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Chapter 5: Sakura's nightmare and Sasuke's promise…

The moon was up and the stars twinkled brightly in the night skies. The glowing fireflies glowing on the leaves of the cherry blossoms tree. The night breeze was chilly and those onyx eyes so captivating and also those emerald ones.

Sakura was sitting on the wooden bench at the park, drowning on those onyx eyes. Sasuke was standing in front of her, looking at her strands of hair as it danced with the wind. They were stunned by each other's beauty and both of their eyes are captivating.

"Sasuke-kun? Are you coming with us, on that trip?" Sakura asked calmly looking at the captivating scene above them. The reflection of the moon reflected in her emerald eyes.

"Yeah" Sasuke replied emotionless. He walked to the wooden bench and sat beside Sakura, who looked at him happily. She smiled at him and he just looked at her puzzled.

"Why are you smiling at?" Sasuke joked. He smiled at her and patted her head with his left hand.

"Nothing…" she said into a tiny whisper. Both of them laughed. She looked at the view in front of them and said. "I hope we'll find that cure fast" she exclaimed. She stroked her pink silky hair and tossed it at her back and moved closer to Sasuke.

"Hey! Not so close!" he exclaimed annoyingly. He stared at her pale young face and touched her pale cheeks. Her cheeks were soft but cold. Sakura blushed and looked away; Sasuke removed his hand from her face and turned his back against her. "What is this feeling?" he thought.

"Well… I better get going now! Mom and dad must be worried sick about me!" she exclaimed. She stood up and faced Sasuke, who looked at her blankly. "Well…"

"I'll walk you home then" he offered. He stood up and grabbed her right hand and urged her to walk fast, so that she can reach her curfew time at home. She looked at him and smiled "Sasuke-kun… you don't know how much I love you, and hoped that you will always be with me… forever!" she told herself.

Sakura walked beside Sasuke and held his hand very tightly. "Sakura… my hand! It hurts?" he exclaimed angrily. She loosens her grip from his hand and apologized. "Sorry" she said apologetically.

"Why did you do that for!" he asked seriously and coldly. "Nothing… I just feel like holding you…Why is it bad?" she replied back. Sasuke stopped walking, so did Sakura.

"Will you stop worrying about me! It will not help you!" he said firmly. He faced her with his mysterious eyes and they made an eye-to-eye contact; onyx eyes over jade ones. She nodded her head and hugged him. He tried to push her but he can't… her embrace reminded him of his mother's gentle caress. It was warm and tender.

"Sakura…" he spoke her name in a whisper. "Sasuke-kun…What is it?" she replied back and asked him. "You can let go now!" he said calmly. "Oh! Sorry" she apologized. She looked at him for a while and looked away.

She walked ahead of him and then she slowed down and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke looked at her blankly and stopped. His eyes were shaking. He touched his head, w/c was swelling in pain. He walked to a nearby tree and leaned against it. Sakura walked up to him and looked at him worriedly.

"Are you feeling sick again, Sasuke-kun?" she asked concerned. She touched his forehead. He has no fever and he was breathing normally. "I'm fine… I just feel dizzy that's all" he replied back. He walked again and Sakura followed him and walked beside him.

They reached Sakura's house. She tried to open the door, but it was locked in the inside. Then she saw a note at the wall. The letter was from her parents. It says that they are on a meeting with the Jounins of the neighboring village. They will be back soon, early in the morning tomorrow.

"What a crap! They're gone again!" she yelled out furiously. "Why can they just leave the key with me!" she yelled again. She looked back at Sasuke, who was leaning on their front yard fence. He was looking at the moon above and the fast moving clouds. Then he noticed her looking at him and asked. "Why? you're locked?" he asked her. She nodded and walked up to him. "What should I do?" she asked him. He just shrugged and looked above the skies again. She sighed and looked at the skies too

He came up with an idea or maybe a suggestion. "If you have no place to stay at… stay at my house!" he asked her calmly. She looked at him very puzzled and thought. "He's right! I don't have no place to go! Better go to his house and stay there for a meantime." She told herself

She looked at him and he waited for her answer. After a few seconds, she agreed to go with him to his house and spend the whole night there.

