hello everyone, Crimson here! and I am here for the last time... I'm just kidding so stop hyperventilating 'cause we have just a trickle more to go before the final curtain call. I'm sorry that I didn't send in a chapter Saturday. I had to go to bed early because Sunday I was going down to the river with my whole family. I think our family made up the greater population of the park. XD but anyway's here the next chapter of Titanic -SasuSaku style- please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Titanic
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6 Out of 1,500
Back on Keldysh
Sakura baa-chan looked upon the crew and her granddaughter, Shizune, as her story came to an end.
"1,500 people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under us. There were 20 boats floating near by and only one came back. One." There were tears rolling down Shizune's face as she heard her baa-chan speak the tragic tale. "Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six... out of 1,500. Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do, but wait... wait to die, wait to live... wait for an absolution that would never come."
-April 15, 1912-
All the survivors left in the boats could only pray that help would come soon.
Tsunade would keep looking over at the spot were Titanic sank. Her thoughts always trailed back to her "lost" daughter. Was it guilt that made her think of Haruno Sakura? Love perhaps and sorrow knowing that she's gone? Was it still her great ambitions to gain the money she wanted, since the only thing she had was her "good name". What that be her green-eyed down fall? Only God and Tsunade would know the answer to the last question.
Sai sat there, mulling over the idea of finding someone else to marry, but he knew that none would come close to the trophy-- I mean love, which had been Haruno Sakura.
Now, Sakura lay in the small lifeboat wrapped in a warm blanket, watching Namikaze Minato wave a green flare signaling that they were all there and needed help.
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As light finally broke through the dark, inky night transformed into a pale pink and golden sunrise. Not just the sunrise was upon the horizon, but their God-give miracle as well; Carpathia steamed over to pick up the people from the boats.
--+--
On board Carpathia, all crew staff rushed to help the passengers of the late Titanic.
Sai came down the stairs to where the lower classes were. An officer of Carpathia came up to him. "Oh, sir, I don't think you'll find any of your people down here. It's all steerage." Sai ignored him and paced looking at every single face. He figured his cherry blossom would be there.
Sakura spotted the bastard. Since she had no attention to returning to the life she Sasuke had saved her from she kept hidden under the blanket she had over her head that did a good job of hiding her bright pink locks.
Sai turned, she hid her face once more.
Convinced she wasn't there, he left.
'That's the last time I ever saw him. He married, of course, and inherited his millions, but the crash of '29 hit his interests hard and he put a pistol in his mouth that year or so I read.'
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Open arriving in New York, Sakura stood looking up at the Statue of Liberty as the rain continued to drizzle down. She didn't mind that she was getting soaked at all. An officer walked up to her, carrying an umbrella and a clip board. "Can I take your name, please, love?" he asked Sakura politely.
Sakura turned to look at the man, but then looked back up at the Statue of Liberty. "Uchiha. Uchiha Sakura," she replied simply.
"Arigatou." he walked away after writing Haruno-- Uchiha Sakura's name.
Keldysh
"We never found anything on Sasuke. There's no record of him at all," Kiba explained.
"No, there wouldn't be would there?" Sakura said. "And I've never spoke of him until now. Not to anyone, not eve your grandfather." Shizune smiled through her tears. "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Uchiha Sasuke and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory."
On deck
Iruka stood over looking the submersibles that were being pulled from out of the water.
Shizune saw him and walked over to him. "Mind if I join you?" she asked him.
"No, not at all," Iruka replied. He looked back at the submersibles. He pulled out his celebratory cigar. "You know I was saving this for when I found the diamond." he smelled it then chucked it in the water.
Shizune came closer to him. "Gommen na sai."
They looked at each other.
"Three years, I've thought of nothing except Titanic, but I never got it. I never let it in." Shizune shook her head. Iruka nodded once and looked back out at the dark water.
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Sakura baa-chan walked out on deck. Everyone else was fast asleep and resting after the days event. Her bare feet touching the cool, wet floor. The cool, ocean, night breeze blew her white hair, gently, as well as her white nightgown. Sakura stopped walking when she got to the railing at the back of Keldysh. Sakura grabbed the top metal pole (the veins visible like blue chords in her withered hands), she stepped onto the first bottom bar and looked down at the gentle, dark waters lapping against the ship and moving in smooth waves. Sakura looked down at her open hand; the Blue Diamond necklace rested in her hand.
Sakura had her hand in the pocket of the coat and suddenly felt something hard. She pulled out the object from the pocket and saw the Blue Diamond necklace. The thing that she hated, but loved so much. It represented many things to her.
Sakura closed her hand around the diamond. She gave a small gasp as she let the diamond fall into the water. She looked up and closed her emerald eyes. She opened them after a while; they still held the same shimmer that they did when she was 17-years-old.
'Now it really is the "Heart of the Ocean",' said Inner Sakura. She hadn't aged a day.
Yes, it really is. At that moment anyone could have sworn they were laying eyes on a beautiful young woman of 17 years of age. Flowing bright pink hair, and emerald eyes that sparkled brighter than the brightest star. Sakura baa-chan walked back into her room for a good night's rest. Her mind on the person she was going to go see once she was back home.
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Well, the curtain is just about ready to close. But here's a question I want some of you to think about... why does Sakura baa-chan want to get home so soon?
Sakura: how long have they been going for?
Naruto: -barely looks up from the hangman game he and Inner Crimson were doing- dunno. haven't really been paying attention, much.
Inner Crimson: do you ever pay attention to anything?
Naruto: not really
Honeymusterd: hn
Sasuke and Crimson: -pull back both of them a little flushed-
Honeymusterd: well that took forever
Sasuke: it's been less than 2 minutes
Crimson: you were counting?
Sasuke: I'm just throwing guesses here
Inner Crimson: BACK ON THE COUCH!
All: REVIEW!!
Order of the couch: (left to right) Honeymusterd, Sakura, Sasuke with Crimson in his lap, Naruto and Inner Crimson
By the way peoples... the ouch can only hold four people. hee hee hee
