Of Haruno and Of Uchiha Chapter 14, a naruto fanfic

"Sakura," he murmured. "Arigato."

"Haaa…haaa…"

Why?

Were we not enough?

Am I not laudable?

Are we too weak?

Weak? –laughs- Sou da yo... We're too weak that we can't even protect him… Can't...

Can't even save him…

He's the reason we're living…

The reason why I'm still here…

Are we not worth it?

-chuckles-

We were never worth it…

I'm hurting... I'm hurting so much...

You're hurting me, breaking my heart,

You're tearing me apart...

letting my life vanish from the sight of my already blinded eyes

You chose to leave me…Even though—

--You said that you'll protect me.

Chapter fourteen:

The breakdown

Why do all good things come to an end?

Part one: Tenshi

Normal POV

"Sakura? Sakura!" Ino shook her best friend, a frantic frown placed on her delicate face. "Sakura, wake up! Where's Sasuke-kun?"

"Ino," Shikamaru sneered, "We all know that Uchiha left for Sound."

"Still!" Ino gritted her teeth, the hands around Sakura's shoulders tightening.

"Ino, stop it." Kakashi murmured.

Sakura moaned in pain as Kakashi gathered her in his arms like a father to a daughter.

"Ka-Kakashi…sen…sei." Sakura whispered. "Sa... Sasuke-kun"

"It's alright Sakura... Naruto will get him. I promi-"

"Promises are meant to be broken... Don't promise me something you're not sure yourself." Sakura said through her teeth, her eyes refusing to open because of the burning sensation surrounding it.

Kakashi sighed.

"Look, I know you can see through your Haru that Naruto won't be able to change Sasuke's mind, but..."

Kakashi paused to look at Sakura's scrunched up face, then to Ino, Shikamaru and a few other ANBUs.

"But his decision is yet to be final." he said, vanishing amongst the smoke with Sakura.

Kakashi's POV

Sakura and I disappeared, and after some while, we reappeared in the Hokage's office. I looked down to see that Sakura had fallen asleep in that short while.

Shizune rushed to our aid, taking Sakura from my arms.

She then placed her on a makeshift bed lying a few feet from the Hokage's table.

"Kakashi..." Tsunade murmured, her amber eyes flickering from me, to Sakura, then back. "What's the status of your mission?"

"Uchiha Sasuke... is being followed by Naruto's team, as you had assigned accordingly. Sakura Haruno Uchiha gained consciousness before I... delivered her here. Unfortunately, she fell asleep upon the seconds-long travel to here. She's been straining herself by not deactivating her Sharingan eyes. Her Haru seemed to have dissolved into the old-fashioned sear techniques."

Tsunade rubbed her temples. "The Uchihas and their fucked up fate."

I unconsciously tightened my hands into fists. "I'm taking Sakura Haruno-Uchiha in a medical custody, Hokage-sama."

Tsunade's eyes flashed to me.

"I don't see the need for that, Jounin." She murmured back darkly.

I bowed my head. "My apologies, for such... impudence. But, I have the right to do so, Godaime, considering that I am their sensei. I am the head of our team seven, and they are my children whomI promised to protect."

Tsunade's amber orbs hardened as she calculated what I have said. With pursed lips, she eyed the sleeping Haruno-Uchiha, then back at me.

"This would be an A-ranked mission, jounin." Tsunade started to say, retrieving a blank scroll and giving it to Shizune. The corner of my obscured lips twitched upwards as Shizune started to write the details Tsunade started saying.

"I expect your undivided focus to guard and not let this child out of your sight. Reports have been passed, and it says that both Uchihas were given invitation by Orochimaru himself and I cannot and would not afford to loose another potential shinobi just because she was left alone for a second."

My eyes flickered to Sakura as she stirred for a moment.

"Having sworn loyalty to Konoha, I expect, as well, that you wouldn't betray my trust and judgment. Such would not be tolerated by me. Understood?"

"Yes. Perfectly." I said politely, my attention focused wholly to the now waking kunoichi.

Sakura's POV

I groaned.

Pain... So much pain...

My eyes hurt soo much I don't think I can open it.

I don't want to open it.

He left me.

I don't want to... because... what I want is that, when I actually open it, he's the first one I'll see...

When I actually open it, I'll realize that--

--That he's lying... when he said thank you so softly it sounded like a goodbye.

