The Concrete Angel: by: silveryxwater

"text"- character speaking
'text'- thoughts

text- song lyrics

text- flashback

"This is a song dedicate so someone special," Sasuke Uchiha, a world famous singer, announced.

She walks to school with the lunch she packed. Nobody knows what she's holding back;
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday,
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace

"Look at her, she's wearing that ugly red dress again,"

"Who wears those kinds of dresses anyways? That high collar looks so dumb,"

"She always covers herself up...maybe she has some kind of disease!"

'That's what all the kids at school said about her," Sasuke thought as he sang.

The teacher wonders but he doesn't ask,
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask;
Bearing the burden of a secret storm,
Sometimes she wishes she was never born;

'I saw Kakashi-sensei looking at her again. I knew he felt that something was wrong, but he never asked about it. She always made it so that she seemed happy by smiling. But I knew it was just a façade. But she wouldn't tell me about it, no matter how much I asked.'

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.
Concrete Angel

'She told me that when she grows up, she wanted to be a lawyer. I didn't know why at first…but she told me later'

"I want to be a lawyer Sasuke-kun! Someone that helps innocent people from getting hurt,"

Somebody cries in the middle of the night,
The neighbors hear but they turn out the lights;
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate,
When morning comes it will be too late.

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

'It was late at night when I heard crying and yelling from her house next door. I was worried, but I decided everything was going to be okay. The next morning, I woke up and went to her house to take her to school. But then, I heard yelling again. I looked through the window, and her dad, he was hitting her furiously with a stick. I couldn't look away no matter how much I wanted to barge in there and stop it. Through it all, she just sat there, unmoving, like stone'

"You little brat! Die,Die!"

'That was all I could hear. Then, he picked her up, and threw her across the room. She lied there on the ground, and didn't move. That did it. I ran through the door, knocked her insane father out, and carried her to my house. She was hurt so badly.'

"Sasuke-kun, now you know why I wanted to be a lawyer right?"

"What do you mean Saku, you don't want to be one anymore?"

"…Sasuke, I don't think I'm ever gonna be able to become one"

"Why Sakura?"

'She didn't answer. She was dead,'

A statue stands in a shaded place,
An angel girl with an upturned face;
Her name is written on a polished rock,
A broken heart that the world forgot.

'On the day of her funeral, only two people showed up, me and Kakashi-sensei. He blamed himself for Saku dieing. I blamed myself too.'

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

'She's gone now. I still can't believe how much pain she went through. How could she even pretend to be happy? But now, I knew she was in a better place. Where no one could hurt her or make her sad.'

Concrete Angel

Sasuke finished the last word in his song. The crowd had tears in there eyes as they chanted his name.

Throughout all the noise, the only thought Sasuke had in his mind was: Sakura.