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The thundering sky didn't stop once as I ran my way down the street, slowing into a slight jog, and than a run as I approached the building. My brain told me not to go in, saying to turn around and leave, don't look back. Yet, that other part of me told me I have to go, I have to save him. The sounds of my footsteps on the broken and cracked pavement made little noise, my feet reaching the wooden steps and porch. I halted in front of them, unsure if the wood could hold my weight, but if they could step on it, I could step on it.

It groaned and creaked as I made my way up, but still no one looked out the broken windows, or opened the door. Slowler, than before, I reached one hand out and got ready to twist the knob; counting to three before I opened it. The smells bombared my senses. Anything foul gracing my nose, wanting to make me puke on the spot. But, I held down my stomach and looked around. Not one thing in the room wasn't broken. The couch, t.v, picture, and even the flloor and walls all broken. I saw no one int he room, and listened for anything. A slight sound reached my ears, and I took off, ignoring the wails of the floor. My feet thudded up the stairs and I halted in front of the door with sounds behind it.

I heard voice talking, a then a cry of pain, followed by more talking and then some weird noise. I tried to peek through the key hole, put years of unuse let dust and who knows what else clutter it, and make seeing impossible. This time I coulnted to ten in my head, and then still trying to gather some courage. Finally, I turned the knob and pushed the door in, watching as it opened and three pairs of eyes turned to, and another pari a second later. onyx like my own.

Bloodied, and bantered tied down to a chair. I watched as one of the guys smirked and then slugged the guy against the back of the head. His eyes closing in pain, and body slightly going forward.

"Brother!" I heard the scream echo around in my head, my body backing up, but running into someone else. My body being held by a strong pair of arms.

"Sasuke! I told you stay *cough* home." I watched as Itachi's mouth opened and as he talked, halfway threw he coughed out blood.

"Your little brother I-tachi? How interesting." TSahe one behind me said, and the other guys in the room chuckled, I felt scared beyond what I've ever felt my whole life.

"Hmm. He does look like you, besides the hair shape."

"Ah, you know maybe it looks like old man Uchiha's?"

"No! I came, you said you'd leave my family out of it!" Itachi yelled at the room, his voice seeming to make crack a apepear in the nearby window.

"Yeah, but, we never really 'promised.'" I saw Itachi grit his teach, and I began to wonder what they were talking about, how would they even know about dad and mom?

"So, bye-bye little guy." My vision left and became black as soon as the words exited his mouth, my body just being allowed to thump the floor, I could feel my head bouncing on it. But, even as I was loosing connection to the world, I heard a loud bang go off, and then it really did feel like everything died.

I woke up minutes, hours, later? My body aching as I tried to stand up, my eyes still closed. I remembered something happening right as I was going out, but I can't grasp it. Slowly, I gripped something, and lifted my body up, making it support me. Slowly, very slowly, I opened my eyes. I had expected to be in a completely different house and room, but no the same room, my body on the shut door.

I turned towards the window, wanting to see if they left Itachi to be there when I woke up. My eyes turned, and I took it in. They left him, but not alive. Sure enough, right in the center of his forehead they had shot him, blood trailing down his face and onto his lap, and than to the floor, it even looked like some had leaked into the floor. It wasn't bright red, but a dark cimson. He had been dead for some time. I felt the tears swell up in my eyes, had I been the reason he died? Some part of me said yes, but I knew, they probably would have killed him either way.

I took one step towards the body, and than another. Working my way until I was right infront, his eyes still halfway open. I reached out to touch him, but pulled my hand back in, I couldn't. I backed up with my hands at my sides, I couldn't do it. I had to tell someone, mom and dad, the police. My body turned and I opened the door, using enough force to knock it off one of its two hinges. I thudded loudly down the steps, and threw the front door open. Running down the pathway, and then turning onto the sidewalk. I didn't try to hide, and I didn't slow down, running the miles to get to my house.

I expected my mother, and maybe my father to be outside on the porch when I arrived home, wanting to see where me and Itachi had gone. It had gotten dark and they probably were worried, just waiting. That's what I expected and what I wanted. Instead of arriving home to red, blue, and white lights flashing around. Our house lit up like christmas time, and tons of people gathered around. I also would have liked to come home upon my father standing, rather than his body being pulled out of the house on a stretcher and into an ambulance as I got closer.

