Nexus
—It all comes down to… where exactly?—
Sequel to Forced Love. You might not get it if you don't read Forced Love first…! And dropping in reviews isn't so bad either…
Uhmm… few notes:
Uhmmm… Italicized parts are flashbacks and they are way far from the setting now. Though they were after the whole miscarriage thing. And that's pretty much it. More details on how to read my retarded story will follow as you get along with the story.
And if you see words misspelled or see wrong grammar-ifications on this fic. Don't worry. I did it on purpose to confuse you all.
Well… I lied.
quote for the day!!:
"birds of the same feather… are the same bird."
Reviews people. Reviews. I desperately need them.
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I must be intelligent, artistic, creative, not lazy, probably on own private island with a private jet to escort her there and a private feline playmate and kickass… all of which I'm not. Oh, how sad ne?
3 years after…
Feet came trudging through the layers of cold flaky snow. They came slowly one after the other…
Right then
Left
Right again
Then left
Walking in a very slow rhythm… so nonchalant…
As if nothing ever happened.
She rubbed her two calloused hands together to lessen the damn coldness of the frickin winter season.
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"Danna?!? STOP IT!!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!!!" the blond protested forgetting about how messed up he looked, or how he resembled a poor, and stinking dying animal.
"Deidara, shut it." His danna ordered.
"SAKURA-CHAN'S NOT GOING TO LIKE THIS!!!! STOP IT!!!! DANNA!!!!"
"it's for her own good…"
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she caught sight of a loudmouth blonde scaring the shit out of those poor birds with his destructive voice.
"SAKURA-CHAN!!!!!!!"
"oi, Naruto!" she replied waving her long, pale arm as the cold wind brushed against her pink tresses.
"AHHH!!! SAKURA-CHAN!!! WEAR THIS!!" said Naruto as he handed her his coat and placed it gently across her shoulders. "Sakura-chan! It's cold! You should at least wear some winter clothes!"
"ehe… it's been a long time…"
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"Konan, not you too…" he said with his eyes half-opened as they always were.
-SLAP-
the blue-haired Akatsuki just slapped him right in the face.
"SASORI!!! HOW DARE YOU! YOU AREN'T PROTECTING HER! Y-YOU-YOU'RE… H-HURTING HER!!!"
"it's best to do this, after all she won't remember such useless, useless person like me ever being her husband." The puppeteer said calmly caressing the bruised portion of his face.
"THAT'S EXACTLY WHY! NO WOMAN WANTS TO BE SEPARATED FROM HER BELOVED! YOU IDIOT!" Konan said the last words through clenched fists and continued…
"a-a woman's d-dream is to be of good use to her hus—"
"well then, what if her motherfucking husband's such a damn idiotic prick?!? Would a woman still be willing to serve him? What if I was ever the husband of that unfortunate woman? Think of it! Me! Am I even worthy to be called a husband?!?!! IT'S ALL BULLSHIT, KONAN! BULLSHIT!!!" Sasori said automatically cutting her off.
"BUT YOU AREN'T A PRICK! DAMN YOU! WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET IT!?! SHE NEEDS YOU!! AND WHEN SHE DOES, YOU WON'T BE THERE!! YOU KNOW HOW THAT WILL HURT HER?!?!? HUH? SASORI!!!"
"THAT'S WHY SHE WON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT WOULD LEAD HER INTO 'NEEDING' ME! SO SHUT IT KONAN!!!"
"you are so h-heartless…" she now said through suppressed sobs.
"if you don't know. That's why we're Akatsuki."
he then turned back and walked away leaving Konan to cry for her friend—Sakura, as her fate was now being planned in Sasori's hands…
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"yeah! Sakura-chan!! I've been having more training these days… I'LL BE LIKE MY FATHER!! AND BE A HOKAGE DATTEBAYO!!!" he said as he punched his pumped up fist in the air.
"I believe you can do it Naruto!" Sakura giggled
"heh… sankyu Sakura-chan! And by the way… you still living with t-that jerk? Huh?" Naruto whispered the last parts.
Sakura giggled once again and said "yeah, I still am"
"YOU CAN STAY WITH ME SAKURA-CHAN!!!… That bastard's really creeping me out…I'M SCARED FOR YOU SAKURA-CHAAN!!!!" Naruto protested with anime tears running down his face.
"oh, come on, he's been here for like a while now. Even Gaara likes him." Sakura replied as both were now walking together, seeing all the people smile warmly at the medic nin and the blonde as they pass through the streets of Konoha.
