Thanks everyone for the reviews. Here's the second chapter. Basically, this is a story consisting of one-shot songfics.. I know, scary. Yes, I know that many country songs.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the song 'Tonight I Wanna Cry' by Keith Urban.
Alone in this house again tonight
Got the TV on
Sound turned down and a bottle of wine
Kakashi took another swig of the vadka, welcoming the sweet taste of numb as again more of his pain drained away. He stared blankly at the TV screen. "Who cares about damn reality shows?" he muttered darkly, but didn't even bother to move towards the remote. He just another swig of his alchohol, hoping the pain would finally just go away, forever.
There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me
The way that it was a could've been surrounds me
I'll never get over you walking away
She had left him. That was the only thing that pounded through his head. For a while, he had been the only thing she wanted. For a while. But things changed, didn't they? He ran his fingers through his silver hair, still numb with drink and the one realization. Haruno Sakura had left him. There were pictures on the wall of them. One of her sitting on his stomach when he refused to say cheese to the camera and she had started tickling him till he did, which ended up with her sitting on him. There was one they had taken themselves of each other kissing, just for the fun of it. But then there was the one of him holding her in his arms. He couldn't help but give a small smile. God, she was beautiful.
Cause I've never been the kind to ever let my feelings show
And I thought that being strong meant never losing self control
But I'm just drunk enough
To let go of my pain
To help with my pride
Let it fall like rain from my eyes.
Tonight I wanna cry
He drunkenly got up and staggered to the bedroom, running his hands along the walls. There had been nights where they would lean against these very walls, kissing each passionately. Now though, there were only shadows of what used to be. And as he went to the room, he felt anger boil up in him. "Why?" he screamed, and slammed his fists on the walls, tears blurring his vision.. He pulled back his hand, and saw a small dent in the wall. He gave a small smile, though he didn't know why. He went to his room, and then sat on the bed, staring at something the past still held veiled.
Would it help if I turned that sad song on?
All by myself, it would sure hit me hard now that you're gone
Or maybe unfold some more yellow, lost love letters
Its gonna hurt bad before it gets better
But I'll never get over you by hiding this way
He read the letters they had exchanged when either of them were on missions. He kept them all, holding a piece of their love with the paper, hoping the ink would never fade. But life, love, memories and the ink of that ball point pen all fade. Everything would fade in the end. He had just thought that his darling Sakura would be there with him when everything faded to black. She had always held him in the dark, breathing softly in his ear one thousand promises of their love. Now though, in his ears, there was the ringing of loss. Love is blind, they say, but who ever knew that it could make deaf men hear?
Cause I've never been the kind to ever let my feelings showAnd I thought that being strong meant never loosing self control
But I'm just drunk enough
To let go of my pain
To help with this pride
Let it fall like rain from my eyesTonight I wanna cry
He sat in the ramen shop, slowly reading his book, but he kept rereading the same sentence. He couldn't concentrate, not even on his book. He looked up from his book just in time to see Sakura walk into the shop, and, to his complete and utter horror, Sasuke at her shoulder, smiling warmly at her. She had left him for his former student? "You really do hate me, don't you!" he whispered, raising his one eye to the sky. He paid for his meal and then just sat there, staring numbly at the page of his book. Then, a voice jolted him from his misery. "How are you, sensei?" He looked up to see Sakura standing there, Sasuke just behind her. Maybe he was just being paranoid, but it seemed that Sasuke was mocking him with that little grin. He narrowed his eye and stared at them. He could see tears swimming in her eyes. How come you're so sad? he wanted to yell at her, You're not the one who got left behind and replaced! He just rose from his seat and slowly put his book in his bag and then looked at her. "Bloody fantastic," he whispered and walked out of the store, leaving a smirking Sasuke and a on-the-verge-of-tears Sakura.
Cause I've never been the kind to ever let my feeling show
And I thought that being strong meant never loosing self control
But I'm just drunk enough
To let go of my pain
To help with this pride
Let it fall like rain from my eyes.
Kakashi walked down the road, his hands deep in his pockets. He ignored the running footsteps until a gentle hand rested on his shoulder. He looked over to find Sakura. She looked at him with tears on her cheeks. "Does it really hurt that bad?" she asked gently. He again narrowed his eye at her and turned away. "Damn straight," he exclaimed before walking away. She broke into a trot to keep up with his long stride. "I-I-I'm sorry. I never knew!" she said, touching his shoulder again. Kakashi spun to face her, rage flaring in his one eye, and she flinched away. "Well, then you should have thought about that before leaving me in that ditch and running to pretty boy, huh?" he yelled at her. she flared up too, her emerald eyes flashing. "Don't you talk about Sasuke that way! He was your student! How dare you!"
"And I'm your old teacher. I mean, who cares what Kakashi thinks anyway?" he yelled, asking himself a question he had asked himself so many times already. Sakura looked like she had just been slapped. "Why? Why are you taking this so hard!" she asked him, clutching his vest, staring at him wildly.
He grunted and dug his hand into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet box and thrust it into her surprised grip. "There, that's why! Now, good day!" and he stalked off, his shoulders hunched. Sakura looked after him, shocked, for a moment, before opening the box. Inside was a ring, sparkling in all its glory, but it seemed dim, as if the diamond itself knew its use was gone. She felt tears falling down her face at a rapid rate, and she stared after her ex teacher and boyfriend, feeling sorrow, guilt and pain well up in her chest. "Oh my God. Oh Kakashi, I'm so sorry." Kakashi lay on his bed that night, crying himself to sleep.
Tonight I wanna cry
Done! So, what do you think? I'm thinking of doing the songs 'She Didn't Have Time', 'Like We Never Loved At All', God Bless the Broken Road' and 'Why'. R&R!
