Healing the Scars
Chapter five
A/N Sorry the uploads are coming slower, as I've mentioned I've been on vacation. Thanks for the reviews! I don't own Naruto or any of the characters.
Sasuke's POVSakura had just slapped our sensei, and I knew that Sakura possessed a good amount of strength when armed with her chakra control. I just stood there, staring at her, and it was obvious that she did that under an impulse move. She was staring at the floor, refusing to meet my gaze.
"Sakura? Are you ok?" I asked. She snapped her head up and gave me a glare.
"Of course I'm alright. I have work to do. Excuse me." She brushed passed me and I knew that she wasn't alright, but I wasn't really in the position to do anything about it. She hated me, and for good reason. Sometime soon I'll tell her the truth, I had to. I followed her up to the room she was cleaning out and looked in. She had her back to me and stuffed things into boxes. I stood for about fifteen minutes as I watched that room slowly turn empty. She still hadn't noticed me standing there, at least I didn't think she had. Finally, when everything was packed up, she turned around and started carrying the boxes out of the room. She stopped when she realized I was standing there.
"How long have you been standing there?" She said skeptically.
"Around twenty minutes. Need some help?" She heaved more boxes and walked out,
"No." She mumbled. "You've done enough." I winced at the last sentence. I followed her as she placed box after box in a small closet on the first floor. When she was done I saw her walk outside. I didn't know whether to follow her and talk to her now, but I felt like it wasn't a good time. I watched her walk slowly to the stone bridge behind her house and lean on the side, looking at the water. This time I knew she should be alone, so I decided to look around while she was outside.
I walked into Kanagi's old room and saw that it was empty of everything except hangers in the closet and a bed with a comforter. It felt dead in here, and it felt empty. I frowned at the sight of how much everything had changed in such a short period of time. I knew that Sakura must be overthrown with emotion, and I didn't want to say anything I was going to regret.
I walked into Sakura's room, hesitantly, and saw the room lined with books, photos of her, Naruto, and Kakashi. When I looked closer I realized that I had been cut out of the photo, making team seven look like different. I was angry that she would do this, I would always be a part of team seven, she had promised me that. They had all promised me that.
I guess things change, I picked up a picture of Kanagi, Sakura, and her parents. I cringed at the sight of how happy she seemed, and how I had destroyed that. I heard footsteps coming up the stairs, and before I knew it, Sakura was staring at me from her doorway.
"What do you think you're doing?" She said, as she snatched the picture out of my hand.
"I was just looking around, calm down." I said calmly.
"Don't tell me to calm down, Uchiha. Now come on. We're leaving." She stated as she walked out with me in tow. I hated being at her disposal, but I had no choice.
"Where exactly are we going?" I asked.
"The hospital. I still have a job, just because you showed up doesn't mean I'm going to stop doing it." I sighed and realized I'd be shadowing Sakura for the rest of the day. We spent the walk to the hospital in an awkward silence, as Sakura waved to people in the community. They acknowledged her as 'Sakura-sama.' I found this strange, and I didn't realize how much of an effect Sakura could possibly have on Konoha. As we walked straight into the hospital, nurses flanked Sakura, handing her clipboard and medical jacket. I had a hard time keeping up as nurses were questioning why I was here.
"I have to keep him around for awhile. The Hokage assigned him to me." They nodded their heads and looked me up and down, as if they were sizing me up. I followed Sakura into a hospital room where the nurses were screaming "CODE BLUE!" and applying CPR.
"What happened?" Sakura shouted and she emitted chakra from her hands as the man stopped shaking uncontrollably on the table. "There." She said, as the chakra formed around his head now. "I want him monitored constantly, page me with any irregularities and start him on a new IV drip. He shouldn't be seizing this much." She started out of the room, scribbling things furiously on her clipboard. She turned and looked at me and started laughing.
"Close your mouth and follow me." It was just then that I realized my mouth was open and I was staring at her and the nurses obediently following after us and tending to the patients. I staggered behind her as she went in room after room tending to patients. Eventually I just took a seat outside in the hallway and watched everyone work. Several patients almost died when I was there, and I noticed that Sakura had remarkable bedside manner for someone who seemed so stoic all the time. About three hours later, Sakura came out, looking absolutely exhausted and lacking a medical jacket and her clipboard.
"Are we leaving now?" I asked anxiously. She nodded and I got up and headed after her. I noticed she was walking considerably slower and kept taking deep breaths. "Are you ok?" I asked.
"Yes, do I not look okay?" She said, glaring at me. Yep. There's the new Sakura, back once again. She was tripping over her own feet, and at times on our walk back I was sure she was going to pass out. When we got back to the house she sat on the couch and buried her head in her hands, and I stood there awkwardly, trying to make sure she didn't collapse anytime soon.
"You should go to bed." I said, She shot me a glare that could kill me if looks could kill.
"I'll make us dinner." She said softly. As she walked back to the kitchen, I knew she wasn't going to make it through dinner.
"So, you do this everyday?" I asked.
"Most days I'm there longer, but today they just needed someone on call for the emergency patients while Shizune and Tsunade-sama are out." She explained.
"You've gotten stronger." I commented.
"Hmph. I've gotten useful, I wouldn't say I'm stronger."
"Do you still train for missions?" I asked.
"Yes. Why the sudden interest in what I've been doing in the past, oh I don't know, six years or so?" Venom was evident in her voice. She continued to make rice balls and I handed her things from the fridge and tried to find plates.
"Just trying to make conversation." She stopped dead and turned around to face me.
"Since when does the great Uchiha Sasuke make conversation with others?" She asked, staring me down. "Especially those deemed weaker than him." She plopped a rice ball on a plate and handed it to me. I didn't exactly know how to respond to her.
"hn." I replied.
"That's more like it." She smirked.
The rest of the dinner passed in silence, a resentful silence. She resented me for a lot, and in truth, I just wanted her to forgive me and move on, although in my mind I knew that wasn't possible. If I had to stay here for three years, six months with her, I needed to bury this hatchet. I just didn't know how or when or if she would allow me to. Either way, I was anxious, all the time.
Sakura had dark bags under her eyes, and I knew that she was going to turn in early for the night, seeing as she used a lot of chakra at the hospital. I grabbed her dish and she gave me a skeptical look.
"You made dinner, I'll clean up."
"If you're trying to make up for killing Kanagi and my parents, then you can just stop trying." She said as she walked out of the room.
What she didn't know was, I wasn't ever going to stop trying to get her to forgive me.
A/N- Entirely from Sasuke's point of view for those that are itching for more Sasuke =)
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