Ch. Title: His Mistake
Theme: Girl literally forgets boy, boy had to prove himself to girl etc etc etc.
Genre: Angst/Romance/Comedy
Word Count: 2,970
Pairing: Sasuke and Sakura
Ch. Summary: Thanks to Naruto's sharp words and with the upcoming threat of a new man in Sakura's life. Sasuke realized he needed to do something on his own.
A/N: Inspired by HYD's episode ten. I know it seems that Sasuke doesn't want to pursue Sakura, but I'm just making sure he wasn't that OOC and I wanted to make it more realistic and close to the canon-verse. Given at this point, he was still unsure about his feelings towards our pink-haired heroine. I want him to realize and contemplate what he will do to make Sakura remember him without sacrificing his personality.
Disclaimer: Naruto and HYD are not mine.
His Mistake
-your memory keeps haunting me,
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After the blonde-know-it-all had said those things to Sakura on the hospital rooftop, The dark-haired Uchiha survivor's mood became grumpy as hell. Well, that "Shi-san" has a point, but he still don't get why Sakura was talking to him? Did she meet him in one of her missions outside Konoha?
He's not jealous or anything, but the sure thing is, Uchiha Sasuke was pissed at him. He wanted to scrub that silly smirk on his face and punch him hardly. But he's not jealous at all. Obviously not.
When he went down from the rooftop, he was caught up by Uzumaki Naruto and the Yamanaka kunoichi.
Naruto then saw the dark-haired brooding boy alone sulking at the waiting room area of the hospital. He sensed that something bad must've had happened to him judging from his creased forehead and sour face.
The former kyuubi host then queried the troubled Uchiha, "Yo! Sasuke. You already visited Sakura-chan?"
But he was just answered by a simple nod and line, "Hn."
"Then where she is?"
"She's on the rooftop with someone."
Sasuke immediately hissed the last word like he doesn't even want to say it. After that, the Yamanaka girl piped in with a bewildered face,
"She's with someone?"
Sasuke nodded but he's still staring blankly outside on one of the hospital window, "Hn. His face is not familiar inside the village. Maybe he's an outsider."
Naruto and Ino became suspicious and they never heard someone who could be their friend's mysterious visitor. Then the cerulean-eyed kunoichi thought the time when Sakura had a mission from the Kumogakure village and she had written her a letter from Kumogakure that she befriended a ninja who's a medic nin too. She then hastily thought if that was the person based on Sakura's description from the letter.
"Oh…does he have a blonde hair and dreamy eyes?"
When Sasuke heard Ino's description, he tilted his head towards the Yamanaka girl and answered, obviously ignoring the latter description, "Yes, he does have a blonde hair."
The blonde-kunoichi exclaimed happily clasping her hands around her chest, "That's Shi-san from Kumogakure. He's a medic ninja too like Sakura! Maybe he heard what happened to her and decided to visit her. Aww."
Upon hearing the 'blonde-know-it-all's identity and name, the dark-haired Uchiha suddenly realized, that his hunch was right. He saw that face and name on one of the Underground Bingo books on the Top Ninja List from different villages around the world, he knew it because he checked that book before when he was looking for information about his brother, Uchiha Itachi.
Sasuke creased his forehead and wondered that this guy isn't an ordinary citizen like he was expecting. That guy is one of the Raikage's bodyguard, if he remembered correctly.
Naruto who was still listening and not believing that their pinkette teammate had friends outside their circle. Then the former kyuubi host raised his other eyebrow and shouted, "Shi? Who's this person and what is he doing with her alone on the rooftop? We need to rescue Sakura-chan from him! Right Sasuke?"
Naruto looked towards the former missing-nin and he saw that his eyes were burning with darkness and disappointment. The way Sasuke was looking outside the window could kill someone right now given his deathly glare.
Then the Uchiha survivor stood up promptly and hissed, "I couldn't care less if she wanted to fool with other ninjas."
Upon hearing his bestfriend's chilling reply. Naruto's expression tensed and frustratingly confronted the Uchiha interrupting his steps,
"Teme! What's up with you these past few days anyway? You act like you don't care what happens to Sakura-chan. What's wrong with you Sasuke?"
The Uchiha survivor sneered upon hearing Naruto's word. "I told you, it doesn't concern me. So out of my way, Dobe."
When the dark-haired ninja was about to walk away from the two ninjas, he heard Naruto slowly disclosed,
"Before the accident…Do you know Sakura-chan still loves you right?"
Sasuke heard Naruto's sharp words and he agreed. He knows since they were young that Sakura was madly in love with him. Before leaving the village, he can't respond to her feelings. Now after the war with Madara, he still doesn't know how to respond to her. Sure, they went back to normal life, like they both went on with Team 7's mission.
But he still didn't know what his true feelings for the pink-haired medic ninja. And now that she has amnesia and doesn't remember him, he feared that it was too late for him. But he was sure he cared for her deeply and he will risk his life protecting her.
