Tortured Memories
PoD- "Kay! About two to five chapters left then we are done! Who has been here since I started writing and has read almost all my fics or just stuck to Tortured?"
Senior Gaara- "Enjoy the wrath of a woman's scorn!"
XV
"Get out of here!" Saskue shouted, but I could tell he was regretting.
I shook my head and went for his hand again. This time he smacked it away and I stared at the re mark on the back of my hand. I looked up at him and my jaw dropped. His cheeks were red. Had he been crying?
I raised my hand to touch hi cheek and he looked angry now. He moved his face away and grabbed my wrist. I felt my eyes widen and welling with tears once more. He released my wrist and I dropped it to my side. I hugged myself after a long while and closed my eyes tightly as I shook my head. Oddly enough, Sasuke's face didn't appear and I flashed my eyes open because that was just as scary as seeing his angered and disgusted face.
I felt Sasuke's warm breath breating across me and I closed my eyes before I could see him. the breath grew closer and warmer.
"Goodbye. I'm leaving now."
I felt my face fall into shock and I stared wide-eyed at his body as he walked away. I felt my legs trembling beneath my body and I hadn't noticed it, but my arms had dropped to my side.
"What..!" I bit my lip and shook my head. "Please! Don't leave!"
He stopped and glanced back at me over his shoulder. "I don't ned to be here -"
"No! Shut up! Don't say that!"
I stopped suddenly when his hands pressed against my lips. My eyes shook wildly and the urning tears were free. I could taste them as they rolled onto my sealed lips and seeped into the cracks and cuts in them.
"Sakura, goodbye."
He kissed my cheek and turned again to leave. I couldn't move for a moment and I fought to regain myself.
"Sasuke, no! Don't leave me!"
He turned and I threw myself onto him. He was able to keep from falling and clung to his shirt as I burried my face into his chest. I felt his stare as I resed in his warmth and I began to smile. He finally rgabbed my shoulders and pulled me away. I fell back into the ground and stared at the grass as I shifted so I was on my knees. I clenched my fists in the dirt and the tears returned to my eyes and stained the ground and my cheeks.
"Sakura, you have to let go! I'm leaving, face it, I'm as good as gone."
His words hurt. They stung-stung my heart, stung my thoughts, stung my mind, stung my memories and stung my soul. I was trying, truey trying, to fight for the words but couldn't reach them.
"Sakura, you're stronger than this and you're suppose to be a kounoichi. You don't need to be begginf me to stay. You can't change my mind with your insane wailing."
Wailing? I was yelling at him and hadn't realized it either.
"S-Sasuke, why?"
"Because I'm not needed here."
"Don't say that..."
"It's true."
"What? I need you!"
"Don't kid yourself, Sakura! You have Kakashi, you have that baka-Naruto, and you have your precious-"
"Don't!!! Don't yuo dare!!! Don't you dare say it, Sasuke!!! Don't you dare say it!!!"
"And you have your precious Kazekage!"
I screamed as though he had stabbed me with the Chidori. I unwillingly and out of anger grabbed a kunai and shot them at him. he dodged and I graabed another and ran at him I stabbed at his chest and he jumped to the other side of the clearing.
"Go! Just leave! Now!!! Leave me alone! I hate you!"
I was in full "I want to die" pain now with the saddened poison tears still against my face. My arms dropped and the kunai fell at my feet. My knees buckled and sent me to the groud. As I went to stop the fal the kunai's edge cut my palms, but I didn't care.
"S-Sa-Sasuke!!!"
"Sakura..?"
"Sasuke?"
I turned and started to cry again when my eyes came to rest on Naruto. i hugged myself and the warm blood streamed down my arms.
"N-Naruto-kun...h-he's gone. Sasuke's left again!"
"Sakura-chan...it's okay," he replied.
He knelt beside me and touched my leg. I shuddered. His touch was so different from Sasuke-kun's. I smiled, but it didn't reach my eyes.
"I'm going after him."
"What? Sakura you can't! We're on a mission!"
"I know. I know and I'm trusting you to keep that damn Kazekage and his sinlings safe."
I stood up and ran, leaving Naruto with my words. All I could think about was how Naruto felt with my last words and if I'd be able to get Sasuke back. Would I fail again?
"Sakura, c'mon. You can get him back. He still love you, he'll come back. He will! He'll com back with you, for you!" I told myself.
It felt like forever until I saw him and I was almost too weak to reach him. I landed and stared, panting as I watched him continue. I had to try.
S-Sasuke..!
I leaped forward and dove into him. I could tell he was reliefed to see me but his anger was too strong and took over. I tightened my grip on his shirt and tried to keep him in the tree we'd landed in. I knew I wanted to cry but all my tears were gone.
"Sakura! What are you doing?!"
"Please, Sasuke! You have to come back! You just have to!"
"No, Sakura! Let go!"
He raised his fist and began to hit me in the face and into my head. I kniw it was hurting him just as much as me, but I knew it hurt him more to leave.
"Sasuke-kun, please.. "
"Sakura! Let go! Let go!"
"Not until...you come...BACK WITH ME!!!" I shouted against his punches.
"No!"
"PLease!"
"Sakura, no! No! No! Let go!"
Even through the headache Sasuke had produced, I was able to stay focused on my plan. I leaned up and tightened my grip on his shirt. I closed my eyes and moved closer to his face.
"Sakura, what are you doing?"
"Please, come back..."
"What? I told you: No!"
"Come...home."
"Sakura!"
"Please..."
Before he could objuect, I follwed through with the plan and my body felt warm, just like before. The kiss was my onl;y plan. This would hopefully bring him back; bring him home.
The beating I had recieved to the head stopped and when i opened my eyes and released him, I was happy again. He met my eyes and grabebd my shoulders. I thought for sure he was about to kill me, but he was strong and so was his kiss. I felt like I was melting, infact I was passing out. But at least Sasuke was home...hopefully.