"I really don't think giving death glares to each other like what Gaara and that t-that GUY, are considered to be friendly! He might look like Gaara but hey, they only sound alike! And Gaara's better!!!" Naruto half-screamed the part where Gaara being better than the 'guy'.
"huh? Look like Gaara-kun? You're going out of you're mind Naruto." She giggled.
"well, you did say that Sai looked like Sasuke once… AND THAT IS SOO IMPOSSIBLE!!!" maybe shouldn't have done that no?
SMACK
Fist of Sakura just met the back of Naruto's head.
"BAKA! I told you that because they really do! Unlike what you're telling me right now! I mean like, he couldn't look like Gaara-kun! They're only similar as to being sooo silent!!" Sakura shouted as her overused veins continue popping.
"you know, that teme, Sasuke… is really acting so weird lately…"
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Knock. Knock.
"Itachi… I have a favor to ask…"
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"him? Why do you say so?" The pink-haired konoichi questioned, though with her head somewhere else… like on the 50 percent discount sale on that cute, cute dress… or that super sale on meat right now…
"oh come on! You yourself should have noticed it!!"
"noticed what?" she retorted as she dragged him by his wrists to the nearby grocery store.
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"you sure… you wanna do this?" he said as he looked at him with his blazing red sharingan eyes.
"you're just being such a psycho. Your brother will take care of her. I'm sure. And whatever you two are damn arguing about, me and Sakura are out of it. But I won't let you disturb Sasuke… at the moment I kinda don't want a psychotic brother ruining his life, I don't want Sakura to have Sasuke running off again. She needs him." The puppeteer said not looking at Itachi's eyes. His worried eyes.
"I don't frickin care about my brother. I care about Sakura."
"hm… seems that everybody in here got attached."
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"oh don't be so naïve Sakura-chan!! He's obviously being so overprotective of you!" Naruto reasoned out as Sakura placed items in her grocery cart.
"overprotective?! You sure you're not making this up? Naruto… I think all that training might've completely dislodged you brain… I mean, if you ever had one…" Sakura giggled as a red Naruto was crying anime tears.
"you're so mean Sakura-chaaan…" he said while sobbing and as Sakura got some of those meat on sale.
"gomen, gomen, just playing with you Naruto, don't fret on it." Sakura placed the back of her palm as she covered her laughter.
"oh well—" Naruto sighed and Sakura quickly offered cutting Naruto off…
"today's your lucky day Naruto, beef's on sale and I could have you come over and make you some ramen." Sakura said as her eyes formed an upside-down U.
"WAHHH!!! SANKYUUU SAKURA-CHAN!!!!!" Naruto was about to hug her, as tightly as possible to actually crush her to death, until…
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"gomenasai, Sakura-san…" Sakura's eyes widened at how Itachi had suddenly added the honorific san, instead of the usual, friendly… chan
"gomenasai? Sakura-san? I-I don't understand…I- Itachi-kun you've never called me S-Sakura-san ever since…" As much as she can, she wanted her voice heard and unbroken.
"p-please… forgive me" Itachi said while tears were practically just hanging there, waiting to fall
was he breaking down?
"I-Itachi-kun… w-what's… going o-on?…"
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"now, now, she doesn't want you slobbering on her, Naruto." A pale hand forcefully grasped one of Naruto's shoulders.
"NANI?!? TEME!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?!" Naruto said as he was just about to clobber him. Just about.
"yeah Sasuke, what are you doing here." Sakura took hold of Naruto before any nasty catfight should happen. Raising her neatly trimmed brow at the Uchiha.
Sasuke's eyes widened… "I see you've recovered…"
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"LET ME GO!!!! NOO! STOP IT!!!" Sakura screamed as she squirmed trying to get free from the ropes constricting her.
"please, you're making it harder for us…" A calm voice said yet with a complicated mix of emotions visible on his tone.
"S-SAASORI! W-WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?!!"
"give you what I could never give"
"WHAT WOULD YOU EVEN GIVE ME?!! YOU'VE GIVEN ME YOURSELF AND THAT'S ALL I NEED!"
"no—"
"WHAT NO!?!!?"
"you don't need me… won't, need me…"
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"if that's what you're worried about… then I'll tell you Sasuke-kun… I'm fine." Sakura reassured him. Naruto… being left out, kept in the background, but nobody notices… 'cause as said, he was unasked-for… ouch.
