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I've changed my plan; it was going to get a whole lot worse, but heck enough bad things have happened.

So here's chapter 3 enjoy.

Disclaimer: I will follow my heart right til the end. I will not follow Masashi Kishimoto around begging for him to let me buy Naruto.


Fitting In

Chapter 12 – Follow The Sound Of Your Beating Heart

I pull my legs further and further down Inos road, relishing in the pain that's now spreading through my heel, where the back of my shoe is mercilessly eating away at my skin.

Hot tears stream down my cheeks like boiling water against my cold skin, staining my face with long black lines of eyeliner.

Sobs caught in my chest; rattle out in horrible chocked gasps.

And all of it and so much more still isn't enough to make me fully realise what has happened.

The pain that is tearing its way through my heart is so unbearable that I can't stop a strangled scream from forcing its way from my lips.

It hurts so much.

And yet it still hasn't fully sunk in.

My heart is dieing from the horror of what I had just seen, my mind is still unable to admit it.

I'm just totally unable to admit to myself that the two people in my life that had been like rocks for which I could cling after everything I had been through, had hurt me.

Hurt me so much that I would now happily jumped in front of one of the cars rolling by on the road.

But I know it happened.

I know, because of how much pain I can feel.

It's the same pain that I felt when Gaara broke my ribs.

Heartbreak.

And I can't bear it.

How on earth could they have done this to me?

How?

Ino

Who was so kind and considerate.

Who consoled me when I was broken.

Who listened as I told her how much pain he had put me through.

Who had helped me pick up the broken shards of my heart and glue them back together with her friendly words.

Who made me laugh even when all I wanted to do was cry

Ino, my very best friend.

How?

And Sasuke

Sasuke

Who had promised to keep me safe

Who had pulled me away from Gaara when I had been so tempted to take him back.

Who held me close and let me cry my heart away.

Who showed me that I could maybe pull through this.

Who made me want to keep going.

Sasuke, my boyfriend.

How?

The 2 people who had pulled me right out of that horrible darkness.

Pulled me up into the sunlight.

How can they just suddenly drop me just when I'm starting to think I can fly again.

Because now I'm falling.

Falling back into the darkness.

And this time no one in the world can help me.

Right?

No

No I know exactly who can help me.

Gaara

Oh I know I shouldn't

I know just how much he hurt me, bruised me, broke me.

But I want him so much.

I want to have him pull me close to his soft and muscled chest.

Wrap his loving, yet strong arms around my frame.

And tell me that it will be ok.

Because I love him.

With all my heart

And all my soul.

For always.

No amount of beatings will ever be able to change that.

There are so many questions that need answers.

But I don't care.

I want him to hold me close and let me cry against him.

Feel his touch just melt all my worries away.

I want to cling to him like I know I should.

I don't care about what he did.

Not anymore.

It feels like a distant nightmare.

An alternate reality.

I don't care because I just want him.

I want Gaara.

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My feet are walking further and further.

Turning streets crossing the bridge, down the lanes.

I'm in the village now.

On the very edge of the village.

-

I'm following the sound of my beating heart.

And I will follow it until the very end.

-

I walk past the park, numb to the world around me.

I can sense the freezing wind, the pain in my calf and the pain in my heel.

But I can't feel any of it.

I can't feel anything except desperation.

Desperation for him.

-

My road, I'm walking down it.

Past my house.

Past the trees where I had once sat with Gaara.

Down the road.

To the house where I know I need to be right now.

My legs carry me up a winding path.

Through a large and wild front garden.

To his door.

Without any hesitation I reach out for the bell.

And softly press the flat of my thumb against it.

Anticipation makes me softly sigh with hope as the small white button is pushed into the case.

I know it has made a sound, but I can't hear it.

Adrenaline is beating against my eardrum, only letting me hear what I will want to hear.

Working me up into a desperate frenzy.

A desperate frenzy for his comforting face.

And then I hear it.

Clumsy footsteps and a muffled voice that I recognise so well I could almost fly into the sky.

The door opens.

He's there standing right in front of me with a face etched with total surprise ... and shock.

Hair as red as the blood pouring from the cut on my calf.

Eyes as green as the spring grass.

One look in those eyes.

And all my pain just melts away.

My entire body is flooded with love.

Wave after wave of beautiful love.

"Sakura? Wha …"

His voice like an angels song, laced with complete and utter shock.

And I can't control myself anymore.

My arms throw themselves around his neck, pulling myself to him.

His body flat against mine, my face against his neck.

I shudder with relief as he pulls his loving arms tenderly around me.

Holding me close, like he never wants to let me go.

Holding me as I cry uncontrollably into his shoulder.

-

There are so many questions that I want answers too.

But for now that can wait

Because I followed the sound of my beating heart.

And it brought me home.


-Sighs-

Not the end. 2 more chapters to go. Bring on the GaaSaku fluff (there will be a lot)

Possible lemon, or half lemon.

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