Chapter 21: Trust.
I really trusted Orochimaru with all my heart
The Third
I trusted my brother. I'll never again trust anybody.
Uchiha Sasuke
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Sasuke knew that what he was watching couldn't be happening.
What Sasuke was watching (and fearing) was a group of children, playing in a park that had been empty since that night.
Children didn't enter into the Uchiha district. Actually, nobody ever entered the Uchiha district. He had seen it. He had stood silently on desert rooftops watching people walking distractedly toward the Uchiha district… and turning around at the last moment, probably without them even realizing. He had discovered that the best way to lose the occasional school-fan was walking straight to the Uchiha district. Nobody ever followed. He didn't know if it was because there was a mysterious aura that scared people without them being aware of it, or maybe it was just the unnatural silence that hung in those streets. He didn't know or care because he liked the silence.
What were those children playing in that park in the middle of the Uchiha district?
Sasuke was sure for a second that those were not real children, but spirits of the children that used to play there. Just then he noticed all the people walking around. There weren't that many people, considering the lateness of the hour. Still he hadn't seen so many people in the Uchiha district since a lifetime ago.
Why were the lights of the houses on? They were supposed to be dark. Why were people coming in and out of the houses? What the hell was going on!
"Uchiha-san?" asked a voice.
Sasuke turned to see a young woman holding the hand of a child
"Hi, neighbor. Nice to see you." She said without giving any further explanations.
"Aa" Sasuke was wondering why nobody bothered to explain to him things. Just once it would be nice to understand the situation without any questioning.
"This part of the city is booming with new residents! I think it's impressive. So young and still you are taking the responsibility of having so many tenants!"
"Aa" He said, still not understanding.
"I think it was a good idea to also rent the stores. That way we won't have to travel far to buy groceries. Don't you think it was a bit risky to rent so many houses at the same time?" The woman kept speaking
"Aa" he agreed. He wasn't very good with words, but at least he was smart. He was watching Sakura's shadow all over this "Sorry, I just got back from a shinobi mission, and I'm tired."
"A mission? But I thought you I saw you the other day around here"
"Aa." He said. He had finally understood. Henge no Jutsu, probably Naruto. However the mastermind had to be someone else "It was a night mission."
After saying that he left straight to his house, deciding that he didn't have to ask Sakura questions about what happened that night. Their marriage was over, anyway. Those houses weren't hers to rent. They weren't even his. They belonged to their real owners, the ones that had been killed by Itachi. She didn't have any right to rent them.
He reached his home and entered the garden. He was going to storm inside the house when he fell three chakras inside. He calmed while he tried to determine who they were
"ONLY ONE TIME! YOU HAVE KISSED ONLY ONE TIME! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
Well, one of them was clearly Ino. He didn't particularly want to stay close to that stalker. She would probably try to kiss him again.
He started to move away
"Who's there?" asked Sakura from inside the house. Sasuke mentally cursed. He had been careful. Sakura's abilities for detecting intruders were really good.
He didn't move, hoping that she wouldn't go check.
"Hi, neighbor." said a new voice, a voice that could see through walls, a voice that he didn't expect to be inside his home, a voice that he didn't particularly want to hear inside his home. That was the first time he heard that voice without any stuttering.
"Hi Ino, Hinata" said Sasuke entering his home. He was surprised that Hinata was bold enough to enter the Uchiha district and to risk the wrath of her father who had forbidden her to do so. Just then he noticed her last word. Neighbor?
"What happened?" yelled Sakura when he noticed his battered face.
"Just a little fight. Another challenge from Lee"
"You just had to get into another fight before coming to see me" complained Sakura with her usual sweet voice, hurrying to get the first aid kit. Sasuke took a glance at the welcoming smiles of Ino and Hinata, and quickly decided to follow Sakura.
"Sakura, what...?" started Sasuke while she applied some ointment with a smell of dead rats to his wounds. He wanted to ask about the new renters. Didn't she know their marriage was in danger? And what was a Hyuga doing in the Uchiha district, anyway? Her father was going to kill Hinata. When she had said "neighbor"... that had been a joke. Right? Right?
