You're so beautiful to look at when you cry
Freeze, don't move
You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation
of the sequel to your life.
He couldn't believe it. He just could not, most definitely not believe it.
Sasuke just made himself look like a complete fool out there. The fight against Kashirou was pointless, no deserving, humiliating thing he's ever done.
Sasuke wondered how he was managed to be outdone by a good for nothing-arrogant-quick mouthed-obnoxious-jackass. He fought with no motive and the fight wasn't even one of slight intelligence. The guy just made his blood boil and so in return he wanted to give the gesture back, just with the benefits to see exactly how much of that blood he could spill.
And apparently, when Kashirou is mad, he's livid. So with that thought at mind, Sasuke thought he added another tally to victory on his part, that is, until all crashed down the moment Sasuke got his butt whipped in a not so shinobi fashion. Oh how his father along with the rest of the clan mourning in shame and embarrassment up there. How they could all be turning in their graves because of the disappointment he gave to them.
Sasuke paced quickly up the streets of the village as he contemplated why they decided to start a senseless fight. Sasuke didn't know what grudge he had on Kashirou or why the reason he first met him made him get so irritated and to be so restless. He really shouldn't have much of a problem with the guy. But then again, it was only a one sided rivalry. He knew exactly why Kashirou hated him, and it was based only on that reason alone.
Sakura.
The guy was in love with her, and she in return, was either too blind to see that or is rejecting the whole idea of returning those feelings back. Sasuke knew Sakura's feelings for himself, he wasn't oblivious to it, but he hated and he really hated to admit it; this was a love triangle and he detested the fact that he was the one stuck in it.
Though he knew about this dilemma from the start of this mission, Sasuke couldn't understand why he felt that he needed to start a rivalry against the boy and why all of a sudden he wanted Sakura to keep a distance from him. He would have thought it would have been better if the girl can cling to some other guy, while he can have time off away from her, but apparently, he didn't want that time off and he had the gut urgency to be near her as much as possible.
He wouldn't know if this was some scientific astrology thing, or the logic's of destiny, but he felt that he really needed to spend the time given to them, just to focus it on her. And he didn't know if he should blame it on this mission, but since day one, he felt a darkness loom over them all.
His thoughts were distorted of the matter, not only that but he was ragged, bruised and bloody and he needed to get a hot shower and get cleaned up before the meeting he was supposed to meet at the café near the lobby in the inn.
"Sasuke-teme!"
Well'p, so much for that shower.
"Hey, you're late teme, we were suppose to- " Naruto began before he got a better look at his teammate, "What happened to you?"
"I had a run-in," and that was all Sasuke could muster up before his temper could rise again. However, Sasuke couldn't help but snort at the bewildered look the blond was making right about now.
Good, he's clueless.
Glance, don't stare
Soon you're being told to recognize your heirs
No, not me -- I'm an island of such great complexity
Right away Hitomi, what seemed to be the name of the waitresses from her tag, came over with a hot bowl of ramen and a glass of water.
"Can I help you boys with anything else this evening?" she asked.
"Nah, but I'll let you know at sometime ma'am." Naruto responded back.
As the woman left, soft retro music started to play in the backgrounds- something perfect for this type of atmosphere, the two continued their little stare at one another.
"So why'd you bring me down here?" Sasuke asked before taking a downer of water into his throat.
"I found out more about the two." Naruto said.
"When? Last night?"
"Yeah, Hirou-san told me a lot of interesting things while we were playing shoji."
Sasuke looked skeptical that Naruto would actually have the patients, let alone the knowledge to play such a game. But that was beside the point, as long as Naruto had gotten the information they needed considering the two shinobi's they're traveling with.
"Did you know Hirou-san was Sakara-chan's friend since they were little?"
"It's pretty obvious dobe."
"Yeah but think about it. Do you ever really remember Sakura-chan when we were first starting in the academy?"
Sasuke filed through all the memories when he first met the girl. He remembered when she first walked into the academy; she stood out like a sore thumb. Her natural pastel pink hair and her striking bold emerald eyes. She wasn't one to talk much and for that, the other girl's had the advantage to mess with her, besides the fact of their jealousy. He also remembered the way she creped them all out- those girls teased and beat her, yet she still managed to smile at them as if none of it bothered her. He started to consider that the time he met her was the same year- if not months before the killing of his clan, is when she came to the academy.
