Chapter seven

The red-eye demon (Part 2)

Sakura moved closer towards Ino she put her hands on the blonde girl's shoulder looking at her softly; Ino's tears were streaming out like a fountain. She spoke softly to the girl.

"Ino, Sasuke, he's not worth it, just give up on him, he's not worth it for you to waste your time on" Ino smacked Sakura's hands off her shoulders. She glared at Sakura with anger, thunder roared in the rain as rain poured down heavily.

"WHY CANT YOU JUST F----N UNDERSTAND I CANT GIVE UP ON HIM, IT PISS ME OFF JUST TO SEE HIM PAYING ALL HIS ATTENTION ON YOU, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO COME INTO THE PICTURE ANYWAYS, AND WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO BE BETTER THEN ALL OF US, YOU GOT WHAT EVERY GIRL EVER WISHED FOR, LOOKS, MONEY, BOYS, WHY CANT YOU JUST LEAVE SASUKE-KUN." there it is, the words that Sakura was afraid to hear from the beginning of the conversation. More rain pour down, Sakura's whole body was soaked head to toe. Sakura moved back a little due to the shocking change of reaction coming from a sweet girl. A struck of lightning roared in the sky; Sakura who was afraid of thunder was too captivated in the conversation to noticed. A strange feeling inside her made her angry; it's not her fault the stupid jerk happens to paid attentions to her.

"You're just being a selfish little kid, what difference does it make if I stay away from him? Huh, he still won't like you, that guy is too closed up to like anyone, what do you know about me anyways, you think that all those things are going to make me happy, looks, money and boys. -" Sakura paused, the cranky annoyed harsh tone that she used changed into a softer one showing what she was really feeling, sad.

"They're nothing if you don't need them, they don't give me happiness. You got parents you got friends, people who cares for you, what do I have? My parents doesn't care about me, I don't have any friends…you already got more then me. ISNT THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU?"

"SHUT UP" Ino's voice screeched out, the rain pouring down from the sky was like another replica of their conversation, fight, or what ever people consider it. But it was heavy, unstable, and depressing. The school bell rung signaling class time, but the two girls didn't moved and inched, they just stood there, Sakura watches as Ino cried louder, the many droplets of rain pouring out from the sky contacted their skins harshly like a billion of needle poking in. although it was still midday, it was dark, it almost seamed like night time.

"You don't know how hard it is watching him only looking at you; I'm not the only one that feels this way"

"There's nothing going on between me and him, just leave it at that I don't want any more troubles" Sakura has grown tired with the conversation that was going no where. She just wants it to end, if Ino was going to go for a guy and needed her to get out of the way then she was willing to try her best to step out.

"BUT HE LIKE YOU"

Sakura closed her eyes and let out a long sigh. That thought that she had about stepping out turned into a passed though, she no longer want to do anything with this person. She was disgusted, what was so good about a guy that you hardly even know other then his good looks? Sakura was angry; she hated childish behaviors coming from a fan girl. Every fan girl, she started to understand how Sasuke feels, to have your life followed and watched by many people was annoying.

"Oh I get it, you're just jealous, why don't you GROW UP, how could I like some one in just less then one week?" That line stopped Ino from her crying. She was about to say something when Sakura continued.

"You know, I'm really tired of all you people telling me to stay away from that jerk, and I don't need another friend that puts a boy that doesn't even like her before friends, I hate those type of people most" Sakura let out a deep and long breath and continued.

"From now on we're no longer friends, you can go after your dream boy, then you can just leave me alone I want a peaceful life" Ino was silent, she didn't think that the conversation was going to ended this way, she was expecting something else. Perhaps a slap?

"That Jerk is not the type to like girls that goes after him, he pays more attention to a girl that don't, and you know that well, that's why you think that he likes me, you shouldn't just assume things, if you want to know then why don't you just go and ask him yourself instead of getting jealous" a hand flew straight at Sakura's cheek, Ino had slapped her, she can feel her cheeks burned in pain as she just stared blankly at her angry eyes snarling sending her daggers that threatens to rip the pieces out of her.

