Tiger of the Sands

A Soldier of the US Marine Corps finds lost letters that lead him back into the past. There was a terrible war in the Middle East, and nuclear fallout occurred. Millions died. But wrapped up in all this, he falls in love with a woman he has never met.

Ch.7

*********Hope*********

Sasuke's POV

I'm not going to stick around and wait for them to find me. I dart into the trees and make my way into the deserts dunes. It has months before anyone has ever crossed over the sea of sand. The reason, There is a battalion of the enemy just waiting for us to lose our patients.

I make my way over the first dune, then the next. The sand is becoming softer and softer the taller the dunes get, the closer I get to the center. I am running for my life, for what I have.

I stop to catch my breath, and in doing so I pull out a letter. They all have locations written on the backs. First stop, Iraq. I figure that I can calculate how to get there by using my mental map, it may not be extremely accurate, but it's worth the try.

I'm running and running, dune after dune on my way to Iraq. I stop to get a small drink of water out of my canteen and suddenly realize that I have no idea where I am, all the dunes look the same. I just hope that I haven't magically turned myself around heading in the wrong direction. Well, either way, I need to keep moving, I don't wanna be buzzard food.

I have to find her. All the letters I have read, the clippings and just everything that has her hand writing I cant help but relax all my muscles and calm down. Her "voice" through all the letters makes me get all butterflied and light inside. I can't breath.
If I don't find her, my life will end, because she has become my life. I need her. I love her. Finding just one bit of proof would be enough for me. So that's what I'm doing here, in this ransom desert.

I look up to the sky while lacing my fingers. I kneel down, and pray

"Help me find her. Please, I need her." I put my hands up to the sky, wishing for everything to work itself out. "Please."

After days of being out under that retched sun, I come to a small but joy bringing oasis. Seeing that water beneath those trees, the water that falls from the rocks above, hearing the water crash down on itself, makes my face light up. I run to the water and cup it in my hands. I splash it on my face. Its such a great feeling I decide to jump in. The feeling makes me feel like an outlaw who just escaped. The best feeling in the whole world, I have hope.

I finally leave the oasis and find myself thinking about what she may look like, 'Brown hair, blue eyes. Blond hair, green eyes. Red hair with green eyes :) more my type.'

Then I start making up names: Allison, Janet, Beth, Liz, Abigail, Cora, Bliss, Rose...etc. I've started to picture what she looks like with the new names. Allison is my favorite. Red hair and olive green eyes. Perfect.

As I walked, I started to get dizzy. I started to fall over myself. I just reached the top of the tallest dune, and my light headedness forces me to fall backwards, tumbling down the side of the dune. My head hurts. My eyes turn over and start stinging. My tongue gets dry, I'm dehydrated. Or so I thought. I remember when Mark stabbed that needle into the back of my neck he mentioned truth. Is it possible for the drug to finally be kicking in...?No, its not. But I shake my canteen and it still has water in it. Making the drug mark put into my body a plausible explanation. He was lying. This drug doesn't make me tell the truth, it makes me dehydrated, out in the desert. It's activated by the outrages heat.

I watch behind me as the footprints disappear the minute they are made. I lie there, silent, closing my eyes and picturing Allison, my imaginary dish, my imaginary love. I have to keep moving though. I try to stand up, I can't, and my muscles are weak. I'm dying. That drug that mark gave to me will kill me...I'm going to die, and I haven't even reached hostile territory yet... I collapse back down to the ground. What seemed to be seconds later, I open my eyes just enough to see hoofs standing next to me.

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