The Odd Pairings
Sasuke awoke again in the hospital and a flashback of last night's events caused him to sit up, but in pain.
"Sorry about last night." Bara said sitting in a chair next to him.
Sasuke gave her a cold stare and attpempted to get out of bed, but he couldn't really move.
"Um, I guess I put too much juice in that move." she said smiling.
"Stop smiling and get the hell away from me!" Sasuke yelled.
"Why are you so angry all the time?" she asked without a smile.
"Because everytime I turn around I'm fighting someone stronger than me!" he shot back.
She wasn't smiling at all. "I know that feeling."
"No you don't!"
"Really? Then why, my high blood pressured friend, do you think I made myself rise to this much power? Sure as hell wasn't for the hell of it. I did it because I was tired of being looked down at by everyone else."
"Well I don't see how that helps me." Sasuke said.
"Alright then," she said positioning her chair to face him,"Let me ask you this, did you feel stronger protecting other people rather than yourself?"
"I don't want to answer that question."
"Either you cooperate, or I make it to where you won't be using any jutsu for a year!" she said; she wasn't smiling.
"What's the point of this anyway!"
"To make you see where it is you fail at your 'power.' Now, answer the question."
"Myself."
"You're lying."
"No I'm not."
"I'm a girl, I can tell when you're lying. Guys aren't good at hiding it, especially emotionally scarred ones like yourself."
"So?"
"Sasuke, why do you try block me out?"
"Because you don't know!"
"Don't know what? Solitude? Loss? Betrayal? Weakness? I've felt these things and I'm still feeling it!"
"No you're not! If you were, then you'd be in the same state I'm in!"
"No, you chose to become the lone wolf. I chose to be with people. Just because I don't take the path of the avenger doesn't mean that I don't know how if feels to be one! Why she left me alive, I have no clue! There are days when I wished she would've killed me like she did them! But she didn't! I live with the same grief you do because of Itachi!"
The room was silent for a while.
"So what, is this the part when you start crying your eyes out?" Sasuke sneered.
With tears in her eyes, Bara walked up to Sasuke, planted a kiss on his lips, and ran out the door.
Sasuke was shocked.
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Sakura was walking Shawn around the village.
"Pretty nice set-up you guys got here." he said admiring the village.
"Thanks." Sakura said cheerfully. "We're real lucky you guys showed up to heal Sasuke."
"Yeah. That guy seems like he doesn't want to be around you guys at all."
"Yeah I know." Sakura said sadly.
"Don't see why, you're very pretty." Shawn said.
Sakura blushed at this and said, "Oh...thank you."
"Don't mention it."
"So, Shawn, how are you able to-"
"Make the bones come out? Simple, I'm a lab rat."
"What?"
"They injected my mom with all kinds of blood samples when she was pregnant with me. Made me into a Freak of Nature."
"I'm sure it's not that bad."
"Sharingan, Byakugan, Mokuton, the skeleton blood trait, yeah, I'm kinda a abomination."
"It doesn't mean that. It just means that you're a good person to have around whenever there's trouble."
"Yeah, that's what they tried to have me do. I was supposed to become the next host for that jackass Orochimaru, but my mom got me and my sis out before anything else could happen."
"Is that how you guys met Grandma?"
"Yeah, she's an old friend of our mother's. They killed her after they found out that she gave us to grandma."
"Oh...sorry to hear that."
"It's alright; I barely knew her to begin with, so it doesn't really bother me."
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Grandma was walking around the market with Hinata, picking out food to cook later on that day.
They heard Naruto running by and Grandma noticed Hinata stopped and blushed at him.
"You like him?" she asked.
"Oh, um, well..." Hinata said blushing.
"If you do, you should tell him."
"Um...well."
"Don't rush yourself. Do it when you feel it's right. Now, I can't really tell if these potatoes are good enough."
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That night, Sasuke laid in his bed, his mind jumbled with thoughts about killing Itachi, as well as the kiss.
For some reason, he wanted to go find her and return it.
No I can't! he thought angrily I have to go kill Itachi. I can't afford to stop now.
How do you know that he hasn't already been caught by that thing. If he has, then your pupose is basically fulfilled. Live for once damn it! There's a girl who is actually in the same boat as you. Take a chance and go find her!
He kept telling himself that he shouldn't, through putting on his clothes, walking down the hall, and walking into the village.
He found her leaning on a wall, with her face in her hands, still crying a little.
She looked up when he was walking up to her.
"Come to do more damage?" she said in between sobs.
He walked up to her a planted a kiss on her lips.
Now it was her turn to be shocked.
Wait a minute! What the Hell just happened here!? she asked herself.
Sasuke leaned in again for another kiss, and she sped it up by pulling him closer.
The kiss lasted for a good ten seconds before they parted.
Okay, I just kissed a jackass...what a day she thought.
Why-" she started but he put his finger to her lips.
"Cause you're just like me." Less talk more kiss he thought.
If Itachi is gone, thanks to that thing, then maybe I should start over, at least with her.