Medicine
Missing
Disclaimer: Well… I'm pretty sure my name is not Masashi Kishimoto, furthermore… I sadly don't own Naruto or any of its fantastic cast. :D
Hiyas! *waving* I'm so happy about Christmas! I wanted to get this story published before that but ugh… I'm such a lazy ass haha. Anyway I REALLY REALLY REALLY (times infinitely) want to thank all the people who greatly support my story. You guys are absolutely the best and your patience is golden. I really have great and loving fans of the story it almost makes me wanna cry haha. ^-^ You guys really are the best and I hope to hear more from you all. Thank you SO much. ^-^ I shall give you all virtual cookies as a late Christmas present, or even better, an awesome story and chapter REALLY soon. Anyway I'm done talking and doing my daily blah, blah, but I felt it was very important to inform you all. Anyway thanks again people and enjoy this latest chapter.
Sasuke was shocked when he silently stared at the solemn message enclosed within his loose fingers. He really didn't know how to react to a dilemma as serious as this.
What?! Why now! Ugh… its almost Christmas and out of the possible situations she has to step upon, why does it have to be something like this?!
.…
Sasuke suddenly dropped the letter as his thoughts only pulled him further into cataclysm.
She's an orphan...
Not far away was Karin, who was watching the afflicted prince. She curiously wondered what could have possibly made the handsome prince so upset.
It can only be one person who would dare bring madness upon the royalty... Karin mentally deducted.
Sakura…
Sakura's Room
The pink haired girl sat in her spacious bed in solitude. She was left alone with her unremitting chimeras: no friends, stuck in a manor with people she could not connect to, going to marry to a prince, education to become a doctor? I think not. Where was did her lie future? Where were her parents? Was she going to continue walking forward with this burdensome life?
Sakura could not believe what was happening to her.
"What did I possibly do to deserve such punishment," Sakura groaned. "I was nice to Karin and all her friends… and Sasuke…." Sakura was tangled in a web of her illusions when abruptly, the door to her room opened.
"Hey Sakuraaa…" Karin smiled evilly. "The Prince told me to attend to your wounds."
"What?" Sakura asked in complete disbelief. "No!" Sakura immediately jumped out of Sasuke's grandiose bed as Karin tried to grab her arm.
She's going to do something bad again. What a mean woman she is!
"Wait!" Karin called. Abruptly she departed from her place and bolted towards the door, arriving right in front of Sakura. Sakura stopped and intensely glared at Karin.
"I know what you want…" Sakura snarled. "I'm not stupid."
"Hah!" Karin arrogantly laughed. "I beg to differ."
"Why do you want to kick me out so badly…"
"That's all you've figured out numbskull?"
Karin laughed in repetition in front of Sakura. She cautiously guarded the door, eyeing any slight movements that Sakura acts.
"How are you gonna get through loser…" Karin taunted as she suddenly grabbed the sovereign queen's long, lustrous, coral hair. She dangerously clinched it within her furious fingers and rabidly tugged on it. Sakura tried to kick her in the stomach when one of the maids, who seemed familiar to Sakura, caught her leg just in time. The maid easily held her in place, hence her large and muscular figurine.
"Oh my… your hair is SO beautiful! I really hate to admit this but I think it's much more attractive than my own! Oh goodness, did Sasuke inform you that he likes girls with long hair?!" Karin questioned with fake enthusiasm. "Haha, don't worry, he's also tolerant with other hair styles too."
In just seconds, time felt like it sped up. The knife in the vicious girl's fingers slid through the noblewoman's hair similar to cutting warm butter.
Cherry blossoms flew from all angles,
tears dripped from the face of innocence…
and no one heard the silent cries of the angel's melody
ll_ _ _ _ _ ll
Sasuke walked slowly to his room. He was trapped in his thoughts, forever pondering on how he should break the news to Sakura.
