Healing the Scars

Chapter eight

A/N Thanks for the reviews after the mishap with the rating. It's nice to here the positive encouragement after those bad reviews. Yes I am continuing this story! Don't get me wrong, I want to hear what ya'll think, but try to break it to me slowly=) Enjoy! I do not own Naruto.

Stranger then your sympathy, this is my apology. I'm killing myself from the inside out. Sasuke's POV

An awkward silence filled the room when suddenly I realized that Sakura heard what I had said to her last night before I left. I was mortified and nervous at her reaction, when I looked over at her she was looking at the window and seemed to be finding the answer to what I had said. I too, was looking for answers.

"The snake was…controlling you?" She questioned shakily. I nodded my head slowly.

"The curse mark he put on me, lets just say he updated it." I answered.

"You really didn't know it was Kanagi and my parents until I got there." She said quietly, as if reassuring herself, or convincing herself.

"It's all my fault, why you are the way you are." I retorted.

"And how exactly is that, may I ask?" She whipped her head up to look at me.

"Sakura, look at yourself! You've changed!"

"I'm not weak anymore, Sasuke!"

"It's not that, you're…you're cold. You cry all the time and I know you do! You bury yourself in work and training, you're exhausted and yet you can't sleep!" I was raising my voice now, dangerously high.

"Oh, is the Uchiha worried about someone other then himself now?" She replied sarcastically.

"Of course I'm worried about you- you're my teammate!" Wrong answer. She marched right over to me, anger radiating from her body.

"You have never been my teammate, you are a traitor, a cruel betrayal to Konoha. You're going to leave again and you know it! You came home because Naruto forced you too! You are no teammate of mine!" She was in my face now, and furious.

"Somewhere, deep down inside of you is the old Sakura who would've done anything to make the past come back and stay with her. The old Sakura that smiled a real smile, and laughed and wanted to hang out with Ino. The Sakura that loved me despite everything I did to her."

"I killed that Sakura! SHE'S DEAD!" Sakura screamed. "Why can't anybody just accept that fact?"

"Because you're too precious of a person to lose to this depression!" She froze, and her back stood erect. I saw a crystal of water fall down her face as her small form began to shake.

"W-what?" She stammered like the Hyuuga heiress. I walked over to her and hugged her hesitantly, as if she was going to break. Emotionally, she was incredibly unstable and she left her head bury on my chest as she sobbed.

"Shh, I'm sorry Sakura. I'm so so sorry." I whispered to her. I slowly saw her walls start to break as my shirt became stained with her salty tears.

"I thought you always hated me." She stammered.

"I never hated you, but now I just want to take all the pain I caused away from you. I want you to smile again." She was still crying now, sobbing, in fact. It was heart wrenching to say the least.

"I'm s-sorry I'm s-such a b-b-bitch." I stifled a laugh and smirked.

"I think that's kind of justified, just saying." She looked up, her eyes all red and puffy.

"I'm sorry I got your shirt all wet, too." I smirked again, at something seeming unimportant seeming so important to her. We both turned to hear a knock on the door, and I immediately went over to open as Sakura ran over to the kitchen to fix her appearance. I opened to find an ANBU in full uniform standing in front of me.

"Lady Tsunade requests the presence of Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke in her office immediately." I heard Sakura come up from behind me.

"We have a telephone you know." She grumbled.

"We'll be there." I answered curtly, ushering a disheveled Sakura out the door as we ran to the Hokage tower. When we got there, Shizune pushed us in and immediately shut the door as Tsunade eyed Sakura, and I saw her take note of how she had been crying.

"I'm sending you two on a mission." Our jaws dropped.

A/N Sorry it's so short! Review please!