Graveyard Of Happy Memories
( Sasuke's point of view )
"It was his voice I heard the day Hinata's body was dumped" Konohamaru whispers looking up at me looking for my reaction. My face stays blank, I know because I make sure it does. But inside... I feel like a volcano just erupted...
My breath gets caught in my throat, everything goes in slow motion, everything is a blur. The next thing I know, I'm inside my room, tearing everything up. All of my things now lay in the ground, some of them broken, others just lay discarded.
I hear someone calling, probably Itachi but I don't pay him any attention. I am too busy destroying my room, my sanctuary. The one place on earth that resembles everything I am, and now its all ruined its all destroyed, all of the pieces scattered on the ground...
I am about to throw a picture frame to the floor when I feel two arms stop me, I look up and see Itachi's face staring back at me. Sympathy in his eyes, giving me the answer in whether or not Konohamaru told him.
I pull away from him and sit down on the now ruined bed, he sit next to me quietly. "I know your angry, and you probably don't want to talk to me" he says in a calm voice. "Your right I don't" I say in an angry tone. "You have to be rational Sasuke you just cant go and destroy your room because your angry or sad" he says, I stand up and begin to walk away from him.
He's right, I know he's right. I'm not being rational or sane, but I don't care... Not right now, I don't want to be rational. One of my closest friends from childhood is somehow connected to the assault of the one person I have come to love... Fuck being rational
I walk to the door, Itachi and Konohamaru trying to talk me into staying and calming down. But their pleas fall on deaf ears. I walk closer to the door and grab my jacket, in its pocket containing my keys, wallet and phone.
I open the door and leave, not bothering to say anything to them or even spare them a glance. I take quick steps to my car and get inside, I start it and drive not caring or paying any attention to where I am going.
After about an hour of driving around I go to gas station and fill up the tank, I go inside the store and am very tempted to buy one of the many bottles of whisky that sit on the shelf's. But I decide against it, I'm not going to get caught drunk behind the wheel and possibly crash into some innocent person just because I feel like shit. I settle for a pack of cigarettes instead, I used to smoke in high school but quit when Itachi found out.
But right now, I don't care who knows. I buy a pack and lighter. As soon as I walk out of the small store I put one of the poisons sticks in my mouth and light it up. I take a deep breath and let it out, feeling a little calmer then I did before.
I get back inside my car and begin to drive, once again I begin to pointlessly drive around. After successfully going through 3 cigarettes, I stop the car when I see the old childhood park I used to go when I was a child.
I park the car and walk to the now abandon playground, it looks like a hallow shell compared to what it used to be. I walk to the swing sets, the only thing that still stands. I walk to them and sit on the one that seems the most stable out of the six.
I sit there for what seems like hours, just thinking. How could I be so close to someone that was involved in such a monstrous crime? How could I as a child sleep in the same room as him? Call him my other brother? How could someone that meant so much to me as a child do something so horrible to the women I love?
Piles of questions build up in my mind, each one of them making me feel some sort of regret. I come up with no answers to any of them. I sit alone with my thoughts in a graveyard of my childhoods happiest memories.
I look around the playground, memories of Itachi, Kiba and I as children running around with smiles on our faces. Yes, this truly is a graveyard of happy memories.
Maybe one day ill bring Hinata here, before they tear everything completely down and build something new over the ruins. I look around again, they'll probably build some sort of store with all this land. What a shame, I have always hoped to bring my children here, so they could build happy memories here just like their father did so many years before them.
But what if I can't bring Hinata here? What if she doesn't wake up in time before they tear it down? What of she doesn't wake up?
Will she disappear from my memories? What if she is pushed away to the back of my mind and never able to see the light of day, only to be remembered once in a blue moon? No I cant do that to her, she deserves to be remembered.
Even if everyone else forgets her, I cant. I can't forget about Hinata, no matter what. I stand up from the swing after possibly hours of sitting there. The sun is just peaking over the horizon, I walk back to the car and start it, and begin to drive for the first time with a destination in mind.
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After an hour of driving I finally get there, I park the car and get out. Making sure to lock the doors, I walk to the front of the building, the easiest part of my task is done. I take deep breath and pull open the glass door.
I walk in, the secretary looks up at me and tiredly smiles, she must have just gotten here. "Do you have an appointment?" she asks sweetly despite being tiered. "No, I'm here to see Jugo, I'm a friend" I say, she nods her head.
"He isn't with a client, you go right in" she says and points to Jugo's office. I say thanks and walk to his office already knowing where to go. I stand in front his door, his name written neatly on it, I knock.
"Come in" I hear him say from inside, I open the door and walk in. He looks up from his desk, he smiles when he sees me. "Sasuke long time no see" he says, "Yeah its been a while" I agree. He stands up and pats me on the back, "Are you here as a client or a friend?" he jokes.
"I'm actually here as a client" I say, Jugo looks at me surprised, not expecting that answer. But a second later he chuckles, "Sit" he says pointing to the chair that all his clients sit at. I sit down, he also takes his seat. "So Sasuke what can I do for you today?" he asks as he starts setting up.
I take out my phone and go through the pictures finding the one I want, its a picture of Hinata and I dancing when we accidently bumped into each other at my family friends party. Were both looking at each other smiling, not paying attention to anything around us. Said family friend took it and sent it to me before the whole scene with Naruto and I happened.
I hand the phone to Jugo, then I lift up my left shirt sleeve. "I want this tattooed on my arm, but cut me off and only put her" I say to Jugo. "Okay" he says, he takes my phone and connects it to his computer, he prints out a template of Hinata smiling and puts it on my arm.
He gets all the paints needed and turns on the needle, "Ready?" he asks, "Ready" I answer.