Ugh… more uneccessary problems to juggle with… I'll just emulate the envelope and put the message in there, so I can tell her the problem indirectly…
Sasuke continued to battle with the problem at hand until a raucous sound came out of the blue.
"Sasuke!!!"
The raven haired prince finally released himself from imagination's confinements and ran to the direction of where the voice was located. As Sasuke reached the doors to his room, he promptly whipped them open, revealing Karin on Sasuke's grandiose bed. She was dressed in a seductive, red bathrobe and covered in bold makeup.
But Sasuke only glared, failing to see the beauty showcased in front of his eyes.
"Karin… where the hell is Sakura? I told her to stay here."
"Oh really?" She told me your parents kicked her out."
"What?! When did my parents call?"
"Not long ago," Karin smiled. She had a phone in hand and playfully wiggled it in front of the Sasuke's view.
Sasuke earnestly snatched the phone from Karin and punched in the code to activate its voice mail.
"One missed call… ding… Hello sweetheart! … Your father and I are not coming back until next week, so celebrate Christmas with a couple of friends okay? Oh… I'm sorry to break the news to you honey but… we, your parents have decided on a solution to your problems honey… you see… we've notice you are having a bit too much trouble with that girl around… especially with your schoolwork, event preparations, and your girlfriend all juggling at the same time! So as loving parents, we decided that we shall formally dismiss your girlfriend from the household and cancel any wedding plans we were making… some of the maids had informed me about your suffering and-"
Sasuke shut the phone before he could hear the rest of the message.
Silence only occupied the room's atmosphere for a couple of seconds, until Sasuke broke the solitude.
"Did she say anything before she left?"
Karin lifted an eyebrow.
God! Why is he even worried about her?!
"Nope," Karin said happily. Karin sprawled over Sasuke's bed and yawned in an obviously fake tone. "Ah… gosh I'm so exhausted…"
"Then go sleep to your room."
"Come on prince… it's cold season… it wouldn't hurt to get more-"
"Shut-up! Get out of my room!" Sasuke growled.
Shocked, Karin convulsely shifted to get off the prince's bed and sprinted out of his room. As Karin ran out of the room, she runs into Itachi, who was very amused of the rancous noise happening in his brother's space. He smirked in pleasure. Karin didn't brother to say sorry, earnestly wanting to run off into her room, only to be disappointed by the fact that Sasuke wasn't happy about the current situation.
In fact she only made it worse.
School
It was a gloomy morning, the sky only shadowed by multitudes of clouds, huddling in mobs. There was no sign of sunlight and the weather was bathed in chilly conditions.
Karin was absolutely prepared to go to school. She groomed herself with extra care and choose her clothes carefully: Chanel boots and necklaces paired with a Marc Jacobs plaid mind dress. She thought she looked stunning and in fact she was. The maids were completely jealous of her high class fashion and all presented for, of course, one person specifically.
The prince Sasuke Uchiha.
She stepped out of the manor and saw someone outside with a black Gucci hoodie and pants.
"Good morning my dearest prince," Karin greeted.
"…"
"Prince?"
"Let's go…" the voice demanded.
Karin and Sasuke walked to school in silence. In a few minutes, they both reached school grounds, although once they got there, the school bell rang and classes were already about to start. Sasuke had class in AP calculus first.
AP Calculus
As the young prince entered the room, the teacher greeted him with much enthusiasm.
"Good morning !"
"…"
The class stared at the royal prince walk to his desk. Neji and Shikamaru sat near the prince's desk, Shikamaru to the prince's left and Neji in front of Shikamaru. They looked at each other as they both spotted the prince's most troublesome mood.
"Geez… he must be exhausted from holding that big party. How troublesome," Shikamaru commented.
"Yeah," Neji replied. "It was a big party."
"Dude, look at the prince. Man, people joke about him being emo, but man, today is like, whoa, he really is actually emo. Haha," one of the students in the class whispered.
"I'm surprised you're in AP calculus with your language…" Neji defended.
The student didn't say anything. "Mind your own business."