That he changed his mind, and remembered his promise.

I promised not to leave him.

I'm hating what I am.

I'm hating what I do.

I'm hating what I cannot control.

But...

Why?

Why?

This question lingers in every corner of my mind... taunting me.

Did he promise to not leave me?

If only...

If only I could erase my past... renew it, just like what Itachi said to me.

However...

All I can do is go forward, and never back.

But...

I have to...

I need to...

I crave to...

And I'll do so.

I opened my eyes in a flash, glowered at the new hokage, Shizune and Kakashi-sensei and watched as they froze under my gaze, and, in a few hand motions, I disappeared in a flash.

Destination?

The Haruno estate.

Normal POV

Crystal tears gathered upon her tear ducts, blurring her vision as she traced an embroidery stitched against a fine cloth, her fingers tenderly brushing and tracing the patterns.

Love?

What is love indeed? Why do all her emotions, pent up or not, all thrown into a trash filled with worthless garbage?

Her heart is not a trash, but a complicated maze of feelings so warm and overwhelming. Her heart is but a treasure box to be cared and looked after for, not to be destroyed and... shattered into pieces, it is.

Hayai-kun...

Why did they take him away?

Why did they persecute him because of merely loving her and what their love created?

Sakura...

Why can't she come back?

Has her want diminished with time?

Has she grown up knowing that her only family is what is left of the clan?

Has she grown up to forget that what she is is a part of what Tenshi is?

"Sakura, why do you have to do this to me?" Tenshi cried, and her moans are but music to anyone's ears.

And though her eyes were red and puffy, her features are still as ethereal as it can be.

She closed her eyes, and as she opened it, pools of amethyst gathered, making her eyes glow so magnificently.

Carefully, then, had she scryed her daughter from the puddle of koi pond near her. There was nothing but darkness, and for once, she doesn't know what her daughter may be doing.

"Okaa-sama, is it?"

Tenshi's eyes widened, and slowly, ever so slowly, she stared at the darkest corner of her room, where a pair of crimson orbs glowed with apathy.

"Sa… kura?"

With a dainty step has her little princess took, a twitch in her lips as it shimmered against her milk white complexion. "It's been a long time."

Tenshi stared from across the room, to see that her daughter's intense orbs have been following her every move. She smiled bitterly at the fruitful knowledge in her eyes.

She has grown so... so beautiful.

"You remembered."

Sakura chuckled bitterly.

"Who wouldn't remember their mother being taken away by dazzling creatures in a safe sanctuary when her husband and her daughter are being punished?" She sneered, her eyes flashing from purple, to crimson. "Intermarriage had always been the rule within the clan, so that the Sharingan may remain pure. They wouldn't tolerate half-bloods reproducing their own kind, now would they?"

"I wish... I wish you could understand..."

"It's too little too late, mother." Sakura drawled, her emotions tamed yet taunting. "Because I do not want to understand anything but my purpose."

Sakura then slammed her hands on the wooden floor, a creaking sound echoing across the room. "What I want to understand is how I could go back to the past, to change it."

"Sakura, you know you can't jus-"

"I know what I can't!" Sakura screamed impatiently, her orbs wide with desperation.

"I missed a LOT of my precious time skipping towards the future that I don't even know how it came to reality! I didn't even know what happened before that future! D-Didn't know what I could have done to-to avoid those... predicaments."

Tears smeared her cheeks.

"I'm so helpless. No one has taught me what to do, what I am capable of doing…" she pulled at her short black hair, her wide eyes blurred by the cascading tears. "How I was supposed to reach past those limitations and protect him? No one said what I was ought to carry out or even how I was ought to prevent him from becoming a monster through Orochimaru's hand."

Sakura's hands clutched her eyes and clawed it until it was covered with scratches and blood, and Tenshi could but hold her hands over her mouth to stifle the sobs that escaped her mouth as she stared helplessly at her child, wishing she could put her arms around her like a mother to a daughter.

"I saw it... I-It haunted me. I saw how... how he took over Sasuke... How he looked at my eyes through Sasuke's black, black orbs. It's... It's painful... like that. I'm so feeble."