"Who are you to teach me those stuff, fine, I don't care if you're my friend or not, from now on we're rivals" Ino's eyes were fiery, Sakura stared into the blue orbs with no fear, she could feel her cheeks heating up, she put her small and cold hand soaked with rain on it to cool it down.

"Fine you decided that on your own, but remember the things that I said, don't blame me if you get hurt in the future, you're already 16 it's about time you grow up and not act like one of those annoying fan girls" After walking a few step Sakura turned around, her hand was still placed on her cheeks. She was about to say something when a feeling inside her stopped her. She gazed at the girl for a while and headed off.


After a while of wandering around aimlessly, Sakura found herself in front of the school main door, she spotted two figures from far away, and she knew straight away whom the two figures belong to. Yamamoto Misaki and Sanada Reyka, Sakura ignored the two girls and kept walking towards the main door, one was leaning against the frame of the door on the right, the other on the left. Sakura was surprise at the speed Sasuke-fan-girls get acquaintance with each other so quickly.

Sakura was thinking to just walk straight past them, but Misaki and Reyka both flung their arms out covering up the walk path, not letting Sakura walk in. Sakura stop when she was short distance away from them.

"What do you want now, I'm sick and tired of annoying fan girls for one day" Sakura stared at the two fan girls.

"We didn't finish our conversation in class, Sakura-chan" Misaki smiled, although to the normal eyes of some that doesn't know Misaki it would looked like a sweet and innocent smile, but for a person who does, it was a venomous smile that means trouble.

"I said it before and I'll say it again, stay away from Sasuke-kun or else-"

"Or else what?" Sakura snapped, her usual face was replaced with a cold expression, almost like a glare, the two female put their arms down, they moved back a little, the confident expression on the faces changed.

"You'll be sorry that you've ever mess with us, I'll beat you up like last time" after realizing how week she has just showed Misaki shook off the fear inside her and obtained her usual cool voice giving a little threat.

"That's if you can, you fan girls are all the same, no wonder that bastard hates you" Sakura showed them no signs of fear. She didn't even stop to wonder what Misaki meant by 'I'll beat you up like last time'; she was too frustrated to think clearly. Although Misaki just came to the school, Sakura already disliked her. There was something that came from her gave off a strange annoying aura just made Sakura mad.

Misaki curled her palm into a fist and strike Sakura with all she's got, but Sakura on the other hand leaned a little to the side making Misaki miss. While on the other hand Reyka sent a slap towards Sakura, which also missed, Sakura turned around and pushed the two girls making them fall into the muddy and ground. Sakura ignored the curses that they yelled out randomly, and walked inside the building to attend her last two classes. She went to her locker and change into another set of uniform that she had bought this morning due to her two other set got ruined by Sasuke.


After school

Sakura walked home slowly taking the long route through the park again, she managed to avoid Sasuke's fan girls and Sasuke outside class. She walked through the Park again filled with cherry blossom; She could once again smell the scent of the spring flower. She inhaled the sweet scent, 'this smell its feels so warm, this warm feeling, I've felt it before' Sakura then tried to remember a childhood memory; a memory that had the same warm feeling, Yet there was nothing, her childhood memory was a blank picture.

"I haven't seen you in 6 years and you're already turning into a whore" A cold voice appeared from behind Sakura, snapping her out of her thoughts. Sakura turned around to see that it was Misaki, her newly bought uniform was covered in mud.

"Oh Yamamoto-san, what's up?" Sakura pretend that nothing had happened earlier. She took notice of Misaki's glare, 'I swear this bitch is pissing me off, if she keeps this I'm gonna give her Hell!' Inner Sakura yelled out.

"Don't play dumb with me" Misaki's face filled with anger and irritation. The expression on her face was scary. Sakura opened her mouth to speak, but the words wouldn't come out. There was something wrong with her. She could feel her hands shaking, an image of that day flashed once more, she stuttered.

