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Story Title: True Love.
Chapter 10: Saved by my savior.
.: Start :.
It was an early morning at Konoha hospital. A girl resting in her bed slowly woke up from her slumber. As her eyes opened, a blurry vision of the person she loved filled her senses.
"Daisuke?" She asked wearily to the said boy as she rubbed her eyes.
"Rub the sleep out of your eyes Sanada. You're still dreaming." Said the teen.
"Sasuke-san? I thought you went home? This is morning. What are you still doing here? Besides, it's Naruto's turn isn't it?"
"I did go home. Naruto refused to see you and practically begged me to take over. I refused but since he started to let me drag him with my feet I had to."
"Why? What's wrong with him? Is he ill?"
"Maybe this will help clear things up." Sasuke said handing her a bouquet of forget-me-nots.
"Eh?" She said startled, a blush creeping on her cheeks, as she accepted the gift. She picked up the card sticking on the box and looked up at Sasuke, giving him a weird look.
"Read it and no it's not from me." Sasuke glared at her.
And Sasuke was right it was actually from Naruto. The writing wasn't all that understandable so Yuukie squinted her eyes to looked at it closer.
Yuukie-chan,
Sorry about yesterday. I shouldn't have said all of that. I guess it was just a reflex since I was with that Sasuke bastard most of my life. I hope you're not feeling sad or angry towards me. I'm really, really sorry. I like you and I don't want to loose our friendship from my mistake. So I hope these forget-me-nots will mend what I have done.
Naruto.
"Naruto… You've done all of this for me?…" Yuukie whispered as tears of guilt rolled down her cheeks.
"Oy!" Sasuke said, making Yuukie look up. "Do you think that Naruto would be happy seeing you like this? He's done all of this and you're crying? Sanada you're a really ungrateful person."
"I guess you're right. I never knew that you would care for Naruto so much that you would look after me."
"Let's not get overbroad. And what are you? His fiancé? Really, me helping the dobe out? Che. That would only be wasting my time." Sasuke said, his head high. "Here." He said handing her a tissue.
"Thanks. You're really being nice to me." Sasuke opened his mouth but Yuukie finished his sentence. "I know it's your duties, you're paid to do this and a ninja always finishes his missions or jobs perfectly whether he or she likes it or not." She said giving him a bright smile.
"I don't have to repeat myself then." Sasuke looked at the girl who looked like she was about to cry. God, he hated it when he saw girls cry. It made him feel… Well he didn't exactly figure out what the feeling was but… He guessed the right word would be…funny?
"Hey, don't make that face!" Sasuke warned.
"W-what face?" She questioned.
"Don't you dare cry!"
"I'm not crying!" She yelled but it was only a bear whisper.
"You're going to!"
"I-I'm not crying. I guess you being nice to me made me remember my aniki…" Her voice trailed off.
"Okay, I'll give you a deal. You stop crying and I'll listen to your problems. I know that you need someone to talk to."
"I never thought that you were a part time psychiatrist." Yuukie said letting out a laugh. "I told you, I wasn't crying. I just had a nice flashback about aniki. I guess I just miss him and got sad."
"Does he really look like me? I mean, every time you look at me you either turn around blushing or cry."
"What do you expect from a girl? At least I'm not wooing over you. Kneeling before you and listening to your every whim."
"Can you just forget about him? It's making my job more challenging."
"I thought that you liked more challenging missions?"
"Yeah but I swear if you cry I'll-I'll…"
"You'll what?"
"Here I brought you this." He said handing her a lunch box. "Kakashi assured me to give some healthy food. It's all organic so you can rest assure that it's safe and no I didn't poisoned it." He smirked as though he was saying a lie. "Here, I also brought you a bottle of soy bean milk." He said putting the bottle on the bedside table.
"Umm… thanks and all but I'm not that hun…"
"Eat!"
"Fine but I can't finish this so would you…"
"I have my own." He cut her words and held out his own lunch box.
"Well then let's eat." She said snapping her chopsticks. She took a bite and closed her eyes in pure bliss. "Mmmm… Its really good Sasuke-san, where did you buy this?"
"I… made it." Sasuke said quietly before consuming some rice.
"Is that so? Well Sasuke-san you make a really good chef."
The next day Yuukie was released from the hospital and went back to work as usual at Ichiraku. She was very glad to go back to work since having her sick day at the hospital was a total drag.
