hi here's chapter 2, ill try to finish typing this tomorrow, its late right now so imma sleep. please tell me if I made any mistakes because sometimes ill miss a few words or two, and please do tell what I should change to make the story better thanks for reading, enjoy!
sakura...?
Her body lays lifeless in the ditch.
Her red qipao ripped and tattered revealing her stomach. The fabric of her shirt and pants a shade darker, from blood soaking into it. There are scars all over her arms and legs, some open and still bleeding. Her blood glistening under the sun and mixing with the dried dirt and blood. Her hair lies limp, the usual pink gone, replaced with the crimson red colour of blood. There are bruises on her face, and cuts lining her cheekbones. And her usual rosy complexion is replaced with ghostly pale in rival to Sai.
Sasuke's blood runs cold, and his breathing stops. His hand is clenched in a tight fist, his knuckles turning white. Suddenly it's like the night of the Uchiha massacre again.
Memories of his dead parent's plague in his mind, their lifeless bodies lay on the floor, blood-soaked in their clothes. His dead brother with blood trickling down his face, tapping his forehead one last time. The bodies of the people most precious to him lay dead on the ground with blood splattered everywhere.
Rage burns within him so much that he's trembling, oh boy would he kill whoever did this to his Sakura, and they would be sorry for it. His anger bleeds into life in the form of his mangekyo Sharingan. Whoever did this to her he'd break every single bone in their entire body, light them up with Amaterasu and make them relive it with his Sharingan over and over again. He would show no mercy.
Behind him, he senses Naruto's chakra and soft footsteps approaching him rapidly.
"Sasuke-teme what the hell do you think you're doing just standing there, come on we need to go find Sak-"
Naruto's cuts himself off when he turns towards the direction Sasuke is looking at so intently, the eyes of the blond widen in horror and rage as he sees his pink-haired teammate lie lifeless in the ditch.
Blue cerulean eyes now darkened with anger. The blond is filled with so much rage he's tempted to unleash Kuruma at full power, to try and find who did this to their beloved friend.
"Sakura?" she doesn't respond to the call.
Cautiously Sasuke crouches down beside her and lifts his two fingers towards the crook of her bloodied neck. Hoping to find somewhat of a pulse or a sign that she's alive.
An instant wave of relief washes over his face as he feels a faint thump from her neck and a flicker of chakra in her system. Shakily standing back up. He eyes his teammate, taking in her physically battered up form. Trying to contain his rage and thirst for revenge.
Sasuke slowly swoops her up with the help of his Susanoo and the trio quickly make their way back to Konoha.
Their pace is faster than the normal human eye can register, they make it back to Konoha in one-fourths of the time and immediately Sasuke rushes her to the hospital. While Naruto heads towards the Hokage's office to report.
Sasuke bursts through the doors and runs to the lobby of the hospital with a limp Sakura in his arms. Yelling at nurses to pay attention to the pink-haired shinobi who lies limp in his arms.
Everyone stares dumbfoundedly at the last Uchiha holding a presumed dead Sakura Haruno in his arms.
A swarm of nurses approach the dark-haired man holding their head medic in his arms, who is apparently still alive. Suddenly she's taken away from his hold. He almost growls at the loss of her warmth.
Immediately Sakura is being seen hooked up to machines and prodded with needles. Green hands are glowing frantically over her bloodied form. He idly stands there frozen unable to provide any form of help. Distantly hearing the nurses shout over one and another. Words of encouragement are heard, pleading Sakura to' please hold on' and 'wake up' .
Tsunade and Shizune show up to see what the sudden commotion is about, and instantly the godaime curses and shouts orders and begin to work on trying to save their beloved head medic.
The next few days pass like a blur. Naruto and Sasuke were discharged from the hospital and were told to stay at home and rest. Their five-month mission took a toll on them, yes they were both tired but none of them could even bear the thought of sleep. With their precious teammate in critical condition, they lay restless in their beds at night. Tsunade had told them that Sakura had multiple wounds but was saved just in time. She seemed to have slipped into a coma. The only thing they could do now was wait.
Sasuke stays by her side for one whole month, not giving one thought to the visiting hours, or how long he had been by her side waiting for any signs of movement. He watches her chest rise and fall with each breath she takes. Her hair splayed on the hospital pillows. And her thin frail figure hooked up to multiple machines.
He's left with his thoughts due to the quietness of the room. Except for the soft hum of the machines she's being hooked onto, and the occasional beep.
