A/N: Hey guys, I'm back again. I hope this chapter solves some of your questions about what is going on with the story, and I hope that none of you kill me for what's going to happen. I'm sure I'll start dodging the things you throw at me soon. Well thanks for your support. R & R! Muchas gracias!!! Sorry for the very long wait, my classes are killing me with tons of homework…especially when I have to stay late after school everyday for physics.
MUST READ THIS: I HAVE REVISED THIS CHAPTER (15) AND THE CHAPTER BEFORE IT (14) (PLEASE READ IF YOU HAVEN'T) AS OF January 9th, 2010. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE UPDATED VERSION, PLEASE DO. I have changed the plot, tweaked it. My Apologies, the story line that I used originally was getting to out of hand. My apologies, I hope this chapter is better!
PMYM
Chapter 15:
Untold Secrets
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.
Part 1: Sakura's Journal (Part 1) on the plane
You know how they say that it is easier to tell a secret than to keep one? Well I totally disagree with it. I've always been the perfect goody good girl who can keep a secret, but you know what? I know that each secret I have and keep can never be told. Why? Because I don't want the people I love to have to learn who I really am. Why? Because everything you know about me now may not be entirely true. Why? Because I have secrets that are dark.
While the reason I'm saying that I have secrets, isn't what you think it is. I just hate keeping secrets from the people I love and I was being over dramatic with the last paragraph, but how can I not help it. I didn't tell Sasuke something that meant the world to me. I never told him…
I did not lie to Sasuke on where I was headed. I was indeed headed home, but home was not a pleasant place.
I had told Sasuke that I mourn deeply for my grandmother, but I do not.
A long time ago, my grandma had stolen something from me that I want back. She stole the one gift my parent's had left to me in their will-a locket.
Part 2: Sasuke
Fugaku and Mikoto stood stunned as their son came out of the house holding the red haired child in his arms who was murmuring "daddy, daddy" over and over again.
Fugaku and Mikoto, for once in their life were taken by surprise.
Was this the reason their son didn't want them to visit?
For the first time in their lives they were stunned, completely and irrevocably stunned and nothing had ever been this priceless before. Was it true that Sasuke had a son?
Sasuke stared at his parent's faces and then couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Kin, these are my parents," Sasuke said aloud, so that his parent's heard him too.
Kin's eyes got as big as saucers as she now turned around in Sasuke's arms and looked at his parents. She was too scared of the expressions on their faces to let out anything other than a "hello."
"Sasuke is she your daughter?" Fugaku addressed his son. Mikoto still looked like she was quite clearly in shock.
"Yes, in name only. Not by blood, but it feels as if she were really mine," Sasuke kissed Kin's adorable cheek as he said this and she gave off a contented giggle.
"Dad, Mom, this is Kin, my girlfriend Sakura's daughter," Sasuke said as Kin shined her amazing smile, already starting to creep into their cold hearts.
Mikoto's shock finally wore off once Sasuke had said that the girl really wasn't his, juts by name.
"May I call you grandma and grandpa," Kin squealed out, excited at the thought that her family just expanded even more.
To Sasuke it looked like with those words his parent's both softened and added twenty years to their age.
"It would be fine," Mikoto spoke up to Kin, and picked her up out of Sasuke's arms. Mikoto was intrigued with the child; she had never had a daughter but always dreamed of having one. After Sasuke, she found out that she couldn't have and didn't want any more kids. Her dreams of a daughter died especially when she was moving around the world too much to adopt a girl. Plus she knew that Fugaku had always been against the adoption policy saying that women shouldn't have children if they don't want them, yet he wasn't against surrogates. It was a very conflicted answer while dealing with her husband.
Kin kissed her cheek lightly, being polite and reintroducing herself to Mikoto. Fugaku was now interacting with the child too while Sasuke stood off to the side of the garage phoning his brother.
It was strange thought Sasuke, that Itachi hung up on him like that, he had never done that to him before, but Sasuke just figured that Itachi was probably busy and didn't need Sasuke's distractions. As Sasuke closed the phone he watched ads Mikoto happily put the child down and Kin went running, retrieving her ball. And then he remembered the real reason why Itachi would hang up the phone and he distracted himself so he would not remember that he was part of the blame.
"Sasuke, she's absolutely gorgeous," Mikoto said to him. She didn't even, like his dad, say 'hello, it's good to be home.' Sasuke knew that even if it did feel good to see them after all these years, he knew that welcoming them was out of the question. They came when they wanted. They left when they wanted, not when he wanted or found it most convenient. They were and are his parents, parents that were distant unloving and uncaring towards him.