"Well… Can we go now? I am a bit dizzy and quite sleepy" he urged her to go to his home immediately. She nodded. He walked outside their gates and offered out his hand to her. She smiled and she held his hand gently. They went to Sasuke's home hand-in-hand.

At Sasuke's home…

Sasuke opened the door and turned on the lights. "Come with me…" he said. Sakura walked inside the house and followed Sasuke upstairs, where two rooms are located.

Sasuke walked at the first room's door and opened it. The room was clean and it looks cozy to sleep in. The bed has blue bedcovers and two pillows with red pillow sheets.

"You're going to sleep here, alright?" he pointed at the bed and looked at Sakura's face. She nodded in agreement and walked inside the room. She sat at the side of the bed and removed her forehead protector. "Thanks" she said. Sasuke looked at her blankly and left the room. He slammed the door behind him and walked downstairs to turn off the lights and then headed to his bedroom. His bedroom was beside the room Sakura is sleeping at.

Sakura removed her blue sandals and looked around the room. There was a bookshelf with lots of books near the window. She walked to the bookshelf and she looked at the books w/c are dusty and old. She grabbed a blue covered book and looked at its title. The book was a novel written by a famous writer from the country of Waterfall. She read the introduction page then she closed the book when she heard a door slam.

"What's that?" she asked herself. She placed the book at the bookshelf again, dusted her palms and went to the door. She opened the door and peaked outside it. The hallway was dark and scary. The house looks lonely and barren. She walked outside the room and looked around. "Who could that be?" she asked herself.

Then she heard footsteps coming up the stairs. She was shaking with fear and sweating all over. She turned to face the door of Sasuke's room. The door of his room was locked and the lights are off. She knocked at his door.

"Sasuke-kun? Wake up!" she yelled. She was trembling all over. Sasuke was still awake; because his back still aches so did his head. "What is it?" he called out from his room. "Just open this door!" she commanded nervously. "Fine!" he exclaimed angrily. He stood up from his bed and opened the door. As he was about to scold Sakura from disturbing his sleep, Sakura went inside his room sweating all over and trembling.

Sasuke looked at her puzzled and said. "What happened to you?" Sakura looked at him and grabbed his shirt. "There's someone in your house!" she exclaimed. "What?" he asked her puzzled. "I heard a door slam and footsteps from the hallways." She explained. He opened the door and looked around. "Nobody's here! You must be imagining things!" he teased her. "I am not!" she said with a frown.

A few seconds later, Sasuke's door opened widely and a black figure was standing before them. Sasuke walked in front of Sakura and took out a kunai. Sakura closed her eyes and screamed.

"Hey you too! It's just me!" a familiar voice said. The person walked inside the room and opened the switch of the light. Sakura and Sasuke's eyes widened. It was just Naruto. He was grinning.

"Hey fox boy! How did you get in here?" Sasuke asked him angrily. Sakura looked at Naruto with clenched fist and pouched him on the forehead. "You! You scared us! Never do that again!" she scolded him. "Sorry! I thought that surprising you will be okay!" he explained while rubbing his sore forehead and frowning.

Sasuke grabbed Naruto's collar and said. "Don't sneak up like that or else your dead meat!" he said angrily. He let go his collar and glared at him. Naruto sweat dropped and nodded. "Yeah! I will not sneak up like that again! If I want to live!" he told him. Sakura sighed and walked pass the two boys. "I am sleepy!" she exclaimed, yawning.

"Are you sleeping at Sasuke's house?" Naruto asked Sakura. Sakura nodded and walked outside the room to the other room. Sasuke and Naruto exchanged glances. "What's wrong with her?" Naruto asked Sasuke. Sasuke just shrugged his shoulders.

