Ch. Title: His Side of Story
Theme: Girl literally forgets boy, boy had to prove himself to girl etc etc etc.
Genre: Angst/Romance/Comedy
Word Count: 4,052
Pairing: Sasuke and Sakura
Ch. Summary: New mission for Team 7. Sakura had finally matched the first missing pieces about her lost memory. Would she found out the reason why Uchiha Sasuke tried to kill her before?
A/N: I think it's kinda interesting to know what Sasuke was thinking at the Iron Country. I mean this is my take on what's going on inside his head that time.
You will learn, and you'll love...
forgive the past...
I'll Be Your Home by: Oikawa Rin
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After the uncanny events at Ino's house, Uchiha Sasuke went straight home to think about his conflicting situation with Sakura. He quickly undressed and took a hot bath to calm his nerves about what happened back there.
It seems like Haruno Sakura remembered that time when they tried to kill each other at Iron Country. Out of all the memory she had to remember, why that time?
Clearly, fate had a twisted way to overcome his burden with his pink-haired teammate's memory loss of him and it seems like fate was making fun of his distraught. Maybe it's a punishment for all repugnant things that he had done at the past.
He finally closed his eyes and thought about his pink-haired teammate's words.
"Sasuke-kun…"
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"…you tried to kill me."
"…you tried to kill me."
"…you tried to kill me."
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Uchiha Sasuke reminisced that day at the Iron Country Bridge. The former avenger suddenly remembered that time at Iron Country, when he just fought and killed the treacherous bastard, Danzo.
It sickens him when that man who was considered to be one of the elder advisers in Konoha could do such things to his clan. He was already pained by hearing the truth from the masked man, Obito about his brother, Uchiha Itachi.
He knows at that time, he wasn't in the right mind to think about things.
After all, he wouldn't guess that his pink-haired teammate would suddenly appear in-front of him suddenly.
Sakura saw his vulnerable state at the wrong time and place and he hated it.
He freaking hated it.
She was the last person he wanted to deal with after killing that delusional Konoha adviser.
Even though, Uchiha Sasuke considered Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura as his precious comrades, no amount of words can change his mind about avenging his brother and clan. After hearing those words from the bastard Danzo, His angered towards Konoha doubled and for the first time in his life, he wanted to tear brick by brick the village he had once called home.
When Sasuke finally detected the familiar chakra approaching, he finally faced the familiar kunoichi, Sasuke knew at that time that Sakura has an unpredictable motive under that shady façade.
He also knew Naruto and Kakashi wouldn't allow Sakura to go alone and faced him. He was a missing-nin now after all, and a wanted criminal. Why would she want to join him?
When they first met at Orochimaru's hideout, after two and half years, she clearly wanted to attack him first and clearly she wasn't the same girl that he left at that bench that night.
He knew there's something's not right and he can see it on her puzzling face. She was nervous and he knew there is a spike of uncertainty inside her judging by her chakra signature.
She was bluffing about the whole deal with joining him.
He knew she wasn't there to join him.
She was there to kill him.
And the thought of Sakura wanted to kill him for the sake of that god forsaken village made him angrier and hurt inside.
Haruno Sakura, his teammate and one of his precious comrades wanted to kill him for Konoha. He felt betrayed by this sudden realization, he wanted to scream and question her why would she do that to him. Does she know what happened to his brother and clan?
But upon realizing the girl who used to love him wanted to kill him, betrayal and madness crept into his mind quickly. He tagged along with her lies and Sasuke knew she was there to eliminate him. He'll take her seriously; after all she wasn't that weak girl he once knew.
When he heard that a certain kunoichi from Konoha with a name of Haruno Sakura killed the first akatsuki along with a kunoichi from Suna, he was already impressed by her sudden transformation from a weak timid girl to a respective kunoichi and that's the reason he took Sakura's strength seriously. He knew she had turned into a deadly kunoichi after he left the village. It's just a sad thing he wasn't there to witness her unbelievable change.
Maybe she finally moved on and she forgot about her feelings for him.
