Chapter 18 The meeting part 1
Thanks to everyone who reviewed. I know that the previous chapter did not have any Gaara in it. Im sorry to say neither does this one. This chapter is all about Sakura's past on how she met her psycho friends. XD
Yeah forgot to tell ya Im not English so sorry If I make grammar mistakes. If anyone knows how I can get a beta reader tell me.
"No visitors allowed. Visiting hours are over. Please come back in the morning." A nurse's unmistakable calm voice said. Sakura was awake as she laid and listened to the conversation that occurred outside her bedroom door.
"Don't make me blow you up, you cocky bitch!" The second tone was unmistakable that of a man. He sounded really aggravated and in a rush.
"Please lower your voice sir, this IS a hospital and there ARE sick people here!" The nurse said in a slow and low tone. It sounded like she was speaking to an idiot as she said those words.
"Tch, Like I care" Came the snappy reply. "Go annoy someone else, fucking dyke" Sakura recognized that tone, of all her friends there was but one who would use words like that in a public place.
Sakura watched her bed room door open up for the millionth time that day. She had a lot of visitors today. First was Tsunade who came to lecture her then it was Kakashi who just sat in the chair next to her, reading his porn. He wasn't always one for words. He just wanted to be close to the ones he cared for. Exchanging words was not always necessary with him. Like they say Actions speak louder than words. Neji and Shikamaru visited, Temari after them and then there was Gaara who stayed with her until visiting hours were over.
The Bedroom door banged open. A blond head followed after that. His blue eyes looked freaked out as he stood in the doorway, scanning the room like a blood thirsty predator. His cold eyes locked on Sakura's startled green ones.
"Hey Saku" Deidara smiled. He gave a small wave. "Nice seeing you here"
"Get out of the way!" Deidara was pushed forward by a unseen force. The blond fell forward flat onto the cold, hard hospital floor. An unconcerned Itachi walked in nearly stepping on the blond. Kisame grunted stepping on the blond as he followed Itachi. Sasori just stood at the open door, shaking his head at the blond who swore murder at Kisame who stepped on him.
"Assholes" Deidara groaned from the floor.
Sakura's eyes slowly started to widen as realization hit her like a speeding train. 'how did they know im here? Oh Shit they're going to want to know who did this to me then they will go kill them' ran through her head.
"We called Tsunade this morning, to hear if you could go out to break fast with us." Itachi started. Looking at her bruised and bandaged body. The cold hatred that radiated from him was so intense that Sakura sank deeper into the bed covers trying to get the cold chill, running down her spine to warm up.
"She told us you weren't there yeah" Deidara interrupted Itachi. He pushed himself off the floor, dusting his black, leather jacket off.
"Like I was saying, she said you were here" Itachi glared at the blond who interrupted him. No one interrupted unless they had a death sentence. "How are you feeling Sakura?" Itachi asked, looking from Deidara to her.
"Okay I guess" Sakura smiled awkwardly. "I'm alive as you can all see" She scratched her head.
"Who did this to you, Sakura?" Itachi closed his eyes, Sasori sighted and Kisame smacked his face at Deidara's lack of intelligence. It was clear that Sakura did not want to talk about it but the blond was always so damn persistent.
"Deidara...well...um." Sakura stuttered. She felt highly uncomfortable talking about this subject. She never wanted any of her friends to know what her parents do to her. She had promised herself many years ago never to let them know about it. It was her problem and hers alone.
"I understand, Saku" Deidara whispered. He stood on his spot looking down at the floor. "Sasuke's gonna die!" Deidara suddenly yelled, startling Sakura and the others. He turned around and ran out of the room. Sasori casually followed the blond with a irritated sigh. He had to follow the blond and attempt to stop the blond from doing unnecessarily things like he usually do.
"I'll go stop him, Kisame you stay with Sakura" Itachi walked towards the door. He always looked so elegant as he walked, like he was walking over glass. Sakura knew. She had known Itachi for years to notice that his usual strands were more intense which meant he was suppressing his anger.
