Chapter 10

Awakening

Well, at least the horrible apparitions had gone away but now his mind was strangely empty. It was all dark and now horrid parts of his own memory instead of……. Oh how he wished to shut it off…..shut it all off, now. And in his mind he was forced to walk among them to try and find his way out, and when he was about to get to the grueling parts, it all went white.

Sasuke! Suddenly came a female voice.

Sure he was startled by that but he wasn't scared per say. What do you want?

Oh, good, she sounded relieved. You finally are starting to reply.

Who are you? Then he sarcastically added. Are you a "guardian angel"?

Oh gracious, no! I'm not that holy! Then there was a slight pause. But I did save your life.

He finally recognized the voice. Yintora. Where am I? What happened an---------

You, Yintora interrupted. are unconscious at the Sand village. You've been unconscious for about four to almost five days. And as for what happened, let me show you.

It was different. Apparently she was able to send memories or something to that effect through his mind and he saw everything up to now, even Gaara.

A surge of anger for that person surged through his mind, and apparently Yintora felt it. Owwwww! That hurt

Oh, sorry. Sasuke said sincerely even though there was a hint of jealousy in his voice.

That's alright, but when you feeling like actually reviving it would be nice to talk to you in person. Yintora accepted the apology.

Okay. Sasuke replied.

Oh! And one more thing. Yintora said.

What? Sasuke puzzled.

You might wanna put your shirt back on. Yintora suggested to him.

Do I even want to ask? Sasuke questioned.

We needed to help you. But, Naruto did it! She explained.

That makes it ever so much better. Sasuke said sarcastically.

Yintora giggled.

He hadn't realized how much he had missed that giggle.

Okay so I'll talk to ya later! Yintora exclaimed.

Then Sasuke's mind felt strangely empty.

Sasuke fidgeted and slowly his eyes opened. Everything she had said was true. His room was the color of sand in fact it probably might have been at one point in its time. There was a bundle of his things at the foot of the bed and his shirt inevitably was off. Wanting to find out what really happened and not from a voice in his head he put on his shirt and walked out of the room.

It was night and dust swirled everywhere as if seemingly dancing with the stars in the sky. Most of the buildings were darkened, a sign that they had gone to bed. Some others were on but seem to dim as the time wore on. He wandered the sandy streets gazing at the openings of buildings of all shapes and size to see if he recognized anyone inside them.

Then he came to a building and sitting together on the tiled roof were figures of Yintora and Gaara shadowed by the moonlight. Sasuke didn't want to interrupt them so he leaned there against a pillar on a building parallel to it and waited. It only took a couple minutes and he stared into the stars.

Even though if she fell off of the building she would have received minor scratches and a few bruises, but Sasuke was not prepared for what happened next. Apparently they were done talking, Yintora gave Gaara a hug and then instead of finding a safe place to jump off of the rooftop, she walked right off the edge of the building and was walking on air, literally. He walked over to the middle of the street while Yintora stood in the middle of the street above in the air about 10 feet and was gradually loosing height.

Sasuke came up behind her on the ground. "Hi there." He said

Yintora was startled and looked back over her shoulder and lost concentration and fell. She was just lucky that Sasuke was there to catch her. "Geeze Sasuke, you scared me."

Sasuke set her down on her feet. "Yeah." He looked upon her in her torn outfit, it was clean but still not stitched up. "Nice threads." He said sarcastically.

"Yeah," Yintora said kind of depressed like, "they just didn't quite stand up to the challenge. I should be borrowing a set of Temari's clothes tomorrow."

"Good thing you were or else those might have been a bit deeper and I might had to look away because your face would have been scary." Sasuke said playfully indicating a small scratch on her cheek and one on her arm.

"Hey!" She yelled and punched him on the arm.

Then they both laughed.

"So how are you?" Yintora asked Sasuke. "Feeling better."

Sasuke's mood darkened and turned away from Yintora. "It was weird. For some reason, I saw memories from Takari's life and none of it was pretty."

"Who's Takari?" Yintora asked, not being there when Sasuke was battling him.

"The freaky dude who attacked Kohona." Sasuke stated.

"Oh okay, got it now." She said.

"Yeah, and I was seeing his memories." Sasuke repeated.

"Really?" Yintora asked. "What kind of gruesome things were there?"

Sasuke turned around, "His face." Then they smiled and laughed together.

There was a pause.

"And then there was a horrible burning pain in my chest. Then I started seeing memories of myself instead." Sasuke said looking accusingly with a smile at Yintora.

She smiled sheepishly back. "Well I do admit that was me but if I didn't save you, you wouldn't have been in my death farewells. But I didn't cause your relapse of memories. All of that was totally you, ya freak."

"Death farewells?" Sasuke asked her puzzled.

"People you say goodbye to before you die." Yintora stated.

"You almost died?" Sasuke asked hard to believe.

"Yes, because I was low on chakra, and I would have if Gaara hadn't saved us." She stated.

"You included me?" Sasuke asked amazed.

"Yup." She stated.

"Why?" He asked bewildered by her. Girls you chased after him, not put him in their death wills, or whatever you wished to call it.

"Because you are one of the only people that have truly accepted me and have not treated me differently. You and Gaara along with a few other choice individuals." She took a slight pause and put her hand on Sasuke's shoulder. "But that's not the point. The point is that I truly appreciate it."

Then there was a pause of about five seconds where Sasuke was looking at Yintora and her at him.

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Yintora said breaking the silence and removing her hand. "We're getting so mushy-gushy heart-bleed type." And they both cracked up laughing. "Anyway Sasuke, got to go recharge. See ya tomorrow." She said.

"Okay." He said after he finished his slight laughter and watched her turn away.

"Oh yeah I almost forgot!" Yintora said spinning back around to face Sasuke.

"What?" he asked her.

"Sakura saw the crystal and acted like a total girl when she saw it, thinking we were together." Yintora said fiddling her fingers because she was talking about an uncomfortable subject.

"So she wants me to take it off?" Sasuke asked questioningly.

"Yes," Yintora answered, "but I don't want you to, because of our promise. But it would be okay to wear it somewhere she couldn't see it." She stated.

"Okay." He said as he took off the crystal on the chain from around his wrist. Then he took his headband off and put the crystal on his head and then put the headband over it. "Is that better?" Sasuke asked.

Yintora grimaced. "Doesn't that hurt?" she asked.

"No not really and the best part is, is that you can't see any difference." He stated.

"Okay, as long as you're happy with where it is." Yintora smiled at him. "Well, okay, see ya later, bye." She said and then accomplished a triple one-handed back flip and then finished with at twist before disappeared into the shadow.

Sasuke stood there for a couple moments and then turned around to have Gaara in his face. He was startled and backed off a couple steps.

"If you ever hurt her, Uchiha," Gaara started in his freaky, leeringly, death type voice, "Then I'll have another reason to kill you for. To prove my existence to myself and to her as well."

Then the sand swallowed him so that he disappeared as quickly as he had appeared. Now Sasuke was all alone, the desolate seeming town didn't help.

What is the connection between Gaara and Yintora, he thought. Then Sasuke was overwhelmed with this queasy feeling that made him feeling dizzy, lightheaded. He tried to walk but he stumbled and leaned against a wall. Probably aftereffects of the curse, He thought. I'd better get back before…… His thoughts became hazy overwhelming his mind. Sasuke's knees caved so he was now slumped against the wall and he passed out right there where he was.