Uchiha Sasuke wasn't a patient man; he made sure to mask his expression and went along with her lies. He told Sakura to kill one of his teammate from Team Taka and if she really wanted to join his cause, Sakura needed to prove herself to him by killing Karin.
And god damn he was right. He felt hurt for the sudden realization that she was lying and wanted to kill him, but he won't let her win. After witnessing that she turned her back on him, he already made a decision to attack her while she wasn't looking at him directly. He doesn't want to see those emerald orbs staring at him. Her piercing eyes were his weakness.
But his former Taka teammate had to interrupt his attack.
"Sasuke, don't do it!"
Did Karin felt something on his chakra to stop him?
But it was too late, while he was biting his lip. He quickly activated his chidori to finish Sakura. The faster the attack, the better, Sasuke knew his chidori would paralyze her whole body for minutes and upon realizing she became a medic ninja, she can heal herself.
Upon realizing that a certain familiar chakra was approaching them, it was none other than, his former teacher. Hatake Kakashi. They keep sprawling like cockroaches. He mused at that time.
He immediately withdrew his chidori from his right hand and stepped back to avoid altercations with his former teacher. It seems Kakashi had arrived just in time. It's no use of escaping these Konoha ninjas, after all they're not just ordinary ninjas from that loathing village.
They are his former comrades.
After his former teacher defended Sakura, Kakashi ordered her to stay back and to heal Karin. But after fighting Kakashi and he felt that his vision was fading away, he felt a presence that his former teammate was back and this time, it seems like she wanted to finish 'her mission' so badly.
Haruno Sakura wanted to kill him so bad, that even in his weakened and almost blind state, he still felt that she hurriedly ran towards him just to finish him.
Does she really hate him so much? Why is she doing this? Is this an order from Konoha? For her god forsaken village? All those questions were lingering inside his head that time.
He was gritting his teeth and his sudden vision loss wasn't helping him at all. But he can still sense her chakra. Uchiha Sasuke had finally grasped her neck and he quickly grabbed the poisoned kunai on her left hand.
'Is this really what you've wanted, huh Sakura?'
He mused at that time.
He wasn't thinking clearly and he was devastated and furious by her second attempt to kill him.
When he was about to use her own poisoned kunai to injure her, out of nowhere, Naruto had arrived and saved her. He took Sakura away from his grasp and he was shook by this idiot's arrival. He grimaced at Naruto and Sakura's direction. Now he knows that she was doing it for the sake of the village and for this idiot, Naruto.
Jealousy, betrayal and despair crept into him at the same time. Did Sakura fell out of love and moved on and decided to love this idiot, Naruto?
Well, he left the village after all and it's none of his business anymore and He already severed all the bonds he had with them, but he can't keep thinking that it's a possibility that she had given up on him already.
He can't think clearly and he wanted to laugh maniacally at the disgusting thought of Sakura loving Naruto.
He didn't know what to believe anymore.
First, the brother who murdered his whole clan just wanted to protect the village after all.
Second, this bastard Danzo saying he wasted Itachi's sacrifice for the village.
Third, that masked man revelations about his brother and village.
Fourth, the girl who used to love him dearly wanted to kill him for the sake of village.
He wanted to scream at all of them, clearly they couldn't understand his despair. Their clan wasn't murdered in front of them. They didn't have a troubled childhood. Of course Naruto, would object to that, but the both of them were different. Naruto didn't have a family to begin with. They didn't grow hateful towards their elder brother.
And his hate towards the Konoha Village grew even more after that past incident.
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After the former avenger reminisced that time at Iron Country and the troubled past he had done to his comrades. He finally decided to get out of the hot shower and proceeded to lie down on his comfortable bed. He then thought of his present problem which about his pink-haired teammate.
He knew that both he and Sakura didn't mention the incident from Iron Country after the war with Madara. It's just not worth mentioning anymore, but now they can't run away from it, and now that Sakura was suffering from a memory loss, he can't help to think that she wouldn't forgive him.
The former avenger creased his forehead at the sudden thought. He gritted his teeth and clenched the bed sheets tightly. He then murmured angrily,
"I guess it was too late after all."
Sasuke thought he wouldn't see her lightened emerald-colored eyes smiling at him again. Her bubbly laugh around him and the way she say his name with, 'Sasuke-kun'.