Then the billion dollar question suddenly popped out on his mind, 'Do I have feelings for her?' Just thinking about this feelings of some sort making it too complicated, he mused.
After contemplating with his inner self, the dark-haired avenger heard the former kyuubi's host warning to him with a seethed tone,
"You need to do something about it, Sasuke or else you will lose her forever, and we both know you don't want that to happen.
Naruto promptly turned his back on his stubborn best friend and walked away from the hospital's waiting room. Ino immediately looked towards the two boys and didn't know what to do or say, so she decided to follow the Uzumaki boy. Leaving alone in the waiting room, the obsidian-eyed brooding boy to his demise and confusion.
Uchiha Sasuke bit his lip so hard that tiny marks of red were visible on his lower lip. He creased his forehead and decided to do something with Sakura's condition. He wasn't still confident that it would work, but he's gotta need to try something right? After realizing Naruto's hard-headed words, he's decided to do something about it.
Leaving his fear of rejection and anxiety that his effort to make her remember him wouldn't work in the end.
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When the Yamanaka kunoichi caught up with the former kyuubi host, she exhaled her breath and called the blonde-ninja, "Naruto…hold on! Slow down…geez."
"I'm going to see Sakura-chan at the rooftop and see for myself who's that 'Shi' person."
Ino sighed deliberately, "Alright, I know you and Sasuke-kun are both upset that Sakura is seeing this person right now, but it doesn't mean she's dating him! Could you and Sasuke-kun be less protective?"
"I know, but what if Sakura-chan's memory wouldn't come back? You know she still loves Sasuke right? And as her two closest friends, we need to do something! It's like the brooding bastard is not doing anything to make her remember him and I'm tired of seeing them like this!"
The cerulean-eyed kunoichi just sighed heavily and threw her arms up in the air,
"Ugh, this is sooo dramatic and complicated. Okay, I give up, let's 'rescue' her. Off to the rooftop."
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When the both blonde ninjas arrived at the scene, they saw the pinkette and the Kumogakure ninja laughing with each other. It seems Sakura is comfortable with her new-found friend.
The emerald-eyed girl stood up while noticing that her friends are here to check up on her, she promptly wave at them and yelled, "Naruto. Ino! This—"
Naruto approached the duo and got straight to the point and instantly questioned the pinkette with, "Sakura-chan, well do you remember anything yet?"
But the former kyuubi-host's question was interrupted by the Kumogakure ninja, "Ah, we were just talking about that. I don't think we should force her to remember anything yet."
Then Uzumaki Naruto silently glared at the Kumo ninja and seethed, "Can you please stay out of this? I'm talking to Sakura-chan."
Shi was taken aback by this person's sharp words, he then sensed the awkward aura and stepped back and apologized quickly.
Sensing that this might trigger something bad, Ino interjected and stopped the former kyuubi host, "Hey Naruto! I know you're upset about, Sasuke-kun, but you don't have to talk to him that way."
The pinkette then creased her forehead upon hearing Sasuke's name. She then wondered if Naruto's outburst has something to do with the incident earlier.
After a long silence on the rooftop, the Kumogakure ninja excused himself in front of the Konoha ninjas and decided to find the Uchiha survivor. He then searched for him inside the hospital, but he was gone. Apparently after asking the staffs around, he found him on the street outside walking alone.
"Uchiha-san! Uchiha-san!"
Half-way to the Konoha Market, the dark-haired brooding ninja looked back to the source of the voice. He saw the Kumogakure ninja was calling for him. He then raised his other eyebrow and was wondering why he's approaching him.
Sasuke turned around and saw the approaching figure. When Shi had finally arrived in-front of him, he took a long breath and said, "Ah. I searched for you at the hospital and I thought you've went home, good thing I caught up with you."
He was still grinning at the dark-haired Uchiha survivor and it seems Sasuke wasn't buying his fake smile.
The Kumo-ninja declared, "I'm sorry about earlier."
While the dark-haired ninja just nodded silently with a simple, "Hn."
"By any chance, are you that person that Sakura-san can't seem to remember?"
"It's not your business."
"I see. Well, I understand it and I'm sorry. I didn't realize that earlier. To make up from my mistakes, from now on, I'll help you out. I'll do my best to help Sakura-san regain her memory. Right now, Sakura-san seems very open to me and I think I'm making a breakthrough. I guess that's it, I'll be going now. "
After seeing the retreating back of the Kumo-ninja, Uchiha Sasuke just stared at him. It seems like this Kumogakure ninja wanted to help him with Sakura, but he didn't want to fully trust this guy. He just looked silently at him and proceeded to walk away from the area.
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The next day
After his probation duty, Uchiha Sasuke went directly to the hospital. Rather going to Sakura's room, he went to Tsunade's office to ask her permission to assign his probation duty to the Konoha Hospital instead outside the village. He decided to do it, so that he can visit Sakura everyday while doing his probation duty.
