hey guys! long time no see! i had theatre camp for three weeks and now i bring you... well not the last chapter. i was typing and i realized- what a perfect way to torture my fans (by fans i mean Alex) is to draw out my final chapter. yes i really did want to make this the last one but i figured it was a good stopping point. i'm sorry but this will be finished even if it kills me. don't get me wrong- i have an ending.... sorta. anyway i hope you like it. i tried to tie the fanfic back in with the plot of the manga so: this chapter does contain a small spoiler from the manga there you've been warned. so here it is, no the last chapter *cries with frustration* WHY DID I HAVE TO MAKE A SECOND CHAPTER WHY!!!!!!!!!
DISCLAIMER: come on people! do i look like some old japanese guy? no (hint i'm a very white teenage girl, just ask Alex)
ENJOY OR I'LL BE FORCED TP SEND JACK SPARROW AFTER YOU!! then again i think most you would like that... dang!
Patience was a gift that I did not possess. It was the second day of my visits with Sasuke and I was so anxious that I ended up pacing I front of his room. When I finally got to go in I was so happy I nearly knocked Tsuande over getting in.
"Sasuke," I smiled as I walked in. Sasuke was lying on the small bed in his room and sat up to greet me with one of his dashing smiles.
"Sakura-Chan," Sasuke's smooth voice said. His voice- I think I missed that the most. I never really got to hear it much when he was still at Konoha, but now I've found that that has to be his best feature.
"Any word on your release?" I asked sitting down on the edge of the bed.
"No, but Tsuande is pretty lenient," Sasuke said.
"I hope it'll be soon," I said looking down at my hands that were holding each other in my lap.
"I promise you it will," I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked over to see Sasuke smiling again. I think there is a tie in the race of "Sasuke's best feature" it is either his voice or his smile.
We talked for the rest of the time. In that hour I've found that there are two areas you don't go into with Sasuke: His brother and His constant thirst for revenge. The second I knew already, besides I didn't want to go there either, but the first one when I mentioned it I could actually hear his teeth grinding. Those are very sensitive subjects that I hope I'll never have to bring up.
When the hour was up I was shooed from the room and since Tsuande had (surprisingly) no work for me, I went with Naruto down to the ramen stall.
"So Sakura-Chan," Naruto said his mouth full of noodles. " Is Sasuke the same? He wouldn't really talk to me."
Really? Sasuke wouldn't talk to Naruto? I found that odd. Naruto welcomes him with open arms and Sasuke turns away then again that has always been Sasuke's way.
"He's… the same, but changed. If that makes any sense," I said twirling a pink lock around my finger and jabbing my chopsticks at my Veggie Ramen.
"Geez, Sakura your always like this when you talk about Sasuke, this or very violent," He said. I almost punched him but that would just prove his point so I held my clenched fist under the table.
"Sakura! Naruto!" Konohamaru yelled running up next to us out of breath and collapsing on the counter of the ramen shop.
"What is it?!" I asked alarmed.
"It's Lady Tsuande! Come hurry! I don't know how long we have!" Konohamaru grabbed my arm pulled my toward the Hokage building with Naruto in tow.
"What happened?" I asked Shizune looking at my master lying in bed, unconscious.
"We're not sure," Shizune said. She was sitting right next to Tsuande checking her pulse for the millionth time in the last twenty minutes. "There are signs of a struggle, the bloody knuckles. She tried to fight back that's for sure."
"Tsuande wouldn't go down without a fight," I said sitting across from Shizune on the other side of the Hokage. Shizune smiled slightly at my comment. "When will she wake up?"
"I'm not sure if she ever will, she's in a coma," Shizune said.
"A coma? Who's going to run the village? Why would someone do this? Why… " I had too many questions and decided that if I continued that I would just anger my self further.
"Don't you think I've asked all those questions?" Shizune said biting her bottom lip and turning back to the Hokage clearly not trusting herself to continue.
"Do we have an suspects?" I asked. Shizune didn't answer, only stared at Tsuande. "Shizune?" I asked again.
"We have one," She said, I couldn't she her face, it was hidden behind a curtain of dark hair.
"Well who is it? I want this person questioned!" I said standing up. Why wouldn't she tell me who did this to Tsuande? I was about to start some more loud rambling when Shizune stopped me in my tracks giving me an apologetic look.
"Sakura, it's Sasuke."
"No! It can't be!" I screamed into Naruto's chest. He was doing his best to console me, but I was out of control. I had to leave Tsuande's room under orders of an Elder and now stood in the hallway crying into my best friend's jacket. "He wouldn't do something like this!"
"I know he wouldn't Sakura-chan," Naruto said. "People just can't understand that.
"I want to see him!" I cried.
"Maybe- ," Naruto began but was cut off by the sound of the door of Tsuande's room opening.
"Naruto come in," Shizune said. I walked behind him but was stopped by Shizune's hand on my shoulder. "Sorry Sakura, you'll know later."
With that Shizune closed the door and I was left to stand in the hallway crying into my hands while a ceiling light flickered uncertainly.