"Wait, Itachi" Sakura yelled after him. Itachi stepped in his tracks, his hand held the door knob as he waited for Sakura's words to follow. "It wasn't Sasuke." She whispered. Itachi turned the door knob and headed out, he vanished from sight when the door closed behind him.
"so" Kisame grunted grabbing a chair from next to Sakura's bed. He turned it around so that the back rest was in front. "You mind you know?" He looked everywhere in the room in order not to look at Sakura. He just knew he would get a glare from her for asking a question she didn't want to hear.
"Im not telling either one of you." Sakura sighted, frustrated that this had to happen at her. It all went so smooth in the old days when she did not have any fiends who cared enough about Sakura to notice if she was covered in bruises or in the hospital.
"Awe why not?" Kisame whined. He slowly smiled at Sakura, his inhumanly white teeth poked out from under his lips. One could say that he resembled a bloody thirty shark at that moment with his crazy looking eyes and very sharp looking teeth. "We'll just have a nice chat with them then help them out"
"Yeah you will help them out, help them from a rooftop" Sakura muttered. 'that wouldn't be such a bad idea' Sakura thought. 'maybe we can add Sasuke and Ino to that equation. That would be wonderful'
"For what they did to you dying so slowly wouldn't be fun" Kisame winked. "We'll give them a long and slow, painful death. They will never hurt you ever again. Ahhh it would be so nice" Kisame smirked his crazy smirk.
"Then you'll go back to that room" Sakura stated.
"Eh the white room wasn't so bad after you came to the mental institution to play nurse." Kisame laughed. "I remember the first time people messed with Deidara about you, he nearly killed them for calling him gay after that." Kisame laughed.
"Yeah I remember" Sakura laughed. "I was so sad and hollow back then"
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Lightning flashed over the cold, concrete building. The small withered trees surrounding the building, bend slightly as the wind tugged on it with it's mighty force. Rain pattered hard against the windows, cars and everyone who dared go out in the storm that have befallen the city.
"Now Sakura, your not suppose to wander, look at them or..."
"Or speak to them. I know, you told me that over and over before we came here." Sakura said arrogantly as she rolled her eyes at Tsunade. Sakura could look after herself. Her parents were abusers and so were all their 'friends', She knew exactly how to take care of herself. She has been doing it for the past 12 years. Tsunade was not her mother even if she let Sakura stay with her.
"I know, I just don't want to put you in any danger while I'm here" Tsunade sighted. She knew it would be hard to take Sakura in as a daughter after all that the girl went through. Sakura was a sweet girl with manners but she did not always know how to react to certain things. She never took food from the fridge, she was afraid to walk around the house and she never came out of her room, not even to go to the bathroom. Tsunade had to leave the house before Sakura went out of her room. Sakura have been more open after two weeks at Tsunade's house.
"Lady Tsunade, your patient is waiting for you" a nurse said as she handed an old and thick brown folder over to Tsunade. The nurse was a old nurse, covered in wrinkles and her white hair was neatly tied in a braid. Her uniform had no creases or stains. One look of her and anyone can derive that she was a neat freak.
"You said that he went like this after 30 years?" Tsunade asked her as she eyed the brown folder in her hands. She was paging through some notes that have been taken recently about the patient.
"Yes. After you treated him 30 years ago he was stable and posed no threat. Were really sorry to disturb you with your retirement from the hospital to look at this patient but he refuses to see anyone but you. That is all we know." She sighted, rubbing her temple.
"I see" Tsunade nodded her head. "I need to examine this folder before we head down to him. I need to be clear and informed about the patient I will be seeing." She told herself. "It might take some time to finish this up"
"What about me? Do you want me to sit in some small office and bore myself?" Sakura asked. She was leaning against a window pane, staring out at the storm raging on outside. Lightning flashed, followed by a loud roar.
