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Written By: Kumi-Chan/Tobi-Is-Fluffy-Chan
Chapter 21: Death Before Me
Disclaimers: I do not own Perfect Chemistry! All rights belong to Simone Elkeles! The characters that we have all come to love belongs to Mushashi Kishimoto! All Kumi-Chan owns are her edits, add ons and a few other stuff!
Sasuke
Damnit! Please be okay... Please be okay...
Those are the only words going off in my head, as I park Sasu near a large oak tree.
The deal is supposed to happen here, at the forest preserve, in Konoha Woods.
The parking lot and area beyond are dark, with a sliver of moonlight to guide me. It shines on my pale skin, making me appear ghostly. I walk further into the woods and catch a glimpse of a dark figure lying on the ground...
I run while dread washes over me. I recognize my black, leather jacket the closer I get. It's like seeing my own death in front of me.
Kneeling to the ground, I slowly and cautiously turn the body over.
Naruto.
"Oh, shit! Naruto..." I murmur, barely able to talk. Tears immediately come down as I feel his hot, wet blood soak my hands.
Naruto... never got hurt! He's strong! He can never die!
I clutch him closer to me, angrily ripping pieces of grass from the earth as my tears stream down on his dull and paling face.
Naruto's eyes are glazed, but he moves his hand slowly and grabs onto my arm. "I-I..." He coughs up blood, making me momentarily look away. "I fucked up... Sa-Sasuke..."
I rest Naruto's head on my thighs. "I told you to stop interfering with my life." I simply say, shaking my head. He chuckles a bit, which is heartbreaking because I can hear his voice slipping.
"Don't die on me, you better not die on me!" I choke out. I can feel more hot blood underneath his clothes. "Damnit, Naruto... you're bleeding all over."
Bright red blood streams out of his mouth.
"I was scared... at first..." he whispers, then winces in pain. "But... it's... it's t-time..."
"Don't leave me here, you idiot. Hold on and it'll be fine." I hold Naruto tightly, knowing I just lied to him. My best friend is dying. There's no going back. I feel his pain as if it's my own.
He lost his parents when he was just an infant. He lost the love of his life, Hinata... He lost the few people who cared for him... and most importantly, he lost our bonds and his life.
"Well... Would you look at that? It's pretend Sasuke and his sidekick, the real Sasuke. Some Halloween night, isn't it?
I turn around to the sound of Tobi's voice.
"It's too bad I couldn't tell it was Naruto Uzumaki I was shooting at," he continues. "Man, you two look so different in daylight. I guess I should get my eye checked." He pulls a gun on me.
I'm not scared.
I'm angry!
I need answers. "Why did you do this?"
"If you must know, it's your father's fault. He wanted out of the clan. While he still had his Uchiha pride... He never wanted to be apart of what he have to offer to the world, Sasuke! There is no out. Your father was the best we had. Right before he died, he tried to quit. That last drug deal was his challenge, Sasuke. Father-son drug deal." Tobi took off his mask, revealing a scarred up face.
He also laughs, a cackling sound reverberating in my ears. "If you both made it out alive, he wins. The stupid motherfucker never had a chance. You're too much like your old man. I thought I could train you to take his place as a great drug and gun dealer. Truth be told, you were not even meant for this. Itachi Uchiha was. He never quits. But you're a quitter. Just like your father. Too much like your old man."
I look down at Naruto. He's hardly breathing, the air barely making it out of his lungs. Looking down at his blood-stained chest, the growing red bull's-eye reminds me of my father. This time, though, I'm not six years old. Everything is crystal clear.
My eyes meet Naruto's for an intense second.
"Remember the Uzumaki name, Sasuke... Ju-Just know... The clan betrayed the both of us, man." are the last words Naruto says before his eyes glazed over and he falls limp in my arms.
"Put him down, already! He's dead, Sasuke. Just like your old man. Get up and face me!" Tobi yells, waving his gun in the air like a lunatic.
I gently lat Naruto's lifeless body on the ground, close his eyes and then stand, ready to fight.
