The next time I woke up, I couldn't see anything. I touched my eyes and there were bandages around them. I heard the door opened and I followed where it was coming from. "It's me." I immediately turned my head to the other side as it was the Hokage herself. "I'm sorry that it took me long enough to get you out of that cell." She sat down next to my bed as I heard the chair moved. "I don't need your apologies." She didn't say anything but I could feel that she was thinking of something else on what to say. "Shishou, I'm sorry I was—Oh. Are you busy?" She stood up and touched my right shoulder. "No, I was dropping by how this brat was doing. Please continue on what you were doing." The sound of the door closing didn't make me relax as I know Sakura was in the same room as I was. "We need to change your clothes, Sasuke-kun. We can discharge you as of today." There was a hint of enthusiasm in her voice as I turned around to face her. As she was changing me, she was telling me about my eyes. "Your eyes were… They weren't functioning right so we fixed them because you were overusing them… forcefully overusing them when you clearly know you don't have that much chakra in that cell." When we got out of the hospital, I could tell it was sunset because of the heat of the sun radiating wasn't that hot anymore. "He's back." "Yeah, I wonder what the hell the Hokage is thinking!" "They could have killed him, since all Uchihas just brought us bad lucks" I stopped on my tracks as I heard the townsmen people's whispering behind me. I clenched my fists but a small pair of hands wrapped around them instead. "Come, let's go home shall we, Sasuke-kun?"
Before I went to sleep, she checked my eyes out and changed the bandages. She told me how blood was still seeping out and she doesn't want my eyes to get infected. After cleaning my eyes, I felt her brushing my hair softly. "You know you were stuck in that cell for a month and a half. Some of the councilmen's loyal ANBU were guarding your door so it was really hard to go by. Even the Hokage herself couldn't even see you. When Naruto, Kiba, Neji, and Lee attacked those councilmen, the people who were guarding you went there also to aid them. Chouji and Shino came with me while the rest were outside trying to repel those stupid ANBU away. That was the first place we went to. I was hoping you were ok, but that asshole said you were dying. I'm surprised you were still alive and fit without undergoing starvation. But… you are recovering fast, Sasuke-kun and I'm glad." She stopped talking but instead she was massaging my head. I don't know how long she stayed with me that night, but I could feel myself drifting off to sleep. "They're going to kill you, Sasuke."
I immediately sat up from a bad dream after yelling out Naruto's name and the bandages on my eyes fell off and I forcefully opened my eyes. As the result, I completely injured my eyes more since they were starting to hurt like a bitch. I felt my bed shifted and I felt my eyes starting to feel better. "Bad dream?" I didn't answer her but I just let her heal my eyes instead. When she was done, she pulled me into a hug and started stroking my head. "It's ok. It's just a dream." She laid me back down and I reached for her hand wherever it was and she caught it. I gripped her hand as I felt her soothing my head once again and humming something softly as I fell asleep once again. "She's going to kill you, Sasuke."
I have the urge to get out of bed as the whispering in my head is starting to come back to me once again. I jumped out of bed and went downstairs. Without realizing a few things: I don't have a shirt on and she has company in the living room. "Well then, Sakura! You sure are taking care of one sexy man!" "INO!" I stopped where I was and turned to my left side and I bumped into a wall. I heard multiple giggling and I felt her touched my shoulder and guided me to the kitchen. "There we go, we were about to eat breakfast but good thing you came down on your own!" That's when I heard feet shuffling towards the kitchen and sat down on the table. Ino, Hinata, TenTen and Temari was here. Surprsingly, Shikamaru and Shino were here also. I felt her laid down the food in front of me and I was about to grab the chopsticks but instead I knocked someone's cup down. "Whoa, there! Good thing there wasn't any liquid in there! Here let me help you where the chopsticks are." Shikamaru gave me the chopsticks and I stabbed the food as if I'm playing with it. I could feel everybody was looking at me and Ino laughed again. Sakura sat down on my left side and I felt her sat closer to me and she took my chopsticks off my hand. "Oh, Sasuke-kun. I'll help you out" "Let me help Sasuke-kun also!" "No Shikamaru get away from Sasuke!" Then everybody just started eating and talking as we just enjoyed each other's company and I completely forgot about the whispering in my head.
When everybody left, she told me that I was going to take a bath and do some grooming. "Your facial hair looks good on you, Sasuke-kun. It's just stubble here in your chin. You look… manly. Not a 23 year old ninja." She carefully shaved my facial hair off and cut my hair to its usual length. Afterwards, she put me in the tub and told me where the stuffs were. "Be still and I'm going to get you a towel and your clothes, ok?" She left the bathroom and that's when I started hearing those whispering once again. "Kill her, Sasuke. Kill Sakura!" I submerged my head under the water for a few moments but I Sakura pulled me up and started yelling at me. "WHAT THE HELL SASUKE! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL YOURSELF?!" I stood up from the tub and grabbed the towel from her hands and started walking back to my room despite bumping into the walls multiple of times.
Instead of screaming during my dream that night, I sat up immediately. I was sweating and panting really hard and I needed fresh air. "They're going to kill you, Sasuke." No… They won't. "They're going to kill you. Kill them now before they kill you." I went downstairs and opened one of the doors leading to the backyard and by the sound of it, it was still wee hours past midnight. It's too quiet and the air wasn't that cold either. After sitting there for few minutes, I felt her touch my shoulders and put a blanket around my shoulders and sat next to me. "KILL HER NOW!" I felt my Sharingan activated on their own accord since I felt a big sensation of burning emitting from it. "Sasuke-kun, are you ok? Your eyes are bleeding again!" She put her hands on my eyes and she told me that she's going to put me to sleep since she's going to open up my bandages and look through my eyes. "Sleep away, Sasuke-kun."