"W-What are you t-taking a-about?" a drop of sweat rolled down her face. A feeling of fear ran through her head, her hands started shaking rigorously. There was something about this girl that scared Sakura, but what? The confident that she had a little while back disappeared as she looked into the demonic red orbs.

"Oh, you don't remember me do you, forehead girl, I guess it can't be helped, after getting beat up that bad 6 years ago. I wouldn't blame you for losing a little memory from it" Misaki grinned, Sakura recognized that smile, she has seen it before, but where? White light flashed in her vision as she was once again steeping back in time.

Flashed back

Sakura frowned. An image of her past flashed through her mind, she remembered that time when she was beaten up, her hair was hacked away, and strands of pink hair were scattered on the playground floor, mixed with blood. Sakura looked up to the bigger kids, at the front line was a girl her age, red eyes, red hair, the red image of a demon. They were holding scissors in their hands. She can't feel her face, her eyes were heavy, stinging pain shoot through her body like thousands of needles were poked into her skin, her arms and legs were weak, she cant move a finger, those images were imprinted in her mind. The next image that she can see is darkness, she was alone.

End of flashback, back to reality

"Y-You w-were… from t-that t-time" Sakura stuttered. She recalled the incident once again. At that moment her head started to ache badly, the last thing that Sakura saw was Misaki grinning, after that, total darkness.


She was alone, the cold darkness surrounds her, she breathe in the cold air, once again she was alone, once again she was in this dream, the dream that has haunts her for many years. A red eye demon with nine tails appear, it stood in front of her facing her, staring into her eyes. She would spend a long time staring at the cold and lifeless orbs of the demon. It roars at her showing the tremendous amount of fangs it carried, it was getting ready to eat its prey, her. Sakura started running, she ran as fast as she could…but…she was getting no where, and finally the demon caught her with its paw, its claws poked into her skin, she can feel cold blood flowing out of her back, the aching pain was too much for her to handle she yelled out.

Sakura woke up, she breathe in large amount of cold air, warm sweats were trickling down her face, her hand roused through her silky pink hair, she can feel a scar at the back of her head under her pink locks. She has received it from that time. That was the only scar that remained on her body. It was a dream that she haven't had in a while, as usual it always woke her up in the middle of the night.

Her first sight was not the familiarity of the pink colored wall of her room. It was dark. Her bed was soft, too soft to be hers. She sat upright breathing in tremendous amount of air; sweat was trickling down her face. She looked around. It was a large room. There was a huge window on the side, and she looked down at her hands and noticed that she is wearing pink pajamas. The moonlight came in through the large window, and gave a bit of light for Sakura to see what she's wearing. She slowly got out of bed and walked towards the large balcony outside the large window to see such beautiful scenery of a very large garden filled with flowers.

"Where am I?" Sakura thought out loud.

"You're currently at the Uchiha mansion miss" a voice came out of nowhere, and scared Sakura. She turned around to see an old man around his fifties dressed in a black suite.

"My apologies miss, I have startled you" the man bowed politely.

"No not at all" Sakura's replied.

"Ah, please forgive me, I haven't introduce myself; my name is Alfred, Sasuke-sama's butler." He politely introduced himself.

"Oh…uh, nice to meet you I'm-"

"Haruno Sakura-sama" Alfred butted in, as he completed Sakura's sentence.

"Oh so you already know my name" A sweat drop rolled down Sakura's face. 'But what's with the "Sama" thingy connected to my name' Inner Sakura added.

"Are you okay miss, you yelled out in your sleep"

"Oh I'm okay it was just a nightmare"

"Please excuse me miss. I'm going to inform young master that you have woken up" Before Sakura could say anything Alfred had already left the room leaving Sakura just staring at the door. 'Fast'. Sakura walked back to the window and stared at the beautiful garden.