Sakura put a finger on his lips and smiled.
"I'll explain later" she said, and Sasuke sighed as he saw the Uchiha symbol on her back while she moved toward the living room and her guests.
Sasuke lied in the bathroom applying a piece of ice to the bump on his head. He was actually smiling. The day had started in a crazy way, now his whole life was spinning out of control, and the day wasn't even finished yet. It probably was due to his increasing paranoia, but he was starting to suspect that Lee's crazy challenge had been actually suggested by Sakura.
That was an interesting train of thought. That way she would have had enough time to change everything around the neighborhood. Well, at least she couldn't do much around the house. His perfect and efficiency-adapted house had gone to hell after one year. If Sakura ever quit as a shinobi, she could find a job as an interior designer. She had started to say that his old house was cold and that she wanted it to become a home. Every single thing that had been immobile for five years had started to stir. It's not that he didn't like the new changes, however almost every single thing in the house was different from...
Sasuke suddenly remembered that while he had helped her in everything she had asked, there were two rooms he hadn't allowed her to change. He ran until he reached his parents room. The room where the two people that had looked like invincible and eternal when he was seven years old had lived.
He breathed deeply and opened the door. The layer of dust that had been gathering for years was gone. Even the atmosphere seemed to have eased.
If she had cleaned that room...
Sasuke bolted until he reached a room, which he always tried to avoid when walking around the house. He held a handle that he hadn't touched in four years and a half, twisted it, and he saw a room which he had once painted black as an expression of hate.
Sakura had changed Itachi's room into a storage room. Sasuke would have screamed right then.
After walking thirty seven times around the house, he settled on the porch. He angrily took out a cigarette. That was it. Their relationship was over. Dead. Finished. She didn't have any right to do that. She had gone too far. He was going to have a long smoke for the end of something; for the end of a dream, for the end of his forsaken marriage.
He made a one-hand seal and a small fire appeared on his finger. He moved the finger closer to the cigarette... He moved the finger away. He smashed the unlit cigarette with hate to the ground.
He looked at the garden and exhaled air. He liked very much the new garden. It used to be a garden when his parents were alive. Then his brother had come along, and he just wasn't interested in flowers. He had married, and she had decided to take care of the garden. He had been sure that there was not way she could do anything with the garden. He had been wrong. The garden had bloomed. There was a carpet of brilliant colors and proud plants. The most common type of flowers was Chrysanthemums, her favorite type of flowers. They symbolized truthful love, according to Sakura. They had become his favorite type of flowers too
It was a perfect metaphor of their relationship. Somehow Sakura had found his secret spring and she had made it bloom. He didn't want to end the relationship. Sakura was really annoying, but he loved her. He wanted to believe that among any lies that there could be, there was one truth: They loved each other.
"Sasuke-kun?" said a voice from behind "I'm leaving now."
Sasuke jumped away. How come every woman in the world managed to surprise him?
"Aa." said Sasuke. "How are you doing, Ino?" He was ready to run away if she tried to kiss him again.
"Sasuke-kun" Ino breathed slowly staring at him and she smiled "I give up on you."
"Aa?" Exactly how long he had been gone. Only thirteen days?
"I lost. I love you, but Sakura has won. I have never seen you happier. You really love each other. I don't want to interfere with your happiness."
"Aa" said Sasuke. Was he happy? Did he really look that happy?
"Don't worry about me. I have noticed somebody I never paid attention before. He is really reliable and a great friend. I think we can become something else."
"Aa" He wasn't really worried about her. "Who is it?" It's not that he cared, but he was curious about who she had chosen after him.
"It's Chouji" she said, blushing. "I'm having a date with him today."
"Aa." He stared at her back as she left "She chose Chouji after me?" He asked himself.
He got up and walked until the bathroom. He stared at the mirror. The Sasuke that was looking at him didn't look at all like Itachi.
«Do I look so happy? » He smiled in front of the mirror. The smile looked natural, and it came naturally to the face. He had done the same one year ago, and the smile had seemed a fake.