He doesn't want to accept it, but it seems like he was missing her. He missed the way she calls his name, 'Sasuke-kun'.
He missed the way her emerald-colored eyes looking at his obsidian orbs. The way her pink tresses fall and perfectly framed to her petite face.
The cherry blossoms fragrance coming from her, after all she was also named after that Spring tree.
The former avenger tilted up from his bed. Then the dark-haired ninja realized something…
He realized that he had already fallen for the medic kunoichi before. How's that possible? He mused.
He tried to stop those unneeded feelings…But he couldn't. There is a demon inside him that was begging for him to release. He had already sworn to himself to be an avenger. His inability to avenge his family and his hatred towards his brother that time made him unable to reciprocate those feelings for her.
The young him was clouded by grim and turmoil. It was inevitable, he knew he would leave Konoha sooner or later. And those unnecessary bonds with his comrades were only a distraction for his path for revenge.
He thought he had a cursed and bleak soul. Maybe he was cursed since he was young. Sasuke thought fondly that Sakura would realize that loving him would just result to endless heartaches and pain.
And maybe, just maybe…it was a good thing that she had forgotten about him with those hate filled memories.
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Haruno Sakura went home that night and after saying goodbye to her Kumogakure friend, Shi-san, she instantly went to her room and shut the door so her mother can't disturb her by asking questions if she was going out with that Kumo-ninja.
She immediately decided to lie on her bed and her mind thought about the Uchiha's kiss. She blushed at the thought, but she immediately shook her head upon remembering that he tried to kill her before.
She can't remember why he tried to kill her. But all she knows that he clearly wanted to end her life that time. The look on his eyes and the way he grabbed her ninja cloak. All thanks to Naruto's sudden arrival, her life was spared and saved.
She started sobbing at the memory and she realized maybe that's the reason her brain doesn't want to remember those awful memories. It would just bring her devastation and sadness.
The pink-haired medic kunoichi quickly dozed off from her weeping and slowly she started to close her eyes.
After having a surprisingly dreamless night, she was awoke up by a sudden knock on her door that her mother telling her that she has a visitor early this morning.
It was none other than the former kyuubi host, Uzumaki Naruto.
She quickly rubbed her eyes and croaked, "What are you doing here so early, Naruto?"
The blonde ninja quickly waved at her sleepy form and exclaimed loudly, "Good morning Sakura-chan!"
"Good morning."
"Umm...Is it a bad timing for me to come over?"
She quickly interjected him and smiled at his direction, "No…Not at all. I just woke up. Is there something I can do for you?"
"Baa-chan asked to summon us this afternoon. I think it's a mission for us Team 7."
"Ah. I see I'll be there. Thanks."
"Sakura-chan…you don't have to do this mission if you're not comfortable—"
"It's okay Naruto. I can handle it. See you later."
Upon hearing his pink-haired teammate's replies, Naruto sighed inwardly and waved goodbye to her. He knew that it would be uncomfortable for Sasuke and Sakura to meet again, now that Sakura had only remembered Sasuke's attempt to kill them before at Iron Country.
He knows it would be awkward for the two to get along with this mission. The former kyuubi host lazily dragged his feet along the streets, wondering if his two best friends will finally get along just like before.
After reassuring her teammate that she's alright, Uzumaki Naruto decided to give up his inquiries and left her house.
The pinkette hurriedly prepared herself to meet her teammates with the Hokage. Sakura had already a thought that the aloof Uchiha boy was one of her teammates along Naruto. Even though she can't remember his existence before, she had a weird feeling that he was one of her teammates.
It was clearer now that she remembered the way she spoke his name and the feelings she couldn't express in words.
Who is Uchiha Sasuke to her before?
Does he hate her so badly that he resorted to hurt her before?
There are so many questions lingering inside her mind.
Before anything else, the pink-haired then decided to go to the library to do some research. She wanted to find some answers.
When she finally had arrived at the Konoha Library, she quickly went to the Historical section. There she looked for the declassified files ten years ago.