Deciding I could do better things than cry in the hallway I walked through the corridors of the Hokage building, oddly not running into any ninja. I reached the hallway where Sasuke was kept in; I smiled and stepped into it. I heard a click and immediately hit the floor while six darts flew over my head and into the opposing wall. I slowly got up and picked a dart out of the way, a purple liquid dripped from the tip.
"Poison," I said to myself. This was going to be harder than I thought. Maybe that was just a safety precaution. Just in case, I pulled a kunai from my pack and held it in front of me. It was dim and I couldn't see a majority of the walls where traps might be hidden. I kept myself low and took slow and sure steps down the hall. I threw the kunai down the hallway and a green gas started to seep into the hallway along with more darts flying across and one explosive tag further down the corridor. I lost my balance when the explosion shook the floor and hit the cold floor. I could see something flying out of the green mist at me and didn't have enough time to dodge it. I was sitting up when it pierced the skin of my neck and my vision when splotchy and eventually it went all black as my head once again made contact with the cold floor.
"You saw her! She was infiltrating the corridor in order to free the criminal!" A loud voice disturbed my peaceful forced sleep. My eyes flickered open but I soon closed them in order to hear what the voice was arguing about. "She was betrayed Konoha along with the Uchiha!"
"Sakura would never do anything like that!" Naruto's familiar voice yelled.
"She already has," The voice said calmly, the shuffling of feet followed and Naruto's usual frustrated grunt came also. "I think she is awake."
My eyes popped wide open and I looked around the room. Naruto was there along with some other ninja and another man that I recognized as Danzo.
"Leave," Danzo told the other nameless ninja.
"Yes Lord Hokage," The leader said and led the rest out. Hokage? Has Tsuande died? Is Danzo really Hokage?! Surly this was just a dream.
To my surprise Naruto just stood there his eyes cast down his fists clenched.
"Well, Sakura Haruno, one of Konoha's best medical ninja, being sent to death, that's a shame," Danzo said matter-of-factly.
"For what charges?" I ordered sitting up but found that any sudden movements sent my head spinning.
"You helped the Uchiha boy kill the Hokage," He said.
"I didn't do anything, I was eating ramen with Naruto. I-," I was confused and the poison dart's side effects weren't helping.
"You were helping him escape, going down the hallway he was kept in even when you discovered it was rigged with traps," Danzo said. "It is a shame, two fine ninja having to be punished by death."
"I didn't do anything- Sasuke is a leaf ninja now you can't do anything to him!" I yelled frustrated.
"However, he is still classified as a missing nin and he attacked the Hokage which only leaves me disappointment that I can't kill him twice," Danzo said smirking slightly.
"You're a monster! You're scum!" I spat at him dipping every word with venom.
"I am none of those things- I am Hokage," Danzo said. He snapped his fingers and the ninja squad came back in. "Take her to her cell."
He waved the ninja toward me and I reached into my weapon's pouch to find it was empty. When the first ninja reached out to grab my arm I landed a punch on the side of his face. I managed a weak kick in the gut of another one and when I went to elbow a dazed looking ninja in the face Naruto grabbed me by the shoulder.
"I'm sorry Sakura-chan," He whispered but forcefully pulled me across the room and into the hallway.
"You're with him!" I screamed.
"I have no choice," Naruto said still pushing me through the corridors.
"That doesn't sound like the Naruto I know," I said disgusted with my friend's behavior.
"They threatened to kill Grandma Tsuande," Naruto whispered.
"She's alive?!" I tried to lower my voice to a whisper but I was to shocked to do so.
"Sort of, she's still in a coma, but it was decided that we needed a new Hokage now and Danzo was picked and now he was taken over the village," Naruto said.
"Have I been knocked out for that long?" I asked Naruto.
"Two whole days," He answered.
"I guess an apology for something I didn't do wouldn't help, hu?" I asked the host.
"It's too late for that," He said. "Here we are."
He turned me to face an ominous looking door. It was metal with hundreds of systems of locks intertwining it with the doorway to keep whatever was inside in.
"I'm flattered," I said flatly.
"I think you'll like your cell mate, all this is mainly for him anyway," Naruto said. One of the ninja started to begin the process of opening all the locks. I watched the pieces of metal clink in and out of spots and gears mush together, finally the door was swung open and I was shoved inside. I turned but all I saw was an orange smudge before the door was slammed and all the gears clicked together loudly all at once.
I turned to face the room and saw that there was only one light in the entire space. A bare light bulb dangling from a thing string in the middle, casting shadowy light. I didn't know how big the room was on account the light was bright enough to reach the walls. Naruto said I had a cellmate so I decided to find out who it was.
"Anyone here?" I called, my voice echoed. I was about to assume that Naruto was messing with me when I heard shuffling and light footsteps walking towards me. A figure's outline could be seen at the edge of the light's territory.
"Who are you?" I asked as nicely as I could, fearing that my roommate might not be as innocent as me. Then the figure stepped into the light. Only half of his face was visible but that was enough.
"Sasuke!"
"Sakura-chan."
sorry, this is about where i ran out of rum (yes i watched the second and third Pirates movies today) so review say you hate me or you love me or you want to attack me with ninja cats do whatever.