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Chapter 18
"We have to find her." This point blank statement of Destiny startled Fate. "You still haven't told me what's wrong. Why did you go into auto-prophecy mode like that?" "Because. I saw something. Her spirit is balking, now that it comes down to the wire. She can do it but she doesn't think she can, no matter how hard she tries to persuade herself of the contrary. We need to be with her in the final moments."
Fate nodded and helped Destiny up from the chaise lounge. "Let's go."
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"I didn't see Sakura in that meeting." Ino was white, her blue eyes stark with fear. "I wonder where she is." Tenten looked over at Ino, her spine rigid with fear. "I don't think that they had a fight and Neji mentioned that he had seen her on the bridge when the ship hit."
"Ladies please go put your lifebelts on." A passing steward made this pronunciation, a formal 'this is just a drill' expression on his face. Ino frowned. "Listen. We," she gestured to herself, Tenten and Hinata, "are the wives of officers. We already know what's going on." Startled, the steward cast his eyes down. "Then help us do our job and set and example."
Ignoring the man's petition, Ino turned back to the group. "We need to find…"
A girl wearing a long creamy lace dress and a shawl with pink hair ran flashed passed them. "…Sakura," finished Ino lamely. "Sakura wait!!!" The pink haired girl stopped, looked at them with terrified eyes, and continued. "She saw it Ino. I think that's why she's so scared. We should go after her…" but before the girls could follow Sakura, they were accosted by Naruto. "Hinata," he said softly, placing a hand on her arm. "I want you to go onto a lifeboat now, and your cousin agrees with me. Tenten, Neji also told me to get you on a boat and Ino, I quote Shikamaru with the 'get that troublesome woman onto a boat as soon as possible.' We have to go now."
Ino looked helplessly after Sakura as Naruto escorted the girls away.
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Destiny and Fate raced up the corridor towards the main staircase. The mood was still relatively calm and two women in maid's outfits, running around was cause to stare. "Where is she??" hissed Destiny. Fate looked at her sister, a panic on her face, the likes of which had never been seen. Her sister was normally the calm one while she was the one who got into a panicked state.
"I don't know Dessy," said the brown haired girl trying to calm her sister down. "But can we stop running? My feet hurt from running…these shoes are too tight." "Okay…." Destiny sighed. "Let's head back to the room, we can't die but we need to put the illusion of obeying orders. We need to put the lifebelts on."
Before they could get back to their room, however, Sasuke accosted them. "Miss Faith, Miss Delilah. Where is Sakura? She ran away from me about a half an hour ago. I think she was scared after…what happened." He wasn't supposed to tell the passengers.
"Officer Uchiha, we saw the iceberg. And yes, that would scare her, considering her nightmares," Fate relied to the officer. "We were just going back to check the stateroom." Sasuke made a noise like he had been frustrated. "I have to go back up top, the captain wants me to help load up the life boats because I have experience doing so. If you see her please tell her to get into a lifeboat. The ship isn't going to last long." He uttered these words quietly.
"We'll tell her that." Fate grabbed her sister's arm in a vise grip. "Let's go."
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It had taken her awhile because the panic made her disorientated and she temporarily forgot the way back to her stateroom. However, she finally made it back and, as soon as she tore the door open to her stateroom, she dove under the covers of her bed, huddled in the fetal position, her face buried in her pillow.
A few minutes later, Destiny and Fate charged into the room at full speed. "She's there!" exclaimed Fate, relieved. "Sakura what are you doing here?" demanded Destiny, pushing her sister to the side. "I'm terrified Destiny. That's what I'm doing here. I can't do this and I was an idiot to think I was strong enough too. "
"That's BS Sakura. We wouldn't have decided to give you this chance if you weren't strong enough." Sakura refused to answer this and turned her back on the two sisters.
"I can't…" she whispered.
Destiny scowled. "Do what you will then. Fate," she looked at her sister and dropped her voice. "She's got a half an hour to come out of this…funk…she's in or events will be set into motion that cannot be undone." Destiny sat down on a chair by the bed.
Sakura lay under the covers, shivering from a cold that seemed to reach all the way down into her bones. The same cold that infiltrated her every April 14th and 15th. "Is this why? Because I gave up? Is this why I felt so panicked every year?" she asked herself quietly.
She lay there, not knowing how much time had passed. It could've been an hour; it could've been a minute. "But that was the worst thing about panicking as I have on those nights. Time lost all meaning. It was almost as if I was stuck in a void where time was nonexistent."
"And the worst thing is…I couldn't do anything then…"
Sakura's eyes snapped open in realization. "Why am I hiding? I couldn't do anything then…but it's not then, it's not then and I'm on the Titanic. I can do something." Sakura shot up in bed, throwing off the covers. Fate and Destiny were flanking her, sitting in chairs on either side. Destiny had an inexplicably sad look on her face. "I don't know what had gotten into me. But I'm ready." She grabbed her cloak off the top of her wardrobe and shoved it on
"It's over."
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Sasuke stood towards the bow, trying to get the lifeboats hooked up. There was a very pronounced tilt to the ship now, and there was an air of…almost panic. A fear that didn't want to exist but did. He tugged the ropes closer to his body and hooked the falls up to the boat.
He was working with Gaara. Anger still existed in his gut from what the red haired officer had done to Sakura, however, since Gaara had kept his distance from the couple for the past several days, ever since the attack, he found working with the man bearable.
He only hoped that Naruto had gotten Sakura off the ship like he had requested.
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Sakura's fingers stopped fumbling with the ties at her throat. She looked at Destiny, who had a steely look on her face. Sakura wasn't sure she wanted to know but she asked anyways. "What do you mean 'it's over'?" she asked cautiously. "I mean it's over Sakura. How can I put it more plainly than that?"
"I don't understand. Explain Destiny." "It's over. We wait for the water to come, you go home, remember everything and regret hiding under the covers like a scared little girl," snapped Destiny. Her face softened somewhat. "You waited to long. Events have been set into motion that cannot be undone, not even by Fate or myself."
"No…I'm still on this boat, I can still change what's going to happen. It's not over, not even if you say it is."
"Forget it Sakura," said Fate in a quiet voice. "Even as we speak…do you see that faint line connecting my sister and myself? We're beginning to carve your rewritten fate and destiny in stone…so to speak. You have to understand. You, yourself, aren't powerful enough to change that, to alter what's going to happen. You might as well just wait for the water…wait for the inevitable."
"All this way," murmured Sakura. "And I couldn't save him." Memories flashed in her mind of her time with him on the ship. A smile crossed her face when she thought of when they kissed earlier that night. A giggle for the first time she wore a corset, smiling when she remembered her friends who she would see soon enough…
Suddenly a memory from that day came racing back into her head. Her eyes opened wide as she made a connection she should've made days ago. She whirled around and shot a question at Fate.
"Tell me, then, how did he die?" "I thought I told you this…the movie got one thing right, at least. There was an accident in which Uchiha Sasuke was forced to use his gun against a passenger and he then took his life in remorse."
"How much longer?" "About 15 minutes." Sakura got up and finished tying her cloak. "There's still time, I can still save him." "Sakur…" "SHUT THE HELL UP!!! Forget you Destiny. You too Fate…you're wrong. I can still do something to save him! I know it. And I'll do this on my own! I can save him, even without your powers!!!"
Turning on her heel, without another word, Sakura raced from the room, intent on the bow.
"Let her go. There's nothing more she can do."The strand connection the two women glowed and strengthened.
A/N-There you go. Can anyone know what Sakura's talking about when she says 'they don't know?' REVIEW!