She briskly found the records she was looking for and when she opened the book, she is astounded by the shocking revelations of the article.
The pink-haired medic read:
"Ten years ago, one of the prominent ninja clan of Konoha and co-founder of the village, The Uchiha clan was massacred. Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto's eldest son, Uchiha Itachi slaughtered his own family and family members. But it was a mystery to why he spared his younger brother, Uchiha Sasuke."
After reading that awful information, Sakura felt a tremendous pain coming from her temples. She quickly closed the book and sat down. She was still shaking and she was still gaping at the information.
"His whole family…was murdered?" Sakura murmured shockingly.
She immediately shook her head from disbelief and continued to read the declassified files. Upon moving to the next section, she read the next article:
"During the war with Madara, Uchiha Sasuke a former missing nin and defector of the village mysteriously returned to battlefield. Although he killed his own brother, Uchiha Itachi and a former ninja of the Iwagakure village, known as Deidara, both members of the criminal organization, Akatsuki. He also attacked the Kage Summit and killed a number of samurais. He also killed one of the elder advisers of Konoha, Shimura Danzo. But it was a mystery to why he suddenly had returned to the battlefield and helped the Konoha Village Hero, Uzumaki Naruto to fight Uchiha Madara."
When Sakura read the passage, she creased her forehead at the appalling information. She mused, 'He finally avenged his family after all.'
Upon reading all the declassified information, she can't still find the answers to her questions. What is the connection of the murder of his clan to her missing memory?
Anyway, the pink-haired medic is merely satisfied with her newly found information. She then remembered what Uchiha Sasuke had told her yesterday and he was right, after all it would be meaningless if she couldn't help herself to remember those lost memories.
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At Hokage's office – Afternoon
Haruno Sakura was running late, she looked at her watch and saw it was almost quarter to two o'clock. She grimaced at the thought of being late and the Hokage wouldn't be amused with her tardiness. She didn't realize the time when she was looking some information at the library.
When she finally had arrived at the Hokage tower, she opened the door and saw that her two teammates were already there waiting for her. The former kyuubi host was grinning at her form while the dark-haired brooding boy had remained silent and quickly avoided her gaze.
The Hokage then voiced out, "Sakura! You're late!"
"I'm sorry Tsunade-sama, I went to do some…errands before going here."
The blonde hokage raised her left eye brow upon hearing the pinkette's excuse, but she just sighed at her. The hokage immediately continued to brief the team with their newest mission.
"Well, now that you're all here and I know that Haruno Sakura had fully recovered from her past accident mission. I think this is the right time to give you three a new mission…"
The Hokage continued, "Team seven, will be delivering an important document to Kumogakure village and the client was one of the Raikage's bodyguard named Shi. He specifically asked your team to help him with this mission."
Upon hearing the Hokage's announcement, the former kyuubi host's expression had changed from a glorious one to a defeated expression. The Hokage knew that Naruto would be excited with this sudden announcement, but she failed to notice that the former kyuubi host is taken aback when she mentioned the name of the Kumogakure ninja.
When the Hokage was explaining the mission briefing and upon hearing that their mission will be involving that blonde-know-it-all kumogakure ninja, Sasuke clenched his fist. Sasuke mused, 'Why is that bastard involved with everything?'
But upon observing the Uchiha survivor and her student Sakura, the Hokage was taken aback by their grimly demeanors.
The Uchiha had an unreadable expression meanwhile her medic kunoichi student wasn't paying attention. It seems the two of them had avoiding each other, but she realized that Sakura hadn't fully remembered the Uchiha boy.
The Hokage cleared her throat and continued, "Sakura, do you remember everything now?"
"N—not yet, Hokage-sama."
"Hmm. You know Uchiha and Uzumaki were your teammates from Team 7 right?"
Sakura nodded swiftly. Reassuring her teacher with right words, She forced her lips to an upward motion to smile. Sakura replied, "Yes Hokage-sama. You don't have to worry. I'm excited to do this mission."
The medic kunoichi heard someone's voice upon answering the Hokage, she heard the former unspoken dark-haired ninja commented seething,
"Hn. Of course, she's excited."
