Chapter Eleven: Secrets To Be Revealed
-INSERT DISCLAIMER HERE-
'thoughts' "dialouge" Inner Sakura
Yakusoku/Hitomi - Sakura's parents
Fugaku/Mikoto - Sasuke's and Itachi's parents
Previously...
To get everyone's attentions, Fugaku coughed and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Alright, everyone. We should get back to business. You guys all know the reason of this dinner right?"
What's going on? Sakura seated upon the black leather sofa uneasily, knowing that they are all hiding something from her. She was eager to find out.
"Father, why don't you tell us what's going on for the past two months?"
"Alright then, I guess it's time we let you in on the deal."
"Sakura,you are engaged..."
Fugaku waited a while to make sure the information sinked into her head before he continued on.
"This engagement promise was made fifteen years ago, on one very tradgic night. None of us wanted any of this to happen. I'm sorry for the troubles we had caused you."
The room was awfully silent, Mikoto, who had knew everything, could only sit there and reminisced. She was sure it wasn't any pleasant, happy memories at all. What had her worried the most was that how will the two teens going to take it once her husband, Fugaku, finished telling them the truth. Her concerns grew deeper as she noticed Sakura held this shocked and disbelieving look in her eyes. She was taken this in the wrong way judging on her frowning, devastating expressions.
The pink haired girl sat there trembling, her hands were clenching as she tried to hold back the intensed anger arising within her. Her pink eyebrows narrowed.
Why didn't anyone tell her any of this sooner? It impacted her immensely. No one bother to spread the words of what happened between her parents and the Uchiha family.
'What really happened fifteen years ago?' 'What do they mean by the troubles they had caused me?'
It disgusted her how they just thought that she was too young and didn't need to know. Did they cared about her feelings at all?
Sasuke catched a glimpse of the pink haired, and he too, frowned. Why didn't his family tell him anything about this sooner? A pang of guilt shot him, but he shooked it off. It wasn't really his own decision for bring Sakura over here in the first place, only so they could cause her devastation.
One other thought keep bothering him, though he didn't want to heed any attentions to it. However, it was too drastic to ignore. Who was Sakura engaged too?
This was new information he had just gathered, but whatever, he was pretty sure it didn't have anything to do with him. He never get into other people's business, and he sure don't want to start now. The young teen tried to remind his conscience that he was simply here because of his parent's request. At the momment he wanted nothing more than to get it over with and leave. Family gatherings was not his favorite things. This is really frustrating him.
"I met your father many years ago at the Konoha University. Haruno Yakusoku was a sheer genius. He had the brain and could do almost anything he set his mind into. Of course, I could never compete against him, but the rilvary had driven us to became like close brothers. After we graduated, he went his way into studying medicines, and of course I went to America to start doing business as an entrepreneur, but we still kept in touch. That's how he had told me that he found a soulmate, your mother Hitomi, and that she was pregnant with you. At the same time, I fell in love with Mikoto, and we were on our way to having the second child, Sasuke. I decided that I was going to take my wife and my son Itachi over to Japan for a little reunion with Yakusoku. We would go out to a restaurant and congratuate each other of the good news on the way."
Fugaku extended his calloused hand and grabbed the small teacup gently. Slowly he brought it to his mouth and took a small sip of the sweet scented Jasmine tea.
"How is this relevant to her in anyway?" Itachi, the older man who was leaning against the wall, inquired.
"Be quiet son, I'm not finished telling the story yet." Fugaku shot Itachi a look. The older raven haired went back to being silence, closing his crimson orbs.
"Unfortunately, as soon as my family arrived in Japan, 30 minutes after I descended down the steps of the plane, I received a phone call from Hitomi addressing that something drastic had happened. I figured something bad must have happened to her husband by the way she sounded over the phone."
"Hitomi didn't even have time to announce what had happened, except she notify us to head to Konoha's emergency room as soon as possible. Sasuke's father and I paced over there right away."
Mikoto added, her voice sounded terribly grieved, she held within her this melancholy expression.
Sakura glanced at Mikoto, only her gloomy emerald orbs distressed even didn't slip unnoticed by Sasuke, inside his mind, his thoughts keep informing him that she must be feeling more than devastated upon hearing what had happened to her parents. She was trying really hard to accommodate a brave act because the Sakura he knew would rupture and start to shed tears any momment now. Unfortunately the Uchiha was wrong, she sat in stillness, not a single word slipped out of her mouth ever since his father started talking. Decided not to say anything, he kept quiet, not that he have anything to say to her right now. What was he supposed to say to her? Tell her some soothing and comforting words? He thinks not.