"By the way, Naruto. What brings you here?" Sasuke asked Naruto. "Will I just drop by to say that the search for your cure will be tomorrow! Kakashi-sensei told me." he exclaimed. Sasuke eyed him and looked away. "Well… I must go! Tell Sakura all about it!" Naruto told him, and then he turned around and walked downstairs. Sasuke looked at his watch on his desk. It was 11 in the evening. He then went to his bed and slept the whole remaining hours.

The night was calm and serene. The moon was up in the sky, glowing very brightly and all the people in Konoha are asleep, waiting for the next day to come.

Sakura couldn't go to sleep. She was not used in staying in someone's house. She sat at the side of her bed and opened the door of the room. She walked to Sasuke's room's door and knocked at the door, three times.

"Sasuke-kun? Are you still awake?" she asked him calmly. She received no response. Again, she knocked on the door. There was no response again. She turned the knob; to her surprise the door was unlocked. She stepped inside the room and saw Sasuke lying on his bed. He was sleeping soundly and he didn't notice her go inside his room.

"Sasuke-kun?" she leaned at him and pinched his cheeks. "WHAT THE HELL!" He exclaimed annoyingly. He rubbed his eyes and saw Sakura smiling at her. "Hey! How did you get here?" he asked her thunderstruck. "Excuse me… you didn't locked the door!" she replied back. "Oh! What do you want?" he asked her.

Sasuke stood up and sat at the chair near his desk. Sakura sat at the side of his bed, playing with a strand of her hair. Sasuke yawned and closed his eyes for a while. "What do you want?" he asked her calmly. "I can't get to sleep!" she replied. He looked at her with those sad and pale eyes. He stood up from the chair he is sitting at and walked towards her.

"Can I stay in your room?" Sakura asked Sasuke shyly. Sasuke's eyes widened. "What did you say?" he asked her. "I said, can I stay in your room for a while?" she asked him again. Sasuke looked at her, she was pale and he can tell that she's really sleepy and quite exhausted. "Fine!" he told her. "I'll just sleep at the floor and you'll sleep on my bed, okay?" he told her coldly.

Sakura nodded her head. "You sure you're going to be okay there?" she asked him shyly. Sasuke looked at her pale emerald eyes and smiled. "Of course!" Then, Sakura lay down at Sasuke's bed and faced the wall, while Sasuke settled himself on the floor. He was sleeping on a rag mat and his pillow. "Thank you!" she thanked him. "Whatever!" he said coldly. Then both of them fell asleep.

Sakura on the other hand was having a very bad nightmare…

She was standing on a grassy field. The sun was up and shining its rays to the ground below. There were Butterflies fluttering from one flower to another, Grasshoppers hoping from one grass to another and birds chirping energetically on the tree branches. "What a wonderful place!" she told herself smiling.

Then she saw a boy her age standing a few meters away from her, his back facing her. She then realized it was Sasuke. His hair floating and swaying with the gentle breeze. She called out to him, but he didn't respond. She ran up to him, as she was about to surprise him… he disappeared into thin air.

"Where did he went?" she asked herself. She looked on all directions, but Sasuke was no longer to be found. "SASUKE-KUN!" She called his name very loud, that the birds from the trees flew out and flew to the blue skies.

"Where did he disappear into!" she told herself. She walked and walked, and then she realized that he was really gone and couldn't be found. She stopped beside a Cherry blossom tree. Petals of the said tree fell from its branches and landed on the grassy floor, while some on Sakura's head. "These are so nice…" she exclaimed to herself happily. She was about to lean on the tree when the skies begun to get dark.

"What happened!" she asked herself, panicking. She looked at the skies and rain fell down from the black-pitched clouds. She sheltered herself under the tree and sat down below it. "This sucks!" she yelled out angrily.

