A/N: I have updated my picture gallery, for anyone interested. I was having writer's block, sorry. So here's the story!
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Unspoken
Chapter Nine: Life
By: Goth-Vampire Ninja
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"Sakura? Sasuke?"
Sakura woke up with a jump when she heard Naruto's voice. She ran to the door, waking up Sasuke with the noise, and started banging on the door. "Naruto? I'm in here! PLEASE get me out!" Sakura pleaded. There was noise outside the door and it was sudeenly wrenched open with reasurring firmness. Sakura stumbled out the door and took in the sight of her two worried teamattes. Both Gaara and Naruto looked as if they had just woken up. Without thinking, she threw her arms around them both and started sobbing quietly. Naruto's eyes widened in shock, and Gaara glared at the emerging form of Sasuke.
"What did you do to her?" Gaara demanded firmly. For the first time, his nose picked up the strong scent of blood. Not a second later, Naruto caught the smell too.
"What happened? What did you do, teme?" Naruto yelled furiously, staring at Sakura's blood-soaked clothes.
Sasuke scoffed indignantly. "I didn't do anything." He held up his injured arm. "She's the one that--"
"Shut up!" Sakura screamed suddenly. She met all their startled stares evenly. "Yes, I hurt him. But it was a conditioned response. He got too close. But that's all that happened. Right, Sasuke?" She turned to glare at Sasuke meaingfully. He glared back at her.
"No," he finally said, ignoring her threatening gaze. "You guys have to keep a closer eye on her. She cu--" Sakura suddenly dropped like a stone, barely getting caught by Gaara's attentive sand.
"I'm starving. Stupid Kakashi locked us in there without any food and my metabolism burned up more calories than I can normally take after a good meal," Sakura explained. While neither Gaara or Naruto were looking, she smirked at Sasuke, indicating that it was all diversion. "Can we leave? I want to have a little talk with Kakashi-sensei too," Sakura growled.
"Well, you see, he left in a hurry this morning and told us to come looking for you here, and he gave us a key scroll," Naruto said, holding up the said scroll.
"That bastard," Sakura mumbled.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto scolded, stunned.
"If you keep up those sorts of comments, you'll get in trouble," Gaara added. She rolled her eyes and clung to them again, smirking at her succes of distracting them.
"Thank you for getting me out of there..." she breathed. Sasuke snapped and he unthinkingly tore her away from them brusquely. "Ow!"
"What the hell are you doing, idiot?! Let her go, you're hurting her!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke ripped Sakura's wrist-warmers off and exposed the numerous scars on her flesh. Everyone gasped, even Sasuke. He hadn't expected so many. How long had she been doing it? "Sakura..." Naruto looked at her in shock, but she didn't meet their eyes. Instead, she tore away from Sasuke and ran away.
"Sakura!" She ignored the calls and kept running until she saw a shaft of sunlight ahead and emerged into the painfully-bright outside. She squinted at the pain and ran blindly, guided by her hearing until her eyes adjusted. "Sakura!" She ran faster as the calls followed. After crisscrosing around the forest, she only sensed one person after her. To her dismay, that one person was the one that had the advantage over her: Gaara. She jumped down from the tree she was in and noticed, too late, the sand at the bottom.
"Crap!" she sighed as her feet were wrapped tightly in Gaara's weapon. She turned to see him step out from behind a tree nearby. "Leave me alone! You wouldn't understand..." Sakura cried. Gaara shook his head.
"I do understand. I once too tried what you are doing now, but it doesn't help after you realise that what you're doing becomes your weakness...your addiction." Sakura glared at him. "It is true. And I'm sure you've realised it already." Sakura shook her head as he approached.
"You're wrong. With every cut...everything feels so clear! Like a veil lifts from my mind...it helps me." Gaara shook his head, but Sakura's head snapped in the direction of the forest, listening. She could feel a presence approaching. It was Sasuke; his chakra was unmistakeable. Without thinking, she took a hold of Gaara and wrapped her arms tightly around him. He tensed and relaxed in seconds, but he was confused at her affectionate touch.
"What are you..." Sasuke jumped down from a tree nearby and stood paralyzed, staring at them. Gaara caught on quickly. "Uchiha. We are in the middle of something. Please. Leave," Gaara growled, wrapping his arms awkwardly around Sakura. Sakura smirked against his shoulder.
Sasuke couldn't move. He was stinging from somewhere deep inside, but he didn't know what was wrong. "I...Sakura, you..."
"Go away, Uchiha. I. Hate. You. Go die! You've ruined my life enough times as it is! Go ruin someone else's now!" Sakura screamed bitterly. Sasuke took a step back, as if he'd been struck, and looked down. "Uchiha. I wish I'd never met you!"
Sasuke suddenly looked up, his Mangekyou Sharingan fully activated. Sakura gasped as she looked into his eyes. It all happened in an instant. All Gaara knew was that Sakura was lying uncounscious in his arms. "What did you do?" he growled.
Sasuke seemed to be in a state of shock as well. "I...killed her."
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Dun-dun-duuuun. I know, short, sucky, but suspensefull. But I'm very busy, and I have writer's block. For anyone who wants a pic, I'm working on it, and I already posted a new pic in . OH! THIS IS IMPORTANT! I'm making a manga, for anyone who's interested in seeing it! It's called Crimson Nights, and you can find it on ! I hope to get some feedback!