"Sasuke-kun, Sakura-chan, I'll be leaving now. It would be too dangerous to stay here" Hinata announced. She had suddenly appeared with Sakura, surprising him as always. He was supposed to be a shinobi, a person that was always aware of everything that happened around him, a person that never let anybody surprise him. He had trained day and night for that purpose. Well, at least Itachi was male.
"Bye, Hinata-chan" Sakura smiled. He silently supposed Hinata was going to leave the house. Instead she went to the library. Sasuke didn't move, and a few seconds later he heard the sound of a mechanism
"Sakura" almost yelled Sasuke. To his credit, he waited until he didn't fell Hinata's chakra anymore "How does Hinata know the underground passage?" The same underground tunnel that ran under the Uchiha district and communicated five of the most important houses in the district. He had always used it to escape from the ANBU that had kept a watch on him. Only he and his brother were supposed to know about it. He had confided the secret to Sakura early in their relation.
"It's because she has ran from the Hyuga clan. She has renounced her last name" Sakura explained. "She is hiding inside the tunnels right now. The Hyugas think she is hiding outside the village."
"Wait, wait, wait" Sasuke pleaded trying to process so much information at the same time. "She ran from her clan? According to traditional law, any clan has the right to kill a traitor. It hasn't been done in a long time, but..."
"That's right" agreed Sakura "We still don't know what the Hyuga clan is planning, so we and the others, that is, Naruto, Shino and Kiba, decided that she should hide here. Shino used Henge no Jutsu to make them think Hinata was outside the village."
"Aa." Pause "Haven't you asked to anybody else for help?"
"No" Sakura smiled. The smile that had made Sasuke, against his will, to fall in love with her "We ourselves are enough. We don't need outsiders' help."
"It's not that I care, but offering her shelter is making a serious offence against the most powerful clan of the Leaf. You could have asked me first, couldn't you?"
"Well, that wasn't planned as the rest. She suddenly ran out of her house when she got fed up of them. I made up a plan to ensure the Hyuga clan doesn't finish her off. I was going to do it myself, but since you are here you can do it better."
"Aa" he said. Even if he was managing to put up a stern face, he was actually proud of her. He liked a lot her initiative and boldness. She wasn't like that before. Indeed, she had changed. Now he had to discuss about the changes in the neighborhood.
"Sakura. What happened when I was gone?"
Sakura smiled. Her smile was at the same time strong-willed and sweet.
"I rented most of the houses that were empty. I used Lee because I knew you wouldn't approve. Now with all the houses rented for a year, you won't be able to rescind the contracts."
Sasuke considered that he should be angry. However he couldn't stare at Sakura's eyes and remain irritated.
"Why? Sakura, what do you want from me? Did you really have to clean up my parent's and that man's room"
"Didn't you read my diary? Sasuke-kun, I want to break every single wall around your heart and I don't give up on my dreams" Sasuke's heart was already stirring.
"You didn't have any right. Those houses were not yours. They belong..."
"Their owners are dead, Sasuke-kun." She said sadly "Isn't it time you tried to keep on living?"
There was a long pause between them. Sasuke was being forced again to remember all the fallen loved ones, and Sakura knew what she was forcing Sasuke to. She was being unfair, but she needed to do that. She needed to make Sasuke confront his own pain.
"It was really painful, you know?" said Sasuke closing his eyes. "Every single one of them... The images still haunt my dreams."
"I can't know it. The pain you experienced, the duty you took upon yourself, I can't know it. But... it was six years ago, Sasuke-kun. I am not asking you to forget it, but at least you should try to survive that night."
"To survive?" Sasuke angrily looked at her "I survived that night! I am stronger than ever! I have a fighting chance now which I didn't have before. I have dealt and survived with everything that happened to me!"
"You didn't really survive. You just moved your pain to a deep place, and kept on living one day after the other. You focused your pain on Itachi, and used every single memory to add oil to your flame of revenge. I just tried at least to remove the painful memories a little away from you."
Sakura felt Sasuke's pain and anger when he mentioned Itachi. Sasuke turned around and started to leave. Then he stopped. After a few seconds, Sakura took a few steps forward and tentatively reached with her hand to him.
