Title: The Poor Think The Rich Always Win
Authoress: BeuitifulDisgrace246
Rating: Still T!
Summary: Naruto's life is great, just living with his sister Hazel in their broken down farmhouse. Sasuke's life is far from normal being extremely hot and someday owning a company worth millions of dollars. What will happen to make these two meet?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything! I swear! –Hides Nickelback shirt that she got at concert- really….nothing…heh heh….
Warning: MIGHT be some cursive language…other than that…enjoy.
Author's note: So sorry for the long wait you guys! Gosh…lets see…almost a week without updating! I'm getting worse at this! Lol. Thanks to any readers who are still currently reading! At least I held your interest to make you read this much…and please don't kill me for what happens in this chapter…THANK YOU! -Bows and scurries away-
EDIT: Wow. I had to change a pretty lot…not THAT much though. Still read if you'd like to though…AND REVIEW! –Flashes disarming smile-
In THIS Chapter: What happened to Takuto? Should Sasuke be worried? And more importantly, is Hazel going to survive? We'll just have to see now won't we?
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I still don't have my answer. My only source of light is dying, such as a light bulb that has lost its power source: its glow. It is quite impossible to find an answer in such conditions… In the afterlife I shall retrieve my light again, and this time I will have complete control…No one will dare stand in my way. Oh yes…
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Hazel's POV
I know that I'm dying. I know it for sure. You can still hold on to hope, and I have been for as long as I can remember. It's like this life is so blurry…and I have to make my escape. I can feel my heart pounding, pounding, pounding, and waiting for its doom.
My whole body aches with what will be my decent from this world. I just hope my soul is ready to leave Naruto, I know it wants to stay here so much. Everything hurts. But what hurts worse than my wounds are the struggles I put my dear brother through.
He doesn't deserve such a life! He needs to be better, for himself…and for me. I hope he knows with all of his heart that even though I am leaving, that doesn't mean he should just give up.
He can't just throw it all away! But he's just so stubborn…he'll really need somebody to help him along because he struggles when it comes to doing things for himself. I can just picture him giving a hobo all of his paycheck because he just doesn't have the heart to think about what they could be feeling at that moment…
He's too emotional. But that's what I love about him. Everything about him is…well, him. It just is that way. There's no changing it at all. I really hope that there is another wandering soul on this earth that will treasure him, not just as a human being, but also as a whole…whole being.
He deserves so much. But just as I know here lying in my deathbed that he deserves all of this, he will not attain it without help. I pray to all of the lords that before I leave here, for them to find the perfect angel for my brother.
I wish I could still be here to save him. But it must be done. Please, just free him from his longing to be someplace, to do something useful! I know he's smart and gentle enough…he just needs a push.
This is all I ask. I will leave, soaring through the heavens, growing my silvery wings, darting like a feather through the golden clouds, welcoming me warmly. I will look down to my brother, look down to Naruto and see his eyes filled with worry and sorrow, but he knows.
I don't have to tell him how deeply I love him. And how deeply I knew that it was coming. He knows…
But he still won't leave behind his new burden of regret and sadness that will create dents in his soul, until he doubles over defeated. I know all of this. But so does my Naruto…
Please lord. Be with him. For all eternity. Amen.
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Naruto's POV
I've known. I've known for a long time now that something bad was going to happen to Hazel. But did I do anything about it? No. That is my biggest regret…
I'm so stupid!!! I could have helped in some way!!! There was some way to avoid the pain!!! While I was wasting my time, I could have been saving her! She would be alive and well!!
IT'S ALL MY FAULT!!!
And it's also…just…not…fair.
How can someone you love so much be taken away from you? That is all I desire to know…that's it! Why should you love so much if it will just be taken away when you think that it will be fine forever? You can feel it there all the time, taking it for granted that it will never leave you…so it becomes unguarded.
Just at the right moment, the love is snatched away, and you are left with nothing. Hazel…I love you. But you must know, I can never love again. I swear to everything that if love ever enters my heart it will be shot down. Only my angel can open up the restraints…
Just as I am left without my most precious angel, which is you, there is not another one out there destined to connect with me. You were all I started with, all I had left. Now you are what I will miss until the point of forcing my head underwater and holding it there until I drown.