"This old place can be really creepy if your not use to it. You should not be scared, little girl" the nurse spoke softly to Sakura.
"Tch, this feels like home". Sakura watched her reflection against the window as she spoke. "I'm not scared of anything, nothing scares me anymore" She whispered the last part. The nurse looked confused at Tsunade who just shook her head.
"Sakura why don't you look around this place. Its huge with lots of interesting sights that the patients made while they stayed here. I'm sure its safe" Tsunade suggested.
"Yes its safe" The nurse plastered on a fake smile "As long as you don't wonder down to the confined area. We have the dangerous prisoners confined there"
"Then its settled" Sakura spoke softly She pushed herself away from the window pane. She stopped in front of Tsunade and the old nurse.
"Sakura look out for yourself. Remember this is a mental institute. The worst of the patients are sedated or in their rooms. The harmless ones are those walking around. I will be attending to this other patient so please don't get into an trouble or go down to that confined area." Tsunade, spoke softly to Sakura. She knew that Sakura did not respond to harsh words or yelling like when she grew up. Sakura was one you had to speak softly to.
"Don't worry" Sakura shrugged. She watched as Tsunade and the nurse walked down the hall, they stopped at a door. The old nurse went on inside while Tsunade looked back at Sakura. Sakura nodded to Tsunade, showing her that she knew what Tsunade meant. Tsunade nodded back and went into the office. Tsunade was just showing Sakura that if she returned, she was to go to that office.
Shoving her hands into her black jean, pockets, Sakura Started walking down the hall. The walls were so grey and lifeless like her life, Sakura noted as she walked. Sakura had wandered the facility for the past two hours and found the cafeteria where the most of the patients sat eating their food, others drooled and some even listened to music that was not there. Sakura have passed a few of the patients. They all looked like they were new kids in a school, staring at the walls, ceiling and the various doors that they had passed some of them were muttering to themselves. One had a pillow with him and was petting it, whispering sweet words to it like it was a child.
Sakura just kept on walking. She felt no worries, no pain, nothing when she walked. She could hear the storm still raging on outside the walls of the compound. She turned a left then descended some stairs. She did not care where she was headed so she just kept on walking the endless, bare and cold halls. The next hall she took looked differently than all the others that she had taken for the past hours. This hall was colder than the others as well. The hall had a row of ten heavy metal doors with small, round windows in them. Sakura looked through the first doors window, behind all these metal doors were rooms. They were all padded up from the floor to the ceiling and even the walls were padded up. Yellow and red stains marked the room in every corner. Sakura kept on walking, past every door, looking through each and every window. She stopped walking once a movement caught her eye. She walked up to a window. Inside in a corner, sat a boy a few years older than she was. His long black hair fell over parts of his face and the front of his white straight jacket. He was resting against the padded wall in the corner with his eyes closed. Sakura stood captivated by the boy in the room. Even though he was all sealed up and tied up, he looked like nothing in the world bothered him at all. He looked so carefree; it amazed her to no extent. His eyes opened slowly, locking with Sakura's eyes. Cold onyx met dead green. The boy smirked at her for a second before he leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes.
"What are you doing down here!" Sakura yanked her face from the window. The force caused her to fall backwards onto her ass.
"What's your damage?" Sakura roared "You almost gave me a bloody heart attack" She glared at the person, standing at the beginning of the hall. It was a man dressed in a blue uniform. He was clearly a nurse who worked in this institute. He was quite handsome with his messy black hair, his smooth skin even though it was very pale. His normal blue uniform was covered with sticky, new blood.
"This section is forbidden to visitors" He spoke loud and clear.
"Why?" Sakura challenged. She was not in the mood to be told what to do by the person who almost gave her a heart attack and who probably gave her the new bruises on her ass from the fall.
"These patients in this section are all very dangerous." He spoke with calmness.
"You don't say" Sakura said cocking her head to the side. "I thought they were happy in straight jackets and padded rooms" Sakura smiled like an innocent girl when the nurse's jaw clenched.