"Hitomi greeted us, but it wasn't a friendly happy greeting. She stood there sobbing, our hearts ached upon being greeted by her like that."
Mikoto tried her best to be calm as she elucidate Sakura what had happened, but she found it difficult and her soft whispers became noticable weep. Averting her onyx eyes at the poor girl with deep rounded emerald orbs staring focused at her, she could read Sakura like a book. Her expressions tell so much, like how she must be breaking down on the inside or how frustrated she was to be exposed to reality just now.
She continued, "The doctor proceeded out of your father's room, he turned and gave Hitomi a sad remorseful bow as he whispered apologetic words.
"We were informed by the doctors after careful examinations by the emergency care unit and the police department. They gave us a brief report on what they known. Yakusoku was targeted and ambushed returning back home from his job. A group of mobs drove several sleet dark black cars and crashed into his limo on purpose, in doing so they had killed the driver wounded him three bullets in the chest."
"..He wasn't going to make it."
This shocked the three teens present in the room. The two Uchihas brother was silent, deep onyx orbs closed, deep down they each held grief for Sakura's parents and pitied for her. It must be painful to lose your love ones, those who are precious and dear to you. They couldn't compare to how Sakura must be feeling right now.
The pink haired girl neglected everything she could ever care about right now. She sank back; sorrowful tears were cascading down her rosette cheeks like the mourningful river. Many thoughts roamed freely in her head, many questions sprouted up. Why must unfortunate things happen to her and why only her? She was beyond miserable, her life is forloned. There isn't anything worthy for her to held on to, to make it through the days. All this time she could hope for a better, brighter future..but she couldn't escaped the past. It had destroyed her happiness. The childhood she could have never happened. Sakura was an outcast, missing out on every single good details of life. She could never be happy again.
These thoughts coursed and corrupted her mind, wrecking and making her completely feel futile. Sakura couldn't take it anymore. Impetuously, she bursted into tears as dashed for the doors with her heart filled full of agony. The Uchihas were shocked by her unpredicted reactions!
Sasuke whipped his head around fully awared of what's going on, and immediately, his eyes flashed a fierce crimsoned color. He cursed rather murderously as he shot a quick look over to his family. Without thinking, he sprinted out of the Uchiha manor with a certain image of a pink haired flashed in his mind, question is..why is he thinking about her? When Sakura took off running, his body just responded by itself without his consent. If anything bad happen to her, he would never forgive himself.
Dammit Sakura! Don't you dare do anything stupid!
After all, in his mind he keep telling himself that he was the one that had brought all of this mess upon her.
Sakura kept on running as fast as her little legs could take her, not even bothering to give a look at her surroundings. Her heart ached so much from being in Sasuke's manor; it brought nothing but alot of pain upon her. After hearing what had happened to her parents, she felt abandoned and desolated. While Sasuke still have his family, she on the other hand, had nobody to run to. She stopped abruptly when she felt she reached a good distance. She took a quick glance to confirmed that this will guarantee to take her to the desired destination she wanted now. She took in the loud noises from automobiles, people were screaming at her to get off the streets, but she disregarded them.
She shut her sad emerald orbs closed, reminiscing back to some decent good memories she had. Within her mind there were many images of her friends, oh how she was so lucky to meet these people who was always there and cared for her. First, there was Naruto, the hyper blonde who indeed live off of ramens and only ramens. Then there was Ino, her bestest friend, the only person who noticed her and was kind to her when they were little. There were also others, people who she grew accustomed to as if they were her real brothers, Kakashi with his perverted self, and Neji with his polite and caring ways. Lee, Kiba, Choji, Hinata, Tenten, Shikamaru...and then there was the cold hearted bastard..Sasuke. Ugh! What makes her think about him now of all the times, she really doesn't have a clue. He was always arrogance, mean and rude to her, but she bet he could be caring if he gives a little effort to try to. Sighing, she smiled slightly. How ironic it must be for her to say this, but this is somehow a good life she had. She was sastified, the pink haired girl couldn't ask for anything better.
And suddenly, she could feel the force vibrating off of the car that's heading towards her.
This is it...
- Little brother, I still am curious about your taste... -
- Leave me alone, I don't even know why... -
- Maybe it's her unsual pink hair? -
- *insert famous Uchiha trademark smirks* -
A/N: Kishi is killing off the chance of SasuSaku more and more each day...WHY KISHI!
