Chapter 4: Poisoned Love…

It was evening that following day. Kakashi's team had finished their most exhausting training ever.

Their training was so hard. They were asked to fight their Sensei. Sakura being the weak teammate easily gave up. Naruto and Sasuke are determined to defeat their Sensei. At the end Naruto loses and Sasuke almost won.

"I love that training so much! But darn that Kakashi sensei, he made me decrease my Chakra limit!" Naruto told his teammates, who are not paying attention to him. "Hey you two, are you even listening?" he asked them angrily.

"What? Did you say something?" Sakura said, looking at Naruto boringly.

"Sakura-Chan! You're mean!" then animated tears formed at the corner of his blue Sapphire eyes. He was sulking at Sakura's respond.

"Honestly! Are you talking to the both of us?" she asked politely. "Of course I am! Who else am I talking too!" he yelled out loud. Sasuke covered his ears with his hands and rolled his eyes. "You're such a loser!"

Naruto was about to punch Sasuke on the face, when their teacher puffed up in nowhere.

"Yo, Minna!" he greeted them, with a smile tucked under his black mask. "Care to join me at the Ramen store? My treat!" he told them. Naruto's eyes widened and he walked in front of his sensei. "You sure sensei?" Naruto asked politely, drooling. "Are you deaf?" Kakashi joked. "Not you too, sensei!"

"I can't join you!" Sasuke said coldly. Sakura looked at him worriedly. "Why? You have something to do?" Sakura said, eyes gazing at his onyx ones. Sasuke nodded and patted Sakura on the shoulders. "Well, see you tomorrow!" then he walked away.

"What's the matter with him?" Naruto asked suspiciously. Sakura and Kakashi shrugged their shoulders. "Well let's go now!" Kakashi suggested.

Naruto rushed to the Ramen store very fast, like he was Flash of the "Justice League." Kakashi and Sakura followed. "What's happening to Sasuke lately?" Sakura thought to herself.

Surely, Sasuke was acting strangely lately. He was acting that way since that woman hit him with that poisoned kunai.

They narrated the story to their teacher. Kakashi was also worried about the poison. Is the poison still inside of him or not? Noone knows, or maybe Sasuke knew this.

It was 8'o clock in the evening, when they left the store. Kakashi bid them goodbye and disappeared. Naruto smiled at Sakura and walked off.

"I don't know, what's happening to Sasuke lately? Is he okay?" She asked herself. She kicked the dirt from the ground. "Why are you being like this Sasuke?" she whispered.

"I am okay! Don't mind me at all!" a familiar voice behind her replied. Sakura turned around to see Sasuke staring blankly at her. "Sasuke-kun! Have you been there a long time ago?" she asked him shyly. "No" he replied emotionless.

"You sure, you're feeling alright?" she asked him. "I said nothing to worry about me!" he replied a bit annoyed. "Sorry" she apologized.

Sakura looked at his face. Her eyes wide opened when she saw Sasuke's face pale and his eyes, it looks like he's in pain. "Sasuke… are your alright? I mean you look pale and your eyes…" she said politely and shyly. "I said I'm alright" he lied.

Sasuke walked closer to her and looked deeply to her emerald eyes. Her beauty stunned him. Why didn't he see it before? He was blinded by hatred and revenge for his brother.

Sakura's cheeked turned slight red. She was looking deeply at his dark mysterious eyes. "Anything the matter, Sasuke-kun?" she asked him. Sasuke came back to reality. He looked away and stared at the moon above them. "Nothing" he said emotionless.

The moon was pretty tonight. The wind was gentle and the scent of newly buds are dancing with the wind. What a wonderful night!

"Well, I gotta go" Sasuke said emotionless and firm. He walked pass her. She stared at him as he passed by. "Bye…"

She was about to walk off, when she heard a loud THUD.

She looked back and saw Sasuke lying on the ground. He was lying on the ground side ways. She saw his face burning up, like he has a high fever. He was panting and tiny beads of sweet are on his forehead.

"SASUKE-KUN!" She yelled out. She run to his side and sat down. She touched his forehead it was burning with fever. He's heartbeat was not beating normally. "Sasuke-kun talk to me!" she asked him and received no response. "What happened to you?" she thought.