"I can't and won't forget them, Sakura." Warned Sasuke who was still not facing her "All the pain... I won't. They all died. If I don't remember them, who will? There is no one else left that can remember them. There is no one else left that can avenge them."
"I am not asking you to forget your pain. But at least make it a part of your life; don't make it your whole life."
Sasuke was still. Sakura put an arm on his shoulder
"Ne, Sasuke-kun, could you at least try it for me, please?"
"Whatever" Sasuke slowly said "I guess I could try."
"Thanks" Came the sweet voice of Sakura."
Sasuke smiled, as always, against his will. He slowly turned around.
"You know, Sakura. There used to be only darkness around me, but I believe that if I fall, you at least would try to pull me up."
"I will I always will." she said, and smiled again
Sasuke knew that was the way it was supposed to end. However it could not be. He had that tendency to destroy the romantic moments between them.
"Sakura, I developed a new jutsu just before you made Lee challenge me, and I didn't have time to practice it with Kakashi-sensei. Can I practice it with you? It will be just a moment" The lie was burning his lips
"Sure" she said. Always too trusting of him, he sadly decided.
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Sakura's eyes were following the coin that was rhythmically moving from one finger to another. He was also whistling in a tune below human hearing. It took him more than ten minutes, but finally her chakra flow started to change. Her eyes were still open, but slightly unfocused. In those cases, the Sharingan was really useful to see her hypnotized chakra flow.
Well, everything was going to be really easy. He just had to ask a few questions and he would be sure if Sakura was lying to him or not, if their relationship was going to end or not.
"Sakura, can you hear me?"
"Hai."
Actually he was a little paranoid. The evidences he had were unsubstantiated and unconvincing. True, Kakashi and Tsunade hadn't asked the reasons behind their sudden marriage. Well, it could be that Kakashi quickly deduced it. True, Kakashi had been angry, and Kakashi was never angry. However Kakashi was really mysterious, anyway. Hell, he and Sakura had suddenly married. People didn't act the same in extraordinary circumstances.
"Sakura, one year ago, we... we..." That was hard to say it.
Tsunade didn't ask either. Well, they didn't really know each other. Maybe she just wasn't interested. She had woken up from a hangover, after all.
"Sakura" Sasuke tried again "Do you really love..."
The Sound Four had laughed. Was he going to doubt Sakura just because those wackos, which he didn't know at all, had laughed? He had had the impression the twin brother had something else to say. That was so groundless he shouldn't even comment on it.
"Sakura, did you ever lie to..." Screw it all. Proof? What proof did he want? Maybe Kakashi had warned Sakura that he was already suspicious, and she had learned to control her chakra flow. He would never have total proof that somebody was not going to betray him the next day. That was the place where trust entered.
"KAI!" Sasuke finally yelled. Sakura blinked once, twice. She smiled at him
"The jutsu didn't work?" She asked. The genjutsu's memory-erasing capabilities were disquieting, Sasuke admitted.
"Sakura, I have to ask you something really important. Please tell me the truth. I won't be angry." Sasuke held his breath "Did you ever lie to me?"
"Hai." Sasuke felt as if the world fell around him "I lied to you. I'm sorry. I made Lee challenge you and I didn't tell you anything."
"You never lied to me other than that?"
"No, never" she answered. He believed her. He would not need any other proof than that. He believed her. He maybe was a fool. He maybe didn't ever learn. Still, he believed her. "Sasuke-kun, what's going on?"
"I used a genjutsu against you. Sakura, I had some suspicions that you had been lying to me. I learned the genjutsu to see if you were saying the truth or not regarding what happened on the night when we got drunk" he explained. She deserved the truth.
The face of Sakura was very neutral for a second. Then all the endless hours of training Sasuke had endured to react fast were useless when Sakura violently slapped him.
"A lie? You think it was all a lie!" She yelled.
Before Sasuke could react, Sakura had run to their room and closed the door. Sasuke stood stunned for some seconds. He ran after her. He didn't understand what was wrong with her. They were shinobis after all. Shinobis were supposed to be cunning.