"Listen here little girl..." He hissed.
"Shaun get going!" Another manly nurse ran towards the one talking to Sakura. "Were bringing him in. Open his room door while we still have him under control" He gave a quick gaze in Sakura's direction"You little girl get out of the way!" The man ran off in the direction he came from.
Shaun glared at Sakura. He ran for the door right in front of Sakura, pulling it open. Screaming erupted down the hall that Shaun's companion came from a moment ago. The other nurse came back with two other men walking behind him, dragging a screaming blond boy by his shoulders. He was struggling against them, his normal white straight jacket was tarnished with blood as he kept on screaming profanities at them. "Ill blow you all up" He laughed. His long blond, unruly and blood stained hair cascaded over his bloody straight jacket . His right eye was covered in a bang of blond hair.
"Take a nap psycho" Shaun screamed punching the blond boy in the face. The blond boy's head whipped back with the blow he got from Shaun. "Why won't you be a good nut case and commit suicide?" Shaun asked with a smirk, standing in front of the boy as if challenging him. The boy brought his head back from the backwards position of the blow. He smirked.
"Come on you pussy, hit me like a man" The blond screamed, looking right at Shaun. Blood trailed from the corner of his mouth.
"Little" Shaun threw a punched again but this time the blond boy moved out of the way so that Shaun punched one of the nurses holding onto the boy. Without a moment to spare the boy crashed into the other nurse holding onto him. The boy's weight and force caused the nurse to collide into eh second nurse that came before the two holding onto him. They were both knocked into the wall, unconscious. Shaun's eyes grew big as the blond boy stood in front of him, not restrained by any nurses.
"Take a nap, asshole" The blond boy kicked Shaun in the face, knocking him backwards. His head collided with the cold, hard cement floor instantly knocking him unconscious. The blond boy walked towards Sakura who pushed herself against the metal door of the black haired boy. He pushed himself against her. "Are you scared little girl, yeah?" He asked, looking up. He was a head taller than she was, looking directly at her Sakura noticed that his eyes were a icy blue.
"Why should I be?" Sakura asked. She locked eyes with the blond haired boy. The boy flipped the blond bang from his right eye.
"You got balls girl, more than any of these pussy here" He smirked. His eyes moved from her eyes to the window behind her where it locked with the black haired boy's onyx eyes. He nodded at the black haired boy. "Have fun visiting here, blossom. This is not the place for you" He stepped back from her, turning and walking towards the room across from her . The one that Shaun opened earlier. He walked into the room, sitting against a corner.
"Tch" Sakura turned around and nearly got a heart attack for the second time the day. Behind her the face of the black haired boy stood. His cold eyes looked straight at her. He had no emotion present on his face like he had when had a moment ago.
"Itachi usually doesn't care about others but looks like you caught his attention little girl, yeah" The blond guy spoke from his room.
"How did I?" Sakura asked, looking into the black haired boy's eyes.
"Simple, Your eyes. It's the same as Itachi's, yeah" The blond boy smirked, looking at Sakura with his icy eyes. "You should probably get back or people might start to get worried about you."
"Sure" Sakura shrugged. "She turned towards the entrance to the hall where she came in. The nurses who the boy knocked out earlier were starting to stir.
"The main hall will be easier to get to if you keep on taking the left halls. See you little girl" The blond boy's voice echoed behind Sakura s she walked away. She kept on walking left like he said, not much caring if he led her to the wrong place. Sakura ended up in main hall, just like the blond boy said. Sakura heard Tsunade's boisterous voice screaming at someone. She blinked a few seconds at the sight before her. Tsunade held the nurse Shaun by his blood stained uniform. She looked past the nurse and caught Sakura. In her eye
"Sakura!" Tsunade yelled out. She pushed the poor beaten nurse out of the way, nearly knocking the guy against the wall. The old nurse stood where Tsunade stood a while ago with a walkie talkie in her hand. Tsunade eloped Sakura in a bone crushing hug.