Minutes later from her dream…

The rain stopped and some rays of sunlight peaked from the white clouds. She walked from where she had stayed and stretched her arms in the air. She inhaled and exhaled the clean, fresh air and smiled out broadly. "This is such a nice feeling!" she exclaimed joyfully.

Then she saw a blue flash in front of her a few meters away. She walked towards it and saw two boys facing each other, talking back to each other rudely. She looked at them with surprise and curiosity. "Who could they be?" she asked herself. Then she realized that it was Sasuke with his Sharingan activated… and to her surprise, the man in front of him was Itachi; his brother. She gasped in horror and looked at them with fear on her eyes.

She called out Sasuke's name, and then she realized that he couldn't hear her. She then realized that it was all a dream, but to her it was so real.

Sasuke took off a kunai and attacked his brother furiously. "You're going to die!" he yelled aloud. Itachi blocked it with his own two hands and smirked. "Ignorant brother… you can't defeat me! You're weak!" he bolted out those cold and insincere words. Sasuke jumped to his brother's back and was about to hit him with a kunai on the back, when Itachi jumped up and gave Sasuke a pounch on the cheek.

"Why you…" Sasuke said coldly. Itachi just smirked and laughed. Sakura felt very bad on what she was about to see, as if that something bad will happen to Sasuke, but she thought. "This is just a stupid dream! It could not be real… could it be?".

Sasuke ran towards his brother and was about to pounce him on the face, when Itachi transported himself in front of Sasuke and stabbed him on the chest with a small dagger. Sasuke's eyes widened, Itachi grinned and Sakura screamed.

"Sasuke…" she whispered his name with a sob and closed her eyes with both of her hands, then she removed it and saw Sasuke laying on a pool of blood while his brother looked at him, disgusted.

"SASUKE-KUN!" She yelled out his name very loud and cried hysterically. Then she came back to reality.

On Sasuke's room again… back to reality…

Sakura woke up from her nightmare and screamed out very loud. Sasuke woke up from his slumber and sat up. Then Sakura turned around her side and fell on the floor, landing on Sasuke. Sasuke looked at her thunderstruck and said. "What the hell happened to you?" Sakura looked up to his onyx eyes and hugged him. She then sobbed silently, wetting his shirt with her warm and salty tears.

"Sakura?" he whispered her name. Sakura tightens her hug. "Sasuke-kun… I have a nightmare about you! I am scared" she said, still sobbing on his shirt. "Me? What is it?" he asked curiously. She nodded and looked up to him. "You are going to be killed by Itachi and die…" she explained up to him. "WHAT?" He asked her puzzled. She then let go of her hug and eyed him with shaking eyes.

"I am not going to die or even lose to Itachi! I promise you that!" he told her to lift up herself. She looked up to him and smiled. "Promise?" she asked him and he nodded. "But you also need to promise me, to look for my cure, so I can't die!" he favored her. "OF COURSE!" she exclaimed energetically. "We'll all look for your cure!"

Sakura sat up properly and held out his hand. He blushed and his expression was very funny. "I Promise you that…" she told him innocently. He smiled at her and hugged her. She blushed and returned the hug very gently.

"I also forgot…Naruto said that the finding of my cure will be tomorrow morning." He told her. She looked up and nodded. He then, wiped out her tears and kissed her on the cheek. Sakura's eyes widened and her blush was as red as a tomato. "Sasuke-kun…" he whispered his name with emotions. He then looked up to her and smiled. "Thank you Sakura, for always being there for me!" he told her with emotions and true gratitude.

Then both of them felt sleepy and slept the whole remaining hours. Sakura sleeping on Sasuke's bed and Sasuke sleeping at the floor. They were sleeping soundly, with no bad nightmares.

"Dreams could also be a reality and reality can be also your dream…"

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-September Anne-

Next chapter: the finding for the woman who hit Sasuke with the poison kunai and the cure she's been hiding it… Who could she be? And What is her connection to a person Sasuke knew? Please tune in for the sixth chapter and review! Thanks!