"his parents dropped by earlier… they gave some fruits I think… They told me you've been suffering more than they do." Sasuke said as his usual stoic face basically being plastered to his face, neared Sakura.
"I guess I'll have to thank them then… Haru-kun was a sweet kid… It was just that, his body itself can't take all the beating the medications gave him" Sakura said sadly looking at the ground avoiding the piercing gaze of the blue-haired man.
"and I think it was his time… you can't heal everybody Sakura, everybody dies. I think that's what his family's trying to tell you." Sasuke said as he leaned his chin over Sakura's head, as being taller proved to be beneficiary.
"… thank you, Sasuke-kun" and with that, he snaked his arm and held her waist.
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"Danna… what're you gonna do now?"
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they lined up and paid for their purchase. They exited the lively grocery store just like the others and went to the Uchiha manor. Sasuke opened the gates and as doing so, Naruto took the chance to talk to Sakura.
"and don't tell me what happened in the grocery was just a 'friendly' hug!" he whispered.
"you're starting again…" Sakura sighed
"since when have you been so unconscious of these stuff?!? I mean like, you're a girl! You're supposed to be sensitive about these kind of things! You know, like be intuitive!" Naruto tried HARD to make it only be a whisper. Though his whispers were always so quiet that Sasuke could actually, EASILY eavesdrop on.
"the three of us have been friends for years… look see, If I hugged you and vice versa, no effect right? So what's the difference?" Sakura said calmly raising her brow, having her reasonable part take over.
"the difference is… the difference of the light and dark! Look, you've been living with Sasuke… and who told you to? HIM! And he's been very 'fatherly'-like to you… and who asked him to? No one else but him again! And you know pretty well that teme, has a knack for letting others NOT see through him and let them even get close to him, right?!?!! See? And now, who is that girl who has he been hanging around lately, being talkative with, and being INTIMATE WITH?!?!!? Huh??!!!?" Naruto just got confused of the difference between a whisper and a shout is like.
"I told you. WE. ARE. FRIENDS. you're his friend too. It just happens that I 'm a girl which means different kind of treatment and you overreact to stuff that you misinterpret what he calls as being 'friendly'." Sakura was now glaring at him. And everybody knows how that scares the shit out of everyone.
"yeah, riiight. If you so insist yourself being his friend then, since the way he has been treating you and I differently, I think it should be enough for me to be labeled as his 'apprentice'… 'ya know Sakura-chan, there's a biiig difference between a friend… and a girl…friend." Naruto replied as he waggled his eyebrows in a very freakish way.
"what. Are. You. Talking. About?! He treats us the same… well not in the same way, but in the same sense. I mean, if you need to be comforted he would like, have a man to man talk with you. And as for me, a hug is enough and if he ever did that to you as a sign of 'friendship', I would highly question the authenticity of his manhood. And god, you've been talking about friends too much as if you don't know what that is! Have you been hanging around with Sai lately? You know I think he's getting fairly good progress at the whole adjusting thing, and you, Naruto, are declining." Sakura said as she crossed her arms.
"you don't need to worry about my validity as a man, Sakura. Because never in this world would I even come close to that dobe" Sasuke interrupted as he, once again, snaked his arm now on Sakura's shoulders.
"you've kissed him before, how can you say those words?" Sakura looked up at his smirking face and giggled thereafter.
"YEAH TEME! You've kissed me before! Wait… WHA—"
"I recall it as you kissing me, not the other way around" Sasuke snapped as he slapped the back of Naruto's head. Still having his arm wrapped around Sakura's shoulders, they moved inside the humongous manor.
"yeah, and you seemed to like it too." Sakura snickered.
"touché" Sasuke smirked.
And as Naruto was left a little behind them, Sasuke signaled him…
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"Danna…"
"watch over her…"
"…that's all you can do"
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"O-OH!! Y-YYEAHH! I TOTALLY FORGOT SAKURA-CHAN I WAS SUPPOSED TO … T-TO… FEED THE B-BIRDS!!! THEY M-MUST BE T-TOTALLY HUNGRY RIGHT NOW! SO, JA NE!!!" Naruto blurted out his obvious lies.
"h-huh..? ahh uhm ok then." Sakura dumbfounded-ly let him escape this time.
"SANKYU! JA!!" then with a wave he rushed outside the gates…
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"so uhmm… wanna go out?"
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"… I-I'm not even sure if I can… without breaking down that is…"
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