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Remember Me Chapter 4- Running away anymore?
Dinner finished safely with just a few glaring daggers to spice up the atmosphere and some cold sweat from Naruto to cool the place down. It was still considered safe- there was no blood shed.
"Naruto, can you wash the dishes?" Sai asked with his usual smile.
"What? But I thought we agreed that when I cook, you wash and vice versa…"
Sai clasped his hand together, "Please?"
The blond boy frowned and looked at Sasuke for a moment before sighing in defeat. He could never stand firmly whenever Sai flashed him those smiles.
"Okay…" He groaned and started to clean up the place.
"Thank you."
"Next time, it is your turn." Naruto pouted with a slight glare. Sai gave him a nod and went into the kitchen. Sasuke then went near Naruto to help him but Naruto just smiled at him, and shook his head.
"It's okay. I can handle this. You are a guest after all. Have a seat in the living room. I'll talk to you later." Naruto smiled warmly at Sasuke and then carried the bowl off into the kitchen leaving the dark haired boy staring at his back.
"He would never be that polite to me… Though his smile is warm… He's still not the same Naruto I want to see…"
Sai came out from the kitchen holding one cup of milk in his hand. He walked past Sasuke and went into the living room. Sasuke just glared at him silently.
Sai placed the cup of milk down and sat on the couch, "No use glaring daggers at me."
"Why did you ignore me just now? I want some explanation here."
Sai stared sideways at Sasuke, "I wasn't ignoring you. Your glaring is too much for me to ignore but there is something I want to talk to you about... Before he knows everything."
"What is it?" The younger boy asked sternly.
"Not now... In just a moment…" Sai brought his finger up to his lips as a 'keep quiet' sign as Naruto emerged from the kitchen with a satisfied smile.
"ALL DONE!"
Sai gave Naruto a smile, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Of course!! Next time will be yours… Hehehe…" Naruto gave him a sheepish smile before turning his head to Sasuke.
"Sasuke? Why are you standing here? Go get a seat." He pulled Sasuke to the couch suddenly, surprising the raven head. "Now sit. Guests aren't supposed to be standing around." He added with a bright smile as he sat down.
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To have Naruto talking to him like this, how long had it been?
Sasuke nodded and sat down. Suddenly, the whole atmosphere turned silent.
Sai was smiling at him like an idiot while Naruto seemed to be thinking about something. Meanwhile, Sasuke just resumed his glaring competition from earlier.
"Erm... Sasuke…?" Naruto called out suddenly.
He dropped his glare instantly and shifted his attention to the blond boy.
"…Yeah?"
"Erm…." He paused and swallowed back some saliva before looking back at Sasuke with a worried frown, "I was wondering… Could you tell me about myself?"
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He was afraid. The knot-tying feelings in his stomach were returning again. Part of him wanted to know about his past but another part of him want to just wanted to let go of it and hide.
"If I choose the latter one… Isn't it what they call running away?"
"Sure." Sasuke answered him after hesitating for a moment.
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Naruto nodded silently at Sasuke.
"I guess here goes nothing…"
"I'll-…."
"Naruto." Sai cut Sasuke off.
Sasuke immediately glared at Sai. No one cuts in when the great Sasuke is talking. However, Sai just ignored him without getting goose bumps.
"Yeah?" Naruto redirected his attention to Sai.
Sai grabbed the cup of milk that he had placed on the table earlier and handed it to Naruto.
"Have a drink before it gets cold."
The younger boy's jaw dropped open a little.
"What…? You interrupted me from listening just for a cup of milk??? You know how long it took me to gather up all this courage to ask about my past!!!" Naruto shouted angrily with a pout.
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It hurt him a little whenever Naruto shouted angrily at him but it could not be helped. He needed to stop him from remembering his past. He needed to protect him.
"Might as well play it dramatically…"
"I'm sorry…. Naruto…" Sai looked away sadly.
Naruto gulped. "O-kay… I was too harsh on him."
"Err… Sorry... I didn't mean to be so harsh on you. I'll drink it now." He moved closer to Sai and lowered his head as he tried to get his housemate's attention. "Okay?"
Almost instantly, Sai turned back to him with a smile plastered on his face, as though what had happened a moment ago did not exist at all.
"Here you go."
Naruto stared at him dully. "I knew it… I was tricked by him again…"
Sulkily, Naruto grabbed the cup of milk from Sai's hand and drank it till not even a drop was left.
Naruto wiped the remnants of the milk around his mouth with his sleeve, "Done!!"
Sasuke stared at him with a sweat drop, "I knew that he wasn't so tidy…" He froze immediately when Naruto suddenly turned and looked at him after placing the cup back on the table.
