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A/N: I would like to thank those who read and reviewed the previous chapters, I'm glad that you are liking my story so far. I hope you will also enjoy reading chapter 4!
Summary : When her brother died, Sakura Haruno, gave up the most important thing to her, music. That was until she met him. [SasuSaku
Chapter 4 - Guilt
Sakura was sitting at the back of the car with her father. They were on their way to the airport. The past six months were the worst six months of her life.
The last thing she could remember from the day of the accident was her brother looking at her straight in the eyes, she could also remember his last words, before the collision with the truck, her brother told her that he loved her, then, he covered her up with his body, his only thought being to protect his little sister, afterwards everything went dark.
Then she remembered waking up in the hospital, her father was sitting beside her holding her hand. The first thing that she did was asking him about Shinichi. From the look that her father gave her she knew something was wrong. She started sobbing, tears started flowing down her cheeks, in her heart she knew he didn't make it. Her father embraced her, he hated seeing her like this. Still sobbing she asked him when will the funeral take place. His answer shocked her. He had been already buried.
She was so angry with her father, why didn't he wait another couple of days until she woke to bury him, she wanted to be there with him, she wanted to thank Shinichi because she wouldn't be alive if he hadn't protected her with his body. She was also angry with her brother because he should have left her in the car and ran away instead of staying there with her. That's where guilt started haunting her.
She was feeling guilty because he died protecting her. He would have been alive if it wasn't for her. Her father's next answer shocked her even more. They couldn't wait for her to wake up because they didn't know when she would wake up. She had fallen into a coma. A coma which lasted 2 months. The doctors weren't sure if she would wake up or not. With this revelation she started crying even more.
With each day that passed, her health was getting better and better but she was slowly dying inside. She couldn't help it, she felt too guilty for her brother's death. After a month, she was dismissed from hospital. Her father didn't want to because he knew there was something wrong with her, but the doctors told him that her physical wounds were completely healed.
When she was dismissed she found out that no one knew she was in the car with Shinichi when the accident took place. Her father managed to cover everything up. The months that followed were a living hell. Her father insisted that she needed to go to therapy. He paid the best psychologists but it was all useless, she couldn't help but feeling guilty. When she wasn't talking with a psychologist in his office, she would stay in her room isolating herself from the rest of the world, especially from her father.
She couldn't look at him in the eyes anymore because even though he didn't say so she thought he blamed her for Shinichi's death. Despite the fact that it was her brother who wanted to go to the concert and it was him who took the car keys, she blamed herself because she didn't do anything to stop him, instead she went with him.
She was feeling guilty for a lot of things, she was feeling guilty because that night she didn't listen to her father, she was feeling guilty because she didn't stop her brother and she was feeling guilty because instead of running away he stayed there with her shielding her with his body.
Her father did everything he could do to see her smile again but it was all for nothing. When she told him that she wanted to quit singing, he respected her decision but he got even more worried, because music was her life and now she was giving it up. He knew that if things continued to go on like this he would lose his daughter too.
Seto Haruno, even though Sakura didn't know it, was also blaming himself for Shinichi's death. He constantly repeated to himself that if he had treated Sakura like an adult and let her take her own decisions, that night they would not have fought, they would have not disobeyed him, Shinichi would have been still alive and Sakura would be still smiling.
He didn't want to lose his daughter too. So he took a drastic decision. He told Sakura that they would move back to Japan and that he would enroll her to a school there so that she can finish her last year there before going to college. Sakura didn't argue with him, she didn't want to stay in LA anymore either.
In a few days he had already sold the Haruno mansion in LA and bought a new one in Japan. He also made arrangements so that he could transfer his work to Japan, that was the least difficult thing he could do since he was the boss.
That's how Sakura found herself heading to the airport. When they arrived at the airport they found out that their private jet was being checked so they had to wait a couple of hours at the airport before they could fly to Japan. During their wait, her father told her that he had enrolled her in a private school in Japan.
"It's a very good school, they told me it's one of the best schools in Japan, it's called Sacred Heart."
Sakura didn't say anything, she didn't feel like talking. After about 30 minutes the ground hostess told them that their jet was ready. Sakura stood up and started walking, thinking that no one could help her anymore. She had ended her brother's life and no one could change that. That's why she gave up music, music made her happy and she didn't want to be happy while he was death.
What she didn't know was that an encounter at her new school would change her life forever because he will cause her to deal with new emotions, emotions that at first she won't understand but later she would recognize as love and he will also bring music back into her life.
A/N: So, what do you think? I hope you liked it. If you can please review, I would really appreciate it. Knowing what you think will help me write the next chapter better. In the next chapter Sasuke and Sakura will finally meet.