"Put your hands on your head so I can see em'. You know, when I killed that imbecile, you cried like the little bitch you are. Much like a shit-faced baby." He cackles. "You want to know something? You cried in my arms, as well. I'm the guy who killed him. Ironic, isn't it?"
I was only six. If I'd known it was Tobi, I wouldn't have joined the clan's gang. "Why'd you do it, Tobi?"
"Boy, you'll never learn, will you? You see, your father thought he was better than me. I showed him, didn't I? He bragged that the south side of Konoha was a cut above since the high school was in a rich hood. Said in Konoha there were no gangs. I changed that. Got my guys to go in and make every household belong to me. It was either come to me, or lose everything. That, my boy, is what makes me the best."
"It makes you a madman." I calmly say, my voice being lethal.
"Madman. Genius. Same thing." Tobi pushes me with the gun. "Now get on your knees. I think that is a good place for you to die. Right here in the woods, like an animal. You want to die like an animal, Sasuke?"
"You're the animal, assholes. You could at least look me in the eyes when you murder me, like you did to my father."
When Tobi walks around me, I finally have a chance. Grabbing Tobi's wrist, I force him to the ground.
Tobi swears and is fast to his feet, the gun still in hands. I use his disorientation to my advantage and kick him in his side. Whirling around, Tobi knocks the sides of my head with the butt of his gun. I fall on my knees, cursing the fact that I'm not invincible.
Thoughts of my father and Naruto give me the strength to fight back through the blur. I'm all too aware Tobi is trying to get a good shot at me.
I punch him in the face, when I kick Tobi as well, he falls back. I quickly scramble to my feet. Tobi's gun is pointed directly at my chest.
"This is the Konoha ANBU forces! Drop you weapon and put your hands in the air where we can see them!"
Through the woods and the haze, I can barely see red and blue lights flashing in the distance.
I raise my hands. "Drop it, Tobi. The game is over."
Tobi holds his gun steady, aimed at the chest.
"Put the gun down," an ANBU officer calls out. "Now!"
Tobi's eyes are wild. I feel his rage from the five feet separating us.
I know he's going to do it. Right near at my heart.
He's going to pull the trigger.
"You're wrong, Sasuke." He says. "The game has just begun."
The whole thing happens fast. I move to the right as the shots ring out.
Pop. Pop. Pop.
Stumbling backwards, I know I'm hit. The bullet burns through my skin as if someone is pouring hot ramen on it.
Then my world goes black.
Sakura
At five in the morning, my ringing cell phone wakes me up. It's Hinata, probably wanting advice about Naruto.
"Do you know what time it is?" I giggle, when I answer the phone, rubbing the sleepiness from my eyes.
"... He's dead, Sakura. He's gone."
"Who?" I ask frantically, sitting up from the bed.
"N-Naruto... And I-I didn't kn-know if I-I sh-should call you, but you'll find out eventually that Sasuke w-was there al-also and-"
My fingers tighten is the phone. "Where's Sasuke? Is he okay? Please tell me he's okay, Hina. Please! I beg of you!"
"H-He was shot."
For a second I wait for her to say those dreaded words. But she doesn't. "He's in surgery at South Konoha Hospital."
Before she finishes her sentence, I'm putting on my sweater, still in my pjs and throwing on some shoes. Grabbing my keys, still on holding my phone tight and heading out the door. I listen to Hinata relay all the details she knows.
The drug deal went bad and Naruto and Tobi are dead. Sasuke was shot, and is in surgery. That's all she knows.
"Please be okay, please be okay, oh my God." I chant as I pull up to the hospital. When I spent the evening with Sasuke last night, I was sure he would choose me over the drug deal. He might have betrayed our love, but I can't.
Deep sobs rack me.
Naruto assures me yesterday he was going to make sure Sasuke didn't do the drug deal but... oh, God. Naruto took Sasuke's place and ended up dead. Poor, sweet Naruto!
I'm trying to drown images of Sasuke not making it through the surgery out of my head. A part of me will die with him if he doesn't make it.
I ask the hospital receptionist where I could and should wait for updates on Sasuke's condition.
