More thinking and stuff... sorry, a bit boring, but nessassary. (sp?)
But, Sakura will wake up, and Kakashi will admit something to her... Mu haha...
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Sakura lay in her bed, her pink hair spread out like a fan around her face, a light violet colour in the light of the night sky, coming through the window. She looked angelic as she slept, unlike her normal furious and scary self with her fast burning temper. Her face was pale, her cheeks not holding the usual blushing of pink that graced her face, and her bright emerald eyes covered by her pale and thin eyelids. Her hands, like her face, were white and looked small and vulnerable, especially when next to Kakashi's large, calloused ones.
She looked fragile… vulnerable… in need of protection.
Or it could just be the light…
Kakashi had been sleeping next to her side, as soon as she was moved out of the E.R. and into a normal recovery room. He did not stay with her during the day, as much as he wanted to. He did not want her to wake up with out him by her side, but he was not sure if she would want him to be next to her when she woke up.
He was not sure if she wanted to be with him, and to be seen with him. He did not want to put pressure on her, so he had decided to only sit next to her at night, watching her, and thinking, before falling asleep.
He looked down at her face, his eyes deep and full of emotion as he looked at her. He had thought much about what he would do, and how he would act after she woke up. He had calculated all of the possible outcomes, judged whether they were positive or negative, guessed possible reactions and responses, and generally planned his moves. He was torn between acting cool, indifferent, and aloof around her, distancing himself from her and not getting involved, or welcoming her, loving her and telling her the truth.
Both scared him.
Not that the great copy ninja was afraid of anything…
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Sakura was alone in the blackness. She did not know how long she had been there. She remembered faintly being hurt, the thrill of winning, and sorrow, then acceptance. But she did not know why she had had these emotions, nor where she was and what she was doing now.
The darkness was not the type of darkness that looms over your head like a black cloud. That had gone long before the current time, when Sakura had first fallen into the dark abyss. It was now a warm, lighter kind of dark, comforting, a bit like when you close your eyes to go to sleep. It was like sleeping for her.
"Hello?"
Her voice echoed as she waited for an answer. Not that she was expecting one or anything, but it would be nice to get one back, and it was always worth a try.
"Helllllloooo…? Anybody out there?"
Still no answer.
"Well… I really need to get going now… I have things to do…" She took a couple of steps forward, and paused.
"Hello?"
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Kakashi had fallen asleep when he felt something touch his hand. He sat up instantly, his shinobi senses telling him that no one else was in the room other than him and the unconscious woman next to him. He looked down at the small hand curled up next to his, and blinked.
Her hand had been open before.
He had been tracing the curves of her fingers, and the swirling patterns of her individual prints before he had fallen asleep. He knew that he hand had been open. He had not closed it though, and if anyone had been in the room, he would have known. She must have moved her fingers.
"Sakura…?" he asked, hovering above her motionless form, waiting for an answer to his suggested question.
He was not sure if she was awake or not.
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"Sakura…?"
"Sa… ku… ra…?"
"Saaaa…kuuuu…raaaaa… … ?"
The noise echoed, much like her voice, in the empty confinements of the darkness. She thought that she recognised the voice, but a moment later the voice had faded, and the thought slipped out of Sakura's reach. She knew that the person was important to her though.
"Where are you?" she called, hoping for an answer back. There was no reply, so she decided, if the person wouldn't come to her, she would go to them.
So she set off into the black.
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Her fingers twitched again, and Kakashi felt a jolt of excitement run through his system. She could hear him. She was responding to him, even when the nurses and doctors had told him that she would be in her catatonic state for a week at the least as her body recovered.
"Sakura can you hear me? Try to move your fingers and respond if you can."
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"Sakura… hear me… fingers… respond…"
The voice spoke again, but Sakura could not quite hear what he was saying. She knew that it was male, and that it was familiar. The voice made her heart pound… for some reason… she felt…
Ecstatic.
But the voice had gotten fainter to her ears. So she stopped moving forwards, guessing that she was moving in the wrong direction, and turned and headed for the opposite direction. It was hard when she could not see, but she guessed, and just kept walking.
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Her fingers didn't move.
Kakashi felt his happiness and excitement die, and closed his eyes, wishing that she had moved, and that she could hear him. But she did not seem to, even though she seemed to have some brain activity.
She could not hear him.
He could tell her…
"I love you…"
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"I… Love… You…"
The words echoed, and Sakura jumped. They had not gotten louder at all. They had gotten quieter, but clearer. She was very confused. The voice went fuzzy when she walked the other way, yet it went quieter when she walked forwards.
And the voice said that he loved her.
She broke into a run, hoping that she had made the right decision and continued forwards, her heart pounding as fast as her feet were. The blackness faded, and light became slanting through.
The light at the end of the tunnel.
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Pale eyelids fluttering, but no green showing through yet, Kakashi watched stunned, as the monitor beside her bed went crazy, beeping irregularly and the line on it began jumping. He heard a nurse say something a couple of doors down, and knew that they had heard the monitor too.
He had to act fast.
Kakashi got up, glancing back at the pink haired woman in the hospital bed, his intense eyes lingering on her face and taking in her form. He put the memory stored away in his brain, before leaping out of the window before hearing the pattering footsteps of the nurse entering the room, and the door screeching open in a fast swishing noise.
He heard her say something, and then he was gone, over the rooftops like a cat in the night, speeding towards his apartment on the far side of town, his mind imprinted with one image, and chanting one thought.
Her soft face, calm, smooth, sincere. Her violet pink hair in the starlight, and the curves it made around her face, fanning out like silk around her head. Her beautiful neck, free of blemishes and the colour of cream. The way the sheets clung to her form, outlining it in soft blue and white tones.
I love you.
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"Sakura. Sakura are you awake? Can you hear me?"
Her emerald green eyes fluttered open, and blinked a few times, taking in the anxious atmosphere and the surrounding people as she looked up into molten gold eyes of her surrogate mother, and teacher.
"Tsunade shishou?"
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"Sakura's awake!!!"
The blond darted through the streets, knocking over people as he grinned, shouting apologies to the disgruntled shopkeepers and annoyed bystanders. He had finally caught sight of the 'adult material' reading shinobi, thanks to his unusual silver hair, and was now trying to get to the man so that he could be told the good news.
"Hm?"
Kakashi looked up from the book that he was reading… or staring at. He had not turned the page for at least three minutes… maybe four… or ten… He had been too busy thinking. It seemed to be all that he had been doing these days, since he finally saw Sakura as the woman that she was, instead of the out of bound student that she had been.
Talking of students…
Naruto had managed to push his way to his ex sensei and was now standing in front of the silver haired man, his infective grin wide, and his bright blue eyes sparkling and dancing with joy and laughter.
"Sakura's awake!!!"
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He he, can you guess what will happen next chapter? Cause I doubt that you can!
I have the next chapter written, so don't be surprised when I put it up soon!