But the water wouldn't wash away what you will leave me with. I will hold onto your hand forever. The bond will still be there. I can still feel your warm, fragile hand caressing mine…
I am letting go of all regrets before you leave. You will not have my burden held over you, that is completely unfair. I will of loved you to the fullest when you plan you trip to the next place that you will live in.
Letting go…
You know how hard letting go is for me. I will learn to get over all of the small things that happen. I will never let go of your hand however, Hazel. Ever. So please don't let go of mine…
Don't let me go…
I love you Hazel. Please, Please, please know this. But I already know that you do. Don't let go…
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Sasuke's POV
When my hand reached the doorknob, my heart stopped. To think, my cold and heartless shell of a human being was reacting to such a heart-wrenching thing. It also had something to do with a brother that I don't know as well as I should…
But still…it's as if my body has been possessed by ghosts or something. My heart is working faster than my mind, making me feel such intense caring for my brother. It's taking over…and somehow…maybe…making me be a better person.
The door creaked open partly, making me jump and close it tightly once again. My hands were shaking way too much. I placed my freezing fingers in front of my mouth, blowing warm breath on them. The shaking stopped, but my heart didn't. I don't know what to do to make that slow down at all…
Okay. This is it. I knew that if I didn't do something right then, I would explode with anticipation. I just HAD to know what's wrong with Takuto!!! I inhaled one last time, before the door creaked open once again…
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Naruto's POV
"Ahh…" A nurse wheeling a cart jerked me violently from my deep slumber. I yawned silently to myself and stretched my unused muscles. Pulling my face towards Hazel, I saw the very subtle but still noticeable breaths she was struggling to maintain.
My stomach grumbled saying: "I NEED FOOD!!!" But…everything is for you, Hazel. 'Everything and anything for you.' The food would have to wait. I need to be here when she leaves me, I just have to be.
If I was away while that was happening, I could never look straight into the mirror at myself. I would feel tainted…
I reached out for Hazel's hand and gave it a little squeeze. Anything for you…
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Later…
Still Naruto's POV
I don't know how long I've been here sitting by her bed and holding her delicate little hand. I can feel a tidal wave coming: going right in the correct direction…towards me. It's so near now; I can feel its cold spray painting droplets of water down my back.
Because it has been near for so long, I am guessing that it is just waiting for the perfect opportunity to have it's way with us. It's getting closer…closer………closer…
It's here.
My world sprang into a new light as I suddenly felt the severe drop of her heart rate. My mind raced with an impending defeat. I knew that this was coming…I knew it. I reached for her heart that had been pumping steady for 13 long years.
It was refusing to continue to do so. Keep pumping, keep pumping, keep pumping! I tried to imagine that I was inside of her body; helping her heart to pump and working as hard as I could to make it continue…to make it keep fighting!
It has to continue! It can't just completely stop! It has to! Come on!!! Just keep…
The whole room was suddenly overcome with an eerily misplaced cool wind.
"Naruto…"
My lips trembled slightly. "Yes?" Hazel regained a smile that had been lost in the limbo. It wasn't…one of her old smiles though. I could definitely tell, there was no denying it. This was one of her fabled true smiles!
I had finally got to see it one last time. I stared hard at rising of her cheekbones and tried to memorize every little thing about it…because I was about to lose it forever.
"Naruto, I hope you find that special someone to make you happy. Just remember, Love is love. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Please, just be happy for once my sweet big brother." My face twitched and a tear that I didn't realize was coming met my shirt and created a spot.
"Don't be sad about me leaving; I leave this earth contempt because I had someone to care for and someone that cared for me just as much." I let her words travel through my body.
"I love you…big brother!" She smiled her biggest smile…and it was gone. Her smile was gone, as well as her soul. They were being moved to a better place, one of angels and all of the blueness the sky could offer her.
My body twitched involuntarily. I had no clue what to do with my body, there just was nothing to do. Nothing left…
I gripped her hand very tightly between my fingers. I raised my head up towards where she was now resting because I had one last thing to tell her.