"Sakura, my arms have always been open for you. But you didn't see it because they were obscured by that pathetic child who kept you from us because of his selfishness. I-I-"

"Stop it... Stop it..." Sakura said through her teeth. "Don't say that.... You can't! I-I... He was there for me when you have neglected me... There all along! We... We stood up together, fought our fate... But this time... he just can't. I wasn't there when he was soo confused. Wasn't there until I found my future self and retrieved the memories I have missed. I... I-"

"Love him?" Tenshi whispered with eyes wide. Sakura stiffened, her eyes frozen as she stared at her mother.

Suddenly, Tenshi smiled and raised her arms, coaxing her daughter to her warmth.

Sakura bit her lip and smiled.

"Past… is a history that couldn't be altered." Tenshi murmured softly in Sakura's ears. "Once, there was a powerful woman by the name of Haruno Junsei."

Sakura fingered her mother's pink tresses. "Perfect?"

"Yes, yes indeed. That was what her name means."

"What did she do?"

Tenshi chuckled at her very own junsei; pure, genuine, perfect.

"She went back to the past. For 2 long months she was gone, and when she came back," Tenshi's voice became octave lower. "Her eyes were but a blank pair of orbs, like it was replaying a scene over and over again. Soon, she died of anxiety and nervous breakdown."

"I want to go back."

"Sakura, we don't even know if we could change the past."

"I will."

"Sakura…"

"Don't worry. I'll be fine." Sakura murmured. Tenshi took hold of her shoulders, and then kissed her on her forehead and both cheeks."

"I'll teach you, if that's the last thing that I could do."

Sakura's smile dazzled her. "Thank you."

A knock resounded in the whole room.

"Enter."

"Onee-sama, Okaa-sama wants to-" the speaker's eyes widened in disbelief. "Sakura-hime?"

Sakura stiffened. It was the woman who tried to separate us from Sasuke-kun.

Suddenly, she smiled menacingly, and then her head tilted in a curtsy.

"Konnichiwa, Oba-san." Sakura drawled; her grin so feral.

The woman's eyes narrowed, her beautiful orbs flashing purple. "Ah, hime-sama, you have decided to pursue the past?"

Sakura glared. "I believe it's none of your business."

"Well then," the woman burred back. "I'd be leaving now. Onee-sama, Okaa-sama wants to have your presence tonight at the tea room."

The door closed tenderly. Sakura turned to her mother.

"Ah, what a nice welcome from auntie-sama; I expected more."

Tenshi smiled.

"Your sear techniques are the same as Hana's. But hers is more polished. She is the type of Haruno, like you are, whose Haru allows her to randomly go to the future until the time that that one could control it. By that fact, your aunt can already send people to the future at a given period, then back again."

"Hm…" Sakura hummed smugly. "Sou ka."

Tenshi and Sakura suddenly shifted their amethyst eyes towards the other side of the koi pond.

"Sakura." Kakashi raised his arms towards Sakura. In a flash, Sakura gracefully landed in front of him, her eyes wild and her grin untamed.

"Kakashi-sensei."

Tenshi appeared next to them. "Kakashi."

Suddenly, Sakura's small hand delicately touched the palm of Kakashi, then her mother's.

Sakura's wild grin widened as a burst of red sakura petals surrounded them, and a vision of a meteor shower clouded their vision.

"Let the flames begin."

and

Part two: Hana

and

"Greetings, fair Sssasuke-kun." Orochimaru hissed pleasantly.

Sasuke grunted in response.

"I would like you to meet someone special." Orochimaru said as a blur materialized in between them, then formed into a woman whose height is not far from his.

Sasuke's eyes sharpened, a snarl forming in his throat as his eyes met luscious pink hair.

The woman twirled around to give Sasuke a taunting smile.

"Ah, Sasuke-kun, it's nice to finally see you again." She practically sang out, and her beautiful voice echoed in the room.

"You." He replied with narrowed eyes.

"Ah, how impolite of me. My name is…" she paused, sauntering towards Sasuke to play with his hair. "Haruno Hana."

End of Chapter

End notes:

Erm… Last chapter on the go! Um… I don't know if it would be the last, I'll see for myself then. :D

See ya! Please review.

Hey, this chappie is to be edited.

Some scenes may change, though. Not

To Yu-onii:

Yeah, yeah, i sortakinda know she wouldn't be able to read this but, yeah, thanks so much. Love ya!

To you!

Yup, Of Haruno and Of Uchiha is nearing its end and I wish you'll still be with me till the end

-ish. Nyway, I have a on shot collection entitled When Darkness Turns to Light... or something... yeah. Check it. :D