The lady asks me to spell his name, then types it on her keyboard. The sound is making me crazy. She's taking so long that I want to grab her shoulder and shake her into going faster.
The woman looks at me with a noisy curiosity and eyes me up and down. "Are you family?
Rolling my eyes, the inner me takes over. "Does it really matter? I have someone important to get to!"
She gasps at my bluntness before I let out a sigh filled with irritation.
"Yes. We're family."
"... Relation?"
She had to be kidding me.
"Sister." I say, biting my tongue to keep me from having a fit and ranting at the woman.
The lady shakes her head in disbelief, then shrugs. "Sasuke Uchiha was brought in with a gunshot wound."
"He's going to be okay, right?" I cry, slumping over a bit and wiping a tear that threatened to fall down my face.
The lady punches her keyboard again. "It looks like he's been in surgery all morning, Miss Uchiha. The waiting room is the orange room down the hall on the right. The doctor will inform you of your brother's prognosis after surgery."
I fight back tears and the rolling of my eyes but mutter to her, "Thank you."
At the waiting room, I freeze as I see Sasuke's mother and his two brothers huddled in a corner, sitting on orange-colored hospital chairs. His mother looks up first.
Her eyes are bloodshot and tears stream down her face.
My hand goes to my mouth and I can't help a sob from escaping; I can't hold it in.
Tears well up in my eyes, and through the blurriness I see Mrs. Uchiha open her arms to me.
Overwhelmed with emotion, I run into her embrace.
.
. .
.
His hands twitched.
I lift my head from Sasuke's hospital bed. I've sat beside him through the night waiting for him go wake up. His mother and brothers haven't left his side either.
The doctor said it would be hours before he's conscious.
I wet a paper towel from the hospital room sink and touch it to Sasuke's forehead. I've done this throughout the night as he sweated and thrashed in a restless sleep.
His eyes flutter. I can tell he's fighting the sedation as he forces them open. "Where am I?" His voice is scratchy and faint.
"The hospital..." His mom murmurs as she rushes to his side.
"You were shot, little brother." Itachi adds, his voice full of agony.
Sasuke's eyebrows draw together in confusion. "Naruto..." he says, his voice hitching.
"Don't think about that right now," I say, trying to hold my emotions in with little success. I need to be strong for him now and I won't let him down.
I think he's about to reach for my hand, but a pained expression crosses his face and he pulls back. I wish I could have a Do Over Day and change the past. I wish I could have saved Naruto and Sasuke from their fates.
His eyes are glassy from drowsiness when he looks at me and says, "Why are you here?"
I watch as his mom rubs his arm, trying to lend him comfort. "Sakura stayed all night, Sasuke. She's worried about you."
"In her pjs?" He smirks, shaking his head but wincing a bit in pain.
As a tear falls down my face, I quickly wipe it and shrug my shoulders, grinning with chagrin as I eye my own bunny slippers. "I'm really worried, Sasuke. But it's okay, I'm hear for you." I kiss him on the forehead.
His slightly amused face suddenly turns stoic.
"Let me talk to her. Alone." he says, weakly.
His brothers and mother exit the room, giving us privacy.
When we're alone, he winces in pain as he adjusts his position. Then he glares at me. "I want you to leave."
"You don't mean that," I say, reaching for his hand. He can't mean it.
He jerks his hand away, as if my touch burned him. "Yes. I do."
"Sasuke, we can get through this. I love you."
He turns his head and focuses on the floor. He swallows and clears his throat. "I fucked you because of a bet, Sakura." He says softly, but his words come out crystal clear. "It didn't mean anything to me. You don't mean anything to me."
I step back as Sasuke's hurtful words seep into my brain. "No," I whisper.
"You and me... it was a game. I bet Deidara his RX-7 that I could fuck you before Thanksgiving."
When Sasuke referred to our lovemaking as a "fuck" I cringed. Calling it sex would have left a butter taste in my mouth. Calling it a "fuck" makes my stomach churn.i keep my hands limo at my sides. I want to make him take back his words. "You're... lying."