The Uchiha survivor was smirking devilishly while he wasn't looking at the medic kunoichi's direction.
It seems like he was taunting her and Sakura didn't like it. Sakura knew judging by his silent persona; Sasuke would just stay quiet for the whole briefing.
Naruto heard the Uchiha's unusual comment. Normally, Naruto knew his dark-haired bestfriend wouldn't say a word while the Hokage was briefing their mission. But he realized that the Kumogakure ninja was mentioned and Naruto knew that his best friend was severely annoyed by it.
When Sakura heard the Uchiha's comment, she quickly retorted, "Do you have a problem with Shi-san tagging along? Sasuke…-kuuun?" She slowly uttered his honorable suffix, teasing that she forgot to add it to his name.
The Uchiha survivor finally decided to look towards her direction and scoffed at her retort. Sasuke heard her voice calling his name again. But this time, he knew she was doing it purposely to irate him. He sighed inwardly, at the childish gesture of his teammate, but he realized that the pink-haired medic was still mad at him.
He remained silent at her gesture and he just scoffed back at her.
"Alright, enough with this fiasco, Sakura, are you comfortable doing this mission? You can just tell me if you're—"
The pink-haired medic smiled at the Hokage and her voice was unusually high, "I'm fine, Tsunade-sama."
Sakura then continued, "I think we should ask Uchiha—I mean Sasuke-kuun over here if he's comfortable with this mission with someone like me."
Upon hearing the pinkette's sarcastic taunt, the Uchiha survivor creased his forehead. She was teasing her and he didn't like it, she was still mad at him. He can't answer back to her, because he knew it would just make the situation worst and she was already furious at him.
He bit his lip and thought he shouldn't have opened his blabber mouth. But he can't help to get irritated with the mentioning of that Kumogakure ninja's name.
Sasuke regretted his early gesture and decided to bottle up his feelings inside.
Meanwhile, the Hokage had already sensed that the situation starting to get tensed. Tsunade immediately announced,
"Whatever happened to the two of you, you need to sort it out like grownups. You're not kids anymore and I don't want this mission to be aborted because of your childish attitudes, our diplomatic relations with Kumogakure no Sato would be strained if we will fail this simple mission. Understood?"
The members of team seven acknowledged her words and nodded swiftly at her announcement.
After seeing the tension had cleared, the blonde Hokage sighed and shouted, "Dismissed! Except for you, Sakura. I have something to discuss with you."
While the Uchiha survivor and the former kyuubi container had exited her office,
Tsunade quickly uttered, "Sakura, I know these past few days had been hard for you, especially with your memory loss…I just want you to know that if you needed to take a break you can tell me."
Sakura forcefully smiled at the Hokage and miserably voiced, "I'm doing just fine, Tsunade-sama. Thank you for your concern."
Upon hearing Sakura's reply, the Hokage immediately knew she was lying and she was making that face again. The Hokage's expression tensed and she finally asked her,
"D—did you finally remember him?"
Upon hearing the Hokage's words, Sakura's eyes widened. She didn't know what to answer. But her former teacher was eager to divulge the unknown information to her.
The Hokage croaked, "You don't have to answer it. Whether you remembered something or not, I just want to let you know, after your accident. That Uchiha boy came up to me one night and asked me to assign his probation duty into the hospital."
The pinkette suddenly was taken aback upon hearing those words. 'He asked Tsunade-sama to assign him to the hospital? But why?'
"I know you don't remember him fully, but in my opinion…he truly cares for your well-being."
After the pink-haired medic heard those words, Sakura looked towards the ground while narrowing her emerald-colored eyes. She doesn't know what to think of it. Her missing pieces of the lost memories slowly building into new hope, new hope that someday she will learn what really happened that time at the Iron Country Bridge.
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tbc
A/N: Thank you guys for the reviews! 18Quirky, Matthew Uchiha and Guest!
Guest: Yeah, I was nervous when I was doing the 'Iron Country Bridge accident'. It's really hard for me to come up with their reactions. I just hope we can already see what Sasuke's POV in the manga about that matter. Thanks!
To all: What do you think will happen next? and please drop a review or whatever! It really means something to me. Thank you!