Shattered" by Trading Yesterday and it put me so much into the mood of what this chapter is supposed to be, that I just couldn't help it. If you want, you can download it and listen to it... It puts you more into it :)
Disclaimer: -applies standard disclaimer- -robotic voice- I don't own Naruto.
He stepped into his mansion, wrinkling his nose slightly before he smirked as he saw his wife sitting in a kitchen chair, her back turned away from him, looking like she was reading, or maybe looking at something.
And it seemed she hadn't noticed him either.
Quiet step by quiet step, he advanced sneakily towards her, still smirking and as he was close enough, he wrapped his arms tightly around her, making her scream in surprise. But her face expression was not what he's expected.
Tears were running freely from her heartbroken and shattered emerald orbs, her cheeks slightly red, her lips quivering intensely. As soon as he saw her face expression, his playful face disappeared, replaced by a serious and concerned one. He wrapped his arms around her tightly as she cried on her 25 year old husband's shoulder, her body shaking so intensely that he couldn't help but to hold her tighter, wanting to comfort her.
He had no idea what was going on.
But whatever it was, it had to be something pretty bad, considering how hard she was crying and just how shattered the pink haired kunoichi was.
He buried a hand in her hair and closed his eyes, holding her tighter as she cried harder, gripping to him for dear life.
"S-Sasu—k-ke k—k-kun!" She sobbed loudly in his shoulder.
He couldn't let her speak, it was too hard for her already.
His eyes then caught a paper-like surface on the table and he snapped his gaze in its direction, eyes going wide and round at the sight.
There, lying on the wooden table, was a picture of his first son looking back at him, a beautiful smile plastered on his lips.
But the thing that simply shocked him was the amount of blood covering the picture, smeared all over the table.
Not able to help himself, he pulled her away, grabbing her hands gently. His eyes widen in horror at the sight of her blood covered hand that he just somehow knew wasn't hers. One of her trembling hands grabbed his large one, the other diving into her pocket. She took out the necklace that Ren wore everyday. His stomach turned upside down at how much blood was on the necklace. It was literally dripping with blood. His face turned white and he suddenly felt nauseous and fearing.
Ren...
Ren couldn't...
He couldn't have...
...could he...?
He couldn't speak. His throat was dry. Words had been stolen away.
He looked at her fearfully and she only bit her lip and nodded furiously, broken sobs escaping her lips.
"Teme?"
Naruto's words barely registered in his mind.
The only thing he remembered doing was furiously yelling at Naruto to take care of Sakura when he was gone, and if something even happened to her he would kill him.
He remembered clearly Naruto's shocked face at the blood covering his hands...
...and at the tears praying to slip out of Sasuke's fearful obsidian eyes.
...And then Sasuke ran.
His mind was barely registering whatever the nurses were yelling at him but he knew it would probably be something like 'Wait, stop! You can't go!'
He didn't care.
All he cared about right now was to see Kana.
To know she is okay.
To know that she'll survive.
And if that's not the case...
...he wants to save her...
...even if it costs him his own life...
"Mr. Uchiha!" A nurse shouted worriedly, her hand reached out to him.
But he was already running as fast as he could down the halls, trying to find the right room. His eyes were scanning the area, trying to find a room with the words "Emergency room" written on it.
He couldn't see.
Everything was a total blur.
"Mr. Uchiha, you can't go!"
"HE'S MY SON!" Sasuke infuriately retorted, snapping his furious, heart broken gaze to her.
"You can't go right now! You must understand, this is strictly prohibited!"
"Do I look like I fucking care if it's prohibited!? Where is my son?!"
The woman shook her head. "I can't tell you!"
A scream he knew too well resounded in his ears, and he was gone in less then a millisecond, eyes terrified of what he might see.
But what he saw was worse then what he could ever imagine seeing.
"It's strictly prohibited!"
"I don't care if it's prohibited! She is my daughter and that's all you need to know to let me the fuck in!" He spat, pushing the male nurse this time.
The nurse took a step back but stood firmly in front of the emergency door. Sasuke glared so deathly that the nurse couldn't help but to gulp in utter horror. But it didn't matter. Sasuke wouldn't hurt him.
The male nurse looked up to the man who had harshly pushed him to the ground, but all he saw was a blur disappearing.
Sasuke had already rushed inside.
"Mr. Uchiha! Get out!"
His small five, almost six, year old body was laying limply on the doctor's metallic table. Sasuke couldn't believe how much blood was surrounding him.
It was everywhere.
On the table, surrounding his shaking body, dripping onto the floor, pooling on to the floor and around the table, on the knifes and other instruments that the doctor used.
...Everywhere.
"Sasuke?"
Sasuke ignored the person that called his name.
All he could do was shakily step forward, closer to his son's dying body.
"Sasuke—somebody get him out of here! He can't be in here!"
Sasuke blocked it out once more, glaring so intensely and so deathly at the guards ready to launch at him that they completely froze.
Step.
"Da..." Ren started faintly, his breath coming out to sharp.
Step.
"...ddy..." The boy finished with a bloody grin.
Step, step, step.
"SOMEBODY STOP HIM!"
He pushed the guards aside but for a reason he did not know, he tripped and stumbled onto the floor beside the drenched metal table.
His stomach was turning upside down from the sight of so much blood.
