I don't own Naruto! Masashi Kishimoto does! ^o^

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Even after the song had long finished, Naruto's nerves still wouldn't calm down. His stomach felt uneasy and his legs shook uncontrollably. His closed blue eyes stayed hidden behind his left hand, while his right gripped tightly to his knee in a poor attempt to make it stop trembling.

'What's wrong with me…?'

"Jeez Naruto, if you hate the song that much you could have told me so."

Naruto jumped slightly, not expecting to hear Sakura's voice. In fact, he had forgotten she was there.

When her words sunk in, his legs suddenly stopped shaking; his right hand formed into a fist over his knee. His left hand also moved from his face to the edge of the seat, though his gaze still stayed fixed on the floor.

"What?" he asked; a slight edge to his voice.

"I said, if you hated the song so much, you could have told me to turn it off or something," Sakura repeated.

'If I hated the song? She thought I was screaming, and my body was shaking because I hated the song?! She doesn't get it! Nobody gets it!'

"You don't get it!" Naruto yelled at her as he pushed open the passenger door, slamming it on his way out.

He ran.

He heard Sakura calling after him but he didn't listen, he just kept running. He finally came to a stop once he got to his front door. He didn't even bother closing it all the way before he began walking towards the bathroom. Gripping either side of the sink, he slowly looked up at his angered expression; distorted by the long crisscrossing cracks and the missing pieces of the mirror.

Naruto's expression soon turned into one of pain and he tore his gaze away, shrinking down to the floor and backing up against the wall.

'Why………? Why me? Did I do something wrong……?'

For Naruto, it seemed like time had stood still, or at least slowed down. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours. He was still trying to figure out how long he had been sitting here when something glinted in the artificial light, catching his eye. He reached over to grab it and as soon as his fingers wrapped around it, he immediately knew what it was; Glass; the same piece of glass that had once belonged in his mirror. Blood the color of crimson soon ran down the clear substance. The sharp edges had long since cut into Naruto's fingers.

He looked down at his left wrist, the shard of glass still in his right hand.

'Maybe it's not……'

His right hand came up slightly, ready to move across the forbidden vein, when a voice screamed.

"Naruto Drop it!"

He froze. The voice spoke again. This time more urgent, desperate…..scared. The voice let out a ragged gasp before speaking.

"Naruto……put it down. Put….the glass down…..please. You don't want to do this…"

Realization finally hit, 'Sakura!'

Naruto's hand immediately dropped the glass; his face frozen in minor shock.

"I…..you…why…" Sakura struggled to get the words out; a slight whimper escaping her lips before answering. "…You promised! You promised me that you wouldn't do anything like this Naruto! What were you thinking?!"

'I don't know……'

Naruto stayed silent; his gaze never leaving the floor.

"Damn it Naruto! What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"………."

"Naruto…..answer me!"

In a low, but firm voice, Naruto answered, "There's nothing to tell…."

"Nothing to tell? Nothing to tell?!" She pointed to the shattered mirror, "How is that nothing to tell Naruto?! Huh?! You need to stop lying to me! And most importantly, stop lying to yourself! You can't keep up this charade forever Naruto! You and me both know that something's wrong with you! You have a problem."

Naruto began in a yell, "I don't--!" He lowered his voice; though the sharp tone didn't fade away. "You don't know anything about it…."

"I would if you only told me!" Sakura argued.

"Did you ever think I didn't want to tell you?!" Naruto screamed back, jumping up to his feet. "Just mind your own damn business Sakura…" He told her as he stepped out of the bathroom; pushing past her as he did so.

Sakura slowly turned towards him, "What's with you? You keep bottling things up; you shut me out. That's not like you…."

Naruto felt as if his body was being weighed down with rocks. They suffocated him, surrounded him, making it hard to breath, hard to think, hard not to cry…..

"Why do you care so much?" he asked; his back to Sakura.

"Why? Are you seriously asking me that Naruto? Why?! It's because I care stupid! I'm worried and scared for you! How could I not be when twice now, you've tried to kill yourself?! And what makes it worse, is that I don't even know why! Why can't you just tell me what happened?!" Her voice cracked some; Naruto could see the tears forming in her eyes.

"Nothing happened all right?!" Naruto snapped, whipping around to face her.

"Don't tell me that 'nothing happened'! You're depressed all the time, you skip class, you're angry all the time! And….and……you run away whenever Sasuke's around!"

Naruto winced at the mention of Sasuke's name.

"Naruto…..please….just tell me….what did Sasuke do?" she asked caringly.

The wince was less severe this time and Naruto looked away. In an almost inaudible whisper, he asked, "What makes you think he did anything at all?"

"Naruto….." Sakura began in the same tender voice as before, "I'm not blind okay? I've seen the way you react to him. Like right now, when I mentioned his name, you flinched; twice! I just want to know what's going on. So I'll ask again, what did he do?"

Naruto glared up at Sakura, his blue eyes resembling ice. Though, behind the hard stare were sad sky blue eyes that were in pain.

"He didn't do anything alright?! Just let it go!" he screamed.

"I'm not going to 'just let it go'! I'm worried as fuck about you and you won't tell me shit! Just tell me already!"

"You wanna know what the fuck happened Sakura?! Huh?! Well Sasuke fuckin' raped me okay?!" His voice cracked in the end, choking out the next few words. "You satisfied?"