I pushed passed everyone, even the police and medics telling me to stay out. I found my mother crying on the sofa, her scrubs still on. She didn't hear me come in, but she wrapped her arms around me as I hugged her, trying to comfort her. I felt my own tears once again, I had lost my brother and possibly father in one whole day, a matter of hours. I couldn't even bring myself to tell my mother Itachi's dead, but I did leave her for a minute and tell a plolice officer, they went to the house, and a day later my mother knew.

I woke up with sweat on my body, my breathing heavy, all while Sakura slept evenly asleep on my side. I could picture the dream perfectly in my mind, and it might have been to the fact that that day was real, not something that my mind had just created up to scare me. I could remember my mother's sobs as she was told Itachi had been killed, and still to this day, not one person in cusody. My father had lived threw what happened to him. He had been home, and the killers were looking to kill my mother or father, and he had been the one home. Shot, three times. It's the reason today that he's at the doctor's or the hospital.

The killers might have thought they would just kill two people, but really they made our lives hard. My father required so much hospital and doctor treatments, my mom had to quit medical school to get a job to pay for them. Of course, that didn't help much either. We had to sell our middle class house, and buy a "new" poor house. It was once one of the nicest houses in the area, but it had become like the others over time. We left our nice neighborhood to enter a new and dangerous one.

It made me wish I could have stopped my brother dying, my father getting shot. Going back to when I was happy with all four of us, our nice house, and neighborhood. I had enjoyed being able to just walk down the street whenever I wanted to, but I learned quickly you can't do that in this area.

I sat up without waking Sakura, and got out of bed. I made my way into the hall, a picture of Itachi on one of the tables, a lock of his hair in the frame next to it. I barely saw my mother look at it, but whenever I did catch her, tears were always streaming down her face, it made me want to cry. I moved past the picture and into the living room watching as the street lights flickered behind the curtains, I heard a gun shot go off, but didn't flinch, the first time I had heard when go off at night I had to sleep in my parents room.

Another went off as I walked into the kitched, but I still just ignored it, wanting to get my water and go. I grabbed a glasas and turned the water on, waiting as it went through the filter and then filling my glass. Shutting it off and putting it to my lips, I heard anotehr gun shot, slowly and sneaky I opened the curtain a little and looked out.

I saw a man running down the sidewalk, I followed him as he ran, and second later I saw three more men run after him, and then another shot was heard, the man fell, and two of the guys walked to his body. One checked it, and they heaved the dead body up, dragging it back to the third man before they walked away. I caught glimpses of other peolpe in their windows, but I knew no one would call the cops, the cops didn't even come to this area unless completely neccesary, and a killing like this? Too common for their care.

I put the glass in the sink and made my way back to my room, rubbing my head as I opened the door. I expected Sakura to be sound asleep, but instead I found her laying on the bed with her arms wide open, practically falling off the edge towards the door. She noticed me right away, and she moved to get up, but only managed to get tangle in the blankets. I caught her right before she smacked the ground.

"Why are you up?" She didn't answer me, but instead threw her head in my chest and began to cry.

"Sakura?" She kept crying, and I heard her mumbling inaudible words. Her crying becoming softer minutes later, her head backing away from my chest.

"Gun, gun shots." The fear in her eyes made me pull her closer, putting myself closer to the window, and her to the door. Although, each was practically just as dangerous, but I couldn't tell her that. I wrapped my arms around her, and stroked her hair as she began to cry. I'm not sure how long I was awake, but before I knew it, I had fallen asleep.

Sakura opened her eyes and found her body facing tan, skin. She smiled, and relaxed again, those gun shots last night had woken her up and scared the shit out of her. Especially, when she found no other homo-sapin in the bed, aka, Sasuke. I sighed and stretched a bit, my arms becoming cold as they hit the cold cold air. I shivered, and snuggled back into the bed and Sasuke.

Sasuke smiled to himself as he felt Sakura come closer to her, and then her body stretched. And, then she cuddled even closer to him, his skin becoming even warmer with her half covered body. She didn't know he's awake. He felt her breath even again, and let himself try to drift off again, but a loud knocking on, his window? Made him get up, his chest rerealed.

Sasuke stepped out of the bed, and then walked to the window. Looking so that the person outside couldn't tell he's looking. Morning sunlight sailed into his eyes, and he squinted, the knocking once again occuring. Once seeing through the light, he made out bright blonde hair, Naruto. He sighed, and shook his head, opening the curtain to let his friend see him.

Naruto smiled and waved, knocking on the window in the process, Sasuke heard him cuss at the window, and Sasuke smirked at his stupidity. Naruto kissed his hand, but then motioned with his other hand to come outside. Sasuke nodded, and shut the curtains closed, finding a hoodie to throw on, watching as Sakura seemed to be asleep still.

