Told by Sasuke

Chapter 14

Healing Session

"Oh, let me take care of that."

My side was throbbing terribly.

"Take your shirt off."

"Huh, Do what?" I asked.

"Moron, I need to see the wound." Mika said.

I lifted the shirt over my head. Before I was even done I felt Mika's hand on my side.

"Wow, this may leave a scar." Mika sid gliding her fingers lightly across my stomach.

Sakura did a good patch job. She said it wasn't so bad that we needed to worry.

"I'll just check for imperfections that's all." Mika said putting her hand in the water.

She lifted the water out of the bowl. She brought it to my side.

"This may be cold, so bare with me." Mika said smiling.

When the water touched me it was warm then she had indecated. She moved her left hand to my other side making the water circle around me. My torso was covered in water. Mika then moved her hands across the water's surface.

The pain was slowly going away. I could feel the movements of her hands.

Jeez. I thought I made a face which Mika noticed.

"Does it hurt?" Mika asked looking up at me in concern.

"No, I was just thinking about something." I lied. Mika raised an eyebrow.

"There doesn't seem to be any tears in your muscles. Sakura never ceases to amaze me." Mika chuckled.

Her hand glided up to my chest.

"Ugh. That stings a bit, Mika." My hands clenched the sheets on the bed.

"So there are hidden pains even Sakura couldn't find. But don't worry, I can take care of it." Mika closed her eyes. "This may hurt so brace yourself."

Mika put one hand on my stomach as she pulled the other one out of the water. She toke a deep breathe, then she pointed her fingers at the spot on my chest that hurt. She exhaled sharply as she moved her hand closer.

It did hurt making me grit my teeth.

"Hang in there, Sasuke."

Mika flattened her hand on my chest.

"There, hows that feel?" Mika asked as she removed her hands and put the water back in the bowl.

"Better, much better. Thank you, Mika." I said touching the scar.

Mika smiled, "Now we match." She giggled.

"Huh? What do you mean?" I said lifting her shirt.

"Not there, moron." She moved her jacket off her shoulder. "Here remember."

"Oh, right." That damn scar was always going to be a reminder to both of us of my past mistakes.

"To bad I couldn't be the one who gave you that scar it'd be my little revenge." Mika laughed.

I put my hand on her shoulder.

"Well, maybe that wasn't the best choice of words." Mika blushed and smiled.

I leaned in and kissed her shoulder.

"Sasuke … I ..." I kissed her lips.

"Mika, may I ask you something."

"Yeah sure."

"Why?" I looked at her. In the one word I knew I had asked her a million questions.

"Jeez … I guess that I just thought a little pain was it if in the end I was with you. I stopped feeling like I was nothing and stopped blaming my self for everything. When you left I felt like I was alone in the world. I was hurting and dieing inside but I had my friends who were there for me." Mika sighed.

"I put you through a lot. You forgave me so easily."

"I couldn't help it. All that mattered to me was you. Now your back and that's enough for me. As much as I tried to be happy with you gone it was to late to fix what was to badly broken. Even Minato-sensei said that you would be the only thing that stopped the pain in my heart. My heart belongs to you even when I didn't want it to be. Your are my world; my everything. And even if you left again I'd still love you." At the end Mika smiled.

"Mika … w ..." I didn't have much to say to all of that.

"Now can I ask you something? Was it worth it? Leaving me; being alone; was it worth the power? Was what you said to me that day ..." She grabbed her shoulder, "... worth the pain to my heart? I cried so much for you, Sasuke. You made me feel like nothing, again. Saying things like I was in the way. Saying that the words that meant a lot to me was just air. How can you be here after saying such things. You said I was weak and pathetic." Mika was on the edge of crying.

"Mika, I had to. You don't think I knew how you felt. I had to, to keep from caring. Obviously it didn't work.

"I believe that the power and abilities I have now wouldn't have been accomplished without Orochimaru. But every day that went by was torture to me because I wasn't with you. I may not have showed it when we were younger but I loved you. You were the only person who knew what I was going through and you cared.

"I also knew that Orochimaru was watching to see what I would do. I wasn't planning on hurting anyone. But I didn't see you or Captain Yamato steeping in. After you were hurt I had to get out of there, fast. So I suppressed Naruto and decided I needed Orochimaru to interfere so that I could have a reason to stop it. It worked and this was the result."

Mika was looking down, I couldn't see the expression on her face.

She leaned her head on my chest. I could feel the tears falling off her face.

Mika. I'm sorry.

Her hands wrapped around me and she pushed me down.

I held her. It wasn't till she stopped crying that I realized she fell asleep.

Completely exhausted I soon feel asleep too.