She cried for help, but no one came around. She placed his head on her lap and wiped out the sweet from his forehead. "Oh my! What am I going to do?" she whispered.

Then a man walked passed them. He turned around and Sakura asked him a favor. "Please kind sir, could you help me get him to a nearby clinic or maybe a hospital!" she favored. The man said yes and he carried Sasuke on his back. They went to konoha's hospital.

The nurse told her that he should rest for a while at the hospital, while the doctor checked his condition. Sakura nodded and went to a nearby phone booth and dialed Naruto's house number.

At Naruto's apartment…

The phone rang… KRING… the phone ranged ten times before it was answered by Naruto.

"Hello…" he greeted weakly. "Who's this?"

"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled out.

"Sakura? Why? Anything happened?" he asked her calmly.

"Naruto, I'm in the hospital…" she said.

"What?" He asked nervously. "What happened?" he asked again.

"I'm fine… Sasuke's in the hospital. It's the poison." She exclaimed nervously. Then she sobbed silently.

"OKAY! I'll go there. Just wait for me!" he told her to wait for him at the entrance of the hospital.

Naruto arrived ten minutes later. He was panting and trying to catch his breath again. "So, where's Sasuke?" he asked her. Her eyes were red and puffy. "At room 18, left wing" she replied weakly.

They climbed the stairs and walked inside the room. Sasuke was lying on the bed with an oxygen mask. He was breathing normally again. He's fever had gone down now.

"Sasuke…?" Sakura bent down and whispered into Sasuke's ear. Hearing Sakura's sweet voice, Sasuke opened his eyes and blinked. "Sakura…" he mumbled the words under the oxygen mask. "Good! I'm worried sick about you!" Sakura said in a low tone. Sasuke smiled and looked at the door.

"Hey there!" Naruto greeted him. "Why are you here?" he asked Naruto coldly. "Well pardon me sir! Sakura-Chan asked me to visit you!" he yelled at Sasuke, who looked at him annoyingly. Sakura sweat dropped. "Now Naruto. Remember… we are in a hospital!" she told him with puffy eyes. "Okay" he replied back.

Sasuke removed his mask and looked at Sakura, who was looking at him worriedly. Then there was a knock on the door. The nurse came in and asked one representative to go with her to the doctor. Naruto volunteered himself and asked Sakura to keep an eye on Sasuke. "I'm not a kid! You idiot!" Sasuke yelled at him. Naruto looked away and waved a hand.

Sakura sat beside him and a tear fell down her jade eyes. "Why are you crying?" he asked her suspiciously. "It's just that… I know that the poison is still inside of you and you … you…" but she was cut off, when she saw Sasuke's eyes shaking.

"What's the matter?" she asked him with a concern look. "You knew it right?'" he asked her with a smirk. Sakura nodded and looked away. "Are you leaving me?" she asked him shyly and with a blush. "What?" he asked her annoyingly.

"I don't want you to die… I want you to stay with me forever!" she yelled at him. He looked at her with puzzled look and frown. "I don't know…" he replied. Sakura's eyes widened. "Is he telling me, that he's going to die soon?" she asked herself.

Sasuke looked at the bedside table and then he was thunderstruck. Sakura leaned close to him and hugged him. Her hug was so delicate and warm. Sasuke's cheek reddened and he pushed her away. "Sorry…" she apologized. He looked at her annoyingly. "Damn this girl…"

Then a few minutes later, Naruto entered the room. He's eyes are in shocked mode and his hands are shaking. Sakura looked at him puzzled. Sasuke didn't reacted on Naruto's suspicious condition he already knew the results.

Sasuke sat up and looked straight to Naruto's Sapphire eyes. "I knew it! I'm not going to live, right?" he asked Naruto calmly. Sakura looked at him and she was thunderstruck on what he told Naruto. Naruto looked at him nervously and nodded.

Sakura's eyes widened. She clenched her fist. "You're lying right?" Sakura asked innocently. Naruto looked at her and looked at Sasuke, who was clutching the bed cover tightly. "I am not!" Naruto replied firmly.