Maybe as a kid, he acted to wild and that's why he hated them, but he knew that they hated him from the start, before he was even out of Mikoto's womb. Itachi had the right to call them mother and father, but he never got that right he always had to call them by their first names and the one time he had called his father, papa, he had been punished for it. Never again would he make the mistake of opening up to the parent's that he loved, but he knew he was a sucker, who yearned for parental acceptance and love. Sometimes he wished that he had never known his parents or that they were dead, but whenever he saw them together he felt ashamed for thinking these thoughts….
"Son, we will be staying with you for the next two months," Fugaku said, not even looking at Sasuke, but at Kin who was still chasing after the ball, and laughing freely at the nature around her.
When Kin returned with the ball, she took Mikoto and Fugaku by the hand and said excitedly, "I want to show you my room!!!!"
Sasuke watched as his parents, Mikoto and Fugaku, stepped into his house and Kin's life, leaving him on the outside, once again both literally and figuratively.
Part 3: Sakura's Journal (Part 2) in her hotel room
My story is dark and pitiful…as I write these words do not come into my mind…it feels as if my hands are numb from holding the pen for to long.
The blotch on this page is proof that I'm having trouble coming up with things to say…
Sasuke, if you ever end up reading this…this journal contains accounts of parts of my life; I do not want you to feel bad about it. I did betray your trust. I betrayed everyone from Ino to Hinata and I now ask for forgiveness that I now have no hope of achieving. I Sakura Haruno have a secret.
There's no lying about it….I could go on to tell you every lie about me, but that wouldn't be right…after these long weeks of hating and loving you, I cannot bare to keep this secret.
Right after my parents died, so very long ago, they had a will. You see my parent's had hired a very good lawyer before Kin was born to go after my grandmother for not taking better care of me. Because she had allowed the man to kidnap me…she had known the rapist.
My grandmother, the same one I will go to visit before she dies, stole a locket from me, in those years she was taking care of me.
You remember how long ago I told you how I was raped, but I didn't fully tell you the whole story.
Since I was eight and up until the rape, I had lived with my grandmother.
I can remember the times before I was eight. I lived with my parent's whom loved me wholeheartedly, until the day they got the phone call that told them that I was being taken from them. The man had been gaining blackmail on my father and was threatening to do things to him and ruin his business. Somehow the cops had found out about it and got involved.
They decided that it would be safer to entrust me with someone outside the company who did not know about its inner workings very well. My grandmother was the best choice.
I remember the last day I saw them, before the rape. Mother had on a pink festive kimono and was smiling her scarlet bird smile. Father had on a kind but saddened smile as he leaned down to kiss my cheek and wrap something around my neck.
When I looked down I found that he had placed a gold chain with a little heart shaped locket on it. At that time in my life, I thought it the world to me, and I still do. Inside it were a picture of my mother and father before they had gotten married, when my mom was pregnant with me.
My father had said to me, "Remember whenever you feel homesick, think of those smiles we are wearing those pictures. Those were the smiles that you, even before you came home to us, made us put on. Those smiles will always be for you and only you. This locket will last you a lifetime."
He kissed my cheek and ruffled my hair whispering I love you and my mother did the same as they watched as my mother's mother took me by the arm and dragged me off into her small beat up little car and off to my new home.
All through out the car ride I had held the tiny locket within my grasp and whispered a prayer upon it, "Let life bring me happiness and love." I had whispered.
Upon arrival to my grandma's old fashioned house, she got out and came to the other side of the car and without a word to me she yanked off the chain and walked to her servant.
"See to it that you make sure she stays out of my way," And she never once looked back at me.
While staying with her it was like living in an eternity of turmoil. It was mainly don't do this, or do that. And shut up little girl. Don't run in the house.
That was the reason why I had begun to do martial arts-to take out my frustrations in life. That's when I decided to never let people walk on anyone other than me.
It was horrible, my grandmother took a piece of me with her, and I remember the day when Mother and Father picked me up.
Mother was, this time in a yellow sun dress, a pink scarf wrapped around her dainty neck and my father came up to me in a blue suit that made him look handsome. I had been crying and he knew it.
He had looked to my neck, "Where is the necklace I gave to you silly girl?"
My grandmother looked at me with apprehensive eyes. She had warned me if I said anything that she would come after me. And that's when for the first time in my life I lied, "I don't know daddy, it's lost."