"Sakura, please, open the door." He asked. It would be all right if he explained to her.
Desperation came after only thirteen seconds. He started knocking the door again. He was feeling the darkness around him. At the beginning of their relationship he had wanted her to act like that, to be angry with him. That way their parting wouldn't be painful for her. That way she wouldn't suffer as he was suffering right at that moment.
"Sakura, open the door, damn it! What's wrong?" Fear. The fear was gripping his heart. He couldn't think straight.
"I'm angry! I get hurt when people think I have been deceiving them for a year!" yelled Sakura from the other side of the door. "Did you forget to ask me that when you were using genjutsu?"
"I didn't ask you anything!" Sasuke yelled "I used the genjutsu but I changed my mind. I decided to ask you! I decided to trust you!" The door remained closed.
Sasuke wondered how the hell he could have believed she was lying. All his suspicions had been just a defense mechanism because he had been scared of her. He had been dead the longest time. He had forgotten how to enjoy life. He had been scared of life. The problem was not her. It was him.
"Sakura!" He pleaded, for the first time in six years, almost crying. His actions were uncoordinated. He didn't know what to do. He had no plan, no action to take. His mind was saturated with multiple thoughts. For the first time in his life, he didn't know what his next move was He had always been able to deal with what ever fucked up thing life dealt him. But how could he deal with this? What was he going to do now? Millions of questions flew in and out of mind. The sad part was he didn't have any answers
Sasuke turned around and leaned against the wall. The world was spinning. He was having a panic attack. He was going to be alone again. It was his fault again. He hadn't been able to stop Itachi then, and now he had lost Sakura because of his paranoia.
Just then the door opened, and Sakura stepped out. Sasuke wanted to hug her, but he was too afraid. Sakura took a few steps forward, and put her hands on his shoulders
"Sasuke" she said looking straight at Sasuke. It was the first time she didn't add the " –kun" "That night, we both got drunk, and we made love. It was a mistake we both made, but it was the sweetest mistake I have ever made. I don't repent of anything I did. We have been living together one year, and I want to be together the rest of my life with you. That's the whole truth."
"Sakura" he whispered. He had lost control. He had felt panic when he had thought he was going to lose her. He didn't want to lose her.
Sasuke raised a hand, and touched her face to make sure he was not suffering a hallucination. He smiled, staring straight at her eyes. At first she was smiling too. She put her hand on top of his to ensure she was there, and would always be with him. Then the smile disappeared from their faces.
Their eyes were completely locked on each other. They slowly moved closer, their faces desperately slowly moved closer. After some agonizing moments, their lips locked together, drawing breath from each other.
That was their first kiss since they had gotten married. It had been one year between the first and their second kiss.
Both of them would have said that the wait had been worth it.
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"Am I interrupting anything?" Sasuke asked as he walked calmly to the center of the square where the Assembly of the Hyugas was taking place and where the fate of Hinata was being decided. Innumerable white eyes were staring at him, the intruder that dared to interrupt the Assembly.
Sasuke walked with a confident face that was actually very far being real. He didn't like Sakura's plan. Shinobis should be intrepid not mad. He did at least two hours of research about on Morino Ibiki's personality before he had dared to enter into the Intelligence Division. The plan Sakura devised to save Hinata looked interesting but was full of holes. There should have been at least five or six alternative plans in case things went wrong. The most important thing was to prepare an escape route. In the meeting with Ibiki, he had been wearing explosives in his shoes in case Ibiki acted illogically.
"How are you doing Hiashi-dono?" Sasuke asked, looking straight to the person sitting in front of him. That was another thing he didn't like of the plan. He could deal with the personality of one person and adapt to manipulate it. To manipulate a whole assembly was far more difficult, as the more radical and outspoken elements had a tendency to take control of the situation
"Uchiha-dono" Hiashi greeted. "Our spies have reported that the traitor doesn't seem to be on the territory of the Aburame or the Inuzuka clans. I was just thinking that she could be in the district of the Uchiha clan."