Yuukie put on her apron, tying it into a ribbon at her back. She took one look at the mirror and frowned. She should at least change her hairstyle right? Besides, her fringe was getting to her eyes. So she took out a box and pulled out two hair clips. She placed one hair clip on each side of her hair and looked back at the mirror. Well, it looks fine but dull.
What would look good on her? Pigtails? Nah, not long enough. How about ponytails? Doesn't look nice. How about if she uses a hairpin? That would be following someone else's style. Buns? No way! She looks like an old lady! What if she just let her hair be? Perfect! But just a change, two hair clips on one side. Lovely…
"I'm late!" She said running down the hall to the staircase.
"Yuukie hurry up or you'll be late!" Her mother called out.
"Yeah, so I'll be skipping breakfast!" She said going down the stairs as fast as she could and out to the door.
"Hold it! You are not skipping your breakfast young lady!" Hana said grabbing her shoulder.
"But mum!" Yuukie protested as she turned around.
"Nice look." Hana commented.
"Really, you think so?" She said tucking her hair back behind her ear smiling.
"Yeah. Now take your breakfast."
"Bye!" She said grabbing a piece of toast and headed to the door."
"Teenagers." Hana mumbled.
.: Ichiraku Ramen Stall… 4pm:.
Naruto walked nervously to the stall, which was hosting his favorite food. His legs felt like jelly and he swore that he'll be ignored if he even went there. So what's the point? He already has a years supply (for normal people) in his kitchen cabinet at his apartment. But somehow he felt he had to be there. Besides he had a free ramen coupon, which will expire tomorrow! It'll be a total waste!
He shakily got on the stool and knocked on the counter. "Umm… Excuse me?" He said shakily.
"Yes? Oh… Naruto-kun! It's been a while." She said smiling at him.
"Umm… Yuukie-chan? I…"
"It's all right Naruto-kun. Do you want anything?"
"Ah… Miso, shrimp and beef please."
"Okay… Are you alright Naruto-kun? You're shivering."
"I'm f-fine."
"Don't worry about anything Naruto-kun. I forgive you. We're friends and friends forgive and forget. I loved the forget-me-nots. Thanks."
"Really? I thought you might like it."
"Where's your team?" Yuukie asked suddenly realizing the fact that he came alone.
"Sakura-chan's probably out with her friends. Sasuke bastard is always training in his spare time. I just finished sparring with him a few hours ago. About Kakashi-sensei? I know what he's doing!" Naruto said with a vulpine grin.
"What?" Yuukie questioned, grinning herself.
"Reading more of his porn books. Probably hitting on some girls and trying to woo them with the book's lame advice. No wonder he's not married!"
And with that the two of them burst out laughing. Naruto nearly fell off his chair and was desperately gulping for air. Yuukie was coughing and buried half of her face on her sleeve. Finally, Naruto was being his happy loud self. Yuukie was starting to miss that.
"Why didn't you visit me yesterday Naruto-kun? And it was your day of duty too." She said pointing at him accusingly.
"Sorry, Yuukie-chan. I didn't want to avoid you but I felt like I didn't want to see you at that time." Naruto said putting down his chopsticks to face her.
"Y-you didn't want to see me?" Yuukie asked pouting. Giving him an angelic face.
"N-no! I didn't mean it like that! Don't cry Yuukie-chan!" Naruto yelled, waving his arm in the air as though he was in distress.
Yuukie dropped the act and laughed. "It's okay Naruto-kun. I was just kidding."
"Oh." Naruto mouthed as he sat back down.
Yuukie let out another laugh. "You know Naruto-kun? You're too funny."
"Umm… Hey! I just noticed! Nice hairdo!"
"Thanks."
Soon it was getting late. The sun had set and it was getting dark every second. The pale ivory moon shone brightly but later disappeared behind the dark black clouds. Yuukie washed her hands and took off her apron.
"Bye Ojisan, Ayame-san." She said as she bid farewell. "Night Naruto." Yuukie said as she passed him.
The next day was like any other day where she worked from nine to six. When she walked home she decided to take a short cut through a dark pathway. She decided to do this because she was already late for dinner and she didn't want to be lectured by her mother.
During her walk, she wondered why the others weren't tracking her anymore. It was maybe because the got bored and tired and that nothing ever happens. Besides, they probably had better things to do. Actually, she was rather glad that her life was set to normal again.
