.two.
(&you jump off the tracks)
"She won't take you to any raves anymore?" Karin asks incredulously, her dark eyes wide.
"She won't! And they move all the time, too." Sakura pouted, scratching at her arms testily. They were itchy and crawly - she hadn't had anything in days, and she couldn't take it anymore.
"Well, don't worry - sensei has some really could stuff. And it looks like a regular inhaler, too." Karin gushed, tugging the pink-haired girl inside a nearby classroom. Sakura flinched out of her hold, but Karin didn't seem to notice.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Karin gushed, latching onto the silver-haired man's arm. He smiled down at her, bemused.
"Why hello, Karin. Who is this?" He asked curiously, tilting his head at Sakura. Sakura blushed uncomfortably, shifting restlessly. She didn't know him - she didn't want to be here, this close, this enclosed. She just wanted to get off, and then run.
She'd wanted Karin to run with her.
"Oh, this is Sakura. Don't worry - she's pretty experienced, just not with, well, you know." Karin purred, practically hanging off the older man's arm.
Sakura didn't like it.
"Well, let me get it, then." Kakashi hinted, and Karin let go of him. She latched onto Sakura instead - it made the pink-haired girl's skin crawl, but she didn't pull away. She was practically shaking in anticipation.
Kakashi pulled out a drawer behind his desk, producing a nondescript white inhaler. He held it loosely in the palm of his hand - Karin pressed her breasts against the tabletop in her haste to get to it, taking a deep drag as soon as she snatched it from him. He watched, amused, as she sighed dizzily.
"Here, Sakura." She called breathlessly, holding it out to the pink-haired girl blindly; she didn't even glance at her when Sakura plucked it from her outstretched fingers.
I wonder what exactly it is… Sakura mused as she stared down at the little device in her hands, but decided she didn't care; She took a deep breath of the foul, sharp gas, her head spinning. A giddy feeling started growing in her stomach, and her shame washed away, just like that.
"Mmm…" She raised her head at Karin's small moan, watching dreamily as she and the sensei kissed.
…oh.
Sakura watched, breathless, as the train whipped past, a few chains snapping in the wind. The roar was deafening.
"They go so fast," She gasped when it had quieted, her eyes bright. Temari chuckled in the grass beside her.
"Yeah, they do." She agreed easily, glancing over to see another train nearing in the distance.
Sakura pouted down at her, jerking suddenly towards the tracks. She planted herself firmly in the middle, staring at the oncoming train defiantly.
"Sakura, what are you doing?" Temari demanded, sitting up and glancing at the train nervously.
"Chicken!" Sakura chirped, bouncing on the tracks.
The train was getting closer.
"Sakura, get off." Temari ordered, standing up. The tracks were starting to rumble, the tiny pebbles trembling.
"No! Not yet." Sakura enthused, grinning over at Temari.
"Sakura!" Temari shouted as the train blared. Sakura watched with wide eyes and a racing heart as the train neared, deadly steel rushing toward her, oddly calm -
- and Temari slammed into her side, knocking her into the dirt.
"Damnit Sakura!" She could see Temari screaming at her, but she couldn't hear anything - she couldn't really feel anything, either.
"I can't believe she tried to kill herself." They whispered, shocked and amused. They tittered at her. They shifted away, going silent when she walked by, only to start up again once they thought she couldn't hear.
Sakura couldn't take it anymore.
She didn't have anymore pills. Daddy wouldn't let her have any alcohol. Hinata wouldn't give her anymore gelatin. Kakashi-sensei wouldn't give her any more inhalant.
She couldn't stand it.
"Can't you just leave me be?" She whispered to the wind, teetering on the edge of the roof. It caressed her coolly, whispering past her skin, wondering, how did you get here? Sakura couldn't remember anymore - she couldn't remember anything.
She wondered what it would feel like to slam into the concrete three stories below.
"Don't jump." A low voice told her. Sakura didn't even twitch, just looked over her shoulder and smiled.
"And why not, Sasuke-kun?" She asked wistfully, glancing back toward the cold ground. She was almost positive a fall like that would kill her.
"Dying is pointless. It means they beat you." He murmurs directly into her ear, and suddenly there are warm arms around her waist, and dark hair tickling her cheek. Sakura relaxes instantly, a shiver going up her spine; but this time, she doesn't mind so much.
"I already lost." Sakura whispers, but Sasuke doesn't let go.
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