Sakura stood up and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke looked at her with those mysterious eyes. "Accept the truth Sakura!" Sasuke told her. She clenched her fist tighter again. "You're not going to die! I'm going to find the cure, no matter what!" she yelled out.

Naruto looked at her and he tightly closed his eyes. "I can't believe, he's going to die like that!" he told himself. Sakura turned her back from Sasuke and ran out the room, tears falling from her emerald eyes.

"Sakura-Chan!" Naruto called out. "I'll get her!" Sasuke said. He stood up, removed the oxygen mask, which was hanging from his slender neck and placed it on the bedside table. He walked to Naruto. "Don't worry about me! Worry on what Sakura will do!" he told him seriously.

Sasuke walked outside his room to the exit of the hospital. Naruto's eyes are pale and lonely. Their friendship is going to end pretty soon. Naruto sat at the bed and looked at the view outside the room.

The moon was up and the stars twinkled brightly at the night sky. Sakura walked outside the gates of the hospital and ran to the park.

"You will not die… will not… die!" she stammered the words. She was running so fast that she didn't see a big lump on the road and fell to her knees. Her knees were bruised and bleeding. She didn't mind it at all.

Her mind had gone crazy. The word die echoed throughout her head. She sobbed silently. Then a gust of wind passed by her, causing her hair to sway slightly, but with grace.

Sasuke saw her, sitting at the middle of the park, sulking. He walked beside her and knelt down.

Sakura felt his presence and looked away. She looked at the big tree a few meters away from her. She hugged her knees. Her knees was still bleeding, she didn't mind the pain she is feeling now.

"Sakura.." Sasuke called her weakly. Sakura didn't look and didn't respond. "Now you're ignoring me!" he teased her. She didn't look back again.

A dark cloud was coming near Konoha. Then Sasuke saw lighting and a loud bang of the thunder. The wind becomes so much colder, the trees begun to sway wildly.

She hugged her knee, placing her chin above them. Beads of crystals falling from her porcelain cheeks. Her heart aches and her eyes are already red and sore.

"Will you stop sulking!" he commanded her. She looked up at him and sobbed silently, allowing Sasuke to see her tears. It made Sasuke feel guilty and down.

Then a drop of water landed on Sasuke's arm. One by one pouring to his arms then the rain begun to fall heavily. "Let's go back to the hospital. We're going to sulked in this damn rain!" he called out to her. She shook her head and sobbed once more.

Sasuke looked at her annoyingly then he felt pissed off. "Come on Sakura! Don't be so stubborn!" he scolded her. "I'm not stubborn!" she yelled. Sasuke was now really pissed off; he clenched his fists and accidentally activated his Sharingan.

"Go on, without me!" she told Sasuke. She is now looking straight at his ruby eyes. She half smiled. Sasuke slapped her on the face. "Sorry… now will you stop sulking and come with me!" his hair was soaking wet and damp. His eyes were still red and his face was still pale.

Sakura touched her sore cheek and smirked. "I hate that!" she murmured to herself.

"AH!" Sasuke yelled. Sakura looked at him. He was touching his back and his left eyes were close. He could feel the pain again. "The poison" Sakura whispered.

Sasuke looked at her with his normal onyx eyes and smirked. "Happy? Are you happy that I faced the consequence again?" he told her with pain on his eyes. She felt guilty. She snapped out from her thoughts and hugged Sasuke.

"OUCH! Easy on the hug will you! It absolutely hurts!" he exclaimed. "I am sorry…" she apologized. "You should be" he teased emotionless. "Let's go back, shall we?" he told her. She nodded and let her hug on him go.

Sasuke stood up and Sakura stood in front of him. Their hair was wet and damp and their clothes are wet as well. Sasuke grabbed her silky right hand with his left and then both of them headed straight to the hospital.

At the gates of the hospital…

"Sasuke-kun… I promise you. I'll look for the cure! You're going to live!" she promised her and let out a broad smile. "Okay!" Sasuke smiled back and they both went inside the hospital.

They were still sulking wet from that heavy rain and Sakura's knees are bleeding.

"A promise should be kept! If not you'll face the most darkest consequences ever!"

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-September Anne-