Sometimes She Just Wants to be Loved

Chapter 21

A/N- sorry I haven't been updating my two stories very consistently in the last few weeks. It's spring break and you'd think that would help me update more, but for some reason it's been making me go slower =/. I'm so so so sorry and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Sakura's POV

The ground is so cold underneath my cheek. Ino is ranting about something but I'm having trouble understanding what exactly she's saying. My head feels like it's about to explode, if she's going to kill me I don't see why she doesn't just do it now.

My visions blurry but something's different now, Ino doesn't seem to be focusing on me anymore. She's talking to someone else now, but who could it be, no ones else knows I'm here but me and Ino. I try as hard as I can to make out what the two people are saying.

"You get away from her right now." I know that voice, it's familiar, but for some reason I just can't place it.

"In your dreams Hatake! You stole her from me and now I'm going to kill you both for humiliating me with your relationship. Everyone in the village knows about you two, they all come up to me and pat me on the shoulder and tell me to be strong. They whisper about me behind my back just as much as they do you two. It isn't right, they shouldn't have cared about me anymore because I got happily married, but no, they still couldn't just leave me alone. This is all her fault any way you look at it, if she hadn't been such a whore to begin with then maybe everything would still be okay right now." I can vaguely make out one blur lunging at the other, but everything's starting to get darker. I know Kakashi's come to save me, and I want to get up and protect him from Ino, but I can't, I don't even feel like I can move.

One of the blurs gets thrown and I can feel who ever it was land not to far from me, but I'm starting to feel really tired all the sudden. I don't want to go to sleep, but maybe this is all just another one of my nightmares and I'm really in Kakashi's bed in our home. Maybe if I go to sleep in my dreams then I'll wake up in his arms. Then I'll tell him, I'll tell how much I love him and how much I need him. I think that's what I'll do. My eyes close and I don't hear anything anymore. Everything's so blissfully silent and I'm filled with the feeling that everything might just be okay.

Kakashi's POV

"You've really gone crazy haven't you?" I ask her, she's standing over Sakura's unconscious body. "How can you think this is her fault? You basically drove her away in the end, she loved you so much and you kept getting so distant from her. Really what could you have expected?" I shake my head at her as she lungs for me. I easily avoid it as I have all of her other attacks. She's weak right now and she's only getting weaker. I know she can't go on very much longer.

I need to get Ino away from Sakura so Anko and Genma can grab her and heal her. But she won't budge out of a ten foot radius or give me the chance to get near Sakura. She's determined to take at least one of us down with her. And now that Sakura's unconscious I need to move fast to make sure that doesn't happen.

Ino lunges at me again and I side step her, I know I could take her with a problem right now, but I just need to get a handle on her to stop her from moving. When she comes at me again I grab one of her arms and twist it around to her back and pin her to the ground. Genma and Anko are next to Sakura in a flash and are assessing her wounds and healing her.

Ino jerks underneath me but I don't let up at all, I can feel the strength leaving her body. I wonder how much longer she has till she either has to do another body switch or she dies.

"She's going to be okay." Anko looks up as she tells me and I smile. "We're going to take her over to the hospital for a once over then you can pick her up." I nod and they take Sakura and go. I wish I had let Genma take out Ino so that I could go with them, I don' like the idea of her in the hospital.

I wait for a few ANBU to get here and go with them as they escort her to Tsunade.

Sakura's POV

That light is awful it hurts my eyes every time I open them. Vaguely I wonder where I am, but I can't tell I just want to go back to sleep for a while longer. "Sakura." I can hear the faint voice calling but I don't open my eyes. "Sakura." It's getting louder now.

I groan as I open my eyes and take in my surroundings. A nurse is staring at me from the side of the hospital bed I'm in. The events that took place before I passed out flit through my mind and I sit up suddenly. "Be careful, don't want to hurt yourself after we just got done healing you." She says in a chipper voice, just my luck I would have the constantly happy nurse when all I want is for someone to fill me in on what going on.

"Where's Kakashi?" I ask her making sure to look right into her eyes. She shrugs, "How should I know, the only I'm focusing on is you and your healing process."

"I'm a medic here I know all about the healing process, therefore I know you know what's going on, so you have a choice. Tell me the truth about where Kakashi is and what's happening, or I can just get up and walk out and we'll see what your superiors think when they find out you last a patient." I smile sweetly at her and am satisfied that her smile is gone and a confused hurt look is in its place.

"I wanted to be here when you woke up to avoid this kind of behavior Sakura." I hear him say from the doorway. I didn't even see him standing there. He turns to the nurse who still looks quiet offended, "you can leave now, we both know you don't have to be here." She looks back and forth once then leaves; I sigh and try to swing my legs over the side.

He comes over and sits beside me, I lean into him and he just holds me to him for what seems like hours. I don't even register it when I start crying but by the time he pulls away my face is a blotchy mess and I can't stop. He turns and holds me to him while rocking me, he doesn't let go until I'm completely done crying.

"Where is she?" I look up at him and can see that he doesn't want to tell me, but that he will anyways.

"After Tsunade questioned her and got a number of odd confessions out of her she grew so weak that a choice had to be made. Either she would be given a body to switch into, or she would be left to fade away and die. Since Tsunade and the elders both knew she would be executed they let her die." I nod my head and look out the window, I want to go home but have a nagging suspicion that I have to stay the night here.

"I need to go talk to the nurse or a doctor or something." I say standing up, Kakashi catches me as I fall right back down.

"I don't think that would be such a great idea right now, you're still pretty weak." He smiles at me as he lays me down, I didn't even notice him take of his mask. I run my hand over his face.

"If I have to stay here tonight then so do you." He laughs and nods his head yes then leans down and kisses me. It's nice to feel his lips pressed against mine again.

I'm so sorry for the lateness of this chapter! I will try to update again in the next week but with the way schools going it might be more like two. Again I'm so sorry! I hope you enjoyed reading this =]. Please review and let me know what you think!

-Gaarabear