"Let's continue!"
Sasuke quickly regained his composure and nodded, "Okay…." His eyes stared lingeringly at the floor as he tried to piece out the whole story to Naruto.
"I'll start with..." Sasuke was about to begin but he was stopped by a soft snoring sound. "Now what…?" He looked up and saw Naruto lying back on the couch with his eyes closed, snoring.
"Wha…? Don't sleep like the dead there when you are asking me to tell you something!!!" Sasuke shouted in disbelief with his finger pointing at Naruto as he stood up.
Instantly, he turned his head towards Sai and glared at him accusingly.
"What did you do to him?"
Sai lifted Naruto up the bridal way and made his way upstairs, "Nothing… Just gave a little bit of sleeping potion."
Sasuke's eyes widened in shock as his mouth hung open a little, "Why?"
Sai ignored him and continued his way upstairs to Naruto's room, leaving Sasuke.
"What the hell does he think he's doing??" Sasuke dropped himself down the couch angrily.
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Gently, he placed Naruto down on his bed and covered him with the blankets. Naruto moaned a little and shifted as he tried to get into a comfortable position. Sai stared at the younger boy a little before his lips curled into an amused smile.
"Just like a kid…" He turned around and closed the door quietly behind him, whispering "Good night, Naruto." gently.
As if he was out of a barrier, he instantly dropped his smile and made his way downstairs where a fuming Uchiha was sitting down on the couch.
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Sasuke glared at the stairway as he heard footsteps descending from above.
Sai stopped near the couch and gave him a smirk, "Aren't you tired of glaring the whole day?"
"Why did you do that?" Sasuke ignored Sai's question and shot the smirking man another question.
"Impatient, aren't you?" Sai folded his arms with the smirk still plastered on his face.
Sasuke felt sickened by this. It reminded him of someone else who was related to Sai.
"You are sick. Do you know that? You are exactly like your father." Sasuke said, venom seeping in every word.
Just as Sasuke finished his sentence, he found himself staring into an angry pool of black eyes right in front of him.
"Don't ever link me to that man." Sai emphasized each word. He hated being associated to Orochimaru. He hated that man to the core of his soul. They continued the close-up glaring for a little while longer before Sai let go of Sasuke's shirt and walked off to the side.
The atmosphere around them was silent and tense. Sasuke made no attempt to talk as he waited for Sai to open his mouth.
Meanwhile, Sai began to trail his hand across the surface of the cupboard and picked up the photo of Naruto and him. Then, he placed it back down before breaking the silence.
"I… I want to protect him…"
Sasuke turned and looked at him.
Sai too, turned, and bore his eyes into Sasuke's, "Have ever thought of the consequences that will occur if he remembers everything?"
The other boy remained silent. Yeah, it's true. He hasn't thought that far yet. What will happen to Naruto if he remembered the bad part of his past?
Sai put on a small smirk and shook his head, "Can't answer? You never thought that far, did you?"
"Tch…." Sasuke looked away, unable to answer, because he knew that Sai was right.
Sai remained staring at Sasuke, "Have you ever thought that maybe it is he himself who refuses to remember?"
"What do you mean by that?" Sasuke shifted his view back to his enemy.
Sai looked down slowly as he thought deeply, "Before I snuck him out of the hospital, he had already forgotten everything…"
Sasuke's eyes widened in shock as he asked in disbelief, "…Wha…?"
"You are the reason he broke down." Sai threw that cruel fact right smack at Sasuke's face without even a second thought-and he was not done yet, "You pushed him away when he needed you… I saw everything so clearly… How stupid I was… I expected you to save him but you didn't. You pushed him to the point of breaking down. You are the cause that made him lose his memories. It's because of you that he does not want to remember anything."
Sai glared coldly at the stunned Uchiha.
"I…" Sasuke trailed off as he gritted his teeth in anger- not at Sai but himself.
"I don't want him to remember until it is inevitable. I want him to live happily for as long as he can. Think about it yourself. I would suggest for you to leave." With that, Sai walked past Sasuke and went upstairs again, locking himself in his own room.
"I would do anything just to keep you happy, Naruto…Even to the point that I'm called the bad guy. I don't mind at all… As long as you can still smile… It's what kept me alive…"
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"You are the one who broke him down." Sai's cruel and harsh fact repeated itself endlessly in his mind as he stared at the black screen of the television from his seat.
"So… He lost his memories because of what happened and not because of Sai… I'm the cause of it…" He laid his head back and stared up at the ceiling.
"Should I really leave him alone for good?"