"Oh! Now she is just "the traitor" I don't have anything to do with it I was away when it was proven that you couldn't even control your own shinobis." said Sasuke with a smile, returning the words Hiashi had said once. Naruto had said that returning the "scaredly cat" comment during the chuunin exam had felt really good. Naruto had been right, it felt truly good. He could feel the angry stared of the Hyugas around him. He would have really, really loved if the plan had an escape route. "However, I met her in my way back, and she offered me a deal for you, a deal that if you don't accept, it will mean the end of the Hyuga clan as it is now."
"A deal? Do you think you or that traitor can deal with us?"
"I have the Sharingan, Hiashi-dono. Hinata belonged to the Main Family, and she knows the secret hand seal that activates the Branch Family's seal. It wasn't that hard to learn it. If anything happens to her, I will make sure that all of the people I know learn it from me. It's only a matter of time before your enemies find out about your secret as well. Think about it, the whole Branch family would eventually become useless in combat; the main family would be forced to stop branding new generations.
This time besides anger Sasuke felt fear around him. If he knew the hand seal, he could kill the whole Branch Family in seconds. The secret had been inside the Hyuga clan for generations and if it ever got out...
"Or we could kill you right here right now. You are the last of the Uchihas" said a new voice: Neji.
Sasuke smiled. It was all inside the plan. There was only one person that Hinata had trusted inside the Hyuga clan, and surprisingly that person was Neji. He had thought that Hinata had been very stupid trusting somebody that had tried to kill her in the past, but it was too late. Since Neji had the sympathy of Hiashi, Sakura had included him in the key part of the plan.
"You could, but the Uchiha clan has a lot of allies. And" he extended his hands. In one second, multiple shadows appeared in the rooftop around the square. The Hyuga jounins were the first to react and immediately adapted defensive positions "I called a few favors" Sasuke concluded with a smile.
Sasuke moved out of the square, walking straight to Neji. When Neji lowered his head and didn't move, nobody else did, exactly as he had planned.
"It won't be easy to kill me after Neji said those words with so many witnesses" he commented. All the shadows that surrounded the square were wearing ANBU uniforms, including the masks that hid their identity. Sasuke walked until the corner of the square, and turned around "Will you leave her alone? Or maybe you want to risk the existence of the Hyuga clan?"
Sakura's plan included him leaving right then with the fake ANBU. They Hyuga clan would bicker for hours, but wouldn't dare do anything.
Hanabi's interruption was not in the plan.
"We accept." Her voice was clear. "As long as the Uchiha clan is alive we won't do anything." Her suspiciously sweet smile caused Sasuke to shiver
"Are you threatening me, Hanabi-chan?" He asked. Again, no wonder Hiashi wanted the younger sister as head of the clan. She was a real bitch.
"This is a treaty of peace. It is actually a trap. You Uchihas are beasts. You will fight each other until there is only two left. Those two will fight each other until there is only one left. The one left will kill itself." She recited with words that had been said hundred of years ago. Her smile turned wicked "The prophecy was said a long time ago, but already only two Uchihas are left. It's just a matter of time before the rest of the prophecy becomes true. You can tell my sister that she will have time until then."
"So, that was a prophecy. We thought it had been just a sore loser's last words" Sasuke commented. Most of the Hyugas were looking from him to her. They didn't know what they were speaking about. Obviously, it was supposed to be a secret. Problem was, people had written about it. The Uchiha clan was no longer there to hide the shameful way they had been born.
Sasuke was shaky. He knew the plan had worked. The Hyuga clan would leave Hinata alone for the moment. However he wasn't expecting Hanabi to recite the words that the leader of the Hyuga had said during the peace talks that had ended the conflict between the Uchiha and the Hyuga clan, after the Original Uchiha Tragedy had ended.
Sasuke would have loved to give her a retort, but the plan had worked, and it was time to leave. He was not going to let a Hyuga scare him. He was not going to let a Hyuga make him lose sleep with that old prophecy said hundred of years ago. Damn her!
The ANBU followed. Only after they were far away from the Hyuga district, the fake ANBU disappeared, and Naruto smiled and got closer to Sasuke
"Sasuke. The plan worked perfectly. The combination between my Henge no Jutsu and my shadow clones is perfect!" yelled Naruto. Sakura laughed also with him, still wearing her fake ANBU uniform.