"Stop Hyuga. I know you're friends with the Uchiha too but put it to rest. Its useless to quarrel with them."
Neji looked at Sasuke, who was just staring at a couple of notes that didn't appear as his own work, hence it was in pink ink.
"He's always like that," Shikamaru said. "Somehow his attitude is so attractive towards women… even our own teacher. Sometimes I wonder why we got such as "creepy" teacher…"
"Tch… Yeah you're right. He's probably never alone…"
Lunch
"Karin! How did you do it?!" Rikku said with bright happiness. She lean in towards Karin with an eager look planted on her face.
"Gosh Karin! You're amazing! You were able to kick Sakura out of the manor by yourself?!" Makota said in much content that she couldn't help to express.
"Yes I did, yes I did," Karin replied snobbishly.
A blond haired woman happened to pass by the sight. She glanced at the group, who were huddled closely together and appeared as if they were hearing the juiciest gossip ever. They were settled at a nice table near a tree with no leaves and surrounded with groups of winter plants. She decided to move closer, desiring to hear what they were discussing that could possibly so great for ears to heed. She settled for a spot in a bush that rested near the table.
"So this is what I did," Karin started off. "The dumb pinky finally resolved to get some treatment for the scars she got from the super glue we placed in her dress."
"Yeah, yeah."
"And so I heard yesterday night, my prince ordering a maid in the household to treat the moron's wounds, well… I waited for a couple minutes for the maid and my prince to depart in order for me to take my attack effectively and in clandestine. I approached the maid and lied to her that I have the medicine for Sakura's wounds, well you know already, I really don't haha. And so I went into Sasuke's room and locked Sakura in there…"
"Oh my god!" The girls squealed in excitement.
"I was actually expecting this to happen on a different day but you know what?!"
"What?! What?!"
"I cut off Sakura's hair!"
They all jumped and laughed in sinister content.
The hidden blond was completely shocked by the words that flowed out of the maroon haired girl's mouth.
"Oh my god…" the girl silently mouthed to herself.
"And that's not it!"
The sandy haired girl promptly opt for some more listening.
"I lied to her that the prince's parents wanted to kick her out. So I showed her a fake voice mail I create of Sasuke's parents informing her dismissal and oh my god you should've seen the look on her face. She was like this," Karin exclaimed while attempting to emulate Sakura's face at that moment.
"Hahaha!" The girls laughed.
"She was SO devasted! She looked like was going to breakdown!"
"Hahaha!"
"Oh my god…" The blond silently mouthed again. "I gotta go tell this!" She quickly and carefully deviated from her place and ran to her friends' hangout.
Cafeteria
"Tenten! Hinata!" The bleached haired girl hollered.
"Ino?" Both girls questioned in unison.
"What happened? Why are you so in a hurry?" Tenten asked.
"I have to tell you guys something…" Ino breathe out.
Not from far away was another group, approaching the girls with much animation.
"What's up babes," a man with spikey, brown hair deliberately joked.
"Shut-up Kiba, I'm trying to explain something," Ino barked.
"Haha. Girl stuff again… always about the prince, his wife, blah, blah. Let's talk about something more interesting," Kiba drew out a chair from the table and placed down his tray of food, "right Shino?"
"… yeah."
"Hey look its Neji, Shikamaru, and the retard!" Kiba elated, "hey guys sit over here!" He began to wave his hands in quick undulations.
Naruto smirked at the sight of Kiba, "Will you stop looking like a moron! I know you're there."
"Shut-up knucklehead."
"You shut-up."
"Both you shut-up … so troublesome you two are…"
"Oh great… Naruto's here…" Ino groaned. She faced towards Hinata, making sure that she doesn't feel like fainting. Tenten looked at Hinata as well and then suddenly she left her seat.
"Ah, I think I need to go buy another drink. I'm so thirsty," Tenten said in a fake tone. Hinata looked at her in shock and a bit of horror. "Hey Naruto! You can take my place."
