Summary: She hadn't known he was there, that day. She didn't know he could see her, in another man's arms. She didn't know she had ruined his life. And she couldn't possibly know what she had done to seemingly alter the universe. [SasuIno] [SasuSaku] [SasuHina]

A/N: This chapter was mostly Coldplay : Viva la Vida.

Sorry it took so dang long.

Two Wrongs Make A Right
Chapter Three

Author: Alley-Oop
Beta'd By: xpeekaboo

"A-Are you okay, sir?" a voice came from his right. It would have startled him were he not absorbed in his own thoughts, thinking about everything he would have to arrange before the end of the night. He practically had to write an entire will in a few hours. But Sakura was – or had been – his everything. He didn't know whom he could even give his things to. Charity? For some reason, that just made him feel even worse. Was he really so solitary that he didn't even have any friends to give his things to when he was gone?

"S-sir?" the voice asked again. Sasuke finally turned his head to see who would bother talking to him. If he had seen someone falling apart on a subway platform, he would have steered clear. But the girl was beautiful, and you could tell just by looking at her that she was sincerely kind. However, no matter what she was like, she was the distraction Sasuke needed.

"I've been better," Sasuke answered, barely recognizing his own voice. It was thick with restrained emotion and he could tell that his face, for once, betrayed everything. He had called Sakura an ice princess, but he had been her ice prince. They were more alike than he had ever thought possible.

"Can I h-help?" she inquired, and Sasuke wondered why she was being so nice to him. She didn't know him. She couldn't know if he deserved her help or not from one pitiful glance.

"No." He didn't want her pity. He didn't need her help. Just because he felt sick and was planning to kill himself, he didn't need to complicate things like this. He didn't need to make more attachments to this world. In fact, this world had shown Sasuke exactly what it was capable of: taking everything you loved and grew to care about and ripping them away without a single regard to how you felt or wanted things to work out. No, this world was done playing its games with him, and if the only way to escape those maddeningly cruel, brutal games was to take himself out of the world, then that was as good of an option as any. Or so Sasuke supposed it was.

Yet, Sasuke was also startled. He'd never lost himself like this before. Usually he was always composed, always ready to go and quick to act or react, as the case may be. But not now. Everything was so slow and agonizingly painful. He felt as if he were crawling by as he watched his life crumble to dust and ashes in only milliseconds. Was it possible to go so quickly and slowly at the same time? Was it possible to want to die, yet know that everything that had happened was for the better at the same time?

Because Sasuke knew that Sakura had not only been an ice princess, and he her ice prince, but a poison. She infected everything she touched – everything she looked at. She had infected Sasuke at a glance, and only by her fangs being ripped out could he now escape from her deadly bite.

Yet, there was… something that made Sasuke doubt his own logic. Why should he give up on life, if life hadn't given up on him? Maybe it was better this way. Maybe it was supposed to be this way. He couldn't say for sure, but it certainly seemed like fate was trying to keep him around, because there were multiple times when he should have died but hadn't. He should be buried next to his parents, and he should be dead now, by the tearing of his heart, but something… something… kept him there. He hadn't just sat here for hours for nothing… had he?

"Do you… Do you want to get coffee?" Sasuke finally asked the girl, knowing that if he wanted to see tomorrow, he could not be left by himself, else he do something stupid and life-threatening. He pleaded with his eyes, even as the girl began stuttering excuses to him. However, after a few tense moments, she just nodded her head, and for the first time since Sasuke had sat down that day, he stood and extended his hand to the lady, whose petite, warm hand was enveloped by his own cold one.

So ended the chapter of his life featuring Sakura Haruno…

And so began the chapter featuring Hinata Hyuuga.