He shut the door quietly, and stepped out into the brisk morning air, Naruto being right at the door already. His hair brighter with the sun on it.

"Morning buddy."

"Morning, dobe."

"Teme." Naruto glared at him, but Sasuke just smirked back, his hands going into his pockets, leaning against the house wall.

"What do you want, at six in the morning? I'm surprised your up."

"You know, came to talk to you before school."

"About?"

"Things."

"Naruto."

"Okay, okay. Just wanna know how everything for Sakura's gonig. You guys left yesterday and all." Sasuke sighed and ran a hand threw his hair, unsure how to asnwer.

"I don't know really. She's fine mostly, except for last night when they were was a shooting right outside, she was scared beyond shit when I came back into the room."

"Of the gun shots?"

"Yeah. It didn't help we got in a big fight earlier."

"Fight?" Sasuke sighed and leaned back against the house.

"Well, we kinda just argued, then I yelled at her, then she yelled at me."

"Make up?"

"I guess. Listen I should go, she's probably up and getting ready now."

"Wait, I need to tell you something."

"What?"

"Uhm, Ami says that she knows this guy tha-"

"No dobe. I want nothing to do with her, even just a piece of information from her. Bye dobe."

Sasuke waved and turned, going back into the house. The sun slightly higher now, and he missed how Naruto bit his lips as his friend turned away.

Sasuke shut the door quietly, and saw his mother in the kitchen, her hands trying to get the coffee machine open. His body was across the room in seconds, and he hit the coffee marker behind his mother once, and the green light clicked on. Boiling sounds coming out of the machine. He smiled and gave her peck on the cheek, turning back around and heading to his room, finding Sakura in the shower. Himself joining her seconds later.

Sakura smiled as she finished her make-up in front of the mirror, Sauske had joined the shower with her after being gone. It had made her angry and scared at the same time. Him being gone twice in one night/morning, it made her feel nervous. She finished, and and walked out of the room, and grabbed her bag, walking intot he livingroom.

Sasuke had a cup of coffee in his hand, and was chatting with his mother, his father placed in front of the t.v. She had talked to him a few times since she's been with them, but never really talked. He seemed nice, but Sakura couldn't really bring herself to have a good, long conversation, and what happened to him, made Sakura uncomforatble. Since he was shot like her dad, it made her think her dad should have lived threw it, Sakura doesn't know all the details, but it made her think he should have lived.

Mikoto stopped the conversation as Sakura entered the kitchen. Mikoto smiled tightly, but to Sakura it made her feel weird, like she was missing something. Sasuke said nothing either, just giving her a kiss on the head, the conversation picking up again. Sakura barely hearing it, watching as the clock seemed to tick down, and Sasuke paid no attention to it. She watched the minutes tick and tick by, only did she say something when she knew they would be late if they waited any longer.

"Sasuke, we realy should go." He looked away from his mom and to her, then the clock, slowly nodding.

"Guess you're right. Bye mom." He gave her a kiss on the cheek and waved bye to his dad. Sakura just followed him out. Mikoto had turned around as soon as Sasuke said good-bye, and she made no move to say good-bye.

Sakura followed them out, and they popped on his bike. Wheeling it down the street, and flying to school. Saukra could only clore her eyes and hold on tight.

Ino watched as the bike flew into the parking lot, a whirlwind of pink hair whizzing around a black, helmet covered head. Ino smiled as she saw them hop off, Sasuke helping Sakura get off, and catching her as she caught her shoe on the bike. Their hands locked afterwards, and conversation started up, but Sakura could tell that there's an uneasyness between them, something had gone wrong. Whether between Sasuke and Sakura or just something that happened to Sakura.

"Morning guys." Their smiles turned to Ino, and Sasuke lost his slightly until Sakura leaned on him, then the soft look came on again.

"Morning Ino."

"Morning." Sauske mumbled his eyes searching across the parking lot, trying to find something, or someone.

"Be nice." Sasuke said nothing, but giving her a kiss and then heading off towards the guys, Neji and Shikamaru walking up the front path.

"Did something happen."

"What didn't happen?" Sakura said as she sat down on the edge of a flower bed, her hands at her temples.

"Sakura." Ino said in a concerning voice, sitting down next to the girl, and putting an arm around her. Pulling her closer when she feels the girl beginning to sob, her body racking.