Shizune had explained that Sakura had slipped into a comatose shortly after she was stable, possibly due to exhaustion, and her body needed the rest. But her waking up was unlikely and unpredictable. It could be months or even years before she would wake up.
The time passes slowly, he listens to the soft tick of the clock. She doesn't seem to be waking up anytime soon. Sakura still looks the same as the first day of her comatose, no progress. She continues to lay limp on the bed, face still pale. Any sign of life seems to be slipping further and further. His eyes slip shut while he tightly grasps her hands and intertwines their fingers slowly. He softly brushes his thumbs back and forth on the back of her hand. He eventually surrenders to another night of sleep filled with nightmares.
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The quiet sound of clicking wakes him up.
Snapping his eyes open, his mind is hazy and a little dizzy. Eyeing the bed, and quickly noticing the absent pink-haired medic. He immediately panics, picking up his tired body and looking around the room.
His gaze lands on a pair of dull emerald eyes looking back at him with curiosity.
She stands there in her medic coat, hair tied into a small messy bun, holding a chart while giving him a questionable look.
"Sakura?" Sasuke asks, voice filled with confusion.
What the? She was just in a coma last night, how is she standing up and walking in her working attire?
"Uchiha-san, I'm not quite sure why you are here in the hospital, but it seems like you are sleep deprived. I suggest you lie back down and get some sleep, if you can't sleep I can prescribe you some sleep medication perhaps?" she says while giving him a smile that he deems unrecognizable.
"Sakura." He greets, somethings off with her, he can sense it. She never calls him 'Uchiha-san' never in a lifetime would she ever call him that, and that smile doesn't radiant the usual warmth he'd been so used to his entire life.
"Yes Uchiha-san?" she asks.
"Why are you calling me 'Uchiha-san'?" he says, a little bit of irritation seeping through his voice.
She gives a light chuckle "I'm sorry Uchiha-san I'm not quite sure what else I'm suppose to greet you with, if you want to I can regard you as Sasuke-san if that would make you feel for comfortable?." she asks as a small silence falls between the two, he gives her a fixed look. she quickly turns on her heel towards the door "Now if you'll excuse me, I have other patients to check on, a nurse will be by soon with your discharge papers" she says as she walks out the door leaving a baffled Uchiha sitting in the room.
About a million thoughts are running rampage through his head right now. She wasn't happy or surprised to see him back, in fact, she didn't show any emotion at all. She was just in a coma yesterday and now she's suddenly up and walking? And what is up with this Uchiha-san? She acts as if she doesn't recognize me.
Something is incredibly off, her usual radiance and bright smiles are gone, and her chakra seems different. Maybe she's trying to put up a wall and block me out because of our past. Damn, I've hurt her so much that she can't even act normal around me anymore.
His thoughts and analyzation are interrupted when Naruto walks into the room with a questionable look painted on his face as he looks towards the direction that Sakura had just walked off to. He looks at Sasuke with a confused expression.
"Hey uh, teme? Did you talk to Sakura-Chan?" he asks.
Sasuke's head snaps up "hn" .
"She's acting a little weirdly don't you think 'ttebayo? She acted as if she didn't know me at all. And she called me 'Naruto-Sama'! And how is she walking up and about when she was just in a coma yesterday!" Naruto all but yells.
His eyes immediately widened at this and he gets out of bed in one swift motion. He had thought she'd acted like that to avoid any awkwardness due to their past.
"There's something wrong" he states, he knows there's something wrong.
"But Tsunade Baa-Chan and Shizune said that she was perfectly normal!" he says throwing his arms up in front of his face.
They both quickly race through the hospital in search of their female friend. The pair finds her in her office, Sasuke roughly shoves open the door. They're greeted by her behind stacks and stacks of paperwork, she seems to be ignoring them or just oblivious to their presence at all. Which is weird knowing how loudly the door had slammed open.
Suddenly Sakura stands up, without making any eye contact or acknowledgement of the two men, walks past them.
Sasuke and Naruto blink and looks at each other, trying to register what the hell just happened. They quickly follow their teammate down the hall and outside the hospital, she is somewhat oblivious to their trail.
She walks without any signs of exhaustion, despite just waking up from a coma a day ago followed up with a 14-hour shift. They trace her until they arrive at her apartment. Everything seemed to be normal except her unusual disappearance of exhaustion. Her chakra is drained, and there are dark circles under her eyes, yet she walks normally.