Then it came clear to him of exactly what Naruto was trying to get at.
"You're saying she isn't from Kohana?"
Naruto presented Sasuke a smug smile of Mr. Knowing-it-all.
"So?" Sasuke asked waiting for the knuckle-head to finish.
"Hirou-san told me that she use to live with him, his sobo raised her since she was smaller," Naruto added when his face turned dark and more mournful, "then about six years ago there was an accident. And for that, Maya-chan's lord banished Sakura-chan some where safe, so that's how Sakura-chan ended up in Kohana, while Hirou-san went to a different location."
Sasuke tried to put all that information through his head while the other half contemplated if any of that made sense. He couldn't understand if that was even reasonable, and exactly if he really understood if Naruto was making this up or not.
"Accident, what accident?"
It was silent then and Naruto didn't know if he should really answer or not. He had the idea of how Sasuke's reaction was going to be if it was either going to be delirious, skeptical or if he was going to have any emotion at all, or even if he was lucky to see a complete foreign façade on Sasuke that he's never seen before. Either way, Naruto was starting to regret ever having this meeting with his teammate.
Then he knew he had to say it, because backing out was too late.
"It was a massacre."
Sasuke was starting to think about this, it dawned on him that what Naruto said sounded like complete bogus but still, Naruto seemed to have a look to be a different mindset, a different worldview. But still, other than that, it just couldn't make sense.
"Whatever Hirou told you, well that's a load of bull!"
That was the reaction Naruto was expecting from his cynical comrade. He knew Sasuke wasn't going to believe him or the fact that he just didn't want to picture it like that. He knew that Sasuke wasn't going to consider the fact that Sakura just might really understand what he was going through, he wanted to be in denial of that fact. So as the end result, he wanted to believe it was all a lie.
"You expect me to believe that, Hirou is just putting things in your head just to mess with you. Remember, he's a Tokubetsu Jonin."
"Yeah I know that, but think about it- " Naruto said as his own voice began to rise.
"Yeah I am. So explain to me about her family back in Kohana- "
"What Family?" Naruto cut him off.
He shut himself up because he had the feeling that someone was close enough to hear them- they both knew it. Sasuke gave Naruto the deadliest glare he's ever possessed, telling him silently that they would discus this later.
"Oh, so this is where you two have been. I was looking all over for you Naruto, I was thinking that we could of gone to that little shop where they sell recipes, candles, and those essence in there." Sakura said happily as she took her own seat on the table.
"But I guess you wanted to have lunch instead."
"Hey Sakura-chan, yeah let me finish this up and we'll go okay?" the blond said as if the conversation between Sasuke was nothing but a matter of a problem out the window. He tried to hurry eating while taking mouthfuls of his ramen, or at least what was left of it.
"Hey Sasuke-kun…um, what happened?" she asked worryingly at the sight of him.
It took a moment to register what she was talking about until he looked down at himself and forgotten that he was a mess. But he didn't answer because his mind kept wandering off. What Naruto had said was wriggling around in his brain and started to crystallize into an idea that it may actually be the truth.
"Sasuke-teme had a run-in, whatever that means- Tsk." Naruto said disbelievingly.
"Oh- okay." Sakura mumbled for she knew exactly what that meant.
Sasuke turned abruptly to look at Sakura. Her eyes were dull and brimmed with gray- considering the amount of sleep she had gotten the past few nights. Her endless sleeplessness was starting to put a bit of a strain on him if he should really be worried for her or not.
Sakura must of notice the tension and the intent look both boys' were giving her way and it gave her the sense of insecurity. So as what she did- cause she did it best, Sakura smiled back at them.
Moments later, when Sasuke was baffled about such an action, he thought more and more about getting to Hirou and getting the answers himself. Better yet, he thought of finding the time to have Sakura to himself and get the truth out of her instead.
The thought stayed with him for the rest of the evening.
Lyrics from Pavement 'Shady Lane'. Don't sue.