And it didn't help that two days before Kin was born, they were killed. They never ever got to meet there soft red haired daughter…they never got to meet the child the had protected within me…
That locket if anything, now belonged to Kin…she deserves there smiles…
Part 4: Lee
"Of course, after all you're a good friend of Gai and Kakashi. Both of whom are not here at the present but I will call them for you and tell them you're here."
"Thanks, Lee. But you still haven't answered my question yet?"
"What question?" Lee asked, having no idea what he was talking about.
Itachi chuckled and asked, "I wanted you to star in one of my future movies. Would you do it?"
"You never asked me," Lee said stunned and awed.
"I did a couple of years ago, maybe you just never heard me. I found it odd that you never said anything about it but yeah, I wanted to have you star in an upcoming movie. I have the perfect position now, if you want to take me up in my offer since I'm in Japan filming?"
"I would love to take you up on the opportunity-I love to act!" Lee exclaimed as Itachi inclined his head in acknowledgement.
"Then I'll see you tomorrow!" Itachi exclaimed as Lee's eyes got as big as saucers.
Part 5: Itachi
I still cannot believe Lee never heard me. I thought he was just hesitant, but then again, Lee hesitant about anything? Never…
Itachi's cell phone rang as he picked up, "Hello?"
"Itachi, our parent's showed up at the house?"
"They did?"
"Yeah! And Kin made an interesting welcoming!"
"You have to be kidding me?"
"No, get over here now, where are you?"
"Visiting friends," Itachi replied stunned that his parent's would go to Sasuke's out of the blue.
"Well tell them that you need to leave."
"I'm not going to be rude, Sasuke Uchiha. Haven't you learned your manners yet?"
"I have to go."
Te phone went dead as Itachi exhaled loudly and turned to Lee who stil had eyes as big as saucers.
"I'm sorry about that Lee, but will you give Gai and Kakashi my greetings and tell them to visit my old home for me?"
"Sure!" Lee responded enthusiastically. "Anything you want!"
"Thanks. I'm sorry, but it's rude I know. But I'm needed at home, so I must go now." Itachi smiled at Lee and ruffled his hair.
"I'll see you tomorrow, and oh, here's the script. I highlighted the parts you need to know for tomorrow." Itachi took the script out of his bag. The night before he had highlighted what Lee had needed to know and the only reason he was using Lee now was because he knew that Lee would make an awfully good ninja actor.
"Thanks, by Itachi!" Lee exclaimed as Itachi walked down to his car, and got in and drove off.
Part 6: Sasuke
The Nightly Phone Call (Three days late) and not at Night
"Hello," Sasuke answered his phone reluctantly, it was five in the morning and he was not a morning person. Whoever was calling him better have something to tell him or he would kill them.
"Sasuke, I'm sorry for not calling sooner."
"Sakura, why haven't you called?" Sasuke had been out of his mind worrying about her because she had given him no contact information and had never once called him. He had been scared that something had happened to her. His voice held only concern in it.
"I have been too busy and I haven't had a phone." Sakura's voice was soothing. It had been so long since he last heard it.
"I missed you," He whispered.
"I missed you to. You mean the world to me Sasuke. I wanted to let you know that I am coming back today. I'll be at the airport at 2pm." Sakura's voice was rushed.
"I'll pick you up. What's wrong?"
"The phone is dying, Sasuke." Sakura said and then whispered. "I love you more than life Sasuke, I'll see you tomorrow and tell Kin I love her and miss her too."
"I love you too, honey. I'll see you," Sasuke whispered as the phone went dead and Sakura's voice vanished.
Had she only called to tell him to pick her up? There had been something wrong with her anxious tone of voice-she was hiding something and she would find out what it was later today.
He couldn't sleep, waiting for tomorrow.
The End
A/N: This chapter felt like it was starting to delve into the plot more and I loved writing it even if it did take me over a month to write and plan out. Originally this was going to be the finally chapter but I feel like there's a lot more to this story left so there will probably will be at least two more chapters unless I'm feeling like I can properly conclude this story next chapter (most likely NOT going to happen).
School has been taking up 90percent of my life and I haven't had time for much of anything not even this…so I will try to get up the next chapter soon, but it should be up by Thanksgiving. So…I hope you guys like the chapter, because I think it is ok and well…it feels like I'm starting to delve into some weird things again…
Can I please get 40 reviews pretty please?????? It would make me feel really good and relieved that you my loyal fans are still with me supporting me-so many of you have left and tons of people have left fan fiction their stories and their readers….
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