Healing the Scars
Chapter Three
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Sakura's POVI woke up in a hospital chair in an empty room with Naruto and Hinata whispering quietly in the corner. I looked over at them and they both shut up quickly, realizing I was awake.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you will tell me what the hell is going on." I demanded.
"Sakura, he fought Orochimaru and Kabuto and won, I found him in the forest with Hinata as he passed out. We didn't want to keep you out of the loop, but you wouldn't have helped if we told you."
"With good reason! Congratulations to him, why didn't you leave him there?" I spat back.
"He's our teammate."
"EX-teammate. Emphasis on the ex. Whatever, I'm getting out of here, I don't want to talk about this anymore. He'll leave again soon enough." I walked angrily out of the hospital room, ignoring the ANBU guards that lined the hallway, peering at me anxiously. One grabbed my arm, and I knew instantly it was Neji, I shot him a glare that told him to back off.
"Tsunade-sama told me you can't leave without speaking to her first." He said calmly. I tried to wrench my way out of his grasp but reluctantly found myself to low on chakra to be able to. He pulled me into a different room where Tsunade sat, taking swigs on sake and sighing audibly. She looked up as Neji dragged me through the doorway.
"Thank you Neji, Sakura, take a seat." As Neji closed the door on his way out, I didn't sit down. I looked at her and tried to tell her how angry I was, just through my glare. "Stop looking at me like that Sakura, we all know you're angry."
"Am I not allowed to be angry?" I asked daringly.
"You have every right to be angry, just don't take it out on me right now. I'm already arguing with the elders to keep the Uchiha alive for Naruto." She said, obviously exhausted from the days work.
"Just let them kill him, he's done far to much to be forgiven." I spat, angry that she admittedly was trying to keep him alive.
"Naruto wants him to stay in the village, you know how he is Sakura."
"Naruto doesn't understand." I yelled, raising my voice.
"Sasuke hurt Naruto too, Sakura. You'd do good to remember that. You're not the only victim here. Quit being selfish already." She yelled back. "I am your Hokage, and you will treat me with some respect." I sat down immediately and lowered my gaze. "He's going to have to stay in the village and whether or not you want to, you are going to have to talk to him. That's an order, and I will make it a mission if I have to." Tsunade ordered pointedly. I nodded and sighed, feeling tears brimming my eyes, but not willing them to fall just yet. "You're dismissed." Tsunade whispered as I stand up and made my way to the door, feeling the tears trying to escape frivolously. I started running through the hallway as I heard Naruto calling my name. I ran past Sasuke's open hospital door, with ANBU calling my name as I sprinted down the hallway. I didn't want to see or speak to anybody. I wanted to be alone the same way I wanted to be alone when Kanagi first died.
Sasuke's POVI was looking out of the window, trying to distract myself from the pain I still felt searing through my body. I spaced out for Kami knows how long, just taking in the outside world of Konoha. It was different, serene. I had missed that. The guards outside my door yelling "Sakura!" broke my trance as I turned my head in their direction only to see a puff of pink run down the hallway. Several people called after her, the ANBU in front of my door successfully grabbing her arm before she ripped out of his grasp. I furrowed my brow, trying to figure out what she was running from before I saw a lone drop of water fall from the space she was just standing in. Was she crying? She hadn't changed a bit as far as he was concerned. She was still the overemotional, dramatic, Sakura that he once knew. Except this time she hated him, and he didn't know how to react to that. When he saw her, his stomach clenched and he was at a loss for words. He had to talk to her sometime, he had made that point clear to Tsunade.
Flashback"You have to get me alone with her, give me fifteen minutes to talk to her. She needs to hear what I have to say and you know it." I commanded.
"Watch your tone Uchiha, I'm not sure what I'm letting you do quite yet." She answered.
"Please." I whispered, "You have to."
"Fine, I'll see what I can do." She said as she walked out, and I was alone again.
End Flashback.
I would hold her to that promise, I had to talk to Sakura. What I had to say wouldn't make up for everything, but I felt like it would help. I didn't know what my next move would be, whether I would try to escape or not. I didn't even know if that would be possible, at this point they had me restrained by ANBU at all times. Eventually they would let me roam on a bit of a leash, and once that leash was loosened enough I would pursue Itachi once again. Maybe I would come back again after that, depending on where things stood with the village. I heard a knock on the door and turned back to see Naruto standing there alone, scratching the back of his head awkwardly.
"Hey." He said nervously.
"Calm down, dobe, what're you afraid of?" I asked.
"I think you know why everyone's so uptight, teme." He answered.
"Because I'm a S-class criminal and missing nin?"
"And because you killed Sakura-chan's family. She was going to marry Kanagi, you know."
"I know." I whispered. There was an awkward silence about the room as Naruto sucked in a large breath and let it out.
"So…why'd you kill them?"
"Do we really have to do this now?" I questioned.
"Well, it's going to come out sooner or later."
"But not to you, and not now." I shot him a glare, "Did you come to interrogate me?"
"Tsunade said you could be let out of the hospital tomorrow, and to tell you that you'll be staying with an ANBU captain of her choice and to get some rest." Naruto promptly got up and walked out of the room, leaving me alone once again. This was becoming a pattern.
Sakura's POVI ran straight to the cherry blossom tree behind my house, about one hundred meters away from the dreaded bridge where it all happened. When my life changed forever. I collapsed against the bark and buried my head in my knees, wrapping my arms around them. I sat like that for awhile, just wanting to stay curled up. I felt like this inside, but everyone was trying to break in and understand but they just wouldn't understand. He was back, I saw him, that was something I never wanted to do again. I was forced into healing him, they had tricked me. Suddenly, everything hurt so bad again and I couldn't breathe. I wanted to be gone, I wanted it all to just pause so I could figure it all out, but obviously that wasn't happening. My eyes avoided the bridge and looked at the waves of the water, always consistent yet tripping over rocks and fish in the water. How could the river keep flowing despite the constant bruising? I didn't understand anything. I needed shelter from myself and the rest of the world, to just be by myself. I knew people would come looking for me soon, but the sun was setting and I silently wished that for once, they just wouldn't. I stopped missing Sasuke and started missing the times where all I had to worry about was passing an exam. Now, I worried about saving lives and saving myself and being meticulous and being perfect. Being emotionless and not letting anyone see the way I was, the way I had turned. I laid my head back on the rough bark of the very tree I was named after. My hair blended in with its blossoms, and I allowed myself to fall asleep, trying to fall into a dreamless stupor where the world was just black.
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