Seven Days Left…
Chapter 3: Memories
I stare at him with a are-you-serious look.
Does he intend to use… it? EW! Like I'd do it with…He pushes me into the wall. His chest close to mine. He grabs my wrists before I could push back. I couldn't break free from his iron grip. His nose traces from my chin up to my ear. He makes me nervous at this closeness. He smirks and let go of me. Casually, he walks away and turns on the TV. I stay frozen in shock and do a quick recap of the past couple of seconds. Uchiha was too close for comfort and he wanted to use a con…dom?
I look at the clock and see that its time for lunch. My stomach grumbles at the thought of food. Where am I going to get food?
Something in the wall slides open and two plates of food are handed. Yes! FOOD! I walk quickly over to the food, so I don't look as pathetic as I already am. I was about to grab a plate until…He grabs my food away from me. I trip over the sudden yank of food causing the sudden motion to drop the rest of the food. A part of me breaks inside while he smirks like the ass he is.
Damn him! I am so hungry. I stand up and pounce at him for the food. As if part of my animal instincts took over me, I pounce at him. There are a lot of mixed feelings into the pounce I pounced for my sudden lost of food and to avenge the potato chip. This will show him not to mess with a girl's food! I steal it run to the bathroom and eat my food. This time I remembered to lock the door, so I eat my food in peace and come out. He confronts me and says, "That was your fault for the food not mine. Give me back the food!"
"What do you want me to…" I ask him about his ridiculous need for payment.
He kisses me out of the blue, which catches me totally off guard. I pull away and trip on to the bed. He lowers his head so that he is five inches away from my face. A sudden grip of fear gets a hold of me and shows on my face. He has a dark look on his face. That filthy bastard… What does he want to do? That filthy pervert! What is in his head?
His facial expressions soften and sadness takes over.
Tears fall down one by one from his face. Why… is… he… crying? Uchiha… aka the human ice cube! He looks so human from this point of view.
"Why do you not remember me when I love you so much?" he asks.
"What are you talking about?" I ask him staring at him as if he were a lunatic.
There was sort of hysteria and disbelief in my voice. How could he love me? We barely talked in school. Love is not a word to be jokes around with.
"You still don't remember?" he asks with the most heart-broken face.
I stare at him strangely and tilt my head. Is he going insane? What the hell is he talking about?
He lets go of me and walks into the bathroom. What just happened? Inside me a feeling of regret and sadness wash over me like a tidal wave. I start to cry, uncontrollably. There was nothing I could do but cry. I didn't want to cry, but something told me to. Something inside. What is it that I am feeling inside of me right now? Why am I crying? Instead of walking out of the bathroom, he runs to me after hearing the sobs.
"Why are you crying?" he pleads me
"I don't know…" I answer him helplessly.
There are sobs in between the sentence.
"…Something inside of me is telling me that I should cry. I don't know why, but I feel sudden sadness and guilt." I explain to him
He has a pained expression on him.
He says, "I'm sorry. I should have never brought this out."
He comforts me by tucking me inside the bed and lightly kiss the top of my forehead.
"Don't worry about it. Just go and sleep it will be better," he quietly says.
For the strangest reason, I trust him. My eyes slowly close and enter a far but familiar place.
"Sasuke-kun?"
"Sasuke-kun?"
"Sasuke-kun where are you?"
My younger self looks for Sasuke around the backyard of his large household. We are playing hide-and-seek at the time. I am searching for Sasuke. Until, Itachi came.
"Sakura? Do you want to come with me to go buy ice cream?" he says with a sweet smile.
Obviously, I answer yes. We enter his car and he starts to drive fast.
"Itachi-nii, where are we going?" I ask him after seeing that we are off-course from the ice-cream shop.
There was no answer. Fear takes over.
In a more frantic tone I ask him, "Where are we going? I'm… I'm getting scared. Itachi-nii? Itachi-nii!"
I screamed his name. He drives even faster and behind me I hear a familiar voice,
"Nii-san?! Nii-san!! Stop nii-san!" the voice begs.
I look behind me and see Sasuke looking frightened as well.
He says in a soft protective voice, "Don't worry Sakura. I won't let you get you hurt. Remember I made you that promise?"
How could I forget?
Sasuke and I were really close friends. We were inseparable. In the summer, we went camping and well… there were bears. Big frightening bears that could eat you up in one bite. It was nighttime and I was really afraid, but I had to go to the little girl's room. I went outside to go look for a bathroom, but tripped on a tree root causing me to fall off a ridge and hurt my ankle. I couldn't move because of the pain, so I yelled out for help from my dad, but no one came. I yelled and yelled, but no one response. I felt alone and cold, but I yelled for help.
"Sakura!" a familiar voice rang in my ears.
"Sasuke-kun!" I yell his name in joy.
"Sakura, I'm coming!" he said.
He came down and helped me up. He helped my limp our way back to the campsite.
"Sakura, are you all right?" he asks me.
I put on the best smile that I could make and said, "I'm okay."
He didn't look convinced. I don't think the smile was good enough.
He said, "Sakura, I promise that I won't get you hurt like that ever again."
With that serious face, Sasuke tried his best to keep that promise.
The car finally crashed into something and then everything turned dark.
I flutter my eyes open. I sit up straight and see that its already night time. Sweat was clinging on my brows. Sasuke got ready for the worst, and looked in my direction. He stands up and walks slowly over. I stare at him and say the two words that I thought I would never say,
"Sasuke-kun?"