"We got in a huge fight Ino! Over nothing! And then, last night there was gun shots, and then this morning, his mother wouldn't even talk to me, let alone look at me!" Her head lifted up and Ino felt the urge to go punch someone, particularly a Uchiha, Sakura's eyes leaking tears like a ragging river going over a waterfall.

"Shh, everyone fights Sakura, did you guys make up." She shurgged under Ino, Ino's arm going up and down with her shoulder.

"I guess, I don't I'm so confused, and all this guardianship stuff is making my brain hurt. I just want this year to be over with." Ino was going to say more, but the warning bell rang, and they got up, Sakura wiping her eyes, and like that the tears vanished, and her eyes stayed green, no red around them.

"We better go." Sakura nods, and Ino pulls her along, running into their friends as they try to be on time, having wasted most of the morning outside.

The day ended, and just like the day before no sun light greeted Sakura as she walked out the door. The day had been fine, and nothing even happened, Sasuke stayed quiet most of the day, not saying much to anyone. At lunch he asked if he should go with her to the police station, her atomatic response was to be 'of course,' but she realized it would be a bad idea. 'No, you don't have to,' came out instead, and a text was sent to his mother minutes later.

Sakura sighed as she pulls up her hoodie's hoods, Sasuke's hoodie to be more precise. Ino had asked if she wanted a ride or something, anything for her friend, but Sakrua declined. Ino, she had been super over protective today, all the girls had, and she found them glaring at Sasuke at certain random moments, always listening to the conversations they had, but Sakura couldn't blame them.

She dodged puddles as she walked out of the school grounds, something she had gotten used to over the rainy days they had, had. The pavement uneven, and allowing puddles to fill in, her old school. For some reason the preppy, prestigous school was appealing more to her more often nowadays, Sakura guessed it's because that was when her father had really been her father, and also alive. But, that would mean leaving Sasuke, and something she really doesn't want to do, no matter how dippy the side-walk.

Cars passed and honked as they passed the girl walking alone in the rain. Not even slowing down as they moved through big puddles on the road, almost soaking her even more. No one even realized she's the Haruno Heiress, someone who has had a big loss lately, worth millions, and currently walking alone. Sakura remembered all the lessons her mother had told her as a child, one had been to always know where you are, and never be alone. That worked out well. Rang in her mind, she had become alone, and not just walking to the police station alone, but the fact she has no mother or father now.

The police station came into her view, and she found herself running into the building, keeping the hood in place with one hand. Someone opening the door for her as she ran in, water dripping on the floor from her soaked clothes, the chief walking over to her.

"Miss Haruno, you seem rather wet. Here, you! Go get me a towel for this young lady, I'll be back in my office! Come now Miss Haruno, that gua-candidate is here for you." Sakura followed the chief into his office, seeing a women sitting in a chair in front of his desk. Sakura could remember her perfectly, but some things had changed.

Her hair had once been a pretty shade of brown, now seemed lighter at the top, and the once smoothness gone, replaced by bad hair, split ends. Sakura could see only her head, but she knows, something had definitely happened to her.

"Auntie." The women's head turned towards her, and smiled after a second, getting up to greet her.

"My Sakura, look how grown up you've gotten." She pulled Sakura into a hug, and realized she definitely had gotten taller, but so had her aunt. Looking down she found her aunt having three inch heels on.

"Thanks. It's been forever since I've seen you." And you've really let yourself go. The last part stayed in her mind, and she smiled back at her aunt, wishing Sasuke is here to finally meet her own living relative.

"Indeed, ah, I would guess that towel is for you." And indeed it is, the cop placed it in Sakura's hands, and she began to dry herself, the chief staying silent behind his desk.

"I don't wish to break the reunion ladies, but I do need to talk to Miss Haruno for a second, the younger one." Sakura's aunt nodded, giving her a quick hug before leaving out the door, letting it close behind her.

"Take a seat Miss Haruno." Sakura did just as he said, the hard wood making her uncomforatable.

"It's about your future guardian. You said that, Mrs, Uchiha could be your guardian, she has rejected the offer. Although, I don't blame her. If the courts saw her versus, your aunt, it's clear who would win custody. Your aunt having money, a good background, and house, while Mrs. Uchiha has little money, a bad house, and questionable background, and connections."

Sakura nodded, sad to hear that Mrs. Uchiha had rejected her offer, but when the chief laid it out like that, it did make sense to Sakura. Her aunt had very much higher chances of becoming her guardian than Mrs. Uchiha.

"So, when does she take my guardianship?"