Upon hearing this, Tsunade didn't expect the Uchiha survivor to do this outrageous act. She seemed happy by his sudden change of heart and the Hokage wholeheartedly approved his petition.
He decided to visit the pink-haired girl on her room, he already brought the daffodil bouquet once again, but she's currently sleeping. So he just left the bouquet on the top of her side table.
While Sasuke approached her sleeping figure and he decided to look at her, one more time. She's looking serene while sleeping peacefully. He didn't realize it before, but just looking at her sleeping petite body, made his troubled heart calm and soothing.
While he was still looking deeply at her pale face, Sasuke caressed her left cheek and whispered into her ear,
"Sakura…please…remember me…"
He then suddenly looked towards her sleeping figure; if she was awaken by his deep voice. The dark-haired ninja is assured when he saw her still sleeping peacefully and the former missing-nin thought that she looks gorgeous while sleeping.
After admiring his teammate's sleeping beauty, he decided to kiss her forehead slowly. Prompting that his 'forehead kiss' on the pinkette will manage to bring a good luck about her memory loss.
Before leaving and turning off the lights, Uchiha Sasuke prompted a simple, "Good night, Sakura." Then he closed her door slowly and gently.
Not knowing that the pink-haired maiden was dreaming the time when they're at the Forest of Death and when Sasuke was about to snap the Sound Ninja's arm.
Meanwhile, inside the pink-haired kunoichi's dream…
Sakura looked towards her own hands and saw it covered with bruises, then she cupped her own face and she can feel the wound and pain. It seems she was in a mission? She thought.
She was a genin once again.
Sakura whispered to herself, 'Is this a dream?'
After witnessing the Naruto's body on the other side, she quickly jolted and heard a buzzing sound.
She then felt a terrifying aura and noticed a dark chakra forming on the other side of the forest. She can't see the person's face and she felt like he was a despicable person judging from the purple mist coming from him.
The pink-haired kunoichi was terrified by the strength of his negative energy, but she can't help to be curious towards the mysterious unknown person.
After witnessing the awaken power of the person, she stared at the three faceless enemies across her. She didn't even know if this newly awoken individual was one of her enemies.
Then the unknown individual stood up and looked towards her direction. Sakura quickly jerked and saw he was approaching. After crawling away in fear from the individual, she then heard it saying,
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
"Sakura, BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT- w_ _ did th-at to _ _ _?"
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
She realized he seems he was speaking to her. After blinking, she heard him asking again,
"Tell me, wh-o BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT! is it!"
But she can't understand what the individual was saying to her. She was just terrified by his musky dark voice, she shook her head and thought it was just a painful nightmare. But the view didn't go away. Sakura then stood up and noticed that the individual teleported across the forest and was holding backwards the arm of the enemy.
'This person…wha…what is he doing?'
The pink-haired kunoichi realized what he was doing. The purple mist covered individual wanted to snap the enemy's arms. That's their enemy but it seems wrong… There is something wrong, she mused.
'Don't! Don't do it….! Please stop!'
She felt like she knew this person for a very long time. After feeling a tremendous pressure from her heart, she quickly ran towards the individual and hugged him from behind, she was still terrified, but she couldn't just stand there not doing anything.
"STOP!"
Sakura quickly stopped the abominable act by the unknown individual. She was terrified of the negative energy of this person, she was crying and pleading to the faceless person to not to do it.
Eventually the unknown man had stopped and listened to her pleads.
'He listened?'
The unknown person glared at her, his eyes are blurry but she definitely felt he was looking straight into her soul. She felt a sudden pang of ache and then suddenly…
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
The view became blurry and it sudden vanished in front of her. It's happening again, she wanted to stay a little longer so she could see that individual's face.
The pink-haired heroine woke up from the confusing dream, and she is soaked in her own sweat. She immediately stood up and poured a glass of water and drank all of its contents.
After settling down and wondering what the hell just happened. She quickly came back to her bed and saw the fresh bouquet of daffodils on the side of her table.
She then thought of the dark-haired brooding boy. The boy who she mistakenly thought Ino's alleged boyfriend. But he told her, he wasn't.
'Uchiha-san was here?'
Her heart skips a beat when she realized he visited her again. She felt a sudden tugged on her chest and she felt something familiar when she thought about it. Then she remembered the time when they're on the hospital roof top…
"Don't stop trying to remember."
She murmured again his same words while creasing her forehead, "I don't get it, remember what? Uchiha-san."
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tbc
A/N: Thank you for the reviews, Matthew Uchiha, WhatChuuKnowBoutMe and music3kp. I appreciate it guys!
Don't worry guys, Sasuke is just having a crisis with himself. You know him, he's hard-headed and brooding. I just want to make sure he'll be doing the right thing, step by step.