Accidents
Chapter 10- Bottoming Out part 1
" Sakura, darling, are you ready yet?"
" Yes mommy, I'll be down in a second. I can't find my shoe, have you seen it?"
Mrs. Haruno stood with her hand gripping the railing to the stairs, her jade eyes peering up the hallway with patience.
" No, I haven't seen your shoe Sakura, why don't you wear your dress shoes? They match your dress anyways," she stated as Sakura skidded into view, her shoulder length pink locks billowing out behind her. Her bright cerulean dress fanned out around her knees and Mrs. Haruno smiled at her beautiful young daughter. Sakura pouted and her hands formed small fists in her frustration.
" But moooommm! I hate those shoes, they hurt!" She crossed her arms and stuck her nose in the air defiantly as her mother stared at her incredulously.
" Sakura Haruno, we cannot be late for this dinner again! Get your shoes on and lets go little missy!"
Sakura's face fell and she stalked back to her room and sat on her bed, pulling her blue sparkled dress shoes on over her frilled socks. She screwed her face up in disgust, loathing the way they looked and quickly leapt from the bed and ran down the stairs to her mother.
" Fine, but can I take them off when we get there?" Mrs. Haruno nodded at her daughter and led her out the door into the street. Sakura lovingly clung to her mother's hand as they wound through the crowded street toward the Uchiha Mansion for dinner. Sakura's father, being the elite businessman, joined his company with the Uchiha family and such formal dinners were necessary to keep good relation between the two families.
Besides that, Mrs. Uchiha and Mrs. Haruno thought their young children made a handsome pair, must to the defiant remarks from Sasuke and Sakura. Both seemed to have no interest in the other and usually bickered during the whole dinner, ending with both mothers laughing at the children's " blossoming love".
" Mother, do I have to play with Sasuke again while you and daddy talk about business stuff?" Sakura's bright green eyes pleaded for a no, but her mother frowned down at her and Sakura could hear the answer already. She mouthed the words as they came from her mother's mouth.
" Now Sakura, one day you two will be all grown up! Don't you think it's important to get to know him now before he's the cutest boy in the village with all the girls chasing him?" she said with a sly smile, Sakura rolling her eyes and making a face in disgust. Now for her defense.
" Sasuke? Cute? Mom, Sasuke is scrawny and whiney, he could never be the cutest boy!"
" Well, you're scrawny too little lady!"
" Mom!"
Sakura's face lit pink in embarrassment and she watched her feet, keeping silent the whole walk to the Uchiha home. She could just picture Sasuke when she got there, sitting beneath the trees in the backyard. He would look up at her with his dark eyes and sigh in disappointment. She clutched her free hand in anger. She hated when he acted like he was better than her. Just because his older brother was some great ninja and his family was the " Uchiha's". What was soo great about Uchiha anyways?
" Sakura, we're here! On you're best behavior young lady!"
She grumbled and forced a fake smile.
" Yes mom!"
They climbed the steps to the main house and Mrs. Haruno knock gently on the door. Sakura tapped her shoe impatiently as the echo of feet from within grew nearer until a dour looking man opened the door.
" Ah, the Haruno's, how nice of you to come. My wife is in the foyer, I trust you know where that is by now," he said sourly with a deep frown. Sakura narrowed her eyes and watched the man as he left the door standing open to retreat into the depths of the large house.
" I don't like him, he's rude," Sakura said huffily as they entered and followed the long hallway till it opened out into an expansive room filled with plush chairs and decorated with the finest antiques. In a small chair, Mrs. Uchiha sat, smiling at the duo as they entered.
" Well, isn't Sakura looking lovely this evening!" she said smiling as she rose and made her way over to her. Sakura smiled and bowed politely as Mrs. Uchiha stopped before her and knelt.
" Sasuke is in the backyard, I'm sure you know better than I where he is out there though," she chuckled and stood. Sakura followed her to the back porch and nodded gratefully before going off in search of him. She followed the path leading around the koi fishpond and the grassy slopes of the large yard.
" Arg, this stinks. Why do grown-ups have to drag kids into their stupid dinner parties? Gah, I hate this place!"
" If you hate it soo much, why don't you leave?"
Sakura turned to the sound of the voice to meet Sasuke's dark eyes, his face inches from hers. She backed away suddenly, caught off guard. Her wide jade eyes watched him as he just stood there. Her heel caught suddenly on the ground and she could feel herself fall, but not before his hand shot out and gripped hers tightly, pulling her back up onto her feet.
" Thanks," she said roughly as she pulled her hand from his. He continued to stare at her, his eyes roaming over her bright blue dress and back to her narrowed eyes.
" What? What are you looking at?"
" Why are you always so hostile to me? I haven't even done anything to you and it seems like you hate me," he said, no emotion in his voice, but his dark eyes holding a hidden sadness. Sakura felt a sudden heat rise to her face and she turned her back to him to hide her shame.
" I don't hate you Sasuke," she said quietly, wondering why she felt so oddly when she was around him. She felt sick, her stomach turning in knots. He bowed his head, looking at his feet as he spoke.