He turns his gaze from the floor and looks right into my eyes. Oh, God.
There's no emotions there. His eyes are as steely as his words. "You are pathetic if you think this thing between us was real."
I shake my head violently. "Don't hurt me, Sasuke. Not you. Not now." My lips are trembling as I mouth a silent but pleading, "Please."
When he doesn't respond I take another step back, almost stumbling as I think about me, the real me only Sasuke knows. In a pitiful whisper, I tell him, "I trusted you."
"That was your mistake, not mine."
He touches his left shoulder and winces in pain before a group of his friends file into the room. They offer him condolences and sympathy while I stand frozen in the corner, completely unnoticed.
"Was it all for the bet?" I say above the commotion.
The six or so people in the room stare at me. Even Sasuke. Hinata steps toward me, but I hold up a hand and stop her.
"Is it true? Did Sasuke make a bet to have sex with me?" I say, because I still can't wrap my brain around Sasuke's hurtful words. It can't be true.
All eyes drift to him, but Sasuke's eyes penetrate my own.
"Tell her," Sasuke orders.
A guy named Juugo lifts his head up. "Well, uh, yeah. He won Deidara's RX-7."
I back up to the hospital room door, trying to hold my head high. A cold, hard expression settles on Sasuke's face.
My throat threatens to close as I say, " Congratulations Sasuke. You win. I hope you like your new car."
As I grab the door handle to leave, Sasuke's steely glare turns to relief. I calmly walk out of the room. I hear Hinata come up behind me when I'm in the hallway, but I run away from her the hospital and Sasuke.
As I'm walking out of the hospital doors, I unfortunately know I can't run away from my heart. It hurts, deep inside my body.
I can't believe it. I can't believe he did that to us...
The deciet.
The humiliation!
Fucked us for a car?!
Unable to contain my emotions, I find myself marching back into the hospital, back up the elevator and back down the ivory painted, orange decorated hallway.
Peering, - no, glaring through the glass window of his room, I witness what seems to be a happy Sasuke, surrounded by his stupid friends and... Hinata and... her.
Ino.
Grasping the handle, I do what is unexpected from me. The prissy pink headed, richie-rich girl.
Everyone seems astonished to see me back, including Sasuke.
The look on his perfect, - no, stupid face is priceless.
"So this is what people like you do?" I seethe, tears flooding my eyes. "This is what you, someone I trusted and... and... someone I loved do?" I step closer to his hospital bed, getting a real good look at his pale face.
Smiling wryly, I shake my head, letting the tears stream down my face. I slap his cheek one good time, causing him to wince in pain and his head to go in the opposite direction.
A burning red mark is left and I can hear the heart monitor he's connected to, speeding up. His friends begun to protest at my actions, while I watch him touch his stinging cheek, those black eyebrows of his furrowing and his face turning as stoic as ever.
One of his friends steps forward. "He fucked you. So what? Get out and don't be a littl-"
"Shut up!" I scream, causing the room to turn silent.
I clutch the area where my weak and beating heart rests and aches. "You've used me. You've hurt me. You've humiliated me and even worse, you stepped all over me and you're just like everybody else!" - "Sasuke, you've fed me so much lies... You've fed my heart with so much fucking fake affection... But now I know. I know the real you. I know who you really are and what you really are."
I stop, but continue, "You're a spineless, jerk. You're another Hidan." His mouth opens as if he has something to say but I don't even give him the chance. "You're not different. You're exactly like everybody else and guess what? I won't fall for it or you anymore. Because of you, the next guy... he'll pay for what you've done. All of the guilt will come to haunt you. All of your lies will come to bite you. " - "I hope you have a swift and fast recovery, asshole. Enjoy your piece of shit car and enjoy your fucked up life."
I leave out the building without a final glance back at what I left behind.
I know I'll never be the same...
Ouch. Just ouch. Everything about this chapter hit the heart when I typed it and wrote some of it. First the death, then the hurtful words and Sakura's retaliation. Everything went down in the chapter and I can't believe it's almost over!
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