"I understand Hazel. I am not angry, happy, sad, nor do I have any sort of regret about you leaving me. I know that you had figured out that I would know before this of your leaving. Please…just…be cared for and be safe. I love you so much! Rest in…peaceful peace."
Some of my words came out as choked sobs, but I knew she would know what I was trying to say. We always had that kind of connection…
I rested my hands in my lap. Numerous tears started to roll down my scorching cheeks and fall into my open hands. We had been through so much…There is only good things to remember about Hazel. Only good things…
As my head came to rest in my soaked, outstretched hands, I could still feel her little palm breathing, living and holding on tightly to my hand. She didn't let go…
And I slept with a smile.
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Sasuke's POV
The door slowly creaked open, and I felt my breath stop halfway from fully releasing itself from my throat. Takuto was lying still with his eyes closed tightly. I looked all over him. All that I could see that was wrong with him was a broken leg, and it looked like he had some deep wounds here and there.
But he definitely wasn't in critical condition. My memory glanced back to that girl in the hallway…now she was in critical condition. Then why…why did he get a room? It just doesn't make sense…
I stepped fully into the room and reached down to push some lightish black hair from his shut eyelids. As my fingertips brushed with his warm skin, relief seemed to come off in floods off of him.
He was okay…
I had never been so afraid in my life…
Sleep well little brother, sleep well.
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Naurto's POV
"Uggh.." I woke for the second time since I had arrived at the hospital. I tried to sit up straight, but my face was glued to my hands. My eyelids pulled together when I finally did get my eyes to open fully, and my neck moaned for having to sleep in such a way.
I was in a trance. Where was my Hazel? How's she doing? My eyes danced with the opportunity to go see her and then I remembered. She was…gone. My eyes shut with the intensity from the many candles that had been set up because of lack of power.
The candles were tempting me to yell out in rage, or fury for her loss. But instead I very subtly lifted my throbbing butt from off the seat, and went to seek a nurse. Someone still hadn't seen that Hazel was…dead.
I walked through the almost bare hallways.
'Nowhere to go, nothing to do.'
Because I was walking so slowly, I heard two nurses gossiping fairly far ahead of me. "We are so swamped, and there is nothing we can do for these people!" exclaimed one nurse. "I know…I can't stand to see so many patients dying…who would of thought there would be an earthquake?" They both shook their heads.
"I know we shouldn't hold favorites, but you know that adorable little blond girl that we had to put in the hallways because of the Uchiha's appearance? You know…I think it's…Uzamaki?"
I could have sworn that my heart waved a white flag after my brain registered those words. Reason being because it just…stopped thumping. Hazel? Uchiha's appearance? Isn't that the owner of this hospital? My mind raced fervently for answers.
I decided to let the nurses answer them for me. I slipped silently against the wall so there was no way I could be spotted. They continued their chatter. "I can't believe it, even with the earthquake and everything, how the Uchiha's could still tell us to make sure Takuto gets a room and all of the best medical equipment. So many threats… I mean, they could sue…but still. I believe it's just plain wrong."
The other nurse nodded in agreement. "Exactly. The rich people get the better treatment though. Sadly, that's just the way it is. Even though…there were many other patients out there who suffered because they couldn't have the luxury that Takuto has. Take for example that Uzamaki girl. We could have helped her so much…" The other nurse's face twitched into a solemn frown. "I never thought of the Uchiha's as being so cold hearted though…I thought that for once there were some decent rich people for a change. Guess I was wrong!"
Cold-hearted bastards…My teeth clenched. How could they let Hazel suffer? The nurses said that Hazel could have been saved if it weren't for those damn Uchihas!
I made a promise to myself right then and right there. Until the day I am transported to another world, I will despise any Uchiha with all of my heart, being, and soul. If one happens to come under my gaze, I will turn away as fast as possible. I will never have anything: not in the slightest bit to do with any Uchiha.
Ever.
I promise…
A/N: Hot dang that was long! First of all I wanna say how terribly sorry I am about how long it took to update! I'm horrible at this…wahhh… This chapter took a WHILE to finish…editing and whatnot…thank you for all the supporters of this fic! Please you guys…don't kill me or something about Hazel…I am sad about it too. NE WAYS! Thank you so much reviewers and readers! TNT Till Next Time!