"Oh my goodness child your okay" The old nurse breathed out. "I heard from Shaun over here what happened to you down in the confined area that I warned you about. Im really surprised that Deidara didn't do anything to you. That boy is very dangerous and violent" The nurse preached.
"We told you not to go down there! I warned you not to go anywhere and that it was dangerous round that are. Those people down there are killers and they will kill you without thinking!" Tsunade screamed at Sakura, hugging the girl as she screamed. "I was so scared when I heard you were in danger" Tsunade's tone dropped concededly as she spoke, her whole body shook.
"Im okay, really. He didn't do anything to me. We just talked that's all" Sakura said, trying to breath. "Im okay, really" Sakura repeated, gently patting Tsunade's back.
"Wait, you were with the most violent but second most dangerous person in this facility entire history and you just casually talked to him then walked away without even getting a scratch on your body" The old nurse asked surprised. She looked at Shaun who was pretty beaten up then she looked at Sakura that did not even have a hair out of place.
"Yes. That is correct. Is the blond kid's name Deidara? Now who is the most dangerous of all the patients in the whole facilities history that your talking about?" Sakura asked out of boredom.
"The black haired kid who lives in the room across from Deidara. He is the famous Itachi Uchiha. He killed both his parents then he turned on his brother. The police came in time to save his little brother then they brought Itachi here. He was deemed to be too insane to be in a regular prison." The nurse, Shaun spoke up.
Sakura sat in the car next to Tsunade as they drove towards Tsunade's home. Tsunade was very quite ever since Sakura got back from her trip in the mental institution. "Tsunade, Im really sorry I worried you" Sakura quietly spoke, looking out of the window.
"Im the one who should be sorry Sakura. I over reacted. I should not have screamed at you like that. I was just so scared at that moment that I heard you were close when a dangerous patient knocked the nurses out and when they came around you were gone." Tsunade spoke softly. She looked at Sakura with sad brown eyes when she stopped at a red light for a second.
"Why are you so concerned about me? " Sakura asked "Im just a kid you picked up one day, Im not your child" Sakura looked away. She felt terrible the instant she had said those words. Sakura knew that If Tsunade did not save her fro m her life, she would have died.
"I'm too scared to be a mother" Tsunade sighted. She parked the car right outside her house in the parking lot. "I know im not your mother. If I ever was a mother I would be a bad one"
"Why" Sakura asked surprised. The rain continued to pour outside the car. Sakura looked at Tsunade with a shocked expression on her face. She personally whished that she was Tsunade's real child.
"Many years ago when I was the head surgeon, I couldn't even save my little brother who was shot. I tried to keep him alive in the operation room but I failed. My little brother who I raised myself after my father died, died in my arms. What kind of Doctor am I?" Tsunade's voice shook. She could feel her throat closing. A few crystal tears slipped from her eyes as she spoke. " I just had to quit being a doctor after that. Im not fit to save lives." Tsunade laughed a horse laugh "I was asked to help that old patient of mine at the mental institution. His condition has deteriorated considerably after I first treated him. It will take me weeks to get him right again.
"No. Dont give up" Sakura shook her head. She looked down at her lap. " The first time that I met you, I have wanted to be just like you, strong willed, saving others that need me and good at what I do" Sakura turned to Tsunade. "I want to save those like me who have endured pain all their lives, I want to help others like you saved me" Sakura smiled, wiping Tsunade's tears away. "Your like the mother I never had and I want you to help that man. I will even go there everyday with you so that I can work there and help out. I want to work on helping other and that will be a start for me."
"Sure Sakura" Tsunade smiled. "Lets go inside and drink some hot chocolate then we will return tomorrow to start our work" Tsunade and Sakura walked towards the place they both called home.
There you all are. Part 1 is finished. I dont know if Gaara will be in the next one . Hope you liked it. I have to go back to uni next week and this week I need to finish summarizing for chemistry. Hoped you liked the two chappies!
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