"Oh really thanks!"
"Yeah no problem," Tenten smirked.
"Hey Hinata whats 'up."
"… n-n-nothing…" Hinata really struggled to enuciate.
"Haha, I know school's so boring! But we will survive it right Hinata?" Naruto suddenly slapped a hand onto her right shoulder, causing Hinata to wildly blush right in front of him. Everyone in the table watched as they conversed.
"Y-y-ye-"
Suddenly Hinata fainted.
"Hey! Hey! Hinata?!" Naruto caught the violet beauty and started fanning her with one of his school folders. "Hinata?! Hinata?!"
"Dude! Naruto what the fuck did you do you retard," Kiba howled.
"What?! I didn't do anything you-"
"Shut-up you guys…" Neji said as he drew a chair and sat down. "She's going to be alright."
"Does she do this on a daily basis?" Naruto asked.
Neji glared.
"Hey do you guys see Sasuke anywhere? I was trying to talk to him this morning but yeah he was more stubborn than usual," Naruto asked.
Kiba scoffed, "How stubborn can he get? He is the epitome of stubbornness- OW!"
Ino slaps a hand against Kiba's arm, "don't talk about the prince that way."
"Prince that, prince thisss…" Naruto ridiculed.
"Yeah, yeah shut-up Naruto."
"Yeah shut-up! Anyway I heard something…" Ino said in a quiet tone.
"What? What?" The girls said in excitement while the boys choose to remain unmoved.
Ino looked around to see if the girls she saw earlier were presently near them. Fortunately, they were not. "Ok, ok, well you see, I kinda… evesdropped on the popular girls just earlier this lunchtime."
"Wa! Good job Ino!" Kiba congratulated. "What' cha discover?"
"Well… I kinda heard something about that new girl, Sakura. I think she's is living with Karin or something. And Karin cut off her hair!"
"They're living together?!" The group exclaimed quietly. Suddenly the boys got interested.
"Dude! Are they sisters or something?" Naruto bluntly asked.
"No way! But still, they both have weird hair colors so it might be a possibly…" Tenten deducted.
"What?" Neji asked her. "That can't be… isn't Karin living in the Uchiha household? I see her walking with Sasuke going to school. Wouldn't this mean that Sakura lives with the prince…"
"I doubt it," Naruto said. "From what I hear from Sasuke, its already hard enough to become the royal janitor."
"Haha! Dude, you need high standards to become part of the imperial family," Kiba noted.
"Haha…" Naruto laughed and suddenly caught sight of Sasuke. "Hey guys I'm gonna come back."
Everyone looked after Naruto, who approached Sasuke with a big smile. "Hey buddy, whats 'up?"
"… I'm going outside…" Sasuke said flatly. Naruto walked after him and they were soon standing at a balcony where the incident of Sakura drowned in chocolate was held.
Naruto looked at Sasuke, who leaned against the railings and sighed.
"Somethin brothering you? You got into a love quarrel with your mysterious mistress that I don't know of?" Naruto joked lightly.
Sasuke didn't respond, not finding any humor in his teasing. He looked at the gloomy sky.
"If something brothers you, how would you stop it?"
"Dude… it's that girl that you're so stubborn to mention huh?" Naruto urged.
"…"
"If she's such a pest why not break-up with her?"
Sasuke didn't say anything, leaving the silence to give its reply to the confused companion.
Unknown
A man with a long, Marc Jacobs trench coat stood in front of the doors of a unstable and old looking motel. Looks like the prince's royal brother has something that he is hiding...
The Manor
Time had already stretched its way to darkness. The moon finally exposes itself when time knocked on its door. Its light lying over the beauty of the well lit city and overlaying the richness of the imperial palace. The lonely prince steps out of his room and slowly approached the end of his balcony.
She was finally able to escape after all, but where is she? Where would she go? Did she already know her parents are dead?
The dark prince resolved to answer all those questions with a shallow solution.
"Who cares about her…"