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Promise broken, I talked to Gaara.
He came over, and looked confused; I don't think he bothered to brush his hair this morning because it stuck up in odd looking red spikes.
"What's wrong?" he asked, he seemed actually concerned.
I glare sourly, then shut the door. He really didn't remember the fact I had been bothering him all week about MY DEBATE THAT HE DIDN'T COME TOO!?
He knocked again, and this time I felt really bad, I opened it and he glared back at me. "What's wrong Sora? I slept in. Usually you break in through Kankuro's window before you allow that to happen. Why are you mad-" I shut the door again as my temper comes back. Yep, he forgot.
I walked angrily to the bathroom and washed away the angry hurt tears, I was making a big deal of this, but he promised! It meant a lot to me!
When I came back he was in the living room. "You don't lock any doors do you?"
"You don't remember important things, do you?" I snap back.
"What?"
"Friday, debate, important?!" I say.
"Oh… sorry. I forgot."
"Yeah, right, I called you before I left Gaara!"
"Sorry."
"I don't care!"
"Well, I do, how'd you go?"
"You would have known if you came." I sniffed. "And we won."
He looked down, then glared. "Fine, if your going to be mad I'll go home."
And he got up to walk away, but I have too much of a soft-spot for Gaara, and I caught his hand before he made it out the door. "Sorry. But I was angry.." I say slowly.
He smiled crookedly. "Understandable."
"You'll come next time?"
"Promise."
I nod. "Okay then, your forgiven."
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Monday – NewsNewsNews!
The Rollcall Gossip Wall had a new victim. 'Neji 3's Tenten' was plastered all over it. And it wasn't in Neji or Tenten's writing, I have P.E. with Tenten and we have to do a report together, it's not hers and I know Neji's writing off by heart because his work is always 'model student example' work and it projected all across the school.
And the best of all…. SHIKA TALKED TO ME!
He came to me after Debating practise (once again, re-preparing for the next round) once Sasuke and Sakura had left.
"Sora, have you told Tsnuade-Sensei yet?" he cringed, waiting for the reply.
"No." I answer, smirking. "You've made up your mind?"
"Not really."
"I suggest you do so now." I wasn't the old me, I was determined.
He sighed. "This is blackmail, you realize?"
"It is!? Oh my, that suddenly changed my mind! Go on, you're free to go." I say sarcastically. "Course I realize."
He glowers at me, then sighs, obviously arguing with himself. Shika is intelligent, any other person right now would be screaming at me, but Shika is calm. He was weighing options. "Fine."
"Fine What?" I ask.
"You win." He sighs, looking downcast. "I'll come live with you."
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After Work
My house is becoming a homeless shelter. Now Shika and Sakura are going to be boarding. Shika has money his 'rents send, so he will donate that, and sakura works, so I guess payment is okay, but still!
Arrrgggg. I need to work out where he'll sleep too.
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5/6/15 – Escaping with Gaara after school to get milkshakes. Should be fun.
Well. I find myself here again. In English, should be reading, but I'm not. Nothing interesting is happening. Next debate is scheduled for next Friday (16/6/15).
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At Work
It's raining. It's wet. I'm sad. Sasuke isn't here. Naruto is though, he's getting so tall. And I don't like it!
I reached for the tin on top of the shelf, grumbling "Stupid lack of step-ladders."
I felt a hand on the tin I had been stretching in vain to reach and scowl. "Naruto, I was doing fine."
"Suure you were." He gloated. I turn to glare and snatch the tin out of his hands.
"Shut up, I'm short. Leave us short people alone." I grumble.
We spend the rest of the arvo being bored, which is where I am now. Being bored.
Somebody brought the radio back, but it's only tuned on the news station.
"Main road is blocked by an accident, we ask all people travelling from, or out of Konoha by the main road to detour around the crash…"
"Eh…" I turn it off, radio's aren't any fun when they talk about people being smooshed in car accidents.
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Home
As I drove home in the rain, I braved the news again.
"The devastating crash along the Main Highway out of Konoha, has revealed shocking evidence, the crash that has killed five seems to be from the brakes being cut, was the loss in the Uchiha family murder?"
At the word 'Uchiha' I slammed on my brakes, and felt a cold shiver run through me, I raced home, crashed through the door and picked up the phone, still cold and pale.
"Sora? What's wrong?" Sakura asked, concerned. "You look terrible, like you've seen a ghost."
I ignore her and dial Sasuke's mobile. No one picks up and my heart beats faster.
Please don't be dead, please don't be dead, PLEASE don't be dead…. I dial their home-phone, it rings and rings and once again, no one picks up. I swear, and then dial Naruto.
"Sora?" he asked, yawning. "You woke me up."
"Have you heard!?" I demand, I could hear my voice crack.
"What?"
"Sasuke- Car, accident, um, the thing on the radio, it was the UCHIHA CRASH!"
"What…" I heard his voice trail off, and a crash, he'd dropped the phone, another scuffle as he hurried to pick it up. "What!?"
"I don't know details, but I've tried the home phone and Sasuke's mobile and nobody has picked up."
"I'll pick you up. We're going to find him."
"See you soon." I drop the phone on the receiver and sit down hard.
Sakura looked at me worried. "Sora, what happened to Sasuke?"
"I don't know yet." I say, still pale, I swallowed hard and grabbed a jacket. "I'm going to Sasuke's place now with Naruto."
I was expecting her to insist she comes too, but she just nodded and walked back to the kitchen, I felt a rush of affection for her and hugged her before I ran out the door when I heard Naruto's car on the drive-way. Despite my coat, I still got soaked by the rain in the small time from the front door to the car.
I called everyone on Naruto's mobile I could think of that might know what happened, until I tried the home-phone again. My heart pounded as somebody picked up.
"Hello?" It must be the cleaner.
"Hi, is Sasuke there!?" I ask hurriedly, Naruto looks over from the steering wheel anxiously.
"No, he's at the hospital." The voice answered.
I nearly drop the phone, and I can see Naruto worry at my even pale-er face. "Um, what?"
"He is at the hospital, Konoha Emergency Ward."
"Okay, that you." I click the hang up button before the prim voice can respond. And lick dry lips. "He's at the hospital, emergency ward…" I say, my stomach was empty, thank god, otherwise I think it'd have thrown up then and there. The tires screeched on there road as Naruto turned around to heard for the hospital.
We reached it and ran into the waiting room, there were reporters around two figures I think must be Itachi or the parents, and I push through the crowd with Naruto, and nearly pass out with relief, and leap on Sasuke.
"Oh thank god!" I say, sobbing. "We thought you were dead!"
Naruto forgets we're in public and hugs him too, I can feel flashes of light on us but I ignore them, I don't care about stupid reporters. I wipe my eyes and laugh with relief, he wasn't dead! It wasn't him in the car!
When I look up from burying my face in his shirt, I see red, tired puffy eyes and a pale complexion. "Sasuke?"
He leads us to a different room, in the hallway, away from creepy journalists. "Everyone… Everyone's gone…" He managed to get out in a whisper.
"What?"
"Everyone, it's just me and Itachi left…"
Naruto sat on his other side, and I saw him take Sasuke's hand. "it was your family in that car, wasn't it?"
I swayed. "Al- All of them?" I sat down next to him, dizzy.
Sasuke nodded, shakily. "Dead." He croaked.
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Oh my! What a twist! Hehe. Happy Holidays ya'll! Hope you liked it, I LOVE YOU ALL FOR YOUR REVEIWS! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH! You will most likely receive marriage proposals soon. THANKS SO MUCH!
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