Sasuke was going crazy.

At least, that was what he kept telling himself as he walked alongside Naruto in the nighttime. Naruto had asked him to come with him to the ramen bar, and he, for the life of him, did not know what possessed him to agree.

Sasuke suppressed the need to kill Naruto as he babbled on and on about something. What, he didn't know; he had tuned it out a long time ago.

He held his head. It hadn't stopped pounding since Sakura had damaged his eardrums with his extremely loud, and HIGH voice. Really high. He fingered a kunai, wondering if he should throw it at Naruto or tell him to shut up. Or both.

"Sasuke..." He was testing the kunai against a tree trunk, to see if it was sharp enough to penetrate Naruto's thick skull. "Sasuke... SASUKE!" Sasuke jumped back, throwing the kunai at Naruto. He caught it and pocketed it with a frown. "Sasuke no baka, why aren't you listening to me?"

Because you're an idiot, dobe was on the tip of his tongue, but he managed not to say it. Instead he observed his surroundings. They were near his house now, which was close to Sakura's. He vaguely recalled the conversation he had with Sakura while she watched him train.

"Sasuke, you train to become stronger and get revenge on your brother, right?" Sakura asked timidly, knowing it was a sensitive subject with Sasuke.

"...Yes..." Sasuke said slowly, while throwing kunai at a particularly narrow tree. They hit every time.

"Would you... would you have preferred if Itachi had killed you too?"

He stopped throwing the kunai. He turned to face Sakura. "It's none of your business."

"Well? Come on, tell me!" She said firmly. Sasuke was surprised, she was never this persistent. Usually if he didn't want to do something, she just left him alone. He sighed.

"Yeah, Sakura, sometimes I do." He said heavily before turning back to the tree.

Sakura just sat there, deep in thought.

As his eyes passed over Sakura's house, he noticed something. A something with pink hair by a lamppost. Or... someone? Sasuke's eyes widened. "Sakura?" he shouted. This startled Naruto and he followed Sasuke's gaze.

"Sakura!" He shouted in horror. He bounded forward.

Sasuke just stood there in shock. He numbly moved his gaze over to Sakura's house and pathway. He was disturbed to see... bloody footprints. Sakura's footprints?

He ran forward. As he passed Naruto helping Sakura up, he looked puzzled and said, "Sasuke?"

Sasuke reached Sakura's porch. He put his hand on the doorknob, trembling. Why was he trembling? Why did this remind him so much of... that night? Why was he afraid to open the door? Disgusted with his own fear, he wrenched opened the door and gasped when he saw what was inside.

Sakura's parents were lying on a bloody floor. They were sprawled across the ground. They looked so lifeless, so... dead?

Sasuke looked on in terror. Sakura's parent's... dead? The way they were just lying there... it reminded him too much of that night. He looked away. He could almost hear Itachi's icy voice saying, "Run, little brother... run away and live as an avenger... live in false hope of seeking revenge on me..."

"Sasuke...?" Naruto had reached the door, with Sakura's unconscious form slung over his shoulder. He gasped when he looked inside. "Sakura's parents...!"

He turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke, hold Sakura." Without waiting for a reply, he pushed Sakura into his arms. He then ran into the house to inspect the bodies.

Images of his parents' bloody corpses flashed across his mind. He shook his head to rid himself of the horrible memory. Sasuke stared down at the girl in his arms. Her hair and body was covered with her parents' blood. Her face looked ghastly pale. Was this the same girl who constantly fawned over him? Was this the same girl who had broken her friendship with Ino because of him?

Naruto looked up from his crouching position on the floor. "Well, they are dead."

Sasuke frowned. "I think that's pretty obvious, dobe." Naruto glared at him.

"I'm serious. We have to get help." He stood. "We've gotta find Kakashi."

"Let's go." Sasuke said to him. It might be nice to have someone who understands my pain... maybe...

As they ran off into the night, Sasuke failed to notice he was cradling Sakura in his arms.

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I may continue this with a chapter for Naruto, or maybe not. We'll just see! Heh, I accidentally typed voice instead of face in the sixth to last paragraph. Changed it!