Faith stared at the crimson ground for only a moment before shaking herself loose. "Sasuke!" she yelled, running to his quivering form in the thick darkness, "Sasuke! What happened?"
He sat there, on the ground, shaking and unresponsive, so Faith reached out and shook his shoulder, which made Sasuke wince. Squinting, Faith saw that Sasuke had received a deep cut on his shoulder, and her hand was now covered in his blood. She screamed, "Naruto!"
The blond boy came running, but Faith motioned him away, yelling, "Go get help! Go!" He nodded and sprinted off into the night.
Sasuke slumped a little closer to the ground, and Faith noticed for the first time that they were both kneeling in his blood, which continually gushed out of the open wound. Then, the boy toppled backwards and landed on the ground with a thump like that of a corpse when it hit the floor, and Faith panicked, covering the wound with her hands like she saw the adults do and trying to push down to stop the bleeding. "Shit, he's bleeding to death," she whimpered while trying to push down harder on his shoulder. "Why isn't this working! WHY! Dammit, stop!" His shoulder, chest, neck, and arms were all slippery because of the rain and the blood and sweat and tears, and she just couldn't plant her hands firmly, and she kept screaming at him in a sharp, frightened voice, "Stop! Stop it! Go back! no…" tears ran down her cheeks and merged with the rainwater, creating little streams down her face and neck and disappearing when they hit her clothes. The screams were softer now, more like desperate pleading. She didn't notice, but his wound wasn't bleeding anymore, and some of the blood and rain around the cut slowly trickled back in, and his eyes opened slightly, then closed again because of the pounding rain, and then opened a crack to peek.
"You."
Faith looked up, startled to hear his voice.
"You knew this was going to happen. He told you. Why didn't you warn us!" Sasuke snarled with a grimace on his face, clearly beginning to feel the pain of the cut.
"I…what? What the hell are you talking about!" she screeched at him, eyes wide and mouth open.
"He said to talk to you! You knew Itachi was going to kill everyone!"
"Itachi? Itachi wouldn't have done this! You're fucking delusional!" She shouted, pushing him away by his hurt shoulder, which made him wince in pain, and she immediately softened and reached out her arm, intending to comfort him, "Oh! I'm so sorry!"
He slapped her hands away with his other arm and snapped, "You knew what he was going to do, and instead of helping us you had to run off with that demon fox boyfriend of yours!"
"What! How dare you! He's not my boyfriend, and you of all people should know him enough not to call him that! What the hell is wrong with you!" Fatih huffed and stood up to distance herself from Sasuke.
"What's wrong with me! My family is DEAD! Fucking DEAD! That's what's wrong with me! And it's all because of you!" Sasuke lunged at Faith, who ducked to one side out of instinct, but the boy fell short and landed on the ground, behind him stood an ANBU officer and Naruto, who looked surprised and hurt at first, but tried to mask it with sympathy, and ended up with a skewed, sickly expression on his face.
For a moment, Faith looked completely lost, but then she asked in an urgent, slightly accusing voice, "What did you do! Is he okay?"
AN: upped the rating because of language. Reviews, plz.