"Aa." said Sasuke smiling. It was one of the good things about Naruto and Sakura. It was impossible to keep a depressed mood around them.
"Hey, what was that girl speaking about? What is that prophecy?" asked Naruto.
"That's..." started to say Sasuke. He didn't really want to talk about it, but if he was staying in the Leaf, he didn't want to keep secrets from the people who were precious to him.
"That's something that happened a long time ago, and it's nothing we should be interested in." said Sakura with a categorical voice. "Besides, we have to go to talk to Hinata. I still got a free house that I'm renting her really cheap." said Sakura, turning to Sasuke and smiling. Sasuke decided her attitude of not being tied to the past was admirable. Well, he could try to do that. He would still train to kill Itachi, but he wouldn't let his desire to rule over his whole life.
Naruto didn't seem satisfied with that, but he didn't complain.
Sasuke smiled. Apparently he was going to stay in the Leaf for the time being. Interesting times were ahead. Maybe, just maybe, everything would turn out right
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"Team 7's new mission has taken Sasuke to the north of Fire Country. I sent one shinobi to talk to him, but Sasuke attacked him and almost killed him." explained Kabuto.
"My Sasuke-kun doesn't want to come. What a pity!"
"Should we force him to come? We can use his closeness to his wife to force him to come." said Kabuto. He was having trouble concentrating. His mind wanted to return to the girl of blue eyes and silver hair he had recently met.
"No, it won't be necessary. He will come to me. I'll make sure of that." Orochimaru decided. He started to laugh.
Kabuto, even if he should already be used to it, shuddered.
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Sasuke awoke and sneezed. Someone was probably talking about him. He got up, went to the bathroom for a glass of water and looked into mirror. At first his own reflection was looking back at him. Then the image became someone else...
"Why are you weak? Your hate is not enough..."
"You are like a broken record! You have been saying that for ages!" Sasuke complained as the image of the mirror changed again
"Uchiha Sasuke. Do you have the right to be happy?"
"Kimimaro. Shut up! You are dead, remember?"
"Luke, I am your father"
"Shut up! This isn't even your show!"
"Sasuke-kun will come to me for power..."
"WILL ALL OF YOU EVER SHUT THE FUCK UP?" yelled an enraged Sasuke
Then he woke up.
"Stupid dream" he said. He kissed Sakura softly in the cheek and went back to sleep.
Ellis Paul---Sweet Mistakes
Pop the cork, a champagne glass
Raise to the future, drink to the past
Thank the Lord for the friends he cast,
In the play he wrote for you.
And if you love the girl man, light up a torch
Blaze a trail to her front porch
Kiss her til your lips are scorched
Til the rain comes down on you
(Chorus)
Bless your sweet mistakes,
That crumble you down to your knees.
That brought you to this place
Changing you by degrees...
When change was just what you needed...
What you needed...
So if you live your life in a three piece suit,
In a cocktail dress, or combat boots
You pick your path and you walk your truth
And the world will come round to you.
It's a long strange ride, I can't tell you why
But there's a place in your pocket where peace can abide
You pull it out, it's a compass, a guide
And it will put a little soul on you.
(Chorus)
And in this wild blue world
There is a soul weavin' fine feelin' girl
But you've got to walk in paradise to find a pearl
If you only believe,
You'll get what you need... what you needed...
Conquer your fear and you'll master the game,
Life is always and never the same.
Use a little faith to light the flame ,
And I know you'll connect to you.
(Chorus)
Pop the cork, a champagne glass
Raise to the future, drink to the past
Thank the Lord for the friends he cast,
In the play he wrote for you
This is the end of 21th chapter, and the end of part 1, titled Sweet Mistakes.
All the mysteries, like Orochimaru's plans, Itachi's reasons and the terrible truth behind the Original Uchiha Tragedy will be revealed soon with the beginning of part 2. In the meantime, please, write a review, even if it's just a line or two, and tell me your opinion of this chapter and your opinion of the whole part 1. Did you like it?