They jump onto a tree facing her window. She unlocks her apartment door, walks in without taking her shoes or doctors coat off and falls onto her bed. Sakura seems as if she's being controlled. She falls onto her bed, shoes, and working attire still on. And lays there motionless falling asleep. Entirely missing the pillows and sheets. And oblivious to the two strong chakra signatures of her teammate outside her window.
Sasuke and Naruto stand on the tree outside her apartment thinking to themselves what the hell was going on with their female teammate. The pair watch her shallow breathing as she drifts to sleep. Motionless like when she was in a coma, and a seemingly uncomfortable sleeping position. In unison, Naruto and Sasuke both decide to go pay a visit to Kakashi and report this peculiar behaviour regarding their medic-nin. Hoping that he might have an idea of what was going on for her odd actions.
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They walk into the room not bothering to knock.
"Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-Chan's been acting all weird and strange ever since she woke up, dattebayo!" he says in his usually loud boisterous voice.
Sasuke idly stands by and 'hn' in agreement.
Naruto continues "She called me 'Naruto-Sama'! She never calls me that, and she called Sasuke-teme 'Sasuke-san', she didn't even punch me in the head today! It's like our old Sakura-chan is completely gone!".
One of Kakashi's grey eyebrow cocks up. His eyes narrowing palms to his chin, seemingly deep in thought.
After a brief period of thinking for the grey-haired Hokage, he speaks up again.
"What did Tsunade say about her checkup and health?" he asks
"Tsunade baa-chan said that everything checks out fine! Which is why we're asking you!" the blond exclaims, no doubt worried with the peculiar actions of their pink-haired teammate.
"I fell asleep by her side and when I woke she was walking around like nothing happened," Sasuke explains.
Naruto continues for him "so we went to her office after her weird greetings, and she stood and walked out without even acknowledging us -ttebayo! then she was walking home perfectly fine even though she was just in a coma and a 14-hour shift!"
"she looked as if she was being controlled," the Uchiha says
"Many things could've happened during those four months" Kakashi states "And the condition you both found her in could mean she was possibly captivated and tortured for information, maybe a seal was put on her as a last resort."
The mood in the whole room changes, anger seeping out of Naruto and Sasuke's skin. Sasuke's eyes turning blood red. They were both thinking the same thing. Whoever did that to their Sakura is as good as dead.
"Meanwhile, you both will keep an eye on her, to make sure nothing goes wrong." Kakashi says "If anything, out of the ordinary occurs, you will report to me and me only. This is an S-ranked mission."
The blond and raven-haired man nod and disappear in a cloud of smoke.
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Her odd behaviour drags on from days to weeks.
Its been about four weeks, and she's completely changed. 'Sakura' doesn't acknowledge any of the Rookie 9 or seem to know who they are. She speaks to people only if necessary and mostly her patients.
Sakura is either avoiding them or she really just doesn't know everyone.
Any trace of her past self is gone, it seems as if the old Sakura had never existed.
Sakura trains in the early mornings from five to nine then head to the hospital to work from nine to midnight none stop. She doesn't seem to be eating any food or taking care of herself. The only thing she eats is a soldier pill, one every day, enough to keep her alive.
What they had seen on the first night of Sakura in her home, now repeats every day.
During these weeks her teammate closely tails her every move to see if there was anything out of the ordinary. They report her changes to Kakashi daily.
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One morning as Sasuke followers her to the training grounds, he observes her training.
She's made a clone of herself to spar with. And the spar looks heated. Traps are set and kunai are flying everywhere, the ground is crackling under her as she sends a chakra infused punch towards the earth. Rocks and debris flying above her and around her. Dust flying in the air covering her form, her hair now a rusty shade of pink.
He watches her in admiration at just how much she had grown. He remembers the weak girl that he and Naruto had to constantly protect turn into a powerful kunoichi even surpassing her master. She had become much curvier. Her legs longer and more toned. She had indeed blossomed into a more mature and beautiful woman. Her hair was in a neatly cut bob with bangs swiftly swept to one side showing off the years of hard work that is her byakugou.
But he had missed that cheeky personality of hers as well. Her short temper and feisty nature. He'd miss her smile, the genuine ones she gives to her closest friends, and her gentle laughter like music to his ears. The soft rosy blush that would dust over her face whenever she sees him.
She pauses the spar to take off her jacket and gloves. Blood and bruises are covering her hands. She's wearing a cropped black net shirt with black ninja shorts. And that's when he sees it.