She stared at the beautiful array of flowers, they were all in different colors, she took noticed that the large amount of flowers formed a shape of a fan, the top half of the fan was colored white, while the lower half was colored red, it was a simple looking fan, yet beautiful. A light wind flew by making her shivered a little. The moonlight danced on the large tree in the center of the garden. Many petals fell out of the tree wind blew them to Sakura's direction. Sakura stared dreamily at the tree; she could smell a sweet scent. The door suddenly opened as Sasuke walked in with a little smirk. Sakura stood amazed as stared at the garden. She didn't take any notice of Sasuke being in the room.

"Pretty" whispered Sakura.

"What is?" Sasuke crept behind Sakura. She straightaway recognized the voice, the coldness of Sasuke's voice made her flinch a little. Sakura calmly answered her seatmate, her voice was almost a whisper, but Sasuke managed to make out what she said.

"You have a pretty garden"

"Hmmm" Sasuke replied.

"What happened today, how did I end up here at your place?" Sakura asked. Her voice was calm; her gaze was fixed onto the garden.

"I was walking to my car, until that is I saw you walking home by yourself. I also spotted that Misaki was going the same direction as you. I got curious, since I knew that she lives in the other side of town. I guess curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to follow. I realized that she followed you all the way to the park, and that's when she decided to reveal herself to you. I was too far away to hear what you guys were talking about, so I moved in to see what was going on. But the next thing I realized was that your face turned all pale, and you said something and passed out. That's when I brought you back here."

"Oh, so that's how it happened…Hey can I ask you something?" asked Sakura.

"Yeah what?"

"Can we stop this war?"

"Why?"

"I'm getting sick of it"

"Fine" Sasuke stared at Sakura.

"Thanks" Sakura whispered. 'Sakura would never thank me' thought Sasuke.

"You're acting different, what's wrong? Tell Me," Sasuke demanded Sakura to talk.

"Nothing, I just got sick of this "so called" war. I lost interest in it" Sakura answered softly.

"There's more to it, tell me" Sasuke demanded.

"More to what? That is my only reason" Sakura lied.

"Don't play mind games with me, I know there's more to it, what did Yamamoto say to you?" Sasuke raised his voice he was almost shouting. Sakura still refused to answer, as she told another lie.

"Nothing"

"You're a bad liar. You know her, don't you? What did she say to you?" there was a tinge of anger in Sasuke's voice.

"If you already knew, then why did you ask?" Sakura just kept her face hidden from Sasuke.

"I want to hear it from you" answered Sasuke. A soft wind blew making the Sakura tree danced, Sakura stayed quiet for a while, and then response.

"I see"

"So you don't remember anything?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah, I lost my memories, I forced myself to forget" Sakura bitterly answered. Another painful image flashed, she gritted her teeth, and focused on staring at the Sakura tree.

"I see…you don't even know why you got beaten up right?" asked Sasuke.

"Yeah" answered Sakura. She didn't even stop and think why Sasuke was interrogating her, or how did he know that she doesn't know the reason for that incident, she was too busy focusing at the tree and avoiding eye contact with Sasuke to realize. She can hear him sigh.

"You don't have to leave the school if you lose this fight, just so that you know" Sakura nodded.

"You can sleep here tonight; it's way too late to take you home now" Sakura nodded again.

"I'll take you home tomorrow" Sakura nodded again, 'this is starting to piss me off, stop nodding dammit' thought Sasuke.

"Yes, thank you" Sakura replied, they've never talked like that before, it was a conversation with a lot of seriousness.

"Oh and Sakura"

"Yes?"

"I had the family doctor check up on you, she said that you fainted because you had a large headache. Just incase you wanted to know that"

"Yeah, thanks, goodnight" Sakura replied softly. Taking note of Sasuke's cold voice, she realized that he said her name and not forehead girl, and he didn't say it with any kind of suffix too.

"Goodnight" Sasuke whispered. He quickly walked out of the room leaving Sakura standing at the balcony.

'I guess there is a good side to Sasuke after all, maybe I should be nicer to him'


Hope you enjoy the chap, this was edited by me so the grammar is terrible. Please forgive me. And Review!

Shir0-ChaN