"This weekend, you will go to court, and they will sign you over to her." Only a few days, and this confusion will be over, the thought made Sakura smile.

"Well, thanks chief, I'm gonna go talk to my aunt." The chief nodded, but did nothing more, pulling out a folder and looking over it, as she exited the office.

"Sakura! Why don't we go out to dinner, an-"

"I'd love to auntie, but today's not the day, I'm kinda wanting a hot shower."

"Oh, of course, I'll give you my number and you can call me when you want to talk or make plans." Sakura smiled and said 'thank you auntie' as she's pulled in a hug.

"Do you need a ride though?"

"No, I should be fine." She smiled and waved goodbye at her aunt, saying she has to use the bathroom before leaving, in real, looking for a pay phone, and calling a certain blonde.

Sakura waved goodbye to Ino as she pulls away from the house. Her windshielf wipers still working hard with all the heavy rain. Sakura ran into the house, expecting to be greeted by Sasuke or someone, but not one person greeted her. Even looking into his parents room, his father wasn't there either. Confused, and tired Sakura decided to lay down, wondering if Sasuke had decided to go and hang with the guys.

~Sakura woke to the sound of a door shutting, her eyes opening to find Sasuke entering the room. The clock showing her it's six, and she had slept for almost two hours. Sasuke didn't seem to see her at first, setting his bag down, but he seemed to realized he's being watched, and turning to find his girlfriend curled up in the bed and watching him.

"You're home already?" Sakura wondered what he means by that, did he expect her home later.

"Should I not be?"

"No, I just thought the thing would take longer." She shook her head, and Sasuke walked over to his bed, sitting on the edge by her.

"How'd it go?"

"Fine, my aunt was the one wanting to take my guardianship. I get signed over to her Saturday." Sasuke's eyes dropped slightly, and he layed down next to her, pulling her close to him.

"So you're leaving?"

"No, I'm just moving out. I'll still be here in the city and everything." That realaxed him, and Sakura heard her stomach growling, a smirk appearing on Sauske's face.

"Hungry?" She smiled shyly, sitting up like Sasuke, their bodies moving out of the room and into the kitchen.

Sakura smiled as she looked in the mirror, brushing her teeth. Sakura had forgotten to change when she came home, and Sasuke questioned her when they went to grab a snack. Dashing into the bathrrom, she put on new clothes, dry clothes. But, she's not smiling because of that, more the fact that Mikoto had talked to her earlier at dinner, and the fight she and Sasuke had long forgotten.

She turned the faucet on, and spit out the toothpaste, wiping her mouth, and running her fingers through her hair one time, getting stuck on a few tangles that she worked out. The light above her flickered, on and off, but she just turned them off and went back into the bedroom. Sasuke already laying down on the bed, but with his shirt on.

Sakura let the room temperature sink into her, same as always, and even when it's colder he doesn't wear a shirt to bed. Sakura wondered if he forgot, and would take it off soon, but as she crawled into bed, cuddling up to him, he never took it off. Sakura tried to get comfier, not used to the fabric of his shirts, wanting his skin, but as she moved she caught something on his collarbone. Barely seeable because of his shirt, but still there.

She stopped her moving, and prentended she had found her comfy spot, really trying to get a better look. She thought about it, describing it in her head. The bruising color, the way it's form, the location, neither big or small. A hickey. It rang in her mind, and Sakura found herself freezing, she and Sasuke haven't had sex in some days due to all the cop stuff, and she had never left a hickey that would last so long on his neck.

"You're home already?" Light bulbs and sirens flashed in her head, telling her to push the bastard off the bed, letting him sprawl onto the floor, but that would wake his mother up. He had said that because he wanted to get rid of the evidence, the fact that he had cheated on her. She tried to remember how he walked in, his hair slightly messier, she thought it had been the rain, his clothes, wrinkled, she thought because of the rain, but no because he had, had sex with someone else.

Her body moved away from his, instantly wanting to turn back around into his arms, but she refused. She stayed faced away from her, hoping the bastard would get hold, catch a cold, not able go to school, and she could go alone, ruin him, make him hated. Tears started to pool in her eyes as she thought about, she can't do that, either way she loves him. She closes her eyes, and the tears still fall as she falls asleep.

Yay! Done. You learned about Sasuke's past some :O I hope you liked it, and no doubt mistakes, but I like going back to this after I finish a story. But tell me some if you see them, that way I remember to fix them.

Two New One-shots have been posted, one a christmas one, please read and review!

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