Sasuke closed his eyes for a moment before his phone started to vibrate.
"…Now what? Who's calling…?" He felt his pocket for his phone till he found it and took it out as he pressed the answer button without even bothering to look at the caller identity.
"Who?" He asked into his phone.
"What 'who'? It's me, Kiba." The caller said in annoyance.
Sasuke sighed, "Yeah? What are you calling me for?"
"Aww... Don't be so cold… You jerk."
Sasuke snorted, "Whatever…"
"As cold as ever, Sasuke."
He was getting annoyed, "What do you want, Kiba? If it's nothing, I'm hanging up. I'm very frustrated here."
"Chill!! Sorry… I just want to know whether you found him yet… I bumped into your brother today… He told me that there was some news on him… Is it true?"
Sasuke remained silence for a moment before answering, "Yeah…."
"Really????? YOU DID?? Where?? When are you guys coming back???" Kiba shouted excitedly into the phone, which caused Sasuke pull it away from his ear in hopes of escaping the risk of going deaf.
"Yeah… But I can't bring him home now… There… are some complications..."
"…. Oh… I see…" Kiba said with a tint of sadness.
Sasuke decided to keep quiet as he waited for Kiba to ask the reason for not bringing Naruto home but instead, it was something else.
"Just try your best to bring him home… After all, his place is here… At Konoha Town. Everyone is waiting for him to return."
Sasuke was surprised by what Kiba had just said but he then smiled, "Yeah… I'll bring him back. That's what I promised you and Neji before leaving."
Kiba chuckled into the receiver, "Thanks pal. I'll wait here for you two."
"Okay… But can you do me a favor first?"
"Yeah?" Kiba asked.
"Don't tell anyone about this. I can't tell you why now, but just don't tell anyone that I have found Naruto, including his mother."
"Sure… No problem." Kiba answered him after a short pause.
"Thanks…" Sasuke muttered softly.
"I'll be going now. See ya soon-I know it it'll be soon. My senses tell me that I'll be seeing you both coming back together."
"Em… Bye."
He hung up and threw the phone onto the couch beside him. Then, he laid back into the same position he was in before the call.
Slowly, the memories of that night began to course through his mind.
"Yes… I remember every detail very clearly… From the beginning till the end..." He closed his eyes for the night.
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He groggily opened his eyes he heard a voice calling out to him.
"Sasuke? Wake up…" Then the blurry figure shook him a little. "Oi... Why are you sleeping here?"
"Huh?" Sasuke rubbed his eyes a little. He took a look around. "Oh ya… I have found Naruto and am now in his home…"
"Sasuke?"
He turned to the voice, "Yeah?"
"You okay?" Naruto asked with a slight frown.
"Yeah… Don't worry." The raven head smiled to reassure the blond boy.
"Sorry bout last night. I suddenly got sleepy and forgot to show you to your room… Still... Sai should have done that." Naruto bowed a little.
"Talking bout me?" Sai smiled as he proceeded down the stairs.
Naruto turned over to Sai and stuck his tongue out, "Yeah. Bout your irresponsibility."
"What about it?" Sai gave him a confused look.
"Why didn't you show Sasuke where he was supposed to sleep? He spent the whole night on the couch!"
"Oh... That… Well… Well…. Erm... Aren't you hungry?" Sai asked.
"Don't try to change the topic, Sai. I'm not falling for it anymore." Blue eyes stared at him with determination.
"Erm… Isn't our guest hungry?"
Naruto's eyes widened in shock, "Oh ya!! I'll go and prepare now." He turned to Sasuke, "Sorry. Will be fast!!" Before Sasuke could stop him, Naruto was already out of sight.
"Phew…." Sai let go of his breath. "He can be very persistent when he wants to…"
"That's Naruto we are talking about." Sasuke joined in.
They turned and looked at each other.
"Not leaving?" Sai gave Sasuke a cold glare.
Sasuke did not reply him immediately. Instead, he went to pick up the same photo that Sai had looked at the night before.
"Sai… I'll never leave him, no matter what you say or happens. If I do, it'll be running away. This time, I won't. I don't want to run or push him away anymore. I'll wait here, to embrace him when he needs me, when everything returns to him. I'll be there for him." Sasuke ended with a confident smile.
-End of Remember Me chapter 4- Running away anymore?-
There you have it!! SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE!! I was having some writer's block plus my assignments are pilling up on me.. I hope that you all are satisfied with this… sigh Sorry if it's pretty slow now.. Hahaha.. But things shall heat up… soon? Hehehe… As usual, sorry if I made any mistakes in the grammar or spellings. Please review!!!!!!!