Yuukie was halfway to her house when she was pulled back to an alley. She tried to scream but a hand covered her mouth and her arms were held strongly by an iron grip. She thrashed around and bit the person's hand and stomped on his foot. He eventually let go and she took the chance to run away. That was until more of them showed up.
"Trying to get away? We found out that you were telling on us." The leader stepped out and accused her. "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Now we have to waste our precious time making you pay. Hmn… You're a handful aren't you?"
"No! I-I didn't tell anyone! I swear! Now let me GO!" She said trying to break herself from the human wall.
"Did you think that we're just going to let you go just like that?" A red haired said curling her locks with her index finger.
"No body knows! I swear! Now please let me go!" She pleaded.
"No way!" A green haired said throwing her to the brick wall. "You little whore! Did you think that what you did didn't hurt! Geez… Did you grow fangs or what?"
"I didn't know that it was you. I'm sorry now let me go!" She said trying to get past them once again when their leader and a brown haired held her arms.
"Whoa! Hold it right there! We're not letting you go until we have a little fun." The leader smirked. "It's been a while hasn't it girls?" She asked her members.
"Yeah! Yeah! We'll have a lot of fun with her!" Her members cheered.
"I won't let you! Now let me go you demons!" She yelled and pulled her arms frantically before a blue haired shut her by punching her stomach. "If you don't want it to hurt than hold still!" She said cracking her knuckles.
She landed on the ground coughing out blood. Yuukie held her stomach and glared at them. She hated these people with a passion. Her eyes were heated and her knuckles turned white.
"Oh don't give us that look! You're trying to look tough? Ooh we're really scared!" The leader said mockingly as her crew laughed.
Yuukie wiped the blood at the corner of her lip and stood up but was later thrown back to the wall by a blonde.
"Don't worry… This won't hurt." Her beautiful voice echoed. She would be a nice friend and a wonderful singer if she weren't such an evil member. "Much!" She said smirking as she held out some kunais.
"Why are you all doing this to me? I just don't understand! Why? What have I done wrong?"
"You already know so don't act as if you don't! Besides we told you once and we are not going to repeat it again. Now you're getting your just desserts. Hope you're hungry because there's plenty where that came from!" An ebony haired said her eyes glinting.
"Yeah, you should have stopped while you still can but you didn't, did you?" A red haired in pigtails said as she blew her bubblegum.
Yuukie braced herself as they all attacked her. She was cut and hit. She would curl up into a ball to try and block out the pain that went through her. She felt herself being picked up and she was thrown to the wall several times and finally she was knocked out. The members continued their doing that they did not notice a shadow like figure on one of the rooftops.
"Oy! It looks as though I've found some cats picking on a defenseless mouse! You all get away from her!" He commanded.
"A mouse?" Said a sexy voice belonging to the blonde said. "More like a rat!"
"Shut up, Kisa! Everyone spread out!" The leader commanded and they did.
The figure walked closer to Yuukie and took her arm and placed it on his shoulder. He carried the now limp body and dragged it out from the alleyway. "Now what to do with you?" He said looking at her face.
Yuukie opened one eye and took one look at her savior and gave a weary smile. She was very glad to see him. "T-thank you, S-Sasuke-san…" She said before collapsing.
"Why do I end up saving you? It's supposed to be Sakura today. I just finished training and then I have to save you again? Che, you're an interference!" Sasuke said as he jumped to the roof and headed to the Sanada residence.
Sasuke knocked at the door. When it opened, he handed Yuukie to a very shocked faced Hana. She screamed and started crying. Sasuke flinched from the scream, it reminded him of his fan girls.
"My daughter is dead! My only daughter is dead!" (1)
"Calm down Sanada-san, she's not dead! She just fainted." Sasuke said trying to get his eardrums to work again.
"You saved her? How can I repay you? Sasuke-sama?"
God, did everyone in the whole universe respect him or something? Or was this family working as slaves throughout the ages? "It's just Sasuke and yes, you can repay me by answering a few questions."
"Yes, of course. Please come inside and wait while I'll take Yuukie to her room first."
Sasuke nodded and stepped in, closing the door behind him. Hana led him to the living room and he sat on an armchair. He scanned the room and saw that it was mainly filled with pictures. It was small but homey a lot better than his own anyway.
The pictures were mostly Yuukie and her family but Sasuke wondered why there we're any with Daisuke with them. There were but with Yuukie alone. His train of thought was halted when he saw a particular picture at one of the end tables of his father along with a few other Uchihas and Yuukie's father.
