Chapter 2: Letter
Without another word exchanged, Sasuke left The Hokage's room somberly and headed for the Konoha's hospital.
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"I'm afraid, we're not allowed to disclose any patient's information here." –
"Not allowed?" Sasuke questioned sarcastically. The infatuated nurse sweat dropped to Sasuke's respond and pretended that she had something important to look for.
"My. My." Kakashi's voice suddenly interrupted their unpleasant silence, "You're all grown up now." He teased before whacking one arm over Sasuke's shoulder. "It's making me sad." He said. "What happened to Sakura?" Sasuke demanded, his voice eager.
Scene of Kakashi 's girly cry.
"I thought you missed me and my Icha Icha Paradise!" Kakashi whined, "And my hidden face." He continued with his voice suddenly suspiscious. "Idiot." Sasuke shrugged and hissed. "My. My. I guess my children had all grown up now. Their remembrance of their graceful father must have gone out with the poo." Kakashi teased with both palm slapped onto the sides of his face.
"What happened to Sakura?" Sasuke questioned again, this time anger flowed with his velvet voice. Kakashi stole a glance at Sasuke before he continued, " Sigh. It's a complicated scenario." He paused for awhile, "Her parents divorced and she was involved in breaking them apart. She was helping her father to keep his secret that he kept a mistress outside, but. When her mother found out that she was doing that, she started to hit Sakura-Chan without second doubt."
"She didn't stop, neither did Sakura-Chan fought back. And when the father came back from work coincidentally, he was so shocked that Sakura-Chan was bleeding away and he ran up towards his ex-wife and tried to stop her, but he made things worst by agitating Sakura-Chan's mother." Kakashi paused to glance at Sasuke whose face remained unreadable.
"It was an accident, not purpose." Kakashi reminded, his voice as if ready to start a fight, "Sakura-Chan's parents were struggling away and accidentally they bumped onto the small cupboard beside where Sakura was sitting against and the vase of flowers broke on Sakura-Chan's injured head."
"She was being admitted to the hospital immediately, but it was too late. She was already bleeding before. I wonder how her mother could do that, but I understand. Obsessive and possessive and weird." Kakashi thought to himself. "Oh yes. Sakura-Chan doesn't even remember her parents and her friends, including me. Frown. Except that, Naruto was the first person she saw when she woke up from a three days coma. So, she stayed at his place then, and her father, tried to get connections back with her."
Sasuke starred blankly at Kakashi at first, but as his senses came back, his fists curled up into stone balls. "It was an accident, I said." Kakashi said, his voice intensely serious. "Preventable, accident." Sasuke said from his teeth. Sasuke didn't glance back at Kakashi before he decided to leave him there alone. He needed some peace after a long full year of tragic.
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"Naruto-Kun." Sakura climbed into her comforter and curled herself into balls, "Um?" Naruto with his body kneeling down at the side of Sakura's bed replied. "Naruto-Kun, angry?" She questioned but kept her line as short as possible. Naruto's eyes widened and then he remembered the scene where he felt defeated. Felt like all these memories with Sakura might be put to waste again if Sasuke tried to let Sakura remember all her memories back.
"Ahaha. He took you away without telling me! Sakura-Chan! I vowed to protect you and I failed, I am sorry and angry with myself…" Naruto said, his voice wary. "Hn." Sakura replied sleepily and then she yawned. "Na-ru-to." Sakura whispered her words and then fell into oblivion.
Naruto spent his night starring at her. It did not tire him at all, especially for that night. He was extremely loyal to his thoughts, but his thoughts repeatedly piquant him. He couldn't sit down and get happy with life, not with Sasuke around. He sat beside Sakura or he laid on the cold cement floor or he looked out of the window.
"Naruto." An intruder called out to him. Naruto turned in surprise, "Sasuke?" he mouthed his words, wondering if his voice had worked. "I'll be bringing Sakura out tomorrow." Sasuke said, his voice cold and flat yet amazingly beautiful. "…Out? No you can't. Get lost!" Naruto demanded vehemently. "She'll be happy to be with me, anyway. Good luck." Sasuke cunningly replied with a smirk.
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"OI!!" Naruto threw himself backwards and fell, landing himself with the chair on the floor. He spared himself a few seconds to look around and then he realized that he had slept on the table last night. " Sigh. What kind of idiot dream was that?" Naruto cursed furiously before he dragged himself out of the room and was shocked that Sakura wasn't around.
"Sakura?" Naruto called, going into any possible rooms in the house. "Sakura?" He called again, and repeated it whenever he got impatient. "Where did Sakura go?" Naruto thought to himself. His Pace hurried out of his main door and was relieved to see Sakura already at the doorstep with the groceries hanging lifelessly below her small fists.
"Sakura-Chan! Where were you?" Naruto demanded, eagerness filled in his nervous voice. "Naruto-Kun. I went to buy some refreshments; you looked too tired to do that. Anyway, I think I fell in love with cooking and households equipments lately. Laugh" Sakura giggly spoke, catching for some air inbetween.
"And…" Sakura said to alert Naruto, while making her entrance. "I saw that dude again." Sakura paused awhile before continuing, "He was alone, sitting on a bench nearby. He looked like he haven't slept for afew days."
Naruto glared at the wall before he made his statement, "Where?" –
"He's gone now… He was already starring at me as soon as I saw him and he looked angry." Sakura paused awhile to catch her breath, "Phew, the groceries are really heavy and pokey. I bought crab for tonight. They have sharp scary pokey thing. Oh, and I wanted to say hi to him because I thought that he felt lonely but I decided not too. Am I too shy, Naruto-kun? I think he's a very nice person. You know, Naruto-kun… I somehow feel that I am connected to him in someway, that I don't know what. And he looked like he knows something about me too. Do you know?"
Sakura turned for the expected audience but she found herself alone.
Blink. Blink.
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Sasuke starred blankly into his abandoned apartment. At the edge of the many walls were all mantled with dust, and the house smelled unpleasant. "Hn." Sasuke agreed to himself, the house was renewed.
The curtains were renewed, his bed sheets were renewed and his properly hung clothes were messed up. Sakura.
When Sakura was conscious, How Sasuke address the old Sakura now, she must had came back to Sasuke's apartment to clean the house but the dust can explain when she stopped a year ago. Sasuke closed his eyes forcefully, allowing his eyelids to go beyond its limit as he pinched his nose near the eyes. He let off a forceful sigh, as again and headed for the letter lying deadly yet so meaningfully below his Team 7 photograph that he had noticed before feeling stressed.
His hands trembled as he picked up his letter.
It said:
Sasuke-kun,
I wish I was able to make you smile but I know that I am only pulling you backwards. When you're gone, I realized that even if you're not beside me I could feel that a part of me will always be with you, like you'll always be with me.
And with just that thought, it made me feel alive.
I love you, Sasuke-kun. I truly love you, no matter what happens.
Haruno Sakura.
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