" I always thought you hated me, because our mothers make us spend time with each other. I mean, I've always, well… I always like when you come over," he said slowly, squeezing his eyes shut and waiting for her to yell at him.
"…"
The silence continued as Sakura tried to figure out why she felt so nervous. It was just Sasuke right? Just Sasuke. Just the boy she was forced to play with every time there was a dinner party, every time their mothers made a play date, every time they went to school…
" Sasuke, I didn't think you liked me either. I was mean to you because I thought you hated me too," she confessed as she turned to face him. She was startled to see tears falling from his hung head and she moved closer to lift his chin and wipe the tears away with her hand. His dark eyes watched her closely as she wiped a trail of tears from his cheek, giving him a kind smile.
" Sakura, I wanted to tell you, when we met… I really like you," he stuttered, his eyes avoiding hers. She laughed and took his hand in hers.
" I like you too Sasuke!" He looked into her jade eyes, waiting for the " just kidding", but none came.
A sudden scream pierced the late evening air.
Sakura and Sasuke looked frightfully at the dark house, the lights from the foyer gone. Sasuke tugged at Sakura's hand, leading her back to the house. They ran up the steps and into the dark room, Sasuke searching for the light switch. Sakura clung to his arm and he led her slowly through the room, careful not to bump anything.
Light flooded the room and his fingers flipped the switch.
" Found it! Sakura, are you alri…"
Sakura's wide eyes filled with tears as she looked in horror at her mother's lifeless body, lying limp in a foyer chair, blood staining her blouse and face. Mrs. Uchiha lay in a pool of blood at Mrs. Haruno's feet. Sakura could feel the burn in her throat, the constricting pain. Her fist closed around Sasuke's hand tightly and her voice finally found her.
Her tearful scream broke the night air as she fell to her knees, her hands hiding her tear stained face. Sasuke stood motionless, his mind racing as his eyes wandered over his mother's body. Her face down in the scarlet liquid surrounding her body, her eyes open wide in terror.
" FATHER!"
Sakura's head snapped up to Sasuke's petrified face, her heart pounding madly as she tried to stand.
" Sasuke, we have to leave," she cried as she tried to pull him to the doors leading outside. His feet stayed cemented to the floor and she pulled him roughly with all the strength she had left.
" Sasuke, please!"
She gasped in shock as Sasuke's father came into view, his head bowed, his dark hair hiding his face. Something told her to run, that he was the reason that Sasuke and her mother were dead.
" Sasuke! Please! Come on!"
She watched, horrified, as Sasuke's father approached slowly from the other end of the room, still a good distance away. A gleam of light caught her eye and she focused in on a bloody kunai clutched in his hand. She could feel her heart race painfully and her instinct to run fought against her will to save Sasuke.
" SASUKE! HE KILLED THEM!"
Sasuke's eyes shot over at his father, locking onto the kunai and his mind screamed run. He shook his head and quickly grabbed Sakura, pulling her as he ran out the foyer doors into the moonlit night. Their feet pounded against the ground as they dashed through the gates to the garden, out into the empty streets of the Uchiha complex. The many houses lined the dirt street and Sasuke did a double take down each direction before pulling them to the right.
" Sasuke! I'm scared! What if he catches us?"
Sasuke looked back at her, his dark eyes narrowed and focused.
" He won't, not while I'm here, understand?"
She nodded her head and forced herself to run faster. She could feet the laces on her shoes come undone and her foot suddenly caught the strings and she fell roughly into the dirt. Sasuke skidded to a stop and turned to run back and help her up, but a dark shadow came to loom in the street. A figure stood upon the roof beside them, unmoving, but the familiar glint of the Sharingan glared at Sasuke from the face of his father.
" Sakura! Get up and run!"
Sakura lifted her face weakly from the ground to look up at the figure casting his shadow over her. He slowly made his decent down the rooftop towards her and she could feel panic begin to lock her body up. She tried to run, but her legs wouldn't respond. She lay defenseless on the ground as the figure dropped to the ground and made his advance on her.
" Sakura! NO!"
Sasuke dashed at them, only to be knocked through the air by his father's hand. He landed hard on the ground, a cloud of dust surrounding him as he tried to sit up. He watched in horror as Sakura was lifted off the ground and held high in the air by the neck of her dress.
" Pl-please, d-don't hurt me!" Tears streamed down her face as the bloody kunai was pressed against her neck, drawing a small trickle of blood. His white teeth flashed in a terrifying smile that gave her shivers and she could feel the warm liquid slip down her neck as the kunai pressed further into her skin.
A sudden flash of light blazed through the air and a shuriken buried itself in her captor's hand, causing him to release her. She fell the short distance to the ground and braced herself for the impact, but instead, she found herself held in strong arms. Her face tilted up to stare in wonder at her masked rescuer. His shocking silver hair stood messily on his head and a mask covered his lower face.
" W-who, who are you?"
Okay you're all wondering what sorta drugs I might be on, but I assure you, its just me. This is a flash back to the first moment Sakura met Kakashi.
She never realizes her rescuer from her childhood became her teacher later on or the man she would fall in love with. If ur like " What haff you done?" don't worry, part 2 of the story will explain it all. So just sit tight kiddies cuz u'll get ur goods later on!