He stood up and picked up the frame and looked at it longingly. How he missed his family. He closed his eyes and sighed.
"Looking at your father Sasuke-san?" Hana asked.
Sasuke snapped back to reality and placed the photo frame down. He sat back down on the armchair and placed his chin on his hands. "About those questions?" Sasuke asked lifting an eyebrow.
"Ah… yes." Hana said hesitantly. "What did you want to ask?"
"Does she go through this all the time?"
"Uh… Yes."
"And she doesn't know how to fight back?"
"Yes she doesn't and she would never. She's not that type of person. She'll just pass it off and let it happen."
"Did she ever attend the Ninja Academy?"
"No." Hana said flatly.
"This is going to be hard." Sasuke said as he rubbed his chin. "The ones who are doing this are girls?"
"Yes."
"Do you know these girls?"
"I'm afraid not. Yuukie never told me."
"Do you know why she's being beaten up like this?"
"Y-yes…" Hana said finding hard to swallow.
"Why?" Sasuke asked giving her a sharp glare.
That was very expected so Hana inhaled deeply ready to answer the young Uchiha's question and he knew he wouldn't like it. "I'm really sorry Sasuke-san but I cannot answer that."
"What? Why? I need to know to solve this case and help her."
"I am in no right to tell any of Yuukie's secrets. I suggest that you should ask her yourself. Yet, it's still her decision to tell you or not."
"I will but I expect her to be ready with the answer when I ask. I'll be leaving now." Sasuke said as he left.
Hana sighed and went upstairs to Yuukie's room. She opened the door slowly to see if she was awake. She peeked inside and she was. She was only half conscious and was lying on the bed miserably. There were dried tear marks on her cheeks and in her eyes she could see hurt and pain.
"Yuukie?" She called out and Yuukie looked up and turned to the wall. Hana sat on the bed and called out to her yet again. "Yuukie look at me."
Yuukie did as she was told and turned her face back to the wall. "Sasuke wanted to know why they were beating you up."
"Tell him that I don't want to talk about it." She sniffed.
"I'm afraid that you'll have to tell him yourself, dear."
"Why should I? Besides, it's none of his business."
"He's only doing his job. He said to be ready to answer his question when he asks."
"I already said that I don't want to!"
"I know you don't but I don't think that Sasuke will take a no for an answer."
.: Back to Sasuke:.
Sasuke went to his instructor's neighborhood. He knocked at his sensei's house and waited patiently. He knocked again and waited and waited and waited. His teacher was really driving his patience. He had been waiting for a whole fifteen minutes now!
He banged the door loudly. "Open the damn door Kakashi!" He yelled. He could feel a vein popping from his head.
The door finally opened and there stood a grinning (behind his mask) Kakashi. "Yo! Sorry for letting you wait and all. You see I was…" The agitated young Uchiha cut him short.
"Shut it!" Sasuke spat.
"Temper. Temper." Kakashi warned, waving his index finger back and forth of the teens face. "Sasuke-kun you really should control your temper. How are you going to get an heiress for your clan with that?" Kakashi asked. Sasuke looked as though he might bite Kakashi's finger off so he pulled it away.
"I've got a report on the person who's beating up Sanada."
"Oh, well come right in." Kakashi said as he opened the door wider to let the teen in.
"I'd rather just tell you out here."
"So, who was it?" Kakashi asked.
"Apparently, it was a bunch of girls but I don't know who they were since I didn't see their faces. I mean it was dark and all. The mother said that it happened before. I also asked her if she knew why she was being beaten up."
"And?" Kakashi asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"You didn't let me finish! She said that she had no right to tell me who it was and that I should ask her myself and I will. I'm going to solve this case and finish my mission so I don't have to deal with that annoying girl ever again!"
"Okay, thank you Sasuke-kun and oh next time? Tell me in the morning."
"And waste my time to wait for you then tell you? Che." Sasuke said as he turned around and left.
"You're right!" Kakashi grinned and closed the door.
.: Finish :.
A mother always, always makes a mountain out of a molehill. Trust me I've been there.
A/n: Sorry it took so long. I was in Kuala Lumpur for the last six days and I still have homework and projects. My teacher made me head of Geography, English and Science. I had a lot of work. So I'm very sorry!
I'm also sorry if there were any grammar or spelling mistakes that I wasn't aware of. Also I'd like to apologise for the OOCness in the characters. In the next chapter Sasuke will be really OOC but I hope that you guys will understand.
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