For the sight of so much blood coming from his five year old son.
Hands reached out to grab him but a voice stopped them.
"Leave him be." The voice said firmly.
Sasuke gripped the metal table and firmly pulled himself up, legs shaking lightly at the sight of Ren's blood covered figure.
"Tsunade-sama, we have to get out him out of here so we can—"
"NO!"
Silence.
Sasuke's hands shakily outstretched to touch the white shirt drenched with Ren's blood. The boy was barely breathing, but every now and then you could hear him rasping sharp breaths in, as if trying to survive.
"...What happened?"
His voice was quiet, and almost broken, but it still stood firm.
"...Your son has a sickness that we don't know about..." He gritted his teeth at her simple answer, but cut himself from saying anything as she continued, "...all we know is that it cuts out his chakra system..."
He ran to the table where his daughter stood, paying no heed to the people around him, trying to tug him away, yelling at him to get out.
He stroke his daughter's pale, tear stained cheeks, his eyes flickering brokenly at her almost shut eyes. She was staring at him.
...but he wasn't even sure the girl knew she was staring at him...
"Kana..." Sasuke rasped out through gritted teeth, tears prickling his eyes.
Even if her table wasn't drenched in blood, even though she wasn't gasping for breaths so desperately and even if she wasn't bleeding too much...
It was still just as tragic as when he first saw his son dying in this very room...
...Because Sasuke just didn't want to lose another child of his...
"What's happening to her?"
Oh, everybody could notice how his voice was quivering, although he tried to be strong.
Everybody notice how terrified he was of losing another child...
"...the same sickness that Ren has died from..." A doctor answered quietly.
His eyes widen in terror.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" The Uchiha shouted angrily, snapping his head to the fourth Hokage.
"...His chakra system shuts out from time to time... but we don't know why... it's causing his body to work in a different way and it's draining out energy instead of chakra... it's like the body can't recognize energy from chakra anymore..."
A small, wet hand grabbed his weakly.
He knew it was Ren.
He squeezed back his bloody hand comfortingly.
"...The victim is then very weak... and then for a reason still unknown to us, the victim starts to bleed... It can bleed from everywhere or just somewhere in particular... Unfortunately Ren has suffered from the fate of bleeding from anywhere blood could come out from..." The Hokage sobbed lightly.
Sasuke couldn't help but to squeeze the hand tighter, not liking the way his son's hand loosened its grip on his hand.
"...the chakra system is then forever shut out... the brain and heart stops working... and the body stops working altogether..."
Sasuke shut his eyes, because he knew what was coming. "...and the victim dies..."
He was gripping the girl's hand tightly, breathing harshly as he stared at her almost unconscious figure.
"Please..."
Everybody's head rose up in shock.
"...Please..."
Their eyes were wide in round.
"...save her..."
...an Uchiha never begged...
But here he was.
Sasuke Uchiha.
Begging.
He slammed the door of his mansion open, almost stumbling to the ground before the blond haired man caught him. "Sasuke?" He questioned, seeing the man so weak and limp, on his knees.
Sasuke couldn't answer.
He couldn't speak.
He couldn't think properly.
Barely anything registered in his mind.
Not even the feeling of something wet trickling down his cheeks.
Naruto gripped the man's forearms and pulled him to his feet, gasping as he saw his face. His eyes were almost blank, but Naruto, knowing the man like he knew the back of his hand, could clearly see the marks of shock, devastation and pure disbelief in his obsidian orbs. And he could see that transparent liquid running down his cheeks too.
...He was sure Sasuke was unaware of it.
"...Naruto..." The man rasped out, gripping the blond haired man's arm tightly.
Naruto frowned. "Sasuke?"
"...Sakura... She...?"
Naruto shook his head. "She's sleeping. She's alright."
A silence, in which Sasuke tried to stand up, but he failed miserably.
Naruto caught his best friend again. "Sasuke! Sasuke, what happened?"
The man ignored, or maybe he didn't hear.
"...Bring me to her..." he quietly whispered.
The blue eyed boy saddened immensely at the sorrowful tint in his voice.
"Sasuke..." He whispered.
But nonetheless, he brought him to the room.
And watched.
Watched as the raven haired man stumbled into his bed, his wife awakening and gripping his forearms gently and eagerly.
He watched as he shook his head and whispered something to her, although he didn't hear.
He watched as the pink haired girl broke into a heavy, heartbreaking sobbing fit.
Watched as her husband instantly wrapped his arms around her, holding her so tightly that Naruto couldn't help but to wonder again.
Wonder... what the hell happened?
What the hell happened to make them sad?
No, not Sakura, but Sasuke too.
The man was devastated and Naruto had no doubt that Sasuke was not going to be afraid to show it tomorrow.
But tonight he had to be strong for his wife.
...even though it seemed the task was almost impossible...
He closed the door quietly, stealing a glance in the room beside the parent's room where five year old Michiko was sleeping sound fully, unaware of anything bad happening in the mansion. Unaware of the melancholy. Unaware of anything.
That Michiko...
But...
His eyes widen in shock.
...Where was her twin, Ren?
He ran to the kitchen and for the first time, he noticed the blood dried all over the table...
...and the blood covered picture of Ren.
That's all!
And you know what? I got so inspired that I finished this in one shot! :O
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